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The Cause of the Black DeathAlthough there was many thoughts on where the Black Death originally came from the most reliable source stated that it most likely arrived by ship in 1347. It is thought to believe that 12 Genoese trading ships coming into the port of Messina after traveling through the Black Sea carried this deadly plague. A majority of the sailors on board the twelve boats were dead, and the individuals who were still alive were gravely ill. The disease spread so rapidly as a result of the infected rats and ticks coming over from the other countries (History.com Staff 2). Once tainted, the patient had an exceptionally constrained time of life left, and that period would be repulsive most definitely. Another one of the beliefs was that it was caused by the bacterium Yersinia Pestis, a fatal bacteria that infects humans and animals (Scott 1). The Bubonic plague is a disease of rodents that lurks in isolated parts of central Asia and northern Africa (1). One major underlying caus |
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A Look at Women in MinistryYou are sitting in the sanctuary of a church. You have just engaged in worship, greeted those around you, and listened to announcements of upcoming events and ministry opportunities. Now it's time for the pastor's sermon. The senior pastor comes to the pulpit, and to your surprise, it's a woman. How do you react? Do you feel uncomfortable at all, and if so, is that discomfort warranted? Before researching the topic extensively, I would have argued yes. However, I have come to change my mind about leadership positions for women in ministry after closely considering the Bible passages those against the ordination of women commonly point to, by looking at examples of Biblical and historical women in ministry, and by coming to an understanding that the gifts of the spirit are imparted to both men and women. Analyzing scripture with an impartial eye will reveal that there is overwhelming Biblical support toward the ordination of women in ministry. The controversial topic of the rol |
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Generation Obese: Childhood Obesity in South CarolinaIntroduction Generation Obese is symbolic to the current generation increase in the prevalence of overweight children and adolescents in America. Childhood obesity around the world, particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that has received much attention lately. Government officials are becoming more and more concerned for the nation's health. Now recognized as a public health crisis, the sweeping notion of obesity has been coined as the bubonic plague of the 21st century. Obesity is huge problem in the United States, Americans are grossly overweight, not only adults but also children. Childhood obesity often tracks adulthood: obese children are very likely to be obese adults. Obesity primarily in children is an important issue because of the staggering proportions that it has reached in the past few years. Generation obese is the first generation in modern history to see a shorter life- expectancy than their parents. Statistics shows that one-third of children an |
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The Importance of an Effective Movie TrailerThe movie trailer, the most common but vital marketing campaign element, is the art of the tease and lure. With about 2 minutes, marketers attempt to give the audience an inkling of premise, actors, scene, and tone of the movie in order to convince audience to buy a ticket and sit in the cinema for 2 hours. Today, the trailer market is quite mature and even stereotypic, especially in Hollywood. Film investors are willing to spend millions of dollars for a 2 to 3 minutes video because they know well that the trailer could greatly affect the opening and following gross of a movie. A few weeks ago, I watched the trailer of the film "Her" by Spike Jonze occasionally. In this two and half minutes video, the transition, the climax, the breakdown, the emotion changes, the tone of scripts, the music of piano, they are mixed and paired harmoniously and elegantly, making me feel the character. But after watching the movie, I thought its trailer is more graceful and exquisite than mov |
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Analysis of Rhetorical Strategies - Benazir BhuttoIn "Islam and Democracy," Benazir Bhutto argues that the religion of Islam and Democratic values aren't inherently at opposite ends of the governmental spectrum, they just haven't been given a fair chance to coexist. Bhutto believes the western notion of incompatibility between Islam and democracy is used to divert attention from the involvement of western imperialist powers. Western political intervention in the affairs of the Muslim countries remains to be the biggest impediment in their evolution and growth as democratic institutions. Bhutto grew up in Pakistan, where Islam is not just a religion, but a set of rules on how to live your life. She then went on to study abroad at Harvard University, giving her the experience of freedom of speech, elected representatives, and minority rights, which is what defines a full-fledged western democracy. This influences her idea of what a perfect government for Pakistan could be. She starts off this chapter of her book with a proleps |
