Executive summary BP: The Deepwater Horizon Scandal is an issue that people call the worst environmental disaster in America. The start of this issue is on 20 April 2010. On that day, one situation that we can call a disaster for all communities living around the Gulf of Mexico. The disaster is known as the largest oil spill that happened in the ocean and the largest that occurred in the history of the petroleum industry. The oil spill has caused...
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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 Columbus, and at his feet stands Anacaona, a chief and warrior of the Taíno people, one of the many Indigenous...
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I have just received word that my friend, Christopher Columbus, just convinced the King and Queen to pay for his voyage. He is hoping that he can find a new route to India. I have been invited to go with him along with 87 other men. We must leave our wives and children at home, hoping that one day we will return to them. There were three different ships built in Spain for this voyage: The Niña, Pinta, and Santa...
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The need for animal models and proficient practice by personnel in research are still debatable issues. There are some points in my rapid response that I do support and against. Firstly, personal religious beliefs or emotions should not interfere researcher’s decision-making. Researchers are obligated to make decisions rationally based on logical findings. This also applies to the ethical issue that I did not mention in my rapid response, which is Joanna did not conduct the research with rationality. Rationality is...
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Skilled acrobats, the sound of laughter, the smell of popcorn, the sight of trained animals, and even the clowns, what’s not to enjoy? The main focus of the night that’s purely there to perform for our entertainment is the ones who do not get any say in being there. These animals are forced to perform over and over again for the amusement of the passing crowd. Across the world, thousands of animals are being captured, taken from their natural habitat,...
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Green criminology refers to the study of environmental crime and harm affecting human and non-human life, ecosystems, and the biosphere - more specifically analyzing the causes, consequences, and prevalence of environmental crime and harm, the responses to and prevention of environmental crime and harm by the legal system and by non-governmental entities and social movements, as well as the meaning and mediated representations of environmental crime and harm (Brosnan and South, 2018). Moreover, it can be argued that the pursuit...
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White lies are often justified morally by the logic that the recipient is being protected by the lie. In the case of an obedient housewife, it was the unveiling of her white lie that created a turning point in all aspects of her life. In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Nora’s deception is crucial to saving Helmer’s life. Although her intentions are pure, the risks of this deception are detrimental. Her deceit leads to the unraveling of her family and...
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This essay will summarise a case study of a client who is suffering from severe schizophrenia, including three factors that have contributed towards their ill mental health, followed by the importance of a positive outlook on mental health and also including risk factors in developing mental ill health. Additionally, a definition of mental health, mental well-being, and mental ill health concerns the individual. Schizophrenia has been known for the past one hundred years and is stated to be an extreme...
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History and Politics are a perfect complementary combination of subjects. Above all else, the fluctuating nature of these subjects due to differing interpretations has garnered my passion. Studying History has allowed me to gain knowledge on a wide range of periods varying from Stalin to the Tudors. Topics of such diversity have allowed me to procure a more holistic but by no means complete, idea of history. It's fascinating to see how global events in history and politics interlink. Nations,...
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The negatives of social media are constantly emphasized, we have parents, articles, and media focusing on the adverse impacts on the development of children and one’s self-perception, yet solutions aren’t extensively spoken of, yet solutions are what we are desperately in need of. Young girls in particular are prone to the negative influence of social media as they are exposed to images of perfect appearance they then crave to achieve, they are given a new platform to employ their subtle...
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The present study conducted is partly a replication of a study ‘Gender differences in self-esteem and happiness among University students’ carried out by Malik and Sadia (2013). The findings of the study carried out by Malik and Sadia (2013) were as follows: males had significantly higher levels of self-esteem than females; insignificant differences were found between males and females for happiness; a positive relationship was found between self-esteem and happiness. Moreover, the purpose of the current study is to explore...
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Sojourner Truth had many accomplishments. She escaped slavery with her daughter and started to live her life in Michigan. And when living in Michigan she started to work with well-known people that abolished slavery. Ain’t I a Woman talks about Sojourner Truth's life as a slave and how she escaped. Truth wanted equality between men and women. Truth also wanted to stop white women from being racist towards black African American women during the abolitionist movement. Sojourner Truth was Known...
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Ursula K. Le Guin is one of science fiction's most popular writers. She is also one of the genre's most respected. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is an allegorical tale about a utopian society in which Omelas' happiness is made possible by the sacrifice of one child for the sake of the group. It is a perfect society where the happiness of others depends on the suffering of one. In this allegorical tale, many symbols and images are...
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Is there such a thing as pure happiness? From my standpoint, the feeling of being happy and content in not one specific item, but one’s interpretation of life; something that cannot be physically touched, but more of a mindset in which you react. In “The Ones Who Walk Away from The Omelas” by Le Guin, is foreseen as a place where nothing but happiness exists, it has already been chosen for the people; until it is not. Sooner than later,...
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Every minute, 20 people leave their homes to escape war, persecution, or error, according to the U.N. They are called refugees; a refugee is someone who is forced to leave their home due to a “well-founded fear of persecution.” The persecution must be because of his/her race, religion, nationality, and membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. Refugee Boy is a novel written by Zephaniah that addresses the issue of refugees. It’s about a 14-year-old boy named Alem...
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Although Morrison attempts to provide a more complete understanding of the sexual abuse that female slaves were subjected to, she also uses the trope of silence to indicate the impossibility of fully disclosing and voicing such a traumatic event. In Beloved Ella, a former slave, refers to her sexual abuse at the hands of white males as the ‘lowest yet,’ but does not speak about her experience in great detail when recounting it. It is evident, however, that the memory...
