Essays on Regret

Summary of Article Macy & holder

Complainant, V.

Eric Holder,

Attorney General, (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives),

Agency.

Short Description of the Case The complainant was denied employment by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the Walnut Creek Lab despite having the required qualifications. She was interviewed by the director of Walnut Creek Lab. The director told her that she would be hired after the lab conducts some background checks. At this time, Macy (complainant) was presenting herself as a man. However, as the process of background check was going on, she started her transition from male to female. She called her prospective ...

Failing never feels good when it happens initially. No one enters into a commitment with an intention to fail. Most people pursue a goal with the expectation to succeed. Unfortunately, failure is a phenomenon that cannot be avoided. Rather than perceiving failure as a negative event or incident, there is something quite valuable to learn when one fails. Without failure growth would be limited. I have heard many times throughout life that “we learn from our failures.” When I was younger I did not understand this concept, and even as I matured this idea did not sound appealing. However, ...

Abstract

Decision-making under risk occurs when there is an uncertainty about the states of nature that can occur, but the probabilities of each of the states of nature occurring have already been determined. We can use these probabilities to determine additional strategies for decision-making. One such strategy is the Expected Monetary Value (EMV) approach for making an optimal decision. In the problem where the company had to decide on the right investment approach, the company had already done research to determine the various possible states of nature for each of the alternatives as well the probabilities of each of these ...

The parable of the Sadhu is a lesson in corporate and individual ethics based on the experience of Dr. Bowen McCoy while hiking in Nepal. The experience of McCoy illustrates the nature of ethical dilemma in business as the Sadhu needs help; however, the individuals in the group only give enough help that they are not significantly inconvenienced by the Sadhu. McCoy compares the magnitude of assistance given by members of the group to the amount of ethical responsibility corporations have for their own ethical dilemmas and notes that the actions taken by members of the group were enough ...

Biography

I can describe myself as a highly accomplished entrepreneur. I have gained a great deal of experience in business startup, growth, as well as, exit. So far, I have been a Chief Executive Officer in three companies and my role in contributing to their success cannot go unrecognized. I started my career by establishing my biotechnology company, Volentix Pharmaceuticals. Starting this company was stimulating, exciting, and frightening at the same time. Nonetheless, this company did not operate for a long time due to some difficulties and hardships, but I did not lose hope. I learned a lot from this ...

Literature analysis: “Trifles”

“Trifles” is a one-act play written by Susan Glaspell and it deals with the murder of John Wright. The play is about feminism because women protect one another although they seem to be dependent on their husbands. The main theme in the story is Mrs. Wright’s guilt and although it is not proven, it is implicated, bit the women still protect her. The characters in the story are: County Attorney, Henderson, the Sheriff, his wife, Mrs. Peters, Hale, a farmer who is a neighbor and his wife Mrs. Hale. Mrs. Wright is deprived of her name as are ...

Executive Summary 3

Introduction 4 Decision Making 4 Decision Table 4 Figure 1. Decision table 5

Decision Making Under Uncertainty 5

Figure 2. Uncertainty decision 5

Optimistic 5

Pessimistic 5 Criterion of Realism 6 Equally Likely 6 Minimax Regret 6 Expected Monetary Value 7 Figure 3. EMV when no additional information was gathered 7 Figure 4. EMV with a favorable result from the additional information 8 Figure 5. EMV with an unfavorable result from the additional information 8 Figure 6. EMV from the additional information 9 Conclusion and Recommendation 9

References 10

Appendices 11 Analytical Experience and Plans 13 Executive Summary Management decisions have always been considered a difficult task especially ...

Manager, Ad and Revenue Department

CEO In reference to the recent discussion with our CEO Ms. Watson, the company is currently experiencing significant financial difficulties. I recognize everyone’s effort and contribution in ensuring a good volume of ads that helped sustain our company’s financial needs. However, this year is not a very fortunate time for all of us in the company as insufficiencies in the revenue performance is forcing difficult decisions that we all have to accept in good terms. Instead of letting some of you go, the management decided to impose cost-cutting measures starting with an across the board 10% salary ...