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Poe and The Masque of the Red Death"The Masque of the Red Death," was written by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809. Edgar Allan Poe had an excessively agonizing life[ CITATION Lyb15 l 1033 ]. His father left when he was about one and his mother died from tuberculosis when he was only two years of age. Poe was taken in by John and Francis Allan, this is the origin of his middle name. Poe's foster parents sent him to very good schools and eventually he attended the University of Virginia[ CITATION Lyb15 l 1033 ]. Though Edgar Allan Poe excelled in his studies at the University of Virginia, he was forced to leave after less than a year due to gambling debts that John Allan refused to pay. After leaving college, Poe enlisted in the army. After his stint in the Army, Poe attended the United States Military Academy[ CITATION Lyb15 l 1033 ]. However, he was yet again forced to discontinue his studies for financial reasons. As a young man, Poe had a continuous struggle over money with John A |
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The Enlightenment: An Era of OptimismThe Enlightenment was an intellectual movement occurring in Europe throughout the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This period placed an emphasis on reason, analysis, and individualism in place of the traditional authorities like the Church that had played a major role in people's lives since the beginning of the Dark Ages. The Enlightenment also saw the development of optimism in regards to the abilities of humans to solve their own problems with their government and societies. People of the time were searching for a rational approach to creating a better society for themselves due to the political and economic changes that were occurring at a rapid rate across Europe. Extreme growth across the continent gave way for a need for societal reforms.The Enlightenment was a era of extreme optimism towards the individual's capability of solving their own problems that resulted in the development of new political, economic, and psychological ideas. John Locke's Two Treaties on Gov |
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Sectional Divisions and Political Breakdowns: 1830 to 1860Important events in the 1830s began in 1831 with the British parliament enacting legislation to put an end to slavery throughout the British Empire and publication in Boston of The Liberator, the radical abolitionist weekly newspaper edited by William Lloyd Garrison. The Liberator soon grow to national attention, even in the South. "And heard he was, because southerners, outraged by his inflammatory rhetoric (one editorial called slaveowners "an adulterous and perverse generation, a brood of vipers") reprinted Garrison's editorials in their own newspapers in order to condemn them" (Foner 467). Related events of the 1830s included mobbing, roping and nearly hanging of Garrison in 1835 and destruction of the printing press of James G. Birney in 1836 in Cincinnati, Ohio. "In 1837, the antislavery editor Elijah P. Lovejoy became the movement's first martyr when he was killed by a mob in Alton, Illinois, while defending his press." (474-475) Lovejoy would not |
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The Immorality of Coerced AbortionAccording to a major international medical report, 64% of American females had abortions due external pressures (Rue et. al.). Coerced abortion can be defined as the termination of a pregnancy against the mother's wishes. In fact, adverse circumstances such as financial issues, health problems, and social affair cause abortion to be most women's last resort, even though they are not willing to undergo abortions (Reardon). Therefore, some people opt to believe that forced abortion is good for the mothers in some ways. However, it is the other way around with people who think of the downsides and the immoralities of forced abortion. Hence, pressured abortion is considered as an unethical action because it can harm the mother specifically on her psychological status, subsequent pregnancy and faith in society. Psychological effects depend on the wantedness of the pregnancy. For instance, a woman who terminates an unwanted pregnancy might find the abortion psychologically advantageous inst |
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Charlemagne - A Great LeaderThe world depends on leaders. It waits for someone to unify the world. Bad leaders corrupt the world, and in response, the world revolts against, resulting in their fall. Great leaders shape the world to become greater than it was; they unify and stabilize the world by ruling it under one belief. One great leader and conqueror was Alexander the Great. He was the king of Macedonia and a military commander (Emmons 9). He was an admirable leader in many eyes (Emmons 1). Another great leader and conqueror was Charlemagne. King Charlemagne was a Frankish emperor who expanded his empire and converted pagans to Christianity through missionaries. The most important primary source for Charlemagne is "The Life of Charlemagne" which is a detailed biography of Charlemagne and his accomplishments. This primary source is written by Einhard, Charlemagne's courtier and servant. When King Pepin III ruled over the Franks in 742 C.E, his wife, Bertrada, gave birth to a baby boy whose name was |
