Inflection point Essays

[Title] Marianne de Guzman Impo lifts her spindly hands away from her thin body and slowly, she opened her palm. It was a bursikos, a small pouch made from cheesecloth. Inside was a pair of earrings and a necklace made from the gold mines of Paracale and a tambourine chain. This is an excerpt taken from my first interview story from one of my writing classes. It was entitled “Grandmother’s Favorite”, a supernatural story about my mother’s strange encounter with her deceased grandmother’s soul

same time obscuring the instability of a person’s gender act (Butler 179). In this sense, cross-dressing in Shakespeare becomes an important motif as it supports the fluidity of gender characteristic. Cross-dressing, according to Marjorie Garber, points to the ‘constructedness of gender categories’ (Garber 9). She further suggests that there is a tendency to look beyond cross-dressing or ‘transvestism’ as it challenges the binary of ‘female and ‘male’. Garber is careful not to call it the ‘third

Computerized Clinical Decision Support (CDS) aims to aid decision making relating to the health care providers and the public. It provides a mechanism involving easy accessibility of health-related information at any point and time, when needed. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is instrumental in using free-text information stored in database over cloud to drive CDS. Thus, representing clinical knowledge and CDS interventions in standardized formats, which is widely

Case Materials Recorded Interview of Don Southworth Recorded Interview of Aleah Recorded Interview of Almira Medical Examiner Report Don Southworth Phone Records Umi Southworth Phone Records Crime Scene Logs Umi Forensic Record Medical History Record Background Umi Southward, 44 was found unresponsive in the backyard of her home on June 9, 2010. Umi’s body was found on Wednesday. She shared the home with her daughter, Almira and Don Southworth. Umi was naked and beaten severely in the back of her

Fiver is a puny rabbit who has the intuition to predict when bad things are going to happen. Early in the book, he predicts that there will be an end to the warren that he lives, so Hazel, his more confident brother, gathers and leaves camp with about a dozen other rabbits. They go through several adventures, encountering predators, and a farm where they narrowly escape. Soon, they find a very habitable field at the top of the hill called Watership Down and they set up a warren there. Two lucky

Coming of age is a time when a young adolescent’s life begins; A new chapter in their lives where life will start to become a roller coaster. There will be the ups in their lives and there will be the lows. However, the roller coaster of life will not be the only obstacle that the adolescent will encounter. As problems in the young adult life come and go, the young often pray for everything to go well and when it does they believe faith has taken its course causing the Generation-Z to rely heavily

“Liar!” It is a word we constantly hear in everyday life. We are often told not to lie. Our parents have taught us since we are little to say the truth no matter what. Although telling the truth might not always be the case. In some situations, we would rather not to tell the truth to evade problems that might occur. People tend to lie when they think it has more advantages than its disadvantages. Those lies are called “white lies”. They are committed to save people’s feelings and smooth over social

Hypermasculinity is a huge aspect of each piece of literature and film that we read and watched in class. The men in these portrayals are often time shown as nonrealistic versions of men and driven purely by sexual desire, vengeance, power and greed. With this idea of hypermasculinity, the women that are shown in the literature that we have read are often made to be submissive, ‘innocent’, pure and are taught how to be silent in the presence of a male, putting their needs and dreams on the backburner

tell the story of his life-long passion for the sport. From his early life in California and Hawaii to an extend sojourn across Southern Asia and Australia, to South Africa, to vacation in Madeira (Portugal), to first San Francisco and then Montauk Point and the vicinity of New York City, while he pursued his writing

Patriots would get a few points before the Tigers would retaliate. After a long, tedious 3 sets, the Tigers were ahead 2-1. The fourth had just begun when the other team noticed a flaw in the Tiger’s positioning, and sent the ball speeding toward an open part of the court. Haley, the defensive specialist, saw the position of the opposing hitter’s arm and started running to the far right side of the court, knowing that the ball would land on the line and they would lose the first point if she did not move

on your nose. When there is too much sebum secretion from the sebaceous glands unscrew excessive oil may have some dirt or dry skin with settlement in your pores. This is a slightly dark and oily on your nose. If you do not wash your nose at this point to mitigate the open pores of the dirty oil, they harden and become blackheads. Sometimes along with bacteria, they constitute open infection called pimples. There are many ways to remove blackheads from the nose, but nothing is better. And here now

