Human nature continues to evolve and change over time. But how do we define human nature? Human nature is how we define ourselves, such as how we feel and what we think about certain things. Kafka and Borges focus on human nature of the character. It can change quickly or steady. Both authors had religion, Christianity, involved in their stories. Each of their characters focuses on their personal views of the world. In “Before the Law”, this story is vague...
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Water is essential for all life. Not only is it necessary for staying alive but in today's society almost everything depends on water. Water is necessary for things such as plumbing and bathing. Water is used for pleasure, such as in alcoholic beverages, and in sports, such as swimming. This list goes on as to why the world needs water, but the humans, which need water the most, pollute it, destroying the most crucial resource. The amount of pollution in...
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In today's modern age, there has been an increasing movement in all aspects of society and culture towards secularism and relativism. In the United States of America, this trend away from any type of religiosity in the public sphere, especially in business, has become more and more commonplace. There is this idea that has silently permeated into the social conscious, and is almost now seen as a given. This idea that the modern man must choose science and rational thought...
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Also called the oedipal complex, the Oedipus complex is a term used in the psychosexual stages of development theory by Sigmund Freud. The concept, first proposed by Freud in 1899 and not formally used until 1910, refers to a male child’s attraction to their parent of the opposite sex (mother) and jealousy of their parent of the same sex (father). According to the controversial concept, children view the same-sex parent as a rival. Specifically, a boy feels the need to...
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One of the greatest experiences of college level education aside from moving out from your parental home and getting a sense of independence is you have the opportunity to travel abroad for your studies. When students travel abroad for their studies, they get the opportunity to experience foreign cultures and interact with different people from all walks of life. Students not only get quality education, but also change their perception of life and allow the individual to grow. Among the...
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John Steinbeck’s book, The Red Pony, is a 4 part coming-of-age novella that centers around a young boy name Jody Tiflin. On the Tiflin Ranch Jody lives with his mom Ruth Tiflin, his dad Carl Tiflin, and Billy Buck, his father’s worker. Jody faces different challenges and important lessons that will help him grow as a person to be the best as he can. Some important lessons Jody will face will be acts of maturity in responsibility and experiences of...
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The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family,between 1840 and 1905. The Brangwens have owned and worked Marsh Farm in Nottinghamshire, England, for generations, and the family includes craftsmen as well as farmers. Tom Brangwen hasn’t much left the Midlands counties of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, where the farm is located. Tom works the land in near isolation, with only an old woman housekeeper as company. However, one day, the vicar of the local church hires a...
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Introduction Humans do not live in a vacuum but in a damaged environment that impacts individuals’ health every second of their existence. People cannot avoid air as they must breathe, water as they must drink, or land as they must eat what is grown in it. When polluted substances from the environment come to a human’s organism, they affect its health system causing various illnesses, diseases, and development abnormalities. Environmental pollution varies in forms but influences all people leading to...
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He argued for direct involvement in his work the Social contract displaying that ‘to be represented is to give up’. Direct democracy makes frequent use of referendums where citizens are asked directly instead of matters being discussed through elected MP’s. Nonetheless, this system isn’t flawless. It requires the affair to be simple, at the same time as binary. As soon as the issue becomes complicated it loses its authority to serve its purpose since it only allows space for a...
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In 2017, Netflix CEO Reed Hasting said the irksome human necessity to sleep is Netflix’s biggest rival; “think about it, when you watch a show from Netflix and you get addicted to it, you stay up late at night. We’re competing with sleep, it’s a very large pool of time” (Hern, 2017). On average, adults get six hours of sleep a night. In the 1970s, this was closer to seven hours, and in the early 20th century, nine (ScienceDaily, 2006)....
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Pooh Bear, Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga and Roo are all lovable characters most of us know well from our childhoods. What many people don’t know is that the adorable books are based on author A. A. Milne’s real son Christopher Robin and his stuffed animals. While the trailer of the new film Goodbye Christopher Robin teases a warm and cuddly film, it actually tells the true story of a little boy who felt betrayed by those who should have loved...
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In 246 B.C., ten years after the Chou dynasty had been defeated by the Ch’in armies, a new king named Ch’in Shih Huang-ti came to the throne as the new emperor of China. Under his ruling, Ch’in Shih Huang-ti gave China an enduring form of government that followed the practices of Legalism. The philosophy that is Legalism supports the belief that a highly efficient and powerful government was the key to restoring order. Being that emperor Ch’in Shih Huang-ti had...
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In the short story, The Dead from the novel Dubliners by James Joyce, readers are led through a bustling, yet monotonous, dinner party by the protagonist Gabriel Conroy, an intelligent, impersonal, “cold-air” introvert who is constantly found present in his own thoughts, rather than mentally present in the majority of situations throughout the plot. In the critical essay, also titled The Dead, Eric Rapp explores the state of Gabriel’s “paralysis” stating “[t]hroughout most of the story it is clear the...
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Utopia is a satire that was written by Sir Thomas More. Utopia consisted of two parts: A book one and a book two. Book one was about a journey taken by Thomas More where he is traveling through cities and meets up with an old friend named Peter Giles, whom then introduces Thomas More to Raphael Hythloday. The three men then delve deep into conversations about Raphael and his experiences with the King and the courts. Book two was all...
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept through the city of New Orleans (Lachlan & Spence, 2007). The hurricane caused extensive losses in the Gulf Coast region. In the aftermath of the damage, thousands of residents were left homeless. As the victims escaped from the region to safer grounds, millions of Americans watched agonizing images of fellow citizens languishing in conditions, which were analogous to our expectations of catastrophes witnessed in the developing nations. A recent study indicated that 90%...
