Essays on Contradictory

I strongly support the views expressed by Zhou in the article. It is often said that America is a land of liberty, equality and opportunity. The gifted people get what they deserve. Asian Americans have proved their ability and they have been credited for one of the major drivers of American economy. They are called “Model Minority”. The previous generations of Asian Americans came to this land to shape their future and the future of their next generations. They got liberty and opportunities to prosper as elite Americans. It clearly indicates that America is a land of liberty and ...

. This essay on Orwell’s work in question will seek to examine the striking theme of guilt and shame as depicted by the author in his writing, as well as the painful, contradictory nature of his own feelings versus actions. Orwell, at the time of writing, was a British policeman in the country of Burma in south east Asia dominated by the rule of the British Empire, and here begins the first contradiction given his subsequent reputation as a crusader against such a political system. The essay will examine three aspects of the essay in relation to guilt and ...

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The Gangster Movie: Questions and Answers

1. VIDEO CLIP 1: Identify two classical conventions of gangster genre (e.g. theme, plot device, character type, and/or stylistic device) present in this image and briefly explain the significance of each one. (2 points) The two classical conventions of Gangster Genre present in the first video are theme and character type. The theme that is being explored in the video clip is the immigrant criminal, who has been left to die in humiliation and as a comic, as required by the Production Code Administration (PCA). The character type is the gangster, who has dark, ethnic ...

Tennyson, “The Eagle”. Discussion Question: How is the solitary eagle’s strength emphasized in the first stanza? Does the reader “join” the eagle in the second stanza? How or how not? The reader joins the eagle in his dive in the second stanza through the metaphorical comparison with a thunderbolt. Captivated by the bird’s masterful and exact description in the first part of the poem, the reader has no choice but to follow the eagle’s majestic fall towards the water. This is also achieved by the personification of the predator, as the author uses pronouns “he”, and “ ...

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1. Taken from chapter four on positioning, Sun Tzu said, “You do not create the openings or opportunities that you need to advance because the environment is too large and complex to control. Instead, you must learn how to recognize opportunities created by the changes in the environment (“Chapters on Expansion,” www.scienceofstrategy.org).” Here, Sun Tzu acknowledges that nature’s method, organization, and coordination of events or opportunities is beyond man’s comprehension. To seize opportunity, an individual must train him or herself to flow and align with nature instead of trying to conquer it. 2. Taken from chapter 6 ...

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is a powerful and paradoxical piece of literature, which profoundly explains the trials and tribulations, both physical and emotional influences, on the Black community in a society living in pretense of newly received freedom. The narrator’s name is not revealed throughout the book, one of Ellison’s strategy of highlighting his invisibility. At the opening section of the book, Ellison introduces the narrator as a lost and naïve individual, struggling to find his place in the society. He indicates that he had to learn that he was invisible. The meaning behind ...

The war, US has begun in Iraq, is one of the most contradictory topics to discuss. One says it was a huge fail of the USA, other justify this war by national interests and by widespread of democracy. But it has not only positive influence on the situation in Iraq. This war has generated even more problems than not only Iraq but world society had before it. Using the article of Larry Diamond What went wrong in Iraq we should try to define the biggest mistakes that US administration has made; identify the main problems facing Iraq and find ...

Business

2016-07-23

Introduction

This paper is devoted to the issue of the companies of Elon Musk and Tesla and their compliance with the Moral Compass (Elon Musk’s Empire, 2016). The chosen news is related to the personal and corporate integrity. It should be noted that personal interests as well as professional interests can impact on the company. In this case, expression and defending each of own interests by the business entity can lead to a phenomenon that is called a conflict of interests. Entering into transactions with each other, every company seeks to realize selfish interests, which may not coincide ...

Introduction

The notion of "nothing" is one of the most important and controversial concepts in the history of humankind. Its etymology is quite interesting for the consideration, as it can discover many different mysteries associated with the most important knowledge. In addition, the perception of this idea may be absolutely controversial, if one talks about it in the framework of religion and philosophy of the Western and the Eastern worlds. Nothing is everything, and at the same time, it is a lack of everything. This notion has a negative connotation; it denies everything to what it is opposed; moreover, it ...

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1. Cognition refers to the process of human activity, the main content of which is the reflection of objective reality resulted in obtaining of new knowledge about the world. The main feature of social cognition as a form of cognitive activity is the coincidence of the subject and object of knowledge. In the course of social knowledge society cognizes and experiences itself. This coincidence of subject and object of knowledge has an enormous impact on both the process of cognition and its results. The resulting social knowledge is always associated with the interests of individuals - the subjects of ...

Financial institutions and financial markets play a massive role in guiding the international economy. The financial industry is the purveyor of credit in the market, allowing individual investors to prepare for their retirement and consumers to purchase homes. The financial industry also works closely with the central banking system of the countries they are located in through legislation and interest rate control, directly relating them to the machinations of the central banking authorities. The roles of financial institutions have changed over time, developing as economics advanced and more needs accrued. Banking institutions were originally created for people to store ...

An analysis of the problems associated with the word "Troll" require a study of the words etymology in relation to its origin and the way in which it has evolved and developed throughout the years. An analysis of the research available on the etymology of the word suggests Scandinavian origins that can be traced deep into the Scandinavian folklores. The word "troll" is, therefore, quite ancient as well as complex and contradictory in nature. The various Scandinavian countries identify trolls as mythological creatures in their literary cultures. However, trolls do differ in their nature from the various countries, meaning ...

