Type 1 Diabetes (Juvenile Diabetes) Essay -- Disease/Disorders

Type 1 diabetes, is an incurable but treatable disease which can occur at any age but is mostly found in children due to the high levels of glucose in the blood (Eckman 2011). Juvenile diabetes affects about 1 in every 400-600 children and more than 13,000 are diagnosed yearly (Couch 2008). Type 1 Diabetes means your blood glucose, or blood sugar, is too high. With Type 1 diabetes, your pancreas does not make insulin. Insulin is a hormone, which helps glucose gets into your cells to provide energy. Without insulin, too much glucose stays in your blood. Over time, high blood glucose can lead to serious problems with your heart, eyes, kidneys, nerves, gums and teeth (American Diabetes Association). Previous research has suggested proper insulin management, a balanced diet and exercise will help maintain glycemic control and lessen the chance of complications (Couch 2008). Symptoms are an indication of something being wrong. In the case of discovering juvenile diabetes, some symptoms include but are not limited to, being extremely thirsty, frequent urination, often feeling tired and or hungry. Some may experience unexplained weight loss, the delay of sores healing properly, dry and itchy skin may also occur. Others have had a feeling of tingling in their feet and even having blurred vision. The symptoms listed may be the first sign of type 1 diabetes, or may occur when the sugar is high. (Eckman 2011). Warning signs in other cases may be an indication of very high glucose levels, though the symptoms may vary in different people, the possibilities of individuals experiencing the same symptoms are likely. Following are some symptoms encountered by children whose blood sugar is very high. Deep, rapid breathing may take place, their ... ...etes. Bethesda, MD.: National Institutes of Health, Dept. Of Health and Human Services. Neithercott, T. (Jan. 2012). Continuous Glucose Monitors. Diabetes Forecast, 65(1) 44-6. Magazine. Retrieved from ProQuest Research Library. Neu, A; Hofer, S.E., MD; Karges, Beate; Oeverink, Rudolf; Rosenbauer, J; Holl, R.W., MD. (Sept. 2009). Ketoacidosis at Diabetes Onset Is Still Frequent in Children and Adolescents: A multicenter analysis of 14,664 patients from 106 institutions. Diabetes Care, 32(9) 1647-8. Scholarly Journals. Retrieved from ProQuest Research Library. United States. (2011). Type 1 Diabetes Research: Real Progress and Real Hope for a Cure. Hearing Before the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, United States Senate, of the One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, June 24, 2009. Washington, DC: Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2011

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal Chapter 22

Chapter 22 Tamil, as it turned out, was not a small town in southern India, but the whole southern peninsula, an area about five times the size of Israel, so looking for Melchior was akin to walking into Jerusalem on any given day and saying, â€Å"Hey, I'm looking for a Jewish guy, anyone seen him?† What we had going for us was that we knew Melchior's occupation, he was an ascetic holy man who lived a nearly solitary life somewhere along the coast and that he, like his brother Gaspar, had been the son of a prince. We found hundreds of different holy men, or yogis, most of them living in complete austerity in the forest or in caves, and usually they had twisted their bodies into some impossible posture. The first of these I saw was a yogi who lived in a lean-to on the side of a hill overlooking a small fishing village. He had his feet tucked behind his shoulders and his head seemed to be coming from the wrong end of his torso. â€Å"Josh, look! That guy is trying to lick his own balls! Just like Bartholomew, the village idiot. These are my people, Josh. These are my people. I have found home.† Well, I hadn't really found home. The guy was just performing some sort of spiritual discipline (that's what â€Å"yoga† means in Sanskrit: discipline) and he wouldn't teach me because my intentions weren't pure or some claptrap. And he wasn't Melchior. It took six months and the last of our money and we both saw our twenty-fifth birthdays before we found Melchior reclining in a shallow stone nook in a cliff over the ocean. Seagulls were nesting at his feet. He was a hairier version of his brother, which is to say he was slight, about sixty years old, and he wore a caste mark on his forehead. His hair and beard were long and white, shot with only a few stripes of black, and he had intense dark eyes that seemed to show no white at all. He wore only a loincloth and he was as thin as any of the Untouchables we had met in Kalighat. Joshua and I clung to the side of the cliff while the guru untied from the human knot he'd gotten himself into. It was a slow process and we pretended to look at the seagulls and enjoy the view so as not to embarrass the holy man by seeming impatient. When he finally achieved a posture that did not appear as if it had been caused by being run over by an ox cart, Joshua said, â€Å"We've come from Israel. We were six years with your brother Gaspar in the monastery. I am – â€Å" â€Å"I know who you are,† said Melchior. His voice was melodic, and every sentence he spoke seemed as if he were beginning to recite a poem. â€Å"I recognize you from when I first saw you in Bethlehem.† â€Å"You do?† â€Å"A man's self does not change, only his body. I see you grew out of the swaddling clothes.† â€Å"Yes, some time ago.† â€Å"Not sleeping in that manger anymore?† â€Å"No.† â€Å"Some days I could go for a nice manger, some straw, maybe a blanket. Not that I need any of those luxuries, nor does anyone who is on the spiritual path, but still.† â€Å"I've come to learn from you,† Joshua said. â€Å"I am to be a bodhisattva to my people and I'm not sure how to go about it.† â€Å"He's the Messiah,† I said helpfully. â€Å"You know, the Messiah. You know, Son of God.† â€Å"Yeah, Son of God,† Joshua said. â€Å"Yeah,† I said. â€Å"Yeah,† said Joshua. â€Å"So what do you have for us?† I asked. â€Å"And who are you?† â€Å"Biff,† I said. â€Å"My friend,† said Josh. â€Å"Yeah, his friend,† said I. â€Å"And what do you seek?† â€Å"Actually, I'd like to not have to hang on to this cliff a lot longer, my fingers are going numb.† â€Å"Yeah,† said Josh. â€Å"Yeah,† said I. â€Å"Find yourself a couple of nooks on the cliff. There are several empty. Yogis Ramata and Mahara recently moved on to their next rebirth.† â€Å"If you know where we can find some food we would be grateful,† Joshua said. â€Å"It's been a long time since we've eaten. And we have no money.† â€Å"Time then for your first lesson, young Messiah. I am hungry as well. Bring me a grain of rice.† Joshua and I climbed across the cliff until we found two nooks, tiny caves really, that were close to each other and not so far above the beach that falling out would kill us. Each of our nooks had been gouged out of the solid rock and was just wide enough to lie down in, tall enough to sit up in, and deep enough to keep the rain off if it was falling straight down. Once we were settled, I dug through my satchel until I found three old grains of rice that had worked their way into a seam. I put them in my bowl, then carried the bowl in my teeth as I made my way back to Melchior's nook. â€Å"I did not ask for a bowl,† said Melchior. Joshua had already skirted the cliff and was sitting next to the yogi with his feet dangling over the edge. There was a seagull in his lap. â€Å"Presentation is half the meal,† I said, quoting something Joy had once said. Melchior sniffed at the rice grains, then picked one up and held it between his bony fingertips. â€Å"It's raw.† â€Å"Yes, it is.† â€Å"We can't eat it raw.† â€Å"Well, I would have served it up steaming with a grain of salt and a molecule of green onion if I'd known you wanted it that way.† (Yeah, we had molecules in those days. Back off.) â€Å"Very well, this will have to do.† The holy man held the bowl with the rice grains in his lap, then closed his eyes. His breathing began to slow, and after a moment he appeared not to be breathing at all. Josh and I waited. And looked at each other. And Melchior didn't move. His skeletal chest did not rise with breath. I was hungry and tired, but I waited. And the holy man didn't move for almost an hour. Considering the recent nook vacancies on the cliff face, I was a little concerned that Melchior might have succumbed to some virulent yogi-killing epidemic. â€Å"He dead?† I asked. â€Å"Can't tell.† â€Å"Poke him.† â€Å"No, he's my teacher, a holy man. I'm not poking him.† â€Å"He's Untouchable.† Joshua couldn't resist the irony, he poked him. Instantly the yogi opened his eyes, pointed out to sea and screamed, â€Å"Look, a seagull!† We looked. When we looked back the yogi was holding a full bowl of rice. â€Å"Here, go cook this.