The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 is a federal law to provide employees time off of work for due to medical and family reasons. Reasons include: the birth or adoption of a child, an employee’s grave medical condition which prevents the employee from doing his/her job, or attending to the serious medical […]

“The Ransom of Red Chief” is a short story written by American writer William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry. Like many of O. Henry’s works, the story is notable for its plays on words, humor, and plot twist. Written around the turn of the 20th century, the story is a short rendition of what you might get if you crossed “Home Alone” with “O Brother Where Art Thou?” It makes […]

Veracity in Storytelling Veracity in storytelling is a defining theme of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” The story is distantly removed from the reader—Crayon has found the story in Diedrich Knickerbocker’s papers, who is dead, and who at the end of the story writes that he heard it from an old gentleman, who claimed to […]

Heart TransplantThe first ever heart transplant was done on a dog, by Norman Shumway at Stanford University in California, 1958. This procedure was successful. The first person to perform a heart transplant on a human was Christiaan Barnard. It was performed on the 3rd of December 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. The […]

Georgia Riley What do you understand by the phrase non-objective art? In relation to key examples, demonstrate your understanding of the term, and discuss why, within the context of the period, artists may have been seeking to work in this way. This essay will examine the movement known as non-objective art, and to question if […]

“It was just so scary, you could hear him walking, you’d hear him walking right past our classroom.” (CBS News) “We were scared. I was yelling to him. Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!” (Maui News) “This is going to be absolutely heart-wrenching time for me and my family. His younger brothers and soon-to-be born sister would […]

Additive manufacturing is a method of manufacturing that adds material in certain patterns to create the desired shape instead of removing material to create a part. It is said that 3D Printing or additive manufacturing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects by adding material layer by layer (European Social Fund, 2013). The […]

Man’s Best Friend “Get ready for bed and I will tell you a story about dogs,” I instructed my daughter Miriam. As soon as she changed into her pajamas, my anxious little angel started her endless questions. “Luckydog is always so happy to see me. When I come home from school and he always gives […]

Section A I am currently on placement and have been working with a 28-year-old male I shall call him Mr A, he has Autism and a moderate learning disability. I will also be reffering to a lady I will call Mrs B for this Assessment. Erikson looks at how personality develops in a set order […]

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 was first published on the 19th of October 1953. Plot Overview Guy Montag is a fireman in a time where instead of stopping fires, he starts them. Books are illegal and on the brink of extinction, while television rules. He takes pleasure in his profession: burning books. He then […]