Over the course of several years, there has been a debate about whether the United States should legalize the usage of marijuana. As of right now, thirty-three states have decriminalized or legalized marijuana use (Speights, 2018). The decriminalization of the substance indicates that criminal penalties administered are not necessarily harsh. For example, a fine may be imposed instead of an arrest. Oregon was the first to decriminalize the personal usage of marijuana (Speights, 2018). The legalization of the substance grants...
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Abstract Before 2018, cannabis is illegal in Canada and was used for medical purpose only. On 17th October Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau legalize marijuana for recreational purposes. It is the naturally grown plant which contains THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (cannabidiol). It is the hot topic to debate in Canada whether it is good for economy and people or not? There are some positive and negative effects of legalization on the Canadian economy. After the legalization, on the individual...
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In April of this year, a poll was conducted by CBS News concerning cannabis legalization at the federal level; results stated that sixty-five percent of Americans favor nationwide legalization of cannabis (De Pinto). For the last century, the United States Federal Government has prohibited the use and possession of cannabis for any purpose, as stated by the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. One of the most controversial and heavily debated questions that can be asked, is if this is, in...
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Leadership has been a significant recorded presence in the history of the populace and is one of the world’s oldest preoccupations. Leadership has been evident for over 5000 years from the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and has been a continuing theme amongst philosophers; theorists and entire societies. A pied group of noteworthy historical figures have enacted leadership including Moses, Confucius, Plato, Caesar, Napoleon, Thomas Jefferson, Gandhi, to name but a few. The subject of leadership is familiar to all and it...
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Introduction to Stereotyping and Prejudice in Maycomb The chances of blacks going to jail are 32% while for whites, it is 6%. This injustice happens to this day and is showcased when an innocent black is accused of rape in To Kill a Mockingbird. However Arthur Radley also faces prejudice despite being white. Siblings Scout and Jem witness these problems in their town, Maycomb. Their father Atticus and others teach them morals that contradict usual ways. In To Kill A...
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The importance of this research paper is to compare and contrast the two speeches made by Malcolm X. The speaker, Malcolm X, constructs himself as a member of the movement. Malcolm X wanted equality among the two races, negroes and caucasians. In the history of the United States, we have had many years of segregation due to race. Unfortunately, we even see race issues in today’s world. For a long time our country has experienced racism and this has caused...
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Malcolm Little, Aka Malcolm X, was a famous civil rights movement activist. He had a hard childhood. He was picked on due to the light color of his skin by peers and family members. His family lived in poverty and as a result Malcolm Little spent several years of his life committing crimes and ended up in prison. Malcolm X found Islam in prison and developed different philosophies which were influenced by his childhood experiences. Malcolm X eventually found peace,...
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Introduction & Approaches for Ethical Dilemma Introduction An ethical dilemma is defined as an examination of the moral standards of an individual where the person’s values conflict with each other. For example, a salesman’s moral values are compromised by the responsibilities of work because of the need to offer a poor-quality product to a customer who is not aware of the fact. The conflicting ethical values for salesperson are loyalty to the company and truthfulness to the customer. Approaches for...
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Many argue that music classes in schools are useless to students. Some parents believe that their kids need standard classes such as Language Arts and Math. These parents do not realize the tremendous mental benefits that music classes have. Most students are stressed while they are at school. The amount of schoolwork given, level of difficulty, and extracurriculars can bring anxiety to many if not all students. Music classes are proven to boost the mental health of students. Due to...
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The general attitude towards procrastination is usually negative, and often viewed as a bad habit by society however, the idea of procrastination is not so shallow. Angela Chu and Jin Choi introduced the idea of Active Procrastination to the world in 2005 in an effort to encourage scientists to look deeper into procrastination and realize that there are differences between those who procrastinate passively and those who procrastinate in a calculated and purposeful way, (Chu & Choi, 2005). The idea...
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Introduction to Feminist Criticism and Gender Studies Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women (1869) and the American Margaret Fuller's Women in the Nineteenth Century (1845) has started the struggle for identity of women writing imposing the socio-political, economic rights of women. These writers and their works formed the base for feminist criticism and gender studies. A lot of questions were raised against the primitive notions of man-woman relationship inferiority...
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November 1, 2014, Brittany Maynard ended her life. In January of that year, she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. What was first a grade 2 astrocytoma, within four months, turned to a grade 4 astrocytoma (glioblastoma) with a prognosis of six months to live. After many failed treatments Maynard decided to take advantage of her right-to-die. Living in a state where physician-assisted suicide was illegal, she decided to move her and her family from California to Oregon and take...
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1 in 5 Americans are diagnosed with mental disorders every year. Mental disorders are social and/or mental side effects different every day issues. There are 7 main types of mental disorders that a lot of Americans go through which is: mood, anxiety, personality, psychotic, eating, trauma, and substance abuse. Within the past 50 years there has been a spike in crime specifically serial killing and mass shootings. When mass shootings happen they are different in other ways because the motives...
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The genre of satire has served as a useful tool throughout history, in literature and the general arts, to indirectly bring attention to the shortcomings of humanity and more often the government as well as to effect political or social change, or to prevent it. It is certainly traditionally a passive aggressive tool, but is actually manipulated as an almost direct provocation within George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ that asserts the notion that men exploit animals in much the same way...
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The speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an evolving experience for the mindset for all those who opposed the rights of people from a different race than theirs. “ I Have A Dream…”, is a speech well known for its acknowledgement towards the fact that people are not defined by the colour of their skin, not their race, nor their ethnicity, but by their character and personality. We all know what racism is, but have we stopped...
