...The Reluctant Fundamentalist suggest that nostalgia is more harmful than fundamentalism. To what extent is this true? Mohsin Hamid’s novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, depicts the dangers of both nostalgia and fundamentalism. One would presume that fundamentalism especially that which leads to militant terrorism, would, without doubt, have far more devastating consequences than nostalgia. Yet Hamid forces his readers to consider how nostalgia can be destructive for individuals and nations and if not kept in check and how it can contribute to and exacerbate feelings and emotions. Hamid is warning his readers not to be complacent about nostalgia. Just like, fundamentalism, it is capable of irreparable damage. Nostalgia is harmful for the individual if one becomes obsessed with the past. When the present is a struggling, the future is a murky place, people often look back into the beautiful and happy past. Such feeling can become irresistible, like “crack cocaine”. The dangerous situation that Hamid points out is Erica’s love for Chris. So wonderful the past of Erica with Chris beside was that she can never forgets him and keeps pulling herself into the world, where they live happily with together. “A guy with long, skinny fingers” becomes her home, where she feels she belongs. That is why, often, “she was utterly detached, lost in her own world”, seeming “otherworldly”. “She was disappearing into a powerful nostalgia”. Her own story, her own way of drowning into the past is...
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...Introduction Cancer—a destructive, crippling disease known to affect the most innocent of victims. It is horrifying; the agony every patient endures trying to fight off the vicious disease is excruciating. Countless patients will be told there is no cure—leaving them hopeless. Not only are these innocent human beings suffering from the physical side effects of their illness, but now they are suffering psychologically with the acceptance of what their future may entail. Alzheimer’s—a form of dementia that worsens over time to eventually eliminate the intellectual abilities of the human brain. Also like cancer, there is no cure; however, there is still hope in creating a better quality of life for these victims through the use of musical therapy....
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...Reflective Journal #2 Topic: BDSM 1. What did you learn today? I recalled the first time I encounter the term ‘SM’ is when I accidentally got a wax burn on skin in Mid-Autumn Festival. My friends joked about it and said it was a kind of ‘SM’. Public knowledge on BDSM is only confined to Sadism where practitioners inflict pain on others in order to get sexual pleasure. After this session, however, I realized there are a broad variety of practices under BDSM such as bondage and role-playing with one being dominant and another being submissive. Those are activities that are not necessarily involving physical pain. BDSM is an umbrella term for many practices other than just sadism. They are all regarded as ‘kinky’ sexual behavior but they all have one thing in common - the utter emphasis on safety. The guiding principle in BDSM community includes safe, sane and consensual. Majority of people associate BDSM with violence, dangerous and self-destructive activity. On the contrary, they place a lot of importance on safety issues. Thorough communication about the medical condition, limits and preference need to be conducted before engaging in the activity. Safe words have also be developed in the community – for example, green to mean ‘Okay’ or even ‘More’, yellow to mean ‘Slow down’ and red to mean ‘Stop the scene immediately’. As BDSM is somewhat very private in bed, whether normal or kinky, it can however lead to legal consequences even though it is performed in consensual manner...
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...on his voyage to home. He strengthens his argument by the dichotomous nature of Marcus Antony and Appius Claudius, where the former became the victim and the latter was the victor of this passion because, “love can find entrance not only into an open heart, but also a heart well fortified, if watch be not well kept." Bacon’s notion can be treated as a perception not as a rule to sentry emotions. According to him, Marcus Antonius, cohort of Appius Cladius, who was an “Austere and wise man”, was infiltrated by an astute passion because his “watch was not well kept”. Bacon is convinced that “Great spirits and great business do keep this weak passion”. But may we infer that Antonius was a "greater" man than Claudius because he held a seat of power and yet also loved? Bacon refutes Epicurian notion that “Satris magnum…. Summs” means human beings should be content with studying one another. Reason is the highest virtue given to a man for higher purpose in life while love diminishes all the rational faculty of mind and confined his capabilities within a frame of a lover. The image of a free man as a coherent...
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...The Toxic Workplace Organizational Behaviour Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the inter-relationship of incivility and toxicity, how bullies are able to become toxic managers, and how they are allowed to develop in a toxic organization. We also analyze the development of organizational pain and how toxin handlers deal it with. Finally, we hope to assess if there is any validity to claims that ‘Generation Z’ is responsible for the recent prevalence of workplace toxicity. What is a toxic workplace? Overview of Toxicity: “Violence, aggression, bullying, tyranny, harassment, deviance, and injustice …” (Cortina 2001), the ‘magnificent seven’ anti-socialites comprising Workplace Toxicity. A relatively new field of study, the idea of workplace toxicity develops from the impact of bullying, and the emotional consequences it has on the organization. There has been surging interest over the past two decades on the cause and effect of bullying in the workplace (Rayner, 2002); and an ever-growing number of studies, since Leymann in 1990, would suggest that interest in this field may be attributed to the increase of disgruntled employees and employee violence which became prevalent in 1986 (the USPS incident in Edmond, Oklahoma). “There are three inevitable results of toxic workplaces: Poor Performance, Severe Health Issues, and the Loss of Talented Employees. “(Amy Scholten) A toxic workplace can be essentially summed up as any organization...
