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History of the Inca EmpireThe Andes Mountain range in South America during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was home to many tribes of self-sustaining people. Eventually, these people came together to form what is now known as the Incan Empire. This empire boasted extreme size, sophisticated living conditions which were just shy of a utopia and technological advances which solidified them as one of the world's most impressive and underrated empires of all time. From its northern to its southern boundaries the Incan Empire was about 2,500 miles. But its overall size is said to have been just about 300,000 square miles over six present day countries.(source 3) The citizens of the empire referred to it as Tahuantinsuyu, or land of the four quarters due to the fact that you could have found four different terrains across the empire; the empire covered lands on the coastline, in the mountains, rainforests, and even deserts. Being that the empire covered vastly different lands, it contained vastly di |
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Traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford"Traveling through the Dark" by William Stafford is a story written within a poem. Not only is the poem about a true experience in a very straight forward form, but it contains a deeper meaning. It is one man, one road, and one deer. "Traveling through the Dark" shows the underlying concern of humans and technology entering the wilderness and the effects they have on nature. The title of the poem can be interpreted in several different ways. Literally, throughout the poem the speaker could be walking in the night. Metaphorically, the speaker could be walking through the unknown. Not only does the darkness signify the unknown, but possibly an evil or sinister feeling. My next finding is that Stafford's poem is rather a recent poem, which makes me question why the speaker is traveling. Traveling can be related to a journey or a long voyage set on foot like people did many years ago. It also suggests that the speaker is away from home on a trip or excursion. The word & |
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The Lady of Shalott and MarianaTheorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities would reach a height, of which, at present, we have happily no conception" (Greg 10). The Victorian Age marked an era where a rise of oppositional creations ruled literary and social exemplifications of gender. These new rules divided men and women into two distinct worlds in which they performed different roles. While men were able to go about their business and indulge in politics in public, women faced exclusion from any social and public participation. The ideal woman in the Victorian Age had to stay at home, lack any sexual initiative, be selfless, and be morally accountable. She was to be the pillar of the home in both the physical and moral sense. Femininity during the Victori |
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Guilt in The Scarlet LetterAs his mental stability falls quickly down into his own hell, Reverend Dimmesdale proves to be the worst off among the main characters. Seven years prior to this point in the novel, Dimmesdale participated in what was considered a heinous crime: adultery. His partner in the crime, Hester Prynne, was punished as she took all the blame for this shared crime and became a pariah of the community. Although he did not face the torment of the community, Dimmesdale faces torment from his inner demons. Throughout the story, the reverend was struggling to cope with the immense guilt of partaking in this crime. The guilt is furthered as Dimmesdale is revered as an angel in this community, but he knows of his own sin. Even though he is not subject to the community's prejudice as Hester had for her involvement of adultery, Reverend Dimmesdale is the worst off of the main characters because of his declining mental state due to the guilt he has for partaking in a great sin. In the beginning chapter |
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Closing the Gender GapImagine a woman going into work every day, punching in at the same time as her male co-workers who complete the same job tasks as she does but when she receives her paycheck she only earns about three-fourths of what her male co-workers earn. In America today, there is a gender income gap where women are earning less than men are even though they are both performing the same job tasks. It has been proven over centuries that women can perform jobs just as well as men. There are many arguments as to why women are paid less than men and there are many ways people rationalize paying men more than women. However, few attempts are being made to challenge and solve the problem of pay inequality. Some people may say that pay differences between men and women are simply a matter of personal choices. Some of the pay gap is explained by differences in the jobs men and women hold, the hours they work, and their education and training. Career choices and training are affected by gender norms. Wom |
