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Gun Control - Arguments and RebuttalsINTRODUCTION Throughout American history, high-profile gun violence has taken the national spotlight regarding gun control. Law reviews from the 1970s cite America's high rate of gun-related crimes compared to other industrial countries. The NRA and some republican citizens have been opposing stricter gun control laws under the pretext that guns don't kill, but people kill. However, according to npr.org, Obama thinks that while there is no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence and no piece of legislation that will prevent every tragedy or any act of violence, guns end up in the wrong hands thus leading to massive and needless loss of lives. Even though this issue is very controversial, the majority of research has proven that the correlation between the availability of guns and gun violence is evident; hence stricter gun control laws will reduce gun violence. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT The current, heated, and controversial debate regarding handgun control a |
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The Horse Dealer's DaughterMany authors are acknowledged for having reoccurring themes found throughout their career. The author of The Horse Dealer's Daughter, D.H. Lawrence, can be categorized into this group. He is well known for his reoccurring theme that romantic love is mentally redeeming. The Horse Dealer's Daughter starts off having you confused. A lot of present information is given without much background knowledge on anything that happened prior to the first paragraph. Stories that start off that way tend to keep you intrigued because you read the first paragraph and your curiosity runs wild and you just want to know what is in store. The thing I liked the most about this story is it let your imagination run free. The author, D. H Lawrence, gives you just enough detail to be able to piece together certain images. This technique allows you to create your |
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Acoustic Theory and Fundamentals of SynthesisFrom the beginning of time humans have been creating musical instruments which produce vibrating air at certain frequencies. All of these instruments have the same fundamental elements: an excitation source (the trigger that produces sound, e.g., plucking a string), a wave guide (somewhere for the vibrating wave to travel, e.g., down a guitar string) and finally a resonator (a cavity for the vibrating air to resonate in usually resulting in an increase in volume, e.g., the body of an acoustic guitar). Each instrument produces a wave, this wave has the same properties as any wave but the most tonally important being the frequency. The physical frequency of the wave determines the pitch of the sound produced once it is interpreted by our ears. This frequency is determined by how often the wave performs one complete cycle and this can differ depending on the substance the wave is traveling through. This also directly relates to the wavelength of the wave, as t |
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The Captivity of Mary RowlandsonMary Rowlandson wrote "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson," telling the story of her captivity by the Indians. It happened during King Philip's War in 1676; the Indians invaded Lancaster and other towns in an attempt to regain territories. She describes the tough situations she had to go through, as a devoted Puritan mother, in order to survive among the Indians who she calls the enemy. During this horrendous time, Mary lost her youngest child due to injury; besides that, she also got separated from her family and friends. With horrible living conditions, she learned how to adapt to the environment but at the same time, retained her faith in God. In the beginning, she was absolutely horrified by the lifestyle and behaviors of her captors. As time went by, she started to assimilate and become dependent on them. She was impressed by the Indians' ability to survive in the wilderness with very limited resources. In the end, her mind had opened to |
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Trip to Alfies Antique MarketOn a rainy day there is nothing better than escaping the crowded high street to go to London's biggest antique emporium. Alfies Antique Market is the perfect place to lose yourself looking for luxury presents, unusual and unique pieces. Founded in 1976, Alfies Antique represents a piece of London's history which grew and developed along with the city over the years. The place hosts more than one hundred antique dealers spread over four floors, offering everything a person could be looking for, from antique accessories to decorative furniture. From outside, the building looks like another typical British house, with no big signs or windows to show that you are in the right place. The first time I visited the place, I walked right past it. When I finally found it and opened the door, it was like walking into a new world, much like Wonderland. The emporium is like a little paradise for lovers of shopping and antiques; walking thr |
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Female Power in the OdysseyIn Greek mythology, women were commonly looked down upon and viewed as weak and unintelligent. For this reason, it is unusual that Homer's The Odyssey demonstrates many interactions Odysseus has with females. Women like Calypso, Circe and the Sirens are seen throughout the epic as objects of beauty, and use their sexuality against Odysseus. On the other hand, females like Penelope, Athena, and Queen Arete are seen more as powerful and clever. The epic defies our expectation of women. Through female characters in The Odyssey, Homer suggests that women are intelligent and strong, and uses many of their facets to help or delay Odysseus' journey to his home, Ithaca. Seductress and manipulation are facets seen through the epic, specifically on Calypso. One example is the moment in where Odysseus is imprisoned in Calypso's island for seven years. Once she is told by Hermes that Zeus wants her to free Odysseus, she gets filled with anger and says, "You unrivaled lords of jealously- scandali |
