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Computer Games and Academic PerformanceEffect of Computer Usage to the Academic Performance of the Selected Senior Students INTRODUCTION Video games have come a long way since today's adults sat down at a computer to play Pong or Donkey Kong. The newest-generation gaming consoles are as powerful as personal computers, and can accomplish many of the same things. And today's games are increasingly realistic and technologically advanced. Social networking has even made its way into the video game industry with online gaming. These virtual worlds can be complicated and perplexing to parents, which is why it's important for you to understand what your child is playing and when to get worried. Did You Know? * In 2009, over 11 million people played World of Warcraft, an online, subscription fee-based multiplayer game. * According to one study, nearly 1 in 10 young gamers displayed behavior patterns similar to addiction.1 * The Kaiser Family Foundation found that 8- to 18-year-olds are exposed to an average of 10 hours and 45 |
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Film Analysis - There Will Be Blood"There Will Be Blood" is an excellent example of classical Hollywood cinema narration. The director, Paul Thomas Anderson, had a great appreciation for the 'Golden Age of Hollywood', and this film reflects that. There Will Be Blood is a complex and thought to provoke film with seemingly endless possible interpretations. Every detail from lighting to stage direction has a deeper meaning and adds layers upon layers to this film. The plot of There Will Be Blood revolves purely around the characters in a way I have never seen. Each character posses their unique plots making the big picture of this film nothing less than a masterpiece. The theme that spoke most to me above all others was family. The film revolves around a troubled man named Daniel, his ambitions, and his attempts to create a family. Daniel is attributed with characteristics that are so deeply embedded that they will see to his own demise. On the surface, the film is relatively straightforward with a linear series of e |
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O Pioneers! - Historical ContextThe novel, O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather, conveys several ideologies about American society from the time frame it was written. Cather's characters, through the main character Alexandra, and everyone she interacts with is evident demonstrations of the type of historical context the novel entails. Through her novel, Cather can demonstrate challenges Americans faced during the late 1800s and the early 1900s, particularly in situations such as isolation and inevitable loneliness, and about gender roles. Throughout the novel, Alexandra is continually abandoned through the death of her father, fleeing neighbors, Carl's departure, her brother's endeavors, and his eventual death. Alexandra states, "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have been yours, if you care enough about |
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The Problems of Drug ProhibitionFor more than 50 years, drug prohibition, with an emphasis on enforcement through criminal justice measures, has been the policy of the United States as well as rest of the world's countries (Levine 2002). However, despite this sustained global effort, many of the goals espoused by supporters of drug prohibition have not been reached. The most obvious of these failures is the fact that drugs continue to be demanded and supplied despite prohibition (Miron 2001). Global drug production and consumption have grown steadily for decades, in spite of large government efforts to control supply (Wodak 2014). Drug prices have also continued to fall, and drugs remain easily available for much of the population (Wodak 2014). It seems clear that drug prohibition has not been successful. Additionally, many of the harms traditionally associated with drug use can be attributed to the effects of drug prohibition. Violence in drug markets is one of the negative effects of drug prohibition (Miron 2001). Disputes arise between various parties within all markets. Dis |
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The Puritans - Hope and HysteriaWhen the Puritans, a group of religious people who thought that the reforms of the Church of England weren't enough, set sail for a new land in 1629, they hoped for a new start and a place to continue the reforms of the Church. As soon as they arrived in their new home, they quickly began working on continuing the reforms by setting up the Massachusetts Bay Colony. One main thing the Puritans believed in were the two worlds that existed, the Natural World and the Invisible World. The Natural World being everything that happened in reality and the Invisible World was of the uncertain things that they couldn't explain such as spirits and God. This allowed them to believe in anything that happened spiritually as well as trusting God for everything. The Puritans dreamed of a better life in the New World with better opportunities and hopes but soon fell victim to mass hysteria due to their devotion to the Church, hidden issues, and the corruption in the judicial system. Following the typi |
