Lessons Learned Several days passed by and Ambur woke one morning to find it dark and cloudy. He could sense this day would be a rainy one. So he took his time, fixed some coffee and got breakfast ready for he and Honeysuckle. It wasn’t one of those days where it might shower briefly and then stop. It looked like it was one of those 'all day' rainy days. Honeysuckle asked, “What are you going to do today?” Ambur paused for a second to gather his thoughts and said, “I think I want to take a walk with Lucinda. We have some things to talk about. School, life, the future … stuff like that. And we’ll have fun looking at wildlife and skipping stones on the pond." “I’m sure you’ll toss some poetry at her too! … just don’t be too boring please? She’s just 12 years old!” said Honeysuckle. Ambur then said, “Well, you’re not that much older!” “Yeah, but we trolls age at a different rate.” “I gotta go,” said Ambur and he and Sampson left to visit Lucinda. He wanted to get there before she left with Frances or went in town to shop with her mom. Sampson flew high over the tree tops keeping an eye on everything. When Ambur approached the house Kimberly was already outside getting ready for her morning run. Let’s Take A Walk If you take a walk with me, We’ll explore together. I’ll show you some new things you’ll see, Never mind the weather! Won’t matter if it’s cold or hot, There’s always things to find. Won’t matter if it rains a lot, I’m sure the ducks won’t mind. Just take a walk with open eyes, And an open mind as well. We’ll find bees and butterflies, And Woodland Phlox to smell! When you get tired we will rest, Beneath a tall red oak. But soon we’ll need to head back west, Before the bu... ... middle of paper ... ...derful sensation of accomplishment." Lucinda asked, “Aren’t you suppose to use a magic wand or something like that?” “Shhh... just relax." Ambur lit a single candle and said, “Luce, hold this with both hands.” Then he began ... The gift of hunting gold is here, It lies within my soul. I have but one of these to give, I’m just an Oakwood Troll. I pass along this valued gift, Was mine but now it’s ours. For you Lucinda - it is yours, I give you golden powers. Go forth and find what you can do, Let greed not make you stumble. Just help yourself and others too, I pray to God, stay humble. As soon as Ambur finished a warm breeze washed over them like they were outside and the candle blew out. "What was that?" asked Lucinda. Honeysuckle said, “That, my dear, was acknowledgment of the fact that this has happened. It’s over Lucinda.”
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A simple college English class or a department in a hospital are examples of a discourse community. One might not even know it. A discourse community is group, club, organization, etc. that share common values and goals and communicates using some form of writing. An English class is a perfect example of a discourse community because the students and professor communicate in and out of class using writing, they share common goals, values, specialized language and certain types of a genre. Unlike an English class, I want to be a registered nurse and work at a hospital someday. My plan was to interview a nursing student at the University of Texas at El Paso and observe a nursing class. I was unable to complete the interview and observation so I went to my plan B. I ended up observing a restaurant because if I’m not able to become a nurse I’d one day want to own my own restaurant.
The conversation between both Wes's was one of open honesty about when they each felt like they'd become a man. Wes1 said, "I think it was when I first felt accountable to people other than myself. When I first cared that my actions mattered to people other than just me." Wes 2 said, But if the situation or the context where you make the decisions don't change, then second chances don't mean too much, huh?" Then Wes 1 responded to Wes 2, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances."
Shaking my damn head at them stupid inconsiderate ass niggas I’m out here damn near a fucking week straight, on a stakeout that I personally don’t even think this nigga is holding like that anymore. Technically I think this punk cleaned his money and went legit.
In contemporary nursing practice, nurses need to integrate scientific knowledge and nursing theories prior to providing optimal health care. Nursing theories guide nurses to treat clients in a supportive and dignified manner through client centred approaches. However, it is challenge for nurses to practice client centred care in daily realities due to heavy workloads. In order to assist nurses to decrease the gap between ideal and real practice, Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) develops Best Practice Guideline of Client-centred-care (Neligan, Grinspun, JonasSimpson, McConnell, Peter, Pilkington, et al., 2002). This guideline offers values and beliefs as foundation of client-centred care, and the core processes of client-centred care can facilitate provision of optimal nursing care. These four core processes of client-centred care include identifying concerns, making decisions, caring and service, and evaluating outcomes. According to RNAO (2006), ongoing dialogue with clients and self-reflection are essential for nurses to develop their nursing skills and knowledge on client-centred care. As a nursing student, I reflected on written transcripts of interactions between patients and me, so that I could gain insights into client-centred care for further improvement. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to discuss importance of the core processes of client-centred care in nursing practice through identifying and critiquing blocks to conversation. Based on the guideline of RNAO (2006), respect, human dignity, clients are experts for their own lives, responsiveness and universal access will be elaborated in each core process of client-centre care as reflecting on three dialogues with patients.
