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Victorian Life Through Color
1,826 words
The use of color in Victorian literature and art
has gone far beyond simple description to form
it's very own sort of diction. Whether reading
Victorian prose or looking at a Pre-Rapaelite
painting one is drawn in and deeply affected by
the arrangement and combination of it's colors. In
the two of these mediums, each color is both
powerful and used precisely either to represent a
trait or emotion or to compliment other colors to
form a greater representation of an idea.
Furthermore, seeing these...
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Grammatical Rules Natural Language
1,196 words
'The Study of Language is really the study of
Meaning', Discuss. It is generally accepted that
language is one of the key attributes that
distinguishes humans from other species. Although
other animals possess at times very sophisticated
methods of communication, none match the cognitive
capabilities of human language. The terms
communication, speech, language and vocalization
should not be used interchangeably, though in
practice, it is not easy to separate and maintain
distinctions between the...
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Emotional Disturbances Blue Eyes Life
1,130 words
Losing someone who cannot be replaced by anyone
else is harder than losing millions of dollars. I
have been deep affected by my experiences learning
to overcome all of the emotional disturbances,
india that there are things that cannot be
forgotten, and gaining knowledge about the
uniqueness of the friendship. When my best friend
told me that he had lung cancer, my life changed
completely. I knew was going to lose him, but I
didnt know it would be so hard to overcome the
feelings that he left me...
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Make A Decision Back Home
1,613 words
Hey Erik, turn up that CD bro, that songs hella
tight, I havent heard Sublime for days. For sure,
Im so glad track is over, too much to do, you
finish rolling that spliff yet B? Yeah man, hook
me up with that light on the table, puff, puff. I
laid back on Erik's plush, slightly worn leather
couch purchased from the Value Village store
downtown and watched as he displayed a phat French
inhale. I was in a cloudy state with so much on my
mind I didnt know where to begin. I was once again
in the bas...
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Accept The Fact Unanswered Questions
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Happiness: "is a feeling of great contentment or
pleasure. "Wow, look at that BMW! Would I ever be
happy if I had one of those!"I wish money grew on
trees!"I'm so happy; I just won a free trip to
Florida!" Do these statements sound familiar?
Because of the major economical changes in today's
society, people as a whole understand and accept
the feeling of happiness as a reward after
accomplishing a success. Society's way of thinking
leans heavily toward the understanding of
happiness being achiev...
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Alexis De Tocqueville Democracy In America
961 words
Alexis de Tocqueville's visit to the United States
in the early part of the nineteenth century
prompted his work Democracy in America, in which
he expressed the ability to make democracy work.
Throughout his travels Tocqueville noted that
private interest and personal gain motivated the
actions of most Americans, which in turn
cultivated a strong sense of individualism.
Tocqueville believed that this individualism would
soon "sap the virtue of public life" (395) and
create a despotism of selfish...
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Point Of View Poor People
434 words
In life, a little minor incident can make a big
shift of a persons point of view. Obviously,
readers can see that shift in Jean Val Jean after
the mayor treated him when he stole the silver
dinner set. From now on, you have to be a good
man, the mayor said to Jean Val Jean, and this
message completely changed Jean Val Jean point of
view, and the way he faced his life. After that
event, Jean Val Jean increasingly became more
humane toward the poor, and especially acceptance
for what he was being....
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Andrew Carnegie Cut Costs
1,998 words
Andrew Carnegie was born into a poor working class
family living in the town of Dunfermline,
Scotland, in 1835. His father operated a small
hand looming business located in the family home.
The Carnegie's was literate, well read, and active
in the politics of the day. It was a time of
repression of the Scottish worker by the
Government, the employers, and the culture.
Rebellious in thought as well as actively
participating in protests was part of the Carnegie
family life style. He was exposed to...
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Cambridge Cambridge University Natural Language
1,778 words
This saw meaning attributed to things as being
abstract in form and thus knowledge was divided
between opinion and true knowledge. In
contemporary terms Katz (1981) asserts that
'Meaning is a transparent relation between
signifier and signified. The signified's of
language (entities, dynamic relations, names) are
recoverable from the signifier's (nouns, verbs,
sentences). ' (p. 17) The indirect approach, also
dated back to ancient concepts of the world, was
that held by Aristotle, who disagreed ...
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Diplomacy During Cuban Missile Crisis
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Diplomacy during Cuban Missile Crisis The world
will never be the same after the events of October
of 1962, now known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The events of those times will remain in the world
history as an example of successful diplomacy and
crisis management. This paper will analyze the
Missile Crisis and identify the key aspects of
foreign relations of those times, with their
underlying strategies of decision-making. The
Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 provides a case study
of how John F. K...
