...makes the Inspector’s first appearance and following conversation significant and dramatic and so should therefore be explored further. The conversation between Mr Birling, Eric Birling, Gerald Croft and the Inspector initially hints to traits in their personalities. As the Inspector enters he instantly makes an impression. Following this the Inspector tries to find any information out about the suicide that he was investigating. Due to the circumstances of the case the Inspector speaks to Mr Birling first, telling him that due to his actions of firing the young girl, it acted like a domino effect, therefore resulting in her death. When the Inspector enters the room the lighting is changed from pink and intimate to hard and bright. The use of light creates drama as it implies that the Inspector will shed some light onto the family and reveal some truths. Also it symbolises change, which foreshadows the family’s relationships, as throughout the play they change from being soft, loving and family-like to a hard, unloving family, which eventually crumbles down around them as their cracks are displayed by the bright light of the Inspector. The stage directions at the beginning of the conversation instantaneously give an impression of the Inspector before he speaks. The Inspector is described as a ‘big man’, ‘in his fifties’ and ‘dressed in a plain darkish suit of the period’. Along with this he is described as creating an impression of ‘massiveness, solidity and purposefulness’, which...
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...Fighting for love and losing the war. My essay is based upon my knowledge of animal welfare systems. For example Davidson County Animal Shelter has had lots of bad press about them lately. I am writing this essay to try an show you why monthly inspections should be taken into the fact of animal welfare. Through out the years animal shelters code of ethics have gone from bad to worse. Surprise inspections aren’t enough to keep the code of ethics up to date. Which is causing animals to be abused and neglected, in the long run it causes strain and stress. Stress is not good for any animal is causes damage to organs also is making animals suffer through life. Abused animals are more likely to have heart problems then those in a household of love and affection. The reason being is the stress; abused animals are put through as...
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...This essay will explore the themes, character development and Priestley’s intentions for An Inspector Calls. Mr. Birling is a large pompous man in his mid fifties, a successful business man and the father of the Birling family. Throughout the play, Mr. Birling is shown by Priestley to be a narrow minded and unjust character. His uncaring view towards factory workers and cold-heartedness both contribute to Eva Smith’s death – who symbolises many other women who, like her, live in poverty and are treated unfairly by the upper-classes. Mr Birling on the other hand symbolises self-serving and materialistic Capitalism. This is demonstrated when Mr. Birling says ‘A man has to make his own way – has to look after himself’. Mr. Birling was not born...
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...In this essay I am going to be exploring the role and function of the inspector in “An Inspector Calls“. I am going to break down his role in the play, explore his effects on the other characters and analyse his stage presence and also show his intention in coming to the Birling household. I am also going to express whether I think, in the play, the inspector is supposed to be a real person or something other. When exploring the effects that the inspector has on the other characters I will describe the characters personalities and characteristics before the inspector arrives, and then after, once the moral has been introduced, to then find out whether they have engaged in becoming a better person or not. The social and historical perspective of the play is very important as it was written in 1945 and set in 1912. There are lots of events that happened between those times that the audience would have known at the time. Most of these are mentioned by the deluded Mr Birling, who says facts that the audience know not to be true, but he says them in such a confident, superior manner that it makes the audience dislike him. He says things such as “just because the Kaiser makes a speech or two, or a few German officers have too much to drink and begin talking nonsense. The Germans don’t want war. Nobody wants war, except some half-civilised folk in the Balkans. And why? There’s too much at stake these days. Everything to lose, and nothing to gain by war”. Even when Eric, who...
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...John Bartlow Martin / The Blast in Centralia No. 5: A Mine Disaster No One Stopped Already the crowd had gathered. Cars clogged the short, black rock road from the highway to the mine, cars bearing curious spectators and relatives and friends of the men entombed. State troopers and deputy sheriffs and the prosecuting attorney came, and officials from the company, the Federal Bureau of Mines, the Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals. Ambulances ar- rived, and doctors and nurses and Red Cross workers and soldiers with stretchers from Scott Field. Mine res- cue teams came, and a federal rescue unit, experts bur- dened with masks and oxygen tanks and other awkward paraphernalia of disaster. . . . One hundred and eleven men were killed in that explosion. Killed needlessly, for almost everybody concerned had known for months, even years, that the mine was dangerous. Yet nobody had done any- thing effective about it. Why not? Let us examine the background of the explosion. Let us study the mine and the miners, Joe Bryant and Bill Rowekamp and some others, and also the numerous people who might have saved the miners’ lives but did not. The miners had appealed in various directions for help but got none, not from their state government nor their federal government nor their employer nor their own union. (In threading the maze of official- dom we must bear in mind four agencies in author- ity: The State of Illinois, the United States Government, the Centralia...
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...had become a symbol for hope and prosperity and this was seen as a gift by the world, which would lead to a high immigration rate inside the U.S. that required the formation of certain immigration ports such as New York and San Francisco. The end result would be the movement of over 10 million people into the U.S. over a 20 year span, which would lead to similar acts of nativism by the people that we sometimes face today. In my essay I will explore the early years of immigration through Ellis Island, how Ellis Island was important for being the torch in the East and how the geography would affect the situation immigrants faced. Before the torch, before the arrival of millions of people into the U.S. seeking...
