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Anxiety and Graduate ProgramsIt is incredibly common for new students in Masters level programs to become anxious when entering their program for the first time, and when they begin taking their first graduate level course; and I am no exception. Throughout my participation in the course (Psych 6104), I was able to identify that my anxiety was perpetuated for several reasons, including: perfectionism, "fight or flight" response- and my tendency towards "flight", if I am anxious I may not do well (tendency to "save face", and fear of the unknown. Identifying the factors which contributed to my anxiety, became a crucial step in creating a plan to address and reduce my anxiety in both an effective and adaptive manner. Anxiety is defined as a mood or psychological state which is characterized by worry, uneasiness or dread, which is accompanied by physical symptomology in response to a person, or situation which is perceived to be dangerous. Anxiety can be a response to a real, imagined, |
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Poverty and Hunger in MadagascarPoverty and Food Security in The Republic of Madagascar The Republic of Madagascar is a country that is located on an island off the coast of south east Africa in the Indian Ocean. It is known to be the fourth largest island in the world. Madagascar is known for its beautiful atmosphere and diversity of nature. Madagascar was previously a French colony until the island gained it's independence in the 1960's. From a relatively small population, the community has recently grown to roughly 22 million people, of which many are below the poverty line. The islands population is reliant upon farming and cattle, rice, coffee, vanilla and seafood exports in order to gain economic standings. A factor that decreases productivity in farming in this country is its susceptibility to natural disasters such as flooding, cyclones and droughts. An estimated 5 million people live in areas of the island that frequently suffer from these particular disasters. Level of Poverty in Madagascar Madagascar is |
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Themes in Death of a SalesmanDeath of a Salesman, the 1949 play by Arthur Miller, develops the ideas of conformity, popularity and materialism through repeating and contrasting elements. The protagonist Willy Loman has been constructed, along with contrasting characters, to convey to the audience that conformity is not the answer to finding true happiness. Miller also reminds the audience that popularity will not lead Willy to a successful business life through juxtaposition to Charley. Having a materialistic life distances Willy from the devotion to his family that really matters to them. The underlying theme of abandonment pushes Willy into his life and gives a false sense of hope; following the used and exhausted trail of the American Dream. The American Dream relates heavily to the morals Willy has learned to live by; conformity, popularity and materialism. Later, through the use of dramatic irony, Miller describes how Willy abandoned his own family and the people around him throughout his life story. Family a |
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Titania - Queen of the FairiesA Midsummer Night's Dream, written by William Shakespeare during the year 1594-95 is a popular comedy play about the thrilling adventures, trials and experiences of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors and their interactions with woodland faeries. Furthermore, it is a comedy about love and relationships and its complications where lust, disappointment, confusion, marriage, jealousy and wrath are portrayed. Titania, the wife of Oberon, is the gracious queen of the fairies raising a young Indian boy who plays a significant role in this play. Moreover, the last scene in which the mechanicals present a fumbling, hilarious version of "Pyramus and Thisbe" at the wedding of Theseus, duke of Athens and Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, is an important part of the play as it gives it a purely joyful, comedic ending. Additionally, this is where Pyramus and Thisbe die for each other's love, while the three couples, happily united, comment on their performance. After the play, Ti |
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Research Paper - PharmacologyNeurotransmitters like dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin get me thinking about the limitless possibilities of Pharmacology. I have always been interested in medicine and its effects on the mind and body. There are so many opportunities to improve or save lives due to the advancements in pharmaceutical sciences. No medication is perfect and everything can be improved upon. I cannot wait to discover or improve compounds in order to benefit society. In order to start a career in Pharmacology I must get a proper education. First, I must finish high school with an academic G.P.A. higher than 3.2. Upon the completion of high school, I need to apply to my college of choice which is California State University San Francisco. I will major in Pharmaceutical Sciences or Pre-Pharmacy to assure I am moving in the right direction towards my goal. I will need to complete my general education classes before even working towards my major. Once that's out of the way, I will have to take many chemi |
