Essays on Indifference

Introduction

Sleeping Beauty is a 2011 written and directed by Julia Leigh. It is the story of a female college student named Lucy that works various part-time jobs. She was approached to a job that involves serving upper-class gentleman in sexy lingerie, eventually settling for a new role wherein she is sedated and taken advantage of by elderly men on the grounds that there will be no sexual penetration involved. The film climaxes in the protagonist waking up from her sleep finding an old man dead of an overdose beside her. Throughout the course of the film, the issue of ...

Government Actions in Markets

Figure 1 As a result of increasing the passenger movement tax on airlines, the equilibrium price P2 moves to new point P1. (P1>P2) The new quantity of flights is Q1. Therefore demand decreases, Q1 <Q2. Because of the increased prices some consumers denies to purchase tickets choosing other flight companies or using alternative ways of transportation. A tax that is imposed on sellers in fact creates a burden on consumers as well because of the fact that consumers will be forced to pay higher prices. It is clearly shows on the Figure1 that the revenue from sellers ...

Movie Review: THX-1138

THX-1138, the main character in the film THX-1138, works as a magnum operator in cell 94107. He was literally created to manipulate the magnum along with other people in his society. In general, the THX-1138 movie is one of the best films that the creator of Star Wars, George Lucas, has ever scripted and directed. In 1976, Lucas produced Electronic Labyrinth: THX-113: 4EB, a short film that won various awards and introduced Lucas to movie fans globally (“George Lucas Biography”). The success of Electronic Labyrinth impressed the director of The Godfather, Frances Coppela, who urged Warner Brothers to provide ...

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Introduction For many centuries women were deprived of their natural rights to control their life and even body and yet the struggle for equal rights is still continuing. At some point, feminism acquired a negative connotation that people today associate with the fanaticism and misandry. It is quite difficult to explain why the movement that released so many women from their invisible prisons is criticized by the modern society. A lot of women have fought to overcome discrimination, prejudice, and stereotyping of womanhood by changing the laws, altering the views of the society, and fighting back their oppressors. In ...

1. An investor does not need to make a decision which portfolio to choose when a risk free asset is included. There is now only one tangent portfolio he can choose. Explain this statement with graphs analysis. The line of possible portfolio risk and return combinations given the risk-free rate and the risk and return of the portfolio of risky assets is called capital allocation line(CAL). For an individual investors and under the assumption of CAPM model that each investor faces homogeneous expectations, the best capital allocation line is the one that offers the highest expected utility in ...

QUESTION A

Definition of Credit Default Swaps A CDS is an instrument used to transfer the risk of default or credit exposure between two or more parties (Fabozzi and Kothari, 2008). It protects the lender from the possible loss of default by the borrower. The lender (protection buyer) pays premiums to the CDS seller. In return, the CDS seller guarantees to pay the lender the face value of the loan plus interests due in the intervening period if the borrower defaults.

Cash flows

Annual CDS premium = 4% × 1,000,000 = $40,000 Quarterly payments = 40,000/4 = $10,000 The borrower does not default ...

QUESTION A

A Credit Default Swap is a swap that protects the lender from the risk of loss resulting from the default by the borrower. The protection buyer of the CDS (the lender) makes periodic income payments (CDS premiums) to the protection seller who in return guarantees to pay the lender the principal in case the borrower defaults.

Cash flows when there is no default

Notional amount = $1 million Annual CDS premium = 4% × 1,000,000 = $40,000 Quarterly CDS premium = $10,000 If the borrower does not default, the protection seller will make a profit of $120,000 at the end of the third year ($10,000 ...

Inaction is more harmful than taking the wrong decision. The callous attitude of the Judges in the Supreme Court in recent times is affecting different sections of the society in the United States. Whether it is their reluctance to ban assault rifles or to withhold immigration reforms, the consequences are difficult to bear by the citizenry. There are several incidents of inaction in the past which disgraced the United States in the international arena. It is not surprising that neighboring countries are slowly isolating ties with the nation. Even allied nations choose to hold a neutral position. Inaction has ...