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The Spirtitual Journey's of Dante and AugustineAugustine's Confessions and Dante Alighieri's Inferno are both stories about lost men on a journey to find salvation and God's grace in heaven. They both have different processes of learning and methods of teaching. They make many mistakes and are affected by various temptations, but they learn from their sins and temptations while gaining maturity and understanding. These stories represent Dante and Augustine's lives' to becoming faithful Christians. Augustine became a very influential educator and a passionate spiritual leader. Manichaeanism, "a dualistic religion that resembled early Christianity in emphasizing the life of the mind and the drive toward increasing spiritual purity" became a very intriguing aspect to Augustine. (Augustine, 45.3) He overtook his strong suit in education while becoming a public speaker, teaching grammar, rhetoric, then took over writing honorific speeches for the court in Milan. Finally after accomplishing all of these, he was a dominant spir |
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The Ramifications of Individual DiscoveryDiscovery always change the people involved as they experience something for the first time or rediscover that has been lost, forgotten or concealed. Often times there is a physical or emotional catalyst that invariably directs the individual to a spiritual, emotional or intellectual moment of self discovery, where the individual ultimately changes perspective of themselves and the world. This is prevalent in Michael Gow's Away 1986, Shaun Tan's The Red Tree 2001 and Cat Stevens, Two lives (Australian Women's Weekly May 2002). The composers of the aforementioned texts use literary and visual techniques such as parallel narratives, setting, naturalism, imagery, juxtaposition,symbolism, play within a play, colour, scale, direct language, quotations, layout and body language. In each text this reveals how discoveries have ramifications on the way the individual sees themselves and the world. Collectively the texts serve to prove that these types of discoveries are only possible when we o |
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Police Brutality - You're Under Arrest!You've read about it, heard about it, and maybe even seen live footage on national television. What is it? Living in the United States, a lot of cases in today's society are Police Brutality. Police Brutality remains the most critical and divisive human rights violation in the United States of America. We are evidently supposed to put our trust in the police to protect us, not take advantage and assault the power, we, the people, have invested in them. The immoderate use of police brutality continues because police don't know how to de-escalate, most cops don't face harsh enough discipline threats, and because there are no clear policies on using force. This makes it feasible for officers who do perpetrate brutality and human rights violations to abscond their punishment and replicate their offences. Firstly, police brutality is the deliberate use of extreme force by an authority figure, which often ends with bruises, broken bones, blood shed, and in most cases death. Officers too f |
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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen CraneThe Red Badge of Courage is a novel by Stephen Crane published in 1895. This novel was written during the age of realism. The story revolves around Henry Flemming, a young soldier who has just joined the Union forces during the Civil War. The readers get to witness how Henry grows as a man in result of the war. The Red Badge of Courage is a realistic novel because it shows the reality of death, war, and the struggle to survive. The Red Badge of Courage is a realistic novel because it shows the reality of death. The novel depicts several corpses in a grueling fashion. Henry comes across a body in which Crane describes, "...the eyes, staring at the youth, had changed to a dull hue to be seen on the side of a dead fish. The mouth was open. Its red had changed o an appalling yellow. Over the gray skin of the face ran little ants. |
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Personal Behavior AnalysisBehavior is a trait of personality of an individual. It is how a person reacts to a given situation. Every day, we come across various situations where we would have reacted in ways that come naturally to us. Basically, man is a social being. He is made up of different attitudes and abilities that make him different from others. There are good attitudes that make him presentable and worthy of attention and respect. There may be ugly attitudes also that needed to be changed to a more pleasant one. Weird attitudes are also included in a person that makes him unique despite being crazy for having it. The following analysis and recommendations are for my own behaviors that were observed by others, by me and by the result of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. According to what others observed, I have lots of good behavior. She/He said that I am friendly, faithful to God, gentle, kind-hearted, fun to be with, full of determination, optimistic, straightforward and generous. I'm really thankful th |
