Imagine being able to control the life of someone with a razor, just a bit more pressure on the razor and another life will end. Suspenseful scenarios like such are often created by skilled authors, like the one that is created by Hernando Tellez in the riveting short story “Just Lather, That’s All”. Therefore, it is undeniable that suspense techniques are used effectively in the short story “Just Lather, That’s All” by Hernando Tellez because they develop plot and characters...
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Health Issue High levels of stress and insufficient sleep can affect a student's physical health, emotional well-being, and academic success. Stress and inadequate sleep are major obstacles to academic success for undergraduate students (Hales & Hales 2016). Short-term effects of sleep deprivation include decreased cognitive function, memory, performance, and attention (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2019). Minimizing stressors and supporting healthy coping strategies can help students improve overall well-being, quality of life, and academic performance while reducing the devastating consequences of excessive...
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Microorganisms are small, as the name implies, they can't be viewed in the naked eye without the help of a microscope and techannly microbes are organisms that are microscopic. They are present in all living organisms and are responsible for producing energy sources like nitrogen and carbon etc.While a few microbes are harmful in their nature, other microorganisms are incredibly salutary in all aspects of human life. Anton van Leeuwenhoek was the first microbiologist to study muscle fibres, bacteria, spermatozoa...
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Priestley presents an imbalance of responsibility within the Birling family between the two generations , with the older generation (Mr and Mrs Birling) showing a lack of responsibility and empathy towards Eva smith’s death whereas the younger generation (Sheila and Eric) hold a majority of the responsibility showing maturity and understanding which the older generation should hold ,however, they evidently do not. In ‘An Inspector Calls’ Priestley presents the theme of responsibility as imbalanced between the older and younger generation...
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Mitosis and meiosis are both involved in the process of making new cells. However mitosis results in (body cells) and meiosis results in (gametes). The starting cell in both mitosis and meiosis is formed with 2 sets of chromosomes in humans that involves one set of 23 chromosomes from mum and 1 set of 23 chromosomes from dad. Interphase is a part of mitosis and meiosis and it's a very important phase in the cell because it duplicates the chromosomes...
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During the 1960s era racial tension was at its boiling point. On August 28, 1963 American civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, performed a historic speech titled: I have a Dream. His speech was vigorous, dominant and also compelling throughout due to his hallucinatory use of rhetoric persuasion. Rhetoric persuasion is abundant throughout his eminent speech which helped convince a congregation to take in the message he was propelling. Martin Luther King was very successful with the deliverance of his...
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Uber Business Model connects and manages a network of drivers who offers the services and passengers (demand) through a technology platform that offers cheaper transportation through a phone application. The business model is also referred to as multi sided platform business that uses a platform has revolutionized urban transportation. In order to access Uber services, you need a uber app installed in your mobile phone and once the app is opened, you can enter the destination which enables to locate...
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Quindlen, Anna.” Stuff is not salvation”. She argues that people waste their money on unnecessary things, stuff can temporally bring happiness and satisfaction. The author explains to her audience some interesting assertions about the consumer culture. Quindlen explains to the reader why stuff do not bring real happiness. I agree with some of the author’s points to an extent, people need to stop wasting their money on unnecessary crap. However, the weakness of the article is the absence of evidence....
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Some people say they have dreams that feet like it are real. Make sure that you don’t have any typos. There is always a gap between reality and illusion. That is exactly what Peyton Farquhar did in the short story, “ An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge”, by Ambrose Bierce. Throughout the story, Bierce uses examples of foreshadowing, preternatural plot elements and imagery. In the short story “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce.fragment The first thing Bierce...
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The story 'A Worn Path begins in December with an ancient black woman strolls through a pine forest. Her name is Phoenix Jackson. She is wearing a red cloth tied around her head, her shoes are unlaced, and her face has “numberless branching wrinkles.” Phoenix’s age and poverty are highlighted through these descriptions The cane both aids her physically and acts as a rather useless weapon against the natural dangers she knows she might come across in her journey along...
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Equity - the quality of being fair and impartial. Equality - the state if being equal especially in status, rights, and opportunities. To elaborate on the differences between the two, equity means fairness, but not necessarily meaning it is equal. For example, there are three guys. An eight year old, fifteen year old and a 45 year old. They all want to look over the fence to watch the dogs play in the field. There are three crates. To have...
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Civil Engineering is the plan and development of open works, for example, dams, spans and other enormous foundation ventures. It is perhaps the most established part of designing, going back to when individuals first began living in quite a while and started forming their surroundings to suit their needs. When engineering began, Engineers constructed dividers, streets, extensions, dams and levees; they burrowed wells, water system discard and channels. As bigger gatherings of individuals started living respectively in towns and urban...
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Homeostasis is the self-regulatory system within human body and it also exists in animals’ body as well. It aims on maintaining the internal condition within one’s body, according to Betts et al (2017). Homeostasis is particularly significant in one’s body, as the failure of the homeostasis in one’s body might cause different kinds of disease, for example diabetes in human. According to the NHS (2019) the cause of diabetes is due to the insulin in the pancreas fail to regulate...
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It’s true for any writer that there will be influence occurring from the world around them in their work. This is especially true for Mary Shelley when she wrote her novel, Frankenstien. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can easily be paralleled to much of the work of Shelley’s novel. This parallel could possibly be attributed to Mary Shelley’s love for the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge during her time. One of these mentioned parallels is man’s...
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In The Turn of The Screw, Henry James presents the darkness of human nature through the use of ambiguity; the vagueness of the plot and the unreliability of the narrator which makes it difficult to distinguish between what is good and what is evil, however, the darkness of human nature is definitely present through the characters of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel in their attempts in corrupting the children. The governess represents “the good” through the role she plays as...
