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Biography of Paul CézanneCézanne was an innovative post-impressionist painter, and quite a troubled man. Tirelessly craving a better understanding of nature, he was constantly a la recherche. Every aspect of his lifestyle reflected his desire to achieve that objective: spending most of his time alone (away from his wife Hortense and son Paul), renting rooms or buying shelters in the middle of nature in the South of France, being self critical to the point of meditating for hours in between brush strokes, etc. As a result of living on the edge, he became quite psychologically unstable, pessimistic, and full of doubt in his late sixties. His inner conflicts reflected on his art, and this can be examined through comparison with works of contemporary impressionist artist Monet, Northern-Renaissance artist Bosch, and Dutch period painter Rembrandt. The Inscrutable is thought to have been painted between 1898 and 1900. Historians mention some correlation between some physiological aspects of Cézanne&a |
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Abortion - The Elephant in the RoomAbortion is a very sensitive topic. Many people are either strongly against it or for it. Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" and David Foster Wallace's "Good People" are two very similar stories where they show two different young couples who are dealing with an unplanned pregnancy in completely different ways. However, even with the differences there are a couple of similarities between the two couples who are struggling with their decision on whether to keep or abort a child. In both of the situation, the female character is having a mental conflict debating whether to keep or abort the child, while the male character tries to convince them to have the abortion. In both Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" and David Foster Wallace's "Good People", there are many differences and similarities between the narratives, both of the couples have the same problem but their reactions and solutions are complete |
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To Sleep Per, Chance To DreamTo Sleep Perchance, To Dream: Shakespeare's Use Of Dream and Sleep Motifs To Create The Gothic Reality Although Shakespeare's contribution to the Gothic novel was acknowledged by Horace Walpole in the preface to the Second Edition of "The Castle of Otranto," "shelter[ing] my own daring under the cannon of the brightest genius in the country" (Walpole 13), the extent to which the Gothic sensibility informs so many of Shakespeare's plays has only recently been conceded by many mainstream scholars. This is hardly surprising considering Gothic fiction's entrance onto the literary stage in mid eighteenth century England, which was dominated by the Reformation and poised to embrace the Romantic movement. However, Jerrold Hogle points out in his essay "Afterward: The 'grounds' of the Shakespeare-Gothic relationship" found in "Gothic Shakespeare's," "We do not realize how thoroughly pre-Gothic Shakespeare is, in other |
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Beckett - Impossible and Futile LoveIt is possible to recognize the prominent relationships between Beckett's characters through the majority of his works; be it dramatic works, prose or poetry. Throughout these forms he creates seemingly hopeless and impossible circumstances for his characters, this applies to all relationships not explicitly to marital ones. However, I feel that it is important to explore the hopelessness and futility that is initially presented by Beckett through his characters focusing solely on those whom according to society, should be in "love". To focus completely on the bond and lawful commitment will highlight specifically the 'love' in which I wish to examine within Beckett's work. It is important to have the presented relationships scrutinized to see the small glimmers of hope in which are inserted amidst the futility of love which we are initially faced with. In much of Beckett's work 'the characters of Beckett's theatre communicate the imposs |
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Universal Themes in The Great GatsbyIn The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes many universal themes to make a classic novel, explaining the life in 1920's. In the novel, well-off citizens live everyday without care, celebrate every weekend by getting drunk and overall just live a reckless lifestyle. The way these people live is represented in the novel by Fitzgerald, who emphasizes the life of Nick Carrway, a single stockbroker living in New York, and shows us the world of the rich through his point of view. "Significant writers in the Twenties were above all dedicated to the imposing task of pointing out the error of living in terms of obsolete values-however useful those values might have been in the past (Trask 3)." Through Carrway's eyes, he uses different styles of satire to describe these characters throughout the text. Satire is seen, as humor, irony, exaggeration, and use of sarcasm to criticize other people's actions and lighten the situation in this book. "Satire" is d |
