...also give you some of the important language that will be found throughout this essay. First off, astrology is the study of the positions and relationships of the sun, moon, stars, and planets in order to judge their influence on human actions. A horoscope is a diagram of the heavens, showing the relative position of planets and the signs of the zodiac, for use in calculating births, foretelling events in a person’s life, etc. Zodiac is an imaginary belt of the heavens, extending about 8° on each side of the ecliptic, within which are the apparent paths of the sun, moon, and principal planets. It contains twelve constellations and hence twelve divisions called signs of the zodiac. The 12 signs of the zodiac are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. There are always...
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..."Your full power lies within, Gemini." He states. "Then why do you make me use these stupid little trinkets?" I plead, waving it in the air. "You haven't yet learned how to fully control it." I quietly grunt but look back at my target. Virgo and Leo stand still next to each other, waiting for me to strike. They keep eyeing my Monitor Sagittarius as he fiddles with his master's ring in anticipation. I look back to Sagittarius and hold up the fan. "What's this thing called again?" I ask him. "Anemistíra Xýrisma." He responds. I slide my thumb across its blade, noticing all its scratches and tinks. I turn to look back up at them and they look as annoyed as ever. Their expressions scream 'hurry up!' but their mouths never move, positions never...
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...Ivyanne London Dr. Bryan English 2010 7 December 2012 The Bhagavad- Gita: Influence on Civil Disobedience Advocates Civil disobedience can be described as the nonviolent means of bringing about social change. The Bhagavad- Gita is a philosophical poem that attempts to ask difficult questions of universal issues that deal with the topic of civil disobedience. The messages that are told throughout the poem have had major influences on civil disobedience advocates such as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. This work offers explanations that can be applied to dilemmas that can’t be resolved with a simple form of action. According to the Theosophical Society of America, The Bhagavad- Gita, commonly known as the “Gita” has been passed back and forth between America and India through these civil disobedience activists. They each had influences on each other along with the Gita. Some reoccurring themes that may have influenced Thoreau, Gandhi, and King include questions about the right way to live, seeking higher knowledge, and how no action is still a form of action. The version of The Bhagavad- Gita that is told in The Norton Anthology of World Literature, 3rd edition, begins with the moment of crisis in Arjuna’s mind. Arjuna is the middle son of his five brothers who are apart of the Pandavas. He is apart of the warrior caste and is the most skilled and feared archer of his time. They are about to engage in war with their cousins, the Kauravas, because...
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...Background Treadway Tire Company is a major North American supplier of tires to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and replacement tire markets. They currently manufacture Treadway Primo, Treadway Performance, and other private tire brands. Treadway’s Lima Tire Plant, based out of Lima, Ohio is considered one of the company’s top plants for productivity and quality ratings. A continuous operations plant – operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week with four rotating shifts – the Lima Plant produced approximately 25,000 tires per day in 2007 alone. There are over 1100 employees at the Lima Plant location – 970 hourly and 150 salaried. The hourly employees are unionized by the United Steelworkers (USW) and are directly supervised by the salaried line foremen. The foremen possess a large bulk of the responsibilities at Lima, supervising all phases of production and quality assurance work as well as dealing with a variety of personnel, resource and administrative duties. They are often pulled in conflicting directions by the hourly employees, the union regulations and upper management. According to Brandon Bellingham, the plant manager at Lima, “Meeting performance goals is the most important duty of the line foremen.” However, the lack of proper training does not allow the foremen to successfully handle situations causing them intense pressure and a feeling of inadequacy. In the past year, the Lima Plant has experienced a high rate of foremen turnover...
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...Jacqueline Murphy AC504 Unit 2 Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy is commonly referred to in the English community as Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist, a social reformer, a pacifist, a Christian anarchist, and a moral thinker (Contributors, 2008). He was born on September 9, 1828 on his family’s estate in the Tula Province of Russia. He is the youngest of four boys. His mother Princess Volkonskaya, died in 1830 when he was very young. His father County Nikolay Tolstoy died seven years after his mothers’ death. After his fathers’ death his aunt was appointed legal guardian of him and his siblings (Leo Tolstoy, 2013). Tolstoy is broadly considered as one of the utmost of all novelists. He is particularly well-known for his works of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In those writings he showed that he had insight into human motives. Tolstoy found the pacifist doctrine of nonresistance in the Christian Gospels. He rejected all forms of coercion from both the government and the church. He suffered a spiritual crisis and grew depressed. He struggled to uncover the meaning of life, he came to believe that Christian churches were corrupt and, in lieu of organized religion, developed his own beliefs (Contributors, 2008). Tolstoy should be recognized as a crusader for social justice. He was a constant thorn in the side of the Russian Orthodox Church, the czarist government, and local authorities. His work was banned in the Soviet Union because of his resistance to violence and...
