Lion College Essays Samples For Students

English 332

Happiness is one of the most sought, but yet one of the most elusive humankind’s wishes. The greatest thinkers in history have all touched the idea of the happiness, and possibly how to attain it. Many Buddhists will avoid any activity that causes pleasure, since they believe that positive physical sensations distract the brain from achieving meaningful moral clarity. In the Western world, the Utilitarian theory that happiness derives from the most amount of pleasure minus the least amount of pain, has really taken off in the last 50 years (with advertising suggesting that instant and temporary satisfaction ...

In the pursuit to explaining the creations, mankind has developed theories and beliefs to feed the curious minds. Transcendence is an important concept at understanding the theories and beliefs. For Christian theology creation is found in the Bible specifically in the Genesis. Transcendence in the Bible is the existence of a supreme being who has created all the living and non-living things from nothingness. The Creator is the lord of everything under the sun.

Transcendence in the Bible

In the Christian Bible, transcendence means that God is the most powerful who is above all the creations. God created all the creatures including a ...

Comparison Capital versus Lecture

“The Rabulla Gospels” comprises one of the most beautiful Byzantine works produced in the 6th century (yearn 586). It was written by Rabulla, a monk at St. John Monastery, Syria. It was produced in Asia. The artwork is also significantly alluded to in various art texts because of its clever use of art elements and principles to great effect. For example, the artwork captures the use of balance. The central figure in the upper part of the painting is Jesus, who is surrounded by angels that are arranged equally on either side. Also, the lower part of the painting, ...

In this paper I will look at the movie “The Wizard of Oz” through the Musical/ Fantasy/ adventure genre lens. The film is about a young girl who is whisked off into a magical place. A place that is full of witches, munchkins, flying monkeys and actual magic. It is a place of perilous adventure and colorful and interesting personalities. The movie can also be seen as a member of the Family film genre in that the ultimate message of the move is “there is no place like home” (The Wizard of Oz). The Wizard of Oz was a ...

ABSTRACT

Health and safety are the utmost priorities in any fitness center. Although newer researchers emphasize on natural environment and green surroundings for a fitness center to boost the healthy effects of it, however, several recent incidents and observations have exposed some common hazards and issues that can negatively impact the health and safety of the members of the fitness center. This paper looks into the general problems and then analyses some cases of hazardous affects caused to the members directly or indirectly due to the natural surroundings.

Introduction

Several researches show that the ability to work and the average performance of ...

Globalization

Today, globalization has reached new levels of importance in the modern world. Not everyone agrees that globalization is necessarily a good thing for the modern world, but whether it is a good or a bad thing, it seems to be unavoidable. Globalization is often spoken about in broad terms, but what globalization truly is is the integration of different cultures and the intermeshing of different economies across geographic, cultural, or other traditional barriers to integration. The term is a relatively new one, used to describe the world in the closing years of the Cold War and the new, more openly-integrated world.
Globalization ...

Who was St. Jerome?

Eusebius Hieronymous Sophronius, also known as St. Jerome was born at Stridonius about the year 342. His native tongue is Illyrian but he learned Latin and Greek in Rome. St. Jerome’s father, a Christian made sure that he was instructed accordingly at home. He was sent to Rome to study where Donatus (a famous pagan grammarian) and Victorinus (a Christian rhetorician) became his teachers (St. Jerome Doctor of the Church). Grammarians, rhetoricians and philosophers were his companions in his youth (St. Jerome Croatian Catholic Church of Chicago, 2001).
St. Jerome has several literary works. This includes his works on the ...

Since it was first published in 1900, Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz has been invariably popular. Generations of children have been enthralled by the adventures of a Kansas girl Dorothy. Carried off by a cyclone to a magic land of Oz, she met all sorts of creatures, made several friends, overcame numerous difficulties and finally returned back to her farm aunt and uncle’s farm. To an adult reader she seems quite an ordinary child – far from heroic. Yet she was the protagonist of several more books of the Oz series, and that is something – just like being elected mayor of ...

Speakers in this comedy depict a woman passively suffering from the war, as opposed to actively suffering Men create war. But these passive women are suddenly extremely active as soon as Lysistrata manages to send them to fight with men.
Lysistrata in the prologue of the play is relatively easy to manage to carry out a specific women's "strike": On the initiative of energetic and enterprising Lysistrata, the women all gathered her solemnly pledge to each other to refuse to weasel their husbands as long as they do not stop the war. The main figure of this opening ...

Film Form in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wizard of Oz is probably one of the most popular fantasy films among the children. The main reason for that is the magical plot, beautiful costumes, fascinating characters and catchy soundtrack that will not leave any person indifferent. Such notions as Emerald City, roads made of yellow bricks, the monkeys that can fly became a ground for plenty of allusions.

The main motifs of the film may easily be defined as:

Self-development and self-improvement
The true nature and significance of friendship
The boundaries between good and evil.
A simple plot tells us about a girl Dorothy, who returns to her house ...

