The requirements for this essay are:
1. 500-600 words; 5-paragraph structure (can have more than five).
2. Your idea about the story itself—the value of the story (at least a paragraph)
3. How it applies to life in general (at least a paragraph)
4. How it applies to you. Write about an item that is important to you, one that has been passed down to you or one that you hope will be or an item that you have that you will plan to pass down to someone (at least a paragraph). .
5. Be sure to supply
a. A parenthetical reference
b. A Works Cited
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You've no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has "made it" is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other's faces. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs.
Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a dark and soft.seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks orchids are tacky flowers.
In real life I am a large, big.boned woman with rough, man.working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls dur.ing the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. But of course all this does not show on television. I a ...
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Everyday Use
by Alice Walker
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You've no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has "made it" is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other's faces. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs.
Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a dark and soft.seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks orchids are tacky flowers.
In real life I am a large, big.boned woman with rough, man.working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls dur.ing the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. But of course all this does not show on television. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.
But that is a mistake. I know even before I wake up. Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head fumed in whichever way is farthest from them. Dee, though. Sh.
Everyday Useby Alice WalkerI will wait for her in the .docxgitagrimston
Everyday Use
by Alice Walker
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You've no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has "made it" is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other's faces. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs.
Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a dark and soft.seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks orchids are tacky flowers.
In real life I am a large, big.boned woman with rough, man.working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls dur.ing the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. But of course all this does not show on television. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.
But that is a mistake. I know even before I wake up. Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head fumed in whichever way is farthest from them. Dee, though. S ...
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Alice Walker
Alice Walker was born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, where her parents eked out a living as sharecroppers and dairy farmers; her mother also worked as a domestic. Walker attended Spelman College in Atlanta, and in 1965, she finished her undergraduate work at Sarah Lawrence College near New York City. She then became active in the welfare rights movement in New York and in the voter registration movement in Georgia. Later she taught writing and literature in Mississippi, at Jackson State College and Tougaloo College, and at Wellesley College, the University of Massachusetts, and Yale University.
Walker has written essays, poetry, and fiction. Her best-known novel, The Color Purple (1982), won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She has said that her chief concern is “exploring the oppressions, the insanities, the loyalties, and the triumphs of black women.”
Everyday Use
For your grandmama
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister had held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You’ve no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has “made it” is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other’s faces. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs.
Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a dark and soft-seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson1 who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks orchids are tacky flowers.
1 Johnny Carson (1925–2005), U.S. television personality and comedian.
5In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a ho.
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ALICE WALKER
Everyday Use
for your grandmama
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You’ve no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has “made it” is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other’s faces. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs.
Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a dark and soft-seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks orchids are tacky flowers.
In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. But of course all this does not show on television. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.
But that is a mistake. I know even before I wake up. Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them. Dee, t.
Review the Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay.docxronak56
Review the Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay in Chapter 5, and then write a 1000- word response to the primary question of Chapter Activity #4 at the end of Chapter 8: How do family traditions and cultural legacies contribute to and/or inhibit an individual’s self-identity?
Chapter 5
Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay
1. Do you have a lead-in to “hook” your reader? (an example, anecdote, scenario, startling statistic, or provocative question)
2. How much background is required to properly acquaint readers with your issue?
3. Will your claim be placed early (introduction) or delayed (conclusion) in your paper?
4. What is your supporting evidence?
5. Have you located authoritative (expert) sources that add credibility to your argument?
6. Have you considered addressing opposing viewpoints?
7. Are you willing to make some concessions (compromises) toward opposing sides?
8. What type of tone (serious, comical, sarcastic, inquisitive) best relates your message to reach your audience?
9. Once written, have you maintained a third person voice? (No “I” or “you” statements)
10. How will you conclude in a meaningful way? (Call your readers to take action, explain why the topic has global importance, or offer a common ground compromise that benefits all sides?)
Chapter activity #4
How do family traditions and cultural legacies contribute to and/or inhibit an individual’s self-identity? What do you know about your family history? How is this history shared, and how is it valued among individual family members? Beyond its literal meaning, what are the broader implications of the cliché “keeping the family name alive”? Or has this cliché outlived its validity? A number of readings in this chapter address an aspect of family tradition/cultural heritage and individual identity and fulfillment—for example, Walker’s “Everyday Use” (page 385); Rich’s “Delta” (page 412); Kelley’s “The People in Me” (page 424). Drawing on evidence from several readings and your own experience and observations, write a claim of value argument about an aspect of family heritage and individual identity.
Everyday Use (1973)
Alice Walker
for your grandmama
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You’ve no doubt seen those TV sh ...
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This memoir document provides background on the author Jeannette Walls and her family. It describes two key childhood memories of the author. The first is seeing her mother going through a dumpster in New York City, which causes the author shame and worry. The second memory is of the author at age 3, catching on fire while cooking and being rushed to the hospital with serious burns by her mother. These early memories set the stage for the challenges and instability the author experienced growing up.
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Everyday Use
by Alice Walker
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You've no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has "made it" is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other's faces. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs.
Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a dark and soft.seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks orchids are tacky flowers.
In real life I am a large, big.boned woman with rough, man.working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls dur.ing the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. But of course all this does not show on television. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.
But that is a mistake. I know even before I wake up. Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head fumed in whichever way is farthest from them. Dee, though. Sh.
Everyday Useby Alice WalkerI will wait for her in the .docxgitagrimston
Everyday Use
by Alice Walker
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You've no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has "made it" is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other's faces. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs.
Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a dark and soft.seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks orchids are tacky flowers.
In real life I am a large, big.boned woman with rough, man.working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls dur.ing the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. But of course all this does not show on television. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.
But that is a mistake. I know even before I wake up. Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head fumed in whichever way is farthest from them. Dee, though. S ...
Alice WalkerAlice Walker was born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, .docxnettletondevon
Alice Walker
Alice Walker was born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, where her parents eked out a living as sharecroppers and dairy farmers; her mother also worked as a domestic. Walker attended Spelman College in Atlanta, and in 1965, she finished her undergraduate work at Sarah Lawrence College near New York City. She then became active in the welfare rights movement in New York and in the voter registration movement in Georgia. Later she taught writing and literature in Mississippi, at Jackson State College and Tougaloo College, and at Wellesley College, the University of Massachusetts, and Yale University.
Walker has written essays, poetry, and fiction. Her best-known novel, The Color Purple (1982), won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She has said that her chief concern is “exploring the oppressions, the insanities, the loyalties, and the triumphs of black women.”
Everyday Use
For your grandmama
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister had held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You’ve no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has “made it” is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other’s faces. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs.
Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a dark and soft-seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson1 who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks orchids are tacky flowers.
1 Johnny Carson (1925–2005), U.S. television personality and comedian.
5In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a ho.