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...Do people have an obligation to help others in society? In the essay, “Thirty-eight who saw murder didn’t call the police”, Martin Gansberg reconstructs a crime. He gives the reader a detailed sequence of events that led to a young woman’s death. Gansberg describes how no one telephones the police during the assault and how the attacker returned twice to kill the young lady. For more than half an hour, thirty-eight people witness this tragic event and did nothing. Assistant Chief Inspector Frederick M. Lussen, was baffled, not by the murder, but because “good people” failed to respond and call the police. This raises the question; do people have an obligation to help others in society? I feel that you should do unto others as you would do unto yourself, even if it may cause harm to yourself. The reward for the deed you have done will go a long way. The one you have helped will appreciate it more than you can ever imagine. He or she could feel like they cannot thank you enough. They may even make many attempts to thank you and even ask if there is something they can do for you. Some people have a moral obligation to help others. These individuals may have taken a pledge or an oath to help others. People of the armed services have taken an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Police officers are held to a higher standard of moral obligations and ethical values then what is expected from the average person....
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...Maria Elisabeth Colomb in 1776. She was a very well educated woman and was also a widow. They had three children, Alexander being the youngest. The father had died in 1799. After his death, their mother was expected to become a civil servant of the Prussian state. Money was involved and left after her death. Alexander took accept ion and it helped him along the way to start his exploration. His passion for travel and exploring was a big thing. He devoted himself to preparation into becoming a scientific explorer. At the University of Hamburg, he studied commerce and foreign languages and also geology at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology. He then graduated from Friedberg and was offered a job as an inspector in Bayreuth. During his period as a mine inspector, Humboldt demonstrated his deep concern for the men he saw and met laboring in the mines. He was nice enough to open a free school for miners where paid out of his own pocket. It became an unchartered government school for labor and training. When Humboldt requested authorization from the crown to travel to Spanish America, it was given positive response. He made it possible because most importantly, he aided himself by...
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...(Many people are writing on corruption and I feel the need to comment. So, I thought I should make a small essay and paste the relevant paragraphs whenever someone posts something on corruption. You may skip reading it for three reasons – one, it is just academic suiting only few who love English essays; two, you are likely to read it later on various comments, in parts though and third, it’s quite long and you risk falling asleep while going through it) Bribes are not, always, about citizens being harassed by officials to get legitimate and legal work done. It is more about people who are not entitled to few services or papers, trying to get those services and papers by paying bribes. Example, of this is can be found in people who try to get passports from addresses which they have not occupied for sufficient periods. And, it is, equally, about someone who had broken a law trying to get away by paying a bribe, like a driver paying bribe to traffic inspector to get rid of penalties. Instances of successful bribes, however small these might be, create a habit in individuals to get their work done. When I say “get their work done” I don’t mean just legal and rightful ones, but unrightfully and undeserved one as well. It is very common for us to see people paying donations and bribes to get their kids into schools and colleges ahead of other meritorious students. It is equally common to see people trying to make fake medical certificates for various purposes or people resorting...
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...Tamil Nadu Registration Subordinate Service Tamil Nadu Jail Subordinate Service Tamil Nadu Labour Subordinate Service No. of vacancies 66 2 (ST Carry Forward vacancies) 14 Scale of pay Rs.9300-34800+ Grade Pay Rs.4800/- (PB2) Rs.9300-34800+ Grade Pay Rs.4800/- (PB2) Rs.9300-34800+ Grade Pay Rs.4800/- (PB2) Rs.9300-34800+ Grade Pay Rs.4800/- (PB2) 2) Probation Officer in Prison Department (Post Code No:1023 ) Assistant Inspector of Labour 4) in the Labour Department (Post Code No: 1068) Junior Employment Officer (Non-Differently Abled) in Employment and Training 5) (Employment Wing) Department (Post Code No: 1017) Junior Employment Officer (Differently Abled) in Employment and Training 6) (Employment Wing) Department (Post Code No: 2203) Assistant Section Officer in Finance Department in 7) Secretariat (Post Code : 1074) Assistant Section Officer in 8) Law Department in Secretariat (Post Code No: 1073) Assistant Section Officer in 9) TNPSC (Post Code No: 2201) Special Assistant in the Vigilance and Anti corruption 10) Department (Post Code No: 2265) Assistant Inspector in Local 11) Fund Audit Department (Post Code No: 1069) 3) 9 2 Tamil Nadu General Subordinate Service 1...
