Emily Brontë, author of Wuthering Heights, once staged a hunger strike to protest her father when he fired a beloved servant. She not only rebelled against her father's authority as a teenager, but later in her life, she also refused medical treatment that would have helped ease her tuberculosis while on her deathbed. These two instances provide evidence of Brontë's anorectic behaviors, thus demonstrating clear parallels to the theme of anorexia in Wuthering Heights. During the time of Brontë's life, and in the setting of the novel, women were assumed to be "angels in the house," completely devoted to their husband and familial role. This stereotypical domestic feminine role left women feeling trapped and powerless. In the novel, Catherine's refusal of food and anorectic behaviors demonstrate this feeling of powerlessness, as she is unable to escape the stereotypical female role. Her anorexia exemplifies her attempts to subvert her gender ro

The state of nature is life without any ruling powers of government or law. Although it is a legitimate concept, it is not something that is attainable; it may seem possible, but it is not. Humanity cannot exist without rules, guidelines, and disciplines for these are what prevent us from making poor choices or causing another person harm. Thomas Hobbes, the founding father of political philosophy, saw the state of nature from the perspective that all men are violent and are determined to be the most powerful and significant. John Locke, a well-known philosopher and political theorist, believed that the state of nature was an innate need for individuals to help others and seek peaceful solutions to conflict. Thomas Hobbes' theory of the state of nature implies that everyone must rely on themselves for survival. I agree with Hobbes' theory on state of nature because man has had an urge to always want more and he will

The Yoshimura kiln is a Japanese technological development currently being implemented in Cambodia. As an alternative to the inefficient traditional charcoal kilns, the Yoshimura requires 30% less fuel for production, produces a charcoal that is approximately 15% more calorific and shortens the carbonization process from up to two weeks to just nine days. Unlike a traditional kiln, the Yoshimura enables producers to control the carbonization process by making it possible to adjust the amount of heat used. The result is the production of high-quality charcoal in a short amount of time, which makes the Yoshimura kiln much more efficient than the traditional method; and because it consumes less wood, the Yoshimura is also environmentally sustainable. The best part about this is that Geres Association trains community members in Cambodia to hand-build the kilns using local raw materials while following quality standards to ensure their efficiency. Although

The readings "Letter to a Young Poet" by Ranier Maria Rilke and Hermann Hesse's "Siddhartha," do much to advance their readers' understanding of the question "What is the Good Life?" Taken together, they suggest a certain path to attaining the Good Life that is centered around the physical and spiritual journey in which every individual embarks, but key differences exist between them as Letter to a Young Poet focuses on the individual living life's questions while Siddhartha proclaims that the individual must renounce the worldly pursuit of such questions in order to fully understand and obtain the "Good Life." The works of Ranier Maria Rilke and Hermann Hesse are united on several ideas regarding achieving the "Good Life," beginning with the central concept of a journ

In his view of politics, Aristotle saw politics as a scientific study that is demanding to politicians like the way medical science might be of concern to physicians or medicine practitioners (Aristotle, and David, 321). He argues that just as people acknowledge doctors or health workers as experts at demanding and persuading patients, the same goes for politicians whose primary objective is to persuade the masses into learning and agreeing with their ideas. Aristotle further argues that politicians frame and make the appropriate constitution for their respective nations. As for them once the constitution is in place, they take the necessary actions in maintaining the same laws and every time that they wish, they introduce reforms that slow down expansion which will eventually lead to a disturbance in the entire political system. As for this essay, it will involve the discussion over Aristotle's stand on politics with a clear indication of how he understands politics based on the three

Functions of Management Management is a process involving the responsibility solely aimed at effective planning and regulation of economic laws in an enterprise in order to fulfill a given purpose. It's a dynamic process made up of various elements and activities which are different from operative functions such as finance, marketing, purchase, etc. Different management experts came up with the functions of management. As outlined by Hamidovic, N. (2012) fundamental functions of management include organizing, planning, leading and controlling. Planning Planning is the first managerial function in which the manager creates a detailed plan aiming at another organizational goal. It is an ongoing step that is highly specialized according to their division goals, team goals, organizational goals, and departmental goals. It's the manager's task to see that the goals are planned in his or her individual area. Planning is made up of several steps such as environmental scanning where the planners must be conversant with the key issues facing the organization such as customer desire

