Essays on Birthday

My Friend

I have a friend back in my homeland who I talk to, almost every week, through Facebook Chat. She is my childhood friend. We grew up in the same street. I felt close to her as a friend because she was very nice to me and our parents are also friends so they would always see each other whenever there are special occasions. My friend is one year younger to me, so I am a little protective of her. Unfortunately, I needed to leave our homeland and settle here to study. So, in order to make sure that our ...

It’s a principle that provides the basic and the essential part in the mathematics of sorting and even counting. This principle was introduced by Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet in 1834. He called it the shelf principle or drawer principle. However, many people appreciate his insight and call it the Dirichlet drawer principle. The name pigeonhole was introduced in 1940 by Raphael Robinson. In the literal sense, pigeonholes refer to shelves or holes used to place pigeons. Thus, the principle roughly states that if one has a given number of boxes and a given number of items to ...

A Review of the Literature

If asked to name the “national dish of Britain,” the average person is likely to say, “there is nothing more British than fish and chips,” but he or she might be wrong as it all depends on the criteria used to determine the national dish (Castelow, 2013). If popularity is the yardstick, then fish and chips would miss the mark, since each year in the UK it is outsold by hamburgers, fried chicken, pizza, and Indian and Chinese food (Alexander, 2009). And while this is true, fish and chips still play a vital role in the economic success of ...

Introduction

First, they suspected the food prepared for the birthday party to be the cause of the outbreak. It turned out that it was a waterborne disease, a norovirus. Waterborne disease can easily affect children who come in contact with the contaminated water. The swim club manager seemed not very much cooperative during the initial outbreak; but the VHD investigators needed the cooperation of the swim club manager in identifying the real cause of the outbreak. Later, the manager told them that other persons not invited to the February 1 birthday party (members of an infant-mother swim class) got sick ...

Integrated Literature Review

Directorship on Child Care Introduction Childhood is an important stage of human development in which proper guidance are necessary in order to ensure that a child’s welfare is being addressed. In many ways, the work of a program director encompasses a difficult role in terms of regulations and program strategies that aims to have a positive influence towards child development. In this discussion, the role of a director in child development will be explored by examining literatures that articulates the topic on teacher’s needs, ethics, leadership, roles and responsibilities, and best practices. Directors are institutional leaders that ...

The Goldbergs: The New Landlord was produced by CBS Television. The Main Characters are Molly Goldberg, her husband Jake, and their children, Rosalie and Sammy along with her uncle David. In the episode Molly, wants to ask the new landlord Mr. Peach if she can paint her apartment. Jake advises her against it, saying that the answer will be “no”. Their kids and neighbors come in to tell them that the elevator is broken and a myriad of things that are wrong with their apartments. Jake who was writing out the rent check tells Molly that he will pay ...

Discussion Board Question on Writing Two

First, read chapters 31 and 32 of A Pocket Style Manual. Then, revise each of the five sentences below so they follow all of the instructions of integrating and citing quotations mentioned in those chapters. These are copied and pasted from actual student essays written in this course. You should re-type each sentence directly into your post or into a separate document you attach to your post as a PDF. This time, I will be grading your correctness to make sure you understand what the PSM says about citation. 1. On page 59 in the story, you see Vollmer ...

The lights say nothing of their purpose. The city splits the view as a narrow band in darkness fractured by the lines of light from its houses, from its streets, life contrasting with black emptiness but conveying no meaning. From far away the details evaporate. Personal existences, millions of them, in all their action, all their dreams, signal their presence anonymously. The clouds above, barely perceptible, present as much to the camera in their transient passing as these millions of people reduced to mere light present as signifiers, place marks, splats on a map, splats that barely rise above ...

“I Got No Quarrel with The VietcongNo Vietcong Ever Called Me Nigger.” Sometimes words resonate through time. We hear them and immediately comprehend their importance; even if some don’t comprehend their value at that time. Muhammad Ali will chiefly be remembered as a charismatic and fearless boxing champion. Some, however, will also remember him as an advocate of social justice, speaking out against war, discrimination against African Americans, and support for peace and Islam. Whether as a prominent member of the sporting community or a fierce advocate for social change, Muhammad Ali will regardless be considered an influential ...

