Essays on Feat

Different cultures sustain various values, some of which are not even comparable with one another. Societies have myriad ways of expressing this, yet their cultural productions are some of the richest ways of understanding how they conceived the world. In this sense, the epic poem Beowulf is one of the greatest epic poems that have ever existed. This is especially true and evident in that, even though Beowulf was not actually Anglo-Saxon, he does represent the ideals of this people. As such, one can see that bravery was one of the most extraordinary characteristics that this people had as ...

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Introduction The Empire State Building is an engineering and architectural feat of its time. One of the most remarkable landmarks in New York City, the Empire State Building is the tallest building that was built in the 1930s and held that position for more than 40 years until it was surpassed by the World Trade Center building in 1972. The Empire State Building was constructed as the backdrop of the Great Depression that happened right after the stock market crash of 1929. But despite the economic challenges, the builders were able to finish the construction in a ...

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In A Journal of the Plague Year, the narrative depicts a nonlinear description of the Great Plague that took place around 1665 in London. The novel highlights common experiences during the. The influence of Defoe’s experience as a newspaper editor can be seen through the combination of journalistic and literary writing skills and Defoe’s own understanding of fictional writing. It can be argued that Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year depicts an extraordinary literary work since it portrays a mix of data and statistical representation of reality and a fictional narrative. The graphical details presented ...

Trans-World Flight Center, John F. Kennedy Airport (1956-1962)

Opened in 1962, the Trans World Flight Center of the John F. Kennedy Airport is one of the finest structures belonging to the Organic Modern Period that emerged in the mid-20th century.1 What makes this style truly remarkable was the fact that it is based on neo-futuristic designs as well as embodying strict adherence to geometrical proportions, the creation of functional space for the passengers, aircraft, employees, and maintaining harmonious interaction of the structure in its environment.2 The structure was designed by Eero Saarinen, a notable architect and one of the prolific figures that proposed designing the concept of ...

For over 47 years, the outbreak of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union alliances has led to several political, economic, and military tensions on various countries around the globe. Immediately after the occurrence of World War II, a huge difference on the political ideologies of both parties triggered another outburst of foreign policies that have conflicting views between the two. Seemingly, the main reason for the outburst of Cold War from 1944 to 1991 is to extend both the opposing parties’ power and dominance around the world. The United States evidently wanted to gain ...

The Cold War: Space Race

Introduction The final frontier in the exploration of man during the 20th century was space. For decades, the man had been intrigued by the vastness and the boundlessness of his surroundings. The untapped cradle that formed the home to the planet remained a mystery to man. It was this fascination that created the basis for space exploration even as the man struggled to understand not only his surroundings but also his existence. The desire to understand space created the much needed scientific and technological advancement of humanity. In an effort to understand and conquer space, the man helped advance ...

I have known Ms. XXXX since 2010 when she worked for a summer internship at UBS. Having worked with Ms. XXXX directly, I observed how she distinguished herself from other interns. Her immediate impact at UBS led us to invite her to join our Hong Kong office permanently.

When Ms. XXXX joined UBS as an Analyst she proved to be highly knowledgeable in the practical aspects of corporate finance and investment, and the theoretical aspects of Micro/Macro Theory and Econometrics. Ms. XXXX demonstrated significant growth in a short time. I was surprised by her initiative to contact traders, researchers and ...

Energy is the most important aspect in modern world, as the dependency on energy is inseparable from people’s life. Furthermore, the needs to travel using automobiles create an insatiable need for fossil fuel to power the movements. Unfortunately, fossil fuel is a non-renewable resource that is estimated to be depleted in 2042 (Shafiee and Topal 181). From environmental point of view, fossil fuel combustion from diesel and gasoline vehicles has high contribution to the pollution level in urban areas (Chow and Watson 222). In addition to the pollution level, combustion of fossil fuel releases CO2 a greenhouse gas that contributes ...

