...powers and colonial officials forced peoples of different societies to deal with their colonizers on a regular and systematic basis. These interactions provoked a variety of responses from Africans. 1. Traditions and Encounters; Jerry H. Bentley and Herbert F. Ziegler; 2006; McGraw-Hill 2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica Inquiry Question: How did Africans react to European imperialism? Part I - Working with Four Source Documents[1] Document #1: From a letter from one African leader to another in German South West-Africa. 1904 All our obedience and patience with the Germans is of no use for each day they shoot someone dead for no reason at all. So, I appeal to you my Brother, not to ignore the uprising, but to make your voice heard so that all Africa may take up arms against the Germans. Let us die fighting rather than die as a result of bad treatment, imprisonment, or some other calamity. (Disaster). Tell all the chiefs down there to rise and do battle. -Source: Samuel Maherero, a leader of the Herero people. Question: What does this source say about how Africans responded to European Imperialism? Document #2: From a speech to chiefs by an African queen mother, 1900 Now I have seen that some of you fear to go forward and fight for our King. If it were in the brave days of old, chiefs would not...
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...wrtg101 Writing Assignment 1 Autobiographical Essay Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwaid.com/shop/wrtg101-writing-assignment-1-autobiographical-essay/ Writing Assignment #1: Autobiographical Essay Writing assignment #1 will be an essay in which you describe an event or person you have encountered in your past work experiences or experiences in your community. This essay is informed in part by an article from Mark Gellis, “Autobiographical Writing in the Technical Writing Class.” That article is in the ereserves section of this class. A Brief Introduction to the Strategies for this Essay: In his essay, “Autobiographical Writing in the Technical Writing Class,” Gillis writes that “An essay...is written not only to explain, but often to record and reveal the author’s personal interaction with the subject” (p. 326). You will accomplish these steps in your essay. You will record and reveal your interaction with the topic about which you are writing. Gellis notes on page 327 that writing a story or narrative of one’s past can help one’s professional growth. A goal of this essay is to help you understand your goals in pursuing the degree you are pursuing at UMUC by describing and analyzing a work or community experience you have had in the past. Examples of previous students who have written this type of analysis are given below. Overall, if you read the following article by Gellis in our ereserves section of the class, you will have a good understanding of how to...
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...The Narrative Essay The narrative essay is simply a complete account of an incident or incidents contained in one cohesive essay. The narrative essay is useful when writing an incident report, such as an automobile accident or a criminal action. By far, one of the best uses of the narrative is when introducing the thesis for a longer work, i.e. a research paper. Your audience for this essay is your fellow classmates and the teacher. Assignment Write a narrative essay, the purpose of which is the serve as evidence for the position you have taken on an issue. The issue in the sample essay is how the writer lost his teeth. The essay must be a minimum of 380 words and no more than 400 words. You will superscript the number of the comma rule that justifies it over each comma. When you turn in your final draft, you must turn in a minimum 100-word, process paragraph expressing what you learned as a result of this assignment. Learning Objectives • To format documents correctly in accordance with MLA; • To understand the structure of a narrative paragraph; • To understand your own unique voice (syntax and tone); • To eliminate sentence fragments, run-ons, and comma splices; • To eliminate point of view errors; • To eliminate verb tense errors; • To eliminate punctuation errors – commas; • To have fun. The Narrative Structure A narrative is a story, and like a story has a definite underlying structure. The parts of a narrative are the situation, conflict...
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...Running head: WRITING AN ARGUMENT Writing an Argument University of Phoenix Management 521 June 05, 2011 Writing an Argument: Option 1 Planning a strategy to write a successful argument starts off by merging deductive reasoning—which presents-related principles that coincide with the writer’s main point of view, and inductive reasoning—which shows proof of the writer’s point of view. “This style of writing an argument will effectively assist in building up tactics like: cause and effect or problem and solution; eventually helping the writer gain the reader’s understanding of “why” his or her point of view was formed [ (Spatt, Writing the Research Essay, 2011) ].” Cause and Effect or problem and solution Cause and effect or problem and solution are basically the same. This tactic verifies an informal relationship of two opposing positions. The opinion usually solves any uncertainty to the reader about “why?” For example, in the first class our group split up into two teams. Team Joe, Joe and Kurt were acting as the debate team in support of Wikipedia as a credible resource for research. Team Lisa, Lisa and Laurie were acting as the debate team against Wikipedia as a credible resource for research. Joe and Kurt’s debate attempted to solve listener’s uncertainty regarding “why” Wikipedia is a credible resource for research. Team Lisa’s debate attempted to solve listener’s uncertainty about “why” Wikipedia is not a credible resource for research. Team Joe mentioned...
