Essays on Neighbor

Below are three real-life scenarios that require the utilization of the ethical theory. The scenarios are tied to the ethical theories due to their dependency on moral values and personal virtues such as honesty, humility, and self-possession (Weston, 2001). The first scenario involves the ATM cashing out an extra $50 in one's favor. In such a case, one is confronted with the ethical dilemma of either keeping the money or taking it back to the bank over the counter. An individual may ask themselves whether it is worth the struggle lining up to return the money while the economy ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

In order to understand the extract from the book of James, it is necessary to consider every important word as a part of the paragraph and even in relation to the whole Bible. The first word that catches the readers’ attention is ‘keep’ in the first sentence of the extract 2:8-11. The word ‘keep’ is relatively new and could not be present in the extract in its current form. Moreover, it is hard to understand the meaning of the word in the sentence, since it is linked with the noun ‘law’. What did the translator mean by ‘keeping the ...

My story is based on the life of my 65-year-old neighbor. For two decades we have lived together in the neighborhood. His charming voice and endless jokes kept me close to him. Being a former marine, he would share the different stories of the missions he attended during his at service. After his retirement in the early 1990s, he relocated to Arizona from California. The only strange thing in his life was the loneliness he was comfortable living alone. I assumed this is because of the side effects he encountered as a soldier, therefore, keeping his life personal and ...

The issue of gun violence and gun suicides in the U.S. is not just a social but political issue as well. It is therefore the case that solving the same would require a broad approach to the problem so that all the stakeholders can come on board. Similar attempts in the past have failed as result of lack of broad participation from all stakeholders. However, perhaps the most critical aspect towards achieving a solution is with regard to the perceptions and attitudes that people hold with regard to the issue. For my case, my attitude towards the problem of ...

Introduction

Certain factors such as the need to conserve environmental purity as well as the increasing pressure on fossil fuels have prompted the increased use of alternative sources of fuel, renewable energy to be precise. Renewable energy has been cited as not only cheap to exploit but also the most environmentally friendly sources of energy due to the reduced instances of environmental pollution associated with such energy (Pasqualetti 204). Solar energy, for instance, has been largely exploited globally due to its free availability, especially along the tropics where it is abundant throughout the year. Despite the increased preference of solar ...

Interview on Ethical Dilemma

Interview on Ethical Dilemma

Interview summary with Hospital Administrator –Shirley

1- Please describe your philosophy and views on the national right-to-die battle of Terry Schiavo? Shirley, the hospital administrator, indicated that the national right to die categorically displays the conditions that one can ask to die. One requires no control over their lives especially in situations like that of Terri. Terri was in pain and to make it worse she was not able to communicate (Khan, 2006).

Shirley agreed that United States Congress intervention was appropriate. Shirley indicated that the attention the case got would be good for the public to understand their rights. 3- ...

Analysis of Ethical Dilemma

Analysis of Ethical Dilemma

Part 1 Voluntary or the assisted euthanasia is taking the option of ending one's life. This can be done voluntary, passively, actively or involuntary. The doctor may provide an overdose of a prescription that will result in death. Schiavo case represents non-voluntary euthanasia. Various concerns have been raised over the essence of life. It is saddening to see patients suffer for a long time without proper medication or any vital improvement. Ethically, it is unacceptable to render someone lifeless just because of the desire to end his or her suffering. Many proponents are of the ...

Evangelism is defined as spreading the message of Christianity, both to people who are already followers of the religion as well as those who belong to other faiths. The principle of evangelism is that it is not only sufficient to be aware of the teachings of Jesus Christ, but to share that knowledge and information with members of the community, friends and family. Evangelical preaching can be in the form of both one to one interactions as well as large scale preaching to a substantial number of people . In the first instance, the principles of the Christian religion as ...