ALICE WALKEREveryday Usefor your grandmamaI will wait for he.docxgalerussel59292
ALICE WALKER
Everyday Use
for your grandmama
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You’ve no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has “made it” is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other’s faces. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs.
Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a dark and soft-seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks orchids are tacky flowers.
In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. But of course all this does not show on television. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.
But that is a mistake. I know even before I wake up. Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them. Dee, t.
Review the Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay.docxronak56
Review the Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay in Chapter 5, and then write a 1000- word response to the primary question of Chapter Activity #4 at the end of Chapter 8: How do family traditions and cultural legacies contribute to and/or inhibit an individual’s self-identity?
Chapter 5
Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay
1. Do you have a lead-in to “hook” your reader? (an example, anecdote, scenario, startling statistic, or provocative question)
2. How much background is required to properly acquaint readers with your issue?
3. Will your claim be placed early (introduction) or delayed (conclusion) in your paper?
4. What is your supporting evidence?
5. Have you located authoritative (expert) sources that add credibility to your argument?
6. Have you considered addressing opposing viewpoints?
7. Are you willing to make some concessions (compromises) toward opposing sides?
8. What type of tone (serious, comical, sarcastic, inquisitive) best relates your message to reach your audience?
9. Once written, have you maintained a third person voice? (No “I” or “you” statements)
10. How will you conclude in a meaningful way? (Call your readers to take action, explain why the topic has global importance, or offer a common ground compromise that benefits all sides?)
Chapter activity #4
How do family traditions and cultural legacies contribute to and/or inhibit an individual’s self-identity? What do you know about your family history? How is this history shared, and how is it valued among individual family members? Beyond its literal meaning, what are the broader implications of the cliché “keeping the family name alive”? Or has this cliché outlived its validity? A number of readings in this chapter address an aspect of family tradition/cultural heritage and individual identity and fulfillment—for example, Walker’s “Everyday Use” (page 385); Rich’s “Delta” (page 412); Kelley’s “The People in Me” (page 424). Drawing on evidence from several readings and your own experience and observations, write a claim of value argument about an aspect of family heritage and individual identity.
Everyday Use (1973)
Alice Walker
for your grandmama
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You’ve no doubt seen those TV sh ...
The 5 Questions 1. Draw a production possibilities frontier.docxmehek4
This document contains 5 questions related to economics concepts. The first question provides information about a country's production possibilities frontier and asks questions about efficiency and unambiguous welfare improvements. The second question diagrams another country's PPF and production/consumption levels before and after trade. The third question graphs the impact of international trade on consumer surplus. The fourth question graphs the impact of domestic subsidies. The fifth question explains the product cycle hypothesis and asks about the rationale for subsidies in developing versus developed countries.
This document is a short story told from the perspective of a young girl who befriends her elderly neighbor, Miss Ann. The narrator enjoys making up stories and imagining tragic pasts for people like Miss Ann, who lives alone. She visits Miss Ann regularly, though Miss Ann is often rude. When Miss Ann has a stroke and is hospitalized, the narrator visits and discovers Miss Ann has a son who comes to see her. Miss Ann later passes away. The narrator reflects on how her imagined stories did not capture the true loneliness and sadness of Miss Ann's life. Storytelling provides comfort, but real life is often sadder than any story.
The Glass Castle_ A Memoir by Jeannette Walls ( PDFDrive ).pdfSaikat Pal
This memoir document provides background on the author Jeannette Walls and her family. It describes two key childhood memories of the author. The first is seeing her mother going through a dumpster in New York City, which causes the author shame and worry. The second memory is of the author at age 3, catching on fire while cooking and being rushed to the hospital with serious burns by her mother. These early memories set the stage for the challenges and instability the author experienced growing up.
1- When it comes to helping people who are having problems, how do y.docxteresehearn
1- When it comes to helping people who are having problems, how do you view your own abilities? Are you comfortable with setting goals and giving directions to others?
2- People vary regarding their need to be helped. Some want a lot of assistance, and others like to be independent. Are you prepared to adapt your leadership to be helpful to those who need it? Discuss.
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1-
Managing Interpersonal Relationships Discussion
Managing interpersonal relationships: What are the Layers of Self Disclosure? Which layers do you think are appropriate to discuss on your “first date?”
2-
Group Leadership Discussion
Think about the last time you needed to work in a small group. What was it you were supposed to do, a project, an activity, plan an event, solve a problem, etc.? Was the end result of your working together productive or unproductive? Why do you think this was so? Were you the leader of the group? If not, could you tell who the group leader was? How? Did the direction the group took in terms of completing the task align with how you thought the task should be completed? Why or why not?
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1-IRB is an important step in research. State the required compo.docxteresehearn
1-IRB is an important step in research. State the required components one should look for in a project to determine if IRB submission is needed?
2-Think back on your National Institute of Health (NIH) training and share what you learned. How will this apply to having an IRB form completed and why?
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1-App must contain at least 5 runnable and navigable activities.docxteresehearn
1-App must contain at least 5 runnable and navigable activities
2-App must have an appealing Interface
3-App must have a connection to a database
4-App must contain at least 2 of any of Maps, Sensors, Battery management, Camera or Phone-Calling functionalities
code source
.
1-2 paragraphsMaximum of 1 page, double- spacedAPA sty.docxteresehearn
1-2 paragraphs
Maximum of 1 page, double- spaced
APA style
Review box 11-4 (attached file). Follow the directions in the box and do a self-assessment of your critical thinking by making
a list of the characteristics that you believe you have mastered
a list of the characteristics that you have partially mastered (in progress)
a list of those characteristics that you have not yet mastered
Describe a plan for developing the characteristics that you have not yet mastered.
.
1-What are the pros and cons of parole. Discuss!2-Discuss wa.docxteresehearn
1-What are the pros and cons of parole. Discuss!
2-Discuss ways to improve parole so that offenders have a better chance of being successful in the community
3-What are the barriers that parolees face when they return to the community that contribute to them failing. Give a relative example!
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1-2 pages, APA format, 2 scholarly resources (one from textbook)....docxteresehearn
1-2 pages, APA format, 2 scholarly resources (one from textbook)...
Why is Transformational Leadership theory of leadership most accurately explains effective leadership in your opinion? Does the peer-reviewed literature agree with your opinion? If so, how? If not, why not?
Transformational Leadership
Some people have an extraordinary ability to inspire others and bring forth loyalty. A person who has such a personality is said to have charisma. The German sociologist Max Weber explains in his Theory of Social and Economic Organization: “The term ‘charisma’ applies to a certain quality that causes one to be set apart from ordinary people and to be treated as endowed with superhuman, or at least exceptional, powers or qualities. In this sense, charisma is a gift or power of leadership.”21
In 1976 R. J. House published a theory of charismatic leadership that has received a great deal of attention by researchers. He traces the influence of the charismatic leader to a combination of personal characteristics and types of behavior. The characteristics of charismatic leaders include being dominant, ambitious, and self-confident, as well as having a strong sense of purpose.
