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Social Dynamics of Wild GiraffesWild giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) are the tallest mammals in the world. These fascinating animals are known by their long necks, long legs, and their beautiful spotted coats. Just like human fingerprints, a giraffes' spotted coat is unique to each animal. However, there is much more to giraffes than just these attributes. Giraffes are also very social; individuals roam the savannas in groups. Wild giraffes exhibit fission-fusion dynamics where individuals interact only temporarily so that members and sizes of the group change frequently, yet stable communities are often maintained. Giraffes' interaction within a population is influenced by the relationship between kinship, spatial overlap, age proximity, and individual social preferences (Carter, et al., 2012, p. 385). The social organization of giraffes is a vital component of their life history; the social relationship of individuals has been poorly understood (Carter, et al., 2012, p. 385). Carter et al. (2012, p. 385) conduc |
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The Life and Rise of Adolf HitlerBorn in Austria in 1889, Adolf Hitler rose to power in German politics as leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, also known as the Nazi Party. Hitler was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as dictator from 1934 to 1945. His policies precipitated World War II and the Holocaust. His power influenced the 20th century worldwide by his determination and tactics to lead a nation. (www.biography.com) Adolf Hitler was the leader of Germany from 1934 to 1945/: He initiated World War II and oversaw fascist policies that resulted in Millions of deaths. Hitler was a ruthless man whose bad experiences lead him to seek revenge on millions of people who he felt deserved to die. Adolf Hitler started out as a leader but later became involved with politics as well which gave him more power to do even more damage and cause more brutality everywhere. Although Hitler was a ruthless man, he also was a genius in more ways than one. Hitler has definitely caused an epidemic s |
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Atlanta, Georgia and the Civil WarBy the spring of 1864, Atlanta, Georgia existed as the last connection between the western and eastern halves of the Confederate States of America. The southern city was one of the few that embraced the industrial movement ushered in by the war and grew to be a major contender in producing arms, clothing, and other wartime supplies for Confederate troops. Union possession of Atlanta would further divide the Rebel nation by controlling a major railroad junction and preventing production of supplies necessary for Southern troops. In addition the city's strategic value, the battlefield outcome also would directly influence the result of the upcoming presidential election between incumbent Abraham Lincoln and his democratic opponent General George B. McClellan. Due to the candidates' conflicting views on whether to continue fighting or settle for peace, the victor contained the power to decide the conclusion of the Civil War. These diplomatic factors made the Atlanta Campaign a politically |
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Lives on the Boundary by Mike Rose"We are a nation obsessed with evaluating our children, with calibrating their exact distance from some ideal benchmark." In Lives on The Boundary, Mike Rose goes through many troublesome issues yet he always seems to get through them so graciously and so wisely. Within the novel Rose is always connecting with his students, and that is why I really find him interesting and inspiring. He always goes out of his way his way not only to be a teacher, but also as a colleague, and friend. The reason Rose act this way is because to him education is what is most important in lives, especially for children. He wants all children to succeed. Even when he was in college when he couldn't understand something he kept pushing himself to learn and understand the material because he knew that eventually he would catch on and be able to do it himself (Rose, 1989). Lives on The Boundary motivates future educators to be inspiring, deter labels and understand student behavior As a child who i |
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Mandingo Sanakuya EthnicitySanakuya means "cousinage," "joking relationship," and it refers to a social norm present especially among the Mandingo ethnicity. Those in a sanakuya relationship may treat one another as if close family members with whom familiar jokes or humorous insults and intermarriages are exchanged. For example, the Kromahs and Kamaras exchange cousinage. The model of humor integrating the tragedy of past warfare for reconciliation always attracts me. Therefore, in this essay, I intentionally violated a folkway, an informal social norm that is mildly punished when violated, on the Kamara family because I was very interested in the Kamaras' reactions to experiencing behaviors they were not used to. The situation I chose to enact my intended violation of breaking a folkway happened at the Kamaras' baby naming ceremony on Friday, July 17, 2015, in the presence of many other families, strangers, and neighbors from different cul |
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Song Review - Take Me to ChurchHozier's "Take Me to Church" is a song that has been playing on the radio and a few commercials here and there but listeners probably haven't taken the time to listen to it. Listening to it does not mean just listen to it, but to process, analyze and understand it. Nowadays so many listeners just hear a catchy rhythm and a chorus that repeats itself. Hozier plays with his lyrics to give the reader or listener one impression with the first play through, and then the deeper the song is looked into and the lyrics have been read, the song changes. Upon a first listen, along with reading the title, Hozier gives the impression that this song is about going to church. The words in the chorus are literally "take me to church" but that's not really what the song is about. The irony of this song is how well the lyrics are specifically crafted to make the listener think more. Not only is it impressive but it help |
