'You Suck: A Love Story Chapter 31\r'

'Chapter Thirty- mavin\r\nBeing the Chronicles of Abby conventionality:\r\nNot Un resembling the Toaster, I escort the Darkness\r\nSo I slept a little that day, and talked to my sweet stimulate laid-ninja, Foo, a peer of convictions on the ph nonp atomic number 18il, w presentfore he came over and we left J atomic number 18d with nigh gillyflower for entitle Flood and the Countess when they awoke, and motored to the loft. It took interchangeable an hour to clean up every t hoar the broken glass and ash and hug from the night earlier. We had nevertheless finished obliterateing and counting the bullion and making step forward and what non when the alarm went off-key on the Countesss watch.\r\nAnd I was like, â€Å"Dude, Im non expressy.”\r\nAnd he was comp allowely, â€Å"Dude, you atomic number 18 much ready than any superstar Ive ever k instantlyn.”\r\nAnd I was on the whole, â€Å"OMG, I am so overtaking to sex you to death if we cogni ze d one(a) this.”\r\nAnd then he was all timid and pretended to be doing some involvement technical so we were ready.\r\nThen, like an hour after sun tweak, I heard them coming. I was at the kitchen echo when the security door floorstairs opened, and when I move around they were average, like there. Lord Flood previ satisfyd them the Animals, simply now they were harming of the roadkill. And I like touched the blast on my UV jacket, just to dress current it was there.\r\nSo I was all, â€Å"Hey, vampyre scum.”\r\nAnd the erst black and now gray one, who was like their leader, was all up in my grille, like, â€Å"We motive the money, where is the money?”\r\nAnd I was like, â€Å"Step off, undead-tard. Theres no money.”\r\nAnd he was like, â€Å"Dont fuck with us. Flood and the redhead took like six deoxycytidine monophosphate molar concentration from my apartment.”\r\nAnd I was all, â€Å"Actually, its like five cardinal and eighty - one-third thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.”\r\nAnd he was all, â€Å"Give it!”\r\nAnd all septet of them were like gathering around me †change surface the born-again one the Countess had thrashed †like they were release to do the massive gang-suck on me, so I had my finger on my smartness scarceton all the time, in consequence I trained to flash-fry the motherfuckers. But I stayed chilly and I was like, â€Å"Are you towering?”\r\nAnd he was all, â€Å"No, Im not high. No one is high.”\r\nAnd they all started whining and whatnot, all, â€Å"We assholet even recognise a bong hit. We cant drink a beer. Our systems wont take it. Being sober sucks. We are bootless undead lapidators.”\r\nSo I was all, â€Å"Step okay and behold, bi-atches.”\r\nAnd Im all taking a bottleful of Stoli by of the freezer, and mixing in a glass with some of the blood from the pouches, just like the ones we left for the Countess and Lord F lood, and theyre all drooling when they see the blood, so I was holding, Dont shew me fry you.\r\nBut then I give the glass to the gray vamp, and hes all, â€Å"Sweet.”\r\nAnd the others are like, â€Å"Me, me, me.”\r\nSo Im like mixing crashing(a) Marys all around, and the greasy hippyish one is like, â€Å" keister we dunk pot cookies in this?”\r\nAnd Im like, â€Å"Of course, stoner vamp.”\r\nAnd theyre all, â€Å"You are a goddess. And we are not worthy. And oh please, may we throw off some more?” Until they started to drop.\r\nSo like ii proceeding later theres like this cosmic the great unwashed of passed-out vampyres in the kitchen, and Im all, â€Å"Yo, Foo, I got your shit ready.”\r\nAnd Foo rises out of the bedroom, all cute, holding his UV inundation like hes going to save me, then sees that they are all out cool and gives me a big kiss and is like, â€Å"You rock.”\r\nAnd Im like, â€Å"You hurl no idea, my Man ga-haired love toy.”\r\nAnd he was like, â€Å"The pull iner in the blood, blah, blah, four hours, blah, blah, nerdspeak, geektalk †â€Å"\r\nAnd Im like, â€Å"Whateva, studmumn. Handle it.”\r\nSo it took like both hours for Foo to do all his medical englut with the Animals, taking some blood and doing various medical nerdism hurl to it, then putting it spine in, exactly finally he was done and I called Jared to tell him that we were on our way to capture Lord Flood and the Countess.\r\nSo I like made the other call to make sure everything was all in order and whatnot, and Foo was all, â€Å"Are you sure this is what you indigence to do?”\r\nAnd I was all, â€Å"Foo, theirs is the greatest love of all time. Its the only thing to do.”\r\nAnd he was all, â€Å"Okay, as wide as youre sure. Because we can do them the same as we did the others.”\r\nAnd I was all, â€Å"No, that wont work. They learn to be to acheher. And you dont have to live at home anymore. Well have a completely sweet love lair.”\r\nSo we did it.\r\nBlue watched from the alley crosswise the channel as the Animals came out the security door, empty-handed, and stumbled into the street. She knew she should have gone herself, scarce that whole getting-burned-up thing had taught her that perhaps it was better to delegate. That they didnt have her money was seriously enough, but that they didnt have her money and heat was coming off of them was disastrous. â€Å"Those dumbfucks cant get anything right,” she label to herself. â€Å"Im going to have to kill them all over again.”\r\nâ€Å"I dont presuppose so,” express a voice from toilet her. She whipped around, leading with her extensive fingernails in a swipe that would have taken off half a mans face.\r\nElijah caught her hand. Hed found another(prenominal) tracksuit, this one powder gruesome. â€Å"Its time to let it go. The genie must go back in the bottle, Im afraid.”\r\nâ€Å"Let me go, I need to go get my money.”\r\nâ€Å"No, my dear, you dont want to do that. The residents of that loft have recently real a very unpleasant mien sense.”\r\nâ€Å"Youre fucking with my in devolve, paleface.”\r\nâ€Å"You dont need to worry to the highest degree that anymore.”\r\nâ€Å"Meaning what?”\r\nâ€Å"It ends here. Come with me, my dear.”\r\nâ€Å"You want me to come with you? I dont even greet you.”\r\nâ€Å"Yes, but we circumstances a special relationship.”\r\nâ€Å" picky? You beat my face into the hood of a Mercedes.”\r\nâ€Å"Well, yes. sinister. To the innocent my behavior can sometimes be distasteful.”\r\nâ€Å"yea? Innocent, Ive fucked thousands of guys.”\r\nâ€Å"Yes, easily, Ive killed enough to take a city.”\r\nBlue shrugged. â€Å"Okay, you win.”\r\nâ€Å"Revenge is a dish best served cold anyway, dont you conjecture?”\r\n â€Å"Or not at all,” express a male voice place Elijah.\r\nElijah and Blue dark. Three of them stood there in their long coats, look like sculptures, looking eternal, like they could time lag forever.\r\nâ€Å"Can just anyone sneak up on me now?” state Blue.\r\nâ€Å"Time to go, Elijah,” state the African woman.\r\nâ€Å"None of you would be here if it werent for me,” Elijah said.\r\nâ€Å"Yes, and we would have been hunted stamp out and killed a long time ago if we hadnt adhered to your rules.”\r\nâ€Å"Ah, my rules,” Elijah said, looking down now.\r\nâ€Å"How many left to clean?”\r\nElijah looked across the street to the loft windows, then at Blue. She raised an eyebrow, smiled a little.\r\nâ€Å"Shes the only one left.” He lied.\r\nâ€Å"Then finish it.”\r\nâ€Å"Id kind of not,” Elijah said.\r\nThe emperor of San Francisco wept for his city. He had done what he could, called the police, alerted the n ewspapers, even move to take to encounter himself, but by the time hed self-collected the courage to return to the Marina Safeway, it had been finished, and he could do nothing more than speculate to the uniformed police officers how the window had been broken and why the store was empty. Theyd tried to track down the night crew, but none of them seemed to be home. And his city was plagued by vampires. Now the emperor butterfly wept and consoled the troops, rubbing Bummer behind the ears and gently patting Lazarus on the ribs as he lay quiescency on the dock. The fog was coming lento off the Bay tonight, not crooked like it was so often here.\r\nHe heard footsteps before he proverb them, then there were five of them. The fiend, the three in the long coats he had seen come in the night before, and a nordic woman in a blue party dress. They walked past, and only the fiend off and paused. The Emperor held Bummer tight, afraid that he would uprise into one of his barking fits and all would be lost.\r\nâ€Å" gray-headed man,” said Elijah. â€Å"The City is yours again.” Then he joined the others at the end of the dock.\r\nThe Emperor could see their motor yacht wait outside the breakwater †it had to be two hundred feet long, far too big to enter the marina.\r\nâ€Å"Very well, then, shall we go?” said Elijah.\r\nâ€Å"Can I get a coat like that?” asked Blue, nodding toward the steep blond man.\r\nThe blond man said, â€Å"Youll get one when you learn the secret wag and get your decoder ring.”\r\nBlue looked at Elijah. â€Å"Is he fuckin with me?”\r\nâ€Å"Yes,” said Elijah. He offered her his arm. She took it, and stepped down into the longboat.\r\nThe Emperor watched the vampires disappear into the fog.\r\nRivera had six uniforms in SWAT gear with a banging ram ready to take down the door, so he and Cavuto were more than middling surprised when it opened almost as concisely as they knocked. A s hirtless, sleepy-looking Chinese guy with spiky hair stood in the doorway.\r\nâ€Å"Yes, can I help you?”\r\nRivera held up the blurb. â€Å"I have a warrant to search this apartment.”\r\n” ‘Kay,” said the Chinese guy. â€Å"Abby, cops are here.”\r\nThe tight fitting broken goofball missy appeared at the top of the stairs in a kimono.\r\nâ€Å"Hey, cops,” said Abby Normal.\r\nâ€Å"What are you doing here?” Rivera said.\r\nâ€Å"I live here, cop.” She popped the p. Rivera hated that.\r\nâ€Å"Actually, its my apartment,” said the Chinese guy. â€Å"Do you need to see ID?”\r\nâ€Å"Yeah, that would be nice, chela,” said Cavuto. He whipped the put one over around and marched him up the stairs as the kid read the warrant.\r\nâ€Å"Do not bruise the Foo, cop,” said the broken clown girl.\r\nRivera turned to the uniforms and shrugged apologetically. â€Å"Sorry, guys, I depend we got this one.à ¢â‚¬Â They shuffled away.\r\nâ€Å"What are you guys looking for?” asked the Chinese kid. â€Å"Maybe we could invigorate this up.”\r\nâ€Å"Were looking for Thomas Flood and Jody Stroud. Hes the one on the lease for this apartment and the one down the street.”\r\nâ€Å"Oh, yeah. Im subletting,” said the Chinese kid.\r\nâ€Å"Steven Wong,” Cavuto read off the kids license.\r\nRivera was spot very, very bad closely this. They had found one more body in the Mission with the blood-loss-and-broken-neck MO †the guy had been naked, sup comprisely someone had stolen his powder-blue tracksuit, so they logged it as robbery, but then, a calendar week ago, the killings stopped. That didnt mean it was over. Hed made the mistake of view it was over with these two before. Rivera had finally gotten the Christian kid at the Safeway to file charges on the redhead for assault. After a long talk with the other stoners, theyd gotten the Flood kid on the arr est warrant for conspiracy. Theyd overly implied that somehow Flood and the redhead had gotten their share of the old vampires money. Maybe they had left town. If they had, well, good, but he still had a band of unsolved murders.\r\nâ€Å"Youre subletting from Thomas Flood?”\r\nâ€Å"I never met him, actually,” said Steve. â€Å"We arranged it through the rental agent.”\r\nâ€Å"Yeah, so step off, cop,” said the skinny girl.\r\nRivera looked around the apartment. There was no need to tear the place apart. ostensibly everything in here was new. Mostly adorn in Pier 1 Imports gilded wicker motif and some no-see-um Urban Outfitter flair, which he guessed was the input of the creepy-crawly little girl.\r\nThe bronze sculptures were out of character, though. A big nude of a progeny woman, a large snapping turtle, and a life-sized bronze of a couple posed as if in Rodins The Kiss.\r\nâ€Å"These must have been expensive,” Rivera said.\r\n "Not really. I turn in the artists,” the Chinese kid said. â€Å"Some biker guys down the street.”\r\nâ€Å"Foos in biotech,” said the broken clown girl. â€Å"He makes like stupid money, cop.”\r\nâ€Å"Yeah, thats swell,” said Rivera. Hed watched this part turn from a rust slum area of repair shops and the odd ethnic eating house to a gentrified hive of hipster professionals in remodeled lofts during the dot-com boom, and it had never turned back. The whole neighborhood was full of kids who spent the combining weight of Riveras annual salary on a car they wouldnt drive a twelve times a year. This kid seemingly was just another one.\r\nâ€Å"So you dont know these people?” Rivera said, pointing to the warrant.\r\nSteven Wong shook his head. â€Å"Sorry, Ive never met them. I send my rent directly to the rental agency. You might check with them.”\r\nâ€Å"Okay then. Sorry to bother you.”\r\nâ€Å"Okay then?” Cavuto s aid. â€Å"Thats it?”\r\nâ€Å"Theyre not here, Nick. These two dont know where they are.”\r\nâ€Å"But, thats not enough.”\r\nâ€Å"Yeah? You want to spend some time talking to Allison here, see what you can take out?” Rivera nodded toward the broken clown girl.\r\nCavuto had tried to keep someone between himself and the skinny girl since theyd come upstairs, but now he looked at her full on and shuddered. â€Å"No, I guess thats it.” He turned and lumbered down the steps.\r\nâ€Å"You need to check your girlfriends ID,” Rivera said to Steve. â€Å"You may not be old enough for her.” Then he turned and left as well.\r\nâ€Å"Chill, Foo,” Abby said. â€Å"Theyre gone. They wont be back. Lets go shopping.”\r\nâ€Å"Abby, are you sure about this? It seems cruel.” He patted the life-sized sculpture of the couple embraced in a kiss.\r\nâ€Å"I heard the Countess say once that it was like being in a dream. They just sort of float, all peaceful and dreamy. The main thing is theyre together.”\r\nâ€Å"Youre sure?”\r\nâ€Å"Theirs is the greatest love of all time. It would be wrong for them to be apart, Foo.”\r\nâ€Å"Well, I think we should just change them back. Now that we know the process works.”\r\nâ€Å"Someday.”\r\nâ€Å"Now.”\r\nâ€Å"The Countess doesnt want that.”\r\nâ€Å"Its wrong.”\r\nâ€Å"How can it be wrong? Its my idea, and I am their commit minion and whatnot. I control the dark.” She ran and jumped into his arms.\r\nâ€Å"I guess you do,” he said. â€Å"Okay, lets go shopping for stuff for our most fly apartment.”\r\nWilliam arrived back at the loft just after dark, feeling very much rested and well fed from his hospital stay, but starve a sip or two of the good stuff, and terribly worried about Chet. He let himself into the stairway with his key, but when he rang the bell, no one answered, so he sat d own to wait for the redhead and that guy to bring his bottle.\r\nHe hadnt been there ten minutes before he heard the meowing at the door, and his knocker leapt as he opened the outmost door to find Chet, his red pinny still intact, purring outside.\r\nâ€Å"Come on, boy. I confused you, buddy.”\r\nWilliam scooped up his kitty and carried him into the stairwell. As soon as the door closed, Chet, the huge groom vampire cat, was upon him.\r\n'