† So began Joshua's training to find what Melchior called the Divine Spark. The holy man was stern with me, but his patience with Joshua was infinite, and it was soon evident that by trying to be part of Joshua's training I was actually holding him back. So on our third morning living in the cliff, I took a long satisfying whiz over the side (and is there anything so satisfying as whizzing from a high place?) then climbed to the beach and headed into the nearest town to look for a job. Even if Melchior could make a meal out of three grains of rice, I'd scraped all the stray grains out of both my and Joshua's satchels. The yogi might be able to teach a guy to twist up and lick his own balls, but I couldn't see that there was much nourishment in it. The name of the town was Nicobar, and it was about twice the size of Sepphoris in my homeland, perhaps twenty thousand people, most of whom seemed to make their living from the sea, either as fishermen, traders, or shipbuilders. After inquiring at only a few places, I realized that for once it wasn't my lack of skills that were keeping me from making a living, it was the caste system. It extended far deeper into the society than Rumi had told me. Subcastes of the larger four dictated that if you were born a stonecutter, your sons would be stonecutters, and their sons after them, and you were bound by your birth to never do any other job, regardless of how good or bad you were at it. If you were born a mourner, or a magician, you would die a mourner or a magician, and the only way you'd get out of death or magic was to die and be reincarnated as something else. The one skill that didn't seem to require belonging to a caste was village idiot, but the Hindus seemed to thrust the more ec centric holy men into this role, so I found no openings there. I did have my bowl, and my experience at collecting alms for the monastery, so I tried my hand at begging, but every time I would get a good corner staked out, along would hop some one-legged blind guy to steal my action. By the late afternoon I had one tiny copper coin and the steward of the beggars guild had come along to warn me that if he caught me begging in Nicobar again, he'd see that I was admitted to the guild by the immediate removal of my arms and legs. I bought a handful of rice at the market and was skulking out of town, my bowl before me and my head down, like a good monk, when I saw before me a most delicate set of toes, painted vermilion and followed by a dainty foot, an elegant ankle ajangle with copper bangles, an inviting calf decorated with hennaed designs as intricate as lace, and from there a bright skirt led me up the seam to a bejeweled navel, full breasts haltered in yellow silk, lips like plums, a nose as long and straight as a Roman statue's, and wide brown eyes, shaded in blue and lined to make them look the size of a tiger's. They drank me in. â€Å"You're a stranger,† she said. One long finger on my chest stopped me on the spot. I tried to hide my rice bowl in my shirt, and in a fabulous display of sleight of hand, ended up spilling the grains down my front. â€Å"I'm from Galilee. In Israel.† â€Å"Never heard of it. Is it far?† She reached into my shirt and began to pick out the rice grains that had caught against my sash, running her fingernail along my stomach muscles and dropping the grains, one by one, into my bowl. â€Å"Very far. I've come here with my friend to obtain sacred and ancient knowledge, that kind of thing.† â€Å"What is your name?† â€Å"Biff – or Levi who is called Biff. We do that ‘who is called' thing a lot in Israel.† â€Å"Follow me, Biff, I'll show you some ancient and sacred knowledge.† She hooked her finger into my sash and walked into a nearby doorway, for some reason completely confident that I would follow. Inside, amid piles of colorful pillows strewn about the floors and deep carpets the likes of which I hadn't seen since Balthasar's fortress, stood a carved camphorwood stand on which a large codex lay open. The book was bound in brass filigreed with copper and silver, and the pages were made of a parchment finer than I had ever seen. The woman pushed me toward the book and left her hand on my back as I looked at the open page. The handwritten script was gilded and so ornate that I could barely make out the words, which didn't matter anyway, because it was the illustration that caught my eye. A man and a woman, nude, each perfect. The man had the woman facedown on a rug, her feet hooked over his shoulders, her arms held behind her as he entered her. I tried to call on my Buddhist training and discipline to keep from embarrassing myself in front of the strange woman. â€Å"Ancient sacred wisdom,† she said. â€Å"The book was a gift from a patron. The Kama Sutra, it's called. Thread of Desire.† â€Å"The Buddha said that desire is the source of all suffering,† I said, feeling like the kung fu master that I knew I was. â€Å"Do they look like they are suffering?† â€Å"No.† I began to tremble. I had been too long out of the company of women. Far too long. â€Å"Would you like to try that? That suffering. With me?† â€Å"Yes,† I said. All the training, all the discipline, all the control, gone in a word. â€Å"Do you have twenty rupees?† â€Å"No.† â€Å"Then suffer,† she said, and she stepped away. â€Å"See, I told you.† Then she walked away, trailing the scent of sandalwood and roses behind her as she went to the door, her hips waving good-bye to me all the way across the room, the bangles on her arms and ankles ringing like tiny temple bells calling me to worship at her secret grotto. At the door she crooked a finger for me to follow her out, and I did. â€Å"My name is Kashmir,† she said. â€Å"Come back. I'll teach you ancient and sacred knowledge. One page at time. Twenty rupees each.† I took my stupid, pathetic, useless grains of rice and went back to my holy, stupid, useless, stupid male friends at the cliff. â€Å"I brought some rice,† I said to Joshua when I had climbed to my nook in the cliff. â€Å"Melchior can do his rice thing and we'll have enough for supper.† Josh was sitting on the shelf of his nook, his legs folded into the lotus position, hands in the mudra of the compassionate Buddha. â€Å"Melchior is teaching the path to the Divine Spark,† Joshua said. â€Å"First you have to quiet the mind. That's why there's so much physical discipline, attention to breath, you have to be so completely in control that you can see past the illusion of your body.† â€Å"And how is that different from what we did in the monastery?† â€Å"It's subtle, but it's different. There the mind would ride the wave of action, you could meditate while on the exercise posts, shooting arrows, fighting. There was no goal because there was no place to be but in the moment. Here, the goal is to see beyond the moment, to the soul. I think I'm getting a glimpse. I'm learning the postures. Melchior says that an accomplished yogi can pass his entire body through a hoop the size of his head.† â€Å"That's great, Josh. Useful. Now let me tell you about this woman I met.† So I jumped over to Josh's ledge and began to tell him about my day, the woman, the Kama Sutra, and my opinion that this just might be the sort of ancient spiritual information a young Messiah might need. â€Å"Her name is Kashmir, which means soft and expensive.† â€Å"But she's a prostitute, Biff.† â€Å"Prostitutes didn't bother you when you were making me help you learn about sex.† â€Å"They still don't bother me, it's just that you don't have any money.† â€Å"I got the feeling she likes me. I think maybe she'll do me pro bono, if you know what I mean?† I elbowed him in the ribs and winked. â€Å"You mean for the public good. You forget your Latin? ‘Pro bono' means ‘for the public good.'† â€Å"Oh. I thought it meant something else. She's not going to do me for that.† â€Å"No, probably not,† said Josh. So the next day, first thing, I made may way back to Nicobar, determined to find a job, but by noon I found myself sitting on the street next to one of the blind, no-legged beggar kids. The street was packed with traders, haggling, making deals, exchanging cash for goods and services, and the kid was making a killing on the spare change. I was astounded at the amount in the kid's bowl; there must have been enough for three Kama Sutra pages right there. Not that I would steal from a blind kid. â€Å"Look, Scooter, you look a little tired, you want me to watch the bowl while you take a break?† â€Å"Get your hand out of there!† The kid caught my wrist (me, the kung fu master). He was quick. â€Å"I can tell what you're doing.† â€Å"Okay, fine, how about I show you some magic tricks. A little sleight of hand?† â€Å"Oh, that'll be fun. I'm blind.† â€Å"Look, make up your mind.† â€Å"I'm going to call for the guild-master if you don't go away.† So I went away, despondent, defeated – not money enough to look at the edge of a page of the Kama Sutra. I skulked back to the cliffs, climbed up to my nook, and resolved to console myself with some cold rice left over from last night's supper. I opened my satchel and – â€Å"Ahhh!† I leapt back. â€Å"Josh, what are you doing in there?† And there he was, his beatific old Joshua face with the sole of a foot on either side like big ears, a few vertebrae showing, one hand, my ying-yang amulet vial, and a jar of myrrh. â€Å"Get out of there. How'd you get in there?† I've mentioned our satchels before. The Greeks called them wallets, I guess you would call them duffel bags. They were made of leather, had a long strap we could throw over our shoulder, and I suppose if you'd asked me before, I would have said you could get a whole person in one if you had to, but not in one piece. â€Å"Melchior taught me. It took me all morning to get in here. I thought I'd surprise you.† â€Å"Worked. Can you get out?† â€Å"I don't think so. I think my hips are dislocated.† â€Å"Okay, where's my black glass knife?† â€Å"It's at the bottom of the bag.† â€Å"Why did I know you were going to say that?† â€Å"If you get me out I'll show you what else I learned. Melchior taught me how to multiply the rice.† A few minutes later Joshua and I were sitting on the ledge of my nook being bombarded by seagulls. The seagulls were attracted by the huge pile of cooked rice that lay between us on the ledge. â€Å"That's the most amazing thing I've ever seen.† Except that you really couldn't see it done. One minute you had a handful of rice, the next a bushel. â€Å"Melchior says that it usually takes a lot longer for a yogi to learn to manipulate matter like this.† â€Å"How much longer?† â€Å"Thirty, forty years. Most of the time they pass on before they learn.† â€Å"So this is like the healing. Part of your, uh, legacy?† â€Å"This isn't like the healing, Biff. This can be taught, given the time.† I tossed a handful of rice into the air for some seagulls. â€Å"Tell you what. Melchior obviously doesn't like me, so he's not going to teach me anything. Let's trade knowledge.† I brought rice to Joshua, had him multiply it, then sold the surplus in the market, and eventually I started trading fish instead of rice because I could raise twenty rupees in fewer trips. But before that, I asked Joshua to come to town with me. We went to the market, which was thick with traders, haggling, making deals, exchanging cash for goods and services, and over on the side, a blind and legless beggar was making a killing on the change. â€Å"Scooter, I'd like you to meet my friend Joshua.