Luis Alberto Urrea’s book, Into the Beautiful North can indeed be described as an expedition novel in the grand tradition, despite substantial inexistence of some factors within its plot layout in the pages. Undeniably, the author set the novel in the contemporary times, as characterized by the extremely electric realm of the United States and Mexico border expanse. Nonetheless, it is worth noting that the novel attempts to follow the hero’s journey as adduced by The Hero’s Journal Outline. This is so since the novel substantially satisfies some of the elements of the outline, with the ...

Introduction

Youths living in North America and other areas of the world that are considered relatively liberated grow up with considerably more gender equality now more than in the past. This is seen through many aspects in the society like opportunities for education, status of the women in the society and the socialization of gender roles. These youths take up courses in institutions of higher learning that were predominantly thought to be a preserve of the men. This is because the society has evolved to perceive women as an equal gender, and one deservedly worthy of equal opportunities as the male ...

This paper proposes to delineate the characteristics of Holden Caulfield, the adolescent protagonist hero of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and illuminate the reasons as to why this prototype of brooding adolescence, displaying a rather uber-cool style of disaffection, disenchantment and disillusionment became an indispensable figure of interest, in literary circles as well as popular culture. The paper seeks to take issue with the wider dimensions attached to the ‘incapacitation and debilitation’ Holden is often accused of and address Salinger’s vision behind etching Caulfield precisely the way he is. The paper also wishes to foreground the ...

Education in Kuwait

The education system of Kuwait is large. There are many students enrolled in this nation. The total number of students enrolled in schools amounts to 30% of the entire population of Kuwait. Three levels of education exist in this nation. It includes elementary level of education, intermediate and secondary level of education. The students enrolled in this nation spend four years at each level of education. The children start schooling at the age of six. However, the pre-schooling age is 4 years (Biswas 67). After completion of the elementary, primary and secondary levels of education students are allowed to ...

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The Lake Moeris Quarry Road built while the Old Kingdom of Egypt between 26th and 22nd centuries B.C. is the oldest paved road of the world and is testimony to the excellent sense of planning and execution of the ancient Egyptians of that period. The 8-miles of the main road was built by placing large stone blocks that were kept on the desert sand and to facilitate passage of sledges filled with blocks of Basalt to the quay of Lake Moeris, and then on to River Nile. Those Basalt blocks were shipped downstream of Nile to construction sites in ...

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The strong abilities of Romans to manipulate their physical environment via the development and use of strong military forces has led them to acquire several tracts of land across Europe, with its end as the Roman Empire having become memorable in scholarly works due to its sheer expanse. The magnanimity of the Roman Empire is perhaps best measured by the largeness of its territorial acquisitions. This study finds that the strong military forces of Rome has enabled it to two more consequential forms of physical manipulation – the slaughter of many people supporting Roman rivals and the systemic acquisition of land as “war ...

Introduction

Faster travel time, a feat of human imagination and a masterpiece of engineering. These are but some of the things that airplanes embody in the world. While there have been many records and variations throughout history of emulating flight, it was the Wright Brothers that finally made modern aircrafts possible back in 1903 . Since then the “aeroplane” has been used in many situations of human history. Such situations include public transportation, combat and even entertainment. This invention did not come without a price however; just as when dynamite was used in manners that were against the wishes of Alfred Nobel (leading ...

The Middle East has historically been viewed as a region of underdevelopment in almost all areas, particularly in education, recreation and real estate and infrastructure. Further, not only development in Middle East has been viewed as an anomaly in a region long known for conflict and destruction almost exclusively but also forunsustainability of development efforts particularly in areas requiring longer and insightful strategies such as education, recreation andreal estate and infrastructure. This view has recently, however, shifted given unprecedented changes inpublic policies for areas in question. This paper aims, hence, to explore recent developments in education, recreation and real estate and ...

Part-A: Privacy Protection

Introduction Privacy policies are statements, usually stated on e-commerce platforms, which govern and determines the way in which the e-commerce platform gets or collects, uses maintains and discloses information from users (Ecommerce Platforms, 2014). It also covers how the information collected by the platform is protected against unauthorized third parties who might intend to have access to it for wrong purposes. 84% of Americans believe that privacy protection in the US is not adequate while 78% believe that consumers have lost confidence over how their information is being used (Head and Yuan, 2001:150). They further explained that the ...