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...Yvan Cruz March 13, 2012 Essay #2 Many of us have one in our living room, kitchen, bedrooms and even the garage of our homes. No family can live without one. Can you guess what it is? If you thought of television then you are correct. Nowadays, television is the media’s most powerful influential tool throughout the world. On the one hand, television is used for entertaining; encourages family gathering and it is a great way to socialize with friends. In addition, television is very persuasive, has limited points of views, and has negative repercussions. For instance, in her essay, “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” Amy Goldwasser claims that young people are strong critical thinkers when it comes to the manipulation between the media and them. On the contrary, Naomi Rockler-Gladen’s essay “Me Against the Media” states that young people are being easily manipulated by tons of consumer advertising from the media. At the same time I believe Goldwasser’s claim that we are strong critical thinkers, I also believe that the manipulation keeps progressing through people’s lives. We as human beings have the choice to let the media manipulate us however, we also have the choice to stop the manipulation. Not only has the media used television to manipulate us, it has also used the Internet. The Internet is much more powerful than television due to all the social networks on there. Literally, it seems like many people have forgotten the fun of being outdoors because...
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...Tiffany Stanley Cox College Composition Essay #2 25 September 2015 The night I didn’t call for help Dear Diary, It was a cool crisp spring morning on March 27th, the street lights were flickering as I walked home from work. I had a very long day at work, and I couldn’t wait to get home to my bed. I usually get off work at midnight but was held over as usual, and much longer than I had planned to be. I looked at my watch, it read 2:50am. I had just a few more blocks and I could crawl into bed, “I said to myself.” As I approached my apartment door I saw a silhouette of a person standing at the corner of the parking lot. Thinking to myself, “Why in the world would someone be out this late?” I couldn’t make out who it was, so I went inside. I took my shoes off and changed into my night clothes. Just as I was crawling into bed I heard a scream. I flipped on my bedside lamp and ran to the window to see what was going on, and why someone was screaming at this hour. Outside the street lights were still flickering, which made it very hard for me to see anything. The person from the corner when I entered my apartment was no longer there, and the screaming had stopped. The streets were actually deserted, so I crawled back into my bed and laid there wide awake, staring up at the ceiling. I was unable to fall asleep now due to hearing screams from outside. So I picked up my book from the nightstand and began reading. I must have dozed off because I was woken by another horrifying...
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...colleagues and customers to live healthier livesOpen Lead in reducing food waste globally * ------------------------------------------------- Our Essentials Trading responsibly: Tesco trade responsibly by putting our customers first and working with our suppliers to innovate and provide high quality products Reducing our impact on the environment: We are reducing our impact on the environment aiming to be a zero-carbon business by 2050 and using scarce resources responsibly, including in our supply chain Being a great employer: We are a great employer creating inspiring work that makes our colleagues happy and proud of what they do Supporting local communities: We support our local communities by being a good neighbour and running our business to the highest standards * Tesco has signed a £28 million deal with CA Technologies, adopting the vendor's systems management tools as a global standard. The UK retail giant has been a CA customer for 20 years, and has used its Unicenter systems management platform to support international operations since 2005. “We rely on CA Technologies software to tame a very big, distributed, heterogeneous infrastructure," explained Tesco CIO Mike McNamara in a statement. "We are very pleased to extend our long-standing relationship with CA Technologies into a third decade." CA says that products covered by the new deal include its service assurance system (used...
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...Transcendental Phenomenology and Antonioni’s Red Desert This essay applies the ideas associated with transcendental phenomenology to the Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964 film Il deserto rosso, known in English as Red Desert. Aspects of western philosophy can provide a viewer with a greater appreciation of the film and its meanings. After providing a brief overview of the development of phenomenological thinking and of past interpretations of Red Desert, this essay will provide an analysis and interpretation of the film’s cinematography –specifically its colours and editing– from a phenomenological point of view. Phenomenology maintains that experience is both passive –seeing, hearing, and so on– and active –walking, running, touching, and so on. One describes experience and interprets experience by relating it to a context, which is usually social or linguistic. The word phenomenology originates with the Greek word phainomenon, which means ‘appearance.’ Phenomenology is, then, the study of appearances rather than the study of reality. In the eighteenth century, thinkers such as Immanuel Kant and Johann Fichte began to seriously consider phenomenology as a theory of appearances, and to consider it essential to acquiring knowledge. Phenomenology has its origins, certainly, with debates regarding what exists in reality and what is an illusion. John Locke believed that qualities such as colors, sounds, smells, and so on were subjective, and were not indigenous to objects...