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...According to the book “Ways of Reading” by Bartholomae, Petrosky, and Waite, panopticism in Foucault’s paper is the all Seeing Eye. He starts his essay of by talking about the plague in the seventeenth century. There was a closing of the town and its outer lying districts. Each street was placed under the authority of a syndic, who keeps it under surveillance. Each house was watched over by the syndic who would come to lock each door from the outside of the house. Everyone was quarantined into their homes. The severity of this lack of freedom was expressed in Foucault’s essay when he said inspection functions ceaselessly. The gaze is alert everywhere, and a considerable body of militia, commanded by good officers and men of substance, guards everyone, everywhere, to prompt the obedience of the people. Foucault discussed the rise of lepers, which also gave rise to disciplinary projects. Rather than separating people into groups, like they did during the plague, multiple distinctions were used to separate people. The plague-stricken town was, as Foucault states, traversed throughout the hierarchy, surveillance, writing, the town immobilized by the functions of extensive power. In order to have the perfect disciplinary functioning, one would put themselves in the place of the syndic during the plague. This control over people functioned to cut them off from all contact with each other. According to the reading, Foucault talked about the Panopticon, a building that was separated...
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...Campsall Here's how to write your best essay ever... Whatever the essay you have been asked to write, the key to making it as effective as it can be is to write it as a wellstructured and well-supported argument. You will find that an ‘argument’ essay is easier to plan, more fulfilling to write and for your teacher (or the examiner)... a pleasure to mark (and that’s no bad thing!!). It’s important to get one thing out of the way at the outset: an essay question has no ‘right’ answer. You can breathe easy on that one. It’s just not like that. This is English and we leave those kinds of ‘right answers’ to the mathematicians and scientists. An English essay is not an ‘answer’ in that way at all, rather, it’s an informed opinion; but, like all opinions, it’ll require explanation, argument and support. It requires you to argue your case. What’s the first thing you do when you set about starting an essay? Many people start by searching through the text on which their essay is based in the hope of finding suitable quotations to help ‘answer’ the essay question. Well, there’s no getting away from this basic process, but there are ways to make it altogether more efficient, useful and most importantly, more likely to earn a higher grade. More on this later. The Argument Essay The secret of a good essay? Write it as an argument for what you believe! What is there to argue about? Plenty! You’ll be arguing to support your point of view on the essay question - one that you’ve boldly stated...
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...Adrian English 112-Asp4 Prof. Henderson Critical essay- Final Draft The Pressure of Acceptance Throughout the years many have felt the pressure of being accepted by others. This theme of acceptance is shown in many works of literature. Two specific works of literature that this theme is portrayed in is “Salvation” by Langston Hughes and “Shooting an Elephant,” by George Orwell. In “Salvation” Hughes is pressured by the whole church to feel something that he couldn’t; in “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell is pressured by the town natives kill an animal he felt was harmless. In other words they both did something they are not proud of in order to please the majority. In “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell shows the consequences of not being accepted and pressures of being accepted. “All I knew was that I was stuck between my hatred of the empire I served and my rage against the evil-spirited little beast who tried to make my job impossible”. (Orwell pg. 296) Not only does this quote show the unacceptance Orwell received but also that he was indecisive of whose side he was on, whether it was the empire or the town people. The natives hated him because of his position, but he hated his position, too, which shows they had some kind of common ground. Then there came a time when the town people were in need of him: a “sub-inspector at a police station the other end of the town rang me up on the phone and said that an elephant was ravaging the bazaar. Would I please come and do something...
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...Topics for Critical Thinking Project Instructions: 1. Students gather in groups of four or five. 2. Each group writes an essay of about 1.000 words about the chosen topic. The essay must cite public opinions around the topic and include references. 3. At the end of the essay, there need to be Venn diagrams or truth tables to test the validity of the arguments that are cited or made in your essay. 4. In the oral presentation, the slides must display the arguments and the diagrams to test validity. 1. Sustainable development becomes a challenge because we have conflicting needs. We want fresh, clean air to breathe but we also want to buy cars We want to conserve forests but we need trees to build houses We want to swim in clean waters but we need factories. Factories usually use water from rivers to power machinery or to cool down machinery a. How do we balance conflicting needs? b. What are the important steps that have to be undertaken to achieve the goals of sustainable development? c. What arguments could you present to the country’s leaders? Use good arguments to present your point of view. Use additional tools such as Venn diagram, truth table, chart, graphs to support your arguments. 2. Alternative sources of energy such as wind, solar, hydropower and biomass can be harnessed to meet Vietnam’s rapidly increasing demand for energy. While there has been some early success, deployment...
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...their gods. African theologians have been trying to establish the relationship between Christianity and African traditional religion. One bone of contention that theologians face is on the relationship between Christians and their dead ancestors. Among the Africans death does not mark the end of the human relationship as they consider those who die to have entered the spirit world. African theology is the key to understanding Christianity in Africa. The saying that it is ill-advised to run randomly in African forests is quite applicable in the case of African theology. It is always advisable to get the guidance of someone who identifies with its paths and the landscape. This essay will, therefore, look into the life of Bediako Kwame as a guide as to understanding African Christian theology. The essay will look into the biographical details and description of historical, social, cultural, economic and political factors within which he lived and worked. Moreover, it will examine the ways in which his work relates to the discussed context and appreciate four of his major themes. Lastly, it will study the contributions of Bediako Kwame to the theology field in general and discuss how his thinking has challenged my understanding of the gospel. Bediako Kwame was born on into a Presbyterian family on 7th July 1945 in the Ghanaian capital Accra. His father...
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