In the piece‚ Joan Didion describes the Santa Ana Winds which hit Los Angeles every so often. The winds are seen as a threatening issue‚ as Didion describes them as dangerous and unwanted. The passage portrays her view on the Santa Ana winds as something horrendous that makes a dramatic effect on the inhabitants of Los Angeles. In the first paragraph Didion begins by describing the eerie feeling in the air with words that connote an anxious tone‚ such as “uneasy”‚ “unnatural”‚ and “tension”. She
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Cheung Yan: China’s Paper Queen Case Discussion Questions: 1. What is strategic leadership? Strategic leadership is the use of strategy in the management of employees or workers. The main goal is to find methods to motivate workers to take interest and initiative in improving and increasing their productive contributions to the company in question. Strategic leadership is a model of management that trains workers to best prepare the company for what’s ahead. Awareness plays a major role in
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Ana Montes is in prison for a little over a decade now. Once a highly decorated U.S. intelligence analyst‚ Montes today lives in a two-bunk cell in the highest-security women’s prison in the nation. Montes spied for seventeen years‚ patiently‚ methodically. She passed along so many secrets about her colleagues and the advanced methods and eavesdropping platforms that American agents had covertly installed in Cuba. Montes’s motivation for spying was pure ideology she disagreed with U.S. foreign policy
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a German shepherd’ as the writer is totally aware to explain such idea therein. The full story is about the immigrants and how they are missing their home country Cuba‚ especially Maximo as this is clear through the choice of words by Ana Menendez. In the short story‚ we find that the familiarization therein attempts to orientate self in the world. Also‚ writing attempts to restore the old world from nostalgic memory: the writer’s attempt to understand a new place through familiarization happens
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In Didion’s essay‚ "Los Angeles Notebook‚" she characterizes the Santa Ana winds as motivation for evil. Didion expresses this view through her imagery and diction. Didion also justifies her characterization through the structure and tone of her essay. She attributes the acts of individuals all over the world on the effects of wind. She claims that certain winds trigger a mechanistic switch that causes humans to act irrationally. Didion connects a natural phenomenon with the cause of an unconscious
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The online readings diverge from Powers’ book in the way they describe women’s lives. Pick one online reading and describe how and why it diverges from Powers’ book on a major issue of gender relations. There are many different views and stories about how the Lakota people are and their views on women and gender relations. In the book Oglala women by Marla Powers has a strong point of view; and so does and article titled The soul of the indian by charles a. eastman. By comparing the two we can
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The patient’s family or guardian may exercise the patient’s rights when the patient has been determining to be incompetent to exorcise those rights. In this paper I will elaborate on patients’ rights and the ANA code of ethics in relation to advocacy for hospice patients. Provision 7 of the ANA code of ethics mandates for nurses to participate in advancement of the profession to continue to educate themselves and to contribute to practice‚ administration‚ and knowledge development. Nurses must also
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I believe that the following commentary was effective in achieving its purpose. In the text‚ Ana Rand presents the event as human greatness by using pathos and vivid illustrations. She starts with an eloquent description saying that the launch of Apollo 11 "began with a large patch of bright‚ yellow-orange flame shooting sideways from under the base of the rocket." This description helps an audience form a visual picture of the event. Most Americans would have already seen the remarkable and proudful
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and pretended to be a queen? It is not as easy as the media or TV make it seem like it is. It takes hard work‚ dedication‚ and perseverance to become a good queen like Queen Victoria was. Take it from Queen Victoria for example‚ Victoria lead a life full of purpose. If it was not for her‚ there would have been no Victorian Era that was full of truce‚ wealth‚ success‚ and self assurance. (Victorian Era) Queen Victoria’s life is an interesting one indeed because‚ she was the queen and why we have the
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In this passage‚ Queen Margaret addresses Queen Elizabeth and recalls back to when Queen Elizabeth was recently made queen‚ and Margaret prophesied that she would end up just like Queen Margaret. Throughout the passage we see a few literary devices such as parallel structure and allusion‚ and both of these writing tools add to the complexity of the relationship between the two former queens. We observe Margaret use diction that reminds us of the stage and plays and we see parallelism used to show
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