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Reflection on Madonna's Life a PrayerMadonna, a word known to some to mean the Virgin Mary. But for many, when such a word is heard, we think of the Queen of Pop herself. A woman who did as she pleased, stood up for what she believed in and set a new way of thinking about not only music, but about female participation in the music industry. She rose to stardom so quickly in 1984 that the public lost sight of her musical virtues and started to focus solely on her persona. We need to keep one of Madonna's greatest achievements in mind, the extent to which she was able to influenced the media and the public with her music, videos, publicity and image. Testimonies from co-workers and interviews indicate that Madonna was very much in control of almost every dimension of her media persona and her career. She wanted her music and videos to open up a whole new range of possible subject positions that female artists could explore. Her style is assembled from the music's of many different genres, and her visual images draw upon the |
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Tech Comparison: iPhone 7 Plus and the Galaxy Note 7Both Apple and Samsung have taken over the smartphone industry. As far as phone makers go, these companies are the only ones that can sell millions of their smartphones in their given price range. With Apple having recently released their latest flagships, the iPhone 7/7 Plus, journalists have pitted the larger of the two [7 Plus] against Samsung's latest and greatest phablet, the Galaxy Note 7. Both devices are attractive and functional, but which one is better? When comparing smartphones, the main aspects consumers look at are: design, features, performance, and most importantly, prices. These two are going to go head to head and hopefully the decision is easier in the end. The first thing noticed when picking up a cell phone is its design, and needless to say, both of these devices are gorgeous. The iPhone 7 Plus is crafted of glass and aluminum, with a smooth and rounded form factor, similar to the past two iPhone generations. Samsung has also decided to keep a similar design to |
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Global Child Mortality RatesIntroduction to the Problem In many countries, the most common illnesses can be treated with a pill or immunization, but for many developing nations those resources are unavailable, leading to increased deaths in the children' population. Around the world child mortality rates are posed at a high interval, and efforts have been placed to decrease this mass rate. Many of the initial issues begin before the children are even born; maternal health is a major reason and the leading factor for the high mortality rates now present. In many countries gender inequality can cause a significant amount of deaths, this is because men tend to receive the best treatment causing the woman and children to become last priority. There is a wide variety of reasons for child mortality: motor vehicle accidents ,homicide, unintentional firearm injuries, drownings, illnesses, diseases - All these elcontribute to the continuous increase in the death rate around the world. The Problem In many countries health |
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Mentoring in an OrgaizationOver the course of the last several years, changes in the fundamental culture that drive the organization has served as the impetus for many leaders and managers to consider new methods for harnessing the potential of available human capital. While many authors seem to agree that taping human capital is one of the best methods for propelling the organization forward, consensus on how to achieve this goal has proven elusive. Many programs undertaken by organizations to improve the function and utility of the organization have fallen dramatically short of expectation. Such has been the case with knowledge management paradigms. With the realization that human capital in the organization must be tapped in order to improve the success of the organization, many authors have considered the use of mentoring programs as a method to improve the function of the organization, one member at a time. As the number of experts in the field embracing mentorship increases, there is a need to examine |
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Ford Motor Company - Strategic Operations ManagementThe Ford Motor Company (aka Ford) is the second largest automobile company in the world representing a $164 billion multinational empire. Ford Motor Company is well known as a manufacturer of cars and trucks but also operates Ford Motor Credit Company which generates over 3 billion in revenues. Ford also owns The Hertz Corporation which is the largest car rental company in the world. Ford has vehicles under the name of Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Jaguar, Volvo, Land Rover, Aston Martin, and has a controlling interest in Mazda Motor Corporation. Ford introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly lines. Henry Ford's methods came to be known around the world as Fordism by 1914. This summary will overview one of the auto industry's worst decline in history. How the day finally came, following dramatic drops in automobile sales throughout 2008; The Bi |
