...In Anne McWhir’s essay titled “Pollution and Redemption in Dracula” she examines the theme of the stark contrasts between pure and unclean. Pollution in the sense the writer was going for does not mean landfills and gas guzzlers, but when the unclean taints the pure. Going beyond the surface definition, the book Dracula has many instances of contrasting values surrounding the thoughts of purity. The ideas of good and evil, life and death, new and old, and civilization and savagery are examined throughout the novel. Dracula as a whole is a story of the characters quest to purify the world of the evil and uncleanliness that is Count Dracula. The novelty of Dracula is that often these lines can and have to be blurred in order for the characters to succeed. The book portrays the main three men of the novel as heroic hunters going out to find and kill Dracula. Is this heroism, or have they reverted back to an animalistic blood thirst, not unlike the animal they are hunting. The ideas of science and superstitious ritual also come into conflict throughout the novel. The further and further you read into the novel the more muddled these lines become, and the more the characters of the book must cross them in order to defeat Dracula. One big blurry area in the novel is the notion of blood. Blood in Dracula has multiple powers. It has the power to heal, or it can cause great pollution. It can be used to show undying love, or it can be used as the most violent attack. The removal...
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...and religions (Duiker and Spielvogel 46). Daily, he made a practice to search for and explore difference ideas, philosophies, in search of finding the key to human happiness. Through meditation he finally found 'the middle path’ and was enlightened. “By observing the activities of mankind in real life, the Buddha mastered the principles of human behavior. He then taught the two characteristics of the Middle Path” (Buddhism - The Middle Path). What is Christianity? When discussing Christianity and defining what is a “true Christian” or “which definition is correct” there are several different definitions and versions as to describe Christianity. Therefore, for the purpose of this essay, I will focus on the movement of early Christianity. “To many in the very early Christian movement, a Christian was defined as a person who was baptized and proclaimed ‘Jesus is Lord’. Their definition perspective (you are overusing the word “definition.” People did “define” things back then) was ‘true’ to them because it agreed with their understanding of their religious belief at a...
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...and engaging with them in a positive way" Susan Wolfe Bipartite Means 2 parts (subject and object) Susan Wolfe Endoxic Accepted by everyone Why is Wolfe's essay considered endoxic? Subject finds passion, object engaging in passion 2 main reason's for bipartite view -Subjective only = doesn't discriminate enough -Objective only = Reasons for caution -1/other leaves too much out Baraka Movie, 3 definitions Breath of Life in Dwelling, Blessing, indwelling Emerson's movement Trancendentalism Emerson and importance of water lecture Boston @ Athenaeum (love of knowledge) History of Emerson (4 steps) 1. Pastor 2. Married Ellen Tucker 3. Ellen dies 4. Emerson opens Ellen's tomb (sees sunrise the next day) Importance of Polarity Action and Reaction (Newton's 3rd law) 4 Main Points of Compensation 1. Proper Understanding of a person 2. Derives from polarity/balance 3. Learn laws through acting and observing 4. Growth comes from understanding and awareness of compensation Philosophy's Responsibility according to Arthur Schopenhauer Tell full truth 2 reasons to not believe in an all good, all wise and all powerful being 1. Obvious imperfections of humans 2. The misery that's everywhere What misery and suffering is caused by and the way to redemption and the way to end suffering Way of redemption is deny the will. Will to live Schopenhauer's 4 steps to awakening 1. Understand Happiness is negative 2. Admit the futility of current approach 3. Turn away...
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...In Georgia Warnke’s book Debating Sex and Gender, Gayle Rubin recognizes sex as the “raw material” of the bodies of female and male human beings, while gender pertains to the roles and functions those human beings have in society and the culture of which they are a part of. Rubin states that sexism is the general phenomenon in which females become “domesticated women”, or workhorses for men. Rubin wrote her influential essay The Traffic in Women in 1975, yet her definitions of sex, gender, and sexism are still applicable today. The issues that Rubin addressed are demonstrated in particular in today’s media, which reinforces gender inequality and objectification, through the depiction of women as hyper-sexualized, weak, and unskilled. This negative depiction of women exists especially in the gaming community, in which many have criticized the negative portrayal of women as sexist and severely problematic. Video games like Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption portray women in an almost exclusively violent and sexualized manner, which serves to reinforce the never-ending sexism and gender biases that society has upheld for centuries. Society as a whole can change the perception of gender and how women are perceived, but leaps towards progressive ideas need to be made first, starting with the video game industry as a whole. Throughout history, women’s roles have primarily been domestic – staying home and being responsible for the care of her husband and children. As Warnke...
