Essays on Horse

1. Individual place in society according to Horse Boy

The Horse Boy is a documentary film with a crafted footage that depicts spontaneous social interaction that contributes to its appeal and image. The perception of a social anthropologist that studies autism makes a conscious decision to focus on the experiences of autistic people, Instead of people around them. Parents of autistic children desire attention for one to understand their experiences and perspectives. The Horse Boy is a crucial reminder of the obvious fact that every autistic adult has a history of being an autistic child. Parents play an influencing role to the children lives ...

Driven by my passion for fashion and Public Relations, I am interested in applying within your reputable academic institution for improving my communication skills, convinced that I will implement the gained knowledge in fashion industry.

Born in Czech Republic, I followed my interest for fashion searching to attain a professional education in this field. This is how I arrived in Italy, where I am attending the Instituto Europea di Design in Milan, and I am currently finishing the third year of BA Honours Fashion Communication & Marketing.

Focused on developing a practical experience to ...

- Introduction

1.1 Background developments

Traditionally, accounting standards have been developed by different countries on the basis of local legal, economical and cultural institutions frameworks (Elliott and Elliott, 2009, p. 158). As a result, the standard setting was very country specific. With the globalization process at work for the last 3-4 decades and increasing mobility of capital internationally accepted accounting standards have become necessary to facilitate cross border transactions and make financial reporting comparable between countries and companies thereby leading to a greater transparency for investors (Nobes, 2004). IASB has been set up as a private international standard setter with a mandate to create high quality accounting standards ...

Introduction

The essay is a proposal that will be used to seek for financial backing from a producer so that the play,” our town” will be acted to appear more solid and interesting to the audience. The aim of the play is to attract more viewers and this makes its production to be arranged in an orderly manner. When there is enough financial support, the play will be organized in a fantastic way and it will not need famous actors to draw large crowds where it will be stage managed. The play requires a pitch-perfect cast and as the director I am packed with ...

Critically discuss what went wrong with the food supply chains to the supermarkets and manufacturers of processed beef products

In the year 2013, according to the reports of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI), horse meat was found in products labelled as 100% beef sold in some UK and Irish supermarkets. Horse-meat was revealed in products which were labelled as 100% beef and sold in Europe, the United Kingdom and France. The existence of DNA of pigs in products was also discovered during the tests in preserving beef products. The products were associated to supplementary of the ABP Food Group, which is one of the leading beef producer with business activities in Poland, Ireland and the UK ...

Question one

IKEA, like any other company, has faced a lot of challenges during its global expansions. Many scandals have hit IKEA, but the company is showing no signs of bowing to such scandals. Instead, the company is using the problems to identify solutions and move ahead. One of the most discussed scandals that have ever faced the company was that of the horse meat. IKEA was accused of using horse meat in its meatballs. The scandal almost tarnished the image of the company, but it luckily managed to overcome the challenges, it even made the company popular amongst the Americans. Apart ...

- Paleolithic cave paintings and the Neolithic Susa vessel have a common subject matter; they both illustrate the animals, hunting scenes and cuneiform writings. The Paleolithic art which was made during the old stone period has two styles: Franco-Cantabrian which was attributed to the Cro-Magnon man whose designs depict horses, bison and cattle for their art subjects. The Neolithic art on the other hand was a new art formed in the new stone period. The style of Neolithic art was portable art is characterized of its ability to be moved from one place to another either by humans or by environment. ...

Tears streamed down my face and I looked at her mother seated beside me. Her face was like stone and she sat fixedly staring at the white casket covered with white and yellow jasmines. Claudia loved those and it was only a week ago that I had sent her a bouquet. I was making up for taking so long to go down to see her. We were 30 miles apart and sometimes work kept me from driving down to see her most weekends. Now here I am sitting there in this small church wondering and wanting to know what really happened. ...