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Human Resources and the WorkforceHRM is a significant factor in the success of organization, it focuses on the effective overall management of an organizations' workforce. "Human resources are considered by many to be the most important asset of an organization, yet very few employers are able to harness the full potential from their employees (Radcliffe 2005)". The primary discussion in this essay would be how and why people are of value to organization, why valuing and managing its employee could contribute to company success by analyzing the HR models. In classic HRM model that emerged and developed in the USA in the early 1980s, The Harvard Model recognized employees as company's resources. Employees are important stakeholders in the organization. They have their own needs and concerns along with other groups such as company shareholders as pluralist assumptions. The relationship between company and its employee could significantly affect the management decisions and strategies. HR outcome could be com |
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America - World's Most Obese CountryPeople often hear talk of America having extremely high obesity rates but we never think too much of it. As long as it isn't effecting them they think it isn't an issue, but what most people are wondering is why is this such a large problem for the United States. To figure out why this problem is hitting the United States the hardest we have to start with a simple question, what is obesity? Obesity is a medical condition that is defined as a disorder involving excessive body fat that increases the risk of health problems. With that being said, the United States of America is ranked the #1 most obese country in the world with approximately 33% or 78 million people in the adult population being obese (Jacobs). A study done in 2012 showed that more than one-third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese. Along with that, childhood obesity has more than doubled in kids and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years (Center for Disease Control, para 1). With these large of a |
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College Hooligans and ShenanigansIn " 'Enough is Enough' for bad behavior on campus", Ruth Marcus introduces the audience to the current president of the prestigious Dartmouth University. It is easy to assume that an article about an Ivy League school would serve as another outlet for a university to brag about its continuous accomplishments. However, Marcus uses this piece as a chance to warn the audience of the inevitable dangers of college and underage drinking, regardless of the institution. No matter of the prestige of a college or university, each institution is subject to the daily "shenanigans" of college students everywhere; no institution is exempt or safe from the nonacademic activities of students. President Philip Hanlon, a Dartmouth alumnus himself, expressed his concern for the reputation and well being of his students. Hanlon States, "Dartmouth's promise is being hijacked by extreme behavior, masked by its perpetrators as acceptable fun," (Marcus 1). By saying this Pr |
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Ivy and Bean by Annie BarrowsGanache Macarons is an ideal book for children from age's nine to twelve. It has won several awards throughout the years. This book has two main characters Ivy and Bean. On the outside the girls appear to be very different, but soon realize that they are very alike. This book takes place in a neighborhood called pancake court. The plot of this book includes many adventures such as pulling pranks on siblings, stealing money, and name calling, which can keep young readers hooked. The characters represented in this story are characterized as either Ivy or Bean. Ivy being the good girl and Bean being the bad. "Ivy sat nicely on her front steps. Bean zipped around her yard and yelled. Ivy had long, curly red hair pushed back with a sparkly headband. Bean's hair was black, and it only came t |
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Legal and Judiciary DiversityThe English Legal System is the system of law which uses the common law system that has developed in England from approximately 1066 to the present. It has been a long history since the establishment of the system until today. Legal history seems to be less important in modern days and less relevant to a student's needs. Regarding the perception, J.H Baker says, "This could hardly be more wrong, since legal history is the study of legal change. Unless we regard law as no more than a body of randomly changing rules, its history must be an essential in its study."1 It is also submitted that the history of English law must also be an essential dimension in the social and intellectual history of United Kingdom, as well as being a key to understanding much of the available evidence of the past.2 Looking at the English jury system, as we know it now, it is basically a system made up of 12 individuals randomly chosen from the general public to attend and hear court trials whereby |
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Life, Liberty and American Property TaxesWe are all familiar with the classic American dream. Graduating college, and landing that dream job. Followed by the purchase of a home, where a family can be started. Having good friends and family to barbecue with in the backyard, on a nice sunny day. It feels good in life to start off right paying the house and property off before retirement comes, knowing the next generation will have a home and property, to plant the next set of roots. Sounds easy to achieve right? Now let's throw a little bit of life into the mix. After years of working hard, paying bills, raising kids, and volunteering at local charities, an injury occurs, and working is no longer a factor. Not to worry, the house is paid off and an early retirement, and social security disability are enough to get by on. After some time, unexpected life events happen, and the already premature retirement fund is dissolved. On an extremely tight budget there is no room to pay the land tax on the property that has already been pa |
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The Catholic Debate on ContraceptivesThe debate on contraceptives is filled with moral and theological sand pits. There are so many strongly held beliefs for, and against, for reasons unclear to most. None of the answers are simple to these hot button topics; for the most part they are complex and hover in a grey area of morality, tradition, and history. Sex and love are obviously two things that interests humans, and animals to an extent. People write songs, books, and poetry about both topics. Humans have also studied both since the beginning of time. They are incorporated into art as both an emotion and an image. Humans are encapsulated in finding a partner for many reasons, due to society's standards or their cultural upbringing; there is no getting around sex and love. Each religion has its own way of dealing with sex and love. Catholicism by far does not ignore it. There are two sides to the argument of is the Catholic Church right on its rulings on contraceptives. The first is that the Catholic Church, and all o |
