Essays on Ellie

Today, they were burning books. These were the last books on Earth, found in the house on the outskirts of the city. They were creating and, at the same time, listening to the Symphony of Fire, in which every note was a burned paper with empty words, written once by someone.

Does it really matter?

Does it really matter what was inside these books when outside, there is so much fun glancing at dancing flames destroying a relic of the past? For them, it was more important to find every hidden book, throw down imaginary idols from their pedestals, tear apart books with ...

Introduction:

The aim of this case study is to undertake a thorough applied behavioral analysis of the client named Ellie Phan who is a female with Autism disorder. It is evident that with the passage of time, children tend to develop certain qualities and manners in which they can communicate within the society. In order to conduct an effective communication, gestures and non-verbal elements are taken into consideration that has been a critical aspect in the communication pattern of Ellie. It is merely because adolescence with autism tends to develop differently from other children. Theories will also be applied on the case of ...

Critical Thinking

The effect of time and place, including the specific circumstances under which I am required to make a decision, my beliefs, customs and experience play a central role in the soundness of the decisions that I make. I find that if I am rushed in making decisions, I am least likely to make the best decisions, in the same way that tension, fear and over-excitement will affect me. Culture, belief systems, feelings and intellectual “laziness” often push me away from objectivity. For instance, I know that my faith prohibits abortion, and I am therefore unwilling to seriously consider contrary arguments on ...

(a) Voidable marriages are those marriages which exist in the eyes of the law and shall remain valid until annulled (Lim 18). Under the Section 20B of the MCO, the parties who contracted a voidable marriage will enjoy the rights and the duties of a married couple until a decree of nullity has been made absolute by the court. The difference between a void and voidable marriage is that in voidable marriages, even if there are factors which exist to make a marriage voidable and the parties are allowed to choose to continue with the marriage despite the existence of the factors. However, in the ...

Today’s teenagers often disregard and ignore traditional values, beliefs and traditions in favor of the modernized beliefs and values broadcasted by mass media and emerging beliefs. Some of these modernized beliefs and values even contradict and violate existing norms and beliefs, prompting the older generation to see teenagers today as disrespectful and ignorant towards the importance of these traditional beliefs, values and traditions. However, even if there are things that should change to fit the 21st century, there are some things that must remain as it is that teenagers, such as this writer, must understand. For this writer, ...

John E. Ouelette, CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) narrates the true story of fraud perpetrated via e-bay online auctions. Ellie (Eleanor) Wallace is a 63 year old widow with three grown-up sons, and runs a small business of brooches, rings and trinkets. Her husband had left her sufficient money to live comfortably but Roland Granger, an experienced antique sales person, woos Ellie and convinces her that they should operate together in the antique business. He divorces his wife of 7 years, moves in with Allie and the couple gets married. They start their business (Classic Collections) with Ellie’s capital. Ellie’s ...

In the 1800s many nurses never went to nursing school. Often, the nuns were the nurses or other women who offered care to the sick, homeless, or poor (Nursing Schools Path 2013). Through the middle Ages, hospitals were run by nurses who often were associated with religious organizations. During the 21st century, nurses had gained more skills and took up superior roles with more important functions. Moreover, the rise of intensive care units as well as specialty facilitated the expansion of many areas of expertise in nursing. Nurses began to work in more specialized care settings and studied care ...

Introduction

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, it gives a horrifying count of events that Eliezer and his father underwent together with other in a concentration camp during the World War II, the autobiography and of Elie gives the terrible conditions of life in the concentration camps where prisoners of war were dehumanized and their spirits and minds reduced into animals instincts of preservation and basic rules for survival. These conditions as they are vividly described turned everyone including father and son against each other, which led to the reversal of roles. This is what happened in Ellie’s case where ...

Personal Health Risk Assessment

My family has a history of blindness, as my great grandfather was blind. Apart from blindness, deafness is similarly a condition that poses risk in my family because my sister and I are both deaf. I therefore, face a health risk of blindness in the future. Diabetes has a strong relation with blindness. Meningitis on the other hand, is connected with deafness. In this respect, aging and genetic inheritance are the main risk factors that are likely to determine my state of health in the future. Some others risks that I can manage with positive health choices include high blood pressure, diabetes, high or ...

Steel drums or what we called Steel Pan were originally created on the island of Caribbean, Trinidad in year 1930s.However, Steel Pan’s history can be traced back to the confined Africans who were brought to the islands during the 1700s (Steelpan-steeldrums-information.com par. 1). They had taken with them components of their Africa lifestyle such as the enjoying of hand percussion. 2). Hand drums are percussion at Africa called Membranophones. These drums became the main percussion gadgets in the yearly Trinidadian event festivities. In year 1877, the judgment English Government prohibited the playing of percussion in an effort ...

Connie Vs June

“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”: Connie Vs June

Introduction

‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been’ is a short story written by Joyce Carol Oates. Published first in the Fall 1966 edition of Epoch magazine, the story begins with the words- ‘To Bob Dylan’. It is so because Joyce Carol Oates dedicated this short story to Bob Dylan’s whose song ‘It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’ inspired her to write this (Introduction, p 9). The song is about a girl who is forced to leave her house with strange men, towards unknown, uncertain future (Dylan, “ ...

Response letter

Ellie, in hope to help you and find a solution to your problem, I will explore some of the concepts of interpersonal and intrapersonal theories of communication. After serious and long contemplation, I found your letter and the issues that you have stated here so much similar with issues of most of people that are our age. As interpersonal communication is one of the most widely spread forms of communication and the basic form of human communication, it can be understood as the sequence of intrapersonal communication and its mediator in the message reception in the process of mass comunication. ...

Task:

In the Carl Sagan novel, Contact, we encounter a young woman character by the name, Ellie Arroway. In the beginning, of the novel we find Ellie questioning whether there was a possibility of teaching the ants about the alphabet. This became the genesis about discussion on the Great Chain of Beijing. This gives an opportunity for the introduction to the role of a young human as a learner and one who utilize knowledge and experiences (Sagan 30). Ellie does not consider herself as a theist and or atheist. She is agnostic. As the main character with another character prepares the audience for Sagan’s ...