Annotated Bibliography Hull, Robert. 'Hamartia and Heroic Nobility in Oedipus Rex.' Philosophy and Literature, vol. 17 no. 2, 1993, pp. 286-294. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/phl.1993.0047 The article is written by Robert Hull, and he argues that one’s consequences are already displaced by their character flaws at the beginning of the story, as opposed to those who believe that Oedipus will cause his consequences by his own actions. This article begins with a discussion about how readers are taught to think about...
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Cinderella is a story that many people know and love. In “America’s Cinderella” Jane Yolen argues that the American Cinderella that is loved and adored by many is wrong. Yolen explains that true Cinderella stories entail a number of themes and incidents. Yolen says that the themes are “riches recovered” (21), “rich person rescued from improper enslavement”(21) , and a “shrewd and practical person winning a share of power”(21). Her incidents include: “a scene with a radiant display” (21), “aid...
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MyDiet Analysis Diet Analysis is a way to track the entire food one eats for a period of time and analyzes the foods eaten to determine the overall nutritional value of one’s dietary intake. It also helps to determine one’s diet “weak spots,” potential food allergies or disease management issues. The results of this analysis help determine a personal Diet Prescription Plan & are strongly considered when recommending a Diet Meal Plan. Nutrition has played a big part in my...
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Norm Kelly, a famous politician and councilor for the City of Toronto. Not only is he popular within the political community but is a well-liked and trendy figure within the world of social media. Norm Kelly belongs to the Liberal Party of Canada and also represented the City of Scarborough as a councilor as well as a representative for Ward 40 York South-Wieston for the years 2000-2018. Ever since this famous political figure entered the world of Twitter, it became...
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The term aggression refers to a range of behaviors that can result in physical and psychological harm to yourself, others, or objects in the existence of the eye. Society has evolved with the acts of aggression, verbal and physical aggression, reactive-inexpressive and expressive aggression. High level of exposure is known to have a negative impact on attitudes and behaviors with the role of the violent media. Does the violent media cause aggression in teens? Researchers have documented and identified a...
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Introduction Sexually transmitted illnesses (STDs) are infections that spread person to person through intimate contact, STDs have an effect on everyone even babies, teenagers, healthy people, prosperous or the poor. According to WebMD (2019), it produces bacteria, parasites and viruses that have an effect on everyone, it causes many health problems but it can be more extreme for women. Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV), in particular that is a kind of STD, alters the immune system, increasing the risk of other...
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In the novel “Life of Pi.” Pi faces many challenges. The story begins when the ship skins due to a chaotic storm. After the incident, only Pi and a tiger named Richard Parker survive. At life the end of the story, Pi comes out of the ordeal alive and moves to Canada. Richard Parker then abandons Pi. Pi survives his time in the Pacific because of the absolute Primacy of Survival. The Primacy of Survival in Life of Pi, is...
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“Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strengths or exploited it.”- Bell Hooks. Sexism is a social disease. It has been prevailing in the society since ages. No one exactly knows how sexism came into existence, what are the roots of it. But it’s a disease which has spread like a virus and the antidote is yet to be found. There is no specified age for when sexism starts or ends, it’s there even before a...
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Conformity is an area of psychology classified under social behaviour. It focuses on social influence within a group involving altering behaviour or beliefs in order to fit in with others. There are three types of conformity proposed by Kelman (1958), including compliance, identification and internalization. Compliance refers to conforming in a group setting, adopting various behaviours and opinions of other group members, but only when in their company and not when alone. Identification refers to conforming to a group both...
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Abstract Jewish people are extremely faithful to their religion Judaism. Jews are monotheistic, and they try to show obedience to God at all times. The traditions that they celebrate are important to them because they like to promote kind acts within their community. The Jews became Hitler’s target for maltreatment during the Holocaust. Hitler was an antisemite that believed that Europeans with blonde hair and blue eyes were superior against other people. Millions of Jews were brutally killed during the...
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The movie entitled “The Namesake,” is an Indian-American movie made in 2006 directed by Mira Nair, and based on the original book written by Jhumpa Lahiri. The story shows how culture and inheritance are influencing people's identity in society, especially when this one is different from their original one. The novel, through the Ganguli family, shows how the experience of being an immigrant differs from one generation to another. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli, are from India live the American dream...
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In The Guardian article, “Is Graffiti a Force for Good or Evil?” by Athlyn Cathcart-Keays, reader learn that some artists get positive attention for their graffiti, while others get penalized with fines and prison sentences for doing the same thing. In 2008 there was a major public museum called “Tate Modern” which displayed graffiti and street art. Six international artist were invited to decorate the museum with enormous, eye-catching murals. Meanwhile, across town eight members of London’s well-known DPM crew...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a society has numerous layers that separate people into different classes based on their wealth, gender, race, religion and ethnicity. Social inequality has gradually become a problem in North America which enhance the issue of poverty and social stratification in multiple aspects. The conflict theory by Karl Marx revealed that social stratification is not inevitable through numerous aspects. One of the opposing concept of conflict theory is functionalism which emphasizes the need for...
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Sometimes trying your best isn’t enough. The film A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry's is based on The Youngers who are an African-American family living in the southside of Chicago. The family lives in a low income apartment structure that only has only one bathroom per floor. The Youngers family is faced with financial responsibilities that need to be met. Walter Younger, the father of the Youngers, works a full time job as a driver for a wealthy...
