...Prompt: Can altering behavior in order to fit in with a group be harmful? Many at times individuals may find themselves at crossroads when deciding whether to fit in or to stick out. To change and adapt one’s beliefs in order to become accepted can lead to devastating consequences. In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist, Guy Montag, who lives in a dystopian society on the verge of nuclear war, has been a fireman his whole life. Because the government has banned the existence of books, his job as a fireman is to set ablaze fire-proof homes that contained these illegal objects. Guy, not knowing exactly why, snatches a book from every house he sets on fire and hides it in his home’s air ventilation shaft. Although he doesn’t...
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...magazine's or on the website itself and all for what? So women can subconsciously presume if they purchase these perfect lingerie products they will have a perfect body, selling the image. It egocentrically sends out an unhealthy and negative message about women's bodies and how they should be judged in society. Furthermore, Victoria's Secret is supposed to be promoting emotionally strong, confident women in their advertisements. Yet, Like most other brands such as Abercrombie and Fitch, overweight or unattractive people isn't shown on their catwalks, magazines and television ads. We shouldn't allow our appearance to dictate our self-value, or let children grow up with a constant self-deprecating inner dialogue looping through their subconsciousness. Soon this deathly image will become an unrecognisable flaw in society and women's idea of beauty, is death. ...
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...completely as I should deserve theirs” (Mary Shelley, 32). Thus he feels so despondent and scared when he finds his creature has an unpleasant appearance that he abandoned him. His cruel action breaks the creature’s heart. The creature was once virtuous. The brutal social environment transforms him to be a sanguinary monster. People should not blame him because his obnoxious behavior is the product of an unharmonious family environment. It is evident that Victor Frankenstein’s experiment causes countless tragedies in Mary Shelley’s novel. From Victor Frankenstein’s behaviors, the marriage between two first cousins and the creature’s revenge, Mary Shelley reveals the theme of the monstrous spirit that the monstrous spirit hides in people’s subconsciousness. As soon as the spirit becomes exposed, it will lead to a disaster of people’s life. ...
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...Morning, for me, is the gloomiest part of the day. I always feel that I am missing about three hours of sleep. Still, somewhere in my subconsciousness, I realize that if I don't wake up and get to where I don't want to be, usually my office, my livelihood as I know it would cease to exist! The car would be repossessed, and Fido might have to go back to the pound! What a prospect! Yet, as a cruel joke, I have to face the dilemma of what to make for breakfast as well. Being at the transitional state between dream and reality, it would help me to be more creative if the selection of breakfast foods is less limited and more enticing, but more often than not, the options include cold cereals, hot cereals, and the artery-clotting forms of food. One of the quickest and most popular breakfast foods is cold cereal. There's a wide selection and various name brands to choose from. For people with a sweet tooth, the choice is plentiful. For instance, Frosted Corn Flakes, made by Kellogg's, is a grain cereal that consists of fine corn flour, sugar, sugar, and sugar, plus corn syrup, calcium carbonate, trisodiumphosphate, and topopherol to preserve freshness. For the health conscious, Honey Bunches of Oats is one of many alternatives. Made by Post, it is also a grain cereal which comes with a list of ingredients that doesn't sound like Chemistry 101! It contains corn, whole wheat, rolled oats, and brown sugar instead of processed sugar, almond, rice, and of course, honey. Sure, one...
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...During the great depression, the United States ran into a comprehensive food shortage. This had a major influence on the American beauty ideals, and the definition of sexy took a sweeping U-turn. Previously, losing weight had been a key part in the pursuit of the perfect body, but because of the shortcomings of food, beauty ideals most easily compared with those in Mauritius and Somalia were indoctrinated in the American custom. In this essay, I am going to analyse and comment on an advertisement from this historical period. I am going to do this by applying structural and textual analysis while comparing it to modern advertising. Even at the first glimpse of the ad, we get a feeling of the message the company is trying to spread. Due to our diagonal reading pattern, the first thing that would catch our eyes is the face of a confident woman standing as tall as the entire advert. Two well-nourished males, complying with the beauty ideals of the 1930’s American man, follow this sight. Both of them look with adoration in their eyes, and this has a great impact on our perception of the product. The picture setup subtly says that, ”If you use this product, handsome men will adore you.” Another interesting tool used in the advert is the borrowing of ethos from a more reliant source. The commercial mentions the word doctor, which carries a lot of ethos. A doctor is a trusted title used in commercials up to this day. When linking the word doctor to a product, consumers will often...
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...All around me is empty space as I fixate my gaze at the starry sky and feel the icy ground underneath my feet. Honestly, I have always felt like my feet have been dug into the ground with my subconsciousness, not allowing me to take a step out of the reality that has been facing me. Here in my space, the ticket I had somehow managed to grab in my palms taking me to that point, I felt content just there in that pretty little empty space. Pluto, no longer considered a planet in our solar system, is just this, for lack of better words, a small ball of ice at the end of the solar system. I can see myself taking a spaceship over there with a ticket to be given to a Martian pilot. He can look at it and examine it and maybe even keep it for himself,...