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...American Realism The Civil War tore the country apart. Once America was reunited in 1865, there was a lot of healing that needed to take place to correct the wounds Americans had suffered at the hands of their kin. In these years there were still a lot of questions to answer and still a lot of truth to be found out about the nation itself. The questions of the place of African-Americans, white Americans, political Americans and every other kind of American out there was a source for constant frustration and violence. This is the background and the huge dust storm that American Realism rose out of. Prior to the Civil War, America was knee deep in the Romantic Movement which included writers such as Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville, Poe and Whitman. Their writings focused on the puritan aspects of their ancestors or of the dark romance and psychological perspectives writers such as Poe and Melville used. However, after the war, this movement began to fade and Realism increased as the choice reading of the people. This was due to multiple events and changes in culture that led to Americans looking for something better to relate to. The first event was the end of the Civil War. The Civil War showed the violent intentions men had towards each other and also showed the vulnerability of men and the nation and how ungodly man actually was. However, Realism did not begin immediately after the Civil War but rather took off in the 1880’s. So what happened in the 1880’s then? The 1880’s...
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...APOL 104 Critical Thinking Essay This term we have covered a reasonable amount of materials based on the different types of religions in the world. There are many religions that have strong views and principles, and in order to understand them we must have an open mind and a true understanding of their beliefs. For the purpose of this essay, I will focus on the world views of Islam and compare it to Christianity. Part I Islam is a traditional monotheistic religion that urbanized in the Middle East, Common Era was 622 A.D. According to the Arabic faith, Islam means “Submission” to the will of God . Followers of Islam are known as Muslims. They believe Islam was founded on the teachings of the last Holy Prophet Muhammad. Abraham, Moses and Jesus (to name a few) were also a series of prophets of Allah. Muslims believe “Allah” is the only God. He is the creator and sustainer of the world, Muhammad was his messenger. In Islam, Allah created mankind separate from animals. Animals are not abused nor killed. Muslims endeavor’s to live an Islamic lifestyle. They sustain their identity by believing Islam is the only way of life. They fully submitted to the will of Allah by being good and doing what’s right has human beings. Muslims seek knowledge and guidance from the sacred scriptures of Qur’an. Muslims hypothetical assumed the Bible became a misrepresentation of God. The Holy Prophet Muhammad repeated the words of God through the Angel Gabriel. Muhammad and ...
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...legal dispute without a final court decision. “Settlement payment,” in this essay, also refers to payments to governments because of fines or penalty. Usually, settlement achieves through negotiations among different parties through attorneys. When agreements are reached, “settlement payments” occur. Hence, people consider settlement payments as prices that one party pay to the others for their wrongful behaviors or violation of laws. For tax purposes, are settlement payments deductible? According to Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 162(a), any ordinary and necessary business or trading expenses are deductible during the current taxable year. That is to say if any settlement payments meet criterions of deduction under 162(a), but not in the exception of Section 162, should be deductible. In real court cases, IRS uses the exceptions of Section 162 to disallow settlement payments. Nowadays, more court cases and arguments appear to show that even though some settlement payments are in the exceptions of 162 (a), they can also be deducted. The relief of settle payments deductibility causes disagreements among tax professionals. Some believes settlement payments may be composed of deductible compensatory damages from non-deductible punitive damages; however, others worries that allowing deductibility may leads an indirect lesser penalty, because juries are unaware of tax benefits from deductions. This essay will mainly discuss the deductibility of settlement payments by explaining...
