The dystopian future: why will the future get worse? I first encountered the word "dystopian" when I was in grade seven. Dystopian themes are popular for its negative illusion of the future. I have my own frightening dystopian world where all laughter turns into “LOL” and people in my life become their tiny profile pictures. Utopian imaginations are idealized world while dystopian imaginations concern for an unpleasant future. The soaring technological production and scientific advancement
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Do you agree with the results of your Work Culture Preferences activity? Does it match with what you considered your ideal work culture? Do you think there is a relationship between effective study habits and techniques and being successful in those work cultures? Explain your answers. What was your ethical perspective as identified by the ELI, including your blind spot, strengths, weaknesses, and values? How do personal ethics play a role in academics? How might
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My dream company is an organization that values its employees, nurtures intrapreneurs, gives them the freedom to be innovative and allows them to turn their innovative ideas into realities. Company where a healthy work environment dominates. When employees are free to be innovative, the company portfolio will be much more than just product improvements, and will include better business models, customer service improvements, as well as continuous process improvements. In my dream company management
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in part a derivation of an inseparable piece of one’s consciousness, and largely an assembly of attitudes, behaviors, values, and beliefs collected and learned during a lifetime. Individual identity, as the centerpiece of an individual’s place in society, is the mechanism through which worldviews are shaped. Identity may seem a nonessential study of little consequence in comparison to more explicit and trenchant topics, but actually is very consequential. Identities and worldviews are, after all,
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I could hear the tires squealing as my dad attempted to hit the brakes. What is that car doing? Does he not see our car? As quickly as sunlight finding a shadow, before we knew it, BOOM the cars collided. Thankfully, no one was hurt. Both drivers, my dad and the student, quickly got out of their cars, but the damage was done. The bumper of my dad’s car was ripped away like a butterfly’s wing from a thunder storm. The student was at fault for not signaling as he changed lanes. Luckily, it was just
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Reading the poem “In an Artist’s Studio,” opened my eyes to how the poet, Christina Rossetti, used the poem as her stage for symbolic imagery. One piece of symbolic imagery that I found to be important throughout this poem is the image of obsession. In the first line of the poem: “One face looks out from all his canvasses,” clearly shows the obsession that this artist has for the woman’s face that he continues to recreate in all of his portraits. He has such a strong obsession for this woman’s
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Society is a very complex subject that contains many interrelating elements that construct its foundation. There is no such thing as a perfect society; however there are a variety of different views on what would make it ideal. This ideal society would create a community in which all aspects of it may function at their highest potential and in a smooth manner. This essentially would be a “Utopia”, which is a community or society that possesses near perfect qualities. Plato, Niccolo Machiavelli, Karl
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Exercise 2: The role of the media in the development of eating disorders Individuals over time have continually been exposed and manipulated to believe in the concept of having a ‘perfect’ or ideal body and appearance. The pressures to meet societies demands to achieving self-satisfaction with one’s body image and physical and emotional wellbeing have influenced the notion of eating disorders. As people are exposed to countless forms of media such as television, radio, magazines and the Internet
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just society. Plato's Utopia appears, at first to be an excellent idea. However, his perfect society is less than the ideal, even from the contemporary perspective. Aristotle, through "The Politic” attempted to understand the nature of man in a "realistic" view. What Plato called ideal, Aristotle called unfeasible. He tries to make rationale judgment in the management of his ideal of a society, through understanding human behavior and logic, making it what he would deem a more realistic society. As
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My first exposure to the dental field was when a neighbor developed oral cancer and subsequently died. The cancer had progressed from a small treatable lesion to a metastasized nightmare, the result of not appreciating the seriousness of his condition and his poor access to care. Witnessing this neighbor suffering needlessly motivated me to seek out a career in dentistry: it made me realize the connection between oral health and general health. In addition to this experience, I was fortunate to have
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