The popularity of online dating apps such as Tinder, Grindr, Hinge and Coffee meets bagel and more has not only increased the dating pool for people but has also accelerated the hookup culture that has been around for a while. Hookups aren’t a new phenomenon. The sexual revolution of the sixties, growing incomes and independence of young adults means that they no longer follow the traditional route of getting married young and having kids. Young people, especially college going adults put their career ahead of marriage and settling down. This does not necessarily mean that they lose out ...

Summary of Thinking, fast, and slow by Daniel Kahneman

George Mason University Summary of Thinking, fast, and slow by Daniel Kahneman Introduction The author, Daniel Kahneman, hopes that the readers would benefit from the reading of his book, which is about biases of intuition. According to the author, it can be a tough choice between what we believe and what we want. Friends and colleagues help us in making and evaluating choices. The thinking process is one conscious thought leading to another. The mental work creates impressions and intuitions silently in our minds. We allow our beliefs, feelings and preferences to feel confident about our decision, even if ...

A Crisis Briefing in Response to the Shooting of A Cop Television Audio Technician at Omaha, Nebraska.

The Crisis occurred on August 19, 2014. The Organization Used Denial Strategy in Response to the Crisis. The Strategy was Helpful as it covered the Police Department. The Communication was made by the Director of the Department.

The Crisis Communication was done on September 10, 2014.

The Image Restoration Strategy used by this briefing was mortification. Since the information was already available within the public domain, denial strategy would not have worked best as for that reason, the department should have admitted and apologized to the family of the bereaved and the general public as a whole.

Crisis Briefing: US Police Department

Introduction. We as the United States of America Police Department, would ...

Frankenstein is a novel which deals with immortality and human nature to achieve it with the help of science. It was written by Mary Shelley and it got published in 1818. This novel belongs to the genre of science fiction and it deal with the dark side of human nature and the fact that people are interested in creating life in order to be God-like which leads to failure. The story begins with Robert Walton who is at the North Pole where he meets Victor Frankenstein. Walton gives him shelter on his ship and he is told the story ...

What is the Fourth of July to slaves?

Introduction “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” is a famous speech given by an African American slave fugitive at the time by the name Frederick Douglas, which was delivered on the Fifth of July, the day after the day of independence, in 1852. The speech highlighted the plight of the African Americans who were discriminated by the white population. The speech describes the Fourth of July as a paradox since the independence given to the African Americans was paradoxical. To the African American, the fourth of July was a day when the White continued to enjoy ...

The poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est,” was written by Wilfred Owen in 1917, during World War I. He was killed on 4 November 1918 during the battle to cross the Sambre-Oise canal at Ors. Several lines, if not the whole poem, can be paraphrased quite easily. In essence, the narrator is suggesting that had anyone experienced the same horrors as he had, they would not glorify war. Lines 1 and 2 can be paraphrased as, “We were doubled over from pain and the inability to move; we were sick, coughing continuously, and swore while trudging through mud and muck. ( ...

Discussion Question Journal

Chapter 14: The Social Contract Tradition Problems and Prospects Is it immoral to be a free rider? Is it irrational? Does the existence of free riders raise a serious problem for contractarianism? Why or why not? Take for instance a borehole constructed in an arid region by villagers. All member are to participate in contributing cash for this purpose. The water will serve the interests of the villagers. If say one or a group of members chose not to contribute but still got to use the water once the borehole was made, they would be referred to as free ...

LLL 580

Hypothetically, there are various expectations in regard to the results of the dissertations. To start with, the research will identify key phrases and behavioral mannerisms employed by these students when required to offer apologies. In perspective, it will most probably be established that the most common strategies that feature in these apologies include “expression of apology, expression of regret, the offer of apology and request for forgiveness”. These, however, are not the confinements of all the apologies. While the apologies are similar, some students might employ other strategies that appear not to be widely used by all ...

