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Literature on Accepting DeathDeath is an aspect of life that everyone encounters sooner or later. Everyone dies, but people have different attitudes towards death. In the first poem "Death, Be not Proud" John Donne takes the power away from death. Donne says, death is like a short sleep and nobody should be scared of death. Donne also argues that death cannot kill his soul; because his soul is a path for eternal life. In the second poem, "Do not Go Gentle Into that Good Night" Dylan Thomas encourages people to live complete lives before death comes and to fight death. Even though, they both speak about death, Thomas places emphasis on fight against death, while Donne takes the power from death. In "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," Thomas speak about death to encourage people not to give up into death and fight for life. Thomas describe different types of men to tell that they should not take death so easily. For instance, he says, "Good men, the last wave by, crying how |
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What is a Southern Gentleman?"Being a true gentlemen never goes out of fashion." Treating a girl right is something that should never go away. Over the past decade women have lost hope that there are any gentlemen left in the world. Noone expects men to stick up for women, open the car door, bring flowers, or even something as simple as holding the door open. Women know it is rare to find a true gentleman, unless they are in the south. A southern gentleman is a man from the south who knows how to respect a woman, dresses with a certain attire, and has certain beliefs (urbandictionary np). Over time, the term "southern gentleman" has definitely evolved. People today do not always expect a man to act in this way; back in the day it was something that was the normal. In the older days, the man would help his lady into the carriage instead of a door, their dresses were often long and heavy, so the gentleman thing to do was open the door so she would not have to drop her dress in the dirt. It was c |
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Super Bug - The Invisible AssassinThe case of Jay Sorenson is a heartbreaking one. MRSA is an epidemic still seen in hospitals today. It is my belief that it is the lack of knowledge by hospital personnel and staff to be properly trained to disinfect all hospital equipment properly. MRSA is so highly contagious that it can be transmitted through all areas of a hospital or doctors' office. Proper measures must be taken to see that this horrible staph infection stops spreading. A good friend of mine shared his experience with having MRSA. He told me that it started out as a pimple like blister on the inside of her nostril. He thought it was a pimple and popped it. It was, in fact, a staph infection she contracted through her sister. My friend became very ill as it spread very quickly through her body. He was hospitalized for one week and half his face resembled Bell's Palsy. After roun |
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Mother and Daughter in Two Kinds"Two Kinds" is a story of a mother and a daughter living a life of high expectation in America which has always been looked at as the the country where dreams come true. Many people from other countries come to America to live the "American Dream". However, I believe that living in America has a lot of expectation behind it. Expectations have two sides, they either lead to achievement or disappointment. While the expectations Ni Kan's mother set her to live up to lead to disappointing both of them, I had a very opposite situation where the expectations others had of me pushed me to live above those expectations and achieve greater things. Ni Kan is a young chinese girl growing up in America. Her Mother believes that anyone could be anything they want to be in America. Ni Kan's Mother wants big things for her daughter, but that leads to very high expectations. The first idea is for Ni Kan to become a Chinese Shirley Temple. Ni Kan ends up looking like Peter Pan. |
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Cause and Effect - SmokingIn today's society, smoking has become a trend and is a widespread occurrence, even though everyone is aware of how harmful it is. There have been numerous campaigns against cigarette smoking communicating that tobacco causes death. Despite the knowledge about smoking damage, people still ignore the information and the number of people who smoke increases day by day. Unfortunately, the popularity of cigarettes and the dependence on smoking tobacco lead to detrimental effects such as the negative health impacts on all human beings, bad hygiene, and increased environmental problems. There are many reasons behind the phenomenon of smoking. A primary cause is physical which concerns the human body's needs. In cigarettes, there is an addictive substance known as nicotine. It is the chemical of this substance that causes addiction. Nicotine reduces tension in the muscles that allow smokers to feel relaxed and relieves their stresses. Thus, it brings a feeling of tranquility and allows smoke |
