Essays on Brighter

Assignment 3

Part A 1a. No diamonds are emeralds, diamonds is the subject and emeralds is the predicate, the terms are distributed because no S is P (E type proposition); it is a negative statement because of the quality of the subject. The quantity of the subject class is a particular proposition because no diamonds are emeralds. 1b. At least one person is a nerd, person is the subject and nerd is the predicate, the terms are distributed because one S exists so that S is a P (I type proposition); it is an affirmative statement because of the quantity of ...

Aboriginal peoples and communities are among the first inhabitants of Canada and are thus considered as one of the founders of Canada. Aboriginal peoples already had legal systems and governance structures even before European settlers arrived in Canada. With the advent of European settlers, Aboriginal peoples were forced to either assimilate to the foreign systems and culture or ignore the immigrants and keep their culture. The latter, however, resulted in conflicts between the European settlers and the local Aboriginal communities. Such conflicts were settled through the signature treaties. However, the signing of the agreements did not guarantee that the ...

Each and every part of the fairy tale has its own significant meaning, which makes the story even more unique in the reader’s imagination and brings deeper symbolism into the perception of the tale. One of such elements is the forest, where the little Snow White has found dwarfs. This element has various explanations, depending on the way the reader perceives and understands the tale. The forest may symbolize the dark period of life – the period of decline, depression, loss of hope, etc. It may also symbolize a time of issues, problems represented through the trees and grass, ...

Introduction

Photographs save moments. The most efficacious and optimum images provided in the news capture the viewer. The viewer not only sees the news moment, but also feels it through the presentation of the image. These images are seen as reality by viewers. Viewers hold the news images as truths. This was the case before video and digital photographer and it still applies today with the exponential advances. Advances in technology and the image on news photography has been both advantages and disadvantages to newspapers and electronic news sources. The way in which the news captured images prior to the ...

The Bagdad Taxi, a documentary movie directed by Frederic Tonnoli sends chills down the spine of everyone who watches it, at least mine had chills. The setting of the film was months after the end of the tenure of the American troops in Iraq. The movie revolves around a filmmaker who sojourns the country of Iraq right from one far end to the other, in a taxi with Khalid, who doubled as both his friend and a cab driver. The journey covered over ten Iraqi towns with a good number of over a hundred police checks, as the filmmaker ...

There are many significant points throughout history that many regard as pivotal, the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution are some. For Americans it is often the founding of the first colonies in the east and the fight for independence in the 1700s, however, the most significant event for many Americans today is the American Civil War, beginning in 1861 and ending in 1865. For the two sides of the War, the Union North and the Confederate South, the goals were rather different. For the Union army it was about quelling rebellion and preventing the succession ...

Introduction

The growing cost of college education has raised debates about how viable a college degree is. These debates are further fueled by required knowledge and skill sets required for current job market. Given current unemployment rates (coming in heel of an unprecedented economic recession), investment in college education has not only become a financial burden long after graduation but is also becoming, critically, less rewarding from a job prospect perspective. Indeed, "overeducated" college graduates – particularly ones completing an undergraduate or a higher degree in software engineering or digital media majors – are experiencing particularly painful job experiences, particularly during early ...

Marketing Research Report for Primark

Introduction The aim this report is to select a clothing retailer and conduct a marketing research for providing the store an opportunity to improve their sales through improving their strategies. For the achievement of the objective, the organization that has been selected as a target fashion retailing business is Primark.

Fashion retail industry overview

Industry analysis is important for organizations; it allows organizations to understand their weaknesses and strengths and provide the chance to realize the gap and capitalize on those gaps. The retailing section of the United Kingdom is an indispensable part of the economy of the UK and fashion is amongst ...

