...Critical Argument Analysis Rhoderick H. Mejares ENG/215 February 01, 2014 Suzann Connell Critical Argument Analysis Fear takes control of a person when place on certain circumstances that they are not ready to face. The three essays that I will analyze has their own identity of fear about something. The author of “Do We Fear the Right Things” talks about different fears that people have. On the “Bang, You’re Dead" article, the author’s argument is that the fear of what people see is what people do is not always true, and fantasy is just what it is. The third essay “Parents Need Help”, talks about how parents are the only ones responsible for their own children when it comes to violence on video gaming. The question is do the authors supported their arguments and how clearly they proved their essays. On the essay, "Do We Fear the Right Things" the author used facts, statistics and other fears in life in general to prove his argument. I think the author discussed his thesis well by using his own opinion and theories of people's fear in general. The facts and statistics that he used got my attention and made the essay an interesting one. There are really other threats that we should worry about, because no matter what we do risk will be there. He also said that it is normal for people to fear other things than fear itself. The author on the essay “Bang, You’re Dead” talked about how fantasy violence is good for a child rather than bad. He argued that...
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...Comprehensive Literary Analysis “The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.”-Dalai Lama Literary works present culture, philosophy, and deep truths about the nature of humanity, but the interpretation of these texts is left solely to the reader. Analysis is the ability to understand the fundamental concepts of information received in any form by breaking down the complexities into essential features and their relations. One’s interpretation may change one’s view of the world or entertain them but, in seeking the purpose of the information one is presented one is able to question fundamental concepts and create his or her own ideologies. Kaiji the ultimate survivor is a literary text that tackles many these ideologies that one may...
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...SWOT Analysis of Cyniana’s Victor Lamar BUS 210 Foundations of Business Instructor Patrick Queen January 35, 2015 SWOT Analysis of Cyniana’s Starting up a new business is not only costly but it is also something that you must do with an exceptional amount of expertise. Not only do you have to have people around you that have your and your businesses best interest at heart, but you also have to have a plan of action. This plan of action includes knowing your business's strengths so that you can grow, your businesses weakness so that you can avoid them, opportunities that may be available that can make the business better, and any potential threats that can hurt or harm the business as well. All of these are known as the SWOT analysis, it is what will keep your business grounded. My plan is to open by own restaurant/bar. It will be a family style type of restaurant with an open bar as well. I will specialize in serving mainly traditional soul food and offer some soul foods that are not as traditional but still enjoyed. In order for me to be able to operate my business successfully I have to have a well developed SWOT analysis that will consist of the following: Strength The main strengths of any company or business is its support. This can be political support, financial support, and even social support. Within my restaurant business I can have the backing support of a local councilman who brings me more and more customers. I can also strengthened by business...
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...Paper A Slow, Warm Death: An Analysis of My Dreams Sigmund Freud’s lifelong research of dreams is in many ways the most distinctive and remarkable element in his massive survey of the human psyche. It is the subject of his most important work, The Interpretation of Dreams, which, besides being what it's title already indicates, also serves as a work of confession. Freud committed to it's pages many of the findings of his own dream analysis. Throughout his legendary career, Freud continued to feel an irreplaceable bond to dream interpretation, both for the exactness of it's unique findings and for the precious evidence it provided for the deeper workings of the human mind. Neil Gaiman has said the following in response to the mystifying nature of dreaming: “People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.” In this essay, I will emulate the role of Sigmund Freud and attempt to psychoanalyze my own dreams. An eerie sense of doom seems to pervade the majority of my dreams--typically, some form of tragedy or misfortune either befalls me or my loved ones. In "Doctor Whooves", for example, I am heading to my kitchen for a late night snack, only to be pursued and attacked by a half-horse, half-human Doctor Who. I do not actually follow this show, but this dream seems to reflect the drastic influence of my friends upon my life and may serve as a warning...