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Fundamental Citizen Rights in IndiaIntroduction Fundamental Rights is a charter of rights contained in the Constitution of India. It guarantees civil liberties such that all Indians can lead their lives in peace and harmony as citizens of India. These include individual rights common to most liberal democracies, such as equality before law, freedom of speech and expression, and peaceful assembly, freedom to practice religion, and the right to constitutional remedies for the protection of civil rights by means of writs such as habeas corpus. Violation of these rights result in punishments as prescribed in the Indian Penal Code or other special laws, subject to discretion of the judiciary. The Fundamental Rights are defined as basic human freedoms that every Indian citizen has the right to enjoy for a proper and harmonious development of personality. These rights universally apply to all citizens, irrespective of race, place of birth, religion, caste or gender. Aliens (persons who are not citizen |
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Being an Ally to Transgender CoworkersWhen I was fifteen years old, I had both my first job – working as a cashier in a local supermarket – and my first acquaintance with a trans* coworker. "Tamara," who had worked there for years, had transitioned on the job, and many of the long-time employees and customers had previously known her as "Keith." She also had the unfortunate distinction of having transitioned later in life – when I met her, she was around her mid-to-late forties – and had thinning hair, a five 'o'clock shadow, and linebacker shoulders. To say that "passing" presented a challenge for her would have been a serious understatement. Even now, understanding of the trans* experience is limited at best; back in the late nineties when Tamara embarked on her journey it was almost a foreign concept to people, especially in my Central Jersey suburb. At least from what I can remember, my coworkers and I were actually pretty polite to Tamara (more so, i |
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Theories of Classroom ManagementClassroom Management Classroom management is important, especially for beginner teachers, because it helps make those first few years of teaching easier when there is an effective classroom management system in place. Nearly one third of new teachers leave their teaching jobs within the first two years, and almost all of those teachers say that the reason behind them leaving is because of problems with classroom management. Basically, a great classroom management system means a happier teaching experience. In an ineffective, poorly-managed classroom, trouble becomes the norm as students are able to get away with all sorts of misbehaviors as the teacher does not have an effective classroom management system in place. The students are disorderly, causing the teacher to not be able to teach, which leads to the students not learning. However, in an effective, well-managed classroom, there is an environment where teaching and learning can happen. Having this type classroom requires a gre |
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Tour of the National Center for Mental Health (NCMH)The night before our much awaited tour is the feeling of excitement but I'm a little bit nervous too because we will meet people with mental disorders and to see what life they have inside the mental hospital and of course how we will be going to interact with them. And it's so interesting. And this is the day. It's March 26 when I experienced a very memorable event. Even though it's my first time to go to mental hospital, I felt very happy and very excited. Before the bus arrive at National Center for Mental Health, there are lots of things that came into my mind. Asking questions to myself like "What's inside the mental hospital?", "How do they interact with each other?" And there's one thing that always come up to my mind when I hear "Mental Hospital"- "Kapag mental hospital, parang lalong lumalala ang mga pasyente dahil mga baliw din ang kasama nila." And our adventure started. We went to National Center for Me |
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Lust by Susan MinotWhat is lust? Lust is "a strong feeling of sexual desire", or "a strong desire for something" ("Lust." 1). The short story "Lust" was created by American Novelist and Short Story writer Susan Minot and published as a part of her book Lust & Other Stories in 1989 (Feed Your Need To Read. 1; Wikipedia. 1). "Lust" is a literary work which is written in a first person narration. It is about the un-named woman's brief sexual encounters with fifteen plus men while she is away at boarding school for her high school years. Even a sexual encounter with a man whose name she did not know. She portrays lust as being selfish, and opposed to love. She also highlights the dysfunction and disconnection she feels after her sexual encounters with the men she is sexually involved with (Minot. 381-389). Sociohistorical critique "focuses largely on issues related to the social movements and beliefs prevalent when a piece of literature was written |
