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The satirical essay "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" by Horace Miner provides an amusing and thought-provoking commentary on cultural practices. While the Nacirema culture is entirely fictional, its comparison to American culture can shed light on the complexities and idiosyncrasies of our own society. In this essay, we will compare and contrast the Nacirema culture with American culture, exploring the...
Critical ThinkingNaciremaNative American
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"I Want a Wife" is a satirical essay written by Judy Brady in 1971 that delves into the societal expectations and inequalities faced by women in marriage. Through a clever and humorous narrative, Brady assumes the role of a wife who lists all the attributes she desires in her ideal partner. However, upon closer examination, it becomes evident that the...
Critical ThinkingI Want a WifePerspective
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Many believe that there are way more serious problems than overpopulation, but have any stopped and realized that overpopulation is the reason for these problems. Maybe if we stopped trying to fix the initial problem and thought about how to stop what was causing the problem, we wouldn't be in some terrible situations. The purpose of this literature review is...
Critical ThinkingOverpopulationPerspective
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In the historic neighborhood of Santo Domingo, settled within the coast of the Dominican Republic is the oldest European settlement of the Americas known as the Colonial City (Ciudad Colonial). This is a historical attraction that encompasses 12 blocks of the city and receives tourists consistently. Within the center of the colonial zone lies a 19th century statue of Christopher...
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Homework has been around since the early 20th century. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruits are sweet”. This quotation reminds us that success is really hard to achieve and the road is long. However, there are times that I want to contest the message of the quotation, especially when education is involved. A person needs to achieve...
Critical ThinkingHomeworkPerspective
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Mahatma Gandhi believed equality and peace need the complete truth to be achieved. He began to care deeply about this even at a younger age. After he was convicted of lying out of carelessness in school, he began to think that a man of truth needs to be a man of care (Gandhi 13). His care for truth grew as...
Critical ThinkingNonviolenceTruth
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America has always been the target of many immigrants from the past and until now. It is considered to be the 'land of milk and honey' and 'land of great opportunities'. The national anthem of the country still rings the phrase 'the land of the free' which in reality attracts refugees and people who want to be liberated from the...
Critical ThinkingRefugeeSociety
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The discussion of bias in overall mass media is a difficult one to have, simply because of the huge variety of news organizations and social media, all with their political agendas. Yet despite this inherent difficulty, many Republicans and some Democrats believe that there is a bias in mass media for the political party opposite of their own. Every time...
Critical ThinkingMedia BiasSocial Media
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In 1963 South African authorities discovered incriminating documents and illegal weapons at the headquarters of Umkhonto we Sizwe, a group Mandela had helped found. Facing the death penalty, Mandela gave this speech at his trial. His argument turns on the idea that the legal and nonviolent means that black South Africans had used to struggle for years against the oppressive...
Critical ThinkingNelson MandelaRhetoric
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In 1930, Gandhi protested against the British monopoly in a nonviolent march later known as the Salt March, which was the turning point in India's independence from Britain in 1947. Before the salt march, Gandhi wrote a letter to the viceroy Lord Irwin stating his personal feelings about the unlawful taxation of salt. Assuming his people were already being treated...
Critical ThinkingMahatma GandhiRhetoric
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Introduction "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin presents a utopian city with a hidden moral cost. In Omelas, a single child's perpetual suffering ensures the happiness of the entire community. This narrative challenges readers to confront the ethical implications of societal happiness built on individual misery. The story, while fictional, echoes real-world moral dilemmas...
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Leadership as a concept has been universally accepted to play a great role in the success of the most high-ranking organizations in the world. Ideally, every business needs to have an organizational structure from bottom to top to succeed. This is done by prioritizing the hierarchy, identifying the guidelines, and identifying certain policies and procedures needed for a company to...
Critical ThinkingResearchSteve Jobs
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The speaker in Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' offers the reader insight into human nature with every line of poetry. While, Frost had not in the beginning meant for this to be an inspirational poem, line by line, the speaker is encouraging each reader to seek out his or her private path in the trip of life. Romanticizing the...
Critical ThinkingPoetryThe Road Not Taken
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“Plastic surgery,” is a term that leads us to envision exaggerated lips and petite noses which feed the unrealistic standard many women are blinded to. What many seem to forget is that behind the excessive fixes, there are procedures that can make women feel whole again. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the profession of plastic surgery dates...
Critical ThinkingPlastic SurgerySelf Esteem
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Planning might seem like an easy task for normal employees, however, the decision-making process is single-handedly the first ground-breaking kickoff for a company to work because, without planning, the managers wouldn’t be able to assign and control the employees to their best potential. As Mr. Dawn manages the sports club, planning is very critical, the firm’s long-term objective is to...
