...someone’s creative activity, it may be inferred that this matter is significant in the life of the artist. Many writers who lived in colonial America wrote poems, stories, and even novels pertaining to the subject of religion. After all, these authors have ancestors who left England in pursuit of religious freedom. As with every other aspect of life, in writing there are those people whose beliefs and opinions do not match the acceptable norm. An individual’s level of religious devotion can range anywhere from complete denial to subtle skepticism to fanatic belief. Nathaniel Hawthorne, one famous author from this time period, uses religious references in many of his stories. More specifically, Hawthorne chose to examine how sin and obsession can isolate an individual from those around him. This separation that Hawthorne’s characters often face causes them to lose everything that was once precious to them. Goodman Brown and Minister Hooper successfully sever themselves from their loved ones and their communities because they can not accept or forgive the sins of others. Any moderately intelligent person understands that no human is infallible. No lack of intelligence exists when referring to Dr. Rappaccini or Dr. Baglioni. Both men have chosen to commit their time to expanding their knowledge. The pursuit of excessive intelligence leads to a man, void of emotion, who will sacrifice his loved ones to achieve greatness. The nightmare that Goodman Brown has about the dark...
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...persistent disturbing preoccupation; an obsession. They are controlled by this unwanted yet unavoidable urge to compete an objective. Unfortunately for them and many others like them, their objective is unreachable, leaving them utterly unfulfilled. Obsession has been defined by dictionary as “a compulsive preoccupation with fixed idea or unwanted feeling or emotion, often with symptoms of anxiety.” It can often lead to an addictive habit that becomes hard to resist or a habit where a person becomes dependent upon someone or something. For example, a gambling addiction may result from a person’s obsession to win; a smoking addiction may result from a person’s obsession to ingest nicotine. Other types of obsession may also include: a person’s obsession with hair or looks, with weight, or feeling the need to look young. Throughout my life, I have experienced one of these obsessions. When I was twelve years old, I was obsessed with weight and how to be thin. Since I was really chubby at that time, I began skipping lunch. My obsession with wanting to look thin resulted in a negative effect; my skin became so thin, and my ribs could be seen. Another example of a person’s obsession would be my younger sister’s obsession with appearances, looks, hair, and style as a result of her often being vain due to her adolescence that she‘s been going through. Lastly, another person’s obsessive habit that I can refer to would be my cousin’s obsession with winning all the time, due to his cocky...
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...Section-1 INTRODUCTION Background of the study (Credibility in Wikipedia) A selfie is a type of self-portrait photograph, typically taken with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone. Selfies are often associated with social networking, like Instagram. They are often casual, are typically taken either with a camera held at arm's length or in a mirror, and typically include either only the photographer or the photographer and as many people as can be in focus. Selfies taken that involve multiple people are known as "group selfies" or "ussies". Robert Cornelius, an American pioneer in photography, produced a daguerreotype of himself in 1839 which is also one of the first photographs of a person. The concept of uploading group self-taken photographs (now known as super selfies) to the internet, although with a disposable camera not a smartphone, dates to a webpage created by Australians in September 2001, including photos taken in the late 1990s (captured by the Internet Archive in April 2004). The earliest usage of the word selfie can be traced as far back as 2002. It first appeared in an Australian internet forum (ABC Online) on 13 September 2002. Um, drunk at a mates 21st, I tripped ofer [sic] and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie. The term "selfie" was discussed by photographer Jim Krause in 2005, although photos in the...
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..."Breaking news! The famous U-Known from T.V.X.Q had been sent to the hospital! The manager stated that he had been acting really strange and ended up vomiting blood. Authorities had said that a fan had dressed up as an employee and gave him a drink that contains adhesive!" the T.V stated. In Collin Palmer's essay, "A Healthy Obsession," he explained how being obsessed is okay, and it does not affect anyone in a negative way, but it helps people in a positive way. Fans these days had been violating idols' private life, and they would do anything to get close to their favorite celebrities. Fans who stalks celebrities these days can take it too far which can cause them to do negative things to themselves and everyone else around them. Fans these days that stalk celebrities would imitate their favorite idols in many ways whether it is good or bad. In "The Impact Celebrities Have on Our Lives," written by Deborah King, she stated, "For instance, if you are not centered and balanced energetically, and you don't feel so good about who you are. you are much more likely to follow your favorite celebrities and wish that you could be them." What King meant is that fans do not like how they are or how they look like. They would most likely follow what their favorite celebrity's look or their way of acting so they could be like them, which can lower their self- esteem. In the same article by Deborah King, she stated, "The sad fact is that we are more enthralled by celebrities who have bad...
