Annotations: Peter Moskos in “You Can’t Blame The Police” (The New York Times: Young, Black, and Male in America, June 3rd, 2015) believes that although police should work more sensitively in minority communities he strongly believes that most of the harm being done to these minorities are self-inflicted and the police should not be blamed. He furthers his argument by providing statistics that support his beliefs and in fact, point out the hostile nature of many minority communities. He makes...
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In your opinion, what conditions need to be met for civil disobedience to be justified? In my examination of the conditions which justify civil disobedience, I will first examine Rawls' conditions for civil disobedience and then consider arguments that I will show fail to defend the position that civil disobedience can never be justified in a democratic society. I will examine the relationship between civil disobedience and Natural Law and argue that morality is fundamental to the justification of civil...
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The constitution is one of an uncodified nature. This means rules are not held in a single written document. Whereas a written constitution (also known as a codified constitution) is the idea that all the constitutions should be written down in one document. The does not need a written constitution because the strength of the current codified constitution outweighs the weakness. For example, strengths such as the sovereignty of parliament and flexibility of the uncodified constitution can allow the constitution...
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Should gender identify the bases of one’s capability? There should be no limit to who you can and cannot be based on what you identify as. The basis of one’s capabilities should not be limited to the identity that they are given at birth or what they are seen by society. An individual’s values are not based on their gender but on what they experience through their lifetime and strive to become. The reading “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins...
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‘How I Met Your Mother’, which aired on CBS from 2005 to 2014, is a sitcom/romantic comedy created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays. The series is set in Manhattan, New York and follows the lives of five close friends: Ted Mosby, Marshall Eriksen, Lily Aldrin, Barney Stinson and Robin Scherbatsky. ‘How I Met Your Mother‘ addresses many different areas of social status, especially those involving gender and sexuality. The series is based on Ted Mosby's exploits and uses flashback...
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This day in age, many women are choosing to not have children, or are influenced by factors that should have any weight towards their decision to start a family. With the price of living increasing by year, women cannot afford to take time off work for maternity leave, being that many employers do not support this benefit. After conceiving a child, the health outcomes are dependent on a healthy mother. In order for a new mother to be in optimal...
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The feminine characters created by Almodovar are not mere inventions, they are constructed and inspired by the memory of his childhood surroundings and conversations overheard in his infancy between his mother, his sisters his grandmother and his neighbors. His infancy, his childhood and his youth were highly influenced by the women surrounding him. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the importance of the roles of both motherhood and sisterhood within Almodovar’s film ‘Volver’. Almodovar’s filmography always revolves around...
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When I first read the story of the Banished Immortal written by Bai Xianyong, the figure of the protagonist Li Tong, who dressed in red cheongsam dancing in the bar, was ingrained in my mind. She was the queen of the beauties. She had always been living so proudly and so willfully. Li Tong seemed to live the kind of free life she wanted to live, but in fact, there was always deep-seated loneliness around her. Li Tong’s sense of...
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From preschool up to my last year of high school, I have gone through struggles to reach the top percentage of my graduating class as well as come to terms with who I am as a person. My experiences with inspirational figures have engraved in my mind a philosophy that if I just go that extra mile, I will obtain a victory within myself and so much more. As many others have experienced my situation of the hardships involved in...
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On the afternoon of February 14th, 2018, Nikolas Cruz took an Uber to his old high school. After entering the school, he removed an automatic weapon from his bag and began shooting both students and teachers, leaving 17 dead. When his gun stopped working Nikolas ran with the other students out of the school and headed to the local Subway store to buy a soda and waited in a McDonald's restaurant before heading home, where he was arrested. Nikolas made...
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Eating disorders are a complex and insidious mental health illness which has the highest mortality rate compared to any other mental health condition. The condition consists of anorexia nervosa restrictive food intake, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. Approximately 1.25 million people suffer from eating disorder. Many suffer in silence as they’re afraid to seek the help and support that are available based on the label society target them as ‘sneaky, manipulative and evil’. Having no professional help or support in...
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School dress code management is not always the most professional, and the angry parents addressing this issue would agree. Dress codes are common regulations implemented nationwide in schools with something written usually along the lines of: no spaghetti straps, no ripped jeans, no halter tops, etc. These rules have been put in place to promote professional attire and uniformity amongst students in schools. The rules enforced are black and white; if the outfit does not follow proper regulations set in...
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Over the last decade, there has been a push for continuing education in the nursing profession. There are more options for registered nurses to pursue a career as advanced practice nurses (APNs). It is beneficial to the nurse to create a professional development plan (PDP) to assist in career growth. A professional development plan enables nurses to keep a record of their activities and show that they are keeping up with their competencies in practice (College of Registered Nurses of...
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Marco Polo was a well-known and important explorer. In this section, I will share what I have learned and what Marco Polo observed on his famous voyage to the East18. I focus on one of Europe's most famous people, Marco Polo, and his medieval voyages on the Silk Road. Polo traveled through Asia and along the Silk Road15 and wrote about his experiences in Livres des Merveilles du Monde or The Travels of Marco Polo. Other explorers such as Christopher...
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Barbie is a cultural artefact that many people have once owned and adored in their lifetime, if not still do. The doll, which arose in 1959, was created by the American company Mattel. They proved hugely successful and continue to do so, sold today by the second. Despite the immense victory of the doll, it comes with its complications and has been heavily criticized by many. The aim of this writing is to explore these contradicting arguments and discover: should...
