...Beckoning – v. to lure; entice. “The sun, up above a sky that was blue and tremendous and beckoning to birds ever on the wing…” Unashamed – a. open; unconcealed; unabashed: “…even the low, square nipa house that stood in an unashamed relief against the gray-green haze of grass and leaves” Flanked – v. to be situated at the side of; especially : to be situated on both sides of “It was flanked on both sides by tall, slender bamboo tree which rustled plaintively under a gentle wind.” Plaintively – a. expressing suffering or sadness : having a sad sound “It was flanked on both sides by tall, slender bamboo tree which rustled plaintively under a gentle wind.” Timorous – a. full of fear; fearful; subject to fear; timid; indicating fear “There were dark, newly plowed furrows where in due time timorous seedling would give rise to sturdy stalks and golden grain…” Austere – a. severely simple; without ornament: “…without relenting wave, from a rather prominent and austere brow.” Nondescript – a. not easily described : having no special or interesting qualities, parts, etc. : typical and uninteresting “From the pocket of his khaki coat he pulled a string of nondescript red…” Furtively – a. done in a quiet and secret way to avoid being noticed “But her eyes moved restlessly around the room until they rested almost furtively on a small trunk…” Stifling – a. suffocating; oppressively close: “The heat was stifling, and the silence in the house was beginning...
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...given theory.[14] The development of physics has answered many questions of early philosophers, but has also raised new questions. Study of the philosophical issues surrounding physics, the philosophy of physics, involves issues such as the nature of space and time, determinism, and metaphysical outlooks such as empiricism, naturalism and realism.[15] Many physicists have written about the philosophical implications of their work, for instance Laplace, who championed causal determinism,[16] and Erwin Schrödinger, who wrote on quantum mechanics.[17] The mathematical physicist Roger Penrose has been called a Platonist by Stephen Hawking,[18] a view Penrose discusses in his book, The Road to Reality.[19] Hawking refers to himself as an "unashamed reductionist" and takes issue with Penrose's...
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...“America--- Home of the Brave, Land of the Free” Have you ever sat down, and really thought about all of the people who have died for our freedom, and all of our rights? I know that I haven’t really thought much about it at all, until today... Many people all around the world take our freedom for granted. Imagine if the amazing, brave, and thoughtful people who fought for our freedom and rights hadn’t fought. Our lives would be nothing like they are today. We would probably still be under Britain's control, and be abused, or demanded on what are every move would be. I know i’m glad that we are a free country who elects are leaders. “I’m proud to be an American where at least I know i’m free, and I won’t forget the men who died who gave that...
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...NEVER FORGET On September 11th 2001 I was working at Gundersen Lutheran as a medical assistant. I had heard on the radio about a plane hitting the World Trade Center. It was time for my break so I decided to go to the lounge to see if there was more information on the TV. I arrived just in time to see the first tower collapse. This was history in the making; this was an act of war. I knew at that moment that we faced a terrible and vicious enemy, an enemy who cared nothing for the sanctity of life or the significance of freedom. Patriotism was at an all time high following September 11th 2001. Americans united in one chant. Find those who threaten our freedom and never allow this to happen again. We were then given a flood of information. We began to learn about our enemy. We learned that they do not hail from one nation as other previous opponents of freedom did. They adhere to a radical view of a religion that places their beliefs above the lives of innocents. They felt that their message of hate was more important than the lives of three thousand innocent men, women, and children, people who had no major role in international politics and religious offense. We knew then that we faced a long and bitter challenge. We knew then that the road to preventing another 9/11 would be a difficult path filled with many pitfalls and dangers. We accepted this challenge willingly. We believed the slumbering giant had been awoken. Today, almost six years later, our...
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...won't explain it. A world that sends you reeling from decimated dreams Your misery and hate will kill us all. So paint it black and take it back Let's shout it loud and clear Defiant to the end we hear the call To carry on We'll carry on And though you're dead and gone believe me Your memory will carry on We'll carry on And though you're broken and defeated Your weary widow marches On and on we carry through the fears Ooh oh ohhhh Disappointed faces of your peers Ooh oh ohhhh Take a look at me cause I could not care at all Do or die, you'll never make me Because the world will never take my heart Go and try, you'll never break me We want it all, we wanna play this part I won't explain or say I'm sorry I'm unashamed, I'm gonna show my scar Give a cheer for all the broken Listen here, because it's who we are I'm just a man, I'm not a hero Just a boy, who had to sing this song I'm...
