Essays on Asserting

The US-China diplomatic relations have been strained for long periods. However, the critical issue affecting the two countries is the South China Sea dispute. According to analysis of commentaries from various authors both from the Chinese front and from the U.S front, this is the only dispute between the two countries with the potential of making militarization of dispute between the two powers inevitable. Several reasons have been advanced by commentators on this issue of South China Sea dispute. From the Chinese perspective, it has been an issue for the United States in an area where it is not ...

A section of psychologists holds preposterous assertions of having first-hand evidence on extra-sensory perception, for instance, dreaming about something that actually happens later and foreseeing the future through mind reading (Plate & Joyce, 2013).The ideology of extra sensory perception was prompted by J. Rhine, a psychologist at the Duke University, by denoting physic abilities that include telepathy and clairvoyance. He elaborates the perception’s trans-temporal operation as being precognition or retrocognition in nature. However, most psychologists have refuted these claims asserting that the concept cannot be tested in the realm of science. Ingrained in a series of retrospective experiments ...

Colonization is a process in which imperial power systems dominate a region and its components. It features, among other things, cultural domination, political subjugation, religious assimilation and economic exploitations. The colonists used these measures as tools of winning control of the helpless people. Colonization has a close link to massive exploitation and assimilations of new cultures and it further involves actual or threat of use of force. The colonizers were formidable icons and commanded loyalty through aggression. In light of colonialism, established cultures disintegrated. On the case of Britain emperialism,Tarique noted that, “as one of its legacieshas been ...

One of the major challenges facing healthcare administration is the problem of diversified care. The modern world and all the technological improvements that are found in medicine mean that levels of care are better than ever, but this is not without challenges for administrators. An increasing number of specializations in medicine, for example, mean that administrators must prepare for an increasing number of units and specialists, which in turn leads to problems with funding and human resources. There are also issues associated with the fact that patients are generally more aware of technological advances in medicine, and may be ...

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Introduction The Marshall Trilogy refers to the three landmark cases that became the foundation of today’s context of tribal sovereignty. Chief Justice John Marshall played a significant role in the formation of federal Indian law and most specially the American legal system. The Marshall Court made important decisions that shaped the frameworks o the federal Indian law. The three cases relate to land issues asserting the Doctrine of Discovery, fight of removal, and control of activities in the Indian land. The discussion will explore the context of the Marshall Trilogy articulating the cases of Johnson v. M’Intosh, ...

The book brings to the attention the growing culture of job insecurity in the Wall Street. The dream of every competent American is to have the best job as well as the best pay for their services. Such dreams are often shattered by a culture that tends to lean much on the short-term returns rather than long-term aggrandizement. As a result, investment bankers have adopted a culture of constant worker layoff even in times when there is no crisis. In the view of the author, the building culture of the short-term boom as a model of success in the ...

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The emergence of social media has been critical to the political world through aiding of participation. It is important that every party and stakeholder is involved in the political process. The essential nature of politics makes it necessary for certain groups of people to participate. The value of asserting political influence surpasses the imaginary benefits that people often lay against it. In the contemporary world, the use of social media as a tool for engaging on political matters has increased tremendously. Over the recent years, many groups have continued to assert their influence in politics by engaging the political ...

Introduction

Karen Warren coined the term “Ecofeminism” in explaining the logic of domination where the notion of people’s control over nature as a whole is wrong and for the same reason that the subordination of women to the will of men is also wrong. According to argument, feminists should object to the idea domination because subordination of women and domination over nature both represents the logic of domination. On the other hand, the asserted claim of twin domination encompasses several issues. In this discussion, Warren’s logic of domination and the concept of ecofeminism will be examined by explaining ...

Antigone is a tragedy written by Greek playwright Sophocles in the year 442 BCE. The play carries on in a series of plays such as Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus as well as Seven Against Thebes, which tell the tale of social classes, family feuds, and civil law in ancient times. The play tells about the reversal of fortunes between people in the high social class who are forced to live very lowly lives and to suffer emotionally and physically due to the operation of the constitution. The play deals with the burial of Antigone’s brother ...

On a global front, creativity acts as a priority to educational systems and is primary to the debate concerning contemporary learning. In his Talk “Do Schools Kill Creativity”, filmed on TED in February 2006, Ken Robinson argues that the current education system places a significant role in killing creativity in children. He, instead, recommends the creation of a personalized approach that encourages creativity development. Ideally, Robinson develops his credibility on this issue using personal events, credible sources, and emotional appeals. In his talk, Robinson initially sets the stage by outlining three primary points that define his presence to the ...

