...States. Through a well-organized essay, “One Nation, Slightly Divisible,” David Brooks describes the diverse ways of life between Republicans and Democrats. Brooks effectively uses strong nonbiased points to assist the reader in agreeing and understanding his every thought. This allows Brooks to easily reach his intended audience- anyone interested in the diverse ways of life between Republicans and Democrats. America is a united nation despite the differences between people and their culture. This idea of one united nation, that is slightly divisible, is portrayed effectively through Brooks’s essay. “One Nation, Slightly Divisible” has a title that directly introduces the topic of the essay. The organization throughout Brooks’s essay is clear and all of his ideas are well thought out. “One Nation, Slightly Divisible” begins with a short excerpt about Brooks’s background, giving the reader the ability to know Brooks on a more personal level and understand where his experiences are coming from. Brooks uses a gripping first sentence that makes the reader want to read more. This first sentence states, “Sixty-five miles from where I am writing this sentence is a place with no Starbucks, no Pottery Barn, no Borders or Barnes & Noble” (487). This is an effective way of drawing the reader in because it makes the reader think about where Brooks physically wrote the essay, and draws the reader further into the piece. He begins by describing Red America (Republicans) followed by...
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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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...Assignment 2.1 Analyzing the Creation of Adam by Michelangelo ART 101- Art Appreciation Robert Peterson Jones International University December 11, 2013 Abstract In this essay I will analyze the creation of Adam painted by Michelangelo for the Sistine chapel ceiling. I will use the elements of art and the principles of design to make my assessment. Elements of Art: Lines The lines in this composition are very detail, especially around the main characters. The character of the line is implied and is very active. The line of site of the characters point left to right and right to left or we follow from Adam to God and the heavenly host and from God and the heavenly host back to Adam. The Landscaping pulls the eye downward but it supports the fact that Adam is in a high place in his encounter with God. Elements of Art: Color and Light For the most part this composition’s palette is cool. The coloring is bright and soft except for the warm glow of the heavenly host and the red covering which seems to serve as a “portal” of some sort. The lighting enters from the rear of the composition except for the glow on the heavenly host whose lighting appears to emanate from God. Elements of Art: Space The space in this composition is three dimensional and close in nature. Though Adam may not be under the covering with God the space is positive. Principles of Design: Balance, Proportion and Unity ...
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...Essay Do’s and Don’ts These are some things that you ABSOLUTELY have to learn to be good writers. These are not meant to be the only rules, but they are really important. 1. Always label all work in the LEFT hand corner. Some professors and instructors want their headings done a specific ways, but if specific instructions are not given, it is good to include your name, the professor’s name, the class name, and the date. 2. Essays ALWAYS get a title. Center the next line after your label, and enter a title for your essay that reflects the SUBJECT you are writing about, NOT the ASSIGNMENT. Also, in MLA, titles do not get ANY special treatment; no BOLD, no UNDERLINES, no SPECIAL FONT. Title should be just the same as the text. 3. Essays should all be typed in 12 pt. Times New Roman font (or another simple font if allowed or specified by the instructor or professor). This means you have to change it from the default font most times. Nothing fancy, and ALWAYS DOUBLE SPACE YOUR LINES. If you do not know how to do this, learn. Pull down the format menu, and choose paragraph. In the middle of the box is a spacing box. Choose double. Or, on the tool bar above the paragraph box choose the icon with the little arrows up and down. Click on the little arrow to the right and choose double. It is that easy. You will lose points if you do not double space. 4. Essay specifics: * Avoid beginning a sentence with a BUT. That means NO BUT OR AND to start a sentence. These...
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...The DJ Booth Even while standing inside a DJ booth can be loud and obnoxious, the excitement of playing music and controlling a huge crowd sends and unexplainable feeling through your body. When I first step into a DJ booth at Club Centers, located in the heart of Rochester, New York, my nerves start going crazy and butterflies hit my stomach so fast it feels like I have to puke. Just the sight of three turntables and an eight-channel mixer in front of my face is like sending a little kid into a candy store. While standing in front of my tables, I look to my right and I see my soundboard. This high-tech, silver plated sound machine stands about seven feet tall with about three hundred switches and knobs that control high pitches, low pitches, medium pitches and all of the digital effects. This soundboard is used when I put a shiny new record on one of the turntables. This will distort the sound quality of the song. The music sounds like a fire alarm, starting with a deep sound then rising to a high pitch screaming noise. As I look to my left, you see my beautiful blonde light girl working my light board. While the music is playing really loud, she will hit certain buttons that will make multi-colored lasers go in different directions and make many different shapes. Also, while the music is jamming, a common light known by many people as a strobe light will flash non-stop constantly. This light makes you see people dancing like robots and distorts the vision of that person ...