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The Life of William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, and died on the same day fifty-two years later in 1616. He was an English poet and a scriptwriter, which is basically a playwright. He is recognized to be the greatest writer in the English language. His written work included thirty-eight plays, 157-158 sonnets, which are verses, and many poems. Shakespeare mostly worked on his poems and plays during 1589-1613. At first, his plays were comedies, but as he became more popular he started writing tragedies that turned out to be his strongest element in his writing. His work has been here for more than four centuries and is taught in many schools around the world in English, as well as it has been translated in many languages. Shakespeare was the son of John and Mary. He grew up to be the oldest surviving child in his household. He had eight siblings, three younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard and Edmund, and two sisters, Anne, who died at age seven, and Joan. Growing up he belonged to a poor household, as his father was only a glove maker. Which is why Shakespeare didn't attend university. When Shakespeare was young, he attended a local |
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Satirical Novel Analysis - Fight ClubIn the late 20th century, capitalist consumerism flourished the economy. Large corporations were able to profit, but the working and unskilled classes were exploited to accept basic salaries in the competitive markets. In the 1996 satirical novel Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk introduces a nameless narrator, whose monotonous job is to assess whether or not products should be recalled. Unable to find fulfillment in his life, the narrator believes he suffers from insomnia, when in fact, his other identity surfaces. The name of this repressed identity is Tyler Durden, who is arguably the alter ego of the narrator. While the narrator is a weak and passive, Tyler is a strong and aggressive. Through the anarchistic organization of Fight Club, which is meant to undermine social structure, Tyler Durden arranges fights among frustrated men but also proceeds to orchestrate large-scale acts of public destruction. Because both the narrator and Tyler are driven by hatred, they are also obsessed with |
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Biography of Pablo EscobarIntroduction Pablo Escobar is one of the most notorious if not the most notorious drug dealers ever to walk this planet. Columbian born, Pablo Escobar was the leader of the largest cocaine processing and distributing organizations in the world (Thompson). With a net worth of over fifteen billion dollars in American currency he was listed on Forbes as the seventh richest man during his reign (In Medellin becomes tourist attraction). Pablo Escobar is one of the most influential and feared persons to ever live in Columbia. He had the money and the power to influence other people in Columbia that were also very well respected and powerful. For example, Pablo and his cartel had ties with two Columbian presidents as well as other politicians that were powerful (World-Theage.com.au). The question that surrounded Pablo and still lingers around even after his death is, if his giant illegal enterprise outweigh his legacy that still lives on today. Beginning Of Pablo's Crime Pablo made cocaine a |
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Death in The Lovely Bones and Sharp ObjectsWhen death occurs, people react and vent their grief in different ways. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn both demonstrate the many variants of these reactions – such as focusing solely on the death and dissecting it or pushing it to one side and acting as if it never happened. Although both stories involve murder, the means by which the murders occur are completely different – though they do result in similar consequences. Both books have been published within the last ten years and so, follow the same recognizable current reactions in society today They demonstrate the grief that is felt and the publicity violent death is given – this is especially highlighted in Sharp Objects: two deaths occur in a remote town and somehow the media are able to find out about it hundreds of miles away. We also are privy to similar euphemisms that are used to describe death in today's society such as 'Gone to a better place' and 'Passed a |
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Is Higher Education Worth the Price?Dear Governor's Task Force, Is higher education really worth the cost? No I don't think it is worth the price because successful celebrities. For example, some celebrities didn't go to college and they are doing well in life might have taken them awhile to get to where they are now but at least they made it Rachael Ray, Halle Berry, Bill Gates, Henry Ford and Michael Dell didn't go to college or they dropped out and they are very successful till this day. As soon as students leave college they are going to have to pay back their student loans. As college students, we can't save money because of the student loans. Rising tuition is making it hard for students to get out of debt. People who don't go to college or have a degree can be just as successful as those who do go. As soon as the students finish college, they are going to have to pay back the school, students going to be working their whole life just to pay back the school. Instead of going to college some students could be sav |