IDENTIFY AND DISCUSS THE PREDOMINANT THEMES OF ROMEO AND JULIET

Introduction Kenneth Branagh’s, 2016 play, presents Romeo & Juliet in a brilliantly new and expressionistic manner. The play starts with an assumption that live cannot exist without hate, and according to the many critics this indeed does not signify two opposites but the notion becomes merely depicted as two sides of a coin (Rowe, 2008). The opposite of this peculiar union is exactly the opposite of love and hatred, which is known as indifference. Indifference perhaps is the theme less explored in the play since Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet comes with the notion of fate and its tragically beautiful ...

Soldiers, despite their initial conviction and training to kill, are beset with the heaviness of their first kill. Although some are reluctant in showing their mental state affect, others are more heavily affected by the things they have seen and committed in battle. Noah Pierce, a soldier who ultimately ended his life due to his traumas incurred in his two trips to Iraq, is a vivid example of PTSD. Murder, whether it is committed in war as an act of defense, is a heaviness that will haunt the soldiers who do survive and return home. Noah Pierce, being described ...

The twenty first century has already seen a rapid technoligization of practically every aspect of life. Indeed, it could not but affect the labor force. The question is: in what way has it done so? Firstly and foremostly, apart from obvious computerization, we can speak of robots being introduced in the labor force environment. There are two facets of this process – the positive one and the negative one. As for the first, robots have taken on the most difficult and in certain cases most dangerous work. As for the second, it may be justly maintained that robots have endangered ...

Angela Carter prominently retells the fairy tale story of Little Red Riding Hood, with more vivid and gruesome details as to the horrors of monstrosity. In The Company of Wolves, she first describes in detail the attitudes and machinations of wolves, providing examples using the concept of a werewolf compared to the anthropomorphized wolf in the original tale. Through Carter’s retelling, she envisions a tale of love that more closely resembles what could have happened in reality. Through this, the dichotomy of humanity and monstrosity is blurred when both exhibit traits that are supposedly exclusive of the other. ...

I believe that selfishness and indifference are terrible scourges of our time. In the modern world the problem of alienation and indifference arose very sharply. People increasingly do not pay attention to other people's pain and suffering. They do not want to help anyone, almost never taking the initiative or responsibility. This behaviour is, unfortunately, becoming usual. People put their interest first and over others to get what they want in their life. Selfishness is a terrible disease that infected most of the world's population. The constant concern that a large number of problems, mistrust of the outside world, ...

The article “Good parenting key to breaking cycle of poverty” by Nicole Letourneau and Justin Joschko in the Toronto Star highlights the importance of strong relationships between children and adults in low-income families in Canada (Letourneau & Joschko, 2013). The article is significantly critical in the essence that it exposes the dangers of families suffering poverty not building a strong relationship with their children by particularly not giving them the necessary attention. In hindsight, the article depicts how extensive and sensitive alienation can be experienced while also revealing its prevalence to be witnessed across various issues. Alienation is thus witnessed ...

Jack London is characterized as a naturalistic writer through most of his literature works, for instance, The Law of Life and To Build a Fire. In the two short stories, Jack incorporates naturalism themes such as nature vs. man, death, and the struggle for survival. The author presents main characters who struggle to survive with the indifference of nature to survive, but they ultimately die as nature wins the war against them. In To Build a Fire, London presents a protagonist who sets out on a journey despite the harsh weather. The man was warned against traveling during the ...

In his essay called “Christianity and the Survival of Creation”, Wendell Berry accuses Christian church of the insulting indifference that it expresses towards the whole world. While the church claims to be merciful and forgiving, it chooses to ignore all of the issues that are relevant for the modern society. Things like war, rape and murder the Church explains with the fact that God sends people obstacles that they are able to overcome. Instead of engaging into the fight with crime, the church hides behind the doctrine of acceptance. Berry is also outraged with the fact that Christians tried ...

