...James McCarver Professor Ms. Karina Cadora English 1301 29 January 2016 Where I live: Sicily! Sicily is the largest island of the Mediterranean Sea. Some people refer to it as the “rock that the boot is kicking”. It is separated from Reggio Calabria by the Strait of Messina. The bridge connecting Reggio Calabria to Sicily is still a dream even though they have been promising this bridge for over 20 years. They have started construction, and it is impossible to say when or if it will ever be completed. Unfortunately organized crime exists here in Sicily, you won’t actually see it because it has become that subtle. The mafia continues to exercise its negative influence on Sicily and beyond. Most of the businesses such as shops, hotels and restaurants are forced to pay the “pizzo”, that means protection money. This extortion keeps the Sicilian people relatively poor among the Italian regions. Also you will find political corruption, the theft of public money and taxes. Yet there are business owners willing to fight against extortion. With the special protection of police and virulent public support, a growing number of business owners are operating with no mafia influence. Although the mafia has deep roots in and around Sicily, this island still has an abundance of things to offer. The Mediterranean climate with abundant sunshine, balanced rainfall, fertile soils, all create the perfect conditions for quality agriculture. The main products in Sicily are citrus...
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...Kye Karim Composition reading II Essay 3 3rd November 2014 Jeremy Rick Are we born with the right to live where we want? The United Kingdom of Great Briatain, is a group of countries that like to think they are independent. Despite this, the fact is they are merged to a much bigger picture of the European Union. The inclusion of the UK has drawn many positives over the years with the economy, easy holidays, simpler migration and more than anything help from the other large nations in the EU. People from areas outside of the EU like the USA or Asia, would have to get a visa issued to their passport before they can even have a holiday. For people holding passports for countries inside the EU, they can move freely with not much problem and get support in the countries they are travelling to. This was has been ok for many years but in recent times the joining of several smaller countries to the EU has brought an unprecedented influx of immigration to the shore of the UK that has quickly escalated into a national crisis. This is something that has only resulted in only minute positives, with the country now struggling to cope with the demand for jobs and housing causing a lot of anger amongst the people. The UK is made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, which are all considered highly developed courtiers in there own right. The region boasts structured democracies that has controlled and helped the area grow for decades to be one of the most economically...
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...Books are a great way of gaining knowledge. Life without books would be very boring and people would have a hard time learning. Montag has a wife whose name is Mildred. Montag ends up getting hunted by a mechanical hound. Montag like many others ends up with a job of a fireman. City Where montag Lives is a very brutal City with the way it's managed, which is why Montag is fighting the government of the city. Montag first meets Mildred when Montag walks home from work. They later marry. Montag begins to bring home books from his work and starts hiding the books. Mildred begins reading books Montag has brought home. Mildred later becomes frustrated with Montag after Montag reads a poem of Dover Beach so she leaves in a taxi after filing a complaint...
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...There are many important and deep quotes including the one mentioned above are found in Walden chapter “Where I lived and What I Lived for”. We learn his experience and values from his writings. According to me, second chapter basically focuses on “beauty of nature”. Thoreau said “The morning wind forever 64 blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it.” From the quote stated above he basically says that our life ought to be comprised of basic things and not every one of the points of interest that lives around us. There are so many ideas and thoughts depicted in this quote such as how it feels to be able to wake up in the morning and able to feel the fresh air of nature. This gives us the ideas that author...
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...sessions. Step # 3: Could I, Camillia, a student at experiencing academic challenges, will this maxim a universal law? Would I, Camillia, be content to live in a world where this maxim is a moral requirement, when I consider it in the perspective of a tutor? Yes I, Camillia, would be content to live in a world where this maxim is a moral requirement because in the perspective of a tutor, I would want to help others knowing that I have the ability to help. Would I, Camillia, be content to live in a world where this maxim is a moral requirement, when I consider it in the perspective of a professor? Yes I, Camillia, would be content to live in a world where this maxim is a moral requirement because in the perspective of a professor, I would want students to improve my skill. Would I, Camillia, be content to live in a world where this maxim is a moral requirement, when I consider it in the perspective of a parent? Yes I, Camillia, would be content to live in a world where this maxim is a moral requirement because in the perspective of a parent, I would want my child to achieve their educational goals and improve their grades. Would I, Camillia, be content to live in a world where this maxim is a moral requirement, when I consider it in the perspective of a student? Yes I, Camillia, would be content to live in a world where this maxim is a moral...
