Essays on Elephant

An example of natural selection influencing evolution involves the African elephant. Because this species has ivory tusks that are highly valuable, hunters have radically altered the distribution of this species since 1930. Some African elephants, it turns out, do not develop any tusks, and in 1930, about 1 in 100 of them did not have any. The ivory hunters left these specimens alone because there was no ivory to harvest from the carcass. However, a lot of elephants who had tusks were killed by the thousands – without reproducing. This means that, over time, the alleles that would tell the ...

Little Buddha, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1993 and starring Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda and Ruocheng Ying among others, is one of several most recognized films that attempt to portray a part of the Buddhist teachings and practice. The movie depicts Tibetan Buddhist tradition of seeking for a reincarnation of a deceased major lama, a teacher of the Dharma, who is believed to be reincarnation of previous lamas that are, in turn, considered “emanations of Buddhas and bodhisattvas” (Molloy 166). At the same time, the movie briefly, but concisely tells the story of the Buddha and the ...

‘The Elephant Man’ is based on the life story of man who suffered from a disease not being identified correctly till date. The man Joseph Merrick was born on August 5, 1862 and was a normal child till the age of 21 months. At this stage, the child displayed unusual growth on his lip and forehead which grew with his age. After some time, the difference in the size of his left and right hand became prominent, thus indicating a problem in the child. The disease was associated with physical deformity and by the age of 13, Joseph Merrick had physical deformity ...

Going back to nature is the latest business mantra. All upcoming ventures try to give back what they have taken away from nature; it attracts new customers. Spatality is a novel concept; it will offer a home for elephants that have been decreasing in number. It will be a dream destination for animal lovers; who want to spend their holidays amidst the homeland of the most impressive animal, the giant yet calm elephants. The project is the thought process of the celebrated artist Mr. Gregory Colbert’s; his fascination with elephants is evident from his world famous photograph exhibitions Ashes & Snow. ...

Introduction:

Egungun Masquerade costume, Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, mid-20th century.

The materials used in making this piece of art includes beads, glass and metallic threads. The cloth and cowrie shells also forms a major part of this costume. The materials used are of value to the Yoruba people in Nigeria. The cowrie shells are used in the sculpture in order to signify the cultural norms of the Yoruba people especially on the dances and ceremonial activities. The combined use of cowrie shells and the metallic threads are used by the artist to form a unique color and structure in order to appeal to ...

Final Reflection on Pre-Kindergarten Maths Teaching

Final Reflection on Pre-Kindergarten Maths Teaching

Having done fairly well, in emotional, social and cognitive development the next visit focused more on physical, language and communication development to boost the attainment of common core objectives on preschoolers. In this regard, together with learners of her age in the class, she was to participate in some games: “Bounce and Catch!”, “Race to Fill the Cup!” and “Match the Object!” . In the first phase, in the “Bounce and Catch!” I modified the game to suite the learners of age between 3-5 years. The ...

Discuss some of the key ideas, people, and consequences associated with theories of evolution (focusing on Darwin).I. Intro and Background Darwin started researching on the evolution of animals and plants and was motivated by the fact that other creatures were able to survive while others could not. For this reason, competition for various elements that are specific to the growth and expansion of the population are the basis for evolution. This article will therefore try and establish the facts behind Darwin’s findings.

Malthus and competition

Malthus fronts the fact that, in every system that contains living organism, evolution in ...

Introduction

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in July 21, 1899, Oak Park, Illinois. He was an American writer and journalist. Most of his works were fiction characterized by mainly economy and understatements. Owing to his profession of being a journalist he was also an adventurous person. He did his production in the 20th century (the mid 1920s and also mid 1950s). He ventured into journalism after finishing school where he worked for The Kansas City Star. Afterwards he left for the Italian font where he became an ambulance driver during World War I. This is what led to the production of ...

Literature is one of the most useful sources of knowledge for human nature. The history of literature contains several seminal works that aid in the transformation of the human psyche and worldview. Readings like Machiavelli’s The Prince, George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant and Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. are very famous works that have got immortalized in the minds of the avid readers all across the world. I value the readings because it gives me a sense of how others in the world analyze things and helps me to be more open-minded to new ...

