Essays on Pear

The Affordable Care Act— also sometimes known as “Obamacare”— is one of the most important defining features of the Obama administration, and one of the first things that has been done by the Trump administration is an attempted dismantling of the programs that Obama so carefully designed to protect the American people’s right to healthcare (Kodjak, 2017). From a policy perspective, dismantling Obamacare will be a long and arduous process for President-elect Trump; it is likely to be a difficult process, made worse by the extensive cost associated with re-working the insurance system yet again (Pear, 2017). Nearly ...

Irene Lou in Passing by Nella Larsen (1929) Irene is the protagonist in the novel, Passing, by Nella Larsen that was written in 1929. The novel has three sections and Irene features all through, with her childhood friend, Clare. Clare is married to Jack, who does not know that she is black because is too light-skinned, just like Irene (Larsen and Kaplan).The light-skinned black ladies pass for whites, and Irene is critical of Clare's efforts to be white. At some point, she breaks off all communication with her, including tearing Clare's letters without reading them when she learned ...

Changes in Market Equilibrium

The interaction of the forces of demand and supply determines the equilibrium price and quantity in a perfectly competitive market. A market is in equilibrium when no buyer or seller has any incentive to the change in the commodity that he or she buys or sells at the given price. The equilibrium price of a commodity is the price at which the quantity demand of a commodity equals the quantity supply and the market clears. The process by which the equilibrium is reached is shown by the intersection of the demand and supply curve of the commodity.

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RESEARCH PAPER: THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

Introduction The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God authored by Zora Neale Hurston is a culmination of different themes touching on matters love and hatred, life and death, murder, and discovery of self-identity. Ultimately, the novel is packed with many themes and issues that affect the society woven to bring the message dexterously home (Lester 20). In essence, the novel is a classic that helps the reader to reflect about specific historical epochs in the way Hurston travels through time to explain issues of culture, tradition, love and pursuit for identity. It can be argued that the novel describes ...

Introduction

It is customary for the non-native speakers to substitute the correct pronunciation of the words with their versions of vowels and consonants. There are patterns of pronunciation of words in every language and it is believed that the non-native speakers utilize their habitual pronunciation of the new language. These patterns in language may persist at different levels. Some of the non-native speakers tend to learn new language faster, the others retain the traces of native language in their patterns of pronunciation through the years. This may root in different factors, such as the duration of practice in new language, ...

The World-View in Narratives: Voyages of Columbus and Impact on Natives

The power granted to Christopher Columbus by the King of Spain for conquering the Native American settlements points to the victory of language. The natives were the cultural embodiments of American Indian life. These natives, whom Columbus reports to his sovereign as gullible and guileless, are the Zunis and the Navaho who can never imagine any power conflict (Heath Anthology 130). Their text of the origins of the world is filled with words relating to Nature whereas the texts of Columbus are full of words relating to ‘commodities’ to be traded (Heath Anthology 125-127). There are clear references to ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s long novel written in a short period of seven weeks is a veritable handbook of social philosophy mouthed by a not-so-literate woman, Janie Crawford. Janie had switched her surname to Killicks, Starks and Woods after the three husbands she had. It is little wonder that she was playfully called “Alphabet” by her childhood friends as she had many names at once even then. Her lack of learning is eventually her wisdom. Her communion with Nature was her true learning, the primordial learning of every sensitive being. She undergoes a thorough transformation as she travels to ...

In “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Zora Neale Hurston explores the theme of love through her main character, Janie. An attractive African American woman, Janie is the object of desire of men around her and she becomes physically involved, through marital relationships, with three of her pursuers. Along her journey as a woman married with three different men, Janie experiences two failures and one success in love. She learns the absence of romance, from her first marriage, the emptiness and frustration of a façade relationship, from her second marriage, and the passion and intensity of true love, from ...

United States of America President Mr. Barack Obama guided in the formation of a health care bill, officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and known as ObamaCare Bill, signed on 23 March, 2010. The bill has received constant speculation and scrutiny. Here is reviewed the article Crucial Rule Is Delayed a Year for Obama’s Health Law posted to the website The New York Times by Jackie Calmes and Robert Pear on 2 July, 2013. This article describes recent development in the implementation of the ObamaCare Act, the delay of a mandate ...