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Censorship has been around throughout the ages of history. It can be seen in the earliest time from the ancient Romans and Greeks. Censorship is the suppression or prohibition of speech or deletion of communicative material. That includes books, films, and news. Individuals censor things because they feel that it is obscene, politically unacceptable, objectionable, harmful, or a threat to security. There are four main types of censorship. Political, Ethical and Social, Religious, and Military. These are used in different...
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In 1979, in the middle east, a series of laws were constrained onto women that shaped their role in the country. This marked the beginning of the Islamic Revolution. During this period, the unique daughter of a young couple name Marjane Satrapi, gave an inside story of her family, and everyone arounds the family during the revolution. this revolution is supposed to separate the country from the outside world, furthermore a revolution to save the culture of their beautiful country,...
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Introduction Bipolar disorder is a highly complex condition which is less than fully understood but believed to stem from numerous genetic, developmental, and physiologic factors (Sigitova, Fišar, Hroudová, Cikánková, & Raboch, 2017). Bipolar disorder is not a single diagnosis but an umbrella term that encompasses Bipolar I, Bipolar II, cyclothymic disorder and hypomania (Sadock, Sadock, & Ruiz, 2016). This paper will focus on bipolar I disorder. In order to meet the criteria of bipolar I disorder, a patient must demonstrate...
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Both 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 reflect a dystopian future where information is tightly controlled and the populace seems to care little for the fact that they are being lied to and manipulated into working for the ambitions of their government. Both governments in the story have taken control of the media, and thus the population and both characters are a part of agencies that help keep the government in control of the people. The novels explain how when a large...
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Introduction According to the report of the McKinsey Global Institute, “Notes from the frontier of the IA”, from April 2018, the impact of artificial intelligence on the value of companies by sector will affect tourism (128%), followed by transport and logistics. (89%); retail trade (87%); automotive and assembly, high technology, gas and oil , chemical industry , media and entertainment, raw materials, agriculture, and banking (50%); health, public administration and telecommunications (44%); pharmaceutical products, insurance, semiconductors, the aerospace and defense...
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Introduction: Exploring the Rich Themes in 'Fahrenheit 451' The dystopian society that Guy Montag is forced into forces us as the reader to ask ourselves the question, how much is my right to expression worth to me. Author Ray Bury is the man who poses this question to our society as a whole in his writing of the novel Fahrenheit 451. The story focus on a man who rejects the idea of listening to a government whose goal is to...
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There were so many things that I did not realise as I read the play. The interactive oral made me apprehend those things I could not imagine at first. During the discussion, student D. expatiated on the fact that the curse did not start on Oedipus at first but really began with what Laius did. The curse actually began at the stage of the ancestors. Before Oedipus' parents took over the throne, Amphion and Zeth usurped the throne of Thebes....
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Introduction Malnutrition means deficiency of proper nutrition in diet due to not having enough food. It mainly involves calories, protein, vitamins and carbohydrates. It has also divided into different types of under nutrition such as stunting, wasting, underweight and no proper vitamins and minerals (Pathak & Singh., 2011). My essay topic area is malnutrition among children of India. In India, there is highest number of children at world level suffering from malnutrition (Pathak & Singh., 2011). Poverty is the main...
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Texts such as 1984 by George Orwell and the film The Brave New World (TBNW) directed by Larry Williams clearly illuminate how an intoxication of power leads to the loss of freedom, individualism and relationships, all which are vital aspects of the individual and collective human experience. The human necessity for freedom is eradicated in both texts through the oppressive use of power. This is achieved in ‘1984’ through the constant use of surveillance on citizens. In contrast a drug...
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To be able to properly define the leadership styles and their application, it is important to look at the theory of emotional intelligence (EI). Although there are differences in the various EI models proposed and the method used by researchers to determine it (Cherniss, 2010), the fundamental concept of emotional intelligence is based on three principles: first that emotions are important in people lives, second that people differ in how they perceive, understand and manage emotions, third that individuals are...
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“Live in the present, make the most of it, it’s all you’ve got” – Offred. It is from chilling thoughts like this, that dystopian literature is created. Authors, such as ‘Margrett Atwood’ and ‘Ray Bradbury’ who write for young audiences are reluctant to leave individuals without hope. Hopeful literature is achieved through dystopian works, where the audience is presented with a dysfunctional future society portraying the degradation of civil society and the bitter inheritance left for younger generations. It is...
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Although most classics seem extremely outdated and what many people think to be no longer relevant in today’s vastly modern world, they demonstration society what we have developed from. How far we have come from those times of which the classic was written. How are we to know our progress if there is nothing to reflect and compare it with. The future generations learning of the world’s past views and mistakes will hopefully lead to them to never happen again...
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“Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett and “The Goat” by Edward Albee are plays characterised by their genre-bending approach to storytelling. In the tradition of tragedy and comedy, both authors focalise on producing an emotional response in their audiences in a manner that recalls Barthes' “Death of the Author”. Beckett’s play seeks to expose reality to be in perpetuum, “a random continuum of phenomena, devoid of any meaningful design” (Counsell, 112). Within the theatre of the absurd that Waiting for...
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The controversial elements that are laced within the The Goat (Who is Sylvia?) and Catcher in the Rye is what allows the texts to transcend the literary sphere and pave a new way of thinking. It is the obscene imagery and vulgar language that many take at face-value, disregarding the prime purpose of its use; to depict a flawed main character who struggles with the social taboos that creates a bounded world for them. Although taboo concepts of bestiality, incest...
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By dissecting the factors and similarities found in the psychological illnesses of the most dangerous serial killers of our time, this essay will assert that all serial killers are in some way the same when it comes to the cognitive processes of the brain. Using our discernment of crime causation and the intertwining crime theories related to mass murder will better our understanding of how and why serial killers are created. The most prominent theories we will be looking at...
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