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...about my grammar, tone, weak transition, and vague analyses. My tone wasn’t correct because I used personal pronouns in my analysis sometimes. My weak transition in the first paragraph didn’t support my main point because it didn’t make any connections, and it was vague. My analyses were vague because when I connected something to real life I didn’t give specific examples which made my analyses and points come across weaker. What could you do to improve your writing? I could have one of my parents or a friend read my essay before I turn it in to make sure that it makes as much sense to them as it does to me. To fix my grammar mistakes I could proofread better and/or use an app or website like Grammarly to check my english. What were you able to contribute to the seminar? Did you contribute mostly commentary and analysis, or did you ask questions?...
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...Fear of Crime & its effects in a Community Introduction The fear of crime creates negative psychological effects in a community. Consequently, stakeholders in the crime prevention sector need to equip themselves with knowledge surrounding this topic. They need to know factors linked to the fear of crime and the magnitude or relative importance of each. But this will only examine two factors; gender and prior victimization is really important in crime prevention strategies. Rational for the research is to answer the question does fear of crime create negative psychological effects in a community. The research question will require validation of two major factors then it will eventually necessity linking those factors together. At this point, there will be a need to move from theory to operationalization of the concept. It’s been established that there is a link between gender and fear of crime but the link is not clearly understood. Additionally, it has been assumed that prior victimization is related to fear of crime but the extent of this relationship needs to be established, Gender, fear of crime and prior victimization .(Babbie,2005) It should be noted that various methods of asking one question are possible and each approach would result in totally different responses thus different analyses and results. This research questions may be asked in such way that they give open ended responses. For instance, the respondents may be asked what their fear of crime is...
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...of Organisation Risk Culture Cindy Levy McKinsey & Company Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies g December 2010 CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY These dimensions and our diagnostic approach are rooted in a detailed analysis of failure across industries that has been refined over time Our approach 1 Reviewed all academic / regulatory literature Example of approach: ~20 case studies of Risk Culture failure Case summary* • A culture of no challenge which feared bad news making it to the market, helped contain withdrawn, overconfident behaviour that led to a misrepresentation of Shell’s reserves by 20% Primary factor Secondary factor 2 Completed detailed case C l t d d t il d analysis of examples of failure across industries Developed and refined D l d d fi d framework / diagnostic tool with LSE professor and industry risk experts Refined diagnostic tool through client pilots, including World Health Organisation Isolated 2004, g management, a ‘fear of bad news’ culture, and prioritisation of launch objectives over ensuring , , p j g • Command and control ▪ • In January 2004 Shell Case summary No Challenge Not observed Slow Response ▪ ▪ 3 culture where “the boss 100% confidence shuttle disclosed that it had in safety, led to Fear of bad disintegration from a previously-flagged O-ring failure was always right” news miscategorised 3.9 billion • Reliance of CFO on barrels of oil equivalent of Primary factor estimates provided by its "proven" reserves...
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... Literacy is the “ability to read and write”, but I believe that literacy is a way to grow, discover, and express oneself. My ideal vision of literacy instruction would be to allow students to use reading and writing as a gateway to self-expression. Literacy can be used to grow not only as a person, but as a well-developed writer. A constraint to my vision of literacy would be the restricting mindset instructors enforce on their students. Students have been expected to write solely based on the “rules” taught by their teachers throughout their education. If students do not comply with these “rules”, they are punished with a bad grade. I strongly believe that students write in fear of bad markings and in fear of not pleasing their instructors’ needs. As students advance through the education system, they must advance in their writing skills as well. University students should be able to read and write at a higher level. High school and college instructors must be open to reason and consider that being so demanding with their criteria will only cause students to write at basic level. Instructors that have a stern grading policy are only keeping their students skills at a standstill. Some concerns with my vision of literacy would be that it can cause instructors to hold back on their grading’s, which could cause students to not improve or slack off. My vision is not to hold back instructors from teaching reading and writing skills to their students. Students who are pressured...
