...Advertisements Gone Haywire Advertisements are a negative influence on today’s society in many ways. They entice buyers to purchase things they don’t need, by doing so many people go into debt and spend money they don’t have. Also advertisements do not only seem bad, but statistically their cons outweigh their pros. Advertisements might look fun, but in the end the consumer might be a victim of false advertisement. One last argument is that advertisements are a constant invasion in people’s lives with the message that they need all those different products to be complete, taking advantage of the consumer’s gullibility or fear. This is why advertisements are a negative influence and is something today’s world would be better without. An example of the negative impact of advertisements is the Roni Deutch advertisements for A Professional Tax Corporation. This was a service that was advertised, and many people trusted, even after extensive research of the Corporation. Instead of “getting the maximum refund you deserve” like the advertisements say, clients money was stolen from them. Something else Roni Deutch addresses in her ad is, “Can you live on half your paycheck? That’s how much the IRS can take when they garnish your wages.” This particular message addressed in the ad plays on the consumer’s fear of not being able to pay their taxes. This is what presses a lot of consumers to purchase products because the advertisement targets their fears and causes them to...
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...Ashley 1 Ashley 1 Ryan Ashley Mr Grabham Eng4U 11, 11, 11 Division of Power between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, power is shared between the two main characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Even though during the time that the play takes place it is not correct for a woman to have equal, and even in some cases more power than a man, Lady Macbeth is pictured as having such. Her husband allows for equality in their relationship from the beginning scenes. This equality however becomes unbalanced due to different situations and actions than unfold within the play. The change of power is caused by both the power and follies of Macbeth and his wife. These follies and strengths include Lady Macbeth’s intelligence and planning, and her emotions, and for Macbeth, include his determination, and dependence on others. During the play, the balance of power constantly shifts back and forth between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are considered to be equals in the relationship in the beginning scenes. This is shown in how Macbeth addresses her in his letter saying “This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou might’st not lose the dues of rejoicing,.” (I, V,). He calls her his dearest partner in greatness, which completely goes against what is normal at the time because it is showing equal status, rather than Lady Macbeth as being subservient to her husband. This has...
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...Risk Mismanagement What is VaR? Is it a tool for measuring risk or is it simply just another mathematical equation that requires more analysis than people are willing to perform? Well, after reading the article by Joe Nocera I’m officially confused. In economics and Finance, VaR is defined as the maximum value (loss) at risk with a defined confidence level over a specified period of time. In other words, a $1 million weekly VaR means that the company has a 99% (assuming 99% is the confidence level) chance of losing up to $1 million that week. So this means that it doesn’t account for all the risk there is out there. The above VaR clearly shows that there is that 1% chance of losing a minimum of $1 million if things go haywire. The 1% is what this debate is all about and accounts for the unexpected and rare risks that companies are not prepared for. VaR was popularized in the early 90s as a measure of risk so firms can understand their individual and firm-wide risk so as to set aside cash to cover any risks that could go bad. All was well and accepted on Wall Street until there came the “black swans” or periods in time where markets crashed in unexpected ways to devastating extents. Then started the debate of whether VaR actually measures risk that can be blindly seen a dollar figure to keep aside or if VaR is just a value that has so much more depth to it than just the dollar figure. Is it worth using or is it only there to cause problems? To me, VaR seems like a pretty...
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...period of time. The term "chronic" comes from the Greek chronos, time and means lasting a long time. A chronic illness is one lasting 3 months or more, by the definition of the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. In ancient Greece, the "father of medicine" Hippocrates distinguished diseases that were acute (abrupt, sharp and brief) from those that were chronic. This is still a very useful distinction subacute has been coined to designate the mid-ground between acute and chronic. “What is Lung Cancer?” Lung cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the lung. Normal lung tissue is made up of cells that are programmed by nature to create lungs of a certain shape and function. Sometimes the instructions to a cell go haywire and that cell and its offspring reproduce wildly, without regard for the shape and function of a lung. That wild reproduction can form tumors that clog up the lung and make it stop functioning as it should. Because of the large size of the lungs, cancer may grow for many years, undetected, without causing suspicion. In fact, lung cancer can spread outside the lungs without causing any symptoms. Adding to the confusion, the most common symptom of lung cancer, a persistent cough, can often be mistaken for a cold or bronchitis. What is cancer? Cancer is not one disease, but a group of diseases that have in common the uncontrolled growth of cells. Any collection of abnormal cells is known as a tumor. The cells of a benign tumor do not...
