Joseph Heller once said, “The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth. Don’t you know history?” Long gone are the days of being able to turn on any news channel that only gives facts. Today you must check your sources carefully and question everything. It is important we do this because fake news can be seen everywhere, and it is spread because our bias makes us more gullible. Everyone all wants to believe that we exist innocently without...
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After speaking with students over various issues like the meaning of ethics, the duty of life, and other things they enjoy about school. It takes a turn by one of the students lighting up a marijuana joint and offering it to Aristotle then follows by asking him his opinion on the major topic that has been up for debate for years. Aristotle then goes into detail and states why he doesn’t support marijuana and why it should not be legalized....
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This article will assess information from a variety of sources to expand the knowledge on the impact of the Chicano movement in the 21st century. To begin there is some insight required to have a basic understanding of Jorge Mariscal’s “FOREWORD: THE CHICANO MOVEMENT Does Anyone Care about What Happened 45 Years Ago?” (Mariscal xi). The first thing being defining what exactly the Chicanx movement really was/is, the movement having roots going back as early as 1846. The 20th century...
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In White Teeth by Zadie Smith, reminders of the past are everywhere, not always flattering to their subjects, and it at times seemingly all-consuming for the characters. For Smith, the past is so crucial that she begins the novel with a line from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest: “What’s past is prologue” suggesting that history and the past have a profound and inescapable impact. White Teeth winds through the years of an altogether unexpected life-long friendship between Bengali immigrant Samad Iqbal...
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If you have ever watched animals in nature, you may have noticed that they tend to behave a little selfishly. That is, they act on their urges without much regard to other creatures. People, on the other hand, are a little different; we care about how our actions influence others. However, we still are a part of the animal kingdom, and thus continue to struggle with animal urges. Fortunately, we have evolved a sense of right and wrong or a...
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Introduction Depression is one of many health risk factors that has developed in people from all ethnic and cultural backgrounds. In the present day, a person’s identities have become a source from which depression has been able to feed itself from and become a major influencing factor to their lifestyle. Hispanics are one of the largest ethnic minority groups in the United States, ranking at 15% of the population (www.census.gov). By carrying a major role in America’s society, it is...
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Many pilgrims where like slaves, they were beaten and forced to do things they didn’t want to do. Pilgrims also believed in religion, everything they did had to be right by the church. The pilgrims was one of the first tribes to ride the mayflower to New England. New England literature was heavily influenced by puritans such as Jonathon Edwards and William Bradford. Puritans were people that thought highly of the churches. They wanted to make a difference in the...
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Wars occur every day around the world. A battle that is practically unknown to many, is the drone war. This may sound interesting if you’re a science fiction buff, but unfortunately, this war is no tale of fiction. In an article called “Merry Christmas America! Let’s Remember the Children who Live in Fear of Our Killer Drones” by The Intercept from 2019, the authors discuss the drone wars and how the political powers at the time of the strikes did...
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The text, The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog, by James Sire prioritizes a list of eight basic worldview questions to help one determine the values and accords of specific worldviews. The nihilist worldview is difficult to apply to Sire’s questions. The nihilist’s response to “What is prime reality – the really real?” Nothing. The response to “What personal, life-orienting core commitments are consistent with this worldview?” There are none. Nihilism is the belief of nothing. Not even a...
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Introduction Leave campaign is referred to a political campaign organization that supported Britain to withdraw from European Union (EU) in the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, also known as the European referendum and Brexit referendum that took place on 23rd June 2016. Based on the result, there are 52% of the voters choose for the British to exit meanwhile the remaining, while 48% of British people agreed for the British to stay in the EU. The main reasons of...
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The most important concept I would say I learned is that no one can distinguish someone else from a specific race as there is no characteristic, trait, not even a gene that can specify all members of one race from all members of another race. This is further proven as there may be more variation between members of the same racial group than two different racial groups. Some factors that one might consider in order to find out if someone...
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Differing from the general themes that were written by other writers of his time, James Joyce experimented with the theme of “sexuality” in his works. Joyce wrote in a time where believers of social purity wanted to “suppress the explicit expression of sexuality in art, particularly in fiction” (Jones, Pg. 162), this was one of the reasons as to why Joyce’s book was very difficult to published. Joyce’s efforts to publish his work within the constraints forced on him “became...
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Introduction The basis of this assignment is to outline, explain and examine one normative moral theory, which will be deontology with reference to abortion. Academic resources will be used as evidence to support this assignment and the Harvard reference system to acknowledge where information has been found. According to The Ethics Centre (2016), deontology is defined as a normative moral theory that proposes moral or immoral actions in accordance to a clear set of rules. Therefore, a person’s action that...
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Henrike Donner’s book ‘Domestic Goddesses: Maternity, Globalization and Middle-class Identity in Contemporary India’ published as a series of articles, is an ethnographic endeavor into the Calcutta of the 1990s. With the data she collects through extensive fieldwork, she examines the lives of its middle-class women, and how their identities got shaped and morphed by the processes of globalization and the introduction of neo-liberal policies. Donner limits her field to two paras (neighborhoods) in Calcutta, in the period between 1995-2005, she...
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A little over 400 years ago on April 23rd William Shakespeare passed away, however, he became somewhat immortal through his fantastic dramas and literature. We learn about his tragedies, comedies, and poetry even today all around the world in high schools and at the university level. Famous English romantic poet John Keats even kept a copy of Shakespearian literature near his desk in the hope that Shakespeare himself would spark his creativity. Shakespeare is such an important figure in British...
