The majority of the innovations across the human history have been constrained by the functions they performed. However, the smartphone exceeds these limitations. It has become more than just a gadget but also a companion. This essay will argue that the comprehensive adoption of smartphones by most people is a cause for concern. It will discuss the negative effects of excessive smartphone use on the body, such as its physical and psychological effects that outweighs its benefits. Firstly, the psychological...
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The principles of servant leadership predominately have the central interest in one’s personal growth in order to achieve their fullest potential and capability. Personal development is a vital part in a person's growth, maturity, success, prosperity and happiness which is what servant-leadership focuses on. The servant-leader aims to improve and maintain the well-being of people. A servant-leaders should obtain certain principles in order to be a prime example for others including, the ability to share leadership and responsibilities, selflessness and...
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Over the course of my life, leading to the day I wrote this essay, numerous opportunities came my way, some of which I seized by the horn and many of which I look back and wish I had. Looking back at all the events I took part in where I won recognition, it’s hard not to think about all those missed opportunities and events that I chose not to participate in. Now we have ourselves a bunch of achievements and...
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Many people believe that they know how to detect deception. They rely on nonverbal cues or actions that often speak louder than words. Indeed, there are body language signals that can help determine if a person is telling the real story. It is often believed that you can tell if the person is honest or not by looking at his eyes. If he looks straight in the eye, he is presumed honest. However, there have been instances where nonverbal cues...
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I am writing with the view to expressing my interest in exchange program in IT field at IUBH (University of Applied Sciences) University. As I have been involved in this area of study, both learning other countries’ experience in the field of IT (Information Technology) and making best use of it in my future career are very crucial for me. The exchange program which our university is offering is certainly what I have always wanted and it meets my all...
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According to Milliken and Martins (1996) there are four types of effects of diversity on organization: affective, cognitive, symbolic and communicative. The affective effects relate to satisfaction, identification and involvement, perception of discrimination and social integration, role conflict and role ambiguity. In diverse organization all employees are working with people of a different gender or ethnicity, which can carry negative emotions. This effect can be explained by the phenomenon of ‘homophony’. It refers to the fact that people are attracted...
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If there is one thing all Americans can agree on, it is that the government is slow acting. Too slow acting, almost like it doesn’t do anything, and when it does something, it is not the right thing (even till this today). The easiest answer to the problem of the government's inefficiency is to place the blame on a person or branch of the government, such as the President, Congress, or Senate. However, what most Americans either do not remember...
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Contemporary Feminist Theory is a generalized, wide-ranging system of ideas about social life and human experience developed from a woman centered perspective. Working to describe and critically evaluate the world from the distinctive vantage points of women, Feminism investigates the various situations of women in everyday society. With a history of influencers including Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Marianne Weber, Harriet Martineau, and Patricia Hill-Collins, women in history were labelled as activists rather than sociologists. Intending to discredit their education as...
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Student loan debt is one of the biggest problems in the United States at the moment. There are 1.6 trillion dollars of debt in the country and 44 million are in debt. That's an average of $36,364 per person. College debt only started in the 80s and it grew very rapidly when President Ronald Reagan made cuts to social programs. Today, student loan debts are persistent because of lack of funding from the state governments. Student loan debt is a...
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Although the human body is made up of many different tissues, they are all based on cells. Tens of thousands of chemicals in these cells are responsible for the growth, repair and health of the human body and the energy they need. Proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, etc., are needed for the body's growth, repair, and health. The body derives these from the food you eat. The body needs oxygen and oxygen to get the energy it needs to perform other...
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Today almost half of the world's population is using the Internet, and that number is increasing every second. The public, governments, forces, businesses, airlines, industries, educational institutions, the media, there is no other sector in the world that does not rely on the Internet. What if the Internet of the world shuts down for a day? The answer to this question may surprise you. It's not inconceivable to happen. The Internet can be interrupted by cyber-attacks on a national or...
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The Bank of England is the prestigious and incredibly old central bank for the United Kingdom. The country founded this model central bank in 1694 to promote the good of the individuals in the U.K. through maintaining both monetary as well as financial stability. The bank is often affectionately referred to as the ‘Old Lady’ of Threadneedle Street. The bank of England carries out the first part of its mission of maintaining monetary stability quite literally. Not only does it...
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Amazon is a company that sells items globally online, for a decent price, for customers who are interested in buying products from their website. Amazon is a large business with over 250 and more employees, this means that the business is extremely popular. Amazon is a public limited company, this means they want to gain profit by being a public limited company. By being a public limited company amazon can offer shares to the general public. The benefits of Amazon...
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In the 1800’s, despite the fact that Social Work did not exist as such, Jane Addams (born in 1860), was illustrated as a feminist and activist, she believed in her own instincts and learned from her past experiences when with working with individuals who had desperate and complex needs for high quality care due to their current situations. Because of this she was most recognised as the ‘Mother’ of Social Work. Jane was inspired to recreate Toynbee, the world's first...
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Like most scholarship questions, I had to think long and hard about how to answer this question. In my belief, I should be considered for the Mother Clarice Baldwin Scholarship because I am a strong academic student, I am in good standing with my church, and school is more than just a waste of time for me. I finished my high school years as a second honors student with a GPA of 3.6. This was difficult for me because I...
