The United States is made up of many people, ethnicities, and political views. While the American people are one, there is a wide range of diversity within that whole. The great people that make up America differs vastly but come together to make up a country. The United States encompasses many cultures within itself. America itself has not actually invented a wide variety of religions and customs since its establishment as a country. The colonizers of the New World brought...
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The various representations of vampires that have been imagined throughout the history of Gothic fiction have developed considerably over time, to a point where one could argue that the vampires depicted in Postmodern Gothic texts are a virtually unrecognizable incarnation of their Victorian Gothic counterparts. Though vampires from both eras tend to share the same key, a fundamental characteristic of the need or desire to feed on human blood that has come to define them, their very nature, and consequently...
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Anthropology is known as the scientific study which seeks to end the infinite curiosity about humans(HASKINGS-WINNER, COLLISHAW, 2011, p. 7). Anthropology does not focus on one research about humans, it is a broad study seeking why, when and how people appeared on earth as well as how they have changed and got distributed around the world. Anthropologists also want to know why there is variation between people in different populations. In Anthropology there are four fields used to study humans,...
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Introduction Modern dance is a style of dance that developed as a reaction to the strict rules that defined ballet. Historically, modern dance began as free-form style lyrical ballet among a community of professional ballet dancers who refused to stop dancing. Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis promoted modern dance as a way of continuing their dance careers, according to their biographies. The first modern dances choreographed required no dancing en pointe or rigid adherence to ballet movement. As a...
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Does wickedness or amoralism (or both) pose an insurmountable challenge to internalism? In the study of moral philosophy, or rather, the metaethical study thereof, exist conflicting ideas regarding the motivation and drive towards morality. This debate can be split into the camps of internalism and externalism. The former, internalism, is more commonly accepted than its counterpart, being a foundational a priori assumption for several modes of ethical thought, but externalism is not without its own compelling counterarguments. One such possible...
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Samuel Peploe Samuel Peploe was a Scottish impressionist artist born in Edinburgh in the 1800s. He was noted for his still life work and for being a part of a group of four painters called the Scottish colorists. Influences From 1893 to 1894, Samuel peploe studied at the Scottish academy schools. Studying here influenced his work greatly and began his passion for landscapes and still life, which could be seen throughout his work for his whole artistic career. These motives...
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Mona Lisa, also called Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, Italian La Gioconda, or French La Joconde, oil painting on a poplar wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, probably the world’s most famous painting. It was painted sometime between 1503 and 1519, when Leonardo was living in Florence, and it now hangs in the Louvre Museum, Paris, where it remained an object of pilgrimage in the 21st century. The sitter’s mysterious smile and her unproven identity have...
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America has become a nation viewed as a symbol of democracy. In particular, its core beliefs of liberty and freedom have made America obtain a unique “mission” to spread democracy globally (Bouchet 2013, p. 33). The key message that democracy elsewhere would achieve mutual benefit for both America and the foreign nation is integral to its foreign policy, utilised through military or political policies (Bouchet 2013, p. 33). However, its duty of expanding democracy is seen by some as maintaining...
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There are many different transportation methods found in cities around the world ranging from cars to trains to trams, all using different energy sources with different routes and limits. The choice of transport for people depends heavily on the circumstances that you are in, that is why it’s important to have a wide variety of different options when it comes to transport in cities. Transportation is important in our everyday life as it allows us to get from place to...
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Learning MIL is a must for everyone. It tells things that are and that are not to be done when it comes to media and information. Without studying MIL, it would be hard to know the things that one should do or avoid. Also, MIL makes one literate, or in other words, knowing. When one is knowing of the things to and to not do on media Learning MIL is a must for everyone. It tells things that are and...
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Slavery in literature has been a crucial and defining template for understanding past and modern human rights abuse. Due to the influence that these literary works can have on our understanding of history, it is important that the content be authentic, unbiased and historically factual. The two novels: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Kindred by Octavia Butler, there are two very different accounts of being a slave, both of which the readers assume to be historically accurate...
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Oshogatsu (New Year’s) There are about three thousand festivals and celebrations in Japan and New Year’s or Oshogatsu is one of the most important holidays in Japan. Unlike the New Year's celebration in the United States, the Japanese New Year’s is very traditional as it is directly tied to religion since most Japanese are Buddhists or Shintos. It is believed that the ancestral deity called Toshigami, worshipped by the Shinto religion, will visit the homes of believers on New Year's...
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”The author is trying to say that we are one and we cannot be someone else. This quote was stated by Oscar Wilde. He was an Irish poet and playwright Introduce author. In the crucible, the group has individual power. We saw it when we read it shows witchcraft in Salem which was forbidden at the time..’’It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves”.“You...
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Many authors in English literature use the novel’s setting as an important characteristic to the story. Setting means the time and place in which a story takes place. Two famous literary works mentioned in this course stand out when comparing their use of the setting. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen take place in various close small towns and cities in the English countryside. The women in this story rarely experience life outside of these towns, are reduced to socializing...
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Introduction YouTube is a platform where YouTubers share their videos and earn money. There are many countries where people are choosing YouTube as a career. But there are so many people who can’t think youtube can be a profession. They don’t know about it. Especially in Bangladesh, people can’t think about it. There are many YouTubers in Bangladesh. Bangladesh YouTubers are not choosing YouTubing as a career. Even they can’t think about it. There are many reasons behind this. In...
