The Thing Around Your Neck (Adichie, 2009) is a collection of short stories written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that has received worldwide recognition and has been nominated for several awards such as the Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2010) and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (2010). In the short stories, Adichie explores how immigrants in America suffer when they arrive in the United States. Though the stories do not share the same plot or characters, they are woven together by their themes....
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Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom was born on April 15, 1892, in Haarlem, Netherlands. For her whole life, she was referred to as “Corrie”. She was the youngest child in the family and took the job profession of a jeweller and watchmaker. She and her family were Calvinist Christians in a Dutch Reformed Church. Their faith motivated them in supporting those who were struggling in life, which they did by donating living essentials to poor people in the Netherlands. In...
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In the 19th century, Americans began to explore self expression through literature. Two writers in particular, Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne, greatly exemplified Gothic and Romantic literature. In both Poe’s short story, “The Tell Tale Heart”, and Hawthorne's “The Minister’s Black Veil”, the protagonists reach a state of alienation through self-absorption and an incapability to realize their wrongdoings. In the short story, “The Tell Tale Heart”, the narrator lives with an old man, and becomes paranoid by the old...
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Abstract This thesis sheds light on the characters portrayals of women in Dante’s Divine Comedy and The Thousand and One Nights. In acquiring this information, we explore the different characterizations of women involved in the text and use it to assess the writers bias and conception of women. This can consist of their societal placement and their specific traits and behaviors as their roles are looked at in society. Both works represent women as lesser than standard and viewed as...
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An allegorical drama that includes the art qualities that are personified during the forth lesson about noble living is called Morality play. These kinds of plays were well known during the late 1500 and early 1600 as electronical exhibitions just to engage the groups of onlookers while advancing the need of guidelines or devout life. Regularly perform man's battle to keep away from bad habits and look for ideals Everyman is one of the cases of the profound morality play....
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There have been many cases of Western Architecture that have been destroyed in acts of war, natural disasters, or because of structural integrity failure. In this paper, we will look into why some buildings were rebuilt, how they were rebuilt, and why some buildings weren’t built the same. Other topics that may be touched on here will also be temporary buildings that have become permanent and buildings that were built to look as if they were destroyed and worn down....
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Moshing as artifact: in relation to the history of the Parthenon. Through August to September of 490 BC, a battle between Athens and Plataea against the Persian Empire erupted in Marathon, Greece; this would be the first of a further series of conflicts between Greece and The Achaemenid Empire. The battle had been instigated by the Greek involvement in the Ionian Revolt, where Athens and Eretria had supported the Ionians in overthrowing the Persian rule. A second invasion of Greece...
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Paulo Freire, the youngest of four children was born on September the 19th 1921, to an economically comfortable working-class Catholic family. They lived in the port city of Recife, the capital of the state of Pernambuco. This North eastern region of Brazil was and continues to be one of the most impoverished in the country. When Paulo was only three years old, his father an officer of the Pernambuco military police, was forced to retire prematurely due to a serious...
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Abstract In a class experiment a mindfulness exercise was used to investigate the effects it would have on attention. Before the mindfulness exercise was carried out an emotional stroop test was taken by all participants and again after the mindfulness test to investigate the effects. Participants were given a mindfulness test or a relaxation test to also investigate if either exercise will make a difference. The results obtained from the experiment indicated that the mindfulness test did have an effect...
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The two related texts that I have chosen includes, W.H Auden's, ‘Unknown Citizen’ and James Mcteigue’s ‘V for Vendetta’. McTeigue's representation of an oppressed society effectively resonates with George Orwell’s ‘1984’, hence my decision to choose it as my prominent text. Through its exhibition of characterisation of protagonists, their appeals for self expression, and the strive for the collective individuality, reflects the environment Winston lives in. ‘V for Vendetta’ succinctly conveys these ideas through skillful use of setting and character...
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Abstract In most people, proficiency in language takes precedence over cognition of individual words and letters contained therein. Therefore, when an individual is presented with a random name, there can read it instantaneously without thinking. The brain can respond automatically to the name and the response time is considerably short. If the same person is presented with the word of one color but written in a different color, the reaction is the same. The brain recognizes the word first, and...
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Persuasive Essay Often we forget about our disabled citizens who depend on Medicaid. Have we forgotten how passionate we were about our beliefs? We have citizens that are in facilities who depend on Medicaid and government assistance. If our government cut down the way Medicaid is funding, over 50 percent of our citizens will lose much-needed assistance. Also, it can effect closure of centers. Closures of centers mean loss of jobs and a higher unemployment rate. If our president cuts...
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Many of us have at least once heard of an ancient legend. As kids, we have heard mention a few, and who doesn’t love a legend with a bit of mystery to it. There are some legends that date back as far as 800AD. The early creation of these legends is what makes it consequently difficult for one to trace, since it is passed on by word of mouth from one generation to the next. Like the ancient legend of...
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Virgil writes the Aeneid between the years 29-19 BCE. The Aeneid tells the legendary story of a man named Aeneas and how he found the city of Rome. Consisted of twelve books, the Aeneid is an epic poem. The Aeneid is considered one of the historically relevant works of Latin literature because it tells the story of the founding of Rome. Therefore, the literary device of ekphrasis describes a particular work of art in a more dramatic and vivid way....
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Annotated Bibliography Bishop, Felicity L, et al. “When and Why Placebo-Prescribing Is Acceptable and Unacceptable: a Focus Group Study of Patients' Views.” PloS One, Public Library of Science, 9 July 2014, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4089920/. This source is reliable because it is the National center for biotechnology information. This is a government databank that published medical studies along with other scholarly information. This study found that the more someone believes in a placebo, the better an outcome could be and vice versa. Bishop...
