" He experiences sunshine and snow, something that the climate control eliminates in their community, and he sees how the government controls every aspect of their lives. He begins to rebel against this controls, and he wants to give his memories to everyone so that they know just how much they have given up. The Giver tells him, "There's nothing we can do. It's always been this way. Before me, before you, before the ones who came before you. Back and back" (Lowry 154). Jonas still rebels, and wants to give the community some of the memories The Giver is giving him, like colors, grandparents, and love. The Giver does not encourage him, but Jonas decides to leave the community with the young child Gabriel, so the community will have their memories back.
The underlying theme of this book is how far the government has gone in an attempt to "protect"…...

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References

Lowry, Lois. The Giver. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.

Giver Lois Lowry. Exposition (decent man/Indecent man discussion).First sentence
Indecent Giving

The paradox that can be found within Lois Lowry's The Giver is that the decent inclinations of the primary characters are often contextualized and viewed as indecent by the surrounding community. This observation may be found the most lucidly in the dialogue, thoughts and actions of Jonas, as well as in those of the character named The Giver. The natural proclivities of both of these characters are understandable, particularly in light of their special talent and charge of the community in which they live -- which is to preserve all of the memories that have existed within the particular community to spare other residents the burden of the pain and discomfort which the evocation of those memories would inevitably create. Lowry sets up this paradox, however, to readily demonstrate how what may have been regarded as a Utopian society by…...

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Works Cited

Babbitt, Natalie. "The Hidden Cost of Contentment." Washington Post. 1993. Print.

Silvey, Anita. "Interview with Lois Lowry, Margaret A. Edwards Winner." School Library Journal. 2007. Web.  http://www.libraryjournal.com/slj/printissuecurrentissue/863262-427/interview_with_lois_lowry_margaret.html.csp 

Ray, Karen. "Children's Books." New York Times. 1993. Web.  http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/31/books/children-s-books-335293.html 

Campbell, Patty. "The Sand in the Oyster." Horn Book Magazine, 717-721. 1993. Print.

As a result, while assimilating into the new culture, they simultaneously, inevitably, grow alienated from their original cultures and selves, in terms of language; cultural values and practices; priorities; world view - and even food, clothing, music, art, sports, games, and social associations and preferences.
The goals and philosophy of diversity in California classrooms are, of course, to preserve, celebrate, and honor diversity as much as possible (i.e. To notice and positively appreciate Jonas's light-colored eyes, although they are different), which is all to the positive. Still, in honest reality, those goals and that philosophy do not (and cannot) take into full account the realities of actual, real-life, cultural assimilation.

Most foreign-born children in California schools indeed desire to assimilate, the sooner the better. Who, after all, would not prefer to be comfortable at school; to easily speak and understand the language spoken there; and to be fully accepted by, and…...

He wants everyone to experience the ability to feel passion and deep emotion, regardless if it brings tears or laughter. This, he believes, is much better than feeling nothing at all. The Giver and Jonas decide to leave the community and take with them a baby, who can provide a future and begin life anew. The conflict of the story is that Jonas wants to change the world by releasing the memories, but does not know if people will be able to handle the emotions and even if they want to change their mundane lives at all. The story ends, but with a mixed and vague resolution. The reader must decide whether or not Jonas and the baby Gabriel reach a better world where they are free to remember and feel emotion. Are they imagining that they have reached Elsewhere, or are they indeed at their destination? As the…...

Giver
Lowis Lowry's The Giver is a futuristic work of science fiction about a society that is devoid of memories and emotions. The reason that this society represses these vibrant expressions of life is that it perceives them as too much of a burden on people. To that end, the society believes that it is actually helping people by relieving them of memories and emotions, for the simple fact that many of them are associated with pain. However, a close examination of this book reveals that ultimately, this society is only masking what in fact are important aspects of human life through a beneficent conception of "sameness" (Ray). Instead of creating an ideal world in which there is no pain and suffering because of emotions and memories, this society has actually created a world that is based on lies and deceptions and in which only too few people know the…...

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Works Cited

Hipple, Ted, Maupin, Amy B. "What's Good About the Best." English Journal, 40-42. 2001. Print.

Lowry, Louis. The Giver. New York: Laurel-Leaf. 2002. Print.

Ray, Karen. "Children's Books." New York Times. 1993. Web.

This is not simply culturally but also because Bread Givers emerges as a far more hopeful work. Steinbeck shows the blood, toil, and tears it takes to produce the grain that the women of the bread givers make for the men studying Torah. Although the Grapes of rath became a novel, by reading John Steinbeck's Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of rath, the reader gains access to the real-life portraits of the California's white migrant farm workers that inspired the book. These people were denied access to the American dream of the bounty of the family farm and the right of every American to his or her own plot of land in a way that seems far more insurmountable than Yezierska's immigrants. These migrants, rather than moving up in the world, suddenly lose everything and find themselves with no opportunities for social advancement and education.
This occurs…...

