...What does it mean to be human? Is it how we look? Our intelligence? Our minds in general? All of these are true in some sort of way, in both negative and positive ways. However, African Americans were thought of as different in all of those ways, and not for the positive reasons. A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940’s. In this book, a man by the name of Jefferson is wrongfully convicted for murder, and a teacher, named Grant, is forced to convince him that he is a man and not a hog like the people in the court told him he was. Although it seems easy to understand whether you are a human in general or not, it is quite difficult to understand it when everyone around you constantly tells you otherwise. “Oh pardon me, pardon me, I surely did not mean to insult your intelligence by saying ‘man’—would you please forgive me for committing such an error” (Gaines 8). This extremely derogatory statement was a gibe from no other than Jefferson’s own attorney at his trial in court. Not even the people fighting for...
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...Harrison Bergeron Analysis Harrison Bergeron is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut. The story is a about the society in America in 2081, a man called George and his wife, Hazel, and the way the society is controlling people, so they can fit into what the government call “average”, and thereby achieve the goal of being ‘equal’. In today’s society everybody strikes to be the best, better looking and smarter than anybody else, and therefore the thought about living in a society where everyone is equal might sound tempting, if you find the race of being the best tiring. A lot of the things that most young people are struggling with right now might disappear. No more jealousy and at best no more war. There is often created a dystopian world, when humans are trying to make it a utopian one. The story about Harrison Bergeron concerns this issue. Everybody is equal, which might sound like a utopian world but in fact is a dystopian society to be living in. “The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the Law. They were equal in every which way. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else” The meaning of the word ‘equal’ has been taking to a whole new level and it is supposed to be making the society a better place, but in fact the thing it is doing, is controlling the citizens and taking away their freedom of thought, intellectual ability and their individual beauty and strength. An...
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...alien race was not done by himself. The people that he was surrounded by had a substantial impact on his intelligence and overall personality. Colonel Graff’s out of the box thinking laid down the stepping-stones that would allow Ender to become the great military leader and strategist that helped him defeat the buggers. Graff made many difficult decisions that seemed irrelevant at the time but proved very critical to Ender’s success. Mazer Rackham didn’t have much time to mould Ender into what the world needed, however he used the time that was given to him very effectively. Mazer modeled Ender after himself because he himself had once defeated the buggers single headedly just like Ender was born to do. The person of utmost importance to Ender is his sister Valentine. She not only shaped him into a great leader but her opinion was also the only other opinion that Ender listened to other than his own. She was the only person that could convince Ender to use his talents to save human kind from the bugger’s As the earth became overly populated, a rule was put in place that one family could have no more than two kids. The Wiggin family was an exception to that rule due to the overlying potential of their two previous children in Peter and Valentine. Although Peter and Valentine both showed signs of incredible intelligence, Peter was deemed to be too violent and Valentine too empathic. The International Fleet hoped that by the Wiggin family giving birth to a third child he could...
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...As we all know, education is a very important thing and we have different class levels, to pass through those levels, we write exams but then, there are some disadvantages of exams. Many of us, including me face a lot of tension, stress, panic attacks before attending exams especially when its finals because you try your hard not to forget what you've learned since there's so many different chapters and trying to keep up with everything can make us stressful because we're afraid of failing. Many of us have been kept down from our confidence to pass with flying colors, some of us do, some of us don't. The stress and tension makes us forget things even if we worked so hard on learning and memorizing and understanding whatever we had to. I've read a lot about teenagers committing suicide cause of exams, some of think its not worth it and many of us don't realize that its the stress and tension that makes us do what we do because education is a huge part of life, but passing the grade means more than anything because in this society, you'll be forever known as a failure because our society is a very cruel thing and nobody understands why they do things and why things are meant to be done and everyone's blinded with being number 1. There is so much of pressure on everyone to perform well just to satisfy others but i don't think so that exams are suppose to tell our intelligence because anyone can sum up small things and write it on a paper and forget it after many days. Exams need...
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...our world has become a full time job for our astrophysicists they search day in and day out looking and seeking for life on other planets and in other solar systems. The life on earth as we know it can only exist because we have the right mixture of properties to provide us with the perfect planet setting and atmosphere. Describe the properties of life on Earth. All living creatures and organisms have the same basic characteristics and/or functions, sensitivity, response or order to their environment, development and growth, reproduction, homeostasis, regulation and processing energy. When we view these together the eight items define life. Organisms and creatures are organized and coordinated structures that consist of one or more cells. Even the very simple, single-celled organisms and creatures are complex. Inside each cell atoms make up molecules, these atoms and molecules in turn make up organelles and other inclusions. In a multicellular organism or creature similar cells from tissues. These tissues in turn work together to form organs. Organs collaborate to form organ systems. Organisms respond to different stimulus. A good example of this is that plants grow toward the light they also climb on walls and fences or respond to the touch. Even the smallest bacteria can move away or toward chemicals. Movement toward this is considered a good response, while movement away from this is considered a negative response. The single celled creatures or organisms multiply...
