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The Musical NecessityThe cultural worth of music is quite possibly one of the biggest parts of society, as we know it today. Music has been a valuable tool of expression and a highly respected form of art since the very beginning of human culture. Artists have created masterpieces to it, people have timelessly used it to evoke their own creativity, whether that is when writing or creating their own works of art. It's a necessary tool in my day to day and I have always loved music passionately. Although I have no talent with instruments I still constantly have my iPod in. Lucretius likes to use his theory of the existence of atom, void, and swerve to explain how the world works while I want to show how the world works with the help of songs. How music is composed of different notes while to Lucretius objects are made of different atoms and create different sensations. Different musical notes are combined to make a song that evokes a unique sensation with harmony just as the different atoms in an object func |
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Duties and Responsibilities of Radiation TherapistsRadiation therapists are professionals who treat patients with cancer and other ailments by means of radiation administration. These practitioners have the duties of explaining treatment regimens to their clients and answering any queries about the treatment regimen to the clients. The radiation therapists are also bestowed with the responsibility of ensuring that safety procedures are adhered to in a bid to protect both the client and themselves from radiation overexposure. They also ensure radiation machines are working correctly, determine the actual area for irradiation, a |
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Civil Rights and Brown vs. Board of EducationOn May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court handed down its unanimous decision in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education, overturning the previous legal precedent set in 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson which had allowed for "separate but equal" public facilities, including public schools. The Supreme Court declaring that separate facilities are truly unequal can be seen as a huge step forward for African American's Civil Rights. However, critics believe that the Brown decisions made matters worse, inciting riots and massive resistance. It also eliminated the possibility of a more peaceful process and revealed the Supreme Court's inability to instill social change. Personally I don't buy that; I think that it initiated the civil rights movement and over time led to further legislation, strengthening civil rights for African Americans. It also shows how social change can't be achieved with just a Supreme Court ruling. It would be false to say that the Brown decision did |
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Tom Molineaux and Bare-Knuckle BoxingTom Molineaux, a born slave, was raised in Virginia. His father, also a fighter, trained Tom and his twin brother to successfully bare-knuckle box for the entertainment of his own, and other plantation owners. This was a common, brutal, and bloody business, and frequently ended with slaves very much the worse for wear as rules were often disregarded and savagery was the watchword for the matches. However, after deftly boxing and winning a number of matches - as well as winning a sizable betting purse for his own plantation owner - surprisingly Tom Molineaux was granted his freedom. Under the impression that both more freedom and dignity in his sporting profession lay overseas, he would travel to Ireland and England to attempt to test his skills and money-making opportunities at the still-tender age of twenty-six. Bare-knuckle matches were a "gentlemanly" pastime of the aristocracy, and as a freedman, Molineaux stood to gain much both as a novelty and an immediate underdog du |
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CEO Craig Jelinek and CostcoIntroduction Costco is a wholesale membership club that provides a wide variety of consumer products. As of July 2012, it is the second largest retailer in the United States, the seventh largest retailer in the world and the largest membership wholesale club chain in the United States. Costco has 637 locations worldwide, and 36 new stores coming soon, 18 in the United States and 18 elsewhere including 2 in Spain and 7 in Asia (CNBC.com). Costco CEO Craig Jelinek is committed to excellence and helping Costco to continue to grow and succeed. History and Biography W. Craig Jelinek has working in the grocery industry in some capacity for over 40 years. While he was in junior high school (1969), he was a bagboy for FedMart. He continued working for the company as a good stocker while he went to college and completed his education. In 1975, he became a manager with FedMart. Mr. Jelinek joined Costco in 1984, and in May 1986 to September 1994, he served as Vice President, Regional Opera |
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Johnson & Johnson and Lean ManufacturingThe term lean involves an essential change that emphasizes elimination of waste (non-value added activities) and delivers quality products. Johnson and Johnson (J&J) implemented lean manufacturing successfully, which resulted into a substantial reduction in waste to its manufacturing plant. The company is now gearing to extend the same success to its supply chain, which with the aim of reducing waste. According to the director of supply chain for medical devices and diagnostics group, J&J experience a lot of waste during the movement and handling processes. He believes that implementing lean throughout the supply chain will unleash real opportunities, leading cost reduction and broad-based value to customers. Johnson & Johnson; lean processes main goal is to eliminate supply chain related waste in the following areas: transportation, motion, waiting, defects, over-production, inventory, over-processing, and talent. J&J has a well-documented success story on implementation of lean in manufacturing and |