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The Fall on Education: Standardized TestingAre standardized tests effective? This is a common question asked by many parents, teachers, as well as students in the test-taking world. Standardized tests take a lot of time, money, and tools but what is the real purpose for these standardized tests. Most schools that are involved in standardized testing make their teachers teach to the test. 'Teach to the test' is a common term for any method of education that is really focused on preparing the students for a standardized test. Is this method of teaching really effective? Wouldn't teaching to the test cause the teachers to miss out on important information that isn't on the test? Do the students like this method of teaching? Do the teachers like teaching to the test or do they feel like it is ineffective? These are all questions that should be answered for concerned students, teachers, as well as parents. Teaching to the test disables the teachers to actually teach the information of the era or subject. Many of the teachers |
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Family Therapy Session AssessmentDylan is a 16-year-old substance abuser with a preference towards smoking crack cocaine. He was referred to treatment due to recently being arrested for breaking and entering into a residential home. Since he was already on probation, the probation officer was able to speak with the judge, to order Dylan in treatment, as a part of his course of punishment. According to his probation officer, Dylan has a winning personality and a pleasant smile. Dylan has a support network of people who are rooting for him to get his act together. He is the only child of Martha and Tom. His parents, Martha and Tom, have been married for twenty years. Dylan was considered a miracle child for Martha and Tom because Martha was told, early in life, that she was barren. Martha, who is 47 years old, is a homemaker. Tom, who is 56 years old, drives trucks, long haul, for a living. Martha comes from very humble background and prides herself in the idea that she is able to stay at home, while her husband |
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A Crime of Compassionby Barbara HuttmannAlthough we have developed ways that can prolong life, medical professionals are now forced to sustain life for as long as possible. This creates a problem for terminally ill patients who have asked for their right to die. In her essay, A Crime of Compassion, Barbara Huttmann describes the final months of a patient named Mac, as well as the pain and suffering he went through because the doctor refused to write a no-code order. Through the use of diction and tone, Huttmann tries to justify her actions and convince the audience to support her proposal for a new legislation that will allow terminally ill patients to choose to die rather than endure the pain and indignity of their malady. Throughout her essay, Huttmann uses specific phrases and words to depict the desperation Mac feels when he is repeatedly denied of his request, for instance she says that "Mac was still lucid enough to beg for death again." This portrayal of desperation can be used to invoke a feeling of mercy |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Great DepressionAfter the Wall Street stock market crashed in 1929, the USA met with the greatest economic crisis that it had ever encountered. Unemployment rates kept getting higher, banks collapsed and deflation were some negative effects that the Great Depression brought to the USA. However, in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected by the US People as the president because he promised to solve these problems. After that, Franklin D. Roosevelt's strategies did ease the pain of the US people effectively, through creating more job opportunities, stabilizing banks and the price of goods, and also calming people's rebellious mind to prevent future social problems. Firstly, during the 1930s, unemployment was one of the greatest problems in the USA. About 15 million citizens were out of work, which was 1/4 of the total number of the labor number in the USA. Some of them could barely afford their own basic needs, others were searching for food on street corners. This is because people did not have jobs |
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Personal Stress Management PlanBeing a student, my primary stressors involve school and career-related things. As a whole, school is without a doubt the most stressful thing in my life at the moment. Currently, I have 18 credits of classes, 15 of which are junior-level civil engineering courses. These classes involve many hours of studying and work every week, not to mention having an exam in at least one class nearly every week. My classes occupy most of my free time during the week, and can be exceptionally stressful at times. School also brings with it several other stressors. For example, I work eight hours a week as a tutor. While this is not a huge amount of hours, it can be stressful at times because I have appointments with difficult students, and working makes it harder to get all my work done. Finances do stress me, but fortunately I am fairly well off in that respect, which saves me a lot of stress. Another big stress at the moment is my search for an internship. I have been searching since the beginning |
