Cholesterol: A Patient Conversation SC121 Unit 2 Assignment Jessica Alstot 10/28/14 Hello Mr. Brown‚ Well your cholesterol tests came back and they are better than I expected them to be. Your total cholesterol was 210 mg/dL which is on the higher end but not irreversible. Your triglycerides were at 145 mg/dL‚ a normal level range is anything below 150 mg/dL. Your HDL‚ or high density lipoprotein‚ which is good cholesterol‚ was at 33 mg/dL. 33 is on the low side‚ the higher the number‚
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Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women To Talk To Each Other? In the essay Sex‚ Lies‚ and Conversation‚ Deborah Tannen explores why marriages have such a high divorce rate and how conversation plays a key role in this. Tannen touches on many different opinions and viewpoints and supports a lot of these opinions with statistics. Her points are very clear‚ however the essay contains many unsupported opinions. The essay‚ as a whole‚ is very informational but also could be revised to better persuade
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A Tale of Two Thomases The tale of the first Thomas in this chapter is about the Thomas from the Bible. This Thomas had a great importance. He was involved in three big events in the Bible. The first being when he went with Jesus to see Lazarus. The second is at the Lord’s Supper‚ where Thomas didn’t fully understand how everyone was supposed to get to heaven after Jesus died. He was unsure of how to get there if Jesus didn’t tell where he was going. Later‚ Jesus explains that He is the Way
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Outline and illustrate the turn-taking system as described in Conversation Analysis Introduction to Discourse Student Number: 12022165 Academic year 2012/2013 TABLE OF CONTENT 1 INTRODUCITON 2 TURN-TAKING 3 STRUCTURE OF THE TURN-TAKING SYSTEM 3.1 Techniques for selecting the next speaker 4 OPENING AND CLOSING OF THE CONVERSATION 4.1 Openings 4.1.1 Topic 4.2 Closings 5 CONCLUSION INTRODUCITON In conversation people seem to follow a certain rule of communication which is
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How is Prejudice Explored in the Poems ’Still I Rise’ and ’Telephone Conversation’? ’Telephone Conversation’ by Wole Soyinka and ’Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou tackle the social injustice of discrimination. Both poems lack in similarities‚ the only one being theme‚ yet possess an abundance of differences. Although both poems convey the same theme‚ they differ in their means of conveyance. For instance they both explore prejudice and discrimination but through different types of language‚ imagery
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essay‚ “Sex‚ Lies‚ and Conversation”‚ the often misunderstood forms of communication between men and women are explored. Gloria Steinem‚ American feminist who is a nationally recognized leader of the women’s liberation movement in the 1960’s and 1970’s‚ who expressed how she felt Wonder Woman is an exemplary model of what a feminist is. I believe Steinem would agree with many of Tannen’s views because they are rational‚ based on research and her essay is meant to bring the two genders to better understand
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on older traditions and mindsets. In “Good Country People‚” Mrs. Hopewell‚ a middle-aged mother‚ assumes and concludes that she can trust a Bible salesman who stops at her door because he appears to be from the country. “...[Hopewell and her daughter] had had a nice visitor yesterday‚ a young man selling Bibles. ‘Lord‚’ [Hopewell] said‚ ‘he bored me to death but he was so sincere and genuine I couldn’t be rude to him. He was just good country people‚ you know‚’ she said‚ ‘—just the salt of the earth’”
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Analysis and Commentary of “Telephone Conversation” by Wole Soyinka This poem is about the perceptions‚ attitudes and problems between the black and white skinned people/races. In this short poem of a telephone conversation between a dark skinned West African and a British landlady‚ the writer‚ Wole Soyinka‚ effectively makes others aware of the prejudice and tantrums thrown by the whites to the blacks. This poem emphasises the racism and criticism of Whites against the Blacks. In this poem
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Diego Rubio Ms. Tan English 11 Honors 10 January 2011 Ethan Frome: Torn Between Two Worlds The novel Ethan Frome‚ by Edith Wharton‚ is set in turn-of-the-century New England‚ in the fake town of Starkfield‚ Massachusetts. During this time‚ both men and women were torn between duty and morality‚ and personal desire. People were expected to follow the societal norms‚ which although plagued them‚ were deemed as correct and proper. This social constraint placed on individuals cause them to make
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Good conversation helped someone or helped you I am fortunate to experience good conversation and be able to remember those good memories. As I recalled those memories‚ I was asking myself‚ "What makes a good conversation?" I think good conversation starts when people feel comfortable talking with each other and understand each other. Surprisingly‚ most of my good conversations have started in America where people don’t use my home language. The first year in America was tough and harsh. I could
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