Month: June 2021
American Expansion Across all of Time
The America we know today is known as a country of opportunity, diversity of culture and religion, economic dominance and development, but how did the “Great Nation” come to be? The Manifest Destiny was a great influence on America and its territorial expansion towards the West. The Manifest Destiny was a belief created in the 19th century with the significance of the Protestants and conveyed that the United States was destined by God, to spread their democracy and authority. This belief was used as justification by the pro-expansionists in young years of America. The three themes discussed throughout the semester were exceptionalism, pluralism, and economic development. Exceptionalism was the idea that a Nation did not conform with others, being unique, and pluralism was the coexistence of different religions, cultures, or ethnicities. America was built on the ideology of Manifest Destiny, which influenced the territorial expansion and its exceptionalism, pluralism, and economic development. America achieved economic development from the expansion, however, it was unsuccessful in maintaining and developing a healthy diverse society and keeping its promise of a government for the people by the people.
Settlers arriving in the land that is now America came to escape religious persecution of the Church of England. They wanted to be able to freely practice their religion and upon settling, realized they were flourishing into success. As discussed in Introduction: The “Free Development” of a North American Empire in Amy S. Greenberg’s Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion, in the early years, Puritans sought the accomplishment of settling as God’s approval and foresought the development of a “city upon a hill” (Greenberg, 4). Americans considered expansion to be natural and unavoidable because of the surrounding “inferior race, religious practices and social systems of other North American residents”, as stated by Greenberg (Greenberg, 4). Exceptionalism in young America was the idea that Nation would become one that distinguished itself from others with freedom and liberty and democratic ideals.
Exceptionalism found in the pride of Americans led to the westward expansion of the land. As stated in the Introduction of the Greenberg’s Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion, “There was something special in the rapid growth of the young nation appeared clear to early national leaders”(Greenberg, 4), signifying that leaders of the young Nation took note of how the colonies had been flourishing profoundly. This analysis sparked understanding that expansion authorized further success. An example of the effect of exceptionalism on westward expansion would be the war for expansion to spread the American way of life and gain resources. In the document, Origin of the War with the United States, 1848 by Ramon Alcaraz Et Al, he describes why Americans had such immense desire to gain land. America was recognized as a great nation by all, including those from other nations like Mexican people; whom America had gone to war against to conquer. As stated by Alcarez, “They desired from the beginning to extend their dominion in such manner as to become the absolute owners of almost all this continent” (Alcarez, 118) and this was true, Americans exceptionalism had influenced them to go into war with many other countries for their land.
Another model of exceptionalism influence on westward expansion is found in the document Letter to the Citizens of Worcester County, Massachusetts by Daniel Webster. Webster writes about America’s government system has developed into one that is prosperous and successful. Although Webster believed that westward expansion was not needed, his view still provided an insight on how Americans viewed themselves and the mixed thoughts on whether America should continue to expand. Webster believed America’s government was like no other as it had institutions of liberty and religion. He agreed as to why others believed that expansion would only create the nation to be stronger, but sided with wanting to focus on becoming an even better government by stressing on local institutions.
With America’s westward expansion came struggles between settlers and others living in regions of the land. The struggling relationship between the Native Indians and settlers is infamous in American History. Native Americans were one of the most affected groups by the westward expansion. Settlers came to New World and claimed land as theirs although it already had habitants. The white settlers were then known for having greedy and selfish ways in order to take in as much land as craved.
In the beginning, Indians were used as trade partners and Indians took the impression of being alliances. Americans acted with hostility towards Native Americans by kicking them out of their own land and sending them elsewhere. In the document, Second Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson discusses what is planned to happen to the indigenous people of the land after America has taken ownership to reassure those against the expansion. As stated by Jefferson, “But the endeavors to enlighten them on fate, which awaits their present course of life, to induce them to exercise their reason...they are combated by the habits of their bodies, prejudice of their minds, ignorance, pride…” ( Jefferson, 57). Which was an example of the mindset settlers had on the future of Native Indians. They treated Natives as if they were uncivilized barbarians and as animals. Most settlers did not care for the Indians because they just wanted their land and seen them as wasteful people who did not see the potential their land could possess. They also hoped to spread their religion and save them from their “savage and sinful”, but always viewed themselves as inferior. For instance, mentioned in the book The American Journey: A History of the United States, different groups of religion attempted converting Indians, for example, Franciscans and Protestants both established missionaries in the French and English colonies to teach inhabitants their spiritual beliefs (Goldfield, 3.1.4).
Although settlers colonized Natives by teaching them their religious practices and way of living, they never fully accepted them into their society. Natives were not very trustworthy of whites after the many accounts that Americans unlawfully abused their relationship. In the document, Appeal to the Osages, a speech by Shawnee diplomat and warrior Tecumseh, made in 1811, he attempts to rally his fellow Native tribes surrounding his to come together to stand ground against the white settlers. Natives greeted Americans with peace and offered them a place to stay and farm but Americans then began to unlawfully claim they had given them the land. Tecumseh discussed the trouble the settlers brought by stating “The white men are not friends to the Indians; at first they only asked for land sufficient for a wigworm, now, nothing will satisfy them but the whole of our hunting grounds from the rising to the setting sun”(Tecumseh, 58). Americans had a chance to create a healthy relationship with the Natives but failed due to the strong urge to have a Nation that was exceptional from others.
Economic development was an incorporated motive of Americans to amplificate their territory. Americans valued land in the interest of acquiring personal gain and bettering the people’s situations. With new forestry and farming land came hard-working labor to establish a wealth of the economy. An illustration of expansion and economic development linking together is the annexation of Texas. Robert J Walker, a democratic politician, discusses his favor in the reannexation of Texas in the document Letter in Favor of Reannexation of Texas, which is found in Greenberg’s Manifest Destiny. Walker includes in his essay how it would affect the
South and Southwest by giving “peace and security; to agriculture and manufacturers, to the products of the mines, forest, and fisheries, new and important markets, that otherwise must be lost forever” (Walker, 89). With the annexation of land like Texas came room for improvement for new forms of transportation and routes that would improve trade and the economy. With the conquering of land came the economical question if it would be a free state or slave state. Again, using Texas as an example, Americans were split on whether a slave state would be best. Walt Whitman, a poet who opposed slavery, submitted his argument on the document American Workingmen, Versus Slavery. Whitman describes those against slavery as “the white workingmen, the millions of mechanics, farmers and operatives of our country”, meaning that the white working men were those that were influencing America to be such a strong nation with their honest work (Whitman, 110). The consequence of the link between expansion and economic development was two obvious western societies by the 1840’s; the North was known for free labor and family farms and the South was known for slave labor(Goldfield 13.1).
To conclude, the Manifest Destiny had great importance on America’s territorial expansion. The Manifest Destiny began its impact from the moment settlers stepped ground on the land we now call the United States. How Americans took to the Manifest destiny and the idea of exceptionalism decided the tactics and outcome of the territorial expansion. The expansion affected the pluralism and economic development of America. Creating war and setting a superior race was a downfall of expansion; blood was shed and other races were wrongly treated in the result of Americans believing their nation was bound to be great. Exceptionalism is still found today in America today and at times can also create arguments; when those who believe a Nation so great can have no faults versus those who acknowledge work can be done in the government.
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Frederick Douglass Rhetorical Analysis
Inequality is a term echoed throughout the media, but how does its evolution throughout America’s historical actions directly link its present with its past? Many Americans today can agree that racism remains a prevalent issue within society, but sometimes, the same Americans who identify intolerance are not aware of how different races play different roles in society and how these roles have affected all of the racial issues that have occurred over the course of American history, or rather, are not racially literate. To further my argument, simply identifying racism does not solve the issue, it instead divides a people via classifying and stereotyping them based on their ethnic groups. Everything I have gathered to display on this website is the result of the many lessons of race relations that I learned over the course of the semester because prior to the school year, I was not as racially literate as I am now. I had known about the basic racial and economic motivations for antebellum slavery, but I did not know about how it continued after the Emancipation Proclamation due to immensely charged prejudices within the American South. Some of the most prominent lessons I learned were pulled from the book Slavery by Another Name written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas A. Blackmon, and the speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” given to the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society by social reformer and renowned orator Frederick Douglass. With these lessons, I feel well-equipped to argue that America’s past facade of tolerance hindered racial equality due to American society’s unwillingness to recognize the hypocrisy in their country’s historical failures to grant African Americans real social freedom, leading me to question if America’s past obstructs it from effectively approaching the fight for equality today.
Although the Emancipation Proclamation issued on January 1, 1863 is commonly known as the point in history where African Americans were set free from the horrors of slavery, upon reading this book, I now know that this is clearly not the case. The American South could not let go of their old ways due to a number of reasons, one prominent reason being the outrage that people’s racism produced. Thus, the convict-leasing system was introduced, where African Americans would be charged with petty crimes and be forced to work their fines off in awful working conditions. Furthermore, because of how this new system of neo-slavery negated the condition of African Americans legally being people’s property, African Americans were treated worse than before because they were seen as expendable. What was intended to promote racial acceptance actually made matters worse, and while there were men like Warren Reese who tried to stop the convict-leasing system, there were simply too many people in America who stood idly by during its reign. The surfacing of the book Slavery by Another Name shows exactly how America puts on a facade in order to maintain a cleaner history of tolerance. In chapter four, Blackmon illustrates that African Americans were inspired “by the moral force of the Civil War victory and the pronouncements of evangelical uplift, self-reliance, and personal improvement offered by an army of black pastors and statesmen of abolition such as Frederick Douglass, and soon Booker T. Washington, . . . [and] were poised to assimilate fully into American society” (Blackmon 85).
As the South made life worse for African American social status instead of having them welcomed into a reformed society, racial equality became impossible to achieve. Due to the South’s unrelenting prejudice toward African Americans and the benefits of economically exploiting people for cheap labor, American society did not do enough to end the convict-leasing system. This shows that America, both in the North and South, failed to act upon granting African Americans social rights. Furthermore, Frederick Douglass, who was mentioned in Slavery by Another Name, actively plays a role in elucidating America’s hypocrisy by the vitriol in his speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” saying that abolitionists did not do enough to actually end slavery. Additionally, an example from the book that delves into the topic of the North believing in equality but not doing enough to enforce it is in chapter nine, where Northerners slowly became less invested in guilting the South at the risk of increased violence (Blackmon 243-245). On top of all this, American society today fails to include the continuation of slavery in its history textbooks. How can we grow as a society if we are not truly educated of our country’s past with racism? Is America truly tolerant if it can’t educate the people of its failure to grant African Americans social freedom? Above this analysis of “What to the Slave is the Forth of July?” is a slideshow (which can be watched via autoplay or be controlled by side arrows) consisting of four images: Washington Crossing the Delaware, Leaders of the Continental Congress, “The day we celebrate' 1876 painting, and Christian union. These all illustrate the patriotic pride America possesses but fails to share with African Americans, whether it be on Independence Day or in places of worship to a benevolent, Christian God. Frederick Douglass was asked by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society to speak in Rochester, New York on July 5, 1852. They expected him to give a speech about the great liberties the nation had to offer, but Douglass’ speech topic greatly deviated from their expectations.
This is because Frederick Douglass was once a slave. Although he escaped and became educated, he knew the reality and the magnitude of antebellum slavery firsthand. Because of this insulting invitation to talk about the abundance of liberties in the same nation that strips black people of their own liberties, Douglass responded unkindly on behalf of all African Americans. In the speech he gave, he utilized charged language and rhetorical devices such as metaphors and allusions to ensure that the message he conveyed about hypocrisy became engrained into the listener’s mind — and that’s why it still remains so effective today. To begin the speech, Frederick Douglass asks his audience why they have called him to speak. He also asks what “have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? And am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?” (Douglass 1). Here, he immediately establishes a “them” and an “us” polarization to elucidate that African Americans and Americans are not one. African Americans are ostracized for the color of their skin and Douglass cannot feign black inclusivity to appease his audience. Hypocrisy plays a key role in his phrasing of “political freedom and natural justice” because these are the ideals Americans preach but do not provide to everyone.
To further his claim, Douglass alludes to The Declaration of Independence as “that Declaration of Independence.” By using the word choice of “that” rather than “the,” he not only increases the distance between African Americans and the Declaration’s ideals of natural rights and liberty, but he also shows a feeling of contempt by disrespecting the document’s title. In addition, Douglass blatantly calls America’s fourth of July a celebration of “bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages” (Douglass 8). The hypocrisy lies in the fact that Independence Day celebrates freedom, freedom of a nation built upon the oppression of a people. The “thin veil” metaphor Douglass uses in this line illustrates the facade of tolerance America masquerades with. Its imagery gives the reader the impression of a semi-transparent cloth which from far away can be seen as beautiful and unsuspecting, but up close, the reader can imagine seeing through the cloth to reveal the detestable, ugly truth. Synthesizing what I’ve learned from Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon and “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass, I now know how America failed to grant African Americans real social freedom for years after the Emancipation Proclamation. The information gathered from both of these texts grant insight to large questions I had at the beginning of the semester: If African Americans were supposedly granted freedom after 1863, why didn’t they do better in America’s economy? Why are there still statistics about disparities in wealth between races? Is America really approaching the fight for equality in an effective way?