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...Congratulations! You have just completed the project charter, scope statement, and WBS. Now that you know what needs to be done, as the Project Manager, you are now ready to begin planning your project. This week, you will have two deliverables to complete for the project. * Using MS Project, create a project schedule and align resources – 35 points * Analyze project schedule and resource allocation: two essay questions – 20 points Please provide these two deliverables (MS Project file and MS Word document) to the Week 3 Dropbox. Please refer to the course Syllabus for your due date. To help guide you through these deliverables, please follow the three step process below. Step 1: Update MS Project with Resource Information Back to Top Project Schedule Instructions The following steps should be followed when setting up your Course Project with Microsoft Project 2010: 1. Set the basic project information * Open MS Project 2010 * Click on the File button (top left), select save as and enter the file name as (your name) cp1. For example: SmithJanecp1.mpp * Click on the Project tab and select Project Information. In the Project Information dialogue box, set the start date of your project. * Leave other dates as is. Click on OK. 2. Set basic Gantt chart format (use also for tracking Gantt chart view) * Right click on the mouse in the gray area of the Gantt chart on the right side of the screen where the dates in...
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...Everyone is familiar with the state of armed conflict that is war, and for as long as there has been civilization there has been war. Upon first glance, Henry David Thoreau’s “The Battle of the Ants” seems like a simple descriptive story of a battle between two different species of ants, one red and one black, but if one were to further inspect the text, they could see that Thoreau uses the ants and their battle as a satirical allegory for human conflict. Thoreau chooses to use ants as a metaphor to make it clear to the reader that war is futile, pointless, and a waste of life. “The Battle of the Ants” begins with Thoreau casually walking out to his wood-pile as he stumbles upon the battle between the red ants and the black ants. After this, he compares these ants to humans, making the allegory apparent from the start. “It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed… On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely” (575). Thoreau uses hyperbole early in his essay to reinforce its anti-war theme as he describes the fighting ants to be in the middle of war. However, he implies that this war is miniscule by reminding the reader of its setting: a wood-yard. Thoreau goes on to describe an even smaller battle he witnesses between two ants, again, amid the chips, giving more scope to the idea that war is irrelevant compared to the broader schemes of the world. “I watched a couple that were...
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...Subject Matter and Medium- Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by Edward Hooper. The painting shows people at a diner late at night. The painting shows a small diner that has three people that look like they are ordering food from the small diner on the corner of the street. Two of the customers look to have business clothes on while the other customer has on a bright red dress. Then the lone worker seems to be a bit older and a more lively look to him. Behind the diner there appears to have two buildings that look to be closed at the moment. Line and Shape-Line and shape are used in this painting of Nighthawks. But it appears that the line and shape don't mean much to the artist, Edward Hooper. The line and shape all look square...
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...really follow Ellie for a long time but on her journey for printer ink, she is still able to go through a big range of emotions; fear of death, joy, rebelliousness, dejectedness, freedom and so on. After reading the first few lines, we get a pretty good idea about what Ellie is like. The description of her walking up with swollen cheeks and peeing in the sink gives us a good picture that Ellie is living on the edge where nothing matters anymore. It is clear to us that she isn’t living a very healthy life. Her wealth is terrible; her chest hurts and she has inflammation of her eyes. “She sits on the bed, brings her legs up under her chin, rummages for what she can remember from the night before”. This tells us that she had been very affected by alcohol and drugs, since she remembers nothing but glimpses. It also appears that this is something she does often, almost every night. Ellie is a very unfocused and diffuse person who often gets distracted by meaningless things in her surroundings not involving her actual purpose. She doesn’t think ahead of the present, she isn’t thinking about her future, because she cannot cope with the fact that she doesn’t have one. In the beginning the least thing Ellie wants to do, is to write that essay. But after a walk in the...
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...Crucible Essay History repeats itself in many ways sometimes it will be a man making a simple mistake like a man forgetting to pick his dry-cleaning up or it can be something along the lines of people becoming paranoid and fighting and preparing for things that aren’t really there. The Red Scare of 1947 to the late 1950s is a perfect example of our nation repeating a history event from 1692, The Salem Witch Trials an event that our nation still remembers today innocent lives lost that definitely didn’t deserve it. One of the victims to the Red Scare Arthur Miller made a satire of it using “The Crucible” (A play based on the witch hunts) comparing the Red Scare to the Salem Witch Trials, he claims everything he was accused for is just as ridiculous and embarrassing to our country as the Salem Witch Trials were. In this Essay I will be comparing Arthur Miller's Crucible to the Red scare of the 1940's. There’s this Guy who basically claims our government is filled to the brim with communists and we need to weed them out, His name is Joseph McCarthy, he was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin in 1909 and he died in 1957 on May 2nd due to Alcohol poisoning.(Joseph 1) On 9th February, 1950, at a meeting of the Republican Women's Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, McCarthy claimed that he had a list of 205 people in the State Department that were known to be members of the American Communist Party (late he reduced this figure to 57)(Joseph 1). Joseph McCarthy was a dirty man who in fact...
