Hughes poem

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Langston Hughes, 1902 - 1967

I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
     flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln 
     went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy 
     bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I’ve known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright © 1994 the Estate of Langston Hughes. Used with permission.

Lazarus poem

The New Colossus

By Emma Lazarus

 

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

E Xavier poem

AMERICANO

by Emanuel Xavier

I look at myself in the mirror

trying to figure out what makes me an American

I see Ecuador and Puerto Rico

I see brujo spirits moving across the backs of Santeros

splattered with the red blood of sacrificed chickens

on their virgin white clothes and blue beads for Yemaya

practicing religions without a roof 

I see my own blood

reddening the white sheets of a stranger

proud American blue jean labels on the side of the bed

I see Don Rosario in his guayabera

sitting outside the bodega

with his Puerto Rican flag

reading time in the eyes of alley cats

I see my mother trying to be more like Marilyn Monroe than Julia De Burgos

I see myself trying to be more like James Dean than Federico Garcia Lorca

I see Carlos Santana, Gloria Estefan,

Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez

More than just sporadic Latin explosions

More like fireworks on el Cuatro de Julio

as American as Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin,

Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin

I see Taco Bell’s and chicken fajita’s at McDonald’s

I see purple, blue, green, yellow and orange

I see Chita Rivera on Broadway

I am as American as lemon merengue pie

as American as Wonder Woman’s panties

as American as Madonna’s bra

as American as the Quinteñero’s, the Abdul’s, the Lee’s,

the Jackson’s, the Kennedy’s

all immigrants to this soil since none sound American Indian to me

as American as television snow after the anthem is played

and I am not ashamed

Jose, can you see . . .

I pledge allegiance

to this country ‘tis of me

land of dreams and opportunity

land of proud detergent names and commercialism

land of corporations

If I can win gold medals at the Olympics

sign my life away to die for the United States

No Small-town hick is gonna tell me I ain’t an American

because I can spic in two languages

coño carajo y fuck you

This is my country too

where those who do not believe in freedom and diversity

are the ones who need to get the hell out

Introduction: research paper

“ People from seven mainly countries and all refugees now face big problems entering US due to

President Trump’s travel ban. People without close family or business relationships in the US could be denied visas and barred entry. What could be the real consequences to this travel ban for those people”.

       Early this year in January 27, President Trump signed an executive order stopping all refugee 

admissions and temporarily barring people from seven muslim-majority countries: Iraq, Iran, Syria, 

Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Trump and his administration believe that the decision could help 

protect the United States from terrorist attacks, but more citizens believe it will block a lot of people 

without close family or business relationships. From that day to now, there have been protests all over 

the country and in most Arab countries. This problem brought a lot of polemics within the two major 

political parties of the country, Republican and democratic. It also opposed trump’s administration to  

more federal Judges who tried several times to block Trump’s travel ban. To defend his action, Trump 

says the controversial executive order makes good on election promises to “make America great again “. 

But I don’t strongly agree with his executive order because the immigration and nationality act said that 

“no person could be discriminated against the issuance of an immigration visa because of the person 

race, sex, nationality, place of birth or place of residence.

The stuff nurses should be made of

            I call it the right mix, compassion and skills. Nurses need a combination of both compassion and skills in order to be in a position to offer the best care for patients .Being physically and mentally sound is a requirement,compassion and empathy for both patient and family especially in a time when a patients condition may seem bleak and hopeless  or treatments fraught with challenges, a nurse with compassion becomes a ray of light to the patient and family, as much as a nurse cannot give false hope to patient and their family, having a great attitude towards your work makes a huge difference in their well being,especially mentally, and it has been said that sometimes the difference between two patients recovering from an illness or even surviving one depends on the positive attitude they have concerning their condition.Sometimes this attitude must come from their caregivers, the star of the show, nurses, coupled with this, is skills. A nurse must be skillful in their field of work, they have to have quick wits in order to make emegency decisions that could very well save a life.Acting quickly and decisively is very important and again could mean a life or death. A nurse needs not be an orator but should have a level of strong communication skills, speak clearly and comforting to patients, should have enough knowledge about the situation in order to explain to Doctors and other nurses about diagnoses and and treatments to bring about a competent work environment.

      Work Cited
     
           Hearst 
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Healthcare/Registered-nurses.

Nursing

"Nursing is the protection, promotion and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through diagnosis and treatment of human response", this is nursing according to the American Nurses Association.
According to Florence Nightingale who is considered the first nurse theorist over 100 years ago defined nursing as the act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery(Nightgale,1860) has not changed.
There are 3 main types of nursing and these are Registered nurses( RNs.),  Advanced Practice Nurses and Licenced Practice Nurses.


Work Cited

http://www.nursingworld.org/.

New Source

In The New York Times I found an article about, titled “ ‘Taki 183’ Spawns Pen Pals”. It is about one of the first taggers in New York City. His name is Demetrius. A Greek-American teenager from Washington Heights who wrote, “Taki 183” his nickname and street address.  There he says how he writes his name wherever goes including subway stations, inside subway cars, all over the city, on walls along Broadway, al Kennedy International Airport, in New Jersey, Connecticut, and other places because it is something that he had to do. Thousands of people saw these tags and this sparked the interest of many young people to start their own “tagging”.  The goal was to get as many tags as possible. His says how their goal was to gain fame and recognition of how many tags they put up, where the graffiti is, and the size and style of it.

"'Taki 183' Spawns Pen Pals" . nytimes.com. 21 July 1971. PDF. 27 Nov 2017