TV advertisements are the parts of programming which are usually skipped over. Personally, when I see them is usually when I turn the volume down and interest myself with something else until my desired programming return? So watching four hours of television with the intention of noticing the ads was informative, and it said a lot both about advertising companies, the corporations that they work with and the society that they are marketing to. There is such a vast variety of TV commercials that it is difficult to make overarching conclusions about them. But as a person watches and notices, certain patterns ...

A Master of Arts in Public Relations would be the best step for me to take in my educational journey to meet my career goals. The College of Communication at the University of the Arts London offers courses that will strengthen skills I have been developing as an undergraduate at the Instituto Europeo di Design in Milan. At the moment I am finishing my third year in the BA Honours Fashion Communication & Marketing department. My project for January is staging a Diane von Furstenberg showroom in Milan. I have benefited during my studies in Milan by learning practical management ...

Educational Affiliation

In philosophy, ethics is a branch of thought that deals with questions about what is right and what is wrong. There are various ethical dilemmas which are found in other more complex areas. For example the widely discussed moral question concerns are the use of animals in scientific experiments. Clearly, humans have the power to use other creatures in this way. PETA also known as People for the Ethical Treatment of the Animals (2014) conducted an undercover investigation on the laboratory of Philip Morris, an international cigarette manufacturing company. Inside their laboratories scientific research are carried with the use of ...

Street racing has been known to be illegal everywhere in the world. It is very dangerous to the driver and people bystanders. Many racers have either been killed during racing or been arrested by the police. In the early 1900's many people moved to California to get a better life. Many people owned automobiles, and street racing became very popular. Drag racing was the next form of horse racing. The infamous drag racing has been around since horse racing. Society took it as a bad habit and police started hunting down racers. Racing took place on the streets that I ...

Analysis

Clearly, music videos function to enhance an artists’ idea, and help the listeners understand the exact message they are trying to pass. As much as the music videos help an artist in making more money through more sales, they are vital in expressing the artist’s ideas. Therefore, music videos are more than just ideas, and when bonded with the lyrics, they create a perfect picture of what an artist is singing about. Evidently, this can be seen in Avcii’s video called Wake Me Up. His musical video creates a story about two stars who seem to be lost and ...

It is always the desire of each person living to have a fulfilled life where they will live free of worries and anxieties. The steps towards such accomplishments are followed by various actions including working hard in life and even being nice to people. Everybody is usually looking for a secret towards success and once it is unveiled, everything will be done to ensure they get there. However, the definition of success defers from one person to the other and the level of hard work and commitment is not always the same. In an effort to achieve what somebody else has ...

Introduction

Software information systems are vulnerable to many threats. These security threats can be caused by various reasons such as natural disasters, technical failures, unintentional acts such as negligence of the users, deliberate acts and management failures. These threats can have serious financial and privacy issues in the information system especially in a health care setting. Furthermore, the data of the patients can becomes mixed up due to the security issues. Additionally, computer viruses that affect the health care information systems are one of the most common forms of security threats that the information systems face.

Information security policies form the ...

Police patrol relates to monitoring of specific geographical areas by police officers. This is achieved through movement within the specified area at regular periods looking for any indications of crime or breach of peace. Patrols are usually conducted by uniformed officers (Ortmeier, 2006). Even though it is not readily highlighted, police patrol may be regarded as the backbone of police work (Stering, 2004). Accordingly, police patrol plays a key role in law enforcement.

There are about eight types of patrols. The first type is foot patrol; this is the precursor to all patrols and is the most readily used. It ...

- Who was Manetho? When did he live and write? What is the importance of his writings for our understanding of the ancient rulers of Egypt?

Manetho was a priest and an Egyptian historian from Sebennytos during the Ptolemaic era. Manetho lived during the 3rd century BC. The historian was from Rome and wrote his work in the 200 AD. Manetho wrote an immigrant success story from a patriotic perspective, his story resulted to a national tragedy. Manetho described a brutal and massive invasion of Egypt by eastern foreigners whom he called the “Hykos” meaning the rulers of the foreign land. In ...

How did the bison survive the Ice Age and come to populate the Great Plains in such great numbers?