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Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle, (Doubleday, Jabber & Company) 1906 Upton Beall Sinclair was born September 20, 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was an only child of a father who sold a lot of different stuff from liquor, hat, and etc. and his wife who lived poorly. Sinclair graduated from the New York City College in 1897 entering at only fourteen years old, after graduating he attended Colombia University to study law. Sinclair was one of the most important writers of...
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This study is about representation of women in the African American Literature as written in Native son and The Colour purple. African-American literature has undergone a revolutionary change from Phillies Wheatley, the first African-American poet to publish her works, to Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Walter Mosley, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, and Paule Marshall, the contemporary top Black writers. Phillies Wheatley, who was sold as a slave child to America, “the child was a victim of the largest involuntary human migration...
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What is feminism? It cannot just be called a political ideology but a mixture of social, economical and social equality for women. It's really hard to put the definition of feminism as 'the movement against the patriarchal society' because the level of suppression and anxiety which were faced by women was immense. Initially, the feminist movement was started in the west despite the ideology went globalised. As the Western traditions were the core objectives of letting them unleash the idea...
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The maze in the story represents where we spend time looking for what we want in life and what we do about it in order to make them happen or reach them. It can be in an organization you work in, the community you live in, money or possession, health and peace of mind or the relationships you have in your life while cheese is the reward or the things that will make us happy. Every person has a different...
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Within theme 2 I was especially drawn and interested to the lecture were we examined the ‘Gap Year’. Having been one of the many modern-day students that have taken part in a gap year, it was intriguing to understand how a ‘simple’ year away from previous structures such as university began and has advanced into such a modern-day phenomenon. The Gap year began as the ‘Grand Tour’ fashioned within the Victorian period (Heath 2007). During this period this tour was...
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The book “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, written by Leo Tolstoy, is a remarkable story for the simple fact of showing life how it is. The author carefully changed the point of view, and therefore the feelings and attitudes of the characters. He used emotions to show his perspective about having shallow values and it turns out that at the end of life, money and status are nothing but mere emptiness in the human soul. By reading the novella “The...
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“Such, my dear Miss Brooke, is the accurate statement of my feelings; […] to be accepted by you as your husband and the earthly guardian to your welfare.” In doing so, Eliot positions the traditional assumptions of marriage, as “decided according to custom, good looks, vanity and merely canine affection,” (p. 8) she will undercut. Eliot presents the marriage between Dorothea and Casaubon, as driven by selfish motivations and egoism. Ironically, that which draws Dorothea to Casaubon, by means of...
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Tuesdays with Morrie' has unquestionably changed my view on life. Morrie Schwartz was an educator and an instructor until the end. Indeed, even after death, Mitch Albom's book has enlivened and illuminated individuals around the globe. In the book, the exercises of life given by Morrie are told. In his last minutes, Morrie was 'in the middle of' the hole among life and passing, subsequently ready to illuminate the perusers profitable and critical things they should 'pack'. Life these days...
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We all have experienced some form of jealousy or the need to have what others have, but the acts of ungratefulness and greed can lead to our destruction. The story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant focuses on the downfall of the Loisels. Its primary focus is on the feelings of my wife, Madame Mathilde Loisel. Throughout the story, it mentions how miserable she is living a basic life. It also talks about everything that is done to please her...
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The health, well-being and quality of life of human beings depend on good oral health throughout a lifetime, from infancy to adulthood. According to the World Health Organization (2018), oral health diseases such as dental caries (cavities) and periodontal disease, affect many people around the world and they are, for the most part, entirely preventable. Populations most vulnerable to these preventable diseases are youth, older adults, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) and pregnant women,...
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A lawyer owes their client an ethical duty to keep client information confidential. This principle comes from the respect for the client`s rights to privacy and the position of trust a lawyer is assigned. In law, there is a special obligation lawyers hold to not disclose information that their clients have given them. The most notable exception to confidentiality is where consent by the client is given to disclose the information. In Bolkiah v KPMG [1999], Lord Millett stated that...
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Sex is the notion of Heaven. God not only created it for the production of babies but also made it profoundly pleasurable/satisfying. He built sexual organs for men and women to be complementary to one another, and has developed hormones to make it function better in making us desire sexuality. Unlike species whose mating activity is solely accustomed to reproductive means, human sexuality has many noble implications. In a lifetime, the husband and wife bond of commitment contains the two...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, continues Twain’s infamous novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer through the eyes of Huckleberry Finn. Huckleberry indicates his resistance to becoming “sivilised” and attempts to escape Widow Douglas’s proposed lifestyle. However, when Tom approaches Huckleberry with an opportunity to join his gang of robbers and murderers, he supplies a condition: in order for Huckleberry to gain access and a membership to the band, he must return to the household of the widow,...
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A brief chronology of key life events: Walt Disney was born on 5 December 1901, in Chicago to his parents Elias and Flora. Walt died on the 15 of December 1966 because of lung cancer, this cancer was because of him smoking constantly. Walt Disney's full name is Walt Elias Disney. On October 16, 1923, Walt Disney founded the worldwide creation, Disney. Disney started in the rear of a small office. When WWII began, the US Army overtook some of...
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In the introduction Harvey C. Mansfield explains the book’s contents and what to expect as you read one of the “most famous book on politics ever written”(intro page 6) and I for one don't disagree at all. Niccolò Machiavelli goes into depth on various subjects in the book such as the different types of sovereignty and principalities, the distinct type of armies and how to properly lead them as a military leader, the debate about the aspect and behavior of...
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