Becoming racially literate over the course of the semester has allowed me to better see why Douglass and Blackmon wrote the texts that they did. For example, after reading Slavery by Another Name and seeing the animalistic ferocity of the South, I can better see what Frederick Douglass was fighting against and why he uses the technique of charged language in his speech. Him expressing his anger toward American society for conniving slavery is astronomically relevant to how America pretends to not have prejudice against African Americans in the years following the Civil War through lackluster attempts at ending the convict-leasing system. Through this premise of abolitionists not doing enough to end neo-slavery, Slavery by Another Name gave me a deeper understanding of how forced labor persisted for so long in American society. Many years later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were enacted to prohibit racial discrimination once and for all. However, there are still numerous issues with race today, and these issues do not end with African Americans. For example, racism against whites and Asians occurs in college admissions (both UC and Harvard). Since colleges are taking students from minority groups with worse records of merit over students from privileged groups with better records of merit, this is an example of people attempting to fight racism with racism. This only separates people because it classifies someone’s ability to succeed in the future with their race; the exact principle American society should be trying to get away from. This is not how equality is obtained. This is why I believe that as long as Americans only see race and not humanity, America will forever be divided. All of these facts lead me to believe that America’s racial issues are still an unfinished narrative. Will we be the generation who finishes the ending to that narrative, or will we pass the burden onto the next?
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Writing against Genetically Modified Food
Over the past fifty years, the way we eat has changed compared to the previous 10,000 years. The figure that is used to advertise the food, remains to be the figure of Agrarian America. No seasons in the supermarkets means that there are food like tomatoes that are all year round, halfway around the world being grown, picked when it was green, and ripened with ethylene gas. The importance of this all is that the industry does not want you to know about what you are eating, because if you knew, you might not want to eat it. When you look at the stickers on the food packages, it shows a farm, but in reality it is a factory. The food is being processed by gigantic multinational corporations that have nothing to do with ranches and/or farmers. It has become much more menacing in ways because it is being secretly hidden from us.Organic farming uses different types of methods to growing crops and raising livestock.
Organic farming recycles livestock wastes to reduce pollution and conserves soil, water, energy and biological resources. It also uses less fossil energy by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide that is released to the atmosphere. On top of that, it uses extended crop rotations that help conserve soil and water resources and reduce insect, disease, and weed problems. The different types of methods avoid synthetic chemicals, hormones, antibiotic agents, genetic engineering, and irradiation. The crops are produced on farms that does not use synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizer for 3 years before a harvest and have an amble buffer zone that decreases contamination from adjacent lands. This provides many benefits for us humans. Since there are fewer chemicals being used to grow these crops, it allows humans to be able to consume them without a risk of danger or traces of the chemicals.
Now that there are no chemicals being added to make them last longer, they taste better and more flavorful.Organic livestock must be raised without the routine use of antibiotic agents or growth hormones and must have availability to the outdoors. If an animal is being treated for a disease, it cannot be sold as organic because it has some antibiotic agents. This ensures that all consumers know that nothing is being added or given to the livestock and that they are not given any antibiotics, growth hormones, or animal fed byproducts. Feeding the livestocks animal by products increases the risk of cow disease, and the use of antibiotics can create resistant strains of bacteria.Organic foods do use pesticides. The difference is that they only use naturally-derived pesticides, rather than the synthetic pesticides used on commercial farms. Natural pesticides are said to be “less toxic”, but in actuality, some have been found to have health risks.
The fact the organic rules require approved synthetic pesticides are only to be used as their last option. On top of that, people think that the use of any chemicals are not allowed, but organic food production does allow a limited number of chemicals added.The disadvantages about organic farming/food is that the are more expensive. Organic products cost up to 40% more. Organic crops are time consuming to produce because they refrain from chemicals and growth hormones. You need highers costs of fertilizer because you need to know how to grow it. There is a certain amount of water you need for organic crops. There aren't that many people who work in organic farms. This is why the prices go up for organic products. An advantage that GMO has is that the taste is better than organic foods. They contain preservatives in it and it keeps them from not rotting and make it last longer. Genetically modified crops conserve energy, soil, and water. These foods can be grown anywhere. Such as places that don’t receive that much rainfall. It will help with extinction by the growth of genetically modified food. The way they would do that is taking a seed or a sample of it and genetically modify it. GMO crops can also provide advantages for humans and better health benefits. They could modify and provide complete nutritional profile. Genetically modified foods could also add multiple vitamins and minerals that they built into the crops which helps with low costs. It also helps to keep up with the population growth.
As the amount of babies being born per second and the amount of gmo foods are being made provides humans the insurance that there are enough food for almost everyone. Since the costs are lower, it does benefit us dramatically.Genetically modified foods have flaws and inconveniences just like organic foods. In some genetically modified crops, there are chemicals that can cause a allergic reaction. GMOs create superbugs that causes a huge threat to the crops. When they cause a threat to the crops, they modify it more so the insects won’t be able to harm it. By keeping the bugs away, they inject an antibiotic resistance into the foods. Antibiotic resistance is a ability to keep the bacteria away.Pesticides is a insect or harmful organisms (like bacteria) that is very harmful to plants or animals. Organic foods are more fresher than GMO foods. Traces chemicals and pesticides used in plants are being digested by humans which damage many internal functions. The exposure to harmful pesticides will be lower when eating organic.The use of pesticides at the low doses can increase the risk of certain cancers. Children and babies are vulnerable to the exposure because their immune system, brains, and bodies are still developing. This exposure at a young age can cause disorders, autism, motor dysfunction, and development delays.
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GMO Labeling Laws
According to the article, “Food labeling and Consumer Association with Health Safety and Environment”, the public became worried about genetically modified foods and genetic engineered organisms (GMO/GE). They were worried about eating GMO contained foods and how they will be affected. There was a demand for food labeling laws. In 1992, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a report that showed the consequences of using technology to change the food supply, GMO or GE. The FDA became worried about the escalation of toxins from GMOs. The scientists had learned about the high risk of toxins from the changes to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Consumers felt uneasy about how it will affect them at a toxicity level. It was found that they should not be concerned about consuming the toxin from some products. A report had found the organic farmers had a higher level of Escherichia coli (E. Coli) than conventional farmers. Consumers would be pleased if their products had required food labeling. So, they conducted a survey containing questions about how they pick their products between organic and GMO. In addition to their thoughts about GMO and organic food products. The survey was sent to a community college at California Western School of Law. Those who responded to the emails of the survey were students, faculty, and staff. They asked them questions about if they had any kids and how they would rank forty-five products from 1 to 5, with 5 being the healthiest. The items were labeled organic, natural, fat-free, low-fat, GMO, and non-GMO. They had further their testing with a 15 rating of labeled products. Much food manufacture companies label their product as “natural”, even though it does not have a clear definition. Based on the results of the survey, it was found that the rate of healthiness, safety, and environment did not make a difference between all the food labels. GMO products was the lowest rating and non or low-fat products was ranked a little higher than GMO.
Organic, natural, or non-GMO products were ranked the highest between the other labels. Organic farmers were ranked higher than GMO farmers. The consumer’s perception showed that they believed that organic foods are healthier and safer than GMOs. Consumers with small children was irrelevant to the ratings of health, safety, and environment groups. Some participants believed that “natural” is better than other food products. Participants think “natural” and organic are similar to each other. The responses from the survey about GMO foods suggest that people have different attitudes towards GMO foods. The unenforceable food labels will deceive many consumers. The survey’s hypothesis confirmed that consumers believe that health, safety, and environment connect with “healthier” food labels than GMOs. Consumers believe organic farmers are better than conventional farmers. It tries to help consumers to comprehend regarding their health, safety, and environment from diverse food labels.
I think it is important to biology because it is genetically changing the seed or the organism for a certain product. Genetically modifications and genetically involves biology and science. It uses biotechnology to physically change the DNA of the organism or seed. It changes the biology of the organism. The process of GMO uses scientific technology to change the DNA or create something new. It is human- made by using technology and it is altered. Some of the organisms that has been human made cannot not be found in nature. Genetically modified organisms contain recombinant DNA. Recombinant DNA technology is combining genes from different sources. It is essential for science, medicine, and agriculture. Some examples of GMO or genetically engineered organisms are medicine, agriculture, and consumer goods. In agriculture, it helps with the crops. For plants, it is genetically changing the seeds. The genetic engineering technology extracts the genetic material from one organism and putting it into another. The seeds are designed to tolerate the different conditions. Plant breeding has been used by farmers for a long time. Genetically modified technology helps with the production of drugs, like medicine. Scientists also make vaccines using genetic engineering by finding the common disease or illness. Scientists use bacteria to alter it and make medicine, like insulin. The food labeling is important because it helps identify the process the food product might contain, like GMOs. The food labeling helps with people understand or give them an idea of what product is GMO or GMO- free. GMOs are connected with biology and science.
Genetically modified organisms and genetically engineered technology is relevant to my life because majority of the world contains some genetic modifications. It is constantly used throughout the world. Majority of the corn, soybeans, and cotton are genetically engineered. I am surrounded with genetic modification organisms from the medicine I take to the food I eat. In particular, I used to take antibiotics to prevent an infection after I got my wisdom teeth removed. The medicines, I take when I am sick, are specifically engineered to target the illness or infections and get rid of it. At the store I sometimes get organic food products, but mostly get food products with that has GMOs. There are many products that contains genetic modification organisms or genetic engineering technology in it. It ranges from crops to developing resistance to diseases and pests. In the supermarkets, I look at the back of the packaging and see if it has non- GMO labeling. In the future, I will affect me because will be constantly be exposed to GMO and genetic engineered products throughout my life. I will soon become worried about the effects of it to my health and how damaging it is. The food labeling will let give me insight of which products do contain some genetic altercations. The possible required food labeling products will help me pick healthier product than the other if I were to think about how the food would affect me health- wise. I will try to get organic produce and non- GMO or organic food products at the store. It will help me to reduce the health issues I might have been exposed to from consuming a lot of GMO products. Every year, I get the flu vaccine. The flu vaccine uses genetic modifications of live viruses. The vaccine is genetically engineered. The future prescriptions I would receive from the doctor will still contain some genetic engineering. Overall, genetic modified organisms and genetic engineered is revolved around everyone lives and surrounded by it.
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Wall-e Movie Review
Plundering of all earths precious resources have gotten, to the point where all that is left over garbage. Humans can't inhabit the earth any longer and have instead taken to space by somehow getting through the debris cloud that surrounds the orbit of the earth where they are put into chairs and never get out to do anything for themselves. They allow the robots to completely take over all tasks that are now done by humans on a day to day basis, but leaving them bored, lazy and unfulfilled.
Several hundred years in the future is where this story is set, and follows WALL-E (which stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class), he is a cute little robot trash-compactor that is programmed to pick up our trash, crush it into small squares and then neatly stack them into mini-mountains of garbage.
At this point in the future, humans have created enough trash for WALL-E to construct skyscrapers tall enough to fill out the New York City skyline. The Earth is no longer inhabited by people (they now live on a space station far from home) and is a place without plant growth, except for one small, lone sprout — or any apparent food or water supply. Instead, it's essentially a giant landfill featuring a ruddy, smog-clouded sky and roaring dust storms.
Commercialism this seems to be a main theme in this movie, giving off the message that humans are the willing and completely glutenous consumers and giant corporations love and feed off of these (“Buy ’n’ Large”) which pander to every superficial whim.
With only a cockroach (of course) for company, WALL-E quickly falls in love when a new scouting robot, EVE (pronounced by WALL-E as “EE-VAH”), arrives via spaceship seeking plant matter — evidence that Earth has recovered enough to support life, including humans, once again. Yet, as in any good romance EVE is not easily won, and WALL-E's affection for her takes him to the space station, where the story continues a deft and witty imagining of the potential repercussions of modern culture.
Although a film meant for children, WALL-E hits hard in imagining what will happen to our planet if we continue to dump trash that can be recycled, reused or even avoided in the first place. Currently, Americans alone generate over 250 million tons of trash per year (before recycling). With this kind of statistic, it's a wonder our planet doesn’t already resemble the literal wasteland that the movie depicts.
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Why Euthanasia should be Legal Today
Each human being has a variety of human rights. The United Nations composed a list of basic human rights to which they believe all members of the human family should be entitled to. They have created a document called The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and has proclaimed it as a common standard of achievement for all peoples of all nations. In this document, Article 5 states that nobody should be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment or be subjected to torture. (United Nations, 1948). Amongst all the other choices humans are free to make, why should dying with dignity not be a basic human right. Suicide sadly happens daily; however, it becomes an issue when someone with a terminal illness or serious incapacitation due to illness or accident wishes to die with dignity. If someone is in severe chronic debilitating pain or has lost their ability to function in a dignifying way, they should have the right to euthanasia, if they have a living will which clearly, beyond reasonable doubt expresses their wishes clearly, if that right is denied is it not in fact torturing said human being?