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Diane Feinstein - Environmental ViewsDianne Feinstein is the United States Senator for California. As she is in public display, she has open views about our country's use of natural resources, and our effect on the environment. She chairs the Subcommittee on Energy and Water, and has made changes to the fuel economy standards, is an advocate of California Desert Protection and CALFED, and believes in healthy forest preservation. She was also a part of the Lake Tahoe restoration, the San Francisco Bay Wetlands restoration and the Headwater's Forest agreement. These statutory accomplishments reveal some of her views on our environment. Her choices in legislature involve the continued preservation of our environment. Feinstein supports the fuel economy standards |
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Setting in The Yellow WallpaperSetting is crucial in any piece of literature. In The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the setting shapes the entire plot of the story. The story is set in the late 1800s. It is about a woman whose mental stability is affected by childbirth and the setting she is forced to live in. The author informs the reader of the historical setting as well as the physical setting in the story, which adds much depth to the short story. Setting can set things into motion, and Gilman takes advantage of the effect setting has on short stories, and other literature as well. The Yellow Wallpaper depicts what the medical field was like during the late 1800s. During this time, many women were mistreated by medical doctors after childbirth. Many women experience psychosis after childbirth, due to the hormone imbalance often caused by giving birth. These women who did experience this would seek medical attention. Women had their infants taken from them, they were locked away in isolated rooms |
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An Inspector Calls - Mr. Arthur BirlingAn Inspector Calls is a play set in 1912 and was first performed in 1945. Arthur Birling is a 'heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech' as described by J. B. Priestley in the play. He is the owner of Birling and Co. which is a factory that employs several hundred young women. He is also the husband of Sybil Birling and the father of Sheila and Eric Birling. He was an alderman for years and Lord Mayor two years ago, as of now he is a Magistrate. This shows that he is quite a powerful and influential man in the days. In the beginning of act one, the Birling family and Gerald Croft are celebrating for Sheila's engagement to Gerald. Mr Birling sees this engagement as a chance for business expansion and merging Birling and Co. with their rivals. He said that he 'looks forward to the time Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together for lower costs and higher prices.' He stat |
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Eveline by James JoyceDecisions are always hard to make. Deciding what to eat, what to wear, or what to watch on TV are examples of difficult decisions made every day. Facing tough decisions like Eveline did in the short story "Eveline" by James Joyce, is where the stress and fear of making the right decision comes in. Eveline has to choose between her family and the man who loves her. Even if the decision is not what she truly wanted, Eveline made her decision and chooses her family over her own desires. Sacrificing desires for an altruistic decision like Eveline made are sometimes for the best. Sacrificial decisions are tough but we should make them for the ones we love. In James Joyce's "Eveline", Eveline is faced with a tough decision. Eveline's mother and older brother passed away when she was just a child. She made a promise to her mom that she would never leave the family, and she would always care for them. Eveline has it rough at home with a father who is an abusive drunk and t |
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The Hero of AgamemnonThe hero of Agamemnon is actually Agamemnon himself because of the fact that a lot of the people looked up to his because of how much he did to protect them and what all he sacrificed for them even though he is not really talked about much in the story. Agamemnon chose to fight in the battle because he wanted his family and his home to be safe because if he did not go over there to fight in the battle then eventually the other side they were fight would had made their way over to his side to fight them and he did not want to take that risk because of his family and the people he had to look out for while they were there. Agamemnon had more of a chance to realize why he actually was a hero other than his daughter Cassandra because he did not really do anything but got mad at him for going to the battle not knowing that the battle could probably happen where they live if he did not go there and Clytemnestra was not the hero because she killed her own family for no reason and she did not have any remorse about it, and if you are a hero you are going to look out for everyone around you and protect them and put them first before yourself w |
