It was the summer of 1922, I had just arrived in New York where I moved into a house located in a part of Long Island called West Egg. My house wasn’t as flashy as my neighbors, however, I considered it to be just right for me. This particular place was considered the home to the “new rich.” I had...
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Replicating the main characters’ personalities from a book to a movie may be difficult. The director of the movie “The Outsiders” has done an outstanding job of recreating the personalities of the characters. Francis Ford Coppola has acknowledged the traits of all the Curtis brothers. These are Darry, Ponyboy, and Sodapop. Francis Ford Coppola did a superior job in matching...
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‘The Outsiders’ gives me a strong sense of loyalty which I find impressive. The characters in the book value loyalty as a general principle of pride and honor regardless of the social class they are in. The concept of pride in one’s kind serves as a significant part among the greasers. They stand up for each other no matter how...
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“It is the blending of traditional storytelling conventions combined with visual conventions which make graphic novels compelling.” Explore this in a discussion of at least one graphic novel studied. Traditional narrative convections and visual convections combine to capture our interests and give us compelling stories, such as graphic novels. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman is a hybrid text that...
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What you see before you is a book. A small battered thing, but a book, nonetheless. A novel maybe? A biography? A play? Likely not something the average person would pick up to enjoy in their leisure time. Yet, this flimsy little object, like countless others, holds the capability of shaping our entire world, altering the way we see, act,...
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Cirrhosis is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, with the majority of cases being caused by excessive alcohol consumption. In Cirrhosis the liver undergoes structural changes and eventually fails to function due to the scarring. Because of these structural changes, pathophysiological changes begin to happen, with portal hypertension being the key change associated with Cirrhosis....
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Introduction: The San Joaquin Valley is an agricultural area that supplies agricultural goods all around the globe. The weather patterns in the area consist of cool winters and dry hot summers. The San Joaquin Valley is surrounded by mountain ranges, such as the Coastal Mountain range, Sierra Nevada range, and Tehachapi Mountains (Lewis 2010). These geographical conditions allow the central...
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Introduction Do soldiers owe a legally enforceable duty of care (DOC) on the battlefield? This question was raised in Re Civilian Casualty Court Martial (‘Re Civilian’), where two members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) were charged with involuntary manslaughter by criminal negligence and dangerous conduct with negligence for the deaths of five civilians during a night-time raid in Afghanistan....
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What is discipline? -the Cambridge definition of discipline is, 'training that makes people more willing to obey or more able to control themselves, often in the form of rules, and punishments if these are broken, or the behavior produced by this training' within the public services discipline is used discipline is' essential' within the public services as of how many...
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Introduction Environmental pollution is a major problem facing humanity and all forms of life on Earth today. Air pollution is considered the largest environmental pollution risk factor. Air pollution has a very wide geographical variation and each citizen of our planet is affected by its devastating consequences. Exposure to polluted air can have permanent effects on population health. While our...
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In our system of government, we are bound to have collective action problems. Firstly, a collective action problem is where individuals can succeed in a situation if they work together on a common goal. But ultimately fails because of conflict or disagreement between other individuals in the group that discourages how they want to work the situation out, resulting in...
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Angry mobs are nothing new. They’ve existed for hundreds of years, from the Salem witch trials to racist lynchings to a continued manifestation within social media, demanding justice and inflicting their will upon whoever stirred their ire. The destructive actions of mobs throughout history have shown what an enraged group of people is capable of, and over time has caused...
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I believe drama is a form of text that uniquely engages the audience and communicates with them through many different language techniques. Shakespeare has changed my personal understanding and appreciation of the value of drama. William Shakespeare was a famous English poet, playwright, and actor. The three types of dramas he focused on were comedy, romance, and tragedy, which show...
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Drunk driving is the criminal offense of operating a vehicle with a concentration of alcohol in your blood that exceeds the legal limit. According to the Government of Ontario, “Throughout Canada, the maximum legal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) for fully licensed drivers is to be under 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 milliliters of blood, or 0.08”. Nowadays, drunk driving...
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I came to the United States at the age of 12, and as a young African American growing up in Nigeria, most of what I heard about America painted it as some sort of utopia land teeming with opportunities, wealth, and quality education. In Nigeria, there had never been any discussion about racial discrimination, stereotypes towards African Americans, racial inequality,...