There are different types of euthanasia, the first type is passive euthanasia. Passive euthanasia happens when death is caused by either withholding or withdrawing treatment. The patients’ life is not taken directly, they are just allowed to die. Withdrawing treatment refers to switching off a machine that is keeping a person alive so that they die of their disease. This typically happens to coma patients, when doctors believe keeping the patient on life support is futile, and lets the family decide whether they would like to continue treatment. Withholding treatment, on the other hand, happens when death is caused by an act, for example when a doctor does not do a surgery that will extend life for a short time (BBC UK). Gedge, Giacomini, and Cook have concluded that there is no ethical difference between withholding and withdrawing treatment. According to their journal article, doctors typically withhold care, by not giving patients information about treatments, they feel would be futile. In decisions relating to withdrawal of life support however, doctors secure consent from family members and must abide by their decision, even if continued treatment is futile. (Gedge, Giacomini, & Cook, 2007) Passive euthanasia happens all the time, through doctors’ decisions to not inform patients of futile treatments, families choosing to withdraw treatment, such as switching off life support systems, and even patients who refuse treatment due to a variety of beliefs, values and sometimes even religious views.
Article 3 of the United Nations’ Declaration of human rights states that everyone has the right to life (United Nations, 1948), does a doctor, deciding to withhold information on treatment options, or refusing to do a surgery that is too risky, or a person deciding to not to be treated for an illness, not take away from the right to life? It most certainly does, it almost seems normal for doctors to make these decisions, as well as families, making end of life decisions, which either fulfill the patients’ wishes or the wishes of the family. If euthanasia decisions are already being made for us surely, we should be allowed to make other euthanasia-related decisions for ourselves. It is morally unsatisfactory to make a distinction between active and passive euthanasia. In passive euthanasia, one does not actively kill the patient, yet is aware of the fact that the patient will die as a result of withholding or withdrawing treatment. Active euthanasia is when a person directly or deliberately causes the death of a patient. This can happen in various forms and can, for example, be when a patient gets given an overdose of pills. There are of course a variety of concerns when it comes to active euthanasia. There are a lot of things to be considered and is by no means a decision that should be taken lightly by any patient. Victorian firefighter Troy Thornton died in a Swiss euthanasia clinic after being unable to legally be euthanized in his home country, Australia. Thornton had multiple system atrophy (MSA), which is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, which affects both the autonomic nervous system as well as movement. There are a variety of symptoms, and a patient progressively loses motor functions until eventually they are confined to bed. Only some of the symptoms of MSA can be treated, for example, motor function can be improved with levodopa, but the benefit does not last as the disease progresses, currently there are no drugs that can slow the progression of the disease or cure the disease (NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, n.d.). Under Victorian law, this was not considered being a terminal illness, even though he would have eventually ended up as a vegetable. As a result, Thornton and his mom had no other choice but to have it done in Switzerland, making use of a GoFund me campaign to raise enough funds for the traveling and other costs involved (Precel, 2019).
All over the world, there are numerous patients wanting to be euthanized, had Thornton have this opportunity, the financial burden on his family would have been much less, they would not have had to resort to GoFund me campaigns, and the money people donated, they could have donated to other more needed avenues. Had Thornton’s family been unable to raise the money for him to go to a euthanasia clinic, he would have died a slow, torturous, undignified death. The life expectancy for someone with MSA is between five and ten years and depends on a patient to patient basis. While a person is of sound mind and able to make their own decisions, they should be able to choose whether or not they want to be euthanized. Other concerns with regards to legalizing euthanasia include the fact that involuntary euthanasia might take place, and that this gives doctors too much power. As we have seen earlier, doctors already decide when people die, based on how they choose which treatments to administer, withdraw or withhold. There is a fear that people might use coercion and persuasion, to get patients to ask for euthanasia. Regulating euthanasia is vital, there should be clear, set out rules, which will protect vulnerable people such as the elderly, distressed, lonely or sick who requests early death. A Living Will seems like a reasonable solution, to at least ease some fears. This is an active declaration which a patient makes which lets doctors know what to do in the event they become seriously ill and are unable to communicate or make their own choices.
Most people never think of getting seriously ill, or what might happen. A living will should be done by people who are of sound mind, this document can express your wish to be euthanized, or could even specify that doctors must continue treatment until the patient is dead. A living will can cover a series of medical scenarios, such as what the patient wants to do when in a vegetative state, or coma, when they have terminal brain damage, non-terminal brain damage, they have a serious treatable disease or a serious non-treatable disease. By creating this document when you are healthy and of sound mind, there should be no reason for doctors to want to influence healthy patients to ask for euthanasia sooner than what they would need it. People seeking to be euthanized wish to die a dignified death, they do not want to be a burden on their families or support networks when they become unable to take care of themselves and their basic needs from going to the bathroom and feeding themselves. Seeking to be euthanized should be voluntary, no person should be forced into a decision to end their life early with medical assistance. Doctors make decisions which influence the length of our life span on a daily basis, by choosing how or how not to treat their patients. Morally, there is no difference between passive and active euthanasia, knowing that a life will end, and not doing anything about it, is just as bad as pulling the plug on a life support machine when keeping someone alive is futile. By allowing people to be euthanized, legalization can protect patients from doctors influencing or encouraging patients to be euthanized because they want to empty beds or control scarce resources. Legalization can furthermore set explicit guidelines and requirements with the help of medical professionals, including psychologists and law professionals. Allowing people to be euthanized can ensure that they can die whilst being surrounded by their all their loved ones, a privilege that Thornton was not privy to as only his mother was able to join him on an expensive trip. People take their own lives on a daily basis, sometimes you hear of people who have been unsuccessful in their suicide attempts, living to tell the tale, but with physical or mental harm, that they now have to live with.
If a terminally ill person who is in extreme pain wants to be permanently relieved of this pain, they should have the right to assistance, instead of trying themselves, messing it up and ending up worse than they were before the failed suicide attempt. If a person has a living will, which explicitly, clearly and beyond any reasonable doubt sets out a series of instructions of ways in which a doctor should or should not treat them, these wishes should be honored, both by doctors, family and a court of law if necessary. As humans, we have a right to live and die a dignified death, without being tortured through being forced to live a life in which we have to be in incapacitating chronic pain, or unable to do anything for ourselves.
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Why is Critical Thinking Important in Daily Educational Life
Critical thinking is an important key component for one’s education or career, such as breathing is essential to living. It is used for every type of position or daily situations that can help prepare an individual to think for themselves and have a different outlook on a situation. Pre-university education should have major improvements in their school because their programs do not sufficiently equip students to have critical thoughts and to prepare them for college. Schools across our nation could better prepare students’ critical thinking skills by diminishing grade inflation, ceasing intellectualism biases, and increase funding to school art programs.
In the past few years, college’s grading guidelines have become excessively benign to the extent that they are causing an increase in grade inflation across America. In Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s, Staples explains that “some departments shower students with A’s” because “students are treating grades as a matter of life and death- occasionally even suing to have grades revised upward”. I have seen this firsthand at my previous high school, where certain teachers would bump up their student’s grade to an A because the students would beg constantly or even threaten them. Students should obtain a grade that indicates how much effort they applied with learning, rather than teachers handing out free A’s to those who do not deserve it. Doing this will encourage the students to work and think more critically to show the true value of their education comes with working hard for it.
If you’ve ever watched a typical high school movie, the intellectual student who displays their smarts is often seen as an outcast or a nerd. It demonstrates a perspective that only high scholars have intellectualism, but as for Gerald Graff that is false. In the story of Hidden Intellectualism, Graff presumes that “street smarts” can conquer “book smarts” with critical thinking skills based on his past childhood debates, indicating the “hidden intellectualism”. From his reading, he talks about how having a dispute with his friends helped him improve on his critical thinking while establishing a reasoning, conclusion, and evidence. It shows that there shouldn’t be a bias line between who is more of an intellectual compared to another student because everyone has the ability to think critically and recognize the hidden intellectualism inside of them. By adding current modern topics into classroom activities, students would effortlessly progress into thinking more critical throughout their education.
Art can be seen all around us and is a fundamental necessity for society. People have created art, such as paintings and sculptures, since the earliest of ages, but now it is evolved into more of the STEM region with technology. The study of art also advances a person’s critical thought by perceiving society or situations through their own viewpoint. There is a story relating to this called The Sanctuary of School written by Linda Barry. She tells the story of her kinder years when she would escape her chaotic home early in the morning, feeling unwanted, and go to school. Barry feels a sense of belonging when greeted by the school staff and expresses her feeling through her creativity in painting. She states that doing this activity was like her “life raft”, in a sense, that she could take back home with her. The point of the story is that having more art programs in schools should be a technique used that can educate students to examine the world they live in and gives them the ability to have good critical thinking skills.
By enhancing critical thinking exercises in a pre-university classroom will help students achieve more when evaluating a situation with their future careers or education. Education is to cultivate learners, who are adequately knowledgeable and that they feel their ideas are valuable enough to be said in their communities. Students have the desire to think critically and be well-grounded to use the information given to express what they know to enrich their lives and feel like they have made a positive impact in their classroom.
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Cooperation Leads to Success
Competition or cooperation? Which works better? The answer, without a doubt, is cooperation. Many may say that competition is a breeding ground for success, however, scientists have repeatedly verified that cooperation has the strongest long-term impact. Yet big business, government, and parental influences continue to encourage competition as a successful tool, completely ignoring the power of cooperation. None of these groups seem to realize that competition might be the cause of turmoil and unsuccessful events. Some research has even shown that too much competition may cause poor health choices. Yet we continue to hold the cherished belief that competition (not cooperation), to paraphrase Sigmund Freud, 'is the royal road to success.'
If competition, supposedly, brings out the 'beast' in us, then research demonstrates that cooperation surely brings out the 'best' in us. Research has found this to be true in virtually every occupation, skill, or behavior tested. For instance, scientists who consider themselves cooperative tend to have more published articles than their competitive colleagues (Buffington). Cooperative business people have higher salaries. From elementary grades to college, cooperative students have higher grade point averages. Personnel directors who work together have fewer job vacancies to fill. And, not surprisingly, cooperation increases creativity. Unfortunately, most people are not taught cooperative skills.
University of Minnesota professors, Dr. David W. Johnson and Dr. Roger T. Johnson published a journal about the effects of cooperation vs competition. Dr. Roger Johnson explained, “If we are to teach people to be cooperative, then education and psychology must work together. You see, a typical classroom teacher is taught to keep students quiet and apart, indirectly fostering competition. Yet...people learn best when they work cooperatively with each other. Children who experience this type of learning at an early age carry it with them as they mature (Johnson & Johnson, 2009).” This type of learned behavior has reached big business and more importantly, our governmental system. Past government and present government are great examples of how competition diminishes cooperative efforts. David Johnson stated, “students feel good about themselves as learners when they cooperate. Their self-esteem increases, they have a better sense of community, belonging, and acceptance. One can also extrapolate this research to any setting.”
Sadly, our government has become something that these two professors feared would happen. Given their research and training tradition, the Johnsons were concerned that too much emphasis is placed on competition. Moreover, they felt that the means by which individuals once learned cooperative skills will erode eventually. Roger Johnson explains, 'There are a lot of reasons to worry. Some of the standard ways that people once learned to cooperate - home, churches, communities - are not operating as they once did. Teaching young people how to cooperate does not receive the appropriate level of interest (Johnson & Johnson, 2009).' As a result, competition has spread throughout our government. Only a few people are working towards changing this system.
Cooperation decreases when people are fighting for knowledge, work-space, personnel, or anything that helps them be successful. Resources exchange becomes valuable in creating a cooperative environment. It is also suggested that leadership be shared. Isasken believes cooperation is a form of leadership, equally shared by all group members. By sharing the leadership, you allow others to take on initiative and to be integral parts of the group. There is an increased sense of 'ownership' of plans and ideas by all members, and the work environment is pleasurable (Isaksen, Dorval, & Treffinger, 2011).
In an effort to repair our broken governmental system, leaders need to reinforce team efforts. When the team does well, the entire group should be rewarded; instead of praising just one person for a job well done, utilizing a team approach is suggested. This will minimize individual competition and maximize cooperation. Research supports the fact that individuals who have witnessed a cooperative act will 'pass it on,' sharing some degree of cooperation with the next person they meet. Anytime you help another person feel better, you have increased the probability that he or she will be cooperative toward you. As Isaksen summarizes, 'Actions speak louder than words and encourage another person to cooperate with you (Isaksen, Dorval, & Treffinger, 2011).'
Cooperation is a valuable commodity and works best when it is freely given and indirectly encouraged. It promotes goodwill toward men and women, and is a gift that is always appropriate. And there's no better time to be cooperative. Sigmund Freud once said, “A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.”
