The fictional book “The Midnighters: The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld” was interesting in its style and storyline. The author describes the setting with vivid details making it feel as if one could feel the same as the protagonists’. For example, the protagonist, Jessica Day, had just entered the secret hour where everything had froze into place, including the raindrops whereas the author described them as “millions of diamonds [filling] the air” (Westerfeld 24). The plot was interesting as strange beings would appear during this secret hour and it was the job of the Midnighters, which were particular people who managed to go into the secret hour, to fight them off. Though, overall, it was too cliched.
Tony Palmer is the author of the novel ‘Break of Day’. It’s about a boy who goes of to war and the troubles he has at home. The first theme palmer explores is bravery and how everyone is brave and a coward in one way throughout the novel. The second theme Palmer explores is death, and how we all experience death, loss and grief throughout the book and in different ways. The final theme he explores is family secrets and how every family have them.
Scott-Maxwell, F. (1979). The measure of my days. New York: Penguin Books. The Measure of My Days is an autobiography by Florida Scott-Maxwell, which she had written in her eighties.
You interpret that the first day recorded in the Book of Genesis could be of indeterminate length… it could have been thirty hours! Or a month! Or a year! Or a hundred years! Or ten million years”
This was a contemporary thought of the time about God and HIS active involvement in life. P2. The biblical age of the Earth does not support Darwin's evolutionary theory.
Translation Steps 11, 12, and 13, 14: Action Plan An action plan for implementing the pilot program for intentional hourly rounding will begin for the telemetry unit selected. Prior to initiating hourly rounding all staff nurses, charge nurses and nurses assistants will attend an educational in-service provided by the clinical nurse educator on the benefits of hourly rounding, how to effectively complete hourly rounding and who is responsible for the rounding. The education will be offered at set times and is mandatory for all staff to attend. Hourly rounding pilot will begin on the selected unit on the November 1st 2015.
Within the poems “On the Pulse of Morning” by Maya Angelou, and “One Today” by Richard Blanco, several challenges of the times the poems were written in were displayed, though not directly. In “On the Pulse of the Morning,” the Rock that Angelou describes wants us to “face [our] distant destiny, but seek no haven in [the Rock’s] shadow.” This line represents Americans looking out at the destiny of America. The Rock warns the reader away from the shadows, which typically symbolize evil, atrocity, and corruptness. Continuing on in the poem, Angelou expresses through the River that people “have left collars of waste upon [the River’s] shore, currents of debris upon [the River’s] breast.”
The argument of daylight saving time’s worth is one that has sparked controversy all over America. Some think that daylight saving time should be eliminated because it holds no value in society; however, others believe that it does good for the citizens of earth. People keep arguing back and forth, with the help of substantial evidence from both sides, and a clear winner has not been claimed. While some may argue that daylight saving time is doing more harm than good, it is beneficial in several ways.
Numerous research has shown evidence-based practice strategies to help reduce and prevent falls in hospitalized patients. According to Day et al. (2012), exercise is one approach used by Geriatric nurse practitioners to reduce and prevent falls in the elderly. Physical activities such as strength, gait, and coordination training which last for a minimum of 12 weeks has been effective in reducing falls in the elderly. The researcher further elaborated that a primary care provider such as a nurse practitioner can refer a patient who is at risk for falls to a Tai Chi program, an operative, and cost effective technique to encourage exercise and strength training in the elderly.
Daylight Saving Time Daylight saving time (DST) is the time which is adjusted to achieve longer evening daylight, in summer, by setting the clocks an hour ahead of the standard time. Typically, regions with summertime adjust clocks forward one hour close to the start of spring and adjust them backward in the autumn to standard time. The idea of daylight saving time was first conceived by William Willett, a builder of average wealth.
The United States has used daylight saving time for about 100 years (Source A) in order to promote saving energy consumption (Source B). DST was first adopted after World War I, but then repealed a year later. Despite this, the US adopted a “war time” daylight saving time instituted during World War II. After this, many states adopted their own summer changes after the year-long shift had ended (Source A). In my mother’s sophomore year in college at Laurence Tech, she had a professor show up for class an hour late. The professor had not realized the time change, and wasted her students’ time.
Overall, A Night Divided was a fantastic book! I definitely suggest it to anyone above the age of nine years old. A Night Divided was written by Jennifer A. Nielsen, and the genre is historical fiction, I have read many books over the course of twelve years and this book was definitely one of my favorites! A Night Divided is about a girl named Gerta being seperated from her family overnight, and escaping to the other side of the Berlin Wall to them. Gerta and her older brother, Fritz, take it upon themselves to build a tunnel secretly under an abandoned building that is in between the Berlin Wall’s two sides, along the way there are many plot twists, close calls, surprising events, and alot of action on every page.
Modern sentencing practices are outrageous and out of control. People go to prison for 162 years for stealing a car or 25 to life just for simply making a mistake of leaving their child in the car for no longer than 20 minutes without killing or harming the child. Even the innocent get sentenced major years for crimes they didn’t even commit. Lately sentencing has been crazy, so at this point in time sentence reforming is relevant in this case. To begin with, sentence reforming needs to take place because people are getting way to many years for petty crimes they didn't commit.
Michael Bay brings yet another thrilling cinematic masterpiece back to the big screen in his new movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. The film is based on the book 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff, which depicts the terrorist attack by Islamic militants at the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. The story is told from the perspective of the compound’s defenders, and aside from some character development, holds true to the actual events. Benghazi, Libya is named one of the most dangerous places in the world. However, the United States has a diplomatic compound in the city called the Special Mission and a CIA outpost called the Annex about a mile away.
Picture this: you get home from school after two one hour-long clubs and after sports. You rush home, devour dinner, and it’s about 6:30. You still have two or three hours of homework to do. You finish your homework at around 8:30, and then play on their phone until midnight and fall asleep. Then you wake up the next morning, still very tired, and do it all over again.