Freud’s psychosexual development phases include are five in number with each of the stages having a particular erogenous region.

Oral- this stage occurs between the period from birth to the first birthday. The erogenous region is the mouth and getting stuck in this stage means the individual will result in an immature, gullible and passive personality that is manipulative in nature (Furnham, 2015). Anal- between the first and the third birthday the bladder and bowel become the erogenous zones. It is at this phase that the ego of the child is developing and toilet training is the major experience for the child (Freud, 2010). Getting stuck in this stage the child might become obsessively neat and organized or ...

Insrtuctor’s Name

“Answer the question, Jane Thomson,” Miss Smith says courteously, coldly, implacably, thus wiping the grin off my face. It is my friend Lucy’s sixteenth birthday, and we have been talking about her birthday party that she is going to throw on Saturday night. Naturally, we have been giggling and grinning from sideburn to sideburn as we usually do when we sit next to each other. That is why we did not notice our Geometry teacher come up to our desk. “Silence!” Miss Smith hisses, turning on the class. Terrified, my classmates watch us in dismay. A sudden hush ...

Beth Helen's crime of the heart narrates the story of three Magrath girls, Babe, Meg, and Lenny. The story is surrounded by a sad aura, which forces the sisters to depict their complicated relationship of love and resentment. The plot is based on the sisters showing love, conflict, and reconciliation with each other given the circumstances each of them finds themselves. At the beginning of the play, Meg has just shot her husband, and Lenny celebrates her thirtieth birthday alone in the kitchen with a candle and a cookie. Meg is also seen making many wishes about her aspiration ...

            About 200 million starlings from North America have nobody but one man to thank for their success: William Shakespeare. He improved tremendously from being just a novice from a little town, to a globally honored writer in London. During his short lifetime of 52 years, he completed 34 plays, 154 sonnets, and 4 poems. Also, Shakespeare created new words and phrases that are still used today in 21st century such as bloodsucking. After joining the Lord Chamberlain’s Men and beginning his writing and acting career, William Shakespeare became one of the most successful writers of all time and ...

I had an experience with Panay. Panay was able to close a deal without running into any problems, but we need to do a dealer trade for him. His customer kept asking when the car would be delivered. I told the customer, I did not want to promise the delivery time because I want to set the right expectation for my customer. I had an experience with a salesperson last week; he told me he would finish all of the 24 hour follow-ups by the end of the day. Before he left I asked him if he had ever ...

The Queen's 90th birthday

Currently at the age of 90, Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch of the British Kingdom. Not only is she the longest ruling Queen but also among the most powerful and most influential world leaders alive today. To her 90th birthday to date, the Queen has had major accomplishment for the British people and to the world as a whole. Some of the most important dates of the queen's reign are highlighted below, from the time she was coming to age in wartime to her current position as the Queen of England. During World War II, Queen ...

It is very easy to insert an image into a Word Document. The assumption for this task is that the image has been stored into your “downloads” folder in your computer, and that one already has his Word document open at the moment.

Inserting an image into a Word document is easy and can be accomplished in a few steps:

Open the word document. Click the place in the document where you wish the image to appear. The insertion cursor, which is a vertical blinking line, will be seen at this point. When inserted, the image’s left bottom corner will be at this place. On the main toolbar, click “Insert”. Then click “Pictures”. A screenshot ...

The grammatical functions in the main clause of each of the sentences include: Subject, Direct Object, Indirect Object, and Subject Complement. 1. Mary didn’t tell me where she had found the missing scissors. [Mary] – Subject. [me] – Indirect Object. [where she had found the missing scissors] – Direct Object.

The fancy sports car his mother had bought generated a great deal of excitement.

[Car ] – Subject . [a great deal of excitement] – Direct Object.

Bill seemed thoroughly satisfied with the condition of the residence.

[Bill] – Subject. [satisfied] – Subject Compliment. [with the condition of the residence] – Direct Object.