Introduction

The Caucasus is a region, characterized by diverse ethnic and religious composition and the high number of ethnic conflicts and separatist regions. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the post-Soviet states of this region witnessed and suffered numerous confrontations on the ethnic ground and faced several claims for separation and independence. Azerbaijan and Armenia confronted each other because of the Nagorno-Karabakh territory; Chechnya was a problematic region of Russian Federation, striving and fighting for independence, as a result, suffered two wars; and Georgia – a tiny mountainous state that shares borders with Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey, witnessed a ...

The Japanese term ‘shojo’/‘shoujo’ is translated to English as ‘a girl’ or ‘a young girl’ (Anime-Planet, “Shoujo Anime”). The word is widely accepted in Japan in purpose of one anime genre’s description. This word is in use when we talk about Shojo culture – genre of Japanese art of animation with the young girls as the main characters in manga comics and anime movies. Shojo culture was created at the beginning of the previous century and it went through some changes from its beginning. Shojo art pieces might be based on the fantasy or reality; some are ...

Introduction

Casino Capitalism is a vivid description of the international financial markets, their behavior, and the economic strength they yield to various entities. The book goes on to describe the advantages of international financial markets and some of the evils associated with the same. The author, Susan Strange was a former student of the British international relations studies; she is mostly renowned for her contributions to the creation of the international political economy. Apart from her major publication of the Casino Capitalism in 1986, she also published other books, namely: States and Markets (1988), The Retreat of the State (1996) ...

Final Essay: Robert Bresson’s Dictum & Film Analysis of “A Man Escaped”

Introduction The modern film-viewer may anticipate feeling abashed, or risk feeling bored when scrutinizing an old, black-and-white movie that lacks an action package. However, Robert Bresson’s film made in 1956, A Man Escaped, offers a compelling example of filmmaking skills which captivate the attention of its audience. One of Director Robert Bresson’s favorite dictums asserts that “What is for the eye must not duplicate what is for the ear” (“Notes on Sound”). Control of narrative space, and command of sound perspective strategies in the film demonstrate an exercise of the filmmaker’s philosophy. The film analysis herein, ...

Human beings have an inner conscious that gauge them when they try to do what they do not have to do, because the inner being remind them that there are consequences to what they opt to do. Tolstoy and Nathaniel Hawthorne have developed stories that are significantly similar because they explain the inner being and their forces, as well as the outer forces that force people to do what they might not have thought of doing and elaborate on how the devil can mock the virtues of people. Tolstoy story is “How Much Land Does a Man Need” (2015), ...

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In Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall,” the poet explores the theme of the effects of separation and barriers on relationships. The stylistic devices that are used by the poet include the following: repetition, parallelism, metaphor and paradox. One of the above stylistic devices is illustrated by the following: “To each the boulders have fallen to each” (l. 13). This use of parallelismand repetition shows not only the fact that there is a physicalbarrier between him and his neighbor, but that he and his neighbor are on opposite sides of a mental barrier. Frost also employs ...

The “exclusionary rule” is one of the most important elements of United States criminal procedure law, but it is not found in the Constitution. Indeed, the exclusionary rule is a court created procedure that allows a judge to declare inadmissible any testimony or evidence presented at trial that was result of or otherwise obtained in violation of the Bill of Rights’ Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Amendments. In other words, while the basis of the exclusionary rule is the Constitution, it is not a constitutional right. Rather the exclusionary rule was created as a means for the court to prevent ...

Innocence

Introduction The Innocence Project is a nonprofit organization which operates with the sole goal of freeing the wrongfully convicted in the United States. It was the result of a study in the late 1980s which revealed that a vast majority of eyewitness testimonies were inaccurate and identification by eyewitnesses resulted in seventy percent of the wrongfully convicted population. In the United States, one out of every seven convicts is innocent. Hence, with the advent of DNA technology in the early 1990s, the Innocence Project came into existence with Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld heading the initiative from the Benjamin ...

The term “Elements of Fiction” includes such things as setting, characters, plot, methods of characterization, point of view, theme and symbolism. Each of them is used to develop the story, but sometimes authors focus on one element among others. I chose methods of characterization for this essay. Authors can describe their characters directly and indirectly. In the last case they demonstrate personalities with the aid of thoughts, words, actions and appearance. Many stories include both direct and indirect characterization. The element’s development and its influence on the literary interest will be shown on the basis of two short ...

