Looking for Alaska is a book that everyone should read. It is written by John Green‚ and it is such a nicely written book. It is about a boy named Miles Halter (nickname is Pudge) who doesn’t have many friends where he lives‚ so he decides to move away and attend Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama for his junior year like his father did. Miles goes to Culver Creek searching for his Great Perhaps‚ because he knows there is something more out in the world for him. Miles Halter is the main
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Jobs of the Future In The Economist‚ there is an article called Into the Unknown (November 13‚ 2004.) This article also appears in the book Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. The author of Into the Unknown is unverified. In this article‚ the author talks about how the jobs of the future will come to change. Machines and mechanical devices are taking over the jobs of physical workers and the work force demands are ever changing. “Mechanical devices are already ousting skilled clerical
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The system should ensure nurses’ ability to adapt and be flexible in response to changes in science‚ technology‚ and population demographics that shape the delivery of care. An improved education system is necessary to ensure that the current and future generations of nurses can deliver safe‚ quality‚ patient-centered care across all settings‚ especially in such areas as primary care and community and public health. Enactment of the ACA offers a myriad of opportunities for the nursing profession
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Education for the Future According to the Oxford Dictionary “Education is the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction‚ especially at school or university level”. Nowadays‚ there are dozens of theories about education and most of them consider what its aims should be and what type of subjects should students be instructed in. In order for schools to fully prepare students for their future‚ the annual curriculum should be modified to include academic subjects as well as creative subjects
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In the novel Looking for Alaska by John Green the main character‚ Miles‚ believes in a “great perhaps” which he learned from a man named Rabelais in his last words. After going off to a boarding school named Culver Creek and meeting a girl named Alaska whom he tells about his love for last words he learns the last words of Simón Bolívar which were about a labyrinth of suffering. Being someone who faced suffering during moments like when only two people showed up to his going away party‚ he threw
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Pros and cons of the Great Leap Forward - Oliver R “The Great Leap Forward was a push by Mao Ze Dong to change China from a predominantly agrarian (farming) society to a modern‚ industrial society in just five years.”1 Mao’s aim was to up Chinas crop output.2 The idea was that if everyone worked these long hours for all these years in both farming and steel that China would catch up to countries such as America and England. Unfortunately for Mao and China all the steel that the people produced
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In the novel‚ Looking for Alibrandi‚ Josie must learn to deal with a whole range of issues. These include her cultural identity‚ her attitudes to her family and friends‚ meeting her father for the first time and her acceptance of her place in society. Each of these issues encourages and enables Josie to change and to understand her life and her role in her family and her community more positively. In the beginning of Looking for Alibrandi it is evident that Josie is conflicted about her heritage
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number of underlying developments. This trend has created new competitive threats as well as new opportunities. This paper aims to foresee major future banking trends‚ based on these past and current movements in the market. Given the competitive market‚ banking will (and to a great extent already has) become a process of choice and convenience. The future of banking would be in terms of integration. This is already becoming a reality with new-age banks such as YES Bank‚ and others too adopting a
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Anatomy of the Future Andreas Vesalius August 1‚ 1539 After attending college at the University of Louvain‚ I moved to Padua to study for my doctorate. After being offered the chair of surgery and anatomy‚ I pursued my desire to research the anatomy. Although surgery and anatomy are considered of little importance in comparison to other branches of medicine‚ I believe that surgery must be grounded in anatomy. I have been given the opportunity to perform my research on the cadavers of executed
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Halter in Looking For Alaska. Miles was a boy that didn’t have friends and was sent to a boarding school where he met a girl he eventually fell in love with named Alaska. The Puritans would not approve the book Looking For Alaska‚ due to the characters not respecting authority‚ women having equal rights to men‚ and the characters swearing. Authority was a big deal to the Puritans and the characters did not respect it‚ which is enough for Puritans to destroy this book. In the novel Looking For Alaska
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