Essays on Guillaume

Shot as a film within a film, La Chinoise that can also be referred to as “The Chinese,” involves five youths in the late 1960s in France who had come together to constitute a rebel Marxist group where they decide to stay together in a loft. The film comprises of five main characters: Véronique, a philosophy student, and the main leader of the sect, Guillaume who depicts himself as a theatrical actor, Yvonne, a young woman brought up in a farm in France, Henri a member of the group and Serge Kirilov a Russian pessimist. The revolutionary group ...

Acts of terror influence the legal, social, and political fabrics of the affected country. Therefore, the related responses are crucial in defining relevant and effective defence strategies. This essay evaluates legal issues associated with responding to terrorist attacks. Primarily, International laws offer a framework for countering terrorism and encouraging cooperation among different states that seek to combat and prevent terrorism (Guillaume, 2004). The framework comprises instruments which address specific terror elements as well as international tools that are designed to foster international cooperation in criminal law, protect human rights, and establish laws that cover the broader context of countering ...

Mohammad was the son of Abdullah, who was a descendant of Ishmael. The latter was the son of Abraham and Hagar. Muhammad was born in Mecca City in August 570 AD. He later became the founder of a major religion - Islam. The main aspects of Muhammad’s life include his troubled childhood, adult life as a trader, marriage to Khadija, meditation and revelations in Hira Cave, founding of Islam, persecution of Muslims and his death. Muhammad was born at a time when Arabs were polytheists –worshippers of multiple gods and goddesses. The worship of many deities was as a result of numerous ...

Introduction

Group behavior is the tendency of human beings to congregate. Humans are social beings, and therefore, they have a tendency to come together and cooperate in the performance of different activities. Group behavior can vary greatly, just like the factors that lead to group pressures. Group behavior is an interesting subject of study in epidemiology, political science, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and many others (Le, 2012). The primary preoccupation in group behavioral studies is usually to understand crowd reactions and how people influence each other in varying situations such as danger, fun, precaution, wrecklesness, and many more. Guillaume, Knippenberg, and Brodbeck ( ...

Chapter One: Islamic Literature in the Middle Ages

In the early ages, literary salons were a part of the medieval Islamic culture. These salons were referred to mujalasat or mujalasa. The Mujalasat emerged in Iraq in the ninth century and greatly flourished in the tenth century (Ali, 2010). Thereafter, they spread from Iraq to the west, to Andalusian region of Spain, and ultimately to North Africa. The literary salons had an extended endurance and were part of the Islamic cultural practice well into the modern era (Ali, 2010). The Mujalasat was poetry sessions that flourished immensely particularly in the age before television had reached peoples’ living rooms. ...

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The reason for choosing this research is because of the conflicting results about the impacts of European colonization and slave trade in Africa. There have been many problems that the world has encountered such as the World Wars I and II but one of the cruelest events that ever occurred in history was slavery. Slavery is defined as the legal form of purchasing people as properties who can be sold for economic reasons. Slavery in Africa is a subject that has historians debating about the demographic impact it has had in history. This has caused many historians to research about ...

Multivariate Analysis

Guillaume, Knippenberg, and Brodbeck (2014) theorize that social classes or groups are an important starting point to determine the effects of societal diversity on individuals’ attitudes and behavior. People with similar backgrounds whether social, economic, or cultural are more comfortable and more likely to perform better both psychologically and behaviorally (Guillaume et al., 2014). Besharov (2014) states organizational identification occurs when members place a high value on organizational membership and define themselves accordingly. Additionally, creativity, helping behaviors, job satisfaction, and social support are other actions, which contribute to defining classes or groups (Besharov, 2014). Organization identification benefits are fleeting ...

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The word music originates from the ancient Greek word muses that mean the nine goddesses of art and science. Music was formed long time ago when European musicians composed it for notation of rhythms. Music is an art that makes an organized sound effect through the elements of rhythm, pitch, and dynamics and is an expression of feeling and thought. Every culture past or present follows music. Since music is a part of all times and places in one or the other way, it is probable to be present before the dispersal of humans around the world. For hundreds of ...

“Artists are men who wish to become inhuman. They seek painfully the traces of inhumanity, traces which are never found in nature. These are real truths and beyond them we know no reality.” 1 Art such as paintings and sculptures are man’s way of expressing their thoughts. In the eyes of an artist, they can see the suffering behind the beauty, and this reason allows them to create beautiful artworks. Artists desire to fully express themselves using only their canvass and their brush; hence, they will attempt to construct their masterpiece in the most creative way in ...

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With the progress of technology comes the progress of man’s over-all way of living. There are new ways of doing things and solving problems. Technology has opened new doors for mankind in all aspects of everyday living. It has created new ways of connecting with people, of documenting personal experiences, and even of creating food. One of the most controversial ways in which modern technology has reinvented the process of food production is through genetically modified crops. The process of modifying the genetic composition of plants and animals has become a contemporary solution to a myriad of food related problems ...

Shepherd, Ian J., and Brent Reeves. "iPad or iFad–The reality of a paperless classroom." Mobility Conference, Abilene Christian University. Retrieved December. Vol. 30. 2011. Waterson, Patrick, Yolande Glenn, and Ken Eason. "Preparing the ground for the ‘paperless hospital’: a case study of medical records management in a UK outpatient services department." International journal of medical informatics81.2 (2012): 114-129. Graf, Holger, Souheil Soubra, Guillaume Picinbono, Ian Keough, Alex Tessier, and Azam Khan. "Lifecycle building card: toward paperless and visual lifecycle management tools." Proceedings of the 2011 Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design. Society for Computer Simulation ...

Most Americans have no clue whatsoever about what it is to be gay. Mostly, they opposed gay marriages out of darkness and ignorance. The argument is always centered on the belief that the family as understood in the western context consisted of a man and woman. The woman brings the feminine qualities responsible for nurturing, care, and motherhood. The father on the other hand, is in charge security of the family. This role extended to the provision of necessities for the well-being of children and the wife. In conventional understanding, sex is an act that united females and males in ...

Abstract

Enzymes are biological catalysts and work by speeding up the rate of chemical reactions. The factors that affect enzyme activity include enzyme concentration, temperature, pH, and the substrate concentration. This experiment aimed to determine the effect of lemon juice, which is acidic on the activity of catechol oxidase enzyme. According to the results, high acidity inactivates the catechol oxidase enzyme. The optimum pH level for catechol oxidase enzyme can, therefore, be said to be pH 6.

Introduction

Enzymes are biological catalysts and work by speeding up the rate of chemical reactions. The enzymes achieve this by reducing the amount of ...

A contrast between the two messengers of God

This essay is aimed at illumining the contrasting features of the lives of Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohammed. Though both of them proposed different religions namely Christianity and Islam which have quite a lot of dissimilarities in the beliefs, customs and present day scenario, still the presence of striking elements for comparison and contrast cannot be denied. Several online articles and research papers have been used to find the details of the lives of these two great ‘messengers of God’. But certain opinions on the negative aspects of adherence to either of the Prophets and the conclusion on how to ...