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Determination to Downfall in MacbethMarchee Bass Professor Zack Burks Enl 2330 November 25, 2014 From Determination to Downfall To be placed as the cover for a book with such a title as, "Shakespeare's Unruly Women," both front and back, one side showing your deceitful, hateful, and troubled eyes as well as the dagger you planted to help execute murder, shows that you are most likely to be placed at the top of the list for blood and wealth thirsty characters and women for that matter. Although she started off as strong and unfortunately persuasive, she died confused, haunted, and alone. Her first lines of the play shows just how inhuman she really is, "That I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valor of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round." (Act 1 Scene 5 Line 25-7) Which of course helps support just how persuasive and possessive she really is and just how far she would go to get what she wants. Which is probably why fate and karma hit her hard in the stomach towa |
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The Man from Mars - Story and MovieReading a book stimulates our imagination, we imagine how the characters look like and the places where the actions develop. Totally different is when we see a movie; we see the characters, and the places, so there is no place for imagination. But what happen when a book that you have read is adapted for a movie? Ideally, a book and its movie version have to complement each other, but sometimes it change things that you have imagine, while you have been reading the book. However, movies can accomplish things that books can not, and vice versa; and movies have limitations that books do not have. This seems to be the case of the movie and the short story, "The Man for Mars" written by Margaret Atwood. Although the story and the movie share many similarities, there are two clear differences regarding the main character of both formats, Christine. One of the differences is the place where Christine relaxes and meditates. In the short |
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Freefall - The JumpHave you ever thought about jumping out of a plane? Throughout my whole life, I do not think there have been too many life changing events. But there has been one event recently that I believe has had a major impact for the future, when I went skydiving. On the twenty first of August in 2015, my mom, my brother and I went to a place called Skydive Adventure located in the small town of Omro near Oshkosh. When I woke up in the morning I had many mixed feelings. I was extremely pumped as well as nervous, since I am afraid of heights. The whole drive there, there was a bunch of talk about nerves as well as excitement. My mom was the one who was scared the most, she was both afraid of heights as well as afraid of the super slim possibility of losing one of her children. My brother on the other hand was not scared at all, he has been wanting to go skydiving since he was 15. Once we finally got there, after an hour of riding in the car, we had to fill out some paper work agreeing that we u |
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Statement of Purpose - Academic Goals"Across Kenya, there's a terrible secret, hidden from the world. People who barely exist. They live in darkened rooms, if you call it livingthey're Locked Up and Forgotten." That is an excerpt from a 2011 CNN documentary showing the rot in Kenya's mental health system. There are an estimated 3 million, mostly poor, Kenyans living with a mental health problem, according to Non-Government organizations and United Nations figures. These range from common disorders like depression and anxiety, to disorders like psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, substance and alcohol abuse among others. Ultimately the situation is worsened by the pervasive culture of denial, silence, negativity and stigmatization of the patient and the families they come from, in turn largely impeding their treatment. Not forgetting that there are too few specialists with mental health training and too many gaps existing in mental health provision. |
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Oedipus and the Curse of Good DeedsNo one would doubt Oedipus as a glorious king, especially the King of Suffering. His confronting with Sphinx, his tender empathy for the Thebans, and his resolve to rescue Thebes from the plague successfully prove his greatness, which makes him an honored king. In addition to a successful king, he possesses the capabilities of investigating as well-swiftness, perseverance, and wisdom. However it is also these great traits that curse Oedipus and lead him to the ultimate truth which he strives for and, ironically, he fatefully suffers from. He saves the Thebans from the Sphinx but fails to do so from Laois's murderer-Oedipus himself, which makes the investigation so agonizing and eventually leads his life to an even poorer end. Oedipus, like Sherlock Holmes, moves ahead of others. Holmes visualized the geographical characteristics of the moor with a detailed map before he arrives at Devonshire, a preparation which largely helps him. Similarly, Oedipus's swiftness also gives his investi |
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Comparing Ozymandias and Richard CoryBoth Shelley and Robinson present death as something which is inevitable and inescapable, regardless of power, riches or the respect of others. However, while Shelley's speaker almost revels in the fact that the boasts of Ozymandias have been proven to be hollow in his death, Robinson presents a very different picture: a man who appears not to care for riches and power and who sees death as an escape from personal misery. Both Ozymandias and Richard Cory focus on powerful individuals who inevitably meet death. Richard Cory is set in a the fictional village of Tilbury and all his work are fictional whereas Ozymandias is about real life events from "an antique land." Both poems have been influenced by the poets life and experiences. The two poems were wrote in two very different periods of times. Ozymandias was wrote in around 1792 whereas Richard Cory was wrote around 1924. The difference in time periods make Edward Arlington Robinson and Percy Bysshe Shelley write in very di |