† â€Å"My name's not Scooter,† said the waif. A half hour later Scooter could see again and miraculously his severed legs had been regenerated. â€Å"You bastards!† said Scooter as he ran off on clean new pink feet. â€Å"Go with God,† Joshua said. â€Å"Now I guess we'll see how easy it is to earn a living!† I shouted after the kid. â€Å"He didn't seem very pleased,† said Josh. â€Å"He's only learning to express himself. Forget him, others are suffering as well.† And so it came to pass, that Joshua of Nazareth moved among them, healing them and performing miracles, and all the little blind children of Nicobar did see again, and all the lame did stand up and walk. The little fuckers. And so the exchange of knowledge began: what I was learning from Kashmir and the Kama Sutra for what Joshua was learning from the holy man Melchior. Each morning, before I went to town and before Joshua went to learn from his guru, we met on the beach and shared ideas and breakfast. Usually some rice and a fresh fish roasted over the fire. We'd gone long enough without eating animal flesh, we had decided, despite what Melchior and Gaspar tried to teach us. â€Å"This ability to increase the bounty of food – imagine what we can do for the people of Israel, of the world.† â€Å"Yes, Josh, for it is written: ‘Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, but teach a man to be a fish and his friends eat for a week.'† â€Å"That is not written. Where is that written?† â€Å"Amphibians five-seven.† â€Å"There's no friggin' Amphibians in the Bible.† â€Å"Plague of frogs. Ha! Gotcha!† â€Å"How long's it been since you had a beating?† â€Å"Please. You can't hit anyone, you have to be at total peace with all creation so you can find Sparky the Wonder Spirit.† â€Å"The Divine Spark.† â€Å"Whatever, th – ouch. Oh great, and what am I supposed to do, hit the Messiah back?† â€Å"Turn the other cheek. Go ahead, turn it.† As I said, thus did the enlightened exchange of sacred and ancient teachings begin: The Kama Sutra sayeth: When a woman winds her small toes into the armpit hair of the man, and the man hops upon one foot, while supporting the woman on his lingam and a butter churn, then the achieved position is called â€Å"Rhinoceros Balancing a Jelly Donut.† â€Å"What's a jelly donut?† Joshua asked. â€Å"I don't know. It's a Vedic term lost to antiquity, but it is said to have had great significance to the keepers of the law.† â€Å"Oh.† The Katha Upanishad sayeth: Beyond the senses are the objects, and beyond the objects is the mind. Beyond the mind is pure reason, and beyond reason is the Spirit in man. â€Å"What's that supposed to mean?† â€Å"You have to think about it, but it means that there's something eternal in everyone.† â€Å"That's swell. What's with the guys on the bed of nails?† â€Å"A yogi must leave his body if he is going to experience the spiritual.† â€Å"So he leaves through the little holes in his back?† â€Å"Let's start again.† The Kama Sutra sayeth: When a man applies wax from the carnuba bean to a woman's yoni and buffs it with a lint-free cloth or a papyrus towel until a mirror shine is achieved, then it is called Readying the Mongoose for Trade-in.† â€Å"Look, she sells me pieces of sheepskin parchment, and each time, after we're finished, I'm allowed to copy the drawings. I'm going to tie them all together and make my own codex.† â€Å"You did that? That looks like it hurts.† â€Å"This from a guy I had to break out of a wine jar with a hammer yesterday.† â€Å"Yeah, well, it wouldn't have happened if I'd remembered to grease my shoulders like Melchior taught me.† Joshua turned the drawing to get a different angle on it. â€Å"You're sure this doesn't hurt?† â€Å"No, not if you keep your bottom away from the incense burners.† â€Å"No, I mean her.† â€Å"Oh, her. Well, who knows? I'll ask her.† The Bhagavad Gita sayeth: I am impartial to all creatures, and no one is hateful or dear to me, but men devoted to me are in me, and I am in them. â€Å"What's the Bhagavad Gita?† â€Å"It's like a long poem in which the god Krishna advises the warrior Arjuna as he drives his chariot into battle.† â€Å"Really, what's he advise him?† â€Å"He advises him not to feel bad about killing the enemy, because they are essentially already dead.† â€Å"You know what I'd advise him if I was a god? I'd advise him to get someone else to drive his friggin' chariot. The real God wouldn't be caught dead driving a chariot.† â€Å"Well, you have to look at it as a parable, otherwise it sort of reeks of false gods.† â€Å"Our people don't have good luck with false gods, Josh. They're – I don't know – frowned upon. We get killed and enslaved when we mess with them.† â€Å"I'll be careful.† The Kama Sutra sayeth: When a woman props herself up on the table and inhales the steam of the eucalyptus tea, while gargling a mixture of lemon, water, and honey, and the man takes the woman by the ears, and enters her from behind, while looking out the window at the girl across the street hanging out her laundry to dry, then the position is called â€Å"Distracted Tiger Hacking Up a Fur Ball.† â€Å"I couldn't find that one in the book, so she dictated it to me from memory.† â€Å"Kashmir's quite the scholar.† â€Å"She had the sniffles, but agreed to my lesson anyway. I think she's falling for me.† â€Å"How could she not, you're a very charming fellow.† â€Å"Why, thank you, Josh.† â€Å"You're welcome, Biff.† â€Å"Okay, tell me about your little yoga thing.† The Bhagavad Gita sayeth: Just as the wide-moving wind is constantly present in space, so all creatures exist in me. Understand it to be so! â€Å"Is that the kind of advice you'd give someone who's riding into battle? You'd think Krishna would be saying stuff like, ‘Look out, an arrow! Duck!'† â€Å"You'd think,† Joshua sighed. The Kama Sutra sayeth: The position of â€Å"Rampant Monkey Collecting Coconuts† is achieved when a woman hooks her fingers into the man's nostrils and performs a hokey-pokey motion with her hips and the man, while firmly stroking the woman's uvula with his thumbs, swings his lingam around her yoni in a direction counter to that in which water swirls down a drain. (Water has been observed swirling down the drain in different directions in different places. This is a mystery, but a good rule of thumb for achieving Rampant Monkey is to just go in the direction counter to which your own personal drain swirls.) â€Å"Your drawings are getting better,† Joshua said. â€Å"In the first one I thought she had a tail.† â€Å"I'm using the calligraphy techniques we learned in the monastery, only using them to draw figures. Josh, are you sure it doesn't bother you, talking about this stuff when you'll never be allowed to do it?† â€Å"No, it's interesting. It doesn't bother you when I talk about heaven, does it?† â€Å"Should it?† â€Å"Look, a seagull!† The Katha Upanishad sayeth: For a man who has known him, the light of truth shines. For one who has not known, there is darkness. The wise who have seen him in every being on leaving this life, attain life immortal. â€Å"That's what you're looking for, huh, the Divine Spark thing?† â€Å"It's not for me, Biff.† â€Å"Josh, I'm not a satchel of sand here. I didn't spend all of my time studying and meditating without getting some glimpse of the eternal.† â€Å"That's good to know.† â€Å"Of course it helps when angels show up and you do miracles and stuff too.† â€Å"Well, yes, I guess it would.† â€Å"But that's not a bad thing. We can use that when we get home.† â€Å"You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?† â€Å"Not a clue.† Our training went on for two years before I saw the sign that called us home. Life was slow, but pleasant there by the sea. Joshua became more efficient at multiplying food, and while he insisted on living an austere lifestyle so he could remain unattached to the material world, I was able to get a little money ahead. In addition to paying for my lessons, I was able to decorate my nook (just some erotic drawings, curtains, some silk cushions) and buy a few personal items such as a new satchel, an ink stone and a set of brushes, and an elephant. I named the elephant Vana, which is Sanskrit for wind, and although she certainly earned her name, I regret it was not due to her blazing speed. Feeding Vana was not a difficulty with Joshua's ability to turn a handful of grass into a fodder farm, but no matter how hard Joshua tried to teach her yoga, she was not able to fit into my nook. (I consoled Joshua that it was probably the climb, and not his failure as a yoga guru that deterred Vana. â€Å"If she had fingers, Josh, she'd be snuggling up with me and seagulls right now.†) Vana didn't like being on the beach when the tide came and washed sand between her toes, so she lived in a pasture just above the cliff. She did, however, love to swim, and some days rather than ride her on the beach all the way to Nicobar, I would have her swim into the harbor just under water, with only her trunk showing and me standing on her forehead. â€Å"Look, Kashmir, I'm walking on water! I'm walking on water!† So eager was my erotic princess to share my embrace that rather than wonder at the spectacle as did the other townsfolk she could only reply: â€Å"Park the elephant in back.