The Impact and Effects of Power Politics of United States, China, & Japan Arising from South China Sea Conflicts on the Sovereignty and Socio-Political Fabrics of Philippines

Introduction

The South China Sea (SCS) is a partly enclosed body of water that connects the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is marked with several island attributes which are grouped into four island bodies-- the Pratas or Dongsha Islands in the northeast, the Paracels or Xisha Islands in the northwest, the Spratlys or Nansha Islands in the south, and the Scarborough Shoal or Zhongsha Islands to Paracels' southeast (Hayton, 2014). It is teeming with ...

Infanticide

Studies on criminal justice, especially as it relates to infanticide case have shaded more light on how to perform a wide variety of services which include crime investigative work, identifying suspects, among other duties for the benefit of the general public. A more multidiscipline team approach has been the prime factor to ensuring comprehensive response to myriad of problems relating to infanticide and putting face on the actions necessary to be taken. In this perspective, looking at the Smithville community, the society is violent to children. In fact, as the statistics suggest, children are at high risks of being in ...

Essay for Lesson 6: The Holocaust

Introduction The mere mention of the Holocaust could already arouse eerily suspicious reactions from those who know about it. The idea of systematically slaughtering the Jewish people because of unfounded accusations against their racial inferiority has heaped condemnation against the Holocaust as perhaps one of the most heinous crimes ever committed in human history. Historians would even go as far as asserting that the Holocaust is the most terrible act ever committed against humans, its impact being unparalleled by any other recorded event in human history. While one could assert the foregoing statement as a subject of an intense ...

Secularization from Civil War to 1930

Religious difference exists in all places worldwide. As a tool of conviction, religion is so sensitive that if it is not handled properly it can split a country causing civil unrest. It is instructive to note that the longest wars to have existed in the history of humanity were caused by religion. Due to its volatile nature, many countries including the United State (U.S) have decided to separate public life from religious practices (Andrew et al. 72). After the civil war to around 1930s, U.S has shown a continuous trend of separating State from religion in a process referred to as secularization of ...

Introduction

In The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships, Harriet Lerner aims to raise awareness about the tendencies of women to suppress their anger. While it is important for people to learn to deal with or control their angry, this is entirely different from suppressing. Lerner argued that suppressing anger, which is a common behavior among women, is a way of denying it. Consequently, when women suppress or deny their anger, the problem never gets resolved and only becomes a source of resentment and stress. Through the book, Lerner aims to help women understand sources ...

Kate Chopin, the author of the short stories, "The Storm" and "Story of an Hour," was a tremendously forward-thinking and feminist author - in both of these tales, marriage is viewed as a restrictive hold on the women who are the subjects of each story. In "The Storm," the desperate Calixta temporarily frees herself of her stifling marriage by engaging in a passionate love affair with a paramour from her past who finds himself in her house in the wake of a nasty storm. Meanwhile, in "Story of an Hour," a woman discovers that her husband has passed away, and starts to have fantasies about ...

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Mary Conde’s book ‘I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem’ uses the Salem Witchcraft Trials as a background for the political implications of a post slavery scenario where the political implications are great. There are also some ironies which can be observed since the Puritans who ended up as abolitionists entertained the worst excesses as regards cleansing and purifying the nation of witches and Conde plays on that notion with subtle irony. The sense of catastrophe is also imminently felt especially in the analogous dynamics of the novel. Tituba is imbued with fantastic and wild notions of witchcraft which also impart ...

I Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail to emphasize his promotion of nonviolently resisting racism. King, Jr. noted that people may break laws they deem as unjust as part of their moral responsibilities. The publication of Letter from Birmingham Jail initially experienced delays, but eventually became one of the most widely published texts that enjoyed great popularity among civil rights movement supporters in the United States (US) during the 1960s (King Jr.). Various nonviolent protests against racism happened in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, hence known collectively as the Birmingham Campaign. The Alabama Christian Movement ...

Healthy Vegetarian Diet

Some of the areas where the author could improve on are as follows: (1) appropriate selection and use of transition statements to effectively introduce main points and arguments; (2) more proofreading to avoid repeated statements and phrases (for instance the statement “lacto-vegetarian doesn’t eat red meat, poultry, fish, seafood” was repeated twice in the second paragraph located in page 1; (3) observing the explicit spelling out of the meaning of an acronym (where BMI was already initially mentioned in the third paragraph in page five, before it was explained in detail as to its meaning in the fourth ...

