...PRECIS WRITING Please re-write the following passage into 1/3rd of the size and also title it. It is physically impossible for a well-educated or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts, just as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them. All healthy people like their dinners, but their dinner is not the main object of their lives. So all healthy minded people like making money—ought to like it and enjoy the sensation of winning it; it is something better than money. A good soldier, for instance, mainly wishes to do his fighting well. He is glad of his pay—very properly so, and justly grumbles when you keep him ten years without it—still his main notion of life is to win battles, not to be paid for winning them. So of clergyman’s object is essentially to baptize and preach, not to be paid for preaching. So of doctors. They like fees no doubt, -- out to like them; yet if they are b rave and well educated, the entire object of their lives is a not fee. They, on the whole, desire to cure the sick, and, if they are good doctors, and the choice were fairly put to them, would rather cure their patient and lose their fee than kill him and get it. And so with all the other brave and rightly trained men; their work is first, their fee second – very important always, but still second. (233 words) We would also like to give some aids to do this task Aids to Vocabulary Grumble Notion Clergyman Baptize : Show dissatisfaction : Idea, belief, opinion...
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...Mark Esquivel Mr.Korbel Period 6 February 28, 2012 Précis The age of enlightenment was a cultural movement of intellectual which originated in the 18th century. People may oppose superstition it’s like “step on a crack break your mother’s back.” Superstitions were also when the puritans believed in witches and demons. Many of the past was just a superstition to some of the Puritan. Most of it was real for instants The Crucible. Talks about the spiritual ways of witch craft. Emotion over reason as I marriage if a girl does not like what you get them. That the emotion of a girl that can have over one person. If you buy something new she doesn’t like the reason won’t pass. It’s the “emotion” which counts the most according to the girls. Like how she feels and reacts to the new thing that was brought for her or a household item. For example if I brought a new TV it might be big enough or will not suite her. Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe and strengthened in reaction to Industrial Revolution .In part, it was a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography, education and natural history. Realism shows...
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...Carter LaPointe Professor Barter EH 124009 15 February 2016 Precis Final Draft Part I: “The Situation” Division is something that we can all agree upon when it comes to American politics. It is constantly stated in the media the never-ending battle between Republicans and Democrats fighting for advantage in the Senate, the House of Representatives, and The White House. They look to the American civilians to side with them by selling their ideas to help improve the quality and the living of the country for votes to get them into office. Usually, however, when these candidates get into office, they end up spending most of their time arguing with their opposing party instead of coming up with solutions to improve our country. We can conclude that our country’s corrupt political system does example division, but is that the same for the American people themselves. Columnist and Editor, David Brooks, seems to think so in his article called, One Nation, Slightly Divisible. David Brooks is a long-term columnist for “The New York Times” and an editor for “Newsweek” and “The Atlantic” (The New York Times). Written between 2000 and 2001 in Maryland, David Brooks explains the differences of two groups the American civilian are placed into based off their lifestyle habits. Brooks does this by separating American citizens into two groups called “Red States” and “Blue States.” Brooks uses an example of two counties in Maryland, Montgomery County and Franklin County. These...
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...Summary Arthur Kleinman’s, “A Window on Mental Health in China” discusses the medicalization process of mental illness in a culturally dominant society. China believed that mental illness was not a mental a disease but rather a politically wrong way of thinking and did not acknowledge the existence of mental hospitals. They believed the development and approaches of Western society were too liberal and unacceptable in China. Chinese society refused to accept that mental illness was in part caused by societal and environmental factors. Even though over the decades, mental illness has become a huge health problem in China, there are limited resources to treat their patients. Kathryn Schulz’s, “Did Antidepressants Depress Japan?” discusses the introduction of antidepressants and the effect it had on its society. Unlike America, Japan is a society who acknowledges that not everything in life is happiness, that there at times when individuals feel sad. Since feeling melancholy is acceptable, mental illness was not classified as a disease. Mild depression became popular in Japan after celebrities admitted they suffered from depression and were on antidepressants. The pharmaceutical companies started partnering with doctors, which they eventually prescribed patients antidepressants. Thomas J. Csordas’, “Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing” discusses the charismatic healing of Father Felix, two cases in particular. Charismatic healing is performed to eliminate the presence...
