...The Lord of the Rings: From A Sociological Perspective The Lord of the Rings, is a fantasy style movie filmed from 2001 to 2004. It is set in the setting of Middle Earth where Sauron forges a great ring from the fire of Mordor to provoke havoc upon the lands. Frodo, a hobbit from the Shire, is "gifted" the ring of power from his uncle Bilbo, when he stumbled upon the ring from his adventures in his past time. Gandalf the Grey, an old friend of Bilbo, figures out this ring Frodo beholds is the one ring of power and decides the only option is to destroy the ring from where it came from, Mordor. Frodo stumbles upon people who accompany him on the way to Mordor, when they all decide to form a "fellowship" with all the same mission to help Frodo the destroy the ring. This fellowship starts off as a group of mostly strangers to each other in the beginning, but across the three movies they all become a family. (IMDB) They all split up in different ways at the end of the first movie, but each group becomes a family within a family throughout the movie. Enemies become friends, friends make sacrifices for each other, and each "family" serves a purpose for the quest of destroying the ring. I'll explain more in the paper about each "family" and why I'm writing this paper on this movie. While re-watching this whole series from a sociological standpoint, it opened my eyes in a different way. I wasn't just astounded by the acting or directing, but by the whole plot and how it indirectly points...
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...|Vaccine |Material produced from weakened or killed microorganisms to stimulate an immune response and thereby protect the body | | |against infection. | |Transformation |A change in phenotype when bacterial; cells take up foreign genetic material. | | |In 1944 at the Rockefeller Institute, he showed that the activity of the then-unknown material responsible for | |Oswald Avery |transformation was not affected by protein-destroying enzymes. But the activity was stopped by DNA-destroying enzymes. | | |This demosntrated the role of DNA in transformation, because...
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...Running head: SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY PAPER Scientific Discovery Paper On Penicillin Tracey Ann Elledge University of Phoenix, Las Vegas NV Creative Minds and Critical Thinking PHL 458 Cornell Horn, M.A.; M.A. December 01, 2009 Scientific Discovery Paper Penicillin is an antibiotic that destroys bacteria by destroying the cell wall of the microorganism. It does this by inactivating an enzyme necessary for the cross linking of bacterial cell walls. The enzyme is known as the Tran peptidase. It accepts the penicillin as a substrate, it the alkanolates a nucleophilic oxygen of the enzyme, rendering it inactive. Cell wall construction stops and the bacteria soon die. The antibiotic nature of the penicillin so due to the strain lactam ring, on opening the ring strain is relieved this makes penicillin more reactive than ordinary amides. Before penicillin a simple pinprick or tiny cut could have been lethal. There are so many people easily catching infections that would rage out of control. Children died regularly from scarlet fever, from infections of the bones, throat, stomach or, brain. Many of us would not be here today had it not been for the discovery of penicillin. In 1928, Alexander Fleming made a chance discovery from an already discarded, contaminated Petri dish. The mold that had contaminated the experiment turned out to contain powerful antibiotic, penicillin. However, though Fleming was credited with the discovery, it was over a decade...
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...the United States and the Soviets had their stock piles of nuclear warheads pointed and ready to be launched in response to an attack. The question this paper will be answering is, ‘what event was the trigger behind this near catastrophic situation?’ Although there is no specific event that all historians agree upon the cause of the Cold War, a Soviet cipher clerk who defected to Canada and exposing the Soviet spy ring in North America is largely credited as the man who start the Cold War. To determine whether a cipher clerk can single-handedly start the largest confrontation between...
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...in tension) embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees, or it is defined more broadly to include the same type of tissue elsewhere such as in the roots of trees or shrubs. In a living tree it performs a support function, enabling woody plants to grow large or to stand up by them. It also mediates the transfer of water and nutrients to the leaves and other growing tissues. Wood may also refer to other plant materials with comparable properties, and to material engineered from wood, or wood chips or fiber. However, various microorganisms attack woody trees since they are ubiquitous and this effect leads to the detrimental deterioration of wood. This paper would discuss the different microorganisms that affect woody trees, the...
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...to face communication is fading by the frequency of texting, not merely in the sense that they speak is becoming abbreviated but the focus associated with talking is becoming distracted and scarce. BACKGROUND: “From a survey 800 American young people between ages 12 and17 regarding their use of mobile phones . The researchers report that half of the teens were sending 50 or more messages a day , with older teenage girls sending an average of 100 messages daily”. (Chin, Jen, Fan, 2013). Clearly, text messaging on mobile phones is an important element in the lives of many American teenagers, though voice calls remain part of their communication patterns as well. Even before the epidemic of mobile phone use in the U.S. , international research documents the pervasive use of mobile phones by teenagers and young adults in other parts of the world. Cell phones have permitted Americans to travel with technology everywhere they go. Mobile phones are quickly growing technology all over...