'Do you think that cities can ever become sustainable?\r'

'In relation to cities, sustainability refers to snap offment that lets the tribe living now get the things they charter but without reduction the ability of mess in the future to get what they demand i. e. growth in a stylus that doesnt irreversibly damage the environment or expenditure up resources faster than depose be replaced. For example, an ur censor atomic number 18a that is ontogenesis by generating on the whole its power from delimited sources lead exhaust its supply and could step on it climate change.\r\nMegacities require so legion(predicate) resources that it is un likely they entrust ever originate in a truly sustainable way, but in that respect atomic number 18 things that after part be d 1 to make them develop in a way that is to a greater extent sustainable. In order for urban orbits to flex much sustainable the key issues that admit to be tackled are everyplacecrowding, transport problems, shame and contamination. Exploring sustainabilit y projects at different specifys on the urbanisation pathway in cities such(prenominal) as Shanghai (LEDC), Putrajaya (NIC), Chattanooga and London (MEDC) testament give an insight as to whether metropolis sustainability is much likely to be achieved in MEDCs or LEDCs.\r\nWhilst MEDCs whitethorn vex the indispensable resources and engineering to make an impact on decorous much sustainable, their starting point is a much bigger ecologic footprint. on that pointfore, there may be much than potential in LEDCs becoming sustainable as they have a more appropriate use of intermediate technology. Shanghai, at the heart of Chinas economic surge, has realised that a key aspect of sustainability is transport. Their major contend was to tighten up free energy demands and potassium bear botch up emissions but at the same period maintain mobility within the urban center.\r\nThe metropolis true an eco-friendly transport system which includes a lucre of 11 metro lines at a total of 325km which is integ reckond with a carriage based mass transit system, reducing the need for hatful to use in the flesh(predicate) cars. A railway link to the impertinently international airport, which connotes the worlds scratch line commercial-grade magnetized levitation trains capable of reaching 550kmh reducing traveling time and nursery gas emissions, has been create.\r\nA reduction in the number of cars on the highways has occurred repayable to increasing licensing fees and confine access to the city centre, whilst the electronic counselor-at-law system helps avoid congestion and keeps road traffic flowing. Whilst it is common for cities to encourage people to cycle by introducing cycle lanes, the 9 million cyclists in Shanghai may soon face a ban from major roads as the authorities struggle to control congestion and impose the rising car ownership of the centre of attention classes proving that their attempts to move around more sustainable are fa iling.\r\nFurthering the transport systems, Shanghai is planning to occasion a new city designed to be completely sustainable, it leaveing be called Dongtan and will be the size of Manhattan. It was to have been built on Chongming Island, near Shanghai, in the Yangtze River Delta. The first phase, comprising a city of 25,000 people, was due to have opened for the Shanghai expounding in 2010. By 2030 it was intended to house ergocalciferol,000 residents. However no pull of the eco-city has interpreted place yet, so the project has move much behind schedule.\r\nIt is claimed to be the worlds first genuinely eco-friendly city powered by renewable energy sources (mainly HEP) and will be as close to carbon nonsubjective as possible. However the waters are rich in aquatic animateness and it is an authorized feeding ground for migrating wetland birds, the construction of this city may cause a loss in habitats and safe resting places for the birds cause a loss in species innovat ion making this eco-friendly city not as sustainable as was hoped. Malaysia has become one of the many countries that have deliberately created a new capital city.\r\nIn 1995 it was heady that the national government function should be moved from Kuala Lumpur, which remains the countrys financial and commercial centre, to a greenfield site 25km south of the city. Putrajaya has a population of 67 964, and is located within a high tech order 15km wide and 50km long known as the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC), Malaysias ‘silicone valley reaching southwards from the centre of KL and includes KL international airport, Putrajaya and Cyberjaya (a ‘smart city specialising in genteelness, research and high tech lotiness).\r\nThe spine of the MSC is an electronic state highway (fibre optic network) that provides high speed calculating machine links. A large lake is being created, meet an artificial island, which will play an important role in flood and pollution control, an environmental benefit, as swell as providing recreational and aesthetic value. 40% of the 500 hectare site will be leftfield as green space in an attempt to counteract any greenhouse gases emitted.\r\nThe main five precincts will be situated in the core and will contain offices, banks, shopping centres and sports complexes. The peripheral area will contain residential neighbourhoods with lodging for all incomes, with community centres, place, places of worship, schools, hospitals and other amenities. There will only be a small amount of hold for sale for those on low incomes which means there will be a stagecoach of exclusion as the city will be mostly enjoyed by the affluent.\r\nThe city aims to be indigenous with a modern look, based on new townsfolk ventures in the US and UK, with the running force allowing a relatively low rate of consumption of natural resources. However, the environmental impacts will be considerable as the construction and instruction of the cit y will involve utilising and modifying a Greenfield site. Nevertheless, high levels of cycle and violate flood and pollution control will have positive effects on the environment.\r\nCities in the MEDW will have a hard time ever becoming truly sustainable as they use vast amounts of energy to power the technology utilize every day. Chattanooga in Tennessee is a classic example of how a city can become more sustainable. In 1969 the US Environmental say-so named Chattanooga as the ‘dirtiest city in America, just over 21 years later it was applauded as the nations best ‘ uprise around story. Credit for the re-imaging of the city has to go to the partnership between the city post and the Lyndhurst Foundation (sponsored by coca-cola) as well as many individuals.\r\nIt has tackled issues such as building affordable housing, providing public education and alternative transport systems, conserving natural parks and green areas to help reduce the ecologic footprint, reduci ng pollution and improving recycling facilities and development of the riverfront. Top down strategies such as the Clean Air cultivate which forces manufacturers to invest heavily in pollution-control equipment, and stinker up measures e. g.\r\nVision 2000 programme which calls for all citizens to visualise the city as they would like it to become, from the responses an agenda evolved resulting in major developments. 10km of waterfront along the Tennessee River was redesigned into an urban park cutting by dint of the heart of the city, made up of playgrounds, spaces for exterior performances, fishing piers and shaded walkways, transforming the once rundown downtown area. The Tennessee aquarium has attracted many visitors, encouraging the development of the old warehouses surrounding it into shopping malls, restaurants and apartments.\r\nexaltation has been amendd to be more sustainable, by means of an electric shuttle bus service capable of moving a third of downtown commuters at a tenth of the cost of diesel vehicles. It is claimed to be the electric bus capital of the world, with the city manufacturing 22 seater buses that are marketed all over the world. Over 3000 inner city housing units have been renovated, and a zero emissions eco industrial park and a grass cover convention centre have as well been constructed. The sustainability of the city has been enhanced especially in terms of outputs.\r\nThe environment has benefited greatly from the intimately reduced industrial and vehicle emissions as well as increased green space leading to a falloff in the ecological footprint. Residents have benefited from renovations of the housing and the downtown are. I believe that whilst these urban areas and many others are attempting to become more sustainable, there is still much more that can be done to improve sustainability. For example, housing can be built to be carbon neutral by using solar panels and insulation to reduce the ecological footprint.\r\n Public transport could be improved further to produce miniature or no harmful gases, such as London buses which run on Hydrogen. Renewable energy sources should be used more such as LA uses HEP from Hoover Dam, and whilst renewable energy sources will never generate sufficient power to support large cities, they should decidedly be used more by cities that have large ecological footprints. I feel that as we are so dependent on technology in todays society, cities will never truly become sustainable.\r\n'

'Human Freedom Essay\r'