There is an old saying in china says: When a man is near death he speaks from the heart. It means when you really face the death, your words became soft and kind-hearted. It is the kind of phenomenon that people regret after they lose something wonderful. The selfish person donates all their belongings to the charity. The mean person treats others well and show them kindness. The mad man becomes gentler. In Chekhov’s” Rothschild’s Fiddle”, he illustrates a selfish and greedy man becomes soft-hearted and regrets his choices when he faces the death directly. Yakov, the ...

Abortion is the process of destroying a human fetus while in the womb (Grimes, 2013). This topic is considered to be one of the most controversial issues globally (Grimes, 2013). The support or disapproval of this practice has a potential of eliciting mixed reactions since it involves human life. The United States Constitution legalized abortion in 1973. From this period, more than 50 million abortions have been procured (Dennis et al., 2009). In as much as this subject remains a highly controversial issue, abortions obtained by minors elicit an even higher degree of interest and involvement. Therefore, this paper ...

Personal Ethics

There is absolutely no doubt for me that any contemporary society requires ethical values to be observed by everyone. These values are necessary because they would serve to regulate the relationship between people and set some particular rules of accepted behavior. Besides, basic universal values are already spread all over the world. Living in a society we are all interdependent. If I can rely on people around me, I am able to move forward without any feeling of fear or suspicion. Moreover, I am able to learn from these people how to be consistent, I learn what it means ...

Insrtuctor’s Name

It is truth universally acknowledged that the theme of the human’s choice has always been popular with the poets and writers. It is not surprising that Robert Frost, an iconic American poet, addresses it in his most famous and most quoted poem, The Road not Taken (“The Norton Anthology of Poetry” 1232-1233). In spite of the widely spread opinion that the poem raises the problem of “being an individual” or “taking a different road from the masses” (Fagan 293), I strongly believe that the poet’s major intention is to emphasize that no matter what choice we make ...

Personal Research on a Life Decision

This essay deals with the topic of personal research in making a life decision. The main goal of this essay is to reveal all the aspects concerning the topic. A life decision, which is described, is buying a new car. In order to achieve this goal successfully, all the questions regarding the topic were carefully analyzed and answered. First of all, when I had to buy a new car I kept in my mind that it would not be an easy decision. It was hard to choose because it was necessary to think over various aspects before making the ...

Burnt Norton is one of four T.S. Eliot’s poems in The Four Quartets. It was the first one which was written and published. The other three, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding, followed only several years later. All four poems are related to each other through the idea of man’s attitude to time and life. Burnt Norton, being the first in the quartet, introduces the theme from the very beginning with philosophical speculations about the interconnectedness between present, past, and future. In her lecture devoted to Eliot’s Four Quartets, Belinda Jack points the three ...

The marines who are otherwise referred to as the marine corps are a branch of the military force which was first created as a ground force under the navy. This military branch was basically given the task to take over the beaches when called into mission, and has since evolve to include other missions on land, sea and even in the air. Moreover, the increased land operations and other security risks demand the need for a more coordinated military element. Thus, by the middle of the 20th century, the marine corps was called to “specialize in the skills and ...

Stephen Crane, the author of A Dark Brown Dog, weaves a short story filled with vast amounts of imagery and symbolism. He creates an in-depth comprehensive description of an adopted dog, a young boy, and the growth of their relationship. Although the title suggests that the story will be about a dog, it does not reveal the cycle of abuse that plays out with the characters. Therefore, the seemingly innocent title of the story does not lets the audience know that there is an underlying theme within the story. This essay will examine the various literary devices that Crane ...

Letter Informing a Job Candidate that the Position has been Filled by Someone Else

English Wesley Collins 1010 Madison Avenue

New York, NY

Dear Collins, RE: LETTER OF REGRET FOR THE JOB POSITION We would like to thank you for the effort spent in the application for the sales manager position at ABC solutions company. We regret informing you that we have decided to select another candidate for the position as she is best qualified. The jobs competition at our company is usually strong and difficult decisions have to be made between a large number of candidates with higher-caliber. We received over ten thousand number of applications from highly qualified applicants for the sales manager position. ...

