As Mrs. Johnson sauntered in her doctors office and took a seat. As she remained patiently for Dr. Proctor‚ he slowly entered the room. Hesitant I. His words he spoke cautiously. "Hi Mrs. Johnson‚" "Hello Dr. Proctor." "How are you feeling today." "I’m (pause) feeling okay." " Well not to hold you here long‚ but the office received the final results from your test. Sadly they came back positive for cancer." "Cancer Doctor? What kind of cancer?" "Breast cancer Mrs. Johnson stage 5 breast cancer!"
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The technological singularity is an interesting concept. Essentially‚ it promises the ability for a machine to self-improve‚ resulting in what is commonly called a “runaway growth” of information‚ aka the “intelligence explosion”. Runaway growth is the idea of exponential growth compounded upon exponential growth. The way this would happen is through artificial intelligence (AI). There are futurists on both sides of the equation. On one hand‚ the optimists on this matter look to the possibility of
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in any database in the OCLS written by either of these individuals. Here is my submission based on the only article by that title I was able to locate from the Harvard Business Review. Article Summary: In the article “It’s not “unprofessional” to gossip at work” published for Idea Watch’s Defend Your Research series for the Harvard Business Review‚ Giuseppe “Joe” Labianca defended the research findings he achieved in a study of a branch of a U.S. company regarding gossip. Labianca conducted
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11.1 Area of Study: Belonging AOS Textual Analysis Framework Below is a 3step framework that will help you to make notes about the content and language and structural features of texts. You can then use these notes as a basis for writing responses about belonging texts. Step 1 Orientation to the text Title Harvie Krumpet Type of text Claymation‚ short film Composer monsterdistributes (Youtube account) Audience‚ purpose & context Step 2 Content of the text
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Emergency Analysis The book by Denis Johnson entitled Jesus’ Son follows a drug addicted narrator through a series of short stories. Over the course of the book‚ many characters come and go‚ and few other than the narrator are constantly in it. Some of these secondary characters are also drug users‚ while others are morally questionable in different ways. One of the more interesting secondary characters appears in the story Emergency‚ Georgie. Georgie is the hospital orderly who happens to steal
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Waltz 1 Natalie Waltz Mrs. Craig English 101 8 September 2013 The Transformation of Marguerite Johnson Mrs. Flowers was a very important reference in the life of the narrator Maya Angelou. “Sister Flowers”‚ taken from her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ relates the beginnings of her road back to the well-being. (27) “In the essay‚ “Sister Flowers” by Maya Angelou‚ Marguerite undergoes an internal transformation from the beginning to the end of the essay. “ Then I
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WorldCom Critical Thinking Case Study Not only did WorldCom’s organizational culture contributed to the accounting breaches‚ in my opinion it was the catalyst to its ultimate demise in July 2002. Richard Thornburgh stated that “WorldCom could not have failed as a result of the actions of a limited number of individuals. Rather‚ there was a broad breakdown of the system of internal controls‚ corporate governance and individual responsibility‚ all of which worked together to create a culture in
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In the short story “Emergency” by Denis Johnson‚ Georgie and FH work at an Iowa hospital emergency room. The main characters Georgie and FH are representing the American society during the Vietnam War. They are portraying how America was in a real state of “Emergency” and in need of urgent help. Georgie and FH are completely blinded by how drugs are.affecting them. At some point‚ FH mistakes a drive-in for a cemetery‚ he thought the speakers were military tombstones‚ until Georgie points out that
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Samuel Johnson once declared‚ “Great works are performed not by strength‚ but by perseverance.” Oddly if one were to come across the definition of perseverance they would unfortunately see a chaotic cluster of enormous synonyms that lack very little purpose for a compelling indication. Despite the realization that the definition prevails‚ Samuel Johnson’s statement exhibits my existential behavior during my college career. For it only helped me understand that by maintaining my feelings of assiduity
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influential inspirations for art‚ including songwriting. In recent times‚ many artists responded to their feelings toward the destruction of the Twin Towers on September 11th‚ 2001‚ with an abundance of artwork‚ poetry‚ and songs. One of the songs‚ Toby Keith’s "The Angry American‚" may conceivably be portrayed as a summation of the artist’s patriotic values in a reaction to the event. Although in initial observation it may seem as though the song attempts to also inspire patriotism in its audience
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