...2015 Paper #2 Outline – Compare and Contrast I. Introduction Paragraph: a. Can two men with similar traits and backgrounds grow up to be completely different? b. In “The Other Wes Moore” the story shows how the Author Wes Moore and the Other Wes Moore are both similar, but also unmistakably different. “Your farther wasn’t there because he couldn’t be, my father wasn’t there because he chose not to be. We’re going to mourn their absence in different ways.” c. The absence or presence of a parent can make or break a person. II. Paragraph #1: d. Although Wes and the other Wes Moore both grew up in the same city around the same time period, both Wes Moore’s share many differences. e. When the author Wes was a young boy, he punched his older sister Nikki after she bite him because he jabbed at her face. His mother was quick to fume with rage, but the father was quick to come to the defense of author Wes. “Main Man, you just can’t hit people, particularly women. You must defend them, not fight them (Moore11).” The interactions between the author Wes and his father show that Wes was genuinely loved and cared for. This segment in the book also shows how the father was the foundation of the household and kept peace. f. The Other Wes Moore’s farther was a dead-beat drunk, who was never once able to recognize Wes as his son. “”Who is this?” Mary smirked and rolled her eyes. She could not believe his audacity. Wes didn’t understand why...
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...Compare and Contrast Essay Patrick Rogers Patrick Rogers Compare and Contrast Essay 27 June 2015 The Two books that I have chosen to write about in my compare and contrast essay are “Chickenhawk,” by Robert Mason and “We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam,” by BG Harold G. Moore (Ret) and Joseph L. Galloway. These two books focus on the Vietnam War and more importantly the 1st Cavalry Divisions time in the Vietnam war. Both books are autobiographies written from a soldier’s point of view and both offer a unique look at life for different types of soldiers during the Vietnam War during the same period of time (1965) and even during the same Battles (Ia Drang Valley). Chickenhawk, by Mason, is written from the point of view of a huey “slick” pilot in the army’s first use of air assault or airmobile techniques. The book begins with Mason starting his career in the army and his transition through flight school and eventually making his way to the Vietnam War. The majority of the book focuses on his time in Vietnam and the daily life of an Army Huey pilot in the 1st Cav as well as his transfer to the “Blue Stars”, which occurs at the end of his tour. The last few chapters of the book discuss his time after Vietnam. “We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam,” by Moore and Galloway is written from the point of view of Moore, an army infantry Lieutenant Colonel and Galloway...
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...philosophy, we can compare and contrast them and see what they are and how they are used. The first school is continental philosophy. Continental philosophy is a general term, which is supplementary with the philosophical opinions that originated on the continent of England in the 20th century (Moore & Bruder, 2011). It has numerous theories for instance, there are critical theory, deconstruction, existentialism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and structuralism (Moore & Bruder, 2011). The schools of thought accompanying continental which are the most important the two are existentialism and phenomenology (Moore & Bruder, 2011). The best known philosophers associated with continental philosophy are Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre (Moore & Bruder, 2011). Some themes of existentialism are traditional and academic philosophies are from the uncertainties of real life, the world is irrational, and the world is absurd in the sense that there are not explanations that can be given for the way that it is. These are not all the themes for this school of thought nonetheless these are the most fascinating (Moore & Bruder, 2011). The second type philosophy is pragmatic. Pragmatic philosophy is a type of philosophy that rejects the idea that there is such a thing as absolute truth (Moore & Bruder, 2011). Instead, within this philosophy the thinking pattern is the truth is relative to time, place, purpose, and is ever changing in the light of new data (Moore & Bruder,...
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...Because these rapidly expanding problems interfere with the private life of everyone; we can witness predominance of the “second” type of art. As an example we can quote M. Moore’s movie, titled “ F 9/11”. Analyzing any work (piece) of art, we must take into consideration that every artist aims to make us think about a problem through his own vision. The question is whether he can pull it off or not? It is no secret, that there are various kinds of techniques to influence the audience. M. Moore brilliantly selects and perfectly times the succession of the episodes which makes him absolutely convictive. But we must tell the difference between the opinion of one single man and the reality. M. Moore, a talented journalist, uses the well-known mass media techniques, for example, he only chooses that footage, which goes along well with his understanding of a problem. The frames we are watching: the harrows of war, ruined and burning houses, soldiers, who are killing people and listening to a Bloodhound gang song, children playing in the streets before the war, determine our reaction (attitude) to the problem. Another important example we must point out here is the use of a method of contrasts, when two opposing things get mixed. The president of the USA is sworn to do what’s best for the country and the interests its people, ordinary Americans. That is why it is so terrifying when we see him next to the relatives of the main American enemy, smiling and hugging. And...
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...Wes Moore wrote his story “The Other Wes Moore” about two boys who grew up in similar neighborhoods under the same circumstances but somehow landed on two different paths. Author Wes is successful and other Wes is facing life in jail. Author Wes uses flashback, juxtaposition, and parallel story lines to show how the two wes’ landed on different paths. Author Wes uses flashbacks to show how nurture determines one's success. In the story author Wes’ mother was more concerned about her son’s education and his success. On page 54 it states “After a moment I broke the awkward silence by telling him my mother had begun to threaten me with military.” Which shows how author Wes’s mother wanted better for her son because she knew his grades were not...