Yu Rang devised a plan to assassinate Lord Xiang but miserably failed twice. Yu Rang even mutilated himself and swallowed charcoals to change his appearance and voice, but he still failed to assassinate the killer of his former master. After Yu Rang’s first attempt of assassination, Lord Xiang recognized a great sense of loyalty from the man and ordered him to be released. Yu Rang’s second attempt was also futile because the instinct of Lord Xiang towards him was strong. He had Yu Rang figured out and so ordered his guards to capture the man. Nevertheless, Lord ...

Thomas Heywood in an Elizabethan play “A Woman Killed with Kindness” regrets the things he has done and refers to God asking if there is any chance for him to return to the past and change what he has done. His words are full of hopelessness, as he understands that it is impossible, but the damage is so strong that he cannot help but wonder if there is a tiniest possibility that he could go back in time and redeem the mistakes. With all the technological advances, a lot of ideas and science fiction inventions were turned into life, ...

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Overview of the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a complex state that is usually caused by the traumatic event or prolonged exposure to the extreme situations (APA, 2015). While people tend to react differently on traumatic events, the majority of them develop one or several symptoms that qualify for the diagnosis of PTSD. Specifically, the individuals with PTSD suffer from recurrent distressing memories about the traumatic event, repeating dreams and flashbacks involving the stressful situation, and prolonged psychological distress (APA, 2015). Moreover, patients with this disorder tend to avoid the methods of mitigating their traumatic ...

Bioethics is an important element in the decision-making processes of medical professionals. Mrs. Brown, who is forty-two years old and currently pregnant, requests a genetic test to confirm whether her unborn child has Klinefelter’s Syndrome, which is characterized by an extra X chromosome in the genetic sequence – XXY (Bojesen and Claus,807). The possible defects of Klinefelter’s syndrome include sterility, excessive tallness, enlarged breasts that can be corrected through surgery, behavioral issues, and possible mental retardation (Bojesen and Claus 807). Mrs. Brown’s fears for her child to undergo gender- identity crises when she grows up. She ...

Restorative justice is an approach to justice that focuses on the needs of the victims and offenders. It gives a different approach on how the society deals with justice. It contrasts with more punitive approaches where the primary objective is to punish the offender and satisfy legal principles. Van Ness and Strong text emphasize four different restorative justice (RJ) values which the authors believe to be “corner posts” of restorative justice practice. These values include inclusion, encounter, amends and reintegration. It is important to give a brief description of what these values. For instance, inclusion is indicated as a ...

My ultimate mission is to live a life I would not ever regret.

I value every single moment of my life because everything that happens to me really counts. I consider each life experience to be a chance to learn something new, to grow and become better. I wish feelings of curiosity and wonder could join me whenever I explore the world around. I am at my best when I am doing the things I love. I am at my worst when I try to do several things at a time. At work I really love to work on some project, a project that has a definite beginning, ending and some expected, ...

Beowulf’s’ ‘Beowulf’ and Spencer’s ‘Redcrosse’ were both heroes in the making. In those ages, the deed of heroism was widely praised in the society. In this accord, I will compare and contrast Beowulf’s and Redcrosse knight’s heroism, and the line that separates the man from the monster. Both knights developed deeds that came to be the epicenter of fine pieces of ancient literature. Beowulf’s epic poems and Spencer’s ‘Canto’ brings up interesting contrasts of these two readings. Contrasting the two readings will make use of real life examples to discover what separates a ...

Is traditional shopping on the verge of disappearance? With the rapid growth of online shopping, more and more buyers do not bother to go outside in order to shop, particularly when it comes to electronics, house appliances, and even clothing. While shopping for food still means going to an actual market or supermarket, online markets are becoming an option for people who do not have time for this activity either. At a first view, traditional shopping seems to be condemned to fade away, as online shops become more and more popular. From children to older individuals, everyone seems to ...