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Serial Podcast
In Serial, the main character that is mostly surrounded by is Adnan. There is also this girl named Hae, in which she is the victim. So, around the year 1999, there was a murder of a girl named Hae Min Lee. She was around 18 years old when her murder happened. Adnan and Hae were together for a couple of months, then out of the blue Hae broke up with Adnan. The police suspected that it was Adnan since he was the former boyfriend and since Hae broke up with him. Investigators must have thought that killing Hae was a form of revenge. In various of the episodes, there were definitely some explanations that did not really make sense, being that Adnan described it. Sarah, which is the narrator of Serial, talks about evidence that she has in depth. One major evidence on Adnan would be his prints in the Leakin Park. There would be some cases where Adnan’s statements would contradict on what he said earlier.
Sarah says, “First off, there’s a question of whether Adnan asked Hae for a ride that day after school. Was he looking for an excuse to get in her car, so he could kill her? Office Adcock testified that the day she disappeared, Adnan told him he’d asked her for a ride. Adnan then later told a different cop he didn’t ask for a ride. Then, you know how Adnan says he can’t remember much at all about the day Hae went missing? How it was just a normal day to him, nothing much stands out? I’ve wondered about that. The normalness of the day, because, wouldn’t the call from Officer Adcock asking, whether he’s seen Hae just in and of itself, wouldn’t that call make it a not normal day?” As Sarah explained that day would not be a “normal day”, of course, there would be something out of the ordinary for Adnan’s day. He did clearly get a call from the police, asking about a missing person, not that many people get a call like this. First off, Serial was developed by This American Life and the producers are Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyde.
So, this podcast was produced because it truly gave us an inside of the “realities of criminal prosecution”. Since the incident did happen about 15 years ago, of course, there would be some details left out, someone can forget what they did like six weeks years ago imagine for you to remember everything that you did 15 years ago. Sarah did an amazing job of researching what happened and let alone actually giving the listeners the actual interview on the people that were involved with this case. In my opinion, Serial, after every episode it made me want to listen more and makes me so curious. Sarah also put the information in a specific order so it would make sense, she probably analyzed everything, realized that it was not in an order that she thought it would, so she fixed it and gave us all this estimable information for us to listen. Like this, “...wait, I thought you told McGillivray that you stopped at the log to pee, but now you’re saying you were on your way further back?... This doesn’t get cleared up really and the sort of let it go, but a bunch of things are fishy, the path he takes back into the woods it doesn’t really lead up to the log, so why does he end up there? He didn’t need to head to the log to find a hidden spot to pee, there were so many options and if you’re walking through brush and brambles, don’t you naturally avoid a big log to step over?” This is also something interesting that I found about Sarah, she asks a lot of questions that the police probably didn’t file them or asked Jay directly.
One of the many things that kind of lured me into the podcast was the background music. It just really fit into the theme of the story, mysterious, calm and overall interesting. When the transitions came along, it was perfect, I clearly heard Sarah’s voice, there were not any background sounds. The tone that Sarah gave was like she understood everything and whenever she was on the phone with somebody, interviewing them, she would sound interested and asking them questions making the conversation even more interesting. Her voice was kind of monotoned most of the episodes but then there were situations in where she kind of had to reenact some of the interviews of Adnan, Jay and so on. In terms of reporting, it was really good as well, the evidence that she had was so good, whenever she gave a claim, Sarah always gave evidence on what she says. Even though it is her opinion, she would find a way to back it up with evidence or would have evidence that was given to her in the files and just add on to it. The editing and transitions were really good, it was well planned and the audio was not choppy or anything weird like that. I realized that at some point Sarah would be kind of introducing another topic and in the background of that, there would be the playing of an interview which would kind of be like the evidence.
Honestly, there is not much that I can say to improve this podcast but something that Sarah can do to improve is to change her tone. I would notice that when she is talking, her voice would sound the same and not change that much. In my opinion, episode two should have been a little bit longer, since there could have been more information. I mean, it is the beginning of the season, so it should have had a little bit more time and more information. I also loved the idea of doing the events in chronological order, it made so much sense to me, usually, these types of events with time does not make sense to me for some reason. Also, I had an idea when I was listening to the podcast and I do not know if it is the greatest idea or if it is a bad idea, but if I were Sarah Koenig, I would have interviewed the police or investigators that were involved in this case. I know that she interviewed the main one, or basically the one that was in charge of this case, but she could have interviewed others to get their thoughts.
I would absolutely recommend this podcast to my other classmates if they loved solving cases. For me, this podcast was a little bit intense and it was a good intense like as a story, it would be called the climax which is the most exciting or tense part of the story. Although this story might not catch other people’s attention, it all just really depends on what they like as a person. I would like to add that there are some videos on youtube that are also kind of like a podcast but does not go really into depth of the story or the topic that the youtuber is doing. There are a couple of videos about this specific story of Adnan and Hae, but they do not have the interviews as Sarah did, it’s pretty obvious why they don’t have those interviews one-on-one or a call interview. I guess what I am trying to say is that there are different ways to listen in to this story not necessarily through the podcast because there are some people that are kind of a visual person and then there are others that can be better at listening.
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Community Service Impact in Sport
Being an athlete on a team with a big fan base, giving back to the community is something every player and staff member looks forward to. For the past six months, I have been blessed with the opportunity to play hockey for the best fans in the country. Every single home game, the energy and encouragement from the fans provide an environment that motivates our team to perform to the best of our abilities.
To show our appreciation to our fan base, the least we could do is give back to the community. With our fans being all different ages, there are many different ways that we can serve the community. Every week, there is a different event for us to attend to show our love and appreciation to the people. With our fan base being around 5,000 people, there is a different event that we can attend to show our love and appreciation to all the people. The event that I enjoy the most is going to the elementary schools and reading to all the little kids. When we walk into the classrooms with our jerseys on, it is such a heartwarming feeling to see the big smiles on their happy little faces. We all split up and get to have a little one on one time with each kid in the class. After reading their books and spending time with them, all the kids go to the cafeteria for lunch while the players get to go around and sign autographs for the kids. It is an awesome experience every time we get to interact with them especially when we see those same kids showing up to our games on the weekends.
Another activity that I really enjoy is going to the retirement homes. Even though this community isn’t our biggest part of the fan base, they still play all of our games on the tv’s throughout the facility. When we show up, there are many different things that we can do to interact with them such as helping to serve food, playing board games, and my favorite, dance class. To see the older people be able to get active and dance to music from their time brings so much joy to their day and a positive vibe to the community.
Without the environment that our fans bring every night, we wouldn’t be the team we are today so giving back keeps our fans happy and shows them our appreciation that they deserve.
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The Injustice against Adnan Syed (argumentative Essay)
Adnan Syed was a high school student at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, Maryland. At the age of seventeen he was arrested and tried as an adult for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, an eighteen-year-old student also at Woodlawn High School. Hae Min Lee disappeared without a trace on January 13th, 1999, twenty-seven days after her body was found at Leakin Park buried in a shallow grave. Her cause of death was determined as manual strangulation. Adnan claims innocent, yet he was never fully proven guilty. There were many mistakes made not only by the detectives but by Adnan’s lawyer, Cristina Gutierrez, as well. Among these mistakes is the mishandling of evidence, not taking account of multiple witness testimonies, and most importantly basing a whole case on a sole witness, one which is not even a trustworthy criminal one who in the eyes of the law is also seen as a criminal of sorts, but a criminal nonetheless.
The reason for Adnan’s trial to be considered a mistrial is the fact that it was solely based on the testimony of Jay Wilds. Jay was a friend of Adnan’s he sold Adnan drugs every now and then. When Adnan was arrested, he was arrested due to the testimony provided by Jay, who according to Sarah Koneig claimed that Adnan called him and told him “he needed help burying Hae’s body”(Koenig 2015). This part of Jay’s story never changed, but many other little details did. His testimony alone was not enough to send a man to prison for life. There had to be more at least there should have been, but that is just the thing, there was not. Looking back at Jay’s testimony anyone can conclude that the officer's kind of paved the way for Jay’s testimony too is kind of like as if they were suggesting things for Jay to say, which is a critical interrogation technique, but something that seems dirty and not right at all. Additionally, in Jay’s first testimony he also claimed that he picked up Adnan at Best Buy and that is where he first saw Hae’s body but then later during another interview claims he did not see her body until way after he picked up Adnan at Best Buy. Jay’s testimony put’s Hae’s time of death at around 2:15 to 2:35 p.m., yet other witnesses put Adnan at the school during this time, disproving Jay’s testimony. During his first interview with the detective Jay says he helped dig the hole, then he says he refused to dig the hole, once again changing up and disproving his testimonies. What is being showed here is that the state could not have based Adnan’s whole case on the testimony of Jay Wilds, it is sloppy inconsistent and like mentioned before coming from a petty drug dealer. If the state had more evidence or even concrete evidence the argument would be a whole lot different, and the scale would not be tipping towards Adnan, but they do not, and a man’s freedom hangs in the balance.
Another thing is the person who found Hae’s body, they refer to him as “Mr. S”, he said he was going into the woods to relieve himself; the thing about this though is that Mr. S had a record, he was a streakier, the reason as to why this is mentioned is that it brings up the question: Why would a streakier go so far into the woods, about 127 ft., to relieve himself? In the podcast it is mentioned that the Leakin Park is known for the discoveries of bodies in that area, but that Hae’s body blended in with its surroundings that the body would have never been found unless someone was looking for it. These two facts brought up a lot of suspicion towards Mr. S a streaker who wants to hide and found a body that blended in with its surroundings so well that it would not have been found unless one was looking for, it just all point to guilty for Mr. S.
As this story develops it is brought back to Jay the sole witness to this case the man responsible for the wrongful incarceration of Adnan Syed. The inconsistencies of his testimony, this time around disproved by Jen a friend of Adnan, Jen says that she was told by Jay he did not know where the body was buried, when in his first interview he said he helped dig the hole in which Hae was buried. Jay’s testimony is also undermined by Asia McClain who was a friend of Adnan as well and claimed she was talking to Adnan during the time of which the murder took place. Asia wrote a letter to Adnan explaining to him how she could help prove his innocence. The thing about this is that Asia was never called on to testify in the trial of Adnan Syed V. Baltimore. This was a mistake of Cristina Gutierrez Adnan’s lawyer who was hired by his family. Cristina was disbarred because she was physically unable to practice law. Following her disbarment, it was found that she was given large sums of money for work that she never carried through. Thanks to the mistakes of Cristina Gutierrez Adnan’s new lawyer Justin Brown appealed to Adnan’s case based on mistakes made Cristina Gutierrez.
Of course, all the blame as to Adnan’s wrongful conviction cannot go to Cristina alone this was more of a group effort at the site of Hae’s burial was also found a bottle, which was never tested for possible DNA this is now a mistake of the detectives yet again. Possible DNA evidence could have led to another suspect which while on the matter it was said that during the time of Hae’s death Ronald Lee Moore a criminal who was responsible for the death of a Korean woman eleven months after Hae’s death could have been involved, whilst a long shot, it was very foolish of the detectives not to follow up on this lead. The detectives did not test hair found on Hae’s body and DNA found under Hae’s finger nails. Something like this may have proven Adnan guilty or innocent, since there was no test there is no way to know for sure and it just goes back to the wrongful conviction of Adnan.
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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Introduction
Machines and algorithms in the workplace are expected to create 133 million new roles, but cause 75 million jobs to be displaced by 2022, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) called “The Future of Jobs 2018.” This means that the growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics could create 58 million net new jobs in the next few years. Due to this transformation, it will have a major impact on the global workforce, which clearly must include the Caribbean.
AI and Robotics
This report is intended to provide a perspective on how AI and Robotics can shape the future of business in the Caribbean. And it is based on a survey of chief human resources officers and strategy executives from more than 300 global companies across 12 industries and 20 emerging economies. In a WEF report it was determined that AI, Robotics and smart automation technology will bring greater economic benefits. And this could contribute up to US$15 trillion to the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2030.
What is AI? What is Robotics?
AI has been in the public's consciousness for a long time, since 1956. AI itself is an all-encompassing term that embraces a number of technological advances.
There are various terms that are sometimes used to describe AI and advanced computing capabilities — things such as machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, data analytics, and robotic process automation. Some, but not all of these may qualify as being Artificial Intelligence.
One way to describe AI is the ability of machines to exhibit human-like capabilities — thinking, understanding, reasoning, or perception.
According to Google Dictionary, Robotics is defined as the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation and application of robots.
What can technology do for the accounting profession in the Caribbean?
Embracing the capabilities of AI and Robotics may not just be about competitive advantage; it could be about necessity.
And this matter, because AI especially, and Robotics can add value to the work accountants do. It can help generate valuable insights to help with business decision-making, it can detect fraud, assess risks, understand complexities in taxation, and create more effective non-financial reporting.
The capabilities that AI offers could assist the work of professional accountants in various ways, especially with interpreting and communicating data.
The profession needs to understand how AI works, as it also influences the trust that people have in the decisions of these systems and the contexts within which they operate.
It also matters to the profession because with AI, ethical considerations are never far away.
Professional accountants need to consider and manage the potential risks that come from making decisions by algorithm.
With AI, there is a risk of unintended consequences. But there are also opportunities ahead when professional accountants develop a core understanding of these types of emerging technologies. For example, the profession can truly benefit from the ability of AI to support them with intelligent analysis of vast amounts of data.
