...Representations of power in Oedipus Rex: A study of the characterisation of Oedipus, Jocasta and Teiresias. Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex, an ancient Greek tragedy inspired by the tragic demise of the once great ruler Pericles, is a tale of power. In this fateful downfall of the king, Sophocles plays out representations of power through the key characters of Oedipus, Jocasta and Teiresias; particularly evident in ways in which the characters interact and respond to prevailing circumstances whilst trying to resolve their own dilemmas. The actions of these key characters expose the nature of power in Oedipus Rex as corrosive and destructive. Oedipus is destroyed by his passion for the truth and the power he wields in seeking it and, his destruction is tragic in consequence. As the play opens, Oedipus’ powers are formidable. Oedipus is the leader of the city of Thebes; the “City of Light”. He is a noble man entrusted by the people with the kingship of Thebes; a power bestowed upon Oedipus when he “broke [the] bondage [of Thebes] to the vile Enchantress” with the “[stopping] of the riddler’s mouth”. Oedipus is granted the power of “Cadmus’ ancient line” which comes with the responsibility for caring for the citizens of Thebes. When the supplicants appeal to King Oedipus to rid Thebes of the deadly pestilence, Oedipus responds willingly to their needs; “I will start afresh; and bring everything into the light.” This thirst for truth is destructive and his actions driven by self-promotion...
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...Federal Lobbying In the United States, there are more than fifty different versions of lobbying laws in states and territories. On the Federal level, lobbying is defined as being “any communication made on behalf of a client to members of Congress, congressional staffers, the president, White House staff and high-level employees of nearly 200 agencies, regarding the formulation, modification, or adoption of legislation.” Though there is much disagreement about lobbyists, there have been laws enacted to try and control them and those who abuse lobbying. There is always room for improvement with regards to lobbying laws, because there is still your classic loop holes that people use to avoid being in violation of the law. Corporations, organizations, universities, non-profit groups, and even churches lobby the federal government. Organizations, such as those listed, purposely employ people who are known as lobbyists, for services that include “making more than one lobbying contact on behalf of a client” and who also engage in other lobbying activities. Since 1988, 22,000 companies and organizations have employed 3,500 lobbying firms and over 27,000 lobbyists. Over time, many would agree that lobbyists have become very powerful. With the increase of power that these lobbyists have with regards to governmental policies, regulations and laws must also be revised and re-enacted to combat the increased power being gained. Lobbyists are required to register with Congress if...
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...Imperialism’s effects on China has always been controversial and debatable. Andrew Nathan’s article on Imperialism’s Effects on China explains imperialism’s positive contributions to modern day China and defends the theory that China’s difficulties are caused by internal factors rather than external. On the other hand, Joseph Esherick’s Harvard on China: The Apologetics of Imperialism argues that China’s economic and social disruptions are caused by imperialism. However, when one examines the evidence chosen and rhetoric of both sides, one may realize the faults in Nathan’s essay which are not shown in Esherick’s. Esherick, as opposed to Nathan, delivers his arguments and defends his stance in a well-rounded manner along with wise usage of his evidence–forming a more crystalized and convincing argument. The two sides disagree on the fundamental question of whether imperialism brought harm or benefits to China in three aspects: effects on the economy, effects on politics, and the results of imperialism. Nathan focuses on the economic benefits foreign trade has brought, while undermining the arguments that his opponents made (in this case, mainly James Peck and Issac’s arguments.) Nathan explains that “it is difficult to establish a negative relationship between the foreign presence and the success of Chinese enterprise.” He attributes the failure of the Chinese industrialization process to the “failure of that sector as a whole to develop,” and states that the problem...