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...Finding New York SUSANNAH GRIFFEE T he Port Authority, Central Park, subway stations, Broadway, Coney Island, Brooklyn Bridge, Downtown, Times Square, JFK: Colson Whitehead’s essays tunnel into the heart of New York City, revealing it to be both a bastion of cruelty and an alluring symbol of hope, both an executioner of dreams and a mother of new beginnings. Whitehead writes about the city as if it were human, and about its people as if they were buildings. Yet these personifications constantly interchange. Whitehead never represents living beings as wholly mechanical, or the city as wholly human. The key to this interchange lies in the way Whitehead projects his own reality upon the city, and his own multifaceted identity upon the legions of anonymous selves that populate the city’s streets. Whitehead’s constant creation and re-creation of characters and metaphors reveal a fear of being held to one identity, to one existence. And behind this urge to escape a solidified selfhood lies a desire to evade the confines of time, the inevitability of death. This yearning marks where our version of reality and Whitehead’s version overlap. It is the one immutable monument in a city of constantly shifting perceptions. From the very beginning, Whitehead dismantles the vision of New York as a glittering, perfect metropolis. He writes about New York as a complex force rather than a commercialized idea, as a being capable of doling out both salvation and destruction. In...
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...Studieportalen.dk The Red Line The Red Line is a short story written by Charles Higson in 1993. It takes place in the centre of London. We are following three different points of views, from three completely different people. In the beginning of the story we are in Oval where we meet this cherub looking guy. His skin is white as milk, he is plumb and he has got golden curly locks on his head. He is very vain and does not tolerate any body hair. He is also very obsessed about being clean and washes himself twice a day to be so. His biggest interest is karaoke. Every Friday night he goes to The Brunswick to sing songs by Bob Seger, his big hero. He studies the music videos to do the dance moves perfectly, and when he is singing karaoke, he feels superior. We are also told that he is a racist. It seems very important to him to be as white and as clean as possible. Also, when The Brunswick is being made into a dance club instead of a karaoke club, he talks about “black disco music” being something disgusting. Later on he also talks about the Italian man, Berto, and that he looks like a monkey with all his body hair. He feels that people like Berto, visitors as well as immigrants, are ruining London. Berto is an Italian guy who comes to London to visit Cathy, an English girl he met in Venice. They had a holiday relationship and spend a lot of time together, especially in bed. Berto does not understand a lot of English, and little does he speak it, but he did understand to...
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...Running head: Hearing and Visual Hearing and Visual Impairment Bonnie J. Hatch Grand Canyon University SPE 526 May 19, 2010 Abstract The abstract of this essay will include information on hearing and visual impairments. It will explain the legal definition of both, the impact that hearing and visual impairment have on a person’s development and education achievement, how humans hear and see and the degrees, types and causes of each. The essay will also go into detailed by supplying a lesson plan which will include the objectives/goals, accommodations/modifications, strategies, assessments, activities as well as including brief description of the student by submitting the student’s age, grade, disability strength, and weaknesses. Hearing and Visual Impairments Hearing is a complex process of changing sound waves into the neural signals which can be translated by the brain into sounds. Within the inner ear is the Cochlea, which changes sound waves into neutral signals. The signals are sent to the brain through the auditory nerve. Where the visual impairment is also a complex process, light enters the eye through the pupil and is collected by photoreceptor neurons in the retina. Signals are then sent to a neuron network that then generates electrical impulses which goes to the brain. The legal definition of a hearing impairment is “a full or partial decrease in the ability to detect or understand sounds. It can range from a mild hearing loss to total deafness”...
