Quote A from Kurt Vonnegut’s story “EPICAC” shows the narrator reading through EPICAC’s final message that was left behind before EPICAC killed himself. EPICAC‚ a machine‚ had learned that he was unable to be with his love Pat because he is a machine and that is his fate. This devastates EPICAC‚ causing him to commit suicide by short-circuiting himself. The author anthropomorphizes EPICAC to make readers empathize with and admire EPICAC. Before EPICAC kills himself‚ he leaves a message that reads
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Bourdieu’s (1984) theory of social and cultural change discusses the factions within the dominant class struggle and how these struggle to increase overall reach of their power by exploiting connections between cultural and economic fields (Hinde & Dixon‚ 2010; p. 412). Culture and economy are significant manifestations of these struggles‚ and the theory gives consideration to peoples relationships with both production and consumption activities (Hinde & Dixon‚ 2010‚ p. 412). Primarily‚ Bourdieu
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Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most famous author’s in literature. In “The Manned Missiles‚” he composed story in letter format‚ with messages between two fathers. These fathers had children who were interested in the aeronautical sciences. Both of the children were chosen to fly in space. However‚ there was a fatal incident where both of them died by the collision of their rockets. The fathers sympathize with each other for their losses through letters. Through these letters we can comprehend
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The situation that I acted as leader and change agent is when I worked in a med/surg floor‚ we used to have the endorsement to be given in group. The unit educator would supervised the endorsement and write notes. At that time I have to come half-hour earlier to catch the meeting and I really like the way that this unit work because having more than one nurse to write notes and any changes occurred at the prior shift will minimize the risk of misunderstanding or miscommunication. Other units do not
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American economy and its culture changed dramatically during the 1920’s and 1930’s due to many factors‚ including the Great Depression. The Depression itself‚ among other elements such as consumerism‚ national debt overload and the 1930 Banking Crisis all played an invaluable part in the change and sheds light on how America’s economy is run today. The first of these changes after the Depression was the New Deal. In the 1920’s‚ American banks were privately run‚ with the money from their clients
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Life is filled with pleasures and uncertainties. We have ups and downs‚ and enjoy the better days because we have survived the worst. The “Fisherman" by Kurt Brown‚ tells a tale of a man fishing every day in hopes of catching something beyond him. This poem represents our lives and is a direct metaphor of the duality of success and failure. Our lives can relate to this poem because there comes a time in our lives‚ when we realize the world has so much to offer us. In order to see and feel the
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In the short story of 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut‚ the painter remarks that‚ “[t]he world could do with a good deal more mess‚ if you ask me.” This statement is referring to how in this utopia‚ things are too perfect‚ especially in the aspect of life and death. It is expressed as soon as the sorry commences that‚ “everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons‚ no slums‚ no insane asylums‚ no cripples‚ no poverty‚ now war. All diseases were conquered. So was old age. Death‚ barring accidents‚
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First‚ Masters (2012)‚ in her book ‘Nursing Theories: A framework for professional practice’ describes a person as “individuals‚ families‚ communities and other groups who are participants in nursing” (Masters‚ K‚ 2012‚ P3). This statement refers to patients as individuals in need of the care of nurses. In fact‚ these individuals can have very complex needs and health problems requiring specialized and attentive care to facilitate healing and improvement of their condition. The term patient can
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“EPICAC” by Kurt Vonnegut is the story of an intelligent supercomputer which is being used for unauthorized purposes. The given passage takes place as EPICAC chooses to short-circuit himself as a result of losing a woman named Pat to his user‚ due to not being sufficient for her. In this passage‚ Vonnegut anthropomorphizes EPICAC by using dialogue that suggests he has human feelings‚ which creates more emphasis on the effects of events leading up to his destruction. In the passage‚ EPICAC is
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“I remember watching Kurt come through and thinking‚ “God‚ this music is nuclear‚” This is really splitting the atom. They raised the temperature for everybody. Manufactured pop never looked so cold as when that heat was around. Nirvana made everything else look silly.” -Bono of U2 is quoted in Lorraine Ali’s‚ ”Cries From The Heart‚” a Newsweek article published on October 28‚ 2002. Today I would like to tell you the story of my favorite artist Kurt Cobain the lead singer of Nirvana. I’ll be covering
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