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My name is Susan Saranya Jacob and I am a 9th grader from the Plymouth- Canton Educational Park. I am interested in this program because I want the rigorous, academic challenges that come with it. I am currently enrolled in the International Bachelorette (IB) program at my high school, but I do not feel like the academy or my school has what it takes to prepare me for college. Growing up my family traveled all around the world. When I...
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My name is Shaprie Miller. For starters I would like to say I am very thankful for getting this opportunity to be a candidate to receive this scholarship. This is a great opportunity for myself as well as my family, which means I would benefit from this greatly! People are not always given an opportunity such as this and again I am very thankful. I am a great candidate for this scholarship for various reasons. I would be the first...
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Always Running Essay Many young kids when they are growing up they usually follow their family members' roots. For example when you grow into a gang-affiliated family you are most likely to become a gangster then a successful person. In the book “Always running” by Luis J Rodriguez, family was a big impact throughout the whole book. Family structure is the biggest thing in a young person’s life because it can either affect your future or help your future depending...
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Scholarship opportunities are always designed to reward excellent academic performance and to support the advancement of studies. While the scholarships are offered for almost the same reason, different students have different reasons for applying for scholarships. The reasons are varied depending on factors such as background and professional requirements. While the Tetley and Lupton Scholarships application was the first I have ever had, I applied because I wanted a chance to develop my profession, to gain educational benefits offered by...
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Both Louis XVI and Peter the Great were robust and influential leaders of their time. Louis XVI served as France’s last king between the years 1774 and 1992 in the era correspondent to the time of revolution in France. On the other hand, Peter the Great was a Russian emperor ruling between 1685 and 1725. As rulers, Louis and Peter were focused on achieving remarkable things, and as a result, the two had significant similarities in their goals, although their...
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What makes a man a real man? Some might say that kayaking down a river rapids makes you a man. Others might say that supporting your family makes you a man. Which one is it? The rapids? The support? Both? In Man Mission, author Eytan Uliel explores this question and others. The story is told in first person. We never learn the narrator’s name. But he and his three best friends, Sam, Daniel, and Eric, take one week out of...
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Is it true that having an obsession with money could lead to making radical decisions? In the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, there is constant decision making on who or whom not to marry. In particular, Petruchio, one of the main characters in the play, is specific about who he marries due to his obsession with money. He says that he will only marry someone if they have lots of money, no matter how they look...
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The point of our constitution: A discursive Essay The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is a powerful but essential legal tool which was required to forge her people into the ‘Rainbow Nation’ that they are apart of today. It is through this tool that South Africa became the diverse, democratic and “ truly free” she is recognised as being today. The South African Bill of Rights is cited by many to be one of the most amazing forms...
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This is a short fictional story about life on the planet Venus where it rains continuously day in day out. The sun disappeared five years ago, and the children are anticipating seeing the sun. The nine-year-old children do no really remember how the sun looked like because they were still too young. The scientists had predicted that the sun was going to come out after all those years but only for a brief moment. These children carry out a lot...
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“Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy’s unpreparedness, travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has no precautions.” (Sun & Griffith,1964) In a war, speed is the key that leads us toward victory. Alibaba group effectively apply the speed strategy to their daily business operations. Alibaba invests in AI (artificial intelligence) technologies since few years ago to speed up some trivial process for example quality and quantity control, classification of goods and so on....
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You are a sibling, cousin, child, grandchild, partner, niece or nephew, aunt or uncle, friend. Your life means something in this world. Imagine that you decided to go out, have a good time, one thing led to another and… Now you’re dead. Your ‘friend’ was driving, it was in the middle of nowhere and now the car is totalled. He had time before the ambulance came. Time to pull your dead body into the driver’s seat because he survived and...
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18 months between my uncle's wedding and his funeral. March 13, 2016, was my Uncle Eric's wedding. September 2, 2017, was my Uncle Eric's funeral. The service for both events was held in the congregation of the Apostolic Faith Home Assembly in Gardena, California owned by his older brother, Marcus. In April of 2017, he was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme or 'GBM' for short, and was told he had a few months to live at the most. The initial feelings...
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Christmas uplifts the spirit and brings joy every month of December. It is one of the most awaited and highlighted seasons of the year. A magical time for every family to bond, dine and have a great fun and feast together. My Christmas vacation has always been great although it has been years since we’ve spend it together as one. Most of our family members are working abroad, which makes it hard for them to come home in this kind...
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I have not prepared for life or even college in the most traditional manner: I didn’t always have a place to call home, I didn’t have happily married parents, I didn’t have a town that I could grow up in; rather I lived in and out of different homes, I was raised by a single mother, and moved to a new school every year (sometimes more). But, I was also born with everything: a mother that loved me, people who...
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Apocalyptic thought was an important part of religious reform among Christians in early medieval times. Apocalypse in the Middle Ages made a distinctive impact of ideas about time, power, and evil in church and society. Radical preaching, crusading, and prophetic traditions expressed apocalyptic ideas through class in the Middle Ages. The endtime framed a crucial part of the medieval mental landscape. (Baumgartner 56) “The true Church consisted of those who followed the apostolic life, in poverty and simplicity; love of...
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