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...others, per example The beauty of California if I compared to Florida it is the Mediterranean, tropical weather, its vast ocean front waters, the beauty of its coastlines, the Agricultural land, and the reaches of the Employment opportunities, all in contrast makes California more desirable place to live than Florida. Introduction California is one of the best and desirable places to live in the world. In the winter of 1987, I was living in Florida city, one morning I got up to go to work, the day was very nice from one minute to the next the sky started to get dark, darker clouds cover the sky. People at the trailer park was so fearful, they started to run to shelter places, they were right that day, it rained so hard, and it was lightning and thundering, the winds were so strong that, it could take a tree up from his roots. The people who did not have enough time to run to the shelter place, suffer very big loss, the next day I went to the town to look around, the little city was devastating, windows from business broken, trees were laid on the streets, cars were upside down, and broken homes all destroyed, it was a disaster that I will never like to re-live again, and it was a big experience in my life. I. First main point. California’s tropical weather makes life enjoyable, when the rain is falling it rains so smoothly that it is hardly any lighting or thundering to the point for people to get scare, everybody drives to do their activities...
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...employability”. "We live in a society where technology is a very important force in business, in our daily lives. And all technology starts as a spark in someone's brain. An idea of something that didn't exist before, that once they have invented it —brought it into existence — could change everything. And that activity is generally one that's not very well supported." - Nathan Myhrvold, CEO, Intellectual Ventures From a 2010 interview with Harvard Business Review Introduction In the development of new businesses today, initiatives that spur knowledge-based competitions amplify the importance of boundary spanning activities and tactical coalitions, which cause organizations to focus more on institutional knowledge, system improvement and knowledge management (Quah, 2001). This essay will help the level 3 business school students to understand the required skills about innovation management to to advance their career development and employability. An innovation is something that is new. You are required to write a piece of advice to a group of Level Three business students on the usefulness of innovation management and new product development in an essay format. The topic of the essay is “what skills should a business graduate acquire about innovation management in order to advance their career development and employability”. "We live in a society where technology is a very important force in business, in our daily lives. And all technology...
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...Capitalism is an economic system where individuals own property and businesses, make the decisions on what they want to produce and at what price, and strive to make a profit (Henslin, 2014, p. 394). The government puts laws in place that regulate citizens and businesses in order “to protect the welfare of the population” (Henslin, 2014, p. 394). Socialism is an economic system where the government owns the businesses and determines what to produce and at what price, (Henslin, 2014, p. 395). With socialism, there is no goal to earn a profit (Henslin, 2014, p. 395). Strengths of Capitalism and Socialism The strengths of capitalism are that it allows the people to live where they want to live, open or work in businesses that they want...
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...Large Case Application Living Large What growth strategy does Live Nation appear to be using? What competitive advantage do you think Live Nation has? It appears as though Live Nation may be using two kinds of growth strategies; Concentration, which focuses in its primary line of business (in this case the music industry), and “increasing the number of products and services offered or markets served in that primary business”(Robbins & Coulter, 2009), and horizontal integration by combining with competitors. In 2009, Live Nation announced they were merging with ticketmaster to “expand into a complimentary business” (Rapino, 2009). With the concentration growth strategy, Rapino is able to offer many products such as concert tickets, merchandise, videos, and albums when other companies only offer one or a couple of these products. Using the horizontal integration growth strategy Rapino is able to eliminate competition and keep profit inside the company. “The key to Live Nation’s growth strategy is the ability to connect to those millions of people who attend shows every year” (Robbins & Coulter, 2009). By keeping a database that includes contact information for every fan (or client) that Live Nation has ever had, Live Nation is able to “connect” fans to their artists with greater ease. By strengthening the artist to fan connection, the purchase of merchandise and tickets is easier and helps Live Nation to keep growing and profiting. ...
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...have concerns of how technology will impact the following generations to come? If so then this information is for you? Technology has become the one main component in our daily lives, it is the one thing we turn to every day. The way we talk to people, the way we make a sale, the way we run our business's, the way we listen to music, the way we buy and sale stocks, everything we do in our daily lives is ran by technology. Look at what I am doing right now, I am doing this essay on my lap top which is recommended to have in college these days. No writes out their essay's by hand any more, its all through computers and technology which is disappointing in a sense, because its the easy way out of things as I see it, I am not saying that technology does not have its benefits it does, but what ever happened to the old classic hard working satisfaction people use to do, people managed fine and did many great things before there was technology like there is today, Its laziness the easy way of doing everything, if their is an easier way of doing things, where people can do things faster but with less work, they will develop it, but what about the long term affects of all this, dont people see what is happening to our society? Doesnt people know the consequences this is having on our lives? With more technology, and less bodily movements this planet is being tooken over by machinery and electronics and less being ran by civilization, soon civilization will be only...