The motivational theory that best explains human behavior is the Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. According to Maslow, people behave the way they do depending on their needs that continuously develops their inner drive, which defines their behavior as they seek to satisfy their desires. In this regard, Maslow develops a hierarchy of individual needs that usually determines their actions and they progress from the most pressing to relatively urgent within the home and work context. In particular, the Maslow's theory provides a hierarchy consisting of five classes that are based on the most complex to the most ...

Scorsese is obsessed with the mundane and everyday life and experiences of mob life including the brutality. The film has many scenes that make the scene absorbing. One of the outstanding scenes in the film is the pistol whip scene. The character of Henry Hill would have to portray a gangster character to be effective in the film. The setting and dialogue used in the scene portray a violent nature that leads to the abuse of Karen and Henry acts the hero. The point of view in the scene appears confusing as it appears to show the use of ...

Hayao Miyazaki does not like to give interviews and as a great cinema master he is permitted to avoid them. However, judging by those interviews available, it is possible to conclude that he appears to be rather pessimistic in respect to the future, in general. This is rather interesting, since his cinematic works do not have any element of pessimism. Instead, the majority of his movies provide viewers with the glimpse of hope. For instance in Spirited Away, Chihiro manages to survive the hardship without any complaints and even proposes a fantastic ability to deal with them effectively. In ...

For as long as there are battles, there are prisoners. The captives are held by the so-called rivals. Out of the prisoners, some escape, others are freed; some are exchanged while others are killed. The outline portrays the situation of Bowe Bergdahl, who was held in captivity for almost five years. The sergeant was released in 2014 in exchange for several detainees in a US Camp in Cuba. Hours after his rescue, controversial stories rose accusing him of misconduct and desertion. Bowe is currently facing charges from the US Army on the account of desertion and misbehavior that can ...

Rock and roll began to emerge shortly after the Second World War somewhere in the mashup of cultures and peoples that comprise the American South. It is a hybrid form whose mixed heritage is marked by poor blacks singing Delta blues, hillbilly descendants of Scots-Irish immigrants, working-class factory heroes, Christian country folk, and urban teens crooning a cappella on street corners. Its journey of 70 or so years has taken it from the margins of society to the center of today’s multi-billion dollar global music industry. Its course can be charted by examining a select handful of the ...

The celebration is one of the best poems of war that the world will ever come across. This video poem was written as a result of the Syrian war by Ghayath Almadhoun, and Marie Silkeberg. Ghayath is a Palestinian poet who was born in the year 1979 in Syria and in the year 2008, he migrated to Sweden, where he met Silkeberg (ALMADHOUN and SILKEBERG). This innovative video poem gives the viewer the details about the destruction of Damascus. The damages to the city are acts to be condemned since they were not in any way appropriate. Ghayath Almadhoun ...

My experience visiting different churches was a tough task because I never been in any church other than my religion. Being Muslims, we are not encouraged to do it, but I asked permission to our Imam (priest in Islam) about the assignment in school. However, in my heart, I am willing to perform the task in order for me to learn more about other religions. Even though I felt uncomfortable, I managed to visit four churches in the city; Soka Gakkai International (Buddism), Cape Bible Chapel, Seventh-day Adventist Church, and First Baptist Church, respectively.

Soka Gakkai International

First, I visited the Soka ...

Mathew 22: 39: You shall love your neighbor as yourself; Our mission in the community is show our love for others by encouraging them to live in peace and always be ready to help others from their community. Love is one on the main aspects which the Christianity world teachings and that is why we should always be ready to assist in any way possible to avoid enjoying while others are crying or mourning. Love is not a word but it is reflected in our daily activities and that why we decided to engaged in this project to aid ...

Geisst R. Charles’, Beggar Thy Neighbor: A history of Usury and Debt.

Part 2: Description of Expected Plans of Revisions and Expansions.