Introduction

In the modern age of technological progress, people begin to puzzle about their place in the environment and the relation of a contemporary human being to the nature. It seems like the link between a person and natural environment is lost, yet still despite the progress, humans try to connect to nature. There is a radical difference between the life in a modern city and in wilderness, which sometimes attracts adventurers and those who try to escape the civilization. There are radical examples, like Chris McCandless, who has chosen alienation from the society in order to live in wilderness ( ...

1. Explain in detail the Exclusionary Rule. The Exclusionary Rule is the rule that is generated by the law under the constitutional rights. It does not allow the use of any of the non-legal obtained proof in the trials for criminal under the fourth amendment. It will usually apply for the elimination of the physical evident. The best example of exclusionary rule is stolen property, murder, or weapons that allows the police to catch a break in a case under the rights of the fourth amendment. The exclusionary rule could be under the Fifth Amendment, when no person can ...

The novel "The Stranger" by Albert Camus is one of the most important and popular of his works. It has a direct connection with the philosophy of existentialism and the absurd like most of the works of the author. The writer once again demonstrates the human and social relationships, as well as the internal conflict of the man himself by the example of the protagonist's life and feelings. The problem of the story touches upon many issues, but one of the main problems is the existence of God. The life of the protagonist Meursault is the way to truth ...

This very magnificent 2008 documentary, which has been acknowledged by various film institutions and award giving body, humbly portrays the true to life ordeal when the natural disaster Hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans. It is all about the redemptive story of an aspiring artist, Kimberly Rivers Roberts, and Scott Roberts who overcame the “troubled waters” and fought a new life beginning. They fought against man and nature in this story.

After the disaster, the nightly news showed various robberies and lootings. The situation was hardly managed by the government. The two heroes have witnessed and portrayed the real, ...

ABSTRACT

The term utility in economics is defined as the satisfaction or fulfillment an individual gets from consuming a certain good or a service. Utility is one of the major subjects used in understanding consumer behavior in economics. Utility of a good is usually expressed as a function of only the amount of that particular good. However, utility cannot be measured quantitatively and therefore it is a subjective concept depending on each individual. Some economists have argued that utility can be measured in utils but this unit of measurement is not quite clear and also it is not recognized universally. People assume the larger the ...

Introduction

Although rape and sexual assault are serious offenses, public discourse about these issues fail to clearly address the problems that victims go through even after these atrocious acts were committed against them. In reality, despite public acceptance of rape and sexual abuse as crime and the mandate for the punishment of those that commit these acts, the overall public response to these crimes are underwhelming to the point of bringing about detrimental impact on the life of victims. On one hand, we have a system that fails to prevent rape and sexual abuse and protect people and victims alike from ...

Introduction

The movie Apollo 13 is based on the true account of the unfortunate Apollo mission of NASA. The movie opens with Astronaut Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) who is enjoying a party to celebrate the success of Apollo 11 lunar mission. The story subsequently revolves to tell the tale of the third mission of landing in the moon which would be led by Astronaut Jim Lovell, Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) lunar module driver and Kevin Bacon as Jack Swivert, who is the command module pilot. The mission is smooth until the crew is threatened due to the explosion of an oxygen ...

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“A man said to the universe: ‘Sir, I exist!’ ‘However,’ replied the universe, ‘The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.’”—Stephen Crane The above quote made by Stephen Crane highlights the personal philosophy which Crane had concerning nature or “the universe,” which may appear at have a certain detachment concerning its relationship with humans. This point is further emphasized by Harold Bloom's introduction in the critical work entitled, Stephen Crane in the following: “[Stephen Crane's] mode wasrenderedwith a meticulous nihilism, a deep sense of the meaninglessness of life except for what could be converted ...

The casual attitude of the residents toward the inhumanity of the lottery displays indifference and tolerance of the barbaric act. Shirley Jackson uses images of tranquility and of pastoral themes to make the readers unaware of and to mask the barbarity that is to come. The readers are shown images of children picking up and hoarding stones; of villagers gossiping and joking with one another – images that complement the supposedly festive act of a lottery. The villagers’ casual attitude can be seen throughout the story. Tessie, who came late to the gathering, supposedly forgot what day it was and ...

