... that connect people globally through a few touches on the screen, to the airplanes roaring across the sky, the astounding capabilities and convenience that technology offers is unmatched. In "Why Literature Matters", an article from the New York Times Corporation by Dana Gioia, Gioia explores how living in the high-tech 21st century has unfortunately deteriorated the percentage of Americans ... who read literature. Gioia is able to sway his audience to devote more time to the simple task of reading works of intellectual value through fearful diction and compelling consequences associat...

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... monitor the reintegration of criminal offenders serving the remainder of sentences while conditionally released into the community on parole. Parole officers spend most of their time preparing detailed offender case summaries. A case summary is a document that details an offender's criminal, social, psychological, and institutional adjustment history; it is completed after an in-depth interview between a parole officer and an offender, who ... ...

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... different sub-units of multi-divisional organizations, including departments within universities, government agencies, school districts, departments in firms, and local service agencies. Similarly, in the economics and finance literature, conflict is primarily viewed as a problem in multi-divisional firms. Division managers squabble over compensation packages and the produced surplus, respectively. More generally, firms with more hierarchy ... of each division collectively fight for a greater divisional share. As fighting for a greater divisional share is a public good, expending resourc...

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... shall present an argument favoring the lawmakers. The Internet may be viewed as a vast digital library. The World Wide Web alone offers about a billion pages of information, much of it free "and much of it of interest to terrorist organizations. Terrorists, for instance, can learn from the Internet a wide variety of details about targets such as transportation facilities, nuclear power ... .Much of the information available in print pertaining to nuclear weapons also can be found on the Internet. A number of websites have included compilations of nuclear weapons information gleaned from ...

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... and in Rome, primarily in grammar and rhetoric. Although he describes his early life as one of idleness and lack of scholarly ambition, his increasing interest in ecclesiastical literature and scriptural studies was stimulated by his interaction with a close group of friends who lived in Aquileia and included Chromatius (the future bishop of Aquileia), Jerome's foster ... Yet beyond his well-documented understanding of religious writings and in direct contradiction to Jerome's own anti-Ciceronian vision, Jerome demonstrated an appreciation, familiarity, and skill with secular literature; ...

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The English Literary Canon is perceived as the paradigm of exquisite literature bound with key concepts fundamental to our understanding and exploration of societal and political values, rendering it to be widely admired by all. Scholars uphold works from the Literary Canon ... of a superior quality, a skillfully crafted masterpiece guaranteed for your enjoyment, founded on layers of significant concepts. The English Canon is often seen as an authoritative list bearing handfuls of treasured literature renowned by all. Through the exploration of a diverse range of critical perspectives, we ar...

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... groups both in my current position in Queensland Health managing the healthcare infection surveillance team, and as a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland. I have extensive experience conducting literature reviews to critically appraise literature relevant to infection control and the epidemiology of infectious diseases. This experience has been gained through my studies in the MPH program, my current doctoral research, and in ... my role in the Centre for Healthcare Related Infection Surveillance and Prevention (CHRISP). This role requires synthesis of available peer-reviewed ...

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... . As the novel constantly poses questions about the relationship between fiction and reality this novel can be argued to be a work of metafiction1, which is primarily associated with modernist literature and post-modernist literature. Nabokov uses a great deal of irony to make the reader aware of the lacking self-reflection of the main characters, and because of the lack of authentic historical ... just wants people to believe that he was someone, someone important. Moreover, Kinbote is not reluctant of ceasing the opportunity to be a critic and creates his own artistic work of literatur...

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... specs" in the second stanza. As he transitions into the second stanza, the speaker begins to shift into a darker stage of his life not only in his preference of literature but seemingly in his reality as well. Saying, "Evil was just my lark:/ Me and my cloak and fangs/ Had ripping times in the dark". In the final ... all too familiar." By alluding to cheap fiction, the speaker reveals the irony in how he eventually cannot escape his own outlet, his life growing relatable to the misfortune of literature. Lawrence Ferlinghetti's allusion to Charlie Chaplin in "Constantly Risking Absurdity...

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... position entails us to strip everything of definitive value resulting in the increased case of identity confusion. I envision my major work as a postmodern narrative which explores the connection between literature and an individual's changing perception of identity. While literary theory may seem divorced from reality, I believe it can illuminate our tangible struggles with identity. Through my major work, I ... self-imposed change as a means of reshaping one's self thus propelling me toward the investigation of identity. I find form to be particularly important in reflecting the charact...

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... were more printers in Italy and this abundance of books greatly contributed to their popularity. These books not only could be mass-produced and used to spread humanities such as literature and philosophy, enabling more people to adopt these ideas, but also bypassed Ecclesiastical control and it was made possible to disseminate ideologies, opinions and knowledge which were secular, further catalyzing ... or town planning. These scholars also made use of ancient Latin texts preserved in monasteries (how?) and studied values of human potential and achievement in the form of philosophy and...