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The Art of PersuasionAristotle sufficiently deprived an effective form/definition of rhetoric that I complied strongly with terms of acknowledgment towards my comprehensive understanding of rhetoric in addition to all of its associated appeals and strategies. I believe that persuasion is one of the most crucial strategies in approaching specified audiences/readers successfully. Nonetheless, to correlate my writing advancement in English 108 by defining rhetoric as Rhetoric is "the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion." To simplify this statement further, reflect and rebound the ideas of how you were persuaded. For example, imagine how the connection between professors and your current student status is. The argument in which teacher influenced/persuaded you mostly is probably the one which implies positive characteristics and relationships with students that you discovered to be generally appealing by focusing their methods of persuasion using good terms of |
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A Letter of AppealTo Whom It May Concern, I am writing this letter to further explain the reasoning behind my actions. As I came into school this fall 2015 semester I was made aware that my financial scholarships were taken away and no longer rewarded to me because of my last year's actions. My grades were not up to standards as they should have been. Because of this, I was not given my scholarships that help to pay for my tuition. I decided that college is where I want to be so despite the financial hardships in paying for college, I had to find ways to pay what my awards covered before. Although my actions show I do not deserve these awards at the moment, I feel that I can prove this year and years to come that I do. School is very important to me and finding an easier way to afford it will make it all easier for me to continue in the College of Mount Saint Vincent. There were various reasons behind my actions that will no longer be repeated. My first year of c |
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Literacy Critique Essay - History Repeats ItselfFrom the beginning of time and the development of language, we as people have been cataloging and writing memories and experiences that shape us. Ancient peoples wrote on cave walls, carved stone, created paper out of papyrus, built a printing press, copied the bible by hand, etc. We are accustomed to writing. Writing is in our blood and helped build our literate society. Now, we are to consider what makes "good writing" good. The best authors were and are just normal people, so what has made them the best? How has the past writing we have encountered shaped our writing? A quick survey of fifty University of Arkansas students shows that 60% do not consider themselves good writers. Of that 60%, almost all of them would prefer personal writing to academic writing. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients." All of our writing is a compilation of things we already knew, experienced, read, and wrote. Our writing level depends |
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Before the Game"You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out it was the other way around all the time." I never realized how true this quote from Jim Bouton was until my senior year of high school came around. I first picked up the nine inch, five ounce ball of rubber, thin string, and leather when I was four years old and it had its grip locked on me from that day forward. It was now my senior year and I was on a school bus with forty-five guys on the way to a baseball game two hours away in Lake Charles. We were on the way to play the defending state and national champion Barbe Buccaneers, who had embarrassed us 13-3 on our home field the year before. The emotions were high because we knew that if we were going to stand a chance against the number one team in the country, we were going to have to give this game everything that we had to offer. The biggest obstacle we had been through at this point was talking our coach into letting Bryce, our star pitcher, pitch this game. Weeks ago coach was just going |
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Escape from Alcatraz: A 47-Year ManhuntAlcatraz, better known as "The Rock" was the first ever high security federal penitentiary among the United States of America. Alcatraz held most of the high dangerous criminals ever in history. Laura Sullivan tells a story how a group of three men escaped The Rock successfully without ever being found. What is the most shocker is that still to this day they are still hunting them down. These three escapees, Frank Morris, John Anglin, Clarence Anglin, were sent to Alcatraz for their records of bank robberies and also escaping the prison that they was at before they got sent here. But little did the guards know that those three men did not intend to stay under any circumstance. For at least six months the three of them had planned and mapped out an escape plan to get out. They did whatever it took as far as stealing raincoats to attempt to make a boat and life vests, made real life replicas of their heads out of soap bars, and stole spoons from the cafeteria to make tunnels that they could get through. As the article states, "On June 12, 1962, they vanished, launching the largest manhunt of its time, |
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The Rise and Fall of the BlackberrySince the economic crisis that came about in late 2007 and 2008, America has seen many well-known companies teeter on the brink of collapse. Companies such as Sears, Time Warner Cable, RadioShack, Home Depot, CitiGroup, General Motors, Barnes and Noble, and Lululemon were all at one point, and some still are, riddled by financial woes. One company that knows how it feels to fall from the top is Blackberry Ltd. While the company was at one time top media/communications product firms, with stocks hitting a high of $149.90 per share, it quickly plummeted as an indirect result of the Great Recession. As Blackberry becomes increasingly obsolete, can strategic management help save the company? The following will look at what effect market penetration, market development, and product development could have for the future of Blackberry. First, let's that a brief look at the history of Blackberry, Ltd. The company started in 1988 under that name Research in Motion (RIM), founded by Mike Lazari |
