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Andrew Lam and GlobalizationGlobalization has become a highly debated concept around the world. Globalization can be simply understood as "a process of global economical, political and cultural integration " (thefreedictionary.com). Today the world has become global and integral and all of its major parts are completely interconnected like in a tiny village. Globalization is an everyday process that brings a cultural unification and change people psychology. Globalization is happening almost everywhere in the world and having various impacts on people. It is a process that is bringing the world smaller and smaller and also imposing a change on people's cultural level. People's identity is changing because of globalization. Globalization has made the world we are living today more complex and culturally pluralized. Many people migrate to new places and are forced to adopt a new culture. However, their traditions might not fade away because it always be part of their identity. Certain people believe that there |
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The Importance of Safety in FootballThe National Football League is one of the most recognizable leagues in the United States of America. This is because of the fact that we as Americans love football. Whether it be Pee-Wee, high school, college, or professional football. No matter how much we love it, there are several dangerous risks that we take when we play it and there should be more protection used when it's played. Both professionally and recreationally. I know these because I have a very extensive background knowledge in the subject. I learned the rules and how to play football at a very young age and have been watching both college and professional football since a very young age. Also, I played football all four years that I was in high school. One might think to themselves, "What does this guy know about football? He seems like only a fan." And this is a valid argument for one to make. But as a fan and a player I have seen firsthand accounts on the injuries that can occur while we play foo |
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Themes of Performance in Singin' in the RainThe great Hollywood musical, "Singin' in the Rain," contains all the constraints and accouterments that a typical musical would have: joy, a happy ending, strong personalities, song and dance. This surface view of the film indicates that, as with many other films produced during the height of the "Hollywood Era," one of the aims of the film was to entertain and earn money. Under the guise of this, the film participates in part of the "consensus narrative" of musicals and the Hollywood industry by challenging the existing status quo of Hollywood. The film is deeply critical and revealing of the greedy, dark, and capitalist side of films. As a participant in the consensus narrative, and through extreme self-consciousness, the movie creates a dichotomy by also glorifying and praising that which it is criticizing. The message throughout the film is that the simple pleasure that is provided by the entertainment of Hollywood, specifically song and dance is important because it brings happi |
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Absolut Vodka Website - Rhetorical AnalysisThe home page of the Absolut Vodka website is simple and logical. The layout is kept simple to emphasize the photos, videos, and quotes used throughout the pages of the site. At the top of the screen, there are seven tabs: Home, Collaborations, Drinks, Products, Absolut Elyx, About Absolut, and Press. The home page contains a short, yet effective video advertising the product. Underneath this video, there are picture links to well known people supporting the product. In the bottom corner of the site, there is a search bar to help potential customers discover new drink creations. The first four tabs and the tab About Absolut have the same basic layout with bold typing, attention grabbing photos, and inspiring videos. The tabs Absolut Elyx and Press bring the reader to what looks like a secondary site, and these tabs, along with About Absolut are based on the product's history and background information. These two tabs are more difficult to navigate. Once the reader is brought to the |
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Aristotle - Master of PhilosophyAristotle had a lifelong interest in the study of nature and philosophy. As a Greek philosopher and a student of Plato, he investigated a variety of different topics, ranging from general issues like motion, causation, place and time, to systematic explorations and explanations of natural phenomena across different kinds of natural entities, as well as the study of poetry, theater, music, politics and government. Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval culture, as well as had a large influence on philosophical and theological thinking with Jewish and Islamic in the middle ages as well as Christian theology. In short, Aristotle was and still is, considered a master of his craft, a leader in the field of philosophy and the teaching of the surrounding environment. But when he is compared to Plato, are the two philosophers similar or different? The answer is both. Plato and Aristotle are two of the most widely acclaimed philosophers in their field. As a pupil |
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Psychoanalytic TherapyPsychoanalytic Therapy Sigmund Freud is considered the father of psychoanalysis and many of his views are still held today. He studied medicine and earned his medical degree from the University of Vienna. At 40 he did a self-analysis remembering his own childhood where he had hostility toward his father and there was an attraction with his mother. He formulated his theory as he observed patients work through their own problems in analysis. He worked many hours, which his work fills 24 volumes. He died in 1939 of cancer. Freud's view models the development of personality, a philosophy of human nature, and a method of psychotherapy. He believed human nature is deterministic and determined by internal forces, unconscious motivation, and biological and instinctual drives. These are said to evolve through key psychosexual forces within the first 6 years of life. These instincts are central to his approach. The libido, termed sexual energy was broadened to include the energy of all |