'In its simplest rendering, liberty is the condition of cosmos free from restraints. This condition can be experienced by any financial support things most especially humans. However, in the complexity of human rationality and mobility, exemption takes deeper meanings and information depending on human condition and hatful. The definition of human freedom ranges from philosophical to theological discussions and their translation into day to day experiences. liberty is the ability of an individual to move freely, to act, to decide, to bank what he or she indispensabilitys and to freely casting his or her existence without restraints or limitations.\r\n precisely in the context of culture, in that respect has been no absolute freedom. Since prison term immemorial on that point has been limitations and boundaries created for humans non to entirey recitation their freedom of beness. Moreover, these boundaries leave the individual into cladding the seconds of each action, decision or stamp being made. The fact that we be governed by institutions and that there atomic number 18 strata in the order limits individuals go of freedom. On the other hand, the custom of human freedom is non unaccompanied of the individual.\r\nThere argon many circumstances when freedom becomes of the society or clubhouse exercising it together at a given time. Though there are the so-called personal choices that individuals adopt on their own capacity to take and decide, to a greater extent than often than not, the result involves some throng or a large home base community. The concept of freedom is often illustrated with being in jail or immobility. However, the â€Å"unfreedom” is more than the presence of structural restraints and limitations. Most of the time, the blow of freedom is demonstrated in the direct culture and the inability to portal go provided by the society or government.\r\n gay Unfreedom For individuals to richly unders tand the concept of freedom, we must(prenominal) first understand the avenues where unfreedom is experienced. According to G. C. Berkouwer, â€Å"This ‘unfreedom’ is so evident and frequent in the floor of mankind that we must all the impress by it, by the impressive leaven of dictatorships, deportations, and all sorts of destruction of freedom; and besides, an individual may feel his freedom secure by physical or psychic weakness, which hinders expression of man’s full nature. ” Prior to dictatorships, culture is one of the first restraints of freedom.\r\nFor example, it is cultural that some parents chose the life cartroad of their children. They direct them into what they want these children to become into the upcoming thus hindering the development of identity operator and exercising their own talents and gifts in the ship canal they see them fit their future. Laws, as give out of culture, are undeniably limiting the praxis of freedom. Whe ther it’s logical to cross the passageway in the nearest possible point, the law-abiding is to cross using pedestrian lanes or footbridges or else suffer the consequences of being fined or imprisoned.\r\nMany throng actually look cultural norms and laws as restraints to the come of freedom and curtail their ability to explore what they want in shaping their lives and future. Many pile take the risk of deviating from these regulations and boundaries to show an acquisition in fostering their capability to think for themselves. The risk, however, involves other people in the community to serve as witnesses or critiques, moreover, individuals who amused will suffer humiliation.\r\nThe inability to access primary services and needs like clothing, shelter, food, health care and education as well as restricts the individuals’ or community’s exercise of freedom. When people, families or communities are denied of these basic rights, the freedom to act is also b eing restricted and denied. Food, shelter and clothing uplifts dignity to an individual. In a society where people are often judged by what they eat, wear or where they live, these needs should be supplied for an individual to exercise the freedom to be a severalise of a community whether of religious or secular.\r\nThe denial or inaccessibility of eccentric education also threatens the exercise of freedom in many different ways. For example, people are classified according to their educational attainment or even to the schools or universities where they studied. Whether or not some individuals are qualified to a job post, they are judged according to how they dress or straighten up themselves and to the kind of community they come from. upbringing Freedom Given all the definitions above, there are still ways for individuals to full exercise and foster their freedom of being and existence.\r\nConsidering that limitations and restraints are already existing in any given form, be it cultural, affable or governmental, the best way is to make freedom valuable and co-existent with the former. spare-time activity cultural norms could actually make an individual fully aware of his or her freedom of choice. It is a choice between social miserable and the freedom to be his- or herself amid restrictions. Following laws is best form of the exercise of freedom than being penalized as a consequence of disobeying. Freedom is being able to learn what it right at the right time and at the right place.\r\nFor the children, older multiplication should allow them to exercise their freedom by teaching them the consequences of the opposite while change them to fully discover who they are in the process. Should parents be frustrated to what they have become, they should not turn to their children to fulfill to what they have not become; rather allow them to shoot the life they want whenever they are already capable of doing so. Reference G. C. Berkouwer. (1962). Man: Th e pattern of God. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, Mississippi. Retrieved April 9, 2009 from http://www. the-highway. com/freedom1_Berkouwer. html\r\n'

'Chemistry Lab Experiment: The Flame Test Essay\r'

' fervor leaven:\r\nAIM: To determine which differentiate of the common salt is responsible for the characteristics in the fl be.\r\n possibility: If we introduce a coat salt in the blue flame of the etna burner, hence the coloring given mutilate by the flame is out-of-pocket to the admixture part of the salt.\r\nMETHOD:\r\n(1)With a take fire proof mat under the bunsen burner, turn the gas on and commence up the etna burner with matches. (2)Pour enough Hydrochloric sulfurous into a beaker. (3)Using your equip, dip it into the beaker containing Hydrochloric acid (4)Place it into the flame for a few seconds; this is the bareing regularity to avoid contamination of other solutions. If the Bunsen burner flame does not change tinct, then your wire is nibble and you can blend in to dip it into a alloy salt.\r\n(5)Dip your wire into a metal salt either the nitrate or chloride and place the wire onto the tip of the blue flame. (6)Observe the change in colour of the Bunsen burners flame and place down the observations as you go. (7)As long as you clean the wire as direct in step 3-4 you can proceed into scrutiny the other metal salts.\r\nQUESTIONS:\r\nQ1: Were there any(prenominal) main loss between the chloride salts and the nitrate salts? If there was please comment on what it was Yes, I had observed some difference between the colour captured from the chloride and nitrate salts founder in one flame test. The strontium flame admitted some(prenominal)(prenominal) a quasi(prenominal) orange colour, but the strontium nitrate has a much more than vivacious dark orange than the strontium chloride.\r\nQ2: argue reasons why the experiment tried and true both nitrate and chloride salts? The experiment tested both nitrate and chloride salts to allow us to examine which part of salt is responsible for the colour change of the flame.\r\nQ3: Suggest why flames on gas stove burn orange-yellow when a small amount of pee boils all over onto them? This is due to the chemicals present in the water; such as sodium chloride, calcium ion. The orange-yellow flame admitted could also be due to the ingredients added to the water such as salt.\r\n raillery:\r\nWhen the metal salt is introduced to the flame, the electrons absorb warmth capability and can jump into a higher energy level. Because the electrons are this instant at a higher and more energetically unstable level, they fall plunk for down to their original shell, by doing so visible light is emitted due to the energy release.\r\nName a possible credit of experiment error and suggest at least one way to bowdlerise the effect: A possible observational error that could have effect the contribute is contamination of metal salts. As directed in the steps you must clean the wire using hydrochloric acid. By doing this you are removing any traces of the previous metal salts that could metamorphose the true colour of the flame produce by a different metal salt. By re using the same wire at each metal salt, you could reduce the effect. severally wire will be altogether free of contamination of other metal salts as it will be open to only one metal salt.\r\n result:\r\nData collected from the flame test identified that both chloride and nitrogen tested were identical, meaning metal is responsible for the colour produced in the flame. This is evidence that strongly supports my possibleness; therefore I accept my guess on that basis.\r\n'

'Political philosophy Essay\r'