What is a Human Being? What Am I?

There are facts of humanity that can be seen with our eyes, by using body scanners, and by using microscopes. We are complex. We are orderly, and if you break us down to our separate molecular weights, one can even break us down into how many different atoms we are a collection of. The molecular geneticist’s point of view is even more fascinating, and explains just how complex and ordered human life is. Through coding of DNA, it becomes clear that each individual human being is, in fact, very extraordinarily unique. The question “What is a human being,” suggests that ...

Abstract

Reality is a powerful source of inspiration for writers in the 20th century. For Raymond Carver the American reality of the working class served as the main source of inspiration for his short stories that fall into the dirty – realism literary style. A technique that is representative for this current and that Carver subtly masters in his short stories is the insertion of objects into the narration, attributing them the value of reflecting the reality through familiar descriptions of the working class American society’s lifestyle. In Carver’s narration the objects tell stories, unite people in the same universe ...

A painting of the Virgin Mary by Chris Ofili an artist in the year 1996 raised concern and protests from many in London, Berlin and New York. The large painting on a yellow background showed a black woman in a blue robe and it employed mixed media like oil paint glitter and polyester resin together with elephant collaged pornographic images and the name Virgin Mary was on it. The work was termed blasphemous to the church as it mixed the sacred Virgin Mary with profane pornography. Chris Ofili himself had been raised in the Catholic Church and when asked about this said ...

The narrator places himself as a British police officer to represent the symbol of the imperial country. The police officer describes how he is agitated by the British authority to the Burmese people. He feels that the Burmese are oppressed by the British imperialism to the extent that he believed “I had already my mind that imperialism was an evil thing” (p.3). This indicates that people lived in poor conditions such as poverty due to the forces of imperialism and although he was British, he could not support the Britain oppressive authority. He said that he was “for the Burmese ...

One lucky elephant is an American film that was directed by Lisa Leeman. This film is about the human-animal relationship and focuses on the story of the founder of Flora animal circus Mr. David Balding- and an endangered young elephant from Africa. David names this elephant Flora, and the story unfolds about their journey to find a good ad nurturing home for Flora the elephant. David had rescued the animal when it was very young and decided to keep it in his circus where he used it as the star attraction. He had brought up that animal that he sometimes ...

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Analysis and Interpretation of “Shooting an Elephant”

“Shooting an Elephant” is an essay by George Orwell. It recounts his incredible experiences in India where he served as an imperial officer. Orwell appears to be narrating a tale on his individual life experience in Burma; however, the real theme behind his essay is to create an image of how colonialism influences the way of life of both the inhabitants in the colonized nation and the imperialistic officers. This essay expounds on how Orwell, through a broad utilization of symbolism, uses his actions and an elephant in a journey to depict ...

Introduction

Becoming a hero requires competence in what an individual attempts to do. One may lose the title of a hero simply because of their failure to accomplish the right things appropriately as desirable. A hero should develop the courage to face the difficulties presented by certain situations in their life. Based on the two stories in question, the characters fail to become heroes because they are defeated and do not face the situations, as they should. The paper focuses on proving that young Goodman brown and George Orwell fail to become heroes since they do not courageously face the challenging situations ...

1.0 Introduction The animal communication system is significantly different from the human communication system. The latter is more advanced as compared to an animal communication system. One difference between the two communication systems is that fact that whereas human beings can use different types of media to pass across their messages; animals only use a limited number of media to communicate. It is, however important to note that similarities exist between the communication system of animals and the human communication system. For instance, communicating through the use of touch is common between animal and human communication. This means that ...

The Middle Ages were the period of European history dating from the fall of the Holy Roman Empire in 476A.D. up to 1453 and started when the Ottoman Turks of the Middle East captured Constantinople. The Catholic Church grew more powerful and influential during that time. Governed by bishops and archbishops under the papal authority from Rome, the church became more dominant in the medieval society. Nuns and monks lived together in a house called monastery, devoting their lives in the service of God. In this period of turmoil and instability, many people turn to God in order to survive. ...