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Madame Bovary by Gustav FlaubertIn the nineteenth century, Gustav Flaubert was brought to trial for his novel, "Madame Bovary." It seen as a work of reprehensible moral content - particularly Emma's glorification of adultery as a means of romantic fulfillment, her suicide, and religious offenses. Prosecutor Pinard denounced the book, concerned that it would corrupt the public taste. These accusations were met by the defense attorney with the retort that Emma's actions might temporarily satisfy her fantastical whims, but they never yield rewarding results. Instead they are met with despair, agony, and ultimately her suicide, thus creating a fear of vice in the reader. This view fails to observe Madame Bovary for its artistic intention and purpose. Flaubert is not concerned with morality, but rather with creating expression that coincides with thought and is brought to life through style, rhythm, form, and the power of language. It is clear that Flaubert's aim was not to exalt or condemn any behavior; but rather to c |
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Environmental IsolateIntroduction Many bacteria of clinical importance survive and may grow in different environments (Tello, Austin, and Telfer, 2012). The environment is the perfect place for millions of bacteria to grow everyday. Because of different weather or location environments bacteria have evolved to become stronger and more resistant to things in their surroundings. They have also become very resistant to antibiotics that either are natural and come from the environment or man made. Measured environmental concentrations of antibiotics, as well as concentrations representing environmental risk, are high enough to exert a selective pressure on clinically relevant bacteria that may lead to an increase in the prevalence of bacteria (Tello, Austin, and Telfer, 2012). This is why bacteria are such an important topic to study and learn more about. Its necessary to be educated on this subject to understand how the bacteria are growing and building their tolerance to today's medicine. The human ra |
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Leon Battista AlbertiMy name is Leon Battista Alberti, and I was born in 1404, in early Renaissance, Genoa. Even though I like being an architect very much, I've always been interested in other subjects; math, music, painting, philosophy and sculpture. Many people would consider me to be a Humanist. Unlike many other architects who are interested in Greek architecture, I have a great interest in the future; in reviving the styles and beauty of ancient Roman architecture. I even wrote a book called "On the Art of Building in Ten Books," in which I cover a wide range of subjects, from history, to town planning and engineering, to the philosophy of beauty. Many people have told me that I have been such an influential architect and that my buildings and philosophy will have a great impact in the architecture of the future, but never did I believe it was going to be that way. "What a better way to find out the truth, but by experiencing it by myself? " I thought, so I went to my close friend Leonardo Da Vinci, |
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Bobby Braddock and the Music IndustrySometimes it takes failure to really motivate you to make a step in the right direction. Bobby Braddock had come up with a very interesting idea for a country rap song and pitched it to some producers. They denied the request to work on the song because they felt it was too much of a risk (Crossan 1). He then decided to switch artists and pursue new interest in a new artist Toby Keith. Keith had just recently released a big hit single that had the same brash lyrics. They both were taking on something that was going to make a lot of people angry, but also innovate participation of hip-hop in a culture that it had been introduced to yet. When someone hears a song outside of its comfort zone, all they can think about is how different the piece of work that they are listening two is. There are two things that can happen. A person can choose to believe that the work is an example of appropriation. This is when one culture steals things from another with absolutely no respect behind it. Ho |
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Honky - Dalton Conley"Honky," by Dalton Conley, tells the story of a young man who must come to terms with his whiteness in an African-American/Latino ghetto. Being a white person is usually a gateway to certain privileges in American culture and being part of a majority. Whites are usually the last ethnic group to be poked fun of. In the case of this memoir, Dalton Conley's skin color proves a difficult life he must face in the racially tense climate of New York City in the 1970's and 80's. There are many issues that held him back from being a wholesome and fully adapted human being. Throughout the memoir, Dalton struggles to fit in with his surroundings, but eventually is able to express his individuality. The main issue holding Dalton back from being a wholesome and fully adapted human being is his struggle to fit in at school and his neighborhood. He struggles to fit in as a result of being white in a neighborhood that is predominantly Black and Puerto Rican families. As a result, Dalton becomes more |
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The Garden Party by Katherine MansfieldIn "The Garden Party," Katherine Mansfield is the story of Laura, a young girl who is beginning her entry into the world of adulthood. Laura encounters great hardships growing up through this transition, and she struggles to set herself apart from the rest of her family to find her new identity. In order to do so, she has to turn her back on the life she knew and make her own decisions. Laura is forced to see how life is from the other side of the track, becoming more mature. Despite many spontaneous decisions and a few childish actions, Laura manages to branch off on her own and get her own view of life. Laura was raised up in an upper class family. In that time, there was a great struggle of the classes. Many of the upper class members of society thought they were better than those below them. Throughout the story Laura begins to realize that way of thinking is |