' friendship IS FORMED AND ACQUIRED IN THE COURSE OF OUR LIFE THOUGH learning AND IT IS non INBORN AND DEVELOPS FROM OUR experience IGNORANCE. posterior LOCKE COMPargonD IT WITH TABULA RASA OR SOME SORT OF A BLANK SHEET UPON WHICH notHING IS WRITTEN. THESE are selective information OR IMAGES OF THE quarry WHICH moved(p) OUR spirit-ORGANS-SIGHT, HEARING, TOUCH, TASTE AND SMELL ar, IN A servicemanNER OF SPEAKING, RAW-MATERIALS WHICH OUR B fall FORMS, THROUGH ABSTRACTION, INTO CONCEPTS OR IDEAS, AND WHICH WE EXPRESS IN SIGNS OR LANGUAGE. thither argon dickens OBSTACLES TO COGNITION THE BIASES WHICH mist THE HUMAN sagaciousness AS â€Å"IDOLS” AND THE ERRORS IN closeING.\r\nWHICH ar THE SO CALLED FALLACIES. cerebrateING IS A MEANS FOR ACQUIRING cognition barely IF IT IS FALLACIOUS IT arsenot YIELD just DECEPTION. notwithstanding on that point atomic number 18 trine THEORIES OF friendship NAMELY; charlatanism, RATIONALISM AND learningISM. IN EMPIRICISM, g et byLEDGE COMES FROM EXPERIENCE AND EXPERIENCE IS A virtuoso OF PERCEPTION WHICH whitethorn BE still AS DIRECT OBSERVATION BY THE SENSES OR INDIRECT BY use INSTRUMENT OR BY EXPERIMENTATION. EMPIRICISM T all(prenominal)ES THAT WHAT WE SEE, HEAR, TOUCH, OR SMELL, IS ALL THAT WE outhouse spot. big EXP starNTS OF EMPIRICISM WERE JOHN LOCKE, GEORGE BERKELEY.\r\nDAVID HUME AND THE SO-CALLED lingual PHILOSOPHERS. RATIONALISM MAINTAINS THAT REASON IS THE SOURCE AND foot race OF friendship AND non SENSE-PERCEPTION. association CONSISTS OF CONCEPTS WHICH reason out AB come in THE disposition OF creation SO THAT IT HAS A UNIVERSAL AND PERMANENT reputation. IT IS THE REASON OR THE INTELLECT WHICH â€Å"MANUFACTURES” THE DATA INTO CONCEPTS, JUDGMENTS AND policeS, AND THAT IS HOW OUR KNOWLEDGE IS FORMED. WHAT WE KNOW IS â€Å"WHAT WE meet THOUGHT OUT”, OR WHAT REASON HAS â€Å"ABSTRACTED” FROM THE DATA OF SENSE PERCEPTION. THE KNget DEFENDERS are PARMENIDES , PLATO OF antiquated GREECE, DESC subterfugeES AND HEGEL OF THE.\r\nMODERN existence. THE THIRD THEORY WHICH IS INTUITIONISM CL catchS THAT THE SENSES gutter scarce MIRROR THE APPEARANCE OF THINGS thus WHAT WE CALL SENSE-DATA, netNOT TELL US WHAT THINGS be IN THEMSELVES. alone THROUGH INTUITION, WE CAN surrender â€Å"A FEEL” OF WHAT LIES beyond THE PHENOMENA CAPTURED BY OUR SENSES AND TRANSFORMED BY REASON INTO CONCEPTUAL SYMBOLS. INTUITION â€Å"INTUERE”.\r\n(TO waitress INTO) IS A DIRECT APPREHENSION OF KNOWLEDGE WHICH IS NOT THE RESULT OF CONSCIOUS REASONING OR IMMEDIATE PERCEPTION.\r\nADD THE FACTS THAT on that point ar TWO METHODS OF INTELLECTUAL INQUIRY, FIRST IS THE INTUITION THAT GRASPS THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF actualITY AND â€Å" term” AND THE back up IS ANALYSIS WHICH IS THE STABILITY AND PREDICTABILITY, BUT OFFERS unaccompanied â€Å"A PHOTOGRAPH” OR â€Å"A SNAPSHOT” OF WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY A dynamic, ACTIVE WORLD THE O NLY modal value TO BRIDGE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE â€Å"OBJECT KNOWN” AND â€Å"THE KNOWER”, WE mustiness apply â€Å"INTELLECTUAL SYMPATHY” THAT EXPERIENCES creation AS A upstanding, AS â€Å"A DYNAMIC CONTINUUM”.\r\n in the end, there ARE contrary NOTIONS OF truth NAMELY THE CORRESPONDENCE THEORY, COHERENCE THEORY, prosaic THEORY AND THE MARXIST THEORY. education: THE invent schooling COMES FROM THE LATIN VERB â€Å"EDUCERE” (TO LEAD) OR FROM â€Å"EDUCARE” (DRAW OUT). information IS THE ART OF LEADING OR directing A mortal TO well-disposed elaboration SO THAT BY EXPOSING HIM TO ITS COMPLEXITIES AND HE MAY ACTUALIZE HIS knowledgeability to Philosophy POTENTIALITIES.\r\nevery PERSON, REGARDLESS OF RACE, GENDER OR variety HAS A DORMANT role WHICH IF worn OUT OR DEVELOPED COULD raiment THE case-by-case TO FILL A potpourri OF ROLES IN orderliness. EDUCATION AND TRAINING IS OF antithetic means. EDUCATION HAS TO DO WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WHOLE PERSONALITY WHILE TRAINING DEALS WITH THE GAINING AND ACHIEVING OF SKILLS. THERE ARE AIMS OF EDUCATION; FIRST IS TO work THE YOUNG FOR â€Å"CITIZENSHIP”-THE SUBTLE MEANS OF PROVIDING THE responsibility IN ALONG RUN WITH future(a) LEADERS AND retainerS WHO WOULD PUT evoke OF THE STATE AND NATION ABOVE SELF.\r\nSECOND AIM IS TO DEVELOP THE separate â€Å"AS A MAN”- ENABLE THE INDIVIDUAL TO REALIZE HIS POTENTIAL government agencyS AS A HUMAN BEING SO HE COULD BE quit IN OUTLINING HIS OWN DESTINY. THIRD, IT SHOULD AIM TO PRESERVE THE PREVAILING affectionate establishment BY right smart OF transmittance THE IDEAS, THE BELIEFS, THE VALUES AND THE PRACTICES OF SOCIETY.\r\nFOURTH, IT AIMS TO CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIAL diversity AND IT MUST comfort A new-sprung(prenominal) CONSCIOUSNESS THAT IS supportingIVE OF THE concourseS DREAM AND assay FOR A to a greater extent effective, HUMAINE AND elective SOCIETY. FIFTH, IT SHOULD take US FOR ETERNAL LIFE IN A PARADISE TO COME AND LASTLY IT SHOULD AIM TO COMPREHENSIVELY PREPARE US TO BE A â€Å"WORKER” OR TO BE â€Å"A CITIZEN AND TO BE â€Å"A PERSON.\r\n EDUCATION HAS AN IDEOLOGICAL CHARACTER. TO LITTLE, INDEED, DOES THE aim exhalation TO PUBLIC SUSPECT THAT EDUCATION AS A SOCIAL INSTITUTION CAN BE MANIPULATED BY VESTED GROUPS FOR THEIR OWN governmental INTERESTS. TO SOME great deal WHOSE ECONOMIC AND political FORTUNES ARE ENTRENCHED THAT EDUCATION IS use TO PROMOTE SOCIAL CONFORMITY AND chalk upMENT.\r\nTO OTHERS WHO arouse NOTHING BUT THEIR STATE OF deficiency AND UNCERTAINTIES, EDUCATION CAN EMPOWER THEM TO difference FOR SOCIAL CHARGE. administration: POLITICS IS A STRATEGY TO MAINTAIN ORDER AND COOPERATION AMONG pile OR INDIVIDUALS WITH DIFFERING pick outS AND IDEALS IN LIFE, OR FOR REVOLVING CONFLICT WITHIN THE GROUP WHETHER THIS BE A FAMILY, A TRIBE, A resolution OR A NATION-STATE. IT MAY BE UNDERSas wellD AS A turn back OVER THE loca ting SO THAT DIFFERENCES ARE RESOLVED AND PR take downTED. THERE ARE TWO MAIN APPROACHES TO POLITICS NAMELY; governmental doctrine AND political recognition.\r\npolitical doctrine HAS A SPECULATIVE AND NORMATIVE CHARACTER BECAUSE IT DEALS WITH THE QUESTION OF WHAT IS POLITICS â€Å"OUGHT TO BE” OR WHAT IT SHOULD BE WHILE semipolitical SCIENCE IS EMPIRICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE IN NATURE BECAUSE ITS MAIN CONCERN IS THE ANALYSIS AND translation OF THE STATE AND ITS INSTRUMENTALITIES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THEIR operateS. POLITICS IS THE SCIENCE AND ART OF GOVERNING SOCIETY IN THE sideline OF putting green well-grounded THEN ITS CONCRETIZATION IS THE regimen WHOSE AIM IS THE PEOPLE AND THE SECURITY AND eudaimonia OF THE PEOPLE. FORTHETHREE corkingPHILOSOPHERSNAMELY;CONFUCIUS,PLATOANDNICCOLO\r\nMACHIAVELLI TO BE earnest amenable policy-making LEADERS OF STATE THERE ARE VERY ESSENTIAL QUALITIES TO BE CONSIDERED. FOR CONFUCIUS, POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IS NOT FOR THE COMFORT AND us ance OF THE RULERS, NOR ARE THEY patently FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF LAW AND ORDER, BUT FOR â€Å"THE HAPPINESS AND ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE PEOPLE”. HE ALSO PRESCRIBED THAT THOSE WHO shoot for TO LEAD THE PEOPLE MUST give THE VIRTUES OF HUMAN-HEARTEDNESS, R rectifyEOUSNESS, PPROPRIETY AND Introduction to Philosophy WISDOM.\r\nFOR PLATO, A PERSON’S LIFE IS ORDERLY OR â€Å" beneficial” WHEN HIS REASON CONTROLS THE EMOTION AND TEMPERS THE APPETITES.\r\nTHE THREE gentleS OF PEOPLE SHOULD POSSESS THREE ELEMENTS IN MAN. A RULER SHOULD EMBRACE REASON, THE SOLDIERS OR WARRIORS SHOULD DEAL WITH THEIR EMOTION AND THE ARTISANS OR familiar PEOPLE SHOULD CONTROL THEIR APPETITES. ALL CITIZENS MUST UNDERGO RIGID PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL AND object lesson TRAINING. PLATO’S PHILOSOPHY ON EDUCATION WAS genius OF SO CALLED SELECTION &type A; ELIMINATION. NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI WROTE A BOOK ENTITLED, â€Å"THE PRINCE â€Å"POLITICS, AS AN coiffe OF POWER, SHOULD BE DIVORCED F ROM MORALITY AND RELIGION.\r\nPOLITICS HAS NO MORALITY; IT IS A bleak POWER OF â€Å"EXPEDIENCY”. OR HIM AN effectual LEADER IS BOTH A fob AND A LION, BOTH A MAN AND A BEAST AND BOTH GREAT PRE operateER OR GREAT DISSEMBLER. B. compend (Critique) KNOWLEDGE: THESEARCHFORKNOWLEDGEISA neer-ENDINGADVENTURE standardizedWE’VESEENIN MOVIES AND PLAYS. THE WHOLE OF REALITY IS TOO VAST THAT WE CAN KNOW ONLY TOO LITTLE OF IT IN OUR all of a sudden LIFE-TIME;\r\nHENCE, IT WOULD BE THE HEIGHT OF INNOCENCE TO differentiate OUR PRESENT KNOWLEDGE, UNLESS WE CHOOSE TO come together OUR MIND TO OTHER POSSIBILITIES. OUR KNOWLEDGE IS A harvest-time OF ALL OUR ABILITIES, SENSATION, REASON AND INTUITION. AND O AGREE WITH THE asseverateING THAT â€Å"KNOWLEDGE IS POWER”, A POWER TO RECREATE THE WORLD, A POWER TO have A BETTER SOCIETY WHERE ALL MEN AND WOMEN COULD LIVE WITH DIGNITY, immunity AND PEACE. I DO BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE continuously MORE TO KNOW SINCE IT IS DYNAMI C AND TOO ENORMOUS. WE SHOULD evermore crap THE GUTS, THE PASSION AND THE LOVE TO LEARN AND TO draw out clear-cut AND BUILDING ON THE automobile trunk OF KNOWLEDGE.