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...a) This is a case filed at the Court of Appeal and follows a judgment passed by the trial judge that the appellant should compensate the respondent $318,288 in damages[1]. The respondent had brought a claim in negligence following an incident at the State High School on 5 December 2008 whereby he was assaulted by a student and sustained injuries leading to brain damage[2]. The allegations presented forward were that the school has failed to provide the teachers and the staff with the right information regarding T’s tendency towards violence even with minor provocation[3]. This was based on an earlier event 6 weeks ago whereby T was involved in another similar altercation with another student[4]. Following this judgment by the trial judge, the appellant then appealed against the decision on two key issues: the first one was that the judge had erred in the findings that the appellant might have breached the duty to care for the respondent, and secondly, the trial judge had failed to offer the relevant findings related to causation[5]. After a notice of contention was offered, it was indicated that the respondent agreed that the classroom teacher ought to have held various roles and steps towards the safety and welfare of the respondent, and the students as a whole[6]. b) First key issue is that the trial judge had erred in the findings that the appellant might have breached the duty to care for the respondent and Second key issue is that the trial judge had failed to establish...
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...Introduction This essay is to discuss the nature and confusions with Parol Evidence Rule. To do this, the rule will be described and be reviewed with a brief history. Debates will be given after, in order to project its application and suitable situations to be influential. Nevertheless, exceptions, where the rule does not have such influence and cannot be applicable will be argued after. Finally, its application in prevention of further objections for contracts will construct the final deliberation. Ultimately the discussion will be concluded as a brief review to what has been done. Debate Parol Evidence Rule (PER) is a consideration of substantive common law that applies to contracts and eliminates parties to encounter any previous parol and oral evidences, with respect to their written total agreement (Corbin, 1944 and Blum, P: 2007, 348). According to Lawrence (1991) the history of the addressed rule travels to when agreements were made credible by written stamped latters, due to the impact of mystical and formal combination; where such formal evidences are nowadays a considerable factor for many courts to conclude justice. The rule was primarily established in 17th century English common law and has since been distributed among the other regions’ system of justice (Beveridge, 2000). Contract parties usually approach a set of common agreements after their interests are deliberately criticized and defended (Alces, 2005). A construction contract can be observed as an example...
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...Running head: Department of the Air Force Department of the Air Force Tara Padua LSTD300 Administrative Law and Policy American Military University Professor Andria Kerney Department of the Air Force How the Department of the Air Force Operates under the Department of Defense The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest employer in the world, employing approximately 3.2 million people on active duty, in the reserves, and in the civilian sector.1 The Department of Defense, an independent agency, operates under the jurisdiction of the federal Government. There are three departments within the Department of Defense: the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy and the Department of the Air Force.2 The Department of the Air Force was formed on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of 1947. It included several different agencies and units within the United States Air Force which are broken down to the lowest division to ensure a proper chain of command exists. Prior to the National Security Act, the “Air Force” as it is known today, was then known as the Army Air Corp. The purpose of the Department is to provide homeland security and the protection of American interest abroad via the armed forces, acting on the command of the President, U.S. Congress, and the Secretary of Defense. The National Security Act of 1947 became law on 26 July 1947. The lawmakers stated their intentions in a declaration of Policy at the beginning...
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...Introduction Would you ever admit to committing a crime that you didn’t actually commit? Of course not, says common sense. Naturally, it is difficult to understand why anyone would confess to a crime they didn’t commit. However, false confessions are one the leading causes of wrongful convictions.1 As the Supreme Court of Canada noted in R v. Oickle, innocent people are induced to make false confessions more frequently than those unacquainted with the phenomenon might expect.2 In North America, we can trace the existence of false confessions back to the Salem Witch Trials, where a number of women were persecuted for witchcraft on the basis of confessions that were obtained through torture and threats.3 More recent false confessions have been obtained under psychological duress and not with torture or threats of physical harm.4 Nevertheless, with the developments in law and policies in place to control interrogation methods, false confessions continue to persist.5 This begs the question, are interrogation methods solely responsible for false confessions, or does some of the responsibility fall on the confessor? Scholars and social scientists agree, that it is not solely harsh interrogation tactics that lead to false confessions but it is the combination of these tactics with psychological factors such as, intelligence and personality, which contribute to the likelihood of a suspect providing a false confession.6 While there are currently solutions for avoiding false confessions...