Introduction

Pear blossom and moon is an art by Yun Shouping and is framed in a dark wooden frame. The Art is a flower with oval leaves that are slightly paler yellow below and long, glossy dark green above. It is white in color and composed of five-petaled flowers.

What is the significance of this flower to the Chinese?

Pear blossom and moon art being very beautiful in terms of look, and the facts that it is framed, indicates that it is an Art mostly preferred to be placed in houses or offices and seems to be of a very important value to the Chinese community. These flowers are obtained from PyrusCalleryana that ...

Political Science

Politics Stream The lack of government response after the passage of Affordable Act of 2010 (ACA) is in relation to the insufficiency of the government funding to provide long-term care for all U.S. citizens. The best way to address this issue is by implementing policies to lower the costs of healthcare and make it economical for all (Patel & Rushefsky, 2014). The actors that are involved in this issue are the Democrats and the Republicans. The competing values and philosophies of policy actors of the Democrats and Republicans sought different actions. On the part of the Democrats, they have ...

Introduction

The Chinese people experienced eminent growths in terms of art and their culture between the period of 950-1200 AD. There were many developments in music, philosophy, literature and visual arts, which blossomed due to printing activities, hence making the Chinese culture spread to other regions. Among the major contributors towards this growth are the Song, Ming, Qing and Yuan Dynasties, which did many paintings and poetry to reflect further their culture 1. These works of art were exhibited for viewers during religious and other seasonal activities, an event that made the Chinese appreciate their culture. At some point during ...

Introduction

Brief Summary of the Time Period and Painter Pablo Picasso is a Spanish painter from 1881-1973, who is widely accredited as the most deep-seated artist in the 20th century. Arguably, Picasso is a long-standing and greatly prolific artist who has experimented with a expansive assortment of themes and styles all through his career. Some of the contributions by Picasso to the history of art and his most imperative include pioneering the modern art movement referred to as Cubism, developing assemblage in sculpture and inventing collage as one of the artistic techniques. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon has arguably been the most contentious ...

Introduction

Healthcare in the United States encompasses a trajectory that emerges from reform legislations that promises to provide civic lessons and insights to the way the Congress should try to resolve the problems of healthcare delivery and quality across all regions of the country. However, each region has varying systems that deliver different levels of delivery, quality, cost and perceptions. These differences will be explored by looking at each of region’s level of access, cost, view of healthcare and healthcare providers, implemented local policies and about Obamacare. The discussion of differences by region is a fundamental and primary step in understanding ...

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The main reason behind the increase in the median age of the global population is a reduction in fertility and two decade increase in the average life span in the 20th century. These factors together with increased fertility in several nations throughout the 20 years post World War II will lead to elevated number of citizens aged >= 65 years throughout 2010 to 2030. The rising number of older adults results in an increase in demands on the public health system as well as on the social and medical services. One of the diseases affecting older adults is chronic disease ...

In Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, long-suffering Janie Crawford, having endured a lifetime of misunderstandings and frustrating marriages to ungrateful and possessive men, marries the man of her dreams – Tea Cake. This comes, of course, after her marriages to both Logan Killicks and Joe Starks, who disappoint her in many ways (unlike Tea Cake). Janie most certainly has her own ideals of intimacy, equating the role of love between humans to being a part of nature; Tea Cake’s status as a wonderful and attentive lover seem to help her fulfill these standards, with a few notable ...

Part I: The Checks and Balances, Separation of Powers and Self Government Matrix

Figure 1: Adapted from Patterson (2012, p. 40). The separation of powers derives from the need to limit the government’s power by creating separate institutions that share power with no single power being able to exercise decisive power without the approval or support by the rest of the institutions. The people of the United States have the power of self-government, expressed in the constitution ensured through the provision for individual liberties. The people have the original power including the power to change the constitution, which subsequently gives and governs the exercise of power. However, in order to ...

Janie’s moments of transition

We see Janie as an old woman at the beginning of the novel. She struggles to control her language and voice which shows the quest for defining her life which is complicated and with no single resolution for her. She dreams and desires a lot but also chooses what to forget which makes it difficult to define. Janie in this case is victim of psychological fragmentation of black America and modernity. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she portrays an unformed and undefined character. Her ambitions are to have a life not controlled or defined by her nanny. She ...