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...obese individuals from California over a long period of time to see if there was a relationship between each of the variables and diabetes. The population distribution was 59% were female and 41% were male. This uneven distribution could have caused the data to be skewed and not give an accurate representation of the population. The study used to compare the categorical variables in this study was a chi-square test and analysis...
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...study of some of the most fundamental questions asked by mankind, such as why we are here and what the purpose of life is. Throughout the history of philosophy, there have been many influential figures coming from all corners of the planet. Despite having worldwide influences, philosophy is usually divided into eastern and western schools of thought. Eastern philosophy is centered on cognitive dimensions that revolve around meditative thinking in order to reach enlightenment, while the western school of thought subscribes to the idea of attaining salvation through a leap of faith This paper shall put forth two philosophers, one from each school of thought, discussing their unique ideas and then shall continue on to compare and contrast their ideals. Siddhartha Gautama was born into a life of privilege and wealth, being the son of a king. When Siddhartha experienced the suffering in the world, he left his wife and child to pursue a path that would uncover the cause of suffering and its cure. “After six years of wandering and meditation, he found enlightenment.” (Moore & Bruder, 2008, p.530) With this attained enlightenment, Siddhartha Gautama took up the handle that he is known by today, Buddha which means “the Enlightened One.” Siddhartha’s new enlightenment led to the creation of Buddhism, which “essentially was a philosophical response to what might be called the problem of suffering.” (Moore & Bruder, 2008, p.530) Buddha laid out his answer to suffering in his doctrine...
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...Prisons Gerald G. Gaes. Ph. D. Florida State University August 2010 Introduction In many ways, any discussion of prison privatization strikes at the heart of the fundamental goals and purposes of prison and punishment. The discussion elevates such themes as the role of the private sector in administering punishment, the importance of metrics to evaluate and compare how well the privately and publicly operated prisons provide services, the structure and form of oversight and accountability to insure punishment is just and fair, and the measurement of cost and efficiency. To be sure, many of these issues are crucial even in the absence of a privatization debate. However, because there are impassioned proponents and opponents on both sides of the issue, the prison privatization literature has provoked both earnest debate and fractious polemic. One might expect that the importance of this topic would have elevated prison privatization research and encouraged the funding of large scale studies. In fact, there are very few studies comparing privately and publicly operated facilities. Segal and Moore (2002) identified about 23 U.S. cost comparison studies and fewer quality studies. Many of those studies were of questionable value. The most recent review, a meta-analysis by Lundahl et. al. (2009) only identified 12 studies of cost and quality meeting their criteria for sound methodology. Even with this limited set of privatization studies, different reviewers have come...
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...Two Protagonists Compare and Contrast Essay Arthur Jeremy Moore July 15, 2015 GEN220 Sophia Mavrogiannis Two Protagonists; Compare and Contrast Essay There are several charters within iconic novels written for the purpose of individuals to identify with. The main character may be a hero or a villain, male or female, human or animal, but always an interesting character learning about themselves in a way that causes the reader to relate. The most intriguing part about reading is how individuals get lost in the fantasy of a characters role, and manage to finish the book; all while learning so much about one’s self. Changes might need to be made in their life, or acceptance should be attempted for heartache or sorrow; somehow readers find a way to compare themselves to these protagonists and mold the fantasy they are reading within their own reality. (Duke, 2010). There are two iconic novel characters who stand out in a way most individuals can relate to. Holden Caulfield and young Ralph. When we cannot hold onto our youth and we must watch it slip away, do we as humans embrace the changes or fight it every step of the way? The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, was published in 1951. Holden Caulfield is a young male character who is obsessed with the loss of his youth. Similar to Caulfield is young Ralph, a character portrayed in the 1954 novel, as The Lord of the Flies iconic protagonist. Ralph is a twelve-year-old English boy who is elected leader of a group...
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...ETHICAL AND RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE ‘Good’ is difficult to define. The dictionary defines good in a great many different ways: 'having the right or desired qualities; satisfactory, adequate. (of a person) efficient, competent. (of a thing) reliable, efficient. (of health etc) strong. kind, benevolent. morally excellent; virtuous. charitable. well-behaved. enjoyable, agreeable. thorough, considerable.' Moral philosophy also uses the word 'good' in a variety of ways, sometimes as a noun, sometimes as an adjective. GOOD CAN MEAN: A. An inherent quality which is widely beneficial.. B. The opposite of bad or evil. C. Something one person (or more) approves of. D. Useful, in that the good action/concept/attitude enriches human life. E. God-like, or what God wants. For each of these five types of usage (and the list is not exhaustive) it is possible to see room for differences of interpretation. Usage A will vary, depending on how 'widely' and' beneficial' are defined. 'Widely' could mean anything from 'often in the life of one person' to 'universal, to every being'. 'Beneficial' could mean any of pleasant, healthy, productive, useful, life-enhancing/ enriching. Usage B depends entirely on the person's view of what is evil. Usage C will probably be different in detail for every single individual, and will be dependent .on the background of the person concerned. Usage D depends on the long-term and ultimate goals that a person has in life. A person aiming...