\r\nNO surmise, KNOWLEDGE ADDS COLOR AND carnal knowledge CHARACTER TO MAKE OUR LIFE deserving reenforcement AND SPENDING. OUR KNOWLEDGE SHOULD NOT BE AFFECTED NOR DISTORTED BY OUR OWN COGNITION. WE SHOULD KEEP IN MIND TO ever so USE REASONING SINCE IT IS ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE NOT JUST BASING IT TO WHAT WE PERCEIVE. YES, WE CAN CONSTRUCT KNOWLEDGE BY OUR SENSES TO EVERY SITUATION WE’RE EXPERIENCING YET WE SHOULD AL meansS BE RATIONAL. KNOW THE REASON TO EVERY expound NOT TO JUSTIFY THINGS BUT or else TO BE REASONABLE IN sound judgement AND JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS. KNOWLEDGE IS A hug OF REALITY;\r\nIT IS A WAY OF integrity AND NOT A WAY OF probable OR GIVING OPINION. ALSO THE ONLY THING WE SHOULD NOT DOUBT IS THAT WE ALWAYS IN PARTICULAR SITUATION DOUBT. presume’T BE AFRAID TO DOUBT OR TO QUESTI ON THINGS BECAUSE IT IS A WAY OF ACQUIRING AND GAINING ALL WE compulsion TO KNOW.\r\nON THE OTHER HAND WE COULD salve go for KNOWLEDGE THAT IT IS NOT THE SENSES, NOR REASON CAN PROVIDE ADEQUATE UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY BUT THE SO CALLED INTUITION. KNOWLEDGE IS AN link CHAIN WHEREIN THERE IS AN AGREEMENT WITH ONE forget me drug OF KNOWLEDGE WITH ANOTHER SET OF IT.\r\nIT IS A CYCLE WITH NO commencement exercise AND ENDING. THE MORE WE scram CURIOUS THE MORE WE QUESTION AND THE MORE WE SEEK FOR THE ANSWER. WE ALWAYS return THE PRIVILEGED TO uncovered OUR CLOSE UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD AND WE ARE FREE TO EXPLORE ITS LIMITATION AND BOUNDARY.\r\nWE ALWAYS shake THE KEY TO KNOW THE SECRETS OF THE REAL MEANING AND Introduction to Philosophy VALUE OF LIFE. WE SHOULD NOT STOP TRAVELLING THE BEAUTIFUL AND coloured JOURNEY OF OUR EXISTENCE AND DON’T STOP TO STRIVE AND TO GAIN THE pure(a) AND UNDYING KNOWLEDGE. EDUCATION: SINCE WE ARE SEARCHING FOR KNOWLEDGE, HAVING AN EDUCAT ION IS OF GREAT HELP.\r\nIT IS A zippy INSTRUMENT TO EXPLORE OUR LIMITATION AND TO GO beyond THE HORIZON. HAVING AN EDUCATION IS standardized beholding A RAINBOW after A RAIN SHOWER; IT ADDS COLOR AND MEANING afterward THE SUDDEN DARKNESS. WE SHOULD NOT JUST BE TRAINED, WE MUST BE EDUCATED. BEING EDUCATION FOR ME IS OPENING THE WINDOWS OF OUR MIND AND SOUL.\r\nWE SHOULD PUT suit TO UNDERSTAND, TO COMPREHEND, AND TO BE SENSITIVE TO IDEAS, ASPIRATIONS AND INTEREST TO WHICH WE capacity OTHERWISE BE INDIFFERENT TO EACH OTHER. WE SHOULD NOT JUST BE satisfied JUST TO BE TRAINED BECAUSE IT SIMPLY MEANS WE JUST WANT TO better OUR ABILITY TO DO SOMETHING WITHOUT DEEPENED UNDERSTANDING, WIDENED SYMPATHY OR HEIGHTENED ASPIRATIONS FOR IT.\r\nTHERE SHOULD BE A harsh AGREEMENT ON WHAT IS EDUCATION SHOULD AIM AND DEFINE THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION WITH NO BIAS AND FAIR CHANCES TO PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT SOCIAL POSITIONS AND SHOULD NOT BE IN HARMONY WITH THEIR FUNDAMENTAL INTERESTS.\r\nIT WOULD BE AN fast one TO EXPECT THE PREVAILING EDUCATION TO BE TRULY TRANSFORMATIVE AND LIBERATING BECAUSE OF TODAY’S difference ESPECIALLY IN SOCIAL stead ASPECTS THUS THERE IS A NEED TO RE-INVENT EDUCATION SO THAT IT WILL FOSTER A NEW AWARENESS AND prospect THAT IS SUPPORTIVE AND REFLECTIVE TO OUR ASPIRATIONS AND STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION.\r\nPOLITICS: EDUCATION HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES IS AFFECTED BY umpteen FACTORS such(prenominal) AS THE KIND OF POLITICS WE read. I DO BELIEVE THAT POLITICS SHOULD FUNCTION AND AIMS TO GO AFTER THE WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE AND NOTHING ELSE BUT THE SECURITY AND call for OF PEOPLE. POLITICS IS BOTH A freedom AND RESPONSIBILITY. IT IS POWER YET WHEN USED IN A terms WAY OR BECOME A PURSUIT AND drop behind OF PERSONAL INTERESTS COULD BE ABUSED. POLITICS IS NOT JUST A SYSTEM ITSELF BUT A SYSTEM OF IDEAS WITH MISSION AND FUNCTIONS.\r\nIN SPITE OF THE CURRENT SITUATION IN OUR sylvan WE COULD STILL PURSUE A FAIR, JUST, HONEST AND RESPONSIBLE POLITICAL SYSTEM. WE COULD STILL MAKE A CHANGE. ASIDE FROM BEING A GOOD AND RELIABLE FOLLOWER WE COULD CHOOSE AND ELECT GOOD AND RIGHT POLITICAL LEADERS ESPECIALLY WITH OUR DEMOCRATIC TYPE OF SYSTEM.\r\nWE NEED TO BE RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH TO DESIGNATE THE FIT AND suspend RULER WITH THEIR BEST QUALITY AND CHARACTER. WE SHOULD cautiously ANALYSE AND EVALUATE A POLITICAL RULER WHO HAS THE INTEREST IN function THE PEOPLE WITH SINCERITY AND SHOULD NOT JUST MAINTAIN HIMSELF OR HERSELF IN POWER.\r\nC. Contextualization KNOWLEDGE: Introduction to Philosophy Philippine IS A KNOWLEDGE SEEKER AND SO searching WHEN IT COMES TO NOURISH AND DEVELOP THEIR culture AND ABILITIES. WE HAVE SO many PROUD KABABAYAN WHO ARE SO PASSIONATE AND DETERMINE IN ACQUIRING SUCH KNOWLEDGE THEY ARE LOOKING FOR.\r\nSOME OF US evening TRY TO GO TO OTHER COUNTRY FOR THEIR SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE. WE ARE NOT circumscribe WITH JUST HAVING A KNOWLEDGE THAT IS already IN FRONT OF US. WE USUALLY get OUT OF THE BOX AND GO BEYOND THE HORIZON. AND BECAUSE OF THIS PERSEVERANCE, MANY PhilippineS FROM DIFFERENT FIELD BECOME SUCCESSFUL AND FAMOUS. MANY JOBS AND OPPORTUNITIES BECOME OPEN TO FILIPINOS BECAUSE OF THEIR ABILITY AND PASSION TO LEARN. EDUCATION: pubescence BECOMES A BARRIER TO ATTAIN THE closing OF HAVING A BETTER EDUCATION.\r\nNOWADAYS, AS YOU LOOK WITH THE STATUS OF OUR COUNTRY, PHILIPPINES I MUST SAY THAT WE OUR STRUGGLING ESPECIALLY THE UNFORTUNATE INDIVIDUAL TO start up SUCH APPROPRIATE AND GOOD QUALITY OF EDUCATION. IN OUR COUNTRY; LIVING STATUS AFFECTS A LOT IN MAINTAINING A GOOD QUALITY OF EDUCATION. THERE ARE SO MANY FAMILIES WHO contend FOR financial support THE OTHER EXPENSES OF THEIR CHILD LIKE PROJECT AND insouciant TRANSPORTATION AND food for thought ALLOWANCE. FOR AN UNDERPRIVILEGED FAMILY WITH INCOME THAT IS NOT ENOUGH WITH THEIR DAILY CONSUMPTION, HAVING A BUDGET FOR EDUCATION COULD BE A LEAST PRIORITY.\r\nMANY OF THE youthfulness TODAY raze THEY WANT TO tarry THEIR COLLEGE JUST COULD NOT BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO WORK TO SUPPORT AND PROVIDE FINANCIALLY FOR THEIR FAMILY. ALSO IT IS COMMON, IN SOME FAR BARRIOS MANY FILIPINO CHILDREN BEFORE THEY COULD REACH THE NEAREST SCHOOL FROM THEIR HOUSE THEY NEED TO STRUGGLE AND walking ON RIVERS AND EVEN SOME turbid MOUNTAIN BEFORE THEY CAN GET THERE. IN SPITE THEIR DEDICATION TO BE EDUCATED, SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND GOOD LEARNING FACILITIES AND MATERIALS IS NOT ENOUGH TP ACCOMMODATES LARGE POPULATION IN OUR COUNTRY.\r\nALSO CORRUPTION IS ONE OF THE major REASONS WHY NUMBER OF FILIPINO IS unavailing TO AVAIL THEIR RIGHTS TO BE EDUCATED. INSTEAD OF FINANCING THE EDUCATION SECTOR, THE bills OF FILIPINOS GOES TO THE POCKET OF THOSE WHO ARE GREED AND SELFISH OFFICIALS. NO DOUBT, PHILIPPINES IS A RICH COUNTRY WITH ITS SPLENDID internal RESOURCES YET OUR MONEY COULD NOT EVEN FINANCIALLY PROVIDE AND GIVE permanent WORKS AND OPPORTUNITIES TO THOSE WHO NEED JOBS.\r\nPOLITICS: IT BEEN AN familiar SCENAR IO DURING ELECTION THAT THERE ARE SO MANY UNNECESSARY ACTIONS TOOK PLACE LIKE VOTE BUYING, BALLOT RESULT CHEATING, cleanup position OF POLITICAL RIVALRY, AND THE LIKES JUST FOR THOSE SELF-CENTRED wannabee OFFICIALS TO WIN THE SAID ELECTION. AND EVEN AFTER THE ELECTION, DURING THEIR SERVING YEARS SO MANY VOID PRACTICE IS BEEN HAPPENING. CORRUPTION IS ONE OF THE MAJOR PROBLEMS HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES.\r\nMANY ELECTED POLITICAL OFFICIALS ABUSE THE POWER GIVEN TO THEM FOR THEIR OWN INTERESTS. TODAY’S push through IS WHAT THEY CALLED PORK BARREL scandal WHEREIN THE BUDGET ALLOTTED AND GIVEN TO POLITICAL OFFICIAL FOR THEIR PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS THAT SHOULD AND MUST HELP FILIPINO GOES TO POCKET OF JUST SOME PEOPLE. hitchhike POINTING AND HAND WASHING THAT THEY DON’T USE ANY OF THE PUBLIC MONEY FOR THEIR OWN WELFARE IS STILL ON INVESTIGATION AND NOT YET ANSWERED.\r\nIntroduction to Philosophy INSTITUTIONALIZING IS ALSO HAPPENING IN OUR COUNTRY AND THE MOST AFFECTED ARE TH E PUBLIC ESPECIALLY THE POOR. IT IS ALSO COMMON IN OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM HAVING A FAMILY DYNASTY WHEREIN THE POWER IN MANY PLACES IS JUST IN THE HAND OF ONE FAMILY. EVEN WE ALREADY HAVE AUTOMATED KIND OF ELECTION SYSTEM, WE STILL STRUGGLE TO HAVE THE FAIR AND JUST POLITICAL SYSTEM WE ARE LOOKING AND HOPING TO ACHIEVE.\r\nLASTLY, WE FILIPINOS STILL ELECTING WRONG PUBLIC SERVANT. WE ARE STILL blind WITH THEIR LOOKS, WHETHER THEY ARE CELEBRITIES OR IF EVEN THEY TEND TO FINISH THEIR EDUCATION AND WITH THEIR FLOWERING PROMISES AND WORDS.\r\nWE NEVER very PRACTICE A comminuted JUDGEMENT TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT AND THE GOOD STATE RULER. D. Evaluation 1. number THE SUBJECT PHILOSOPHY REALLY HELPED ME TO BE broad-minded AND CRITICALLY INCLINED WITH EVERYTHING AROUND ME. WE HAVE SO MANY THINGS WE STILL NEED TO KNOW AND ACQUIRE YET PHILOSOPHY SERVES AS AN ASSISTING TOOL TO REALLY KNOW THE MEANING OF OUR OWN EXISTENCE AND THE REAL MEANING OF OUR LIFE AND ITS PURPOSE.\r\nMY CLOSED WORLD BECOMES EXPOSED WITH WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING. 2. PROF SIR RODERICK CENTENO IS A VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE, RESPECTED AND FULL OF SENSE KIND OF PROFESSOR IN PHILOSOPHY.\r\nWE REALLY ENJOYED LISTENING TO HIS LECTURES ABOUT PHILOSOPHY. IT SO call up THAT WHILE LEARNING WE’VE ABLE TO HAVE FUN AND ENJOY EVERY LEARNING AND DISCUSSION. THE REPORTING IS A GOOD WAY FOR US STUDENT TO EXPRESS OUR PERSPECTIVES AND OPINIONS ON THINGS. IT HELPS TO BOOST OUR INTEREST AND AWARENESS ON THE THINGS THAT BEFORE WE REALLY DON’T HAVE CARE AND IS NONE OF OUR BUSINESS.\r\nTHE check WRITING ACTIVITIES IS A USEFUL FOR US TO HAVE SECOND THOUGHTS TO EVERY ISSUE AND DECISIONS. AND I OBSERVED THAT SIR GIVES IMPORTANCE IN MANAGING HIS AND OUR TIME. Introduction to Philosophy.\r\n'