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In diverse societies, witchcraft is used differently, and its level of importance varies due to this. Our definition of witchcraft is: “the manipulation of powerful substances or words (via magic) to cause harm (only occasionally good)… It can also frequently be an unconscious activity, which means that the “witch” often does not know he/she is bewitching anyone” (McGarry 2016). The Bantu tribes that will be focused on in this paper, the Lobedu and the Chewa, abide by this definition and...
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In the United States, many social scientists can agree that the society they live in is stratified into social classes. There have been disagreements, various definitions, and competing models which make a social class very controversial issue in America. Social stratification is the main reason for the relational set of inequalities in economic, political, social, and ideological aspects. It is a system by which people rank and assess each other. Since the basis of evaluation with social stratification is education,...
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In most cultures, there is always a god or a variety of gods that the people of mankind worship and look up upon. These gods are associated with culture, and blessings and are seen to be of great power. In Greek Mythology, there were known to be twelve chief gods in total. Some of the greatest greek gods and goddesses were Zeus, Poseidon, Aphrodite and Athena. They were all seen to exhibit great levels of power and control. The gods...
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We are living in a process of globalization nowadays, and the trade between countries and countries makes us nicknames that human beings are close to each other as living in the same village. However, thousand years ago, people still did not know what the Earth was, and humans dispersed wars constantly. As human self-evolution, there have been a number of unified orders that have gathered a large number of human beings, such as money, religion, and empire. From my perspective,...
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Augustus, during the hour of his rule as princeps of the Roman individuals, developed for himself a picture of military ability, liberality, goodness, and leniency. Octavian, before known as Augustus was believed to be one of the most significant pioneers in Roman history. His character as a pioneer, criminal, and statesman was raised through the intense challenge. Additionally being the received child of Julius Caesar, has raised more character in him than before as he needed to satisfy individual special...
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The Chinese culture has a deep affection for food, which means this is a part of their everyday routine that they take seriously. At every meal dishes served contain deep meaning and spiritual purpose within the Chinese belief system. Including ingredients: vegetables, spices, and meat each holds meaning. For example, rice means increasing prosperity, garlic symbolizes eternity, and bamboo shoots are a sign of wealth. The Chinese cooking system is best described as simple and clean. According to Wiki, a...
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Leadership is an important quality. It is the ability to provide direction. Being a leader can be both an honor and a difficult role. The bible provides a multitude of notable leaders. Among these leaders is David. David who is also known as King David was the son of Jesse and Nitzevet and was born in Bethlehem. David was a musician and a shepherd that became well known for his acts in the bible. In the bible, David demonstrates acts...
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“Revolution always requires that people shed blood” (Kim Chew Ng 123). This is the grim fact that the protagonist and his comrades had agreed upon prior to following a path of revolution. And after him and his comrades are convicted of conspiracy and treason, plenty of blood was shed, as his comrades were shot to death by a firing squad (Chew Ng 125). A childhood promise between the protagonist and his royal, cherished friend, allowed for the protagonist to evade...
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According to Chaucer, the question it is better ‘to be rather than to seem,’ is answered simply. To be is who you really are behind what is shown, while to seem is how you want to seem despite who you really are. In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer depicts the character's worthiness through their features and clothing. For him, each characters respect is earned through their charming style behind their face and value. As Chaucer introduces the characters in The Canterbury...
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Since the birth of our world, we have recorded plentiful amounts of changes to it. We have acknowledged this change through events such as the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and the ice age and even climate change. This, however, is not the only change we see within the world. We have also seen various alterations in society. It is because of these different changes in humanity that people have lost happiness and faith within multiple aspects of life. In...
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'Witch-hunting... helped to unite men – by demonstrating the ultimate evil was female, not male.' The study of popular magic and witchcraft tells us that early-modern European society was a wholly misogynistic one that demonized and persecuted women. The patterns of popular magic and witchcraft can be traced throughout most of Europe from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. The idea that 'Witchcraft was not sex-specific but sex related' according to Christina Larner, is arguable. The study of popular magic and...
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The protagonist, Ivanovich Poprishchin is a titular councilor who has noted his sentiments in a diary. From the onset of the diary, it appears that the protagonist is unsatisfied with the way he is treated at his job, stating that the chief has been unpleasant to him and he has been informed he often “rush about as though he was possessed”. The protagonist believes that his colleagues are “certainly envious” of him because he is favored by the director (Gogol,...
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Virginia Woolf (1882 –1941) was an well-known English novelist, essayist, feminist, to a greater degree, a modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Unlike antecedent literary works of her time, she experiments with different techniques, forms, and structures – denouncing former Victorian, Romantic, realist conventional use of description, generic characters, and plot, yet, maintains concern for the depiction of the human experience, ultimately, defining her transformative style as a modernist writer. In this paper, I will closely examine Virginia Woolf’s...
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Food security is defined by The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as a “situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.” Within the past year, there have been several reports released by a multitude of organizations regarding the devastating effects that climate change will have. It’s scientifically proven that the recent drastic change...
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Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey are poems centered around the events of the Trojan War. The Iliad recounts the events from the Trojan war during the final weeks whereas The Odyssey is a sequel telling the story of Odysseus and his journey back home. Within the poems, the role of gods and goddesses plays an integral part in influencing the human characters and the events of the Trojan War. The divinities are split between the sides of the Trojans...
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