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...Deepinder K. Virk Nearly everyone experiences stress at some time. Stress produces changes in many body systems; examples include increased heart rate and blood pressure and altered immune function. Stress isn’t always bad. In small doses, it can help you perform under pressure and motivate you to do your best, but excessive stress, left untreated, can lead to anxiety and illness. When you’re constantly running in emergency mode, your mind and body pay the price. Stress can affect all aspects of your life, including your emotions, behaviors, thinking ability, and physical health. No part of the body is immune. But, because people handle stress differently, symptoms of stress can vary. Low energy, headaches, upset stomach, including diarrhea, constipation, aches, pains, and tense muscles, rapid heartbeat, frequent colds and infections, cold or sweaty hands, dry mouth and grinding teeth are some of the physical responses to stress. When we’re stressed, the immune system’s ability to fight off antigens is reduced. That is why we are more susceptible to infections. Hypothalamus, a tiny region at the base of the brain, sets off an alarm system in our body. Through a combination of nerve and hormonal signals, this system prompts our adrenal glands, located top of the kidneys, to release a surge of hormones, including adrenaline and cortisol. Adrenaline increases heart rate, elevates blood pressure and boosts energy supplies. Cortisol, the primary stress hormone, increases...
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...| Paradigm Shift | GS1140 Problem Solving | | Jordan Everett | | | Cameras 20 year from now will beyond amazing. In my eyes the camera will evolve into something the eye can barely see. The camera today has many shapes and sizes. Some are very small and some are very big. The camera 20 years from now you will need one camera to do everything you will ever need a camera to do. You will be able to go from taking family pictures in the back yard to filming a motion picture movie all with one camera. The camera will come in different items for example a mouth camera, a watch camera, and an eye camera. The mouth camera will do everything you need it to do. It will be voice activated and have endless amount of storage for anything and everything you want to save. The camera will also be unbreakable and waterproof for those who are very adventurous. It will have a peppermint like taste in your mouth so your breath won’t go bad after having it in for a while. The camera will be so small that it would be able to fit in the spaces between your teeth and it will be white so the people really won’t be able to see it. When you are done with it all you have to do is slide it out. The watch camera will be the most obvious camera but you won’t see the camera at all. This camera will also be waterproof and unbreakable. You would also have your choice of the watch you would like this camera to be on. With this camera you would have to tell it what pictures you are looking...
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...Bermuda Triangle Many people have wondered how the Bermuda Triangle works? Why do ships, aircraft, and people disappear in the Bermuda Triangle? People have many perceptions about the Bermuda Triangle. Stories have been told and passed over the years but there is still no reasonable explanation to the mysteries that surround the Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle is one of the strangest and bizarre mysteries. The Bermuda Triangle also known as “The Devils Triangle” is an imaginary area located off the Southeastern Atlantic Coast of the United States. Bermuda, Miami, Florida, San Juan, and Puerto Rico is what surrounds the Bermuda Triangle. The Triangle covers roughly 500,000 square miles. According to Lee Ann Obringer,” The area may have been named after its Bermuda apex since Bermuda was once known as the “Isle of Devils.” A mysterious and unsettling image in which ships and aircraft have disappeared under supposedly mysterious circumstances that scientists attribute to weather and currents. The most famous Bermuda Triangle story is the mystery surroundings Flight 19. A flight crew took off from base in Florida, which they thought was a regular routine training. All 5 planes had performed the practice bombing run without a hitch. As they were flying back to base, the Pilots had suddenly reported that their equipment was going crazy. The radio signals were growing weaker, and weaker as if they were flying the wrong way. According to Lee Ann Obringer,’’...
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...Bermuda Triangle Many people have wondered how the Bermuda Triangle works? Why do ships, aircraft, and people disappear in the Bermuda Triangle? People have many perceptions about the Bermuda Triangle. Stories have been told and passed over the years but there is still no reasonable explanation to the mysteries that surround the Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle is one of the strangest and bizarre mysteries. The Bermuda Triangle also known as “The Devils Triangle” is an imaginary area located off the Southeastern Atlantic Coast of the United States. Bermuda, Miami, Florida, San Juan, and Puerto Rico is what surrounds the Bermuda Triangle. The Triangle covers roughly 500,000 square miles. According to Lee Ann Obringer,” The area may have been named after its Bermuda apex since Bermuda was once known as the “Isle of Devils.” A mysterious and unsettling image in which ships and aircraft have disappeared under supposedly mysterious circumstances that scientists attribute to weather and currents. The most famous Bermuda Triangle story is the mystery surroundings Flight 19. A flight crew took off from base in Florida, which they thought was a regular routine training. All 5 planes had performed the practice bombing run without a hitch. As they were flying back to base, the Pilots had suddenly reported that their equipment was going crazy. The radio signals were growing weaker, and weaker as if they were flying the wrong way. According to Lee Ann Obringer,’’...
