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BS/MD Program Acceptance EssayI could not bear to part with my grandmother on December 23, 2012. She was extremely ill, weighing in at just over 80 pounds. She was seventy-five at the time on ventilator support, starving. Pressure ulcers freckled every inch of her frail, thin body. She was a chronic type-1 diabetic with several other persistent complications. To make situations worse, three months earlier, she had a stroke and to her disadvantage, her husband was in a near-vegetable state, and my aunt was unaware of her stroke symptoms. Ever since then, life had never been the same for her, but no one ever thought she would pass away so soon after the incident. A part of me wishes I were in India months before her death to detect what her proximal family did not do and keep her alive. Ever since I was a mere elementary-school student, the medical field had always interested me. Doctors fascinated me by how they were able cure anyone (I thought). Watching the news on CNN everyday , I marveled at the network's medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta. I was amazed by how he was able to balance being on television and helping his patient |
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Kristallnacht - Important FactsNight of Crystal, also known as Kristallnacht in German, was an anti-Jewish pogrom that was taken place on the night of November 9 and 10, 1938. Kristallnacht came to be the name of this tragic event due to the amount of shattered glass that was dispersed in the German streets on the morning of November 10th. It all started with the forced deportation over the Polish border of Zindel Grynszpan and his family. The reason behind all of this was the anti-Semitic laws, which caused many Jews of Polish citizenship, including Zindel and his family, to move out of Germany. Zindel's seventeen-year old son Herschel, who was living with his uncle in Paris, found out about this, and decided t |
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Globalization and McDonald'sAlthough not a recent phenomenon, globalization has been described by ' 'Going Global: Key questions for the 21st Century'' as the "buzzword for our time". During recent years the process has demonstrated significant progression and with both an increase in technological advancements and reduced transaction costs, the transportability of capital has exponentially increased (Anderson, 2013). This essay will use secondary resources to define, explain and critically evaluate the impact of globalization on McDonalds. As well as demonstrating the effects it has had on the fast food giant, this essay will examine some positive and negative aspects that globalization has had on the brand and the fast food industry, with some examples relevant to China. The essay will then examine and scrutinize some schools of thought concerning the consequences of globalization on the world's cultures, societies and economies to ultimately achieve an evaluation of the impact the process has had on |
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In Cold Blood - Smith's Redeeming QualitiesThe mesmerizing story of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is a captivating piece written in tale of a family murder. The straightforward analytical story told by Truman Capote examines the violent motives of the murderous characters, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. In this writing, Capote intended to both justify and sympathize the event. Although he wanted to show sympathy, Capote tends to show his sympathy to the murderers instead of the victims, one particularly more than the other, that of Perry Smith. Throughout the novel, Capote creates sympathy for the murderers but at the same time he lets the readers in on all the horrible details of the crime. Writing a nonfiction sympathetic novel is not an easy thing to do; hence, it took him six years to complete this masterpiece. That being said, In Cold Blood remained true to its intent. Although the story remained true to its intent, one could argue whether or not Truman Capote should have shown so much sympathy for Perry Smith by becoming intertwined with his present and past lifestyle. Capote's focus of In Cold Blood was not that so much of the victims, the Clutter family, nor did it focus much on the investigative aspect of |
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Current Penal Trends in New ZealandNew Zealand has the second highest incarceration rate in the OECD - 203 per 100,000 of the total population; only the USA is higher. "Though forming just 12.5% of the general population aged 15 and over, 42% of all criminal apprehensions involve a person identifying as Maori, as do 50% of all persons in prison." The following factors: A racially biased judicial system, the effect of populist lobby groups, the politicization of crime, media centered on crime and Neo liberalism can be found culpable for the current punitive trends and the overrepresentation of ethnic minorities in the New Zealand adult penal system. New Zealand has been ranked first in a global peace index which looked at issues such as corruption, violence and crime rates (UNESCO). This would be in line with international perception of the country's state of affairs. However contrary to these popularly held beliefs a comparative study of 11 similar (OECD) countries' justice systems found New Zealand's system is ra |