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...PHI130 10-17-2011 Abstract In the present paper, the issue of mind is discussed in the framework of mind/body problem. While in the times of Aristotle and Plato it was named differently and explained through objects materiality and soul divinity, the modern perception of the same correlation was emphasized by Descartes as body/mind problem. In the present paper, the essence of the problem is outlined in the context of one of the modern philosophies of mind, meaning physicalism. The main aims of this essay is to identify the corner stone of physicalist concept, its main supporting and opposing arguments, and distinguish which position is the strongest one and understand the reason why. Key words: physicalism, body/mind problem, knowledge, exclusion, consciousness. What is mind? In the history of human thought, there were various dilemmas which the brightest minds of their times were trying to solve and which remained enigmas until our times. The mind/body problem is one of those issues. While, in times of Aristotle and Plato, it was named differently and explained through the objects materiality and soul divinity, the modern perception of the same correlation was shaped by Descartes as body/mind problem. In the present paper, the essence of the problem is explained in the context of one of the modern philosophies of mind, meaning physicalism. The main aims of this essay is to identify the corner stone of physicalist concept, its main supporting and opposing arguments...
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...society, he begins to grow and develop beyond his brothers. Since boyhood, Equality has realized that he is not like the rest of his brothers. His mind and body are already transgression themselves, for his head is too quick and his frame too large in a world where superiority is a transgression. As an outcast with an inquisitive mind, Equality asks “so many questions that the Teachers forbade it” (23). He tries to tame his burning flame of curiosity, but struggles to be dim like the rest of his brothers. Living with this curse, Equality continues to ponder the world around him due to his love for “the Science of Things” despite knowing that it was wrong (23). His constant contemplation on the matters of nature plants a seed in his subconsciousness. This seed eventually germinates and grows into the Tree of Knowledge, driving Equality’s thirst for answers to provide it the resource to flourish. Equality’s mind and spirit are different from his brothers, driving him to “thoughts which are forbidden” (18). Knowledge beyond the basic fundamentals is something that is especially reserved for the class of scholars in his society. The collectivist prison that he lives in also has a critical vulnerability. Despite all the rules in existence, this weakness is that the State is unable to directly control the thoughts and minds of its subjects. Equality recognizes this and takes full advantage of it. In doing so, Equality commits a crime so great that it has no name, a crime of solitude...
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..."availeth much" (Jas 5:16 KJV). Never underestimate the power of a simple heart-felt prayer. Pray God's word, and see God's power. Don't read this book. Let the Spirit pick out one prayer for you to pray. Let the Spirit take you through this book, prayer by prayer, over a period of months or years. TABLE OF CONTENTS |Renewal of our baptismal promises | |To give our lives to Jesus | |The renewal of our Confirmations | |For holiness | |After receiving the Holy Spirit | |Against Satan | |Two family prayers | |For the cleansing of our subconsciousness | |For the wife of an unbelieving husband | |For sexual purity | |For wives | |To overcome compulsions | |For husbands | |To be freed from physical or spiritual blindness | |To want to forgive | |For signs and wonders | |For the fear of the Lord and against the fear of man | |To multiply money | |For God to come on strong...
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...Research on Parapsychology and its impact on New Age Describe and evaluate a major scientific breakthrough of the past 10 years, discussing the challenges faced in developing it. Introduction Many events, phenomenon and concepts such as existence of alien and soul, channeling and telepathy, which are unexplainable, are considered to be supernatural origin. For that origin, parapsychology, which is a scientific study of paranormal behaviors and experiences, may provide the answer for us. Apart from that, new age movement, which is important for our future and started from the 1960s, is a spiritual development and relative to paranormality. Furthermore, the main concepts of new age are “We are all in one” and “our consciousnesses create our own realities”. In fact, parapsychology, which can be proven by quantum physics, makes the concept of new age more complete and persuadable. Thus, quantum physics and parapsychology, which have a strong relationship between them, make a great impact on new age. Nevertheless, the challenges are many people may think that paranormal phenomenon and these concepts are frauds and ridiculous. We will recognize these are possible and really amazing when we investigate more. This essay investigates what is parapsychology, evaluates the impact on new age and discusses the challenges faced. Background There are two main directions in parapsychology, which are Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. In the past, there were many famous scientists...
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...In compliance with Hatch and Cunliffe (2013), Organizational Culture is often interlinked with norms, shared beliefs, values and knowledge among cultural members. It could also be considered as a distributed phenomenon where they unite and hold a collective identity. Besides agreeing on the same things, they have to depend on their differences by accommodating one another as well. A subculture is a group of employees within the organization that differentiates itself from the larger group based on either similarity or familiarity. Basing on similarity are shared professionals, ethnic, race, gender or occupational and familiarity are how they interact and by sharing a space in the same place. An alternative of subculture is the corporate subculture which represents the dominant top-level management and together with orthogonal and counterculture. While the former remained away from them, the latter would challenge the norms and expectations from the dominant culture. However, it is not entirely negative as it depends on how they utilise their influences. Nonetheless, subculture may impede the body and restrict communication of the organization, an issue named silos. It implies the employees in the strong organization subcultures being uncooperative and will lead to unproductivity. In order for managers to change their organization culture, first of all, they need to understand what kind of culture their companies are currently adopting and in which direction they would want...