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...This morning we will be discussing the topic, Social Stratification. In this presentation we will define Social Stratification and compare and contrast the functionalist and conflict perspectives on this topic. We will also discuss some of the major problems associated with Social Stratification as well as some of the major agents that teach our gender roles and social class. So what is Social Stratification? Social Stratification refers to a situation in which people are divided into distinct groups ranked at different levels. In other words it is the hierarchical arrangement of social classes within a society. An example would be the Hindu caste system, where different castes have different levels of status depending on their supposed degree of religious purity. Social Stratification is patterned social inequality, by saying that inequality is patterned indicates that differences occur on a wide-scale, with regularity and along the lines of certain specific, identifiable characteristics. For example race, class or gender. And it is also the unequal distribution of societal resources. Stratification is based on three major premises; power, prestige and property. Power which refers to the ability to impose one’s will on others. Prestige, the respect given to others and then there is Property which is the different forms of wealth. There are four fundamental principles of Social Stratification. The first is Social Stratification is a characteristic...
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...A Passage to India E. M. Forster Online Information For the online version of BookRags' A Passage to India Premium Study Guide, including complete copyright information, please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide−passageindia/ Copyright Information ©2000−2007 BookRags, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Premium Study Guide is offprint from Gale's For Students Series: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction, Author Biography, Plot Summary, Characters, Themes, Style, Historical Context, Critical Overview, Criticism and Critical Essays, Media Adaptations, Topics for Further Study, Compare &Contrast, What Do I Read Next?, For Further Study, and Sources. ©1998−2002; ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group, Inc., a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Gale and Design® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license. The following sections, if they exist, are offprint from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: "Social Concerns", "Thematic Overview", "Techniques", "Literary Precedents", "Key Questions", "Related Titles", "Adaptations", "Related Web Sites". © 1994−2005, by Walton Beacham. The following sections, if they exist, are offprint from Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults: "About the Author", "Overview", "Setting", "Literary Qualities", "Social Sensitivity", "Topics for Discussion", "Ideas for Reports and Papers". © 1994−2005, by Walton Beacham. All other...
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...2012 Professor Dale Horner The Hidden Curriculum: The Graphic Organizer |Five Types of Curricula | | |Curriculum as the development of cognitive processes |“The Trivium” is stages or ways of learning that coincide with a | | |child’s cognitive development. Grammar Stage-What’s in their world | | |(Pre-K-2nd or 3rd); Dialectic Stage-Tell me more. Tell me why. How | | |does it work? Compare/contrast; Connect real things to abstract. (2nd | | |or 3rd-5th or 6th); Rhetoric Stage- What does it mean to me? What do I| | |do with this info? How am I going to use it? Logic/Debate. ( Middle | | |school to Adult) | |Curriculum as technology |This includes internet and software based programs. The internet | | |provides multi-sensory, interactive learning via...
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...The Iks vs. Society In the essay, “The Iks,” Lewis Thomas compares the behavior and characteristics of a tribe. He compares and contrasts the actions and traditions of Iks to other “groups of one size or another, ranging from committees to nations” due to their transformations of becoming barbarous creatures (Thomas 81). The Iks’ society is exploited by the government and an anthropologist, becoming a controlled experiment under a microscope.He discusses the transformation of the Iks from being nomadic hunters and gatherers in the mountain valleys to becoming more greedy, cruel, and disheartened individuals, as a reaction towards the “dismantling of their traditional culture” (Thomas 80). He analyzes and observes that the acts of the Iks and their similarities in action and behavior with competition groups.The Iks selfishness, cruelty, barbarous and savaging acts is explainable and compatible to groups of all sorts, formed in small or large, and groups such as cities or nations. Moreover, when groups are formed into a large group, the destructive and defensive traits exist absolutely in response to a common cause. An individual’s actions and behaviors vary within the surroundings. A simple high school rivalry could instigate destructive behaviors between the students and parents. As a member of the school dance team, I was involved in and present at a majority of social and sporting events. When a rival school was present, the mob mentality of each group would form, and the...
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...theorists all have a different perspective as to what the main function of education is e.g. feminists believe that to maintain value consensus, patriarchy needs to be abolished in order to do this. However, functionalists would argue that society already has a value consensus and that everyone has their roles within society, and that the role is important in maintaining the value consensus. Functionalist Durkheim identifies the two main roles of education to be to create social solidarity and to teach specialist skills that are needed for life and work after education. He argues that society needs solidarity so that we can all function properly and so that people don’t always go for their own selfish desires – one of the roles of education is to help create this social solidarity. Schools act as ‘society in miniature’ because it prepares us for life in a wider society as we have to co-operate with people who aren’t family or friends, and interact with people according to a set of impersonal rules; Durkheim says that school is the only place that can teach these skills as they can’t be taught by family or friends outside of the school settings. He also says that schools create a social solidarity by transmitting society’s culture, and norms and values, from one generation to the next e.g. teaching the country’s history instils a sense of shared heritage among children. Durkheim also argues that education teaches the necessary specialist skills and knowledge to be able to perform their...
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