Miscellaneous Essays
Talking about love
Talking about love Talking about love. What is love? It may seem like a stupid question, but on second examination, it doesn’t seem quite so stupid. After all, love is a feeling. How can we really describe what a feeling is or means? The meaning of any feeling can differ greatly between individuals, and the meaning of love is no different. In “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” Raymond Carver weaves a tale of two couples examining what love is. Whi...
Sumthn called music
Sumthn called music Punk Music in North America: November 7th From Yesteryear to Here Punk music is a unique form of music which incorporates heavy, raw and distorted guitars; intricate, deep sounding bass lines; high paced, pounding drum beats; and vocals that catapult ideologies of a world run by anarchy. Punk is a form of underground music which appeals to people who are either bored or dissatisfied with the way the world works. In The Merriam Webster Dictionary the definition...
Supertitions
Supertitions SUPERSTITIONS INTRODUCTION Superstition, a belief or practice generally regarded as irrational and as resulting from ignorance or from fear of the unknown. It implies a belief in unseen and unknown forces that can be influenced by objects and rituals. Magic, witchcraft, and occultism are often referred to as superstitions. In general, superstitious practices are most common in situations involving a high degree of uncertainty. The question of what is or is not supersti...
Supply and demand 2
Supply and demand 2 Recent medical advances have greatly enhanced the ability to successfully transplant organs and tissue. Forty-five years ago the first successful kidney transplant was performed in the United States, followed twenty years later by the first heart transplant. Statistics from the United Network for Organ Sharing (ONOS) indicate that in 1998 a total of 20,961 transplants were performed in the United States. Although the number of transplants has risen sharply in recent years...
Supply and demand for the pors
Supply and demand for the pors The Porsche Boxter Unveiled in February 1996 at a low-profile motor show in Hamburg, the Porsche Boxter was not born on a computer screen or in a focus group, but in the hearts, minds and imaginations of a small band of engineers with a passion for driving. Many were surprised when Porsche unveiled its new sports car, but later they realised that this was no ordinary car, it was special. Ever since the first display of the prototype, the Boxter receiv...
Supportive communication (mana
Supportive communication (mana Supportive Communication (Managers) Most managers in the workplace find that the most important factor in promotability is effective communication. With this in mind it is strange to see that many managers and employees within organizations lack effective communication skills. In fact, managers still find effective communication to be the biggest problem in organizations. Why do so many people lack these skills? This is often due to the fact that empl...
Success
Success Success “One has achieved success who has lived well and laughed often.” This quote seems to sum up what is meant by success. If you are able to laugh often and much then you have definitely achieved happiness. The idea of living well, though, is a very broad statement. In order, then, to define success in relation to this statement, we must first define what it means to live well. There are three levels of success, in my opinion: societal success, perso...
Sudden infant death syndrome i
Sudden infant death syndrome i Sudden Infant Death Syndrome SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) is a traumatic and tragic disease that affects thousands of babies throughout the world every year. There is no way of explaining the death of a child that has SIDS and there are no real ways of predicting if it could happen to any baby. What makes SIDS even worse is that the source of what exactly may be the cause of it is still unknown. Advanced research in the last 30 years ha...
Sufism
Sufism Islam, as a religion, is divided into two different sects, Sunni and Shi’i. These divisions have their own separate values and rituals that create an unconquerable schism between them. The gap, however, is somewhat bridged by a twist on the Islamic faith known as Sufism. The mystic ways of the Sufi society make it very appealing to both Sunnis and Shiites, not to mention the newcomers to the Islamic faith. Sufism uses the quality of unification and the quality of appeal to m...
Suicide and the agony of seper
Suicide and the agony of seper The nature of the forces which motivate a person to take his or her own life usually remain hidden from those who are left behind, for if the suicide has been completed, no further psychological inquiries can be made, and if incomplete, only tentative hypotheses are possible due to the fact that there really was not a suicide. However, there does seem to be a common mental condition which underlies not only suicide (whether completed, abandoned, or thwarted)...
Suicide is not choosen
Suicide is not choosen The intentional killing of oneself or an act that is destructive to oneself (Oxford, 919). That statement hits home with many people in this world. It is this whispered word that one parent may tell another parent how their child attempted suicide. Suicide seems to be a hushed subject that isn't spoken about as much as Aids or STD's; which I find absoulty amazing. The amazing factor is that Suicide is listed by the National Center for Health Statistics as the numbe...
Summary of latex allergy
Summary of latex allergy Summary on Latex Allergy in the Workplace (from JADA) Latex Allergy in the Workplace first talks about the background of the obvious problem of Latex allergy. Natural rubber latex is extracted from the milky sap of the rubber tree Hevea Braziliensis namely in Malaysia. The history of Latex gloves began over a hundred years ago. The first recorded incidence of hypersensitivity (allergic reaction) to the natural rubber Latex occurred in 1939. Because of ...