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Characteristics of JudaismThe correspondence of the individual characteristics of a religion are vital in creating a powerful and positive atmospheric ethos. Religion is the faith one puts in a belief in an extraordinary or supernatural power. This belief often explains the origins of the earth and allows humans to make try and make sense of the world. For a religion to live and breath it must must incorporate four main characteristics, sacred texts and writings, ethical teachings, rituals and ceremonies, and central beliefs. Each and every one of these aspects combine and interact to create a powerful and passionate, living faith tradition.Every faith and tradition has a main viewpoint which everybody must respect and acknowledge, in order to truly belong to faith. In the case of my chosen faith Judaism, the sacred texts play are pivotal role in the creation of a dynamic religion. The jewish people are known as 'the people of the book'. This is mainly because of the great importance and emphasis placed |
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The American Prison SystemPrison Systems There are various factors that illustrate the prison environment is some of which are disparaging hence heartrending individual inmates. Crowded prisoners are accredited to chronic physical, psychological, and social chronic effects on convicts. In addition, crowded prisoners support environments for ant-social behaviors, together with lack of control for the entities. There are 3 categories of effects of crowded prisoners upon the setting of a daily convict. To begin with, space and resources are stretched beyond resourcefulness for a normal human being. Do not forget that prisons are premeditated with scarce resources. Second, convicts have inadequate chances to partake of the self-improvement and rehabilitative plans. Lastly, convicts lack work prospects leading to indolence which is coupled with disgruntlement behavior, which may be carried outside prison resulting to backsliding. This analysis defines the impacts of crowded prisons both on the society and the prison |
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The Story of an Hour: Analysis of Louise MallardLouise Mallard is happy her husband is dead. Not because she wished him harm, but she longed for the day when her choices would be her own. A person who is repressed should have the right to celebrate they're freedom, even if that freedom is won by the death of another. There are many instances in the story that illustrate what kind of life Louise lived before her husbands supposed death. By understanding those facts, it is easy to understand why any woman who was married during this period in history would be happy with their new found freedom. Louise starts to unconsciously understand what her husband's death will mean to her own life while she is alone in her room. "There was something coming to her, and she was waiting for it, fearfully." Even though the narrator describes her as "young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression" Louise is afraid of the prospect of a new life even though she is rep |
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Business Overview - Alaska Milk Corporation (AMC)Alaska Milk Corporation (AMC) is the leading milk company in the Philippines. It has consistently maintained its leadership in the canned liquid milk category (evaporated and sweetened condensed), thus, paving the way into growing Alaska into a mega-brand by competing in the powdered, ready-to-drink, and creams market, among others. In 2007, AMC further expanded its liquid milk portfolio by licensing Carnation and Milkmaid from Nestle and acquiring Alpine, Liberty and Krem-Top. This development led to AMC's move to a dominant position in the category.Apart from growing its core businesses, AMC endeavours to diversify and explore opportunities in related consumer product categories. In March 2012, Alaska Milk Corporation partnered with Royal Friesland Campina, the fifth largest dairy company in the world. AMC continues to further its mission of nourishing Filipino dreams, bringing in affordable nutrition across different life stages to every Filipino home for over 40 years. It is comm |
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Friendship and Trust in OthelloThe topic of the presentation on which I want to comment is "Friendship and Trust in Othello". One argument of this speech is friendship a tool for revenge. However, I disagree with this opinion. From my perspective, jealousy is the tool use for retribution rather than friendship. In the beginning of the play, after Iago tells Roderigo that Desdemona prefers a younger man, and he has a chance to get Desdemona, he says," Thou art sure of me: go, make money: -I have told thee/often, and I re-tell thee again and again, I hate the Moor./My Cause is hearted; thine hath no less reason. Let us beconjunctive in our revenge against him. If thou canstcuckold him, thou dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport(1.2.386-390). According to the quotation, Iago decided to work with Roderigo because they both suffer from jealousy and hate the Moor. Roderigo's desire for Desdemona's love led to his jealousy of Othello; where as Iago's hope for |