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...creates has influenced the lives of many and shows the grim image of the future. The Hunger Games teaches many important messages associated with modern society. It includes warnings of dangers such as, mass media taking control, the importance of appearance and inequality between the rich and the poor. First, The Hunger Games discusses the control that Capitol media has on the districts of Panem. For example, the games themselves show how much power the Capitol has amongst the people. The emotional pain these districts have to go through...
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...students, teachers, and faculty. It was reported that on Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 15 year old Amanda Todd of Port Coquitlam, Canada apparently committed suicide after being subjected to bullying on and offline. Amanda was a sophomore at Coquitlam Alternate Basic Education High School. When Amanda was in the 7th grade a man coerced her into flashing him on her web camera (Grenoble). A year later the man contacted her via Facebook and threatened that he would send the topless photo to everyone she knew if she did not “put on a show” for him on her webcam. Through the power of the internet he had been able to access her personal information, including that of her friends and relatives. Amanda refused his request and the photo was forwarded. All of Amanda’s friends turned on her and began to bully her. When the bullying became unbearable she changed schools in an effort to alleviate the emotional pain. At this point Amanda had developed anxiety, depressions and substance abuse problems. The online stalker was relentless and created a Facebook profile using her topless photograph. When people in her new school saw the profile, Amanda lost all her “friends” again...
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...Chapter 1: Evaluate this chapter’s definition of communication: What are its strengths? In my opinion, the strength of the definition may be one of the simplest aspects; the aspect that communication requires a sender and receiver. Without having someone that is coherent to what you are communicating; the sender is only disposing of information. What are its weaknesses? Personally I would identify communication producing a state of unity as a weakness. Communication can also be used between different groups or people(s) to distinct themselves from one another. Also, it is possible when information is shared and comprehended, both the sender and receiver still may choose to have different beliefs. Thus the phrase “agree to disagree”. If you were asked to improve it in one way, by adding, subtracting, or modifying something, what would you change? The text mentions communication being a “transmission of meaningful information”. If possible, I would remove meaningful from the text. Reason being, is sometimes when we communicate the information we may possibly receive may not be “meaningful” at that particular moment. However, as things and times progress someone may find a past conversation very useful. Recall an incident in which you or an acquaintance experienced a communication breakdown because of a verbal or non-verbal linguistic barrier: There was an incident at work between myself and a co-worker that involved a communication breakdown due to a verbal barrier...
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...predominantly high in the character-based perspective. As this inventory states, “Good people demonstrate good actions” (The Williams Institute for Ethics and Management, 2012). I believe the basis for this ethical perspective comes from the fact that I was raised in and still practice Christianity. “The process of living out one’s values is more important than the outcome of a decision” (The Williams Institute for Ethics and Management, 2012). I don’t know that I would consider this to be true of myself. I had a negative number in the results perspective. As an entrepreneur I do value results. I have owned businesses before where I had to let employees go because they negatively affected the bottom-line. I knew that if I allowed the current arrangement to continue the entire business would close and everyone would be out of a job not just the employee who role was no longer a contribution to the bottom-line. That being said I would never make a decision that was dishonest, deceptive or intestinally destructive to anyone for self-preservation. The section of the EAI that identified frustrations are both accurate and ridiculous. The ridiculous is from the foundational pre-supposition that “not everyone has an equal opportunity to develop virtues” (The Williams Institute for Ethics and Management, 2012). While it’s true that I do sometimes get frustrated that not everyone shares my values it’s not because people lack opportunity. I am frustrated because our culture down-plays virtue...
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...et.al., 2001). Doyal (1998) argues on nurses and others medical practitioner is doing physician’s work, which has involved the creation of new roles. As described by Nancarow & Borthwick (2005), the nurses have an opportunity to identify a new role in getting change within their expertise boundary. This paper will explore, discuss and critically analyze on the impact on professional roles on crossing professional boundary that often occur in my practice performs task which is suppose done by anesthetic physicians. The issues that I am going to debates here is on my daily activities, cross professional boundary of preparing, diluting and administering the intrathecal opiate drugs. Occasionally, most of the time, the boundaries usually consider that is not clear issues, whether right or wrong. It depends on a lot of factors and required careful of thinking through of all the issue. Health professionals are individual who...