The ice age period realized much of the Earth’s water freezing into glaciers, lowering sea level while at the same time leaving dry land in places once known to have shallow channels that separated land masses. In order to survive this period the bison traversed the plains of North America in search of safer grounds. In addition to this, the bison’s reproduction at rate that was considerably high served to guarantee its survival even in the face of difficult times in which many other animals died. Which of the bison kill sites presented in your reading ...

1. Several cultural and social values are presupposed by the 1920s-1930s era Lucky Strike advertisement. The image presented, a woman riding a jumping horse followed by a large man also on a horse sets the viewer up for the language and text of the advertisement itself. For example, she is a slender, well-dressed woman in full color, while the man who is following her is dark, in silhouette, and morbidly overweight compared to the woman. She is ahead of the man; the image presents them as opposites. She is getting away from him and things that are like him. The picture sets her up ...

Abstract

The paper highlights the major threats to our personal computers. There may be internal or external threats to our system. Some of these include boot sector, multipartite, attack of worms and viruses, macro, Trojan horse etc. The author has attempted to define all these terms precisely and to the best of his knowledge.

INTRODUCTION TO LAN TECHNOLOGIES

Boot Sector: Virus that contaminates the first sector, which is usually a bootable disk, is known as boot sector virus. The virus is especially dangerous as it does not merely affect files but instead affects the disk itself.

File: A file is used to store data on ...

Based on my experience in this class so far, I calculate the probability of my achieving an A grade to be 39%. I have arrived at this result by taking into account my grades so far while also bearing in mind that I am constantly learning and developing my skills and knowledge, therefore meaning that I have more chance of getting an A in the future than I have in the past. At the beginning of the class I didn’t know as much and wasn’t as familiar with what was required of me, and therefore it was ...

In my view, God actually exists. I concur with the cosmological argument. The universe must be contingent. Human being has been so much curious to understand his existence and that of the world in general. The fact is that the world came into existence, it is contingent, and certain events and beings are casually contingent. The undoubted cause of these facts is the unmoved mover. There must have been a force behind all these, and this force is none other than the creator. In this discussion, my guiding factor is the existence of a contingent being, with an explanation for his ...

English

Liam Neeson’s ‘Carriages Belong in Central Park’ is an article, which addresses horse-drawing carriage business in the Central Park. The author notes that such an activity has existed over the centuries, and sees no harm about it. However, Mayor Bill de Blasio intends to eradicate the activity. His reason for this step is that the industry was inhumane, and as a result, he suggested that he would replace the horse-drawn carriages with vintage cabs. Neeson had as his main aim the urge to argue against such abolishment, for he saw no reason for the horses to be banned for ...

In his article “Carriages Belong in Central Park”, appearing in the New York Times, Liam Neeson addresses the issue of horse drawn carriages in New York City. The article come from a sense of exigency created by a proposal by current New York mayor, Bill de Blasio to eradicate the horse drawn carriage business in the city of New York by the end of this year. Neeson feels the need to address this issue seeing that he is a lover of horses and as he mentions, he grew up with horses in his native land of Ireland. Neeson also feels a sense of ...

Uri Margolin’s assertion that “an individual's appearance, gestures, mannerism, dress, and natural and human-made environment are indicators for inferences about his or her mental and moral features” essentially claims that readers pick up on who a character is through their outside features as described in the prose (2012, p. 77). However, this assertion ignores the possibility of contrasts, societal pressures, and other factors that can provide needed context for further understanding of their true character. Tess in Tess of the d’Urburvilles, for instance, is a quintessential contradiction – somewhere between rich and poor, sophisticated and simple, strong and weak, etc. While ...

Introduction

The Second Industrial Revolution took place from the beginning of 19th century to the 20th century. It is the continuation of the first industrial revolution, which had steam-powered machines like the mark. In the first industrial revolution, the machines replaced human labor. On the other hand, the Second Industrial Revolution signifies replacement of the steam engines developed during the first revolution with electricity driven machines. Electricity has been developed in line with other sources of energy such as gas. The new forms of energy are useful in transportation and communication sectors since machines become extremely fast and efficient at ...

