Essays on Last Time

There’s a loud, ringing sound. It’s jarring, waking me from the otherwise cozy warmth that is my bed. I am forced to stick my hand, then my entire arm out from under the safety of my bedclothes in order to turn it off. To snooze or not to snooze? It will just go off in another seven minutes. I may as well get up now. The sooner I do, the sooner I get to see my best friend. Groggy, bleary eyes, rubbing sleep from my face and half stumbling I wander into the kitchen, hearing the relations ...

Sensors detect an input event and control an output event. The output often requires different timing than that of the input event. Sometimes several inputs must jointly produce an output event. In other words, logic alters the raw sensor signal so that it is directly useful for controlling local action in response to sensed events (Ouzounov et al., 2006). A sensor is an interactive application; it expresses interest in an event by defining a sensitive ‘region' and an event type. For example, if a sensor wishes to receive events directed to a geographical object, it can define its region ...

Leadership Structure in the House and the Senate

The leadership structure in the U.S. Congress is an intricate system that is divided into The House of Representatives (the House) and the Senate. Both divisions are further divided into two factions that, the majority who are members from a party holding more than half the available seats and the minority who are from the party that has members who hold less than half of the seats available. In the House, the top-most leader is the Speaker who is a constitutional leader given that the position of the Constitution recognizes the office of the Speaker. It is important to ...

Epistolary novel The Color Purple, composed by American author Alice Walker, illuminates life of African American women in the South parts of the US during 1930-s. This novel is considered to be one of the most controversial and censored literary work of Walker due to its explicit scenes of violence. Thus, in her letters to God main heroine, Celie, reveals true horrors of her life. Being, uneducated and poor fourteen-year-old African American Southerner, Celie faces constant physical and emotional abuse first from her father, Alphonso, who beats and rapes her and later from her husband, known as Mister. (Walker) ...

The sun had already set when Dan reached the pub that spring evening. It was probably a bad idea to go anywhere near the place after that last AA-meeting, bu the didn’t care. It was Friday night and he desperately needed a drink. The phonecall he recieved earlier that day was still clinging to his mind, slowly turning into a blur by each bottle of beer that went through his throat, but one sentence refused to go away:

”I’m sorry, Dan, your mother passed away.”

Those words were still ringing in Dan’s ears when he woke up in my bed the next day, the ...

Abstract

Stress and cigarette smoking have been linked in many studies. An assessment was also done to measure how the variables of finances, workload and dependency add to stress, anxiety, depression and addiction among the respondents. This study puts weight to the fact that smoking is prevalent among healthcare workers around the world. In many parts of the world, nurses are found to be smokers, and even though there are campaigns to influence smokers, many nurses continue smoking for several reasons, but one given factor was the role that stress plays in causing people to reach out for a cigarette ...