...In literature there are many types of devices used to impact the reader and improve the quality of the story. Many authors can go about using these devices in various ways, but all ultimately add to the storyline of the book. In analysis of the literary devices used in the thought-provoking novel, Bronx Masquerade, by Nikki Grimes, one could see how the various types of conflict, such as man vs. society, man vs. self, and man vs. man, effect the reader and each character emotionally. To begin, in this novel the conflicts of man vs. society and man vs. self go hand in hand to effect the reader and characters in the story. One character, Diondra, is very tall, so society expects her to play basketball and stereotypes her to be athletic. This...
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...autobiography entitled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, he describes his experiences as a slave and how he attained education, despite overwhelming adversity. His story draws similarities to the fictional character Guy Montag created by Ray Bradbury, author of the book Fahrenheit 451’s protagonist. Both of these authors utilize characterization and conflict to develop their main...
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...Emerging Crisis: A Lecture about the Psychosocial Perspective of Personality I. Introduction Coon and Mitterer (2013) stated from their book that every life is marked by a number of developmental milestones. Those milestones are notable events, markers, or turning points that affect the development of a certain individual. Some examples of these include graduating from school, reaching your dreams, getting married, getting a job, becoming a parent, retirement, and one’s own death. One of the important things that a person needs to develop is his personality. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, personality is the set of qualities and behaviors that makes a person different from other people. From the definition, lots of questions arise. Some examples are “What makes them different from the other?”, “Why are they behaving like that?”, and “Who am I?” In order to answer those questions, Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development will help to understand the complexity of human personality. Erikson’s ‘psychosocial’ term is derived from two words – ‘psychological’ means mind and ‘social’ means external relationships (Chapman, 2013). According to Ramkumar (2002), Erik Erikson did most of his works during the 1930s to the 1950s as a psychologist. He was fascinated in child analysis. He was the student of Sigmund Freud and he was inspired by his works. From the article of Chapman (2013), Erikson’s psychosocial theory was drawn and was extended from the ideas of...
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...E-Books vs. Printed Books: The 21st Century Debate By Elana Goodwin on September 12, 2014 Tweet Pin It E-book sales have skyrocketed in recent years as personal digital reading devices have steadily risen in popularity since the Amazon Kindle was released in 2007. This trend has sparked a worldwide debate of the pros and cons of e-books vs. printed books and what technological advances in reading means for the publishing industry as a whole. Back in 2010, when Apple came out with the first generation of its tablet, the iPad, the Pew Research Center found that only 5 percent of Americans owned an e-reader and 4 percent owned a tablet. But as e-readers improved their design and debuted increasingly sleeker, more intuitive, larger memory models, e-reader ownership grew. Photo Credit: u-publish.com Today, those numbers have severely multiplied, with 32 percent of Americans owning an e-reader and 42 percent owning a tablet, those devices being two of the biggest ways e-books are consumed by readers. http://www.uloop.com/news/view.php/134689/E-Books-vs-Printed-Books-The-21st-Cent However, though e-reader and e-book sales numbers seem to be constantly growing, a report by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) showed that in 2013, hardcover book sales in the U.S. were actually up while overall U.S. e-book sales were actually down about 5 percent. The AAP found that hardcover book sales rose 11.5 percent to $778.6 million through August of 2013 while e-book sales were...
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...Compare and Contrast Ipad vs. Kindle When you hear the word Ipad vs. Kindle there will always be comparisons but unfortunately, there is only one, that’s better than the other. Some people read a couple of books each on the Kindle, and IPad and take notes to differentiate their experience, reading speed, eye strain and so forth. Most of them were busy with the hard task of watching movies back to back to see how long the iPad’s battery would last. Only one reviewers and critics mentions actually reading a complete book on the iPad. The Ipad and Kindle are similar in many ways. They both are hand held devices that are portable. You can read books on both. Kindle devices can also sync with iPhones as well as ipads. Both ipad and kindle software is compatible with Windows, iPhone OS, BlackBerry, and Mac. Kindle device can be used without a computer and provides free access to the internet. At first kindle devices didn’t have apps to launch but, now you can’t shop for puzzles, games, travel guides and more, just like the ipad. Finally the ipad and kindle are equipped with 3G wireless that allows quick download of books. The Ipad and kindle are different in many ways as well. Kindle has 450,000 books as compared to the iPad’s starting selection of 60,000 titles. Kindle is lighter (10.2 ounces) and you can read with one hand. Ipad is ‘much heavier’ (1.5 pounds) and ‘most people will need two hands to use it’ .Kindle has much better battery life which you can leave 2...