In psychology, there is a learning theory that states that as we learn, we adjust the manner in which we perceive our environment and the manner in which we interpret the incoming stimuli. Consequently, all this alters the way we interact, or behave. It is from this theory that one learns about behaviorism. The latter is the study or our behaviors after exposure to given stimuli within the environment. This helps us in understanding the effects given stimuli have on us. In the learning theory, we have classical and operant conditioning. In classical conditioning, one learns to associate one ...

Introduction

“Animal Farm” was written by George Orwell. It is a satire and political literature. The original title of the novel is “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story” that proves it as a fable written with a purpose. However, the author did a wonderful attempt to present the political crisis and tyrannical government through a story of animals in a farm. It is a dystopian and allegorical novel. Orwell’s intention is to reflect Russian Revolution and reign of Stalin in Soviet Union. The novel is about the life of animals in a farm. They wanted to rebel and save themselves from the clutches of men and set new ...

When a hoofed animal walks and works on hard ground, there is a probability that the animal might have its hooves destroyed by the hard ground that the animal is working on. There are animals that have survived without their hooves being taken care of. However, these animals are either wild or ones that are not involved in demanding schedules. The horses are hoofed animals that require their hooves taken care of frequently. The hooves of these animals are very important to the overall reliability of the animal. If the hooves of a horse are not in good shape, then the animal ...

Since Telemachus was the only prince that was left in the palace after his father left for the Trojan War, he had to take responsibility as a man of the palace. When his father Odyssey did not return to Ithaca after the war, many people, including the queen herself assumed that he was dead. Many suitors flooded the palace to try and win the queen, this angered him but he had nothing he could do since he was a young and helpless boy. However, Telemachus matures from a young and inexperienced boy to a man who can take up roles and revenge for ...

What it means to be a hero during the time of the knights, what it meant to the populace, the knights, and the lords A hero is someone who is always courageous to face danger and save the day. He’s someone who is ready to sacrifice oneself for the sake of the others. Weakness does not feature anywhere in his character as a person. He may be weak in body muscular, but he has a heart of a lion and ready to deal and tackle with anything that poses a threat to humanity. Heroes are super men in the history who ...

“The Dead” is one of the short stories found in Dubliners, an anthology by James Joyce. The events narrated in this story are a snippet of Irish culture in Dublin, the capital city of Ireland, at the onset of the 20th Century. Joyce employs symbolism, anecdote and description to create a vivid portrayal of Irish culture which is affected by political pressure (Parrinder 67). Joyce’s utilizes symbolism in “The Dead” (Parrinder 67) to capture the stagnant condition of Irish culture. As he arrives at the party, Gabriel, the main character, is freezing from the snow outside. Snow covers everything ...

Doritos ‘Goat 4 Sale’ advert is powerful commercial that uses humor to attract viewers’ attention and curiosity while promoting Doritos chips as the most delicious and addictive. The goat is seen, screaming, kicking things and jumping on the table because there was no Doritos chips left in the cabinet. These funny events can easily be recalled by the viewer because they are distinctive and unusual. The Doritos intended to promote their chips as the most delicious and addictive. The main characters in the commercial are seen eating the chips. The goat is captured eating chips stored in the ...

The Greek mythology literature focus on the relationship that people has with the gods and their roles in helping them win battles. The need to overturn a particular city and gain control made kings engage into physical battles as they sought the favor of the gods. Dante’s inferno is one literature that not only looks at the fights that different communities had, it also looks at the aftermath of such kings and their ultimate destiny in hell. Despite the physical wars that were fought on earth, it was believed that there would be an eternal reward and punishment depending ...

