Essays on Ariza

Part 1: Active Shooters

There has been an increase in the number of shootings in hospitals as well as other institutions around the country (Hospital Employee Health, 2013). The increase in these cases has made institutions to start preparing their employees on how to react if such a shooting occurred in their organization. There are similarities in some of the hospital shooting cases. In St. Vincent’s Hospital, the shooting was unpredictable and could not be prevented. This was similar to the case of the Western Psychiatric Institute shooting in Pittsburgh (Thomas, 2012). The Joint Commission agrees that there has been an increase ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time Cholera and Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country are two novels that redefined the contours of Latin American and Japanese literature. Kawabata’s writing style and magical realism went on to win him a Nobel Prize in Literature while Marquez became one of the best writers of the 20th century. In both texts by Kawabata and Marquez there is a constant struggle between tradition and modernity. Water is a significant recurring motif in Love in the Time of Cholera inasmuch as it reflects on the struggle of the main characters to balance ...

The Context

The study was conducted in a home setting. I interviewed the students before beginning the tutorial. I also reviewed all of their previous writings and explored their academic backgrounds, their writing processes, their thoughts about their own writings, and their learning from their previous classes in order to determine their current level of writing. I and my students shared the common mother tongue of Turkish and I conducted my research by providing the students 5 two-hour lessons. However, he does like to write. He has kept a diary since he was a kid. In his native country, he learned to ...