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Surrealism and Abstract ExpressionismI had always thought art was about the personalization of one's perspective of physical reality, a filter through which we can observe the material world in ways may or may not match ours. When I watched a short surrealist film, "Destino," (Dalí, Hench, & Ernst, 2003), however, I realized that there is another side of art, one that is unmaterialistic: it has absolutely nothing to do with replicating the physical world and has most – if not everything – to do with the non-physical. The clear portrayal, the beautiful expression of the inner worlds of feelings and emotions, of the mysterious and ever-changing realm of dreams gave me such refreshment, fascination and inspiration that I'd like to present in this writing my findings about that unmaterialistic side of art and its contribution to the modern world, through the examples of two prominent art movements: Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. First, I will introduce and explain the two types of art styles that I have |
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A Look at My FamilyThere are four people in my family: my father, my mother, my sister and me. I always believe that my mother is the most important person in my small family; she takes good care of her two children and always does the best things for them. I'm a boy, I'm seventeen years old, and my sister is older than me by one year age. I'm the youngest and the naughtiest in my family, so I often make my mom get so much tired more than anyone else. She still smile with me although she gets angry follow the easiest way. My mother was the tallest in my house but that changed when I had my fifteenth birthday. My mother is a businesswoman, she works at my grandma's building (not old but new enough for her big family to live in), which isn't larger than a factory but I spent almost my childhood in there. My mother is more hardworking than anyone I know, she can take care of my grandma's health while making ne |
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In the Eye of the BeholderAround the world, people in all sorts of different cultures strive to be something different, whether it is darker or lighter skinned, heavier or skinnier, and even less like one's ethnicity. All of these humans are missing out on the grand scheme of things though, because are those things what really matter? With all of the infatuation of varied appearances, and even the truth of somewhere else across the globe, a culture is striving to look like yours; the true inner beauty of human beings is lost in the confusion. Beauty throughout cultures is interpreted in many contrasting ways, including size, and most importantly inner beauty. However, the concept of beauty, whether it is how much one loves or the style of their hair, needs to be looked with more a |
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Dubray Books - Management ReportINTRODUCTION This report examines our chosen management topics of Planning, Human Resources and Leadership. After study of available literature we concluded that these topics were suitable choices. We chose Dubray Books on Grafton Street as our subject. The company was started in 1988 with one branch in Bray before moving to a more prominent location on the main street. In 1990 the Grafton Street branch opened as 'The Dublin Bookshop'. The company took on the Dubray name after expansion to Kilkenny and Rathmines in 1994. In 2002 the Dublin Bookshop relocated to its current location where we carried out our interview. Dubray Books is one of Ireland's largest independent booksellers with eight branches nationwide. LITERATURE REVIEW Leadership "The meaning of a message is the change which it produces in the image." - Kenneth Boulding in THE IMAGE: Knowledge in Life and Society One of the main functions of management is leading, which involves getting individuals or gr |
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The Boarding House by James JoyceIn "The Boarding House" by James Joyce, we have the theme of powerlessness, social opinion, paralysis and marriage. Taken from his Dubliners collection, the story is narrated in the third person by and unnamed narrator and what is interesting about the story is that the reader is given the point of view of two of the main characters in the story, Mrs Mooney and Bob Doran. Some readers will also notice that Joyce, as he does in a lot of the stories in Dubliners, is using colours (brown and yellow) to symbolise decay and paralysis. Instances of this within the story include Joyce describing what some of the lodgers in Mrs Money's boarding house have eaten for breakfast. Joyce tells the reader that 'the table of the breakfast-room was covered with plates on which lay yellow streaks of eggs and morsels of bacon-fat and bacon rind.' This description is significant as Joyce is symbolizing, through colour the state of paralysis that exists within Mrs Mooney's boarding house, particularl |
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The World's Wife by Carol Ann DuffyIn her poem anthology, The World's Wife, Carol Ann Duffy introduces a female perspective to the stories of many famous men in history and literature, such as King Herod and Midas. In some of these poems she entertains the possibility that it was the women beside these well-known men who were the inspiration to their greatness, like in the poem Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife). Duffy's poems have been regarded as feminist and even 'anti-men', however Duffy has said herself that she "wasn't trying to attack the male, but put the female into it, into the story". In these poems Duffy examines love and relationships, as well as how deeply loss and disappointment can affect someone. With the use of language features, Duffy evokes emotions from readers such as dislike, sympathy, and sadness, felt towards the characters, particularly in poems Mrs Midas and Medusa. In Mrs Midas, Duffy retells the story of Midas in a modern setting, through the perspective of Midas' wife. T |