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Import Food Control and Hong Kong's CompetitivenessImagine a city where most of the food, if not all, in the territory are literally inedible, and premature death is rampant, would you still take risk and stay? A staggering number of food scandals in Hong Kong have caught the attention of the public lately. These scandals apparently provide ample evidence for the government's loosened import food control, and this would give rise to a food-borne disease outbreak that causes economic loss and social disorder. Firstly, it is without doubt a blunder for the government to be negligent in import food control because it would adversely affect our economy. Hong Kong always prides itself on high standard of food safety; however, its reputation as a "food paradise" has been blemished because the consecutive food scares give people an impre |
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Concert Review - Shakespeare in SongShakespeare in Song is a concert performed by Artes Vocales of Los Angeles on Saturday, May 30, 2015, and this is the concert I chose to attend for this concert report. The concert was held at First Baptist Church of Pasadena California which is located at 75 North Marengo Avenue. The concert features selections by famous composers such as Felix Mendelssohn, Giuseppe Verdi and Ralph Vaughn Williams, and it is conducted by Dr. Steven Kronauer, who is the chair of the voice department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I think he is one of the reason why this concert could draw large audiences. Furthermore, three actors, Bree Pavey, Raymond Donahey and Brendan Haley, also joined concert and used their wonderful talents to perfectly reproduce the scenes from Shakespeare's play. Before attending this concert, I did some research about the background information of the Shakespeare's work. I think it benefited my concert experience dramatically because it does not only helps me |
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African-American MasculinityEver since African Americans have arrived in America, the evolution of African American masculinity has come a long way. Over the years, black masculinity has evolved concerning the way we carry our self and our sexuality. Masculinity is pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men. The masculinity of the African male has and still plays a major role in history. Since the first slave was brought to America from Africa, there masculinity had major role in their life as slaves. The way they looked concerning body features and physical presence determined whether or not they were "worth" anything. Slave owners were interested in slaves who looked as if they were fit for what was "hard labor" at that time. I would imagine that the natural African American build, along with a foreign language, different ways of communication, and the anger that had just been birthed between two cultures at the time was enough to intimidate. There had revolts going on while trying to |
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The Realities of Media ViolenceThe world today has changed extensively over the last fifty years. Most people agree that technology is a hefty contributor to the change. Knowing that technology has been the cause for the massive transition, there is something else about society that has changed over the years. This change is human beings, including their actions and thoughts. The people that live in the world today, are far beyond different from the people who lived fifty years ago or even before that time. Mankind has moved on from a modest life style to a more threatening life style. The number of murderers, thieves, kidnappers, and all kinds of criminal activities are at an all-time high. Trusting people is getting harder and harder each day. Killing sprees and terrorists attacks are happening more frequently. A number of citizens, officials, and Medias have blamed these actions on exposure to violence in games, television, and computers. Media violence has been the number one blamed source for the cause of aggre |
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My Attempt to Save My DreamWriting is a quintessential part of society today. Without the ability to write, we might be thrown back into the Stone Age and into dark times. It allows us to do several things that without writing wouldn't be possible. More or less so it opens the world up around us and allows technological advances and things of that nature. There are different forms of writing in the world we live in today. You can hand write something, which is the more traditional form, or you can type it, which is the modern day form of writing. In the 21st century we use handwriting to do several things such as: writing papers, doing worksheets, writing notes, and also writing ourselves reminders. Basically nothing has changed from the traditional sense of handwriting. As for typing, we have put a more modern spin on it as we use typing to send text messages, compose tweets, and even type up emails. All of these things connect us to the people around us and even around the world. On a more spiritual level, w |
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Diagnosing Abnormal BehaviorsIn the Abnormal Psychology Level of Analysis, it is very difficult to define what behavior is considered abnormal, and even more difficult to objectively diagnose someone with a specific condition or disorder that results in their abnormal behavior. What is supposed to be a total objective assessment can become a very subjective evaluation because of the many factors that influence classification/diagnosis systems which include both cultural and ethical considerations that will affect both the patient and the person making the diagnosis. Not all diagnosis is highly subjective. If a patient displays abnormal behavior where the psychologist can clearly identify the condition/disorder, suitable treatment can be applied accordingly without complications. Still, the likeliness of subjectivity can still be increased with cultural considerations. Concepts of normality and abnormal |
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The House of the SpiritsThe House of the Spirits Although throughout most of his time in the novel "The House of the Spirits", written by Isabel Allende, Esteban Trueba acts as selfish person who for the most part has no respect for people's lives. Toward the end of the novel through his own reflections, does the good of his presence come out. The goodness that comes out from Esteban's presence mitigates the bad in his younger years, since he realizes his actions to be selfish and comes to a self-understanding of himself. Despite the fact that Esteban's connection with his family had many atrocities, the outcomes of his actions do lessen the acts he committed in his younger years. Esteban works to insure that his family is comfortable, one good aspect that comes out of him. Though because of his incessant lust and arrogance, he is cruel to his family for the choices that they make. Some examples of his cruelty are his attempt to kill Pedro, his knocking out of Clara's teeth, and his raping of women |
