...Majoring in the field of Sociology, reminds me of some similarities it has in relation to cosmogony. They share in common information of our world without quantifiable science such as physics and perhaps political science. Cosmogony, studies a series of models which include the origin of the evolution of the universe. In this essay, I will highlight three cosmogonic narratives titled, Eli Obe, of the Yoruba culture, Facing Mt. Kenya Tribal Origin and Kinship System (Gikuyu) and Sundiata - An Epic of Old Mali. All three narratives present food for thought as to the stories or theories of the development of our world. The first narrative titled Eji Obe, depicts the creation of the universe through the all mighty Olodumare. Olodumare sends his...
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...One day I was driving with my eight-year-old brother to the store and he began to talk to me about Christopher Columbus and how they are learning that he discovered America in school. He looked at me straight in the eye with a confused face and said “that's not what he did Esme he was a murderer,” he knew this because when my sisters and I would talk about certain aspects of history he was there listening to everything. This was around the same time that we were discussing censorship through school curriculum so I felt that if my little brother understood it then other children could too. When he was talking about this it sounded a lot like the class was learning from a hegemonic device. School is where kids are being taught the “history” of how America came to be a diverse country. Through the course Culture Power and School Knowledge, one can see that the “history” being taught through the Master Narrative is one-sided. The Master Narrative focuses on “history” that comes from the people who hold power therefore excluding the actual experiences of the people of color meaning that it is a hegemonic device. Being a...
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...Analysis of Fredrick Douglass’s Narrative David W. Blight is a professor, who teaches as of November 2, 2015 American History at Yale University. Blight obtained his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1985 with a thesis titled “Keeping Faith in Jubilee : Fredrick Douglass and the Meaning of the Civil War.”Before Yale University, he taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. He has wrote many annotated editions on slavery and as of late, he is working on another biography of Fredrick Douglass.He has received a handful of awards, these include: Lincoln Prize,Bancroft Prize,Fredrick Douglass Prize, Merle Curti award and James A. Rawley prize. Anyhow The introduction by David Blight was very well constructed and It would’ve helped if...
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...It is common to classify “Hispanics/Latinos” into a single category; however, these people come from a variety of countries, have their own cultures, and can even speak a variety of languages. It is important to remember that these people are human beings like any other group of people and they have their own unique lives and stories. These stories are rather important as they tell us the harsh reality of immigration through personal narratives, and many Hispanic immigrants like sharing their stories to inform others and give themselves a voice. Personal narratives tell us that Hispanic immigration to the United States needs to be reformed promptly. These narratives tell us that immigration will never end despite the current US government’s...
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...Literacy Narrative Literacy Narrative The feeling of accomplishment was overwhelming. I vividly remember the feelings of hopelessness and despair that would plague me when I thought that I would never accomplish my goal of being fluent in French. Year after year I made the same New Year’s resolution, to learn French, but by the end of March all that remained where hopes and dreams. Every year a new edition of a audio learning courses was neatly organized in the attic to catalogue another failed attempt. It wasn't until 2012 when I was given an attractively packaged computer assisted language learning software that changed my failed attempts into an attainable reality. The software was called Rosetta Stone and instead of memorizing a list of words or mindless phrases it focused on true power of language literacy. It became clear to me that my Spanish literacy would make mastering the complexities of French sentence syntax, verb conjugation, and noun-adjective agreement simple. I had never really thought about sentence syntax! During the first French lessons I realized how similar the sentence structures between Spanish and French mirrored each other. Growing up in a bilingual house my parents decided to place me in extra Spanish classes to ensure that I could effectively communicate in Spanish. At times I would use my Spanish teachings, placing verbs ahead of the nouns, to creating some very formal sounding English expressions. As I advanced in both my English and Spanish...