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Soil Moisture Levels and the Porcellio ScaberThis experiment was conducted in order to investigate the preferred soil moisture levels of the Porcellio scaber (Slater), because they had recently been observed on a farm in Waikari and it was interesting to find out further information about them. The main focus on the Slaters within this experiment was their soil moisture, and that is why they have been investigated to see what soil moisture levels they will prefer to live in when given the choice of very dehydrated soil (Soil Sample no.1 containing a very low soil moisture level of 0 mL water (dehydrated)), dehydrated soil (Soil Sample no.2 containing a low soil moisture level of 20 mL water), relatively dehydrated soil (Soil Sample no.3 containing a relatively low soil moisture level of 40 mL), relatively moist soil (Soil Sample no.4 containing a relatively high soil moisture level of 60 mL), moist soil (Soil Sample no.5 containing a high soil moisture level of 80 mL) and very moist soil (Soil Sample no.6 containing a very high |
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The Oxymoron of Business EthicsMany people associate business and its practices with greed and love for profit, which most of the times is directly related to immorality. In this paper I will try to answer the question "Is business ethics an oxymoron?" by examining four ethical approaches: Utilitarianism, Kantianism, Virtue Ethics and Machiavellianism and their evaluation of the morality of a business. In order to answer this question in the simplest way I will discuss each of the ethical approaches in the light of the ultimate purpose of business: profit and shareholders' value maximization. This way we will find out if a business can exist by following one of these ethical theories. In order to answer this question we have to answer some other questions before that such as: "Why does a business exist?" and "What is its ultimate purpose?" The answer of the first question is simple: business exists to provide goods and services to whom may need them. Or in other words, to provide |
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The Choice to Attend CollegeIn the United States, higher education institutions, such as colleges and universities, have been around since colonial times ("Historical Facts"). Over the centuries, the number and types of colleges established has vastly grown. Every state across the country is home to several colleges, ranging from private and public institutions; religion affiliated colleges; technological schools; and two-year community colleges. While the variety of colleges has grown, so has the cost to attend college. According to a 2012 report on Bloomberg.org by Michelle Jamrisko and Ilan Kolet, "[t]he cost of obtaining a university education in the U.S. has soared 12 fold over the past three decades." Their report shows that college tuition has increased over 1,120 percent since 1978. Even though tuition has tremendously increased in the past decades, several high school graduates are or plan on attending some sort of post-secondary education institution. In fact, about 65.9 percent of |
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A Different Perspective of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeStevenson and Martin offer numerous parallels due to their shared interests in the portrayals of the Victorian gentlemen. However, due to their different identities, one a Victorian gentleman himself and the other a female modern writer, they present different standpoints on the same topic. The lives of the well-respected Victorian gentlemen in Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde imply hypocritical values and aspects of the society, manifested in the lack of women and lower classes. In contrast, Valerie Martin's adaptation, Mary Reilly, takes on this hypocrisy from an opposite approach, focusing primarily on women and the lower classes. By addressing these patriarchal features, Martin provides deeper insights of these gentlemen's lives, and thus unfolds the hypocrisy more extensively. Martin uncovers and criticizes the hypocrisy of the Victorian society by following Stevenson's course of events. In doing so, she better identifies and relates the |
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The Wicked Problems of British CitiesIntroduction The idea of `wicked problems' (Rittel and Webber, 1973) is by no means new in terms of social issues in the UK, indeed it has long been recognised that there are a series of problems/issues which, like the poor, and despite the `best efforts' of government, always seem to be with us and appear to be almost impossible to resolve. The problems of Britain's cities fall into this category; if we look back over the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries we find problems of poverty, unemployment, crime, etc, constantly reoccurring (see Steadman-Jones, 1976). However, at different times, the problems have been `thought', conceptualised and addressed in different ways. For instance over time the poor have been variously categorised as the cause of their own problems (i.e. the social pathology approach), the victims of wider forces (i.e. the structural approach) or a combination of the two; equally the distinction between the `deserving' and `undeserving& |