Technical and ethical skills will always matter for the accountancy profession, but now there are prospects for the profession to use their strategic advice and guidance alongside technology to truly leverage the power of digital.
Accountants have many tools at hand to do this, such as; accounting software, Automation, Robotics, AI, and Big Data. However, even sophisticated technology like AI cannot replicate the full understanding and integrated thinking of which people are capable. Technology cannot build client relationships nor lead successful teams. Technology does not have emotional intelligence nor ethical judgment.
Ethics in Caribbean businesses in the digital age
Business professionals have the opportunity to shine in the digital age, showcasing their human skills and their capacity to make ethical decisions.
There are ethical dilemmas that the Caribbean society faces with the advent of technology and its role in accounting and finance. Questions like “Who is accountable?” will require the professionals to face technology and embrace the role of the accountant in ensuring that algorithms and AI are not subject to bias or confusing causation with correlation.
Businesses across the Caribbean will need to ensure that good, sound decisions are being made and that there is a strategic method of managing data so that an organization can use it in a sustainable way. How do they prepare for this future? They do this through education, skills, and training. Jamaica’s Technology Minister, Miss Fayval Williams is reported to have told a business forum that very soon 30 per cent of all day-to-day businesses will implement Artificial Intelligence (AI) as part of their digital transformation strategy. The minister added that, business leaders will have to be agile to deal with the changing world.
Said she: “We are in the digital era where the only constant is change ... The technological revolution and transformation, which are characteristics of the digital age, have significantly changed and reshaped the way we operate on a daily basis, and how we operate in business.”
Clearly the implications for the labour market are extreme.
Below is a graph of the United States of America nationwide online survey conducted in 2019 April. It includes responses from 1001 currently employed adults. The graph contains Genesys employees’ opinions of job positions in danger of being replaced by Artificial Intelligence. There is a common saying among Caribbean locals that if the United States of America coughs, the Caribbean catches a cold.
Conclusion
The influence of AI and robotics could contribute up to US$15 trillion to the global economy. Accountants in the Caribbean could use the technology in such a way that there is greater accountability in businesses. Jamaica’s technology minister indicated that very soon 30 percent of day to day businesses will implement AI as part of their digital transformation strategy. Finally, a US nationwide online survey indicated that 1001 workers thought that manufacturing, telemarketing and clerical jobs are projected to be the hardest hit by the influence of AI and Robotics in the work space. Therefore, it is safe to say that AI and Robotics can have both negative and positive impacts on the future of businesses in the Caribbean.
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The Glass Castle Analysis
I chose to read The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. I chose to read the book because the title intrigued me. I wanted to learn more about the glass castle she was talking about and why it was significant. Walls takes the reader through her childhood by connecting memories to topics such as family and pride. The first scene describes Walls as a three year old cooking hot dogs, showing how she learning to be self-sufficient at a young age.
However, she accidentally tips over the pot and gets burned, forcing her to be rushed to the hospital. Her parents aren’t worried because they believe that it is good for children to get hurt when they’re young, so they’ll grow up to be strong. They then proceed to sneak her out of the hospital when she wasn’t ready to be released. This shows how her parents were absent minded and caught up in their own false realities to understand the brutalities and responsibilities of life. Another scene is when it is Christmas and their family doesn’t have enough money for presents, her father takes Walls into the yard and tells her to choose a star for a gift. Instead of a star, she chooses a planet, showing her high ambitions.
The scene also shows how she idolizes her father; rather than seeing him as an alcoholic, she sees him as a misunderstood genius. The book portrays vivid images of her memories and a strong emotional connection to her childhood. The reader often feels secondhand anger to her descriptions of her recollections. For example, Walls was sexually harassed by a man almost three times her age and her father blows it off as a bit of attention, saying she could handle it when she was screaming for his help. The reader felt her fear of being hurt and felt a rising rage at her father for not caring about his daughter, reminding them how ill equipped the parents were for raising their children. Walls has a telling memory for detail that shows the harsh reality of poverty in America and what they do to children. Her appealing, unadorned style of writing keeps the reader interested in the poignant story.
In addition, she has a deceptive ease in which she makes the audience see how she and her siblings were convinced their unstable childhood was an adventure. The book has a lyrical style to her words and makes the memoir unforgettable. She also portrays an easy dynamic of love between Walls and her family by describing each person so vividly, you come to understand each character in the narrative completely. Every childhood problem the characters faced while living in desolation in Welch, West Virginia, within an unfurnished house with a slanted porch, came to signify more than a time of financial misfortune. These clashes symbolized the relationship between the self-centered mother, Rose Mary, and her convoluted sense of parental responsibilities, their father Rex’s unrelenting drinking habits at the expense of his family and four children’s desire to attain a life of eventual normalcy.
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The Glass Castle Bad Parenting
In the Memoir, The Glass Castle, the author Jeannette calls the book The Glass Castle even though it's never built. This is because the glass castle is symbolic. The glass castle was a plan that was never built, just like how throughout Jeanette’s life her father always had a plan that never came together. This includes when her father would move and start new jobs that never became anything. Castles represent wealth, but the glass suggests that this dream can break, like his promises. The glass castle symbolizes her father’s promise for a better life and how it never materializes.
When her father moves to Arizona, he promises to find gold, which is one of his many failed promises for a better life, but ends up just drinking the time away. The dad claims “Once I get the money for a prospector, then we’ll become rich and find gold.” As it turns out he never finds the “Gold” or saves money to buy a prospector. He just spends his family's money on beer and cigarettes. Once the Walls move to Phoenix Jeanette's father holds a job for about 6 months or more but eventually gets fired. During that 6th month stretch the walls are never hungry, they always have water, gas, and power, the father buys his kids gifts and becomes sober. But once he loses that job he claims it was because “the corrupt mining workers union” was the reason. He loses his sobriety, uses money from his wife and kids claiming that it was to “stop corruption in the mines” when he's really using it on cigs and beer and going out late at night. Instead of helping his family and getting a job to support them he takes there money and there belongings to get things for himself like alcohol and drugs. Another false promise he makes to his kids perfectly representing the glass castle.
To get money, he lets a man sexually assault his daughter so he can keep drinking. The father asks jeanette for 20$ she reluctantly gives it to him. He “promises” to pay her back. One day he comes home early in a car jeanette has never seen before. Jeanette asks “where are we going”, the father says “you’ll see.” He takes her to a bar where an older man gives her father 80 dollars and tells Jeanette to come upstairs. She looks at her dad and he just motions her to go upstairs. She still doesn't understand until the man begins to take of her clothes and attempt to go on top of Jeanette. Jeanette eventually gets out and tells her dad what happened and he doesn't even care about it. .This just shows how bad of a father he is, sacrificing his underaged daughter for money is horrible. About now is when Jeanette starts to realize how bad a of a person her father is. She starts to get how her dad is dragging her family down and how she needs to leave and not live with him. The glass castle fades for her as she loses faith in her father.
To conclude Jeanette's father was an awful person who cared about his family while also dragging his family into the ground. He was a drunk physco who took more from his family then he gave. He dragged his family through places with no power, no water, no gas, no money, and homelessness. While his kids were getting jobs and getting married he was forcing his wife to be homeless with him. The Glass Castle was an illusion of her father actually doing things to help her family instead of driving it into the ground.
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Mother Teresa Life History
Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910. She was born in Skopje, Macedonia. Mother Teresa Death date was on September 5, 1997. Mother Teresa childhood was very difficult for her because of her father passing. She attended public school. By the age 12 Mother Teresa started thinking about helping out the poor. Mother Teresa was known for helping out the poorest people. When she was 18 she left her home to join a community of Irish nuns. In the article it says, “She received training in Dublin, Ireland, and in Darjeeling, India, taking her first religious vows in 1928 and her final religious vows in 1937.” This is saying that she was being trained for what she wanted to be, helping out the poorest people. Mother Teresa had to train a lot to work with the poor. Mother Teresa already had a group to help out the poor.”
In 1950 her group, now called the Missionaries of Charity, received official status as a religious community within the Archdiocese of Calcutta.” Mother Teresa Group was official. Mother Teresa finally started helping out the poor. Mother Teresa would visit other countries to help out the poor over there too. She would visit Australia, Tanzania, Venezuela, and Italy. She would also visit them to get her group bigger. “By 1979 Mother Teresa's groups had more than two hundred different operations in over twenty-five countries around the world, with dozens more ventures on the horizon. The same year she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. In 1986 she persuaded President Fidel Castro (1926–) to allow a mission in Cuba.” Her group was getting bigger. So many other countries were starting to do the same thing as her. They were starting to help the poor people by doing shelters for them and giving out things to them also.
Mother Teresa passed away from a heart attack she had after celebrating her eighty-seventh birthday in August. Before she passed away she had nearly 4,000 members and were established in 610 foundations in 123 countries of the world. They were all part of her group. When she passed away so many people came to her funeral to honor her for what she did. She was so important that the Government of India honored her at her funeral. She was buried in the Mother house of the Missionary charity.”
Less than two years after her death, in view of Mother Teresa’s widespread reputation of holiness and the favors being reported, Pope John Paul II permitted the opening of her Cause of Canonization. On 20 December 2002 he approved the decrees of her heroic virtues and miracles. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003. The decree on the miracle required for her canonization was approved on 17 December 2015 and she was canonized by Pope Francis on 4 September 2016.” Later on her death she was being honored by so many popes. She officially became a saint also.
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Hills Like White Elephants Analysis
Humans will always make mistakes. It is important that we learn from them and avoid making more in the future. That's why people say “You got strong pull-out game” meaning can you pull out fast enough. That was always funny to me when I attend high school and thinking about it because it has meaning. Although somebody would always end up pregnant then there is a big decision to make. In the short story Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway wanted you to analyze what the problem with this couple. He had your mind on a roller coaster like at six flags but at the end of the ride. You were destined for your own landing throughout the conversation. Next, I'm going to explain to you the setting of a short story and where it took place.
Then talk about why Ernest Hemingway plot all jacked up and had your mind thinking this problem is huge. Following up Ernest Hemingway's word techniques and tactics that he uses to confuse readers. This story setting really puts out there that it's either now or never and that's real talk. I see this because they are by a major train station and gives off clues that this could be the last time. The travelers, including the main characters, that must decide where to go and, in this case, whether to go with each other and continue their relationship. Hemingway however, did give us clues for our imaginations to think about what time it actually was. “There was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails” (Hemingway).
This indicates that it was once mid-day and there used to be no coloration to take cowl in. As the story progresses the time of the day additionally carries on. “There was a warm shadow ofIn thus the building and a curtain, made of bamboo beads hung to keep the flies out” (Hemingway). In this quote, it is suggesting that it was late afternoon and the sun was once moving. The couple arrived at the station alought the constructing continued to casting a shadow. The most important of all topics of setting is tone. Tone can manipulate how the entire story will play out, as nicely as how the characters act towards each other.“Please, please, please, please, please stop talking” (Hemingway). Jig says this to the Man due to the fact he is adamant about talking to Jig about the operation. Jig gets fed up with the Man’s regular pestering and in the end,she tells him to be quiet.
The Man also shows his voice in the story, he tries to relief Jig as well as assist her to make a vital decision. There was one crazy thing in this story and that would really be the plot in which we figure out what was really going on in the story. Analogies are perilous trade, people. Utilize them with caution. Jig’s apparently blameless articulation that the hills are like white elephants rapidly turns into a competition with the man over who has traveled more. But that’s just the first layer of the cholate cake. They arrange more drinks and start to quibble almost the taste of the liquor. The American chastises her and says that they ought to attempt to appreciate themselves.
The young lady answers that she’s simply having fun and after that withdraws her prior comment by saying the hills don’t really look like white elephants to her any longer. The American notices that he needs the young lady, whom he calls Jig, to have an operation, in spite of the fact that he never really indicates what kind of operation. He appears disturbed and tries to make light of the operation’s reality. He contends that the operation would be basic, for the case, but at that point says the method truly isn’t indeed an operation at all. The young lady says nothing for a moment, but at that point, she questions what will happen after the operation. The man answers that things will be fine a short time later, a bit like they were some time recently, which it'll settle their issues. He says he has known a part of individuals who have had the operation and found joy a short time later. The young lady impartially concurs with him.
The American at that point claims that he won’t drive her to have the operation but considers it’s the finest course of activity to require. She tells him that she will have the operation as long as he’ll still cherish her and they’ll be able to live cheerfully together a while later. The man at that point emphasizes how much he cares for the young lady, but she claims not to care about what happens to herself. The American feebly says that she shouldn’t have the operation conceding that’s truly the way she feels. The young lady at that point strolls over to the end of the station, looks at the view, and ponders out loud whether they truly can be cheerful in case she has the operation. They contend for a second until the young lady gets tired and makes the American guarantee to halt talking. Numerous first-time perusers studied “Hills Like White Elephants” as nothing more than a casual discussion between two individuals holding up for a train and so miss the implicit emotional pressure sneaking between each line.