This paper primarily focuses on examining the three themes that dominated the era of usury and debt. The segregation of Protestants from the main denomination, that is, the Roman Catholic Church, the subsequent wars and Capitalism are some of the major things witnessed during that era. This paper will explore the major themes while having a look whether there exist any form of connection between them. From the Authors point of view, there is a connection between the three themes therefore he discussed them as a single ...

Ghost stories and narratives can take many different forms and change according to history, location and culture. What is considered scary in one culture could be dismissed as a fantastic tale or a comical narrative by another. The cultural values and everyday narratives of the people in a certain location determine what is scary and what is not. The West and the East have different cultural values and beliefs. They differ not only in simple matters such as greeting a stranger but also in the principles that govern their conduct in life and business. These differences are also evident ...

The broken window theory was advanced by two social scientists, George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson, in the year 1982. They postulated that “crime experienced in various cities is as a result of some social disorder that existed in the cities” (Harcourt, Bernard and Jens 272). They explained the theory by giving an example of a house with it window panes broken. If such window panes were not repaired for some time, there is likelihood that more window panes would be broken down by vandals. The breakage will continue gradually, and a point comes when the house is ...

Sooner or later some situation that causes stress happens with any person. It affects not only the emotional state, but even physical health. I want to talk about ways how to overcome stress and how important is positive thinking for a human.

Strategies of Overcoming the Stress

Here are three main strategies of stress management: • Escaping from the problem • Changing the problem • Changing the attitude to the problem An illustrative example will help us to understand the differences between these strategies. So, imagine the situation: you come to the cinema in order to watch an interesting film. The film has already begun, but some ...

Twelve Angry Men is a 1957 drama in which twelve jurors decide the faith of a boy who is on trial in court for alleged murder of his own father. The film presents a picture of the decision-making process based on the concept of reasonable doubt, which, when present, does not allow the jury to proclaim the defendant guilty. Jury members have no names and go by numbers, and the audience is presented with their reasoning and thought process through their monologues and dialogues. Although this is quite an explicit way to convey what a character’s position is, ...

Just about anywhere you go you can probably here someone gossiping about their friends, relatives, famous actors or singers. Gossip is everywhere and everyone gossips. There is no age limit, no set gender or race – everyone loves to chit chat. The little children in the sand box, teenagers in the mall, old ladies on the bus and grandpas on the benches – we all are guilty of gossiping every now and then or maybe even every day. You may hear your parent gossip about the neighbors or other family members. You most likely have heard you grandma gossip about the ...

The arrival of the British troops in Boston in the year 1768 was a cause of much unrest between the relations of the Americans and the British. The American soldiers were just as disturbed as the American citizens, who were forced to be kept under control by the British rule. America being a British colony at the time was forced to follow the rules and regulation imposed by the British. The unrest that ensued came from the colonists and the ones who were loyal to the British Parliament. As much as the personal strife between the colonists and the ...

It is considered that Hayao Miyazaki does not like to give interviews and therefore avoids them. However, judging by those interviews available, it is possible to conclude that he appears to be rather pessimistic in respect to the future in general. This is rather interesting, since his cinematic works do not have any element of pessimism. Instead, the majority of his movies provide viewers with the glimpse of hope. For instance in Spirited Away, Chihiro manages to survive the hardship without any complaints and the ability to deal with them adequately. In case with Howl’s Moving Castle, the ...

China has become a very powerful country that influences the development of the regional and global economy. The region of South East Asia is the closest to China and many countries from this region have had either tense or very positive relations with China throughout the course of the history. Nowadays China is applying the “Good Neighborhood” diplomacy, but many think that China is “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” (Lin 1). The next step that China is going to take on the international arena is the implementation of two initiatives Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime ...

Abstract

Long-term care is rendered to people with varying levels of functional deficit. Depending on the type of the disability and the status of the wellbeing of the long-term care user, the needs vary. Some long-term care users need minimal assistance while others need maximum assistance. Long-term care is meant to help people with functional deficits to live a comfortable life as much as possible. There are various levels of long-term care options that people should select according to their needs. They include among others; nursing home, home care, home health care, assisted living facility, and community-based care settings. Each ...

