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Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green KnightIn Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the way the poet depicts the importance of a knight's proper behavior towards a lady and the manner in which a knight should represent/ speak about himself suggests that the chivalric code according to which Gawain lives in is a representation not of the real world of the 14th century but of an idealized version of that world. The poet presents an idealized chivalric world with the way Gawain behaves towards ladies. The poet demonstrates this ideal in Arthur's court when the knights are confronted with the Green Knight's challenge. Gawain rises to the task; however, before doing so, Gawain ensures he has not offended his queen: "'politely take [my] leave of my place at the table without causing offence to my queen" (346-347). Gawain is a model for the ideal knight, and confirms he has not offended his queen because she is a lady. The poet further displays the ideal of Gawain's behavior when Gawain is at Bertilak's castle. In the bedroom scene, the poet uses Bertilak's wife as a confirmation of th |
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Jamestown and the Virginia CompanyIn 1607 the Virginia Company sponsored the voyage which carried 104 colonists from England to the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. All 104 colonists that made the trip from England to Virginia were men. Although their original goal in coming to Virginia was to search for gold and find other natural resources their site would come to be known as Jamestown, the widely regarded first permanent English settlement in America. The crucial task of establishing a society in a new and foreign land did not go without its fair share of tribulations. The settlers faced many challenges on the road to establishing stability and success, such as disease and starvation. Coming over to a new country, not knowing what to expect or what supplies they needed many of the original 104 colonists died off. The leadership of the colony constan |
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Municipal Schemes and Relief for the PoorThe interpretation given in the question is that municipal schemes contributed more to the relief of the poor and vagrant in the period 1483-1603. During the 16th century, cities in England introduced schemes which provided relief for the poor and vagrant, by giving them the necessary charity, housing and the employment that they needed. Examples of these schemes include that of Norwich, which was developed at the start of Elizabeth's reign, and was said to last around the 1580's, and that of London, which was also introduced in this era. The church had a traditional expectation that they had a social/welfare role in society, and this was providing social security and basic benefits such as shelter, food and charity. This was undoubtedly affected after the dissolution of the monasteries, as all their monastic money and aid as stopped. Government legislation occurred in a more reactive than a pro-active manner. It was said that the government suppressed the vagrant more than the poor a |
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Concepts of Lean ProductionHegemony meaning the influence or control over another group of people is what taylorism aimed to achieve. We lean production striving to accomplish this not only in labor but in lower management. By capitalizing on the concept of team work lean production has taken the control of labor and has been able to embed low level management into the labor force (Team Leaders). This is crucial because it diminishes the primary role of labor, cognitive input. Gramsci metaphor "war position" is referring to the elimination of autonomy in the work place. "Lean production is just as much an ideological assault as assault on the organization of work" (Lecture, p. 10). When this is said we think of Taylorism and how he emphasized the separation of labor and thinking. Lean production actually takes it in the opposite direction; its desire is to have labor think like management. "A worker's deep, often tacit knowledge of one specific task becomes linked to an understanding of how the overall system works, and how one's piece of it relates |
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Nursing - Patient AssessmentIntroduction It is always the responsibility of a nurse to effectively assess the patients in order to fully understand the problems the said patients might be having. During the assessment, a nurse is required to be fully competent with their work by looking out for any signs, symptoms or abnormal behavior a patient might be having in order to fully diagnose the cause of the illness and know how to treat them. Client This assessment is of a 64 year old female named ________ who has been admitted to a hospital with the case of lower lobe pneumonia. In this case, a nurse is required to assess the history of a patient in order to ascertain of the underlying disease or problems. _________ was required to answer some few questions which included the following: 1. Environment History The subjective data of _________ revealed that, she has a history of chain smoking for the past 20 years, has also worked in a paint shop for 15 years and does not cook home meals and spends most of her time i |