Cummins Inc. is a corporation that manufactures, designs, and distributes engines, filtrations and power generation products. It is also known to service engines and related equipments which include controls, air handling, fuel systems, emission control and electrical power general systems. On the other hand, Duramax diesel engine was created when Isuzu teamed up with General Motors back in 1988. In 2000, about 1.5 million duramax engines had been built (Cummins.com). Duramax is an engine with a first high- pressure common rail and direct-injection power plant. The creation of Duramax was an improvement of General Motors’ previous indirect-injection diesel. Cummins is ...

A self-directed investment is a retirement account in which the investor is responsible for all the decisions. The individual who holds the account makes decisions based on his/her own choices. People use this account as a means of diversifying investments apart from stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. The investments in this account are administered by a custodian or trustee who is appointed by the investor himself/herself. The greatest advantage for a self-directed IRA is that; a person can invest in whatever he wants. These investment decisions may range from gold coins to horse farms (Tuchman, 2013). However, people have misunderstood the meaning of ...

The scandal affected many parties that were either directly or indirectly involved in the meat supply and retail. The involved parties include Tesco supplies, the supermarkets, Ireland food standard officials, liffey Meats and Silvercrest Meats suppliers and customers. Tesco supplies, as a business, have to be careful of the products they sell to customers. They are partially responsible for the pig and horse in the burgers. The Irish officials also have to explain why supply of wrong type of meat passed their attention. The meat suppliers would have to explain where the pig and the horse meat came from in ...

Haniwa Horse

Description of the historical work in Ceramic Media Haniwa Horse encompasses a small horse hollow terracotta statue placed in aristocratic graves during the Kofun period in ancient Japan (Haniwa uma 43). Haniwa is Japanese word that means circle of clay to refer to the unglazed red clay cylinders put around the burial mounds. Haniwa horse supports the ground on the imperial burial mound to provide stability and support the roof of the tomb. The artisans of the Kofun era were the first to design the Haniwa Horse during Japan’s Iron Age. The Kofun means an old tomb ...

It was personal resentment towards Socrates that brought him apologizing to the Athenian judicial system, than anything else. Socrates was charged for being a sophist for his way to present the weaker arguments as the strongest, and physicalist because he investigated things that lie in the skies and beneath the earth. However, Socrates responds with masterly eloquence. He says that that the most dangerous Athenian citizens are those who manipulate young minds and fill them with falsehoods about “one Socrates, a wise man, who speculated about the heaven above, and searched into the earth beneath, and made the worse appear the ...

“Compass and Torch”

In Elizabeth Baines’, “Compass and Torch”, an eight year old boy, ready for the camping trip with his father that he has not seen in four months, listens as his mother mocks the idea of camping on a mountain side with an eight year old that his father cannot relate to, to her new boyfriend Jim. As the boy is packing for his trip, he comes into the kitchen with his torch and reluctantly hands it to Jim, who checks it to make sure it is in working order for the boy. Throughout the story’s entirety, the central theme ...

The short story “Boys and Girls” (1968) by Alice Munro discusses a young girl’s coming of age, and her realization about what it means to be a girl in a society where gender roles preordained and stereotypes are highly prevalent. The author uses the young girl as the narrator who experiences an inner conflict, where she feels divided between what she wants to do in her life and what is expected of her. Munro’s choice of the setting of a rural area, more specifically a farm where sexism and gender based roles play much greater than in urban areas, is very fitting. ...

Cause and Effect of Gun Violence in America

INTRODUCTION Cultural and social problems attributed to gun violence have been a prevailing phenomenon for years. In a society where one could be fragile to the effects of cultural crackdowns and psychological breakdowns, guns have been a prevalent tool in addressing violent actions. Guns induce both violence and personal protection, but using it would likely trigger more instances of violence than self-defense. This is best illustrated in the series of school shooting tragedies that have gripped the whole nation and the world in fear for their safety and the saddening reality of the disintegration of society. However, despite the heated arguments ...