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Cyber Attacks and the Global EconomyAbstract This paper focuses on cyber-attacks and its impact on the global economy. It depicts that cyber-crime is a global issue because businesses that function in an online world often are the victims and have to deal with it in some way. Statistics have shown that the price paid by the businesses in terms of economic costs and losses is very high in magnitude and ever increasing. Cyber-attacks not only have a significant impact on the high-tech industry, but also affect local businesses, governments, and other small scale or large scale industries. Cyber-attacks can potentially result in losses amounting to over billions of dollars. These losses can be loss of intellectual property, loss of sensitive data and information, interruption of services, the cost of implementing cyber security. In some cases, the impact of cyber-attacks is difficult to estimate because many companies are not even aware of the information that has been stolen, while some companies withhold that information |
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Long-Term Benefits of a Stable ChildhoodPre-destiny aside, it is generally accepted that the quality of a person's upbringing is a key ingredient to their stability and happiness in life. Since a child is totally dependent, the responsibility for their upbringing rests with that child's primary care-giver and this responsibility includes not only physical protection but also the loving, civilizing "education" necessary for the personal and social development which will allow the child to survive outside of the home. Without the latter, the child is preserved rather than developed, more like a pet to be fed, indulged, tolerated or ignored at will. When a child's body is unprotected, the results are clear to anyone with access to them - bruises, broken bones, illness and sometimes death. When the responsibility to love and instruct has been breeched, what are the signs? What are the immediate and long-term consequences to that child? In an adult, uncontrolled behavior is a clear sign of instability, and responsibility is almo |
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Self-Discovery in The Catcher in the RyeIn all forms of literature, characters develop and progress throughout the story after experiencing several events that change them as a person; this is what gives the story substance and interest in the readers' eyes. This statement is also the case in J. D Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye as the protagonist Holden Caulfield goes on a journey of self-discovery resulting in change in his overall view of the world around him. Throughout the novel, Holden is driven by the idea of preserving the innocence of children and sheltering them from the adult world, but as the story progresses he comes to the realization that growing up is an inevitable part of life that must be accepted. Holden also changes from being someone who rarely shows emotion and ostracizes himself from people, to someone with individuality. Another change in Holden's character would be him starting to take responsibility for his own life and realizing that it is not just a "phase" he is going through bu |
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Social Factors and Student BehaviorThe Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 (IDEA) included provisions for students with disabilities for functional behavioral assessments (FBA) and Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) programs to identify the source of student problem behavior and subsequent supports. For this study in particular, antisocial behaviors were examined. Researchers have questioned the benefit of the FBA to address complex antisocial behaviors as it relates to youth with high incidence disabilities. While FBA's are useful to identify problem behaviors, it was suggested that nonproximal factors, such as social dynamics, serve to promote antisocial patterns. This review will summarize the conceptual framework for the functional perspective of problem behavior, followed by research on social dynamics and finally, a closer look at research on the social problems of students with disabilities. The elementary principle for the functional perspective of problem behavior is encapsulated in this statement, "Behaviors serve to obtain or avoid attention; activities or tangibles; or sensory conditions" (Farmer, |
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The Reading and Learning ExperienceReading is very important to enrich a person's life. If you can read you can learn anything. You can go anywhere, be anyone, do anything. Books can open a world to the past, the present and the future. They can also take you to fantasy lands that never existed in the real world. Through books you can experience what it is like to be an explorer, you can go to the moon and outer space, you can live with cavemen, you can experience what it was like to be a pirate in the 1600s. You can give yourself an entire college education with the books that can be found in any public library. For an example John Aristotle Phillips was born in 1955 in Connecticut. In 1976, while attending Princeton University as a junior undergraduate, he designed a nuclear weapon using publicly available books and papers. Books are very cheap entertainment. Used books can be purchased for a dollar or less. Many famous people learned things from books rather than in a structured educational environment. Today you can use |