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Socioeconomic status (SES) can be defined as the social and economic standing of an individual or group, relative to others. Components that typically determine SES are occupation, education and income. The Equality Trust (2017) presented figures that showed the top one-fifth of households in the United Kingdom have 40% of national income. In contrast, the bottom fifth have just 8%. Moreover, the Office for National Statistics (ONS, 2014) reported figures for the period of 2012 to 2014 where the wealthiest...
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The concept of national security has been modernized and it was arising during the 17th century in the midst of the Thirty Years’ War, which took place in Europe, and in England, where the Civil War happened. Later on, the Peace of Westphalia has come out with the idea of nation-state has the sovereignty to control the internal affairs such as religion and external affairs which relate to security. This idea was established in the year of 1648. Back in...
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In 18th and 19th century England, atheists were called infidels or blasphemers, as the majority of Christians who criticized religion viewed themselves as free thinkers, as atheism was a term rarely used. Atheists such as Richard Carlile and George Jacob Holyoake were seen as dangerous, their religious views spilling into politics. Both imprisoned for blasphemy in 1819 and 1942. During Carlile’s trial he read Thomas Paine’s ‘The Age of Reason’ to spread its critique of Christianity: ‘my own mind is...
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Kashmir is a place of endless religious tension, which has led to three wars, and more than 47,000 people killed between 1989 and 2008. The Kashmir conflict is increasing rapidly and could end up in a nuclear war. It all starts in 1846, when a Hindu leader by the name of Maharaja Hari Singh was ruling Kashmir, where the majority of people followed Islam. Then Britain took over Kashmir as a colony in 1858, taking away Maharaja’s position. However, India...
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Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) have recently increased among young people in Australia between the ages of 15 to 24 years old. This exemplified that chlamydia is the most common STI contracted by young people. The rate of chlamydia has tripled since 2001, increasing from 130 notifications per 100,000 to 435 cases per 100,000 (ABS, 2012). This population accounts for 50% of all STDs, despite representing approximately 25 percent of the sexually active population (CDC, 2017). STDs are an infection transmitted...
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Martin Luther’s rise in popularity began when he nailed his ‘Ninety-Five Theses’ to the door of the Wittenberg Church on October 31, 1517. Luther aimed to show how corrupt the Catholic Church had become and in a letter to the Archbishop of Mainz, he wrote: “Works of piety and love are infinitely better than indulgences, and yet these are not preached with such ceremony or such zeal; nay, for the sake of preaching the indulgences they are kept quiet, though...
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Popular culture is everywhere, from adolescents to adulthood. Popular culture impacts us and lives on through different forms of media, memory and nostalgia. However, it is important to note that culture making is a social process: all meanings of self, of social relations, all the discourses and texts that play such important cultural roles can circulate only in relationship to the social system, in our case that of white, patriarchal capitalism. In this essay I will focus on 3 popular...
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This paper discusses the topic of taste and more specifically on the factors that influence taste or are influenced by taste. Although it may not be apparent as to how taste is linked to psychology, it is key to realize that our ability to taste carries the aspects of evolutionary psychology, psychophysics, and behaviorism. Taste is one of our many senses that sends messages to the brain, which in turn allows the brain to interpret these messages and perceives the...
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Profane humanists and atheists consistently make the profession that religion is the number-one cause of violence and war throughout the history of humanity. Wikipedia defines a religious war or holy war “as a war primarily caused or justified by differences in religion”. In the modern period, debates are common over the extent to which religious, economic, or ethnic aspects of a conflict predominate in a given war. Britain’s most outspoken atheist, Richard Dawkins, has averred that religion has been the...
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Billie Holiday was a powerful vocalist, a jazz singer, and an African American woman with a short tragic life for a voice that transcended time. She became a cultural icon known for her soulful voice and for her iconic 1939 protest song ‘Strange Fruit’, a controversial performance that shook all of America as she made a political stance against the violent lynching against black Americans. Protest songs are written to criticize society, and ‘Strange Fruit’ points out the pseudo-integration and...
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In this analytical essay I will discuss the development of inclusive education over time with reference to key historical, political and legislative events (domestic and international). I will outline educators’ specific obligations in relation to the support of students with a disability under international instruments and Australian legislation. The Development of Inclusive Education There have been a number of key historical, political and legislative events (both domestic and international) which, over time, have contributed to the development of inclusive education...
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Theory of mind is the ability to attribute mental states which includes goals, beliefs, intentions and desires to oneself and to others. This essay is looking at theory of mind of adults and social cognition of infant and children. The presumption of humans’ uniqueness in understanding theory of mind is largely true and will be discussed in this essay through the false-belief test, a number of theories and mind blindness, which is a theory of mind deficit caused by brain...
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The short-term memory is the very first system we encounter when we decide to recall information at the conscious level. The system register also gets information for a brief moment at an unconcious level. But before information can be transferred to the long-term memory, it needs to undergo rehearsal. Rehearsal maintains the validity of a code of information in the short-term memory, rehearsal needs to be done often to keep the information for a long period. Chunking of words makes...
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Episcopal Bishop Mark Dyer has observed that the only way to understand what is currently happening to us as twenty-first-century Christians is to realize that the church feels compelled to have a massive shakeup about every five hundred years. He describes this shakeup as a ‘rummage sale’. Five hundred years back from our 21st century places us in the 16th century and what is now being called the Great Reformation. Theologian Tickle names this 21st-century rummage sale as the ‘Great...
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Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. Big data decodes previously untouched data to derive new insight that gets integrated into business operations. However, as the amounts of data increase exponential, the current techniques are becoming obsolete. Dealing with big data requires comprehensive coding skills, domain knowledge, and statistics. In the digital world, data are generated from...
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