Introduction

Family is one of the first and hence the most important institutions of the individual’s development. Parents teach their children in the way they should create their own family when they grow up. This is an unstoppable process, as family has existed from the beginning of times. It just develops and transforms in accordance to the needs and desires of the society. From the first look, this is a unit of love with mutual patience and support. However, this is a unit of a huge responsibility in front of your partner and child. With this responsibility people usually, ...

There are a lot of methods and techniques for building brain power that are available to people. From improving memory and concentration to stress reduction, some of these techniques are time-tested and effective, whereas others are unsound and ineffective. Based upon my personal experiences, I have discovered two powerful methods of building my brain power that work especially well for me. In the future, there are also two more techniques that I would like to try in order to further improve my cognitive powers. In many instances, I have felt that my emotions have disturbed my ability to use ...

Bad News Letter

Dear Mr. (Name of Professor), Thank you for your letter of February 26, 2016 describing the issue you had with the product. We are sorry to discover that you encountered such a pity product error as an obscene mark on the paper that rendered it useless. Our company strongly believes that paper is very important for any office work and it should be impeccable. However, some failures still may happen when we have a busy season and too much of a workload. Dunder Mifflin Paper Company has been a leader in the industry for more than 10 years and ...

Nietzsche’s doctrine dedicated to the topic of eternal recurrence is considered to be one of the least clarified concepts in his works. The philosopher claimed that the initial idea of eternal recurrence emerged in 1881 during his journey in Switzerland (Nietzsche & Hoover 14). Nietzsche claimed that eternal recurrence is a valid scientific hypothesis, which states that every process in this world recurs constantly in the certain period of time. According to this notion, time is infinite and change is eternal (Nietzsche & Hoover 28). Also, eternal recurrence suggests that energy is always constant and finite, so as its numerous ...

Report

The business projects are always associated with risks, and the owner has to make the decision. Typically, decisions that are more profitable are associated with higher risks. Therefore, the owner has to choose if he wishes to bear a risk and earn a lot, or he takes more secure, yet less profitable option (Koller). The High Right case has a significant advantage since the owner knows the risk probabilities associated with the decisions. The decision tree illustrates the outcomes of all the possible decisions (Fig. 1).Table 1 presents the payoff table, which illustrates the losses and profits.

* The ...

WC: 1868

Adolescence, as we know, is a period of puberty, a period of becoming sexually mature. On the one hand, individuals in the period of adolescence become ready for sexual relationships physiologically. On the other hand, most of the teens are not prepared for sexual relationship emotionally, psychologically, etc. That is why the sexual activity of adolescents is associated with different risk factors and negative outcomes. Rector and colleagues conducted the study of approximately 6500 individuals of age 14-17 and investigated how the sexual activity of teen boys and teen girls influences their feeling of unhappiness and depression. Results of ...

The problem facing the organization is to select the optimal strategy regarding development and marketing decision for Ski Right Helmets. The options presented in the scenario from with the organization can select the optimal are five (5) in number. First option is partnering with Progressive Products (PP) to develop the product and share profits evenly; second option is giving the contract the making and marketing to Leadville Barts (LB) and Progressive Products (PP); third option is a combination of TalRad (TR) and Progressive Products (PP) to make the product; fourth option is contracting the production and distribution to Celestial ...

Based on the intense training involved in sports at the high school level, students often regret the interference that sports training have on the amount of time they spend on academics. Apaak and Sarpong suggest that “student-athletes must typically balance the roles of being full-time student and at the same time being athletes” (Apaak & Sarpong, p. 1). Nonetheless, the dual roles can compound the psychological and emotional challenges that can impact personal development in the average teenager. With this in mind students, who are athletically inclined, regret playing sports because sporting activities often impinge on the time that should ...

An Analytic Review

In Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” we get a glimpse of the author’s childhood relationship with his father. In this work, Hayden describes a child’s view of a father from a now-adult perspective. His regret is evident, and the sadness in his voice rings down the corridors of time. “Those Winter Sundays” begin with a description of Hayden’s father rising in the early hours even on “Sundays too” (1), letting the reader know he gets up every morning in the same way. Using consonance, Hayden drives home both the hour and the temperature, noting “the ...