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...1. Sense of Humour It is a unique ability of Aquarius women to be funny even without trying too hard. Spend 5 minutes with an Aquarius woman and she’ll entertain you so much, you’d wonder how time passed. Now people love to laugh and they love people who can make them laugh. So you can’t be surprised if you get to know that an Aquarius woman has a huge fan following, can you? 2. Courage Aquarius women love living life on the edge. They are very brave and love adventures. If an Aquarius woman is asked to write a book about all the adventures in her life, she will have a lot to talk about. This is simply because they are open to all kinds of experiments. In fact, they hate going the way everybody else goes. Instead, they would take a route that nobody else has ever discovered. 3. Independence Aquarius women love freedom. Their freedom is in fact something that they won’t give up for anything else in the world. When you look at an Aquarius woman, you see a strong, independent woman standing in front of you. This woman possesses not just the power, but also the guts to look after herself even if there is nobody else to care for her. She doesn’t need someone to constantly watch her back. She very well knows how to keep herself safe. 4. Practical Nature She is not someone who gets carried away by words and aimless dreams. She is way too smart for that. The Aquarius woman belongs to the 21st century and she is not a foolish dreamer. She is a realist, and she knows very well what...
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...philosophic and religious views that human destiny is predetermined and cannot be changed, views that human beings have some control over their destinies or the belief that destiny is determined by a combination of human intelligence and divine will. Fatalism is a concept that advocates that destiny cannot be changed. It is doctrine that all events occur according to a fixed and inevitable destiny that individual will neither controls nor affects. A fated event takes place not according to a natural law but in accordance with some mysterious decree issued by some mysterious power, perhaps ages before. Free Will, on the other hand, is the power or ability of the human mind to choose a course of action or make a decision without being subject to restraints imposed by antecedent causes, by necessity, or by divine predetermination. According to Maurice Blondel, truth cannot be known by intellect alone, suggesting that it can be attained only through full, active self-synthesis in accordance with divine will. Haven given a brief introduction and different views to the word destiny, can one say that African destiny can be taken in our own hands and thus changed and if so, how can this be attained? Africa to the rest of the world is viewed as a sick and starving man of the global village, where the other villagers rather than share their food and medicine with him ( so that he can heal and join in the communal activity of gathering food for all), mock him instead and accuse him of laziness...
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...The credit default swaps and useless thin air creation of value have plagued the economy in ways similar to that of the Dark Ages. I am a massive fan of that period of time in the sense that turmoil paves for progress, but can simultaneously work the other way around (especially in the case of the book). Our economy has been through that type of age a few times already only in the past century. We are in a better time with regards to physical health. Mental health possibly hasn't changed much since then and same with intelligence when talking about economics. One aspect in the mainstream human character that has gotten worse is the humanity coupled with empathy. We are all humans and all desire greed, vanity, fallacy, and iniquity to some degree. Because of that, I certainly understand the buying of subprime mortgage bonds which led to the crash. Michael Burry is not depicted as some kind of heathen criminal despite the effect he had on the world. In modern day, his type of scheme based thievery would not be considered deviant enough to constitute crime. Truth be told, he simply saw what was going to happen, so he capitalized on it. If he didn't do it, then someone else would have, and they'd be the rich guy. He and Eisman are nothing short of geniuses who had the capabilities of transcending groupthink. Fiat engineering is theoretically and technically not stealing in accordance to the time and space currently inhabited by this collective consciousness of man-made laws. Collapses...
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...amendments have been made to ensure that every single U.S. citizen is entirely equal under the law: nobody is more attractive, more intelligent, or stronger in physical capabilities than anybody else. The theme made clear in this satire is that total equality is not an ideal worth striving for, but a mistaken goal that is dangerous in both execution and outcome. The U.S. government in this story moves to ensure that no one citizen is in any way superior to another. One aspect of this is in physical aspects: nobody is allowed to be exceptionally attractive, nor are they allowed to be stronger or quicker. Masks are worn over excessively good-looking faces, and bags stuffed with lead balls are worn around the necks of the exceptionally strong so as to slow them down and weaken them. When a news bulletin comes on the television and a ballerina is made to deliver the news, Vonnegut tells us that this ballerina had to have been the best out of all the dancers because “her handicap bags were as big as those worn by two-hundred-pound men” (233). Ballerinas have always been generally petite women in such that they are skinny and perhaps not as tall as other girls or women. Two-hundred-pound men would crush a ballerina with their strength. In the futuristic society Vonnegut has brought us to, it is necessary to give the same amount of physical handicap to a two-hundred-pound man as a petite little ballerina. While a bag of lead balls may not bother a strong heavyweight man to have tied around...
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...Humankind has been wondering how and when the Earth ends for thousands of years. The reasons of wondering may be for different topics such as; to be prepared spiritually or religiously or to spend all the money that a person has or enjoy the life more. Related to how the Earth is going to end, the concepts of exemptionalist, environmentalist, universe and judgment day should be known. Initially, exemptionalists are the people who see the humankind that can handle every problem, so they claim that the problems which occur do not require worrying about. On the other hand, environmentalists are the people who see humankind as a part of a nature so they point out that humankind is related to environment directly, hence humankind is affected all the problems about environment. Universe is the place where everything stays and occurs in. Universe was created from nothing with Big Bang. This place applies physical laws. Judgment day is the time many religions accept that God will end the life which we live. Mainly theories about end of the world can be separated into three groups which are the end because of human based problems, physical destruction of universe and the order of God. Although the human based damages on the Earth are getting more and more serious and physical collapse of universe makes sense scientifically, the decision of end of the world only depends on the owner of everything, the God, not the humankind. To begin with, humankind must be seen as a one living organism and living...