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Music Score from the Movie ElizabethThe 1998 movie, "Elizabeth," directed by Shekhar Kapur, from a script by Michael Hirst, is a historical epic that takes place during and after the mid-16th-century period when England's Princess Elizabeth was nearly eliminated by her half-sister, Queen Mary. It portrays the events of Mary's death, Elizabeth's ascension to the throne, and the struggles and events that she must overcome in order to preserve the strength of the English Monarchy, and establish Protestantism as the chief English religion. She must also maintain her stability and safety as a female ruler in a male-dominated society. Composer David Hirschfelder's soundtrack to the film Elizabeth nicely evokes the spirit of the era to which this British monarch lent her name; the music also proves adept at capturing the picture's drama and intrigue without the bombast which so often sinks scores of this kind. In Elizabeth film use a full orchestra with choir fights against thunder |
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On Becoming a Physical Education TeacherThe duty of a physical education teacher is to educate students in grades k-12 on how important exercising and eating right is beneficial in their lives. A physical education teacher teaches indoors the majority of the times. I really want to become a physical education teacher after getting my Bachelors degree. The reason I want to be a physical education teacher is because I want to demonstrate and explain to students the importance of fitness. As a younger student, I was inspired by my elementary physical education teacher to choose this career. He was an excellent role model, showing me how important it is to exercise. I've interviewed my physical education teacher and collected more resources on getting the job, duties and education courses necessary for having this as my major. My philosophy for teaching and coaching is really important to me. I was born from a neighborhood that many African Americans didn't try their hardest to succeed. I really want to change that trend. Tha |
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Cattle and Embryo TransferEmbryo transfer in cattle has gained considerable popularity with seed stock beef producers. While most modern applicable embryo transfer technology was developed in the 1970's and 1980's, the history of the procedure goes back considerably farther. ' 'Walter Heape performed the first embryo transfer in Angora rabbits in 1890'' (J.C. Remsberg, 'Herdsmen and vets benefit from E.T. training'). ' 'Embryo transfer in livestock began in the 1930s with sheep and goats, but it was not until the 1950s that Jim Rowson at Cambridge, England reported successful embryo transfers in cattle and pigs'' (Bryan M. 'Reproduction and the Science in Cambridge'). The first commercial embryo transfers (ET) in the United States were done in the early 1970s. Initially, embryos were recovered from valuable donors and transferred to recipient animals using surgical procedures. It was not until current non-surgical methods were developed in the late 1970s, the process became more affordable and the practice in general has grown in popularity. Current technologies have taken this a step further with successful cloning of embry |
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Paying the Price of Shoplifting"Activate security cameras in area G..."" I can hear those words as if it were yesterday. I was seventeen years old, still in high school, and out having fun with my friends. But in those years, my idea of fun was breaking the rules; more specifically - shoplifting. On this particular day was like any other back then. My friends and I got up early, and since we didn't have to be in school for some reason on this Friday morning we decided to go on another "mission"." A mission was our slang for going out to boost things from local stores, something to keep it a little secretive in the event we were overheard while talking about our adventures in retail. This mission was to be my last, that very morning I had decided that I was getting to a point where I simply didn't find it exciting to steal any longer. I'd had a long and successful career as a thief, but the time had come to move on. We began our mission with an easy target, the Ames store nearby where we all lived. We got into the |
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Narrative of a Fugitive Slave"Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave," (1847) is a fascinating and emotional account of the horrors of American slavery. The first and most interesting point worth examining in William Wells Brown's narrative is how the title of his book is written. When one first reads the added, "written by himself" below the narrative headline, it seems a bit odd and redundant. However, one realizes that the identification of a slave narrator as literate and capable of independent literary expression was an important and crucial aspect in fighting slavery and juxtaposing the myths and negative beliefs that gave slavery its power and legitimacy. Black people were not just slaves, that were writers with their own opinions and beliefs. Brown provides readers with narratives of daily life |
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Art, Mary and the AnnunciationOver time, the depiction of Mary in the Annunciation has been expressed in various ways. Each artist produces the image of Mary differently, each appealing to a specific audience. It is common to see countless images of a traditional Mary because in most cases that is usually what is presented while growing up. Unfortunately our society has made a general drastic change from what it use to be; the younger generations need a lot more guidance and relation. Although the image of Mary is typically expressed in a straight clean cut manner like Fra Angelico's painting; our society now is more likely to connect with the modern Mary in John Collier's painting. Fra Angelico's painting of the Annunciation would be considered traditional or old fashion. This painting's setting occurred in Florence, Italy around c. 1430-1450 which remotely gave the picture an older look. |
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Jonathan Edwards and an Angry God"You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince...and yet, tis nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment tis to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to Hell the last night...that you were suffered to awake...there is nothing else that is to be given as a reason why don't this moment drop down into Hell"" (Edwards 268). In this passage, Edwards gives the image of a God who can easily decide whether or not to send sinners to the Hell. Edwards also warns the people that God has the ability to do horrible things to the sinners. Everything people are experiencing then as well as the fact that they are not going to the Hell is due to the greatness of God. God has also given wicked men a chance to amend themselves before sending them into the depths of Hell. The vivid and horrifying images of Hell scare people and make them consider whether or not they should continue without repenting their sins. |