Critical ThinkingDecision MakingPerspective
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Toni Morrison’s critical approach, described in Playing in the Dark, often involves the scrutiny of the binary and the denaturalization of those racial binaries. In her novel Beloved, the racial binary is accompanied by the idea of family, where the dominant group can achieve the ideal family while the subordinate group cannot. As a form of othering, the white patriarchal...
BelovedCritical ThinkingPerspective
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The novels Eva Luna authored by Isabel Allende and Beloved by Toni Morrison have both shown great character development, through the overcoming challenges they went through. In both literary works, the main characters struggle with “love”. Sethe in Beloved is an independent woman who made her way through life on her own, due to severe troubles with slavery, which took...
BelovedCritical ThinkingPersonal Experience
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When people think about winter they may think about snow and the cold temperatures. Normally they do not think about the harsh consequences that can come with being in the winter wilderness. However, in Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”, those harsh consequences are brought to life as the main character has to deal with them. London’s style of writing...
Critical ThinkingNaturalismTo Build a Fire
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Introduction Unemployment remains a persistent and multifaceted issue that poses significant challenges to economies worldwide. It manifests as a critical indicator of economic health, influencing social stability and individual well-being. The complexity of unemployment lies in its myriad causes and far-reaching effects, which necessitate a comprehensive understanding to formulate effective policy responses. In recent years, global economic shifts, technological advancements,...
Critical ThinkingSocietyUnemployment
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I have chosen Mozart's Violin Concerto in D major KV 218 for violin and orchestra which I have been working on for the past few months. Mozart composed this piece when he was 19 years old on October 1775 in Salzburg. He was granted the post of concertmaster to the Prince-Archbishop from 1773-1777. During these few years in Salzburg, he...
Concert ReviewCritical ThinkingMozart
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Introduction The film "Steve Jobs," directed by Danny Boyle and scripted by Aaron Sorkin, offers a compelling, albeit dramatized, exploration of one of the most influential figures in modern technology. Unlike traditional biopics, this film takes a unique narrative approach, focusing on three crucial product launches over a span of fourteen years. This structure provides an incisive look into the...
Critical ThinkingMovie AnalysisSteve Jobs
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This paper is to relate communication concepts that we have discussed in class and the textbook to a movie of my choice. Specifically, I chose a movie called “Tell Me How I Die” to do for the movie night essay. Not only am I telling what this movie is about, but I will also analyze two separate concepts that we...
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How is the media, biased, more towards progressive-liberal values, conservative values, or in both directions depending on the specific media outlets you may access? Media is essential to our democratic process. It is our main source of information about the world. The way we understand issues, the way we vote, and how we feel about politicians, it’s all based on...
Critical ThinkingMediaMedia Bias
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In society, individuals are constantly being told what to do by others. Many people grow up with direction from parents and peers telling them what they can and can not do. On the other hand, many people grow up being taught nothing, therefore figuring out everything by themselves. In the play “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, Shakesphere demonstrates the idea that...
Critical ThinkingMacbethPeer Pressure
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title More than any other art form, poetry permits its writers to articulate their emotions and express the inner workings of their minds, body, and soul. Specifically, metaphors and symbolism give an extra sense of depth to said words and ideas, and give poetry a subjective lens that allows the reader to resonate more with the art. Symbolism in poetry...
Critical ThinkingLiterary DevicesThe Raven
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The word lottery implies a fortunate outcome: the lottery will result in a winner who will receive a treasure or money. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson contradicts the positive connotation of a lottery: in the story, the villagers participate in an annual tradition by having a lottery to choose a winner, someone they sacrifice to ensure a plentiful harvest for...
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The short story A Christmas Memory, which is written by Truman Capote, is a story about a small child and an older person celebrating Christmas together. They have many rituals that they complete every year, and the beginning talks about them. But, in the end, the 2 characters get separated, never seeing each other ever again. This invokes sorrow in...
ChristmasCritical ThinkingLiterary Criticism
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Beloved shows the reader that people will forever be haunted by harsh times in their lives, specifically slavery. Although Beloved was not the reason slavery was so horrific for Sethe, her murder happened because of the trauma slavery caused. Beloved haunts Sethe and doesn’t allow her to move on from her past. Paul D’s tin can represents his heart, forcing...
BelovedCritical ThinkingLiterary Criticism
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Joseph Sciuto once declared, “Humanity, the earth with its streams and gardens, animals, and innocence are the real victims of war.” The war affects all manners of life, especially the innocent ones, by corrupting and transmogrifying them into a dehumanized, soulless body with a complete lack of their original character. In his semi-autobiographical novel, All Quiet on the Western Front...
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Life is an inconsistency. It is excellent and hard. It is the confinement along with the opportunities. It is everything and some of the time insufficient. It is incomprehensible but, the conceivable outcomes are unfathomable. It is baffling because while it is every one of these things, it is distinctive for every individual. It contrasts in the manner they live...
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