Introduction: General History of the Second World War

The Second World War has instigated several nations to enter into conflict against one another as they associate themselves into two major factions – the Axis powers led by Germany, Japan and Italy, and the Allied forces led by France, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK). Notably, the Second World War has extended its destructive reach beyond the Western world consisting of Europe and North America towards the Asia-Pacific region, having coincided with the plan of Japan to invade mainland China dating to 1937, then known officially as the Republic of China. ...

For many years, transgender people often faced discrimination when accessing public accommodations particularly bathroom facilities in schools, offices and restaurants where most of them became victims of verbal and physical violence. For transgender people, finding a safe access to bathroom is a continuous struggle in which they believe that deprivation of its access denied them of full public life involvement. A student may not be able to finish school due to inadequate safe bathroom access or a transgender employee may quit or be fired from their jobs due to bathroom discrimination in the workplace. Bathroom issues and safety are the most common ...

Reporter Frank Cagle’s article, Positive Nullification: From Legal Pot, Gay Marriage and the Right to Farm, States are Asserting Rights, describes the method by which states can affect federal laws and how the 10th Amendment is favorable to changes in current laws over which the states and federal government are in dispute. Cagle says that many of the current issues, such as marijuana legalization and gay marriage, are contested in a partisan manner with conservatives pitted against liberals, or that states’ rights are often seen as the province of conservatives stuck in a Confederate mindset. However, he argues that reality ...

Tesla Motors Incorporation is a company located in Silicon Valley. The company develops, produces, and sells electric vehicle powertrain elements and electric cars. In addition, the public company uses the symbol TSLA while trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Tesla Motors attained extensive attention by manufacturing the Tesla Roadster. This was the foremost complete electric sports car. The company has situated itself among the leading actors in America’s motor vehicle sector (Garcia-Valle and Lopes 33). This paper is a case study of Tesla Motors Incorporation and will look at the company’s objectives, customer scenario, Identifications of the nucleus of ...

Introduction

Motor vehicle crashes are responsible for the death of many teens in the US. Many of these are between the ages of 15 and 20 years. The minimum age of acquiring a driver’s license in Alabama is 16 years. This means that any person who is under the age of 16 years cannot be issued with a driver’s license. With more teenage drivers getting involved in car crashes, more teens perish in these crashes than people in other age groups. With the rising number of deaths and injuries that results from these accidents, programs such as Graduated Driver Licensing ...

For quite a considerable time during his time in office, President Obama has been very vocal about the rights of the gay community. On more than one occasions, he has openly come out clear that these individuals also have their rights and they need to be respected and allowed to enjoy those rights. In his stance, this is an issue related to civil rights (New York Times Editorial Para 1). However, this issue is hotly debated, with only a number of the states of the US having passed legislations which allow the gay people to enjoy their rights. This is quite ...

‘The rewards of a solitary life’ and ‘Constantly risking absurdity’ speaks of a solitary life led by particular individuals. The article by Mary Sarton discuses benefits of solitary life by asserting the ideas of self reliance and independence. In a similar manner, the poem Constantly Risking Absurdity by Lawrence Ferlinghetti talks of a solitary tight rope walker and stresses on the significance of individualism. The poem narrates that the acrobat is performing to achieve beauty and truth. This shows that he is not performing for others but for himself and again stresses on the importance of independent and self reliant behavior.

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Arguably, war and philosophy tend to always appear a little common. As a matter of fact, scholars assert that philosophy is a field that defines and establishes the rationality and justice for being part of a war and that it attempts to set norms and rules on how wars in most cases must be conducted. One of the philosophical theories that try to justify the essence of going to war is the Just War Theory. Certainly, the scheme of a Just War is to define and establish ethical and moral foundation for human destructive events and activities. In addition, just war principles tend to ...

Human intelligence has defied successive efforts to understand it, with multiple quasi-scientific and scientific methods within the field of psychology failing to produce an acceptable description of the nature of human intelligence. This is not least because the study of intelligence is a commonly affected by political and cultural factors, which hurt the objectivity with which scientific efforts may be pursued (Bakker & Wicherts, 2011). Further, there have been no or inadequate empirical testing from the varied intelligence theories, which renders it multiply impossible to not only attain a consensus among the scientific community, but even more significantly, affects any further theoretical ...

Misogyny in Rap Lyrics

Introduction Sexism and misogyny exist throughout our popular culture. Even with that in mind gangsta rap is pointed to more often than other music genres as posing a serious problem in its presentation of women and the heavily misogynistic view that this involves. It is unclear who is potentially at fault here: for some, it is the music industry and its continued endorsement of such music, whilst for others it is the rappers themselves who write and perform the lyrics in question. Otware (2011) states that “Sexism, misogyny and homophobia permeate the music” (Otware, 2011, p31) which demonstrates how ...