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Symbolism in To His Coy Mistress"To His Coy Mistress" is a seventeenth-century poem displaying a man's love for a nameless woman. The man is on a mission for the woman's virginity. Andrew Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress" has the persuasiveness of a sales representative. Sales representatives not only persuade customers with words but images of their products as well. However, the poem is unrelated to money, and more about seizing the day. Descriptive imagery is used to explain the theme in greater detail, although physical details of the man are not included in the poem. Marvell expresses the poem's theme, Carpe Diem through symbolic images. For a start, the man tries to convince her that she is the problem maker. The poem begins, "Had we but world enough, and time this coyness, Lady, were no crime"(1-2) as though he was a victim of her reserved nature. Against her will, he uses reverse psychology to make her think that it is her fault for their nonexistent sex lives. Then, he implies that he would indeed love her "Till |
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Business Summary -Trader Joe'sIntroduction Trader Joe's (TJ) is among the leading companies that offer a wide array of products. In this sense, the products offered are different from those sold in other normal supermarkets. Ideally, the products offered by TJ do not carry national brands, but instead offer a group of food and beverages, in addition to a range of healthcare alternatives. The success of the TJ market has been greatly attributed to various unique business models, which have helped establish the national chain of groceries stores. The organisation's mantra is to provide value and focus on quality products through its warm and dedicated workers. This objective needs a culture that provides assistance to customers and thus able to meet their goals. While it is notable that the growth of TJ has been contributed by various factors that constitute to its strengths, most of these factors are internal and consists of resources, capabilities, and the organisation's core competencies. This paper, therefore, pr |
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A Prisoner in a Dungeon Deep by Anne BrontëEmpathy is perhaps the most powerful tool of the poet. A poet can use empathy to build a bond between the reader and their work; but a quality poet can use empathy to tear that bond down as well. Throughout "A Prisoner in a Dungeon Deep," poet Anne Brontë effectively wields empathy, pity and estrangement as a way of luring the reader in and making them feel uncomfortable for having done so. The first section of the poem is dedicated to an intimate description of the eponymous prisoner, emphasizing his humanity and how it has been denied to him. It focuses specifically on vulnerable features and passive actions to reinforce his victimhood in the mind of the reader. The second section goes on to describe the morose details of his existence, punctuating the human element with the bleakness of his perspective and the loss of his will, dehumanizing him as much as the prison itself. Slowly the reader's pity is turned to discomfort, as more aspects of the prisoner's dementia are ma |
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My Papa's Waltz by Theodore RoethkeProfessor Emeritus John McKenna has a critical essay of Theodore Roethke's poem, "My Papa's Waltz", which he analyzes and points out the different ways that people read the poem. According to McKenna, "My Papa's Waltz" is not a complex or long poem, but it has "intriguing ambiguity that elicits starling different interpretations" (1). Roethke's poem is constructed in four stanzas using a precise selection of words that have both literal and figurative meanings. The scene portrays a pleasant memory of a father and son roughhousing before the boy's bedtime. Roethke's selection of words emphasize that the action shows a happy family time. Although Roethke's poem "My Papa's Waltz" can be interpreted as positive or negative, his word choice, imagery, and characters strongly portray this scene as a happy family moment. Both Roethke and McKenna support the idea that th |
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Mood Disorders: Behind Closed DoorsTurn to the person on your left, and now the person on your right- do you think that this person would be suffering from any form of mood disorders? Who's to say the class clown is not the one with the heaviest heart? Depression can often go unnoticed especially when the sufferer chooses to conceal their troubles behind a facade of normality and in the case of Lim, the way she chose to express her dysphoria was far from ideal. Despite all the negativity that she has been through, she conquered it all by eventually slowly opening up to her friends and family. "Being very image conscious, I would tend to act normal in public" (Lim, 2016). With her pride on the line, she did not want to be deemed as socially dysfunctional in the eyes of others. Stemming from her innate desire to have an "attractive" physical appearance, in the sense of socially approved attractiveness, her body image was very important to her. "There was this constant pressure to be perfect, whic |
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Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)Abstract The purpose of this piece is to discuss how the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) relates to children and families within the social welfare system. This will allow the reader to gain an understanding of what the policy is and why it was enacted, what the positive and negative pieces of the policy are, how the policy affects children and families, if the policy working the way it was intended, and if the policy effects different groups of people differently or is perceived differently. This paper will also allow the reader to gauge how this policy has impacted social work at a micro and macro level. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, otherwise known as PRWORA or the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 is an act that was created to replace the Aid to Families with Dependent Children which eliminated the transitional at-risk child car |