There are a lot of ways how to win a person and create alliances. Relationships can be developed in just a matter of days, months, years, or in just a matter of moments, depending on the circumstances and other factors. Some of the most important question that this paper aims to answer are: how exactly relationship structures work and develop. In this paper, the authors draw upon evidences from three literary works namely Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn, Grass for his Pillow by Lian Hearn, and the Knight of the Lion by Chretien de Troyes. The paper will focus on the ...

Katsushika Hokusai is a Japanese artist who has many works that are at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Among them, his most recognizable woodblock print, Under the Wave of Kanagawa. It is also know as the Great Wave, from his series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Many will know this image as it because it has been on posters, tee shirts places to show the image to the public. Few know the work belongs to Hokusai. Looking similar to Great Wave, both in color and in detail, is, Tsukuda-Jima in Musashi Province. A woodblock printing with ink shows fishermen ...

Dante’s Inferno is replete with symbolism. Inferno is a comprehensive, overarching allegory and Dante uses symbols throughout to explore the different themes such as violence, fraud, evil, God’s justice, immortality and more. Some of the symbols that Dante employs are simple and easy to understand such as the beast Geryon (with the head of a man and the body of a serpent, it symbolizes deceit) while others involve biblical and other classical references (the fall of Satan). Divine Comedy on the whole symbolizes the spiritual quest of man. Dante also uses symbols as an allusion to the sins that men ...

Indian/Native American Boarding Schools

Native Americans were marginalized and suppressed by the US government in the 19th century. Given that the Native Americans were the minority in the country and acted as a threat to the state, they were forced into reservations where they could be easily monitored by the US government (Adams 67). Though the Native Americans were oppressed in their livelihood, some chose to continue embracing their culture and not that of the foreigner. In the late 19th century, the Native American youth were forced into boarding schools where they had to adapt to the European way of life (Hirschfelder 28). This ...

Friends! Everyone needs friends. Friends are an important part of our life. Without friends, life can be pretty lonely. Friends come in all shapes and sizes. You might have a tall friend or a fat friend, or maybe a hilarious friend or a supportive friend. I’ve had my fair share of friends too. I’ve had big friends and small ones. I’ve learned a lot from my friends, and many a time they have entertained me too. Our friends are supposed to walk beside us, and my friends have always been my side, stashed in my school bag, or tucked under my arm. ...

Introduction:

Saskatchewan is an aboriginal culture of Canadian Prairies. As most of the large societies have multiple cultures and represent multiple groups of peoples having different values and beliefs, the Saskatchewan is also a subculture of Western culture. Saskatchewan culture has been influenced by various cultures like French, Scottish, British, Irish and Aboriginal. At Later stage influences of American culture also got noticed. The formation of Saskatchewan culture started when people from America, Austria and Britain migrated to West Canada. During initial few decades various colonies belonging to people from different culture have been formed the process also called as ethnic ...

The Lion King is a fictional cartoon movie about the relationship between a Lion King named Mufassa and his lion son Simba. Simba is tricked into thinking he is responsible for his fathers death and disappears from his pride leaving his greedy and evil uncle Scar in charge. The kingdom in which Simba was to take over is turned into a barren waste land with Lions now second to hyenas under Scars rule and there is no hope in site. That is until Simba, thought to be dead, is reunited with his childhood friend Nala and she tells him of the horror ...

Introduction

In the lion share of cases the life perception, its values and strategy are determined for individual in one’s parent’s families. Thus, it is critically important to maximize the probability for each particular child for living with one’s parents, and address the existing pitfalls of the institute of family with corresponding policies. This paper would be dedicated to representation of the core aspects of the family policy -as an intentional course of action for minimization of the need of engagement the child protective services into the process of assistance of the children, who fall into the ...

I visited the zoo last month, on a windy afternoon. It was an absolutely fantastic day, amongst different faunae, and a supremely knowledgeable experience. The long hours spent on studying the animals has been absolutely worth it, and the four animals that I chose to write this essay on are the Lion, the Giraffe, the Crocodile, and the Ostrich.
The Lion, or the Panthera Leo, usuallya lives in groups called prides. One pride may consist of 15 to 50 lions. The pact that a pride has is to hunt for food, raise cubs, as well as fight against any ...

Infants are attracted towards the objects that are colorful and help the infants visualize shapes and faces at specific angles. It provides the infants with the adequate learning environment that also supports the development of motor, cognitive and perceptual skills. The development of such toys require a substantive amount of finance and time, however, the outcome of using such toys to enhance the skills of infants, makes the individuals to develop such toys (Soska et al., 2010). In this manner, it is suggested that an educational toy should be made that can be operated electronically and can provide infants ...

