Imagine swinging through 192 pages and realizing your assumptions led you stray? Oddly enough, Toni Morrison’s plot has a plethora of twists and happens to deceive us from the instant we set our eyes on the cover. With the novel being titled ‘Sula’, when we first hear her name in the readings, we automatically click to thinking she's the main character. However, due to the changes and pains that Nel endures throughout the novel, the way that Sula's actions affect...
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The medieval period is the period that stretched from the 5th to the 15th century. The Islamic and European societies, such as the Byzantine empire in Eastern Europe, had differences and similarities during this period. Both of them had a blend of lay and strict rulers applying differing degrees of fleeting power over a wide cluster of people groups, customs and convictions where the European societies used feudalism and caliphates. Both societies transformed greatly during this period as they moved...
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Disease was often imported and exported through trade and traveling. European exploration also infected nations in the New World with disease, smallpox, influenza, and measles which infected many natives. Many Europeans gave diseases to the Americas. In the time frame of the Age of Exploration, people understood little about disease before the invention of the microscope. Spanish did not know that they carried a contagious disease like smallpox and their bodies. The Aztec called the smallpox plague ‘totomonjztli’ and wrote...
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The novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee demonstrates a large extent of prejudice that prevents us from seeing the good in people. A person will never really understand another until they look at things from their point of view, by stepping in their shoes, by climbing into their skin and walking around in it. Prejudging a person will prevent them from seeing who they truly are. There is a large extent of prejudice occurring in the society of...
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‘Dubliners’ by James Joyce is a collection of fifteen short stories published in 1914 that all show a sense of paralysis of a character in varying ways. To be specific, Little Chandler from ‘A Little Cloud’ and Farington from ‘Counterparts’ both portray a sense of paralysis that are similar to one another as well as quite distinctive. They are similar because they both don't find fulfillment in life and decide to channel their feelings using various methods. On the other...
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Currently, paracetamol is a first-line choice for pain management; those with osteoarthritis, simple headaches, and those with musculoskeletal conditions. With proper use, it is rare for paracetamol to have adverse affects. Aspirin and paracetamol may have very different histories and development but share similar mechanisms within the body and their corresponding side effects. Although aspirin has many added benefits that paracetamol does not, paracetamol continues to be the most used pain relief within Australian households. Hippocrates of Kos, the famous...
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‘A Raisin in the Sun’ was brought to the public on March 11,1959 where it resembled the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance had many characteristics that tied into black history. It was a racial pride that developed the idea of black identity through the production of literature, art, and music that could challenge the racism presented to promote progressive politics. The whole plot of ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ was to elaborate on how colored people used to get treated...
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In chapter 3 of Tim Marshall's ‘Prisoners of Geography’ it looks at the USA with its glorious isolated location between two oceans, exceptional river systems and development agriculture all of which led as a country with a shared language through culture to their relatively stable progress. When comparing the analyses of US foreign policy contained in Chapter 3 of ‘Prisoners of Geography’ and Chapter 2 of Stephen Chan's ‘Meditations on Diplomacy’, I have drawn down notes on how they both...
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Comedy is an integral part of human life. Literary it is a kind of dramatic work and a genre that uses satire as a tone and it is amusing, with which it mostly has a cheerful ending. Comedy creates triumph over all the sad moments by use of comic effects which results to a hilarious conclusion (John, 2014). Comedy, according to Aristotle, refers to imitation of low type of characters. He further says that it however not in the sense...
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Based in ‘Hero With A Thousand Faces’, it explains the typical heroic tale in which a heroic protagonist sets out, goes on exciting adventures, and returns home. It is a valuable method for analyzing conventional literature through time and culture. The four stages that I have decided to write on are: ‘Ordinary World’, ‘Call to Adventure’, ‘Refusal to Call’, and ‘Ordeal’. The ‘Hero's Journey’ is a traditional narrative framework portrayed by worldwide tales. Coined in 1949 by professor Joseph Campbell,...
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Cleopatra’s life was very interesting. Being born into the Ptolemy family, life was not easy. She had to be very smart and intelligent to even stay alive. She was her father’s favorite so she learned from the best person to rule. She got married to her father so he could have someone by his side. A year later, he died and Cleopatra and her brother were co-rulers. But as time went on, her brother wanted to rule by himself and...
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Apple is one of the most successful consumer electronics corporations in the world. The production of their flagship iPhone has been the pillar of their past and current success. As a result, it has been an economic focus because of its success and its popularity. As such, it comes under the influence of many economic factors, not only microeconomic factors but also macroeconomic factors. This paper will discuss some of these factors and the impact they have on Apple and...
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Offender profiling is a tool that is used primarily by law enforcement in terms of investigating. This method helps to identify the personality, behavioural and demographic characteristics of offenders based on the findings from analysing a crime scene. This investigative tool is used to generate possible findings as well as narrowing down the list of possible suspects; this is successful due to the established links between the crime committed as well as characteristics of the offenders who commit the said...
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Capitalism quickly became the adopted ideology of many societies as this idea enabled free trade and exchange commodity between nations. There are many features of the capitalist ideology which drives the economy and has given opportunity of equality in rights (to those with all class backgrounds not just the bourgeoisie) to obtain success from capitalizing off of a product or service. Some of which are: co-ordination, motivation and property rights. Firstly, co-ordination under capitalist economies has a market mechanism which...
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Introduction Lying is something that everyone has done at one point or another in their lives. Whether it was a white lie to avoid hurting someone's feelings or a more serious lie to cover up something, lying is a part of human nature. However, there are also many arguments against lying. Some people believe that lying is always wrong, no matter the circumstances. Others believe that lying is only wrong if it hurts someone else. There are many different reasons...