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I am Anantha Mary Jeba T. I am a meticulous and meritorious biotechnologist. I finished my M.Sc. in Biotechnology (Integrated) in April 2018 from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, India with 9.32 CGPA (Maximum CGPA being 10). I graduated my Higher Secondary Education in 2013 with 84.8% and Secondary Education in 2011 with 88.57% from Ida Scudder School, Vellore, India. During my college period, I received Merit Scholarships for all five years (Academic years 2013 – 2018). I was...
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Abstract This brief paper explores the symptoms, etiology, treatment, and prognosis of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is classified by The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) as a chronic mental illness. In order to be diagnosed with OCD, a person must have obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions are defined as persistent thoughts urges and images and attempts to suppress them with a thought or action. Those thoughts and actions are the...
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Throughout time, the United States has continuously failed to meet the minority’s needs. For this reason, there’s a set of government policies called affirmative action, implemented across 41 states, used to redress historic injustices. Affirmative action helps specific groups, minorities, by making special efforts to provide members of these groups with hiring and learning advancement. Affirmative action is an important and necessary policy to make the employment and educational field fair for minorities due to their lack of representation in...
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Professional Nursing: My Vision of Myself over the Next 5 Years There are a lot of characteristics that are involved in the profession of nursing. There is not one nurse who is the same. It takes a lot of different people to make up the profession of nursing, however, there are some characteristics that almost every nurse has. The three characteristics that are found in the profession of nursing are prevention, coordination of care, and patient advocacy. Each of these...
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In this assignment, I am going to investigate the effectiveness of Morrison’s use of ‘own brands’. Background information Morrison’s is a public limited company (PLC) which was founded in 1899, 120 years ago, by a man named William Morrison. Mr Morrison started selling eggs, butter along with other dairy products at a small, local market until eventually, 53 years later; William’s son took over and opened their first store. Morrison’s are continually growing and are currently the fourth largest British...
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Types of organizational culture Team-oriented Culture Team-oriented companies hire for culture fit first, skills and experience second. A company with a team-first corporate culture makes employees’ happiness its top priority. Frequent out-of-office team activities, opportunities to provide meaningful feedback, and flexibility to accommodate employees’ family lives are common markers of a team-first culture. The understanding of team-oriented culture is making employees happy, who will, in turn, make the customers happier. Team-oriented culture is beneficial for any customer service-focused company because...
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Introduction The research area is based on how construction contracts and procurement techniques are used in project of Coal India Ltd. CIL is a Maharatna and Indian state-owned company of coal mining and refinery. The main headquarter of Coal India Ltd is in Kolkata, West Bengal. 82% of coal is produced in India by CIL. It is in the 8th position in terms of market value among the Indian companies. CIL has many subsidiaries where CIL produces most of its...
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Anti-vaccination Discourse Online Before advancing to the main part of the study, this section is dedicated to explaining why the topic of anti-vaccination was chosen to be analyzed from a linguistic point of view, as well as why Tumblr and Twitter were the social media selected for the corpus, beyond the arguments cited in 1.1.1. This chapter has to main sections, 2.1., which provides with a detailed overview of Tumblr and Twitter’s features, with special emphasis to those relevant for...
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Question: Outline the history of and Australia’s involvement in the war on terrorism in Iraq and Syria? The new war on terrorism in Iraq and Syria has been a long and complex battle with multiple enemy forces, who are most often indistinguishable from civilians. Australia has engaged in this war on terrorism due to varying alliances with a multitude of Nations. Australia’s level of support for the war has varied throughout the years and recently has diminshed due to the...
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While I don’t usually draw from visual sources whilst creating artworks, there is a fair amount of inspiration taken from the proposed notions of acclaimed artists who have come before. In the instance of most of my works - which tend to have a surrealist/otherworldly focus with underlying emotional symbolism - I tend to take inspiration from the likes of Hieronymus Bosch and Francis Bacon, who’s works tamper with the ideas of otherworldly concepts (In the case of Bosch) and...
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T.S. Eliot, in his The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, takes the reader through the perils of life as a middle-aged man in modern society. His poem takes the form of a story, a narrative, with a character delivering a strong sense of voice and mood throughout the poem, moving away from the use of a strict rhyme scheme and meter used traditionally in poetry. Eliot uses repetition, in the form of alliteration, rhyming and literal repetition of words...
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Could it be that the problem has been wrongly perceived? The combination of many countries have shown that extremist groups are no match for the various countries. Many countries are striving for more of a modernized society and this contributes to societal values of the country. This will take a long time, but is already taking away from the extremists that undermine societal values. That doesn’t mean countries will be falling behind. Countries in the Middle East in particular have...
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An environment is the green place that surrounds us as living beings. We must for ever keep it clean pollution free in order to live healthy and peaceful life. However, the environmental issues have become a threat to the environment and those living in it. Surely the planet is our home, but people aren’t the only inhabitants, unfortunately they quite often forget about this point. In most cases the environmental issues are caused by harmful human activities on the biophysical...
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Decision trees are a popular form of algorithm used in machine learning predictive modelling. Classification and Regression Trees (CART) refers to decision tree algorithms that are used for classification and regression learning. The definition of a decision tree based on categorical targets (classification) as seen in the diagram below; the same concept holds if our targets are real numbers (regression). Decision Tree Decision tree algorithms are nothing but if-else statements that are used to forecast an outcome based on results....
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This essay is designed to examine Plato’s “Euthyphro,” and to discuss the ideas of piety which are presented through an elenchus between Socrates and Euthyphro. Throughout Plato's critique and review of philosophical dilemmas, it often seems as though he speaks through the voice of Socrates' himself. A further example of Plato's thought experiments being verbalized by his muse, Socrates, is found in my analysis of Plato's Republic. What's important to realize is that the question of whether Socrates was a...
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