Identifying the main problematics of the word "troll requires recalling its etymology, i.e. the very first time when it was used and its transformation over the centuries. An accurate analysis of the specific sources suggests that this word is quite ancient, multi-valued, and most notably, very contradictory. The word has Scandinavian roots and its etymology goes deep into folklore. The word "troll" has a direct relationship with nature because trolls, as mythological creatures, represent nature. On this basis, one can say that trolls from Denmark differ from trolls in Sweden, Norway, and Iceland. Despite the fact that the geographical ...

Sander’s Strengths as a Manager

Alex Sander was the youngest and the newest product manager of the Toiletries Division at Landon Care Products’, which was later acquired by Avant-Garde. Alex is represented as a skilled, perfectionist, smart, self-driven, self-confident, hardworking, professional, and multitasking individual who is keenly focused on her job tasks, Sanders is an ultimate achiever who is always engrossed, motivated, and dedicated toward her individual and organizational targets. Alex successfully possesses all the ground-breaking business management qualities and always portrays high commitment towards her job tasks. She is highly passionate towards her goals and the evidence to this was the successful rebranding ...

Despite all other tourist destination in North America, Cancun in Mexico is easily recognizable and popular for a reason. The Mexican destination is a unique place to visit during a vacations, it’s a remarkable place where it extends beyond beach fun. I guess for every individual visiting Mexico, Cancun would not miss on the list. It has unique experiences, jungle tour, swimming with dolphins, bird’s eyes and turtle farm, among other things. This essay paper is about the experience of the trip to Cancun, Mexico. The essay focuses on the two contradictory assumptions, where they originate, where ...

The film shows the plight of ordinary American people in the events of America’s Great Depression. They become migrant workers when they end up in a ranch in California. They are in search of work and opportunities for their family, but the best of opportunities are not given to them by the people they work for and live under. Food prices are ridiculously high on purpose such that they cannot afford good food; bottom line the ranch owners they work for oppress them. The camp in which they live in is crowded; the immigrants are starving and desperate. ...

Prospect Theory and Disappointment Aversion

The Allais paradox is a problem designed by French economist Maurice Allais in 1953 to show common inconsistencies between the predictions of expected utility theory and actual observed choices of individuals. Many theories have been proposed to solve the Allais paradox, among which the Prospect Theory and the Theory of Disappointment Aversion, and both will be described in this essay.

Prospect Theory

Guthrie, C. (2003) describes how the two original proponents of the Prospect Theory, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, would meet every mid-day for a long time, and spend their time inventing interesting sets of gambles and observing our their ...

One of the leading trends in the economic theory of crime and punishment has become an economic analysis of organized crime. Prohibition era has led to an increase in crime and the formation of a huge number of organized criminal groups of black and significant enrichment of crime. "The condemnation of blackness" examines what constitutes a crime as a socio-economic institution, what are the economic characteristics of its functioning, how it affects society and what are the laws of its evolution. The segregation of the black population has forced many of them to go to the North. From 1913 ...

Throughout the book ““Cartoon Cultures: The Globalization of Japanese Popular Media”, Anne Cooper-Chen explains how and why Japanese cartoons have been prosperous at a time when Disney cartoons have spread all over the world. It indicates that some salient features of the Japanese culture makes its cartoon resilient in the presence of stiff competition. This paper uses cultural diversity that closely relates to proximity with specific examples and personal views to illustrate the global adaptation and popularity of Japanese cartoons. One of the questions about Japanese cartoons is whether their global popularity is because of its exoticism to people ...

. According to Frayn Florence was one of the main sources of the renaissance (9). The city was armed with wealth that was created by a strong trade of Wool and an efficient banking system. In essence, Wool industry in Florence Italy was known to uplift many banking institutions for many years in Italy for many decades. The investment made on the textile industry specifically from wool carried over 10% of the industry. Beyond any doubt if similar to Weber or Sombart, one wishes to describe the period as a sort of financial structure, in correlation with the kind displayed ...

INTRODUCTION

My name is John, and I am an alcoholic. This is the declaration made by members of Alcoholics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous also claims to be the only effective means of recovering from alcoholism. Declaring to be the only effective source for recovery from alcoholism is like claiming there is only one drug to treat an illness. Alcoholics Anonymous is not an effective form of treatment for all person’s dependent upon alcohol. Studies, statistics, modern science, and rational thought have proven that Alcoholics is not effective.

ABOUT ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

Alcoholics Anonymous was created Ohio in 1935 by two alcoholic men. Bill W. ...

The USA had several ups and downs during their history. Huge economic catastrophes like the Great Depression in 1929 or the Crisis of 2008 increased levels of poverty. The situation stabilized a little during last years, but still does not look too good. The story of Sue Christian described in the Monica Potts's essay support this opinion. The author wrote about the wife and mother of two children from the Owsley County – one of the poorest counties in the USA. Sue lost her job in the data entry company and went through hard times when she decided to get ...

Introduction

Socrates is one of the legends in the Greek academic history and his legacy is explained in the elaborative works of his disciple Plato. Plato’s writings about various aspects of Socrates give the academicians of the world a platform to understand how Socrates developed his moral values and epistemology. However, Socrates’ viewpoint towards accepting the decision of the jury in two of Plato’s finest works name 'Crito' and 'Apology' sound rather polemic to most of the philosophers in the world and they term it as Socrates’ hypocrisy. The story of Apology told by Socrates at his trial ...