Charismatic leaders also demonstrate specific types of behaviors: (1) They are role models for the beliefs and values they want their followers to adopt. For example, Gandhi advocated nonviolence and was a role model of civil disobedience. (2) They demonstrate ability that elicits the respect of followers. Leaders in art, science, religion, business, government, and social service influence followers through their personal competence. (3) They have ideological goals with moral overtones. Martin Luther and Martin Luther King both employed this type of charismatic behavior. (4) They communicate high expectations for their followers and show confidence in their ability to meet those expectations. Military history is replete with examples of charismatic war leaders. (5) Charismatic leaders ignite the motives of their followers to take action. Motives and tasks fall broadly into three areas—power, achievement, and affiliation.22
The psychologist David McClelland describes the nature of charismatic leadership:
We set out to find exactly, by experiment, what kinds of thoughts the members of an audience had when exposed to a charismatic leader. They were apparently strengthened and uplifted by the experience; they felt more powerful, rather than less powerful or submissive. This suggests that the traditional way of explaining the influence of leaders has not been entirely correct. The leader does not cause followers to submit and go along by intimidation and force. In fact, the leader is influential by strengthening and inspiring the audience. The personality of the leader arouses confidence in followers, and the followers feel better able to accomplish whatever goals they share with the leader.23
A crisis can create “charisma-hungry” followers who are looking for a leader to a.
1-A patient on a medical floor has an indwelling catheter that has b.docxteresehearn
1-A patient on a medical floor has an indwelling catheter that has been in for 2 weeks.
a. Why are patients with indwelling urinary catheters at an increased risk for urinary tract infections?
In caring for a patient with an indwelling urinary catheter, what nursing actions can be employed to decrease the patient’s risk for the development of a urinary tract infection?
2- APA style
3- 3 paragraphs 3 sentences each
4- 2 references
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This document contains two writing assignments. The first asks to summarize the differences in housing values among four communities compared to the national median, and how each community stands in relation. The second asks which community had the greatest appreciation in housing values over ten years, the overall pattern of change, and conclusions about wealth accumulation within the communities.
1-2 pages Required ReadingsRavitch, S. M., & Carl, N. M. (2.docxteresehearn
1-2 pages
Required Readings
Ravitch, S. M., & Carl, N. M. (2016). Qualitative research: Bridging the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Epilogue, “Revisiting Critically, Reflexivity, Collaboration, and Rigor” (pp. 383–392)
Chapter 10, “Crafting Qualitative Research Proposals” (pp. 299–342)
Rubin, H. J., & Rubin, I. S. (2012). Qualitative interviewing: The art of hearing data (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Chapter 14, “Personal Reflections on Responsive Interviewing” (pp. 234–242)
Required Media
Bald, L. (2016). A qualitative doctoral candidate experience [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Lewis, C. (2016). A qualitative doctoral candidate experience [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
To prepare for this Discussion:
Review the readings from the Ravitch and Carl and Rubin and Rubin and consider reflecting on your experiences in qualitative research throughout this course.
Review the media programs related to The Qualitative Dissertation Experience: A Doctoral Candidate Experience and consider the experience of other doctoral candidates through this qualitative research process.
Explain what social change means to you as a Walden doctoral candidate. What experiences from the course most influenced your understanding?
Explain what in qualitative research you would like to know more about as a result of taking this course.
Reflect on your problem statement and the next steps for developing a research topic for your dissertation or doctoral study. Include an explanation of whether you would choose a qualitative approach, why or why not.
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ANALYSIS
VITALITYRELATIVE COSTS
LIVING BUSINESS RELATIVE OF LIFE
Best=1, Worst=378Best=1, Worst=403
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
U.S.=100%
SHORT TERM
FORECAST RISKS
LONG TERM
RISK EXPOSURE
2019-2024
BUSINESS CYCLE STATUS
MOODY’S RATING
ECONOMIC DRIVERS
Highest=1
Lowest=403
EMPLOYMENT GROWTH RANK
Best=1, Worst=410
2018-2020 2018-2023
QUALITY
MOODY’S ANALYTICS / Précis® U.S. Metro / December 2019
RETIREE
HAVEN
TOURIST
DESTINATION
MEDICAL
CENTER
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 INDICATORS 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
3.4 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.4 3.4 Gross metro product (C12$ bil) 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 4.0
-3.1 0.4 -0.7 -3.0 2.3 0.5 % change 2.4 2.5 2.5 3.7 2.9 2.7
32.2 32.0 32.8 33.3 33.2 33.4 Total employment (ths) 34.0 34.4 34.4 34.7 35.0 35.2
-3.1 -0.4 2.4 1.4 -0.1 0.6 % change 1.7 1.3 -0.0 0.8 0.9 0.6
9.7 8.5 7.6 6.8 5.9 5.2 Unemployment rate (%) 4.9 5.2 5.8 6.1 6.1 6.2
2.1 3.7 5.1 2.7 5.5 5.3 Personal income growth (%) 5.9 6.7 6.5 8.0 7.2 6.6
38.8 39.1 39.3 41.5 43.5 45.6 Median household income ($ ths) 48.1 50.3 51.8 53.8 55.9 57.9
138.8 138.8 140.3 142.9 145.5 147.9 Population (ths) 150.1 152.4 154.4 156.5 158.6 160.7
-0.2 0.0 1.1 1.8 1.9 1.7 % change 1.5 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.3 1.3
1.1 1.4 3.0 4.0 4.1 3.9 Net migration (ths) 3.7 3.8 3.6 3.7 3.7 3.8
201 233 354 371 433 884 Single-family permits (#) 720 794 1,061 1,408 1,476 1,439
0 0 24 145 113 0 Multifamily permits (#) 59 35 29 26 25 24
141.9 144.4 159.6 173.3 191.7 213.7 FHFA house price (1995Q1=100) 225.1 221.0 220.4 219.8 221.7 228.6
Recent Performance. Homosassa Springs
is bringing up the rear in Florida. Job growth has
slowed, dipping below the national average. HOM
is the only area in Florida where payroll employ-
ment is significantly below its prerecession peak.
Though some of the shortfall owes to the severity of
the last downturn, the metro area has consistently
underperformed its Florida peers over the last de-
cade. The labor market is also softer than previously
believed—the Quarterly Census of Employment
and Wages indicates that survey-based estimates
overcounted employment in 2019. Private services
are underperforming, including leisure/hospitality,
but education/healthcare is expanding with vigor.
At 4.5%, the jobless rate is nearing its cycle low,
and labor market tightness has sent hourly earnings
sharply higher, with average pay closer to the Flor-
ida and U.S. averages than at any time since 2013.