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...EEOC Sues Red Lobster for Sexual Harassment Geana Gordon SOC 315 / Cultural Diversity October 7, 2013 Julie Hu A description of the compliance that led to the lawsuit The compliance that led to this lawsuit is alleging that a culinary manager at a Red Lobster Restaurant in Baltimore sexually harassed several female employees over a long period of time. Through his sexually offensive comments about these female employee’s bodies and physical actions of pressing himself against these ladies at opportune times; this was brought to the attention of the general manager and he failed to act on behalf of the female employees also. It was later found that this manager has a history of having made sexually charged comments towards female employees himself. This has put these employees’s into a sexually hostile workplace, which is against the law. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was alerted to the situation and has taken action. A brief Summary of the function of the EEOC United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination” (EEOC, 2013). This discrimination includes several different situations as in a job applicant or a current employer from being discriminated against because of the color of their skin, their religious faith, disabilities, and genetic information. If a female is pregnant this can not be held against her either. The types of situations that the laws cover are hiring, firing...
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...the Critical Analysis Essay (Extra Credit)”. As I was clicking through the collection at a “fairly good pace,” I stumbled on The Night Café. Its image stayed in my head for whatever reason. I finished looking at the collection and went right back to it. The painting must have struck a chord in my head, but getting into why that chord was struck would require another type of assignment. The Night Café is oil on canvas, from the art movement known as impressionism. The Night Café uses a display of optical and psychological color though harsh, textured swirls of impasto, which is the think buildup of paint on the surface of the canvas. One of his most interesting paintings (I think) is this one. The place he hung out at night drinking. The work depicts the interior of the Café de la Gare, an all night tavern owned by Joseph-Michel Ginoux and his wife Marie. It was located at 41 Rue Du Temple, 4th St. Paris, France. It is known that Van Gogh visited disreputable drinking establishments. The bare setting of the Café de la Gare served as inspiration to Van Gogh. The asymmetrical composition serves the purpose of communicating a feeling of unbalance. The psychological elements of this painting gave it unity: The disproportioned elements in the composition, the odd placement of objects, and the odd point of view contributed to its conceptual unity. The artist used oil on canvas because it helped his strong brush strokes define his expressional lines which were characteristic...
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...The Competitive World of Energy Drinks Teaching about competition and everything competition stands for is different from what the teaching of the Bible. Competition is mostly about two or more people going against each other; just to see who is better. People going against each other are not the right thing to do. God wants people to love each other; not go against one another. Force of change and critical success factors are all included in industries. Competitors are one of the main things industries have to keep an eye one. Industries must also know how to have an advantage over their competitor. Industries should know weather- seller buyer relationships correspond a small or significant competitive factors which depends on (1) whether some of many buyers haves sufficient bargaining leverage to obtain price concessions and other favorable terms, and (2) the extent to which buyers are price sensitive (Gamble,J., and Thompson,2011,p.42). Companies in one industry are vulnerable to competitive pressure from the actions of companies in another industry whenever buyers view the products of the two industries as good substitutes. (Gamble,J., and Thompson, 2011, p.44).Industries have to know whether the suppliers of industry members represent a weak or strong competitive force depend on the degree to which suppliers have sufficient bargaining power to influence the terms and conditions of supply in their favor (Gamble,J., and Thompson, 2011, p.44, p. 46). It can be...
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...HEALTHCARE. The subject and focus are clear, and the title is easily abbreviated to form a running head. Try not to go overboard with your title. APA recommends limiting the title to fewer than 12 words (2010, p. 23). Making the topic succinct and fewer than 12 words lessens confusion and awkwardness for your reader. What is an abstract? What should I include in my abstract? The abstract is a summary of the essay. It should range from 150-250 words (APA, 2010, p. 27). Included in the abstract should be a sentence or two that introduce the topic and its significance, a few sentences that explain how the essay will explore and discuss the topic, and a sentence or two that allude to the essay’s conclusions. In other words, the abstract is a succinct summary of the essay. Remember that the abstract paragraph is not indented and belongs by itself on the second page of the essay. Simply center the word, Abstract, at the top of the page, and begin the abstract paragraph on the next line. (The abstract paragraph itself is not centered.) Does my title belong above the body of my essay, as well as on the title page? Yes, your full title, using standard...
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...Nick Torkildsen Essay #3 Professor Warner Woman in a Red Hat The poem by Gwendolyn Brooks “A woman in a Red Hat” tells the story of a black maid through the eyes of a middle class white person; Gwendolyn Brooks the author of this poem is black herself which lies great irony inside of the story. The poem was written in the 1960’s which was a time of great racism in America, it was the heat of the civil rights movement, and the way blacks in America were portrayed is often of lesser value. Having the author of this story being black is a key propent to understanding what this poem is trying to get across. The author wants you to see the way that a black person would see a middle class white American and this is what Brooks did in this poem. The poem starts with “They had never had one in the house before”. This word to this line is the word one. The way the brooks uses the word one is saying the blacks are not even seen as people in this time era. They are often throughout this poem addressed as one of them or it. This is one of the many specific prejudices that are portrayed by Brooks in this poem. Another prejudice that is portrayed by Brooks in this poem is the way that she describes the woman in vivid detail. It is important to take in the irony of this poem when reading the descriptions. Brooks is the one who wrote this poem so when she goes into the vivid detail about how the new maid is dressed or her actions she is talking about herself. Brooks says “There it stood...
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