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...Dylan Farrell 5/15/17 Mrs. Tapia Oedipus Essay Free will and Fate has been an argument forever now, such as the story of “Oedipus The King” written. Oedipus was expected to live a great life and thought to be worth a lot, however he had no clue about his past. When his realized what his past was, everything went haywire. However the death of the baby was untrue. Oedipus goes through a bunch of coincidences that makes it seems like his life is predetermined and almost impossible. He encounters things like unknowingly marrying his mom, killing his dad, and escaping death at a young age. Jocasta and King Laius had a baby who had a great future and they were very excited to have. This baby would have everything in the world. Money, fame, royalty, anything he wanted could be his. After is his prophecy was told, Laius told Oedipus that he must die. They forced the shepherd to pin his feet and throw him in the mountains. Oedipus ended up not being killed but given to the king and queen of Corinth. Since he was very little at the time Oedipus always thought of them as the biological parents. His whole life was a lie....
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... but to me, boy to me, it was significant. Not because I finally had an acceptable reason to scribble on the walls, unlike my many many attempts as a “master” artist 5-year-old, well, maybe partly...fine, maybe half the reason. Ok, ok, maybe the whole reason, but, hey, at least I’m being honest. But could you blame me? I, along with my niche of art inclined, classmates have been given the opportunity to paint the town red, no restrictions added, before our well-deserved parole in May. Trust me, when I say this, if you give an artist the option to use a wall instead of a canvas, their adolescent instincts will ignite and they will without a doubt jump at the opportunity. So, as you can probably guess everyone in the room went absolutely haywire at the proposal as well. Seconds after ideas were flying through the air like a verbal food fight. Distinct words and coherent sentences quickly merged into white noise. This all ended surprisingly pretty quickly as we all instantaneously and simultaneously realized that this would get us nowhere. I then took this as my opportunity to speak up. I hesitantly called attention and suggested we collectively take a whirl around the building so we have an idea of what we are dealing with before we start word vomiting faulty ideas. This suggestion, as simple as it may be, was just what the group needed. As we all shuffled out, I called for groups to each find a location for us to vote for. We came to a decision surprisingly smoothly and like clockwork...
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...unaware in an unguarded moments that often times it wreaks the worst havoc before one can come to terms with it. And there is no telling when it would strike. An ordinary day in any time of the world, a smile, a whiff of perfume wafting in the air, an accidental momentary meeting of the eyes, a simple conversation and then it grabs you. And it fills you, gives your feet wings your mind is tricked into the impression that you can actually fly. It fools the senses. The eyes become clear and dewy at the same time, giving it a strange sparkle that eludes explanation from even the well- versed human biology. The cheeks become flushed with color and warmth which not even the coldest winds of December could ever dampen. The body has gone haywire because of the butterflies dancing in the stomach, giving oneself an idea that something is off, you'll think you're just sick and wanted to throw up but then again you will realize it's beyond man's comprehension. It could not be explained. To attempt to even explain it would drive men to throes of insanity. Only those that have never felt it would ever entertain the idea of dissecting it. For once it...