16.1 Combining Beliefs and Desires under Uncertainty Our understating of the world is mostly constrained by the lack of enough information and uncertainty of different outcomes. Despite this incompleteness and uncertainty we have to act and make conclusions. Decision theory is concerned with recognizing the qualities, vulnerabilities and different issues important in a given choice, its consistency, and the ensuing ideal choice, in an episodic environment [1]. In an episodic environment, the execution of an agent is subject to various discrete occurrences, with no connection between the executions of an agent in diverse situations. Episodic situations are less complex ...

Both books – “The Picture of Dorian Grey” by Oscar Wilde and “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” by Garcia Marquez – expose the human vices and human psychology, even though, they were written with the difference in a hundred years. Two great writers incarnated the idea of perverse and apathetic society as well as the destiny of a human within this society. Two different stories, two different persons’ tragedies both have fatal finals that do not lose the relevance and significance even nowadays. The story of “The Picture of Dorian Grey” takes place in London of 1890s, during Wilde’s modern times. It ...

Introduction to Self-Awareness

This paper aims to discuss the aspects about the concept of self-awareness. Self-awareness is an important subject and aspect that is associated to our lives and we all have to concentrate on our actions, behaviors and beliefs from time to time. It is important to concentrate on the agreements and commitments that one makes with oneself (Heatherton & Baumeister, 1991).

Such agreements or self-concentration helps us to set the achievable goals in our lives and, in these agreements, we try to concentrate on our abilities, desires and our behaviors. Everyone has a different sort of thinking, a unique ...

- Introduction Companies in Kuwait that wish to market their products are faced with challenges and problems that are peculiar to this country. Kuwait has a small, wealthy and relatively open economy that has been growing steadily since the gulf war . The main source of Kuwaiti income is crude oil that contributes 95% to the country export and income . The country is highly dependent on international trade for consumer goods as it does not have sufficient local production of these goods . Kuwait population has large disposable income and are likely to buy products manufactured by foreign companies . Kuwaitians have ...

Compassion in nursing involves a deep and empathic regard for the suffering of a patient and the desire and engagement to ease that suffering (Slatten, Carson & Carson, 2010). Empathy may take the form of counter-transference or the vicarious experience of the patient’s suffering (Boyle, 2011). Compassion entails the use of self enabling the nurse to establish a connection and a therapeutic relationship with the patient in order to (Smart et al., 2014). However, the repetitive practice of compassion can lead to fatigue, a phenomenon more common in settings such as oncology, palliative care, hospice, trauma, and emergency services. Constant preoccupation with patients and ...

Analysis of Science Fiction Movie Solaris

Analysis of Science Fiction Movie Solaris Solaris is a Russian science fiction art film adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem’s novel Solaris (1961) shot in 1972, directed and co-written by Andrei Tarkovsky. It represents a meditative drama of psychological character set mostly on a space station that is orbiting around the fictional Solaris planet. The station had a scientific mission that was stalled as the three scientists in the crew fell into the emotional crises. This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the problems brought out by the film and the way the director managed to convey the ideas of Lem, ...

- How effectively were you able to communicate with others in the lecture activity? I was able to communicate effectively. I conveyed the messages I intended to convey and at the same time, I could understand what others wanted to say. At a few occasions, I took time to interpret the messages. With the help of this activity, I also understood the difficulties faced by physically-challenged persons (who cannot speak or listen). - Which emotions did you find difficult to communicate to others? It was quite easy to convey the feelings of ‘love, hate, frown, interest, happiness, ...

There is a vast sea of inequality stretching infinitely across borders, flowing freely throughout our so-called society. Inequality comes in different shades and hues: masters and slaves, feudal lords and peasants, males and females, bourgeoisie and proletarians, Christians and Jews, Westerns and non-Westerns, and whites and blacks – just name it, our society has it. In the context of a highly polarized society, deep-rooted culture of discrimination becomes air that we breathe; coupled with a varying degree of violence, it has been a part of life in a protracted way, as if of an essence. Wars such as the Civil War, Thirty Years’ War, World ...