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...Rightly Divided: Studying the Bible to Teach the Bible I. Romans 8: 1-17. “1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, 4 in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit. 5 Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7 the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. 9 You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ...
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...Ipad vs. Kindle When you hear the word Ipad vs. Kindle there will always be comparisons but unfortunately, there is only one, that’s better than the other. Some people read a couple of books each on the Kindle, and IPad and take notes to differentiate their experience, reading speed, eye strain and so forth. Most of them were busy with the hard task of watching movies back to back to see how long the iPad’s battery would last. Only one reviewers and critics mentions actually reading a complete book on the iPad. The Ipad and Kindle are similar in many ways. They both are hand held devices that are portable. You can read books on both. Kindle devices can also sync with iPhones as well as ipads. Both ipad and kindle software is compatible with Windows, iPhone OS, BlackBerry, and Mac. Kindle device can be used without a computer and provides free access to the internet. At first kindle devices didn’t have apps to launch but, now you can’t shop for puzzles, games, travel guides and more, just like the ipad. Finally the ipad and kindle are equipped with 3G wireless that allows quick download of books. The Ipad and kindle are different in many ways as well. Kindle has 450,000 books as compared to the iPad’s starting selection of 60,000 titles. Kindle is lighter (10.2 ounces) and you can read with one hand. Ipad is ‘much heavier’ (1.5 pounds) and ‘most people will need two hands to use it’ .Kindle has much better battery life which you can leave 2 weeks with wireless turned...
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...The Hunger Games, the award-winning book by Suzanne Collins, takes place in Panem more than one hundred years in the future. Panem is the country created after the fall of the North American government. The setting plays a major role in the plot of The Hunger Games. Because it is set in a dystopian future, the hunger games are acceptable even though it is murder. If it was set in present time, the games would be seen as something awful. The setting allows such things to happen without much protest. Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist, is a 16-year-old girl who lives in district 12 of Panem. She has black hair, which is usually braided, olive skin, and gray eyes. Although she is thin and not very tall, Katniss is considerably strong. As well...
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...Class Compared to a Traditional Class Abigail Walter Rasmussen College Author Note: This research is being submitted on September 3, 2013 for English Composition at Rasmussen College by Abigail Walter. Online Class Compared to a Traditional Class These days, there are many different ways for students to access higher education. Students can enroll in a traditional program, attending classes and accessing educational resources on campus. You can also enroll in an all-online program, in which the majority of your schoolwork and communications are completed via the Internet. Or there's the in-between option: blended learning environments that combine on-campus and online coursework. Online and traditional classes both have teachers and books but a traditional class is face to face contact with a teacher unlike an online class were you only have email and phone calls to communicate with . A major difference is flexibility because online you can choose your own time to work and traditional you have a specific time to be at school. Online courses typically allow students to work on their own time, which means that they can complete their coursework at the time and place of their choosing. This is often ideal for working students or single parents who need a flexible schedule. However, students who struggle to be self-motivated may find that they quickly fall behind because they aren’t used to doing stuff on their own and they need that face to face help with a teacher. Traditional...
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...Nature vs. Nurture in Psychology PSYCH 101 Nature vs. Nurture in Psychology What makes you think, feel, and behave the way you do? Were you born predisposed to live the life you are currently living, or were you born a blank canvas upon which your experiences gave shape and expression to the person you are today? These are the types of questions the Nature vs. Nurture debate has posed and scientists have probed for over a century. In this paper we will look at some of the aspects of this debate the scientific community does not attend to, or dismisses, the origin and history of this debate, the essential characteristics around which this issue is debated, and where scientists are today in understanding this issue. What are your thoughts on the Nature vs. Nurture argument? Sir Galton wrote in his book English Men of Science (1874), “Nature is all that a man brings with him into the world; nurture is every influence that affects him after his birth,” (p. 12). I have been led to believe that our biology (nature), our environment (nurture), and our cognitive abilities all interplay and influence our resulting personality and other existing traits. We are, as Myers (2012) continuously asserts, biopsychosocial beings (p.124). These aspects of our existence work in accord to actuate the developmental potential written into our genetic code. Where I think there is a deficiency in the theories proffered, in attempt to answer the Nature vs. Nurture...