Beatrice claimed that she can achieve a perfect score on the assignment.

[Beatrice] – Subject. [that she can achieve a perfect score on the assignment] – Direct Object.

Our guests walked to the shopping mall in the afternoon.

[Guests] – Subject. [to the shopping mall] – Subject Compliment II. Ian appreciated the gift which he ...

Introduction

Rock Planet Restaurant is a fast food joint at the heart of London, buzzing with young peoples and rock lovers. The restaurant is owned by a group of famous musicians, who make appearances regularly to eat with commoners. Rock Planet thrives on the music, the price of food, buzz and simplicity. Within a year of its existence, the joint has risen to become a landmark in London, favored by tourists and young people.

Marketing mix – 7 Ps

Product Rock Planet Restaurant offers fast foods the American style; fries, burgers, salads, chicken, and ribs. In the event of a birthday, the restaurant offers a ...

Social media has now become the medium for connecting to friends, family and even people from the workplace; this has become more so now that access to social media is increasingly mobile. Statistics show that 76% of internet users are on social media and 70% logon to Facebook at least once a day . People between the ages of 18-40 use social media more than others. But why do people spend so much time on social media? What does excessive involvement in virtual social networking mean for the actual social lives of people? This essay will argue that while social ...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the movie adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play. It was a box office hit in 1958. The movie stars Paul Newman as Brick Pollitt. Brick is married to Maggie, portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor. Brick and Maggie take a trip to visit Brick’s family’s plantation in Mississippi, where Big Daddy has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, a truth that is unbeknownst to him. He has been given a year to live. This movie chronicles the events of a Southern family whose wealth drives a wedge between their relationships. Brick’s brother, ...

Criminal Justice: Assignment 3

Police Body- Worn Cameras: Evidentiary Benefits and Privacy Threats- this article support the position that police enforce the laws in an appropriate manner and without bias or racism. In most part of the United States, the law enforcement officers are wearing mounted cameras. Appropriate behaviors have been demonstrated by law enforcement officers, thereby, winning the trust of the community. The minority communities feel at ease while being interrogated by the law enforcement officers- they know that the probability of using violence by the law enforcement officer is very slim. The use of cameras has played a significant role in ...

The philosopher Plato once claimed that the purpose of education is “to ensure that the habit and aspirations of the old generation are transmitted to the younger- and then presumably to the next one after that” (Plochmann). In “Reporting Live from Tomorrow,” from his book Stumbling On Happiness, Daniel Gilbert likens this transmission of beliefs to the process of genetic replication, arguing that like bad genes, false beliefs—those which do not, in fact, contribute to an individual’s happiness—can easily become “super-replicators,” within a culture (Gilbert 171). In Julia Alvarez’s Once Upon a Quinceañera, the ...

People tend to believe in many things in their life. There is a great number of rights and wrongs that people have established in their minds. For, example, children is a source of happiness. These believes that tend to make people happy are called super replicators. Thesis+2 Main Ideas: People believe that certain things should be replenished in order to guarantee them life or happiness and it is called super replicator, but there are other people who do not share this opinion. Daniel Gilbert and Julia Alvarez take a position on the debate regarding super replicator. They believe ...

Irrespective of the history of an adopted child, responsive parenting is vital to a secure loving relationship and the essentials to a loving and health family attachment are the same whether a kid has been adopted or born into a family. Many parents become worried when a young child comes to them with a history of having lost their loving caregiver at their orphanage as they wonder if the child will form a strong attachment with them. Additionally, the issue with the development of the child is also of concern as parents’ worry of the health, education, emotional behaviour, ...

Theater of the absurd is an idea that started gaining relevance in the 1950s. The concept is essentially informed by the ideas of absurdism and existentialism. Their prominent trait includes having irrational plots that feature characters who seem to lack peace with their existence. This new style in the playwrights came out as controversial and amazing. Authors embracing this style mainly present the human’s state as futile. This is in line with the philosophical perspectives such as the ones presented by Albert Camus that insisted human being can only be in the position of exploiting their full potential ...