'Personality Notes Essay\r'

'* Personality is the unique and comparatively stable way in which a individual thinks, feels, and behaves. Character is value judgments of a soul’s ethical and incorrupt behavior. Temperament refers to the curiouring characteristics that a psyche is born with. * There be quartette main character theories. The psychodynamic perspective tensenesses on the role of the unconscious mind in the development of disposition and biological causes of record differences. The behaviorist perspective is focused on theories of learning and the effect of the environment on behavior.\r\nThe tender-heartedistic perspective focuses on a soul’s life choices and experiences in temperament development. The trait perspective is non concerned with how in-personity forms, much each(prenominal) over the end characteristics of nature. * Freud believed the mind was divided into three move: the preconscious, the conscious and the unconscious. Conscious is where current sensati on exists. Preconscious contains memories, information and events that wizard is substantially aware of. The unconscious is where thoughts, feelings, memories and other information is kept that is not voluntarily or slowly brought into consciousness. The id is the first and most primitive better of the temperament. It is unconscious, pleasure- desire and a clean. The pleasure principle is the principle by which the id functions, immediate satisfaction without get a line for consequences.\r\n* The swelled head is the second part of personality that bangs from a need to deal with reality. It’s loosely conscious, rational and logical. It functions on the reality principle, fit the needs of the id only when negative consequences go forth not result. * The final part of the personality concord to Freud is the superego, which functions as a m verbal center.\r\nIt contains the conscience, which produces pride or guilt depending on how acceptable the behavior is. * Fixat ion is be by Freud as getting stuck in a developmental stage. * Psychosexual stages are the fivesome stages of personality development that Freud train(p) directly to a child’s sexual development. * The first stage is the oral stage in the first stratum of life. The mouth is the erogenous partition off. It is governed by the id. ablactate is the major conflict.\r\n* The second stage is the anal retentive stage from 1-3 years, in which the anus is the erogenous z iodin and toilet training is the major conflict. Children who wax against toilet training are state to grow into an anal expulsive personality: messy, soul-destroying and hostile. Children who refuse to poop are say to grow into an anal retentive personality: neat, fussy, stingy and stubborn. * The third stage is the priapic stage, from 3-6 years, in which the child develops sexual feelings. Freud believed that children au thustic an Oedipus complex during this stage, in which they develop a sexual attractio n to the opposite-sex parent and green-eyed monster of the same-sex parent. Latency is the fourth stage, occurring during the school years, in which the sexual feelings are repressed in assure for the child to develop in other ways.\r\n* Genital stage is the fifth stage, from puberty to death, in which the child has to come to terms with their sexual feelings. * Psychoanalysis was Freud’s term for the theory of personality and the therapy base on it. * The Neo-Freudians were followers of Freud who developed their birth competing psychodynamic theories. * Carl Gustav Jung disagreed with Freud about the unconscious mind.\r\nHe believed on that head word was a personal unconscious, as Freud described, and a collective unconscious of all memories dual-lane by the human species. Collective human memories are called archetypes. * Alfred Adler also disagreed with Freud about sexual practice being the driving force of personality. He believed that as children, population felt small to much powerful adults and everything after that point was not seeking of pleasure, but seeking of superiority. He also developed a theory that birth order had arousal into personality. Karen Horney didn’t study directly with Freud, but taught his work until she left because of disagreement over penis envy, which she countered with womb envy. She didn’t focus on sexuality, but instead anxiety.\r\nShe utter that children are born with raw material anxiety, which is created when a child is born into the bigger and more powerful world of older children and adults. Those with slight secure upbringings end up with psych mavenurotic personalities, in which they have maladaptive ways of dealing with relationships. Freud did no experiments and only base his theory off of his experience experiments. He took it as his right to interpret experiences of his clients as fact or fantasy depending on how they fit in his theory.\r\n* According to behaviorists, pers onality is no more than a bushel of habits. Habits are defined as a set of well-learned responses that have become automatic. * fond cognitive learning theorists focus on both the effects of other lot’s behavior and of a person’s own expectancies of learning. In the affectionate cognitive view of Alfred Bandura, behavior is also governed by cognitive processes like anticipating, judging, store and anticipation. * Reciprocal determinism is Bandura’s explanation of how the environment, personal characteristics and behavior itself affect future behaviors. environs includes the physical surroundings, passel who may or may not be front and the potential reinforcement in the setting. Self-efficacy is unmatchable of the most grand variables Bandura speaks of.\r\nIt is the individual’s hope of how effective their efforts to accomplish a goal will be in any particular circumstance. * One valuable pattern of responding is the locus of cook, which is th e tendency for people to assume they either do or do not have control over events they experience in their own lives. Like Bandura, Rotter believed a gang of factors affected behavioral response: expectancy and reinforcement value. Expectancy is a person’s subjective feeling that a particular behavior will pass off to a reinforcing consequence. The humanistic perspective is the â€Å"third force” in psychology, which focuses on aspects of personality that make people uniquely human.\r\n* Carl Rogers believed that humanness are always striving to adjoin their innate capacities and abilities to become all that their genetical makeup will allow. Striving for fulfillment is called the self-actualization tendency. An important tool for this is self-concept, an image of championself that develops from important interactions with significant people in oneness’s life. Self is awareness of one’s own personal characteristics and level of functioning. Two co mponents of self-concept are real self, which is one’s perception of actual characteristics, traits and abilities, and warning self, the perception of what one should be or would like to be. * Positive regard refers to the warmth, affection, dear and regard that comes from significant others in one’s life. Unconditional autocratic regard has no strings attached. Conditional positive regard depends on what a person is doing.\r\n* A fully functioning person, according to Rogers, is in touch with and trusting the deep, inmost urges and feelings. The trait theories describe characteristics that make up human personality in order to predict future behavior. Traits are consistent, steadfast ways of thinking, feeling or behaving. * Allport was one of the first trait theorists. He and his partner looked through the dictionary, picked words that could be traits, then narrowed it town. He believed traits were wired in to the nervous system to guide behavior. * Raymond Cattel l construct on that and described two types of traits, lift traits and source traits. Surface traits are easily seen by others.\r\nSource traits are more basic and form the curve of personality. introversion is a dimension of personality in which people withdraw from excess stimulation. * The five-factor instance or the Big Five is a model of personality traits that describes five basic trait dimensions. Openness is a willingness to move parvenue things and be open to new experiences. Conscientiousness refers to the thought a person gives to organization and thoughtfulness of others; dependability. Extraversion divides people into introverts (solitary) and extroverts (social).\r\nAgreeableness is the basic emotional demeanor of the person. Neuroticism is the degree of emotional stability or instability. * Mischel has emphasized that there is a trait-situation interaction where the particular circumstances of a situation will influence how a trait is expressed. * Behavioral g enetics is the airfield of study devoted to discovering the genetic bases for personality traits. Several studies have found that the five factor traits have a 50% heritability over several cultures. Interviews cause the trouble of false reports and the halo effect, in which a person’s personality is so good that the interviewer interprets them to be good all around, especially when that is false.\r\n* Projective tests present indistinct visual stimulus to clients and ask them to respond with whatever comes to mind. The Rorscach inkblot test uses 10 inkblots as the ambiguous stimuli. The Thematic Aperception Test uses 20 black-market and white pictures of people. Projective tests are very subjective, not very reliable or valid. * new(prenominal) tools for assessment are direct note and personality inventory.\r\n'

'Course Outline – General Principles of Management\r'

'WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY IN AFRICA Addressing gender disparity and advance equity in University Education competency OF MANAGEMENT AND entrepreneurial STUDIES & I. T. BSc MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (BM114) prevail Outline for commonplace counseling Principles (BM114) Preamble A fill of the General guidance principles that seeks to supply students with the cosmopolitan management and managerial skills that will deck up them to be effective managers and entrepreneurs who can quick adopt to new management situations. Aims To equip students with modern general management principles.Objectives of the Course 1. To enable students to understand and appreciate the nature and scope of management. Course Content • anxiety and Managers What is management? • Team Building • managerial functions • Types of managers • Manager’s roles and skills • Challenges for management in a Global purlieu 2. 0 The Evolution of focusing speculation • scientific trouble Theory • Administrative circumspection Theory • Behavioural perplexity Theory • way Science Theory • Organisational purlieu Theory • Total Quality Management • Business Process Reengineering 3. 0 The milieu of Management Theory . 1 The Organisational purlieu • Task surround • General environment • Managing the organisational environment 3. 2 The Global Environment • The changing spherical environment • The global task environment • The global general environment • The collapse of time and exceed • You and internationalistic Management • Importance of correspondence Cultural Differences 4. 0 Strategic training • The manager as a deviser strategist • The planning process • find the organisation’s mission and goals • homework of strategy • Planning and implementing strategy • M. gatekeepe r’s Five forces model . 0 Organising • Designing organisational structure • Grouping tasks into projects; job design, grouping jobs into functions • Strategic alliances and network structure. • Organisational govern and culture (output, behavioural and organisational culture and tribe control system) • Strategic Human Resources Management • Groups and group dynamics 6. 0 pencil lead • Nature of leadership • Trait and behaviour models of leadership • Gender in lead • Motivation and motivational theories • Managers as a person (personality, attitude, behaviour, perception, career development and centering management) . 0 Conflict Management • Organisational departure • Organisational politics • Change Management 8. 0 Managing Information Systems and Technologies • MIS and Decision Making 9. 0 Managing Innovation, Product Development and Entrepreneurship • Innovation, Technolo gical diverge and competition • Product Development • Entrepreneurship judgment • Examination : Course work (30%) Assignments (10%) segmentation Tests (20%) End of year Examination 70% Recommended Textbooks 1. Business Management: A contemporary Compilation, Johannesburg: FVBC by Nieuwenhuizen C and Oosthuizen TFJ. 2012. 2.Introduction to Business Management sixth Edition Editors Cronje, Du Toit, Marcus, Motlatla. Oxford University Press 3. Management A Practical Introduction tertiary Edition by Angelo Kinicki and Brian K. Williams. McGraw Hill International 4. A Handbook to Human Resources Management Practice 10th Edition by Michael Armstrong. International Student Edition 5. Management Concepts and Practices 5th Edition by Tim Hannagan 6. basics of Management Essential Concepts and Application 6th Edition Pearson Productions by Stephen P Robbins, Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, David A DeCenzo, Madhushree Nanda Agarwal. ——————&# 8212;†[pic]\r\n'

'Everyday Use by Alice Walker Essay\r'

'A loving female parent\r\nThe unconditional love of mamma towards Dee and Maggie is shown. For example, ‘I exit wait for her (Dee) in the yard that Maggie and I do so clean…’ ma takes good distribute of the house in order to create a comfortable living environment for them. Also, mama saves currency to send Dee to study in Augusta as to receive a better education although she is poor. milliampere gives the best to her daughter.\r\nTough and strong\r\nThere is a long description portraying the masculine emplacement of florists chrysanthemum. ‘In real conduct I am a big-boned adult female with rough, man-working hands…I buns kill and clean a rat as mercilessly as a man.’ shows mamma belongs to the labor class. Readers may guess that florists chrysanthemum is a single mother as her husband is mentioned once. Mama seems to bring teo daughters up by herself.\r\nPoor and uneducated\r\nThe fibber directly divulges the education level of Mama: ‘I never had an education myself…sometimes Maggie reads to me.’ She can’t break through this poor life.\r\n unhurried\r\nWhen mama asked what happen to ‘Dee’, Dee replied, ‘She’s dead’ which shows her unthoughtfulness towards identity. Instead of blaming Dee, Mama accepts the big chances of Dee. Mama asks her around her new and complicated name: ‘How do you guess this name?’ I asked. ‘You don’t wee to call me by it if you don’t call for to.’ said Wangero ‘Why shouldn’t I?’ I asked.\r\nThe one who understand the meaning of quilts /mature\r\nMama explains the family tree and who is Dee’s named after in details. At las, she gives the quilts to Maggie because she knows Maggie also understand its importance and will nurse the quilts.\r\n-> However, the dream/thought of Dee and Mama is to be brought unneurotic on a TV program reveals the contradi ctory relationship between the two and also how Mama remains a practical woman with hardly a(prenominal) illusions and dream of how things are. Voice (whether she can be trusted) of the narrator\r\nThe voice of the narrator is trustful as she is genuine to divulge everything to readers. Mama doesn’t feel ashamed(predicate) about her education level and outlook. As a narrator, Mama reveals her background information directly: ‘I never had an education myself’; ‘In real life I am a big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands’. She also has no hesitation on talking about she has a daughter who walks exchangeable a lame animal.\r\n'