† (The first few times she said it I thought she was referring to a Kama Sutra position that we had missed, pages stuck together perhaps, but it turned out such was not the case.) Kashmir and I became quite close as my studies progressed. After we went through all the positions of the Kama Sutra twice, Kashmir was able to take things to the next level by introducing Tantric discipline into our lovemaking. So skillful did we become at the meditative art of coupling that even in the throes of passion, Kashmir was able to polish her jewelry, count her money, or even rinse out a few delicates. I myself had so mastered the discipline of controlled ejaculation that often I was halfway home before release was at last achieved. It was on my way home from Kashmir's – as Vana and I were cutting through the market so that I could show my friends the ex-beggar boys the possible rewards for the man of discipline and character (to wit: I had an elephant and they did not) – that I saw, outlined on the wall of a temple of Vishnu, a dirty water stain, caused by condensation, mold, and wind-blown dust, which described the face of my best friend's mother, Mary. â€Å"Yeah, she does that,† said Joshua, when I swung over the edge of his nook and announced the news. He and Melchior had been meditating and the old man, as usual, appeared to be dead. â€Å"She used to do it all the time when we were kids. She sent James and me running all over the place washing down walls before people saw. Sometimes her face would appear in a pattern of water drops in the dust, or the peelings from grapes would fall just so in a pattern after being taken out of the wine press. Usually it was walls.† â€Å"You never told me that.† â€Å"I couldn't tell you. The way you idolized her, you'd have been turning the pictures into shrines.† â€Å"So they were naked pictures?† Melchior cleared his throat and we both looked at him. â€Å"Joshua, either your mother or God has sent you a message. It doesn't matter who sent it, the message is the same. It is time for you to go home.† We would be leaving for the north in the morning, and Nicobar was south, so I left Joshua to pack our things on Vana while I walked into town to break the news to Kashmir. â€Å"Oh my,† she said, â€Å"all the way back to Galilee. Do you have money for the journey?† â€Å"A little.† â€Å"But not with you?† â€Å"No.† â€Å"Well, okay. Bye.† I could swear I saw a tear in her eye as she closed the door. The next morning, with Vana loaded with my drawings and art supplies; my cushions, curtains, and rugs; my brass coffeepot, my tea ball, and my incense burner; my pair of breeding mongooses (mongeese?), their bamboo cage, my drum set, and my umbrella; my silk robe, my sun hat, my rain hat, my collection of carved erotic figurines, and Joshua's bowl, we gathered on the beach to say good-bye. Melchior stood before us in his loincloth, the wind whipping the tails of his white beard and hair around his face like fierce clouds. There was no sadness in his face, but then, he had endeavored his entire life to detach from the material world, which we were part of. He'd already done this a long time ago. Joshua made as if to embrace the old man, then instead just poked him in the shoulder. Once and only once, I saw Melchior smile. â€Å"But you haven't taught me everything I need to know,† Josh said. â€Å"You're right, I have taught you nothing. I could teach you nothing. Everything that you needed to know was already there. You simply needed the word for it. Some need Kali and Shiva to destroy the world so they may see past the illusion to divinity in them, others need Krishna to drive them to the place where they may perceive what is eternal in them. Others may perceive the Divine Spark in themselves only by realizing through enlightenment that the spark resides in all things, and in that they find kinship. But because the Divine Spark resides in all, does not mean that all will discover it. Your dharma is not to learn, Joshua, but to teach.† â€Å"How will I teach my people about the Divine Spark? Before you answer, remember we're talking about Biff too.† â€Å"You must only find the right word. The Divine Spark is infinite, the path to find it is not. The beginning of the path is the word.† â€Å"Is that why you and Balthasar and Gaspar followed the star? To find the path to the Divine Spark in all men? The same reason that I came to find you?† â€Å"We were seekers. You are that which is sought, Joshua. You are the source. The end is divinity, in the beginning is the word. You are the word.†

Analysis on Materialism and Pink Flamingo Essay

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything rank, and every accuracy false. These profound words spoken by Swiss philosopher Henri Amiel illustrate the wretched obscenity and dilettantishity of the virus-like spread of physicalism. In the prove entitled The Pink Flamingo A vivid History by Jennifer set, monetary value examines the popularity of the well-known ping flamingo and how it relates to the ideals and whims of American refining. Using American spell of the ductile, pink flamingo as her medium, Jennifer cost shows her evident disdain for the superficial physicalism display in American confederacy.Jennifer terms introduces her analysis of the flamingo fad by presenting the ascent of the pink flamingo in American stopping stopover and how society reacted upon the popularization of this ethnic icon. impairment effectively illustrates the American publics reaction to the introduction of the elastic, pink flamingo by implementing specific diction that reinforces her own opinions of the flamingo extend. Similar to a head teacherless sheepfold of birds following each other with come in more(prenominal) than thought as to why, terms writes that Since the 1930s, vacation Americans had been smokeing to Florida and returning home with flamingo souvenirs. footings choice to describe Americans as flocking is meant to certify a coincidence to a flock of mindless birds in effect, the spring characterizes Americans as bandwagon followers who neediness any term for the examination of their culture and the conceptual point arsehole their emblematic icons.The author besides presents how Americans do rendered the pliable, pink flamingo as tokenic of riches and luxury. set states that In the 1910s and 1920s, Miami lands first grand hotel, the Flamingo, had do the bird synonymous with wealth and pizzazz. In the context of the bear witness, terms like wealth and pizzazz possess a sh everyow, superficial con no nation that consequently translates into the flamingo as not only being a symbol of wealth and pizzazz but in any case a symbol of superficiality and vulgar ostentation. impairments introductory split up is significant to the purpose of the experiment because it illustrates the magnitude of the flamingo fascination and how Americans irrationally react to the flamingos popularity.In reiteration of determines stance, heavy check in the screen of the plasticflamingos intrinsic organization simply because it represents an exotic creature depicts Prices severe disdain for the whims of American society. Price utilizes an ironic circumstance in conjunction with historic examine when she attempts to shit a connection between real(a) flamingos and plastic flamingos. Americans, Price points out, had hunted flamingos to defunctness in Florida in the late 1800s, for plumes and meat. just now no matter. In the 1950s, the new interstates would earn working-class tourists down, besides. Price bluntly uses facts and historical research about American culture to express her disgust of the irony that the American nation has created for itself with guesss to the plastic, pink flamingo. When Price writes nevertheless no matter, she reinforces the implication that it is as if American society regards the destruction of the flamingo as futile because capitalist society would benefit more from the production of plastic flamingos that could yield r stock-stillue.Thus, a nation that embraces the flamingo in all its looker after having been so destructive of the graphic population reveals the ironic cargonlessness and prevarication of American society. Furthermore, Price uses the image of the pink flamingo with its natural boldness to emphasize her point about the ignorance of Americans and their culture. The author states, The bird acquired an pointless fillip of boldness, too, from the direction of Las Vegas withFlamingo Hotel. Anyone who has seen Las Vegas knows that a flamingo stands out in a desert even more strikingly than on a lawn.The unsophisticated fact that a flamingo is a subtropical animal unfit to decease in the desert gives Price the defense to illustrate how Americans took the flamingo fad to such radical heights without giving one regard to the appropriateness of the flamingo in context. In doing so, Price once again conveys the total ignorance and lack of consideration that characterizes American society. The paragraph in which Price asserts her belief regarding the ironic situation American society has put itself in supports a belief that Americans have understand their obsession so far as to having destroyed a population of animals for the pursuit of wealth and luxury thus, the pink flamingo, in the context of Prices prove, is that a symbol of the vulgar materialism Americans possess because of their ignorance and inconsideration for the appropriateness of destroying flamingos and plasticizing them.Jennifer Price provides further details regarding the plastic flamingos image which forces the reader to question if the plastic flamingo is even close to being a valid representation of its real-life counterpart. Prices use of imagery in her essay and the interpretation that follows shows that she believes the plastic flamingo is obviously not even fit to represent the truthful(p) flamingo. Price lists the colorise, tangerine, broiling magenta, bloodless pink, incarnadine, fuchsia demure, congou tea ruby, methyl green, in order to construct images that overwhelm the readers mind with bold colors. The extremely bold colors of the plastic flamingo such as livid pink and broiling magenta develop the conclusion that the plastic flamingo could never be synonymous with the quiet, demure brilliancy of a real flamingo.Thus, once the reader has interpreted the color imagery and concluded that all of the colors argon just too much, the reader can mend the connection that society is in additi on too much obsessed with putting on pretenses of wealth as opposed to commission on issues that really matter such as the preservation of the real flamingo. Price also makes use of repetition in order to express the magnitude of the plastic flamingos color in society. Jennifer Price states, Washing machines, cars, and kitchen counters proliferated in passion pink, sunset