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...characters O’Connor has created, especially the Misfit and the grandmother. * Exercise a variety of critical thinking and analytical skills in order to form ideas and opinions about O’Connor’s story and her writing strategies. * Practice reading comprehension and summarization. * Employ and practice writing skills in an essay assignment. Necessary preparation: The teacher should have familiarized him or herself with Flannery O’Connor’s life and work before the lesson by using the links provided below. It is also important that the teacher review definitions of the terms characterization, irony, and foreshadowing (see below). Students are expected to have read Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” as well as her essay “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction” (1960). This lesson plan is designed to be split into two days of class, but if the teacher judges that not all the material is necessary or that it can be covered in one period, the lesson plan can be done in one day. Introductory activity – Day 1: For today the students should have read both O’Connor’s story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and her essay on the...
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...Kenneth Burke on Dramatism and Rhetorical Theory I find it regrettable that social scientists automatically ignore Aristotle's Rhetoric. I don't say Aristotle has given us the last word on these matters. But I submit that his actual treatment of topics is fundamentally correct. You could add new topics and develop accordingly. But what you got 2,000 years ago was the kind of approach that can be built on in principle. (Burke 1967:327). While researching many of Kenneth Burke’s books and essays I found that Burke's writings on rhetorical theory demonstrate his passionate concern with artistic communication within social life. His work provides a broad, useful approach for understanding various ways theorists have constructed in the development of their theories of how people use language within social contexts. The theory of Dramatism, constructed by Kenneth Burke, is one of the most radical and complex theories in communication studies. Kenneth Burke struggled for many years to build, reconstruct, and define the aspects of his theory. The use of different articles that either focus on certain aspects of Dramatism and rhetorical theory provide examples of how they can be applied, to simply make more sense of Burke’s concepts and in turn, assert its legitimacy as a very important interpretive theory. Undoubtedly, Dramatism has sparked much debate about rhetorical criticism. It is also undeniable that the heart of Burke’s research and the theory of Dramatism in general is...
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...Short Essay on Inspiration and Inerrancy of the Bible Living in a Fallen world, people tend to search for answers to life’s questions in places they should not be looking. This causes them to belittle the actual source of answers God has provided for us, the Bible. I find it hard to explain God’s authority to an unbelieving individual talk less of the Bible’s authority. If a person doesn’t believe the bible, it can be a task to convince them that it has any authority. It is easy to explain the authority of the government or police, because these are authorities they are subject to and they can see, but when to comes to the authority of God and the bible, it is a different perspective. God has given us the Bible as a gift of love for us His children to follow until He comes back. It is the divine truth to all of humanity. The Bible is God’s revelation in written form to man. That is where the authority of the Bible comes from, the divine revelation of God Himself. Biblical inspiration is the doctrine in Christian theology concerned with the divine origin of the bible and what it teaches. Compared to the modern definition of inspiration, which is the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something especially to do something creative, biblical inspiration is God breathed, divine influence of the Holy spirit. God revealed Himself to selected people whom he had inspired to write the books of the Bible. In 2 Peter 1:21 the bible says for prophecy never had it’s origin...
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...Mikaela R. Ponton Professor Gopal Kunji Kanan GENE 100 Making of the Christian Mind 16 October 2015 Christian Biblical Worldview Essay In older to understand the concept of a biblical worldview, we have to understand the definition of worldview itself. A worldview as a commitment to a basic view about reality. In other words, one can say that worldview are of an importance in the world we live in and it is something that humans cannot live without. A worldview is a set of assumptions and commitments to an emotional, ethical, and spiritual orientation. This means that it something that has to be presented to the world as a new idea of the world should be run according to the people. The interesting part about it is that it is something that can be expressed as a story or a set of logical presuppositions about what we believe. This means that we have the abilities to portray the following ideal according to how well we are able to understand them. This is really important for us because we need understanding of why we have to follow a worldview in order to live it unto God’s will. (Piper) So what exactly is the main function of a worldview? Some philosophers think that it is a built-in grid that filters information and arguments and puts a particular twist on what we consider to be facts or how we interpret the thing we perceive. That is something that fall within the lines of comprehension and knowledge of the world around us. It is an essential concept...
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...In his essay, Dostoyevsky Our Great in Contemporary, Octavio Paz discusses some of the ways in which Dostoyevsky’s work has remained iconic even throughout the twentieth century, one century after his death. Written from the perspective of one of Mexico’s greatest poet and essayist, Paz words carry great weight. Particularly, his detailed appreciation for Dostoyevsky’s work enforces the idea that his work was truly timeless, rather than belonging to a specific time in history. And though he mentions there are other really great writers who have successfully engaged readers through different writing styles, Paz argues that Dostoyevsky is able to engage even a wide variety of unique writers by connecting to a common feeling of humanity in his...