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...The Recess Queen Guiseppina Saieva Kaplan University Professor Michael Bohannan April 1, 2013 The Recess Queen The Recess Queen is a great story written by Alexis O'Neill. The lessons taught and illustrations are great. The theme of this book is bullying and it teaches children that bullying can be handled and stopped. It teaches people to stick up for themselves and gives them strategies on how to deal with bullying. The main character is named Mean Jean. She really is a little tyrant, this Mean Jean. But the truth is, even some very young children have learned to scare others! I am glad her heart isn’t as bad as is first depicted. I think it is great to read an array of bullying books, with different conclusions, to kids. These types of lessons can be passed from generation to generation so that issues like these can be resolved. Mean Jean was known to be the recess queen. At school she was a very mean little girl who tried to bully and scare everyone into doing what she said and when she wanted it done. Mean jean put fear into everyone's heart at the playground. She was a big ball of terror. “MEAN JEAN was Recess Queen and nobody said any different. Nobody swung until Mean Jean swung. Nobody kicked until Mean Jean kicked. Nobody bounced until Mean Jean bounced” (O'Neill, 2002). One day a new kid came to school named katie Sue. Jean did not like that there was a new kid in school and was ready to put...
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...JONESTOWN- JIM JONES Jonestown- Jim Jones Student: Thi Nguyen Grand Canyon University: General Psychology- 102 Date: 08-19-2012 Professor: Jennifer Jones Jonestown- Jim Jones The tragedy named Jonestown happened in the past over 30 years and it still has been suspense from the bottom of the heart of everyone. Jim Jones is known as a American leader culture, is one of the most popular historian of America and Guyana’s history as well as the world’s history (Wilkinson, B, 2011). There are many books, articles, video clips described, discussed as well as argued about Jim Jones and Jonestown event. In this research paper as known as a social psychology essay , one more time, I would like write, persuasion, and argue about Jim Jones and what his had done in the past. Furthermore, the paper will describe and discuss in detail about Jonestown events and other concerned that related to this event which gave shock to American society, Guyana, and the rest of the world. Who is Jim Jones? First of all, I would like to introduce about him as well as his life. Jim Jones is a son of James Jones who had a poor health by poisonous gasses in the World War One; and he was a son of a woman named Lynetta in a factory in Indiana. Jim Jones learned from his Mom that he should love animal and care for the people who have underprivileged; and she expected that her son would come a ministered when he grow up. Even though Jim Jones was a noisy child...
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...James Coates Mrs. Kopcak English May 10, 2006 Angels Angels were a major part of ancient civilizations, but how did the whole myth about angels start and has it changed over the years? How does the past compare to today’s world? Are there different classes of angels? What are their jobs, what do their jobs have them doing? The word 'angel' comes from the Greek angelos, which itself could be considered as a translation of the Hebrew word mal'akh, meaning 'messenger', suggesting that a being responsible for carrying messages between the human world and some other realm or realms of existence, someone who is an intermediary between 'down here' and 'up there'. The origins of angels, started back in ancient Sumeria. The Sumerian society is the oldest society that has left us clear evidence of the use of a winged human motif. This evidence is in the form of stone carvings, either in the form of three-D statues or relief carvings that provide the illusion of three-dimensionality. The religion of these people was complex, embracing a wide variety of spirits and gods, but of particular interest was their belief in 'messengers of the gods', angelic forces who ran errands between gods and humans. The Sumerians also believed that each person had a 'ghost' of some sort (what we would now probably label as 'guardian angel') with this entity remaining a constant companion for a person throughout their life. After the polytheistic Semitic tribes had conquered the Sumerians around 1900...