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Dickens explicitly criticizes the issues of poverty in Victorian society in this excerpt. For this, he utilizes the characters of Ignorance and Wants as allegories, depicting them as victims of severe deprivation, emphasizing the challenges faced by the poor and the situations under which they lived. Dickens uses the characters of Indifference and tries to show the viewers' ignorance of society's issues while they are consumed by covetousness. He accomplishes this in the extract of Dickens' intention to shock and...
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According to Kevin M. Schultz in HIST4, contrary to the first source the explorers that joined with Columbus where found in the Middle and Far East, the second book proved that Columbus was not the one who discovered India Island, the third Alvar Nunez was not the man that forms the tribe, the fourth has an opposite point of view from the primary source of the De Las Casas. Comparing the primary sources with the book, the sources that were...
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What are the advantages of educational literacy? The most influential benefit of tutorial literacy is that it allows students to think and write with rhetorical reason by way of analyzing rhetorical conditions inside and beyond academia. In other words, educational literacy gives schooling meaning by way of placing educational tasks within specific contexts and communities. Sometimes communities are in reality attempting to 'get the day's work done,' however, as Bizzell asserts, 'Mastery of academic discourse lets college students take part...
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In the Myth of Sisyphus, Camus argues that “one must imagine Sisyphus happy” (123), who is condemned by the gods to repeatedly roll a boulder up and down a hill for eternity. Camus uses the Greek legend as a metaphor for the individual’s continuous struggle against the absurdity of life. According to Camus, one must accept the absurdity and in doing so will gain individual clarity and happiness. However, as Remarque presents it, happiness cannot possibly be achieved in this...
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There have been several debates on who discovered America. Columbus Day is a national holiday celebrated every year in many countries for the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival and discovery in America in the year 1492. However, it is known that at least one of these two theories such as the Vikings and Native Americans landed in American before Columbus did. Native Americans are one of the many theorists who believed to be the first people to step foot in...
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At the beginning of the 20th century, European countries suffered a great loss of their population and wealth as well as the breakdown of the government and economy for years. The book All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque is a collection of tragic stories of the German soldiers who faced the harsh battle fronts and life during the First World War. Throughout the novel, the author records the harsh experiences the soldiers underwent on the...
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Throughout our history, civilization has been constantly evolving. It was different in the 1800’s than it was in the 1600s or 1500 and it is completely different now. The impact of religion, conflict, economics, and philosophy all play a role in the formation of American civilization and the government. Throughout history, mankind and civilization have been constantly changing, even now. This is due to the many different impacts mentioned and some examples of events that contributed to our civilization are...
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Introduction In today's world, firms are facing many challenges and are looking for ways to improve organizational performance by using human capital (Nguwi, 2012). Then employers are now turning to employee engagement to obtain committed and productive employees. Consequently, this has been done because it is difficult for top management to carry out successful decisions in the organization without involving employees in decision-making (Kersley, 2005; Dundon, Curran & Maloney 2006; Purcell & Hutchinson, 2007). Hence, this has inspired me as...
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Was Thomas Jefferson, as far as we know, the man behind the United States' Declaration of Independence? The words 'all people are created equal' often resonate in the mind of everyone who remembers their abilities and skills as a manager. There are no leaders without flaws or some form of weakness, and Thomas Jefferson was quite well known, although he was a man of principle and was known to be kind and quite intellectual, but he still had a weakness...
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I first learned of Moi Tran’s work in 2019, through her performance titled The Bolero Effect, which she had staged in an old French house in Hanoi and performed by a local community ensemble of untrained performers. The play incorporated Vietnamese ‘Bolero’ music, a style of music that had been popularised in Vietnam in the 1950s, and used it to examine the complex transnational identity of the Vietnamese diasporas and homeland. As a Vietnamese artist born and raised in Hanoi,...
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Abstract Due to the increased ease of access to alcohol, an increasing number of students especially in colleges and universities are involving themselves in alcohol. The purpose of the study is to study the effects of alcohol consumption on students’ academic performance. Two research questions are raised: 1) Why do students drink at an early age? 2) What are the effects of alcohol consumption on academic performance? Data from a questionnaire with 30 respondents from Sunway College and University was...
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According to Naidoo Mervyn, author of “80% of Victims Know Their Killers” IOL November 16, 2014. 80% of murders are committed by someone that the victim knows personally. In the gothic writings, “The Raven” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” a “sane” man kills his elderly housemate because his eye scared him. In another work by Poe, “The Raven,” a man driven to insanity by grief opens his door at midnight hoping to see...
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Amir is full of regret after everything that happened to Hassan. However, Baba was very proud of Amir for winning the kite tournament. Unfortunately, Amir's guilt over Hassan made it impossible to enjoy his father’s pride over him. The event was haunting him and preventing him from enjoying his win to the fullest. On page 86, when everyone is sleeping Amir said, “I watched Hassan get raped,' to no one and hoped that someone would wake up and hear, so...
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When you hear the term 'blood', what comes to mind? Body, violence, life, or death are just some of the words that we think of about blood. The novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is set before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Two boys, Amir and Hassan, grew up as childhood friends, but their fates are known to be different. As a Pashtun, Amir enjoys his life as a wealthy young boy in Kabul, whereas Hassan faces discrimination and...
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