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The Pursuit of Nuclear TechnologySome people look at nuclear technology positively, as an efficient source of energy for the future. It has been brought to attention that the usage of nuclear technology has been practiced safely, but is it really that safe? While precaution measures can be taken, accidents are still bound to happen in the future. A nuclear accident can be extremely harmful to mankind both in the long and short term. Similarly, if nuclear weapons are misused, it can bring about as much danger. The destruction that nuclear technology has caused over the years still remains fresh in the minds of most people. The all-time-famous Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant accident in 2007 is just one of the many life-threatening nuclear accidents that happened. Nuclear technology may be useful, but it can be extremely dangerous. Life-threatening nuclear accidents and highly-destructive nuclear weapons that threaten security in the world, outweighs the benefits it can bring for mankind. Thus, the pursuit of nuc |
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The Rise of Death Metal in Tampa BayThe Tampa Bay area of Florida was highly influential in the rise of death metal as it was the centre of a large death metal culture. This culture developed with the introduction of prominent bands and personalities, primarily Chuck Schuldiner of 'Death', as well as 'Deicide', 'Morbid Angel', 'Possessed' and 'Cannibal Corpse', who all contributed to the evolution and development of the genre. The significant Morrisound Studios was also situated in Tampa which rapidly became a world renowned home of death metal, where the production took a great leap in the quality of heavy metal sound production. One of the leading pioneers of this subgenre of heavy metal, which emerged out of Tampa Bay, Florida, into mainstream culture in the late 1980's, was Chuck Schuldiner and his band 'Death'. "He not only helped spawn an entire extreme genre around gore and technical guitar wizardry, but like horror movies sometimes do, 'Death' also challenged our notion |
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The First Migrators to North AmericaAbstract The purpose of this research is to investigate the probable reasons that humans migrated from Asia to populate North America. After, human evolution originated in Africa, they started move out of Africa to populate the entire globe. There is enough archaeological evidence that put together this big puzzle of the first inhabitants of North American. The most reliable theory that explains this mystery is the Bering Land bridge theory, which explains that the Stone Age people left Siberia to Alaska then passed through the ice-free corridor during the last ice age and arrived in North America. For decades, scientists believed the first inhabitants of North America arrived around 13,500 years ago during the late Pleistocene epoch; using the Bering Land Bridge theory, the Bering Strait is a waterway that separates Russia from North America. It lies above the Bering Land Bridge, also called Beringia (Figure 1). According to many archaeologists, around the date an ice-free corrid |
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Career Path Essay - Criminal JusticeI am presently a Criminal Justice student of Collin College, Plano, Texas. After my studies, I intend to become a member of the Nigerian parliament or member of the United States Police Force. My first choice is to join the United States Police Force. I made this choice because of my steadfast love for "Freedom, Peace, Justice, and Development". The desire to "Serve and Protect" started from my childhood and formative years. As a child, I derive great joy in serving my family, community, state, country, and people, not minding the hardship that I encountered, but endured. I was a member of the Nigerian Boys Scout during my childhood years. I am always prepared because, as a "Boy Scout", "Be Prepared" is our Motto. I was always ready for anything, anytime. By reason of my, childhood experience and encounters I chose a career to serve and to protect mankind. The duty of a Police Officer/Nigeria Security Parliamentarian is "My Career". I |
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Love and Money in Pride and PrejudiceMoney holds a significant role within the plot and development of the major characters within Pride and Prejudice, as well as shaping the novel as a whole. Throughout the novel the theme of love is heavily linked with money but seems to be of less importance when discussing it along with money, this is shown within the opening paragraph of Pride and Prejudice: " It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife". (Austen, 2006, P3) Austen's use of the words 'good fortune' projects the importance of money within a relationship between men and women. By mentioning both marriage and money within the opening paragraph the reader is given the impression of what the two main themes could possibly be and also the significance money may hold over love. Mrs. Bennet plays a major link between love and money, this is particularly evident when her purpose is set out within the opening chapter as the novel, "The |