As a result, numerous individuals don’t realize that the two are really talking almost having an abortion and going their isolated ways, let alone why the story was so progressive for its time. In understanding Hemingway stripped everything but the uncovered principles from his stories and books, clearing out readers to filter through the remaining exchange and bits of the story on their claim. Just as the obvious tip of a chunk of ice covers up a distant more prominent mass of ice underneath the sea surface, so does Hemingway’s discourse give a false representation of the implicit pressure between his characters. In truth, Hemingway solidly accepted that idealize stories passed on distant more through subtext than through the real words composed on the page. Hemingway stripped so much from his stories that numerous of his modern pundits complained that his fiction was small more than bits of exchange hung together. Others have called his composing excessively masculine—there are no excellent expressions or breathtaking sections, fair the sheer essentials.
In “Hills Like White Elephants,” for illustration, both the American man and the young lady talk in brief sentences and seldom express more than a couple of words at a time. Hemingway too dodges utilizing exchange labels, such as “he said” or “she said,” and skips any inner monologs. These components take off the characters’ considerations and sentiments totally up to the readers possess elucidations. Hemingway’s fans, be that as it may, have praised his fashion for its effortlessness, accepting that less deluding words paint a more genuine picture of what lies underneath.
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12 Angry Men Courage
Do you think you have the right characteristics to be apart of a jury? Lawyers go through a process called voir dire; the process of choosing which jurors will be on a case. Lawyers look at things from your attitude and personality to the things you do on the internet. Juror Eight from Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose was a juror on a murder case. He was a very unbiased person and wanted to hear more of a story before making his judgement. His courage and selflessness saved a potentially innocent man from going to jail.
Juror Eight shows a lot of courage in the play. When he voted not guilty, the other jurors were trying to pressure him into changing his vote to not guilty. He stood by his word and then he said, “Nobody has to prove otherwise; innocent until proven guilty. The burden of proof is on the prosecution” (Rose 18). This shows that he is not scared to stand alone to prove his point. Another way he shows courage was when juror Three was saying that if he ever told someone that he would kill them, he would mean it. Juror Eight then said, “You don’t really mean you’ll kill me do you?” (Rose 43). This quote shows that is not scared to prove a point to Juror Three and that he not scared to stand by his word and will not follow anyone’s opinion without fully agreeing with it.
Juror Eight also shows a lot of selflessness in the play. While the other jurors were trying to prove to him that the kid is not guilty, he said: “He’s a tough, angry kid. You know why slum kids get that way? Because we knock ‘em over the head once a day, every day” (Rose 15). He is showing that he is caring about the boy’s past. He also shows that he is selfless is when most of the jurors were sure that the boy had killed his father, he told the jurors: “And maybe he didn’t lie. Maybe he did lose the knife and maybe he did go to the movies” (Rose 24). He is putting the boy’s words into consideration instead of just ignoring it and not feeling empathy. He shows a lot selflessness and always cares about what situation the boy might be in.
Juror Eight shows a lot of courage and selflessness throughout the play. He might have saved a possibly innocent man’s life from jail just by having good juror characteristics.People should be more selfless and courageous because it will not only help themselves but it will help the people around them. It is also good to be courageous because you will be confident enough to say no to something you do not agree with.
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Juror 8 in 12 Angry Men
I feel that juror #8 is the hero of “12 Angry Men”. He is the only one to vote not guilty in the beginning. When they are in the jury room he is still standing when everyone else has already sat down to vote. He looks like something is bothering him. When he finally does sit down with the other jurors they take a vote and he is the only one to vote “Not Guilty”.
The other jurors are a little upset because they have to all agree on the verdict. So, they start to to try and talk him into voting guilty. He won’t change his mind yet. He tells them that he doesn’t want to just send someone to prison and the electric chair when he’s not for sure.
When I was telling my mom about the movie, she told me about the time she was on a jury where they had to agree on the verdict too. She said it was really hard because no matter what verdict they chose someone’s life was going to change a lot. If they voted guilty then the defendant would have their freedom taken away for up to 75 years. If they found him not guilty then the other family would be affected in a different way. She told me that you have to pay very close attention to all of the evidence and the witness testimonies. You have to be absolutely sure because you can’t change your mind later. She said that even after they all felt 100% certain of two guilty verdicts and one not guilty (60 years in prison) that it was still hard to know that she had that much power to change someone’s life she had never met.
I think this is what juror #8 may have felt like. I think he wasn’t one hundred percent sure that the boy was guilty of killing his dad because of three things: the knife, the old man, and the lady with the glasses. At first it kind of seemed like he was giving in by telling them he would vote their way if everyone else did. I wonder if he knew that some of the others were not certain too. So, when they voted again and another juror changed his vote to, I think juror #8 got a little more confident and began to explain his reasons.
He explained to them that the knife might be different, but basically wasn’t one of a kind since he was able to buy one himself. (Except I’m not sure how he was able to have his own knife in the jury room).
He talked about how the man would not be quick enough, since he was old, to actually see anyone leaving the scene of the murder. He seems to do a really good job of explaining this because more and more jurors start to change their minds.
The last one was the lady who said she saw him do it, but he asked them how she could have seen it if she wasn’t wearing her glasses.
When I was still talking to my mom about it, she mentioned again that when you are given power over someone’s life you have to make sure that you are okay with your decision because you have to live with it for the rest of your life.
I think he would have really been upset for a long time if he had changed his vote and didn’t even try to look at everything.
My mom said that even though he wasn’t sure and did a lot of explaining why he thought the defendant might not be guilty, that during the conversation it could have easily gone the other way and he could have been convinced that the boy was guilty.
I think juror #8 is the hero because he didn’t give up. He tried to make sure that the boy was getting a fair trial. I don’t think he is a hero for being able to convince the other jurors, just that he made sure they all paid close attention and really thought about it.
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Rain Man and Autism
The movie, Rain Man, released in 1988, was one of the mainstream Hollywood films to have depicted autism which starred Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in lead roles. Rain Man begins with Charlie (Tom Cruise), a young man, casually dressed trying to make a money deal with his girlfriend, Susanna by his side. After hearing the distraught news of his fathers passing, Charlie does not get emotionally affected. As several years earlier, Charlie and his father had an argument leading to the separation of their relationship. As the audience, one can discover that Charlie has a money-making personality. Later on, Charlie discovers that his father, Sanford Babbit has left his valuable assets for an unknown person. The unknown person is introduced as Raymond Babbit (Dustin Hoffman), Charlie’s biologically brother. Raymond has autism, a biological disorder which affects mental processing. Although Raymond is diagnosed with autism and has a low IQ, he has some unique abilities. For instance, he can recall situations from the past and solve mathematical calculations which are difficult for the average human being.
Even today, researchers are as yet uncertain of what causes autism spectrum disorder. As clinicians, we must perform certain tests before informing the patient that they are diagnosed with autism. In one of the scenes, a nurse breaks open a toothpick box and all the toothpicks fall on the ground. Raymond counts 246 toothpicks in a few seconds, which is the exact number of toothpicks that fell. Raymond, a mid-forty-year-old male is admitted to Wallbrook Mental Institution ever since Charlie scalded his brother in the bathtub when none of their parents were around to look after them. Their mother, Elanor died early in their childhood. Their father has left numerous benefits for Raymond. The benefits comprise of a 1947 Buick convertible and 3 million dollars. Charlie, being the person with a money greed personality, he goes after Raymond, who is currently residing in a mental health institution and rarely has any social interactions.
Raymond’s character is based on Kim Peek, he is also diagnosed with autism and has extraordinary skills as well. For example, Kim can read two pages at once, each page with one eye in less than ten seconds. Also, Kim has memorized the bible and other scriptures. The average person cannot be capable of memorizing such articles of reading. Later, as the movie progresses, Charlie starts to change his viewpoint on Raymond as Charlies acknowledges how autism has molded his brother in every way from his personality to his behavior. Towards the end, Charlie agrees with Dr. Bruner and allows Raymond to be taken back to the mental institution.
Cognition is a type of development theory described by Jean Piaget in which a child learns to adapt to their peers at an early age which advances throughout the years of growth. Based on this theory, our thoughts shape our overall personality from the way one thinks to their behaviors as they become aware of their surroundings. Piaget believed there were four stages of the cognitive theory, sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Each stage occurred during a certain time of the infant's growth. Piaget noticed major changes as the child gained more knowledge for their environment. Relating to Piaget’s theory, Raymond's parents were just living like the average American family, not rich, but a hardworking middle class.
The family ran a business, thus not having time for family duties to take care of. Without their business, Sanford and Elanor may have had enough time to have the capacity to watch their child at home and not have him sent to an institution, but rather the business is excessive of an issue for them. Raymond sent to Wallbrook mental institution where he was cared by experts of the field. Although Raymond has autism, he is able to do higher level math problems, he can be classified as a savant. In one of the scenes, a nurse drops a pack of toothpicks on the floor, Raymond quickly counts and says, “82,82,82,” which adds up to exactly 246 toothpicks. In the next scene, the nurse seems surprised that Raymond counted the toothpicks as fast as she was going to pick them up and place them in its original box. In another scene, Charlie visits a doctor with Raymond. During this visit, Charlie informs the doctor of Raymond’s excellent math skills. The doctor also challenges Raymond by asking him, 312 times 123. Raymond calculates the solution faster than the doctor still placing the numbers in his calculator. The doctor keeps on challenging him and Raymond demonstrates his ability to find solutions of mathematical problems in a couple of seconds.
Due to his ability to do logical thinking shows that Raymond has acquired skills that are shown in the formal operational stage. This stage is Piaget’s 4th stage of cognitive development, begins around the age of 12 and lasts through adulthood. In another scene from Rain Man is when Charlie and Raymond check into their hotel room and Charlie gives him a telephone book to read. The following day, Charlie discovers that in addition to the fact that Raymond read it, he retained each name and number up till the letter, G. He even has the ability to calculate hard mathematical equations in his head at a fast rate. Due to his disability, he lacks simple reasoning, for instance, he thinks the price of a car and a candy bar is the same rate at $100 each. With proper medical treatment and careful monitoring, Raymond's autism could be controlled and treated.
Behaviorism is a grand theory of development which observes a person’s behavioral characteristics over a period of time. John Watson is mainly credited for introducing behaviorism to the field of psychology. There are three stages of behaviorism; classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and social learning. In relation to Rain Man, Charlie has learned to act differently, when he is around Raymond so that he can avoid any negative interactions with Raymond. Initially, Charlie expressed anger towards his brother. For instance, Charlie said, “I think this autism is a bunch of shit!” Later on, he understands and starts to adapt to Raymond’s behavior. Also, when Raymond was a child around two years old, Charlie accidentally burned his brother by scolding hot water in the bathtub. In one of the scenes, Raymond starts yelling, “Hot water hurt the baby', he is referring to his past experience with hot water. Raymond emotions are processing with past events that have already occurred, not the one that's happening presently. By giving such reactions, the viewers can notice that Raymond is different from others. Raymond remembers experiences from childhood. Raymond’s reaction can be described as classical conditioning in Ivan Pavlov’s theory.
Raymond was conditioned to the fear of hot water because of early associations with a terrifying experience that ended up scolding him. A person without autism most likely forgets experiences from the past as they age. At this given circumstance, Charlie needed to adjust to his sibling and comprehend what Raymond was trying to interpret. Due to Raymond’s autism, the disease affects him behaviorally which sets him apart from most people, including his biological brother, Charlie. Also, in the movie, we see Raymond struggling to talk with his brother's girlfriend, Sussana. From the look on Raymond's face, it seemed that he felt awkward and self-centered as he is not comfortable talking with others. Due to his past, Raymond’s reaction to Sussana might be that Raymond was sent to a mental institution at a very young age, as his parents had a business to run as well as take care of Raymond’s well being. During the scene in the airport, Raymond kept on referring to the airline's name to which date a plane crash occurred of that airline. By doing so, Raymond tries to avoid danger, thus, refusing to board the plane.
Afterward, Charlie was trying to force Raymond to board the plane, but Raymond had a temper tantrum like a young child. Due to Raymond’s abnormal brain development, he referred to all planes as death when in reality, that is not the case. Eventually, Charlie and Raymond go on a road trip to Las Vegas. Another example from the movie is when Charlie and Raymond were on their way to Los Angeles, Raymond forgot to wear his undergarments and kept on repeating the address of the Kmart nearby their home in Cincinnati. By repeating himself, Raymond was referring to his routine, where his undergarments must come from the retail store, Kmart. Another scene showed Raymond walking across a zebra crossing when suddenly the sign changed to “Don’t Walk,” he misunderstood the sign and stopped the middle of oncoming traffic.
Raymond does not have a similar perception of reality from a normal working grown-up adult as his age. His mind capacities in an unexpected way, which prompts him living in a controlled environment. Being sent away to a mental institution at a young age affected his development as he was away from his family. His parents cared mostly about their business rather than caring for their autistic child, Raymond. The passing of his mother, Elanor, and father, Sanford, may have affected his emotions and lead to deficient developmental growth. Autism acted as an immense barrier to Raymond’s life, he had the intelligence but Raymond could not interpret simple life tasks.