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Marx on the BourgeoisieMarx contends that "what the bourgeoisie...produces...is its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable." In this essay, I intend to show that through the establishment of the global economy which led to advancements in technology, political centralization and the exploitation of the proletariat, the bourgeoisie did indeed produce the weapons of their own demise. To begin with, after the discovery and colonization of America, and the establishment of trade with the colonies and also the East Indian and Chinese markets, there was a rapid surge in industry, a surge which was too large for feudal industry to cope with. This system was then quickly replaced with that of the manufacturing middle class, but due to the ever-expanding markets and growing demand, this manufacturing middle class were also unable to deal with the exponential levels of growth, and therefore Modern Industry in turn took their place. This was largely thanks to the advancem |
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Hitler's Views of Racial SuperiorityIn Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf, it is clear that he would take his anti-Semitic beliefs to whatever extent necessary to achieve the domination of his Aryan race. Hitler believed that Germans were the master race, destined to dominate all other races, and that the Jews had caused all of Germany's problems. Hitler's views on the racial superiority of the Germans influenced German foreign policy before and during World War II, and this is evident when Hitler drops from the League of Nations, breaks his alliance with Soviet Union, and exploits the inferior workers of other nations for resources and labor. After World War I, the League of Nations, an agreement to keep peace in Europe, was formed by the Allied powers but all European nations were convinced to join. When Hitler diplomatically took power of Germany by first becoming prime minister of the Weimar Republic, one of his first moves was to take Germany out of the League of Nations. Hitler believed that the Germans were a superior race to all other people and that they did not need to be |
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Tomorrow is Too Far by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe short story, "Tomorrow Is Too Far," is the most qualified out of the ten stories that Comp II was given to be described as relevant to modern life. Modern life could mean different things to different people, simply because each person has a different life. Keeping that in mind, others may think that this story does not fit into the "modern life" that they have. The reasons being used are mainly a vague understanding of the modern life and what goes on around the world today. Within this short story, there are many reasons and explanations as to why this story fits the 'modern life' description better than any other. A few of those reasons deal with family, mistakes that people make, love, and relationships. All of these emotions, actions, and situations apply to the modern life. For the majority, everyone has memories of going to their grandparents (or any other family for that matter) and doing little, fun activities as a child. One thing that always seems to hap |
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Differences Between Schooling and EducationStanley Aronowitz, author of "How Class Works in Education: A Memoir", states that in today's system "schooling focuses on preparing students for state exams ("teaching to the test") and for jobs while education teaches students how to think critically and explore new ideas, whether or not they're related to a specific job path or a state exam." (pg. 48) The education system over the past years have implemented certain guidelines on the way in which schools teach which can lead one to potentially create the debate of whether students are "schooled" or "educated." Aronowitz argues that discipline and control are now the primary criteria of success, and genuine learning is sacrificed to a new dictated educational agenda. Aronowitz, also in his memoir, condemns the new dictated style of teaching in schools by proposing numerous methods to broaden the way students are educated and the creativity among both the teacher and the student. In my |
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My Adventure in the WildernessThis past fall I was lucky enough to spend three months in the breathtaking wilderness of Wyoming and Utah. It was the first half of the gap year that I had planned for myself after high school. My three months consisted of hiking in the Wind River mountains, rock climbing in Lankin Dome, and canyoneering in southeast Utah. These three months were easily the best of my life and they were made better by the serenity of the wilderness and how I was able to escape all the distractions of my life and really live in the moment. My first trek started September 7th 2014, when I was greeted by a foot of snow. Already unsure of my ability to complete my eighteen day, 140 mile trip, I wasn't happy about seeing my entire landscape shaded with a heavy coat of snow. The first couple of days were rough. I had been recovering from knee surgery at the time and the change from nearly sea level Arlington to 10,000 ft had left me gasping for air like a fish out of water. After a week, the days start |
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The Scream - History and MeaningOne of the most appreciated and recognizable artwork in existence is The Scream by Edvard Munch. The title of the expressionist painting and prints is a part of a larger art collection series called The Frieze of Life. The Scream has four versions of the same composition with various media. It is an artwork that is still fascinating to a wide range of audience today. Munch was renowned as a pioneer in the Expressionist movement in modern painting. His most well-known artwork was from the 1890s. His earlier darker paintings guaranteed his patrimony, while his later work is regularly magnetizing interest, and it appears to inspire present-day artists in specific. Munch depicted pure and raw emotions in this artwork. The Scream was a revolutionary change from the artwork traditions and norms of his current period; therefore he is credited with launching the expressionist movement that expanded through Germany (Prideaux, 2007). Most of Munch's artwork reflects themes of isolation, fea |
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