Virgil writes the Aeneid between the years 29-19 BCE. The Aeneid tells the legendary story of a man named Aeneas and how he found the city of Rome. Consisted of twelve books, the Aeneid is an epic poem. The Aeneid is considered one of the historically relevant works of Latin literature because it tells the story of the founding of Rome. Therefore, the literary device of ekphrasis describes a particular work of art in a more dramatic and vivid way....
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Annotated Bibliography Bishop, Felicity L, et al. “When and Why Placebo-Prescribing Is Acceptable and Unacceptable: a Focus Group Study of Patients' Views.” PloS One, Public Library of Science, 9 July 2014, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4089920/. This source is reliable because it is the National center for biotechnology information. This is a government databank that published medical studies along with other scholarly information. This study found that the more someone believes in a placebo, the better an outcome could be and vice versa. Bishop...
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I am Anantha Mary Jeba T. I am a meticulous and meritorious biotechnologist. I finished my M.Sc. in Biotechnology (Integrated) in April 2018 from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, India with 9.32 CGPA (Maximum CGPA being 10). I graduated my Higher Secondary Education in 2013 with 84.8% and Secondary Education in 2011 with 88.57% from Ida Scudder School, Vellore, India. During my college period, I received Merit Scholarships for all five years (Academic years 2013 – 2018). I was...
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Rationale - This written task is based on Part 1 language in cultural context and the focus will be on the topic Gender (inequality, constructions of masculinity and femininity). The stimulus chosen is of a recent speech by Madonna. The stimulus in itself isn't controversial although what she asserts is. The text type is a personal letter to a friend wherein support for Madonna's cause will be seen. The basic outline will be to persuade my friend through conviction to...
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Abstract This brief paper explores the symptoms, etiology, treatment, and prognosis of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is classified by The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) as a chronic mental illness. In order to be diagnosed with OCD, a person must have obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions are defined as persistent thoughts urges and images and attempts to suppress them with a thought or action. Those thoughts and actions are the...
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Throughout time, the United States has continuously failed to meet the minority’s needs. For this reason, there’s a set of government policies called affirmative action, implemented across 41 states, used to redress historic injustices. Affirmative action helps specific groups, minorities, by making special efforts to provide members of these groups with hiring and learning advancement. Affirmative action is an important and necessary policy to make the employment and educational field fair for minorities due to their lack of representation in...
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Abstract “The Brain that Changes Itself” is an informative book about neuropsychology but specifically i have focused on Chapter six that discusses Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. This mental illness is incurable and the people that suffer from this disease have a lot to overcome but with the help of Norman Doidge and Dr. Schwartz people with OCD can calm their anxieties down with the treatment that Dr.Schwartz has developed. Plasticity-based treatment has helped not only with OCD but people who have regular...
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Professional Nursing: My Vision of Myself over the Next 5 Years There are a lot of characteristics that are involved in the profession of nursing. There is not one nurse who is the same. It takes a lot of different people to make up the profession of nursing, however, there are some characteristics that almost every nurse has. The three characteristics that are found in the profession of nursing are prevention, coordination of care, and patient advocacy. Each of these...
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The Utopian white-picket-fence family has had a major influence on the way in which we now visualize the nuclear family. A traditional family consists of a dominant, breadwinning father, and a submissive, caretaking mother who holds the preponderance regarding the well-being of the children. Women were considered secondary to men and treated as dependents. As our modern civilization refines, gender normalities are no longer rigorously binding. The modification instilled in regards to the treatment of women in households within the...
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In this assignment, I am going to investigate the effectiveness of Morrison’s use of ‘own brands’. Background information Morrison’s is a public limited company (PLC) which was founded in 1899, 120 years ago, by a man named William Morrison. Mr Morrison started selling eggs, butter along with other dairy products at a small, local market until eventually, 53 years later; William’s son took over and opened their first store. Morrison’s are continually growing and are currently the fourth largest British...
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Introduction Kotler, Burton, Deans, Brown, and Armstrong, (2015), are of the viewpoint that dynamic pricing is considered to be referred as that surge pricing strategy, in consideration of which a business entity sets the flexible pricing for the goods and services it offers to the potential customers and the end market. This price of the goods and services is known to be set on the basis of the demand of the current market and its situation (Kirschen & Strbac, 2018)....
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Types of organizational culture Team-oriented Culture Team-oriented companies hire for culture fit first, skills and experience second. A company with a team-first corporate culture makes employees’ happiness its top priority. Frequent out-of-office team activities, opportunities to provide meaningful feedback, and flexibility to accommodate employees’ family lives are common markers of a team-first culture. The understanding of team-oriented culture is making employees happy, who will, in turn, make the customers happier. Team-oriented culture is beneficial for any customer service-focused company because...
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Warren Buffett sends an open letter each year to owners in Berkshire Hathaway. Over the last 40 years, these letters have become a regular standard for reading throughout the investment world, providing insight into how Buffett and his colleagues are talking about everything from investment strategy to stock ownership to corporate culture, and more. Save your money in peacetime so that during the war you can buy more. In 1973, Buffett made in the Washington Post one of his most...
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Introduction The research area is based on how construction contracts and procurement techniques are used in project of Coal India Ltd. CIL is a Maharatna and Indian state-owned company of coal mining and refinery. The main headquarter of Coal India Ltd is in Kolkata, West Bengal. 82% of coal is produced in India by CIL. It is in the 8th position in terms of market value among the Indian companies. CIL has many subsidiaries where CIL produces most of its...
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Anti-vaccination Discourse Online Before advancing to the main part of the study, this section is dedicated to explaining why the topic of anti-vaccination was chosen to be analyzed from a linguistic point of view, as well as why Tumblr and Twitter were the social media selected for the corpus, beyond the arguments cited in 1.1.1. This chapter has to main sections, 2.1., which provides with a detailed overview of Tumblr and Twitter’s features, with special emphasis to those relevant for...