Culture is a very dynamic element of the social setting of human beings. Culture is kinetic meaning that it is bound to constant modification and change from time to time. For example, when we consider the English language, we notice the constant and frequent adoption and addition of new words meant to describe varied situations in different cultures. These new words emanate from the frequent changes or social developments constantly shaping our world today. For example, one of the new words adopted as part of the accepted English words is the word ‘Photobomb’. A ‘photobomb’ is a verb meaning ...

Helen Keller’s The Story of My life

They Story of My Life is an autobiography written by Helen Keller, the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor’s degree in arts. Her educational achievement is even more notorious considering that at the beginning of the twentieth century women had limited educational and work opportunities. At 22 and while still a student at Radcliffe College she published her autobiography, The Story of My Life, which had appeared the year before in installment form in the Ladies Home Journal magazine.1 Helen Keller opened the doors to education and opportunity to many blind and disabled people not only in ...

Channels

The video fails to mention the changes made in the channel since it is not an appealing advert to its customers. Most marketing approaches are based on attracting the client by making such channels more affordable and perfecting the services. In the channel case, YouTube started charging the initially free channels which would rather discourage people from watching as it seeks additional money from their watching budgets (YouTube's 7th Birthday, 2012). Including this ad to the broadcast would not encourage many people to watch the channels the way they used to do before.

Competition

There are no active ways of ...

Once upon a time, long ago, in a kingdom far and away, there lived a beautiful young maiden by the name of Anna. This is her remarkable story: Anna’s mother died when she was an infant. Her father, being nearly destitute at the time, married a wealthy widow, by the name of Hagatha. Hagatha had two daughters from a previous marriage. Their names were Dorcas and Hortense. When Anna was ten years old, her father passed away from a sudden illness. Having no other relatives to care for her, Anna was forced to live with her step-mother and ...

Mike, one of my friends, had a birthday last month, and his father presented him a gift that Mike had always dreamt about. For his birthday, he received a black high-powered Chevy Camaro from his father. Definitely, it was a great birthday present from one of Mike's closest people.At first sight, it seems that the primary motivation of Mike's father was making his son the happiest person in the world by giving this amazing present. However, another motivation could be that Mike's parents were going to get divorced, and Mike's father wanted Mike to take his side in conflict.Birthday ...

Abstract

Andy’s Parties emerged as a successful startup for eight years from an unexpected uncovering of a robust and growing market for children’s birthday party. The business operates in a large market of working women with no time to arrange and manage their children’s birthday parties and who are willing and capable of paying the price for party services. While working mothers are getting more aware of their motherhood and marital obligations, their careers remained essential to their selfhood, making forcing them to choose both and balance the demands from either. The full service offer that Andy’ ...

What is the primary educational intent for this unit? What are the related CCSS?

The main ideas of the first unit are: Critical incidents reveal a character’s dynamic nature. Authors use specific word choice to create tone and enhance meaning. In the first unit the students will learn to analyze how critical incidents reveal the dynamic nature of the main character; to consider the impact of specific word choice on tone and meaning; to infer and analyze text, both in discussion and through writing. To do it they will read the poem “Birthday Wishes” from the novel and answer multiple-choice questions to analyze the poem for the author’s word choice, tone ...

McDonald’s Marketing

Q1. Segmentation and Targeting of McDonald’s Understanding of target customers is an important knowledge when developing a marketing strategy. Having this information will help company offer a better product or a service. Better you know about your consumers, more effectively you could communicate and market them. McDonalds has segmented their products according to bases of Demographic, Psychographic and Behavioural. Three main segments that McDonalds came up with are kids, students and family.

Segmentation

Market segmentation is a division of a market in small segments. It is crucial for any international company, as needs of people from different segments are ...