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...demonstrated by BP in the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico SECTION 1: Introduction The explosion on the Deepwater Horizontal rig on 20 April 2010 led to a serious consequence. A large area of oil spill spread through the Gulf of Mexico. Unfortunately, this accident killed 11 people. (BP Global, 2010) Generally speaking, BP on the surface achieve the highest level of CSR, the discretionary responsibility which is the highest level in the pyramid of CSR. It includes economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic (discretionary) responsibilities (From bottom to the top) (Carroll, 1999, as cited by Lindgreen, et al, 2009). However, comments from the public and the US government appear to be unsatisfactory to the action taken by BP in this case. This essay will analysis the social responsibility demonstrated by BP by first looking at three journal articles from 2000 to 2010 written by Bird, Hall, Momente and Reggiani (2007); Shen and Chang (2009); and Udayasankar (2008), to further elaborate the insights in the articles and the academic theories into the application of the oil spill case in the Gulf of Mexico SECTION 2: Corporate Social Responsibility Article one Bird, Hall, Momente and Reggiani (2007) examine in their article the relationship between CSR activities and market performance. And the article explain what types of CSR activities the companies done will resulting in a better market performance. Research from the article shows that the market actually did not have a immediate...
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...ITM UNIVERSITY UPARWARA, NEW RAIPUR Syllabus for MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION EFFECTIVE FROM THE SESSION: 2012-2013 Semester –I ITM UNIVERSITY, NEW RAIPUR Master of Business Administration Semester –I List of subject for Academic Session 2012 – 13. Serial No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. List of Subjects Principles of Management Managerial Economics Financial Accounting Environment Management Quantitative Techniques Business Legislation Communication Skills- I Computers for Managers ITM UNIVERSITY, RAIPUR Master of Business Administration Subject: Principles of Management Semester-I Unit I Introduction - Nature, function, definition and importance of management, Definition, nature, purpose and scope of management, Functions of a manager, an overview of planning, organizing, staffing leading and controlling. Is management a science or art? Unit II Development of Management Thought - Scientific management; Contribution of Taylor, Fayol, Mary Follet, Elton Mayo; Hawthorne experiments, Contingency approach, Indian heritage in production and consumption. Management and administration, Management as a profession, Professionalism of management in India, Management ethics and management culture, Skills required of manager, Classification of skills, Methods of skills development. Unit III Management Planning - Concept of planning, objectives, Nature, Types of plan, Stages involved in planning, Characteristics of a good plan, Importance, Limitations of planning, Making...
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...Assignment on Project Management(PJTM-402) Topic: Project Proposal Submission Submitted To: Mr. Md. Sarwar Uddin Assistant Professor Faculty of Business Administration BGC Trust University Bangladesh Submitted By: Smile Group ID Name of group member Remarks 1016124 Md. Kamal Uddin 1016145 Md. Rashedul Karim Rakil 1016147 Ismail Mohammad 1016099 Afroja Sultana 1016115 Prianka Das 1016141 Sadia Begum 1016177 Dipa Deb Bormon 1015028 Sufia Sultana Date of Submission: October 26, 2013 Letter of Transmittal October 26, 2013 Mr. Dhiman Borua Lecturer Faculty of Business Administration BGC Trust University Bangladesh BGC Biddyanagar Campus Subject: Submission of group Assignment Dear Sir, We are glad to inform you that we have completed our group assignment on “Project Proposal Submission”. We have gathered extensive knowledge while we were doing this assignment. Though there was some limitation and difficulties but we tried our level best to eliminate those limitations with your help and your guidelines. We also express my honest confirmation in support of the fact that the said Assignment has neither been used before to fulfill any other course related purpose nor it will be submitted to any other person or authority in future. Yours sincerely, ………………………………… Md. Kamal Uddin (Group leader) On Behalf of “Smile Group” BBA , 7th Semester(sec:B), 16th Batch Faculty of Business Administration. Table of contents ...
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