Coconut oil has received a bad reputation for many years because it is a saturated fat, and you know we have all been told not to eat saturated fats, or to at least try and eat less of them. Coconut oil is made up of medium chain triglycerides. Most other saturated fats are made of … Read more

My scores from the path goal questionnaire indicate that I am leading to two different paths of leadership. They are directive and achievement-oriented styles of leadership. Directive style: My role as a charge nurse is to oversee our unit. I am responsible for keeping a high level of patient care, assessing nurses and serving as … Read more

Every story needs a conflict, and every conflict needs to be dealt with. It tells a lot about a character how they deal with every uprising they may run into. Within three different stories I have read in class there have been many examples of conflict. A Person vs self conflict is when a character … Read more

Relevant Ethical Principles The ethical principles and professional standards that pertain to this case are as follows: 0 Respect for Colleagues. Shamoo and Resnik’s Responsible Conduct of Research describes having respect for colleagues as “Help[ing] to educate, train, mentor, and advise the next generation of researchers. ” (Shamoo, 18). This is important because, as a … Read more

The Baroque style of art emerged during a tumultuous period of religious and political change (Carl and Charles 2012). During the 16th century, rival religious beliefs weakened the power of Catholic dogma and papal authority across Europe. As a result, the Counter-Reformation sought to make institutional reforms, and reinvigorate the mystical and evangelical ideals of … Read more

Many people do not realize the impact of the oil spills that occur in the ocean. It is like putting water into a heated oil frying substance. It is quite catastrophic. With all the oil spills that have already occurred it is important to help clean ,and prevent oil spills from reoccuring. There is indeed … Read more

It was a crisp, but sunny May morning at the goat show and both little Spotlight the goat and owner were anxious yet excited for the show. The time was around seven am and the sun was just starting to rise over the beautiful Virginia Mountains. The humidity was low and this was going to … Read more

Graphic Design can be a powerful means of communicating. Through infographics, graphic design presents what is deemed the most important information on a particular subject and visually represents that data in a user-friendly manner. The United States Government has implored the use of graphic design on many occasions and in many instances. One of those … Read more

Despite the claims of the family proper, their beautifully constructed genealogical maps, and theories about magic being passed down through bloodlines… the founders of House Rasputin did not have any blood-ties to the man Grigori Rasputin. After all, the last name Rasputin was surprisingly common for the era and the area where Grigori Rasputin had … Read more

Gender Specific Toys Affect on Children Enrolled in Preschool Versus Children Not Attending Preschool Gender plays an important role in the way children are raised in today’s society. The common stereotype that feminine toys are for girls and masculine toys are for boys is prevalent, even with all of the political advancements our society has … Read more

When people think of Mexico, they might think of a perfect vacation spot. Yes, Mexico is beautiful and has an interesting background to its history. However, Mexico comes with a little bit of baggage. The everyday life in Mexico is very different from your normal day. For example, they never arrive at work on time. … Read more

Lupo verde is an Italian restaurant, stated in 1401 T St NW, Washington DC 2009. They are serving authentic Italian food to their customer since early 2013. Lupo verde first opened its door to its customers at 15th February 2013. The restaurant is owned and operated by Med Lahlou, along with managing partner Antonio Matarazzo … Read more

“The Lady with the Pet Dog” is a classic story originally written by the one and only Anton Chekhov in 1899, five years before his death. Years later in 1972, an author by the name of Joyce Carol Oates wrote her own adaptation to this story. While both of these stories differ, the “love” story … 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

Many cultures from different countries have come over to America and made it a “Melting Pot. ” Each year in America, many immigrants come from different countries and shares their unique cultures with America. As Marin used the term Melting pot in his essay “Towards something American,” it describes as an unused furnace that does … Read more

loss of men and ammunition (Geoffrey Parker, Why the Armada Failed). When the fleet finally returned to Lisbon it brought the treasure ships back intact but it was clear that the Armada was no longer ready to mount the full scale invasion of England. Drake had given England another year to prepare for the Spanish … Read more