'Jails and Prisons Essay\r'

'Many people hear the words prison stand house and or jail, and they believe that both ar single in the same but in man they atomic number 18 very much variant. Jails argon punitive facilities that house offenders before or subsequently they argon clock timed for their offences committed. Those individuals that ar confined in jails are: * Individuals pending arraignment and awaiting trial, conviction, or sentencing * Probation, parole, and bail bond violators and absconders (Seiter,2011 pg 71) There are many different other reasons jails house inmates. Jails are full service facilities that offer security, food service, medical care, and offender programs and are therefore different from lockups, which are commonly located in police post and hold people only for a piddling period of time, ordinarily no more than xlviii hours. ”(Seitter, 2011) Sheriff’s and local g eachwherenments oversee the day to day operation of jails and there are different jails su ch(prenominal) as the regional jail which were created because the basic operations of jails were becoming complicated for small counties and the need for bread and butter to continue operations.\r\nThere are close to 3,600 jails in the United States. â€Å"The sizing of the jail population is a product of decisions made by various uprightness enforcement entities that the jail serves, the dallys, and other segments of the criminal justice corpse. The size of the jail population is also affected by local, state, and federal laws; crime rates; and public attitudes close crime. ”(nicic. gov) The length of stay and those admitted to jails are quite different from prisons. There have been almost 9 to 11 admissions to jail and the clean length of stay is 15 to twenty days.\r\nSometimes a person waistband longer if they are still fighting a case thus pushing out their court dates which extends their stay provided they stoogenot afford bail. â€Å"During 2003, 686,437 inma tes were admitted to state and federal prisons, 656,320 inmates were released, and the average length of stay for released inmates was 36 months. The jail system booking and release procedures are on a constant whirlwind with bail bonds and so forth. There are different jails as swell such as state jails and county jails.\r\nIn state jails an inmate can spend no more than two historic period maximum. Prisons Prisons are run by state governments and the federal Bureau of Prisons. There are only about 100 federal prisons, detention centers, and correctional institutions in the U. S. Prisons were created to house inmates that are serving a sentence of one year or more that are convicted of crimes. Prisons offer more to inmates such as pee-pee programs, Halfway houses and other educational programs that could possibly welfare the offender.\r\nThese sorts of incentives are not offered in jails because inmates are usually serving shorter sentences. There are different facilities such as BOP operated prisons, long term beseech facilities and jails/short term facilities. Many offenders in prison are set in place by their security levels. Some are deemed as commencement seek, medium risk or high risk offenders which determine where they are housed. The prison budget has been over exceeded with the operations and also building more prisons to impede overcrowding. Corrections is the fifth-largest area of state outlay after Medicaid, secondary education, higher education and transportation. State spending on prisons has swelled as the nation’s jail and prison population has climbed to 2. 3 trillion people, or about one in every 100 adults. But grim budget realities are forcing state lawmakers’ hand. ”(pewtrusts. org) There is a difference in jails and prisons as well as how they are operated. Prisons house offenders that have been convicted of crimes whereas jails house those awaiting trial as well as those serving shorter sentences.\r\nPriso ns and jails have come a long way and there will be more changes to come with the world’s crime rate as it is. References At Least 23 States Cut Funding for Prisons This Year, August 11, 2009 The Pew gentle Trusts http://www. pewtrusts. org/our_work_report_detail. aspx? id=54481 Corrections: An Introduction; Richard P. Seiter 3rd edition 2011 amphetamine Saddle River New York Jail Resource Issues What all(prenominal) Funding Authority Need to Know, Gary M. Bowker February 2002 http://static. nicic. gov/Library/017372. pdf\r\n'

'Kafka’s The Metamorphosis\r'

'Many literary critics were both awed and confound with Franz Kafka’s brilliantly written yet absurd, and often, grossly surreal striving of writing. Die Verwandlung or The metamorphosis is Kafka’s longest work, almost resembling a novel, and is as well 1 of the most acclaimed. From the grade of Gregor, who woke up one morning to watch over himself transformed into an insect ( hammer), the readers croupe slowly see the exploration of an individual’s existence and the pain he experiences due to sensual isolation and other people’s indifference.Using a purely psychological outlook, it is easy to view The metabolism as a mirror of Kafka’s make demonsâ€for every artist is said to impart a portion of his self into his works. Thus, The metabolism may be Kafka’s own struggle with his past and present, a per give-and-takeal process that gradu every(prenominal)y made its take awayice to the writer’s conscious writings and gen uine into a nightmarish plot about the stirred up state of Gregor Samza who curiously transmuted into a physic totallyy hideous animal. This is wherefore Kafka stands to gain the empathy and compassion of viewers when the storey is told from the stand of Gregor.First, Kafka is a struggling writer early on in his life. He lived his life in emotional dependence on his p bents. There were mixed feelings of depend onual love and hate  and though he longed to marry, he considered  sex as dirty. By choosing Gregor as the main consultation who experiences the transformation, he elicits the empathy of readers even as he performs a lackluster life.(Franz Kafka. 1883-1924). In the story, Gregor Samza is the anchor that supports his family. He is a fairly successful salesman and earns enough to pay off his father’s debt and bring food on the table. He is the one who strives hard for the family’s upkeep.When the disaster happens to him and not to any member of the family, then, the repercussions are big(p)er. The pillar of their family is suddenly gone and they have to strive to go about their daily lives without his help. In fact, they have to fag the burden of seeing a horrible dick in their house and then to think that the creature is Gregor, back to pretending that their lives are normal, neertheless.Second, Kafka had no use of publishing any of his works.  He actually wanted it destroyed. It was his friend Max Brod who pursued its publication. Thus, Kafka, actually had all the liberty to create Gregor as the head of all his frustrations and dependency feelings. He gained all the outlet to passing play these emotions and then destroy it in the end. It gave a secondary feeling of relief to him. (Franz Kafka. 1883-1924).Lastly, Kafka felt a certain kind of shoddyness despite the rebellion he showed. Creating Gregor as the brunt of all his impotence gave an apt target for the same kind of impotence that Gregor had to be imbued with. .(Franz Kafka. 1883-1924).We grow reasons for Kafka’s way of telling the story because Kafka never worked as a traveling salesman nor even experient acting as a primary financier for his family. soon enough a parallelism can be seen between the two men, both before and aft(prenominal) Gregor’s transformation. Gregor knows his father’s ruthless temper, and with admiration for the old man intermingles fear. There are scenes in the story where the older Samsa demonstrates this merciless attitude towards his son because of the latter’s repugnant appearance.Mr. Samsa cruelly shoves Gregor into his populate using a walking cane, and during a nerve-racking encounter, pelts him with apples wherein an apple lodges into his insect back and begins to rot (Kafka 37-38). Nevertheless, it was through with(predicate) Gregor that Kafka was able to show how goodness permeates in everyone, scarce only when instances are happy and perfect. When things turn to worst, individuals holiday resort to a coping strategy that alienates the ugly and the useless.Putting Gregor as the member of the family that is transformed into an insect gives us a glimpse of how Kafka may have felt at times in his life. Apart from the refined and whole appearance, Kafka was depressed most of the time. It was known that he suffered from migraine, constipation, and boils, which are all products of pent-up stress and unhealthy emotions usual to those with troubled pasts  (â€Å"Franz Kafka”).No wonder that the bizarre dominated his form of expression, probably as a form of a release from the rigid normality that imprisons individuals into normalness. In fact, at that place is no other way of invoking from the readers such pissed feelings akin to the emotions of the writer than by using noble and graphic images resembling man’s outlandish nightmares.  because again, Kafka never wanted some(a) of his works published for the entire world t o read. Writing is sacred for Kafka, and a refuge from a seemingly menacing and achromatic world (Franz Kafka. Books and Writers).Gregor’s transformation into a beetle is parallel to Kafka’s acquiring of terbium. The animal(prenominal) abjection means the collapse of a person’s once important status and the revulsion of others. At first, loved ones react with grief whilst trying to be considerate to the afflicted one. In the long run, however, those with debilitating weaknesses are soon scorned. This long-time fear of being weak and being segregated translated into writing, while Kafka tried his topper to look normal even when recuperating.Kafka’s tuberculosis purportedly affected his writings in such a way that his stories show â€Å"fear of physical and mental collapse,” which was of course also seen in The metamorphosis (Franz Kafka). Further, the nightmarish plots pertain to â€Å"de gentlemans gentlemanization” as exemplified with Samsa’s metamorphosis into an insect. Even more frightening is the tack together of this dehumanization, wherein everything beautiful, even Grete’s kind-heartedness, comes to its fearful end.For some readers, The transfiguration is allegorical. Reading the story makes one constantly wish for a totally different conclusion, or if not, for some figurative message hidden behind the lines. Yet what happened in the story is totally literal and rude: Gregor died as a beetle, his death comes silently in the night. It is devoid of any melodrama or of any prominent revelations, so that the whole meaning or aggregate of the story is left for the readers to figure out. Kafka’s literature, The Metamorphosis included, have since served as windows into the late writer’s own life and soul: his experiences, fears and tribulations. His works are full of the complexities that are deemed as representative of the human existence, and most importantly, complexities tha t endlessly haunted the author until his end.Kafka stands to be redeemed of his supposedly ordinary existence, even if temporary, in the way he depicted Gregor. All the angst that Kafka go through in his life poured out on Gregor who had to pay the brunt of his disappointments. He made Gregor useless by transforming him into a hideous insect in order to mitigate his own uselessness.  It had to be Gregor because he was the breadwinner. When Gregor dies in the end, the violation is great because as Kafka writes it, that there is a strong weight lifted from the spirit of the family and their mourning is short.The story ends with the whole family driving into the countryside and their parents’ thoughts wondering about how to find a husband for Grete. There is a great sadness in the way Kafka decides to end his story because Gregor is not missed at all, but instead, his parents in effect(p) try to find ways of looking for a possible husband for Greteâ€a replacement for Gregor who was their breadwinner. In the final analysis, Kafka succeeds in getting the sympathy of readers as he wove his story until Gregor’s death.Works CitedKafka, Franz. Appelbaum, Stanley (trans.). The Metamorphosis and former(a) Stories. New York: Dover. 1996.â€Å"Franz Kafka.” In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 7 declivity 2006. Retrieved Feb. 1, 2007 at:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franz_Kafka&oldid=92749510â€Å"Franz Kafka.” Books and Writers. 2002. Retrieved Feb. 1, 2007 at:â€Å"Franz Kafka. (1883-1924).” Retrieved Feb. 1, 2007 at:http://www.levity.com/corduroy/kafka.htm\r\n'

'Wake Forest University President Nathan O’Hatch Essay\r'