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...Brak Bank Limited ------------------------------------------------- MGT-210 BRAC BANK Developed For: Ms. Nasira Siddika (NSd) Sec: 10 Date of Submission: 06/08/2010 NORTH SOUTH UNIVERSITY Developed By: Group Members To complete our project, first of all our team is very grateful to Almighty Allah for the hard work, dedication, team effort and patience we put to finish our project work on time. The team would like to thank the official website of ‘BRAC Bank’ from where we took the information, some of our relatives, friends and the respected officials of the bank who had helped us a lot by providing necessary information to complete the project successfully. Information on their site helped and supported us a lot and without it we could not complete the project properly. We also like to thank our team members as all of them devoted their full support and cooperation and gave valuable time to the project work. Finally we are very grateful to our course instructor “Ms. Nasira Siddika” who inspired and suggested us to do the project, and helped us in every possible way. The team is very thankful to her and honors to have “Ms. Nasira Siddika” as an instructor. August 06, 2010 Ms. Nasira Siddika (NSd) Faculty Member, School of Business North South University Sub: Letter of Transmittal Respected Mam, It is indeed a great pleasure to have the opportunity to submit the project paper. We have prepared...
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...In the novel "War and peace" of L.N. Tolstaya uses reception of an antithesis, opposing the real life — false, true vital values — false, internal beauty — external. An embodiment of external beauty and internal emptiness is in the novel Elaine Bezoukhova, an embodiment of internal beauty, life, love — Natasha Rostova. Natasha — the favourite heroine of Tolstoy. It submits the reader the sincerity, a spontaneity, cheerfulness, poetry, richness of an inner world. "The poetic, full of life, the charming girl" her Andrey Bolkonsky calls. For the first time we meet Natasha in the house Growth, she appears at us the thirteen-year-old girl, absolutely young, touching, direct. "Black-eyed, with a big mouth, the ugly, but living girl, with the children's open coat hanger … with the black curls which got off back, the thin bared hands and small legs in lacy pantalonchik and open shoes, was at that lovely age, when the girl not the child, but the child not the girl yet any more". We see how Natasha matures, goes to the first ball, endures the first love. This heroine is very direct, close to the nature. She admires beauty of a moonlight night in Otradnoye, is very organic in a hunting scene. Natasha is very musical, romantic. She perfectly sings, is thin feels music, Denisov admires her singing. And dancing of Natasha in which all reveals her Russian soul? This dancing delights both the uncle, and Nikolay, and the aunt Anisyyu who suddenly understand that this young girl "was able...
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...Have you ever seen an injustice that you wanted to correct or fix but you were to scared of consequences? Well Martin Luther King was not one of those people who didn’t do something because of the fear for consequences. He went to jail for protesting an injustice that was happening to African Americans everywhere. While he was in jail he decided to write a letter to his fellow clergymen answering their criticisms and explaining his reasons for being in jail. He uses the methods of ethos pathos and logos to explain why his method of non violent and peaceful protests would help further their cause. Martin luther king uses examples of ethos in his letter in multiple ways. In the beginning of his letter he is answering one of his fellow clergymen’s criticism of why he was in birmingham leading a protest which ended him in jail. His response was “I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all the communities and states.i cannot sit idly by in Alanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham”(p1). This is an example of ethos because it shows the right and wrong of the situation, the wrong is being in the same state where an injustice is happening and not doing anything about it. Another example of ethos is when he was answering yet another clergymen’s criticism oon how his method of protest is considered extremist. He responds with “Was Jesus not an extremist for love? “ Love your enemies,bless them that curse you,do good to them that hate you……” .Was not Amos an...
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...people want to fit in. Society can consume someone because the feeling of being accepted can create happiness for that individual. Or could happiness be related to your position in class. Some believe that the poor cannot be happy because they are poor and the wealthy upper classes are the happiest of all. What could make someone truly happy? Different questionings of happiness appear in Leo Tolstoy’s books Family Happiness and Death of Ivan Ilyich. Tolstoy portraits the search for happiness in his two books through society, wealth, and social class. In the book Family Happiness, the main character, a young girl named Masha was driven through the acceptance of society. She wanted to be a part of “the normal”, and believed that would make her happy. Ivan Ilyich of The Death of Ivan Ilyich believed he was happy only when he was wealthy and a part of the upper class. Classes have been molded since civilization truly formed. The Greeks, the Romans, and even the present-day United States have classes. The only thing that has changed is the sizes of each class over the centuries. In Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich the main character is an older man by the name of Ivan Ilyich living in 19th century Russia. Classes were split into upper and lower class. Ivan bounced around in the book. Ivan Ilyich worked at becoming upper class his whole life. He wanted to feed his family and stay in the high division of society. But things changed when he didn’t get the job he...