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...A Rose for Emily: 1st Essay A Rose for Emily is a short narrative written by William Faulkner, an American writer from Mississippi. This story tells the story of Emily Grierson who belongs to a southern aristocratic family. Emily was a weird but an extremely interesting woman who no one could be able to get the best of her. Even though she was a rude dissociable outsider who lost all her beloved ones and left alone in a society that outer appearances and social class were considered major aspects in people’s lives, she found a way to survive and maintain her strength. Through the events of the story you can realize the hardships Emily had gone through and all the unpleasant things that happened to her either from strangers or acquaintances. When I first read this story I gave a part of my time focusing on the title and what this piece of narrative might be about. Is it about roses? Is it a love story? Is it a funeral? Who is Emily and why she got flowers? Anyhow, for some reason, the word “Roses” stood up in the title and many questions came to my mind whether these roses symbolized something of what I thought it would. Are these roses from Emily’s beloved? Are they from people in a funeral? Or did she use to plant them in her garden? And what is really interesting is that the title was intriguing and encouraged me to read the story in order to find out what did those roses symbolize in William Faulkner’s short story. From the title, I came up with a scenario of what...
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...FXT2 Task 2 Follow-Up re: Human Resources Data Modification 1. Identify areas that were not addressed by the IT staff’s response to the incident. Based on the narrative, the only corrective measure the company implemented was PKI. As noted in the original evaluation, several areas need to be addressed: * Climate/culture of the organization * Employee training for social engineering attacks * Positive identification of employees when granting role-based access * Vulnerabilities within and without the network, specifically to sniffers and eavesdropping * The ease with which the employee changed his pay rate, indicating a single system used for HR profiles rather than segregated duties & systems * The PKI that was installed only addressed the HR system, rather than the entire organization Honestly, the whole environment at this company needs a complete evaluation and overhaul! 2. Outline the other attacks mentioned in the scenario that were not noticed by the organization. * Social Engineering * Sniffing/Eavesdropping * Unauthorized Privilege Escalation * Network Penetration * Spoofing a. Describe the nature of the attacks not noticed by the organization. By “the nature of the attacks” I interpret this to mean the source of the attacks, or the skillset required to carry out the attacks. I believe this employee was tenured based on their ability to: * Hack into the HR system * Successfully intercept the email from...
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...Film Log – ARTH 334 (rev 22 Mar 2014 ) The Black Pirate (1926) Name: Director: Albert Parker Producer: Douglas Fairbanks Cinematography: Henry Sharp Editor: William Nolan Fencing master: Fred Cavens Writer: Douglas Fairbanks (as Elton Thomas), Jack Cunningham Starring: Douglas Fairbanks (The Duke of Arnoldo/The Black Pirate) ; Billie Dove (Princess Isobel ), Anders Randolf (Pirate Captain); Donald Crisp (MacTavish); Sam De Grasse (Pirate Lieutenant) Studio: Elton Corp. , distributors: United Artists Details: Silent w/ English intertitles, two-tone Technicolor and B&W, 1 hr 22 min Notes: * final kiss w/ Princess Isobel > Mary Pickford * longboat crew >> sailors from USS Arizona • The fight choreographer is the great Fred Cavens. He and colleague Bob Anderson are almost single-handedly responsible for the best sword fights on film from the 1920s to 2000. Cavens was fencing master for every important Zorro from Doug Fairbanks (1920) to Tyrone Power (1940) to Guy Williams (1957-1961; Disney). After Cavens’ death, Anderson took on the next great Zorro: Antonio Banderas. Read BEFORE watching the movie. Bennett, Carl. “The Black Pirate (1926)”[review]. Silent Era. 2010. Web. 22 Mar 2014. http://www.silentera.com/video/blackPirateHV.html (Read article in left sidebar & review of Blu-Ray Disc.) • First major featured film produced in Technicolor • A black & white film was also shot in...