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Sociological perspectives help us explain and predict the world we live in. Ferrante (2016, 25) defines sociological perspective as “a framework for thinking about, describing, and explaining how human activities are organized and how people relate to one another and respond to their surroundings.” Sociology has three major sociological perspective, 1) factionalism, 2) symbolic interaction, and 3) conflict. Each perspective gives us explanation about how we socialize and behave. Functionalist Perspective Functionalist theorist believe that every single part of society...
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Kurt Vonnegut's short story, Harrison Bergeron, features the dangers of government control combined with individuals' obliviousness. Vonnegut proceeds to foresee the aftereffects of such a move. The most striking topic is that of absence of opportunity in American culture. Vonnegut likewise explains how loss of social equality is getting with Americans. What is the consequence of all these? There is a high likelihood that America will wind up in an oppressed world. In outline, Vonnegut discusses how loss of opportunity...
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the most important documents in the 20th century that has been translated into different languages that aims to spell out the right of a human person about what he/she is entitled to. Upon reading the articles, I actually had a hard time choosing given that I should base on their relevance. Our country is suffering from different issues like corruption, killings, drugs, violations, inequality, stereotyping, and many more. These are the...
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The story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl is an extremely gruesome story of Mary Maloney, who kills her own husband by hitting him with a solidified leg of lamb and after that concealing her wrongdoing and discarding the proof by cooking the lamb and feeding it to the policeman who come to examine the murder. The opening scene emphasizes both the “duality” (everything is doubled) of the setting and its emptiness. Like the Maloneys’ marriage, Mary is the...
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What is drug trafficking? Drug trafficking is a black market that trades drugs within cross-border cooperation. Drug trafficking also working together with other sorts of crime. Ultimately fueled by the economic principle of supply and demand in a world where there is a high demand for illicit substances that cannot be obtained through any legal means. Hence, this essay will discuss the three causes of drug trafficking (UNODC, 2010). Introduction One of the main reasons for drug trafficking is demand....
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Throughout chapter 8, Fitzgerald compares the past with the present. Gatsby is trying to recreate his past-recalling his history and memories with Daisy, allows Nick to understand the depth of love he still has for Daisy. But after the accident, Daisy has been loyal only to Tom represents the end of Gatsby’s happiness. Symbolism Fitzgerald states, “I waited, and about four o’clock she came to the window and stood there for a minute and then turned out the light.” Throughout...
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American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang is a phenomenal graphic novel addressing self-acceptance, racist stereotyping, and identity. Not to mention, Gene Luen Yang blew my socks off with a brilliant intertwining of three rather unconnectable storylines. Gene Luen Yang tackles the negative stereotypes of a Chinese- American head-on, illustrating Chin-Kee to possesses the physical stereotypical qualities of a Chinese person. Including small eyes, two large teeth, and yellow skin. In addition to these, he carries non-mannered and uncivilized qualities...
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a timeless classic in feminist literature because it features many crucial themes that deal with issues women of that time and often times even today face such as the importance of self-expression, mental illness being misunderstood or even ignored, and the danger that gender roles pose to women’s self-identity. Gilman accomplishes this by criticizing the traditional gender roles that were imposed on women in the late nineteenth century, which is when the...
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In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story, 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” sudden guest descends from the sky, and appears to test the confidence of a town. The townspeople have a troublesome time making sense of exactly how the elderly person with wings fits into their lives. Since this character doesn't fit with their idea of what an angel is supposed to resemble, they attempt to decide whether the old man could really be an angel. In attempting to...
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The philosophical perspective of virtue ethics, specifically, eudaimonistic virtue ethics stipulates that man is innately virtuous. Virtuous traits are those of robust quality, such as kindness, generosity, and honesty - to name just a few; these are foundational traits that concern virtue ethics and lead to predictably good behavior. They are derived from inherent internal tendencies, which at first must be trained through natural experience. This is to say, the individual must learn what it is to be virtuous between...
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Croatia has many different regions and there are many stereotypes attached to each region. Also throughout the history many people left a tiny bit of an influence on Croatian culture, language and habits. So Croatia has a really great background for making all kinds of stereotypes and jokes. Some of them are quite rude but most of them are really funny. A TYPICAL DALMATIAN Dalmatia is full of stereotypes, of course, the funny ones. The first things that comes to...
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“Generations of Americans considered the United States to be a land of opportunity,” says New York University sociology professor Michael Hout. If this is so, then why are Black and Latino people in the US still less likely to feel represented in politics and pop culture? Your circumstances at birth are the biggest factors in how far you get in life. With this in mind, many Americans are shifting how they view the American dream. Racial tensions, income inequality, and...
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The poem “Beowulf” is an epic poem. One of the characters in the poem is named Grendel. Some people might think that Grendel is a monster, a wicked man, or a symbol of immortality. However, in my opinion, I think that Grendel really is a monster. Grendel is a descendant of Cain and is described as a grim demon who terrorizes the Danes. Grendel waits until after nightfall and then goes to see how the Danes were settling in, and...
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Introduction “Weather” is defined as the the condition of the atmosphere at a specific space and time as regards heat, dryness, wind, rain, etc. over a short time frame, whereas “climate” refers to the weather data of a place over a longer period to yield meaningful averages.”Global Change” means alterations in the Earth. A Brief History Man has always aspired to predict about the weather conditions. In the past, astrologers studied stars and dreams to predict weather and much more....
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In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir goes through a lot. But he learns that you can be forgiven for things you have done. Amir gets to have another chance at life to make things right for good. In doing so he gets redemption. At the beginning of the novel, Amir lacks the courage to stand up for himself. By the end of the novel, Amir is motivated by feelings of guilt to seek redemption by saving Sohrab. At...
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