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...Bello Louissaint ENC 1101-20013 Professor Kristen Holt February 26, 2014 The Battle of Two Civil Legends When you hear the names Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., You think of the men of colored that paved the way for their respective races and nation. Gandhi with his homeland of India from British rule and MLK with the nation of America. Many figures have compared to two but no one has ever attempted to pit these two legends against each other and not in the form of a rap battle. Well, ERB can claim to be the first. With the melodic rhymes and catchy hook. Who exactly won this battle of civil greats, in my esteemed opinion, it would be the Mahatma. Gandhi case presentation and his flow was too beastly for MLK in this battle. First and foremost, in the battle Gandhi states that MLK should “you should jot down my ideas…….plagiarize his whole verse” (ERB).; Mahatma was referencing the fact that MLK followed his ideology. Although, it can be said that he did in fact use some of the ideals of Gandhi, MLK did not use fasting as a way of protest. MLK, himself has stated that Mahatma was a driving influencing in his way of fighting for civil justice but again, he did not steal his ideals like Gandhi claims. Furthermore, Gandhi goes on to state that MLK should leave his ideas at the door like the real Martin Luther (ERB).. Martin Luther gained his fame for nailing his complaints against the Catholic Church in the 14th century, at the time the church would sell indulgences...
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...Jeniffer Quero Moeckli AP Language September 27, 2013 Universal Themes of Death Death is no stranger to humanity, but mankind by nature fear death and will do all in their power to preserve their life. The event of death causes despairing emotions for those around us, but will also effect those around us morally by educating them to acknowledge the value of life and to change their perspectives. In “Shooting the Elephant”, George Orwell describes a time where he sensed a moment of injustice surfacing in his life. George was hated by large numbers of people, because of who he was and his authority over the Burmese people. To avoid looking like a fool in front of the Burmese Indians, Orwell shot an elephant while hundreds of Burmese watched from behind him. Orwell repeats many times throughout the story that he “simply did not want to shoot the elephant” but yet he still did because the pressure of the thousands of Burmese standing behind him. After the elephant’s death, George feels nothing but guilt but tries to relieve his shame by stating “besides, legally I had done the right thing”. And in the end Orwell states that he “could not stand it any longer and went away”, Orwell tries to avoid his guilt by simply walking away finding it unbearable to watch it die, and then says he “legally” had done the right thing. “Death of a Moth” by Virginia Woolf describes her thoughts of when she was observing a moth’s death. Woolf’s thoughts turn an insignificant moths death into...
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...[Title Here, up to 12 Words, on One to Two Lines] Jim Jones Visionary Leader/Ethical Leader Synthesis Essay In this essay I will explain why Jim Jones was a Visionary Leader but by no means an ethical leader. In many ways Jim Jones was decades ahead of his time with regards to social issues. His leadership helped many disadvantaged people in Indianapolis, Indiana. At first glance it may appear he used his Visionary Leadership for a higher cause; however his unethical pursuits, ultimately resulted in the downfall of his church, his followers and himself when 914 members of his congregation committed suicide after “drinking the Kool Aid”. Visionary Leadership From early in his life Jim Jones had a vision of the world he wanted to live in. Jim Jones was born the only child of a disabled veteran father and working mother during the Great Depression. His poor upbringing shaped his vision of a world in which all people were equal. As an adult he began to attend uni-racial churches in Indianapolis. In 1961 he became the first white man to adopt and African-American child in Indiana (Ryan, 2011). Shortly thereafter he became disenfranchised with the segregation, of the congregations, in the churches he attended. In response to this social norm of the time, Jim Jones visionary leadership began. He started by establishing the Peoples Temple and invited all races and social demographics to join his congregation. Jim Jones encouraged Demographic Diversity (USAF) because...
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