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...------------------------------------------------- Sorry for disturbing you A. Several acknowledged studies show that one of the primary sources to human happiness is the close and positive relations we can have to each other. We have the ability to communicate and we have an enormous vocabulary to express how we feel. But with great power comes great responsibility. Communication is a central part of an intimate relationship and, if handled properly, it can be the key to a long and happy life. But if a person is unable to communicate about feelings it can be the end of ever obtaining true intimacy and in the end lead to loneliness and low self-esteem. This essay will contain an analysis and interpretation of the short story Sorry for Disturbing You by Richard Knight (2008), which deals with the subject of communication. The story is about a meeting between two strangers that occurs when the main character of the story, Ian, finds an old and dirty man knocking on his door. Subsequently I will put it into perspective by discussing Love Poem by Douglas Dunn (1969) and The Ambulance Box by Andrew Phillip (2009). The composition of Sorry for Disturbing You is mainly chronological. It starts in medias res as Ian reflects over his meeting with Michael Phelps. This is the only place where there is a breach of the chronologically time line. The story spans over a couple of hours, from the moment Ian opens the door to when he returns home to his wife and daughter, Karen and Corinne...
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...Edgar Allan Poe is known as the master of horror and gothic writing. In a sense, he has taken the meaning of the word “horror” and turned it into an entirely different definition, even a different world. Poe's narrators do not make the reader scared, per se, but they make him or her inquire about things around them. Although people should never assume, they should always speculate and investigate. In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Poe uses an imperfectly informed narrator because he wanted the reader to play with – and question – reality, to use their senses and imagination, and be able to tell the difference between dreams and reality. One theory on why Poe makes his narrator limited is that he wants the reader to search for the truth, not just have it handed to them. For instance, the reader – nor the narrator – knows anything about Roderick Usher. The narrator says, “Although, as boys, we had been even intimate associates, yet I really knew little of my friend”. What, then, would cause the narrator to travel to the House of Usher after Roderick had written him a letter? A person such as the narrator can only truly call Usher an acquaintance. In reality, who would drop everything and anything for an associate? The unknown information on Roderick Usher only causes more questions that, in the end, still remain unanswered. Little by little, as the tale goes on, the reader, as well as the narrator, discovers that Roderick and his late sister, lady Madeline, are twins. After...
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...Castillo, Lovely Mae. Gorospe, Michelle Day C. . SVC MKT/ MM09306 Report # 10: Chapter 11- Physical Evidence and the Servicescape Chapter's Objectives are to: 1. Explain the profound Impact of physical evidence, particularly the servicescape, on customer perceptions and expereinces. 2. Illustrate differences in types of servicescapes, the roles played by the servicescape, and the implications for strategy. 3. Explain why the servicescape affects customer and employee behavior, using a framework based in marketing, organizational behavior, and environmental psychology, 4. Present elements of an effective physical evidence strategy. Introduction Physical evidence is important for communicating service quality attributes, setting customer expectations, and creating the service experience. It is important for communicating credence services. Ex. Auto repair, health care, hospitals, hotels, theme parks (which are dominated by experience attributes.) Physical evidence is the environment in which the service is delivered and in which the firm and the customer interact, and any tangible commodities that facilitate performance or communication of the service. -The first part of it means the actual facility in which the service is performed, delivered, and consumed. Physical facility is also known as servicescape. Physical Evidence What is Physical Evidence? Customers rely on tangible cues, or physical evidence, to evaluate the service...
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...this goes to show that in space, through common ideals and goals, (in this case space exploration) we can cooperate even if we are bitter enemies. so in turn, if we can all share a goal of extending the reach of humanity into space, we can cooperate on an international- no an interplanetary level, in which we can all work as one entity: the human race. According to Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the first ever rocket launched: sputnik is literally translated into the english phrase “fellow traveller” (We Stopped Dreaming (PT2)...) according to DR. Tyson, even during the cold war, where america and russia were on the verge of nuclear annihilation, they still took the time to name the first ever rocker fellow traveller, which clearly shows a subconsciousness of cooperation on some level. In the early 1970’s a picture was taken, of the earth from the moon. this picture helped define an entire generation of people in one small photo. You might ask how does this describe an entire generation? Well its simple, this was a new age of a new way of life, and according to Dr Tyson, whenever that picture appeared, it was the center of everyone's attention, it created something a new age needed: a new way of looking at the earth, not as land masses with territorial borders everywhere, but as a whole world, together. And this shaped the way we lived our lives, like for instance, in march 1970, the environmental protection agency was born, in order to protect OUR world, and in 1971 the organization...
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