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The Last of the Mohicans"The Last of the Mohicans," by James Fenimore Cooper, is a novel about the British-French war and the Indians who are allying the French. This novel is about people get to fort William safely. Heyward, a British general, is supposed to get Cora and Alice, the daughters of the Colonel Munro, safely to Fort William-Henry, but on his way there were complications. Hawkeye, Uncas, and the Mohicans came into the novel trying to help Heyward get to Fort William safely. Three scenes where there was a clash between races or cultures were the Hurons and Mohicans fighting, The British and French fighting, and the Indians slaughtering the British. The Indians were fearless and gutless, thus had no problem killing and slaughtering, which benefited the French into causing the B |
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Patty Emerson's TransformationConstant evolution has molded the human race into an autonomous species continually undergoing changes. It is indeed in our nature to learn from certain experiences and to adapt to them accordingly. In the case of the protagonist of Jonathan Franzen's Agreeable, Patty Emerson symbolically detached herself from a family she had never really felt a part of, all while bringing herself closer to her basketball team, her substitute family, by becoming a protector for her teammates. These changes were provoked by how the differences between Patty and her family have always made her feel excluded and how, although she's been perpetually haunted with a feeling of rejection, coach Nigel made her aware that she belonged somewhere. However, this transformation only truly unfolded when Patty realizes that her parents don't actually care about her when they put their personal in front of her well-being. To begin with, being much different from the other members of the Emerson clan, Patty has alw |
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Nature in the Al-MuallaqatOne of the most relevant and important themes that reoccur throughout the Al-Mu'allaqat is that of love, specifically love personified through nature. All of the poets in this literary collection seem to personify their love through animals and objects such as through their camels, horses, waterfalls, and several others. Perhaps the most recognized of these poets is Imr al-Qais, who employs a long nasib, the romantic prelude, to declare his grief over his lost love. The next poet, Tarafa, engages in a rather unusual but similar personification of love with his camel, throughout the poem it is difficult to differentiate between his description of his camel and his lost love. Labid's The Centenarian exploits the passage of time to illustrate his success with dismissing his former lover. Labid uses embellished descriptions of nature to personify his love and scrutinizes the destruction caused by time, questioning why he and his companions continue to age and decay. The common theme of |
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Cuisine of the CaribbeanCaribbean cuisine is a very unique type of cuisine, it consists of 7 different types of cuisines and cultures. It has a history from African, African, Amerindian, European, Eastern Indian, Arab, And Chinese cultures and cuisines that had started when Christopher Columbus started exploring the global. In the Caribbean there are 28 different country's and/or territory's in the Caribbean Sea. The climate in the Caribbean is a warm and tropical type of climate it is generally warm all year round. The Caribbean climate is tropical and is warm year round with an average temperature of 78.8 degrees Fahrenheit (28 degrees Celsius) all year. The islands are surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. The Caribbean Islands is a very popular tourist and vacationing islands, the most popular islands are Aruba, Bahamas, U.S Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, and Jamaica. Climate change is changing the way some Caribbean dishes |
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Trauma and Substance Abuse in RefugeesFor decades, large numbers of individuals have been prompted to move to the United States due to threatening or emergency circumstances in their countries of origin. Some of these events have induced vulnerability due to civil wars, political transformations, riots, "ethnic cleansing" campaigns, rape and female mutilations, and violence of all kinds. Most refugee children have lost a parent to imprisonment or death. Refugees are often forced to flee suddenly and usually do not have the opportunity to make preparations to leave their country or to arrive in a new one. The Refugee Act of 1980 defines a refugee as a person who cannot return home because of a "well-founded fear of persecution on the basis of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion" who is not able to seek or receive protection from their country of origin (www.unhcr.org 2014). There are currently 15.2 million refugees worldwide and 46% are children und |