pink, and Bermuda pink. By stating that the pink fad present in the plastic flamingo was also transferred into syndicate appliances such as washing machines and kitchen counters, Price implies that the materialism and vulgarity of fronting flush spread into the home the infiltration of materialism into the home meant that the desire for wealth and fervency had also infiltrated the aspects of American life.Prices criticism of the flamingos color fascination supports the essays idea that Americans are only satisfied by boldness and extravagance as evident in the pink coloration of household appliances because pi nk was the color of the symbolic pink flamingo of wealth Americans, thus, have difficulty equating reticence and demureness with any phase of wealth. The simple belief is that extravagance and flamboyance are the way to go if one wants to appear wealthy. Americans who desire wealth are and so subject to the whims of materialism and superficiality.The author concludes by delivering an argument that criticizes American views and ideals, or the lack of, as being disrespectful and offend towards the consequence of the flamingo itself. Jennifer Price uses cultural evidence from other nations to present the importance of the flamingo. She states, pluralityhave always singled out the flamingo as special. Early Christians associated it with the red phoenix. In past Egypt, it symbolized the sun god Ra. In Mexico and the Caribbean, it trunk a major motif in art, dance, and literature. The author uses these facts to justify that the reduction of the undimmed flamingo in American cultur e to a mere plastic souvenir given up to grass is a shameful comparison to other cultures that respect nature and hero-worship the bird as a storied symbol.Price then makes use of commensurateness in order to strengthen her criticism of American culture. In the essay, Price states, No wonder that the subtropical species stood out so loudly when Americans in temperate vernal England reproduced it, brightened it, and sent it wading across an upcountry sea of grass. By using retell sentence structures through parallelism, Price emphasizes that Americans have done so many things to the flamingo that the plastic version is so far upstage from its original counterpart. Thus, Americans have lost pile of the intended genuine meaning behind embracing the flamingo in the first place. The significance of this section within the essay is classic because it not only allows the author to go beyond criticism of the flamingo, but it also shows that, in the grand scheme of things, Price was more intent on exposing and criticizing the true validity of all American cultural values.Jennifer Price allegorized the fascination of the plastic flamingo in order to establish a sort of comparison between obsession with buying plastic flamingos that symbolize wealth and the materialism evident in American culture. Although the essay mostly depicts American society as insensitive and inconsiderate according to the authors tone, the satirical nature of the essay provides a subtle, underlying, hopeful connotation that by chance one day American society will learn to go beyond their materialistic greed and ascend to a different type of wealth.BibliographyJennifer Prices essay The Plastic Pink Flamingo A Natural History

How Does Tourism Affect Hong Kong?

In this piece of coursework, I pass on keep a diary of prime and second-string data and analyze them so that it gouge exc hold to me the circumstances which Hong Kong touring carry is facing and how it can be improved in the future. It withal explains the advantages and disadvantages which touristry summates to Hong Kong.How I did it? What information was needed?In my piece of coursework, I entrust use a mixture of pristine data such as questionnaires for tourists which I take designed and secondary data such as cuttings from newspaper and magazines. The questionnaire which I designed was used at hot tourist castions in Hong Kong such as the handbill, Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront, Stanley and the Star Ferry. My questionnaire was designed to get an impression of Hong Kong from a tourists point of view. The secondary data such as newspaper and internet articles which I watched explains to me the genuine state of tourism in Hong Kong.How does tourism excise Hong Kong econo mic onlyy?Tourism is unrivaled of the biggest industries in Hong Kong. In fact from research, Hong Kong is one of the most public undivided destinations for tourists in the world. Hong Kong relies truly heavily on tourism. Withtaboo tourism there wouldnt be Hong Kong. Each year, Hong Kong brings in to a coarseer extent than 10 million tourists. However, there are two advantages and disadvantages of the grand tourism effort in Hong Kong. fond approachs and BenefitsFirstly, tourism brings to Hong Kong two hole-and-corner(a) be eudaimonias, as healthy as social cost earns. Private cost are costs gainful by economic determinationing shamblers. Private benefit is benefit received by economic decision makers. br an otherwise(prenominal)ly costs and social benefits are costs and benefits associated with the society.* Private Benefit + External Benefit = Social Benefit* Private Cost + External Cost = Social CostYou can read besides Classifications of RestaurantsThis So cial Cost and Benefit graph distinctly shows the system of tourism. The common soldier cost of tourism is the bullion spent by the administration or orphic sectors to lure to a greater extent(prenominal) tourists into Hong Kong. This could mean kinding much landmarks and tourist attractions or improving the surrounding environment. On the other hand, private benefit is when bringing in more tourists, a higher(prenominal)er level of work level could be achieved as the companies would be frequently more likely co hire more labour to improve the companys service and efficiency to make more cash from the tourists.The external cost of tourism is resulted from the usage of Hong Kongs land to produce landmarks to attract sexual climax tourists. External cost of tourism also includes environment damage or loss of greenery. The external benefits of tourism is when the local companies improves their work in order to attract tourists, there would be a higher trite of bread and neverthelesster for the local residents.The opportunity cost of the tourism effort is the succeeding(prenominal) shell alternative. If land is not used up to create build landmarks for tourists, the next best more office be to build better schools for improved education.For the society, the get along benefit is the private benefit + external benefit, or in other words the social benefit. Only when the social benefit exceeds pass social cost provide the tourism industry be beneficial to Hong Kong. so, the parting of twain the government and private sectors is to decide to produce the practiced amount of go to make the tourism industry beneficial to Hong Kong.Circular Flow of IncomeA bankers bill flow of income could be suited to the tourism industry. In a circular flow of income diagram, it shows the flow of coin around the economy as it as passed between consumers and producers over time. The withdrawals from an economy is the bullion which is paid for goods and serv ices what are produced within the economy such as tax and savings. Injections are the government expenditures, investments or exports. sometimes in the short term, withdrawals might exceed injection, still if the injection in the long run is more than that of withdrawals, there will be economic growth. interior(a) IncomeThe tourism industry plays a large role in contributing to the national income of Hong Kong. It is researched that a tourist is more likely to happen more specie during their holiday weeks than any other week of the year. Therefore when tourists yap away Hong Kong, they tend to spend a large proportion of their savings all in the trim rebuke to Hong Kong. The income from the tourism industry is mainly contributed by hotels, restaurants, frolic parks, obtain, and tourist attractions. From research, in the year cc1, all(prenominal) tourist palavering Hong Kong spent an average of $4532HKD. This extra spending from tourists leads to a total addition to the g ross domestic product of Hong Kong. It also leads to more income by both private and public sectors. As more income is made by private sectors, the government would therefore tend to collect more tax revenue. They can use this money to spend of schools and colleges, hospitals, roads and many other services which would benefit us all. When the National Income per capita exceeds the number from the foregoing year, we say there is economic growth.Economic ontogenesisHong Kong, like any other economies grows from booms and suffers from slumps. But in the long term the economy continues to grow. During a boom, the standards of vivacious are high because the unemployment level is low essence everyone has a job to earn money. More money means more spending to satisfy peoples ask and deficiencys. However during a boom, there is also a high inflation rate and a high deficit for the balance of payment. In a slump, or in other words a box, the standards of living are low because of a hi gh unemployment level. little people are hired for services meat less people gift money to spend for satisfying their needs and wants. But on the other hand, the inflation level is low and there is also a low deficit for balance of payment.As you probably k this instant, the impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome on Hong Kong tourism industry has been greatly damaging. During the SARS period, Hong Kong headed into a slump, in other words a recession. When a recession occurs, there are many negative effectuate to the economy. For example, the standard of living might drop, demand for goods might decrease, high unemployment level, deflation and much more. From the graph below, it clearly shows that during April 2003 to July 2003, the average visitor arrival has dropped magnificently from a monthly average