Essays

Disgusting doesn’t make it “speech” by Ann Coulter, is the opinion of author that free speech is not absolute right. There is a typical example that child pornography should be restricted. However, what her journey contains and refer contents are child pornography. She believes child pornography has very high risk to endanger and threat innocent … Read more

In the interesting film The Brass Teapot (2012), directed by Ramaa Mosley and story by Tim Macy. Mosley uses various camera work techniques, aural techniques and mise-en- scene to convey the message of the film, that ‘greed can bring out the worst in people’ and ‘it’s not worth it in the end’. This is clearly … Read more

“There’s no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.”(Sinbad). People’s defining moment in their life changes their whole personality and changes their point of view in their life.People’s defining moment in their life changes their whole personality and changes their point of view in their life. I never thought that, I was going … Read more

Everything Happens for a Reason M. Night Shyamalan uses the impact of Colleen’s sacrificial death on the Hess family, Graham’s struggle with faith, and every character’s quirk to prove that everything happens for reason. Graham is a dynamic character throughout the story. He begins as the town Reverend, and as a follower of Christ. But, … Read more

For my project, I had to create my own acid-base indicator and find out what happens when it is placed in an acidic solution (vinegar) and a basic solution (dissolved baking soda). I chose my indicator to be a fruit because fruits can be very effective at determining how acidic or basic a substance is. … Read more

“WHOA WHOA WHOA THIS IS BALONEY MAN!” that is something I say whenever I am frustrated. People have always told me sometimes the best way to learn something is through failure. People value things they have accomplished differently. Often the people whom are naturally adept at things do not realize how much of a struggle … Read more

The video game industry has been under repeated attack by accusations that the material in their best-selling video games has harmful effects on children and on society as a whole. With $10 billion dollars in annual sales the gaming industry has an interest in any policies that may hinder business and produce false information to … Read more

Diversity In early years settings it is important that both adults and children have a clear understanding that each individual is unique in there own way and everyone deserves to be respected equally. It is important in an early years setting to promote a positive attitude towards people of a different race, ethnicity, gender, age, … Read more

Matchmoving is a cinematic technique that enables computer generated graphics to be placed into a live-action footage. The graphics should be placed into the real footage where they appear to move as if they were part of it with the correct position, scale, and orientation of the photographed scene. It can simply be describe as … Read more

The ethical responsibilities a person should uphold to those they are in a direct relationship with, specifically the environment, is to act in consideration of its value as an ecological conscience and to not take the land for granted in terms of its value from a philosophical standpoint due to the principles of the land … Read more

In reflecting upon the class RP 500, Basic Restorative Practices, I have been exposed to a new level of understanding of the essential theories that were presented in various papers. Over the course of this class I was able to explore various corner stone concepts as well as being presented with a new approach to … Read more

Preparing and giving my Cultural Hero Speech was different than my Narrative Speech in many ways. First of all, in my opinion, the Cultural Hero speech was more personal because I have to tell the audience why this person was my cultural hero and why they deserved it in my eyes. For the Narrative speech … Read more

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “To be yourself in a world that is trying to make you something else is a great accomplishment”. A question such as “who am l”? Really gives me the opportunity to differentiate and express who I really am and who I can be. I am not a complex person who … Read more

Those who have encountered Sirus would describe it with a single word: esoteric. To an outsider it would be unfathomable, driven by some strange motive that is known to it and it alone. In truth, there aren’t any words to truly capture exactly what Sirus is. The more it is defined the more it evades … Read more

The service that I did with the poor was at St. Vincent De Paul. I took the bus with a friend after school on a random Thursday with Ms. Reuter driving the bus, which I didn’t expect her to know how to do at all. It was my first time working there, because I had … Read more

“A Temporary Matter,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, displays how a married couple’s relationship is affected by the loss of a child. Before their tragedy, they were pleased with one another. However, when Shoba gives birth to a stillborn child, the couple isolated themselves from each other. Shoba distracted herself by working and keeping with her routine … Read more

On the both poems, D. H. Lawrence’s “snake” and Elizabeth bishop’s “Fish,” both author mentions about animals. Both writer treated animals as animals at first, but later on, they compare those animals with human. The explanation of visual, the time when two authors think those animals as human, and the ironic feeling that both author … Read more

Paper 1: Adaptive Leadership 1. Describe what adaptive leadership is. Adaptive leadership involves changing the beliefs, habits and priorities of individuals by detaching deep rooted ways, standing losses associated with change and moving beyond authority to generate innovative ideas. Adaptive Leadership encourages individuals to stretch beyond their comfort zone and look beyond the surface problems … Read more

