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A Personal Experience. Nothing can be as painful as the death of a loved one
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A Personal Experience
Nothing can be as painful as the death of a loved one. It was a chilly and cold day in September last year when my grandmother asked me to accompany her to visit my ailing grandfather in hospital. The wind was strong and the snow was falling heavily. For the previous couple of weeks, my grandfather had not been feeling very well. He was hospitalized and everyday my grandmother talked about it, the tone suggested that the disease grandfather was suffering from was incurable (Bahn 37). The situation was truly fatalist and the pain grandfather experienced was insufferable. We arrived at the hospital at two in the afternoon and proceeded to his ward. On entering the hospital, I felt weird feelings and wondered the cause of these. When I entered the room, I saw grandfather’s face but it looked unusual (Robben 51). His head had been titled on one side and the expression on his face was not only sad but also desperate.
He did not say any word to me but rather gave me an indescribable stare. Immediately, I walked up to him, kissed him and asked him how he was fairing on. When he started answering, he only stuttered (Westphal and Levenson 46). I was overwhelmed by emotion and bust into tears because I had never seen my grandfather in this horrible state. My grandmother who was standing beside me unabashed held my hand and assured me that grandfather would be fine. Despite trying her best to remain poised, the expression on grandmother’s face betrayed her. Seeing this, I walked out to find a doctor and ask him what could be done about my grandmother’s condition (Mullin 33). As I looked for the doctor, tears streamed down my cheeks uncontrollably. Emotionally, I was on the verge of collapse and I believed I could not take it any more.
When I returned to the room with the doctor, I saw grandfather breathing heavily. I just froze then yelled at the doctor to do something. Before the doctor could do anything, grandfather took his very last breath, glanced at grandmother who was holding his hand and passed on. When grandmother looked at me, I felt as if a dark cloud has just covered me (Bondeson 58). I believed we were the saddest persons on earth. The pain was unbearable; we all cried hysterically (Guignon 41). The doctors made efforts to revive him but fate had taken its toll. At that time, I felt as if my life had been torn in to two parts. We were asked to leave the room to give doctors a chance to confirm grandfather’s death.
After a short while, the doctor called us in his room and gauging by his facial expression, he situation was hopeless. I stared blankly at the conspicuous liquid in a bottle on his table when he confirmed that grandfather had passed on (Mitford 50). The events are still clear in my mind; I can never forget the grief I had because of grandfather’s death. The pain was unbearable and accepting the situation was very difficult. I was close to my grandfather and had planned on telling him about my experience in the new class. The night ended up being one the worst I have ever had throughout my life (Leming and Dickinson 61). The last words my grandfather said to me kept coming back to my mind the entire night.
Works Cited
Bahn, Pau. Written in Bones: How Human Remains Unlock the Secrets of the Dead. USA: Firefly Books, 2003. Print.
Bondeson, Jan. Buried Alive: the Terrifying History of our Most Primal Fear. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. Print.
Guignon, Charles. The Good Life. USA: Hackett Publishing Company, 1999. Print.
Leming, Michael and Dickinson, George. Understanding Dying, Death and Bereavement. USA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2006. Print.
Mitford, Jessica. The American Way of Death Revisited. USA: Vintage, 2000. Print.
Mullin, Glenn H. Living in the Face of Death: The Tibetan Tradition. Ithica, New York: Snow Lion Publications, 2008. Print.
Robben, Antonius. Death, Mourning and Burial: A Cross Cultural Reader. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. Print.
Westphal, Jonathan and Levenson, Carl. Life and Death. USA: Hackett Publishing Company, 1993. Print.
Liberation of Feminism
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Liberation of Feminism
Liberation is a key aspect of existence. It is defined by people’s rights and how they are exercised. The concept of liberal feminism seems new and undiscovered territory that requires more exploration in order to understand it better and its extent in the global scale. This paper seeks to analyze the possibility and extent of feminist liberalism, the different types of feminism and the impact of liberation of feminism from the global conformity.
The dissertation focuses on the basic elements of feminism and the extent of liberation within these boundaries. It will assess the rights of feminists from three different approaches, and the most effective approach for feminist liberalism. The analysis of rights will help to understand different political problems faced by women globally, and how a clear comprehension of women’s rights would influence change in the perception of feminism. In addition to that, it will emphasize on how women’s choices affect their position in relation to feminism and how they tend to influence their own oppression (Brennan, 87). Cudd explains that liberalism and feminism are in contrast as a result of the oppression women bring to themselves (p.39). She emphasizes on the need to have the rights clearly outlined and explained from a political perspective.
Further, an understanding of governmentalism will help to assess the relationship between feminism and politics. Government policies focusing on gender equality and women empowerment will be assessed, as well as their effectiveness. Tomasi highlights the uniformity of feminist scholars in relation to the public policy orientation and how this influences the general outlook of feminism. According to these three scholars, feminist liberalism is a paradox that requires practical application using different approaches; the direct government and the indirect government approaches.