Psychologist Kendra Cherry defines dreams as “the images, thoughts and emotions that are experienced during sleep, which can be extraordinarily vivid or very vague; filled with joyful emotions or frightening imagery; focused and understandable or unclear and confusing” (Cherry, 2014). There are many dream theories that attempt to explain why people dream and how dreams are formed. However, there is no agreement on exact reasons for dreaming. The theories attempt to explain what goes on when one dreams, the source of content of dreams, and the reasons behind the dreams. One of the popular theories is the psychoanalytic theory ...

INTRODUCTION

Robert Feldman (2010) defines lifespan development as a study that analyzes different patterns of change and growth in behavior that happens throughout an individual’s entire life. Though multiple theories exist to explain lifespan development, all specialists agree that both environment and heredity contribute to human development. For our case study, we would focus more on the environmental aspect of both Tayib and Rachel. The environmental aspect basically describes the surrounding circumstances an individual grew up with. It is largely affected by the people around them and the accompanying cultural circumstance they are currently in. Twenty-nine-year old Tayib is ...

Susie was not one to cast judgment on another person because she was not that kind of girl; that was not the kind of person her parents had raised her to become. In the brightly lit hollow that was her bedroom, she stood and wondered why her brother could be so mean and hateful to her. They had spent nine months together in their mother’s womb. That should have been enough time to bond, in Susie’s opinion. Timothy was older by nine minutes. It was hardly the blink of an eye, Susie was sure, when it came ...

<<Author>> <<Date>> Introduction. How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie, is a book that has really stood the test of time. Initially written in the year 1936, the revised edition that is under review here is from 1981, copyrighted by Donna Carnegie (Mrs. Dale Carnegie). The book belongs to the genre of Self Improvement and talks about the basic principles that need to be followed to understand people that we deal with in our daily lives and excel in winning them. It is a book that educates people on becoming ...

There are different foods prepared and served at various times depending on the locations. Families have different choices of the foods served on different occasions, let’s say in celebratory moods. It can be difficult for one to decide the food to offer people in several circumstances due to different tastes of people. What some people may term as best food can turn not to be the best food for others. Chess pie has been a good food for many families and it is mainly served during celebrations. It has happened in our family in many occasions whenever there ...

Introduction3

Stealing an Artist's Work3-4 International Copyrights Laws4-5 Criticisms of the TPP6 The Enforcement of Copyright6-8 The Contradictory U.S. Position8-10

The Excessive TPP Copyright Term10-12

Why Copyright Expanded12-13 Conclusion13 It might seem obvious that the individual creator of a particular work, whether it is a piece of literature, a film or a song, should have full rights to that work and control over how it is used. While for the average person, the concept copyright might seem unimportant or even an inconvenience for them personally, the idea behind copyrighted material has existed for centuries and is a major part of the socioeconomic structure in the ...

Grocery Station was started off by Michelle Frogman in 1972 as a single store mom-and-pop shop for selling groceries. The Grocery Station, at that point, attracted clientele because of Frogman’s vivacious nature and the quality of groceries that the store offered. It was Wendy’s travails as a single mother, who was balancing home, job, and baby, when this need of groceries delivered at home, created the Grocery Station’s USP (unique selling preposition) of convenience delivery. Convenience delivery was a service offering wherein customers could place an order over phone and pay for it using a card, ...

When some people think of Chinese people they think of a bucktooth, squinty eyed nerdy oriental with an accent who likely eats rice, which is an offensive stereotype. This is an example of the kinds of hateful stereotypes that exist in society. In social psychology, a stereotype is an attitude that can be adopted in regard to specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things. These thoughts may influence one’s perception of reality. In my opinion, stereotypes may be split into three types; 1) race, 2) gender, and 3) appearance. We are all familiar with racism ...

It was a bright morning on 25 July, and I felt all would be well that day. There were two special things happening on the day. It was my birthday! I think maybe the sun chose to shine for it knew about my birthday or it had more to share than a remembrance. The second special thing was my father was coming home on that day. It had been six months since he went on duty out of the country and it would be great to have him around on my birthday. However, I was not sure what gift ...