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Toni Morrison - BelovedSpeaking Things Unspeakable Throughout Toni Morrison's story Beloved, there are many occurrences of unspeakable acts. The way Morrison portrays these acts, usually through dialogue, is subtle and not gruesome. She has the acts explained very respectfully without demeaning the situation, or the person, even more. All the unspeakable acts Toni Morrison proclaims assists in showing the horrors that African Americans had to go through during slavery. To begin, throughout Morrison's story she shows how African Americans were treated worse than animals were. They were feed old, stale, moldy food just like animals: "The bread is sea-colored" (249). Hundreds of them were crammed into small areas just like animals: "I cannot fall because there is no room to" (249). They were chained down so that they could not move just like animals: "The iron circle is around our neck" (250). Essentially, in one part of the story Paul D states how a rooster was freer tha |
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The Threat of Radical Islamic TerrorismIntroduction The emergence of terror as a means through which people purport to fight for their rights and recognition is one of the most absurd phenomena in human history. The fact that terror is now anchored in religion makes it necessary for nations to develop policies so as to advance the state of security across the world and also ensure that terrorists are dealt with even when they cross international borders (Vidino, 2008). Since the September 11th terrorist attack in US soil, terror attempts have risen across the world and although a number have been thwarted, quite many have also been successful resulting in many casualties (Boyle, 2011). There have been terror attacks against American interests such as the twin bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, Oklahoma city bombing in 1995, US embassy bombing in Libya in 2012, among many others. One of the alarming facts is that the majority of terror attacks are orchestrated by Islamists who take a radical stance in the |
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry David Thoreau"A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law" The following quote depicts the relationship Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King, Jr. shared. Thoreau declared that if man were left in their natural state and not influenced by society, he would unpretentiously be moral. He also declared that all people could connect to God through themselves. For the two years Thoreau lived at Walden Pond, he tried connecting himself with God and to the nature around him, in search of peace and tranquility. In relations to this quote, Martin Luther King can set forth that the "just" laws are ones of natural and spiritual state influenced by God, before the society has time to corrupt them. In addition to that, he states that the unjust laws are out of harmony with the moral laws, indicating that the depictions have been corrupted by discordant society. During King's experience in th |
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Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature1 Enoch is one of the foundational texts of Jewish apocalyptic literature. 1 Though not an official part of the Jewish canon, Enoch's journey into the realm of angels, and God's revelation of "all mysteries" (Enoch 59:2) regarding the end of days and the salvation of the elect do form an important scaffolding upon which subsequent Jewish apocalyptic literature is built. (Couliano 1991) Scholars believe that Enoch was composed by several different authors over the span over 200 years, from the third to first century before Christ.2 The Revelation of St. John, one of the foundational Christian apocalyptic texts (Vanderkam 1996), was written at the end of the first century AD3. It is in several ways strikingly similar to Enoch's otherworldly journey. Both texts make reference to the Lamb(s) of God, to a messianic figure who will herald the end of days, to the beasts (dragons and leviathons) who will raze the earth of sinners, and both texts describe a very similar process by |
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Movie Overview - Wall StreetThe motion picture Wall Street (1987), composed and coordinated by Oliver Stone, speaks the truth a youngster and aggressive stock specialist, Bud Fox, attempting to gain from and get to be similar to his object of worship, an avaricious, corrupt, and uncontrollably fruitful corporate plunderer named Gordon Gekko. In the motion picture, Bud Fox advances into Gekko's office at first through industriousness yet makes his imprint by advising Gekko of inside data with respect to an organization, Blue Star Airlines. Gekko prizes Bud Fox by demonstrating to him the rich and quick life, and Bud Fox keeps on assisting Gekko with profiting in an illicit manner. In the long run, Bud Fox needs to be in on a piece of an arrangement that includes Blue Star Airlines, for which his dad is a worker's guild head. The arrangement turns sour for Bud Fox when he discovers that Gekko arrangements to disassemble the organization and offer its parts, obliterating his dad's and dad's companions' employments, |
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The Enormous Radio by John CheeverIn Cheever's "The Enormous Radio" a seemingly "perfect" American family is forced to look inward to discover certain truths about themselves instead of judging outward towards others around them. .Irony floods this short story as the Westcott's are far from being the "perfect family," and the community they try to conform to is just as flawed as the Westcott's' themselves. Jim and Irene Westcott are a typical American family with "satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and respectability" (Cheever 101) who hopes of one day moving to a nice suburb in New York City. Early in the story we are shown aspects of the Westcott's' character and desire to conform to those around them, "and in the cold weather she wore a coat of fitch skins dyed to resemble mink" (101). Irene wants to present herself as something she is not, a person with a perfect life, marriage, and one with little to no conflict. The Westcott's are different in one way; they share an i |
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