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Cudd, Anne, E. Varieties of Feminist Liberalism. The Paradox of Liberal Feminism: Preference, Rationality and Oppression. Rowman & Littlefield. 2004. Print.
Brennan, Samantha. Varieties of Feminist Liberalism. The Liberal Rights of Feminist Liberalism. Rowman & Littlefield. 2004. Print.
Tomasi, John. Varieties of Feminist Liberalism. Can Feminism be Liberated from Governmentalism?. Rowman & Littlefield. 2004. Print.
A performance measurement baseline for the project MS Project
Earned Value Management
A performance measurement baseline for the project MS Project
A performance measurement baseline is one of the most valued time-phased tools used in project management. Its set standard application enables the evaluation of project performance to determine whether variances exist based on the original plan of the project (Taylor, 2008). The baseline is to incorporate different significant elements categorized into schedule, scope, and cost baselines. The baseline also incorporates operational and financial activities in the project. For the project, the PMB will be the time-phased schedule involving all the tasks to be accomplished, the task budgeted cost and the organizational elements to produce the assigned deliverables (Taylor, 2008).
The performance measurement baseline to be used in the project will be a schedule and cost baseline with a core element. As a collection of the project packages, the baseline will define the deliverables set to fulfill the required business capabilities. This will also include an estimated duration and project effort for every task package and the resources necessary for producing the deliverables. The deliverables will contain the business value of the project. Connection of the deliverables with the necessary capabilities forms the basis of the project execution procedure credibility. Establishing a baseline for the project involves six steps with each performed as priority (Taylor, 2008). They include:
Building a time-phased schedule network of activities to describe the project tasks to be executed. This also involves a budget for the project cost. The schedule covers organizational elements meant to produce the deliverables and the performance measures to indicate whether the project progress correlate to the plan layout.
Decomposing the scope of the project into a product based structure, then further into task package breakdown to describe the deliverable production which is traceable to the project requirements.
Assigning responsibility to the task packages for the project manager accountable for resource allocation and management, technical delivery and cost baseline.
Arranging the task packages in a well designed network through defined deliverables, inner and outer dependencies, milestones, cost margin and the appropriate schedules
Developing a timeline budget cost for the project task scheduled, including the material cost in every package and the entire project. Assurance in the proper allocation of resources is met, and the budget profile should match the project sponsor expectations.
Assigning object performance measures and measures of effectiveness for the project work package and making an overall summary of the entire project. This will also involve establishing of a baseline to be used in forecasting task package and the progress of the project including schedule metrics and the completion cost.
Application of earned value analysis to forecast future cost issues
The program management technique uses the progress of the project to determine future results through examining actual accomplishments. This is to help in examining the project potential risk areas. The application involves calculations through a basic arithmetic operation (Harrison & Lock, 2004). This involves data collection on the progress and cost of the project through a disciplined approach. The findings are processed instantaneously to enable the detection of any cases of deviation. It creates enough time to assess whether the deviation pose danger to the project and the corrective actions necessary to counter the effects (Harrison & Lock, 2004). The analysis involves the following inputs:
Budgeted cost of the works scheduled, this forms the analysis baseline through cumulated costs as planned in relation to incurrence time.
Budgeted cost of the work completed, the input involves works expressed physical progress measurement through cumulated planned costs of the project tasks covered related to the timeframe.
The actual cost of the work completed, the input refers to the amount payable cumulated for the project tasks done on the relation to time.
Budget at project completion, the entire project planned cost which equals the BCWS at the project end.
The planned project duration abbreviated as “T”
The following graph indicates the curves of earning value for the project.
The earned value analysis for the project integrates scheduler, scope and the cost to forecast the future performance and the completion date of the project. It creates a platform for efficiency in managing the project based on time and budget. Earned value analysis also involves cost variance as one of the significant inputs. It is applied as a measure approach in the project work deviation between actual and planned cost (Harrison & Lock, 2004). Cases of a negative progress in cost units indicates of an over budget of the project.
CV = ACWP – BCWP
In capturing the deviation scale, the arithmetic expression is based on the fraction of a budgeted task cost as performed:
CV% = CV/BCWP× 100%
Earned value analysis uses schedule variance in forecasting the future cost issues of the project. This enables deviation measurement between the planned progress and actual project progress. In cases of negative results, a delay is indicated:
SV = BCWP – BCWS.
In addressing cases of distortion that results from activities relative value, the variance is expressed as a BCWS fraction:
SV% = SV/BCWS
References
Harrison, F. L., & Lock, D. (2004). Advanced project management: A structured approach. Aldershot, England: Gower.
Taylor, J. (2008). Project scheduling and cost control: Planning, monitoring and controlling the baseline. Ft. Lauderdale, Fla: J. Ross Pub.