Essays on Adamant

According to Dekun Zheng (1983), China has been one of Asia’s most distinguished countries, and it has been known to have a class structure which has divided it into two Chinas. The upper class and the rural class has had clear demarcations in the country. The upper class of the Chinese civilization has enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle which has been visible from their expenditure, way of living and spending. Moreover, the author mentions the importance of gaining a classical education, which has been important to the Chinese upper class that helped them rise above the rural class of ...

Introduction

The play, Dollhouse, is a drama outplay that features the young family of Torvald Helmer and his wife, Nora. Nora comes around as a very cheerful lady, and caring, considering that she went to great lengths to secretly borrow money to finance her husband’s treatment. She is a homemaker, kind and mainly responsive to the needs and the feelings of other people, including Mrs. Linde, who lost her husband and sick mother. To her husband, Nora was a kind of a movie actress, performing a role that was defined by the society of being a wife, faithful, submissive ...

Group leadership in an organization is a critical role which facilitates group discussion and the resolution of conflicts. The members of the two groups are involved in discussions which are aimed at making decisions that are crucial to them. The first group involves members of the politics of sociology department who are trying to decide which courses they should cut and add into their department. The second group involves a group of individuals looking to raise funding for a playground in the neighborhood for their children. A team leader influences the outcomes and the productivity of a discussion. The ...

True Love Unites: The Final Romantic Word in Carver’s “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love.”

Raymond Carver is one of the authors who have explored one of the perspectives on love. In the short story “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love”, Carver explores the ideas of different people when they talk about love. There is a need to focus on certain elements as they are crucial to the understanding of the short story. One such element is the elusiveness of love. The fact that people have different definitions of love, or will find fault in one other’s definition of love is testament of this characteristic. This is evident in the ...

Love is arguably one of the most discussed topics in the social realms. Love is not just a preserve for the social circles. Scholars in the academic realm have explored various dimensions of the subject. Carver is one of the authors who have explored one of the perspective of love. In the short story, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, Carver explores the ideas of different people when they talk about love. There is a need to focus on certain elements as they are crucial to the understanding of the short story. One such element is ...

The opium war which took place in the 19th century was one of the first major defeats of the Chinese government. China had a tremendous amount of wealth which was mostly attributed to the tea trade in the country. Britain had a great demand for this tea, while the country had nothing to offer the Chinese government in return. China was also ignorant to the western revolution and considered the western culture barbaric. China was a traditional country which held strongly to its traditions and culture. While China hoped to keep its culture free of the western culture effect, ...

Andrew Carnegie and the Making of US Steel

Background Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland in 1835, to his parents William and Margaret Carnegie. They moved to the United States of America in 1848, when Andrew was aged thirteen years. On arriving and settling in the Allegheny City, near Pittsburg, Andrew's father secured a job in a cotton factory, with Andrew playing the role of a bobbin boy in the same organization. One year after arriving in the United States, Andrew got a job with the Pittsburg Telegraph office as a messenger, a job he did very well, so well that he was promoted to the position ...

Human population has experienced explosive growth over the recent decades. Population dynamics is a multifaceted aspect that encompasses not only population size, growth and density, but also the peculiarities of urbanization and migration taking into account such variables as age and sex (de Sherbinin et al., 2007). Lam, (2011) points out that demographic change is closely related to the three aspects, namely urbanization, fertility decline, and investment in children. “The growth of the world population goes hand in hand with global urbanisation: while around the year 1950 less than 30% of people lived in the cities, this proportion has ...

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In an article published in the Journal of the National Medical Association in 2010, the authors identified obesity and diabetes mellitus as the top two health concerns of African American men (Treadwell, et al., 2010). The same health issue, obesity has been named as the major concern of African American women (Vaewsorn, 2015). These findings had been supported with alarming statistics provided by reliable health organizations like the World Health Organization and the National Research Council. According to the recent statistics, approximately 69% African American men and 82% African American women are assessed to be under the ...

The background to this Greek poem, The Iliad of Homer, is the war between the Trojans and the Achaians. The Greek warriors sieged a city on the shores of Turkey, and were opposed by the Trojans. The main purpose of this war was to rescue Helen of Troy (Sparta). This poem could be an imaginary expression of events, yet it could also be the historical recordings of a real war. There is, however, the dispute of the date of the poem and the date of the war that makes it invalid as an eyewitness record. Even so, the beauty ...

Revealing both the best and worst aspects of humanity, the Renaissance was characterized by extraordinary human achievements, a heightened interest in human potential and, paradoxically, by superstition, witch-hunting, exorcism and torture. The humanism of Renaissance had four main themes: the belief in the individual’s potential, a tendency to view religion as being more personal rather than institutionalized, an increased interest in the classics, a rejection of Aristotelian philosophy in order to develop a more scientific attitude. As the ecclesiastical power started to deteriorate, the pressure of having to fit scientific inquiry with Christian dogma decreased, making inquiry steadily more objective. Copernicus ...

Motorcyclists and passengers requirement to wear helmets

With the increasing prices of fuel around the globe, motorcycles are seen by many as a perfect alternative to automobiles due to its fuel-efficiency, agility and easy parking. Most countries around the world, including the United States, have a huge motorcycle following due to this efficiency. However, while these alternate vehicles are indeed practical, the statistics of deaths related to motorcycle accidents have increased greatly each year especially in cases where in both the rider and the passenger are found without helmets. Where is society headed given the growing trend of motorcycle related deaths as many still prefer this alternative mode ...