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How to Prevent Drunk Driving
Everyone knows that there are penalties for drinking and driving but yet there are people who still consume alcohol knowing they have to get behind the wheel of a vehicle. In Wisconsin the average person has consumed alcohol and gotten behind the wheel of a vehicle 80 times before their first offense and there has to be way to prevent people from driving a vehicle after they’ve consumed alcohol but how? Can Wisconsin pass new legislation and implement new laws that decreased drunk driving? How can Wisconsin prevent people who have consumed alcohol from getting behind the wheel of their own vehicle?
“Wisconsin happens to be the only state that doesn’t crimilize for a first time offense of drinking and driving” states CBS news. In 2015 there were approximately 24000 convictions of drinking and driving in Wisconsin alone, 'We have one of the biggest problems in the nation, and yet we have some of the fewest solutions to correct it,' State Sen. Tim Carpenter said (CBS news). If Wisconsin didn’t allow first time offenders to get away with drunk driving there could be less of a probloem, letting them get away with doesn’t open their eyes to the consequences of what driving while intoxicated has. If first time offenders didn’t just get a traffic ticket it could open their eyes to the idea that driving drunk isn’t a joke and puts many lives in danger.
One way to lower the statistics of drinking and driving in Wisconsin is to install sobriety checkpoints at various highly visible spots. Police and state patrol can stop all calls or certain cars passing the checkpoint and see if the driver is impaired. They can also install breath tests for drivers who may seem impaired and not functioning well enough to operating behind the wheel or given to someone who “officers are suspicious of drinking and driving” informs the U.S Department of Health and Human Services. This would prevent people from consuming too much alcohol or maybe even any at all because there would be a higher possibility of getting caught in the act. By installing sobriety checkpoint it allows officers to stop all cars or just cars that may be being operated by someone who is impaired. It will make people think twice before getting into the car and driving while they’re impaired because of the fear of getting caught.
Along with sobriety checkpoints car manufacturers could install ignition interlocks. An ignition interlock would prevent the car from starting for anyone “ has a BAC above a certain level, usually 0.02%” states U.S Department of Health and Human services. They mention that even just “mandating interlocks for all offenders, including first-time offenders, will have the greatest impact” (U.S Department of Health and Human services) on the statistic of those who drink and drive and the amount of accidents that are caused by drunk driving. By installing an ignition interlock on the vehicle of an offender of drunk driving it will prevent them from driving while intoxicated, it won’t stop them from drinking but it won’t allow them to drive and put the lives of others in danger. If the car doesn’t start that means they need to find a designated driver that can take them home and get them home safely.
To avoid drinking and driving people can always make sure they have a designated driver or someone who is responsible enough not to drink knowing they have to drive themselves and possibly other people home. “Before leaving the house and attending a party or going to a bar make sure you have a designated driver” (Virtual Drive). If you plan on attending a party and you know the people throwing it ask if you can stay at their place for the night so you won’t have to drive under the influence. If your driver is attending the party with you make sure they’re responsible enough not to consume any alcohol so they don’t jeopardize your safety or their own. Making sure you have a designated drivr is one of the simplest ways to prevent drunk driving, making sure your safety and others isn’t put in danger isn’t hard.
When people go to bars or out for drinks for the night most don’t think about having to hand their keys over but what if bars implemented a security system in which anyone who had the keys to a vehicle and plans on driving later has to hand their keys over or put them in safelock of some sort. Now of course only you would have access to that lock and say if worse comes to worse and you couldn’t drive call up a friend and have them take your keys and have them take you home. Too many times do people go to bars knowing they’re going to drink but also know they have to drive and don’t try to find a safe ride home and put themselves and many others in danger by driving while intoxicated.
Wisconsin could also lower the amount of bars they have, Abby Phillips states “Drive around the state of Wisconsin and you're probably more likely to come across a bar than a grocery store”, “Wisconsin has a 3 to 1 bar to grocery store ratio” mentions Phillips. The fact that Wisconsin has more bars than grocery stores is pretty outrageous. If Wisconsin limited or removed some bars in some areas that are heavily populated with them it could decrease the amount of people that get behind the wheel of their vehicle intoxicated. “Wisconsin has the highest rate of drunk driving in the country. According to the advocacy group MADD, it's the only state in the union where the first drunk driving offense is a traffic ticket, not a crime” states Philips and the amount of bars can help contribute to the drunk driving rate.
There’s no definite way to end drunk driving but if Wisonsin implemented new laws and legistlatrions to make it harder for those who committ the crime to get away with it the statistics might start decreasing and lives of others and the person behind the wheel wouldn’t be in as much danger. Drinking and driving ruins lives of many so I don’t see why anyone would want to risk their own life and others and drive while intoxicated.
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- Phillip, Abby. 'Wisconsin's bar-to-grocery store ratio puts the rest of the country to shame.' The Washington Post. 29 May 2014. WP Company. 16 Jan. 2019 .
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Federalism: Obamacare and Donald Trump
About every American uses medical care at least once in their lifetime. Therefore, everyone should have a right to medical care as it is a necessary component of life. However, is the Affordable Care Act the right solution to giving universal healthcare to all Americans? Not only does it raise income taxes for the middle and upper class, it also increases the cost of medical care per visit for each of these social groups. Passed by Barack Obama and enacted on March of 2010, the Affordable Care Act disables the middle class by offering little assurance and more burden. The Affordable Care Act does not provide a better alternative to providing every American with health care and should thus be repealed.
Prior to the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, lower class Americans were unable to afford insurance to pay medical bills. Many fell below the poverty line and were not adequately covered by health insurance. Before the Affordable Care Act, many Americans were not receiving healthcare because out of pocket expenses cost too much. The worry for Americans was whether their condition qualified for medical deductions or how they would pay for their medical expenses. As a result, in 2009, the Affordable Care Act started to take its place on the Congress floor. The topic debate lasted for eight months, and passed with mostly Democrats voting for it and all Republicans against it. Finally, signed by Obama in March 23,2010, many Americans were covered by Obamacare regardless of class and affordability of health expenses. However, despite allowing healthcare benefits to all social backgrounds, the burden eventually fell on the middle and upper class to fulfill the medical expenses. Obamacare caused many Americans who were not covered to pay high taxes and short term health care costs. Finally, Obamacare cost families to lose employment health benefits. The impact of Obamacare affects all of Americans because of the need for healthcare.
Affordable Care Act has caused inconveniences for people, patients, and doctors. For a family in New Hampshire, Obamacare has increased the cost their healthcare insurance tremendously. While Obamacare helped the lower income class, it disregarded the middle class that “earn too much to get financial assistance but are still on a tight budget” (New York Times 2018). According to the New York Times, “about 25,000 New Hampshire residents paid full freight for Obamacare plans last year, according to a legislative reports and their premiums increased by an average 52 percent this year”. While they are not too rich to pay for insurance, they are also not poor enough to receive benefits. As a result, middle class families are forced to pay their fair share of insurance and on top of that the share of the lower class. Another example is a family paying medical fees for their son who totaled his car in an accident.
The patient who was lucky to survive his crash and receive spinal correction surgery now faced the cost of surgery and months of physical therapy. The family who comes from a middle class self-employed business owner is forced to pay “their monthly health care expenditures [which] will exceed their mortgage payment” (Heritage 2017). The anecdotal information from this family shows that the three healthy family members will pay more but lose access to their son’s medical providers. This case is just one of many Americans who have similar problems with Obamacare regulations. Lastly, even Doctors are taken away from compassionate patient care because of the Affordable Care Act. For Dr. Hill, instead of spending time with patients, he is required to by federal bureaucracy to focus on “non-clinical duties and paperwork, they’ve got to see more patients to keep up with expenses” (CNN 2017). For most doctors, upon entering the world of medicine was to be able to treat and help patients, however, Obamacare has in turn made them business owners of medicine. The Affordable Care Act discontinued the passionate care for patients because doctors are putting attention on maximizing their time by seeing many patients in a short amount of time. As a consequence, Obamacare offers assistance to only a small portion of the population, mainly lying lower class, and hurts the middle class people, patients, and doctors.
Some argue that Obamacare is actually beneficial to Americans by creating more jobs and insuring more Americans. For example, “1.2 million jobs would be lost if Affordable Health Care was repealed” (Economic Policy Institute). Since the Affordable Care Act offered Americans less expenses on medical care, they were able to spend more money on basic personal necessities. Due to the increase in customer spending, there were more demand for workers, and as a result, more jobs were created at grocery stores and other businesses. Obamacare offered jobs to Americans and consequently they would defend keeping the Act. Another reason American want to keep ACA was because of its coverage of medical expenses for the financially challenged. The passing of ACA allowed previously unaffordable health care to some without thinking about the expenses.
Therefore, if ACA was taken away, it would be “devastating for family finances and hurt the economy” (Economic Policy Institute). Health insurance was covered for most Americans after the passing of Obamacare. Thus, losing it will cause increase an in family insurance prices and cause many families to lose access to medical care. Despite the long term cost of losing Obamacare, the overall short term benefit only help a minority of Americans. It only provided help for the lower class and disregarded the middle class, even though they were affected most by this. The middle class has to burden the expensive medical insurance from a hospital trip, pay medical insurance, and also pay the insurance for the lower class. Moreover, for “people with incomes under the poverty line but still too high to qualify for Medicaid in their states have no affordable program available” (NPR). For these people, they would not qualify to be covered medical expenses and unable to choose their doctors and hospitals because they no longer accept their insurance networks. In conclusion, the consequences outweigh the benefits for Obamacare and should therefore be taken back.
The current President of United States, Donald Trump, is not a supporter of Obamacare. In Trump’s campaign, he promised to lower the cost of insurance to promote a free market solution that would allow compete for business across state lines. People who generally do not support Obamacare can support Trump in arguing to repeal the Act. Another way to dispose of the Affordable Care Act is to deplete the amount of people that use it. If not many people seek out Obamacare, it would prove unnecessary and unconventional. By being covered under another insurance company not by Obamacare, it would be necessary to repeal the Act as it proves unprofitable. Lastly, people could present their problems directly to Congress to put the issue at hand in front of Congressthe President. One way in doing so is to rally and protest on the streets of Congress with simple words such as “Repeal Obamacare”. Another way is to directly write letters one’s Congressperson, arguing ways in which Obamacare has been unhelpful and not beneficial for most of the people. These activities can force the Legislative Branch and Executive Branch to find ways to repeal Obamacare or improve it with a new insurance policy.
In essence, Obamacare did not actually provide full coverage insuring all Americans. It disregarded the middle class by not providing a program that would target and help them with their medical expenses. It did, however, help lower income families and offer jobs at retail stores. The ACA was unable to help everyone and the burden fell onto the largest social class in which most Americans fall into-- the middle class. Therefore, it did not really help many Americans. This consequently forced the current President of the United States, Donald Trump, is coming up a new plan called “Trumpcare”. With the inefficiency of Obamacare with protests to repeal the Act, Trumpcare or American Health Care Act of 2017 is designed by Trump to partially change the ACA. Therefore, in the future, Americans will find Trumpcare in substitute of Obamacare and hopefully not suffer through as much burden as before.
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William Shakespeare Biography
William Shakespeare, a name that almost anyone interested in literature can recognize regardless of the time period. To many, he’s the English playwright and poet whose works are considered of the best in literature. In fact, plays of his such as Macbeth and Hamlet are still performed to this day in theaters. Even if they were written around the late 1500s to the early 1600s, they’re still pieces of work that are timeless and will always be adored by lovers of literature. Even though Shakespeare is referred to as the greatest playwright of all time, many still do not know completely of his life, if he even existed, and what exactly his works were inspired by. It’s a mystery that no one will ever know definitely, and one that some can only speculate ideas on.
To start off, there are not any birth records existing that belong to William Shakespeare. However, there are church records that indicate Shakespeare was baptized at the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. Taking the church records into account, it is believed that he was born on or around April 23, 1564. Even if it may not be a concrete fact, historians acknowledge April 23, 1564, as his official date of birth. With that out of the way, he was born into a pretty large family. He was the third child born from his father John Shakespeare, a leather merchant, and Mary Arden, a local landed heiress. As a child, Shakespeare grew up with two older sisters and three younger brothers. With such a big family, it is inferred that money became a problem for the family of eight since records point out that John’s fortunes began to decline around the late 1570s.
Again, very little records exist from Shakespeare’s childhood, and almost none in regards to his education. From his father holding the official positions as alderman and bailiff, which is quite similar to the position of mayor, tuition would have been free of charge for Shakespeare. It is assumed that he attended King’s New School, which is located in Stratford. Like other children, he would have learned the basics of how to read and write. Yet, these missing records happen to raise the question of if his existence was even real. There’s speculation a different person could have just penned the plays and poems in Shakespeare’s name. Though, without concrete evidence that he isn’t real, many just assume that the records were lost or never recorded.