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Shakespeare and Spencer - Audience and PurposeWriting has a variety of forms. Whether it is an essay, an email, or a poem, each form of writing has an audience and a purpose. They play a key role in influencing how a piece of work is written. The audience is crucial in what goes into each piece of writing and how it is written. By analyzing the audience, writers are able to adapt their style in order to portray their purpose. This is seen mainly in the differences between genres. However, the influence of audience and purpose can be seen among the same genre in Spenser's "Amoretti XV " and Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130. " Writing is not always easy to decipher. Most works do not specifically tell the reader what the narrator is implying or trying to portray. They do not usually add parenthesis after a sentence indicating, "I am being sarcastic " if they are doing so. At times I feel the author needs to spell it out for readers, but that's beside the point. We write in a certain way, depending on who is on the other end reading it, a |
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Resorting to Defence MechanismsWhile sitting in her room, Kayla is upset that she didn't pass the final exam for her major subject. She worries that her parents will scold her for failing her exam. She says, "This is my friend's fault. She always forces me to accompany her to the mall. This is all her fault, not mine." But deep inside, she knows that it is her fault because she happily accompanies her to the mall. But she just couldn't admit it. Most of the teenagers feel this way; they refuse to feel responsible for their own actions. In this case, people resort to defense mechanism if they find it hard to cope with reality. Like in the example, Kayla refuses to admit that it is her fault that she failed her final exam. She tries to blame her friend because she thinks that if she doesn't have to deal with it, the problem would just go away. Kayla's response to the distressing thought (failing the exam) is called defense mechanism. Defense mechanisms are described as a means of distracting ourselves from the unpleasant thoughts, feelings and anxiety. It is a coping mechanism that people |
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Fate in Tess of the d'UbervillesIn the novel "Tess of the d'URbervilles," the role of fate goes through Tess. Tess, obviously, has a lot of bad luck, but her own emotional nature is what leads her to kill Alec. As a person who believes that many things are unavoidable, no matter how careful you are to avoid them, I believe that Tess's life was tragically destroyed by the hand of fate. It is obvious through the words and actions of Tess that she only wanted to have a calm, normal life. However, it seems that she was chosen to be on the receiving end of continuous hardships. From the very beginning of the novel, Tess receives the short end of the stick in almost every scene. She is one of the girls who doesn ¹t get to dance with the strange young man before he returns to his brothers. Although they exchange looks at each other, he runs off into the nig |
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The Philosophies of PlatoPlato was born around the year 427-347 BCE in Athens, he was Socrates' student, creating the idea of fundamental conflicts between what could be known by reason and what could be known by senses. Plato's most famous writings include the "Republic", where we can learn about his beliefs including ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology, epistemology, and metaphysics. The Metaphor of the Divided Line also created by Plato represents the levels of knowledge one can obtain. From this metaphor comes the Forms, and how the understanding of this Forms and applying them will help society. In his theory Allegory of the cave he explains the reason why society needs to be educated, sees the good in people and says the "bad" actions one commits are not necessarily bad but pure ignorance to which can be changed by education. Plato's philosophy was influential to many of his students and during the history of Western philosophy. Plato subscribes to the concept that the ul |
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Poems of the Vietnam WarIn a war where anything could happen, even a storm that made electronics mess up while bodies piled, I still wonder how literature was affected. Many people write things like poems, lyrics, and even scripts for plays. People back then and even today look at literature everyday, and people pull out so much feelings. Every writing is written from events. They want to convey their feelings into words. The Vietnam War made people write sad, cringe-worthy, and sometimes scary things. The Vietnam War started in 1985, when Northern Vietnam began attacking Southern Vietnam over government issues. They had just become independent, and Northern Vietnam wanted to be a communist state. Southern Vietnam didn't really like that, thus a civil war started. Because the United States was and still is an anti-communist country, we decided that we should help the Southern Vietnam. In the beginning, the U.S were just giving a helping hand. They sent in only |
