...convince themselves that what they want to happen will happen. This effect travels far beyond the mind. As hope strengthens ones mental ability, it allows a person to fully utilize him or herself. This hope is both a drive and inspiration. It works for positive and negative causes, but it does work to strengthen and empower a person. In the novel, Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown, several characters are empowered by hope; a hope that is the inspiration that causes people to be all that they can be. Robert Langdon, a scholar of religious symbology and professor at Harvard University, made a life changing decision based on hope. Langdon was phoned by a total stranger in the middle of the night. This stranger, Maximillian Kohler, was demanding to see Langdon in person. Langdon rejected this demand, but he soon changed his mind after being sent a fax of a dead body. Branded on the dead body was an eerie symbol both unknown and familiar to Langdon. Langdon recognized the symbol to be the symbol of the ancient brotherhood of the Illuminati. Langdon, and other Illuminati experts alike, have spent centuries trying to find this ancient symbol. At that moment, Langdon agreed to meet Kohler's...
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...Book Review ANGELS AND DEMONS I. 1. Bibliography card a. Title: Angels and Demons Author: Dan Brown Publication Date: May 2000 Publisher: Pocket Books b. Checked out from school library on February 1st 2. Summary card a. The Vatican City is about to explode. Eyes of the media and the people from all over the world are watching in horror. And in the critical moment something nobody expects happens… p 593- 600 b. I would rate this book 5 out of 5 II. 1. Characters Robert Langdon – a Harvard professor of religious symbology, that becomes a witness of the resurrection of an ancient secret society known as Illuminati. A very intelligent, sharp-minded, and a warm –hearted person. I really like this character because of his ability to understand the situation and try everything to help others. Quote: “Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage… an assimilated historical record of man’s quest to understand the divine.” (p 108) This quote represents one of the views on religion in this novel. As a man, that studied different kinds of religions all his life he looks at it only like another myth, but respects it’s influence on people. Vittoria Vetra – A beautiful particle physicist working in the world’s greatest nuclear research facility – CERN. She and her father had a goal to connect science and religion, by scientifically proving that God exists and almost succeeds in it. She helps...
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...is that the Vatican Bank operates within the Catholic Church, an organization with its own tradition of financial ethics developed over multiple centuries. Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical, Caritas in Veritate represents the most recent expression of Catholic thought relating to financial ethics. This article considers whether these scandals directly contradict the ethical stance of the encyclical and whether this in turn undermines the Vatican Bank’s ethical standing. The Vatican Bank: What is it and how does it work? The name ‘Vatican Bank’ is a somewhat misleading name as it implies the Vatican Bank is heavily integrated into the Holy See (the microstate consisting of Vatican City). In fact, the Vatican Bank is a privately held bank, rather than a state-owned bank, and therefore its assets are not directly connected to the Holy See. Despite the Vatican Bank’s position as a private financial institution operating within the Vatican, the Bank is managed by a council of cardinals and the Pope is the Bank’s sole shareholder. The Bank is also officially monitored by the Vatican’s Financial Information Authority and any profits the Bank makes are left at the disposal of the Vatican. Unlike other commercial Banks, the Vatican Bank does not have any...
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...Vatican Denies Accusations About Diplomat For my religion in the news report, I have selected an article titled "Vatican denies sinister motives behind diplomat's transfer". I came across the article after browsing through Yahoo's religion section. It was written on February 22, 2013 by Reuters . The article details news of the pope directing a senior official of the Vatican to a new post in South America. In light of these actions, many call foul play due to the recently leaked papal papers which may be incriminating to many in Vatican City. There is speculation that the visit to Colombia was linked to blackmailing the pope. The Vatican countered the claims, alleging that the diplomat was scheduled to go to Latin America weeks in advance. There is no way to prove this considering the Vatican has virtually no transparency. All of this is following the pope stepping down last week, stirring rumors and very important unanswered questions. The pope reasoned his health had deteriorated to the point where he cannot hold the position. This seems rather odd considering all popes are typically elderly and vulnerable. It seems The Vatican theoretically can do whatever they please - which shouldn't be the case, especially if your the symbol of Catholicism worldwide. I have a very strong opinion regarding the Vatican but I digress. The article relates to our class in many ways. The pope is the leader of the Catholic ...