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...DREAM ANALYSIS This reflective essay illustrates Freud’s theory of dream analysis. It will begin with a brief overview of Freudian dream theory and will go on to describe the various components of personality structure and the unconscious from a psychodynamic perspective. This essay will analyse one of my personal dreams using Freud’s dream analysis theory and conclude with a critical reflection on the application of his theory as it relates to my dream. When Freud famously referred to dreams as being the ‘royal road to the unconscious’, he meant that dreams were a way in which to access the unconscious mind. Dream analysis in psychoanalysis is the process used to explore the role dreams play in the unconscious (Corey, 2005). The purpose of Freud’s theory of dream analysis is to gain better access to the unconscious in order to bring it into the conscious (Day, 2008). Freud believed that the mind represses painful events that the conscious does not want to remember due to the pain and anxiety they cause (Scharf, 2008). These repressed desires and motivations are freed through dreams which are a direct connection to the unconscious. Freud saw the unconscious as sexual and instinctual in nature and the dream as a disguised unfulfilled wish (Welsh, 1994). To better understand the dynamics between the conscious and the unconscious parts of the mind, Freud (1994) developed the structural model of the psyche which he called “the psychic apparatus”. Freud proposed that the part...
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...McCarthyism and The Second Red Scares impact on Media in the 1950-60s decades (Research and Analysis Paper) In 1950, fewer than 50,000 Americans out of a total US population of 150 million were members of the Communist Party(Gilder Lehrman). However following WWII the the time period of the 1950-1970 was marked as a period of mass fear of Communism. American fears of internal communist infiltration reached Its highest point since the First Red Scare of the 1920-30s. Government organizations investigated millions of americans, “asking what books and magazines they read, what unions and civic organizations they belonged to, and whether they went to church” (Gilder Lehrman). This time period was also marked by the major shift and blacklisting of celebrities primarily in show business. One of the people who took full advantage of the mass hysteria was Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin. McCarthy began his crusade by giving a speech at the Women’s Republican Club of Wheeling, in West Virginia, where he stated that he had a list of over 220 confirmed communists living in the US. The numbers of this statement dropped over the years as people began to watch him more closely. However this didn’t stop him from rising to more power, after the Republicans regained a majority in the senate, McCarthy took control of a subcommittee, and performed investigations on government agencies. Other Cold War “activists” consisted of Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey, union leader Walter Reuther...
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...Case Discussion Questions 1. How would you assess whether or not you should negotiate? Identify the factors you would consider and the overall rule you would apply. Ans. First of all, I will do the analysis of the whole situation as follows: It is clear from the above situation analysis that I should at least go for negotiation because benefits are much more than that of shortcomings. Therefore, I will go for negotiation. 2. What factors can you readily identify that will affect your negotiation options and outcomes? Ans. Whenever, negotiations are done. Its two different parties coming on to table for getting the best for themselves out of the process. In this case, multiple factors that affect negotiating options and outcomes are: • Is the retailer willing to negotiate on price? • How big the retailer is? • Other buying options available in the market for the retailer. • Attitude of the retailer and his approach towards me. • My own strengths and weaknesses during negotiations. • My own willingness to negotiate. • Our perceptions about each other. • The setting in which we are negotiating. • Goals of both parties. • My fear about threats of my production stoppage and storage issue. • Facts and circumstances as I am having bad time at the business. • Personality and temperament of both parties • Way of thinking of both parties • Style of communication I and the retailer will use. • Our approach...