The article’s title is “HERS; Why Boys Do not Play with Dolls”. The article was published in The New York Times on October 8, 1995. The author of this article is a poet and essayist named Katha Pollitt. The author’s main idea in this article is that the different preferences in girls and boys are not innate but due to influences from their parents and the whole society. She demonstrates that even though everyone would like to believe girls from birth have always liked to play with dolls and love wearing party dresses while boys like playing ...

The two possible topics are a gift from my dad and my trip to Las Vegas. The trip to Las Vegas has generated the most writing so far. Many people enjoy things that deal with adventure and travelling. It is nice seeing new things, meeting new people and visiting places. The surprise in both of these topics is that they are the good things that every person would wish to have. We all love to be presented with gifts as well as travelling. A gift from my father, the topic raises questions which I am not sure I can ...

Executive Summary

The marketing plan is based on an event management company called “The Elegant event management Company”. The firm is a start-up organization based on partnership. The business is intended to offer multiple event management services to diverse sort of event customers from wedding events to the corporate and cultural event. The experience of the organization in different event management areas, good relations with complementary service providers, and knowledgeable and qualified workforce are the things that differentiate the organization from rivals. The firm is a complete pack of event management services and expert in providing quality services at affordable price. ...

Introduction

In introducing a new commodity into the market, it is necessary to evaluate critical features that influence the entrance of such goods in the market. One of the key factors considered in the launch of the new commodity in the market is the targeted market (Amin & Bashir, 2014). Determining the intended market is essential in production forecasting and sales. The intended market will dictate the amount of the commodity to manufacture, the packaging design, pricing, advertising and promotional methods (Beaver, 2000). The character of the intended market concerning the geographical arrangement of the intended market will facilitate the modeling ...

There are many people who had influence of the modern history, art, literature, science, music, and technology. However, the most influential person can be defined as a person who changed the course of history and left a heritage of good ideas changing the human course of history in a positive manner. People who deserve the place in the hall of the most influential people of 20th century are Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Mohandas Gandhi. These individual managed to made extraordinary changes in their fields of work and broader. Even today, they shape our thoughts, influence our everyday life, ...

Community health promotion

Introduction The Department Of Public Health in various states has done very little to put up constructive community health programs. The society expects the government (both county and central governments) to take charge of such programs but this has not always been the case. In most cases, county governments have very limited resources and therefore usually prefer to allocate these meager resources in curative programs rather than preventative one.

1. Examine three programs offered by the health department in your area to determine if the programs focus on primary, secondary, or tertiary prevention. Give an example of ...

A Summary of the Diary of Anne Frank

The “Diary of Anne Frank” is a young girl’s personal recollection of her life during 1942 – 1944. The diary presents the historical events of World War II, and condemns the inconceivable revulsion of the Holocaust. It is historical because the teenaged Jewish girl, Anne Franks, give a true personal description of her life as she hid from the Nazis. The diary contains the emotional fears of Anne as she endures the two years in hiding. Although she was just a child at the time, she makes incredible observations about humans and their tendencies. Anne started making entries at the age of ...

Every society has a belief in a superhuman being that has powers over the people, this belief is referred to as religion and the beliefs vary in different societies. Religion unites people who have one common belief and provides social guidance on religious and spiritual issues .Sikhism also referred to as the Sikh religion forms one of the many global religions. During the late 15thcentury, Guru Nanak founded the Sikh tradition in the Punjab region current day India and Pakistan (Singh,2011).

Guru Nanak preached against religious rituals that had no significance to any religion, he did not oppose any ...

Most organizations spend an enormous amount of money on compensation and benefits of an employee. Whenever an employee joins in an organization, the salary and benefits are attached to the contract. Compensation and benefits are the extra benefits and remuneration given to an employee for serving the company well. The possible benefits are health care, retirement, paid vacations. According to Dessler and Varkkey (2011), it is said that organizations offer benefits and compensation to attract employees. For this report, the FMCG industry is chosen. In this report, the employee compensation and benefits of employees in Unilever is developed. Unilever ...

