A dialect continuum is a range of dialects spoken across a large geographical area‚ differing only slightly between areas that are geographically close to each other‚ and gradually decreasing in mutual intelligibility as the distances become greater. Dialects separated by great geographical distances may not be mutually comprehensible. According to the Ausbausprache - Abstandsprache - Dachsprache paradigm‚ these dialects can be considered Abstandsprachen (i.e.‚ as stand-alone languages). However
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Continuum The moon rolls over the roof and falls behind my house‚ and the moon does neither of these things‚ I am talking about myself. It’s not possible to get off to sleep or the subject or the planet‚ nor to think thoughts. Better barefoot it out the front. door and lean from the porch across the privets and the palms into the washed-out creation‚ a dark place with two particular bright clouds dusted (query) by the moon‚ one’s mine the other’s an adversary‚ which may depend on the
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health care industry can sometimes be a little tricky. There are so many types of health care plans. Continuum of care is a system that tracks patient’s comprehensive health care services of all levels of intensity of care. This system is broken down into several different categories. Which are extended care‚ ambulatory care‚ acute hospital care‚ wellness‚ home care‚ outreach and housing. Continuum of care may provide healthcare from birth to the end of life for that particular patient. Managed health
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Continuum of Strategies Sylvia Brooks‚ Kenya Conyers‚ Jennifer Williams SEI/500 Structured English Immersion October 22‚ 2012 Dr. Gretchen Meyer Continuum of Strategies Introduction: Mrs. Brooks is a first grade teacher in Harvard Elementary School and this year she has twenty five students in her classroom. Of the twenty five students in her classroom‚ five are English Language Learners. These five students are all Spanish speaking but two are from Puerto Rico and three are of Mexican
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MAIN THEMES/ IDEAS: Sleep/ Insomnia: The poem takes place at nighttime (“moon”) and it starts and ends with the author going or try to sleep (“It’s no possible to get off to sleep”‚ “paces me back to bed‚ stealthily in step”). The insomnia of the author leads to a wondering of thoughts in the moonlight. The proximity of sleep in the poem makes this wondering of thoughts more believable. This time of night when thoughts are blurry and it is easy to slip into the unknown and the imaginary (“bright
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MECHANISTIC ORGANIZATIONS Metaphors create a method of thinking‚ it compares items of deferent characteristic showing similarities but not differences‚ recently shadow chancellor George Osborne criticising Gordon Brown‚ he said ’Gordon is a man with an overdraft‚ not a plan’ (Metro‚ October 28‚ 2008). Here we can see that the word overdraft is used to describe some of the present characteristics of Gordon Brown in relation to spending. Various metaphors have been used by different writers to
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limitations to care. The continuum of care is one of the concepts that is applied to prevent the limitations within the system. Continuum of care is defined as: A range of services developed and organized to address the variety of needs individuals have as they age. This concept recognizes and considers the availability and extent of short-term and long-term care systems and services in the community and in institutional settings. Included in the continuum of care are residential
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When it comes to healthcare in America it is centered on the mechanistic view of health. The mechanistic view sees the body as compartments working separately from each other. Whenever disease occur they treat it by utilizing medication and/or surgery. If a person is not feeling well their initial instinct is to go to a mechanistic doctor. Even the healthcare policy is based on the mechanistic view of health and healthcare. The majority of health issue in America is due to lifestyle choices. Many
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Approaches to Decision Making Johanna Ruiz HCA/250 March 29‚ 2013 Robbie Johnson Decision Making Managers are faced with many different types of decision every day on the job and off the job as well. We do make decisions everyday that come naturally to ourselves‚ but when you are placed on a managers position you are not only making a decision that will affect yourself but your employees as well. Employees count on the managers to look out for them and make sure that their best
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include psychological‚ systems-interaction‚ interpretive-symbolic‚ and mechanistic. All of these areas are very important to understand the ’whole picture‚’ but the focus of this paper will be in the mechanistic perspective. Mechanistic Perspective Information within an organization determines their ability to make informed decisions and the effectiveness of those decisions is based on the way they communicate. This mechanistic perspective on communications deals entirely with the message‚ the medium
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