Here is a visual analysis of a child abuse advert produced by a company trying to address the issues of child abuse through a very controversial image, of two young children who are represented as broken china dolls. Roland Barthes Rhetoric of Image, article untangles all the obvious and not so obvious meanings to some … Read more

Hypocrites run society. Society puts both men and women under pressure to fit the image of perfection, yet when a person does achieve this so called perfection, others ridicule them for succumbing to peer pressure. In “The Unknown Citizen” by W. H. Auden, the speaker, a government bureaucrat, also takes on this two-faced attitude towards … Read more

If there is anybody should deserve the $25,000 dollars, it should be me. I could do so much with that money. I would donate to a homeless shelter, I would give a church some money, and I would spend some money on my family, my car and me. If I won it I would put … Read more

Throughout the year in Western Civilization, there have been many opportunities to become much more enlightened about the history, theology, and philosophy of the words past and present. After reading novels and readings such as Looking backwards, the Rerum novarum, and even Women on the edge of Time; there are many themes that have a … Read more

“It is not inevitable, nor is it any kind of progress for these traditions to vanish. We have much to learn from them if we are willing to listen. ” The Last Speakers page 242 K. David Harrison is a linguist, activist for language preservation and documentation, and author of The Last Speakers. Written in … Read more

The Great Struggle “If there is no struggle then there is no progress.” This quote was said by Fredrick Douglass as a way to explain how hard the world works against us. Nature has struggle naturally, an example is the lion and his prey. A lion has to struggle to catch his prey, so he … Read more

The granite slabs the Egyptians used to build the pyramids weighed forty tons apiece. They were able to move these blocks without the invention of the wheel or cart. It is amazing how the Egyptians built such big structures with such little technology because they were perfect in almost every dimension, it was all done … Read more

Power can be exercised in one of two ways. The first is far easier to comprehend. It is called “manifest power”. Manifest power involves one person or group of people exercising control over a second person or group of people by giving some sort of sign or signal. This includes everything from coercion to simply … Read more

In a Latin American country that is unnamed to the reader, a birthday party held for the head of a major Japanese electronics company brings together a successful crowd to enjoy food, drinks and entertainment by none other than the most desired soprano, Roxanne Coss. The party had been held at the vice president’s home … Read more

Introduction: Plants can’t move like animals do but they respond to certain stimuli, making them change the direction in which they grow. Plants are very sensitive to their environment and have evolved many forms of “tropisms” in order to ensure their survival. A tropism is a growth movement whose direction is determined by the direction … Read more

When I first walk into class on day 1 of sociology, I did not know what to expect. I did not know much about immigrants however, I knew that I was a child of an immigrants. I though immigration was just a typical way of emphasizing the difference between a foreign and citizen. I know … Read more

The first semester of the High Scholars program at Belhaven University has become one of the most beneficial and establishing weeks for me thus far. Never uncovered more about myself, my beliefs and worldview, and the history of the world in relevance to the Christian worldview in any other course as this. High Scholars has … Read more

Jews gather together for a number of important holidays (sacred becoming a community). The holidays, festivals, and the Sabbath offer Jewish people a chance to set aside sacred time, (prayer and ritual). Almost the whole of Jewish history and teaching is embodied in its holidays/festivals — in which traditions are passed from one generation to … 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

America has been encountering many different types of cultures since it was first founded. These distinct types of cultures lead to the development of various types of food options. However, fast food productions stood out to be the top meal choice. The reason for this expansion of encounters with fast food has to deal with … Read more

1. Two examples of literature that share the theme of relationships are William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll House.” Although there is a love relationship between Emily Grierson and Homer Barron in the story “A Rose for Emily,” a deeper relationship exists between Emily and the town she lived in. … Read more

Macaroons are a biscuit/pastry people have indulged themselves with for hundreds of years. They were created by the French and these little pieces of heaven could brighten anyone’s day. Then there are dolls. Little life like figures that children play with throughout the world. You can accessorize them, make them talk, and even have a … Read more

Our program goal was to encourage young mothers to breastfeed reducing infant’s likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Our team had three members who are Patrick Gallagher, Krystal Robinson and myself. I acknowledge that our topic is broad but we tried our best and structured into three sections and each of us had our own focus. … Read more