Imagine waking up one morning and walking outside to cars flying, moon's dancing and robots prodding down the street. That may be cool, right? It sure would be quite the change, although those examples may be quite a bit overboard. The story of "Rip Van Winkle," by Washington Irving, tells the tale of the protagonist, Rip Van Winkle, and his trip to the future. Although he didn't encounter any robots, he was in a whole new world and yet he didn't realize it at first. He came to realize his wife's death, and that his kids had grown up. Throughout the story, Rip Van Winkle lived a passive life, even before his long nap. The argument that Rip is passive can be seen before he sleeps, how he deals with his wife, and how he resumes life after he wakes up 20 years later. In the story of "Rip Van Winkle", it seems as though the character that the story revolves around is passive and doesn't strive to be greater. Does he have a purpose to live for? The first reason this

How much do the decisions we make on a daily basis impact our lives? Even little things we decide to do that may seem insignificant, or like they won't have any impact could determine how the rest of our day goes. While it may be dramatic, even choosing to walk a little faster or slower could cost us our life. Most of us know how rash, impulsive, and quickly-made decisions usually lead to some pretty nasty consequences, but none are usually as big and severe as what happens in the play "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare. The simple decisions of free will that the two love birds made, that were not carefully thought through and ill-advised eventually lead to the lovers undoing. It my not always seem like it but much of our life is controlled by free will. And the choices we make from the moment we are born, until we die is how people build their character and is a way of choosing how our lives lead on. This is shown throughout the play in many moments such as when Romeo

Introduction Frank Robinson Frank Robinson was born in Carbonado, Washington in 1930. The youngest of four children, he grew up during the Depression. At the age of nine, Frank saw a picture in the Seattle Post Intelligencer of Igor Sikorsky hovering his VS300 Prototype helicopter. The idea that a machine could remain stationary in the air fascinated Frank and set the course for his life's work. As a young man, he worked his way through college focusing his education on helicopter design. In 1957, he earned a BSME degree from the University of Washington and later attended graduate school at the University of Wichita. Robinson began his career in 1957 at the Cessna Aircraft Company working on the CH-1 Skyhook helicopter, which is still in use today. After 3 1/2 years at Cessna, he spent one year at Umbaugh working on the certification of its gyroplane, which is a combination of an airplane and a helicopter. Mr. Robinson then spent 4 1/2 years at McCulloch Motor Company doing desig

Olivia is a student at Crenshaw High School, who's only salvation was school. Her mother would constantly beat, whip and scald her with hot water. At the age of twelve, Olivia called a runaway shelter and became a foster child. She was constantly moved from foster home to foster home. To support herself financially, Olivia worked a graveyard hour job where she would wear a little black dress and would talk, dance, and play pool with the customers to make six dollars an hour plus tips. However, despite her graveyard hour job, she still managed to keep up with school and maintain her good grades. Eventually, due to her unprivileged circumstances, her need of money, and desperation Olivia got involved with check fraud and was sentenced to go to a juvenile camp for a year. However, Olivia is a resourceful, and persuasive girl that will find educational success because of her work ethic. Having a rough childhood can emotionally affect one's life. The lack of love from her mother affected Olivia physically and emotionally. Olivia might have

Lacrosse was one of the many stickball tribal games played by the Eastern Woodlands Native Americans in the early 1600's. It is one of the oldest team sports in North America originating from Canada and the Great Lakes. At the time, traditional lacrosse games could last for hours or even days. As many as 100 to 1,000 men from opposing tribes would participate with the goals ranging from 500 yards to six miles. The game was played from sunset until sundown with it concluding after 20 points had been scored. There was no out of bounds, no penalties, and the only rule was you couldn't touch the ball with your hands. The game began with the ball being tossed into the air and the two sides rushing to catch it. Because there were so many players, mobs of people would rush at one another with the ball moving very slowly across the field. Surprisingly, passing the ball was thought of as a trick, and it was seen as cowardly to dodge an opponent. The coaches were both males and females

As stated by Peter F. Drucker, "Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant." Performance management is essential to achieving an organization's mission statement and business goals, and also in attracting, retaining, and motivating qualified employees. There are many benefits and reasons why an organization should execute a performance management system. Performance appraisals establish the basis for qualifying, recognizing, and rewarding employee contributions. In this paper, I will discuss what performance management is, the problems with the current performance management system at my organization, how other organizations have succeeded in their performance management system, and how I would advise management at my current organization to improve our performance management system. A performance management system should consist of planning, monitoring, reviewing, and ev