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...Boson What is Higgs Boson? What is Higgs Boson? Higgs Boson, the “God Particle” as coined by Leon Lederman back in 1993, is the particle that made up the Higgs Field. The Higgs Field is the energy field that permeated the entire universe, according to Dr. Peter Higgs. For example, our entire universe is covered with snowfield and we know that what makes up a snowfield is a snowflake. The same way it goes with the Higgs field; it is made up of Higgs Boson (Ellis, 2013). The Higgs Boson or the Higgs Particle is the very first elementary particle that does not spin at all; it has no electric charge, nor color charge. It was officially announced to the public last year (2012), 4th of the month of July at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. Their discovery was confirmed as the Higgs boson on March 14 this year, bringing to an end to a 50-year search. The discovery of the Higgs Boson is very important because it is said to be the missing link in our understanding of the universe, known as the Standard Model. It has also led to Professor Higgs becoming the only person ever to have a fundamental particle named after him. (Wilson, 2013).It was regarded as the “God Particle” before but many physicists did not like the way it was called. Results to Results to More Interaction to the Higgs Field More mass More Interaction to the Higgs Field More mass Every time a...
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...INTRODUCTION Gadgets are important to the society. They are man-made technology that is highly accessed by this generation. It is said that electronics gadgets modifies the world. This will show the true power of electronically gadgets. There are many types of gadgets. The gadgets that are usually used by students are smart phones, tablets, televisions, laptops, computers, X-box and kinect. The researchers picked this topic because technology has gotten more attention than the studies of the students of this generation. They would like to know what would be the reason why the youth is more interested in gadgets than their academic performance and the knowledge and skills that they would develop in school. They want to know what they could gain from using gadgets and what they will lose in using these objects. They would also like to be informed about what the changes in behavior and thinking that could affect the growth of a student. They want to asses if the spread of technology would become a distraction or a help to a student. The investigators were appealed to the topic because gadgets are now able to provide easier access to information and educational advantages. Gadgets get the attention of the students because of its engrossing and fascinating presentations of information. This also helps the parents who are unaware of the effects of gadgets to their child’s study. Overuse of gadgets may result to interference with the student determination and ability to learn. Technology...
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...Health Insurance Fraud By: WAHEED ALKHAMEES KHALED ALNAFEE Further Issues Hospital Administration PA 551 Master of Health and Hospital Administration (Parallel) King Saud University One:- Introduction Definition Insurance is the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another in exchange for payment. It is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss. An insurer, or insurance carrier, is a company selling the insurance; the insured, or policyholder, is the person or entity buying the insurance policy. The amount of money to be charged for a certain amount of insurance coverage is called the premium. Risk management, the practice of appraising and controlling risk, has evolved as a discrete field of study and practice. The transaction involves the insured assuming a guaranteed and known relatively small loss in the form of payment to the insurer in exchange for the insurer's promise to compensate (indemnify) the insured in the case of a financial (personal) loss. The insured receives a contract, called the insurance policy, which details the conditions and circumstances under which the insured will be financially compensated. Types of Insurance Services Insurance can take a number of different forms. Some of these types: Auto insurance Auto insurance protects the policyholder against financial loss in the event of an incident involving a vehicle they own, such as...
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...Gabriel Hawking Egotism, Manichaeism and Aestheticism. How Can Emotional Addiction Transpose the Realm of Substance Addiction? Part 1: The Intro Addiction The ego and Manichaeism Whenever one thinks about addiction it is always in the context of a substance or a lifestyle. The online dictionary describes addiction as the : “ compulsive need for and use of a habitforming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by welldefined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal; broadly persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the : user to be harmful” However in some cases there have been texts that break this mold and show addiction to centre around not a single activity but a way of being. Some characters are defined by their addictions because the object of their addiction is none other than themselves and their lives. Both the characters of Krapp Krapp’s Last Tape in by Samuel Beckett and Dorian Grey A Picture of Dorian Grey in can be defined as being addicted to their lives and their ways of life.The ego was one of the topics described by Freud as a part of three the Id, the Ego and the Superego. According to Freud’s studies: "Id is the dark, inaccessible part of our personality... It is filled with energy reaching it from the instincts, but it has no organisation, produces no collective will, but only a striving to bring about the sa...