Retirees. A large and expanding retiree popu-
lation will help right the ship and secure HOM’s
spot in the top quintile of areas in job growth
through 2023. Residents age 65 or older account
for a well above-average one-quarter of HOM’s
population, as retirees are drawn to the warm cli-
mate, low taxes, and high housing affordability
relative to other senior havens in the state.
Although seniors do not purchase as many
big-ticket items as other age cohorts, their pres-
ence will he.
1-2 paragraphsapa formatreferencesStep 1 - Read the In.docxteresehearn
1-2 paragraphs
apa format
references
Step 1 - Read the Information Below
Organizations are cutting costs and making decisions to offer employees remote work. In this week's discussion, your boss just informed you that you will work remotely starting Friday. You are concerned you will have a difficult time building and maintaining relationships. The following are areas of concern for you:
Leader-member relationships.
Coworker relationships.
Boundary-spanning relationships extending outside the organization.
Step 2 - Post a Response
Respond to the following.
Choose one area and explain how you will maintain the relationship you identified with specific steps you will take to build the relationship.
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1- What is Policy2- Explain each of them Public policy—Pr.docxteresehearn
1- What is Policy?
2- Explain each of them: Public policy—
Private policy—
Health policy—
Social policy—
Organizational policy?
3-
Who was
F
lorence Nightingale, and what was her contribution to the Nursing Field?
4- Who was Lillian Wald?
5- Who was Margaret Sanger, and in what way she helped to the developments of Nursing Field?
6_ what is
(ICN), and what they do?
7-
What is
s (NLCA) and they do?
Jeanne Blum, RN, is a nurse on a LDRP unit. Recently, the policy and
procedures manual for Jeanne’s unit included the premature rupturing of membranes of a laboring patient
as a practice acceptable for nurses to perform. Jeanne
and some of her coworkers shared their concern over
lunch about this new responsibility.They felt uncomfortable with the possibility of cord prolapse and
other potential medical complications resulting from
this practice. Jeanne gathered data from her state and
many others states and noted that her hospital was
not in compliance with her professional organization
practice standards. Jeanne shared this information with her coworkers. She volunteered to contact the
state board of nursing on their behalf to request a
declaratory statement on the nurse’s role in the initiation of premature rupturing of uterine membranes.
Her state board’s clinical practice committee
reviewed her request for a declaratory statement and
gathered information from other states. A formal
declaratory statement was drafted by the board and
made it available on its Web site. A letter from the
board was sent to Jeanne’s institution, informing it of
the declaratory statement, which stated that the task
nurses were requested to perform was beyond their
scope of practice based on the Nurse Practice Act.
8-Which stage of the policy model does this scenario
represent?
250 words
3 references APA
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1-2 paragraphsapa formatreferencesIn Chapter 6 The En.docxteresehearn
1-2 paragraphs
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references
In Chapter 6: The Environment – Part I, Hite and Seitz (2016) note that pollution and global warming were an important concern of the first world conference on the environment that was held in Sweden in 1972. Principle 6 of that declaration stated that we must stop the release of pollutants and heat that cannot be effectively processed by our environment (Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. 1972. Chapter 11. p. 2.
).
Thinking about the different types of pollutants and heat that can be effectively processed by our environment, which are the most critical to address? Identify three pollutants you consider to be the most critical to address and explain why you believe they are most important.
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1- What is Policy2- Explain each of them Public policy— Pr.docxteresehearn
1- What is Policy?
2- Explain each of them: Public policy— Private policy— Health policy— Social policy— Organizational policy?
3-
Who was
F
lorence Nightingale, and what was her contribution to the Nursing Field?
4- Who was Lillian Wald?
5- Who was Margaret Sanger, and in what way she helped to the developments of Nursing Field?6_ what is
(ICN), and what they do?
7-
What is
s (NLCA) and they do?
Jeanne Blum, RN, is a nurse on a LDRP unit. Recently, the policy and procedures manual for Jeanne’s unit included the premature rupturing of membranes of a laboring patient as a practice acceptable for nurses to perform. Jeanne and some of her coworkers shared their concern over lunch about this new responsibility.They felt uncomfortable with the possibility of cord prolapse and other potential medical complications resulting from this practice. Jeanne gathered data from her state and many others states and noted that her hospital was not in compliance with her professional organizationpractice standards. Jeanne shared this information with her coworkers. She volunteered to contact the state board of nursing on their behalf to request a declaratory statement on the nurse’s role in the initiation of premature rupturing of uterine membranes. Her state board’s clinical practice committee reviewed her request for a declaratory statement and gathered information from other states. A formal declaratory statement was drafted by the board and made it available on its Web site. A letter from the board was sent to Jeanne’s institution, informing it of the declaratory statement, which stated that the task nurses were requested to perform was beyond their scope of practice based on the Nurse Practice Act. 8-Which stage of the policy model does this scenario represent?
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1- What is Policy2- Explain each of them Public policy—Pr.docxteresehearn
1- What is Policy?
2- Explain each of them: Public policy—
Private policy—
Health policy—
Social policy—
Organizational policy?
3-
Who was F
lorence Nightingale, and what was her contribution to the Nursing Field?
4- Who was Lillian Wald?
5- Who was Margaret Sanger, and in what way she helped to the developments of Nursing Field?
6_ what is
(ICN), and what they do?
7-
What is
s (NLCA) and they do?
Jeanne Blum, RN, is a nurse on a LDRP unit. Recently, the policy and procedures manual for Jeanne’s unit included the premature rupturing of membranes of a laboring patient as a practice acceptable for nurses to perform. Jeanne and some of her coworkers shared their concern over lunch about this new responsibility.They felt uncomfortable with the possibility of cord prolapse and other potential medical complications resulting from this practice. Jeanne gathered data from her state and many others states and noted that her hospital was not in compliance with her professional organization practice standards. Jeanne shared this information with her coworkers. She volunteered to contact the state board of nursing on their behalf to request a declaratory statement on the nurse’s role in the initiation of premature rupturing of uterine membranes. Her state board’s clinical practice committee reviewed her request for a declaratory statement and gathered information from other states. A formal declaratory statement was drafted by the board and made it available on its Web site. A letter from the board was sent to Jeanne’s institution, informing it of the declaratory statement, which stated that the task nurses were requested to perform was beyond their scope of practice based on the Nurse Practice Act.
8-Which stage of the policy model does this scenario represent?
Please use citations, and at least 2 credible references no older than 7 years.
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1-2 Paragraphs adequately describing cloning biotechnology as thorou.docxteresehearn
1-2 Paragraphs adequately describing cloning biotechnology as thoroughly as possible also answer the following question.
1. Describe the topic by listing when it came into being
2. what is the technology?
