Guests of the Sheik: Ethnography of an Iraqi Village Written in the late 1950’s this is ethnography of a small village El Nahra‚ in Iraq. Elizabeth Fernea‚ the author‚ is the new wife of an anthropologist‚ who joins her husband in Iraq to do his graduate work. As an American woman‚ Elizabeth eventually chooses to integrate herself into tribal society by donning the traditional abayah (what we know as a burka)‚ avoiding being seen by unfamiliar men. She lives and eats and works as the women
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Chief Fennessy has been clear about his desire for a diverse fire department. We‚ the San Diego Fire-Rescue department‚ serve a diverse population. Income‚ race‚ culture‚ and religion are examples of the diversity of our city. It is important that our department reflects this diversity. We can achieve this goal through diversity outreach teams‚ community group involvement‚ and daily actions with the public. First‚ we can create a diversity outreach team‚ made up of department personnel‚ who reflect
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Chief William J. Bratton‚ Compstat‚ and Leadership When one thinks of a leader‚ what type of person do we think of? Is that individual a hero that we see on television‚ a cartoon character‚ a family member‚ or is that person a public servant? Regardless of occupation and title‚ a leader is a person who inspires others and they know how to motivate people. “When they arrive‚ you see something about them that stands out. The inner strength of their leadership ability emerges”. (Gonzalez‚
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Subjective Chief Complaint “My knees are killing me‚ I’m tired all the time‚ and I’ve got horrible pain in my stomach.” HPI Ann Baker is a 32-year-old woman who has been having knee pain on and off for about 2 years. She has been to the doctor a few times since then with the same complaint. Workups showed no radiologic changes to the knees‚ and her family practice physician settled on a diagnosis of early arthritis. She was not evaluated by a rheumatologist. Despite scheduled APAP and ibuprofen
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Casa Youth Shelter short term crisis shelter : Casa Youth Shelter is a nonprofit organization located in Los Alamitos‚ California providing emergency temporary shelter for homeless‚ runaway and abandoned youth. They have 12 licensed beds
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have been light as a feather. When I woke up from being put in the buggy‚ I found that I was in a cave with people named Bill and Sam. I looked crazy with feathers in my hair. For the first time i was actually having fun‚ I was pretending to be Red Chief. I was actually camping for the first time as I was telling Bill and Sam which had some peculiar facial expressions. When
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lately. It is called HALO:The Flood. The Flood is based on the award-winning Xbox game‚ Halo. This book was interesting because it tells the story through several different perspectives. Some of the perspectives include: the super-soldier‚ Master Chief‚ an alien‚ another alien‚ a sergeant‚ and a few soldiers. Although some new character perspectives are introduced in some chapters‚ the characters die later in the chapter. The story opens with the marines aboard their battle cruiser‚ The Pillar
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This is a story about Walk Two Moons and “The Guest”. I’m going to be telling you how the themes in both stories are similar and how the authors developed them. In Walk Two Moon Sal Judges Cadaver because Sal thinks she killed her husband and buried him in the backyard and how her house is decorated it’s a pretty convincing she might have did it and she thinks her teacher is in on it later to find out that Margaret did not kill her husband he died in a car accident and her teacher is really
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Literary Analysis Don’t judge a someone until you really know them this a life lesson taught in the story “The Guest” and the book Walk Two Moons. The lessons in the two stories reveal a theme of”Don’t judge someone until you Know them.” These two stories show the same theme to their audiences‚ but they each go about teaching a lesson in different ways. The theme is developed In the book Walk Two Moons cause Sal kept thinking(believing) that Mrs. Cadaver was a axe chopping murder. And Sal is worried
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The criminal justice system in the United States is hampered by the separate and uncoordinated mechanism of the police‚ "enforcing the laws‚ emphasize community protection;" courts‚ "weighing peoples’ rights versus community needs;" and corrections systems conflicted between punishment and rehabilitation. They are so separated that they cause resistance and stifled communication. For example‚ although police are supposed to have probable cause‚ they are not accountable for the quality of an arrest
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