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Behind the Scenes in Human ResourcesAbstract This paper will go through what all the human resources management team really has going on behind the scenes. Most people believe that they are the ones that are just hiring and firing people and that is all, but there is so much more than meets the eye with these very important workers to the company. As you continue to read through the paper you will find out not only do they help run the company, but they are the ones making sure that it runs at top speed. Making sure that they have the right programs, people, systems, and companies invested into the company. The CEO might be the one that you always see on the news and looks like they are the ones really running the company, but after this paper you are going to have a different view on who really is the star player on the team. "Human resources, also known as HR, can be defined as all information concerning an organization's human resources and can include various data elements such as head count, fluctuation, age |
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Cigarette Advertisement ComparisonHave you ever wondered why companies decide on what to use for advertising? It seems like sometimes the advertisements speak directly to me. Ads seem to be focused on a specific group of people. What do companies used to speak to direct groups? How do they know what to use? The purpose of this investigation is to show how times have changed with ads for tobacco products and the audience that the company is after. The first ad was a Camel Cigarettes from the 1950s. There was a middle aged man wearing a white doctor's coat sitting at a desk. He is smoking. If you look over the doctor's right shoulder you can see what seems to be his degree posted on the wall. Behind his left shoulder it appears to be a medical supplies cabinet. Then there are words in all capital letters wrote over top of the ad saying "More Doctors Smoke Calls," then in all lower case letters it says 'than any other cigarette'. The next ad I chose is a current ad for camel cigarettes. The current camel cigarett |
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Christian Mission in Zones of Violent ConflictAs stated in the book, "Eyes from the Outside: Christian Mission in Zones of Violent Conflict," our mission in zones of conflict is to assist those occupants in nonviolent means of protest, to fight measures of violence against them. A popular way of accomplishing this is through Protective Accompaniment, which is the placement of nonviolent teams of trained outsiders, into the designated zones of conflict. Backed by international groups, the main goal of these groups are to dispel the perception of impunity, often felt by those using violent actions against a populace. By letting those in power know, "the world is watching," (p. 154). it has been found that the risk of violence and displacement is substantially reduced. The author recounts experiences mainly from Columbia, but includes other insight from time spent in Guatemala and Palestine. In Columbia, groups of subsistence farmers and miners were at risk of attack from paramilitary and government forces, due t |
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol"The Philosophy of Andy Warhol," is a novel inspired by Andy Warhol. This book is about Warhol's life, and what led him to become the artist that we know today. Andy Warhol is known for creating the style of art called, "Pop Art." This is what brought Andy Warhol to fame beginning in the 1960's. Andy Warhol is a man who knows what to do to stand out, in ways that others just did not. One of the main themes of this book would be creativity. Everything that Andy Warhol does is based on his creative mind. Ever since Andy was a little kid he was always different from everyone, and looked upon as an outcast. He was diagnosed with a disease chorea, in third grade. Warhol was sick in bed with nothing to do. Therefore, Warhol would read, draw, and listen to the radio in his spare time, because of his illness. |
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Epictetus and the Good LifeWhen asked the true definition of the "good life," everyone has their own version of it in accordance to their values and beliefs. According to Epictetus, in order to have a good life, we must master our desires and achieve tranquility among the disorder in the world. In other words, Epictetus believes that we should be complacent with the obstacles that we face instead of constantly desiring something better. "The Wolf of Wall Street's," Jordan Belfort is a prime example of someone that is constantly desiring more in life and going great lengths to get it. With both visions of the good life being complete opposites, the vast differences between Epictetus and Belfort's beliefs are clear. With these differences in mind, Epictetus would have a difficult time accepting Belfort's vision of a good life. Epictetus claims that in order to live a good life, we must master our desires and know how to control them. He believes that we must accept the events that are presente |