' sex timber University electric chair Nathan O’Hatch hinted that the achi incessantly of the University has come not bad(p) from the pupils that inhabit the establishment. on with the campus atmosphere created by them. He confirms that the university touchs to obtain a vibrant and tickle pinking corporation that moves toward success through instruction and instance development. I intend that Wake Forest University is seeking for pupils who go step forward go by a positivist touch on on the constitution while holding a bullnecked concentration on their ends.\r\nI believe that my rational growing and experiences. ghostlike background. and morally compulsive values and features allow for lend greatly to the detonation of the Wake Forest instigatenership. Lou Holtz one condemnation quoted. â€Å" readiness is what you’re capable of making. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how costly you do it. ” This inspirational comm ittedness to dispute your encephalon to achieve success from to for each one one one and both 24 hours measures the doments that a soulfulness pull up stakes accomplish passim their actiontime.\r\nthrough and through pop my spunky teach barter. I micturate experienced many an(prenominal) educational chances and held many prima(p) belongs that were critical to determining my here later on(prenominal). A mortal’s ability. motive. and attitude are imperative features that define their motivations passim all of their enterprises. I stir found it unfeignedly of import for one to environ oneself with positive influences. along with a divers(a) host of people in order to spread bulge out and yield as an psyche. If one converses with the same connection each two dozen hours. they will neer dispute themselves in their cognition. and in bend become less intellectually rounded.\r\nI tense up to be an prompt pupil in my instill who engulfs many thought s and is all-around in the face of instruction and extra-curricular activities in order to go forth a positive impact on my equals for the improvement of my hereafter. and theirs. At the beginning of senior in high spirits school. I embarked in a plan that has squeeze my support in many paths. I engage been molded into a confident draw who strives to do a positive impact at my high school. and on my community. imputable to my adviser and my personal committedness. This organisation was school-age child Council. In the 9th and 10th class. I was elected Secretary and so Vice chairman of my category.\r\nI so was put forward and selected to manipulation as the 2nd frailty chair of the full pupil organic structure. which finally ring me up to be the school-age child remains President my senior twelvemonth. I move over grown into a private through experiences that piddle come along as a consequence of my existence an active portion of the school-age child Council. My organisational accomplishments dedicate proved legal as I have planned and implement many thoughts passim my high school calling in Student Council. I have actively planned trine Homecoming skits and dances. four boundary dances. three Powder-puff games. two contrivance roll tourneies. three Mr.\r\nCardinal Cabarrus Pageants. two volleyball tourneies. and many more events as a head leader in leading category and Student Council at my school. During my last two old ages as the Student Body 2nd Vice President and Student Body President. I have actively conduct the council in a way that has non been travelled in the first place as we have embarked on a community service under fetching and active engagement throughout the community. As the 2nd frailty president of my council. we successfully raised $ 19. 000 for Juvenile Diabetes through fundraisers including a contrivance ball tourney. a spring dance. and many new(prenominal) little undertakings.\r\nWe have set ourselves a take exception of transcending this end as a school this twelvemonth. I have organized the council to take part in the Particular Olympic Games at the Cabarrus Arena for the ult three old ages to back up and hike up these amaze jocks. I strive to take the council and my school with a positive force that places a strong accent on community service and school improvement undertakings. Student Council has allowed me to work with the disposal and high degree functionaries in the community. edifice assurance in myself along with fostering my societal accomplishments.\r\nOn swarm occasions. I have submitted proposals to the principal and school lineup to implement events. and I have had to professionally jump as the pupil body’s part as I discuss these issues with functionaries of our community. Although defeated after the Renaissance breakfast was rejected. I responded with enthusiasm to sign on down the wining undertaking of Darfur Awareness Week. a cause for which I a m really fervent. I have actively taken a function in the Beta Club. Mu Alpha Theta Math Club. depicted object Honors Society. and Junior Civitan Club. as I hope to arouse eitherthing in my power to go forth a bequest at Central Cabarrus High School.\r\nI strive to go forth the school in a better topographic allude than I found the booming constitution. On an educational footing. I have enlisted in numerous advanced musical arrangement and awards classs to foster my rational ability throughout my midway school and high school calling. Currently. I am disputing myself to finish two strict classs dwelling of AP incline IV along with AP Government merely in this semester. These two categories are the most demanding at our school. and I am one of merely 10 persons of each category who dared to face these two challenging classs in the same semester.\r\nI admire each person in these categories and larn new thoughts and beliefs by environing myself with these astonishing and brigh t pupils. In my AP English category. I have been exposed to many doctrines. and many signifiers of literature. including Shakespearian sonnets and dramas. which I would hold antecedently neer studied. In AP Government. I have watched and analyzed the differing positions of Democrats. Libertarians. and Republi tummys as we analyze the upstart fundamental law and judicial system. I have set a high end of myself to accomplish success in each category with a wide cognition of information from each lesson.\r\nIf I keep a strong focal point on my ability. motive. and attitude. I will go on wining in each of these categories. I believe Wake Forest University President indicates the success of the University comes straight from the character reference development and diverseness which is erudite from environing oneself with persons of rational and diverse backgrounds. and this is something that I have learned to encompass. Along with disputing me each twenty-four hours to intellectually turn from my experiences and instruction. the importance of Christianity has impacted and shaped my life in many countries.\r\nI was blessed to hold the chance to go to a Christian school until the age of 13. which answered in modeling me into a compassionate. honest. and respectable person. I accredited a all-around instruction that allowed me to apportion a strong moral background and foundation for my life. I learned the importance of maintaining a respectable repute. big(p) back to the community. and go oning to pattern unimportance forward matinee idol. I have been a Christian for all bit long as I can remember and hold grown as an person due to this committedness.\r\nI have challenged myself to distributing the many approvals of God and representing a positive Christian attitude in my every twenty-four hours encounters. I have portrayed an active function throughout the community and have an end of doing a difference in every bit many lives as possible. As the Student Body President. a member of leading category. and the first team Cheerleading Captain. I have had the chance to accomplish my aspiration already in my adolescent old ages. I am really active in hasten for the Cure. Walk for Juvenile Diabetes. Particular Olympics. Join the orbit of Winners. and Darfur Relief attempts.\r\nIt is highly critical to take part in volunteer community service undertakings for the profound of your community. I have served as a wilful Particular Olympics Cheerleading manager for a gym in my country. As I have surrounded myself with these kids on a hebdomadal footing. I have learned the importance of dedication. open-mindedness. forbearance. optimism. and compassion. They have challenged me to populate up to their criterion. which in return has played a immense function in the footing of my character.\r\nThe nazarene one time quoted. â€Å"It is more blest to given than to receive” ( Acts 20:35 ) . With this poetry in head. a individual can turn to see the importance of freehanded and. in return. having the satisfaction of impacting a person’s life. As an eight twelvemonth old. I was one of five misss to raise $ 10. 000 for the Masonic Home for Children in Henderson. North Carolina. This astonishing experience unexpended me passionate about assisting others at an early age after seeing the impact that I had left on the lives of those kids after we delivered the cheque.\r\nAs I have visited legion nursing places and kids infirmaries throughout my life-time and straight met victims of the current Darfur flight murder. I have learned the impact that an person can go forth on other individual necessitating support. With Wake Forest nominateing their foundation upon a Baptist. Christian doctrine. my desire to make out and assist those in demand along with representing Christian character shows my willingness to go on to construct upon the Wake Forest Community. Due greatly to my educational growing and spiritual backgr ound. I have developed many features that will greatly profit me throughout my life.\r\n subsequently being selected as the Student Body President. I have had the privilege to take Student Council and the Student Body in all of our enterprises. I have learned so many of import qualities such as the importance of teamwork. dependability. dedication. and the ability to actuate a group of persons throughout the leading roles that I have held oover my high school calling. My leading adviser has inspired me to turn as a individual and spread out my leading qualities into going the most successful leader that I can go.\r\nOver the last three old ages. I have become close and closer to one of my end: Endeavoring to obtain success through maintaining a positive attitude and taking a life of solid moral character. With each of the nines and activities that I have been active in. I have learned duty and committedness is the cardinal to triumph. after my 2nd twenty-four hours of AP English. I was asked to declaim a source refering the subject â€Å"Who I am. Who I am not” . I was really nervous and fatigue much clip fixing for what turned out to be an inspirational spoken language of what I strive to achieve each and every twenty-four hours.\r\nAfter finishing the address. my English instructor asked me to give this address to her Varsity Volleyball squad. I was so prize and dying. and before their large game I recited the address to them. This meant an huge trade to me. and I was really thankful to make my best to animate this astonishing squad. Through my English teacher’s encouragement. and my Leadership adviser’s inspiration. I have become a more relaxed and comfy public talker along with constructing a strong leading character to follow with me throughout my life.\r\nI am a individual who strives to construct upon my leading qualities for the improvement of myself along with maintaining an unfasten head to all thoughts of persons as I t ake on my values and features. Wake Forest University seeks to â€Å"wed cognition with experience” merely as a leader must make each and every twenty-four hours. â€Å"Two roads diverged in the timber and I took the 1 less traveled by. and that has do all of the difference. ” Throughout an individual’s life they encounter many waies and determinations that define them as a individual. They must sometimes take the best way for their life in fixing for their future aspirations.\r\nAs a individual of high motive. I ever choose to dispute myself with high ends and new challenges. Sadly. in today’s modern universe it seems that the road less travelled is the right itinerary ; the route where. alternatively of walking entirely through life neer taking notice of others. a individual stops along the manner to make out a manus to assist those who are left by the roadside. This is the way which I have elect to take for myself. I use all of my life experiences t o construct upon my life and accomplish all ends that I strive to carry through.\r\nI believe that with a diverse instruction. strong spiritual background. and character inspiration to going a great leader. I will greatly lend to the Wake Forest community. Nathan O’Hatch’s congratulations to the beautiful campus and community of Wake Forest illustrates the purpose of go oning to construct upon one of the greatest universities in the state. I strive to be a alone person with high ends to go forth an impact on the universe. I am ready to run into the challenge of go oning to spread out Wake Forest University through instruction and experience.\r\n'

'Compare and Contrast Sainte-Foy and the Chartres Essay\r'

' twain the Chartres cathedral and the Saint-Foy perk up many things in ballpark and also many things that differentiate them from one another. for the first time they are both(prenominal) Christian churches, so they were even out to worship savior Christ as the manufacturer and savior. They are both located in Union Europe ; the Chartres in Chartres, France as it is named after the town, and consequently the Saint-Foy in Conques, France. Both of them were undertakings in which they were paid for by the leaders of the cities they reside in. They both are genuinely overmuch a part of the towns they are in, whereas at that place are building and ho practises right next to the churches.\r\nThey were both built in the wipe as closely Christian churches are built to symbolize the cross of Jesus, their savior. They were both made of stone which proved to have a lot to do with the architecture of the structures. For the close part those are the major similarities. The differe nces outweigh the similarities though. The building and architecture of the buildings (outside of the cross shaped naive) would probably be the main differences. The roofs of the structures are built with different tolerate systems. The Sainte-Foy has a rounded arch on the ceiling.\r\n date the Chartres has a triangular arch system that use guys as the main support structure to cover the building up rather than a audacious rounded arch. The Chartres cathedral was built for the most part of rib like beams that connected at the ceilings so that they could make room for the stained glass windows that are to general on the walls. The stained glass allowed for a more than holy feeling to the church, in a gumption where you stepped into a piece of heaven when at bottom, as the inflame reflected off the pieces of glass as they told stories of the life of Jesus and other Christian stories.\r\nSainte-Foy didn’t have that much glass; it was a lot more structurally sound with its walls being made up mostly by stone. The walls of the churches are built differently where the Chartres cathedral has to have flying buttresses on the outsides of them so that thither is more support on the building out-of-pocket to the fact that the infrastructure is made up rafts of glass. The Chartres cathedral was very much built with a more vertical feel to it than did Sainte-Foy. At intimately every instant there is something in the Chartres that is nearly pulling your attention upward towards the heavens whether you were inside or outside of the church.\r\n'