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Mass Media: Informal ControlIntroduction Control cannot be defined without first understanding deviance. Deviance may be described as the violation of social rules and norms (Macionis & Gerber, 2010). Social Control is the regulation of deviant behavior to ensure conformity to norms. There are two broad forms of social control recognized by sociologists namely, informal and formal control (Gardner, 1954). I have been tasked with identifying agents of informal social control from my own personal experience. In doing so, I hope to get a better understanding of the concept of informal control, the methods used to exercise informal control and the impact of these methods both in the short and the long term. How this Paper is Organized I first present a background of my life to give context to the identification of agents of social control. Next, I present the agents of informal control based on earlier research, and how these methods of informal control have evolved and changed over the years. Following this resea |
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Humanist Approach: Person-Centered TheoryThe Humanistic Approach covers several theories of therapy. Our focus today is on Person-Centered developed by Carl Rogers. Humanistic approaches focuses on the feelings and sensations of the client. The Personal-Centered approach promotes wellness, growth, and personal achievement while using the humanistic belief that feelings and sensations have to be the starting point for therapy. The therapist uses a variety of techniques to promote the clients growth. Person-Centered Theory is a phenomenological approach. (Seligman, 2006) It is important how people view themselves and the world. We must address the person's emotions and sensations in order to provide effective treatment. A person may show their feeling outwardly or keep the emotions hidden. People may go through difficult events in their lives that have triggered anxiety, anger, depression or other symptoms of distress. They may seek outward into society for direction and find themselves in an internal battle. However the |
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Analysis of Orwell's 1984According to my reading of dystopian literatures, there are many themes that can be used to demonstrate a change in one's perspective of the world. In "1984" by George Orwell, themes such as: totalitarianism, technology, and physical control are dramatized. In "1984", a totalitarian society was established called Oceania. Because they have very little freedom, few choose to rebel from the laws of the party. Throughout the novel, Winston Smith's diary is a symbol that serves as an act of rebellion towards the society. This is rebellion because the government doesn't want any of the people in Oceania to have freedom to think for themselves. Winston also purchased a coral paper weight that he described as "a beautiful thing" on page 105, from the same small antique shop. Winston had to clandestine his purchases from the telescreens because this was also an act of rebellion to purchase from the shop when it was looked down upon. Mr. Charrington, the shop own |
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My Inspiration - Audrey HepburnBeing an outgoing little girl playing pretend, my earliest memory of wanting to be an actress came from my grandmother's house, watching My Fair Lady. Audrey Hepburn was a vision in that ascot dress and hat. Her voice, her style, and her character blew me away. But It wasn't until a year ago that I learned more about her as a person beyond her Hollywood star persona. I consider Audrey Hepburn an inspiration to me not only as an artist but as a person. She had a traumatic childhood. When she was young her father abandoned her and her family. She lived in the Netherlands at the time of the German Invasion during World War II. The Nazi's limited the Dutch's supplies to survive, especially the food, which caused a winter famine. Audrey developed serious health issues, suffering from malnutrition. The impact of these times would shape her life and values. Audrey had the reputation of being a humble, kind and charming person, who lived the philosophy of putting others before herself. In her career, she did have some troubles and controversies being in the public eye as many stars do. She was a pleasure to work with. For an exampl |
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America and the Open Borders DebateOpen borders have become a major issue in the United States. Americans are undecided because of the benefits immigrants bring, but also because of the burden they put on their citizens. These burdens include the economy, the infrastructure, taxes, welfare, and the investment on securing the border are all the results of illegal immigration. Yet, they also benefit from the cheap labor, low prices on consumer goods, cultures, traditions, ideas, and their contribution to the economy. "Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery." Doc. 1 Even though immigration is the sincerest form of flattery, terrorists could still come from the other borders like from Canada or Mexico. These terrorists could be smuggling drugs, weapons, or people. "But most third world illegals come to the U.S. for personal economic reasons." Immigr |
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