On Friday April 26‚ 2013 my Health Care Careers class and I visited Grand View Hospital for the day. Each of us were assigned to a new department to spend the day. I was assigned to the Telemetry B Unit. We went there to job shadow the nurses that work in that department. Our goal was to follow the nurses and observe them giving basic care to their patients. Upon arriving at Grand View I was excited and could not wait to get to my destination. Finding the Telemetry B unit was confusing because
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HRM5020 Business Fundamentals A Day in the Life March 1‚ 2014 Summary of case Shirley Smith is a 58 year old female employee that was a current cancer patient and over the past few years has been performing mediocre work. The issues that Rob Peterson and the company faces‚ if they should fire Ms. Smith‚ is that cancer is covered under the American’s with Disability Act. She is a female which makes her fall under the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the fact that she is 58 years of
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EFFECTIVE DAY OF RACHEL Rachel spent her day in the office very effectively‚ optimizing the time to complete her tasks. She came early in the office to utilize the time for the activities like reviewing and responding the phone messages‚ e-mails and notes. Before the meeting start at 09:00 am‚ she manages the time to have discussion with boss about project and prepare the meeting. In progress review meeting‚ she discuses the surface level issues and assigned actions in just 45 minutes. She played
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I awoke to the penetrating glare of the sun‚ felt it crawl along my whiskers rising higher and higher with each passing minute. The sun weaved through Ada’s blinds like smoke seeping through the room in strands of light that lingered peacefully in the crisp autumn air. I stood stretching and testing each and every sinew as feeling and strength slowly returned to my limbs. As I shook off sleep my senses became more and more attuned. I could hear the loud chattering of pigeons on the roof and see the
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Slavery‚ in my eyes‚ is an institution that has always been ridiculed on behalf of the physical demands of the practice‚ but few know the extreme mental hardships that all slaves faced. In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚ Harriet Jacobs writes autobiographically about her families’ and her personal struggles as a maturing "mullatto" child in the South. Throughout this engulfing memoir of Harriet Jacobs life‚ this brave woman tells of many trying times
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In the book‚ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚ the author Harriet Jacobs (also the main character in book)‚ paints a very powerful‚ and emotion picture of what the institution of Slavery was like for the slave and master in America‚ and the toll that it took on the human soul. Before reading this book‚ I was given a list of questions to ponder on while reading. These questions ranged from‚ compare and contrast survival techniques used by two characters in the book‚ to was this work difficult
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The Life of a Slave in the 1800’s Life as a slave was very difficult. As many as 4.5 million slaves were working in Southern plantations in the early to mid-1800’s. There were two types of slaves; field slaves and house slaves. People think that being a house slave was easier but this proves that theory wrong. Slaves had terrible environments‚ were separated from family and friends‚ and were sometimes beaten to death. Whites knew that slavery was wrong and immoral. Though‚ it still continued. Being
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A SHADY PLOT Question 5-(a): What genre of stories does Jenkins want the narrator to write? Why? Answer 5-(a): Jenkins had always called upon Hallock whenever he wanted a ghost story to be published in his magazine. John’s ghosts were live propositions as Jenkins called them. This time again Jenkins wanted Hallock to come up with another supernatural thriller‚ which would give the readers horrors and that is what the public wanted too. Question 5-(b): Does the narrator like writing ghost stories
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“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚” Harriet Jacobs gives a detailed account of the life story of “Linda Brent” which is the pseudo name for herself‚ outlining the events which primarily focuses on her escape from her slave master‚ “Dr. Flint.” After learning that Dr. Flint has already fathered 11 children from his slaves‚ it is hard to imagine why he is never able to successful pursue Linda. After all‚ just based on the sheer number of his incidents of sexual relations with his slaves‚ it would seem
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In "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"‚ Harriet Jacobs writes‚ "Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women" (64). Jacobs’ work presents the evils of slavery as being worse in a woman’s case due to the tenets of gender identity. Jacobs elucidates the disparity between societal dictates of what the proper roles were for Nineteenth century women and the manner that slavery prevented a woman from fulfilling these roles. The book illustrates the double standard of for white
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