...In the Symposium, Plato presents many points on Love (Eros) which are laid out by different speakers in the honor of Agathon. Phaedrus, Aristodemus, Pausanias, Socrates, Agathon, Aristophanes and Eryximachus all dedicated their symposium to the understanding of love by giving their opinion of how a person should commend it. Near the ending of the speech by Socrates, a beautiful, wealthy and drunk Alcibiades enters the event. This triggers the beginning of Alcibiades speech of travesty, which is disguised in praise, reciting the “secret nature” of Socrates to the guests at hand. The purpose of adding Alcibiades’ speech at the end is to display the nuisance with social expectations for love and the inability to meet them. The character of Alcibiades is used to portray the tragic nature of good merit and the tragedy. He is unable to gain virtue through sexual relations, and there for is forced to remain mortal. The purpose of the speech at whole is to celebrate the fertility of heterosexual relationships and how they are justified in giving birth to children. Alcibiades wants to engage in a relationship with Socrates which in terms is a homosexual relationship. To justify homosexual relationships, they would have had to prove them as productive as a heterosexual relationship. Meaning if what a heterosexual relationship can justify through Diotima’s speech is a child and a relationship which can be carried on in the future has to be the same of what a homosexual relationship can...
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...Juvenile Delinquency Chapter Two - Assignment Three Scenario A Question1 The situation that Shatiek finds himself in is a sad and unfortunate one. However, as a juvenile judge I would treat him as a minor. Having considered all the available evidence and information, it is clear that the young man has been influenced by the society. Crime and drugs are all he knows about. The young man has never had the opportunity in his short life to try and be anybody else other than that. The courts should provide the young man with this opportunity. I would place him in a youth facility for a prolonged stay to help him. Question 2 A 16-year-old like Shatiek may or may not deserve a second chance. It is determined by the evidence and information adduced in court concerning the particular young 16 old. Question 3 Shatieks's behavior is very much common among adolescent boys especially in the low-end areas and estates. Young boys are introduced very early in their lives into crime, drugs and firearms. Scenario B Question 1 The children should be prosecuted in a juvenile court. They should be locked up in a youth facility for a period. The service would allow them realize the seriousness of their actions. It would arrest this deviant behavior before is spills out of control. Question 2 There is sufficient evidence to justify crimes among the participants of the sex ring. Whatever missing evidence or piece of information there is can easily be investigated by the...
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...Pep-Rally mainly because this is my last year and my last year to enjoy with my class family. Also my little sister is running for homecoming freshman court and I would like to see her win. I’m not asking for much but another chance at everything. I know I was caught in the group shooting dice but I have never been in trouble for that type of thing I was just running with the wrong crowed and at the wrong time but I learned to start taking responsibility for myself. I understand I would not be in this situation if I was in class doing my work. I give my word that if you let me go, I would not get caught up in any more mess. I’m a good student with good grades and I just got on track this year and I’m ready to continue that. This was just minor set back for a major come back. And I promise things a get better with in time. But I willing to stand as a young man a own up to what I have done and own up as a young man to change. That’s my word. Lesson learned by: Jonathan...
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...from the norm in regards to the minimum age of responsibility in the UK and there have been considerable publications pushing for the UK to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility in the last decade, providing substantial evidence in favour of doing so. The evidence supporting the need to raise this minimum age can be found not only in psychology and scientific research regarding the brain development of youth and autonomy of children at this age, but also the severe social implications of criminalizing our youth. In order to argue that the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) should be raised it will be necessary to identify and evaluate this evidence, as well as identifying the issues that having a low MACR brings. This essay will first review the history of the MACR and discuss the effect of abolishing the doctrine of Doli Incapax on youth offenders, before presenting the neurological evidence regarding the lack of development that has taken place in a child’s brain by the age of ten. The severely detrimental social, psychological and physiological effects of...
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...Question #1 The Central American minors in the recent past have resorted to seeking refuge in America. America is one of the most democratic states to live in as per its worldview as the father of modern democracy. This is because most of the Central American states are war-torn. Human rights abuse, on the other hand, in the Central American nation-states is currently at its peak. All these cases of instability directly affect minors who need basic needs in life. A massive minor immigration into the U.S. by thousands of Central American minors in the recent years has shot up. This is primarily focused on seeking refuge and overall fight for these minors’ rights and freedoms. Democracy per se lacks in most of Central American nations states. The immigration “crisis” in the U.S. is due to favourable immigration policies that were adopted by the government (Washington 111). In the United States, human dignity is aptly upheld. Both the minor and adult immigrants are equally represented in the constitution. An...