3. How does it work?
4. What are the positive/negative aspects of the topic?
5. What are the current and potential uses of the technology?
6. What is its application to modern science, technology, industry, business, and/or government.
7. How does this technology relate to modern society?
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1- Explain why some cells are pink and others are purple in Gram-sta.docxteresehearn
Some bacterial cells appear pink or purple in Gram stains due to their cell wall composition. The Five I's of microbiology would need to be modified to diagnose a protozoan infection since they are eukaryotic microbes, not bacteria. DNA viruses and RNA viruses differ in their biosynthesis, with DNA viruses replicating their genetic material in the host cell nucleus while RNA viruses do so in the host cell cytoplasm. Biofilms contribute to the antibiotic resistance seen in cystic fibrosis patients by protecting embedded bacteria.
1-Some typical agents of socialization are family, school, religion.docxteresehearn
1-Some typical agents of socialization are: family, school, religion, friends, relatives, and mass media. What agents of socialization have influenced you the most? Describe their influence on your attitudes, beliefs, values, or other orientations to life. How have they made you the person that you are today?
2-
The major components of social structure are culture, social class, social status, roles, groups, and social institutions. Use social structure to explain why some Americans have such a low rate of college graduation
150 word min/references
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1-Provide a critique Kristen Swanson’s Theory of Caring, making .docxteresehearn
1-Provide a critique Kristen Swanson’s Theory of Caring, making sure to
identify benefits, consequences and feasibility
of application in clinical practice as a family nurse practitioner.
2-Provide evidence using 2 (two) scholarly articles in order to support your critique.
APA style. 250 words. 2-3 references.
.
How to Build a Module in Odoo 17 Using the Scaffold MethodCeline George
Odoo provides an option for creating a module by using a single line command. By using this command the user can make a whole structure of a module. It is very easy for a beginner to make a module. There is no need to make each file manually. This slide will show how to create a module using the scaffold method.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
1- When it comes to helping people who are having problems, how do y.docxteresehearn
1- When it comes to helping people who are having problems, how do you view your own abilities? Are you comfortable with setting goals and giving directions to others?
2- People vary regarding their need to be helped. Some want a lot of assistance, and others like to be independent. Are you prepared to adapt your leadership to be helpful to those who need it? Discuss.
.
1-
Managing Interpersonal Relationships Discussion
Managing interpersonal relationships: What are the Layers of Self Disclosure? Which layers do you think are appropriate to discuss on your “first date?”
2-
Group Leadership Discussion
Think about the last time you needed to work in a small group. What was it you were supposed to do, a project, an activity, plan an event, solve a problem, etc.? Was the end result of your working together productive or unproductive? Why do you think this was so? Were you the leader of the group? If not, could you tell who the group leader was? How? Did the direction the group took in terms of completing the task align with how you thought the task should be completed? Why or why not?
.
1-IRB is an important step in research. State the required compo.docxteresehearn
1-IRB is an important step in research. State the required components one should look for in a project to determine if IRB submission is needed?
2-Think back on your National Institute of Health (NIH) training and share what you learned. How will this apply to having an IRB form completed and why?
.
1-App must contain at least 5 runnable and navigable activities.docxteresehearn
1-App must contain at least 5 runnable and navigable activities
2-App must have an appealing Interface
3-App must have a connection to a database
4-App must contain at least 2 of any of Maps, Sensors, Battery management, Camera or Phone-Calling functionalities
code source
.
1-2 paragraphsMaximum of 1 page, double- spacedAPA sty.docxteresehearn
1-2 paragraphs
Maximum of 1 page, double- spaced
APA style
Review box 11-4 (attached file). Follow the directions in the box and do a self-assessment of your critical thinking by making
a list of the characteristics that you believe you have mastered
a list of the characteristics that you have partially mastered (in progress)
a list of those characteristics that you have not yet mastered
Describe a plan for developing the characteristics that you have not yet mastered.
.
1-What are the pros and cons of parole. Discuss!2-Discuss wa.docxteresehearn
1-What are the pros and cons of parole. Discuss!
2-Discuss ways to improve parole so that offenders have a better chance of being successful in the community
3-What are the barriers that parolees face when they return to the community that contribute to them failing. Give a relative example!
.
1-2 pages, APA format, 2 scholarly resources (one from textbook)....docxteresehearn
1-2 pages, APA format, 2 scholarly resources (one from textbook)...
Why is Transformational Leadership theory of leadership most accurately explains effective leadership in your opinion? Does the peer-reviewed literature agree with your opinion? If so, how? If not, why not?
Transformational Leadership
Some people have an extraordinary ability to inspire others and bring forth loyalty. A person who has such a personality is said to have charisma. The German sociologist Max Weber explains in his Theory of Social and Economic Organization: “The term ‘charisma’ applies to a certain quality that causes one to be set apart from ordinary people and to be treated as endowed with superhuman, or at least exceptional, powers or qualities. In this sense, charisma is a gift or power of leadership.”21
In 1976 R. J. House published a theory of charismatic leadership that has received a great deal of attention by researchers. He traces the influence of the charismatic leader to a combination of personal characteristics and types of behavior. The characteristics of charismatic leaders include being dominant, ambitious, and self-confident, as well as having a strong sense of purpose.
Charismatic leaders also demonstrate specific types of behaviors: (1) They are role models for the beliefs and values they want their followers to adopt. For example, Gandhi advocated nonviolence and was a role model of civil disobedience. (2) They demonstrate ability that elicits the respect of followers. Leaders in art, science, religion, business, government, and social service influence followers through their personal competence. (3) They have ideological goals with moral overtones. Martin Luther and Martin Luther King both employed this type of charismatic behavior. (4) They communicate high expectations for their followers and show confidence in their ability to meet those expectations. Military history is replete with examples of charismatic war leaders. (5) Charismatic leaders ignite the motives of their followers to take action. Motives and tasks fall broadly into three areas—power, achievement, and affiliation.22
The psychologist David McClelland describes the nature of charismatic leadership:
We set out to find exactly, by experiment, what kinds of thoughts the members of an audience had when exposed to a charismatic leader. They were apparently strengthened and uplifted by the experience; they felt more powerful, rather than less powerful or submissive. This suggests that the traditional way of explaining the influence of leaders has not been entirely correct. The leader does not cause followers to submit and go along by intimidation and force. In fact, the leader is influential by strengthening and inspiring the audience. The personality of the leader arouses confidence in followers, and the followers feel better able to accomplish whatever goals they share with the leader.23
A crisis can create “charisma-hungry” followers who are looking for a leader to a.
1-A patient on a medical floor has an indwelling catheter that has b.docxteresehearn
1-A patient on a medical floor has an indwelling catheter that has been in for 2 weeks.
a. Why are patients with indwelling urinary catheters at an increased risk for urinary tract infections?