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The Detriments of Smoking CigarettesIt seems like everywhere we turn today people are indulging in smoking. From car parks to the malls, from restaurants to our relatives' homes, people are taking a stick. Ever thought whether smoking was cool? Thought of the people who are shackled by circumstances to exposure from second hand smoking? Walking away from it all is very simple, but taking action against smoking is the thing to do. Smoking is addictive, smoking is expensive, smoking is unhealthy but above all smoking kills. Taking action is necessary because not only does smoking hurt smokers themselves, but also unborn children and non-smokers [Ame141]. Smoking kills. Whether it's financially, socially or economically smoking can only lead to ruin. Smoking reduces the bloods intake of oxygen leading to muscle deterioration[Tob14]. Muscles become more prone to aches and they tend to tire more easily. Since the nicotine in cigarettes is addic |
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Football - The Importance of the QuarterbackIn 1986, on a bitter cold afternoon in Cleveland, Ohio, the NFC championship was on the line. The Broncos were in trouble, trailing the San Francisco 49ers by seven points with only five minutes and thirty-two seconds remaining. The ball was on their two-yard line with ninety-eight yards to go. In the huddle Broncos QB John Elway said, "If you work hard, good things are going to happen " (Sullivan 15). Shortly after, Elway started drilling the ball down field over and over until they were on the 49ers twenty-eight. Sullivan writes that, "From there, he nailed the touchdown pass that sent the game into overtime, a field goal following two long Elway passes won it for the Broncos " (16). Over the years, NFL quarterbacks have been known as the captains of their teams, but people have forgotten how much QB's are team players who contributes to the success of the team by producing phenomenal stats, demonstrating good mobility, and showing great intelligence and courage on the field each day |
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Biography of Christopher ColumbusCHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS His name was Cristoforo Columbus, but mostly all people knew him as Christopher Columbus. He was soon to be a great Spanish explorer. But before that could happen he was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451, he was the oldest of five children, and was an obedient son. He had little schooling, so he did not read or write as a young boy. One thing he did know from an early age was he loved the sea. He vowed as a young boy that as soon he was old enough he would go out to sea. Christopher became a sailor by his early teens, and traveled to Greece and Portugal. In 1476, he was a crewman on the ship that was attacked by French pirates. Chris was very lucky and once the ship and everything in it was destroyed he found a piece of the ship and swam six miles to the nearest shore. He then traveled to Lisbon, Portugal where his brother Bartholomew owned a book and map store. From the books the taught him self all that he could about mapmaking and navigation. Next Christopher became |
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Ideologies of Canadian HealthcarePolitical parties and politicians are guided by their ideologies when making laws. Ideologies are a body of beliefs that guide how an organization or individual approaches when making decisions. These ideologies are what makes up a party. Us, the people, decide where we stand! Contingently on our ideologies, we are classified as "right-winged " or "left-winged ". The terms "left " and "right " first appeared during the French revolution at the National Assembly in the year of 1789. The members divided themselves into two groups; supporters of the revolution (generally "innovators ") would go to the president's left; supporters of the king (moderates ") would go to the president's right. Furthermore, ideas that were new and "for the people " would generally be left-winged, while conservative ideas were right-winged. Left wing or right wing? Where do we stand on the political spectrum? A left-winged society ( aka, a Liberal) believes in equality for all. They expect that the government t |
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Examples of Political DeceptionSun Tzu once said "Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril" this quote was written by him between the times of c.544 BC when he was born and c.496 BC when he died and till this day this quote holds true. The primary point of this quote was deception, reason being is you must fully know your opponents weaknesses, capabilities, desires, and thoughts; therefore, to not allow your enemy to use these things against you in turn you must guard your own motives to be victorious. Moving forward twenty-five hundred years war and the premise that it is based upon have not changed. For instance the Iraq war was based on various deceptions, our former 43rd President George W. Bush stated to the nation the reason we were invading Iraq was due to the possibility that Iraq might have and employ weapons of mass destruction other reasons included were human rights abuse and probably the second highest contributing factor was to employ democracy. |