According to Andrews (2012, p.1), president Obama finally managed to get through a bill that had escaped “a string of Democratic presidents.” This is the healthcare bill. However, it was not an easy ride for him either. As it is well known in the American senate, there is the requirement for a 60% favor in approval of any bill and only then can it be passed into a law. Of course, there is a possibility that the president can veto it, but this implies that the bill might not stand for long as it can be easily repealed. Furthermore, if it does not appeal ...

According to Andrews (2012, p.1), president Obama finally managed to get through a bill that had escaped “a string of Democratic presidents.” This is the healthcare bill. However, it was not an easy ride for him either. As it is well known in the American senate, there is the requirement for a 60% favor in approval of any bill and only then can it be passed into a law. Of course, there is a possibility that the president can veto it, but this implies that the bill might not stand for long as it can be easily repealed. Furthermore, if it does not appeal ...

Policy, Goals and Options

Healthcare in America just like the immigration system it needs a complete overhaul. In many political and not so political quarters the notion of health care reform has been attacked as being, ‘the Obama scare’ ( Peter,2011). Already, when health care delivery in America is assessed, it would appear that it is cheaper to die than live with a health condition requiring long term care. Precisely, the health scare of the average American citizen is being able to afford the cost of it. Even with government supplemented healthcare known as Medicaid it is impossible to continue living with a disease if there ...

Advertising is used as a means to publicize a particular product or service to its target market. Companies often vie to produce the most creative, lucrative, and efficient advertisements in their respective industries. However, in the high demand for such advertisements, certain campaigns tend to neglect their responsibility of proper advertising. Various forms of deceptive advertising are seen almost everywhere and the most notorious will be tackled later on. To be specific, any form of advertisement that lures consumers to purchase a product or service due to a misunderstanding may be ...

Introduction

Healthcare reform began long ago in the United States and in 2010, the recent outcome was the two Federal Statutes which were enacted these included the Patient Protection Act and also the Affordable Care Act that was signed on the third of March 2010 as well as the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 which was used in the amendment of the PPAC and later on came to be law on 30th of March (Stolberg,19). President Barack Obama enacted the PPAC Act in 2010 and the Act provided the introduction of a well organized system that ...

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Some of the constitutional presidential duties of the U.S. President are: the Head of State and his activities include meeting with leaders of other countries and he can make treaties with them. However this is subject to the Senate’s approval. The president is also the Chief Legislator (Beckmann, 2010, p. 55). Here his activities involve approving laws that the Congress makes by signing bills into law. He can also refuse to sign a bill; this is known as veto. He is Commander in Chief of the Army and the Navy of the U.S. which means that he has the ...

Oregon Plan Raw Score

Oregon Health Plan, which is abbreviated as OHP, is a Medicaid program provided by the Oregon Health Care authority. Medicaid, which differs from Medicare, endows low-income earning families with medical assistance. The expenses for the Medicaid program are catered for by both state and federal funds, provided by the government in states that have decided to offer the program. As per the federal government requirements, a set list of service individuals, such as needy children, are to be offered the Medicaid program by the states providing it. With the approval of the federal government, a state can decide the eligible people, and ...

How has Wal-Mart grown from a small region chain to the largest discount retailer in the world? How has its strategy contributed to the firm's growth?

The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962. The first Wal-Mart store was opened in Rogers, Arkansas. Seventeen years later, annual sales were more than $ 1 billion. In January 2006, Wal-Mart was the largest retailer in the world, with a turnover of $ 218 billion (for the same period, Kmart’ turnover $ 37 billion, Sears’s $ 40,9 billion, Target’s $ 36,9 billion, Walgreen’s $ 21,2 billion). However, the biggest figure of net income for the same period received Walgreen $ 3,7 billion, Target $ 3,4 billion, Sears $ 3,3 billion, the same as Wal - Mart$ 3,3 ...

Janie Mae Crawford and Logan Killicks – why does their marriage not work?

It is interesting that in a novel that is about a woman finding both true love and her own identity that by the end of the first chapter of Their Eyes Were Watching God we know only the central character’s first name and hardly anything about her past. The rest of the novel is an extended flashback really, in which we get to know the life story of Jamie Mae Crawford and what motivates her.

Janie’s grandmother’s expectations of marriage are conditioned by her own experiences and those of her daughter. Nanny gave birth to Janie’s mother ...