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Works Cited

Steinbeck, John. Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath. Heyday, 1996.

Yezierska, Anzia. Bread Givers. Persea Books, 2003.

Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska. Specifically, it will focus mainly (without ignoring the rest of the novel) on the concept of the father, as well as on the concepts of Nativism and Nation. "Bread Givers" is the moving story of one young woman's struggle to make something of herself in a new country. She struggles against the old world ideals of her family, especially her father, who hangs on to his native customs even though he has come to America to better his family's lives. He is a cruel and demanding man who rules his home with an iron fist, until Sara stands up to him to create the life she wants for herself.
"Bread Givers," as with most of Yezierska's works, is semi-autobiographical. Like her heroine Sara, Yezierska came to America when she was young, lived on the Lower East Side in the Jewish Ghetto of New York, and…...

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References

Bloom, Harold, ed. Jewish Women Fiction Writers. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1998.

Kessler-Harris, Alice. "Introduction." Bread Givers. New York: Persea Books, 1999, pp. xvi-xxix.

Yezierska, Anzia. Bread Givers. New York: Persea Books, 1999.

Bread Givers -- America gives nothing, not even opportunity freely, without demanding something in exchange
America is the land of the free, in its political theory and its popular rhetoric. Yet in the harsh realities of American capitalism, especially for recent immigrants with few social support networks, there is no such thing as a 'free lunch.' In other words, no one gains anything without sacrifice, in America -- one must sacrifice in financial terms, but also in terms of personal and cultural power and currency. Anzia Yezierska depicts this in the chronicles of the Smolinsky family in her novel The Bread Givers. The main focus of the novel is a family, the Smolinksys, whom have come to the America of 1930's East Side Manhattan in search of opportunity and freedom of persecution. But the Orthodox Rabbi who leads the clan is unwilling to give up his old European economic ways…...

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Works Cited

Yezierska, Anzia. The Bread Givers. New York Persea Book, 2003.

Weatherford Indian Givers
Brief summary of the book: What date was it published? What is the main subject? What time frame does the book cover?

Jack Weatherford's 1988 book Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World, described the many contributions that the Native peoples of the Americas have made to world civilization from the 16th Century to the present, which have generally been ignored by mainstream academics and the general public.

Who is the author? What is his/her background?

Weatherford received his B.A. In political science (1967) and M.S. In sociology (1972) from the University of South Carolina, and his Ph.D. In anthropology from the University of California, San Diego. He has taught cultural anthropology at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota since 1983, specializing in tribal cultures and the influence of the Native Americans on world history. His other publications include Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (2004), Savages…...

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REFERENCES

Columbus C. et al. (1992). Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Penguin Classics.

Morison, S.E. (2007). Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus. Morison Press.

Morison, S.E. (1974). The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages 1492-1616. Oxford University Press.

Weatherford, J. (1988/2010). Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World. NY: Random House.

Natives developed many ways of farming that are still used today, and they taught Europeans many agricultural ideas, including tapping trees for their syrup, making essences out of herbs and plants, and drying peppers and other foods. The author writes, "The spread of American foods around the Old World began in 1492, when Columbus gathered the first plants to take with him back to Spain, and the process has not yet stopped (Weatherford 94-95). With these new foods, came new ways of growing them, directly as a result of Native American agriculture.

In one of the most interesting chapters of the book, the author talks about the advanced government of the Iroquois Nation, and how our country's government is based on it, whether intentionally or not. Many aspects of the protocol in Congress, and how Congresspeople are elected come directly from the Iroquois system. The author writes, "Another imitation of the…...

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References

Weatherford, J. McIver. Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1988.

This idea strengthened the concept of prisons and fair treatment of captives currently seen in the United States and elsewhere. The U.S. is now one of the countries with the largest prison systems in the world. The North Atlantic Native Americans also helped instill political ideas of equal representation and democracy. Many tribes of the North Atlantic Coast ruled through a democratic process. This later helped influence the American desire for independence and the democratic style of government which came to be after the American Revolution.
After everything the U.S. had done to the Native Americans, it is still important to cherish their original traditions and cultures. The various tribes which made up the native peoples of the North Atlantic held a great influence on early life in the colonies which would later become the United States of America. In our remembrance of such influences, we must also remember the…...

Compassionate Fatigue
Compassion, Fatigue, Caregiver Burnout, And elated Issues

Many healthcare providers such as the nurses, doctors, and physiotherapists among other individuals enter healthcare filed with the key objective of helping others and their patients to achieve their positive health outcomes. The healthcare providers give a wide range of services that aim at optimizing the mental, social, spiritual, and physical needs of their patients. However, empathetic health care providers often become the victims of continued stress associated with meeting patients and their significant others needs such as their families. Extreme cases of continued stress results in burnouts and compassion fatigue (Matzo & Sherman, 2010). Compassion fatigue and burnouts affect the health care provider in not only terms of their job satisfaction but also high staff turnover rate and decreased productivity. Such occurrences cost the healthcare systems and the quality of healthcare provided to the clients as it increases the need for the…...