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Colleges and Standardized TestingColleges all over America have decided to raise the amount of standardized tests that are required to be considered to be accepted into their college. "Getting good grades in school, taking challenging classes, being in hundreds of clubs, working and doing hours of community service as well as taking the ACT and the SAT simply isn't enough," says Tom Brown an admission director at Harvard College. Colleges and ACT have come together to create the all new ACTT. This test will be required for all students who wish to apply to any college in the US. The new standardized test comes with reading, math, english, writing, science, and social studies. The reading portion of the new ACTT will test students on reading comprehension as well as their memory of the books they have read in English since seventh grade. "It's of u |
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Short Story - The ForestOne cold winter day, my friend Janet and I decided to take a little hike along a trail behind her Aunt Suzy's house in Oregon. We had set out intending on staying two nights in her cabin. Off we went, taking our time as we hiked side by side. The path was covered with beautiful colored leaves. It was such an amazing sight watching nature as it lay there in front of us, so wild but so free. It was Janet's idea for us to hike the Oregon trail into the Black Forest for five miles to Lavender Fall's where we would remove our camping gear and sit down to enjoy a wonderful picnic lunch we had prepared. Janet made ham sandwiches, potato salad, cookies and some of Aunt Suzy's famous sweet tea to quench our thirst on this pleasant sunny day in the forest. Up above the clouds were plump and rolling across the blu |
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The Good Immigration Student"The Good Immigrant Student," by Bich Minh Nguyen, is an autobiography about Ms. Nguyen during his childhood school experience. Ms. Nguyen is an immigration student; she migrated to America during the fall of Saigon City from Vietnam. Moreover, she described his school experience, and being treated as a foreigner. Also, during her experience she always described herself as quite, shy, and obedient; she would get all high scores in all her subjects as possible. Through out the essay she described how she felt about the American school system, her new family and bilingual education program, Third grade experience and through out in Ken-O-Sha elementary school, her high school experience, and her feeling about all immigrants' students. Ms. Nguyen says after her step mom Rosa got married to her dad; they moved to countryside of Grand Rapi |
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Kierkegaard's Three Stages of LifeIntroduction Soren Kierkegaard, appropriately admired as the father of existentialism lived between 1813 and 1855 in Denmark. SK, as he is fondly referred to by his peers, wrote extensively in regards to the nature as well as the very existence of humans, bearing in mind the question who human beings are and the reason they are here. A devout Christian, Kierkegaard further considers the relationship that people have with God and faith. In an effort to underline his points, he utilized irony by employing different pseudonyms in regards to the narrator's symbolized diverse personalities from a non-fiction as well as a fictional perspective. An outline of his work exhibits despair, dread, repetition as well as the twin progression of infinity (McDonald, 2012). Kierkegaard gained fame from his three stages on life's way that include the aesthetic, ethical, as well as religious stages. He concludes that the above mentioned stages are developmental and therefore, it is necessary to travel |
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FERN and the Electric CarHow is this endeavor going to affect the environment? By and large the automobiles are based on fossil fuels. This has been the norm since the advent of the internal combustion engine. However, the use of the fossil fuels has resulted in significant damage to the ecosystems, weather patterns and health of the populace on a global scale. FERN aims to promote the use of electrical energy as an alternative. Research has been going on in using this source as green energy which leaves behind little to no carbon footprint, thus reducing the aforementioned adverse effects. To bring this initiative to life FERN is working on an indigenously manufactured electric car. This will show that electric cars can be mass produced and overtime, can replace the conventional cars of today. Furthermore, it is not just an ordinary car, it is a car equipped with the most modern technology, capable of giving the same output as you would expec |