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...In ID’ing my fear, I imagined graduating in May with my Masters and entering the real world. I have many worries about this, but one of them has burdened me the last two years. While thinking about this specific fear, a short story came to mind from high school that may have placed the seed for this terror. Herman Melvin’s Bartleby the Scrivener tells the story of a new employee of a Law Firm on Wall Street. Everything in this story embodies my fear of my future profession. A scrivener is someone who serves as a scribe. Bartleby is a new scribe to this law firm and works day and night handwriting copies of legal documents. The lawyer describes Bartleby as an excellent worker whose work output is tremendous. Along with Bartleby are 3 other employees. Turkey is another scrivener who is described by the lawyer as being excellent in the morning; however, as the day goes on he becomes less efficient and more prone to making mistakes. Nipper is a second scrivener who is simply described as a young ambitious man and a steady worker. Ginger Nut is a young errand boy whose primary role is going to pick up ginger nut cakes. Bartleby continues to work day and night to producing perfect copies of legal documents pleasing the lawyer greatly. One day, the lawyer comes in asking Bartleby to examine a document and Bartleby responds to his plea with “I’d prefer not to.” The lawyer is baffled with this response and delegates the work to Nipper. Bartleby continues to repeat this phrase when delegated...
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...Analysis: Providing Good Care to Dying Patients: Paper 2 Jaime Holtgrewe Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 449 Evidence Based Practice February 2013 Clinical Question In my group, the focus of research is based on the following clinical question: What are the best practices for end of life care? Within the group, research is driven to focus on enhancing care for end of life patient, including collaboration with physicians and surrogate decision makers or a power of attorney (POA), as well as pain management policies. However, all aspects of care for end of life patients are taken into consideration when determining which facet is most important. The group’s research consists of quantitative and qualitative articles focusing on transitioning to hospice programs, new measures of care, acceptance of death and experience of caregivers for the dying patient. According to the Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law (2008), three of every four Americans do not fear death as much as they fear being in pain at the time of death. End-of-life care can be a challenge requiring the full range of a family physician's skills. Significant pain is common but is often undertreated despite available medications and technology. Physicians must overcome their own fears about using narcotics and allay similar fears in patients, families and communities. Drugs such as corticosteroids, antidepressants and anticonvulsants can also help to alleviate pain. A considerable amount of research...
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...outcome of a negotiation sometimes is not to reach an agreement. Unlike any previous simulations I got nervous as soon I sat down at the negotiation table. Knowing the fact that my partner is a masters student definitely intimidated me and started triggering a fear reaction. I would have to say this week was the most frustrating and difficult negotiation I have faced. Major problem was I was unable to fully understand the context and the information that were given to me and at some point I got extremely confused that I had to stop and rethink about what I wanted to say. People will often use age, etc., to try to intimidate you. Definitely the biggest problem here was lack of preparation. I knew that we are always restricted to time therefore we want to be comfortable analysing the context quickly and to organize the important information that needs to be assessed in the negotiation. This case required a careful analysis of the available information both before and during the negotiation. Bargaining without adequate preparation, sensing that my partner had superior bargaining power and feeling of insecurity about my ability as a negotiator led me to experience moderate to extreme levels of fear. I found myself not being able to make eye contact with my partner and was the first negotiation where fear really came into play. I should have channeled the feelings into effective responses and to...
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...Title: Creating Premium Select David Clark University Of Phoenix BUS/210 - FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS SWOT Analysis Business Plan I have created a business were there is an opportunity for any person from no through little experience. The business would be called Premium Select. In Premium Select we seek out a group of people who are looking for an opportunity to grow. We select individuals who take their work seriously and completing their task in a corporate and professional manner. To build this business, we would need to start different departments so that the company would be able to function and to compete with other companies. The different departments that I would have would be Payroll, Finance, Human Resource, and Accounting. The Payroll department would make sure that each employee of the company would be getting their salary correctly and on time. They would also seek out employee’s attendance, which includes sick, vacation, and personal days. The Finance department would make sure the company would be budgeting correctly and keeping track of all outside bills that would need the company to be more efficient. This includes things such as Internet, Computers, Food, etc. The Human Resource department would seek out other employees and select a group of people that are the right fit for the company to make sure the employee would be a benefit to the company. Human Resources would also look out for the employees to make sure they have policies that need to followed so...
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