Vancouver Harbor Airport is on the Sea Island, across the Fraser River in Coal Harbor. The actual Vancouver Harbor Airport ship docking area is 49017`26.44”123007`08.90”W of Canada. The Vancouver Harbor Control Tower, situated on top of the Granville Square building should be the first directional aspect to consider. The nearest airport to Vancouver Harbor Airport is the Vancouver International Airport that has it is located within approximately 8 miles (12km) South-southwest of CXH. The airport is relatively at low elevation of approximately (0), and it recommends that planes can only take off at relatively lower ...

1. I read Akira Vol. 1 by writer and illustrated Katsuhiro Otomo. I borrowed a copy of the version published by Dark Horse Comics in 2000. The series was first published, however, during the 1980s in Japan. 2. I selected this specific issue because it introduces the readers to the interesting world created by Otomo. When I started reading Akira, the story immediately grabbed my attention because of intriguing story and the interesting characters. Moreover, the idea of a post-apocalyptic Japan was both stimulating and daunting. 3. Otomo worked on Akira. What I like best about the illustrations is ...

Overview

The Department of Corrections has changed its mail room policy to reduce the risk of contraband inflow through the mail and to reduce its burden on existing correctional officers. The measures taken include the introduction of a postcard that inmates can use to communicate with the outside world. According to the Commissioner, this postcard will end the flow of contraband through the mail and more easily managed by the existing staff. He also believes that this measure will reduce the overtime burden of staff. The inmates, their families and lawyers see this measure as a violation of the First Amendment; they ...

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 ...

Photo of Alexander the Great

The Walters Art Gallery has a wide range of arts ranging from different personalities of the world. An art gallery stores many things about the different cultures of people. The arts were very many and therefore I was able to settle on the above art of Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great was born in 356 BC in the city of Pella, Macedonia. He was the son of King Philip II and Queen Olympias. Alexander is still considered a military genius of all time in history. He possessed military qualities like those of Napoleon Bonaparte of France and Julius Caesar of ...

Genghis Khan - this name is known to everyone. Conqueror of the world, characterized by extreme cruelty, is interesting for many historians. This person has left a trail of blood in history: Genghis Khan conquered vast territories, as well as many nations. The scale of his conquests was enormous. In memory of humanity, they have left the strongest impression. Genghis Khan is definitely different from other great rulers, power-hungry invaders. No one had so unquenchable thirst for cruelty, brutality and destruction of everything that occurred on the way. There may have impact the Middle Ages, however, in this case, ...

English

In the story “A Country Doctor” by Franz Kafka, it depicts a waking from a dream. the piece is a short story that uses different aspects of a dream, as interpretation of the circumstances that surround a doctor’s life. It shows his helplessness in his situation and outlines the fact that he is unable, or unwilling to change it. He was afraid of being exposed to the villagers and have his competency questioned. Based on his dream, cold, naked and confused, he is a picture of confusion and incompetence. The doctor is secretly having passionate thoughts about his servant girl, who worked with him ...

The issues of gender discrimination are witnessed across different cultures, and especially those that are still coming to age. The gender issues represent some of the feminist issues that emanate from the discrimination of women. Such issues include the hindrance of women from exploring the world, discrimination on expression of their sexualities and barring women from social interactions. Many authors talk about these feminist issues with the use of literary devices that tend to showcase their magnitude. The confab below purposes at emphasizing how different authors have used the literary device of metaphors in elucidating the issues of gender ...

Introduction

The book, “Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice,” written by William Shakespeare, was written in 1603, which is based on the Italian short story known as “Un Capitano Moro (“A Moorish Captain”) which was written by Cinthio. The main character in the book is Othello, a Moorish general who worked and served in Venetian army. In the book, there are also other major characters such as Desdemona and Cassio. The book carries a variety of themes ranging from racism, jealousy, betrayal, love, repentance, and revenge. In this section, we shall focus on the theme of race as depicted from the ...

Art Humanities

Iconography is the act of producing religious images that are called icons. It studies the description, identification and also the interpretation of image contents. Iconography is also used in different fields other than the art humanities such as the media studies and also the semiotics field. Iconography also acts as a depiction of a particular subject depending on image contents. Humans communicated using iconography as back as one hundred thousand years ago. An example is that of the Chinese characters and also the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Iconography has been practiced for centuries in the religion of Christianity. Great artists have transmitted the ...