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...“Your ah… your teeth, you know choppers? The gums are all black with rot and decay, we cannot have this. The black gums, they can, how do you say—harbor—the sickness, even after treatment. No, no, they must go.” Jimmy Balenducci: “What…? You’re going to pull my Goddamn teeth out?” Dr. Chicavonov: “Yes, we ah… we don’t have a choice. The gums, the gums are sick.” Jimmy Balenducci: “No way, man! Uh-uh, you can’t do that, that’s torture, man!” Dr. Chicavonov: “But, ah… ah… it needs to be done, so okay, here we go.” Jimmy Balenducci: “What? Wait! Aren’t I going to at least get some drugs, pain killers?” Dr. Chicavonov: “No drugs, won’t work… Your nerves, Mr. Balenducci, are shall we say, too new, they would go all haywire. You most likely feel either way.” Jimmy Balenducci: “So, you’re just going to rip my teeth out of my mouth, just like that?” Dr. Chicavonov: “Me? No, no… I ah, too old of man to accomplish. I have muscle to abstract, big man. Nurse, please send in, ah, Mr. Michelson.” Jimmy Balenducci: “Michelson, that crazy asshole! You can’t do this… You can’t! I want my lawyer! I demand to speak with my father, get him on the phone. HELP! HELP!” Dr. Chicavonov: “Don’t worry, Mr. Balenducci, I leave you in good hands. I see you tomorrow after procedure. Tomorrow we look for still sickness in brain.” —PAUSE— —SCREAMS— END OF TRANSCRIPT ...
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...Paternity Leave Act of 1996 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8187 AN ACT GRANTING PATERNITY LEAVE OF SEVEN (7) DAYS WITH FULLPAY TO ALL MARRIED MALE EMPLOYEES IN THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTORS FOR THE FIRST FOUR (4) DELIVERIES OF THE LEGITIMATESPOUSE WITH WHOM HE IS COHABITING AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES002E Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the "Paternity Leave Act of 1996". SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any law, rules and regulations to the contrary, every married male employee in the private and public sectors shall be entitled to a paternity leave of seven (7) days with full pay for the first four (4) deliveries of the legitimate spouse with whom he is cohabiting. The male employee applying for paternity leave shall notify his employer of the pregnancy of his legitimate spouse and the expected date of such delivery. For purposes, of this Act, delivery shall include childbirth or any miscarriage. SECTION 3. Definition of Term. - For purposes of this Act, Paternity Leave refers to the benefits granted to a married male employee allowing him not to report for work for seven (7) days but continues to earn the compensation therefor, on the condition that his spouse has delivered a child or suffered a miscarriage for purposes of enabling him to effectively lend support to his wife in her period of recovery and/or in the nursing...
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...various oceans, and the focus of meditative energy in the Himalayas and the Pyramids of Giza. In order to clearly understand how these Vortices are thought to work, one should understand the basics of prana. “A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell. The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy.”(Paramhansa Yogananda 89) Prana is understood to be the sustaining factor of life. With lack of prana comes migraines, sleep disorders, anxiety and much worse if you are without prana for extended periods of time. This affects the Vortices in many ways. The reason the Vile Vortices remain so vile, is that they cause prana to go haywire. “These Vortices have supposedly caused thousands of ships and planes to strangely disappear in the Bermuda Triangle alone” (Bermuda Triangle Mystery). The effects are different in positive Vortices. They raise your consciousness and are a great place to meditate thanks to the amplified flow of prana. Not all of the Vortices are vile, but the ones that are, are potentially lethal. These are called the Vile Vortices. Vile means highly offensive, unpleasant, or objectionable. The most prevalent among the existing Vile Vortices are Devil’s Sea, Mount. Hamakulia in Hawaii, and the Bermuda Triangle. Devil’s Sea is otherwise known as Dragon’s Triangle, Formosa Triangle, or the Pacific Bermuda Triangle. Presumably the most extensive exploration...
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...Hope is what binds man and his dream. What shoots through your mind when you are in a trying situation, incapable of digging your way out of it? One word, hope. Hope is like that ray of positivity that states that anything can truly be possible if you have enough of it to push you through any dire predicament; another synonym of hope is the word faith. Without any of these qualities instilled within a person how would they learn to move past obstacles thrown at them in life? Surely, without hope, one would be a lost, wandering soul with no aim whatsoever in life. In the movie, Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont, it determines hope being a vital thing. It proves to us that every day that we live is based on the hopes of doing better, the glimmer of faith that brightens our dullest moments and paves our ways to success especially during times of stress and misfortune. After watching the move, it got me thinking just how pivotal hope is and how it could vastly affect our everyday lives. Shawshank Redemption centers around 3 prisoners, Andy, Red and Brook who’ve bonded over one common dream through one common quality – it was to get out of prison with hope. Andy was faultily convicted for life for a crime he allegedly didn’t commit, which was for the death of his wife. During his time in prison, he’d experience bouts of loneliness and isolation but them comes to the realization that with hope and a little tactful thinking, he’d get out of jail. Andy becomes friends with the...
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