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Symbolism in Shirley Jackson's The LotteryMaking a resolution through majority voting is democratic, but does it mean the result must be correct? The short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson was published in 1948, three years after ending the World War II. It's like a strong wind triggered a flurry in the society at once. The story is about the people of a small town who hold an annual civil activity - the lottery for the sake of the bumper harvest, and the prize of the winner of the lottery is to be hit until death by stoning. Jackson uses the chronological writing technique with an objective perspective to reveal that the relationships among the family members and the whole people in the town are indifference, cold-blooded because of the blind obedience and lack ing of a rational and critical thinking. Although Jackson writes the story in plain language, a few of significant symbolic signs, such as three numbers, the stones and the black box of being used in the lottery activity, and the names of three people throug |
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The Lost Cause of the Civil WarThe Lost Cause was the belief that the southern secession, even the defense of slavery, was honorable. Lost Cause proponents claim the true cause of the Civil War was not slavery but how the North was suppressing states rights. The Lost Cause outlook of the war viewed the South as brave and heroic; however, the contrasting belief was that the South had no chance to win the war and was doomed from the start. In the film, "Gone With the Wind" one gains an accurate depiction of the generalized Southern Society, where many of the Lost Cause concepts can be shown. Whereas, in "Gettysburg," the movie debunks the Lost Cause pro-Confederate myths. During the age of the Great Depression, people went to the movies to relax and forget their worries. The prospective that is shown in the film, "Gone With the Wind," sways its audience into believing "the idealized home front" was how everyone in the South lived. "The typical moonlight and magnolias view |
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Embryonic Stem Cell ResearchA topic of controversy that is being debated throughout families across America as well as in the legislature is the scientific discovery and usage of embryonic stem cell research. Human embryos provide stem cells, which can potentially cure numerous chronic diseases. Stem cell research affects both the embryos involved and the victims of disease who are strongly in need of stem cells. However, many believe that taking stem cells from human embryos is taking the life of another human being. Research on embryos in vitro fertilization clinics has already been approved and some argue for allowing embryos to be taken that are not yet in these in vitro clinics, since this will provide for a greater number of stem cells to be obtained for research. However, I am not addressing this issue or the problems regarding limited research and restricted funding, rather I am focusing on informing the opposition in hopes they may now view this issue in a different light. A vast majority of America sti |
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Anxiety and Graduate ProgramsIt is incredibly common for new students in Masters level programs to become anxious when entering their program for the first time, and when they begin taking their first graduate level course; and I am no exception. Throughout my participation in the course (Psych 6104), I was able to identify that my anxiety was perpetuated for several reasons, including: perfectionism, "fight or flight" response- and my tendency towards "flight", if I am anxious I may not do well (tendency to "save face", and fear of the unknown. Identifying the factors which contributed to my anxiety, became a crucial step in creating a plan to address and reduce my anxiety in both an effective and adaptive manner. Anxiety is defined as a mood or psychological state which is characterized by worry, uneasiness or dread, which is accompanied by physical symptomology in response to a person, or situation which is perceived to be dangerous. Anxiety can be a response to a real, imagined, |
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The Rise of Death Metal in Tampa BayThe Tampa Bay area of Florida was highly influential in the rise of death metal as it was the centre of a large death metal culture. This culture developed with the introduction of prominent bands and personalities, primarily Chuck Schuldiner of 'Death', as well as 'Deicide', 'Morbid Angel', 'Possessed' and 'Cannibal Corpse', who all contributed to the evolution and development of the genre. The significant Morrisound Studios was also situated in Tampa which rapidly became a world renowned home of death metal, where the production took a great leap in the quality of heavy metal sound production. One of the leading pioneers of this subgenre of heavy metal, which emerged out of Tampa Bay, Florida, into mainstream culture in the late 1980's, was Chuck Schuldiner and his band 'Death'. "He not only helped spawn an entire extreme genre around gore and technical guitar wizardry, but like horror movies sometimes do, 'Dea |