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Paradise Lost - Marriage Before and After the FallThe purpose of this paper is to compare Adam and Eve's marriage before and after the Fall from Eden, as written by John Milton in Paradise Lost. Milton does not give Adam and Eve a child-like innocence, so they are not free from "imperfections" that religion says only came after they ate from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge. Instead, there are positive and negative aspects within their relationship while still in Paradise. They experience sex, lust, and negative thoughts and reactions towards each other, making their relationship three dimensional. In my perspective, Adam and Eve's marriage was better before the Fall. Some of the good things in Adam and Eve's marriage prior to eating the forbidden fruit is that they sincerely loved each other, especially Eve, whose pure love is frequently pointed out. There is also trust and respect between them as they take on the traditional roles of husband and wife and Adam does his best to protect Eve. Adam fell in love with Eve from the moment h |
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Symbols in The Unknown CitizenDo you ever feel like you are the same as everyone in a country this is supposed to be diverse? "The Unknown Citizen," written by W.H Auden in 1940, is a satiric poem about society and conformity. The unknown citizen is an average citizen. On the surface, the poem is about a monument commending a citizen for the things he has done. In a deeper look of the poem, the author is satirizing the government and its treatment of the people. W. H. uses symbolism, irony, tone, and diction to convey the themes of conformity of individuals in a society and the threat of government control. "The Unknown Citizen" is filled with many symbols that help create the themes of conformity and the threat of government control. One of the major symbols that help to develop the themes is the unknown citizen whom the government is commending. The unknown citizen symbolizes all the average people in a society and how the government wants the people to live. The unknown citizen also shows ho |
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Forrest Gump - Cinematography ReviewForrest Gump came in 1994, based on a novel by the same name. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis who had in his resume science fiction comedy trilogy Back to the Future and animated family movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988). As per his background, Robert was interested in state-of-the-art special effects including computer graphics into live action footage. However, in Forrest Gump, although he kept to the script using special effects, he directed with a more dramatic and narrative purpose. The combined approach earned him a bunch of Oscars for the movie, including best director, film and actor. A movie full of details, special effects, locations and stars could only result in a beautiful story with a narrative that takes us on a journey of forty years in the history of the United States. In Time magazine, Forrest Gump was described as "a romantic epic starring Tom Hanks as a slow but sweet-souled low IQ Alabama boy who lucks into nearly every headline from political scandal |
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Literacy and Theories of Cognitive DevelopmentTheory of Cognitive Development was a theory developed by psychologist Jean Piaget. He created the theory based on his research on children's cognitive development. "Piaget created the Theory of Cognitive Development, which described the way in which the quality of children's thinking changes over time" (Penn, 2008 pg. 91). This is important because it was one of the first research methods that really took a look into epistemology. It also led to researchers examining the mental development of children's cognitive skills, such as reading and writing. Maturation Theory is based on the idea that reading instruction should not formally begin until a child reached the age of six. For many years, this was the dominant theory when one looks at the research of child's literacy and mental development. It is important because it places a strong emphasis on reading during early childhood. Today, this theory is seen as outdated based on the new advances in research in children's cogni |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, written by T.S. Eliot, is a truly depressing poem. The poem concerns with a character (Prufrock) that can see and understand the values in life – love, joy, companionship, and courageousness – but is unable to act on his longings. The poem shows constant struggles of Prufrock's uselessness. The worst part about his uselessness is that he is conscious of it. T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" portrays a man's inability to take decisive action even as he sees what is necessary. This passivity affects the speaker's perception of himself, his ability to give and receive love, and, his ability to make something meaningful of his life. Through his impotent, dream-haunted Prufrock, Eliot defines the human condition in the face of a modern world, which is disconnected from, of all but the remnants of meaning. T.S. Eliot uses the theme of Paralysis, the incapacity to act, throughout the whole poem. Prufrock is a middle |
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Yeats' Relationship with Maud GonneIn W.B. Yeats's life, a woman named Maud Gonne had significant impacts on his poetry writing as well as his political views. Yeats experienced marriage rejections from her over and over again, which resulted in a great contribution to Yeats's beautiful and sentimental poems. As being in a long-term submissive position in their relationship, Yeats's depiction of Gonne became more critical and rational overt time. In Yeats's late poems, instead of merely depicting Gonne's physical beauty, he emphasized more on revealing the negative side of her extreme beauty. The female figure in Yeats's poems, mostly Maud Gonne in a central way, is endowed with extraordinary beauty and dominated power not only in terms of relationship with the male but also in Irish political events. Due to her ambitious and forceful personality, she finally resorted to violence and became a violent political extremist. In this essay, I will analyze the image of Maud Gonne as being a dangerous beauty as well as a viole |
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Dito Character Analysis - Recognizing Your SaintsThis film is about a boy growing up in Astoria, N.Y., during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs or in prison, he believes that it is was his fate to make it out. Young Dito was played by actor Shia Labeouf. He was trying to escape. It seemed to me that he was the target of bullying. He got beat up by the reaper multiple times. His three friends were screw-ups. It was ridiculous. I won't blame them, none of them had correct guidance the way Dito did. They drank, smoked and even threw knifes and their supposed girlfriends. His only positive influence was his girlfriend Laurie and his new friend mike that he met on the bus. It seem like he was turning his life around because he was doing bad stuff with his friends but didn't have the courage to tell them no. Even though Antonio was Dito's best friend I felt like he was scared of him. Mike helped Dito get a job and they were going to start a band. Young Dito had dreams of taking the thirty-nine dollar bus to California and get |