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...Background Siemens AG in Munich was divided into 7 groups and 5 divisions as a both electronic and electrical producer. The Electric Motor Works (EMW), belonging to the largest group named Energy and Automation where occupied nearly a quarter of total-revenues in 1987, primarily produced low wattage alternating current (A/C) motors. From 1937, Siemens stopped producing electric motors. With the massive reconstruction after WWII, EMW plant in Bad Neustadt became the principal electric motors producer. * Products and Processes In 1970s, EMW produced standard motors (80% sales volumes) and customised motors (20% sales volumes) The process of long run production was highlighted by standard motors due to large differentiated demand. * Market and Competition The market for standard motors was perfect competitive. The Eastern Bloc competitors with lower rates are dominant in market despite the actions by EMW in 1980s. * Costing system Under old costing system, overhead cost was separated to 3 categories related to materials, production and support. For new strategy, another two overhead pools were established to assign the used support related cost in further details. * Strategy EMW enlarged production of low-volume customized motors and lessened high-volume standard motors. Problems and issues * Problems: For old strategy, disadvantages in price competition existed due to low labour rates. And under old costing system, EMW has inaccurate data for costing...
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...Minor characters have a dramatic impact throughout the story plot. In the play by Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet without the minor characters, the story would have been a tedious romantic story. Paris the man of wax which the Capulet’s want him to be Juliet’s groom. Tybalt the character which wants an excuse to fight. Prince Escalus is the character who has power in Verona. In Romeo and Juliet the minor characters complicate the relationship between the young lovers therefore contributing the tragic ending. Frist minor character, thought to have shaped the destinies of Romeo and Juliet, is Paris. Lady Capulet reports, Juliet will marry with Paris, after the death of Tybalt. She announces that Juliet is to marry "the County Paris, at Saint...
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...and Present II Part (I): STUDENT INFORMATION (to be completed by student) | | 1. Name: | 2. Student ID No: | | 3. Section No: | 4. Tel. : | 5. E-mail: | | I confirm that the work presented here is my own and is not copied from any source. | | Student's signature: | | Part (II): TUTOR'S REMARKS (to be completed by tutor) | | Tutor name: | Signature: | | Date TMA received: | Date returned: | | TUTOR’S REMARKS: | | Content | | | Language and Organization | | | Earned Mark | | AA100B The Arts Past and Present II TMA Second Semester 2015-2016 Cut-off date: Week 10 TMA Format and Word Count: The student’s work should be presented in an ESSAY of around 1200 words. Referencing: The essay should include a list of references (print and electronic) at the end in addition to in-text referencing as per the requirements of the Harvard Referencing System. Proper referencing is a serious academic requirement and skill and will be rewarded accordingly. Writing and Discussion Topic: Cultural encounters are a common occurrence in human history. Their impact varies on cultures and individuals especially as they relate to questions of identity and self-worth. The cultural encounter in such a case becomes fundamental to one’s perception of oneself and the cultures to which s/he relates. Explore how cultural encounters are manifested in literary works, specifically short stories from An Anthology of Short Stories...
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...Essay Topics for CPHL 550 – Knowledge, Truth and Belief “Plan your work, work your plan”. – Vince Lombardi General Instructions Make sure to consult the Basic Style Guidelines Document and the Tips for Writing an Effective CPHL550 Essay Document in order to confirm the details for each assignment (both the minor and the major essay) especially with respect to the minimal length requirement. The Course Statement on Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct is also required reading “before” starting any assignment in this course. Since there is no final exam in this course, your essay assignments need to be treated with the same (if not more) attention and effort that you would give to an in-class midterm or final exam. It takes research,planning, contemplation and above all an adequate amount of time in order to make sure that you have the opportunity to fully engage in these activities before the writing process itself begins. Please bear in mind that your essay marks combined represent almost half of your total course mark, my advice (in advance) is for all students to proportion their effort accordingly in this regard. Make sure that you begin by consulting (or reviewing if we already covered the material previously) the relevant module (both the lecture and readings) before writing on a particular topic. You may consult other readings on the issue (preferably academic journal articles, or scholarly works) but keep your noncourse sources to a minimum (see the basic...
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...Warrior SOAPSTone Road Warrior is an essay describing the typical obstacles an average person encounters. Dave illustrates the many scenarios that cause him to rage. He presents these observations in a considerably exaggerated and sarcastic manner. In this way it keeps the readers interests and gives an example to what a typical person would recount these situations as. But towards the end, the subject isn’t just an essay expressing the many things that aggravates him but also pointing out that the general public gets agitated over everything, which in some cases result to unnecessary violence that can be easily avoided if people were more calm and collective. Throughout the entire essay he was expressing his opinion in a captious but realistic approach, which would identify it as a critique. By presenting his paper in this aspect he can expose all the faults he sees so similar minded individuals can also relate to him. Road Warriors does specify the time or location but one can infer the essay’s time of creations is likely written after an encounter with “road rage”. Dave capitalizes certain phrases in his essay to emphasize his frustration, as if he was venting to someone about it. There aren’t any details as to where it was written. He doesn’t state anything about the occasion in general at all. Dave’s audience really ranges from adolescent to the elderly. He mocks minors by referring them as “testosterone- deranged youth “ giving minors a negative connotation and also assuming...