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Financial Crisis During the French Revolution"Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability to ever reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation" – Simon Schama The French Revolution shook the foundations of French society to the core, leading to new waves of ideas and institutions. Two hundred and twenty years on, the origins of this unique event are inconclusive. There seems to be a widespread opinion that the outbreak of the French Revolution was on the 14th of July 1789, at the Storming of the Bastille. Even William Doyle highlights the storming of the Bastille as "the climax of the popular movement".1 However, the political institutions of Old France were already beyond reconstruction by then. The events of 14th July were in fact the result of a series of events which can be traced back to 20th August 1786, when Calonne (the General of the royal finances) informed Louis XVI that the state was on the brink of financi |
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Business Case - The Nike ControversyI. Introduction There has been a lot of controversy lately about the working conditions and low wages in overseas Nike shoe factories. These stories have affected thousands of overseas workers, hurt the economy of Indonesia, decreased the gross revenue generated by the Nike Corporation, and lowered the overall opinion of the corporation. Nike has worked diligently to combat this controversy and help find a solution to end this and help everyone involved. The purpose of this research is to provide a clear view of the controversy, a history of the events that lead to it, and solutions for the whole ordeal. So, what are these controversies about Nike? II. Analysis of Research re: My Key Question In 1957, Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman met at the University of Oregon in Eugene. In the early sixties, they formed a company named Blue Ribbon Sports, which they ran from Knight's mother's laundry room. Then Phil Knight purchased two hundred shoes from the Japanese shoe company Asics. Knight an |
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Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsIn this first of five volumes of autobiography, Maya Angelou tells the story of her life from age three, when her divorcing parents sent her and her brother to live with their maternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, to age sixteen, when, reunited with her mother in San Francisco, she gave birth to her son. Thus her story begins with semi-orphanhood and ends with motherhood. Interpreting her quest for freedom and self-affirmation as representative of that of many African Americans and American women-especially black American women-she presents incidents from her life that illustrate conditions faced by many persons. In her case, these conditions result, after much struggle, in a moment and message of hope. Angelou begins her narrative with a painful incident that she does not date but that seems appropriate to age six or seven. In a church recitation, Maya cannot bring herself to remember the lines of an Easter poem beyond the first two, which seem to her to express her constant st |
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GMOs - Rhetorical Analysis EssayDuring a time when genetically modified foods was rarely a topic discussed by the average everyday citizen, Johnathan Rauch, the national journalist and Yale graduate, wrote a piece on the potential and future necessity of genetically modified foods, a topic that he had no genuine interest or investment in. With careful consideration of his hostile audience, Rauch uses his firsthand experience and numerous applicable examples to thoroughly support his claim that "as goes agriculture, so goes the planet" if means are not taken to alleviate current environmental and humanitarian concerns. He appeals strictly to the concerns of those who oppose the use of biotechnology, and acknowledges opposing viewpoints, but fails to provide a strong counterargument that addresses the numerous potential consequences of the implementation of transgenic practices. The failure to address these issues crumbles the foundation of the strength of the argument he tries to make. Taking initiative to |
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Macbeth - Acts I and IIAct 1 There are three sisters who are witches and they have set up the theme of the play and that is fair is foul and foul is fair. In Scotland there's a war going on in this play. Scotland wins the war because of the impact Macbeth had given. At that time The Thane of Cawdor was a traitor and then he got caught and was executed. King Duncan rewards Macbeth with the title Than of Cawdor and that is how he shows his gratitude towards him. There comes a scene switch in the play where you end up with the three witch sisters who are in the battleground to confront Macbeth and Banquo. Macbeth is being told by the three witches that he will after he got the title he will eventually be king. Macbeth goes on and tells it to his Lady Macbeth and on that same night King Duncan plans to stay the night in his home. Lady Macbeth wants to have King Duncan killed after she receive the news and then she wants Macbeth to be king. Macbet |
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Poets and PoetryWalt Whitman(1819-1892), broke the literary tradition of his time with regards to content, form and style of his vigorous verse. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), while living a life of seclusion, was very audacious mentally, revealing a complex psyche struggling to press her inner conflicts, which she interprets through the creative and reflective act of language. Writing about sex, (the) human body, many other "taboo" subjects and common objects and people, Whitman and Dickinson address the larger matters of life, namely death and religion. Although they often deal with the same themes, their approaches differ and both pioneered their own unique style of writing. Whitman's style of free verse develops in complex and expansive lines and stanzas, which are nevertheless visually descriptive, painting to the readers a clear picture of what he wants them to see through a direct and impacting tone. Dickinson's works, in contrast, condense intense feelings and thoughts in a few terse |
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Signs of Strength in a Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen's A Doll House sheds some light on how married women of the middle class in the nineteenth and early twentieth century were not respected in the household to the extent where even their thoughts and ideas were ignored. Torvald is a man who plays right in to the role of a man in the nineteenth and early twentieth century with the way he treats Nora. When Torvald calls Nora "my little skylark" (1490) or "my squirrel" (1489) he is degrading her and treating her like an unwanted possession, rather than his wife. He constantly emotionally and mentally abused Nora in the way he treated her. Due to the way he treated her and her lack of freedom with her own life Nora made the choice to leave him and her three children to make a better life for herself. Throughout their life together Torvald pushes Nora farther and farther into leaving him and their children. By calling Nora a multitude of unpleasant nicknames rather than by her ow |