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...The company known worldwide as Apple has sold more than five million of its new iPhone 5 in the three days it was released - one million ahead of the iPhone 4S sales in the three days after it was released a year ago. An average of three hundred seventy-seven thousand iPhones is sold every day beating the world’s average birth rate which normally clocks in at three hundred seventy-one thousand per day. IPhones are now being made at an alarming rate that exceeds the amount of babies currently produced by humans on earth every day! These statistics only validates the point that the iPhone may have already surpassed sliced bread as the biggest thing. The initial concept for an iPhone type device came about in the year 2000. John Casey, an Apple worker sent some concept art around via office email which he dubbed the “Telipod” (a combination of telephone and iPod). Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs, then directed Apple's engineers to develop a touch screen mobile phone. Steve Jobs was originally considering an Apple tablet computer; this idea is now known worldwide as the iPad. The design of the iPhone was mainly conceptualized by Jonathan Ive, a British designer who was also the principal designer for most Apple products such as the iMac, iPod and iPad. The iPhone became the very first smart phone without a hard keypad for dialing, the original only touchscreen device. Iphone’s groundbreaking touchscreen technology gave consumers the ability to scroll and zoom. Though Apple didn’t...
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...texts display how love defines the rash actions that one may display for what they desire. Gatsby’s love for Daisy Buchannan along with the influence that she brings to his life, leads him into a downward spiral which then ends in his demise, the influence of Lady Macbeth on Macbeth tests his desires and lust for power. Obsessions and persisting those obsessions are what creates both stories of Macbeth and Gatsby and entail the main motivations for power or for the love of a woman who was like a long lost friend. Through self-destruction and illusion, the two texts display those obsessions and their impossible and illusionistic outcomes. Gatsby and Macbeth, with all the similarities that they show, their...
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...The Misplaced Obsession with PACs PACs are committees formed by business, labor, or other special interest groups to raise money and make contributions to the campaigns of political candidates whom they support. Money and politics always go together in the political environment, and PACs are a major source of campaign funds. Larry Sabato argues that this obsession with PACs is misplaced because PACs fulfill the role Madison created for diverse and active faction. He demonstrated how the combination of money and politics is a long-lasting relationship that has been a part of politics, he wrote, “The rapid rise of PACs has engendered much criticism, yet many of the charges made against political action committees are exaggerated and dubious. While the widespread use of the PAC structure is new, special interest money of all types has always found its way into politics” He argues that interest money has always existed, through the use of PACs, handling of this money can be done in a more systematic. Sabato also argues the lack of clear evidence that PAC money can "buy" votes on legislation. But it seems like money has a definite role in PACs to get out to the people.”Vote buying” is not supported by a careful examination of the facts. He suggests that in certain circumstances PACs money can be influential, with narrow, less visible, and specialized issues. They can also be effective in agenda setting and subcommittee votes, but he argues that most congressmen are not unduly influenced...
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...offers and many more. Based on different brands, different customers are being targeted keeping their customers more obsessed with the brand. Identity and social pressure has further lead to brand obsession that is highly apparent in U.A.E with negative effects on the society. One of the causes that contribute to brand obsession would be identity. Community of top classes usually prefer showing their identity through their visual appearance of their clothes, make-up, cars, house furniture, watches that allows them to appear as rich/ top class and properly distinct than the other social classes (lower, middle) . To some of the people, owning branded items brings them satisfaction as they get the second-looks and attention from other people; simply put, it states the obvious of how rich they are and prefer to look neat, classy and popular of their status. Moreover, not all the society prefers luxurious products or is obsessed with luxurious products such as Gucci, Chanel, LV, and other products. There are a lot others who are obsessed with brands that provide cheap commodities, quick services, or high customer satisfactions offers. This allows them to save up money for future investments, preferences or spend money on other priorities. Another cause that has increased the brand obsession in U.A.E would be social pressure. The majority of the citizens and...
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...• Status of the luxury market today: According to the latest survey of The World Association of Luxury goods, Chinese luxury consumption amount in January this year has up from $8.6 billion to $9.4 billion, accounting for 27.5% of the world. It is expected to 2015, China's luxury consumption will account for 32% of the global market, becoming the world's largest luxury consumer than Japan. With China's luxury consumption ability to continuously release, this brand in China is expected to have obviously large sales growth space. According to Viscoelasticstatistics, large luxury product groups coming to settle in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. The numbers of shops are now beyond that of Italian and equals to that of London. In previous years, in Shanghai and Beijing, Tod 's, LV, Bottega Veneta, Cartier, Salvatore Ferragamo, Zegna and etc. brands flooded in just a few months. At present, the domestic market possesses nearly two thirds of the luxury brands, estimate in 2013 years or earlier, people can find all luxury brands in domestic market. • The status of LV’s market in China and its strategy: There are about 100 sales outlets of LV watch and jewelry in domestic now. LV bag has opened 39 stores in China now and the sale amount is accounted for nearly 40% of the whole sale amount of LV in the world, which is beyond the Europe,the birthplace of the 19% market share and the 23% market share of USA. A Chinese cinema's manager said jokingly: “If a cinema can earn 20 million...