A discourse community is a group of people involved in and communicating about a particular topic, issue, or in a particular field. In other words, it is a group of people who have similar backgrounds, language, and values. They share an interest in certain topics, share a body of knowledge about those topics, and possess a common vocabulary for discussing those topics. According to “The Concept of Discourse Community,” by educator and researcher John Swales, there are six characteristics that make up a discourse community. They are common public goals, mechanisms of intercommunication among members, participatory mechanisms to provide information and feedback, utilizing one or more genres in communication, a specific lexis, and a threshold
“Lauren?” he asked, trekking across the baby gate. I nodded in response, and continued to pet the adorable, eternally moving dog at my feet. He decided that it was a bright idea to show me a toy rope that sat in the corner of the room, and set it at my feet expectantly.
As the first rays of the sun peak over the horizon, penetrating the dark, soft light illuminates the mist rising up from the ground, forming an eerie, almost surreal landscape. The ground sparkles, wet with dew, and while walking from the truck to the barn, my riding boots soak it in. The crickets still chirp, only slower now. They know that daytime fast approaches. Sounds, the soft rustling of hooves, a snort, and from far down the aisle a sharp whinny that begs for breakfast, inform me that the crickets are not the only ones preparing for the day.
The air sings with the fragrance of freshly cut grass. As a backdrop to other things, children are at play, swinging too and fro, running and skipping; there are toddlers who toddle and mindful mothers who watch on in painful and patient distraction. The sun is everywhere: in the corners of the pavilion, bearing down on the tennis courts, caressing the flower beds, the convection of its heat pulling at the carpet-like lawns, dragging out bodily its scent.
It doesn’t take long for lives to come together or to come apart. Just a few short moments in time, time that is subjective, objective, judging or not judging. Nobody really cares about it. It just happens. It doesn’t take long. It is happening all over the world and no one even notices. No one wants to notice. Because they all have their own secrets that they’ll never tell.
Coming into speech class, I mentally and physically prepared myself for what was in store. I never really like giving speeches, especially impromptu speeches. Signing up for speech was hard for me to do because I absolutely did not want to take it and was considering not taking it in high school and wishing that I would never have to take it. My fears for COMM 101 was being judged. I am not really one to care about what people think about me, but something about public speaking gives me a fear that people will judge me if I stutter or not be able to complete a speech. I just wanted to do my best in this class and just breeze through this class and get it over with. Getting up in front of the class for my first speech, was petrifying for me
They had planned on walking a slightly different route going back. It involved one extra hill and two more miles but would bring them to an area where they could visit with others from the Oakwood Tribe. Ambur said, “Listen everyone. We all know Lucinda has a pretty stone with her. We don’t know for sure what else it might be. But for now let’s just not say anything about it. We should pretend it doesn’t exist.”
In today’s society, Technology is the main player in the way we communicate. Cell phones and social media made the communication easier for people to contact each other. It extends time less to connect between long distance friends. Also, it helps people to spread and enlarge circle of friendships around the world. However, people are losing the way of face-to-face conversation. Sherry Turkle is an expert on culture and therapy, mobile technology, social networking, and sociable robotics argued in her article “the flight from conversation” how using technology can affect our behavior in conversation.
The sunset was not spectacular that day. The vivid ruby and tangerine streaks that so often caressed the blue brow of the sky were sleeping, hidden behind the heavy mists. There are some days when the sunlight seems to dance, to weave and frolic with tongues of fire between the blades of grass. Not on that day. That evening, the yellow light was sickly. It diffused softly through the gray curtains with a shrouded light that just failed to illuminate. High up in the treetops, the leaves swayed, but on the ground, the grass was silent, limp and unmoving. The sun set and the earth waited.
In The Dumb Waiter, Harold Pinter uses dialogues to present the characters’ perspective. The play takes place in a fixed setting, the dark basement room, where the only thing to focus on is the dialogues between Gus and Ben and not on the surroundings much. Although there is always a silence between those meaningless dialogues, the dialogues gives the reader hints about how the society works in Gus and Ben’s world, that authority and social class are a significant part of their world. The dialogues help to illustrate the characters’ personality, expressions and reactions in their world.