Since 1973, when the Supreme Court made their decision to legalize abortion because of the Roe v. Wade case, about one out of three pregnancies end in abortion. This means that 1.2 million abortions are performed in the United States each year (Guttmacher). Recently, abortion has been a huge moral dilemma. It is currently one of the most controversial issues, stirring heated legal, political, and ethical debates. The modern debate over abortion is a conflict of competing moral ideas and of fundamental human rights to life and control of one's own body. Trying to come to some sort of a compromise has proven that you cannot please all the people on each side of the debate, so the only solution would be to meet somewhere in the middle where those who are pro-life and pro-choice can agree on the terms where abortion should be justified. Both sides of this debate are very passionate about their opinions making it difficult to reach a compromise. Many of those who are pro-choice insist that

Dear ________, You are Beautiful. You deserve the world. You are an amazing person. I wish I could give you everything you want and deserve. You deserve to be happy. You deserve to have people care about you. You deserve to be told every day how beautiful you are. You are my world, my everything, my one true love. I want you to be happy more than anything else. I would give up everything I have for you. You are beautiful, intelligent, caring, loving, determined, funny, ambitious, considerate, bold, brave, kind, loyal, lovable, and perfect. You take my breath away every time I see you. I love you and miss you every second we are apart. Never in my life have I felt more dedicated to anything. I pledge my life and my love to you and I promise to keep investing my time and energy into you and what we have together. Every day I learn something new about you and I am always reminded of how amazing you are. Whenever we are apart, I am constantly thinking of you. It is crazy how every little thing can remind me of you. Your smile, your laugh, and the sound of your voice are never fa

In economics, the law of supply and demand explains the amount of a commodity, product, or service available and the desire that consumers/buyers have for it. In agriculture, the fluctuating supply and demand for a certain product determines the price of that product to the consumer. There are numerous aspects that can alter the demand in an industry such as vegetable producing, primarily revolving around the consumers taste and preferences or expectations of the product. In the past year, the overall demand for celery has been on the rise, as celery is becoming more common of a purchase at the grocery store for the average civilian (Boyd.) According to Fresh Trends 2013, six in ten shoppers have purchased the nutritious commodity in the past year, increasing the likelihood of celery purchase for the fifth consecutive year (Boyd.) This exemplifies the demand for celery is growing all around the country as the produce business has been thriving on the east coast recently, specifically in the town of Boston (Offner.) According to wholesalers, Boston has seen a dramatic increase in demand for vegetables and produce in both retail and food

The United States of America is typically portrayed as one of the top countries in the world with an amazing economy, society, and political structure. This trifecta should create an environment conducive to societal interaction with and within politics, but has worked against its own interests. Our political system affects every citizen within the country as it provides them with a myriad of services; military protection, regulatory committees to protect our markets, and a Congressional and Executive branch to react to both internal and external stimuli on a world scale. Reasonable taxes are a small price to pay for such encompassing protection for you and your family; past, present and future. With literally everything from political relationships, to our markets, to our understanding of math and sciences changing before our very eyes, it's to be expected that Americans would want a dynamic system to adequately react and prepare for further changes in the world structure not only by

All over the world, people find joy by taking extreme risks. They willingly jump out of moving airplanes, climb mountains tens of thousands of feet high, and dive off extremely high cliffs into the ocean below; completely insane events in which to partake. With one slight miscalculation, your whole life could be thrown away - yet tons of people treat it as though it were a leisure activity. They find it enjoying. It adds excitement to otherwise boring lives. Not only in the real world but in books fictional characters take dangerous risks as well. Two of these characters share the life of risk, despite their various differences. Santiago, from Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, chaises after the fish of his life alone in the middle of the Gulf. Likewise, Jay Gatsby, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, chaises after the love of his life, knowing very well she is now married to another man. Gatsby and Santiago show courage while committing to risky situations

The 1980s was the time of The Reagan Revolution. Reagan used supply-side economics as a way to justify cutting taxes. This held in that tax reductions towards investors and businesses would create more jobs and set the economy on a better path. Another issue that was gaining momentum was the women's movement. Many social and economic changes were happening during the 80s; this can be seen in the pop culture of the 80s. Pretty Woman (1990) is an example hereof. A movie where one of the main characters is a prostitute, Vivian Ward and the other is a business tycoon, Edward Lewis. These two individuals come from completely different social classes, and their authority on others is on different levels. I want to argue that Pretty Woman shows the division between classes and the economic aftereffects of the Reagan-era and that women, as portrayed in the movie, only had glimpses of independence. Pretty Woman's portrayal of class differences can be seen throughout the movie. In t

Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness takes the reader back in time to the years of the Jim Crow Era and proceeds to the years of the present. She analyzes many different studies and statistics in order to prove her point. Her point is how America hasn't ended the racial caste system, America just redesigned it. By targeting black men through the war on drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control." (Alexander, Summary) Even though America establishes the principle of colorblindness, the system is relegating millions to a second class status. A Foreword written by Cornell West describes the book in short as "a genuine resurrection of the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. amid the confusion of the age of Obama." (Alexander, Foreword) "This book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of