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Poem Analysis - WindThe poem "Wind" by Ted Hughes is a free verse following a quatrain pattern. It has a direct title which gives some idea of what the poem is going to talk about. The basic idea of the poem is a description of a storm by the narrator who is stuck in house during the fierce storm. The poet gives a very detailed description of the storm and throws a negative light on it. The poet uses various poetic devices but the recurring use of enjambment suggests that the poet is having an outpouring of emotions and is not able to decide where to end his sentence. The poet maintains a neutral tone throughout the poem which is set in an isolated house atop a hill which can BE deduced from the detailed description of the effects of the storm on the mountains. The poem follows the effects of the storm on various objects observable from the house, starting with a metaphor comparing the house with a ship far out at sea at night and stuck in a storm. The poet goes on to describe the various sounds which are audible from the house for which he uses onomatopoeia, he describes the wind as having ridden over the sea waves, which is now crashing into the hills bringing dampness an |
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Benefits and Detriments of GlobalizationThe term "globalization" refers to the process in which people, governments and companies of different countries interact and integrate with each other through various processes such as trade, investment and information technology. Globalization has had an extremely large impact on the modern world and how most countries are operated today. Interaction between different countries, introducing different cultures into more countries and increasing the global connectivity has definitely resulted in great beneficial change to the world, however it can also has some detrimental effects as well. There is not clear-cut answer to whether globalization is a positive or negative process, globalization has brought about military, cultural and economic changes to the modern world, we can explore the advantages and disadvantages by looking particularly at the military alliances that countries have with each other, the introduction to foreign cultures into other countries and the efficienc |
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Greece - From Boom to BustA country, that is approximately the same size as the state of Alabama, is now causing a global uproar in what was once a stable economy. Greece's economic crisis does not only affect their country but it effects the entire European Union (E.U.) and every country that have money invested in them. Knowing all the facts though helps us understand what is really going on in their country and how it will affect the rest of the world. The more people know about how this happened, and what they are doing to prevent this downfall. The more prepared the world will be for whatever may happen to this once stable country. Greece was the twelfth country to join the European Union on their single currency, the Euro ("Greece Joins" para. 1). After they joined though, many countries in the European Union became worried about their decision to let them in. Financial markets might start to think that they are allowing weaker economies in without complying fully with membership conditions (& |
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Stock-Trak Report - Personal Investment ManagementIntroduction In this report, we are going to discuss our overall investment strategy and to state our investment selection; and relevant analysis of some of our best and worst investment cases during this semester. In addition, at the end of report, we will draw conclusion based on our experience, lectures, and readings, in order to give the potential future buyers some advice about trading with real money. Investment Selection and Strategies Based on our self-evaluation, we assume that we are risk averse investors due to our lower risk tolerance, and this is our first time to trade with stocks and to use Stock-Trak. Although we had $10,000 in the account which is enough for us to trade, we wish to expose ourselves to the minimum risk level in order to keep a stable growth in our Stock-Trak. The principle of diversification state that spreading an investment across many assets will eliminate some of the risk. Therefore, one of our strategies is to diversify our portfolio. We diversif |
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Business Ethics - Graphic Design"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do" - Potter Stewart Since the day we are born, we are taught about what is right and what is wrong, because of which we develop a sense on how to differentiate between what is acceptable and what is not. It shapes our personality and character. We set rules and regulations for ourselves based on experience and beliefs. These form our ethics. The basic definition of ethics is- "Moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity." Ethical values are highly subjective since they depend on individual perception. A powerful value system provides guidance on how to lead your life in a specific manner. Coming from a convent school we received moral education for 14 years. At that young age I could not realize it's importance, but today I feel it has played an important role in building my character. Raised in a Jain family, learning about my religion helped me create a |