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Neural Networks to Classify Diabetic RetinopathyAbstract Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness among working-age adults, and tens of millions are affected around the world by this disease; many undiagnosed. In developing countries, access to the usual expensive tools to diagnose diabetic retinopathy is limited or nonexistent. On the other hand, smartphone technology is cheap and available nearly everywhere. In this work, we developed specialized smartphone software and hardware to screen for diabetic retinopathy through the development of an image-processing algorithm, smartphone application, and attachment. We used Residual Networks coupled with the cyclic pooling technique for data refinement to train on 35,126 retinal images. Following 161 epochs of training, we were able to diagnose diabetic retinopathy with an accuracy of 78.1% with a resulting area of 0.752 under the ROC curve. We coded an app to facilitate the communications between user and algorithm, housed in a server and added photo functionality. Finally |
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Wilderness Therapy and the Troubled TeenIt is 5:27 a.m. in Santa Clara, Utah. Light is creeping in through the dense forest as an aged and battered minivan snakes its way along the mountain pass, meeting the sun along its slow ascent. In the driver's seat, a tired middle-aged mother's hands are gripped tight around the wheel, knuckles blanched as she focuses on the curves of the pass that will take them the last five miles to the base lodge of the Second Nature Wilderness Program. In the backseat, a brooding, dark-eyed fifteen year-old sits head down, arms clenched across his chest. His mind races with anger, nerves, and frustration, thinking, "This is so stupid. I hate this, I hate bugs and leaves and dirt. I hate mom. I hate her. She is a bitch and I hate her for making me do this. What if I die? What if I go out here into the middle of nowhere, land, and die. I hope I do, that'll make her happy. She obviously hates me, hates that I'm her son and that I smoked pot and that-I can't help what happened. It wasn't my faul |
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Microeconomics: Land, Labor, Capital, and EntrepreneurshipIt may be that you get all the coffee you need on a single morning, but will that satisfy your desires permanently? Not if you want coffee in the eventuality. Wants shift as we grow from infancy to adulthood, although they do not lessen." Consequently, also your desire for coffee is unsatisfied over a period. As personalities grow their desires for particular goods, vary "The contrast separating men and boys is the dimension of their pastimes."), just the reality that their wants are unsatisfied makes not. Like the coffee case, even with urgent craves for a precise good are currently fulfilled, there are still desires for other commodities and likely for the first commodity some time in the future (Chai, 2016). Hence, even your desire for coffee is insatiable over time. Resources are anything that is employed in the generation of something else. There are four categories of resources in economics: land, labor (workers), capital and entrepreneurship. All these resourc |
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The Kite Runner - The Unattianable DreamAmerica, a country historically viewed as a land of new beginnings and opportunity, is now seen as a place of loss and hollow hope for a father and son. This father, Baba, and son, Amir, are followed in Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner. A former immigrant to the United States himself, Hosseini describes Amir and Baba's journey as a reflection of his own experiences. As a teenager, Hosseini and his family immigrated to the United States as a result of war outbreak in his home country of Afghanistan; arriving poor and without any belongings, his formerly noble and professional parents were forced to take unfit, low-paying jobs. These experiences are directly mirrored in his novel. The Kite Runner details a similar story of Amir and Baba's hardships. They come in search of an improved and more stable life, but instead are faced with poverty, never able to fulfill the American dream they seek. Hosseini's novel evaluates the immigrant experience through the struggle of the characters |
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A Memoir on Sleep"Sleeping, like dying, delivers you from one world and to the next- to rest in crypts and wake in gardens," to quote the tattoo engraved into my shoulder blade. Throughout my life, I have always been more kin to a boulder than a rock while I slept. When I sleep, it would be easier- and safer- to wake a hibernating bear. During the toughest of adversities, one thing is constant- there is always time to nap. The whole event is humorous, in a way, like the punchline of a joke. "Oh, don't worry about being loud. I have the uncanny ability to sleep wherever and whenever I want," I often say. That is true. I have slept through numerous traumas as if it were any regular Sunday nap; surgery, the passing of my cat, the passing of my grandfather, and even the burning of my house. Sleeping has been a nullifier, to release me from one place of hardship and take me to where I may be comfortable. During the winter of 2008, a year before the start of middle school, my house caugh |