PART 1

Question 1 If the price elasticity of demand for firm X’s product is -1.75, lowering its price will result in an increase in total revenue. This is because a negative price elasticity of demand implies an inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded. It indicates that an increase in price leads to a decline in quantity demanded and a decline in price leads to an increase in quantity demanded. In addition, the price elasticity of demand is more than 1 in absolute terms hence a change in price leads to a more than proportionate change in quantity demanded. A 1% decrease in ...

The main question of this essay is at what point or points in this speech does Wiesel

risk offending parts of his audience to the extent where it might hurt his ethos -- and how does he manage to overcome it and rehabilitate that ethos?

Elie Wiesel provides an introduction about indifference. Indifference might be seen as

even worse than hatred because with indifference there is no action and God seems to have forgotten. It is when Wiesel mentions that leaders of the free world, in particular, the US most likely would have done something about the transportation of Jews if they only knew (YouTube, 2014). He emphasizes this point with his voice and it is accusative. Wiesel adds that this information was ...

The film Trainspotting (1996), which was based on the book of the same name, was about a group of drug addicts in the depressed areas of Edinburgh (Böckenfeld). It follows the lead character, Mark Renton, and his friends as they explore the urban areas of Edinburgh which are plagued with poverty and squalor. Although the film was mainly about the highs and lows of drug addicts, their circle of friends, lies and deceit, the film had a number of economic themes which were very historic. One thing that was a bit awkward about the film was how the main character ...

Book Review: Fugitive Thought Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice

Book Review: Fugitive Thought Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice Seldom are prisoners viewed as people with ideas that can influence the world positively. In most cases, people see the prisoners as lawbreakers and people who are out to cause havoc and disorder in the society. Michael Hames-García however tries to demystify the view that prisoners are bad people out to hurt the society. In his book, Fugitive Thought Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice, he refers to the prisoners on the same level as the judges and philosophers. He says that the prisoners ...

I do concur with the observations in the paper. The scenario presented place the accused, John Doe, at the scene armed with the armory, motive and malice. As such, it can be argued that both the act and the mental intent can be proved beyond reasonable doubt and that he should be convicted with the murder. As observed, the Georgia State Law is clear on the elements of murder of the first degree. As it stands, John Doe had a premeditated intent to kill. This demonstrated by a number of occurrences and events that precede the event occasioning the death. This ...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): An Introduction

PTSD is a well-known acute anxiety syndrome that is created after an experience to any incident which is considered as threatening and causes psychological distress. Normally, the PTSD is created following the exposure to a horrifying incident or trauma in which grave bodily harm has taken place or was endangered. The distressing incidents that can activate PTSD consist of violent personal physical attacks such as rape or robbery, natural as well human-created calamities, mishaps in military warfare. PTSD can be at times turns to be an extremely disabling condition. These traumatic events may invoke the risks of death to oneself ...

Introduction

There is genuine merit in the argument that it is in human nature to be cruel to others. This supposition is favored by the responses elicited by the various subjects in experiments conducted by Milgram and by Darley and Latane. In Milgram’s experiments, subjects were instructed to increasingly inflict electric shock pain on another human every time they failed to answer a question correctly (Milgram 60). Almost all the subjects obeyed, seemingly to maintain social etiquette or avoid disapproval from the authority figure of the instructor. In Darley and Latane, several experiments showed that people are less likely to ...

Psychology

Psychology In any normal society, there is a given code on how people within eh society are supposed to behave. People who deviate from this code are often termed as retards or people with mental disorders. Mental health is, therefore, of great importance for an individual to function normally in a given society. However, psychologists have tried over the years to come up with an explanation of how these mental disorders come about. Based on arguments by Fromm, Horney, and Eriksson, it is evident that the mental disorders are greatly defined by the ‘inability of an individual to act in ...

Bram Stocker’s Dracula is a movie based on novel which is based on an illusion of existing creatures. Hughes points out that, the movie creates an illusion that vampires and humans can live together taking into consideration the fact that vampires can transform to humans (12). The creation of the movie is aimed at making the audience creating a mental picture of non existing creatures and the relations to the human life. Additionally, the vampire abilities in the film are imaginative creations aimed at depicting the extra ordinary abilities of the creatures. In an argument by Hughes the film also ...