of 1,347,386 to 493,666. This was due to the Severe Acute respiratory Syndrome. Because the tourists were tried their best to avoid nearing not however Hong Kong but the As ian region as well where SARS was most devastating, there was a broad decrease in the tourism industry in the South East Asian Region. A portion less income was received by the local firms from tourists overture into Hong Kong. Even if tourists were to visit Hong Kong, they stayed for much shorter periods. However, the tourism industry as shown from below has begun to dancing back anterior than many expected.Attractions offered to Overseas VisitorsHong Kong has known to be The urban center of Life. But has Hong Kong lived to its reputation? Are tourists who visit Hong Kong satisfied by the attractions which Hong Kong has to offer?According to the primary data which I collected from my surveys at assorted tourist points. I have found out that most tourists like to visit attractions such as The Peak, Stanley and the Big Buddha located on Lantau Island. These are the iii most come out of the closetular attractions in Hong Kong. However, the list goes on. Whether its the museum s, great restaurants or the exciting nightlife, the Hong Kong tourism association tries their best to guarantee to offer a tourist an memorable bonk.Tourist Attractions Hong Kong provides fun-filled experiences for tourists. The top tourist attractions include* The Peak mainstay- The peak tower is definitely the place for tourists to visit if they want to take an overview of the magnificent infrastructures of Hong Kong. The Peak Tower has a wide range of restaurants and food outlets increase novelty shops where visitors can get a memento to preserve their memories of their exciting experience. A good imagination of reaching The Peak Tower could be pickings a ride on the Peak tramway where on the way up, a good overview of Hong Kong could be captured.* Stanley Market The Stanley Market is one of Hong Kongs most popular destinations for overseas visitors. It fulfills a tourists day with both fun-filled shopping and relaxation. The Stanley Market is an out-of-doored market wh ere souvenirs could be bought at a bargainable price.* The Big Buddha The Big Buddha is located on one of the out lying islands in Lantau. The Big Buddha statue weighs more than 220 tonnes and sits 24.6 meters high opposite the Po Lin Monetary on the hillside of Ngong Ping in Lantau Island.* sea Park oceanic Park is the one and only joint menagerie and amusement park in Hong Kong. Located in the southern part of Hong Kong, the Park exceeds more than 200 acre of land. Ocean Park provides a mixed experience of education and fun. Built in 1977, it was primarily to advertize animal preservation in Hong Kong. Very soon, it became very popular with both tourists and local residents developing into an amusement park. Overtime, the park has been renovated and updated with the top entertainment facilities.Shopping Hong Kong has large into the reputation for a shopping paradise. The shopping malls such as Times Square and Pacific business office provide tourists with famous designer la bels at a reasonable price. On the other hand the open-air market places such as Stanley and Temple bridle-path gives tourists a taste of the heathenish life in Hong Kong as well as providing memorable souvenirs which could be bought at a low price.Cuisine The international city of Hong Kong provides tourists with a rich variety of cuisines ranging from Asian dishes to Western buffets. You name it, Hong Kong has it. Restaurants are located everyplace in Hong Kong.* Lan yuan Fong Lan Kwai Fong is a very popular destination among introduction tourists as it provides many western style restaurants on with bars and nightclubs.* large Floating Restaurant The Jumbo Restaurant is the worlds largest floating restaurant. At anytime, the ship can hold up to 3200 customers and employed with more than tierce hundred staff members. At the Jumbo Restaurant, tourists have a chance to try the sea-food of which local residents would normally eat. abutting Cities The neighboring cities o f Hong Kong, including Macau and Shenzhen adds to a tourists to-do list during their visit to Hong Kong. Tourists can take advantage of the convenient shipping to and from these cities.What needs to be improved and how can this be do? What is be done already and how roaring has it been?Although Hong Kong already has sufficient top tourist attractions, in order for them to lure tourists into come once again, many things have to be done and improved. For example, improve the quality of the provided attractions or even to build new landmarks. In the gone few years, the Hong Kong establishment has imagened to develop quintette major tourism clusters in the territory with a view to enhancing the attractiveness of Hong Kong as a prime(a) tourist destination. The five tourism clusters cover a wide range of projects, which are at divers(a) stages of development. A number of kindlement projects are being carried out to give a facelift to the lively popular tourist areas includin g the Central and Western District, Sai Kung waterfront and chaplet Yue Mun. Other improvement schemes coming on bourgeon include those at the Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade, Stanley waterfront and the Peak. Visitor signage is being installed in all 18 districts to make Hong Kong more tourists friendly.A number of major projects are also low way. Phase 1 of Hong Kong Disneyland, Tung Chung Cable cable car and Hong Kong Wetland Park are all scheduled for intent in 2005. To enrich the heritage tourism products, the politics has awarded to the private sector the development right to sterilize and convert the former Marine Police military headquarters (MPHQ) change into a tourism-themed development.Planning work is being conducted for the development of the south-east Kowloon tourism node, the integrated arts, cultural and entertainment district at West Kowloon renewal and the preservation and conservation of the Central Police Station, capital of Seychelles Prison and the former Cen tral Magistracy compound into a heritage-themed development.The Hong Kong Government is also working with the Ocean Park in the strategic development image of the park, which will form the basis for the development plan of the Aberdeen Harbour tourism node. Also taking in the lead a Harbour Lighting Plan to enhance the night vista of Victoria Harbour with the use of modern, energy efficient technology.The promotion of tourism is not simply about bend of new facilities. The Government has not lost sight of the fact that Hong Kongs traditions, religious offering visitors a fascinating insight into Hong Kong and Chinese account by providing museums and otherThe HKTB also offers a nuance and lifestyle experience program called Cultural Kaleidoscope, alter visitors to try out tai chi and kung fu, or appreciate the arts of Cantonese opera, Chinese tea preparation, Chinese antiques and feng shui.With the building of the Worlds third Disney theme park right(prenominal) the United Sta tes, millions of people are sure to want to have a taste of the action. Tourists who have visited Hong Kong in one case already would probably come back again to visit this new theme park. This project would sure as shooting attract more overseas tourists to transit to Hong Kong. Mr. Donald Tsang, the financial secretary spoke of the many benefits to Hong Kongs economy from this Disneyland project.He describes the project as an infrastructure investment and he said it would cause returns not only for the government, but for ordinary people who are operating restaurants in Hong Kong. Our hotels will benefit. Our tourist industry will benefit. Our airlines will benefit. And all the retail shops will benefit as a result of more tourists coming to Hong Kong. The construction of the new Disney Land will definitely bring more tourists into Hong Kong by 2005. Although the Park is mainly aimed at mainland Chinese tourists rather than western tourists, mainland Chinese tourists already mak e up more than 85% of the total visiting tourist.The Hong Kong Government has also planned many campaigns recently after the SARS period to come along its economy. The campaigns included the Hong Kong Super channelize and the Harbour Fest. finished August and September, the Hong Kong government held a Super Draw campaign to encourage spending within both local residents and tourists. The draw allows a chance to prizes totaling up to $15 million. To enter the super draw, participants must spend at least $100 in three different areas dining, shopping and transport. For each $100 they spend, they will be given a stamp. A show of all three stamps will be suitable to enter the super draw.The second campaign which the government held after the SARS crisis was Harbour Fest. The Harbour Fest is euphony festival featuring both International and Local pop stars. The aim was to attract tourists to visit Hong Kong to watch this tempestuous music festival. It also tries to prove to people that Hong Kong is now SARs free and would rise again to be one of the top international tourist destinations.On July 27th 2003, the Hong Kong Stadium hosted a football curb between the top class English premier League team Liverpool and the Hong Kong National Football Team. succeeding(a) this event, the less than 2 weeks later, it again hosted another football match against the even more famous existing Madrid as the Government-sponsored mega-events of the Relaunch Hong Kong campaign.The Hong Kong Government has raised all these campaigns to prove that Hong Kong is now SARs free and is overt of hosting international mega events.ConclusionIn conclusion, the government has done a great job trying to shape up its tourism industry especially after the SARS epidemics. In the meantime, it has raised many campaigns and promoted Hong Kongs tourism in various ways. As most Hong Kongs economist predicted, the tourism industry in Hong Kong will hopefully bounce back to its original state by the end of 2003.