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...DEPARTMENT of LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION THE BUSINESS SCHOOL HANDBOOK FOR REFERENCING 1. THE IMPORTANCE OF REFERENCING There are three main reasons why accurate referencing is important: * it provides relevant background information, illustrations of ideas or theories, or evidence for an argument that you are making in your essay or report. Your ideas need to be based on prior reading, and referencing is a way of showing that you have done this and are familiar with the field. * it enables readers to find any source of information mentioned in the text, if they want to follow up on a point or examine a theory more closely. In other words, if you refer to someone's work in an essay or report, you have to give enough information to allow readers to find it for themselves, if they find it interesting or relevant. * it gives due credit to the person(s) from whom you acquired the information. Using those ideas and/or words as if they were your own, or without acknowledging where they came from, is equivalent to 'stealing' someone else's ideas and counts as an academic offence in Britain known as plagiarism. 2. FORMATTING STYLES: HARVARD REFERENCING There are many different formatting styles for referencing, and each journal uses a specific style. So in that sense, there is no single, correct way in which to format your references. Nevertheless, it is inappropriate...
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...“scavenging.” He writes “On Dumpster Diving” an essay about the three years he spent on the streets accompanied by his lone companion, dog Lizabeth. Born in Texas in 1948, Eighner began dumpster diving one year before he ended up homeless after being unable to pay for his rent. Diving through dumpsters to obtain life’s main necessities, Eighner becomes a veteran at realizing what foods are safe and what items can be useful if kept. One of the most important aspects of trying to persuade readers is to use the appropriate tone according to the situation. The calm tone that Eighner uses doesn’t strengthen his argument, but with his knowledge of dumpster diving, he ultimately persuade readers that people living in modernized parts of the world have wasteful habits. By reading the essay, I am convinced of his argument about wasteful people being very common. Eighner approaches the topic of dumpster diving with a very calm tone. The tone he uses does not allow the reader to connect with him and feel what he was feeling when he was homeless. If the essay had a more emotional tone it would leave the reader with amore sympathetic view regarding the topic of dumpster diving. For instance, he believes that the term dumpster diving is “a little too cute.”(p.147) Usually, when a person thinks of the term dumpster diving, they feel sympathy towards the individual who is led to scrounge through a dumpster for means of survival. Hence, this essay would be a lot more intriguing if he expressed...
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...from these events? How have they affected your personality or how you deal with situations now? Remember the focus of the essay is on the contrasting impacts of these events in your life. These events do not have to be major events, they could be minor in nature but their impact on you could be great and long lasting. Undertake the task of pre writing for this topic. Select your two events. Describe them in point form. Consider their diverse impacts on your life. By the end of this class you should have completed your pre writing and make sure you get your sheet signed by me. You have the week to work on your first draft. Those of you who would like to show me the first draft are free to submit it to me online and I shall hand them back to you online. I will tell you whether you are on the right track, however this is optional and you will not be penalized if you do not show me your first draft. You need to give me Draft 1 by Tuesday, Feb 26. This will be an online submission under Assignments on ilearn. I will correct it and give it back to you by Sunday March 3, and then you will work on changing the draft according to my corrections and bring it to class on Tuesday, March 5 when we will have a peer review session. So after our class today you need to upload your first drafts of the essay in a week, by Feb 26 in an area marked out as Essay 1 under Assignments on Ilearn. You need to exchange your second drafts with two of your classmates on Tuesday, March...
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...Some students find it difficult to come up with impressive and insightful essays when they are being told to submit one in class. Since writing requires you to be skilful, creative and smart all at the same time this makes writing essays all the more difficult. Students are compelled to generate essays for their own good like when they are being prepared for college or when they are required to write essays about themselves for documentation purposes. For whatever reason, some students find it a struggle to come up with a mix of words and make it appear sensible and brilliant. Here are a few suggestions on how to write your very own essay without straining your brain too much. First of all, one must know that you have to keep it simple. You have to know that as a student, not much is expected from you so you shouldn’t pressure yourself too much. Just make a carefree and free flowing essay that mainly talks about yourself and no one else. If you do have to include any other person in your essay in which you believe is quite necessary then it has to be done minimally. Perhaps you can mention your parents and your siblings. Other than that, it would just be a complete waste of your time. So start off with an introduction about yourself, what your name is, where you live. Like this example here: I am (insert name here) and I am currently residing at (insert address here). This introduction will give the reader the idea a bit of who you are. Then you can include the basics such...
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...At times, thoughts of walking away crossed my mind due to the short amount of time. It was as if I was fighting an inner war with myself. However, once I started writing the essays it became something easy and natural for me. I was able to finish both essays on time and I felt as I won to my other side who said that I was not capable. After a few weeks, the test results were posted and to my surprised I passed the CBEST and got a high score on the writing section. I was very happy and realized that I needed to start believing in myself and not to let negativity stop me from reaching my goals. Now I enjoy writing and mostly I’m not afraid to...
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