This section looks at religion from a Marxist perspective, specifically drawing up on Marx’s and Engels ideas. They believe religion was used as an apparatus to prevent social change by creating a ‘false consciousness’. I attempt to demonstrate how religion could be the apparatus but how films may contribute as the medium in a modern, technological day. According to Karl Marx “religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world and the soul of soulless...
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How did you meet your best friend? What were you for halloween in middle school? What did you have for dinner last night? Everything that just went through your head, even if it was ten years ago or just last night, is a memory. Children start remembering things by the age of three. However, at seven years old, these early memories begin to fade. That’s why it’s hard to remember your first birthday but easier to remember your elementary school...
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Have you ever wondered what true success really is? Back in the days when I was a little kid, I was also asking myself the same question; I thought that possessing material things was the way to go. I believed that focusing on money, having luxury homes, or buying expensive vehicles was the best way to be successful in life. I still remember sitting down on my couch and daydreaming about having all these things. Not that long ago, I...
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Dreams are always achievable but sometimes one has to overcome obstacles to reach them. Dreams and aspirations are similar, they motivate people to look forward to the future. Dreams and aspirations can positively and negatively affect people’s lives through relationships and experiences. “The Necklace” by Maupassant, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, and “We Choose to go to the Moon” by John F. Kennedy all display dreams that positively or negatively affect relationships and experiences. “The Necklace” in which...
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The novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne shows the essence of morbidity quite adequately. The novel itself does a good job of showing a plethora of characters and the morbid nature of them, but the most morbid of them all is Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale has committed a grave sin, and the sin is wearing away at him throughout the course of the novel. The Scarlet Letter provides many quotes and excerpts that reveal Dimmesdale’s inner morbidity, and even...
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Living in El Salvador my whole life revolved around baseball. Baseball defined my life. All I would talk and think about was baseball. Winning ‘Player of the tournament’ for the 6 years and under category was everything for a short coal haired baseball fanatic like me. Every time a coach would tell me that I had a good game, or practice I thought that I was going to go to the Pros and I would be the star for my...
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Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. The short film Slaughterbots portrays a not so distant future where multitudes of miniature automatons kill a huge number of individuals for their political convictions. Delivered in November 2017 by scholastics and activists cautioning of the threats of cutting edge man-made brainpower (AI), it immediately turned into a web...
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Choosing career is most important phase in a student’s life. These days it is very common to find students who are confused or ignorant about their career path. Career planning is no longer an event that just end with the decision of the right university or college. It expands until we get the satisfied job. (Anon., 2019) So, factors that affects one making career choice and set targets; are discussed below: Childhood Fantasies What do you want to be when...
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Accurate impression formations are crucial to impression formation during beginning phases of online dating. Impressions are formed through various cues on dating profiles that stimulate or reduce dating intention. Previous research focused on how visual cues such as profile pictures affected attraction, neglecting the role of textual stimuli on attraction. Van Der Zanden et al., (2020) posited language errors in profile texts revealed inadvertent aspects about profile owners which were fundamental to gaining accurate impressions and conducted a study in...
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The first version of Romeo and Juliet was directed by Franco Zeffirelli and was released in 1968. The Zeffirelli version took place in the city of Verona. The second version of Romeo and Juliet was directed by Baz Luhrmann and was released in 1996. The Luhrmann version took place on Verona beach. The films told the tragic tale of two star-crossed lovers that were held apart by fate. Both versions of the film provided very different perspectives on Shakespeare’s texts...
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Introduction Consumer perception is known as a marketing concept, which includes the opinion that consumers have about products and the knowledge and understanding they have regarding these offerings (Izadi Manesh et al., 2015). Consumer perception includes how consumers view different products and services provided. Several factors affect consumer perception such as advertising, personal experiences, reviews, social media and public relations. Businesses are successful when it is able to retain consumers who continue to purchase its products that helps the business...
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“The town where she lived had to be kept clean and sweet, but people everywhere were lustful and evil and degraded, and needed to be watched; the world was so large, and there was only one Strangeworth left in it” (Jackson 5). In the short story, The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson, Miss Adela Strangeworth appears to be an innocent and helpful old lady, but in reality there is much more to her than what meets the eye. Miss...
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The idea that God is Fashioner, Moulder, Architect, who gives form to formless matter,means in effect that in African thought creation is not by divine fiat. It is not Creatio ex nihilo (i.e. Creation out of nothing) as in Christian and Muslim belief. Creation is the outcome of the work of God’s hand, giving form as it were, to formless matter.[ Quarcoopome. T.N.O, West African Traditional Religion, African University Press, Ibadan 1987, Pp. 56 -57.] In African Traditional Religion the...
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Teaching is a satisfying and at the same time, a challenging job. Teachers have significant control in the classroom environment. There is no doubt as a teacher your techniques for teaching the English language make a tremendous difference to spice up the classroom, making it enjoyable whether you are teaching adults or young students. To teach the English language, the initial difficulty you will face could be the language barrier. You are teaching a student whose native language is not...
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Throughout our lives we have done many things that we are not proud of, some may say that those experiences make us a better person and others say that those experiences still haunt them today. In the story “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, The main character in the story feels guilty for what he has done which causes him to go insane. After analyzing several The Tell-Tale Heart essays, I can highlight the deep-rooted themes of psychological...