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...The threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States during the early 1950’s. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin was the man who exploited those fears. CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow and his producer Fred W. Friendly decided to take a stand by challenging McCarthy. They chose to expose him for the fear monger he was. Even though their actions took a great personal toll on both men, they stood by their beliefs. In turn, they helped bring down one of the most controversial senators in American history. This important story in American history and politics is shown in the film, “Good Night and Good Luck.” It is directed by George Clooney, written by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and stars David Strathairn, George Clooney and Patricia Clarkson. As mentioned before, "Good Night, And Good Luck" takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950's. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Permanent Sub-committee on Investigations. With a need to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom – rebel to corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and fear mongering tactics carried out by McCarthy during his communist 'witch-hunts.’ McCarthy claimed that there were over two hundred card carriers in America. An awfully public argument develops when the Senator...
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...supporting the “Unhate” foundation that contributes to the creation of a new culture of tolerance. While I am fully in support of this cause as our world definitely needs more tolerance in today’s era of hate and rivalry against each other. But still I find the ads offensive. The concept of unhate do not involve world leaders kissing each other on the lips. Maybe a kiss on the cheek would have been served the purpose more effectively than on the lips. Moreover I don’t think that the concept of unhate can happen while criticizing the beliefs of two of the world’s biggest belief systems by having the Pope kiss the Sheikh of Al-Azhar. Or maybe they want to show that tolerance starts with respecting the other person with different belief. I see the controversy in the idea. Moreover Benetton is a good quality clothing company of fashion industry. So I think this ad has been used by the company as a tool for fashion statement as company’s brand image and the cause they are supporting are not alligned to each other or compatible to each other. It's easy- it's marketing. They knew this would get people talking so they took advantage of the situation. It's not like their primary goal was to spread love and peace...well, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. All the pictures displayed were fake and not real where world leaders were shown kissing each other. It is disrespectful to photoshop images to create a 'marketing' campaign.It aroused serious protests in some countries like vatican...
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...The article I chose suggests that Roman Catholics in the United States hope that the next pope could be younger and lead the church in a more liberal way regarding issues, such as birth control and same-sex marriage. The statistics is based on the latest New York Times/CBS News telephone poll conducted on landlines and cellphones from February 23 to 27 with 1,585 adults nationwide. Three-fourths of interviewers thought Pope Benedict should step down because he did a bad job dealing with sexual abuse. The poll suggested that many American Catholics are not confident about the church’s hierarchy since the bishops and cardinals do not understand their needs. The sample of telephone poll was randomly selected to ensure that each region of the country has almost same share of all telephone numbers, so it seems justified geographically. However, there is uncertainty in the survey because the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4% for the 580 Catholics. An effective way to reduce the margin of error is to increase the sample size. There is also nonresponse error in the survey because some people do not answer calls from strangers, or refuse to answer the poll. In addition, due to selection bias, the opinions of those who agreed to be interviewed only reflect a certain part of the population. The article did well in analyzing from a series of data, mainly on the percentage of sample size. For example, the poll showed that 40 percent thought the pope is absolutely...
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...Goodnight and Good luck In the film, Good Night and Good Luck, director George Clooney takes the audience back to the days of 1950s television. To be more specific, the film focuses on the news team responsible for the CBS public affairs program See It Now (1951-58). This film shows the audience the semi-fictional recreation of the near-destruction of civil liberties and freedom of the press and self-expression. The cast recreates the great "debate" between Edward Murrow, and Joseph McCarthy. Murrow was a television news broadcaster and McCarthy was A U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin. In the 1950s, McCarthy had publicly called for the removal in government offices, the career field, and basically society, of all citizens who had ever been a or associated with the communist party, even though it was not illegal. McCarthy used the power of his position to attack all those he disagreed with by hiding his attack under the appearance of patriotism. Murrow, as a TV news broadcaster, fought against McCarthy’s techniques and successfully challenged and eventually discredited the senator on his show. Murrow first defends Milo Radulovich, a man from Dexter Michigan, who is facing removal from the Air Force because of his sister's political leanings and because his father reading a newspaper. Murrow attacks McCarthy on one of his shows. A very public issue stems when McCarthy responds by accusing Murrow of being a communist. The film is outlined by Murrow’s speech to the Radio...