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Michel Foucault, author of the book 'Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of Prison' lived from 1926 to 1984 and was a French philosopher, historian, and sociologist. This novel shows how the prison looked and changed, what torture was used, what punishments were used against prisoners, and what a typical day looked like at this place. Foucault undertook a critical reflection...
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Type of Action: The case is an appeal that was decided by a jury. The jury verdicts decided that the defendants must pay $1.8 million. The case was a product liability suit against Sears Roebuck & Co. and Pittway Corporation Facts of the Case: Albin Laaperi bought a smoke detector from Sears. The detector was made by Pittway Corporation. The...
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Jeremy, the patient, in this case study suffers from aplastic anemia which causes your body to lack the production of new blood cells. Along with this medical deficiency, he is also a committed Jehovah’s Witness in which he stands for the practice of abstaining from blood. Jeremy even vocalized this concern to his doctor, Derek, when he stated, “He would...
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As the beautiful child was born, the man looked utterly repulsed. His face changed to anger as he snatched the petite girl and without any regret or remorse, dropped his baby into a Pali full of human waste. The baby's foot was the only visible part. The baby’s foot moved slightly, then it stopped, the child had suffocated and died....
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Abstract At the beginning of 1692, two girls from Salem suffered from strange diseases. The doctors believed it was caused by witches and asked them to identify the people responsible for using witchcraft in the village. From that point on, in less than a year, more than 200 people in Salem were accused of using witchcraft, imprisoned, and awaiting trial....
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Why are race and stereotypes such a prevalent problem within the education system? Both schools and their students have a responsibility when it comes to the safety and education of the pupils. Most people would agree that the responsibility is shared based on age --or as a general guideline, a 50-50 split. This, however, is only applicable in theory. In...
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For early civilizations from Egypt, the Middle and Near East, and Crete, an architectural statement was their system of tombs, temples, or palaces, which varied over time due to changes in architectural styles. From the exterior, they appear strongly built, however, on the inside they had a layout of many open spaces that ranged in size. A larger number of...
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Postmodernism is a cultural movement that emerged after World War II. When Modernism was mainly concerned with making it new; postmodernist literature examines conventional ideas like truth and fiction, suggesting that there is no ultimate truth or distinction between the two only multiple, fragments of truth. Postmodern authors, to covey those ideas use several different literary techniques. One of those...
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In this essay, I will discuss the ethical dilemmas that may arise in health and social care settings when attempting to balance individual rights and duty of care. Ethical dilemmas arise because care practitioners are supporting individuals to live their lives the way they want to but this also may conflict with their professional duty of care. Duty of care...
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Introduction Culture exists as people’s spiritual support, and has a non-negligible impact on people’s lifestyle, behavior, and values. It is not something fixed, instead, it is always changing with the expansion of social interaction and cognitive development (Schaeffer, 2011). Multicultural education is becoming a trend in education, as it promotes the concepts of freedom, tolerance, equality, and harmony. With the...
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Poverty is one of the major causes of illness and bad health among poor people. It limits the access of people to attain health facilities and care that they require. This provides a context that poverty and health are in relationship with each other and possess a very strong correlation among them. As the World Bank states, the poor are...
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Research assignment Claim: On the authority of the Declaration of Independence, it is a self-evident truth “that all men are created equal.” Yet we hear that biology has demonstrated conclusively that men are unequal. Does biology contradict what the Declaration of Independence holds to be a self-evident truth? (Source: Dobzhansky T. (1966) Biological Evolution and Human Equality. In: Steinhardt J....
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Bow in a mosque, kneel in a temple, or pray in a church. Just as a flower cannot bloom without sunshine, a man cannot live without a spiritual life. Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, is an exceptional piece of literature that reinforces an individual’s belief in God. Piscine Molitor Patel, also known as Pi, is a teenage boy who...
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The game of volleyball does not carry the same glory, appeal, or benefits as basketball or football. However, players like Taylor Agost have certainly changed the minds of many with her tantalizing performances on the court and the beach. This tall glass of water blondie has always known what she wanted to do and that’s play volleyball at the highest...
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Embarking on the world of competitive horseback riding as a complete amateur is something that I didn’t expect to do ever in my life. Of course, there were the occasional trips to the barn when I was younger and riding up to meet some horses at a county fair, but I knew absolutely nothing when it came down to the...
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