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Abstract We explore the influence of Big Five personality traits of self, an acquaintance and close other, on the complex understandings we develop of them and ourselves. Based on previous research, we hypothesized that among the three target groups, acquaintance would prove to show the lowest complexity when compared with self and close other. We conducted this study by distribution of the Big Five Personality 44-inventory to 212 participants and collected and computed results through statistic database. Our results showed...
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Math has existed and been used around us for a long time, even though individuals who employed inventing it were not aware that the systems they were creating to solve mundane problems would in the future be considered the foundation of mathematical concepts such as algebra, geometry, etc. These concepts came from efforts to make day-to-day life easier. For example; the modern day concept of combinatorics evolved from an effort to solve problems of enumeration in medicine and perfumery. The...
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While observing the Wingfield family in “The Glass Menagerie,” it is quite apparent that all members of the family exhibit the quality of “crippled.” Amanda is a very demanding mother with a crippled sense of reality, Laura is a crippled young woman who is very fragile both physically and emotionally, and Tom is a young man full of crippling guilt and sorrow. The Glass Menagerie is full of instances where these troubled individuals face everyday responsibilities and it evokes the...
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Chapter 1: Introduction Animal cruelty is when animals get abused by humans. People that harm animals are people that have been previously involved in a crime. The animals that get the most abused are dogs, cats, and horses and the reason is that those animals have no protection. Big puppies get sent to the pound and small puppies get put into a mill. Chapter 2: Why Are People Doing Testing On Animals 100 million animals have been killed by animal...
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In the famous novel “Beloved” by the well-known author Toni Morrison, I have come to realize that the theme touches on many different themes. The main themes it focuses on is the key concepts of slavery, masculinity within men, motherhood, freedom, and memories. The work of literature starts off with two important characters, Sethe and her daughter Denver. It is explained that the current home the family is living in seems to be possessed by Sethe’s firstborn daughter of whom...
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Regarded as one of William Shakespeare’s greatest creations, the novel Much Ado About Nothing clearly illustrates to its readers the unjust and discriminatory society that was in place during the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare explores the themes of social class and snobbery in this novel in order to achieve his main goal for the novel which was to explore the irony behind the celebration of marriage as well as in a sense mock the attraction between a man and a woman....
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The American Revolution has given the United States some of it’s most famous and revered figures in our history. George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson are known to virtually every person in the country, maybe even the world, and their importance cannot be denied. However, perhaps the most important name of all is merely a footnote in American history. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense not only rationalized the idea of independence, it also became a catalyst for the entire Revolution....
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Carl Jung had a more authentic and introspective look on the human mind. I feel that Jung was able to look at aspects of ourselves that make us innately human, Jung’s archetypes are key foundations in understanding our unconscious. Although I do not believe that Jung’s archetypes should be taken completely literally, I do believe the archetypes help us with baselines to the human experience. In this paper I will be focusing on the self, one of Carl Jung’s archetypes....
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Article 1: “Habit in Personality and Social Psychology” by Wendy Woods Habit is one of the different features that human beings possess. Woods (2017) did thorough research on this topic and came up with crucial findings. The researcher mentioned that even though it would be expected for psychologists to do much more research on people’s habits, few social psychologists have researched deep into this topic. He, therefore, conducted research to fill the gap in the field of social psychology. His...
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Odysseus is the hero or primary character and the legend of this epic ballad. Odysseus was the lord of Ithaca, was hitched Sovereign Penelope and was likewise the dad of Ruler Telemachus. Odysseus was depicted as an incredible warrior, who sets off toward the start of the ballad to go battle among the hardest warriors in the clash of Troy. He was a man of a savvy and quick man; creative, yet in addition expressive, fearless, loaded with continuance, and...
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Franz Kafka is is largely known for his early 20th century works that have been coined for the literary term Kafkaesque, inspired by a nightmarishly bleak reality with disoriented and confused protagonists who must come to terms with existential questions. Kafka’s most well-known novel is The Metamorphosis, which deals with a narrator in Gregor Samsa who is a traveling salesman who wakes up one morning to find he has been transformed into a disgustingly large insect and must deal with...
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Technology is a knowledge devoted to creating tools which can be useful in many ways and in many fields or processing actions and extracting the materials. We can also say technology is an application of science which is used to solve problems. (htt9) We apply technology in nearly all that we do in our day-by-day lives; we use technology at work, we use technology for correspondence, transportation, getting the hang of, fabricating, verifying information, scaling organizations thus substantially more. Technology...
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in 3 January 1892 was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world called Arda and Middle-earth. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the...
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Question 1 We can see many situations where the local gaze was in contrast with the tourist gaze in stories like Interpreter of Maladies by Lahiri. Right off the first scene we could see the communication barrier form between local, Mr. Kapasi who mistook the Das family as locals instead of diasporic travelers. Mr. Kapasi first encounters the Das family at the tea stall where to first impression they looked less like tourists and more like locals based off of...
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Title: The Fault In Our Stars Author: John Green Publisher: Penguin Books UK Number of pages: 313 Why did I choose this book: I chose this book because I already saw the movie and I found it very impressive, so I was curious about the book. a: Realistic, love story b: The story is told from Hazel’s perspective. c: I think the writer chose for this title because it stands for that person with cancer are a fault but that...
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Enlightenment vs. Romanticism shows two different aspects of history. In the Enlightenment period (1685-1800) the world was more focused on decisions that were rational not emotional, whereas in the Romanticism period (1800-1850) it dealt more with the emotional aspect of writing. Even though these are two separate time periods the writing texts do have similarities. In A Modest Proposal written during the Enlightenment period by Swift, focuses on how to solve an overpopulation of Ireland. Though in the Narrative of...
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