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Anglo-Saxon Boasting TaleI, Cedric of San Diego, from the land of sky-candles and sail-roads, son of a gritty Californian warrior, Godric, who, generous to all his thanes, rewarded them lavishly, with funds for the newest Ray-Bans, have come to wipe out the weak and feeble, the evil, and establish mead halls of solid gold in my own honor. I am the burliest of all, for as far as the eye can see, I am truly brave of heart, I have looked straight into the face of death itself and laughed, then proceeded to ascend the throne. I live to devour devilish souls. Once, when my soldiers were swept out by the wrath of open water's waves, their lives at extreme risk, I swam swiftly to their sides and saw them safely back to shore, and yet I'm still young with much time to grow, gain great knowledge, and achieve greater goals. Over years of study, my knowledge has increased tenfold, my immense power has been used to build an unrivaled empire, who's thirst for conqueri |
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Letter to the Editor Regarding Amy ChuaDear Editor, I am Shaheer ________, writing to you to express my opinion on the article, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior", posted in your latest issue. I was disgusted and shocked at what I read in this extremely stereotypical article. As a Westerner myself, I feel deeply offended by this article and the racist opinions, the author, Amy Chua, voices. I would appreciate if you took this time to read this letter and avoid publishing such degrading pieces of work in the future. First of all, I would like to know, what gives Chinese parents the right to 'order their children to get straight A's'? Our children, after all, are our own and we cannot boss them around as we would do to a robot. It is our job to take care of them, nurture them and keep them happy. Ordering them do things they do not want to do is going to harm their mental health and make them vulnerable to everything. It will also not establish a healthy loving relationship between us and our children. Bossing them around is going to lower their ability to speak for what they want; this could be an extreme disadvantage later on in their lives. Not having any ability |
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Allegory of the Cave and The Truman ShowPlato's "Allegory of the Cave" and the film, "The Truman Show," have many similarities in which both encourage its audience to question what they perceive as reality. Plato's Allegory of the Cave is used to illustrate the physical world as an illusion, the cave signifying the world, the prisoners representing the people who inhabit the world and the shadows representative of everything that the people see such as objects and their surrounding as real. In the Truman Show, Sea Haven symbolizes the cave and the protagonist, Truman Burbank, represents the prisoner. Both, Plato's allegory and the movie, reveal parallel subjects such as the yearning for completion and searching for answers, destructive characters, web of illusions and god-like figures. Truman's reality, like the reality of the people in the cave, was constructed like the shadows in the cave that were only copies of things in the real world. In the Truman show the main protagonist lives literally in a giant bubble, controll |
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African Americans in The Lion KingIn 1923, two brothers from Chicago, Illinois, founded the Disney Brother's Cartoon Studio. Over the course of nine decades, this studio, founded by Walt Disney and older brother Roy, has evolved into one of the world's largest multinational mass media corporations. Disney's animated films are renowned for exposing children to the concepts of good and evil, right and wrong, life and death, villainy and heroism. The Walt Disney Company has maintained a consistent dominance in the field of children's entertainment. The firm plays a vital role in the transmission of cultural messages to children in the United States and abroad. Over the years, Disney's animated films have received a great deal of criticism due to their misrepresentation of African Americans, as well as other ethnic groups. Given the pervasiveness of Disney's animated films and their target demographic, these misrepresentations function to perpetuate ethnic stereotypes. The 1994 film The Lion King exemplifies this misrepres |
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The Earth Charter and Climate ChangeMother nature has served every individual ever since humans evolved on earth and no doubt that human life have misused the gift of nature to an outrageous extent where the implementation and the need to abide by environmental ethics and virtue theories has become vital. Hence, in the light to elucidate the issue, the global organization executed the Earth Charter principles that its members must follow to sustain life on earth in the future. Though the principles are being formulated, however, every individual is obliged to develop virtuous character solely to accomplish the desired goals. The Earth Charter is the fundamental ethical principles declaration in the 21st century for the purpose of developing a sustainable, peaceful and a just society. It aims to incorporate the virtues of shared responsibility and interdependence that would assist in making a transit towards sustainable environmental and human development. The theory of virtue ethics is Aristotle's teleological theory tha |