At the age of eighteen, Shakespeare had married a woman named Anne Hathaway, who was eight years older than him, on November 28, 1582, in Worcester. Their first child would be born as a girl many months later on May 26, 1583, and then two years later their twins were born on February 2, 1585. Unfortunately, out of the twins one of them had died of unknown causes at the young age of eleven years old. After the birth of the twins, the next seven years of Shakespeare’s life have no records that exist. Historians have decided to refer to this period of his life as the “lost years.” There are many speculations on what exactly he was doing during this period of his life. They range from he was in hiding from a landlord to he was working as a horse attendant.
Around the early 1590s, records show that Shakespeare had become a managing partner for an acting company known as Lord Chamberlain’s Men, who later changed their name to King’s Men. The acting company was quite popular, and in this time Shakespeare had some of his works published and sold. He started to earn a living as an actor and playwright and had many of his plays produced. By 1597, he had already published fifthteen out of the thirty-seven plays he would go on to publish. At this time, records show he purchased the second largest house in Stratford due to his upcoming success. With business partners, he even built his own theater called the Globe Theater. There, many of his plays were performed for anyone who wanted to attend.
Of his thirty-seven plays, they can be distinguished into three different genres. Fourteen of them were comedy plays, eleven were historic plays, and twelve were tragedy plays. Out of these genres, his tragedies remain the most popular to this very day. From King Lear to Julius Caesar, almost each single one holds a great amount of popularity. One of the most popular of his tragedies is Macbeth. From the beginning of the play, Macbeth starts out as a loyal thane to the king. However, after learning of a prophecy that he will become the king, that loyalty is replaced with greediness. Encouraged by the prophecy and his bickering wife, he kills the king and steals the throne for himself. After more and more acts of hatred and murder towards others to secure his power, he is eventually overthrown and killed by those who he did wrong to. Some themes of ambition and fate could be drawn from Shakespeare’s tragedy play Macbeth. Even with the description of just one play, it gives a sense of how great Shakespeare’s works are as a whole.
After a life full of success and accomplishments, it is believed that Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616, which is believed to be his 52nd birthday. However, many believe this is a myth since church records show that he was interred at the Trinity Church on April 25, 1616. Regardless of that, it’s most likely he died sometime in April of 1616. In his will, he left a majority of his possessions to Susanna, who was his eldest child. A little amount of items were given to his wife Anne, which is believed to be because they grew apart.
And again because of the confusion in dates and records, many still believe that Shakespeare was not an actual person, or that the plays were just penned in his name. People believe that if he were the actual one to write the plays and poems, he would have needed some sort of higher education. Especially with how the themes were expressed and how he used metaphors, a higher education would make sense. To even build up on the confusion, the church and governments records don’t point to him being a playwright or an actor. Still regardless of what anyone thinks, the identity of Shakespeare will remain a mystery. The only thing people may do now is admire the works that were left behind in his name.
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Love in Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre pass ten years of suffering and she is about twenty when she gets married with an only person she loves. “Reader, I married him.” Jane Eyre declared with happiness. Finally, Jane Eyre becomes rich and happy with her inheritance, has two cousins, becomes wife of Mr Rochester.
While Jane Eyre declares her triumph, Charlotte Brontë was very reluctant and did not had that joy of saying so. Charlotte Brontë got married very late with a person she perhaps did not love. She married a man who can help her to care for her father. While Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester hug a beautiful love for months, Charlotte Brontë did not have any romantic love. No one could make her happy. She had to accept a clergyman who can support her father because of duty, responsibility.
Mr. Rochester continued blind the first two years of our union; perhaps it was that circumstance that drew us so very near -- that knit us so very close: for I was then his vision, as I am still his right hand. Literally, I was (what he often called me) the apple of his eye. He saw nature -- he saw books through me; and never did I weary of gazing for his behalf, and of putting into words the effect of field, tree, town, river, cloud, sunbeam -- of the landscape before us; of the weather round us -- and impressing by sound on his ear what light could no longer stamp on his eye.
This passage reveals that Jane Eyre becomes the eye, the bridge between Mr Rochester and the world. Through Jane Eyre, Mr Rochester can feel the world outside. Jane Eyre stands between Mr Rochester and the world but does not cover his sight. This constrasts to the previous stage in Thornfield before the failed wedding when Rochester stands between Jane Eyre and God and Jane does not see anything apart Rochester, in order words, she becomes blind in the light of dominated passion.
My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.
I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully is he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. I know no weariness of my Edward's society: he knows none of mine, any more than we each do of the pulsation of the heart that beats in our separate bosoms; consequently, we are ever together. To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.
Jane Eyre reads and writes for Mr Rochester is similar to the fact that Charlotte Brontë did the similar works for her father that she described in a letter she sent to M. Héger.
What is unprecedented is that this novel, conceived of from restraint and dissatisfaction, from constrained understanding and less expectation, has offered an understanding into psychosexual connections that was visionary at that time and stays dynamic in our own time. Jane Eyre faces the reality of society that is psychological as well as social forces and conflicts through various landscapes of Gateshead, of Lowood, of Thornfield, of Marsh End, and of Ferndean - themselves all scenes of mental improvement. Jane Eyre develops her spiral psychology. To the degree that social and mental powers are bigger, it offers likewise the bigger achievement. The last section starts with an unprecedented declaration that spots Jane Eyre at the focal point of the relationship. That is the idealized resolution, the psychosexual romance, the interior sincerity, the reality of fantasy, the reality of legend and the realization of dream of Charlotte Brontë.
The difference between Jane Eyre’s life and Charlotte Brontë’s life is the love union. Jane Eyre hears the proposal of marriage from Mr Rochester the second time. That is the utterances which Charlotte Brontë wished to hear from M. Héger but in vain. Charlotte Brontë used her novel to realize her dream of love. She associated life and fiction, fact and imagination, reality and romance. She attempted to gain satisfaction in her fictional novel because she cannot obtain it in her real life. She achieved her wish when she made Mr Rochester admit his love for Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre has the capability to accomplish her wish and fulfill her life while Charlotte Brontë was not able to.
When Charlotte Brontë wrote Jane Eyre, she was unsatisfied, lonely and single. She liberated her protagonist from a tragic fate. Through Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë kept on basing on her cathartic experience in Brussels. By letting Thornfield destroyed, arranging the marriage status of Mr Rochester and having Jane Eyre win the heart of Mr Rochester, Charlotte Brontë found a definitive achievement that she could not handle on in her own life, in other words, found the way to satisfy the love of Jane Eyre. This showed both the dream that still stayed in Charlotte Brontë‘s psyche and her coalition with Jane Eyre, to whom she stayed unwavering by defining her character's should be adored. The demand to be loved of Jane Eyre is fulfilled while Charlotte Brontë’s wish was not.
But Charlotte Brontë never surrendered. Charlotte Brontë bond with her character mirrors her dependability to herself, despite the fact that Charlotte Brontë frequently endures in her very own life, her flexibility drives her to push ahead. By continually advancing as an author and as a lady, she declines to submit to her sadness. She could not grasp her love, in contrast, she accomplished her career as a writer and her duty in the family. One of her success is that she permit her heroine declare the victory that Charlotte Brontë never fulfilled.
The conclusion of the novel stirred up many viewpoints. First, Jane Eyre loses her autonomy - no longer her very own individual. She combines and merges with Mr Rochester. She shares his heart and his body. Second, she loses her ability to think and express - two qualities that have characterized her for a large portion of the novel. In conversation with Mr Rochester, she she talks what Mr Rochester thinks and vice versa. Ten years in married life, she cannot use any language to express. Perhaps that is because she is too happy to need to think or express anything, except the perfect happiness.
Third, she affirms her equality. She does not give up anything when going to Mr Rochester the second timeIt is her free choice. Mr Rochester loses his house and becomes disable and blindness, and he has moral inferior because of the revelation of his past mistakes. He loses his role of financial and spiritual master. But the fact that he is available is vital. Fourth, Jane Eyre has other familial relation rather than only the love with Mr Rochester. She has Mary and Diana who can share her internal life and interest. Fifth, she escapes the stifling life with St John. By going into marriage with Mr Rochester, Jane enters into a kind of 'bond'; yet from multiple points of view this 'bond' is the 'escape' that she has looked for from the beginning. Finally, she obtains the freedom and we recall her tragic paradox childhood and girlhood.
Jane Eyre has a boy, has already ten years of perfect happiness and the rest of her life. Charlotte Brontë, dividing her time between the writing of her novel and the nursing of her weak and sightless father, could well have spoken these words with Jane Eyre. They belong to the virginal daughter who has been magically transformed – without the mediation of sexual contact – into the noble figure of the nurturing mother. Once the magical transformation has taken place, the dependence defined, the partial restoration of Mr Rochester’s vision cannot reverse the pattern of the relationship any more easily than the removal of Patrick Brontë’s cataracts could completely reestablish the old patriarchal order.
“Mr Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life—if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer—if ever I wished a righteous wish,—I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.”
I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest—blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. I know no weariness of my Edward’s society: he knows none of mine, any more than we each do of the pulsation of the heart that beats in our separate bosoms; consequently, we are ever together. To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character—perfect concord is the result.
When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were—large, brilliant, and black. On that occasion, he again, with a full heart, acknowledged that God had tempered judgment with mercy.
The suffering path of Charlotte Brontë is longer than with Jane Eyre. Till the moment of Jane Eyre was finished, she is at nearly at the same age as Charlotte Brontë. However, Charlotte Brontë still struggled to earn a livelihood. Charlotte Brontë passed thirty-eight years of suffering and had only less than one year of happiness and then passed away. Worse of all, Charlotte Brontë did not a chance to see her child. Charlotte Brontë died during pregnancy and never had any time left to give birth. She did not have a happy ending.
Concerning love, they demanded a true love. But after all, Jane Eyre had to rely on hazard luck to obtain her inherited property, love and her dream in her small happy family. The fight now reduced to a small scale of a family. (Wheeler, 2014) Jane Eyre marries a disabled, poor, blind man, a widow. At last, Jane Eyre became a stronger partner in her relationship with Mr Rochester. She had her pride in front of her husband. (Wheeler, 2014) The love dream of Jane Eyre became real but Charlotte Brontë not. Charlotte Brontë married a man she did not love and died in pregnancy. This is a bankruptcy in marriage. In effet, Sir Wemyss Reid (1877) classified Jane Eyre as a compromised marriage {Mitchell, 1994 #5}. Jane Eyre sacrifices Thornfield and the physical integrity of Mr Rochester to obtain the equality and mental integrity for Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester. Meanwhile, Charlotte Brontë obtained the temporary equality through the fact that her father’s health declined and her younger brother was disorientated in life.
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Albert Einstein Favorite Scientist
Albert Einstein is and always will be a world icon. He is a world icon because he thought outside of the box, investigated science for the good of the world, and is an inspiration for many future world leaders today. He has impacted the world in a way no one else can repeat. He created and invented many concepts in physics and sciences.
Albert Einstein thought outside of the box. Albert Einstein’s obsession with science started when his dad gave him a compass as a young child. According to a (“TIME”) article, “...he puzzled over the nature of the magnetic field for the rest of his life.” and “he tended to think in pictures rather than words.” Einstein was first amazed as how the needle in the compass acted like it was impacted by an invisible forcefield, rather than a touch contact. This theory drove his curiosity throughout his life. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is something that Einstein had a lot of. His imagination showed him more than his knowledge did, because anyone can know what everyone knows, but his imagination took him to new places that no one else had ever thought of before.
Albert Einstein investigated science for the good of the world. According to (“Biography Online”), He is in the top 5 greatest scientists of all time. Einstein had completed many papers one physics. The second paper was on the photoelectric effect, contained a revolutionary hypothesis concerning the nature of light. Einstein not only proposed that under certain circumstances light can be considered as consisting of particles, but he also hypothesized that the energy carried by any light particle, called a Photon, is proportional to the frequency of the radiation.” (Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. 2018, 1p.) Einstein also presented his general theory of relativity in the work of lectures.
He published those lectures in 1916. “Over the next few years, as physicists and others worked their own way through Einstein's theory, his extraordinary intelligence became widely known, first within the scientific and mathematics communities and then far beyond, as more and more people came to equate his name with genius.” (Albert Einstein. 8/1/2017, p1-3. 2p.). Albert Einstein also received a Nobel Prize in 1922. ”During the selection process in 1921, the Nobel Committee for Physics decided that none of the year's nominations met the criteria as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, the Nobel Prize can in such a case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then applied.” Although, he was nominated in 1921, he recieved it in 1922. (The Nobel Prize Website).
Einstein is an inspiration for many future world leaders today. According to many recources, he is one of the most well known scientists and influencers of the 20th century. Einstein was also known for not being that good at school. He was actually very smart, but he hated the disciplined style of learning. According to (HISTORY), he also avoided other children and had severe temper tantrums. His parents also worried that he had a learning disability. “...because he was very slow to learn to talk”. (A&E Television Networks) This shows others inspiration because he was a lousy and slow learning student, like most, but he still had tons of knowledge and became famous from his studies. His childhood is one of the most important contributions to his success.
From all this being said, there is no question that Albert Einstein is still the most influential scientist of the 20th century. He is a world icon because he thought outside of the box. He also investigated science for the good of the world. This makes him an inspiration for the future leaders of our world.
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