Silence I wait expectantly in the stillness. What am I waiting for? As I sit here watching, resting on my bed of soil, I look up at the sky. I observe the birds as they soar through the sky so freely and hear their beautiful songs, bringing their melancholy lament to my ears. I can feel the sun on my hard skin; she scintillates on the tips of my arms, making them glow. I watch the flowers follow the sun as if they are worshipping her. I see all of the world around me dancing as the wind breathes over us, but still I am waiting. Clouds lie peacefully in the sky, bathing in the warm glow from the sun. I wait with uncertainty, what lies ahead is still a mystery. Can we ever truly know what the future holds so tightly in its hands? Noise I am awakened by the sound of monsters. There was nothing to stop them. I see them. I hear them. I feel them. T

Timothy Findley, through his well-written short story "War," excellently proposes an important message that the occurrence of war does not only affect the relationship of the main communities involved, but also countless innocent lives. Findley, by setting his story in a small farmland in the Rural Ontario during WWII, in addition to introducing the struggle of a young boy named Neil who is forced to accept his father's departure to war, highlights the emotional complications that war creates in many individual's lives. Although it is universally understood that war illustrates a violent and unsafe atmosphere at the battlefield. The event of war tends to portray the differences between the main communities involved throughout the world. However, in this portrayal, the emotions and perspectives of the common, everyday individuals are overlooked, clearly indicating that the opinions of a common man do not hold any importance in front of the country's political decisions. Therefore, Findl

Herman Hesse's "Siddhartha" is a classic story about a young man in search of enlightenment. Siddhartha, in his home village, has everything he needs and does not struggle. However, he longs for something more in life which he is not receiving. After not feeling satisfied with the traditions and practices in his home village's religion, he begins his journey seeking someone to show him or take him towards enlightenment. He joins many different lifestyles and follows many different people while on his journey hoping that one of them would lead them to his goal. However, what Siddhartha does not initially realize is that this feeling he is searching for cannot be taught but instead discovered from within himself. After spending most of his life jumping from person to person, he ultimately see's that what he had been searching for was there with him the whole time. In Herman's Siddhartha, the main character (Siddhartha) is in search of enlightenment, however,

A sociological imagination is the capacity to think systematically about how things we experience as personal problems. Student debt, poverty, and obesity are all examples of common social issues that people share similar experiences with. Sociologist, C. Wright Mills, came up with the idea of sociological imagination and wrote that, "the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society." Mills explains that to understand the world around us, we have to think in a deep way about how it works and how we can improve it and ourselves (Arum, Haney, and Manza 2013). Sociological imagination helps us to ask hard questions and seek answers about the social worlds we live in and can help reach our own personal goals. Sociological imagination also challenges us to engage our thoughts and think critically and creatively. By doing that, it can help us understand our social issues that we encounter and improve society On

School plays a vital role in my life. I have spent more than fourteen years of my life at school so that I can have all the qualifications, credits, knowledge, and the degree to do anything and to be anywhere I want to be in life. Two out of the four levels of school, high school and college, are the most important. Sometimes I think that high school and college are the same, but if I break the aspects of both high school and college, there are a lot of differences between the two. Although high schools and colleges both function as essential houses of learning in our modern society, they vary in class structure, athletic programs, and student responsibilities. The first significant difference that I experience in high school and college are the classes. In my high school classes, it was always easy to get away with assignments and classwork. What I mean by "get away" is that even if I do not pay attention or miss a class, I can easily go to one of my classmates and get all the materi

American Psycho was released in 2000 as a film version of Bret Easton Ellis's controversially crude novel. Mary Harron did an outstanding job directing this satirical film. Christian Bale plays the main role of Patrick Bateman who is a dominant Wall Street hot head that is very rarely satisfied. Christie (Cara Seymour) is a kind-hearted prostitute who Patrick visits on a couple occasions. Krista Sutton takes on the part of Sabrina, a higher end escort who Bateman takes full advantage of. In one famous scene from American Psycho Patrick has these two prostitutes over to his New York City high-rise apartment for more "fun" than they anticipate. Patrick is played as a satirical version of the self-absorbed Wall Street brokers in the 1980s. He also has anger problems that he cannot seem to contain. The director uses music and Phil Collins references in this scene in order to foreshadow events. Mary Harron is also trying to convey the dangers of prostitution through violence