Wonderland was a village that nobody wanted to be associated with unless he or she had a unique magic. As the name suggests, this village was full of wonders and everything, people, animals, birds, trees and stones, was extraordinary. Every person who lived in this village had to be in possession of a certain charm in order survive. Village elders introduced a law that ensured any child born without magic would be killed because chances of survival for such a child were limited. Many expectant women ran away from the village in fear of their children being murdered. I personally do not believe in ...

1. ‘How does the rainfall of grasslands like this compare to deserts and forests?’ Grasslands are located between the forests and the deserts the distribution of rain is different in the three zones. Grasslands receive moderate rainfall ranging between 500 to 900 mm annually while forests receive high rainfall and deserts receive low rainfall. 2. ‘How does the behavior of communal (group) calving help the survival of Mongolian gazelles?’ Mongolian gazelles communal calving helps them to move together in groups hence are able to resist predators that locate them from afar considering the grasslands do not ...

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION

Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR), the ecosystem under study, is situated in the foothills of the Himalayas i.e. the Shiwalik range and falls within Nainital and Pauri Garhwal districts of the state of Uttarakhand. Corbett National Park (CNP), 520.82 km2, and 301.18 km2 of adjoining Sonanadi Wildlife Sanctuary along with 466.32 sq.km of buffer zone together forms 1288.32 km2 of the tiger reserve (Barthari 12). CTR lies between 290 25’ N to 290 40’ N latitudes and 78 05’E to 790 5’E longitudes (see Fig. 1). Figure 1: Location map of Corbett Tiger Reserve.

CLIMATE

The climate of ...

With its origin in the ancient times; hunting is still widely practiced all across the world. Some do it for fun, few do it for adventure and now the target is to reduce overpopulation of certain animal species by hunting. But, is this ethical? Hunting is one of those controversial topics that have no possible solution but continue to plague modern society. Human rights activists are totally against hunting. There are several pros and cons of hunting and having researched about all of them, I strongly condemn hunting to be a feasible way for eradication of overpopulated animal species. Humanity ...

The vision of possible partnership in this elephant sanctuary and wellness resort is an opportunity that any spa director cannot surpass. The fact that the resort will integrate different lifestyles, they also incorporate luxury accommodation for the guests, a spa program and an elephant sanctuary and a full operation museum. The prospect of managing such a wide based sanctuary and resort facility is a dream that every director of a spa plans to achieve. I like the idea that possibly will increase the profits of the resort by a wide margin compared to any other spa. I believe in the serenity of this facility ...

While Ernest Hemingway is commonly associated with living the masculine ideal, in many of his stories he shows a more tenuous grasp of gender roles than one might think a man nicknamed “Papa” who spent his life pursuing such adventures would hold. Hemingway drove an ambulance in a civil war that did not even involve his country; he was a huge fan of bullfights; he was an even bigger fan of hunting. However, such characters as Lady Brett Ashley, whose very name shows a diagonal meandering across gender lines, is a woman who acts like a stereotypical man in terms of her sexual appetites and emotional ...

Question and answer

1. How can Orwell’s creation of Big Brother be traced back to Eric Blair’s experiences at St. Cyprian’s? Orwell’s creation of Big Brother was driven by the example of Mrs. Wilkes. She insisted that she was a friend to every boy in the institution and that she wanted respect and love from her subjects. Mrs. Wilkes made Eric feel like a prisoner in the school,; therefore, Eric created the big brother in response (Shelden 9). 3. How did Blair come up with the pseudonym of “George Orwell”? Blair chose the name George Orwell ...

The application of the “Precautionary Principle” for the deployment of climate bioengineering initiative requires that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change through the Subsidiary Body for Climate Geoengineering (SBCE) to conduct regular and continuous monitoring initiatives of the perceived adverse and positive effects of the reengineering program. It will also require continuous collaboration and active participation among its different stakeholders.5 The precautionary principle states that if our organization performs an initiative that could pose potential harm to the public in sync with the absence of consensus in the scientific community, the burden of proof that the ...