Subliminal advertising 3
Subliminal advertising 3 Subliminal Advertising The United States ad industry consists of many agencies whose job it is to make sure that the American consumers buy their clients’ products. As many people get smart enough to look past the physical eye tricks the ads may play on them, the agencies have turned to subliminal messages to get their point across. From garbage bag advertisements to those for hard liquor, subliminal advertising almost always has an effect, usually wi...
Subliminal advertising is fair
Subliminal advertising is fair Why Subliminal Advertising is Fair to American Consumers The United States ad industry consists of many ad agencies whose job it is to make sure that the American consumers buy their clients products. As many people get smart enough to look past the physical eye tricks the ad may play on them, the ad agencies has turned to subliminal messages to get their message across. From garbage bag advertisements to the advertisements for the hardest type of liquo...
Subliminial messages
Subliminial messages "People are exposed to some subliminal stimuli at all times throughout life" (Koponen, 97). A subliminal message is an insufficiently intense message used to produce a discrete sensation by influencing one's mental process or behavior. "Subliminal stimuli range from those just below threshold to those that are infinitely weak" (Koponen, 97). The theory that human behavior can be controlled by messages that bypass conscious perception and operate directly on the unc...
Submarines
Submarines Submarines I chose to do my Physics final on submarines. I chose it because when I was a kid I was really interested in submarines. Also I wanted to learn about the people that invented them. The first submarine that was made was a wooden rowboat that was covered with a waterproof cowhide. The man that first built it was named Cornelius van Drebble. He showed off his invention in England, the year was about 1620. They called his submarine, “Father of the Submarine.R...
Success in times of paradox
Success in times of paradox A series of strange symptoms of poisoning appeared on a girl Zhu Lin unexpectedly: hair lost, muscles on the face paralyzed, limbs weakened, and words slurred. No one can tell what is the cause. Life is in danger! One of her classmates emailed for help on Internet. Fortunately, the first reply arrived in less than three hours. Afterwards, over 1,500 emails reached her. Most of the replies analysed that Zhu Lin had been thallium poisoned. It is the Inter...
Student feelings on school vio
Student feelings on school vio Statement of Purpose The purpose of this questionnaire is to measure the extent to which school staff and students agree with statements that sufficient measures to prevent school violence exist. Furthermore, it will reveal staff and student classifications in the areas of gender, whether the subject is a staff member or student, and the grade level if the subject is a student. Description of Population This pilot survey was conducted by gathering respons...
Student preparedness
Student preparedness The article titled “Teaching Responsibility” deals with the issue of student preparedness after high school. The article brings up the recent case of Jonathan Govias who is suing his private high school stating that the school did not prepare him for university. The article goes on to give two examples, one in Virginia and one in Ontario of how these types of problems are being dealt with. The editor agrees s that the school system should be held more resp...
Study guide for european histo
Study guide for european histo Study guide for European History or Global Studies 1. Petrarch.- Called the "Father of all Humanism." Revered Roman Cicero above all others. Followed Cicero's example of elequence and put emphasis upon language such as Latin and Greek. 2. Medici.- Wealthy banking family controlling Florence. Had much influence in government and influenced The Signoria, the ruling council in Florence. Created a lasting dynasty with children who had...
Stupidity
Stupidity Stupidity By: JM Most people say being stupid will lead no where. They claim that it is the worst possible condition in which to spend ones life, and if possible, it should be completely avoided. Yet, perhaps if people took a closer look at some of the advantages stupidity had to offer, they wouldn't have such a negative attitude toward it. Admittedly, stupidity has certain disadvantages. Life isn't a bowl of cherries. And being stupid doesn't make it any fruitier. Being stupid ...
Style analysis for see them di
Style analysis for see them di Style Analysis for See them Die, McBain aims to lead the reader into the bleak litter-strewn environment of a crowded American slum with its inherent threat of violence. Two dominating forces, Heat and July, established in the first two words, emerge as double personifications, prostitutes, in the first paragraph, their brazen ‘vengeance’, strutting insolently, garishly, born to make you suffer. Here the tone is aggressive, and menacing as...
Subliminal advertising 2
Subliminal advertising 2 Subliminal Advertising Is what we consciously see all there is to see? Subliminal advertising surrounds people all day long. It is “believed that one can influence behavior by secretly appealing to the subconscious mind with words, images and sounds” (Lenchnar 3). Throughout the years there have been many examples of subliminal advertising ranging from the word sex hidden in ice cubes to subliminal messages on Windows 95. Attempts have been made t...
Stress in the workplace
Stress in the workplace STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE 1. In today’s fast paced Air Force, it is very common to hear someone in an office saying "I’m so stressed out". With the big drawdown of personnel in all the armed forces, the Air Force was no exception. We were forced to do more with less. So for this one reason, it is likely that you will find stress is prevalent in the workplace. Because different people respond differently to the same type of stress, some people se...
Stress management 2
Stress management 2 What is stress? Stress is a part of day to day living. As a college student I experience stress meeting academic demands, adjusting to a different schedule every week, or developing relationships with others. The stress I or anyone else experience is not necessarily harmful; in fact, stress is a normal part of life. Although we tend to think of stress as caused by external events, events in themselves are not stressful. Rather, it is the way in which we interpret and reac...