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The Spread of Buddhism to the Western WorldBuddhism is a nontheistic religion that is based on the teachings of the Buddha, or "the awakened one." The philosophy aims to help sentient beings end their suffering by eliminating the greed and ignorance from their lives. Buddhism arose during the fifth century BCE in India and is currently practiced by approximately 500 million people throughout the world. Buddhism first spread to the western world in the second half of the nineteenth century when Chinese immigrants settled in Hawaii and California. These immigrants built temples to practice Mahayana Buddhism, and their ideas encouraged Buddhist teachings towards the end of the century. Buddhist ideas became more known when Americans returned from Asia after the Second World War and the Korean War and brought back an interest in Asian |
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Asscociating Violence with MasculinityFrom the late 1980s, research on gender, crime and social issues, has hugely focused on the study of masculinity, and how there has become a correlation between masculinity and violence. Feminists have researched extensively on all types associated with gender, including gay and lesbian, thus acting towards the literature on masculinity slowly increasing within the past 20 years due to the pressure from feminist works. In this essay, I will begin by reviewing theories on masculinity, and evaluating why such ideas create the assumption that violence appears to be associated with masculinity. I will start by examining the evolutionary examinations associated with masculinity and violence, which will then lead me on to discuss the critical of social theories in relevance to the topic. I will then address the crisis of masculinity, hegemonic masculinity, and female criminality and will finish on concepts of sport and masculinity. I will relate to why violence appears to be associated with |
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Animal Farm - Napoleon's Reign of TerrorIn George Orwell's classic novel "Animal Farm," Old Major's utopian vision of a farm for all animals degenerated into an autocratic dictatorship. Also, one pig was in control of it all-Napoleon Bonaparte. In the beginning, the animals wanted out of their hardship, and the cruelty humans brung them so the animals commenced a rebellion. Instead, of the animals leaving their privation and living free and peaceful, Napoleon lead them back to the same conditions.For example, working the animals the bone and not feeding them enough, just as the humans had done. Napoleon wanted absolute power so he used fear,propaganda, and lack of education to oppress the animals. Napoleon used violence and terror as means of control. In the beginning, Jones(ex-farm owner) overworked the animals,stole the t |
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Decriminalizing MarijuanaShould marijuana be legalized, decriminalized, or continue to be criminalized in Canada? According to one response, including the view of Taube, weed should be decriminalized but not legalized. According to another response, including the liberal party of Canada, weed should be legalized both medical and recreational use with criminal regulations on growers and distributers in the event of violation. According to a 3rd response, as indicated by 30% of the recent Globe & Mail survey, weed possession and growing for non-medical use as well as trafficking should remain criminalized. The following will do an ABC (logical and conceptual) analysis of the Michael Taube's article, "Decriminalizing pot is the right thing to do" It will argue that Taube has/has not/ has partially succeeded, logically and conceptually, in arguing his position that "discrimination of pot possession makes the most sense. Taube's first argument about how marijuana should be legalized, decriminalize |
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The Second Vatican CouncilThe Second Vatican Council, an ecumenical meeting, was the first in almost a century. With it came the introduction and implementation of changes that rocked every aspect of Church life. Lasting from 1962 to 1965 under the leadership of two of the most influential Popes to ever take up an office in the Vatican, the Second Vatican Council ensured that the Church would never be the same again. The Second Vatican Council, otherwise known as Vatican II, was a gathering of all the Bishops in the Catholic Church that was intended to "bring the Church up to date" (aggiornamento) as Pope John XXIII acknowledged that the Church stood in need of reinvigoration and reform. Session I was convened on October 11, 1962, which was attended by 2500 Bishops, the largest gathering in the Church's history. This was sadly the only session that Pope John XXIII lived through. He died on the 3rd of June, 1963 and was succeeded by Pope Paul VI, who convened the remaining three sessions of Vatican I |