Marijuana is an addictive and powerful drug that has various effects on the user’s body. These effects include various effects on the brain, effects on the body and mental or psychological effects as well. Marijuana is harmful because of its extracts which are potentially dangerous especially when marijuana is consumed in large amounts. Marijuana use has several effects on the human brain. These are categorized as short term and long term effects of marijuana. Smoking marijuana causes the THC in the drug to pass through the lungs into the blood circulatory system. The chemical reaches the brain through ...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a fundamental idea about the phenomenon of Supernovae and their significance in understanding the nature of our universe. This paper shall be trying to make an in-depth analysis of different types of supernovae that had been observed in universe and also the factors that cause them. Even though the paper does not go deeper into the technical aspects of observing supernovae and the characteristics of their each type, a significant amount of study has been conducted to make an understanding of how they are observed and the characteristics that make each ...

Question and Answer

- Given the two photographs, the one which was taken last March 3, 2013 looks to have been taken at a higher altitude than the other. I am able to say this because it has more lines from the inner center to its outer lines compared to the other photo. In other words the higher the number of lines from the center, the higher the altitude used to take the picture. Also, the “March 3, 2013” photo shows shorter lines compared to the one that was taken last 2010. With that, I conclude that because of the wider scope of ...

Growth is something that many organizations whether big or small aspire. As the small organizations grow fat and more major ones also grow larger, certain structures change within the organization that changes its outward look. Therefore to broaden the base cost elimination and profit improvements are checked on a continuous basis. The main problem that arises in any organization is ability to be in consensus with the group goals. The way all the employees in every organizational setting perceive the goals are different and therefore each does his or her way hoping to fulfill the goals (Clemmer, ...

In the play King Richard III, Act V, scene V has several outstanding incidents that are emphasized by variations in lighting. The scene depicts a night when Richard is preparing for battle at Bosworth Field (Shakespeare). The lighting of the scene depicts darkness with a spotlight being shone on the character. The spotlight leaves the larger part of the stage dark to give the impression of the night.

When King Richard goes to sleep, he dreams about ghosts of the men he had murdered, and they appear on stage. The ghostly spirits condemn Richard and tell him that he will ...

- Why does the tilt of the Earth’s axis relative to its orbit cause the seasons as the Earth revolves around the Sun? Draw a diagram to illustrate your answer.

Earth's seasons are the result of the tilt of the Earth's axis. Since the axis is tilted, different parts of the globe are oriented towards the Sun at different times of the year. Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is warmer than winter as the Sun's rays hit the Earth at a comparatively more direct angle for larger portions of the day, producing more heat and vice versa. Due to this very same tilt, when the Sun crosses the Equator it causes the equinoxes.

- Where do you have to be on the Earth to see the Sun at your zenith? If you stay at one such location for a full year, on how many days will the Sun pass through the zenith?

To see the Sun at its Zenith a person can be at a place between 23.5o ...

Community Assets and Local Institutions

Determining Relevant Assets: Drug Abuse Prevention through Community Assets and Local Institutions Community assets are very vital in every community. They are considered as the “recognized attributes of communities essential for the maintenance of rural life and vital for the sustainability of the economy, society and environment” (Fuller, Guy, & Pletsch, 2002, p.5). These include the essential qualities that make resources valuable to those living within its borders. For this, it is important to make an inventory map of all the good things that the community possesses, and list all the valued aspects found within. It is the ...

Since the close of World War II, the US has remained committed to transatlantic security. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in 1949 and saw the transatlantic nations become the core of world security. It is in this light that NATO has emerged as military alliance that remains important to the US. There are about 80,000 US military personnel located in about 28 operating bases in Europe. These are mainly in the UK, Italy, Germany and Spain. While the Cold War led to the setting up of these bases, America defends Europe due to a number of various reasons. ...

TURKISH VASE

Art can be indeed very insightful into the lifestyle as well as the emotional and cultural disposition of the people responsible for the creation of the art. This is because art is a direct reflection of culture and lifestyle. The study of pieces of art from a given culture can reveal a great deal of information about the people who produced the piece of art as well as the historic period in which the art piece was produced. The following essay takes more of a descriptive paradigm as far as art is concerned. This means that the essay is exclusively inclined towards the ...