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin is a nonfiction book that opens the eyes of others to inspire individuals to help change the world. I learned how much others in the world are truly in need. Most individuals do not realize how lucky they are. From reading this book, I am more appreciative of my family and the country I live in. These people do not live in safe countries that give them opportunities to be successful in life. It is shocking to realize how some countries governments

It contains mixed emotions for example: at one point of the novel Catherine likes Heathcliff and Heathcliff likes Catherine, however later in the novel their emotions change, Catherine begs Heathcliff to forgive her because she betrayed him by marrying Edgar, and Heathcliff is refusing to forgive saying

Clutching daggers smeared with blood in his hand, Macbeth, in the Tragedy of Macbeth, cries out to his wife, “There’s one did laugh in ’s sleep, and one cried / ‘Murder!’” (Shakespeare 2.2.30-31). In his play, William Shakespeare tells the story of a couple, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, who perform commit wicked and immoral actions in an effort to sate their ambitious desires. However, as the play progresses, they are overcome with guilt and are afflicted with terrible dreams. Through his portrayal

An artist, Marcello, is painting while poet Rodolfo watching outside of the window. They are complaining of the cold. They quickly burn the books of Rodolfo’s drama to keep warm. Colline, a philosopher, and Schaunard, a musician, appear with food, fuel, and wines. When they are having a party, the landlord, Benoit, comes to collect the rent payment. They greet him with a glass of the wine to make him drunk. When he is drunk and tells his flirtations, they push him out of their room without

Beloveds Have you ever found the one? Searching– in and out, up and down, online, and around town –until you have no doubt; this is the one. The feeling gets burned into your memory. Others will come and go, like the green of the aspen trees, but not this one. This is a forever feeling. It will be impossible for you to forget the day that you found the perfect pair of pants. For some, it was a pair of oversized blue jeans, allowing the wearer to flourish in liberating comfort. Others have found

Jason Pollock is a Film director, author, and founder of Boom Content. His inventive work has been highlighted in publications such as the New York Times, Variety, and numerous others as a result of his ingenuity and desire for the truth to be revealed. He is a great illustration of ethos since his work is credible and reliable. He was named as being among the top 140 most important individuals on Twitter in a New York Times article and on the list of 100 Persons to Follow by PC Magazine. Although

Freedom comes in the Afterlife In Kate Chopin’s, The Awakening, we are introduced to a Creole society, living in the late nineteenth century, a society in which restrictions were common and social class played an important role in being accepted and acknowledged. The novel is set in 1899, a time when women were to be concerned with managing the children and servants, while being affectionate to their husbands, anything rather than that would go against societal norms and be thought of as being “unbalanced

Hamlet Hamlet is a tragedy play written by William Shakespeare. It is a play that involves numerous deaths. Hamlet is the main character in the play and he is depicted as an insane person. Hamlet faked his madness so as to confuse Claudius and his assistants in order to find the truth about the death of his father. He acted strange when he was around the king and his attendants and this is evident when he tells his friend Guildenstem that "his uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived" (Shakespeare)

Hermanos, Forever Written by Julio Aguirre IV ACT 1 Characters: Domingo Jimenez, (h-i-meh-nez), 53 year-old male, soft and old male spanish accent. Santiago Jimenez, (Sahn-tee-AH-go), 52 year-old male, sounds like his brother but a bit younger. Josefina Jimenez, (ho-seh-fee-nuh), 49 year-old female, soft middle-aged female spanish accent, Time: July 20, Sunday, 5:45pm, Summer Scene: It’s a hot summer day in New Mexico. Domingo is in the backyard of his small mobile home sitting on the porch