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Supply Change Management - KFC1. Moving from SCM (Supply Chain Management) to e-SCM while the company has 10 outlets spread all over Singapore is, in fact, a decent key move. Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a system that that joins managing the advancement of unrefined materials into an affiliation, certain parts of the inside planning of materials into finished items, and the improvement of finished stock out of the affiliation and toward the end purchaser. The purpose behind creation system organization is to upgrade trust and joint exertion among store system accessories, thusly improving stock detectable quality and the velocity of stock advancement. By using SCM, MobileExpert can contact their suppliers or checks their stock by using a telephone. But, now MobileExpert has 10 outlets, CEO must oversee inventories in all outlets. If the CEO used paper-based system, it will be harder for him to overhaul their stock information from all outlets since they need to contact the outlets one by |
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Indoor Market - Shek Wu Hui MarketFollowing the rapid pace of society, quite a few traditional markets have closed down. Shek Wu Hui Market, an traditional indoor market full of all kinds of raw materials for dishes on the dining tables of North District dwellers, is one of the wet markets that survive in Hong Kong.Not only is the market filled with fishy and stinky air, but also treasurable local cultures and collective memories. Toward nightfall, a vast number of buyers throng the market, and the noise of bargaining from the crowd is extra loud. Elderly, foreign domestic helpers and housewives fill the market. Entering the market, an immediate vehement scent of fish and blood rush into my nostril. Butcher shops and fish stalls are parted on the ground floor, the former on the left and the latter on the right. Squeezing through the lan |
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What We See: Cultural Influence of the ImageWhat comes to mind when you hear the words Crest, Tide, or Mustang? More than likely, you thought of toothpaste, laundry detergent, and a muscle car. The image-based culture that we all live in, and fall victim to is to blame. Companies and organizations have done such an extensive job with marketing and forcing imagery on society that they have completely changed crest from meaning the top of something, to a toothpaste brand. They have changed the word tide, a word used to describe the motion of the ocean, to a laundry detergent. They have changed the idea of a horse into a car. This proves how easily the culture of media and images can affect the way we see and understand things. The image is a powerful yet easily manipulated tool that is used to put ideas into our heads with out us even realizing it. Everyone is familiar with the phrase "Seeing is Believing." Sight is our most powerful sense, much more dominant in translating experience than touch, taste, hearing, or sme |
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The Pharmaceutical Drug HypocrisyDrug Hypocrisy Today in the world, we have so much pharmaceutical drugs. So many that we can probably cure the whole Earth from disease. Or can we? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the global pharmaceuticals market is worth $300 Billion a year and is expected to rise to an astonishing $400 billion a year. North America alone making up 30% of the total (World Health Organization). Those are skyrocketing numbers, but that is not the end of it. Every year, the American Medical Association states that more than 32,000 Americans die from Prescription Drug overdose. So approximately every 18 years, we lose as much people as we lost soldiers in every recorded American war combined. Drugs like Abilify, Humira, Embrel, and Remicide are the most distributed/profitable pharmaceutical's sold world wide (World Health Organization statistics, WHO). Then there are illegal medicinally and recreationally used drugs, for example, Marijuana, LSD,and Ayahuasca. All that are frowned upo |
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The Rwanda GenocideThe 1994 Genocide of Rwanda took place in a small country located in the center of Africa. "Genocide" is another word for massive killing. The purpose of a genocide is to aim at a certain nation, race, or ethnic group and exterminate them completely, and in this case approximately 800,000 to 1,000,000 people were killed during the unknown Rwanda Genocide, in the time span of 100 days. This conflict was between two racial groups, the majority Hutus and the minority Tutsis. Racially, religiously, and socially unjust people who believe they are superior inspire genocides. Many people aren't aware of recent genocides, but the truth is that they happen all around the world, and the 1994 Rwanda Genocide is an example of a significant recent one. It's important to understand how the 1994 Rwanda Genocide was organized. According to Straus the genocide was organized by using ideas to bring Hutu fear and hatred towards the Tutsis (Guichoaoua). Once the Hutus learned to hate the Tutsi |