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...Megan Leckington, and Chris Morris 1 Abstract: In today’s day and age, most everyone in our society has and uses a cell phone. Most of those who use cell phones also use the SMS text messaging that these phones feature. This study takes a look at some of the effects and potential problems arising from the use of this text messaging. A survey of students and instructors at Lane Community College found that 70% of those surveyed believed that texting had harmful effects on students writing skills. However, studies that were analyzed found that texting is actually beneficial. While 54% of teenagers text others on a daily basis only 33% of teenagers talk to others face-to-face, yet it is too early in research to draw a conclusion on whether texting is harmful to their social skills. Most people know that text messaging while driving is very dangerous, yet the studies analyzed as well as the surveys conducted show that some people are still willing to take that risk. Table of Contents: Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………….1 Table of Contents………………………………………………………………………….1 List of Figures……………………………………………………………………………...1 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………..2 Methodology……………………………………………………………………………….2 Participants………………………………………………………………………………...2 Results…………………………………………………………………………………..3-18 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………..19 References………………………………………………………………………………....
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...Causes of Global Warming Introduction Scientists have pieced together a record of Earth’s climate that is dating back hundreds of thousands of years and in some cases millions or thousands of millions of years by analyzing a number of indirect measures of tree rings, pollen remains, ice cores and glacier lengths among other features. Research indicates that natural causes are not responsible for the most observed warming and that since the mid-20th century, human activities have become the dominant causes of that warming (Haldar, 2014). In this context, there is going to be an analysis of the main contributors to global warming in the modern day. Major Pollutants Causing Global Warming Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel The global population has become addicted to the use of electricity both at the domestic and the industrial level. The society has become over-reliant on electricity as a source of energy to a level where the government and private firms have had their commitments when it comes to massive production and consumption of electricity. The society’s increasing addition to electricity from coal-burning power plants has been responsible for the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Increased releases of carbon dioxide via this mechanism is going to help in the depletion of the ozone layer in the atmosphere thus exposing the world to increased global warming that is going to facilitate climatic changes that are fatal for the future generations...
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...that works. Take the case of Charlotte Figi, who I met in Colorado. She started having seizures soon after birth. By age three she was having 300 a week, despite being on seven different medications. Medical marijuana has calmed her brain, limiting her seizures to 2 to 3 times per month.” (Gupta) As you can see, marijuana clearly makes a big difference in some peoples lives. Specifically, those who are epileptics. Imagine if medical marijuana was not available to this patient. She would still suffer multiple seizures a day with no end in sight. Countless other cases similar to Charlottes have been observed over the years on the quest for legalization. Legalizing marijuana so we can reap the medical benefits makes sense. The research is there to back up claims of medicinal value and facts show states are agreeing. “Eighteen states have already made medical marijuana legal and 10 others are currently considering legislation to legalize medical marijuana, according to the National Cannabis Industry Association.” (Fairchild) If states are already connecting the dots on the benefits of medical marijuana, then you would think they could see the benefits in legalizing recreational marijuana as...
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...Introduction One of the remarkable transitions in Cambodia began in 1993. It was the economic reform switching from planned-economic to open-free economic market. Since ever, Cambodia gradually boosts the national economy by allowing private possessions and foreign investment. This is a signal of democracy in the nation. To be a democratic country, such rights and freedom must be given to the masses. It is well-known that people want to be equal before the laws and live in a happy life. However, one barrier to newly democratic country—Cambodia—is the citizens. More than half of the Cambodian population is under a poverty line, meaning they are insufficient not only in property but also in education. This situation is not good enough for Cambodians to get influence from the world. Being connected with globalization, Cambodia demands a higher standard and a good quality of production. Among those marketing competition, the most attractive and popular product is high-tech materials. Again, the other half of population might be able to afford such materials in order to live in the society. The society is affected by materialism, which considers possessions more important than values, and its effects range from psychological to economic. Materialism is sometimes used as a status symbol, causing people to purchase items they cannot afford, simply to fit in with an affluent crowd, or to keep up with the people around them. Materialism, although a motivating force in today's world...
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...deciding to kick-out Thorsten Heins and replaced him with John Chen as their new CEO in November 2013 to act as change agent transforming the company. With expertise, suitable leadership style, creative mind and teamwork, in less than a year, John Chen has proven satisfying outcomes and closed to “profitable state” that invite global citizens’ curiosity. This report highlights the 3 changes John Chen has done such as: leadership change, change in business structure, and change in business strategies, compared to ex-CEO Thorsten Heins’ change management; Overcoming the resistance of changes which is the pessimistic organization culture is also one of Chen’s achievement. The Action Research Model becomes platform of change application stages (institutionalization), changes must be preceded by research and planning should be conducted together (participative decision making) without abandoning evaluation of employees’ satisfaction and goals measurement. Regardless the success, there are still rooms for improvement such as BlackBerry should take care the employees better to build in innovative culture and should being proactive bewaring change in trends, external environments,...
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