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    Running head: CASE STUDY: CAPTAIN EDITH STRONG 1 CASE STUDY: CAPTAIN EDITH STRONG 6 CASE STUDY: CAPTAIN EDITH STRONG MICHAEL J. BONNIE CJA474 September 25‚ 2014 Fred Hammett Case Study Captain Edith Strong is the first woman to be promoted to captain. She has spent 18 years working through the ranks to achieve this high of a position in her agency and she is familiar with the internal problems her agency has a problem with. All the patrol officers believe they have a heavy workload and complain

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    Humanlike Characteristics Although Gods and today’s human beings may be quite different‚ they also share some similarities. Gods and humans alike have certain characteristics and personalities that make them who they are. In Edith Hamilton’s Mythology‚ many Gods and Goddesses tend to depict human qualities such as jealousy‚ pride‚ and fraudulence. The flaw of jealousy was one of the traits shared by mythological gods‚ goddesses‚ and human beings. For example‚ Hera constantly has to “punish the

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    R. Wier – Gateway College Prep School 1 Summer Reading Assignment: Edith Hamilton’s Mythology Pre-AP English I All students planning to take Pre-AP English I need to read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology in its entirety and complete the following assignment prior to the first day of school. Students should expect to turn in assignments the first day of class for a major grade. Students are responsible for an understanding of the material in the book when school begins as we will have class discussions

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    conclusions by limiting or illuminating the amount and nature of the information from which conclusions can be drawn. In "Souls Belated‚" Edith Wharton uses point of view to illuminate the thoughts of each character individually‚ while concealing the thoughts of the other‚ and eventually to highlight the vastly different mindsets of both characters involved. Wharton first does this by revealing Lydia’s thoughts to the readers while hiding Gannett’s. At the exposition‚ the story is told in third person

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    Folly of Hubris In Edith Hamilton’s Mythology‚ many mortals make the mistake of thinking themsleves equal or greater than the gods. Thinking "thoughts to dangerous to man" is the crime the gods hate the most. This stunt is called the folly of hubris. The folly of hubirs is will certainly be punnished for their arrogance. Bellerophon‚ Salmoneous‚ and Niobe all commited this crime and were most certainly punnished. Bellerophon lived a heroic and happy life until he angered the gods

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    Social Stratification Social stratification is a system by which a society ranks categories of people‚ it is a structure of inequality (a general advantage or power of one group to another)‚ it describes the way in which different groups of people are placed within society. The status of people is determined by how society is stratified for example wealth and income which is the most common basis of stratification‚ social class‚ race and ethnicity‚ gender‚ age and disability and also religion

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    Edith Wharton’s Favorite Theme Edith Wharton often wrote about people who were trapped by the moral strictures of society and were thus unhappy: she herself spent more than twenty years in a loveless marriage in which she had become involved in order to please her parents. How does Ethan Frome reflect this favorite theme of the author? How and in what ways would you describe the Protagonist as being trapped by the Society in which he lived? These are the questions I am going to answer for you and

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    Case Study: April - Anorexia Nervosa XXXX Pennsylvania State University Case Study: April - Anorexia Nervosa Presenting Concerns April was a 17-year-old high school freshman who presented with severe emaciation due to self-starvation and excessive exercise. Despite being severely underweight‚ April indicated an intense fear of gaining weight. She bragged about how much weight she had recently lost‚ though she indicated that her "butt was still too fat." She also reported that she was constantly

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    The 1960 psychological thriller‚ Psycho‚ directed by Alfred Hitchcock‚ challenge of social‚ film conventions and audience expectations at the time. The scene reveals an underlying uneasiness in the character of Norman Bates. The extract‚ the parlour scene‚ shows how Hitchcock uses cinematography and mise-en-scene to reveal the many layers of meaning to the audience. The film technique contribute to the themes‚ issues of duality of human nature‚ family. The context of the parlour scene is when Marion

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    The monolog "The Seven Ages of Man" by Shakespeare and the myth of "Demeter" retold by Edith Hamilton convey many similar themes but the one that sticks out the most is the idea of life. In the "Seven Ages of Man" it tells us that are lives have different stages and in "Demeter" shows the changing of the seasons. The myth of "Demeter" shows us how and why the first winter happened. "The Seven Ages of Man" tell us about are lives and the different stages we go through. The monolog states we have

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