Candide was written by the French author Voltaire in 1759 in his attempt at exposing many aspects of religious and social injustices within Europe, as he saw it, through the naĂŻve and simple protagonist Candide and his ever-optimistic mentor Pangloss. From religion to the aristocracy, Voltaire satirizes various aspects of European life throughout the period identified as the enlightenment. He also indirectly states that life in 18th-century Europe was often filled with corruption and flaws from within all levels of...
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During the late eighteenth and mid nineteenth century oversaw the birth and fast-paced growth of the Industrial Revolution in Britain. (Baker, 2019) Factories overtook the role of previously played by agriculture in the economy and the working-class citizen quickly made his way out of the village and into the workhouse. (Barrow, 2013) Though the economy was thriving, there was a sense of mourning noted amongst the general public which witnessed the increasing mechanisation of the world. The clash between the...
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Background Asthma is a respiratory and genetic condition characterized by the inflammation and narrowing of airways in the lungs. The inflammation forces airways to swell, contributing to difficulties in breathing (Rubner et al., 2017). During asthma attacks, individuals experience periods of intense coughing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and wheezing. Individuals with asthma may experience mild to severe symptoms, and a varying frequency of attacks. An individualâs physical activity may be related to the timing of asthma symptoms. Some people...
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Candide is one of the most acclaimed works by Voltaire composed during the Age of Enlightenment. These days it intrigues the perusers with its significant infiltration into the human world with every one of its shades of malice, disadvantages, deception and brutality. The unforgiving incongruity and mockery of the creator alongside extreme pundits towards the current social and strict standards made Candide the most brilliant case of Kantâs Enlightenment. According, to Candide by Voltaire, he portrays the change of the...
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Two Worlds In the book entitled Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska, Sara Smolinsky deals with the clash of the Old World and the New World as an immigrant in New York in the 1920s as she struggles with placing her individual values over her family. On the other hand, James Baldwin in his book, The Fire Next Time, wrestles with segregation and racial discrimination between the white and African-American worlds amidst the Civil Rights movements. Both books address tensions between...
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In the novels The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, the protagonists are both unsatisfied with their lives. They either have everything that the average person would be envious about or they fill their days with partying and alcohol. Both are trying to fill an empty void that the whole generation is suffering from. The time periods of both novels take place after World War I so everyone is stuck in a...
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Loss of Innocence What is loss of innocence? Erica Goros wrote, âNever mourn the loss of innocence because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.â It is an event in a person's life that leads to a greater acknowledgment of evil, pain and suffering in society and daily life around them. This is an important theme throughout Harper Leeâs novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The story takes place in the South during the Great Depression. The novel is...
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You receive a call from the Red Cross, the blood you donated tested positive for HIV/AIDS. How did you receive this virus? AIDS is an extremely widespread virus that poses a health threat for millions around the world. Both strains of HIV, HIV-1 and HIV-2, plague so many people around the globe, and these people have a high possibility of getting AIDS if the HIV virus isnât contained. Statistically, homosexuals contract AIDS at a higher rate than heterosexuals, and only...
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In this article, the writers Gulati and Kellenberg (2013) are concerned about the effect of international trade on the environment by a political-economic system of a world country. Gulati and Kellenberg (2013) expressed that a country that supports the environment would oppose free trade, rail against the governmentâs capture by industrial special interests, and bemoan its indifference to the environment. Thus, the writers keep mentioned about the role of government as an important institution in how the government tackles this...
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Biblical Christianity for Thoughtful People Introduction From the very beginning, God created a world where all his creations would work in unity on earth. Everything that God created was planned out to benefit all and align with the future. God created a path for all to walk down and each step followed another for the path of life to be complete. With all that God has created, there will always be some aspects that God cannot control, such as, sinners....
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My Philosophy of Supervision is having clear goals of supervision, which is based on the following: My Values and beliefs of being a Therapist: As part of my training, I had very little opportunity to observe senior practitioners at work, apart from a few role-plays and watching Gloria films. The transition from the classroom-based didactic nature of learning to the actual application of knowledge and techniques causes a sense of achievement and anxiety. When I first started my training I...
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As humans, we live in a world where several religions exist, each with its own set of beliefs. So, what exactly does religion mean? Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of godlike controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. Almost everyone on the earth has some sort of religious or social belief. Each belief has a deep history that may be traced all the way back to the beginning of time. Those concepts were created by...
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I was born on September 13, 2003, in Jacksonville, Florida. I was born prematurely, by 75 days. I was a very tiny baby, I weighed 3 lbs 1 ounce and was able to lay on my dadâs hand with my legs hanging off. I was in the hospital until October 24, 2003. During my time in the hospital, one of the nurses left an IV in my right wrist for too long, and it burnt my wrist. When the burn...
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Foreword An old story written by Wayne Cordeiro in his book, âDoing Church As A Teamâ tells of a rabbi living in a Russian city a century ago. Disappointed by his lack of direction and life purpose, he wandered in the chilly evening. With his hands thrust deep in his pockets, he aimlessly walked through the empty streets, questioning his faith in God, the Scriptures, and his calling to ministry. The only thing colder than the Russian winter air was...
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According to Martin Gansbery from Thirty-eight Who Saw Murder Didnât Call The Police âlaw-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacksâ. Thirty-eight âlaw-abiding citizensâ who after hearing âhe stabbed me! Please Help me! Please help me!â did nothing but slide open their windows and turn on their lights. Even âAssistant Chief Inspector Frederick M. Lassen, in charge of the boroughâs detectives and a veteran of twenty-five years of homicide investigationsâ, was distraught...