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History Repeats Itself Over the past 6500 years, there have been numerous world leaders, some intelligent and sympathetic, some incompetent and callous. Many writers have tried to draw similarities and analogies of historic leaders in their novels. One such novel is The Crucible by Arthur Miller. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller depicts Abigail Williams as a cruel, narcissistic, and impassive person. Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany during WWII. He and Abigail Williams share many of the same...
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I want to start off by saying that I liked the book, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. This book really talks about and highlights the issues that are still occuring in our justice system today. The reason why I like this book is because me as a person of color it sheds light to what people of color face when it comes to the justice system. This book focuses on a black man named Walter McMillian who is accused of...
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My name is Jack Brown and I’m currently a student enrolled at Jamestown Community College, where I’m currently working on obtaining my associate’s degree in business. I will then be attending Binghamton University in the Fall 2019 semester. During my experience with continuing my education, my goal is to attain a career where I can use my accounting skills combined with a strong analytical business background to help formulate informed decisions in the world of business. Before I decided to...
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The United States has on numerous occasions had to respond to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive threats. However, the absence of standardized testing methods has affected its ability to respond to hazards that are natural and manmade. For instance, the absence of standardized fire hose couplings has negatively impacted on the ability of firefighters to effectively respond to fires, therefore, increasing the risks faced by individuals and their properties (Steinhausler, 2015). The National Board of Fire Underwriters had initially...
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Drunk drivers are a worst nightmare to a loving family. If an accident ever occurs the life of an entire family will be struck with lifelong hardships. Not only financial oppression like medical bills or possibly a loss of a vital income, but the emotional tolls will be relentless. Those who must deal with the agony and the thought that the accident was preventable is truly hurting.o I know this because I experienced it first hand, although I didn’t personally...
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Most are familiar with the massive online shopping website eBay, which connects buys and sellers in a massive online marketplace. eBay hosts more than 11 million product searches per hour and has more than 1 billion products listed at any time (Smith, 2019). Like many others I have used eBay for anything from collectible books to new car parts, you can even by a new car on eBay if you wanted. The way the website works is simple; you create...
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John Adams is an HBO miniseries based on the book John Adams by David McCullough. The miniseries was written by Kirk Ellis and directed by Tom Hooper. The original release date is March 16th-April 27th, 2008. This miniseries portrays John Adams and the events that transpired in colonial times with the Thirteen Colonies and their mother land, Great Britain. The first two episodes show the events of the Boston Massacre and the time when they decide to break off from...
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The article I decided to read and master for this week is written by Richard Taylor titled “The Meaning of Life” on pages 560-569. I think everybody at some point in life will ask the question, what the meaning of life is or what is my purpose. Taylor has a different approach to answering that question, he wants us to think about what a meaninglessness life looks like. Taylor’s central argument is the meaninglessness of life. Taylor gives three different...
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In the Canterbury tales Chaucer exposes the churches immortality and corruption. The church builds using expensive metal with material for instance gold while the clerfy lives the “ghetto” lifestyle. Although things like the lack of jobs, sickness and little abundances of food were relevant staples of the 19th century. The church was extremely wealthy while the nuns and others lived a boring lifestyle, the worse part was that it was all at the expense of the catholic faith. He figures...
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Victorianism and Romanticism are two different styles of literary writing from two different eras of British Literature. Both eras contain different writing style that is distinctive and unique, but they both share a similar idea in a certain topic. “Dover Beach” written by Matthew Arnold during the Victorian era, his writing style reflects the connection to the Romantic era but still hold factors that make the Victorian era special. M. Arnold usage of figures of speech, metaphor, and visualization, in...
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Introduction The text- ‘The new rules of eating al desko” mentions an array of opinions concerning the issue of eating or drinking at people’s desks from some experts and office workers’ perspectives. Thus, aspects of genre, audience and purpose are going to be discussed in order to analyze the above text’s different features. Genre To begin with, the genre of the text should be an online newspaper article which may belong to the aspect of lifestyle. It is obvious that...
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In 1855, Benjamin Silliman, Jr., a professor of chemistry, fumed when he did not receive payment for the report on 'rock oil' he had prepared for a group of investors led by George Bissel. The test ran by the chemist proved that they could distill a superior, economical fuel for lamps, while a different process could make it useful for lubricating machinery. They formed a company for exploration. In England, entrepreneurs looked to exploit asphalt and its derivative, kerosene. By...
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In his essay Tense Present, David Foster Wallace carefully examines and unsparingly praises the rhetorical strategies employed in Bryan A. Garner’s A Dictionary of Modern American Usage (ADMAU). In doing so, he exhaustively rebuts the logical basis of descriptivist ideology (“namely, the sixties-era rejections of traditional authority and traditional inequality”) and emphasizes the importance as well as the practicality of Standard Written English (54). However, while Wallace seems to support the ideology of prescriptivism—a conviction that certain usages of language...
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In the novel, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, Henry the protagonist engages a moment as a flag bearer which provides insight to his journey to manhood as there is seen gain in his moral development towards gaining respect. Crane also promotes the message of need for personal accountability in one’s life as Henry shows responsibility towards his regiment in his moment as a flag bearer. Near the conclusion of the book, Henry leads his unit through serving...
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In his analysis of Heywood’s interludes, James C. Bryant observes that Heywood “held up the mirror to reflect both nature and the times in which [he] wrote,” repeatedly “echo[ing]” the opinions and sentiments of his varied audiences. However, a number of critics, including one Robert W. Bolwell, indirectly interprets this idea of Bryant’s as the purpose of ‘The Pardoner and The Friar’ not being to battle with the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church but “to entertain, to make fun,...
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