Sensationalism

This media strategy is employed by mass media through editorial bias. The topics and events in the news stories are often overhyped with the intention of increasing readership and viewership numbers (Dye, 132). As a media strategy, sensationalism includes reporting on matters that are generally insignificant. Events that do not have any impact in the society are also discussed. In doing this, the journalists offer a biased perspective, presenting the news in a tabloid or trivial manner to get the attention of other people. In most cases, this is against the standards that guide professional journalism. In practice, this has happened in ...

Introduction

The caudillos of 19th-century Latin American history played an important part in the shaping and molding of Latin America into a state led by charismatic leaders who were able to assert their own considerable will over the people and enact social and governmental change. In the 19th century, the more iconic caudillos such as Simon Bolivar and Porfirio Diaz exerted tremendous energy and willpower to ensure that they shaped their respective countries in the ways they wanted. Even so, more modern revolutionary figures, even in their zeal to overthrow the classist politics of the caudillo, exerted a tremendous and earnest desire ...

It is a shame that books like Jerry A. Conye’s best-selling book Why Evolution is True (2009) is necessary for the twenty-first century. After all, Charles Darwin wrote his groundbreaking work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published in 1859. Since its publication many other scientific discoveries have been made to support Darwin’s dangerous idea. Evolution should not be a controversial issue and sadly it remains so even in the most educated countries of the world. Part of the controversy could be because many people who oppose evolution have no idea what evolution is. ...

In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates warns Phaedrus that “in every one of us there are two guiding and ruling principles” (Plato, 54). These two principles are of the same two conflicting natures found in Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train. Just as Plato’s virtuous horse and his dark, intemperate horse ride side by side guided by the same charioteer, for Highsmith, “good and evil, live side by side in the human heart, and not merely in differing proportions in one man and the next” (Highsmith, 180). Highsmith demonstrates that in the same way Plato shows the dark horse ...

The aim of the study was to describe the different motivation techniques that use to motivate student engagement in the Chinese classroom. In order to carry out an assessment of this research question, I conducted different observations periods for two beginner-level classes and two advanced-level classes, and thereafter conducted interviews with the four teachers. The periods of observation amounted to a total of ten hours while the interview sessions took approximately two hours. In the course of the observation periods, I paid particular attention on how the teachers interacted with their students. My points of focus were on the intonation ...

"The Lives of the Twelve Caesars" (De vita Caesarum) is the main work of Roman historian Suetonius, written during his tenure as secretary of Emperor Hadrian. It is a collection of biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 Roman princeps, from Augustus to Domitian. This work is one of the most important works of antiquity. It is written in simple language, and each biography of Emperors is written in a certain pattern. For example, Suetonius description always starts on the origin of of the each ruler, the early years of his life, his social activities, then proceeds to personal qualities ...

Kathleen Tamagawa grew up with an Irish American mother and a Japanese father. Her memoir “Holy Prayers in a Horse’s Ear” is about her experiences growing up and feeling like she never fit in. She believes being racially mixed is a difficult and complex. Her memoir was written in 1932, so maybe things have become better, but her conclusion was that different cultures and societies are not fully open to completely accepting other races. She explains the title of the book towards the end, when she asks the reader “and now I ask, what use are holy prayers, in a horse's ear? ...

The article “Healing the American Indian Soul Wound” by Duran et al. and excerpt from Brave Heart’s “The Historical Trauma Response” address the concepts of “historical trauma” and “soul wound”, which are synonyms and refer to traumatic events in the history of American Indian people. When look at the historical context preceding those events, Duran and others state that European arrivals used ‘treaty-making’ strategy to cover their discrimination and suppression of the Natives under “legal and political relationship” (Duran et al. 343). Duran and Brave Heart differentiated six steps of historical trauma, such as First Contact, Economic Competition, ...