The longest runway show in the history of Broadway is certainly “The Phantom of the Opera.” Throughout history thirteen men played the role of the Phantom in Broadway but only one of them kept the front pages of the newspapers and this man is Norm Lewis. The plot of the story presents as a bitter man known as The Phantom who is leaving in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with Christine the beautiful soprano who had lesson with, without the girl knowing who helped her and believing it is her protective angel. Even ...

The Hualapai tribe, or nation of American Indians are a sovereign people located in the southwestern section of the United States. More specifically, their lands lie within the northwestern part of Arizona. The name of this tribe is pronounced “Wah-lah-pie” and according to the information on their official website, the significance of its meaning translates to “People of the Tall Pines” (“About Hualapai Tribe”). The total acreage of the Hualapai reservations lands covers approximately one million acres. The geographical elevation and features span the gamut from grassy lands, hillsides, canyons, and bushy forested terrain. The total number of the Hualapai members ...

The subject of ethics is definitely wide, with various interests and resulting to impetuses that are inclined to spread their occurrences. Situations that often lead to arising of immoral actions are numerous, and it is in the light of this that considerations have to be made depending on the exact situation. Nonetheless, the principles of ethics in practice often seem related to each other in one way or the other as portrayed by theorists such as Aristotle, Kant and Bentham. Thus; this essay presents an occurrence I underwent that present an ethical dilemma, with the succeeding viewpoints. After ...

Introduction

Comparative analysis is a vital tool in presenting an effective and efficient manner of presentation between any two or more impetuses of an event. It is even more imperative in the sense that subsequent acute analyses can be facilitated and done based on it (Demand media 2014 p.1). Ideally, the presentation of a comparative analysis attempts to bring forth a clear and rather more pronounced distinction that is inherent between two or even more stimuli. Accordingly; a more precise conclusion is more often than not deduced as a culmination of this exercise. Thus; it is in light of the above that this essay ...

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The Great Belt Fixed Link (Storebæltforbindelsen) is the fixed link connecting the islands of Zealand and Funen across the strait of Great Belt. The link is composed of three mega structures: a road suspension bridge (known as the East Bridge), a railway between Zealand and Sprogø, and a box girder bridge (known as the West Bridge) between Sprogø and Funen (Railway-Technology, n.d.). The link was purposely designed to replace the primary means of crossing the Great Belt (Transportation Research Board, 1995). Combined purpose and aesthetic perfection, this majestic link exhibits eccentric engineering skills and craftsmanship, a true man-made wonder. Figure 1. ...

The word gay is a rather interesting one. It is because it is one of the words with that possess more than one or two meanings. Moreover, due to this, the word presents itself as a multi-purpose word, thereby capable of being used in several contexts depending on the intended meaning that is attempted for comprehension. Arguably, it is fundamental to note the fact that the word, gay has the same pronunciation in all its varied forms and uses. It assures a rather more emphatic in its precise use in the various contexts for the intended meaning in question. It is in ...

Do the Right Thing one of the greatest films ever produced in Hollywood to date was directed written and produced by the well-known producer Spike Lee whose works has been great over the years. The movie produced in the year 1989 was a major success that is still regarded as one of the greatest movies ever produced over two decades later. Spike Lee not only produced this great piece of art but also played as ‘Mookie’ in it. The cast of this drama film includes several great actors such as Danny Aiello, Richard Edson, John Turturo, Rudy Dee, Bill Nun, ...

Fig 1: NDRC Techniques

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Non-Disruptive Road Crossings are manuals which outline unifying and standardizing measures of Road Engineering Practices. The significant objective of the project is to enhance the management, planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of all roads and related infrastructures to ensure a safe and uniform operational and structural capacity throughout the road network in Dubai. The complexity in road construction and to some point other engineering projects leaves very little to be argued about on their significance with respect to the influence they have on the environment. It is a fact that projects like roads, bridges, and dams ...