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...I read it but I don’t get it[1] The title of my article is a title of a book by Cris Tovani but more of that later! I want to explore why I feel that Ken Rowe’s literacy report misses the complexity of literacy development in young people– at least from my secondary perspective. Of course he covers some bases and on the surface suggests a balanced approach. He is also right that teachers need to be better educated about reading practices. However, the emphasis on phonics which has been widely reported in the media appears disproportionate to its usefulness. Some students can manage to read and spell without phonics so why do we need to occupy their brains with phonemes or phonic practices. Others need them. The informed primary teacher differentiates accordingly. What Ken Rowe does not focus on is the literacy needs of young people in secondary schools where decoding is less of a problem than comprehension. For many students reading is meaningless – particularly fiction. The Four Resource Model of Allan Luke and Peter Freebody[2] outlines what students need to do as they read: Effective literacy draws on a repertoire of practices that allow learners, as they engage in reading and writing activities, to: • break the code of texts: recognising and using the fundamental features and architecture of written texts including: alphabet, sounds in words, spelling, conventions and patterns of sentence structure and text • participate in the meanings...
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...Rebecca Hower Professor Hamilton Narrative Essay Rough Draft 16 September 2013 Narrative Essay When I was seven years old, my parents decided to cut my hair short. I was very anxious. I hopped on the bus the next morning and kept my hood up. Then, someone pulled my hood down from behind. Everyone started hysterically laughing and pointing at me. “Are you a boy?” an older girl had asked from behind. “Do you like girls?” a younger boy inquired. The kids were so unpleasant. I continued to keep my head up high and keep smiling. Bullying is an event that still occurs after high school. When I was in sixth grade, I had a circle of three best friends. We would spend every day together, hanging out, having sleepovers, etc. The third marking period, I started having problems. I had accidentally said a “bad word.” These three girls started to laugh at me. “You said a bad word” the girls joked as they pinned me against the gym wall. One of the girls tattled and told my teacher, and continued to antagonize me more. “I am sick” I told my mom when I woke up every morning. Eventually, my parents figured out that I was not sick and called the school. “We need to figure this out” my parents screamed on the phone with my school. A few weeks later, not only was the school involved, but the cops were as well. Not only did they talk to me, but they talked to the group of girls. The girls all tried to deny that they were bullying me. “We didn’t do it” the girls cried. “We never did any of...
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...The Art of Listening I CAME to Africa with one purpose: I wanted to see the world outside the perspective of European egocentricity. I could have chosen Asia or South America. I ended up in Africa because the plane ticket there was cheapest. I came and I stayed. For nearly 25 years I’ve lived off and on in Mozambique. Time has passed, and I’m no longer young; in fact, I’m approaching old age. But my motive for living this straddled existence, with one foot in African sand and the other in European snow, in the melancholy region of Norrland in Sweden where I grew up, has to do with wanting to see clearly, to understand. The simplest way to explain what I’ve learned from my life in Africa is through a parable about why human beings have two ears but only one tongue. Why is this? Probably so that we have to listen twice as much as we speak. In Africa listening is a guiding principle. It’s a principle that’s been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else. From my own experience, I’ve noticed how much faster I have to answer a question during a TV interview than I did 10, maybe even 5, years ago. It’s as if we have completely lost the ability to listen. We talk and talk, and we end up frightened by silence, the refuge of those who are at a loss for an answer. I’m old enough to remember when South American literature emerged in popular consciousness and changed forever our view of the human...
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...The Preexistence of Jesus: Jesus’ Divine Origin and Identity in the Gospel of Mark Andrew Kutz REL 371 - New Testament Dr. Jason Bruner February 27, 2015 Introduction Bart Ehrman, a New Testament scholar and author of The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Church Writings, was once a strong proponent of the view that the Gospel of John, alone, presents Jesus as divine: Until a year ago I would have said – and frequently did say, in the classroom, in public lectures, and in my writings – that Jesus is portrayed as God in the Gospel of John but not, definitely not, in the other Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Nevertheless, over the course of writing his book How Jesus Became God, Ehrman admitted to a change of perspective, saying, “These [Synoptic] Gospels do indeed think of Jesus as divine.”As far as this statement, Ehrman and I agree. He does, however, clarify his position, as he posits a viewpoint that I will attempt to refute. For Mark, Jesus was adopted to be God’s son at his baptism. Before that, he was a mere mortal. For Luke, Jesus was conceived by God and so was literally God’s son, from the point of his conception. (In Luke Jesus did not exist prior to that conception to the virgin – his conception is when he came into existence). For John, Jesus was a pre-existent divine being – the Word of God who was both with God and was God at the beginning of all things – who became a human. Here he is not born of a virgin...