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Oedipus Rex and Free WillThroughout the play "Oedipus Rex," the playwright Sophocles, show's an underlying relationship between fate and free will. Both theories are intrinsic in Oedipus's destruction which has already been foretold. Sophocles uses the image of a crossroad as a primal symbol to show that man is free to choose and is ultimately held responsible for their own actions. Oedipus allowed the prophecy to a certain degree, to influence his conduct. He was destined from birth to marry his mother and kill his father. However, Oedipus's self-determining search for the truth is the sole reason the prophecy was fulfilled. From the start of this tragedy, Oedipus made many decisions which consequently led to his demise. Sophocles characterizes Oedipus the king as a loyal and honorable man who like many individuals also contain an excessive amount of pride. That specific flaw affected Oedipus's decision making process. He could have waited for the plague to end, but out of empathy for his people he sent Creon t |
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The Birthmark by Nathaniel HawthorneThe subject of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "The Birthmark," is a large blemish on the face of a woman named Georgiana. '"In the center of Georgiana's cheek there was a singular mark. Its shape bore not a little similarity to the human hand, though of the smallest pygmy size. Georgiana's lovers were wont to say that some fairy at her birth had laid her tiny hand upon the infant's cheek to give her such sway over all hearts" (Hawthorne 170). Nevertheless, Aylmer understands or sees the birthmark very differently from other men, "selecting it as the symbol of his wife's liability to sin, sorrow, decay, and death" (170). This divergence confuses the reader and causes him or her to examine the true meaning of the birthmark. As a reader analyzes Aylmer's struggle to give a definition to the birthmark, his quest to rid Georgiana of her birthmark takes on new meaning. Aylmer's quest to create perfect aesthetic beauty in his wife's appearance is very meaningful. Many would say that Aylmer's' confusion causes a sense of loss. His search for wholeness and perfection is ultimately unattainable. In fact, by reading &q |
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Jack London's To Build a FireIn "To Build a Fire," by Jack London, a man (who is only referred to as "man" in the story), ignores the warnings of weathered prospectors and travels alone, into the Yukon wilderness during a severely cold winter. The man begins his journey at nine o'clock in the morning, planning to join his partners on the left fork of Henderson Creek by six o'clock at night. He is faced with weather that is seventy-five degrees below zero, but he is not physically or mentally prepared for survival. (London) The combination of several reasons, such as the weather and environment, causes the death of the man. However, the man is responsible for his own death because of his lack of experience, the poor relationship with the dog, and his overconfidence. Firstly of all, the man is responsible for his death because he has no experiences of traveling alone in the Yukon wild |
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Costa Rica - Vacation DestinationCosta Rica is a wonderful, tropical get-a-way location perfect for people of all ages. Whether you are planning a destination wedding, honeymoon, family vacation, or just need to escape from the everyday grind, there is something here for everyone. Costa Rica is located in Central America between Nicaragua and Panama. It also enjoys one of the most democratic governments in Latin America while keeping true to its Spanish heritage. The most common language is Spanish and English. Its most common religious belief is catholic. Costa Rica has a population of an estimated 4.6 million people and its capital city is San Jose'. The current president is Laura Chinchilla who was elected in 2010. The cou |
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Sport and My High School Years"On your mark, get set, go!"" I used to get such an adrenaline rush from just hearing those six words. It was as if I was going to start running and wouldn't be able to stop; at times it even felt like I had wings. I had so much energy back then. It seems that my childhood consisted of sun, sweat, and, because I was so competitive, plenty of victories and defeats. In elementary school, I was shy, docile and always preferred being alone. Never in my life did I imagine that this phase of my life I would learn so much about myself. Elementary school days were probably one of the best times in my whole entire life before and after sport. Team sports in elementary never came to mind because I was always so busy burying my face in the magical world of Harry Potter. Reading books was always on my agenda because I loved reading more books than the rest of my class, at that time I didn't know that one of my traits was competitiveness. Physical Education (PE) was probably the one period I |
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The Use of Doubles in Books and FilmIn most of novels and films we reviewed this semester, the use of "doubles" serve as driving forces to the plots; the main characters end up meeting their "doubles," and they act as facets of a single identity, inhabiting a single body. However, as is often the case in stories such as these, the main characters are each presented in clear opposition to their doubles. In fact, while one character holds a positive side, the other has opposite. Therefore, the theme of good versus evil becomes manifest within a single body. In most of the cases, the main characters happen to struggle in facing their double identities, searching for their own identities and beliefs. Although the two figures are similar, a good vs. evil paradigm exists in the doubles, separating the opposing sides. The distinction between the protagonists and antagonists blur until the authors directly give out the fact that they are the same. The two facets of the identity are clearly shown in both the novel and |
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