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Elegy 19: On His Mistress Going to Bed and AmoresIn John Donne's "Elegy 19: On His Mistress Going to Bed", Donne reveals to the audience the experience of undressing his mistress before they unite in sexual ecstasy. However, as he is describing his experience, the audience is given no insight on the mistress' character or her life. Donne does, however, bluntly address her body as he takes the clothes off of her, but does so with a sense of command and entitlement in his diction. The audience never gets a sense if the mistress is enjoying the experience, and his use of metaphysical conceit reveals that women are no more than an object of a man's sexual desire to Donne. In Ovid's collection of poems Amores, he also writes of his erotic adventures with his mistress, among other women. Though like Donne, Ovid speaks of the projection of his fantasy's upon women, including physical aggression and sexual advances, he also reacts and elaborates the reaction that women have to his advancements. Ovid also uses metaphors in the Amor |
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Monitor and Control Work for a Project ManagerProject managers find it difficult to have an access to each member if they fail to keep a good monitor and control of the work. But with them realizing the deliverables and what the root cause of the deliverables are with time management for all the projects then they find it easier. By holding effective meetings, the managers are able to reach to all the members and give all the necessary information that they need. The effective meetings are integral to achieving team goals and completing their tasks successfully. Team meetings are important tools in managing of tasks and ensuring productivity, and does not matter how they are conducted either in person, asynchronously or real-time, or via remote conference. In these effective meetings, they are open to conversations, which draw upon each member's skills, knowledge and perspectives to solvin |
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An Inconvenient Truth About Waiting for SupermanMost will agree the public needs an educational system beneficial to all, but many people have different opinions on how this can be done and what a beneficial educational system is. There are groups that say division says privatize education, and another group of people who believe charter-schools are not the solution to this problem. Is it important to give the public an option to what they want or need? This question is something really makes you think and wonder about what the public really needs. This essay will discuss the possibilities and that there isn't a right answer. In the documentary "Waiting for Superman," the public education system is viewed as broken. He dubbed the system as drop-out factories; claiming that children are sent in but aren't given the proper materials or knowledge to complete school. These actions (or lack of actions) lead to a cycle of poverty and crime. In the documentary it is shown that the problem has a solution, also known as charter-schools. According to Me |
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Abraham Lincoln: The Great EmancipatorAbraham Lincoln has been known to many as "The Great Emancipator", but does he really deserves? These following five articles will explain and discuss the importance of political figure from different perspective. However, Lincoln portrayed as a man who, from early childhood, had but one goal, and that was to advocate on freeing the African-American slaves. "Article 1" The first article "Lincoln, Race, and the Spirit of '76", by Lucas E. Morel. The thesis statement is that Lincoln sought to preserve the American union and its system of self-government by reclaiming the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and to recover the Spirit of '76 to the American mind which states that "all men are created equal". He also highlighted African-Americans' natural rights as a way to prevent the spread of slavery, and thereby save what he would later call "the last best hope of earth".1 In the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, Lincoln hig |
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Social Issues and Change in AmericaIt never really dawns on people just how much things change with time. Not only in personal affairs but also amongst the world. Over time, laws and policies, economic status, social status and order, all change, affecting many people. Sometimes those changes create social problems in the world. For example, look at just about any large city that is heavily populated or any poor neighborhood that is over populated; crime rates are significantly higher. This isn't just in the neighborhoods of the highly publicized Chicago or California, but all over causing an uproar and even protest turned into riots. Why? That is what makes this a social problem, an ongoing unanswered unchanged problem among individuals all over the world . A social problem is not something as simple as one school having Apple laptops while another school has Dell. A social problem is a problem that affects individual all across the world enough to create a public outcry for change. A problem that can be solved but must first be spoken upon agreed upon and recognized as a problem affecting more than just a few people. One rising |
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American and Marijuana LegalizationIn a nine-year span from 2001 to 2010, 8.2 million Americans were arrested and incarcerated for marijuana possesion with 90% of those arrests being based on possession(Wegman). This is a ludicrous amount of citizens in tax-funded federal prisons for a drug that, if legalized, would create an abundance of positive impacts within the United States. Marijuana should be legalized because it would benefit the economy, help people with physical and emotional pain, and allow law enforcement to focus more heavily on violent crime. If regulated like alcohol and tobacco, marijuana would create a tremendous amount of new wealth. Dispensaries and small businesses based on the distribution of the drug would open up, along with already established stores beginning to carry it. Based on a 2015 survey, it is known that 11% of Americans currently use marijuana(Gallup). This ends up being roughly 35 million Americans that would become avid consumers in the marijuana market. Additionally, there would po |