Can you imagine living in a girls-only family? I mean a family that has only girls, no boys. I surely cannot! Firstly, the sight of many kids makes me feel anxious. I can imagine a house where when one kid cries and other kids follow pursuit. In addition, girls are more likely to cry a lot more than boys. I feel terrified just thinking of living under such circumstances. Pamela Vitela is a woman who lives in this kind of a Mexican family, and she is the eldest girl in her family. Why did I say she is a woman? Because she is already 18 years ...

For my student practical skills development training, I had the opportunity to be placed as a trainee in the Immunology department of a Women’s and Children’s Hospital. It is naturally agreed that one acquires important practical skills and learns the ropes of one’s profession while on the practicum placement. A career in laboratory medicine requires a lot practical skills and one has to be conversant with many laboratory procedures involved. The Women’s and Children’s Hospital is one of its kind. It is a care facility that centers on family needs, and it is specifically dedicated to offering ...

Bringing flower to the birthday girl is a must. But most people forget to buy presents on time because they are busy with work or the daily routine. On the way to the birthday dinner or party, it is easy to stop by and buy a bouquet of flowers.

However, since most birthday celebrations happen during the late hours of the day when barely nothing is open, it is not so easy to locate a shop where one can find a suitable present for the birthday boy or girl. Therefore, the best combination for such an occasion would be to combine a flower shop ...

The Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc or VF is working aggressively with other partners in innovating sustainable solutions to end human trafficking and the modern day slavery. VF is offers specialized services to the victims and their families, advocates for lasting changes, and builds social movements to fight human trafficking, exploitation, and domestic servitude.

History

Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc or VF is a Non Government Organization or NGO in the Philippines. It was established in 1991 regarded extensively in the innovation of sustainable solutions to end the modern day slavery totally. The founder and executive director of VF is Maria Cecilia Flores-Oebanda. ...

Kindred is a novel written by Octavia Butler with an aim of narrating the agony of today’s black woman. It depicts a true picture of a society that subjects its people to bondage with limited resistance from victims. A major character, Dana, is forced to relocate from California to colonial South in order to provide protection to a man that would later become her ancestor. Her survival remains assured as long as she is able to keep this man alive. In this novel, she is instructed to travel to a Maryland plantation, the home of her ancestor Rufus Weylin. Every time his ancestor ...

Philosophy

The great Greek philosopher Plato (428-348 BC X.) was a brilliant student from another major Hellenic sage - Socrates. The basis of the philosophy of Plato - the doctrine of ideas - has been a source of Socratic appeal to the true cognition of concepts that are not subjective (as contemporaries of Socrates and Plato - the sophists claimed), and constitute an independent incorporeal world that exists beyond the world of sense. Plato believed that only in the world of ideas and is the real truth. Son of noble Athenian citizens and Perictione Ariston, Plato led by the legendary origin ...

The character Frodo Baggins in the trilogy Lord of the Rings is a character who potrays bravery and courage and blind at parts. What is amazing about this character, is the will he shows, in the various quests he takes up. Frodo is the son of Drogo Baggins; he is a hobbit of the shire, of the third age. In the movie, he is the holder of the ring that is to be taken to Mount Doom to be destroyed. He is one of the three hobbits who sailed to the end of the third age in the middle of the ...

Movie director Oliver Stone’s 1989 film “Born on the Fourth of July” is a vivid screen adaptation of antiwar activist Ron Kovic’s autobiographical account of his idealistic dreams of war to becoming the damaged bitter war veteran. This film review follows Stone’s story line of portraying the evolution of Kovic from a young boy playing war with his friends in 1950s Massapequa, Long Island, to his eventual recognition and acceptance as an articulate and respected antiwar activist. For many of the people today, references to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s are little-known history because this generation wasn’ ...

The issue of how different genders regard the treatment of animals is a very interesting one; the way in which we may or may not be hard-wired plays a crucial role in determining just how we interact with animals. The prevailing wisdom is that men treat animals more harshly than women do, and therefore hunting is much easier for them. However, the line between domesticated animals/pets and wild animals is often blurred for many, and women tend to be more predisposed to anthropomorphize and humanize animals in their minds. The differences between how men and women look at animals can be ...