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Introduction People always consider pets from the staid side as they can give true positive emotions and allow them to forget or switch from stress and related issues. However, using cats or dogs as a beneficial element in services bears numerous questions as huge people flow in the cafe or hotel transforms a moment of kindness and emotional contact from personal to not so pleasant general. Nevertheless, the current trends show that pets can be used for the creation of...
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Advantage of virtual team Flexibility: First of all, the flexible time for working can let the team members, whom can have autonomy applied to their time management and let the time members in charge of their own time, and lets them choose their work schedules. The team members can work at home or wherever the members choose their own working place. Virtual work offers the member to have good balance between their work lives and personal lives. Economic use of...
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Abstract Garbage enzyme as additive in synthetic grey water treatment. Fermentation products are kitchen waste, water, Brown sugar. Reduce the pollutant in grey water, used for various household purposes. Garbage enzymes also have antimicrobial activity. It is an eco-friendly biotechnology approach to waste water treatment. Introduction Industrialization revolutionized the world as it brought along with technological leap. Due to change, it is a host of environmental problems. More impact on the use of newer biotechnological approaches termed as Green biotechnology....
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Love is considered a very important aspect in everyone’s life but when asked about it, what would people really be able to say? You can always answer with a dictionary definition but what would that really tell you? The play “Romeo and Juliet” revolves around the topic of love and tells us that love can influence people’s decisions, love cannot be rushed, and love is the most powerful thing in the world. Firstly, love can influence people’s decisions. Throughout the...
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One of the most important factors to staying independent as an older adult is the ability to perform daily tasks of living and self-care. The progression of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) leads to an increasing inability to perform daily activities, loss of independence, and a decreased quality of life, and it generates socioeconomic and occupational impairments (Morris, Watts, & Iansek, 2009). The most effective interventions that are beneficial not only for PD prevention, but also for most other common chronic diseases,...
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William Wymark Jacobs was born in 1863 in London, England. He is a short-story writer. In 1896, he created his first volume, Many Cargoes and it was a major success. However, he is best known for his horror story that is called “The Monkey’s Paw” that was first published in 1902. It outstands all the short stories written by other authors. Indeed, this short story should remain in the course pack due to the historical events, the motifs, and the...
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When I first started this course, it was unclear to me what my biblical worldview of computer technology was. I did not fully understand the question that was being asked. My understanding was if technology was a good or bad thing. I never looked at it through a Christian perspective. Technology today is used in so many things from refrigerators to coffee pots and cars to medical equipment. My view has grown since beginning this course. Although technology to me...
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The mystery of God is something we do not have much information on. Over the years we have seen images of God or what we expect him to look like. It is still unknown to this day, but many producers have made movies about bible references and one of them is Bruce Almighty. Bruce Almighty is a Comedy Drama and a Fantasy film released 23 of May 2003, Main characters: Morgan Freeman, Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carrel. The...
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Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare in 1594. It became a very famous story and has influenced the world tremendously in many ways. Three examples of the play’s influence on the world are William Shakespeare has become a historically famous figure known by all, numerous movies have been produced with similar themes, and many real people who have lived out similar love stories have been compared to the story of Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare was...
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The best summer vacation I ever had was when my parents took me to Miami, Florida and took all of our family members with us. It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. What made it even more memorable was the fact that it was my very first time on an airplane. I cannot recall another time in my life when I experienced so much happiness. That trip to Miami, Florida was the first time all of...
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The importance of language lies in the fact that they can express what is within the individual’s thoughts and feelings. Language is also related to the nation’s civilization: “if you want to know the culture of a nation, know their language.” it is Linking communities to each other and increasing communication between communities . Language is a defying feature of a person’s identity which shape our personality and behavior , affect and reflect our emotion, and improve our education and...
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Have you ever wanted to play the sport of football? Well if you do, than you should really think of the risks football has if you play. Many people have had life threatening injuries because of the sport. Some of those injuries even caused death. People should really make football safer for the players by having better protective equipment, annual wellness checkups for the players, and even changing some rules. Having better protective equipment will really cause less injuries in...
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Chemical kinetics Kinetics of a chemical is a significant method in physical chemistry. The term kinetics means motion study. In chemical kinetics we study about the reaction. Temperature and concentrations are two variables that are affected by it. Formation and deformation of bonds and formation of products also describes by it. Explanation Chemical kinetics is also used to calculate many reactions that is order of chemical reaction, rate of reaction, and concentrations of components. Mechanism of chemical reactions also explain...
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Remember when you had your child? the thrill of joy that ran through you was inexplicable. One goal becomes apparent: To raise up the best child ever; physically strong, physiologically and mentally equipped to face the seemingly endless hurdles that life will eventually present to them, and to ultimately help them on their journey towards a fulfilled adulthood. However, for most of us, that dream gets tarnished – situation arises, either it is genetics, bullying at school, criticism, innate personality...
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As time went by, and the world moved on from the Classical Age into the Roman Age, fewer Christians understood Greek, and so the Church had to find a way to cater for its audience. The solution was for the Bible to be translated into Latin. St Jerome, known as the father of translation, was the one to translate the Bible into Latin, his version being known as the Vulgate. His view on translating literally or translating the meaning of...
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