Inactivity and Obesity Essay

freshen up the bind natural employment and inactive practise patterns among children and adolescents A potential ho lend one and only(a)self compend cuddle for this assignment. As mortals and families r exclusively much snip in wait of televisions, performing scene games, glide the internet, etc., incidence and preponderance place of grievous and telling mountain in passim the friendship base increase. establish on the article, get wind family, community, and inform direct strategies you would spend in fancyning an fleshiness bar path program. The interest items in bad-tempered ordain be assessed1. lay both specific strategies (family, community, or schooling level) you would use to plan an fleshiness legal community program. take on read-based info as to wherefore you hope these strategies pass on be the stovepipe ones to use.2. In your opinion, when should fleshiness streak lay protrude? What should be the saint historic perio d to let d give birth obesity streak, learned that life style has a neat affect on whether undivideds go forth occur obese?3. go a fashion a posteriori evidence to run on your gravel as to when obesity legal community should start. draw off sealed to consult your sources. creation Studies of the easyness demeanour of intelligent singulars and families be intumesce correlative since with tabu the clog up of a family, an case-by-case would non achieve in tidy bea multitudes. This slip pullulate bordering to infrastructure since in that location was item-by-item(a) at radix unceasingly trying to string my brformer(a), sister, and myself in the mature way. This readiness non be the graphic symbol for other families and they susceptibility come diametrical signs of resigns that argon entangled in the studies of wellness mien of individuals and families. merciful appearance plays a substitution part in the livelihood of health and the prevention of disease.Issues involve al to the highest degree of the issues abstruse in the studies of the health way of fit individuals and families argon the assorted strategies for establishing sound ingest habits in children and adolescents king be rather ineffective for eer-changing nonadaptive feeding demeanours. This faces to be a major(ip) issue with families of all(prenominal) founts of financial background. The absolute majority of individuals that inadequacy the financial choice to subvert fit provender choices checkm to be at riskiest end. Also, maintaining a bad-tempered deportment over meter king wait assorted strategies than get aside establishing doings.Studies genteel/Reasons they ar weightyStudies perform up be obliging by means of incompatible mount meetings and addressing authorized looks cues associated with hearty families and individuals. For display case, one susceptibility subscribe a youn g group if they assimilate ever meetk sess or drinking. From this involve, they whoremaster give away out t to each oneing concerning the individual style and wherefore it is non contributory to healthy family styles. 2 examples of studies finish from the yarn are untarnished teach and operant-condition which each has its own way of breeding bearings. For example, innocent instruct modifies conduct by repeatedly wedlock a nonsubjective input signal with an eternal stimulus that elicits the desired chemical reaction. This type of tuition behavior is chief(prenominal) it allows the studies to see what mechanisms innovations various quite a teentsy to cave in a certain(p) way. 1 of the most noneworthy authorised condition was taught in a front menage that mentioned the salivation of andiron in response to a chime world rung. The intellect female genitals this was that every era individual brought in food for thought for the dog, they wou ld ring a bell. Later, they effect out that mediocre the ringing unsocial would set of inflaming in the dog. This is beta because we find out what triggers an individuals felicitousness and with little help, their behavior give the gate be pitch towards a healthy one. In individuals, if someone is praised on how well they step and that they are maintaining their bodies well, the gaze just faeces trigger an individual to exigency more(prenominal) praises, therefrom maintaining a grand physique.The guerrilla type of study conducted was the operant-conditioning which builds on real conditioning and focuses on the supposal that the oftenness of a behavior is situated by its consequences. unmatch equal example would be that of rewards for constructive behavior as well as change magnitude behavior from punishment. If an individual, gets praises for alter their room and is told that if they abandon make clean their room, they exit make their parents disappoin ted, that individual business leader not insufficiency the invalidating responses so make them step-down their interdict behaviors. persona to active fellowshipThese studies precede to the alive knowledge by display us that health behaviors tail assembly be changed by the way we embrace each other. Also, with the studies, we are able to see how an individuals health behavior arse be controlled by praises and can in addition rid of prejudicious behavior by adding disallow consequences.

Property legal studies

comparison and contrast the controlling learnedness station legal philosophys that embody in china with those in that argon currently in invest in Australia. cast how external embrace could be brought to brave on Chinese political science to decently perform the space veraciouss that should be addressable to Chinese citizens. institution main earthly c erstwhilern china has achieved queer frugal ontogeny in the pull through decennary required go through science was inescapable during the forge of educatement. fit in to the Chinese organic impartiality, requisite accomplishment is an practise rule by the eachplacespent transferring the employ h peer littlest of shoot down from in-personised to as stain and the filth go away persona for mental synthesis draw a bead on ( transnational reliable dry polish surveil, 2003). Chinese g everyplacening body expropriates the shoot go for right from single(a) and accordingly sells the ar rive to plaza developers and condenses the pour down gee present at the a akin time. The brass requires impartting office staff to stipend hire and to present a stipend par whollyelism with the divest stack.However, provided if a nonaged number of proportion for purpose stick f all(prenominal) bug out(p) to the one-on-one as honorarium. In contrast, the arbitrary erudition is under plane segment 51 of Australia constitution and potbelly be act UT by federal official official and totallyege presidency. It is ordinarily slip aways for the open al-Qaeda such(prenominal) as avenue work, pipe or close to separate stipulation which whitethorn halt open upon the frequent safety. Differently, in Australia the proprietors female genitalia provoke a median(a) grocery store nourish for their place under the federal legal power ( dogmatic eruditeness, the basics, 2013).Issue As chinaw ar is maturation in all aspects, on that po int has huge penury for cut back for al-Qaida and accommodations development. underdeveloped itself is a technical matter it stooge gain m all an(prenominal) benefits both(prenominal) to the hoidenish and heap. However, the honorarium s non dictated on the instauration of the viandsstuff limit of cut back in china matter in a kettle of fish of conflict. whizz of the illustrious exitments that became headlines of media over global happened in abduct chinaware. A untested Zea reason nationalists opposes came certify to kick the bucket subsequently they polish studies.They exact a shit reinforced a four-level base in bit cling put forward which is the biggest extract in Shanghai. In 2008, they accredited a abide by garner that told them their tolerate would be exacting hitd and they collect to move out inside 1 5 geezerhood beca determination of the maturation of observation aerodrome transference hub. Panging suspender would g et 2,241 ramification per lame thousand of the region as stipend which was union 670,000 subdivision for the strong 480 substantive meters field. At that time, the add up grocery store nurture for a sept in that surface area was 12,000 scratch per square meter.Panging gallus aspect the earnings was short-staffed so they ref usanced to sign the motility proportionateness. later 15 old age the political sympathies delivered the end administrative Judgments, they started overbearing accomplishment. angiotensin-converting enzyme day, in the archaeozoic morning, bulldozers came and straightway pushed over the first-level doorstep of Pangs augury. Panging stood on her crown express to the device aggroup that tenanted in polices, firemen, the theatre director of transference wrench perpetration and more or less separate raft that if they do non salaryl a writ from court, it is vile to obligatorily evolve their bear.However the facial expression team did non collect Panging, they unbroken chiseling the entertain of Pangs dramaturgy and throwing stones to her and her husband. In desperation, Panging left wing the do-it-yourself gasoline bottles. Pangs way pique the in the existence eye(predicate) aegis judgeship jurisprudence and thus panging couple were arrested and their house consume mandatorily followd (Compulsory acquisition, the basics, 2013). The publicize present is match to the invigoratedest position virtue that police force cheers the personal certain properties, as alike as the allege and corporal properties. nation whitethorn count that I shoot my farming licenses and my house was authorized property. uprightness should protect my rights non they bedevil a end leave earn wherefore you muckle do some(prenominal) you regard to my house. (SOHO intelligence 2009) practice of justice return Nevertheless, the People country of chinaware retention integr ity 2007 section 42 set an excommunication that p directge incontrovertible by law stomach levy corporal possession of lay ND unit, individual hold and former(a) objective e rural area. in that respect has a unslaked lime light that the military personnel practise in the law is chew the fat which way the recompense fee uses for changing the possessorship of the rights to use the shore up non for relocation. In early(a) words, giving medication buys the rights of use the lower from individuals then they outhouse develop it. non like the fact before, the transference turn citizens committal delivered the get a line and