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...Leadership Styles A past supervisor has traits that fit all profiles listed in the negative leadership styles handout. If I had to go with just one, I would say the Kipper. While in our department we saw a very abrasive side to her, if one of our team members made a mistake they were publicly chastised and humiliated in the office. She often spoke ill of certain employees. The atmosphere in our office was such that there was no talking at any time. Everyone, with the exception of her close friends, looked miserable. Outside of our office, the higher ups found her to be pleasant. On the rare occasion that an employee had the confidence to complain and our supervisor found out she would make the workplace so hostile that the employee would quit. Having been under her supervision has taught me about the type of supervisor I would like to be. I would like to be the transformational leader. Working as a team towards a common goal is something that I believe is attainable and necessary to help subordinates feel necessary. From personal experience, I can honestly say that I was motivated to do the best job possible when I had a leader who took the time to work with me, rather than just hand out orders. I was more inclined to trust my supervisor, and the open lines of communication made it easier to come to the supervisor if I encountered an obstacle in my project. For these reasons I would like to be a transformational...
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...A 1. Summery of text 1. Gossip is bad form. The text gossip is bad form is written by Debby Mayne. In the text Debby Mayne tells us that the gossip is bad form, that can hurt our relationship to our friends, even at our job. There are three types of gossip, the personal the office and school gossip. Personal gossip usually involves friends. If a certain friend has done you wrong, the best solution is to discuss the problem between the two of you, not take it to another person. The office gossip, is the gossip you meet at your office, it can be between your college or your boss, if it’s affect you to much, that you dont want to co-operation with your college can give you big consequences. The last gossip type in the text is about school gossip. The school gossip is bad for the students in school, if you say that you friend are cheating in a exam, will give the student a big problem for his school life. Gossip at school can ruin reputations. As well gossip is a bad thing it comes from nothing to a big problem, you have to think for a few seconds before you speaking. 2. 3. “Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. without it, there would be chaos and ignorance.” It means that a policeman is a person who follow the laws and want other people not to do the right thing. A teacher help his students to be cleaver and want his students not make...
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...Social relationships In the workplace it is important to keep a professional-client relationship. With this relationship it is only alright for a client to meet a professional in their office and nowhere else. Boundaries have to be made aware so there is no way that the client and professional can get confused about the relationship and what the professional does to help the client. Managing boundaries should be one of the first things that are stated to the client. The client should realize that the professional wants to help them but can’t go to any event or become socially aquainted to the clients. Neither the client nor professional should become friends and have a life outside of the office. In the video the client asked the professional to go for coffee because she felt as if the office was to stuffy and wanted to get some fresh air. The professional asked her why she felt as if that was a good idea to be sensitive to maybe her culture. He handled it ethically correct and told her how that might not be a good idea being that there could be boundaries being broken. I would prevent any boundaries being broken before it even happened by telling the client the boundaries. I would automatically state that it is not good for the professional and client relationship if we were to become friends and explain to them why it would not be a good idea to become friends in the professional relationship. If they were to ever invite me out of the outside of the office I would...