Abstract

Interviewing a senior person is such an eye-opening experience considering the wealth of knowledge and wisdom they have to share. In this exercise, I interviewed someone who comes from a poor family and lived through the ravages of war. Despite the dire situation they were in, Eduardo Jimenez, the interviewee, shared he was able to overcome all hardships as his parents taught him to love and persevere no matter what happens in life. Although he was the youngest and was adored by everyone in the family, he learned to become as responsible and as persevering as his older siblings. Faith in ...

Although critical of democracy, Tocqueville did recognize that democracy was the form of political arrangement which would most likely be dominant in the future. While democracy could lead to an overall well being, it could also lead to a type of servitude. Examine and evaluate two of the principal means – the notion of self-interest properly understood and the need for associations – which Tocqueville believed are necessary to mitigate against the dangers of equality and democratic society.

Tocqueville’s Idea of Democracy

The criticism of American democracy by Tocqueville can be expressed as “the tyranny of the majority” (Roark, p. 19). This idea has been ...

Overview of the Health Problem

Food consumers require nutritional information of every item appearing on the menu board. Such information is essential in creating awareness of what the consumers take from certain food thus able to make better choices in restaurants. Senate Bill (SB) 120 addresses the problem affecting approximately thirty eight million people residing in California State (Henderson, et al 2010). As the most populous state with modern living standards, it is the duty of the lawmakers in this state to ensure they protect the health interests of residents. To ensure that restaurants adhere to the provisions of public health policy in California, ...

Psychology of King Lear

Introduction It is adamant that the psychology of King Lear is quite disturbing in many ways throughout the play. He struggles with his own thoughts of conspicuous thoughts and ravages around the kingdom with a delusion of who his daughter is and who his servant is as well as how his family is implicated in the kingdom and how he sees his family being implicated in the kingdom . Therefore, it is reasonable to say that King Lear is psychotic or, in other words, mad in his own way and since he is aging, the mental illness he suffers from ...

The largest Ebola epidemic of all times plagued the world in 2014. The outbreak started in Guinea in 2014 and then extended to other West African countries in 2014. The worst hit countries are Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Other countries including Nigeria, Senegal, United States of America and Spain have reported isolated Ebola cases. However, the three worst hit countries in West Africa bear the largest weight of the epidemic. Since the beginning of the outbreak, there has been 8,399 reported cases and 4,033 deaths related to Ebola. The world health organization and the center for ...

Employees are expected to be in submission to their bosses; this is a common knowledge that is recognized all over the globe no matter what the nature of the work process is as recognized by the organization (Cheeseman, 2013). Nonetheless, there are instances when such knowledge is being used to overpower the employees especially based on racial and gender differences. Among the most common cases that impose such abuse of the law is that of the occurrence of sexual harassment in several institutions. Paula is noted to have just started her job at a corporation, and she was noted to be ...

Syria and Egypt were recently shaken by the revolutions. People, in both of these nations, demonstrated against their governments and their resentment disrupted in the most atrocious way. This paper discusses Syrian and Egyptian revolutions and further examines effects of these revolutions along with discussing how these two revolutions were different. Egyptian revolution was a peaceful revolution. Some violent incidents took place during the protests in Egypt, but by and large, the whole movement was peaceful. Protestors, as well as the government, both hesitated from using violence. When protests escalated and Hosni Mubarak realized that he does not enjoy ...

The world is made up of different people representing different races and ethnic groups around the world. It is important to note that that these social profiling of different people were constructed by the dominant group in a given society. It is important to note that one’s race is determined by their physical features such as one’s phenotype, type of hair, among other things. On the other hand, one’s ethnicity is determined by their culture, language, beliefs and traditional roots. Both the racial and ethnic groups have been formed and integrated into our society by the dominant ...

Sonny’s Blues

Introduction This is the heart-rending is the tale of how two extreme approaches through which people deal with the tribulations and trials of life. The story reminded me of my own conflict with my family regarding my choice of career as a guitarist. In the novel, Sonny’s Blues, the author James Baldwin narrates the story of two African-American brothers. The story revolves around the relationship between the brothers and how it changes dimensions with the change in circumstances. The narrator, Sonny’s elder brother, had promised his dying mother that he will care for and look after his ...

It is often said that the tragic end of Oedipus and, in fact, his entire life, is an act played out by fate, that his downfall was destined and could not be prevented. I disagree with this view and believe that Oedipus had the potential and will to be a great man and king however, his own character prevented him from achieving greatness and brought about his ultimate downfall. It is said that, from the very beginning, when King Laius of Thebes orders Oedipus to be killed to prevent the prophecy from coming true, he actually set off the sequence ...

Introduction

Personal characteristic of an individual can be assessed using several instruments. The instruments that can be used to gauge one’s personalities include the Myers-briggs type indicator (MBTI), Thomas- kilman conflict mode instrument (TKI), firo-b assessment (fundamental interpretation relations orientation-behavior) and strengths finder 2.0. These tools have the capability of effectively identifying ones personality characteristics. The ability to interpret the results accurately into a meaningful, productive and useful manner makes these tools essential. A clear understanding of the results is important for making good career choices, improving and adjusting one’s skills as a manager or seeking for a better realization ...