Essays on Cate

Throughout the history, there were created many films that involved the elements of sex and sexuality. One of such films is Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 movie, Boogie Nights which describes the pornography business in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. In this industry viewers have a chance to meet a lot of characters which are passing through different problems. The protagonist of the story is a handsome seventeen year-old nightclub dishwasher, Eddie Adams, who was introduced to the pornography industry. One night pornographer Jack Horner noticed Eddie and turned him into a porn star Dirk Diggler. ...

Oil is one of the rare mineral commodities that sustain livelihoods, transportation and industrial processes across the world as one of the major sources of global energy. It is mainly produced by countries located astride ocean floors and also desserts, mostly Arab states in Africa, Asia, and some parts of Europe and Americas. In its crude form as a naturally occurring substance, it is found embedded in particular rocks on beneath the earth’s crust. It is from these crude oil that more refined petroleum products such as gas oil, naphtha, gasoline, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petrol are ...

The issue of privacy is important and is even protected by the constitution. The government doesn't have any right to curtail or interfere with an individual’s privacy, unless in exceptional circumstances when the privacy has information relating to national security (Cate & H, F. 818). The primary objective of the government is the protection of its citizens even when at times unconventional methods have to be applied. The privacy of an individual doesn’t hold water when matters of national security come into play. The technological world has made tremendous developments and the technology of encryption is being applied ...

Film Studies: Immigration film

Introduction The title of the film shall be “Instrumental Mind” and it shall be about an immigrant Indian girl in the US. The plot of the story follows that Anusha, an 18 year-old girl from Mumbai, India immigrates to the US to undergo specialized treatment of a heart condition. After recuperating, her programming talents lead her to being crafted into an IT team to develop critical software for cardiac arrest detection equipment.

The political purpose of the film is to show that in spite of the political clamor for the US to legislate against immigration, some forms of immigration ...

The challenge of keeping a national identity as a subculture in some countries is most evident in connection with special events such as transition rites. For instance, the coming of age is such an event. No culture remains unchanged without steady efforts by its subjects to keep and reaffirm it. However, cultures do not survive only by being maintained. This is so because in the globe where all things change; culture has also changed. However, the continuity and changes of the subculture are currently at stake. The humanities help people to understand their place in the earth via ages to a current ...

- Introduction As a profession, nursing existed since the early years of civilization. Although nursing in the early days was not sophisticated or complex as it is in the contemporary, various attempts were made to improve on care given to the patients (Parker, 2010). In fact, nursing as a field has its roots in the early attempts by human kind to provide care to the sick and the weak. It was through progressive modifications, adjustments and improvements that nursing or caring evolved into a large field with its roots deeply grounded in various concepts. Nursing concepts since the inception of care ...

Slide 2: Introduction

- Homecomings offer people an opportunity to reconnect with the traditions and the developments of a place they once called home. - Educational institutions offer great homecoming events that are filled with nostalgic moments. Besides the reconnection with colleagues, the alumni also get to catch up with the latest developments and traditions of their former college. - Indiana University (IU) celebrates its Homecoming week every fall. The weeklong event features an exciting homecoming parade where alumni clad in the university’s iconic crimson color. - The event brings together close to 580,000 IU graduates in forums ...

Intercultural communication in Babel

Intercultural communication is the transfer/exchange of information amongst cultures. What information is intended to mean and how it is interpreted by the recipients vary by virtue of how the information is portrayed. This becomes evident through a thorough and in-depth critique of the film Babel by Alejandro Iñarritu. Babel (2006) is a contemporary attempt to reveal the contemporary cultural diversity and various intercultural and communication challenges faced by the ordinary characters in the film. In this pursuit, the film producer, Alejandro Iñarritu, refers to three main cinematic strategies: (1)Emphasis on multiculturalism and diversity; Iñarritu sets ...

The war against the use and possession of marijuana either for medical use or recreational purposes has been a major national controversial issue. This is a controversial issue, considering the fact that for all these years of the fight against the use, there have always been two sides or views concerning the law and fight. While some see the economic benefit of legalizing marijuana, others see the problems such as the violence and crimes that could be associated with overuse of marijuana. Whether such problems will overwhelm the economic benefits of legalizing marijuana remains to be seen. Opponents believe that ...

Cate Chopin in her book The Story of an Hour tells of a story of how repressive marriage can be especially to women. The protagonist of the story, Louise Mallard just gets the feeling of freedom right after she heard of his death, a thing that is not anticipated in any marriage whatsoever but her happiness about it makes the reader understand the fact that in as much as she was married and lived with him, she was never happy in the marriage. Freedom to Mrs. Mallard is only achievable in the absence of the other party therefore implying that marriage ...

Introduction

Invading the privacy of businesses, institutions, and people, social engineering creates criminal acts using telephones, illegally accessing private information via computer accounts called "hacking", stealing bank account information, as well as eavesdropping are social engineering crimes. Two types of social engineering exist, including, human and technological based (Peltier, 2010). Social engineering uses deception, manipulating people into giving them personal information including social security and bank account numbers (Halles, 2008). Social engineers use tactics to extract private information including appealing to people's vanity, authority, look, over peoples' shoulders while entering pin numbers, and eaves drop. In his article, "Mitigating the ...