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...Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views By James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy Eds. Student Name: Kevin M. Polito Student Number: 1516105 Essential Christian Doctrine 1 Spring 2013 – Lewis Word Count: 3,054 Introduction: A necessary and timely book “Throughout the history of the church, Christians have discussed the nature and content of God’s divine foreknowledge” So, rather innocuously, begins the introduction to the text under review. Recently, these “discussions” have become more frequent and heated due, in part, to a robust Calvinist resurgence seen throughout Christendom, especially within the United States. The places and individuals who are engaged in such debates are as varied as the ivory tower and the theologians who inhabit them all the way to the local, faithful Sunday school teacher presenting material to her students who attend her small, rural church. The debate is robust within evangelicalism because of the implications that one’s adopted view has on important questions such as: 1. The Nature of and mode of God’s foreknowledge 2. The Nature of Divine Sovereignty 3. The Nature of Human Freedom Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views is a necessary and timely book. Although, church history bears witness to a diversity of opinions regarding the nature and content of God’s divine foreknowledge, the need for careful and scholarly examination remains as relevant and important as any point in church history. An encroaching, imperious secularism...
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...regarding inclusiveness (Taylor, 1983, as cited in Ewig & Ferree, 2013, p. 439). Some groups wished for cross-class, cross-race, and cross-cultural comprehension, but inclusion represented still a dilemma because of the high extent of stratification in societies (Rupp, 1996; Offen, 2010, as cited in Ewig & Ferree, 2013, p. 439). Additionally, some early struggles underlined the distressed relation among gender relations, sexuality, and reproduction (Ewig & Ferree, 2013, p. 440). In certain countries as well as classes, suffragists engaged in radical sexual reform movements, which demanded women’s sexual citizenship (ibid.). Some suffragists embodied the belief that women’s sexual morality is somewhat higher than men’s (ibid.). When it comes to...
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...more accessible to the user and therefore turns it into information.” (Ibid.). He adds, “BI systems are … very good at sifting through (and/or aggregating) huge volumes of data and turning it into information.” (Ibid.). (Turban 2013, p. 345) concurs, “BI systems are very good at filtering and aggregating huge data volumes into information.” With a business intelligence system, it is possible to summarize sales data for a region and assess the impact of a marketing campaign by product or by geographical area and present the same to users “on mashups.” (searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/). The mention of mashups leads us to the issue of “business intelligence” systems “for the masses” on mobile devices (Turban 2013, p.349). Thus, with mobile and BI technologies respectively and concurrently, “mobile dashboards” have eased and popularized the implementation of “mobile intelligence.” (Ibid.). Today we have what would be called, “Mobile dashboard-supplied [business] intelligence” whereby data and information are accessible online, real-time, anywhere (Turban 249-350). With todays “visualization technologies…like “business dashboards, enterprise mashups, interactive reporting tools, and visualization apps for mobiles… data from business intelligence (BI) systems, data warehouses, and other internal and external data stores [can be depicted] … in meaningful graphics with drill-down capabilities” (Ibid., p. 334). Such tools assist managers to make decisions quickly, answer...
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...The Vietnam War was the longest lasting military conflict in American History. What was originally fear of communist expansion became one of America’s most expensive and strenuous efforts, consuming over fifty eight thousand American lives. As casualties increased throughout the 1960’s, so did the domestic opposition to the war. In turn, large-scale protests and a lack of trust between government and its people rose. Today many of the war’s details remain unclear; however, Hollywood has had its hand at depicting what occurred. This paper provides an analysis of the Vietnam War, as well as its depiction in the 21st century film industry. “The Deer Hunter,” “Born on the 4th of July” and “Casualties of War” are three different interpretations of the war in both foreign and domestic settings. Each film offers a different point of view, varying from social, political, and military perspectives. Following the Second World War, the French set forth an effort to regain their former colonial possession of Indo-China, which had been occupied by the Japanese throughout the war. After nearly a decade, the French were unable to establish a presence in what they called their “inheritance”, and as a result withdrew under the Geneva Accord in 1954. Meanwhile conflict within the regions of Vietnam created instability. A communist regime called the Peoples Army of Vietnam (PAVN), headed by Ho Chi Minh obtained power of the North. In contrast Ngo Dinh Diem established an interim government that...