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Letter from NLSIU Students Regarding CurfewDear Sir. We, the members of the Student Bar Association, write this letter to place on record our concerns and objections with respect to the documents described above; first, with respect to the decision to impose a curfew at 9 p.m., second, with respect to the manner of arriving at such a decision, and third, with the manner of notification of such moves to our parents. I. WITH RESPECT TO THE CURFEW OF 9 P.M. BEING IMPOSED ON THE STUDENTS At the outset, we sincerely appreciate the concerns that you have raised with respect to our safety. We are deeply grateful for the security measures that have been introduced on campus, including the stationing of guards near Gate One, better fencing, checking of identity cards after 9 p.m. and steps taken towards introducing biometric scanners at entrances to the campus and hostels. We understand that your decision to impose a curfew of 9 p.m. is motivated by this end, especially with the recent hysteria surrounding the unfortunate incident of |
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The Brazil World Cup ControversyIn 2007, FIFA announced that Brazil would host the 2014 World Cup that would feature 12 new and refurbished stadiums encompassed in one of the most soccer crazed countries in the world. During this period the economy in Brazil was flourishing with the GDP up 4.5% compared to the previous year and at an all time high for the country itself. Fast forward to 2014 and there economy has almost collapsed, with many markets struggling and poverty at a high. The government still believed that they could respect the opportunity to host the World Cup and push through with the construction; however, there were some serious issues. A major problem among this construction of the stadiums was the placement, as they were put up in essentially the middle of the jungle far from the more prominent and wealthier parts of Brazil. Thus the 2014 World Cup was caught in a huge controversy that portrayed almost a textbook definition of class antagonism. Class antagonism is casually defined as "class warf |
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Religious and Social Hypocrisy in Jane EyreReligion is portrayed in the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte interlaces different religious thoughts in her mid-nineteenth century English setting. All through the novel, Jane Eyre mixes different religious experiences, which she has gained from distinctive sources. While Jane was youthful, she had just a Biblical course outlook point of view consolidated with the hopeless passionate states of her surroundings. This thus prompted Jane being mean with Mrs. Reed. Despite the fact that Jane thinks Helen may have admittance to some profound spiritual truth, Jane cannot comprehend Helen's "convention of continuance" or her sensitivity for her torturer. Dissimilar to Helen, Jane puts stock in respecting individuals who appreciate her. At the point when struck without reason, the victimized person needs to "strike back again hard," to instruct the attacker a lesson (Brontë, 1990). As readers saw in her last argument with Aunt Reed, Jane immovably puts emphasis in striking back and retal |
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The Upside of Single Sex SchoolsSingle-sex education helps children grow up in a learning environment without distractions of the opposite sex and where they feel completely comfortable. There are many benefits to attending a single sex high school in preparation for ones' future. As a student at the University of Missouri I have come to the realization that going to an all boys or an all girls school is quite the norm. A good chunk of Mizzou's population is from Saint Louis, where the better education is believed to be in single sex private schools. There are definitely differences when it comes to comparing coed schooling and single-sex schooling. Students benefit from customized learning at same-sex schools. Boys and girls learn very differently and excel in different subjects so it's helpful for them to be separated. A student who attends a single-sex high school is more likely to communicate with their professors openly and without fear. Students who attended single-sex high schools did not miss out on opportuni |
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Business Investors in ChinaOne of the reasons that China's GDP has been growing at a yearly average of ten percent for the past two decades is the large amount of Foreign Direct Investment coming from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the West. However, China's GDP growth rate dropped to 8.7 percent during 2012 with a slow down in export growth from 26% to 7%. A lot of economists started to doubt that this might be the end of the phenomenon of the Chinese export miracle. With other developing countries emerging in East Asia, many investors have begun to consider moving their factories and investments out of China and into countries where the costs of labor and supplies are cheaper. This paper will attempt to predict whether investors will move out of China and into other developing countries as `well as predicting the result from the following aspects: infrastructure of the country, business environment, and currency values; but the main focus will be on labor issues. What are some of the rising developing countries in E |
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The Plight of the ImmigrantOften, without us even realizing it, we are the victims of stereotyping. Stereotyping is generalizing a group of people based on skin color, race, gender, and age, amongst other things. Stereotyping can be as simple as your freshman comp2 teacher asking her 10 o'clock class if they had a part-time job during the summer. However it can be as brutal as a police officer pulling over a car full of Hispanics and asking for immigration papers. Even though stereotyping is frequently unconscious, it is still an unjust categorization of a group of people. For example, when society thinks of illegal immigrants, Hispanics tend to come to mind. Yet America forgets about our northern boarder as if they too cannot be illegal immigrants. Since America has stereotypically put Hispanics as the face of illegal immigration, society continues to only recognize their race as suspects of illegal immigration and it has resulted in a less sympathetic society. The article "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Game is Actually Happening at Texas School," (2013) does a good job of |