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...Our Obsession with Green Lawns Eric Alan Campbell COMM215 October 13, 2014 April Adams Our Obsession with Green Lawns The manicured lawn exploded into popularity in the 1950s. The advent of inexpensive motorized lawn mowers and fertilizing chemicals made lawns a reality for the middle class. America has over 50,000 square miles of grass in cultivation. Now in 2014, California is facing a drought like none seen before in modern times. Crops are withering, lakes are running dry, fires are catching everywhere and yet, around every corner, I see manicured lawns. Vast expanses of nothing but healthy, beautiful, allergy inducing grass. It’s irresponsible, and harmful to our environment and economy. The 2013-14 rainfall season is on track to be the driest in 434 years, according to Lynn Ingram, a paleo-climatologist at UC Berkley. The concern generated by this drought brought together a group of emergency planners and water managers for an event known as the “California Drought Outlook Forum” on February, 20 2014 in Sacramento, California. They determined that the water outlook for the state was similar to the droughts in the 1970s. However, our water obligations have increased greatly in the following decades. Marty Hoering of the NOAA states, “The stress created by the current failed rains is more severe than for similar rainfall deficits 40 years earlier.” The central focus for this concern is the substantial agricultural business that California sustains, from avocados...
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...America’s Obsession with Fast Food When people all over the world are looking for a quick, easy meal to grab on the go, fast food is the most popular solution. On any given day, about twenty-five percent of Americans visit fast food restaurants for burgers, fries, and sodas, the staples of the all-American fast food fix. The big question is, why? What lures so many people to purchase and consume food that is known to be grossly unhealthy, or better yet allow their families to consume? The answer is simple: it’s easy, it’s filling, it’s convenient and it’s inexpensive. In today’s world, most households are two- income households, meaning both parents work. Paired with after school activities and the shear time it takes to ensure that homework and bathes are done, driving through a fast food restaurant sounds pretty enticing. The bargain hunting mentality is one of the primary drivers in America’s fast food obsession. In today’s economic woes, Americans are always looking for deals. At this point, value becomes more important than nutrition. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, consumption of French fries, mainly purchased from fast food restaurants, increased by 63 percent between the 1970s and 1990s, and Americans consumed an average of 152 pounds of added sugars in 2000. Junk food is often high in unhealthy fats, sugar, sodium and/or calories, so gaining an understanding of what draws Americans to it is interesting and most can relate. ...
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...- We can see that most of the People that are making the decisions and earning all the money got it all through their leadership. Leadership inspire followers to do their best, in order to achieve a certain goal. Therefore leadership is different from supervision and managing, as these two deal with the day-to-day operations and with more tactical work, whereas leadership is focused on the long-term, strategic outlook. The Obsession of leadership is a strong idea, and one of the main issues with business is control. Control of people, control of supplies, control of processes, product or service, costs, overtime, taxes, regulations, is principal to success in order to stay in business, for anyone in leadership. Most of the Business leaders...
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...1. After reading the book, what knowledge did you gain about love addiction? There is much to be learned from Moore’s Confusing Love with Obsession about how to recognize and handle obsessive relational behaviors. I was particularly surprised at how many of these behaviors I have exhibited at different times in life. Most of my obsessive behaviors occurred in my first serious relationship when I was 20 years old. I remember desperately pleading with my partner to stay, and falling into a severe depression for months after our breakup. At the time, I did not recognize many of my obsessive behaviors helped drive my partner to end the relationship. Though I managed to keep my job, it was almost lost because I would cry every day. I couldn’t...
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...young Hamlet. After this shocking revelation, Hamlet becomes obsessed with thoughts of death and avenging his father’s murder, which contributes to his insanity. When Hamlet speaks to his father’s ghost, his father insists that Hamlet avenge his death by killing Claudius. The ghost explains to his son that King Claudius has corrupted the nation of Denmark, has robbed him of his own life, and therefore, achieving revenge is crucial. After conversing with the ghost, Hamlet vows to seek vengeance on Claudius. This “seeking” of vengeance very quickly turns into an obsession. Hamlet’s every thought seems to revolve around his plot to kill Claudius, causing friends and family to express concern over his strange behaviors. Rumors begin to travel around Denmark that Hamlet has “gone mad,” while Hamlet claims to only be feigning his insanity. Hamlet’s soliloquy where he contemplates suicide is one example of his obsession with death. Amidst the stresses of planning Claudius’ murder, Hamlet even considers ending his own life: “To be, or not to be: that is the question” (III.i.58). In this well-known soliloquy, Hamlet brings up the point that why would someone go through the “whips and scorns of life,” grunting and sweating, when one could escape these trials and end it at any moment. Clearly, Hamlet believes that the easiest way out of his misery here on earth is by suicide. However, he...
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...Time can have a major impact on people's lives. As you already know, time can change people for the better or worse The authors of "Piano Obsession" and "Zulma" use passing of time to develop the points of view of the characters. As time passes, the outlook of the main characters if affected in either a positive or negative manner. The authors in "Piano Obsession" shows how Reem eventually gets more comfortable with the piano. In " Piano Obsession" Reem meets the piano. She likes the piano form the start but she is not confident enough to play it. But as time passes Reem gets more comfortable with the piano. Furthering my point, in the story it states that "I told it my secrets" " The piano simplified the stories bracketed...
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