Each language shapes its own culture within a country by allowing people to create an unique identity. Migration from other places, from history, has contributed to the richness in diversity of cultures, ethnicities and most importantly, languages, in developed countries. Prominently in Russia, the native people acquire descent from numerous ethnicities around the world such … Read more

The picture above shows a typical gel electrophoresis set up. The clear container in the center of the picture is called a gel electrophoresis chamber. It contains the agarose gel that will be loaded with genetic material, as well as a buffer solution. It is connected to a DC power supply via electrodes. This picture … Read more

ITV plc is a media company operates in the UK and internationally whose segment contents of Broadcast & Online in the UK and global contents ITV studios. It is one of the UK’s leading and fastest growing commercial channel and integrated producer broadcaster creates, owns and distributes high-quality contents in multiple platforms. It consists of … Read more

I have learned many things about transitions which will help me with my practice in the future. I have learnt that transitions can affect different children in different ways. From witnessing a transition of children starting nursery for the first time, I understood that different children react in different ways. Some children weren’t bothered at … Read more

Emmerich’s latest world “disaster” “That’s the same building which was blown up in Independence day!”, just a whole lot bigger, dumber and stupider than the “boringly straight-faced” Olyumpus Has Fallen. Roland Emmerich has wrecked the world more than any other director, with aliens in Godzilla and continent-killing in 2012, it’s not surprising that he death-raid’s … Read more

The film “Garden State” is an eccentric drama, romance comedy with a slew of complex, innate cast of characters, each deeply entrenched in profound emotional and psychological scars, ascending from the regrets of their past. It is a musing, on finding oneself after years of aimless confusion. Writer/Director Zach Braff, stars as the films main … Read more

What is perfection? Is it having the perfect hair? The perfect, flawless face? The perfect skinny body or perhaps to be a duplicate of Barbie? For a majority of adolescents, this is the case. We live in a world where the epitome of perfection is exposed on a daily basis. The new model on vogue … Read more

Leonardo da Vinci was a great mathematician whose contributions to the discipline were immense, especially in the field of geometry. Besides being a mathematician, Leonardo da Vinci was a renowned painter, inventor, architect, and a student of scientific concepts (Cremante, Leonardo & Pedretti, 2005). Since Leonardo’s natural genius encompassed several disciplines, he personified the term … Read more

This is a story about how I became the reader, I am today. Starting with the two people I love the most is my parents, then is when every make believe thing is real like the gingerbread man, and now finally is the person who made me want to read all day every day, the … Read more

In 1859, Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities. The novel took place during the revolution era of France and England. Dickens uses a variety of literary devices to convey his message to the reader. Literary devices that are continuously used throughout the novel are the double motifs, light and dark. Dickens uses the … Read more

(MIP-1) The author uses family influences through the stars to represent how Najmah and Nusrat’s vision of family connect with the stars. (SIP-A) The author introduces family concepts of how the stars are present in times of Najmah’s journey, through which she is reminded by her father’s words of wisdom about the stars. (STEWE-1) Firstly, … 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

“It’s like a crater, a hole where something happened” (Donoghue 321). Yet, this crater is flooded with so much more than the dust that provides a thin sheet of remembrance between the event in time and reality. It symbolizes not only the loss of innocence, but also the stripping away of freedom, both intellectually and … Read more

The serve, forehand and backhand are tennis strokes. As far as ranking, the tennis forehand ranks closely behind the serve when it comes to importance in the game of tennis. 1 The forehand stroke is one of the most important tennis techniques. 2 In order to be successful in the game of tennis, a player … Read more

“If you educate a man you educate an individual, however, if you educate a woman you educate a whole family,” was a proverb made popular by Dr. James Aggrey, a renowned Ghanaian philosopher. This proverb was a pioneer in a time when the education of women was unheard of as men dominated opportunities given by … Read more

Is Prostitution Ethical? In the 21st century, the profession of prostitution has been a target of great controversy as far as the ethical and moral issues are concerned. Prostitution is one of the oldest professions of this world and the critical debate with regard to the moral and ethical values of this profession are not … Read more