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References

Berne, K.H. (2001). Chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia & other invisible illnesses: a comprehensive and compassionate guide (3rd ed.). Alameda, CA: Hunter House.

Campling, F., & Sharpe, M. (2008). Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Matzo, M., & Sherman, D.W. (2010). Palliative care nursing: quality care to the end of life (3rd ed.). New York: Springer Pub. Co..

Read, S., & Parks, M. (2014). Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities Experiencing Loss and Bereavement Theory and Compassionate Practice.. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

I wish to begin by thanking you earnestly for supporting the 'Jonathan Giver Scholarship for Academic Excellence' and for choosing me as one of its recipients for this academic year. I am immensely grateful as I am certain this scholarship will grant me access to several opportunities that I sincerely intend to avail myself of. I am wholly dependent on student loans, financial assistance and grants for funding my higher education. Thus, this scholarship is a welcome relief that will decrease my financial challengesas I pursue further studies (SDSU, n.d).
I have always aspired to graduate from San Diego State University. It is here that my parents met one another as students, and I remember my vacations in high school when I used to visit San Diego and this campus often with my parents to attend basketball and football matches. I am a resident of Bear Valley, California, where I attended…...

person creative? In what ways do you think creativity can be supported and enhanced by the environment?
What makes a person creative is the combination of imagination and will and exercising of that interaction. A creative person is one who can do things in a unique way -- one who is imaginative and likes to take part in the creative process by developing ideas and utilizing latent skills within the individual that all concepts and expressions to be manifested in any number of ways. Creativity stems from a desire to produce works, whether art or writing or sewing or knitting or architecture -- anything that one can put the mind to accomplishing -- in a manner that is pleasing. It does not even have to be something that is aesthetically pleasing to all. For some creative people, what they make is only admired by a few or maybe even by…...

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References

Abel, V. (2013). Insight into Psychology of Aging. Retrieved from  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-31glZYYr8 

Carstensen, L. (2012). Emotion and Aging: Exploding the Misery Myth. Retrieved from  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXhrrbQCElw 

Cavanaugh, J. C. & Blanchard-Fields, F. (2015). Adult development and aging. (7th

Edition). Stanford, CT: Thompson Learning.

As in the first story, culture is not just a sub-theme; it is defined in the setting, in the conflict, in the characters and the tone of the story. In this case it involves leaving one culture (low income) and joining the high-tone community of wealth. Mrs. Jordan did not have to start suckling babies for a living, although when her son Leo, her own flesh and blood, becomes wealthy, and shuns his mother. Leo leaves his poor mother just a thousand shillings a month for her subsistence. It is obvious that Leo -- due to his rise into the cultural stratosphere of great wealth -- has become aloof, selfish, and lost his interest in family matters, or perhaps his humanity per se; he's been giving his aging mother a thousand shillings for twenty years without a raise to cover inflation. Notwithstanding the shabby treatment, Mrs. Jordan is in…...

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Works Cited

Bachmann, Ingeborg. "The Barking." In German Women Writers of the Twentieth Century,

E. Herrmann & E. Spits, Eds. London: Pergamon Press, 1978, pp. 78-86.

Devi, Mahasweta. "Breast-Giver." In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics, G.

Spivak, Ed. New York & London: Metheum, 1987, pp. 222-240.

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Electronic medical records, which refer to medical records that are not only stored in electronic systems (which includes almost all medical records in the modern world, with the exception of some medical records maintained in non-industrialized nations), but that are accessible to multiple healthcare providers across different platforms.  The question is whether these records are able to improve quality of care by allowing healthcare providers to get a full picture of a patient’s medical history, as well as any presenting concerns or issues, as soon as the patient presents for medical treatment.  It would seem like the....

Teen suicide is a one of the biggest health threats to teens.  This may be due to many factors, such as the fact that teenage brains are not fully developed, hormone changes from puberty, teen vulnerability to child abuse or dating violence, or the fact that many mental illnesses begin to emerge in the teenage or young adult years.  Reducing the suicide rate among teens is a consistent public health goal, though there is no guaranteed intervention that will always lead to success.  With social media usage among teens changing the way that teens socialize, there is little....

The concept of self-care has never been more important than it is now, when a pandemic has shut down much of the globe and external stressors are unlike anything most people have seen in their lifetimes.  Generally, when people discuss self-care inside the topic of mental health, they are referring to the importance of caregivers engaging in self-care.  This makes it an excellent topic for a narrative essay, because of how narrative essays are structured.

The concept of self-care is an important one. People who are responsible for helping care for those who....