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Prose Writers of the Romantic AgeThough the Romantic period specialised in poetry, there also appeared a few prose-writers-Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey who rank very high. There was no revolt of the prose-writers against the eighteenth century comparable to that of the poets, but a change had taken place in the prose-style also. Whereas many eighteenth century prose-writers depended on assumptions about the suitability of various prose styles for various purposes which they shared with their relatively small but sophisticated public; writers in the Romantic period were rather more concerned with subject matter and emotional expression than with appropriate style. They wrote for an ever-increasing audience which was less homogeneous in its interest and education than that of their predecessors. There was also an indication of a growing distrust of the sharp distinction between matter and manner which was made in the eighteenth century, and of a Romantic preference for spontaneity rather than formality and contrivance |
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Policy Failure and Evidence-Based PolicyAbstract This article provides a discussion on evidence-based policy, deconstructing the assumptions therein and dismissing the notion that evidence-based-policy can eradicate failure. It exposes the falseness of political rhetoric in synonymizing "evidence" with scientific empiricism which is devoid of controversy and ideology. Evidence-based policy, as demonstrated by constructivists, has value laden underpinnings, however, such an acknowledgement is unhelpful as it results in relativism and "analysis-paralysis". Instead, this article highlights the shortcomings of evidence-based policy whilst simultaneously arguing that good policy should be informed by and aware of research. In this context, "evidence" must be understood from a pluralist perspective if it is to be congruent with the modern world requirements for multi-networked, negotiated solutions. Evidence, in the conventional sense of the word (i.e. scientifically empirical research), is merely |
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African-American Heritage in Everyday UseAlice Walker is a child of sharecroppers who raised cotton in the rural South. Walker suffers from a blinding injury to her right eye that causes her to become shy and withdrawn, much like the character of Maggie in this story. Alice Walker's, "Everyday Use," explores an African-American family exploring their heritage. Mama, Dee, and Maggie each have their own views on how they perceive and appreciate their heritage. However, bonds are broken, and tensions raise over the symbolic quilt, holding a lifelong of history and heritage. "Everyday Use," is set in the late 1960's and early 1970's down South in the narrator's yard. The house in which Mama and Maggie live suggests a rural landscape area: "It is three rooms except the roof is tin. There are no real windows just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in a ship," (Walker 299). During this time period, many African-Americans are struggling to find their identities and cultural roots. Movements |
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Philosophy of The Picture of Dorian GrayI. Introduction Various definitions of art and its function were given during the nineteenth century. Perhaps, no other literary era has dealt more with the purpose of art. Accordingly, several movements including Realism, Pre-Raphaelites, Aesthetic movement proclaimed their own ideologies of it. These different ideas of art presented a great impact in the poetical development of Oscar Wilde, who agreed and disagreed with some of them, until his critical artist appears with the creation of his own theory of art. "Some said my life was a lie, but I always knew it to be the truth, for like the truth it was rarely pure and never simple" was a response of Oscar Wilde, before he died, to Jean Dupoirier who questioned him about his life in London [ CITATION Pet97 l 1033 ]. Certainly, comprehending Wilde is not simple, but at the same time this fact adds a reason more to analyze his works, since he occupies a great place in the intellectual stature of the nineteenth century. The P |
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Period Texts and Poetry ComparisonsTennyson's 1856 poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Wilfred Owen's 1917 poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" are salient examples of a text being a product of its time. These poems reflect the attitudes and values held in the society they were written. While Tennyson's poem focuses on a key battle of the 1850's Crimean War, Owen's poem presents a juxtaposing perspective on the reality of trench warfare during World War I (1914-1918). Tennyson sheds a positive light on war by celebrating and glorifying it. In stark contrast Owen exhibits an abhorrence of war, with both composers reflecting their personal experiences and the attitudes and concerns of the times in which these poems were composed. The text 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Tennyson celebrates the victory of a crucial battle in the Crimean War in 1856 between the British and the Russians. The scene depicts a horrific field of mass destruction imprisoned by cannons on every side being "the v |
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