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Social And Economic Tony Blair
2,510 words
... the social justice, and equality of
opportunities and the full employment. That was
the beginning of the triumph. No matter, how
negatively these changes may be looked at by the
conservative supporters of the Labour Party Blair
understood that the changes he was going to bring
would finally lead the party to the top of
political life in Britain. Blair had performed a
very intensive ride across the nation to assure
the trade unions in the utility of the new Clause
Four. The Transport and Gene...
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Financial Analyst Bachelors Degree
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Career Research Decision-making process is our
fellow-traveler. Making correct plans or
job-related decisions can be extremely difficult.
The recent decision I have made affecting my job
is to choose a career in Finance, namely, to
become a Financial Analyst. It was quite a
difficult process when I had to choose the aim and
determine the way I need to act for realization of
my aim. This process embraces correlation of
goals, values of realization, assessments and
motives, to mention a few. First...
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Point Of View Senior Managers
1,187 words
The present work is devoted to the discussion of
ethical dilemmas, which arise at work places.
There will be described the specific case, its
possible and real consequences, together with the
ethical issues of the problem. The paper makes the
discussion of ethics through the previous and
present experience, thus making it clear, what
could be different in the behaviour of both
participants of conflict from the viewpoint of the
gained knowledge. Professional Workplace Dilemma
Paper The described ...
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Oriented Policing Criminological Theories
2,255 words
... response strategies is given greater weight
and importance under problem-oriented policing
than under community policing. Problem-oriented
policing specifically promotes using alternatives
to the formal criminal justice system, redefining
the nature of the police's relationship to this
and other systems; community policing does not
explicitly address this relationship. Community
policing strongly emphasizes organizing and
mobilizing the community, almost to the point that
doing so becomes a ...
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Checks And Balances Founding Fathers
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Hofstadter Summary: The Founding Fathers: The Age
of Realism Summary of Section The reasoning behind
the Constitution of the United States is presented
as based upon the philosophy of Hobbes and the
religion of Calvin. It assumes the natural state
of mankind in a state of war, and that the carnal
mind is at enmity with God. Throughout, the
struggle between democracy and tyranny is
discussed as the Founding Fathers who envisioned
the Constitution in Philadelphia in 1787 believed
not in total demo...
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Reading This Book Reading The Book
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Review of HARDBALL (by Chris Matthews) Before I
started reading the book Hardball, by Chris
Matthews, I had a preconceived idea of what the
content of this book would be. From the title of
the book I drew the conclusion that Matthews would
write more about the darker side of politics and
how it is really played. I dont really know much
about politics, and frankly, I dont care much for
politics. However, when I hear the word hardball
in the context of politics, I think of blood shed.
I think of d...
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Frederick Douglass Slave Holders
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The brutality that slaves endured form their
masters and from the institution of slavery caused
slaves to be denied their god given rights. In the
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
Douglass has the ability to show the psychological
battle between the white slave holders and their
black slaves, which is shown by Douglass own
intellectual struggles against his white slave
holders. I will focus on how education allowed
Douglass to understand how slavery was wrong, and
how the Americans s...
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Believes That God Piece Of Wax
2,175 words
Descartes explains in nature that he exits by
having such qualities and abilities to see, touch,
taste and smell. Although existing in nature
includes being able to walk, have perception and
thinking, Descartes believes that he is a thinking
thing. (Thinking includes understanding and
reason). But what is a thinking thing? It is a
thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies,
wills, refuses that imagines also, and perceives.
Assuredly it is not little, if all these
properties belong to my nat...
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Symbolic Interaction Easily Understood
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Ethnomethodology is a recently developed
sociological approach that seeks to analyze the
full range of rules that people follow in everyday
social interaction. According to
ethnomethodologists, all common social interaction
between members of a group is governed by certain?
folk? rules. The members of the group (? ethno? )
have available to them a body of common sense
knowledge and assumptions about the world (?
methods? ), which they use to make sense of their
world. Harold Garfinkel coined the...
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Jackson Stonewall Jackson
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Many traits are associated with Thomas Jonathan
Jackson and his leadership in the confederacy. He
is known for stark determination, military genius
beyond all others, and the ability to turn any
army into a fighting machine. Jackson became
legendary when a South Carolina general, seeking
to rally his own men at Bull Run, pointed to
Jackson and shouted, ? Look, there is Jackson and
his men standing like a stone wall against the
enemy. ? Thus he forever became? Stonewall?
Jackson. Jackson? s milit...
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