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...Running head: THEORIES OF INTELLIGENCE Theories of Intelligence Anthony Dillon The University of Southern Queensland Abstract The concept of intelligence is regarded by psychologists as one of the more important individual difference measures that support predictions regarding a person’s potential for academic and other achievements in life. But what exactly is intelligence? Despite its importance, it is an entity that is not easily defined. To help define intelligence, researchers have developed theories that attempt to more fully explain its dynamic nature. This essay critically evaluates some of the well-known theories of intelligence: Spearman’s two-factor theory, Thurstone’s theory of primary mental abilities, Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, and Sternberg’s triarchic theory. The theories are discussed in terms of their relevance to the study of intelligence as well as their strengths and weaknesses. While none of the theories presented can specifically pinpoint what intelligence is, each theory is useful in revealing a different face of this important but elusive human characteristic. Theories of Intelligence Although intelligence is a long-standing topic in psychology (Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, 1982), a satisfactory definition of intelligence remains elusive (Carroll, 1993; Fogarty, 1999). However, several descriptions have been offered that allow a brief insight into what intelligence may be related to. For example, Eysenck...
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...------------------------------------------------- Engelsk A Studentereksamen 2. delprøve kl. 09.00 - 14.00 Mandag den 27. maj 2013 kl. 9.00 – 14.00 ------------------------------------------------- Answer either A or B ------------------------------------------------- A Write an essay (900-1200 words) in which you analyse and interpret Bridget Keehan's short story "Sorry for the Loss". Part of your essay must focus on the narrative technique and the use of contrasts. Text Bridget Keehan, "Sorry for the Loss", 2008 ------------------------------------------------- B Write an essay (900-1200 words) in which you analyse and comment on Susan Cheever's essay "My Little Bit of Country". Part of your essay must focus on the use of contrasts and the themes explored in the text. Text Susan Cheever, "My Little Bit of Country", 2012 Teksternes ortografi og tegnsætning følger forlæggene. Trykfejl er dog rettet. Opsætningen følger ikke nødvendigvis forlæggene. Dog følges forlægget nøje, hvor opsætningen på den ene eller anden måde indgår i opgaven. Teksternes ortografi og tegnsætning følger forlæggene. Trykfejl er dog rettet. Opsætningen følger ikke nødvendigvis forlæggene. Dog følges forlægget nøje, hvor opsætningen på den ene eller anden måde indgår i opgaven. A Bridget Keehan is a writer who lives in Cardiff, Wales. The short story is from Eagle in the Maze ‒ An Anthology of Stories from the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition...
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...Daisies, admits that she often finds herself in the kitchen reading soup-can labels—or anything—in order to prolong the moments before taking pen in hand. John C. Calhoun, vice president under Andrew Jackson, insisted he had to plow his fields before he could write, and Joseph Conrad, author of Lord Jim and other novels, is said to have cried on occasion from the sheer dread of sitting down to compose his stories. To spare you as much hand-wringing as possible, this chapter presents some practical suggestions on how to begin writing your short essay. Although all writers must find the methods that work best for them, you may find some of the following ideas helpful. But no matter how you actually begin putting words on paper, it is absolutely essential to maintain two basic ideas concerning your writing task. Before you write a single sentence, you should always remind yourself that 1. You have some valuable ideas to tell your reader, and 2. More than anything, you want to communicate those ideas to your reader. These reminders may seem obvious to you, but without a solid commitment to your own opinions as well as to your reader, your prose will be lifeless and boring. If you don’t care about your subject, you can’t very well expect anyone else to. Have confidence that your ideas are worthwhile and that your reader genuinely...
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...Treatment of Bipolar Disorder - 1 Running Head: TREATMENT OF A MOOD DISORDER Treatment of Bipolar Disorder Frances Watson Psychology 201, Summer 2009 Professor Kiely July 17, 2009 Paper submitted to Prof. Kiely for Psychology 201, 8/17/2010 Treatment of Bipolar Disorder - 2 Abstract This essay will be reviewing the ways in which persons with the mood disorder bipolar disorder are given treatment for their illness. The stages of treatment, components, and results of treating bipolar disorder, or BD, will be explored. Bipolar treatment varies between children and adolescents and adults, therefore the various treatments are unique and not specified in this essay. A brief description of the symptoms, the disorder itself, and ways in which it is diagnosed will also be discussed. We will be focusing on Bipolar I Disorder for the purposes of this paper. Paper submitted to Prof. Kiely for Psychology 201, 8/17/2010 Treatment of Bipolar Disorder - 3 Introduction Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a mood disorder that causes shifts in mood from mania to depression. During times of mania, one feels as if they are on a “high” and experience a high level of energy, racing thoughts, are easily distracted, and have a decreased need for sleep. During times of depression, one feels a decreased level of energy and activity, as well as low-self esteem. Various sources indicate variable types of bipolar disorder, but the main ones are: ♦ Bipolar I Disorder:...
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