In caring for a patient with an indwelling urinary catheter, what nursing actions can be employed to decrease the patient’s risk for the development of a urinary tract infection?
2- APA style
3- 3 paragraphs 3 sentences each
4- 2 references
.
This document contains two writing assignments. The first asks to summarize the differences in housing values among four communities compared to the national median, and how each community stands in relation. The second asks which community had the greatest appreciation in housing values over ten years, the overall pattern of change, and conclusions about wealth accumulation within the communities.
1-2 pages Required ReadingsRavitch, S. M., & Carl, N. M. (2.docxteresehearn
1-2 pages
Required Readings
Ravitch, S. M., & Carl, N. M. (2016). Qualitative research: Bridging the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Epilogue, “Revisiting Critically, Reflexivity, Collaboration, and Rigor” (pp. 383–392)
Chapter 10, “Crafting Qualitative Research Proposals” (pp. 299–342)
Rubin, H. J., & Rubin, I. S. (2012). Qualitative interviewing: The art of hearing data (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Chapter 14, “Personal Reflections on Responsive Interviewing” (pp. 234–242)
Required Media
Bald, L. (2016). A qualitative doctoral candidate experience [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Lewis, C. (2016). A qualitative doctoral candidate experience [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
To prepare for this Discussion:
Review the readings from the Ravitch and Carl and Rubin and Rubin and consider reflecting on your experiences in qualitative research throughout this course.
Review the media programs related to The Qualitative Dissertation Experience: A Doctoral Candidate Experience and consider the experience of other doctoral candidates through this qualitative research process.
Explain what social change means to you as a Walden doctoral candidate. What experiences from the course most influenced your understanding?
Explain what in qualitative research you would like to know more about as a result of taking this course.
Reflect on your problem statement and the next steps for developing a research topic for your dissertation or doctoral study. Include an explanation of whether you would choose a qualitative approach, why or why not.
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ANALYSIS
VITALITYRELATIVE COSTS
LIVING BUSINESS RELATIVE OF LIFE
Best=1, Worst=378Best=1, Worst=403
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
U.S.=100%
SHORT TERM
FORECAST RISKS
LONG TERM
RISK EXPOSURE
2019-2024
BUSINESS CYCLE STATUS
MOODY’S RATING
ECONOMIC DRIVERS
Highest=1
Lowest=403
EMPLOYMENT GROWTH RANK
Best=1, Worst=410
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MOODY’S ANALYTICS / Précis® U.S. Metro / December 2019
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DESTINATION
MEDICAL
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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 INDICATORS 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
3.4 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.4 3.4 Gross metro product (C12$ bil) 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 4.0
-3.1 0.4 -0.7 -3.0 2.3 0.5 % change 2.4 2.5 2.5 3.7 2.9 2.7
32.2 32.0 32.8 33.3 33.2 33.4 Total employment (ths) 34.0 34.4 34.4 34.7 35.0 35.2
-3.1 -0.4 2.4 1.4 -0.1 0.6 % change 1.7 1.3 -0.0 0.8 0.9 0.6
9.7 8.5 7.6 6.8 5.9 5.2 Unemployment rate (%) 4.9 5.2 5.8 6.1 6.1 6.2
2.1 3.7 5.1 2.7 5.5 5.3 Personal income growth (%) 5.9 6.7 6.5 8.0 7.2 6.6
38.8 39.1 39.3 41.5 43.5 45.6 Median household income ($ ths) 48.1 50.3 51.8 53.8 55.9 57.9
138.8 138.8 140.3 142.9 145.5 147.9 Population (ths) 150.1 152.4 154.4 156.5 158.6 160.7
-0.2 0.0 1.1 1.8 1.9 1.7 % change 1.5 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.3 1.3
1.1 1.4 3.0 4.0 4.1 3.9 Net migration (ths) 3.7 3.8 3.6 3.7 3.7 3.8
201 233 354 371 433 884 Single-family permits (#) 720 794 1,061 1,408 1,476 1,439
0 0 24 145 113 0 Multifamily permits (#) 59 35 29 26 25 24
141.9 144.4 159.6 173.3 191.7 213.7 FHFA house price (1995Q1=100) 225.1 221.0 220.4 219.8 221.7 228.6
Recent Performance. Homosassa Springs
is bringing up the rear in Florida. Job growth has
slowed, dipping below the national average. HOM
is the only area in Florida where payroll employ-
ment is significantly below its prerecession peak.
Though some of the shortfall owes to the severity of
the last downturn, the metro area has consistently
underperformed its Florida peers over the last de-
cade. The labor market is also softer than previously
believed—the Quarterly Census of Employment
and Wages indicates that survey-based estimates
overcounted employment in 2019. Private services
are underperforming, including leisure/hospitality,
but education/healthcare is expanding with vigor.
At 4.5%, the jobless rate is nearing its cycle low,
and labor market tightness has sent hourly earnings
sharply higher, with average pay closer to the Flor-
ida and U.S. averages than at any time since 2013.
Retirees. A large and expanding retiree popu-
lation will help right the ship and secure HOM’s
spot in the top quintile of areas in job growth
through 2023. Residents age 65 or older account
for a well above-average one-quarter of HOM’s
population, as retirees are drawn to the warm cli-
mate, low taxes, and high housing affordability
relative to other senior havens in the state.
Although seniors do not purchase as many
big-ticket items as other age cohorts, their pres-
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as a practice acceptable for nurses to perform. Jeanne
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other potential medical complications resulting from
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lorence Nightingale, and what was her contribution to the Nursing Field?
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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least a paragraph)
3. How it applies to life in general (at least a paragraph)
4. How it applies to you. Write about an item that is important
to you, one that has been passed down to you or one that you
hope will be or an item that you have that you will plan to pass
down to someone (at least a paragraph). .
5. Be sure to supply
a. A parenthetical reference
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I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean
and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more
comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is
like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean
as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny,
irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the
elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the
2. house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand
hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars
down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy
and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm
of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say
to her.
You've no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has
"made it" is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and
father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A pleasant surprise,
of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the
show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother
and child embrace and smile into each other's faces. Sometimes
the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms
and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made
it without their help. I have seen these programs.
Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly
brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a dark
and soft.seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled
with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like
Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine
girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me
with tears in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even
though she has told me once that she thinks orchids are tacky
flowers.
In real life I am a large, big.boned woman with rough,
man.working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to
bed and overalls dur.ing the day. I can kill and clean a hog as
mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I
can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing;
I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it
comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf
3. straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and
had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. But of course all
this does not show on television. I am the way my daughter
would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an
uncooked barley pancake. My hair glistens in the hot bright
lights. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick
and witty tongue.
But that is a mistake. I know even before I wake up. Who ever
knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me
looking a strange white man in the eye? It seems to me I have
talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my
head fumed in whichever way is farthest from them. Dee,
though. She would always look anyone in the eye. Hesitation
was no part of her nature.