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...“What is a Precis” In his article, Karl Marx who is well known as a German philosopher, criticizes the position of alienation from the article “ Estranged Labor.” In a capitalist nation, Karl Marx discusses that when doing labor, alienation is a basic component which is required to control a physical presence. Evidently, Marx is different from other philosophers as he embraces to view man as a human being, as well as individual which is demonstrated in his article. Throughout Karl Marx’s text, the idea of alienation is consistently used and in his article, Karl introduces the four distinctive types of alienation. In his article, Karl Marx characterizes private property in which the capitalist society owns all resulting products, that are done by the laborers. When laborers are alienated from the products of their employment, this is known to be the first type of alienation, signifying that more the laborer yields, the fewer the laborer will have. The second type of alienation is when the workers are forced to do work and these workers are not satisfied. This means the workers are technically slaves to their owner. The third type of alienation that occurs in a capitalist society is when laborers are forced to work and are alienated from their bodies and human ability. Lastly, the fourth type of alienation is when the workers are alienated from having social contact with other workers in their work field. The importance of this article written by Karl Marx was to the show the basic...
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...Précis #1 (Chapter 7) • United States and Soviet Union continue conflict in Europe with the fight between Democracy and Communism as prominent world political powers. • The Iron Curtain “descends” and conflict between US and SU superpowers spreads to conflict globally- especially within Asia. • The Cold War breaks out and breaks up replacing the fear of world end via nuclear weapons and resilient political parties with reassuring the global people of peace. 2. The United States and the Soviet Union continuing conflict within Europe regarding individual ideas of the Yalta agreement and the political superpowers of democracy and communism is a largely important tipping off point for Chapter 7. The Yalta agreement, created to regain trust between the two world powers and provide for the basis of world peace, fails and creates exactly what it is set out to end. By competing for political domination, the rest of the world outside of Europe is eventually dragged in. By including continents such as Asia, the United States is forced to fight despite lack of support on the home front. The “Iron Curtain Descends” is the first headline, which I feel is important to the chapter because it illustrates the collapse of the grand alliance via miscommunication of the Yalta agreement. The descending of the iron curtain split Europe in two and leads to important documents such as the Truman Doctrine (gave money to countries threatened by communism), the Marshall Plan (rebuild war torn...
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...A rhetorical précis is a highly specialized, specific type of summary. It differs from the more general summary in that emphasis is placed upon providing the rhetorical aspects of the work under consideration. Like the summary, the goal is to provide in clear, precise language, the main points of a piece. Essential information within the rhetorical précis include the writer’s name, the genre and name of the piece, the way in which this information is delivered, the main point, how the point is developed, and the relationship between the writer and audience. This information is presented in four very specific sentences as outlined below. 1. Sentence one provides the name of the author, the genre (essay, novel, speech...etc.) and title of the work with the date (in parentheses), a concise appropriate action verb, such as “claims, posits, argues, or asserts” followed by a “that” phrase in which the thesis of the work is stated (either paraphrased or directly quoted). “Paraphrasing” a passage, means putting that passage into your own words (use your own language). When directly “quoting” a passage, you must write the text using the exact words of the original author, and you must encase the select passage in quotation marks. Please remember that whenever you paraphrase or directly quote a passage, you must follow that passage with a parenthetical citation, meaning that within parentheses, you must insert the author’s last name and the page number from which you gathered the passage...
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...Creative Advertising: What is it and can it Create Positive Brand Images and Purchasing Possibilities Marketers have been challenged to produce the effective strategy to produce value to customers, create long lasting relationship that would result into profitable customer relationship, and servicing them through a good after sales services. With these, companies are not only creating value for their products they are also able to increase their profit through proper promotions. Too much spend into these department will bloat the fixed overheads and will result into lower profit and does not guarantee to capture value from customers. For many decades of our time, print/radio/TV advertisements have been the key that played out in communicating message to the target consumers, however people have come to a certain point that it became its nature to constantly seek new things. And with that being said, marketers were called in to the era of promoting their products, the creative advertising. Many studies have defined creative advertising such as “Something that makes people stop what they are doing and pay attention, even when they know they are looking at an ad” and “The soul of advertising and branding”, and “The extent to which the advertisement contains brand or executional elements that are different, novel, unusual, unique and original”. All of which based their core concepts into Originality, Attraction, Strategy and Persuasiveness. Advertising agencies regard creativity...