Against the law in the UK. Fair? I say no. Euthanasia is when an individual is assisted to commit suicide, this is because the individual is in pain due to a terminal illness. People such as Diane Pretty and Tony Nickson were in pain because they had a terminal disease and could not let their … Read more

It was a ferociously gloomy day in the heart of Center City. The time of the observation was from 11:43 am to 12:43pm. Sandwiched between 15th street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard is the Philadelphia’s Municipal Services Building and within the plaza of the building lies Board Game Park. Even in the rain, the park … Read more

The video recorded practice interview allowed me to understand how I can improve in my social work skills. Being able to present and watch a mock interview allowed me to see my strengths and weaknesses. One of my strengths that I am so proud of is the introduction. I was able to introduce myself, the … Read more

I can call it tradition for my family to move every couple of years, for I have moved four times in my life. I started the journey of life in Missouri, continued it in Tennessee where I learned to walk, South Dakota where I started my basketball career, into Ohio where I spent fifth, sixth, … Read more

The long anticipated attack launched by the People’s Liberation Army, the military division of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), on January 6, 1949 was the start of a five month offensive that culminated in Chiang Kai-shek’s departure to Taiwan. After much self-reflection, Chiang privately concluded that “the major reason for this defeat…is that we are … Read more

For over a decade, there have been different definitions of reflection in relation to reflective practice (Dewey, 1938; Kolb, 1984; Schön, 1981; Pollard 2008; Moon 1999). From this it could be argued that reflective practice in its simplest terms is looking back on a situation either at the time or a later date to critically … Read more

The poem “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota,” by James Wright, expresses the value of a person’s life. The poem is a free-verse of only thirteen lines and it moves with the sparse intensity of a haiku through a subtle but limited accumulation of imagery. Wright using metaphors to … Read more

The most apparent use of clothing in precolonial Yorubaland was protection from weather elements, and preventing nakedness and voyeurism. According to Oguniran, clothing also served to project identity–anything ranging from gender, status, and age (Oyeniyi 43). Lighter colors were worn during warmer seasons and usually consisted of wearing a wrapper on the lower half of … Read more

Remorse is the moral anguish, the sorrow and shame, and the regret and guilt, which may haunt even the fiercest, mightiest king. It is often accompanied with the consequences of the individual’s wrongdoing. Remorse takes a principal part in some of Greek’s classic tragedies. One could say, the tragic hero is likely to experience such … Read more

As a newly appointed CEO of Minnesota Micromotors, Inc. , I am responsible for designing the company’s marketing strategy, “This includes determining all aspects of the company’s go-to-market approach and associated elements of product policy, including pricing and market positioning of the company’s orthopedic motor line. ”(Harvard Business Publishing, 2014). MM is a member of … Read more

But such a system would have to take for granted Hobbes’ values and rationality—it would not work ‘right out of the box’ as deontology or utilitarianism does; more on this later. For now, let’s assume that our purpose will require an appeal to a Pareto Superior alternative to Hobbes. Theories abound of how to do … Read more

Climate change has been the forefront of international news and how leaders will take specific measures on tackling environmental challenges. China has faced much pressure and criticism, domestically and internationally with their actions or lack thereof on the environmental crisis. China is the world’s leader when it comes to the release of carbon emissions. Approximately, … Read more

Timbuk2 is a San Francisco-based corporation that has been creating messenger bags for over 20 years. Timbuck2 was founded by Rob Honeycutt in 1989. Originally named Scumbags, this corporation started out as a simple messenger bag for work and has now become a full-fledged business of various customized bags. The popularized and successful corporation has … Read more

When I was in pre-kindergarten, when I was supposed to be sitting and talking with other children, I sat in my own corner doing what I wanted to do, barely interacting with anyone else. I felt abandoned. Most of my good friends from preschool were not there and my best friend was in another classroom. … Read more

Essay question: what techniques does the director, Danny DeVito, use in the film Matilda to illustrate the character, Agatha Trunchbull, as evil and malicious (mean)? The film ‘Matilda’ directed by Danny DeVito released in 1996, is a film in which the principal, Ms Trunchbull, is depicted as an evil and malicious person through her intimidating … Read more