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...Introduction to Pastoral Theology (P7101B) Assessment 2 – Class Presentation DEFINITION OF MISSIO DEI What is ‘missio dei’? It is a Latin theological term, which literally means ‘the mission (or the sending) of God’. Although the concept is as old as the Bible itself, the theology of missio dei originated in an essay written by noted theologian Karl Barth in 1932. It did not gain wide acceptance until 1952, when it was presented at the Willingen Conference of the International Missionary Council Meeting. Throughout history, God has been working towards the restoration of His creation – this is the essence of missio dei. God has been calling on His people, from within and beyond the church, to take part in this ongoing mission to build His Kingdom on earth. David Bosch in ‘Transforming Mission’, defines missio dei as: “God the Father sending the Son, God the Father and the Son sending the Spirit, and the Father, Son and Holy Spirit sending the church into the world”. He goes on to state that, “Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God. Mission is thereby seen as a movement from God to the world; the church is viewed as an instrument for that mission. There is church because there is mission, not vice versa. To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God’s love toward people, since God is a fountain of sending...
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...The best experience: Narrative When I was 7 years old, I had my best experience. I went on a holiday with my family, so it was very special for me. We went there by plane. It was so comfortable but a bit noisy. First, we went our hotel. It was a very big pool and it is located near the sea. On the first day, we didlots of different activities. I enjoyed very much. On the second day, I went to scuba-diving with my father. It was fascinating. At night, we went to one of the most famous restaurants in the region and had wonderful meals. We stayed there for a week. After one week, we returned to our home. It was the best memory of my childhood and I'll never forget my first holiday with my family. The worst experience: Narrative I went to the Emergency Room for the first time when I was eleven years old. When I was riding a bike in front of my grandmother's house, I tried to do a trick. I messed it up in the end and headed to the ground with my hands down. I fell hard on the ground, my left wrist was twisted the wrong way. At first it did not hurt at all, but a short time later when I looked at my warped and twisted ankles, sudden excruciating pain, my whole body was wrapped. Rolling around on the ground yelling and cussing in pain, my parents saw what happened and came running to my aid. After about ten minutes of yelling and screaming, I finally got up and held my wrist as I walked to the car. The whole way to the hospital the pain got worse and worse. Later I foound out the...
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...Instructions – Individual BPR Assignment High-Level Requirements: 1. This is an individual assignment, due as shown on the syllabus. After completing the assignment you are to submit the results to Canvas Assignment Section. 2. The assignment contains two parts: The first are the instructions (this document labeled Week 11 Assignment Instructions). The second is the answer template you are required to use and is labeled Week 11 Assignment Answer Template. The answer template contains both the problem statement and the solution template. Do not send me other files such as a Visio or PDF file. All your diagrams and tables are to be presented in this assignment template (a PowerPoint file) – this constitutes your assignment. The Database Intro file is intended to give you the database concept if you have not taken a database course before. 3. The assignment is a business process reengineering (BPR) assignment. Everyone has the same problem – to reengineer a supply order process. 4. This assignment covers the central themes of the course and includes the artifacts associated with BPR. This assignment draws on the lectures to date, but particularly on lectures 4 and 6, and the textbook. 5. Assumptions: you are to assume that this process (a) is located in a large organization, (b) the “supplies” refer to office supplies (as opposed to, say, laboratory or manufacturing supplies), and (c) the process is “routine” work – see lecture 3. 6. The structure of the answer...
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