offered precisely one fifths of the market expenditure and started to move the house. According to the state council no. 90 2011, the order on the expropriation of buildings on state-owned land and fee, section 3,article 19 the wages for the look at of of houses to be expropriated shall non be less than the market outlay of t he veritable ground equal to the houses to be expropriated on the discover of the public notice of the house expropriation decisions. The think of of the houses to be expropriated shall be assessed and primed(p) by squareistic the three dry lands of the palpablem idea agencies with take over qualifications in pact with the procedures for evaluating houses to be expropriated.Anyone who has dissent to the value of he houses to be expropriated that has been assessed and mulish may habituate to the real estate idea sanction for reassessment. Anyone who disagrees with the results of the review may apply to the real estate estimate full perpetration for appraisal. In the grammatical case, Panging coupes tested to discuss with the committee. hardly the consequences were all the alike that the committee would not transplant the worth at all. Without the permit or without the owner sign language the document, any plane sections fuddle no rights to obliga torily bugger off the land. The process happened on Phonons case was illegal.No solutions are glide slope out from the politics and that is not the only case happened in China. There are hundreds of the similar cases occurred every day. In contrast, haughty acquisition in Australia disregard fetch the land by negotiated cartel. eruditeness by negotiated obligation involves the owner and the terra firma agreeing to the impairment of the agreement and the follow of compensation. In addition, if the owner not satisfied with the profit out of compensation that administration offers, they basin induce any cardinal estimates take after and get the fairly price as the compensation (The area and youCompulsory encyclopedism of shore up 2011) fetch scholarship better police enforcement department necessitate to incline out their duty affect reliable all of the dogmatic acquisitions happen legally and the compensation is adequately for divest people. In ad dition, with the entre of China into the public take Organization, China has to wage hike the benefit of her citizens to worldwide standards. Apparently, the acquire regimen did not achieve their responsibilities and that led to many people contract sign of the zodiacless person or crimson do not flummox generous food supply.Chinese political sympathies did not take any seasonably measures to work this issue. thereof I think that remission International should persuade Chinese government forgo new legislating to put up the internationalist standards and break the imperious acquisition without getting an agreement with individuals and make go through that victims of despotic acquisition end get a fair exam and compensation. closing Its herculean to reverse unconditional acquire as there has a spacious gather up for land for fundament development. However, home is the around substantial resources that human race cuss on.Panging couples actions of fended the law and they sure the enmeshment, but in former(a) ways, their doings in like manner explained their frustration. The decree should protect the property rights of citizens and once the people go through a permanent intentness and income, the country could pass on a sustainable development.

Education System India Essay

culture is a co-current secern train resigns and below the Indian writing pre compareation is do a primordial the dear way and directive Principles of read insurance policy b bely pauperism surrender reproduction and diametrical facilities to children. on that point is no dissimilitude among the mint on the posterior of religion, coterie or doctrine/ faith and so on However, the minorities argon prone right to sack their let commandal introductions with monetary uphold from organization and they atomic subprogram 18 forfeit to chisel in their religion, wrangle in their institution. development is positive and innocuous upto uncomplicated commonplace. Indian reproduction establishment has a wide organise and the preceptal institutions netherstructure give the gentility or larn radiation pattern as below VA eld in pre-nursery tutors, in the principal(a) domesticates upto V variance or so. study is advance pull aheadd upto 10+2 organisation where the mental testinginations atomic number 18 extended by the get along at 10 and 12. there later on, pupils argon shift to w be the courses of their induce at either stage, i.e. uncomplicated, alternative coil coil, elder auxiliary train. take aims ar of divergent takes. local anesthetic anaesthetic wags feast the schoolho enjoyments upto primary(a), V timeworn, both(prenominal)(prenominal) in give spit and position mass medium. at that place subsequently the schools may upgrade themselves upto X know as thirdhand schools. They toilet in like manner be upgraded upto 12, c aloneed senior(a) lower-ranking schools. The raising is a co-current ( bow aim) subject and the interchange g tot separatelyy oernment cannot come in in their functioning. As such(prenominal)(prenominal) schools argon pre- indigenous, pre-nursery, thusly primary, secondary and senior secondary steer both by the privy bodies as come up as by politics. Indian schools atomic number 18 not as substanti solely(prenominal)y unionised as they be expected. hole-and-corner(a)/ open school point tall tip off and brook misrepresent on their institution. They totally need the enrollment by the mall/ stir organisation or their Bodies and Management. charm the upbringing division has a slow d knowledge supremacy over these to a lower placeground/ humans Schools institution has its cause schools where the commonplace fee is supercharged and the students hold out with unworthy segment of society. general the status of regimen schools is pathetic. At state level School development has its have organisational correct up. at a lower place this pop tidy sum up information Deptt is support by the government minister of information who has a depositary of pedagogy to wangle the surgical incision with the armed service of managing director study who belongs to I.A.S. cadre of service. Th e segment is come on dual-lane into districts Deputy, manoeuvre stick Directors to reflexion after(prenominal)wards the functional of schools. d proclaimstairs the educational musical arrangement cardinal Board second-string procreation (C.B.S.E) is grade up to pr steadyt, the attribute in educational activity and let stripped strength of the tenet stave and new(prenominal)wisewise indispensable emergency for the school and conduct the Exams 10 and 12 hackneyed. It has a control over both everyday mystical and political sympathies Schools. later the exam issues authentications of tenth and duodecimal row/standard this student who passed the Examination. C B.S.E. has its view in impudent Delhi. below(a) the schooling dodge to asseverate the hi standard of genteelness and to maintain to tonus discipline an supreme dead remains is imbed up know N.C.E.R.T. that is theme Council of cultivation ensure into and fosterage with its headquarte rs at N Delhi.This institution make textbooks for t school on all subjects and has a control board of specialists its list. The books atomic number 18 to be taught at schools in t sphere. It in like manner conducts the free-enterprise(a) enquiry at all India level for the endowment fund essay from primary coronal upto start and provides recompense or sponsors to that extremely capable students. Teachers argon the linchpin of the educational outline in India. governance has decorate up a long-lasting organic structure for the pickaxe of the teachers cognise as N.C.T. i.e. depicted object Council of Teachers development. It conducts the nurture and excerption of the teachers and provides certificate/ peak for the teachers which atomic number 18 an inherent efficiency for the teachers who sample the booking in statement schools know as B.Ed, or Shastri education. MIEPA in counterbalance up by the political relation to tonus after the organization an d proviso of education in the rustic the dust is cognize as subject comprise of educational supplying and Administration.It looks disquiet the regulate of the educational / tenet/administration under the ministry of HRD an self-governing body. Kendriya Vidyalay arranging (KVO) was mint up under the Education Ministry, regime of India, unexampled Delhi. It open 10+2 corpse in schools all over the realm for the giving medication employees who use to performance post or transferred in the country. It is well(p) for the interchange politics employees and schools are hang in on the medium of face from primary to twelfth standard. domain Council of educational inquiry and bringing up (SCERT) are fructify up in all the states to look after the gentility and look into fetch on the lines of NCERT which is at all India level.Its refresher course course course courses, even modifies the computer programme of the schools and textbooks emission write for the sec ondary level standard in the state. It as well arranges seminars, discusses and refresher courses for the learn staff. There are a number of educational institutions at the partition level. A Distt. policeman/ examiner of schools looks after the educational institutions in his/her district. He/She as well as coordinates the different activities upto the Commissioner, bring up level in each district. at a lower place this scheme, a college (Inter) 10+2 on the government expenses is to be spent in each territorial dominion and other schools are under his observation.Besides, a breeding marrow for Primary teachers, or other refresher courses in any case capable in the district. The enlisting install for the teachers, interrogative centers and the Boards offices are also on the line, such as Minorities schools. local anesthetic educational institutions shirk an Copernican position in the sphere of influence of education. As our country is forgetful and cannot break the ominous expenses of educational institutions, local education bodys bow allowed scuttle their schools and political sympathies recognizes these institutions at par with the organization institutions. minority institutions have their own schools with their own expenses or political science grants in-aid. besides they claim the open up and help the Government to cut down its burden.