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...The idea of human development is found in the 1990s and this is a tradition of thought that is unashamed to call itself universalist when it comes to the basics of that we all need to live a “good life” and also we are unwilling to give up the belief of that we are all equally entitled to enjoy such things. Because of this idea and point of view, there comes a problem of poverty and global inequality. Sen is born in Bengal in 1993 and he has spend the larger part of his working life at institutions in the UK and the US. He is an economist by training, but works with a philosopher’s skepticism about what we take to be fundamental truths. He is also a Nobel prize winners and he has also chosen not to “consult” with governments on the back of his ideas. Perhaps, the most widely known of those Sen’s work on famine. He argues that famines are rarely the result of a lack of food. They are more usually the consequence of a breakdown in people’s ability to access or produce food in the way that they usually do like for example, the result of political failures, not natural ones. He was also long haunted by the memory of the great Bengal famine of 1943 and Sen’s work has at hear most concerned itself with the idea of human freedom. Sen published a book called Development As Freedom in 1999 and in this book; he argues that the expansion of freedom is central to development. Sen also would have us conceptualize on the idea of development as freedom. Of these two instances, the...
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...Pseudo-Callisthenes translation, “The Greek Alexander Romance” follows traditional character roles and affords Nectanebo his paternity as well as acts of sorcery. During his affair with Alexander’s mother, Olympias, he impersonates the God, Ammon, in order to make love to her after her husband, Philip, threatens to leave her, because after seeing her he “began to lust after her beauty,” (Stoneman 37). He diverts Philip, by sending “a magic sea-hawk to him in a dream to explain the situation” which unfortunately still leaves him suspicious (Stoneman 5). Hogarth adds to his discussion of disapproval to modifications of the romance that, “the English appetite for impropriety was less scrupulous and we find Thomas of Kent…publishing the old libel unashamed” (2). What Hogarth does not see, is that the French adaptation had no reason to follow the traditional rendition because Nectanebo would not be considered a historically important character in their culture. Although, the conception of Alexander changes significantly without the inclusion of Nectanebo, considering that he adds a sense of magic and additional sovereignty to Alexander’s birth. It also eliminates the differing translations of Alexander’s conquest show each cultures attempt to claim Alexander as their own. Hence, why Mcclerney dissuades readers from supporting the temptation to “attempt to create an Alexander to suit or own tastes,” after he makes clear to argue, “according to the Greek Romance, Alexander was not the son of...
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...In the short story Cora Unashamed, Langston Hughes uses food to symbolize Coras personal growth throughout the story. Cora at the beginning is a vulnerable women to the Studevants. Towards the end, she dramatically shapes into becoming an independent strong African American women, reflecting the purpose of the Harlem Renaissance. The writer uses food to symbolise the personal growth of the main character, Cora. At the very beginning of the short story, Langston Hughes shows how vulnerable Cora is to the Studevants. “Cora stinted, and Cora saved, and wore the Studevants’ old clothes, and ate the Studevants’ leftover food¨, (6). Langston Hughes shows us how defenseless Cora is to the Studevants’, by only receiving the leftovers of the Studevants. She is...
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...Critique of Worley’s “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance,” Mary Ray Worley’s article, “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance,” describes the consequences of being obese. Worley supports her arguments by explaining her own personal experiences. Being an obese person in American society, Worley explains that culture at large interprets obesity as an unhealthy habit and an unattractive demeanor. Worley later implies that society is wrong when stating, “Nevertheless, a growing number of people believe it’s possible to be happy with your body, even if it happens to be fat,” (163). She acquired a life changing experience when she attended the National Association of Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), a convention that was hosted to...
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...freely on the governments tab. She used 80 names, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers to collect food stamps, Social Security, veterans benefits for four nonexistence deceased veteran husbands, as well as collecting Welfare. Urbandictionary.com states the definition of "welfare queen" to be a women, regardless of race who is living off the welfare system purely because of laziness and not due to any real need. The "Welfare Queen" is a real woman, living in Chicago and goes by the name of Linda Taylor. Reports claim to have seen her drive her Cadillac to the public aid office and became the embodiment of a pernicious stereotype. The "welfare Queen" became a convenient villain, a woman everyone could hate, she was a lazy black con artist, unashamed of cadging the money that honest folks worked so hard to earn. Her tax-free cash income alone has been running...
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...which the LGBT community was censored, particularly by the US federal government. I highly recommend these excerpts, from both the federal and Supreme Court rulings, be included in our pre-Stonewall Riots compendium. ONE Inc. was the "first widely distributed publication for homosexuals in the United States," formed to “publish...a magazine dealing primarily with homosexuality from the scientific, historical and critical point of view, and to aid in the social integration and rehabilitation of the sexual variant,” providing an unapologetic voice for the LGBT community during an otherwise dismal time period (“History”). The magazine included fictional writings by and about LGBT people, such as a lesbian-authored poem entitled “Proud and Unashamed”, and current events concerning the...