My Experiences Touring Kenya’s Wildlife

My Experiences Touring Kenya’s Wildlife Working as an environmentalist I have come to appreciate wildlife in Africa majorly the diversity that it has in the variance of creation. To sample a few of theattractions that drew me to Kenya includewilderbeastmigrationandthebig five (elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo and hippopotamus). I wasexcited to visit Africa with thepromise to feast my eyes on its wildlife. However, my visitwasalsodriven by environmental conservationinitiatives since there has beengrowingconcerns over poaching in Africa and Kenya to be specific. To thisend, I notethat elephants and rhinos havebecomethemainvictims of poachers for their ivory. Similarly, cheaters andleopardshave as wellfallenvictim ...

George Orwell is one of the greatest English writers. Orwell expressed his views in an independent manner and raised various significant issues that he witnessed in the society while serving in different roles. “Shooting an Elephant” is one of highly acclaimed literary works of the author. “Animal Farm” is a novel that was written by Orwell and is known for the portrayal of various crucial issues. This paper intends to discuss both of these literary works of the author along with presenting a succinct and comparative analysis of “Shooting an Elephant” and “Animal Farm”. Both “Shooting an Elephant” and “Animal ...

While I was reading the story I expected Mrs. Mallard to be sad because of the worsening illness, however, she expressed the different feeling of freedom and independence from her husband’s death. As per the story’s title, the story of changing her feeling about her husband’s death happened within only an hour. She enjoyed freedom right after the storm of grief. Her attitude towards his death clearly showed that she has been waiting a long time for her husband’s death during the married life. Although it is a short fiction that does not provide a detailed information ...

Elephant management dilemma refers to the ethical problem of how the humans should act on the overpopulation of the elephants in the wildlife reserves. It is an ethical dilemma proposed by Ian Whyte in which the intervention of the humans is also in questioned. Elephant population is growing due to the management and regulation of the wildlife reserves. However, the growth of the elephant population also increase the dangers for other organisms in the reserves such as the destruction of their habitat especially the woodlands (Wray, 2004). According to Ian Whyte, managing a reserve for biodiversity and managing for ...

Introduction

The natural disasters, health, medicine and the environment form the bases of the history of vulnerability. In the present world, the young population is more vulnerable based on some issues like early parenthood, homelessness, lack of education, and engagement in crimes. In most cases, vulnerability is associated with poverty because poor people are at greater risks of experiencing vulnerable conditions. A vulnerable population is that at higher risks for poor psychological, physical, or social health. These groups of people have greater-than-average risks of developing health issues. The major health issues associated with a vulnerable population include chronic diseases, high morbidity ...

Part 1 Video Critique

The video chosen for the critique is a video showing the discovery of wooly mammoth carcass in Siberia by scientists (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GQKWQ1t9r0). The wooly mammoth was a big, shaggy and tusked elephant like animal that lived in the ice age period. The animal belongs to the mammoth species which is the common name for the elephant genus Mammuthus which is now extinct. A catastrophic weather event, climate change, disease and human activities may have wiped out these huge shaggy beasts. They lived in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America during the ice age period. The last mammoths may have lived around 1700 ...

Logical fallacies is a term that depicts the mistake of the reason of premise followed by a conclusion. The error is basically due to wrong reasoning either because of false inference, emotional belonging, mistake of reasoning or conscious / unconscious masquerade. The study of fallacies enables us to unleash the false reckoning and the reason behind the reading. From academic perception, the information greatly attributes in the development of authentic research that is constructively aligned with associated research and information. In the course of our day to day activities there are chances that we commit many fallacies without noticing. However, ...

Introduction

Hills Like White Elephants is a popular American short story by American author, Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). Hemmingway wrote and published the story in his 1927 collection of short stories titled Men Without Women. The story bears many autobiographical elements of Hemingway’s life as he struggled to build lifelong relationships. It is a popular story in American schools thanks to a captivating plot, setting, characters, use of imagery and its exposition of common societal themes.

Setting

The story is set at a train station surrounded by fields, trees, hills and a valley in Spain. The place is the Ebro River valley in Spain. It features a ...