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The 1920's in the United States and CanadaHow would you feel being divided from the world, your whole life? The Great Gatsby and the 1920's in Canada were very similar in that respect. The American dream is a comparable theme shared between both time periods. In many ways both countries show that independence was due to the roaring twenties. This similarity is presented as a theme for that decade and a compass for its people. Some symbols mentioned in The Great Gatsby and from the 1920's are the music, dances and fashion; these symbols have many meanings behind them that relate to the American dream. The major difference apparent in the countries, at the time is the influence and decline of USA's culture on Canada and itself. It is clear that the 1920's in the USA and Canada both share similarities and differences in how they and their people value wealth and the American dream. This is evident through the exploration of theme, symbolism, and difference of influence. Firstly, the booming 20s go against the American dream. The |
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Germany and the Outbreak of the First World WarThe extent to which it is fair to blame Germany for the outbreak of the First World War is still today a controversial topic. It is fair to say that the general public opinion would favour blaming Germany rather than considering different points of view. I believe that this is due to the anti-German propaganda that was set up before the war as well as after the war, considering how clear the trigger of the Second World War was, people tend to look at the concept of the two wars as if they were almost the same thing and therefore their perception of the causes is considerably biased. Amongst historians is it generally believed that the war was not caused by Germany on its own, but by a number of factors including for example, the "blank check" for Austria, militarism, assassination of Franz Ferdinand, expansionism during the final stages in the scramble Africa and international alliances. Some of the issues that led up to the First World War were caused by Germany itself, howe |
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How to Be Successful in EducationPeople have their own unique way of studying, and it take them a long time to realize which way is the best for themselves. Since high school, I'd figured out how I can do my best and what I am studying for. Therefore, to be successful in education, a student must first define the reason why they have to study, how to do it in the right way, and find the happiness in studying. Firstly, in my opinion, a student must first know the reason why he or she should study. To me, I study because my parents want me to have a better education than they did and because I need to do something for my future. In three years from when I started making money and living on my own, I'd realized how much money means in this world and appreciate every penny I make. Consequently, I acknowledge that the only way for me to have a higher position in the society is education. Not only because education can turn my life to a new page, but also because how people criticize a person from how much education that |
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The Battle of BritainAbstract The Battle of Britain was one of the most decisive battle of World War II. Although nearly every battle of the war involved aircraft and aerial battle, this was the only battle which was fought exclusively in the air. By June 1940, France had fallen to German control. All that still stood against Germany was England to the west and Russia to the east. America had not yet joined the war. As Hitler's military prepared to continue their conquest by moving into England, they knew that doing so would be impossible without air superiority. The greatest and longest aerial battle would soon commence. Up to this point in the war, Germany had relied on it's aerial attacks and bombing to soften their targets. Germany was up to this point, unstoppable. Unknown to them however, they would soon meet their first true challenge with that of the Royal Air Force (RAF) of Britain. The steamroller which was the German military would soon be proven stoppable. June 1940, the United Kingdom sto |
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How to Plan a 5K RunThis is a how-to guide on how to plan a 5K run for an organization or charity on a college campus. There are many ways to carry out and execute this event, but this guide includes all the important basics and ways you can make your 5K a smashing success and distinctive from other runs. Step 1: Decide the Location and Reserve the Date Every 5K has to start somewhere, literally. It is vital to plan the exact location of the 5K before planning anything else. On a college campus it is easiest to center it on a main part of the campus making it easily accessible for college students. This is important when deciding the location because a nearby parking lot would come in handy to those who are commuting. Finding a location doesn't exactly mean routing the entire 5K just yet, but it decides a meeting point where all runners report to and where all festivities will be held. Once the location is locked in, it's time to figure out the exact date and time the 5K will be held. This should be a da |
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