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...romances between them and ladies of the court. However, the Lady of Shallot’s story is very different. She is locked away because she is cursed, and has no knight to rescue her. In fact, the mere glimpse of Sir Lancelot in her mirror is an indirect cause of her death. The Lady of Shallot is a lonely and tragic figure, who we would not associate with an era of romance. Browning chose to set “Porphyria’s Lover” in an unknown past era because it makes the background story of having two lovers meeting in secret to have sex more plausible. Also, the Victorians of the time would not have spoken about sex so openly so it makes more sense that the speaker is someone from the past, who would be more comfortable talking about sex. Porphyria is also unashamed to be showing off her body and taking down her hair: Browning writes that she “made her smooth white shoulder bare, / And all her yellow hair displaced.” These actions are in sharp contrast to Victorian ideas about a woman’s modesty (Browning, 17-18). In summary, Tennyson set “The Lady of Shallot” in the past to cause an emotional response and Browning set “Porphyria’s Lover” in the past to make the sexual language more plausible. In both “Porphyria’s Lover” and “The Lady of Shallot”, the subjects of the poems are female. Both poems offer commentary on the Victorian expectation that women be silent, and the importance of women’s beauty. The poems are narrated by someone who is not the female subject: “Porphyria’s Lover” is narrated by her...
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...Rossetti's ballad, 'Cousin Kate', presents the narrator who has become a fallen woman through a pre-marital relationship with a Lord. Furthermore the narrator's cousin, Kate, then marries the Lord due to her refusal to have a pre-marital relationship with him. However the narrator has not lost everything as she has had a child with the lord and it seems to be unlikely that Kate will be able to provide this for him. Rossetti’s choice of scenes and places is a key aspect of her narrative method as it helps to shape characters in the text. The two key settings in the text are the ‘cottage’ and the ‘palace’. Rossetti uses these two settings in juxtaposition within the first two stanzas of the poem; which emphasises the social difference between the narrator, ‘the cottage maiden’, and the ‘great Lord.’ Rossetti uses the word ‘cottage’ to inform the reader of the narrator’s working class background and that the narrator perhaps lives in poverty; whereas Rossetti presents the ‘Lord ’to live in the ‘palace’ surrounded by ‘gold.’ This is supported in stanza three when Rossetti uses the phrase ‘He lifted you from mean estate’, showing that when Kate left the ‘cottage’ with the Lord he raised her social status, this could explain the two women’s attraction for the ‘Great Lord.’ Within the setting of the ‘palace’ Rossetti uses an avian motif to depict the two women. Rossetti refers to Kate as being ‘bound’ in a bird cage though her marriage to the Lord: ‘you sit in gold and sing.’ Rossetti...
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...The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy Strayer University Summer 2014 The purpose of the Reagan Doctrine was to “sponsor anticommunist guerrillas who are trying to overthrow pro-Soviet regimes” (Roskin, 2010, p.58). It was implemented in the mid-1980’s; specifically mentioned in a discrete manner in President Reagan’s 1985 State of the Union Address and lasted less than a decade, until the end of the Cold War in 1991. One of the major challenges that President Reagan faced throughout his time in office was Communism and the Cold War. Although these issues had been a problem through several presidencies, they began to escalate in the early years of Reagan’s administration. Reagan believed that President Carter provided minimal leadership to reverse communism. In 1985 President Reagan introduced the principles of the doctrine through support of anti-communist revolutions. During his State of the Union Address in 1985 he compared, “anticommunist forces with American colonists who had fought the revolutionary war, describing those latter-day patriots as ‘freedom fighters’ for democracy” (“The Reagan Doctrine”, 2014, par. 2). The doctrine was created to decrease the Soviet influence in Africa, Asia and Latin America as part of the Reagan administration’s Cold War strategy (Reagan Doctrine, 2014). It has been argued that the Reagan doctrine contributed to the fall of communism itself. One of the diplomatic efforts that occurred during Reagan’s time in office was the support...
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...on Me", the first twofold circle collection of unique material in hip-jump history. It just took 2Pac two weeks to record the 27-track epic. "All Eyez on Me" was discharged on February 13, 1996 very nearly a year after 2Pac started his jail sentence. Unfortunately, the Grammy designated collection was the last to be discharged amid 2Pac's lifetime. The collection opened at number 1 on the Billboard 200, making 2Pac the first rapper to have two straight collections debut at number one. Albeit 2Pac spent the majority of 1995 bolted up and engaging the framework, the collection makes it clear that, instead of lessening his aesthetic capacities, the battles just hoisted his aptitudes. The majority of the tracks on "All Eyez on Me" are unashamed festivals of carrying on with the hooligan way of life ("California Love") keeping in mind there is the incidental memory about over a wide span of time companions ("Heartz of Men"), it moves far from the social and political cognizance of "2Pacalypse...
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