...In his writing he posts many questions that base the fate of Earth on science. The fate of Earth in his essay is left in the hands of a natural disaster and does not have anything to do with religion. He understands that geologists have discovered that the middle of the Earth is fire and he references the great Chicago fire in the late 1800’s. Though the fire in Chicago was one of the biggest disasters Chicago has ever seen, it does not compare to the fire that is held within Earth’s core. He fears that if the Earth decides to purge its core unto the outside, then there is no hope for humanity. Talmage is surprised that the Earth is still intact, and he knows that due to all of the possible outcomes and disasters that can happen, and as long as something outlandish doesn’t happen, that the future will...
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...Gun Control Essay 1 Gun Control Essay 06/14/2015 The right to bear arms is guaranteed in the constitution by the Second Amendment. Many politicians are looking to amend the constitution any way they can to ban handguns or at least Gun Control Essay 2 restrict sales. The argument between pro and anti gun control has been debated for years, both with valid points. Many studies and factual data shows that strict gun control only removes guns from law-abiding citizens, but does not actually help reduce crime. Studies have shown that gun control cannot stop people from committing the crime because if a handgun ban were issued, there is evidence that citizens would not comply with the law, strict gun control does not reduce homicide rates, and studies have found that high crime rates have stimulated purchasing of guns rather than high gun ownership stimulating crime. While the Founding Fathers of this country were developing the system of government, as set forth in the Constitution, many feared that a standing army controlled by a strong central government would leave them helpless. The Federal Constitution contained no provisions to prohibit a standing army or allow states to create their own militias. The Constitution was signed by thirty-nine men from the twelve states represented at the Constitutional Convention on September 17 1787; three delegates refused to sign because of the absence of a bill of rights. Two years later, the First Congress agreed on...
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...also Rises (after publishing Torrents of Spring, a comic novel parodying Sherwood Anderson in 1925). He followed that book with Men without Women in 1927; it was another book of stories which collected "The Killers" and "In Another Country." In 1929 he published A Farewell to arms , arguably the finest novel to emerge from World War I. Let us consider the following essays for today’s discussion on the topic of Hemingway’s artistry skills. • Sudden Unexpected Interjection by David Gagne 1 • An Essay on In Our Time by Nathan Kotas 2 • Preludes to a Mood in The New York Times October 18, 1925 3 • Love and War in the pages of Ernest Hemingway by Percy Hutchinson 4 Ernest Hemingway had the most unique and colourful style of writing . He used symbolism. His style of writing involved getting right to the core of the scene without spending much time on building of characters. He used simple and declarative language. But this unique style of writing, made many feel that Hemingway was an artist in his essence. Lets find what these four people have to say on this particular aspect of Ernest Hemingway. The first two essays deal with mainly the narrative style of Hemingway. As such, they would justify that Hemingway was truly an artist because of his narrative style. The latter two place Hemingway in a super soul level. His writings are considered more divine and bestowed with a power to evoke higher levels of feelings and that would be because of his real life experiences....
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...Crystal Eastham Professor Soden EDUC 200-D04 11/23/2015 Philosophy Essay An important part of being an effective teacher is knowing what your philosophy is. Your philosophy helps to determine how you will teach and how it will impact your students. When preparing for this paper I had to learn what my philosophy is. The results showed an equal foundation in both perennialism and social reconstructionism. In this paper I will discuss what these are and how they will be applied in a classroom setting. The perennialism psychology places a lot of importance on learning through teaching that have stood the test of time such as literature or curriculum. It is important to use methods that have a high success rate in order to have a base line for teaching. If something has the same effective rate now as it used to then it would be wise to use it repeatedly. At the same time social reconstructionism is the philosophy that focusses on the social aspect of a child’s growth. This places importance on ensuring kids have a strong foundation in equality and fairness. I see the value in both of these philosophies although I feel in a way that they contradict each other. It is important to instill in children things that make the past so influential yet prepare them for the future. This being said, how can one use these philosophies in a real life scenario? Imagine you are an American History teacher, and you want your students to do more than simply memorize their way through the information...
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...Elizabeth Hein English 232 Module 4 Essay - 1900-1945 Fiction Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author during the 20th Century, and many of his writings are a staple of American literature. Hemingway's was such a successful author because the characters he created in his work seemed real to the reader and could be related to. Among his works he published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; also three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published after his death. (Nobel Prize) During his lifetime, he was awarded with, Silver Medal of Military Valor in World War I, Pulitzer Prize in 1953 (for The Old Man and the Sea) Nobel Prize in literature in 1954 (also partly for The Old Man and the Sea) In 2001, two of his books, The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, would be named to the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. (Noble Prize) Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, on July 21, 1899. (Belasco, 976) His father was a physician, and Ernest was the second of six children born to Dr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Hemingway. His mother with considerable music talent hoped that her son would develop an interest in music. Instead, Hemingway acquired his father's enthusiasm for guns and for fishing trips in the north woods of Michigan. (Belasco, 976) Hemingway...