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French Anarchism and Italian Futurism: 1890-1920Politics, art, and utopia in French anarchism and Italian futurism 1890-1920 In Paroles d'un revolte, Peter Kropotkin outlined a new vision for the arts as part of his anarchist philosophy, asserting that "the arts have a mission to accomplish for the achievement of the future society... Depict for us in your vivid style or in your fervent paintings the titanic struggle of the people against their oppressors; inflame young hearts with the beautiful breath of revolution which inspired our anarchism"1. This sentiment marks the beginning of a struggle commenced by the anarchists and brought to full fruition by the futurists, that of reappropriating the artistic sphere from the bourgeoisie; whether the French Salon for the anarchists or the passéist traditionalism in Italy, both movements aimed at the reintegration of art into a dynamic, creative relationship with both politics and society. Peter Burger argues that this process of dismantling the institutionalised 'art for art' |
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Shapes and Placements of AtomsBased on the placement of lone atoms and also based on the bonding of pairs the molecular geometry of an atom can differ. The shape of an atom can be bent, linear, tetrahedral, or triangular planar. They come with different sets of characteristics, since these shapes are different from each other. One of the characteristics, the angle that shows how far apart the bonds are from each other, the degree angle, determines the shape of the molecule. For example, a bond angle of 120 degrees would be a triangular planar shaped molecule. This experiment should show how different types of bonding affects the way the molecule is physically shaped. The different bonds and lone pairs are placed in certain locations so that each bond is of equal distance from each other. In all geometrical shapes of the molecule, this is seen. The |
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Children with Absent ParentsIntroduction Often, when we think of a happy family, we think of the average nuclear family consisting of a husband, wife, and possibly two kids. More times than less, we will often judge the parents based on the behaviour we observe in their children. However, if those kids don't meet the expectations of society we tend to blame the parent for not disciplining their kids the 'right way'. Is how we perceive this situation accurate though? Within the last century, the types of families we'd primarily see have changed significantly. With factors such as higher divorce rates, single women choosing to keep their child based on un-expectancy, non-marital births, abandonment, or even financial difficulties, a child may not be fortunate to grow up with both of his or her parents. Whether it has been mom or dad missing from the family, an absent parent will impact the child in many different ways. According to Statistics Canada, "About 8 in 10 lone-parent families were female lone |
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The Symbol of Life and Humanity"More than machinery, we need humanity." This statement from a part of Charlie Chaplin's speech in his movie "The Great Dictator" reminded me that for a long time, there was me, and my heart. Me was only composed of thoughts, of ideas, of memories, of scars from experiences in the past. Me was always listening, following rules set by others, never truly decided for myself. Me only existed in trying, trying to be who I was expected to be, trying to be someone else. Me was also trying not to be an outcome of an evolution, but the separation that had already occurred between me and my heart is a pretty significant outcome. All because my heart was never involved in me. People in this generation are all similar, we think more than we feel. Due to evolution of media, mass communication, humans have went from reading the first newspapers in the mid 16th century to going on the internet for a lot of things if not everything. The evolution of media may have provided us with conveniences, but |
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Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D.In the scene from Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D. shown in lecture, there are many factors to support that it is in fact of the neorealist genre of film. This film is shot on location, not on a set and uses an unknown, nonprofessional actress. It also utilizes fast film stock while painting an accurate picture of post WWII poverty in Italy. The scene contains numerous factors that support the reasoning that this film is of the neorealist variety. This scene appears to be shot on location in an apartment somewhere in Italy. In the very beginning of the scene, we are essentially seeing through Maria's eyes. She wakes up and is looking up at the ceiling, which is a glass sort of window or skylight, which a cat walks across. A few moments later, she is in the kitchen looking out of a window down onto the roof below. Again we see from Maria's point of view, where we see another cat walking across the roof. As a conscious viewer we make the connection between the two cats. We realize that the |
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