An analysis of the relation between the narrative elements and theme in the short story “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway “Hills like White Elephants” is one of Ernest Hemingway's most popular short stories. It deals with one of the most debated social issue in the society. The writer presents the social issue of abortion through the characters Jig and the American. The writer uses the characters, the setting, and the symbolic references to bring out the theme in the story. Hemmingway skillfully weaves an ambiguous web that leaves the readers to draw their personal conclusions about ...

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1) According to Newton’s second law of motion, the net force acting on a body is mathematically equal to the product of its mass and acceleration. That is, Fnet = ma. Now ‘g’ or the acceleration due to gravity is more or less a constant throughout the earth. Assuming that bodies in free fall are within considerable heights from the sea level, they will all experience the same ‘g’. Now, in the absence of air resistance, the only force acting on body in free fall is its own weight which is equal to mg. Hence, using Fnet = ma = mg, the acceleration ...

Abstract

This paper defines long-term care (LTC) and the challenges the LTC industry currently faces. Areas covered include a shortfall in funding needed to provide LTC of an acceptable quality, the fact that more and more people are requiring care over a longer period due to an increase of average life expectancy, a significant increased incidence of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia variants, an infrastructure that is lagging the demand, and a shrinking workforce in the industry coinciding with an increased demand for its services. The paper concludes that the funding shortfall is probably the major challenge, because without sufficient funding, care of ...

Identity and Creative Practices

Thesis statement: Identity is a broad term comprising many sub-types. There is identity as to gender, identity as to race, social identity, identity as to stereotype and many others. This paper will elaborate on all these forms of identity while giving tangible examples and borrowing from the works of scholars like Stuart Hall who wrote a lot on social identity. Three images have been chosen to elaborate further on the same.

There is no exact meaning of identity. The meaning of identity depends on what a person thinks it is, or the context that they are discussing it. Stuart Hall discusses ...

Geog 315: Assignment 2 Literature review

Introduction The Tohoku magnitude-9 earthquake occurred on March 11th 2011. Its epicenter was on the undersea floor of the Pacific Ocean, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) east of Tohoku in northeastern Japan, and at a depth of about 20 miles (32 km). The cause was the sudden movement at the junction of two tectonic plates – the Eurasian Plate rising over the Pacific Plate. The tremors lasted about six minutes, and caused a huge and devastating tsunami. Huge waves reached Japan’s coastline less than an hour after the earthquake itself, and in some locations travelled inland as far as six ...

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RE: PROTECTION OF NATURAL COMMUNITIES Human generation is at the verge of perishing following the worrying trend of destruction of natural communities. Implementation of anthropogenic activities of man with little care on an immediate or future impact on the environment has deteriorated major biomes of the world including forest woodland, wetland, savannas, prairies, riverine, coral reef, lacustrine, and deserts. In the event that the above biomes are converted to desert, there will be a shortage of water, oxygen, much-needed ecosystem services and food, and death of wildlife. As a result, industrial productivity will tremendously reduce due to lack of raw ...

Literature review

Introduction The Tokohuma earthquake in Japan occurred in 2011 on March. It occurred in the Pacific Ocean where it caused a huge tsunami that was very devastating. The earthquake was the largest ever recorded in Japan and the fourth largest in the world. It produced a tsunami of sixteen metres high. What’s more is that the tsunami hit Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan that caused an explosion which produced radioactive contamination which spread over Japan and the surrounding areas affecting the air, soil as well as the water. This disastrous event had adverse effects on Japan as a country ...

Perception can be defined as the process by which interpretation and recognition are affected by the object to the subject. In this paper, I will be analyzing the comparative strengths and weaknesses of the causal and disjuctivism theories. Perceptual experiences are divided into three categories: hallucination, illusion, and veridical perception. The various philosophical theories of perception can be assessed using various principles. The three important principles include the representational principle, the phenomenal principle and the common factor principle. The common factor principle states that there is a commonality of underlying mental state amongst hallucination, illusions and veridical perceptions. The phenomenal ...

Electricity can flow in two different ways; either in direct current (DC) or in alternating current (AC). Electricity is a moving electron through or along a conductor, for instance a wire, which have been connected for energy (Daly, Peckham & AudioGO, 2013). Therefore, the variation between DC and AC is the direction of electron flow. In direct current, the electrons flow in one direction (forward). In alternating current, electrons keep changing directions, sometimes forward and at times backwards (Daly, 2013).

