December 2007 Excellus Creates EA and SOA Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield Creates Enterprise Architecture and SOA Solution to Consolidate Disparate IT Systems Executive Overview When several Blue Cross Blue Shield programs in upstate New York merged‚ each organization brought its own business processes and IT systems to the new entity. Because they were so different‚ yet had to be consolidated‚ the new entity‚ Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield‚ wanted to first implement a strong business analysis
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many other people‚ they have found football to be a hobby‚ something to do in there past time. They have formed habits around watching the game. In the movie "Varsity Blues‚" football isn’t just a past time for the town‚ but it is a way of life‚ the whole town is involved in the high school football team. "Varsity Blues" takes place in a small town in Texas called West Canyon‚ in this town if you are a healthy boy‚ then you are a football player. Young males have tons of pressure from their
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Title: Perfect blue Page 1-48 Author: Laura Langston Setting: Grandma’s house‚ School and home. Main Characters: Description: Erin Dog lover‚ really tall‚ Dark hair and responsible. Cassie Prankster‚ loves horses and has light hair. Steve (dad) Joker‚ young and careless
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Sylvia Plath’s poem‚ "Medallion" is about a snake she finds dead‚ and the details of its body that she notices. Written in 1959‚ its form was strictly "controlled." Plath uses imagery‚ literary devices‚ and sensory details‚ especially colors. First‚ we "see" the image of a snake‚ bronze‚ lying in the sun near a gate with a "star and moon" design. By the gate with star and moon Worked into the peeled orange wood The bronze snake lay in the sun Next‚ Plath uses a metaphor
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The Blue Bouquet Have you even been in a situation when you have gone from total innocence to experience in a short period of time? In the short story “The Blue Bouquet” written by Octavio Paz‚ the main character starts off by waking up from a nap and going on a walk even after being warned not to by the owner of the boardinghouse. Whilst out the protagonist gets stopped in the middle of the night by another man with a knife who wanted something very unusual. It wasn’t money or jewelry; it was
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The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes is an influential protest poem that depicts a man in a blues bar‚ who is playing away at the piano‚ singing the blues. The poem was obviously developed at the time of the Harlem Renaissance and was published in 1923. The weary blues won multiple awards due to its influential style of writing. The Weary Blues was publish in a place called Harlem‚ which was filled with musical and artistic potential. At the time of the Harlem Renaissance‚ the musical genre known
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Dust Bowl: Donald Worster The 1930s are a decade marked by devastation; the nation was in an economic crisis‚ millions of people were going hungry‚ and jobless. America was going through some dark times. But if you were living in Texas‚ Oklahoma‚ Kansas (or any of those surrounding states) you had bigger things on your mind than being denied the money in your bank account. From 1935-1939 Winds and dust storms had left a good portion of our country desolate; however our author takes a slightly
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Intro to English 120 Literary Analysis Essay 1 The Leading Conflicts in “Sonny’s Blues” In this Literary Analysis Essay I will be analyzing a story called “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin. This story is one that many may be able to relate to in there day to day life. Struggle‚ hardship‚ and family are all things involved in this story. There are many struggles between both characters and their family. In “Sonny’s Blues‚” both the narrator and his brother‚ Sonny‚ are in extreme conflicts with one another
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Funeral Blues Summary Stanza 1 Lines 1-2 Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚ Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone‚ The song begins with a series of harsh commands : stop the clocks! Cut off the telephones! The speaker sounds forceful and even angry. These seem like physical representations of time and communication to us. He wants everything to just stop. In the next line‚ he ask for silence. He wants dogs to stop barking too. On the other hand‚ the speaker is addressing an audience
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The National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) was established in 1933 in response to a catastrophic event in the Southern Great Plains region know as the “Dust Bowl” or “Dirty Thirties”. In 1869‚ the railroad made its way to the Great Plains and became home to the many early settlers who took advantage of the “free soil” or land tracts offered by the government via the Homestead Act; a bill enacted in hopes to curb slave labor and increase the number of individual farmers who owned and operated
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