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...No Need for More Gun Control Justin Sullivan DeVry University Prewriting What is your narrowed topic? Be detailed in your answer. You can use any of the versions you’ve developed for prior assignments. My chosen topic is the for less gun control in our society. Who is your primary audience or reader? Why? Be detailed in your answer about your audience. My paper is written towards members of our society that believe more stringent gun control is needed. However, the paper will be presented to my professor and classmates. In a sentence or short paragraph, what is your thesis statement, including your angle? Write what will appear in your essay. My point is that What topic sentences will you use as the foundation of your communication? (If necessary, add more points.) * * * * What method of organization and development will you use to develop your paragraphs? * Introduction: * * Body: * * * * * Conclusion: No Need for More Gun Control Turn on a television to just about any news channel, or pick up a newspaper, whether it is local or national and you will most assuredly find a segment on some sort of gun violence. This may be a shooting at a movie theater, a busy market place, a gang fight, or God forbid, an elementary school. These events and other similar events have lead to a question that is prevalent across the country: Should there be more gun laws and therefore more gun...
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...Examining a Business Failure - Tyco International Ltd Organizational behavior is defined as the study of the behavior of individuals, groups and structure and the impact to an organization. Organizational behavior uses the information gathered from this study to improve the organization’s effectiveness (Robbins, 2011). Organizational behavior focuses on a number of areas including the behavior of leaders, inter-personal communication, processes and structure within the organization, conflict and employee motivation. The behavioral disciplines of psychology, social psychology, sociology and anthropology form the basis for the study of organizational behavior. Psychology and social psychology studies the impact of conditions in the workplace and the impact to the employees’ performance. Within these sciences, learning theorists also studies the impact of change and how to reduce the challenges of change in the work environment [ (Robbins, 2011, p. 12) ]. According to the authors, sociology, and anthropology contributes to the study of organizational behavior by focusing on the relationship of employees as a group and the impact to the organizational structure. The culture and group dynamic of the employees will direct the level of motivation that in turn will negatively or positively impact the performance of the organization [ (Robbins, 2011, p. 12) ]. Psychology evaluates changes in individuals’ behavior and the impact to learning, Emotions, leadership, and decision-making...
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...University of Phoenix Material Divine Roles Across Cultures Part I Select one common divine role that recurs in world mythology. Possible options of divine roles include the following: father or mother divinities, divinities of war, home or hearth divinities, divinities of love, divinities of wisdom, divinities of medicine or health, divinities of the wind, divinities of agriculture, divinities of the sky, ruler of all the gods, and so on. Identify the role in the title of your table. Select two myths, each from a different culture, in which the divine role appears. Identify the divinity names and cultures in columns A and B. Complete the table by answering each of the five questions for both selected divinities. |Title: |Column A |Column B | | |Divinity Name: Zeus |Divinity Name: Odin | | |Culture of Origin: Greece |Culture of Origin: Norse | |How is this divinity portrayed? Describe the |Zeus is the ruler of the Olympian gods and ruler|Odin is the ruler of all gods. He lives in| |divinity’s role within the myth. |of all men. Zeus is the god of justice and is |the underworld called Valhalla where half | | ...
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...From: Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 19.1 (1999): 158-76. Copyright © 1999, The Cervantes Society of America FORUM Against Dualisms: A Response to Henry Sullivan* HOWARD MANCING n a recent essay entitled “Don Quixote de la Mancha: Analyzable or Unanalyzable?” published in this journal, Henry W. Sullivan makes the case for the psychoanalysis of literary characters. While there is much to ponder in Sullivan's essay, there are two points, both involving dualisms, that I would like to discuss. In the first case, Sullivan argues insightfully and convincingly against an absolute distinction between how we know and think about fictional characters and how we know and think about real people. In the second case, however, Sullivan insists on an absolute (Cartesian) mind-body dualism as a cornerstone of psychoanalytic theory. I would like to repeat and extend Sullivan's argument in the first case, but refute it and deny its validity in the second. First dualism: Fact/Fiction Sullivan cites as representative of a certain widely-shared approach Maud Ellmann's insistence that there is an important distinction between a “human being made of flesh and character made of words” (5), a distinction that allows us to make one kind statement about the former but not the latter. Ellmann is not alone in making the real-life/fictional distinction a fundamental matter of ontology. We are all familiar with arguments like hers, having heard * For a response to this...