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The Power of EducationMany believe that attending college has no true value. Some believe that anything that is learned in college can be taught elsewhere. People have attended college, got out in four years and felt as if nothing was gained from the experience. However, I feel as though, they are not looking at the bigger picture. I am one who believes that college enlightens us in many different ways. An academic education helps one with employment, builds discipline, as well as furthers a person's social skills. To begin with, one of the most important benefits from education is employment opportunities. Many people say that a college degree isn't necessary in order to get a successful career. However, it has been proven time and time again that one who holds a degree, on average will make more money than one who does not. Brook C. Holtom argues in College is Worth the Cost "people who graduate with bachelor's degrees |
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The Underground Girls of KabulWithin the context of Jenny Nordberg's novel, "The Underground Girls of Kabul," she interviews girls in Afghanistan posing as boys. This novel describes several case studies of women from different social classes and age. Jenny Nordberg interviews many women but focuses mostly on a tomboy teen Zahra, a married mother Shukria, and Nader who remains in male disguise into adulthood. Nordberg's main message throughout this novel is that in Afghanistan women are disguised as men, called bacha posh because they do not have the same freedom as men. Over the course of five years, Jenny Nordberg discovers that some families disguise their girls as boys. The families are fuelled by a desperation for sons. In an Afghanistan family having all girls and no boys is considered shameful, "Having at least one son is mandatory for good standing and reputation here. A family is not only incomplete without one; in a country lacking rule of law, it is also seen as weak and vulnerable," |
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Overview of the iPhone 6sThe best invention in the past ten years is the iPhone. The iPhone is one of the most popular phones around. There have been over 700 million iPhones sold over the past 8 years (Smith). The iPhone was created in the summer of 2007. Apple already had an ipod out at the time and people were tired of carrying two devices around. Apple's CEO at the time, Steve Jobs, invented the iPhone. This invention was never seen before. The phone was completely touch screen with only a couple buttons. Apple just came out with the iPhone 6s in September of 2015. The iPhone is one of the best inventions of the last 10 years due to its versatility, its improvements , and history of solid, reliable technology. Apple has had good history with its iPhones. With the first iPhone ever created, you had a multi touch screen that was 3.5 inches (Kepple). The iPhone when it first came out was something that people have never seen before. It made people want to have touch screen phones and a bunch of sensors in |
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Finding Empathy in All About EveJoseph Mankiewicz's 1950's melodrama "All About Eve," provides an insight into the qualities needed to succeed in the ruthless world of the theatre. In particular, the main protagonists, Margo Channing and her "carbon copy," Eve Harrington, are portrayed as flawed characters because of their single-minded pursuit of fame and fortune. Margo has a temperamental behaviour and she is always being unreasonable. She is hard to get along with as we can see in the film that she is always arguing with her friends. Margo calls Karen a "happy little housewife", fights with Lloyd when Eve plays her part when she is late to the theatre, and eve fights with her love, Bill because of her insecurities about her age and her desirability. However, Margo has an integrity and charisma that is hard to duplicate and, unlike Eve, she has not been prepared to sacrifice her basic humanity in the pursuit of fame. Eve is ruthless, expert at hiding her devious ways and a total liar. |
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Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit HeroCould a burglar be a hero? J.R.R. Tolkien, author of "The Hobbit," thinks so. In "The Hobbit," Bilbo Baggins is introduced as an ordinary hobbit who lives just as any hobbit would; in his hobbit hole. Later after a visit from Gandalf, a group of dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield presents a plan to retake the lonely mountain from the evil dragon, Smaug. During this adventure, Bilbo Baggins is faced with many strange situations. Once the mountain is retaken, Thorin Oakenshield becomes obsessive over finding the Arkenstone, to the point of believing one of his dwarven kin had stolen it from him. Later after the orcs start to attack, Thorin finally realizes that the Arkenstone did not matter and helped his dwarven cousins push the orcs away from the lonely mountain. After Thorin kills the orc leader, also killing himself in the process, all is peaceful in middle earth except for |
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