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Analysis of Araby by James JoyceIn James Joyce' short story "Araby" he describes a young boy's first experience with love and obsession. Initially, the story is set in the narrator's neighborhood in Dublin where we learn of his intense feelings for his friend Mangan's older sister. Over the course of the story, the narrator becomes more and more infatuated with his friend's sister. Mid way through the story the narrator has a brief conversation with Mangan's sister about going to a bazaar called Araby that will be coming to their town. When he learns that she is unable to attend due to a retreat she must attend in her convent, he becomes fixated on going to the bazaar and getting her a gift. He becomes so obsessed with this girl and the gift that he starts ignoring his school work and can think of nothing but the bazaar and this girl. He asked his uncle to give him the money for the gift, and his uncle agreed. Unfortunately, his uncle forgot and came home late from work on the evening of the bazar. By the time the boy arrived at Araby, it wa |
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Causes and Effects of AnorexiaIn our society, women are constantly told and shown what the "perfect body" is. They are shown on television, in magazines, and from celebrities who are size 0 or even less than. The media shows skinny women as healthy; it tends to put pressure on someone, who may already have a low self-esteem, to lose weight and attain that "perfect body." Anorexia is a very serious eating disorder. It can affect women and men of all ages, but it is most common in young women and adolescent girls. Anorexia is not a new problem, but with the media's depiction of how women should look, the number of women with it is increasing. This disease has three key features. A refusal to maintain a healthy body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, and also a distorted body image are the features that someone with anorexia possesses (Smith & Segal, 2014). The media puts great emphasis on the idea that thinness is beautiful. The majority of runway models would be considered anorexic ac |
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Medea - Text ResponseEuripides tragic play 'Medea', presents the betrayal of Medea by her husband Jason and the events that follow which are a result of passion, reason, and selfishness. The key decisions made in Euripides' play is Jason's choice to leave Medea and his children to marry Glauce, and also Medea choosing to kill her children. Medea is a vengeful and manipulative woman who bases her decisions on passion, revenge, selfishness and reason. In contrast, Jason's decisions are based on selfishness and reason. Euripides illustrates Medea's decision to kill her children as a result of her revenge against Jason and suggests that her actions are emotive and passionate. Medea is so betrayed and emotional that Jason has left her after she has |
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Frankenstein - Symbolic AnalysisFrankenstein is a famous horror story by Mary Shelley about an inventor who accidentally creates life, and is ultimately killed by his creation, along with his friends and family. While there is symbolic meaning to the entire story, there are also many implicit metaphors within the use of nature. In Frankenstein, the element of weather is used in the opening chapters in order to foreshadow the symbolic representation of nature, both assertive and destructive, used in repetition throughout the book. In the opening of the story, there are pleasurable experiences that weather constantly brings. In the beginning of Robert's journey, Robert writes in his first letter about "a cold northern breeze[which] braces my nerves, and fills me with delight", showing that the wind is quit |
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Over-Hyping Grit as a Student Success FactorIn her article "Researchers: Don't Over- Hype Grit as Students Success Factor", Jane Stancill states that students should not be blamed for their success or failure solely because of mindsets. Although mindset does play a significant role in whether a student will persevere after a failure or he/she will give up. A growth mindset should be taught to students at a young age, when they are in fourth or fifth grade, by having their teacher praise them for the effort that they put in and by creating programs for students. Mindset should be taught at a young age because that is when kids are willing to learn more and can easily adapt to new ways of learning. As Carol S. Dweck stated in her article, kids can be taught to have a growth mindset by praising them for "their effort, their strategies, their concentration, their perseverance, or their improvement" (3). This will not only help boost student's confidence in a classroom setting but also help improve their grades. Students need to realize that if they put in enough effort into something, they can achieve anything they want whether it is an A on paper o |
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Descripitve Child Case StudyName of Child: Kaihanna Time of Visit: 5:30 p.m. Date: Tuesday 17 November 2015 Duration: 3 -4 hours Location of Visit: Carshalton Age of child at time of visit: 4 years & 6 months Date of Birth: May Physical Description Kaihanna was born on 27 May 2011. She is 4 years and 6 months. Her delivery was natural, and was overdue. Kaihanna has a dark complexion and big brown eyes. She has a slim build although her stomach is quite round. She has very little hair for her age due to the fact that she had to shave it off because she had eczema. She has a full set of baby teeth; she has a diastema in her front teeth which she seems to have inherited from her mother and her older brother. Her birth weight was 9.12 ½ and her birth height is unknown. Personality Kaihanna is a bubbly, temperamental, assertive child. She is not afraid to express what her feelings are and can be quite manipulative at times. She does not really like to be praised and likes to think of herself as a 'naughty' |
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Physical Education Programs: Mental and Academic PerformanceA physical education class (PE) is a class that teaches sports and basic exercises like basketball, volleyball, pushups and running. It is a class that promotes health and sportsmanship. However, according to The Spark Programs, some if not a lot of schools have decided to reduce the amount of time spent for PE so that they can devote more time for academic. A lot of schools have also reduced funding for PE lessening the amount of activities possible and decreasing the interest of children in doing physical activities. Mental performance or cognitive function refers to a person's ability process thoughts. Memory, the ability to learn new information, speech and reading comprehension are all part of cognition. Cognitive function is at its peak at childbirth and declines over time. This is measured through IQ (Intelligence Quotient) tests though not always accurate in truly measuring the full capacity of one's cognitive function/mental performance. One can enhance his/her cognitive function through mathematical problems, puzzles, and other brain exercises. Conditions like dementia and down syndrome greatly affect one's cognitive function. |