The hateful mid-afternoon sun beat down us as if in complete spite and outrage that we dared defy it. As I looked up into the crowd I was reminded of the words of Mohandas Gandhi that satisfaction lies in effort and not in attainment or success. Once, during the uncomfortably ho afternoon, even the little wind that had made the rest of the morning bearable had finally kept off, so much so that the air then felt like a thick and wet blanket. My skin felt equally dry and sticky with dry sweat and dust, but it did not ...

Argumentative essay

Abstract Introduction Detection Degrees of severity General risk factors Suicidal behavior Intervention Prevention Postvention Conclusion Abstract In the society of today, adolescents experience constant stress, and many of them consider suicide as the only possible solution to their problems. Examinations of the risk factors and prevention programs are extremely important because suicide claims more than five thousand adolescents per year. Determining the individuals who are at-risk is a difficult task because frequently suicidal signs are exhibited in a subtle way. Moreover, the occurrence of suicides depends on factors such as gender, sexual orientation, family problems, etc. everyone who deals ...

I was fourteen when I first heard of the “F” word. I was walking down the street to a friend’s house when a man standing by the corner suddenly said it to my face. This happened in the UK where I was taking up an English course. I did not know what the word meant, but by his facial expression I knew that it was nothing good. At this time, I was just starting to learn English, and the word did not appear in the textbooks. ...

Ever since I was born, I have been told that English is an important language to master. Unfortunately, being young and careless, I did not register the importance of it right away. When I was in middle school, my parents would drop me off for an extra English tuition after classes, or they thought they did. I was quite rebellious and most of the times I would simply pretend to go up the stairs and then snick to a nearby arcade with friends once our family car drove out of sight. I was perfectly content with the way things were ...

Rationale

The Climate Change has been a hot issue since the end of the 20th Century. After several United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; governments signed a protocol in Kyoto, Japan that marked their commitments in saving the environment. The commitment is popularly known as the Kyoto Protocol. An article (UNFCCC, 2012) explains that the Kyoto Protocol binds the countries to reduce their carbon emissions and penalized violators thereof. Also, it was in this protocol that benchmarked the market-based mechanism on carbon trading that will offset the too much green house gases emission of a certain country.

After almost two decades ...

Question 1: Role of an Apology

The purpose of an apology is to restore a pre-existing moral order by expunging hurtful effects of previous actions by accounting for what is not alterable. While it may not achieve this, the motivation for a transgressor to apologize includes the need for forgiveness and reconciliation, which makes it possible to paper over the transgressions and bar them from becoming permanent impediments to social relationships. Further, Tavuchis (1991) argues that apologies speak to some things that are larger than any specific betrayal or desire for expediency/reconciliation (p. 6). Social order is hinged on a measure of commitment to norms in respect of ...

Life is filled with uncertainty, because at times we think we are trailing one path then all of a sudden we encounter someone or something that will change the course of our life for good. Life’s unpredictability showed me that I am still a project in the making. I believe that the choices I made in life are the compilation of my everyday encounters that molded my decision to pursuing this monumental career decision.

My name is (name), I earned my degree in English Literature from King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. My background in English Literature made me ...

Prevention is better than cure a wise say goes. This is what researchers in this article opt to pass across to the people. They spent time researching on parent’s decisions on their children’s immunization. Research methodology used here is quantitative research; this is seen by the use of numerical data in providing information about the number of people with their opinions. Quantitative approach has also been employed, and it is evident in the procedures of data collection. The use of tables, calculation, numerical and focus groups proves that the quantitative research approach was employed.

Research is regarded as ...

Implications of an Ethical Issue-Abortion

Introduction In one’s day to day life, decisions are made. These can be minor decisions like what to wear or major decision that has an impact on their life and that of others. When making these decisions people base their answers on a variety of understandings. Some of the basis of decisions includes morality or ethics from a Christian perspective. These two bases guide one in what is right and what is wrong using principles and beliefs previously formed. Abortion is one critical decision that can be supported and condemned using moral and ethical set standards.