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...* * In John Locke’s The Casual Theory of Perception the idea of perception versus what is real is examined and analyzed in great detail. The main focus of this writing is that there is an outside world (made up of real and wholesome objects), and there are ideas about the world (perceptions produced in us by the objects). This main focus is repeated and explained in multiple aspects and ways within Locke’s writing. Going into detail, Locke feels, or rather feels that he knows, that there are three sorts of qualities to be considered in respects to bodies (physical objects). Firstly, there are Primary qualities – otherwise known as real or original qualities - which include certain physical properties such as bulk, size, figure, number, situation, and motion. The reason Locke calls these real or original is because these properties are there regardless of our perceptions and regardless of if we are there. These characteristics are within the object itself, independent of our existence. An example of this would be a boulder. The boulder is made out of elements and has a large bulkiness in the shape of a cylinder. While we can see this, it is an inherent part of the boulder, and will not change based on our experiences around the boulder. Secondly, there are primary qualities – otherwise known as sensible qualities – which include the characteristics of color, taste, smell, and sound. These are all the qualities given off by an object but...
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...Précis: "A Red-Hot A and a Lusting Divine: Sources for The Scarlet Letter" The title of the article is "A Red-Hot A and a Lusting Divine: Sources for The Scarlet Letter" by author Fredrick Newberry. It was originally printed from The New England Quarterly in June 1987. The article's thesis states "Although the appearance of this law so late in the century might seem anomalous to the 1634 setting of "Endicott and the Red Cross" or to the 1642-49 setting of The Scarlet Letter, we may easily resolve the discrepancy by assuming either that Hawthorne had been influenced instead by the early seventeenth-century case of Goodwife Mendame, sentenced to wear an AD on her sleeve, or that, contrary to his usual practice, he felt the need in this instance to take liberties with the historical record." Fredrick Newberry establishes that Hawthorne was influenced by cases in earlier time periods to create his novel. Newberry makes a point to tell us The Scarlet Letter was not the first case in which someone was publicly humiliated and shunned by being forced to wear letters of their sin (particularly adultery) on an article of clothing. There are several comparable cases where an individual was branded with the letter A, Mary Batcheller and Goodwife Mendame's cases are a few to name. Mary Batcheller's case originally appeared, October 15, 1651 in Maine's records where it states she would be given 40 strokes and six weeks after her delivery be branded with the letter A. Goodwife Mendame...
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...Yang, Chirstina Prof. Robert ENC 1102 Date: October 22, 2015 Title: “Boys and Girls” Author: Alice Munro Characters: The father, the mother, the sister, Laird, Henry Bailey, the grandmother, Flora Setting: The house, the barn Plot Summary: The sister is hurt that she’s defined by her gender, and the stuff she enjoys are considered boys stuff. Laird is expected to do all the manly stuff even if he don’t enjoy them. One aspect of the story that I really enjoyed: I enjoyed when the sister purposely let Flora leave. One aspect of the story that I found puzzling of that I did not understand: Was Laird jealous of his sister? Why the mother felt like her daughter shouldn’t be trusted? What made the sister let Flora go? Three-Paragraph analysis: The story was about a sister and a brother named Laird that were always being compared to each other. Everything the sister truly loved and enjoyed to do was considered a man’s job. It was hard for anyone to take her seriously because she was a girl and only expected to act like a lady. Laird on the other hand, had a hard time because everything he did wasn’t good enough or wasn’t as good as his sister. Laird was expected to be or manly since his a boy. They both had a hard time growing up since Laird had to always help his father, and the sister wanted to be with the father but her mother would force her to help her instead. The sister would have dreams of her a little older rescuing people from a bombed building, shooting two...