Question 1

Basing on the major causes of the Bosnian war, the above statement by Maass is true and very applicable. This war was essentially fought because Croats and Serbs who lived in Bosnia wanted to seize the Bosnian territory for Croatia and Serbia respectively. This was trailed majorly by several mitigation factors, with ethnic tensions in addition. Slobodan Milosevic was the national leader for Serbia by then and was assertive for what he referred to as a “Greater Serbia”. The Muslims and the Croats who lived in Bosnia feared that Milosevic would endeavor to take the land that they occupied ...

Dr. Spiegel`s interest and involvement in dealing with mass shooting started on February 23, 2012 when he received a strange letter from the unknown. This letter was written in a delusional manner and at the end of it there was a scream for help which said: “Your work may save my life, UPMC will not. Would you help?” (Spiegel, 2013) Although, because of his occupation Dr. Spiegel receives lots of strange letters and emails but this one caught his attention greatly. Without hesitation he wrote to UPMC about the author and content of letter. Something told Dr. Spiegel ...

I. Introduction The purpose of this report is to review and analyze the usability of the social media application Snapchat. Snapchat is “image messaging application software” that provides social media functionality for smartphones and other mobile computing devices such as tablet compute (Speigel, 2012). As a social media app, Snapchat’s audience is anyone that enjoys, uses, or interested in social media. Accordingly, the Snapchat’s audience includes individuals, groups, organizations, and companies. However, unlike more traditional social media, Snapchat’s main attribute is, as mentioned, a reliance on image messaging rather than text messaging. Image messaging is a ...

Once, mankind believed that the Earth is the center of the solar system, and the entire universe as well. Though tempting as it seems, this narcissistic view was perceived due to the observable motions of the visible heavenly bodies in the sky. However, as mankind learns to invent more powerful tools to understand the cosmos, they learn not just the fact that the sun is the center of the solar system, but also the place of the Earth in the universe. In fact, the view of our place in the universe gradually changed as science and technology cemented over ...

Rwanda is not only an African country with panoramic hills and kind laughing people. It is a country where only 22 years ago, during just one hundred days, there eight hundred and fifty thousand people, which was one-seventh of the total population of Rwanda, were killed. In the civilized 20th century, almost one million people were killed without the use of gas chambers, crematories, extermination camps or other modern technical innovations. The victims fell down mostly from hands of neighbors and relatives with machetes and other melee weapons. This sorrowful massacre of the Rwandan people was left without any ...

Ghost stories and narratives can take many different forms and change according to the history, location and culture of a place. What is considered scary in one culture could be dismissed as a fantastic tale or a comical narrative by another culture. The cultural values and every day narratives of the people in a certain physical location determines what is scary and what is not. The west and the east have different cultural values and beliefs. they differ not only in simple matters such as greeting a stranger but also the principles that govern their conduct in life and ...

Gender Identity

Gender identity starts its formation at home, and in Saudi Arabia it is not different. Home life greatly influences a person’s growth and is the root of cultural understanding (Mahler, 2012). In Saudi, home is usually seen as a work place for women, hence men form the majority of shopkeepers in the region. Women are also restricted to live in their parent’s house until they get married where they move to their husbands home. In America, however, women are perceived as independent human beings who can work anywhere they choose. Additionally, they are free to move out ...

Political cartoons are image representations having a political or social image that relates to current events in the nation. In the U.S cartoons played an important long-term role by criticizing injustices, political corruption and social evils such as forced labor on the citizens. For this study, animated cartoons such as Bug Bunny were used to symbolize the soldiers and the task they were to perform during their war operations. Bugs Bunny Cartoons also relied on images to address political issues during the war at that time. Cartoon symbols were used to clarify deeper meaning of the context and the ...