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...all of her money on them, leaving limited cash for emergencies? If I can keep her away from the second house, I know I can outmaneuver her - and the rest of the family - in the next two rounds. Biting my lip not to look too excited, I wait for her to get cold feet and purchase one house only. We stare at each other nonchalantly, muttering indistinctly. Knowing my family’s “sisu,” Finnish for stubbornness, nobody is giving up easily. A battle for the East Coast’s power generation monopoly is unfolding in our newest board game called PowerGrid. As a family’s tradition, we relish the opportunity to find clever ways to beat those close to us in good-natured but fierce tabletop games. My greatest childhood adventure was playing with my grandparents in candlelight at their lakeside cottage without electricity in Eastern Finland. I was...
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...amendments have been made to ensure that every single U.S. citizen is entirely equal under the law: nobody is more attractive, more intelligent, or stronger in physical capabilities than anybody else. The theme made clear in this satire is that total equality is not an ideal worth striving for, but a mistaken goal that is dangerous in both execution and outcome. The U.S. government in this story moves to ensure that no one citizen is in any way superior to another. One aspect of this is in physical aspects: nobody is allowed to be exceptionally attractive, nor are they allowed to be stronger or quicker. Masks are worn over excessively good-looking faces, and bags stuffed with lead balls are worn around the necks of the exceptionally strong so as to slow them down and weaken them. When a news bulletin comes on the television and a ballerina is made to deliver the news, Vonnegut tells us that this ballerina had to have been the best out of all the dancers because “her handicap bags were as big as those worn by two-hundred-pound men” (233). Ballerinas have always been generally petite women in such that they are skinny and perhaps not as tall as other girls or women. Two-hundred-pound men would crush a ballerina with their strength. In the futuristic society Vonnegut has brought us to, it is necessary to give the same amount of physical handicap to a two-hundred-pound man as a petite little ballerina. While a bag of lead balls may not bother a strong heavyweight man to have tied around...
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...Do you have high hopes for the future? Having the dream of great technology, and “flawless” governments. However, have you ever wondered about how bad the future society can turn out to be? Dystopian literature gives you an idea of what can happen in the future, which usually involves flaws in the society and lies from the government. Studying dystopian literature helps us understand that we need to change our views on equality, make sure we have less government control (let everyone have a voice), and start watching and controlling our impact on the government. To start off with, studying dystopian literature helps us understand that we need to accept diversity and improve or change our views on equality. To illustrate, Harrison Bergeron tells the story about a teen boy named Harrison who fights against the government to start a revolution that will allow people to use their unique strengths. When the text introduced...
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...importance for larger businesses. Drawing on relevant theories and at least one case study presented in the lectures in this module, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this argument. The Importance of Behaving Entrepreneurially The strengths in number far outweigh the weaknesses for this argument; however this essay will explore the impact these factors have on companies. Smaller, more entrepreneurial businesses are rising through the ranks, and if the larger firms are to keep up and retain their market position, they need to follow suit, by behaving entrepreneurially. My key arguments here is organisations do need to behave more entrepreneurially due to globalisation, hyper competition, economic turbulence, technological change, industries merging, ever-changing customer needs and markets becoming saturated. This essay will mainly focus on the analysis of three large companies; IBM (International Business Machines), Marks & Spencer and Continental Tyres. I will analyse where the companies were going right or wrong, and where they could have become more entrepreneurial. I will touch upon relevant theories that firms have used and will mention other companies that aid my analysis on behaving entrepreneurially in larger businesses. Entrpreneurial Culture- What is it? There are two main cultures that concern this argument; the Traditional Culture and the Entrepreneurial Culture (see appendix 1.1). In a traditional culture, employees are expected to adhere to all instructions...
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...communicator in the work place. Well hopefully this letter of advice will help you gain the confidence and understanding in communicating in the work place. This advice is also good for those in relationships as well. So hopefully what I write about will help you out as much as possible. No matter how old you are or what you think you know it is always good to get advice on communicating not only with your coworkers but your friends and family. There are various barriers that can cause a person to cram up and not be a good communicator. Always remember that you are not alone when it comes to communication situations that you fear you will not do well in. Not everyone is a good communicator. It is always good to get some advice or hear so good advice to even better yourself as a person. To be a successful employee in any company, you need to first understand that there are some barriers and principles to becoming a great communicator in today’s workplace. Once you are able to understand that there is some principles and barriers you will grow as a great individual who learned new ways to communicate better with other people that they will be working with from here on out. Trust this will not be easy, you will have your downfalls when it comes to things but when it’s all said and done, you will hopefully be a great communicator in today’s work place and you will be able to understand yourself and others as well. Principles of and barriers to effective interpersonal communications ...
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