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Music Videos - All of Me and Already HomeJohn Legend's "All of Me" (Director Nabil) and A Great Big World's "Already Home" (Director Isaac Rentz) both are Pop-music video that include reference to the couple's love story, which also show two couples go through falling in love, misunderstand, break up, and reunite in their life. I prefer song 'Already Home', because it clearly expresses a theme, which is the love transcends any distance. And 'All of Me', the singer John Legend expresses the deep love to his lover, he uses beautiful singing to infect and move everyone, I can feel his feelings, but it does not have a specific theme. Second, the story of Already Home has a more profound meaning, it makes me want to think about my life, and the plot of 'All of Me' is monotonous fairly, and the tone of the video is simply black and white. Additionally, 'Already Home' shot a lot of places in the music video, and the subjects of video are close to life. The music video let me give my emotional depth to this s |
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Dracula and Religious SignificanceWhen one thinks of Dracula they would picture the typical fangs, long nose, slick-backed, black hair, capes and black clothes living in a castle in Transylvania. He lives in a coffin and only comes out at night to feast, transforming into a bat for travel, of course. However, Dracula is portrayed in different ways through various books and movies. He can turn humans into the undead, he is pretty much immortal, he has the ability to grow younger by drinking blood, he casts no shadow, he has no reflection, he has the ability to crawl along walls, he has the ability to control animals, he can control the weather and he also has the power to transform his own shape, hence the bat stereotype. Most people would not realize that there are many religious aspects that come from the monster Dracula. Count Dracula is a portrayal of very Anti-Christ values which are characterized especially in the bible, Bram Stoker's movie and Beal's book. Blood is a major symbol when it comes to Dracula. From t |
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Movie Summary - Pretty WomanMost individuals, who have viewed the well-known film Pretty Woman, have found the film to be romantic and a modernized version of the happily ever after tale of Cinderella. The two protagonists in Pretty Woman, Vivian and Edward, are from two very different worlds. Edward is a high class business man who grew up in wealth whereas Vivian is a high school dropout who works the streets as a way of survival. Their accidental run in turns into a business arrangement where Edward pays Vivian three thousand dollars to stay with him for a week in which feelings start to develop between the two. As with most fairy tales, the film ends with the two embraced, filled with love and excitement to begin their lives together. On the contrary, upon deeper analyzation of the movie, Pretty Woman invokes a deeper issue of women's suffrage and stereotypes. In the text, Signs of Life in the USA, an author named Michael Parenti portrays his view about the movie Pretty Woman in his article titled, "Clas |
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Sustainable Conflict Palm Oil Production"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead The issue of conflict palm oil is that, through clearing land and forest for production, the industry is a major contributor to global issues such as deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty, and indigenous rights abuses in the countries where it is produced. Indonesia and Malaysia are the main countries affected by this, but, as pressure from environmentalists continues, multinational corporations are being held accountable for the damage caused in these areas and are therefore looking for other countries suitable for palm oil production such as Cameroon, Liberia, and nations around the Congo basin. Cameroon, according to Greenpeace, is at risk of suffering the same consequences of palm oil production as Indonesia and Malaysia. So this problem is continuing to grow. According to several multinational cor |
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Biography of Napoleon BonaparteWidely regarded as one of the best military and political leaders in history, Napoleon Bonaparte's achievements and reforms clearly created a positive outcome for France. One of his greatest achievements was his implementation of the Civil Code, which significantly improved the social system. Another accomplishment was the establishment of the National Bank of France, which strengthened the economy of France. An additional achievement was Bonaparte's rise in politics and his strong military force. There is no doubt Bonaparte achieved a great number of things during his rule of France. After all, a well-known and respected commander, Napoleon Bonaparte, once said, "Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them." Of his many countless achievements, the Napoleonic Code or Civil Code is Bonaparte's longest lasting legacy that he has left on the Atlantic World. The code was based on the principles of equality of everyone before the law, an end to feudal rights and privileges, security of property, marriage as a civil act as opposed to religious |