In our modern, sophisticated and highly secular world, the concept of witchcraft might seem ridiculous and anachronistic. Yet, even today there are many people in the world who believe strongly in the supernatural, including the power of witchcraft to influence the world around them. Despite 19th century mysticism and Romantic period interest in the Druids, Europe has largely abandoned any such traditions. However, belief in witchcraft is still quite common in much of Africa. However, even in Africa witchcraft has changed significantly from what it was in the distant past. The following essay will examine both European and African ...

Introduction

In the contemporary world, the term Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become one of the most important concepts that help to define the business. Since the time of Aristotle, businesses have been pushed to contribute to the community by addressing the interest of the community through the CSR. Therefore, the CSR is the concept implying that a firm should give back to the community where they operate. For instance, the Dow Chemical Company is committed to serving the society through the CSR. The company believes that the community is an integral part of their operation, and hence thrive to ...

[client’s name] Both Hitler and Roosevelt emerged as leaders in their respective countries during their hard time. United States and Germany, which was dependent on American bank loans, were most severely struck by the Great Depression. Despite the existence of some objective economic reasons for the financial failure, new leaders of two great industrial powers mostly exaggerated other, subjective causes of the crisis. Even though Roosevelt and Hitler were politicians of different parts of political spectrum, their first speeches were similar as both addressed the crisis and the ways to resolve the critical situation. Nevertheless, every assumption of ...

With the poem featuring first-person narration, Mending Wall by Robert Frost at first seems to be a short story fit into the structure of the poem. A closer look, however, reveals that the poem is not just a story, but it highlights the concept of the wall as a demarcation line between people and their property. What is more, Kemp (1979) argued that “its basic appeal is unmistakable and results from the skillfully represented relationship of a speaker, or persona, and his neighbor, the farmer “from beyond the hill” (p. 13). Thus, the poem is exceptional in regard to ...

Overview

The case In re Patrick F., Super. Ct. No. SJ14023322, concerns the conditions placed on a juvenile delinquent’s dispositional order (In re Patrick F., 2015, p. 1). On June 11, 2014, then-17 year old Patrick F. burglarized his next door neighbor’s home and stole a valuable gold ring and coins (In re Patrick F., 2015, p. 1). Patrick F. was soon apprehended by the police as a potential suspect and admitted to entering the home and stealing the items while the relative stood watch (In re Patrick F., 2015, p. 1). The district attorney submitted a juvenile ...

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: EU 2020 AGENDA: REVIEWING PERFORMANCE

International Business: EU 2020 Agenda: Reviewing Performance Executive summary It has been determined that the country faced the economic crisis due to several reasons from which some include relatively low competitiveness, low complexity in term of technology, structural weaknesses, and rigid environment of the business. For overcoming these weaknesses, European Union just not proposed some recommendation to the country, but also supported the country through financial help. The country to overcome its weaknesses restructured its policies and brought several reforms that were aligned with the European Union’s recommendations. These policies helped the country in gaining substantial growth, and ...

Engineering Specialty

Engineering identity is known to relate professional and educational persistence. Students have the welfare of belonging to the community of engineering professionals which is important in identifying oneself (Williams, n.d.). My engineering specialty is Mechanical engineering; I am a mechanical engineer by profession.

The Relationship between Cultural Identity and Engineering Identity

There is a correlation between the profession identity and the cultural identity. Identifying oneself as an engineer result from the culture that one comes from or what people used to follow or believe. For instance, the community of blacksmiths. People in this culture do local metal work such as bending/straightening of metals to make tools for ...

Abstract

Serial killers are loathsome individuals who murder at least three individuals, usually for psychological gratification. Gerard John Schaefer fit that description for the multiple murders he committed while operating as deputy sheriff. He clearly relished torturing and murdering young girls. His behavior and actions were attributable to his troubled childhood that was devoid of parental love. As a child, he experienced a lot of bad events that were registered in his subconscious mind and though he tried to suppress them, it reached a time when the conscious mind would involuntarily pick that information from his subconscious mind. The theory ...