Origins of DC and AC Current

A magnetic field next to a wire can make electrons flow along the wire in one direction, because electrons become repelled from the negative ...

Part 1. What is the something else that DeSoto argues is necessary for a capitalist economy to produce wealth? Choose and explain one example or counter example used by DeSoto to make his case. Capitalism refers to an economic system that is based on the functionality of free market; open competition; profit maximization motive and the means of production are owned and produced by the private sector or by cooperatives that limit the government or state control of resources. In this social system, the capitalist class own most of the properties and are paid to produce the goods and ...

Analysis of Jeffery Harrison’s “Our Other Sister”

Jeffery Harrison is one of the few poets who is alivein this twenty-first century and is studied in American Literature. His poetry is unique and more often than not he does not follow the norm of poetry; his poem “Our Other Sister,” is one of those poems, while most poems make a statement his tells a story. Throughout literary history poetry is place in different periods and categories; Jeffery Harrison is a modern day poet who sometimes deviates from the custom of other poets; sometimes he writes without using capital letters at the beginning of his sentences of punctuation at the ...

The play was about a small muddy, beat up town. There was a drifter named Red who traveled around with a circus. His elephant, Mary, was minding her own business and noticed a melon rind in a ditch. She was about to walk away from it when Red whipped her. The elephant was probably tired and hungry, so in rage, she picked Red up with her trunk and beat him against a stand. This act killed Red. When the townspeople saw what happened, they decided to hang Mary with the use of a crane. The entire play was done in a monologue style where everyone in the ...

There are some choices that one is forced to do and live with. In George Orwell’s essay “shooting an elephant,” he recounts some life event when he was forced to choose between two evils. Several years later this episode still haunts George. This story takes place during five unhappy years of the writer. He hates his life and when a dilemma faces him, he is forced to kill a valuable animal at work in order to save his pride. In his own thinking, George is justified in killing the animal. His character in the essay has been demonstrated as one ...

George Orwell was a police officer in the British authority in Burma, in the story of Killing an Elephant; he clearly shows how he opposed the idea of imperialism. He begins the story by telling us how he had made up his mind that imperialism was evil and he wished to get out of his job. He says he was against the British oppression on the Burmese. He hated his job more than he could tell and through it, he could see the dirty work of the British Empire at close range. He knows better the truth of imperialism ...

Introduction

“Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell was recognized by the literary magazine in 1936 even though with no conclusive evidence of whether it was fact or fiction. All in all, the essay serves its purpose in literature which is to question our morality every time from that of our counterparts who may include peers, family or colleagues. The text emphasizes that social pressure and the feelings of belongingness are major predictors of our actions in our day to day lives (Orwell and Jeremy, 36-41). In his essay, Orwell narrated his story with a sense of comparison and analogy to how ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Shooting an Elephant Any piece of literature is better understood and better enjoyed, when the reader takes the effort to analyze its elemental components. The aim of this essay is to analyze the essay, ‘Shooting an Elephant’ by George Orwell, and understand the author’s usage of ethos, pathos and logos appeal to convey his theme. The essay describes how a European, posted as a police officer in Burma, during the British imperial rule, killed an elephant which was acting wild. The essay dwells more about the reasons that led to the shooting of that great beast, rather than dwelling ...

Abstract

A clear understanding of historic lifetime traits of species is important in understanding the strategy of the male species. A Threatened species in the ecosystem need to be considered for safety using an intervention on their generic characteristics and behavior. Conservative measures for these species especially the elephant which has a considerable longer reproduction period need to intervene on the basis of anthropogenic interventions on the reproduction dominance. The result of the relationship between African male elephant’s age and paternity specific success tactic showed that paternity rises with age having a small number of active old bulls in the musth ...