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Muhammad Yunus and Transformational LeadershipMuhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur who is known best for founding The Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. He is a visionary whose leadership style is similar to that of a transformational leader. Transformational leadership develops followers by challenging them to think outside of what they are accustomed to or believe was possible. They motivate them to do so by keeping up with high morals and values that help guide their performance (Avolio, 1999). Most outstanding leaders derive their core values and qualities through crucible events. Thomas (2009) defines crucible events as those trials or tests which force individuals to question who they are and what is most important to them. For Yunus, it was the mentoring relationship that Yunus had with his mother, Sofia Khatun, along with the poverty that he was surrounded with that inspired and pushed him to be the leader that he is today (Yunus, 1998). His mother had always put awa |
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Democracy and CapitalismDemocracy v. Capitalism After two millions years of human evolvement, not only have we changed drastically and physically, but we have also formed different types of societies and governments throughout the years. Two of these important evolvements include democracy and capitalism which are used widely in numerous countries both developed and developing throughout the wold. Nonetheless, whether these two factors of society relate to each other beneficially and whether they are bound to together have been widely discussed. Capitalism and democracy have much in common and are, in the modern world, intertwined in various ways, but they have to be seen as separate forces of openness in the world (Democracy and Capitalism). Democracy has long been known since the creation of the Greek Athenian society in 507B.C (Athenian Dem |
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The High Protein Paleo DietThe high protein diet I chose to analyze is the Paleo diet. The Paleo Diet is centered around consumption of foods that were available during the Paleolithic Era which dated back to around 600,000-700,000 years ago and ended roughly 10,000 years ago. It is designed to mimic the eating habits of our hunter-gatherer ancestors to promote better health and to achieve leaner body masses. The Paleo Diet consists of the consumption of all-natural foods rather than our modern day processed foods. Paleo dieters as well as researchers believe that ever-present health issues, such as heart disease, obesity, and diabetes can be partially linked to the modern diets and sedentary lifestyles found in America as well as other places. To simplify this diet, if a caveman didn't eat it, then it should be omitted from the daily food plans. The health issues that are seen today were rarely, if ever seen during the Paleolithic era The Paleo diet consists of the absolutely no grains/starches, artific |
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Changing Curriculum for RelevanceFarrant (1980:24) defines curriculum as "all that is taught in a school including the time tabled subjects and all those aspects of its life." If a curriculum is going to be relevant it must respond to the charges in society. The relevance and effectiveness of a curriculum which will be good for school instruction must thus take into consideration the changes in society; society should be given an opportunity for inclusion of its aspirations. It becomes important that the curriculum is constructed in light of the factors that are present in society and how these factors change over time such as the culture and the availability of resources and the ideology of a nation. This essay will thus discuss the view that effective curriculum must respond to changes in society. One of the factors that an effective curriculum must consider is the ideology of a society or nation. An ideology is a way of thinking which forms a basis for an economic or |
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Personal Statement of PurposeI have a warm and lovely family with five members. Being the eldest of three children in the family, my parents have high expectation of me. I believe the eldest child plays a vital role in the structure of the family. I have a propensity to be confident and often crave my independence since I was young. My parents trust me to set an impressive example for my younger siblings. Apart from my parents, I often feel obligated to set the standards of what the right things to do and to advise my younger siblings to learn from my experiences when they were the same age. This accountability instills in me a motivation to act in a respectable and responsible manner. I was an architecture major at ABC University and I earned my Master's Degree in Architecture at XYZ. While devoting most of my time to architectural studies for six years, I found |
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Legal and Non-Legal Responses to the Rwandan GenocideTo a large extent, the legal and non-legal response during the genocide was ineffective and insufficient, however responses succeeding the event proved to be increasingly effective. During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, it is clear that the aid and military response of the UN was highly ineffective, closely followed by the inaction of many powerful nation-states, often to avoid political instability or loss. Non-legal responses to the genocide such as NGO's and international media were effective in the attempt of upholding human rights and spreading awareness, however were not profoundly effective due to the sustained atrocities for four months. Despite the ultimately ineffective nature of legal and non-legal response during the genocide, the subsequent responses proved to be effective by contributing to a degree of justice, closure and education about the event to discourage similar atrocities from occurring in future. The legal response to the Rwandan genocide during the event was h |
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