Book Review: Beggar-Thy-Neighbor, Chapter 2

Usury in the early years of the renaissance was seen as a sin against humanity according to this chapter. It was under the power of the pope but he applied regulation very selectively. However interest was acknowledged as a necessary factor for commerce to be conducted. Ideas kept coming up concerning usury and interest hence discussions were bound to come up concerning these factors. Money use brought with it great potential for sin. Many praised it and saw it as a wonderful invention. Others saw the possibilities of doing infinite good by the use of money. People were to ...

Hume defined the problem of the being and spirit as unsolvable ones. In fact, he denied the objective nature of the concept of causality and substance. He developed the theory of association of ideas. In ethics he developed the concept of utilitarianism, where the reason has no influence on human actions, in the political economy Hume revealed shared labor theory of value of Adam Smith. The doctrine of Hume is one of the sources of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, positivism and neo-positivism. Criticizing intellectualism, Hume seeks to demonstrate that he was not able to see or explain the ...

The primary aim of any commercial is to persuade the recipient. That is why advertisers must use necessary strategies to achieve the aim and convince their consumers either to buy a product or use services offered. Monroe’s motivated sequence is considered to be a very efficient technique to be used to make any message efficient. This sequence includes the steps which emphasize the following: attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, and action. It is thought that if all these aspects are relevantly covered in a message, the message is certain to be persuasive. The effect of using Monroe’s motivated ...

Russell Conwell was the founder and the first president of Temple University. He was born in Massachusetts and later studied to become an orator, a writer, and lawyer. He is commonly known for writing an inspirational lecture commonly known as, Acres of Diamond, that he delivered over five hundred times from 1900-1925. A story, given by his tour guide when he visited the ancient rivers of Tigris and Euphrates, motivated the speech. The speech was repeatedly delivered due to public demand and the central idea behind it was to enlighten people on how to find their “acres of diamonds.” ...

The concepts of Metta and Karuna are important aspects within Buddhism. Most people understand Metta and Karuna in simple English terms, however the fact is that these concepts run much deeper within the religion and form a strong basis for practitioners of Buddhism. This paper will present an in-depth understanding of these two concepts, while also presenting a snapshot of my attempts to practice the same as well as a reflection on the same.

Research

The paper will now proceed to examine the dual concepts of Metta and Karuna. These concepts are part of the four sublime states of mind ...

1. Please describe any background information about the person (occupation, family history, early life, etc), what could have possibly led this individual to behave as they did, please describe if they have history of trauma, what crimes are they famous for, and where they are today. This paper talks about Jeffrey Dahmer, who is well known as a serial killer with serious psychopathological disorders. Given the gravity of his crimes, it is obvious that he had a serious drama and numerous problems in his early life and family history. It all began in 1966 when six-year old Dahmer experienced ...

Scriptural Interpretation Essay

For my scriptural essay, I chose a passage Luke 6:27-36 (On Love of One’s Enemies), which is also called the law of love. In this passage, Jesus enjoins people to love their neighbor, even if he is an enemy. Also, here it is explained in what this love is manifested. Of the four Gospels, the content of the three “synoptic” according to St. Matthew’s, St. Mark’s and St. Luke’s are much in common. They are close to each other, both in the narrative material and form of presentation, but there are also some differences. The ...

Slavery will always remain a black page of American history and a huge shame on the country that was even then considered one of the most developed, intellectual and strong. People were coming here from all over the world, hoping to achieve their bravest dreams. But slavery was something that spoiled this beautiful picture. It destroyed many lives by separating mothers from their children, and wives from their husbands. Africans were just imported in the U.S., and they were starting to create their own culture away from home. During their lifetime, many slaves wrote the narratives about their lives. ...

Introduction

In a criminal trial, a defense team will introduce evidence and theories on the turn of events. The concept is to sell a reasonable story to the jury and save the client from conviction. This approach known as case defense strategies have two classifications. They are defense against an innocent person, and defense for a guilty client. The most popular of these strategies are sleepwalking and amnesia. Juries derive the verdict from expressed emotions and elements of evidence. Hence, defense attorneys often appeal to the emotional aspect of the jury. This paper will analyze two popular criminal cases involving ...