Image analysis

Images in art and architecture are important in that they carry message. Interpretation of images is an important skill to posses in the field of art and architecture. Image interpretation therefore is a fundamental component of decoding the meaning of images. Artists in the creating of their works employ various features in their work of art to create the desired effect on the person interacting with the image. These features give the image its interpretive value. In interpretive analysis, a determination is made on the elements of the drawing more represented than the others are. Such aspects include the use of ...

[Professor]

My Relationship with Politics I never expected that I can be very interested in learning deeper about politics until this class. Previously, I was not paying attention to the burning issues of our society as I was disillusioned on the current social order. I believed that the world is one big cruel jungle where people survive using their own abilities. It is always the survival of the fittest. When our teacher starts talking about the current events, I was starting to yawn but there is something in his style of teaching that drew me into listening and ...

Introduction

Maurice Merleau-Ponty begins his essay “Eye and Mind” with a comment on science. Studying the world in the manner that science does, takes a person out of one’s body, he says. It places the world in a series of definitions, constructs, indices and variables, allowing only the understanding of minute, exact changes to have a status of legitimacy. He says science “comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals” (Ponty, 121). For any lover of art who lives in this practical, rational capitalistic society, this point of view is refreshing. Today, typically, the real world is referred to ...

Color Signals in Human

For more than 20 years there has been confusion and contradiction about whether and how the visual system can examine the motion of pure color patterns that contain no luminance variety. Three new papers have reported proof that, given their force, color patterns match luminance designs in the motion related sensations and utilitarian attractive resonance imaging signals. They evoke in people, and in the neural signs they inspire in the motion region of cortex of acting monkeys. This key aspect of the most seasoned and the most modern of cognitive neuroscience strategies decisively reject the proposal that color signs ...

Inquiry 1

Growing up in a traditional Chinese family, I am the single child who is living with my parents. In conventional Chinese culture, parents are supposed to take care of their children to such age until the children get married. In some cases, children are receiving family economic support even having their own babies. On one hand, Chinese children are exposed to less social stress with the help of their parents. On the other hand, the parenting style brews a mindset that children should conform to their parents’ requests unconditionally. My family is from one of these traditional families. My parents are ...

Abstract

The study investigates different aspects of the Mirphak star. The Introductory section explains that the star occurs in the Perseus constellation and is the brightest star in the night sky above the Northern horizon. The paper has a section that describes the various names and myths linked to the star. Moreover, the paper traces a Greek’s mythical story that gave the constellation its name. Under the section on properties and position of the star, the study examines the changing coordinates of Mirphak. As a result, it outlines the star’s coordinates in J2000 and J1900. Other features examined include Mirphak’s ...

The organization that was chosen is the Boys and Girls Clubs of America (BGCA). The BGCA is a national organization that is composed of local chapters that endeavors to provide after-school programs for the youth. The BGCA is granted with congressional charter by the American government under Title 36 of the U.S. Code. This organization is partly funded by the government and enjoys tax-exemption privileges. The organization is actively involved in providing a better future for the youth as part of its corporate social responsibility to the community. BGCA ensures the safety and protection of young boys and girls, and ...

Introduction

In thinking about death one is likely to come up with two inescapably true and mutually excluding conclusions: certainty and unknowing (Orbach, 1999, p.9). On the one hand, each of us seems to be convinced that death is inevitable and inescapable, while, on the other hand, nobody of the living is able to confidently predict the time of his/her death and provide a clear vision of what is going to happen to what can be called a soul after the body is dead. Since ages lots of people have been dreaming to invent a way to either escape or at least postpone ...

“The Lady With The Little Dog” by Anton Chekhov is the simple story of a man who stays in a loveless marriage but finally finds true love in an unhappy married woman, with whom he has an affair. Even though the man looks down on women classifying them as “an inferior race ” (31), he successfully falls in love. This love could be hazardous to his marriage with his wife, yet the nature of love triggers his unstoppable desire toward the woman. What his attitude is when he truly falls in love with the lover? Given images and diction, the story could ...