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...Your Heart Issues Finder Result You may want to print the 12 pages of Results by using your browser's print capability Or by clicking the "print" button. ------------------------------------------------- Początek formularza | | Dół formularza ------------------------------------------------- Początek formularza | | Dół formularza Your Overall Score is 175 out of a possible 300Your Scaled Score is -1 on a scale of -10 to +10 Your Overall Score is 175 out of a possible 300Your Scaled Score is -1 on a scale of -10 to +10Life is a struggle! Sometimes you’re up and sometimes you’re down. You experience love, joy, and peace but also struggle with anxiety, sadness, and irritation. You will recognize certain categories of this test as being wonderful strengths, while others are a life long battle. By healing the issues of your heart you can reach the place you have been longing for, where your strengths get better and your weak areas become stable. You can be freed from the daily grind.In the area of Unforgiveness, you scored 5Your Scaled Score is -10 on a scale of -10 to +10You tend to feel that others have hurt you and you carry grudges and lingering bitterness towards them. You may not want to or feel that you can forgive them. You also may not feel that you can forgive yourself. Forgiveness is the foundation for an abundant life of love, joy and peace. You can release the negative emotions that come with unforgiveness and live in peace and joy.In the...
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...1970’s. The research focuses on five different unorthodox religions: The People’s Temple, founded by Jim Jones, Heaven’s Gate, founded by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, Scientology, founded by L. Ron Hubbard, Children of God, founded by David Berg, and Branch Davidians, founded by David Koresh. Langone, M. D. (1995). These five unorthodox religions or cults may have had or have different doctrines and practices, but research shows that they may all share the common trait of being inhumane or unjust. Rationale/Thesis Statement In the International Cultic Studies Association article, by Dole and Eichel (1985), a survey was conducted about dangerous practices associated with cults and referenced different actions that they deemed destructive, from coercion to enslavement, which they believe to be inhumane and unjust. This research study will attempt to uncover some of these practices and find out what draws people to these unorthodox religions or cults. Likewise, this research project also attempts to determine the point at which practices become inhumane or unjust. It’s interesting to note, that three out of the five unorthodox religions or cults included in this research were started in the mid-1950’s, at around the time of frequent U.F.O. sightings in the southwest United States. “And I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside each cherub, and the appearance of the wheels was like sparkling beryl. And as for their appearance, the four...
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...The pursuit of knowledge carried on by scientists for the past several centuries has produced results over which opinion is sharply divided. Science, originally intended to conquer and harness the forces of nature for the good of man, is looked upon by some as the chief cause of the suffering of humanity today. On’the other hand, there are a good many people who consider science to be the harbinger of all progress, prosperity and comfort. The contro¬versy has been raging for a long time, though science goes on taking long strides .obviously regardless of the conflicting opinions pro¬nounced on its achievements. Leaders of thought, be they scientists or not, however, occasi¬onally pause and ponder whether science is going the right way and really promoting human welfare. A dispassionate and comprehen¬sive survey of the fruits of scientific advance in the various spheres of human life provides sufficient ground to be sceptical about the claim that science is an unqualified and unmixed blessing to huma¬nity. They have reason to conclude that all is not well with science and its application. Pure science is a relentless search for truth, for the discovery of the laws of nature. As such, no fault finding is possible with pure scientific research. The position, however, changes materially in regard to the application of scientific research in the field of practi¬cal activity. Science is like a sharp sword which can be used for either defending yourself against the enemy or cutting...
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...Administration and Pain Management in the Terminally Ill Cancer Patient: Case study of a patient in the terminal phase of breast cancer. This case study is based on Ms. D, a 48-year-old married woman diagnosed with Bilateral Breast Cancer. She underwent a bilateral mastectomy 4 years ago. Lymph involvement was noted at the time of the surgery. Recent metastases of the bone has been diagnosed and she is in the terminal phase of the disease process. Up to this point, she has been on a regimen of Oxycodone 5 mg P.O. every 6 hours as needed for pain, Zantac 150mg P.O daily for heartburn, Docusate 100mg P.O. twice a day to promote bowel movements, Celexa 40mg PO daily for depression and enteric coated aspirin 81mg PO daily for prophylaxis of transient ischemic attacks and MI. She remains in her home and is receiving care at home. Ms. D has complained recently of significant increased pain and trouble sleeping, most likely due to the bone metastases in the area of the lumbar spine. She has stated that the pain has dramatically decreased her quality of life recently also. She has expressed the desire to remain at home during the terminal phase of her disease, but needs more adequate pain management to preserve her quality of life for as long as possible. She is married and her husband is very loving and supportive of her desire to stay in the home during this phase. He has voiced some concerns about drug dependency if the patient were to receive stronger pain medication. I have...
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...Declaration of Independence, after going through several revisions, was finally finished and was to change the future of the United States. In the document, four ideals are listed, and they all hold individually powerful meanings. The four ideals are unalienable rights, the right to abolish or alter the government, equality, and the consent of the governed. A thought that occurs to many people is: Which of the four ideals acts as the most important ideal in the Declaration of Independence? Of these ideals, unalienable rights and the right to alter or abolish the government are crucial, but the most essential one is the belief of the consent of the governed, because I consider it as the most influential and advantageous...
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