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Anthropology and the Human BodyAbstract Forensic anthropology entails applying anthropological research and techniques to medicolegal issues. There are three subfields within the field of forensic anthropology, including osteology (study of the bones), archeology (collection of human remains), and biological anthropology (study of changes to the body after death, including decomposition). One to determine the gender of remains is by examining the pelvis, which can be identified accurately ninety percent of the time. Another precise way to determine gender is to examine the skull. There are several features that can be used to determine the race of an individual. The zygomatic arch of the maxilla can be divided into three generic shapes: hyperbolic, parabolic, and rounded. Each of the following races have their own shape: African is a hyperbolic shape, European is a parabolic shape, and Asian is a rounded shape. There are key features of the skull that can be used to determine the race of an individual. Mos |
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Obtaining Information on the InternetWith the evolution of technology, implementations of new ideas and many innovations, information can be harvested anywhere. This is especially evident in the invention of smartphones as well as the creation of search engines like "Google". We are now able to search the web with just a gentle touch on the phone's screen or over the laptop. We see students using the internet to sift through information for their project research, we see researchers uploading their findings on the internet; we see editors posting important pieces of news online on a daily and frequent basis. In the 21st century, information is now made much more available and made more convenient. Thus, in my opinion, young people these days prefers to use the Internet to obtain information. The Internet is easily accessible today. In the past, one had to be in a single location and ofte |
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Current Issues in Strategic AlliancesStrategic alliances today play an integral role in setting the pace for strategic competitiveness in the global economy. Despite the fact that more and more business are seeking strategic alliances because of intensified global competition, such firms have failed to benefit fully from such alliances due to poor strategies for selecting partner firms (Elmuti & Kathawala 2001). The alliances have mostly experienced difficulties that originate from lack of trust, strategic incompatibility, opportunism, deceit, cultural differences and deficient organisational integration. The underlying argument in this paper is that although strategic alliances have become a vital means of doing business in many industries for purposes of achieving competitive advantage, balancing competition and collaboration within the alliance and controlling opportunism have affected the extent to which the alliance becomes successful. The Economic Logic for Strategic Alliances In seeking strategic alliances, busin |
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Poetic Foundations of William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats was a master of the poetic form, using it to convey his internal and outward struggles effectively. Yeats was not of Protestant faith but rather, a man who pursued occult belief systems and hence believed in predestined fate. This ideology narrowed his perspective on different ways of perceiving the world as he knew that there was no free will that did not lead to death. Yeats often wrote about violence and its disorderly nature was the fulfillment of a template. He expresses these ideas in 'The Second Coming' (1919) and 'Leda and the Swan' (1923), both political poems, exemplifying his perception of the world, relative to time and outcome. Following the Great War in the early 20th century, Yeats' modernist ideas filtered through traditional stories and form to shine a light on his perception of violence. In 'The Second Coming', Yeats alludes to the Christian prophesy of Jesus' return to Earth to judge every living person and to ultimately end |
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The True Cost of Entering a DSA School by Brenda TanThe essay "The True Cost of Entering a DSA School" by Brenda Tan, talks about the DSA routes and the causes and impacts of entering schools through DSA. The recent Raffles Institution students not able to enter Junior Colleges has sparked a buzz about IP and DSA schools. I do agree with the author's point of view about students entering branded schools that the DSA routes to branded schools are tough and arduous, and might bring about many negative impacts to the student, one of which has been displayed by the RI students who did not perform to standards. DSA students that are accepted to the branded schools they have to go through the strenuous trainings and also cope well with their academics. These students have to train i |
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The Plays of William ShakespeareShakespeare is called the greatest author in the English language not only because his works are in English, but also for his profound and lasting impact on the language itself. William was a great English playwright, dramatist, and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare's plays are usually divided into three major categories, these are Three plays which are in the category of comedy are The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Two Gentlemen of Verone. Three plays which are in the category of tragedy are Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, and Julius Caesar. In the category of history, three plays are Henry V, Richard II, and Richard III. Firstly, I will start reminding them, English in the sixteenth century still felt itself in the shadow of other European languages. England had to wait until the seventeenth century, 1604, to get its own dictionary. After San-skirt (India), Arabic, Italian, and French dictionaries. The fir |
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