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The Agency states this is a straightforward non-selection case, but the Agency’s management has been deceiving, provided conflicting statement, and been less than forthcoming in their responses. The selectee, Mr. Melvin Barry, does not meet the Facilities experience requirements set forth in the USAJobs announcement. In fact, Mr. Barry merely cut facilities requirements in the Major Duties from the announcement and pasted them into his resume. The interview panel, consisting of Mr. Johnson…

Imagine your life where different notes on a piano were different colours, or where certain names coincide with different tastes, like Victoria tastes like toothpaste, or Sasha smells like cornflakes. This is caused by the condition we are going to be focussing on in this essay. Synesthesia. Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon which combines the senses due to a cross-wiring in the brain (E.g. Colours linked with letters / Colour-Grapheme Synesthesia). It is a condition that could occur…

Terrorism. An act or threatened act of violence against innocent people for political purpose. Or is it a violation of laws. Terrorism is difficult to define because there is no standard meaning. Alex P. Schmid says most definitions of the term have two characteristics: 1) Someone is terrorized and 2) the meaning of the term is derived from the terrorists’ targets and victims. We can all agree that terrorism is a problem, but we can never agree on what terrorism is. A great example of terrorism…

The line between hilarity and seriousness is tested when David O Russell approaches a new film. Known for his eccentric behaviors and powerful displays of ordinary people in film, Russell develops himself as a household name in correlation to the film industry. Having been nominated for both, Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, it’s no wonder that David O. Russell is a powerhouse for entertainment. His resume is filled with films that balance comedy and drama including, Joy, The Fighter,…

new generated acronyms have spoiled the language skills of youngsters today. When you 're typing with your thumbs, you need to save your effort by communicating with as few letters as possible, so users created text message symbols as a sort of shorthand to make texting easier and faster. Most symbols make sense, and have become a mainstay in texting language.. Emoticons use symbols to present the emotions and mood of the texter (Beasley, 2009). This can be used to show or let them know the…

In Bechdel’s Fun Home, a graphic novel memoir about the relationship with her father, it is obvious that every member of the family engages with fiction. The reader constantly sees these characters reading literature, writing, and acting. However, their interactions with fiction do not end with books and plays. It seems that they each use fiction in some relation to reality; generally, to alter it. The two characters Helen and Bruce use fiction as way to escape and live in a preferred reality,…

of points, one from each element. Proof. Let Qh be a quasi-uniform subdivision on Ω in R2, and let u ∈ Wp+1 ∞ (Ω) and uI ∈ Php be such that ∥u − uI∥ L∞(Ω) ≤ Chp+1|u| Wp+1 ∞ (Ω): Let uh ∈ Qhp be given and to simplify the presentation, we will use shorthand notations: let || = k and since we will treat one kth derivative at a time, there is no ambiguity in setting u(k) h = @uh, u(k) I = @uI , and u(k) = @u. At a typical point xm ∈  ∈ Qh, we denote by Tpuh the Taylor polynomial of degree p…

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by the American writer Francis Scat Fitzgerald, first published in 1925. It is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman, and it is one of the greatest literary documents dating back to the 1920s Roaring Twenties, a pivotal period that marked a turning point in Americans' lives, morally, materially and socially (Shen, 2012). This classic American novel is one of the finest pieces of American literature. It is such because F. Scott Fitzgerald has…

1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath would later be recognized as one of the greatest poets and novelists of the post-war era. Plath was raised in an academically focused environment; her father was a biology professor and her mother was a shorthand teacher. Contrary to the writing style of the time, Plath wrote about genuine emotions experienced by women. Additionally, she wrote about personal life events and the people that surrounded her. The poem, Point Shirley, was about a town that…

The explanation of suffering has been long sought, composing itself as an almost futile yearning to understand a pain that has no answer. This search can be linked to the human condition to romanticize the unsightly in order to make it an ideal, but mental illness is unfortunately unyielding to easy explanations. In Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” protagonist Esther Greenwood struggles with her mental illness in many ways, most of all in finding the strength to understand it. While wrestling with…