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The Arena by Martin GolanWe all experiences all sort of battles in our lives. Sometimes life might feel like an arena, where you need to fight your bad feelings and worst fears. When something bad happens, we are likely to stick in the past. But how do we get rid of these bad feelings and when will it happen? These issues are getting discussed in Martin Golan's short story called ''The Arena'' from 2008. This short story is about a man which name we do not get to know. The short story goes by in one morning with a lot of flashbacks in time. It is about a man who is going to drop off his son at an arena where the son is going to get on a bus to attend a lacrosse game. On the way to the arena many mentally things happen to the man. All we get to know about him is that he once lost a son and got divorced from his former wife. He is living a new life now with a new son and a new wife. We do not know how they lost their son, but the text tells in p. 3 l. 122-123: ''We attended a group for parents of children who died in preventable accidents'' that it was not a natural death (it never is when children die), but it must have been a terrible accident when they could |
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Antisocial Personality DisorderThe modern concept of Antisocial Personality Disorder can be traced back to the early nineteenth century, and arguably, has always been tightly linked with contemporary societal attitudes towards criminal justice and civil liberties (Ferguson and Tyler. 2000). In the early eighteen hundreds clinicians attempted to understand criminals whose offences were so horrid that they were thought to be insane, yet their clinical overviews were not consistent with recognized mental health problems. As the world's medical knowledge began to modernize, the percentage of people in the United States having the disorder has inflated from .2 percent to between 5 and 6 percent of Americans. Antisocial Personality Disorder seems to be increasing at a rapid rate, but there are now ways to identify, treat and protect people. Before the modernization of the medical field, clinicians were still befuddled by the inconsistency of the diagnosis. When describing such individuals, Prichard (1835) creat |
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Child Labor in Developed and Undeveloped CountriesQuestion What is the difference in the prevalence and conditions of child labour in developing and developed countries? Why does this difference exist? Response Child labour is the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their juvenility by interfering with their ability to attend school, and by victimizing them mentally, physically, socially or morally. Being considered exploitative by most international organizations, legislations prohibit child labour extensively. Given that, a rise in household income, greater availability of schools and passing of child labour laws form a causational link with the abatement of child labour. A breakdown of the professions in which child labour is rampant demonstrates that 60% of child labourers are involved in agricultural activities such as farming, fisheries and forestry, service activities such as retail, hawking goods, restaurants, domestic help, and other services constitute 25% of the child workforce, while the rem |
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Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker MovementDuring the time of the Great Depression, the Catholic Worker movement was founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. Dorothy Day was the woman who provided the means for the foundation of the Catholic Worker movement alongside Peter Maurin, who provided the ideas and beliefs of personalism for the Catholic Worker movement. Its foundation was in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every person. Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin influenced American Catholicism during the 1930's through the establishment of the Catholic Worker movement under the ideas of personalism. Dorothy Day was one of the most influential persons of her time. Born on November 8, 1987, in New York City. She was the third of five children in the Day family born to Grace and John Day, who worked as journalists. Their family moved to Chicago, and that is when in her early life, Dorothy became a writer, editor, and socialist focusing on pacifism and women's suffrage. During her college years, Dorothy attended the Univer |
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Business Administration PaperINTRODUCTION The background for my assignment is to examine an organisation of my choice and to establish its structure and its external environment to determine the impact of these elements on the performance of this organisation. The organisation I have chosen is The Catwalk Hair and Tanning Salon in Durrow Co Laois. This organisation has been in business since 2008 as a hair salon and recently added its tanning bed in 2014. The proprietors name is Claire-Anne Alley. (See Appendix 1) AIM The aim of this assignment is to investigate an organisation of my choice to establish its structures/functions and its external environment and to determine the impact of these factors on the performance of the organisation I have chosen. The resources I am going to use within this assignment are my theory book, class notes, the internet and I will also call into 'The Catwalk' and speak with the proprietor. ORGANIZATIONAL TYPE According to Douglas, A. (2012, pp.4-21) the following |