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Major contributions from the ancient world helped in the development and achievement of many milestones in today’s contemporary world. Technology used in prehistoric times was a profound accomplishment especially due to the wisdom inculcated by ancient scientists and engineers in making work easy and achievable. Their contributions aided in channeling efforts toward attaining realizable goals through mechanization and efficiency. The Roman Empire is credited with their impeccable exploits in architecture, engineering, mathematics and the sciences. As time progresses, ancient technology has been embraced and advanced to accommodate the changing trends in technological advancement. This paper will delve into the ...

The United States and Soviet Union have always seen themselves together in the same sentence because they have always tried to one up the other. This scenario is one that is very real with regards the conquest of outer space. For some reason America seemed to be playing catch up as she was a step behind with regards exploring outer space and putting a man in space Project Mercury is a program by NASA with an aim to launching the first Americans into space. During the duration of Project Mercury six flights were made by astronauts. Of that six, two came ...

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Very few people have been able to abandon their corporate careers and engage themselves with social works however John Wood a former Director of Business Development did this feat. He left His well-paying job as a Director with Microsoft and founded Room to Read: a non-profit organization that mainly deals with literacy and gender equality in education operating mostly in Africa and Asia. The book Leaving Microsoft to Change the World was written by Wood talks about Wood’s journey through a Himalayan village where he came across a school that had over 450 students but very poor learning facilities with less than 20 ...

Globalization is often misunderstood by people who claim to understand what it really is. Considering that globalization is synonymous to anything that has to do with progress and industrialization, among others, opposing sides try to point out its pros and cons as both sides gain support and acceptance from people who believe their causes. While there are poor nations that experience the negative effects of globalization, there are still more who believe that the only way towards cultural and economic advancement is through globalization. Therefore, understanding what it really is all about is the first step to recognizing its ...

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FedEx Corporation is a Delaware corporation, incorporated October 2, 1997. The company was originally called FDX Corporation and in 1998, the company acquired Caliber Systems Inc. With this acquisition, the company who was still using the name FDX began offering services that included express shipping, small-package ground service delivery, expedited shipping services, a less-than-truckload freight service in the Western areas of the US, transportation services in the Caribbean and logistics and technology solution. In the year 2000, FDX officially changed its name to FedEx Corporation. Also in the same year, FedEx purchased Tower Group International, which was a provider of logistics services ...

The image above depicts my entire family together. The picture was taken while I was in the Dominican Republic on a holiday; with my family. We are a close family knit family due to the existence of a strong bond amongst our family. The picture portrays all of us in the pool having a good time; one that is shrouded by happiness. The memory is still vivid to the extent that I remember it like it was yesterday. At this time in the pool, the family was preparing to be a game of volleyball. The teams were divided into two; one team comprising of the ...

Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese Multinational Company which was initiated on 28th of August 1937. It is headquartered in Aichi of Japan and currently employs approximately 300,000 employees across the globe. Over the years, they have evolved into one of the most trusted companies in the world which allowed them to become the 2nd largest automobile manufacturer with regards to their volume. Apart from this, they are also the 9th largest company with respect to the revenue generated by them. In the year 2012, they also achieved a remarkable feat by reportedly producing their 200 millionth vehicles. The success ...

Ford Motors is an American automobiles manufacturer. She is touted to be the world’s third largest automobiles manufacturer based on the number of units produced and the global sales records. The company is based in Michigan, close to Detroit in the United States. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 following a brief stint as an engineer at Edison Illuminating Company. He produced a gas powered quadricycle under the aegis of his first automobile company; Detroit Automobile Co. The venture failed and he formed another named Henry Ford Co. The failure of Henry Ford Co, led to ...

Biography and Contribution to the Attachment Theory

Mary Dinsmore Salter Ainsworth (1913-1999)

There is no doubt that Mary Ainsworth was born an intellectual judging from her contributions and discoveries in psychology and other academic fields. Perhaps, Mary Ainsworth is best known for contributions in the development of the attachment theory and as well, her works in developing of the strange situation (Bretherton, 1992). Her professional career was hugely shaped by Bowlby’s research unit.

Early Life

Mary Dinsmore Ainsworth (nee Salter), the eldest in a family of four sisters, was born to Mary and Charles Salter, Dickinson College graduates, in Glendale , Ohio, in 1913 (Bretherton, 2000). Her parents placed ...