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...a mental institution. The author of Girl Interrupted approaches human health in 3 different ways. She uses personal experiences, extensively researched information about each of the mental illnesses mentioned in the novel and the theme of ‘mental illnesses vs. tradition’ to inform the audience about mental illnesses. As the majority of the stories in the book are Susanna’s own personal experiences, they are very detailed, but appear to be bias as they are about her and are her side of the story. Susanna uses her own personal experiences to approach human health in a way that is very unique. By including detailed stories in her novel, the audience is persuaded into supporting however Susanna felt or what she believed in the situation, even if she was morally wrong, utterly influencing the audience’s opinion of mental illnesses. The amount of stories and personal experiences discussed in the novel opens up the younger audience to release that many young people today suffer from mental illnesses. She also connected this theme with the quote “Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slipcover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide.” (p. 6). The author used this quote to link her themes discussed in the book and to allow the readers to begin to think about their own personal scars....
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...delve into the issue of race in the present day United States. Specifically, the authors target Protestant Evangelism and how white Evangelical principles have exacerbated, and continue to exacerbate the racial divide in America. Through in-depth field research, involving over 200 phone and face-to-face interviews with Evangelicals and people of color, Emerson and Smith were able to tackle and analyze an issue that had gone essentially unheard-of. The book as whole, especially the interview process, enlightened me to a problem that I, as well as many others, had never thought about before. The authors analyze the racial divide by discussing how Protestants view the issue of race. While these Evangelicals actively try to break the divide, their core principles and values do the opposite. Before reading the book, I knew many Christians who work to reach out to people of color, but I had never thought about how the way they went about it held them back. The thing that most interested me was looking at the issue on an interpersonal vs. institutional level. Part of the reason Evangelicalism is holding the racial divide firm is that they tend to look at problems on a personal level, rather than an institutional one; if something is wrong in a person’s life, they are the ones to blame, not their surroundings and the environment around them. Because of all the problems that are associated with being poor in this...
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...Nature VS Nurture To make an argument for either nature vs nurture, one must know what each word means in this case exactly. Nature is the term used for genetics, while nurture is the term used for environment. Examples of the genetics would be someone’s looks and chronic conditions such as ADD or ADHD. Examples for environment would be how someone is raised, what they grow to believe in, or what they learn from others. Technically, there is no actual way for anyone to say that either one is a more dominant fixture as to how someone behaves at a later age, but there are some cases that do show that nurture affects the person more than nature. People in the book In Cold Blood such as Perry Smith and Barbara Smith, and psychologists, such as...
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...Psychology is the study of life stages in which humans experience and the behavioral issues of one’s self. his scientific process has been study by many pioneers throughout history who has shared their own belief and explanations for people behavioral issue and the way in which they act which is mundane to one’s society. One pioneer who has contributed his opinion to Psychology is Erikson, a German Psychologist who created eight psychosocial stages that humans encounter throughout their life, the stages are: Trust vs. Mistrust, Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt, Initiative vs. Guilt, Industry vs. Inferiority, Identity vs. Role Confusion, Intimacy vs. Isolation, Generativity vs. Stagnation, and Integrity vs. Despair . Erik Homberger Erikson was born in 1902 near Frankfort, Germany to Danish parents. Erik studied art and a variety of languages during his school years, rather than science courses such as biology and chemistry. He didn’t support the idea of going to college so instead he traveled around Europe, keeping a diary of his events. After a year of doing this, he returned to Germany and attended art school. After a period of time, Erikson began to teach art and other subjects American children who had come to Vienna for training. He was then permitted into the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. In 1933 he came to the U.S. and became Boston's first child analyst and got a position at the Harvard Medical School. Later on, he also held positions at institutions including Yale and...
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...“Chris, our beloved son and brother, died here during his adventurous travels in search of how he could best realize Gods great gift of life… McCandless family 7/93.” Is the McCandless family right in assuming that his pursuits were of a religious persuasion or have they mis-interpreted what he was looking for? If so what was he looking for? “You are wrong if you think joy emanates only of principal from human relationships. God had placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience.” (Christopher McCandless) &“Happyness is only real when share.” (Alexander Supertramp) are two quotes that directly contradict one another. The first is signed by Chris and the second by Alex. Does this demonstrate a shift in perspective or is he just being inconsistent? Was Chris’s journey into the Alaskan Tundra a suicide mission or a pursuit of self actualization? two video games b) two bands c) summer camp vs. cottaging, c) Into The Wild the film vs. the book Halo 4 and Call of Duty MW3 are...
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