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Employment (the number, quality, and security of jobs available) is an important social concept. The fact that income is directly correlated to employment creates the societal notion of class. As such, lack of employment is, consequently, also an important economic aspect that has a direct connotation with the make-up of the society. This literature review aims at effectively analyzing the extent to which unemployment negatively impacts society (unemployment as a social problem) through the eyes of 5 credible sources that...
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The word âstereotypeâ is today almost always a term of abuse. A pattern of stereotypes is not neutral. It is the guarantee of our self-respect; it is the projection upon the world of our own sense of our own value, our own position and our own rights. The stereotypes are therefore, highly charged with the feelings and attached to them. They are the fortress of our tradition, and behind its defenses we can continue to feel ourselves safe in the...
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The transition from childhood to adulthood also known as adolescents (shonen for boys, shojo for females) is heavily shown within the realm of anime. Studio Ghibli is also known as one of the major producers of adolescent films with the help of Hayao Miyazaki, a director, and producer of films such as âKikiâs Delivery Serviceâ, âSpirited Awayâ, âHowlâs Moving Castleâ, etc. In both âKikiâs Delivery Serviceâ and âSpirited Awayâ, the female protagonists go through a maturation process that involves loss...
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Climate is changing day to day. This climates change gave the attention to the entire world because it is our responsible to take care of our climate change. There are gases which are affecting the climate such as CO2, CH4, N2O, etc. India was responsible for 4 percent of total emission in 2000. Emissions are set to rise further still over the next 20 years as the Indian economy rapidly develops. The farm sector in India is in trouble and...
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The film, movie, cinema, motion picture, or moving picture has been entertaining audiences for over one hundred plus years. They have come a long way since the Golden Age of movies. Early on movies such as âCitizen Kaneâ, âCasablancaâ, and âThe Best Years of Our Livesâ broke and set new ideas for film-making, casting and directing. Their production made new rules for shooting movies. Their casting used A-list celebrities, alongside never-before-seen actors, mixed with regular people that had experience in...
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Symbolism is a concept people are exposed to everyday, whether they notice it or not. It is a device that is used in many different forms, from state flags to works of art to the lyrics of oneâs favorite song. Many find symbolism to give such things a higher significance or importance, allowing them to become much more than their surface meanings. The symbolism in literature is no different. In literature, symbolism has been used to thoroughly amplify the meaning...
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In an article distributed by 'They Say/I Say with Readings', David H. Freedman speaks to the message âHow Junk Food Can End Obesityâ. The article revolves around how the media and health food fans in every practical sense have been bringing down industrialized and arranged sustenance. In the article, Freedman uses his acceptability to actually show the ethics incorporating the decrees used by those against industrialized and arranged sustenance. He uses delicacy to help depict how less kind of wealthy...
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âI believe in constant improvement, driven by evidence and feedbackâ. My perspective on teaching has strongly been influenced by my experiences as a project manager of a major construction engineering company. In this position, I was a decision-maker and a consumer of the products supplied by the system that prepares graduate engineers for the profession. I experienced how well products performed and their intended functions. The significance of an education and the problems currently facing engineering education became evident to...
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We surround ourselves every single day using technology and looking through social media watching the latest posts on public figures we follow. We tend to always seem to run into a certain image that is defined as the âbeauty standard of the momentâ. Although beauty has evolved within the years many see it as an ordinary thing, as a joke, but as mentioned before there are two sides to this controversial topic. Many change their appearance to please themselves. Although...
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McCabe et al. defined smart materials as materials whose properties might be changed in a controlled manner by improvements, such as stress, temperature, moisture, pH and electric or magnetic fields. A key feature of smart behavior includes an ability to come back to the first state after the upgrade has been evacuated. These materials respond to environmental changes or external impacts, and are otherwise called responsive materials. The response may exhibit itself as a change in shape, stiffness, viscosity or...
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The movie I chose to discuss from a sociological perspective is âV for Vendettaâ, which is directed by James McTeigue. The film was originally taken from the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. The setting is familiar to many of the fictitious novels written in the future about a dystopian era, in which people are ruled by fear spread through government-driven propaganda and human atrocities. Many would probably say in a way today we see such tools/mechanisms...
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This article essay reviews âWhen Markers Meet Marketing: Ethnicity, Race, Hybridity, and Kinship in Genetic Genealogy Television Advertisingâ (Scodari, December 2017). This review includes a summary, discussion, and critique about the article mentioned. It includes many topics including DNA analysis and its relationship with ethnicity, race, hybridity, and many more. This review manages to discuss each point and topic in fine detail and connect them all to each together, like pieces of a puzzle. Even though there might be questions...
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âRufus had done exactly what he said he would do: Gotten possession of the woman without having to bother her husband. Now, somehow, Alice would have to accept not only the loss of her husband, but her own enslavement. Rufus had caused her trouble and now he had been rewarded for itâ (149). This quote from the book âKindredâ reveals the powerful theme of the corruption of power, after Rufus inherits the plantation, he gains a lot of power over...
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During the Reconstruction era, the rebuilding of the south proved to be a difficult task. Even after the abolition of slavery blacks still faced harsh discrimination. Due to the continuous unequal treatment of blacks, the government of United States created the Freedmenâs Bureau. This organization provided Americans across the South with a resource to seek advice with race related issues. The letters provide first-hand information about what the environment was like that existed in the postÂwar south. Specifically, the letters...
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Animal rights⊠Before we dive into what animal rights really mean, I would like to define some certain terms and animal rights itself. What is an animal? A living organism that feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli, animals need food and water to live. What does it mean to have a right? Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are...
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