"How do I look, Mama?" Maggie says, showing just enough of
her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse for me to
know she's there, almost hidden by the door.
"Come out into the yard," I say.
Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by
some careless person rich enough to own a car, sidle up to
someone who is ignorant enough to be kind to him? That is the
way my Maggie walks. She has been like this, chin on chest,
eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned
the other house to the ground.
Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure.
She's a woman now, though sometimes I forget. How long ago
was it that the other house burned? Ten, twelve years?
Sometimes I can still hear the flames and feel Maggie's arms
sticking to me, her hair smoking and her dress falling off her in
little black papery flakes. Her eyes seemed stretched open,
blazed open by the flames reflected in them. And Dee. I see her
4. standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out
of; a look of concentration on her face as she watched the last
dingy gray board of the house fall in toward the red.hot brick
chimney. Why don't you do a dance around the ashes? I'd
wanted to ask her. She had hated the house that much.
I used to think she hated Maggie, too. But that was before we
raised money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to
school. She used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies,
other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and
ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of
make.believe, burned us with a lot of knowl edge we didn't
necessarily need to know. Pressed us to her with the serf' ous
way she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like
dimwits, we seemed about to understand.
Dee wanted nice things. A yellow organdy dress to wear to her
grad.uation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit
she'd made from an old suit somebody gave me. She was
determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts. Her eyelids
would not flicker for minutes at a time. Often I fought off the
temptation to shake her. At sixteen she had a style of her own:
and knew what style was.
I never had an education myself. After second grade the school
was closed down. Don't ask my why: in 1927 colored asked
fewer questions than they do now. Sometimes Maggie reads to
me. She stumbles along good.naturedly but can't see well. She
knows she is not bright. Like good looks and money, quickness
passes her by. She will marry John Thomas (who has mossy
teeth in an earnest face) and then I'll be free to sit here and I
guess just sing church songs to myself. Although I never was a
good singer. Never could carry a tune. I was always better at a
man's job. I used to love to milk till I was hooked in the side in
'49. Cows are soothing and slow and don't bother you, unless
you try to milk them the wrong way.
5. I have deliberately turned my back on the house. It is three
rooms, just like the one that burned, except the roof is tin; they
don't make shingle roofs any more. There are no real windows,
just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in a ship, but
not round and not square, with rawhide holding the shutters up
on the outside. This house is in a pasture, too, like the other
one. No doubt when Dee sees it she will want to tear it down.
She wrote me once that no matter where we "choose" to live,
she will manage to come see us. But she will never bring her
friends. Maggie and I thought about this and Maggie asked me,
"Mama, when did Dee ever have any friends?"
She had a few. Furtive boys in pink shirts hanging about on
washday after school. Nervous girls who never laughed.
Impressed with her they worshiped the well.turned phrase, the
cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in Iye.
She read to them.
When she was courting Jimmy T she didn't have much time to
pay to us, but turned all her faultfinding power on him. He flew
to marry a cheap city girl from a family of ignorant flashy
people. She hardly had time to recompose herself.
When she comes I will meet—but there they are!
Maggie attempts to make a dash for the house, in her shuffling
way, but I stay her with my hand. "Come back here, " I say. And
she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe.
It is hard to see them clearly through the strong sun. But even
the first glimpse of leg out of the car tells me it is Dee. Her feet
were always neat.looking, as if God himself had shaped them
with a certain style. From the other side of the car comes a
short, stocky man. Hair is all over his head a foot long and
hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. I hear Maggie suck
6. in her breath. "Uhnnnh, " is what it sounds like. Like when you
see the wriggling end of a snake just in front of your foot on the
road. "Uhnnnh."
Dee next. A dress down to the ground, in this hot weather. A
dress so loud it hurts my eyes. There are yellows and oranges
enough to throw back the light of the sun. I feel my whole face
warming from the heat waves it throws out. Earrings gold, too,
and hanging down to her shoul.ders. Bracelets dangling and
making noises when she moves her arm up to shake the folds of
the dress out of her armpits. The dress is loose and flows, and
as she walks closer, I like it. I hear Maggie go "Uhnnnh" again.
It is her sister's hair. It stands straight up like the wool on a
sheep. It is black as night and around the edges are two long
pigtails that rope about like small lizards disappearing behind
her ears.
"Wa.su.zo.Tean.o!" she says, coming on in that gliding way the
dress makes her move. The short stocky fellow with the hair to
his navel is all grinning and he follows up with "Asalamalakim,
my mother and sister!" He moves to hug Maggie but she falls
back, right up against the back of my chair. I feel her trembling
there and when I look up I see the perspiration falling off her
chin.
"Don't get up," says Dee. Since I am stout it takes something of
a push. You can see me trying to move a second or two before I
make it. She turns, showing white heels through her sandals,
and goes back to the car. Out she peeks next with a Polaroid.
She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me
sitting there in front of the house with Maggie cowering behind
me. She never takes a shot without mak' ing sure the house is
included. When a cow comes nibbling around the edge of the
yard she snaps it and me and Maggie and the house. Then she
puts the Polaroid in the back seat of the car, and comes up and
kisses me on the forehead.
7. Meanwhile Asalamalakim is going through motions with
Maggie's hand. Maggie's hand is as limp as a fish, and probably
as cold, despite the sweat, and she keeps trying to pull it back.
It looks like Asalamalakim wants to shake hands but wants to
do it fancy. Or maybe he don't know how people shake hands.
Anyhow, he soon gives up on Maggie.
"Well," I say. "Dee."
"No, Mama," she says. "Not 'Dee,' Wangero Leewanika
Kemanjo!"
"What happened to 'Dee'?" I wanted to know.
"She's dead," Wangero said. "I couldn't bear it any longer, being
named after the people who oppress me."
"You know as well as me you was named after your aunt Dicie,"
I said. Dicie is my sister. She named Dee. We called her "Big
Dee" after Dee was born.
"But who was she named after?" asked Wangero.
"I guess after Grandma Dee," I said.
"And who was she named after?" asked Wangero.
"Her mother," I said, and saw Wangero was getting tired.
"That's about as far back as I can trace it," I said. Though, in
fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War
through the branches.
"Well," said Asalamalakim, "there you are."
"Uhnnnh," I heard Maggie say.
8. "There I was not," I said, "before 'Dicie' cropped up in our
family, so why should I try to trace it that far back?"
He just stood there grinning, looking down on me like
somebody inspecting a Model A car. Every once in a while he
and Wangero sent eye signals over my head.
"How do you pronounce this name?" I asked.
"You don't have to call me by it if you don't want to," said
Wangero.
"Why shouldn't 1?" I asked. "If that's what you want us to call
you, we'll call you."