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...Susan B Anthony Some Facts Regarding the Suffrage Movement and Susan B Anthony’s Involvement Cindy Mutchler November 13, 2011 American Public University Tara Simpson HIST 102 Most people have heard of Susan B Anthony as her face is on some of our dollar coins. But some may not know the reasons behind her being on that coin, and the way that she got there. This and many other things in themselves make her fascinating and intriguing as well. Born on February 15 1820, Susan B. Anthony “was brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions.” “After teaching for fifteen years, she became active in temperance. Because she was a woman, she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies.” “This experience, and her acquaintance with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led her to join the women's rights movement in 1852.” “Ignoring opposition and abuse, Anthony traveled, lectured and canvassed across the nation for the vote.” “She also campaigned for the abolition of slavery, women's right to their own property and earnings, and women's labor organizations.” “In 1900, Anthony persuaded the University of Rochester to admit women.” “Anthony, who never married, was aggressive and compassionate by nature.” “She remained active until her death on March 13, 1906.” Susan B Anthony “helped to found the American Equal Rights Association in 1866, and in 1868 with Stanton as editor, became publisher of Revolution.” The masthead for this paper was “‘Men their rights, and nothing more;...
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...The journey of mankind starts from pre150k until 8000 years and there is a big change on human population, culture and lifestyle within these years. Based on the view of Stephen Oppenheimer in the ‘journey of mankind’, we know that the modern human who recognizes as Homosapien, live in Africa over 160000 years ago. The archeological evidence has showed that our mtDNA and Ychromosome ancestors are found in East Africa.[1] From 160000 to 135000 years, there were four groups of traveller who known as hunter-gatherer carried the first generation of mtDNA gene types ‘L1’by started their routes from south to the Cape of Good Hope, south-west to Congo Basin and west to Ivory Coast.[2] There was a creature could adapt well with the environmental changes is prehistoric man. They lived in the grasslands of Africa, the tropical rainforest of South-East Asia and the more temperate areas of southern Europe. The changing in climate, amount of free water and rainfall had affected the amount of lands that used by prehistoric man for feeding the herds and growing the plants. Climatic changes had lead to the evolution of prehistoric man himself such as development of stone tools, site organization, the building of shelter and the use of clothing. From 135000 to 115000 years, a group traveller across a green Sahara via the open of northern gate, up the Nile to the Levant.[3] According to The 1st Exit written by Stephen Oppenheimer, humans had moved out from Africa in the end. The timing and...
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...Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies, Jodi Dean argues that “imagining a rhizome might be nice, but rhizomes don’t describe the underlying structure of real networks,”1 rejecting the idea that there is such a thing as a nonhierarchical interconnectedness that structures our contemporary world and means of communication. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, on the other hand, argue that the Internet is an exemplar of the rhizome: a nonhierarchical, noncentered network—a democratic network with “an indeterminate and potentially unlimited number of interconnected nodes [that] communicate with no central point of control.”2 Our journey begins with early modernism, and if early modernism had a theme, it was oneness. This focus on oneness or unity, on the whole rather than on individual parts, What is at stake in settling this dispute? Being. And, knowledge and power in that being. More specifically, this paper explores how a theory of social ontology has evolved to theories of social ontologies, how the modernist notion of global understanding of individuals working toward a common (rationalized and objectively knowable) goal became pluralistic postmodern theories embracing the idea of local networks. Furthermore, what this summary journey of theoretical evolution allows for is a consideration of why understandings of a world comprising emergent networks need be of concern to composition instructors and their practical activities in the classroom: networks produce knowledge. 1. Jodi...
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...Liberty University THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM A paper submitted to PROFESSOR MONTE SHANKS In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the course NBST 510 Liberty Theological seminary By Wilbert L. Bracey Lynchburg, Virginia February 1, 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 The Synoptic Problem-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 Markan Priority---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 Q Hypothesis------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 L and M------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6 Two Gospel Hypothesis-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 Conclusion--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10 Bibliography------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------11 Introduction There are differences in the area of Synoptic Gospel as well as there are large amounts of similarities that can be proved with all the evidence written as well as physical. The synoptic Gospels are ones that include Matthew, Luke and Mark. The reason they are called synoptic, which means, seen together, is because...
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