Abstract

People learn through different ways and means. One way is through seeking advice from one`s role models who are generally successful in their life. Life coaching essentially helps people to understand and think differently. Its main objective is to let the one undergoing coaching learn for himself what is good for his or her development. It helps learners develop brighter thinking. The coach does not tell the learners what they ought to do to achieve their dreams and ultimate goals in life. This is to avoid imparting his agenda on the learner. Life coaching appreciates the fact that ...

The urbanization and globalization of our lives have changed the way we look at and feel about spaces; landscaping and man's mastery of our environment has allowed us to shape it according to our will. The introduction of technology has furthered this ability to create and change the way we interact with the world around us; GPS, Foursquare, Google Maps and other social networking and electronic media heavily shape how we move through a space and interact with it. My goal is to create a project that brings out the connections between technological advances and our movement through landscapes, linking the ...

The urbanization and globalization of our lives have changed the way we look at and feel about spaces; landscaping and man's mastery of our environment has allowed us to shape it according to our will. The introduction of technology has furthered this ability to create and change the way we interact with the world around us; GPS, Foursquare, Google Maps and other social networking and electronic media heavily shape how we move through a space and interact with it. My goal is to create a project that brings out the connections between technological advances and our movement through landscapes, linking the ...

Nike Company’s ‘Find Your Greatness’ Campaign Report

For an effective advertising campaign, it is essential to integrate a larger number of media. The integration is of significance since it creates enormous attractions and higher level of awareness to the organization’s customers and potential customers. One of such companies that have integrated its advertisement campaigns is the Nike Corporation. The company has effectively integrated the advertisements that equally work best across the television, online media, and outdoor. These make its customers promptly gain awareness about the products of the company. This paper conducts an analysis of one of the Nike Corporation’s advertisement campaigns and its effect ...

This paper gives a response to a picture of beautiful of kids at the ice cream point. A part from the kids, I can see an ice cream van with an open door, a person distributing the ice cream to the kids and a writing on the foreground of the picture. There is also another set of writing on the van probably indicating the kind of service being offered by it. This architectural work was properly done as a good work of art. The artist made a good use of all the elements of art in it. There is an extensive use of coloring ...

Read the following DoH Strategy and summarize in your own words (250 words).

DoH 2009 Living well with dementia: a National Dementia Strategy

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_094058

People with dementia suffer from cognitive incapacity and personality changes due to neurological damage in the brain. There is no cure for the disease and it gets worse with age; however, if diagnosed early, people can learn to cope with most problems associated with dementia and improve their quality of life. Dementia has been defined as a national priority in England, where the incidence of dementia is expected to double within the next three decades, from 700,000 to 1.4 million; and the cost to triple, from £17 billion ...

Question 1

a) i) If genomic DNA from the wild type bacterium were digested with EcoRI, three different fragments would be detected. The approximate sizes of the fragments would be 1.625 Kb, 1.375 Kb and 0.25 Kb. This is because there are two different digestion sites for EcoRI within the region complementary to the probe, and therefore three different fragments would partially hybridize with it after the digestion. ii) There are only two restriction sites for BamHI shown in the diagram, but neither of them is within the region complementary to the probe, and both of them are upstream of this ...

In his book, Fascism, Richard Griffiths discusses how this word is an over-used term in its modern sense, specifically discussing how it relates to the ideas of: “authoritarianism, to ‘control freakery’” and how it can also “imply violence, extremism or racism; or the term can be applied to the political Right in general.” Griffiths adds that these and a “wide range of other attributes, however, made up ‘fascism’.” (Griffiths 1) Following World War One, the rise of fascism intensified in Germany, specifically, due to their nationalistic pride. When Hitler rose to be chairman of the Nazi party in 1921, Germany ...

1. Upon waking up, I decide to run for Governor of state.

2. In order to qualify as Governor of State, my main qualification needs to be their agreement that I am the person who they wish to represent their views. I have already been living in my state since birth, which means that I am eligible for any residency limitation they require me to have fulfilled, and I am also over thirty years of age. My enthusiasm and commitment knows no bounds and I am certain that I am a viable and ideal candidate for the role of Governor.

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