.
"I know it might sound awkward at first," said Wangero.
"I'll get used to it," I said. "Ream it out again."
Well, soon we got the name out of the way. Asalamalakim had a
name twice as long and three times as hard. After I tripped over
it two or three times he told me to just call him Hakim.a.barber.
I wanted to ask him was he a barber, but I didn't really think he
was, so I didn't ask.
"You must belong to those beef.cattle peoples down the road," I
said. They said "Asalamalakim" when they met you, too, but
they didn't shake hands. Always too busy: feeding the cattle,
fixing the fences, putting up salt.lick shelters, throwing down
hay. When the white folks poisoned some of the herd the men
stayed up all night with rifles in their hands. I walked a mile
and a half just to see the sight.
9. Hakim.a.barber said, "I accept some of their doctrines, but
farming and raising cattle is not my style." (They didn't tell me,
and I didn't ask, whether Wangero (Dee) had really gone and
married him.)
We sat down to eat and right away he said he didn't eat collards
and pork was unclean. Wangero, though, went on through the
chitlins and com bread, the greens and everything else. She
talked a blue streak over the sweet potatoes. Everything
delighted her. Even the fact that we still used the benches her
daddy made for the table when we couldn't effort to buy chairs.
"Oh, Mama!" she cried. Then turned to Hakim.a.barber. "I never
knew how lovely these benches are. You can feel the rump
prints," she said, running her hands underneath her and along
the bench. Then she gave a sigh and her hand closed over
Grandma Dee's butter dish. "That's it!" she said. "I knew there
was something I wanted to ask you if I could have." She jumped
up from the table and went over in the corner where the churn
stood, the milk in it crabber by now. She looked at the churn
and looked at it.
"This churn top is what I need," she said. "Didn't Uncle Buddy
whittle it out of a tree you all used to have?"
"Yes," I said.
"Un huh," she said happily. "And I want the dasher, too."
"Uncle Buddy whittle that, too?" asked the barber.
Dee (Wangero) looked up at me.
"Aunt Dee's first husband whittled the dash," said Maggie so
low you almost couldn't hear her. "His name was Henry, but
10. they called him Stash."
"Maggie's brain is like an elephant's," Wangero said, laughing.
"I can use the chute top as a centerpiece for the alcove table,"
she said, sliding a plate over the chute, "and I'll think of
something artistic to do with the dasher."
When she finished wrapping the dasher the handle stuck out. I
took it for a moment in my hands. You didn't even have to look
close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to
make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood. In fact, there
were a lot of small sinks; you could see where thumbs and
fingers had sunk into the wood. It was beautiful light yellow
wood, from a tree that grew in the yard where Big Dee and
Stash had lived.
After dinner Dee (Wangero) went to the trunk at the foot of my
bed and started rifling through it. Maggie hung back in the
kitchen over the dishpan. Out came Wangero with two quilts.
They had been pieced by Grandma Dee and then Big Dee and
me had hung them on the quilt ftames on the ftont porch and
quilted them. One was in the Lone Stat pattetn. The other was
Walk Around the Mountain. In both of them were scraps of
dresses Grandma Dee had wotn fifty and more years ago. Bits
and pieces of Grandpa Jattell's Paisley shirts. And one teeny
faded blue piece, about the size of a penny matchbox, that was
from Great Grandpa Ezra's unifotm that he wore in the Civil
War.
"Mama," Wangro said sweet as a bird. "Can I have these old
quilts?"
I heard something fall in the kitchen, and a minute later the
kitchen door slammed.
11. "Why don't you take one or two of the others?" I asked. "These
old things was just done by me and Big Dee from some tops
your grandma pieced before she died."
"No," said Wangero. "I don't want those. They are stitched
around the borders by machine."
"That'll make them last better," I said.
"That's not the point," said Wangero. "These are all pieces of
dresses Grandma used to wear. She did all this stitching by
hand. Imag' ine!" She held the quilts securely in her atms,
stroking them.
"Some of the pieces, like those lavender ones, come ftom old
clothes her mother handed down to her," I said, moving up to
touch the quilts. Dee (Wangero) moved back just enough so that
I couldn't reach the quilts. They already belonged to her.
"Imagine!" she breathed again, clutching them closely to her
bosom.
"The ttuth is," I said, "I promised to give them quilts to Maggie,
for when she matties John Thomas."
She gasped like a bee had stung her.
"Maggie can't appreciate these quilts!" she said. "She'd
probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use."
"I reckon she would," I said. "God knows I been saving 'em for
long enough with nobody using 'em. I hope she will!" I didn't
want to bring up how I had offered Dee (Wangero) a quilt when
12. she went away to college. Then she had told they were
old~fashioned, out of style.
"But they're priceless!" she was saying now, furiously; for she
has a temper. "Maggie would put them on the bed and in five
years they'd be in rags. Less than that!"
"She can always make some more," I said. "Maggie knows how
to quilt."
Dee (Wangero) looked at me with hatred. "You just will not
under.stand. The point is these quilts, these quilts!"
"Well," I said, stumped. "What would you do with them7"
"Hang them," she said. As if that was the only thing you could
do with quilts.
Maggie by now was standing in the door. I could almost hear
the sound her feet made as they scraped over each other.
"She can have them, Mama," she said, like somebody used to
never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her. "I
can 'member Grandma Dee without the quilts."
I looked at her hard. She had filled her bottom lip with
checkerberry snuff and gave her face a kind of dopey, hangdog
look. It was Grandma Dee and Big Dee who taught her how to
quilt herself. She stood there with her scarred hands hidden in
the folds of her skirt. She looked at her sister with something
like fear but she wasn't mad at her. This was Maggie's portion.
This was the way she knew God to work.
When I looked at her like that something hit me in the top of my
head and ran down to the soles of my feet. Just like when I'm in
church and the spirit of God touches me and I get happy and
13. shout. I did some.thing I never done before: hugged Maggie to
me, then dragged her on into the room, snatched the quilts out
of Miss Wangero's hands and dumped them into Maggie's lap.
Maggie just sat there on my bed with her mouth open.
"Take one or two of the others," I said to Dee.
But she turned without a word and went out to Hakim~a~barber.
"You just don't understand," she said, as Maggie and I came out
to the car.
"What don't I understand?" I wanted to know.
"Your heritage," she said, And then she turned to Maggie,
kissed her, and said, "You ought to try to make something of
yourself, too, Maggie. It's really a new day for us. But from the
way you and Mama still live you'd never know it."
She put on some sunglasses that hid everything above the tip of
her nose and chin.
Maggie smiled; maybe at the sunglasses. But a real smile, not
scared. After we watched the car dust settle I asked Maggie to
bring me a dip of snuff. And then the two of us sat there just
enjoying, until it was time to go in the house and go to bed.