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Scientists have recently discovered that connections between global warming and the levels of pollutants in the air have undeniably started to become more noticeable within recent years. Throughout the air, increasing temperatures caused by global warming raise the amount of aerosols. These particles along with many others, are what causes air pollution. Aerosols are microscopic droplets that sit in the air’s atmosphere. These particles are created by natural resources, but they also are released into the air by man made...
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Imagine a time when our drinking water will be entirely polluted and unsafe to drink. A time when humans will be at war with one another for the last drops of sterile water. A time when our civilization is so desperate to survive that they will have to put their health at stake and drink contaminated water. A time when health problems will intensify to such an immense quantity that we could put an end to our entire population. And...
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Peter Abelard (1079 - 1142) was a 12th Century French philosopher, theologian and logician of the Medieval period. He is mainly associated with the dominant Medieval movement of Scholasticism. He is probably most famous, however, for the story of his love affair with his student Héloïse which has become legendary as a romantic tale. Abelard was born in 1079 in the small village of Le Pallet, the eldest son of a minor noble Breton family. He was a quick learner...
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Introduction Having bucket list that we want to accomplish before we die, is basically showing that we have goals that might seem impossible to accomplish. These goals show how much we appreciate what we see around us. There’s a movie called The Bucket List in which the actors decided that their bucket list items were so important that they needed to find people to help them achieve their goals. Items such as climbing Mount Everest, going skydiving. I am pretty...
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Colorism is defined as a form of prejudice typically from members of the same race in which people are treated based on their social economic status from cultural implications related to skin color. Within the idea of “race”, various groups of people compete with one another. Throughout the book, “The Wife of His Youth” by Charles W. Chesnutt one can learn that the idea of racism existed, and that race continues to evolve throughout history. In the literary piece, the...
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The penny has served the American public faithfully for over 230 years. Do we really want to destroy this time-honored legacy in an attempt to lessen problems that will always plague our society? Besides its cultural value after being used by millions of people daily for hundreds of years, the penny also serves commemorative and economic purposes that cannot be easily replaced. I say we shouldn’t abolish the penny — it does more for us than we give it credit...
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Introduction The eve of April 20th, 2010 was just like any other in the Gulf of Mexico where the various oil rigs were busy in their extraction of oil from the sea bed. This, however, was not the case with Deepwater Horizon, one of the ultra-deepwater rigs located around 50 miles off the southeast coast of Louisiana, which was involved in a huge explosion that eventually resulted in the death of eleven workers and the sinking of the rig two...
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In the academic journal “Behavioral Sciences and the Law,” John Douglas, Robert Ressler, Ann Burgess, and Carol Hartman collectively wrote an article about criminal profiling and how the process is generated. The FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit has been working with different agencies with different jurisdictions since the 1970s. There are six different stages to catching a murderer: profiling inputs, decision-process models, crime assessment, criminal profile, investigation, apprehension. There are two additional steps to make sure that you have the right...
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The dirty water comes from homes,drainage of industrial waste and many other sourses is what we call sewage water or waste water. Due to ever increasing population the demand for clean water is constantly increasing, so purification and production of potable water is one of the alternatives to deal with this problem of water crisis. Recycling of waste water or rain water harvesting are some of the means by which water can be used for industrial and agricultural purposes. Wastewater...
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Imagine if this world ended because of natural disasters, and your family became one of the victims. There will be much sadness experienced by the people who lose their loved ones. 'Global warming is not a prediction; it is happening,' according to James Hensen. Global warming is the process of the increasing average temperatures in the atmosphere and the Earth's surface. It happens because of bad habits from society like doing illegal logging, spending excessive fossil fuel vehicles, and using...
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Indiginous Australians and Torres Strait Islander have been fighting for their rights and freedom for decades. With the help of Fred Maynard, Eddie Mabo and the tent embassy event, Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders were able to gain back many parts of their original land, their freedom and their right to do everything, everyone in Australia can do. However there are still many problems that need to be solved but we are still able to enjoy how far we have...
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An Earthquake also known as tremor or quake, an Earthquake is the behavior by the earth’s surface blocks to suddenly slide past one another casing tearing of the blocks. The plane from which the block slides from is refferred to as fault plane. The position that is below the earhs surface where the earthquake originated is referred to as the hypocenter and the position that is directly above the hypocenter on the earth’s surface is referred to as the epic...
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Good Morning members of the Raise Your Voice youth forum. Just like you, I fear for the future. A future in which if we do not solve our climate crisis and stop being so arrogant to pretend that climate change isn't a problem, much of our beloved earth will be changed forever. I, just like many of you, have had the privilege to visit our wonderful reef, a privilege that will not be granted to the newer generations if nothing...
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Wind energy is the use of wind to make power through wind turbine and forms electricity. Wind energy is renewable and sustainable energy which is good for the environment. It also has the least impact on the environment and the cheapest source compare to other renewable energy. Wind turbine captures wind energy within the area swept by its blade. Then, the spinning blade drive an electric generator that produces the electricity that we need to use daily. Technology is better...
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Every day we are faced with the obstacle of making choices that range from what delicious recipe to make to what career path would be the best for my future. Each choice that we make has an opportunity cost and either takes an economic toll on us or reaps a reward. Our lives are constantly influenced by economic trends such as inflation, interest rates and economic growth. Some things we may have little control over and can tremendously change our...
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