Authored by Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a fascinating play revolving round the story of a neurotic, dysfunctional family steeped in hidden deceptions and hypocrisy. The play was adapted into a film in 1958 under the direction of Richard Brooks. Released by MGM studio with starlets like Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman in central roles of Brick and Maggie, the film won a superb commercial success. Though Richard Brooks retained much of Tennessee Williams' original prose and conversation intact, he made few alterations in the story. He added some new dialogues, curtailed the parts of Gooper and Mae and made ...

R. v. Williams

R. v. Williams In the case of R v Williams, the accused was an aboriginal who pleaded not guilty to a robbery charge filed against him and elected a trial by judge and jury. During the initial trial, the trial judge authorized the asking of questions to the potential jurors. However, the Crown filed for a mistrial on the ground of procedural errors and giving too much publicity and exposure on the jury selection process. At the second trial, the judge who heard the motion of the accused issued an unfavourable decision against him to challenge the jurors ...

The name of this case is stated as R.V WILLIAMS. This case is basically a case where it is presented as Victor Daniel Williams V Her Majesty the Queen. The interveners into this case Included the Attorney General of Canada, Attorney General for Ontario, Aboriginal Legal services of Toronto Inc, the African Canadian Legal Clinic, the Urban Alliance on Race relations as well as the criminal Lawyers’ Association which was based in Ontario. This case report was obtained from File No.24 June the 4th in the year 1998.The people present when the case was presented includes: Lamer C.J, Gonthier, ...

One of the highly-rated movies and best-selling novels in the 21st Century is the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. In fact, in addition to the 8-series novel, the movie series definitely gained everybody’s interest. However, there is a contradicting issue regarding this masterpiece, wherein many Christians and conservatives claim that it is not good for watching or reading. The inclusion of witchcraft, sorcery, magic, and so on throughout the series led these people to judge the movie as violent and inappropriate for the public – especially their children. Indeed, the Bible itself stands against such practices. It does not ...

Pseudosciences are practices that masquerade themselves as science but have little or no scientific rigor or cohesion to them. They claim to be factual and scientific, yet do not adhere to scientific methodology and principles (Braithwaite 2006). In simple and lucid terms, pseudoscience is non-scientific and fails to adhere to the basic scientific principles, most importantly and notably the scientific principle of falsability. Pseudoscience lacks empirical and practical evidences and proofs for most of its claims and practices and hence discarded as misleading and false by leading scientists and scientific organizations. But the proponents of different pseudosciences claim them ...

The company should not hire more than four days of labor because the firms gets a loss in profit of $20 on the firth day. The firm earns a marginal yield of $30 on the fifth day, which means that paying a wage of $50 will result into a marginal loss of $20. Factors of production are the essential resources for the formation of goods or services. They include land, labor, and capital. Factors of production facilitate or allow the production a service or good however they do not constitute the final product for example a piece of plastic container. Labor is the human ...

John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty was more of a continuation of some, if not most of his past works because of the presence of the same ideas and principles he used in writing On Liberty. A reader who was able to read Mill’s past works would certainly be able to identify that he was the same author who wrote the book because what he basically wrote in On Liberty are his personal—based on experience, beliefs and perceptions of the importance, to man and society, of a large variety in types of character, and giving of full freedom to ...

Introduction

Foxconn Technology Group is a Taiwanese company that manufactures and assembles many products of Apple, including iPad and iPhone in China (Hays, n.pag.). The number of people employed by the company is over 0.1 million. However, the company has been in news recently for being alleged of unethical human resource practices and inappropriate treatment of employees. The objective of this paper is to understand the pros and cons of Foxconn issue through article review.

The paper is divided into four sections. The first section deals with analysis and evaluation of arguments in favour of the issue through an identified article. ...