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... , black enslaved women, had little to no influence in informing historical perspectives on slavery for many years. They were essentially mute in terms of cultivating the greater portion of traditional literature regarding the topic. However, with the development of women's studies as an accredited academic exploration as well as the emergence of minority histories endorsed by democratically-minded historians throughout the ... and representation of black women who took part in slavery. In this essay I will study trends in the modern historiographical trajectory of this once scholarly and...

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... labour is important for thriving in competitive market-based economies. Globally, there have been mass layoffs within big and small businesses due to downsizing and efforts to compete in free market-based economies by utilizing advances in technology that form key part to maintaining a level of competitiveness. This has led to increasing workforce insecurity as technology continues to threaten ... employment ladder that profits from their use of highly commoditised labour, whilst strong working backbone of labour, often blue collar workers become the receivers of the worst negative cons...

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... description of freedom would still hold, but since culture is inherently biased against the idea of an equal physically capable woman, women are not radically free, as Sartre would argue. However, Sartre's reasoning of freedom and Iris Marion Young's reasoning of a woman's lack of confidence stemming from doubt ... of her physical capacity, are both fundamentally convincing and compatible with each other. Jean Paul Sartre's thesis that humans are radically free starts of by his argument that existence precedes essence. Sartre argues that objects that like the pots crafted by an artisan ...

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... Handbook 187). Neuropsychologists and Clinical neuropsychologists normally do the following: Write or prepare detailed clinical neuropsychological or neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct observations, or interviews. Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in neuropsychology. Educate and supervise practicum students, psychology interns, or hospital staff. Distinguish between psychogenic ... ...

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The process of discovery entails a journey that can induce a metamorphosis in an individual through new experiences, which can be evoked by curiosity or wonder. Discoveries of both the known and unknown may be confronting and provocative, but what remains common is that that they are ultimately fresh and intensely meaningful. These all however lead to an acquisition of new perspectives that shape how an individual perceives the world they live in. These aspects are present in William Shakespeare's, " The Tempest", and Lord Alfred Tennyson's, "Ulysses". The Tempest demonstrates the notion, of h...

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Efforts of public policing incorporate a variety of community organizations and agencies that assume a vital role in overseeing and evaluating law enforcement. These community representatives are most commonly referred to as civilian review boards or committees and serve to generate accountability and promote transparency within their community. In cases of potential police misconduct or corruption, these boards serve to review situations without bias and are representative of civilian opinions. The primary goals of civilian oversight are to enhance police creditability, ensure accountability,...

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... clearly depict the god's support of sacrificing mortals, because, as he expresses, those gods went as far as accompanying them in an act of communion, often indicating a significant event in literature just as the sacrifices are substantial in the immortal's eyes. In other words, another means of approval per sacrificial rituals is through recompensing those who bestow libations upon the gods ... ...

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... -of exploitation and colonization. It is in the disparate representations, descriptions, and judgements of these native societies and European civilization that imperialistic biases are most evident. Through both film and literature, Heart of Darkness and Gunga Din exhibit a clear dichotomy between Europeans and natives: while Europeans are portrayed as individuals and endowed with admirable traits, native peoples are overgeneralized, dehumanized, and ... ...

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... formal and ideological practices that can become a beneficial means of responding a variety of situations. Genres have been used to classify various art forms well before the creation of films. For literature, Tragedy was considered the most important in Aristotle's Poetics, Musical genres were composed of classical sonatas and symphonies, and genre painting depicting domestic life and daily social encounters began to ... ...

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... a unique style that told the story with new elements. This was not the only factor that proliferated his films in to Western cinema, his films often featured Western components and literature; such films as Throne of Blood and Ran features the story of Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear, essentially Kurosawa created versions of the Western classics with Japanese components, while exploring ... ...

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... their longing for one another signifies how their conditions influence their desire, as opposed to innate predisposition. It is therefore evident that although obsession is undoubtedly a prevalent feature in gothic literature, the subject of the obsession itself may bare less significance than the influences that lead towards it. Through the manipulation of external factors, characters such as Macbeth, Heathcliff and Cathy ... ...

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Abstract Neonatal and prenatal complications have been shown to occur with greater statistical frequency in persons with schizophrenia than controls. This paper provides an overview of literature relevant to this topic. Neonatal and prenatal complications related to schizophrenia are broken down into four general areas of research: family history, gestational insults, obstetric complications, and neurodevelopmental deficits. Although ... ...

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Abstract Neonatal and prenatal complications have been shown to occur with greater statistical frequency in persons with schizophrenia than controls. This paper provides an overview of literature relevant to this topic. Neonatal and prenatal complications related to schizophrenia are broken down into four general areas of research: family history, gestational insults, obstetric complications, and neurodevelopmental deficits. Although ... ...

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... 1991, after several integration approaches between Argentina and Brazil , the Asuncion Treaty was signed by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and the MERCOSUR was created. The purposes of MERCOSUR include: Free transit of production goods, services and factors between the member states with inter alia, the elimination of customs rights and lifting of nontariff restrictions on the transit of goods or ... member states relating to foreign trade, agriculture, industry, taxes, monetary system, exchange and capital, services, customs, transport and communications, and any others they m...

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