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Question: Outline the history of and Australia’s involvement in the war on terrorism in Iraq and Syria? The new war on terrorism in Iraq and Syria has been a long and complex battle with multiple enemy forces, who are most often indistinguishable from civilians. Australia has engaged in this war on terrorism due to varying alliances with a multitude of Nations. Australia’s level of support for the war has varied throughout the years and recently has diminshed due to the...
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While I don’t usually draw from visual sources whilst creating artworks, there is a fair amount of inspiration taken from the proposed notions of acclaimed artists who have come before. In the instance of most of my works - which tend to have a surrealist/otherworldly focus with underlying emotional symbolism - I tend to take inspiration from the likes of Hieronymus Bosch and Francis Bacon, who’s works tamper with the ideas of otherworldly concepts (In the case of Bosch) and...
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T.S. Eliot, in his The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, takes the reader through the perils of life as a middle-aged man in modern society. His poem takes the form of a story, a narrative, with a character delivering a strong sense of voice and mood throughout the poem, moving away from the use of a strict rhyme scheme and meter used traditionally in poetry. Eliot uses repetition, in the form of alliteration, rhyming and literal repetition of words...
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Unifying the Races - Assimilation Versus Segregation When the Thirteenth Amendment was signed and officially ended slavery, one would think that this would begin the steady reunifying of the union. However, after the slaves were free, American entered a state of living that would continue to divide the people of this country. This state of living was segregation; it caused the prevention of values, cultural beliefs, as well as, societal opportunities from intertwining between the White and African Americans. The...
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Could it be that the problem has been wrongly perceived? The combination of many countries have shown that extremist groups are no match for the various countries. Many countries are striving for more of a modernized society and this contributes to societal values of the country. This will take a long time, but is already taking away from the extremists that undermine societal values. That doesn’t mean countries will be falling behind. Countries in the Middle East in particular have...
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After the oil spill, the US government looked at the situation from a different angle, which is inclusive of cleaning the Gulf, compensation of the affected, and also the dividends of the shareholders. The issue is considered in three dimensions; positioning BP to the point of coming to terms with compensating those affected like the fishermen, small business owners, and oil workers. The United States president Barrack Obama after four trips to the Gulf’s coast analyzed the BP’s response as...
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An environment is the green place that surrounds us as living beings. We must for ever keep it clean pollution free in order to live healthy and peaceful life. However, the environmental issues have become a threat to the environment and those living in it. Surely the planet is our home, but people aren’t the only inhabitants, unfortunately they quite often forget about this point. In most cases the environmental issues are caused by harmful human activities on the biophysical...
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Decision trees are a popular form of algorithm used in machine learning predictive modelling. Classification and Regression Trees (CART) refers to decision tree algorithms that are used for classification and regression learning. The definition of a decision tree based on categorical targets (classification) as seen in the diagram below; the same concept holds if our targets are real numbers (regression). Decision Tree Decision tree algorithms are nothing but if-else statements that are used to forecast an outcome based on results....
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This essay is designed to examine Plato’s “Euthyphro,” and to discuss the ideas of piety which are presented through an elenchus between Socrates and Euthyphro. Throughout Plato's critique and review of philosophical dilemmas, it often seems as though he speaks through the voice of Socrates' himself. A further example of Plato's thought experiments being verbalized by his muse, Socrates, is found in my analysis of Plato's Republic. What's important to realize is that the question of whether Socrates was a...
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Forest certification is a mechanism by which an independent organization issues a written assurance that a product, service or process meets specific requirements (Auld, Gulbrandsen, & McDermott, 2008). This may be followed by issuance of a symbol on products from certified companies, to easily identify them in the market. The idea of forest certification is aimed at rewarding foresters who promote aspects of sustainable forestry (ecologically appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable) (Auld et al., 2008). In the Baltic region,...
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The Seafarer starts recalling his travels, and how he has endured much hardship during his time at sea. When he would take the position of night watchman at the prow (or bow) of his ship, he would be drenched and overwhelmed by the wildness of the waves and the sharpness of the cliffs. His feet would be frozen, and his insides ravaged by hunger in a way only seamen can understand. The Seafarer claims that land-dwellers cannot comprehend the pain...
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The demand for renewable energy has contributed immensely towards the growth of wind energy industry. Nations such as the United States have shifted away from using fossil fuels. However, the success of wind energy industry depends greatly on wind turbines. A wind turbine is a technological device used in converting energy present in the moving wind into mechanical energy. Occasionally, the mechanical energy that rotates the shaft is converted by a wind turbine generator into electrical energy (Rivkin 2011, p.1)....
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George Washington was inaugurated april 30th, 1789. He accomplished the most within the first 100 days (153 days) than any other president has done. He was unanimously elected for both terms. He spent his first term in office creating a path for the executive branch. His first term also consisted of him creating the first form of the United states government. He was one of the greatest presidents in the history of the United States. This paper will explain why...
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Family plays a very significant role in the life of an individual. Each author represents family and relationships in his/her own unique way as people see things from a different perspective. Some writers represent a loving, caring and supportive family in their literary works. However, some writers show the negative side of the family to the readers such as conflicts between parents and siblings. The way the three novels represent family and relationships is fascinating but sad and emotional at...
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As a little boy growing up in Washington, Stephen L. Carter spent many happy hours in a room upstairs, poring over his father’s trove of books about Abraham Lincoln. Of special interest was Carl Sandburg’s massive biography of his fellow Illinoisan, full of stories about the 16th president, his folksy ways and, later, his conduct of the Civil War. Stephen couldn’t read the books at first — he was too young and they too heavy and too long — but...
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