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Effects of Divorce on Child DevelopmentHalf of all American children will witness the breakup of a parent's marriage. Of these children, close to half will also see the breakup of a parent's second marriage. Although divorce may be the best option for all parties involved, parents fail to realize that divorce is a significantly traumatic event that can alter a child's behavioral pattern. The more conflict involved in a divorce, the more the child is exposed to the overt unhappiness of their relationship. For young, impressionable kids this progress can cause some damaging, long lasting effects. Despite the lack of research, there is a definite correlation between high conflict divorce and behavioral problems in children. Conflict is defined as a state of disharmony between incompatible persons, a battle or war or a clash between individuals. This would mean that a high conflict divorce is when there is an abundance of hostility either from one party or sometimes both during the process of divorce. Children are very impres |
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The Ethics of Physician Assisted Suicide"I still feel good enough, I still have enough joy. I still laugh and smile with my family and friends. This does not feel like the right time to go," Brittney Maynard. In Oregon, there was a woman named Brittney Maynard. She was 29 years of age. She suddenly started to have severe headaches and became concerned and wanted to go see a doctor as soon as possible. Shortly after in May 2013, Maynard was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. She was married to her husband Dan Diaz, at the time she was diagnosed. The following year, in the spring of 2014 she was informed that she only had six or seven months to live. The thought of dying from terminally ill brain cancer and never having kids was heartbreaking to her. She wanted to leave her legacy behind. Maynard decided to move from the state of California |
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Signs and Symbols by Vladimir NabokovHave you ever known the ending to a story before it was complete? That is exactly what the short story of "Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov does but leaves the reader hanging at the end with many unanswered questions. "Signs and Symbols" starts off with an elderly couple going to visit their son in a mental institution for his birthday. Upon arrival, the parents learn that their son had attempted suicide and that the institution is not allowing people to visit him. After returning home and letting the whole situation sink in, the couple decides that they want to remove their son from care the following day. That night, the parents receive two mysterious phone calls from someone with the wrong number. The story abruptly ends after the phone rings for a third time leaving the reader with their own means of interpretation. Although the story ends with a cliffhanger, there are multiple signs throughout that point towards their son's death. "Signs and Symbols |
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Computers and YouIn today's society we are a technologically dependent era. Everything we seem to use that's electronic tends to have some computer or a computer software application to help run it. If technology, more so computers, were to be disabled for a day, I feel it would be impossible to function for that day, we never really realize how much technology play a part in our everyday lives. Computers have become very important in today's world because they a very accurate, quick and can handle many tasks very quickly. Without computers, to finish some of the tasks we take for granted using computers, can take much more time to do manually. From doing very massive calculations, to storage of data and surfing the internet, to just name a few things, computers are basically everything. A Computer is defined as; an electronic device that performs four basic operations: input, processing, output, and storage. Computers are very useful for various everyday functions. They can be loaded with different ap |
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Casualties of Law Enforcement - Homicide and SuicideAbstract This work is an overview of the increase in deaths of law enforcement agents: those killed on duty and those who kill themselves. As per a yearly report[ CITATION Ber14 l 1033 ], the number of law enforcement agents killed while working rose almost a quarter this past year compared to years prior, especially ambush-style killings. Police officers across the country face potential dangers on their job, and they are a target simply because they are in uniform. As well, every 17 hours an officer commits suicide (Berman, 2014). This paper explores the correlation of the stress experienced by law enforcement associated with general strain theory (GST). GST is an explanation for suicide ideation for law enforcement officers. Other articles observe that police officers may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a critical incident or a traumatic experience. PTSD awareness is critical for saving lives. Why is there an increase in law enforcement deaths and suicides, |
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The Western Sahara ConflictIntroduction 26th of February 1976; Spain declared to UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim that from then on it did not consider itself responsible anymore for the territory of the Western Sahara in any way possible. A necessary move, since Franco was dying at that moment and domestic political stability was priority number one. However, after turning its back to its former West-African colonies, they never really looked over their shoulder anymore to help them managing to govern a country. And up to today it is still visible. Forty years long two parties have been fighting over a piece of land, almost completely desert, to claim their right to rule the territory; called the "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic" (SADR) by the one party and "Southern Provinces" by the other, neither of them is giving a sign of giving in after years of denying the other. What happened and how did it come to this? How can it be that all of the UN their attempts to bring the two groups toget |