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The Presidency of Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson was an outstanding president. He was an academic and the only president, so far, to have his Ph.D. It is said that students would sit outside of his classroom just to hear him speak every day. After teaching he then served as the president of Princeton University for ten years. And after resigning as president of Princeton University, he became the governor of New Jersey for just two years before he ran for presidency. The first presidential election he ran for was in 1912. He ran against William Taft, a republican, and Theodore Roosevelt, a progressive. Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft were both running for the republican spot, but when William Taft won, Theodore Roosevelt started his own party called the Progressive party. The election was a close one between Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson looking at the popular votes, but Wilson won by a landslide looking at the electoral votes. Woodrow Wilson got 435 out of 538 electoral votes, Theodore Roosevelt got 88, a |
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Maid In Manhattan - Social MobilityMaid in Manhattan, a film starring Jennifer Lopez, induced an array of outlooks and identifications in me. While watching this film, I could not help but think about the connection between being Latina and working in the guest service industry as a maid. The more I kept watching the film the question arose to me if this film would even be the same if Jennifer Lopez's character, Marisa, was cast as a white woman rather than a Latina. I do not think it would be the same because I believe the imagery between being Latina or Mexican-American and also a maid is too prominent for Hollywood film production to ignore. I also felt the role of a Latina working as a maid was done in a manner that dismisses white guilt. This film simply would not have panned out as well as it did if the main character, Marisa, was a white woman. It is no secret that this film is a playoff of the Cinderella story; now if Marisa was white it would just be the same old Cinderella story. The race component adds a |
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History and Uses of CellophaneIntroduction Humans have always been searching for materials to improve their quality of life here on earth. There are four basic groups of materials [1], which include metals, ceramics, composites, and polymers. Polymers have been used to solve problems in our society for the past hundred years. Polymers consist of numerous molecules chained together in various bonds to form unique materials with distinct properties. The distinct properties are a result of the types of molecules used and they way the molecules are structured and bonded. Cellophane is among these unique materials. What is Cellophane? Cellophane is a thin transparent film made from natural cellulose commonly found in wood, cotton, and some vegetable byproducts. Cellophane has a variety of applications such as; wrapping leftover food, tape, cigar wrappers, and dialysis tubing. History of Cellophane One evening in 1900 a man named Jacques E. Brandenberger was at dinner, when the person sitting next to him spilled their |
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Legalizing Undocumented StudentsIn "Underground Undergrads" by UCLA students, they tell their own stories about how difficult and toughness undocumented immigrant student's lives have been. Their parents have brought and raised them in the USA since they were child. They have lived here their whole lives, being American at heart. Even so, because of their status, it has affected their lives negatively. They claim that they can't get a job, can't go to public school, can't have a driver license even though they work hard, get high scores and follow the rules just like other US students. Therefore, they want to fight to receive equal right in education and legalize their status. I, however, disagree with them and believe that the government shouldn't give them than the same rights with US students. Giving benefits or legalizing illegal immigrants will make the US face three problems in education: changing culture, losing opportunities for students, and encouraging people to break the law. Diversity culture |
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Dangers of Child Beauty PagentsChild beauty pageants are one of the most rapidly growing businesses in the U.S, grossing in over five billion dollars annually. Child beauty pageants showcase children in a dangerous and unhealthy atmosphere. Dictionary.com defines beauty pageants as "A contest based on popularity." Considering pageant history, the hours of preparation, and overbearing mothers, people can come to see the numerous negative effects that come from pageant life. Because of the intense and sometimes brutal competition between the parents, what may have started out as a fun event quite often turns into a miserable experience for the child (Nussbaum). Thus, child beauty pageants produce life-long negative effects on young girls. Beauty pageants for adult women were first established in 1920 (Nussbaum), while child beauty pageants were introduced in the 1960s. During the 1920s, the first pageant was held in an Atlantic City hotel (Plecko) as a marketing tool to keep hotel guests in town longer ( |
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