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...Defeating the Demons Inside: A Study on Individuals Who Have Survived the Long-Term Effects of Bullying A Research Proposal Presented to Dr. Nymia P. Simbulan Department of Behavioral Sciences College of Arts and Sciences University of the Philippines Manila In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course BS 199.1 (Qualitative Methods in Behavioral Research) Christiani Lumayag Matugas 2011-31444 April 1, 2013 I. Introduction Statement of the Problem and Review of Related Literature The school is a battle field and each child is a lone soldier trying to make his/her way through. Each child will have to defeat a series of exams, scary teachers, lab experiments, physical education classes, crushes, mortal enemies and the like. Most of the time, children will learn from these experiences and mature with the lessons that each of these experiences have taught them. However, there are certain battles that wound all too deeply and do not seem to end. These battles are the battles of bullying. What is Bullying? Bullying is a social and interpersonal problem that involves the repeated, intentional use of aggression against a less powerful other (Whitney & Smith, 1993). Bullying can take different forms, be it direct (e.g., physical aggression), indirect (e.g., exclusion, spreading rumors), or verbal (e.g., name-calling). (Hunter, Mora-Merchan and Ortega, 2004) Children who are victims of bullying are more likely than non-victims...
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...“The Happiest Days of Your Life” by Penelope Lively It is undoubtedly certain that a parent strives for the best for his child although all human beings put their own needs first, whether this is unknowingly or not, which sometimes leads to a very terrible mistake. Status, money and power can be very intriguing and Penelope Lively’s short story “The Happiest Days of Your Life”, 1978, is a great example on how one can outshine the other. The parents in the story clearly have the best intentions for their only child, Charles, but the lack of communication between them and their child will result in a bad choice. The short story “The Happiest Days of Your Life” is told by an omniscient author in 3rd person. The story’s point of departure is the protagonist Charles who is the child of the two other characters we meet, Charles’ parents; “He looks straight a head of him, at the road coiling beneath the bonnet of the car. His face is haggard with anticipation. 'Next term, we'll mash you...’” (p. 59, l. 5-7) is a great example of the omniscient author since the author tells us how the child feels and thinks. On the other hand the author does not know of Charles’ father’s thoughts or the other characters we meet throughout the story. We also get a bit of an expression of the mother’s thoughts and feelings, but not as much as we get to know Charles. We are introduced to two different environments in the story; the car and St. Edward’s Preparatory School. The environment in the...
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...think it far over-rated me. This test as mentioned is a brief test and not to be taken too seriously. I must commend the creators however for making a descent test. Most tests you see online are obviously set up so people can get the results the want (hope for) due to having a certain key knowledge on the specific thing that interests them in the test. This one was pretty bland, it stuck with math and basic logistical skills. 3. Describe how you felt while taking the test(s)? I felt like I rushed myself, I still had far more time I was limiting my questions to 15 seconds or less unless the question was harder to calculate, which is why I left extra time. I feel that I should have taken my time and it may have produced a better quality result. But my score as I mentioned was way higher than I would guess. Another reason I don’t feel that these tests can be too accurate. 4. Which test items did you like the most, or find most interesting? Why? The shapes were interesting because it made you have to double-check you first glance to make sure you didn’t overlook details. 5. Which test items did you like the least, or find annoying or irrelevant? Why? I hate doing the number sequences, mostly just due to time and it is not my strongest part if I don’t immediately see the number pattern. 6. Did you see questions that you felt were unfair, culturally biased or had two or more possible answers? Describe the question and your problem with it. I will say there were a few such as...
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...Daylon Lopez Stowell College 101 5 May 2016 How to Buy a Used Car Have you ever thought about buying a used car but weren’t sure what to look for? Look no further!! In this guide you will find out what to look for when buying a used car. Buying a used car isn’t easy and takes time and can be stressful. First off you’re going to need to do some research on what you’re looking for and find a price range that works for you. Once that is done and you have found something that has your interest we will need to contact the seller and arrange a time and place to meet also its good to ask ahead of time about the title status. Just about always look for a clean title. Usually at home or a local place around town works great for meeting up and always bring a friend with you who can point out something that you might have over looked and they can give a second opinion on just about anything that could be wrong with the vehicle and they can also help you negotiate the price towards the end of finalizing the deal. Meeting the seller, introduce yourself and try to relate to something, ask anything that comes to mind about the car. This is important, ask about the history of the vehicle, how long they have owned it for and what maintenance they have done to the vehicle since they have owned the vehicle before you and you really want to know that the vehicle was taken care of and not abused and beat to crap. Don’t take their word about any parts they have replaced, make sure they have...
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