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Parents and Children - Equal ResponsibilitiesOne of the cardinal rules of parenting is to maintain consistency. Parents already undermine themselves by having different rules for children of different genders at different times. Parents who have both a son and a daughter and treat them differently can bet that eventually the kids are going to notice. The children are less likely to respect their authority and obey the rules, particularly which will show in the future. When children are young,a large population of parents display consistent favoritism toward one child over another which leads to negative responses in their teenage years. However some parents say that treating their kids differently is a good idea. In some instances "the eldest child says,'It's only fair that you give me a later bedtime than my younger brother because I'm older!' And parents agree: treating children differently is only fair. But now the younger brother objects,'You should give us the same bedtime because we are equally your children.' And parents agree: treating children the same is only fair" (Pickhardt). The confusion the children encounter at a really young early age causes them to mi |
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Slave and Master Morality in CathedralFriedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, developed two types of morals in his work "Self Assertion," master morality and slave morality, in which people are separated and categorized. These morals are different based on certain characteristics and the personalities that the subjects possess. Nietzsche defines master morality as the morality of the strong-willed. The master moralities were mainly for the nobles; those are the ones that are supposed to be strong and powerful. These people may also possess open-mindedness and courage. On the other hand, slave morality does not arise from the strong, it originates in the weak. The moral of slave morality is to not impose the strength and will on others like master morality does, but to unite. In unity, slave moralities find strength. In the short story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, the narrator possesses qualities that resemble both moralities but his wife and the blind man resemble those who have slave moralities an |
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Experiences of American SlavesBetween 1750 and 1865, slaves in the USA encountered a multitude of differing experiences depending on several deciding factors of which include location, gender of the slave and the master/slave relationship. Location often played a large part in the experience of a slave with the treatment of slaves differing from region to region. Southern slavery was known for its variety of slave employment. While most of the enslaved people worked on rural plantations which produced staple crops such as sugar, cotton, tobacco and rice for export, agricultural labour was not the lone slave occupation. The legion of domstic staff that ensured the efficiency of the 'big house' also consisted of members of the enslaved populations. Away from the plantations, more than 100,000 slaves lived in southern cities, the most notable of which were New Orleans, Charleston, Richmond, Memphis and Savannah. The lives of slaves in urban locations vastly differed from those of rural slaves with a feature of |
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Ontario School Food PolicyUniversal values such as health and well-being are common concerns among different cultures, races, genders and age groups; thus, becoming a topic and tool for policy-makers. This is because; health and well-being are two important variables an individual needs to have longevity. However, diabetes, obesity, malnutrition and other diseases continue to worry many Canadians. Furthermore, although many wish to have healthier diets, the components to support nutritional dieting are luxurious and privileges. As a result; the Ontario government introduced the "PPM 150: School Food and Beverage Policy," on September 1st, 2011 in order change the nutritional standards of students from as early as elementary school to secondary school (Ontario Ministry of Education). The purpose of this essay is to specifically discuss the nature of the PPM 150 policy, and its attempt to understand healthy dieting. In doing so, this essay will first, explain the guidelines imposed by the policy for sc |
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Uses and Effects of Diet PillsDieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated fashion to reduce, to maintain, or to gain body weight. Dieting is frequently used in combination with physical exercise to lose weight in those who are overweight or obese. There are several ways to start dieting. These include making a healthy meal, exercising regularly, setting a realistic goal, drinking tea and taking contemporary diet pills. Taking diet pills is the most common way of dieting because it does not require much energy and it helps an individual lose weight easier. Diet pills are anti-obesity or weight loss drugs that reduce and control weights. Those who want to quickly reduce body weight can be prescribed various types of diet pills, such as appetite suppressants (Duromine, Adipex), gastrointestinal lipase inhibitors (Alli, Xenical), and Herbal diet pills (fat burners, anorectics). Diet pill is one of the most abused drugs because most diet pills can be purchased in the drug store without a prescription. So, diet |
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Marching Band - A Life-Changing SportAll it takes is one activity in high school to change your life forever. For me, that was marching band - I learned so much and made the most amazing friends and without the outstanding program of which I had the pleasure of being a part I would not have had those opportunities. When someone hears the words "marching band" many things can come to mind like "band geeks," noise, goofy uniforms, halftime performers, the stereotypical band kid playing poorly, and people falling on each other. What comes to my mind is dedication, memorization, life lessons, friends, talent, exercise, sportsmanship, and most importantly fun. There are many little things that make up a marching band and every little aspect is extremely important. What is marching band exactly? "A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors and who incorporate some type of marching or other movement with musical performance. Instrumentation includes brass, woodwi |
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