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Food Safety Research ProposalFOOD SAFETY RESEARCH PROPOSAL HAIL REGION FOOD INSPECTOR Food safety perceptions and information needs of public health inspectors in HAIL Region IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA: A Quantitative Analysis INTRODUCTION In recent years, foodborne disease outcome and incidents of mass food poisoning indicates food safety as an essential issue needs immediate intervention. It has implications for public health as well as International Trade[ CITATION Flo10 l 1033 ]. Although much awareness campaigns and initiatives were launched by WHO and UN in the past about food safety, the issue still looms in and around the globe[ CITATION Tim12 l 1033 ]. The primary reason behind this is the perception of food safety differs from country to country. Based upon access to food science and detection technology, identification of food safety risk factors, protocols followed and risk mitigation strategies followed[ CITATION New10 l 1033 ]. LITERATURE REVIEW Food safety issues are prioritiszed in public |
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The Night Face Up/Go Back To Where You Came FromQuestion: "The process of discovery can challenge our values and our view of the world." Discovery can be defined as the act of discovering or uncovering something new, that can stimulate new ideas and offer new understandings of ourselves and the world around us. The Night Face Up by Julio Cortazar is a short story written back in 1967, and "Go Back to Where You Came From" director by Ivan O'Mahoney are both very similar as they explore different worlds of various perspectives. The night face up is embedded with complexities that challenge the protagonist to make self-discoveries which change his values and his perception of the world. Go Back explores the journey of six participants through the experiences and lives of asylum seekers and the process of discovery that is initiated as a result of their experiences and the challenges they face. These physical and emotional discoveries are new and meaningful, and as a result, stimulate new ideas that challenge and |
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To Kill A Mockingbird - Bildingsromun EssayIn life many people develop significantly through education, whether it is moral, social or intellectual. For example, a child in high school would be more intellectually developed than one in kindergarten, due to experience in school. Or, one could develop a lot through striking life events that could have them rethink their previous conceptions on life. Many examples of this can be found in a classic novel, by Harper Lee, where one character develops significantly through education. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, after learning that the people of Maycomb are not who he thinks they are, Jem develops by learning not to trust everyone, learning that people might not be who they seem, and maturing. In the Tom Robinson rape trial, Jem learns not to trust everyone after finding out that the jury only voted Tom guilty because he is black, which is morally wrong and unfair. In the novel, Jem says "Then it all goes back to the jury...we oughta do away with the juries |
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Senator Heller Home StyleI am Senator Dean Heller, a representative of the Republican Party of the state of Nevada. I will be describing today how I represent my constituency at home and in Washington DC. There are many styles used by my fellows constituents assembly to accomplish their goals of being elected and re-elected to a public office in the United States and I have my to create and increment my own style due to a constant increase in the population of Nevada in the last few decades and its diversity. My home style is based upon my character, my congressional district and the people that I represent. I represent the second congressional district of Nevada. This district is in the north part of the State with a vast rural area of mostly farmers. The area of my district that is mostly populated is on the northwest side of Nevada, containing Reno and Carson City. The farmers living in this area are my people, the ones that I know that will vote for me and I will work for them. They are my strongest sup |
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The True Defineition of SustainabilityIn 1807, François Isaac de Rivaz designed the very first car. This revolutionized the way people would get around from then on. In 1928, the first antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered by Alexander Fleming, Professor of Bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital in London. This advancement in the medical field impacted the health and well-being of the entire world. Just as the automotive, medical, and many other industries advance, so too should Agriculture, in order to be truly sustainable. However, a thorough understanding and knowledge of the subject is necessary to guarantee appropriately developed methods for growth in this field. It is not enough to simply maintain the status quo. Our world's population is growing exponentially, and that demands that we not only keep food production levels steady, but that we find ways to get more out of fewer and fewer resources. The problem is that many people disagree with the processes farmers to take get there. However, to continue to successf |
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