The Day Before Independence June 25‚ 1986 was the last day of my childhood. I was 16 years old graduating from high school; the next morning I would be on a train going of to a college to a strange city‚ all by myself…This scenario might sound very appealing and fairly common to an American‚ but for a young girl born and raised in the Soviet Union this situation was scary and challenging. In Belarus (part of the former USSR) families stayed close together. Young people especially girls would go
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light from the sky or even thunderbolts to the head. They start as an insignificant moment that would normally be ignored by the everyday average person. I pondered unfortunate circumstances and appreciate kindness large or small. Oneday I took a break from school to grab some coffee and get things off my mind‚ I was just fighting back the tears. A woman in front of me paid for my coffee and when I realized‚ I went to say thank you and just started balling like a little kid. I just sobbed like an
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The Waiting room was cold and unfriendly and as the clock ticked away moments of her life she sat nervously. Her inky eyes looked petrified and alone and every time she took her eyes off the clock she thought the other people were starting and judging her. Was she something to gawp at? Could they guess? She was sick with fear and her hands seemed liquid. It had been late. Too late and there had been no protection. The calming breeze swished through her smooth chestnut brown hair. Her silky‚ tanned
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One of the Most Important Moment in My Life. The terrible robbery incident that happened to me and the rest members of my immediate family 14yrs ago occurred In the big house my father has labored to build to his comfort‚ and also ‚ threatened my life‚ and the entire household. Only a few flashback memories of normalcy‚ panic‚ and luck are what are left in my head. It was a normal raining season back in Nigeria‚ West Africa‚ known as summer here in the United States. The month was July and
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A Moment in Time Cecelia D Norwood English 311 Professor Sayre Monday‚ May 7‚ 2012 A Moment in Time I was asked to capture a special time in my life and reflect on it‚ as I look back on my life‚ the one I hold dear to me is when I was a child. I guess I was about ten years old. I came from a family of ten. Being from a large family it was always something going on in our house. My mother was a stay at home mom who took raising her children her pride and joy. My stepdad worked
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Jean Watson: A Caring Moment Christie M. Ishman RN NUR/403 Theories and Models of Nursing Practice April 4‚ 2011 Stephanie Merck‚ APRN‚ MS‚ CS Background of theory The caring theorist‚ Jean Watson‚ first developed her theory and published the philosophy and science of caring in 1979 (Current Nursing‚ 2011). She describes nursing as a process of caring not curing‚ and that it is effectively practiced and demonstrated interpersonally only. Her theory also “suggests that caring is
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from a hobby to something serious and exciting. Pong (marketed as PONG) is one of the earliest arcade video games; it is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it‚ Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity. The aim is to defeat the opponent in a simulated table tennis game by earning a higher score. Pong quickly became a success and is the first commercially successful video
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Reflection on a clinical skill Abstract This essay will discuss a clinical experience in which I feel more competent in practicing. I will use a reflective model to discuss how I have achieved the necessary level of competence in my nurse training programme.The reflective model I have chosen to use is Gibbs model (Gibbs 1988). Gibbs model of reflection incorporates the following: description‚ feelings‚ evaluation‚ analysis‚ conclusion and an action plan (Gibbs 1988). The model will help facilitate
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I could hear my heart beating frantically in my chest‚ as I unsuccessfully tried to control it by utilizing so called deep breathing exercises. Leah Hoag‚ a stern looking lady called out from behind the large conference doors. I looked at my bag of supplies and walked in. With the skill round of the clinical nursing competition I was about to walk into Forever fortifying my love for the nursing profession. After months of studying‚ practicing common nursing skills that some might view as boring
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I’m only sixteen years old and even though that sounds like a lot of years‚ it really isn’t. But within those few years that I have been alive a few things have really developed me through defining moments. My first defining moment was when my mom got sick. I was seven years old and just got home from a vacation to mexico with family and couldn’t find my mom anywhere throughout the house. I was told that my mom was sick and had to live in the hospital for a little while. My mom ended up having to
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