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Global Results of the Opium WarThe Opium War, and the opium trade proper between China and Great Britain lead to the development of sinophobic ideals surrounding the Chinese. As a result, Chinese immigration into countries such as Canada, as well as their integration into Canadian societies was immensely difficult within the years to follow. In 1885, British Columbia's local legislature passed a bill to prevent Chinese immigration. The bill imposed a fine of "$50 or six months imprisonment on any Chinaman not a previous resident who attempts to enter British Columbia." Canadians saw the Chinese as one of the greatest threats to national prosperity; they were viewed as figures of economic, social, and cultural destruction. Canadians believed the Chinese were embodiments of social destruction. In a letter written by Emily Murphy, famously known as a Canadian woman's rights activist, to the Magistrate she described the Chinese as drug peddlers whose "habit forming drugs are destroying and enslaving a |
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Philosophies of Hobbes, Locke and RousseauThe enlightenment was a European era in which scholars began to reject the ideas and beliefs of the authority and the Church, and started to think for themselves. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jaques Rousseau were three enlightenment thinkers who each drafted different ideas about the state of nature, and political solutions to make society and government more utopia-like. Although all three had a tremendous impact on the French Revolution era, Locke's theories about the three fundamental rights of all humans, and the idea of a representative democracy really were the driving force behind the revolution. Born during a time of religious warfare, this caused philosopher Thomas Hobbes to believe that humans are innately selfish and violent, and the only way they should be ruled is through a single sovereign power. Hobbes believed that humans were not driven by a higher purpose, that they were merely physical, and that human life was nasty, short, poor, brutish, and solitary. This |
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Nuremberg – An End to ImpunityIntroduction The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. Mass atrocities had taken place on the world stage with almost no consequences being brought upon the perpetrators, and more importantly the orchestrators or those "most responsible" for these crimes. This would all change after the crimes of the Nazis being brought to light during/after WWII. There was a paradigm shift in the international community in regards to justice being brought upon those who commit these crimes and the common thought or feeling that this could "never again" happen was rampant. This of course would be the main response and fuel to bring about the military tribunals of Nuremberg and punish those most responsible for the atrocities that took place. The overarching theme thereafter would be that of justice and accountability to be placed on the perpetrators of these mass atrocities. Nuremberg would prove to be the catalyst that |
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The Piano Lesson - Boy Willie and BernieceJohn Locke, the English philosopher credited to laying down the foundation of modern day American democracy, as well as influencing our very constitution, once wrote, "All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions." He explains that the natural rights of man include the right to keep and protect his or her property. However, when the line that separates who actually owns something becomes blurred, complications tend to arise. In The Piano Lesson, August Wilson provides this exact situation when Boy Willie arrives in Philadelphia, where he hopes to sell the family piano in order to purchase Sutter's land. Although Berniece, who refuses to sell the piano, correctly explains that the piano holds sentimental value, Boy Willie's argument towards selling it is the stronger one. Boy Willie uses logos to support the argument that because Berniece doesn't use the piano and sees it as a burden, he should be abl |
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The Influence of My ParentsCommunication is important from when you're small till you grow up and begin thinking for yourself. In the book it says that at around six to seven months a child begins to notice itself like for instance they begin to notice their hand their feet and begin to figure out who they are. They don't really begin to figure out the way they are in other words their identity till later after. Our identity is formed from all the influences we have around us like people we talk to or our friends or anyone that might be older than us whether they are successful in life or not. For me, I do think I was influenced by many people in my life both good and bad. I know this by the way I react to different things and how at times I'm not accepting of myself for who I am and try to be someone else. So let's talk of the supportive people in my life like in the book "interplay" it says that reflected appraisal have a crucial role in our self-concept. Both good people and bad peop |
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