Ethical dilemma is a ...

Insights that behavioral finance provide for personal finance and personal financial planning

Behavioral finance is a fresh hypothesis in the finance theory. It aims at understanding and forestalling the psychosomatic decision-making of private investors and the repercussions of such decisions on the financial market. It fails to substitute but compliments the existing theories of finance and investment (Tyson, 2012). The task looks at psychological investment decisions and financial planning of individuals. The paper seeks to provide clear information regarding the insight that behavioral finance aspects provide in personal finance in addition to financial planning. So as to do this, I will explore behavioral finance. Then I will discuss the components of ...

The U.S’ government decision to wage war on Vietnam without a good plan of war involving clear-cut strategies and plans was one decision they poorly made. Therefore, it resulted to a prolonged Vietnam War and made the victory indeterminate for them (Yancey, 2001). The war was between the North Vietnam which was a communist state backed by other communist nations such as the Soviets and China, against the U.S, South Vietnam forces together with other anti-communist nations. People fought the war in North Vietnam. This war took place as a way to stop the spread of communism as the North Vietnam government fought ...

Introduction

The Chinese Revolution which took place in the 20th century was as a result of intertwined socio-economic and political factors in China. The Chinese economy was predominantly composed of agriculture and the revenue load imposed on the peasants resulted in their outcry (Lieberthal et al. 12). The status quo was pronounced at that time and the Chinese politics were disorganized. Foreign powers had resulted in the division of china into spheres based on influence. They were only interested in their own agendas and sabotaged the genuine needs of the Chinese people. China’s war with Japan has also seen the ...

Six word memoirs pose the ultimate challenge for the verbose and a win-win game for the succinct, with every expression précised very neatly to create an indelible picture on the reader’s mind. Who can format Earnest Hemingway’s pearl “For sale: baby shoes, never worn”, without hesitating over the pathos: that wrench on the soul of the parent who placed this advertisement – selling off eagerly bought shoes of a babe-yet-in-the-arms. What does "Followed rules, not dreams. Never again" suggest? To my mind, it is a warning: that rules will not allow you to achieve what you set out ...

The story brought me to the highs and lows of Jeremy and China’s love for one another. I was very anxious to continue reading the story and find out how something as good as it was going to end. During the first part wherein their love story was being described, I had this warm and light feeling. Their relationship was perfect, the kind that I believe most teenagers their age would love to have. They loved each other, and their parents and families accepted and supported their relationship. Even greater is the fact that despite the intensity of ...

Commonly, there are people today who are still playing with the hands of fate by drinking and driving. The laws are strict, and swift to anyone who dares go against the DUI and DWI laws; there are some people who are negligent about the endangerment of other people who are out in public. So the question remains, should DUI and DWI offenders be imprisoned on their first offense; the verdict-Yes. There are 3 general reasons why they should. For starters, they will learn a lesson about the dangers of driving drunk that is a lesson they will benefit from and give ...

Introduction: The Theory

Gamblers fallacy is an argument that bases its argument on the occurrence of random events, in that if the occurrence of a certain event is frequent currently the there will be an infrequent occurrence in the future. The fallacy depicts that if something happens more often or if there is a positive performance, there will be a rare occurrence in the future, or the performance will be negative. The fallacy is based on independent events where the outcome of one event does not influence the other also called random events. The fallacy argues that if a certain outcome is favored then as you ...

English

Edgar Allen Poe can best be described as a writer who was seriously influenced by neo-Gothic interests. A great American writer, Poe was attracted and influenced by the neo-Gothic writers much before his time because of which, most of his work is on horror. Poe was also witness to a period of uncertainty in society as deceit, murder for gain, revenge and arson was quite common. While courts played an important role in trying to curb this menace, cases were manipulated to benefit the guilty. This had a profound impact on Poe who used certain themes of court matters to develop his ...

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 ...