Poetry works by presenting layers of meaning through the use of a central idea that the author is trying to communicate. In many poems, this is done by presenting a common or easily imagined scene followed by a description that takes the meaning deeper into the metaphorical level. By appealing first to our senses through imagery and then building up contrasts that help shock us into understanding, poets are able to make us reconsider our ideas about often very abstract concepts. This is the case with Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” in which the poet is trying to convey a sense ...

Constitutional Standards

Deliberate indifference refers to act that is more than mere negligence but one that is less than a specific intention to harm inmate or inmates. It also refers to an act of reckless behavior without considerations of the consequences of one's actions. For prison officials to be accused of deliberate indifference, they must have prior knowledge towards the security status of an inmate, and they fail to act upon discovering that an inmate’s security is under threat and facing substantial harm. Failing to take steps to overcome this is an act of deliberate indifference. Some inmates may require particular ...

The Stranger is a novel by Albert Camus. The main character in this novel is Meursault who is also the narrator. The title “The Stranger” helps to explain various strange happenings in the novel. Meursault is involved in various instances which show his emotional detachment with his surrounding environment (Albert, pp 12). Although much has been explained about this novel, little has been done about the interpretation of the title “The Stranger”. This paper will thus focus on the interpretation of the title of the novel “The Stranger”. In this novel, the stranger is Meursault, the narrator of the ...

Abstract

In Electromation, the Supreme Court ruled that any attempt in the part of an employer to form a committee for the purpose of discussing labor issues may be construed as a violation of the Taft Hartley Act prohibiting the organization of labor groups by the employer.

Electromation v. National Labor Relations Board Intentional Violation of the Taft Hartley Act The Supreme Court found Electromation guilty of violation of labor law under Section 2(5) of the Taft Hartley Act. The Act prohibits an employer from forming any group or committee with his employees for the purpose of dealing with ...

Chapter 7 – Listening (19 questions)

1. Percentage that listeners remember after hearing a message Right after hearing a message only about 50% of people remember the message. Within 8 hours the 50% drops to 35%, after 2 months only 25% remember the original message. (Page 241) 2. Listen more than any other type of communication 3. Questioning and paraphrasing These are two techniques that show a speaker the listener is attentive. They also help the listener make sure he/she understands what the speaker is trying to say. They need to be learned and practiced to do well.

Questioning on pages 249 and 250

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The family is the basic and most important unit of any societal setting. It is the smallest institution to which one belongs and owes allegiance to. Being in a family implies being among people who understand and serve you best. In any society, the parents are tasked with the role of bringing up their children through providing physical, emotional and material support for them. This means being in touch with every aspect of a child’s needs; be it basic, parental love and concern, spiritual “feeding” at every stage of growth. The children are expected to reciprocate this by being respectful, ...

In David Fincher’s 2010 film The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg brings to life a fictionalized version of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, portraying a neurotic, yet determined figure who is at once unlikeable and infinitely interesting. There are many elements in Eisenberg’s quiet, intense performance that make Zuckerberg one of the more fascinating cinematic protagonists of recent years. In this essay, Eisenberg’s use of motivation, heightened language, physical character work, character private moments and substitution in The Social Network will be explored.

Motivation loads the action with meaning for a character (Hagen, p. 50). The motivation of Mark Zuckerberg can ...

INTRODUCTION

In Camus’ The Stranger, one of the more interesting characters is Meursalt, a strangely detached, numb, borderline misanthropic figure who does not have any sense of right or wrong, good or evil. It is as though he feels nothing; he is an atheist, and reacts with cool detachment to proposals of marriage or the death of a family member. At the same time, he is filled with turmoil, particularly once he is given the death sentence because of a murder he commits. Meursault is the quintessential existentialist; he sees no point to the world, and attempts to merely view it as it ...

Part Four – Anthropology.

1. Man’s Creation. a. Preliminary Considerations. i. The fundamental difference between humans and angels, as Shedd states, is that “God created man male and female.” This implies that man is “incomplete if in isolation from one another.” However, angels are “sexless” which means that although they have been created with “reasonable and immortal souls” like man, they are not man or woman and are therefore, infinitely more complete than man. 1. This means that we must live at one with our alter-gender counterparts and consider each other equally as important. We are only whole humans ...