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...cultural context refers to the type of society in which a text is set-it’s structures, values and day-to-day rituals. Comparing the texts I have studied under Cultural Context mode involves entering the world of each text and comparing the ways in which the lives of the central characters are influenced by the worlds in which they live. The three texts I have studied are Lies of Silence (LS) by Brian Moore, Plough and the Stars (PS) playwrite by Sean O’Casey and Il Postino (IP) directed by Micheal Radford. These novelists, dramatists and film directors obviously employ their own distinctive narrative techniques. I was interested in studying a significant range of similarities in the way LS, PS and IP deliver their respective tales. The setting is easily comparable in all texts. IP was set in a small island off the coast of Italy around the 1950’s. Communism was the main political headline in this text, where a famous Italian poet, Pablo Neruda, was exiled from his own country and forced to live elsewhere for a short while due to the fact he was a communist. During this time also, Europe was struggling to cope from World War II. PS was set in Dublin, 1916. The Easter Rising was at stake. We receive an insight into the lives of the Irish people during The Troubles. There was also a feud between Socialism and Republicanism. LS is set in Belfast in the 1950’s when the Northern Troubles were at its climax. The setting in this text is dominated by the deep-rooted political and religious...
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...1984 the main character, Winston Smith lives in a world where nobody has any privacy, in a world where they are constantly being watched by a party leader named “Big Brother¨. Winston can't even enjoy the comfort of his own home The same kind of concept that is going on in 1984 is going on in Fahrenheit 451 in the idea that everybody acts like robots and they are all basically the same, lifeless, person. The protagonist Montag has a job as a fireman, but not one that puts out the fires, one that starts...
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...forest where animals live and survive in the forest. The forest is beauties of nature where the oxygen flows through the big trees and makes an atmosphere breathe the fresh air of that oxygen. Trees are being taken from the root of the ground, so it can no longer grow and replace that area with a business company or just plain empty. People ask themselves why is it that the grounds are being torned down but yet not being used. These and many related questions remain in silence of a major concern in the present day world. Christians try to find the ethics which relies on faith, tolerance, and care. The grounds in the forest where its peaceful and pleasant doesn’t ever seem that some company will one day come and tear the grounds and let it show empty. It says in Psalm 1:3; He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all he does, he prospers. (KJ VERSION). “Stop the Catastrophe.” Prentice Hall Reference Guide states Which in the opinion of Christians, yes, stop the catastrophe in tearing down so many trees and not let the oxygen continue to flow as it should. There are properties that are being invaded by City Departments where they want to expand the streets of all the subdivision. Make the streets into the business road and make more money to collect more taxes in the poor people category. These roads have been invaded by all the knocking down of trees that bring life to a yard where a family...
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...The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living “The unexamined life is not worth living,” is a familiar saying that Socrates said at his trial for heresy, that is, encouraging his students to challenge the accepted beliefs and think of themselves instead and this led to his death sentence. Socrates could have avoided death by choosing life in prison or exile but he refused claiming that, these alternatives will prevent him from examining the world around him and see how to make the world a better place. He argued that with the absence of his examined life will, there was no value of living. Therefore, Socrates claimed that for a human being to live a worthy life, everyone should question, examine and re-examine the values of their lives daily (Kamtekar, 154). This paper explores the meaning and the significance of the Socrates claim that “the unexamined life is not worth living” focusing on the Apology and Euthyphro. The words, ‘the unexamined life is not worth living’ by Socrates comes from Plato’s Apology when Socrates is sentenced to death after being accused of corrupting the youth and impiety (Ahbel-Rappe & Rachana, 229). Patterson posits that apology is one historical account of Socrates’ defense during his trial (Patterson, 16), and these words appear at the end of the Apology when Socrates is going through possible punishments for charges against him. Socrates utters these words when the jury has already found him guilty and has to decide on what kind of punishment to impose...
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...can emerge from the connections made with people, places and the larger world. It is these connections that influence where we search for meaning in our lives and ultimately where we belong. The Simple Gift (TSG) verse novel by Steven Herrick illustrates a protagonist journey through alienation to belonging through the building of relationships. It is through these relationships that he connects with the town. He searches for belonging through his relationships which creates connection with Benderat. “I Still call Australia Home” by Peter Allen, shows us the connection that people have had with a place. When people find real meaning it’s when they belong, this song illustrates a connection with a place and the finding of this creates belonging. Herrick’s verse novel TSG shows us how the characters have created connections with people, and places. These connections influence where the characters search for meaning in their lives and where they belong. When Billy in the poem “Old Bill” says “Would you believe his name is Bill” Billy felt an instant connection just through their names. Steven Herrick uses the same names suggesting that old Bill is a mirror of Billy and that Old Bill is who Billy could become. Old Bill has started to become a father figure for Billy. The connection that Billy and Old Bill have, has created a sense of belonging in each of their lives. Peter Allen’s song “I still call Australia home” exposes us to the realisation that we can belong by just having...
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