In the early 1920’s, editors ignored Hemmingway’s story “Hills Like White Elephants” because, they felt it was not what the public wanted. Not until the 1990’s did it become one of Ernest Hemmingway’s most anthologized short stories. “Hills Like White Elephants” has a single storyline and it takes place in a single day. The male … Read more

How does Hesse and Coelho present the importance of wealth and love is to fulfilment and self-discovery in ‘The Alchemist’ and ‘Siddhartha’? Siddartha and The Alchemists are both novels featuring a world of sacrifice and journeys of the soul in order to find enlightenment and have fulfilling lives. Both stories show a journey distracted by … Read more

South America is a continent located in the Western, Southern Hemisphere. It is considered a subcontinent of the Americas, comprising twelve sovereign states: Argentina, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela and two non-sovereign areas, French Guiana and the Falkland Islands (Wikipedia). The continent’s cultural and ethnic outlook is a … Read more

Genre theory as described by Richard Azia is, “… the study of films in order to facilitate the categorization of films. ” It is what helps a movie be marketable. Once a genre is applied to a movie they have a target audience, and the movie becomes profitable. You wouldn’t normally see a child asking … Read more

Biological and Humanistic Approaches to Personality Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers agreed with the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, biological and humanistic approach. “The hierarchy of needs theory remains valid today for understanding human motivation, management training, and personal development” (Orana, 2009). Maslow’s book Personality and Motivation were published in 1954 introducing his theory of the … Read more

Dr. Largo-Wight Spirituality 1. Three to five meaningful quotes from Morrie’s character are: • “Maybe my dying can be a value, something we can all learn from”. • I’m on the last great journey here on we all got to take”. • “When you know how to die, you’ll know how to live”. • “All … Read more

During Czar Nickals II rain over Russia his people were mistreated and taken advantage of. Josef Stalin and Valdimer Lenin used the words of Karl Marx to form the Russian revolution. In Animal Farm, Gerorge Orwell uses an allegory to compare the Russian revolution and Stalins rule using similar situations, characters, and events. To begin … Read more

It’s eleven o’clock on a Thursday night and right before you go to bed, a tone too familiar pops up. Your friend asks through a text to read his essay, finding poor grammar and spelling abbreviations such as “bc” and “prob”, you begin to think to yourself,” How can texting really find its way into … Read more

This story requires a little back story, it was the spring of 2001. My dad at the time was 69, he had had quadruple bypass surgery three years earlier. I had four children a 17 year old step daughter, nine year old daughter, six year old son and a three year old daughter. My husband … Read more

As soon as we hit 100 mph the cop sires ambushed us, as if they were calculating their bust. “I don’t really feel like racing tonight” kept replaying as the cop’s sirens became less noticeable. Then, scenarios played with my mind. “What if I make a run for it? And hide in an alley, or … Read more

Stories have different settings, plots, tones, themes, and moods. These things make a story. These are the things that impact how a character would act in the story. One short story where a character was impacted is in the short story “To Build a Fire”, written by Jack London. The setting of the story was … Read more

We live in an environment where flaws nourish our judgment and criticism of one another. This occurs most often when celebrities have slipups. The paparazzi takes the form of lions following around zebras until they are vulnerable to attack, and that’s when they go in for the kill. The media describes these moments of vulnerability … Read more

Window to Mars One night my me, my sister, and my dog was sitting on the bed watching television. It was dark inside my room because I never opened my curtains. Behind my curtain was a window that looked like Mars. I will explain below what happened. First, I heard noises and became scared. Not … Read more

Dulaglutide is a Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist (RA) indicated for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Dulaglutide was invented by Wolfgang Glaesner, Rohn Lee Millican Jr, and Andrew Mark Vick, employees of Eli Lilly and Company. In the United States dulaglutide is manufactured by Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Indiana under … Read more

Do you believe that prostitution should be legalized? This paper will examine the pro and con and my point of view on should prostitution be legalized. Condemnation of prostitution is as old as prostitution itself. Sex workers have often been stigmatized and isolated from mainstream society. Prostitution is the practice of engaging in sexual activity … Read more

In order to truly understand what a liberal arts education leads to and its specific benefits, it is paramount that one understands the basic premise of a liberal arts education. After identifying the basic foundation of the liberal arts education as all-encompassing, the main purpose of glorifying God through learning is realized. Following this main … Read more

First draft of My Family’s Speech Community We definitely all have experienced one or more speech community in life. I have encountered a lot growing up with separated parents, through school, work, just everywhere | encountered them. There are also many different ones. If someone can’t find them or notice them at first, just sit … Read more