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...We have discovered that a shared sense of responsibility is good economics. Social innovation in commerce has changed how people interact with one another, and as well as the way people think of themselves. Social change is being reintroduced through trade and commerce – the idea that social responsibility does not only mean volunteerism and community service, but also by responsible spending. Nowadays, consumers consider social and environmental specifications on their products, aside from the nature of products. A number of consumers would consider buying 100% organic materials compared to those that weren’t. A big percentage of consumers purchased products because of the social or political values of the company that produced the product. Some even said that they’ve supported local or neighborhood businesses. These are examples of a changing mind-set. We can now see a rise of the citizen consumer – and the beginnings of a responsibility revolution. A big number of companies in today’s market, both large and small, are practicing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in order to achieve organizational sustainability. The concept of organizational sustainability increasingly impacts the nature of organizations’ operations. Green management in organizations has to go beyond regulatory compliance and needs to include conceptual tools such as pollution prevention, product stewardship and corporate social responsibility. Hence, determination and measurement of organizational...
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...R24 Culture of Hate: Who Are We? Summary Lee Harvey, the director of the documentary film Culture of Hate: Who Are We? (2002), addresses the topic of racism. She reveals the hidden world of white power youths in Lakeside and discusses the causes and effects of white power movement in the community of Lakeside. In the beginning of the film, Harvey shows the viewers the murder incident of a Mexican migrant worker whose body was found in a drainage ditch in Lakeside, CA. In the drainage ditch, the walls were surfaced with swastikas and other racist symbols. The three boys who were arrested for the Mexican murder incident argued that they were drunk. Nevertheless, the police officers believed that it was a hate crime, involving discrimination. Harvey mentions that the town used to be more or less safe, populated with white middle class Americans. Nevertheless, due to the economic and social changes, more hate crimes began occurring. And also, ethnic minorities became “scapegoats” due to economic recession. According to the expert testimonies of teachers, school administrators, and halfway house directors, these misguided white kids defined racism as a way to express of their emotional needs, to get out of their anger, to find the meaning of life, to get a sense of belonging, and to get protection. For this reason, they envied blacks for having Black History Month, Black Power, and other black cultural celebrations, blamed and attacked Mexicans for losing their jobs, and drew...
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...Kellie Mairin Matack IRLS210 International Relations I Professor Laura Culbertson 25 April 2015 International Relations Theoretical Perspectives of Putin, Obama, and Rouhani Vladimir Putin The current president of the country of Russia, Vladimir Putin predominately exhibits realist tendencies on the international stage. While Putin may be motived by variables that inevitably fall under constructivism and other theories of international relations, he most recently has adopted a realist viewpoint of how his country fits in to the world as an international actor. The definition of the realist theory as described by Wilkinson, explains that the world of international politics is a constant struggle over power, motived by self-interest and primarily maintained through military power that is acquired by commerce and industry wealth (2007, 2). During Putin’s address to the Federal assembly, he exemplifies a realist view in his statement, “Every nation has an inalienable sovereign right to determine its own development path, choose allies and political regimes, create an economy and ensure its security… we will have to protect our legitimate interests unilaterally”(2014). It can be seen that President Putin justifies Russia’s actions on the international stage through purporting that every nation has it’s own interests and has the right to do whatever it takes to ensure those interests are secured. When President Putin was serving as the prime minister in Russia, he oversaw...
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...2. October 2015 A rhetorical Precis of “Associations Between Violent Video Gaming, Empathic Concern, and Prosocial Behavior Toward Strangers, Friends, and Family Members” Ashy Fraser, Laura Walker, Sarah Coyne, Larry Nelson and Laura Stockdale (2012), [students at Brigham Young University], in their article “Associations Between Violent Video Gaming, Empathic Concern, and Prosocial Behavior Toward Strangers, Friends, and Family Members”, suggest that video games could affect prosocial behavior towards others. These students support this thesis by doing a study on 780 college and comparing different aspects of prosocial behavior. These authors reference other articles that claim violent video games could lead to lower SAT scores, greater drug use, drinking behavior, and lower perceived social acceptance. Then the authors go on to talk about a study that was done, they had college students play video games in a lab environment and then a fake fight was staged outside of the lab door. The students who played the violent videos games took 450% longer to notice a fight was going on, compared to students who have not played any. Now we get onto the study that was done by Ashy Fraser and her fellow students, they posted a questionnaire via the internet and offered students $20 to complete the survey. In the survey the asked each user how often they play video games; then they would try to understand how much empathic concern each of the students have. Finally they would look...
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