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...and the fast spread of rock and roll. One such cultural revival occurred after the end of World War II during a time of change, prosperity and restoration. The “Puritan dicta” outlined by Baldwin represents the American ideology before the Second World War. As the first settlers of this nation, the Puritans set the mold for many common American ideologies. In the Puritan view white represented good and black represented evil, including Africans and their culture. After the war, Baldwin states that the former puritanical views of whites will be challenged. Musicians such as Elvis Presley were the first to issue this challenge to white society. Early rockers like Elvis would pave the way for social commentary in music that would add much fire to the Civil Rights Movement. To fully understand the explosion of popularity of Black music in the years following World War II, one must understand the social conditions in which Blacks and Whites lived in the South. An article entitled “Not Just the Same Old Show on my Radio” delves into the very issues behind racism. The article names three aspects necessary for social segregation to exist a stigmatism of the oppressed group; signs of “labeled interaction” between groups, and a hierarchy of discrimination. (Kloosterman, Quispel...
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... Gaining Educational Perspectives content review of: “Death at an Early Age” Author: Jonathan Kozol Task 608.2.2-01 part A Western Governors University Death at an Early Age., page 2 In this short essay we will review the content of the book, “Death at an Early Age” by Jonathan Kozol, as it relates to alternative viewpoints in education. We will include my personal perspective as a comparison to the authors perspectives, as well as how content relates to current educational trends, theory, and educational issues. The book “Death at an Early Age” authored by Jonathan Kozol is a first person testimonial to the tragic educational system nightmare experienced by Kozol in the Boston Public School system circa 1964. The book relates Kozol’s exposure to rampant racism, child abuse, and a failed educational system as a first year 4th grade teacher at an inner city grade school in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. Kozol’s...
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...who set the stage for these legal amendments to be possible? The Civil Rights Movement was one of the most significant events in the modern history of the United States that has formed the basis of many of its core values and laws today. The Civil Rights Movement unofficially ended with the passing of the long awaited “1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act” which legally saw an end to the racial discrimination faced by African Americans. However the historiography of the Civil Rights Movement has “undergone some serious revision” since 1965 as it ‘gained popular appeal.’ Initially the Civil Rights Movement was “romanticized” and considered to be a “heroic narrative of moral purpose and personal courage by which great men and women inspired ordinary people to rise up and struggle for their rights” such as the famed Martin Luther King, who was painted as the ‘driving force behind the movement’ ,President Lyndon Johnson and Kennedy and organisations such as ‘The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People’ (NAACP) This idea of the federal government, prominent leaders and organisations playing the defining role in the passing of these bills soon became less plausible in the 1970’s and 1980’s as the “second generation of scholars suggested that the focal point for investigation should shift to local communities” and the ordinary people, commonly known as “grass roots activists” who staged less-prominent protests in their small towns. ...
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...WRITING PURPOSE Unit 3: Individual Project English Composition 11 ENGL107-1203A- 19 Cynthia Armes By: Yvette E. Jackson 2. From my individual project two I was ask to research a topic for my individual project three; I have chosen to researched and read several different items dealing with parenting to reducing juvenile delinquency in our youth of this world. In my project I will discuss how the parents are and very well should be there child’s number one roll model starting from the day the parents find out that they are having a child. In my project I will talk about varies ways that the parent can be helped, through different mentor/ activity programs whether government or locally funded to maintain the stability of the children over the years; yet still having the parents remaining at the fore front of the child’s life and continuing to be that roll model. 3. There are many contributing factors that create a juvenile delinquent child, but the best factor from preventing or reducing juvenile delinquency is a child’s parents and their family supporting them in all they are doing, when they are doing the correct things praise them for it, yet when they are doing negative acts you should correct them and let them know they will pay the price of negativity as well. This is mainly achieved...
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...(NRA), who are against gun control, feel that the people are responsible for the negative effects guns have on America. Helen Smith, a forensic psychologist who shares the ideas of the NRA, wrote an article titled “It’s Not The Guns”. In this article, she talks about the increase in school and youth violence, relating to guns. She blames the children and irresponsible parents. She denies that guns are easier for kids to get today which is understandable because many people keep their guns locked up. Dr. Gary Kleck, a criminologist at Florida State University, defends guns in gun related accidents. He conducted a survey, which showed that there are fewer gun related accidents than there are automobile accidents, falls, drowning, pedestrian, fire, poisoning, and suffocation. As a result of his survey, he said...
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...gun control. The main aim of this paper is to persuade against the policies of gun control. The paper is comprised of both the arguments in favor and against of the gun control policies. Discussion It is so easy to understand that without guns or rifles, killing of criminals would have been much more difficult to consummate, which is sometimes hard to explain how it is possible that guns are legal in the largest and most powerful democracy in the world. But it is undeniable that easy access to firearms greatly facilitates this sinister task (Amo, 1989). The criminals have committed one of the latest killings with firearms that shook Americans, 14 Dead Colombine students in 1999. With the use of firearms, criminals made the last great slaughter at a university, the 15 dead at the University of Texas in 1966. With firearms, almost daily acts of revenge or punishment occur in the workplace or at home. And with the use of guns each year more than 10,000 people die in the U.S., according to the latest official figures available. Almost half of American families keep in a...
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