Roanoke was a colony located on Roanoke Island that disappeared. The colony was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh in the late 16th century on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. Queen Elizabeth I had wanted to create a non-temporary English town in the United States. The colonists later disappeared during the Anglo-Spanish War while waiting for supplies from England. The last shipment of supplies that they had received had been three years prior and when Raleigh’s men returned both the colonists and city were gone, with no evidence of what had occurred.
The charter and financing for the colony ...

Importance of Identifying Sources

Importance of Identifying Sources
of External Funding To Support Nursing Research
The lion share of the conducted investigations is performed with the funds, which are issued by the sponsoring agencies. The core purpose of such funding is to provide the monetary support for the researchers and for their training in the set of different agencies. In order to get the funds, the principal investigators (PIs) or the researchers should submit their proposals to the corresponding sponsors (Gray et al, 2013). This may be done via the particular institutions, supporting the research or by the means of requesting the funding ...

Play has been recognized as an activity that helps parents to engage with their children as well as offering an opportunity for physical, cognitive, emotional and social well-being of the youth and children. The benefits derived by parents and children from play are enormous despite the reduced amount of time play often available to families (Barab, Gresalfi & Ingram-Goble, 2010). This paper addresses varied activities that my family can use to participate in as a family and thus make family time better. The purpose of this play quest is to describe each of the play activities and how the time ...

In describing art, comparing one art to the other has a significant role to the person reading it. This paper will discuss the role played by comparing one object to the other depending on the main theme of the objects.
When we write a stand-alone description of a single object, it is important to bring out its relationship to other objects. This technique ensures that an observer relates one art to another so as to understand its meaning. In my perspective, making implicit comparisons of an object with other objects may sometimes play a major role on viewers since ...

Every nation has some sort of historical trauma. The creepy and full of horror twentieth century did not miss anyone generously awarding each with a bouquet of mass psychosis caused terrible events. However, among the many big and not very countries most of all has gotten to China: war, revolution, famine, the occupation in the first half of the century and the severity of the second one. Mainland China having suffered under Comrade Mao with his Cultural Revolution, Hong Kong remembers the bloody riots of the 1960s, and Taiwan has gone through a difficult period of "White Terror." This ...

Introduction

Surrealist is the work of art that has its roots in the early 1920s it was aimed at creating a connection between what most people referred to as dreams and fantasies to the reality. Surrealist work of art was designed to create a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious features of experiences to build absolute reality from primary imagination. Surrealist work of art developed from psychological processes and not any logical and rational process. Surrealist work art was aimed at establishing an evaluation of psychic characteristics (Barr, Alfred Hamilton, and Georges Hugnet). To develop psychic responses in the ...

Poems, published by Blake in 1794, for example, "Tyger", reflects his reaction to the Terror. The famous poem "Tyger" is a hymn of humility, it gives an extraordinary expressiveness to the images of "Tyger" - it is a bundle of furious energy. (Blake) But "Tyger" has a vicious rage, which - so it seemed to Blake, - may be given to overcome the misguidance and evil of the world rather than Christian humility and love. And who knows whether humanity demands the energy, darted through the dark thickets of self-deceptions and dogmas to come to the light of genuine ...

Shot in 1997 by Takeshi Kitano, Hana-bi is a Japanese motion picture whose success reached the international level. Translated as “Fireworks” for the US release, the film brought fame to Takeshi Kitano and made him a recognizable director outside of Japan. Though the film’s storyline can hardly be called innovative, the Asian approach and view of life found the international critical acclaim and brought the director numerous prestigious nominations and awards.
Hana-bi’s artistic and intertextual codes are still admired by the contemporary audience in spite of the fact that the film was released almost twenty years ago. ...

Introduction

Kathi Miao is a feminist, a film critic and editor. She is also a fantasy and science fiction magazine columnist. Additionally, she has authored books on film essays with the Disney Dolls article being among her most famous and most controversial criticism. In this article, Miao subjects the Disney children’s films to feminism criticism, looking at the themes and the characterization with the critical eye of a feminist. She asserts that the female characters that we have come to know and adore in the Disney animated films; from the classics of Snow White , Sleeping Beauty, the little Mermaid, ...

Question 1

One of the most unpleasant moments is whether a PR agency can do ethical PR for an unethical organization or company?
In this regard, many national PR companies, like the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) in U.S. and the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA) in the UK have developed a code of ethics for PR professionals to follow and abide by. However, the basic principle of any PR strategy or program is the duty to tell the truth. Thus, the PRCA code of conduct stipulates this duty and also the duty not to disseminate misleading or false information ...

Abstract

This paper includes information about three completely different issues connected with the U.S authority, the Constitution and political power. The articles include information about what is congressional ethics and ethical violations of the Congress members, minor and major parties struggle, and clashes between Federal and State Laws. The paper examines pros and cons and gives appraisals of the issues.

Congressional Ethics Violations.

What is “congressional ethics”? And why do we need it? Basically, it is a set of rules and procedures that determine and regulate ethical behavior of members of the House, which are related to gifts, traveling and campaign activities. ...