Badi'al-Zaman Abū al-'Izz ibn Ismā'īl ibn al-Razāz al-Jazarī or simply al-Jazari – was an outstanding engineer and inventor, mathematician, astronomer of the Islamic Renaissance who lived (1136–1206) during the reign of the Turkish Artuquid Dynasty. In Arabic Islamic sources he is named literally as a “Kurdish inventor Ismail, the son of Rezzaza from Jazeera” alongside with a name of “Man of Honor”. Al-Jazari gained world fame generations ahead as an inventor of strange mechanisms that advanced far beyond the XII-XIII centuries during which he lived and made great scientific discoveries, but personally he was "more interested in the ...

Changes in my perspective regarding project management

Project management is a task that is constituted by proper integration of a number of interrelated activities. The different portions that are combined to build up a complete project are referred to as the work breakdown structure. Initially, I viewed project management as one huge task that a project manager has to carry out single-handedly. Considering of my perspective, the project manager would be involved in all the stages that a project had been scheduled follow. Provided the project manager has the vision and motivation, the project would terminate successfully in respect of time and objectives. However, after the simulation, I have acquired further ...

A global language pertains to a language that is widely spoken and learned by many people. To be considered a global language, it has to be spoken internationally and acquired as a second language. It must also be recognized as the language used when dealing with organizations all over the world and when communicating with other nations. Among these languages are English and Russian, which are considered as two of the major languages in the world today. Both languages belong to the Indo-European languages, which is why there are similarities between the two languages. While Russian uses Cyrillic alphabet, it has ...

Introduction

Do non-human animals have minds? This paper explores the possibility of the validity of the philosophical viewpoint that suggests that humans are not the only animals on our planet that have minds; that other animals are capable of conscious thought. It attempts to determine the consensus of informed opinion on the subject, in order to arrive at what might be considered to be the majority and hopefully correct answer.

The Research

Mountain (April 2013) published a feature entitled “Scientists Declare: Nonhuman Animals Are Conscious” which clearly came down on the side of deciding that those creatures do have minds. In his opening ...

All fringe parties aside, The United States basically has a two party system, in which Democrats and Republicans compete for control of both the federal and state governments in the United States. Though they disagree on many issues, in the United States as compared to other countries this differences are marginal. Some countries have dozens of parties that vie for power and have the need to form a coalition government. In those countries there are parties who believe in communist ideals who are competing with other parties with capitalistic ideals. These stark contrasts are of a much less degree with the two ...

- Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day? - William Shakespeare - Published 1609 - Question to William Shakespeare: Where did you get the ideas from for your various writings? - The poem consists of 14 lines, 115 words, and is a sonnet - The topic subject revolves around how the writer is comparing the beloved subject to the season of summer - Brief summary of the poem: This sonnet compares the speaker’s beloved to summer, and their argument that their beloved is better than summer. The writer also writes that their ...

The ever-rising debate about animal rights and the relationship between wild species and human beings has gained yet another converging point with the documentary “One Lucky Elephant.” Director Lisa Leeman chose for her film a less common approach on the subject that ultimately enables the viewer to see the entitling pachyderm not as just another overdramatized anthropomorphic being but rather as the captivated wild beast that it really is. This added to the emotional nature of the tale itself raise a series of questions about the discussion that are worth considering. But first it is imperative to make a brief analysis of ...

Introduction

Around the World in Eighty Days is fantastic read written by Jules Verne. The book is a vivid description of a perfect Englishman who bets a wager to travel around the world in eighty days (Verne Ch. 1). The journey peels off the hardened layer of the aloof English man who shows very little emotions and he evolves into an emotional, adventurous man who cares for his friends and is also very resourceful in challenging situations. The story fascinates the reader for the love, adventure, friendship, and culture that oozes from cover to cover. Even through the hasty detail of events, the ...

Poaching, or the illegal removal of animals or plants, is a prevalent problem world-wide motivated mostly by economic gain (“Poaching,” n.d.). Endangered species are at particular risk for extinction from poaching (“Tiger Poaching,” 2006 ). For example, rhinoceros, tiger, and elephant body parts are in such high demand, their population levels are being decimated. So why is there such a high demand for these animals? Their horns, organs, or body parts are highly valued in traditional medicine in Asian countries. It is believed these items can treat a wide range of illnesses including curing cancer and restoring virility. In addition, these items are ...