Shared secret

Communication is used everywhere, every day, in everyone’s lives. Because it has such an important role within cultures across the board, it is vital to understand the act of communication to better understand those around you. Authors of A First Look at Communication Theory Griffin, Ledbetter and Sparks explain communication by breaking it into separate theories throughout the book. I have chosen just a few that were personally impactful and are the most relatable of all the communication…

Market Street where I was greeted by my crew leaders Mel and Jenny. The rest of my crew members arrived and we made our way to Independence National Historic Park Headquarters. Toni, the park’s landscape architect, introduced herself to the crew. She shared stories about the first parks that emerged during the 1800s. We learned that because wealthy people were the only ones who could afford to have a park built on their property, cemeteries were the first parks that were introduced to the…

do moral things. Everyone in this world is expected to follow a set of ethics, set by themselves. It is very clear that society & circumstances dictate an individual’s personal ethics as well as moral obligations. But, it is interesting to see how shared/personal knowledge play a role, while doing moral actions. We often wonder how our actions at present will impact those in future and whether these actions are ethical. “According to moral relativism, our values are determined by the society we…

soon became known that Napoleon intended to sow it with barley.”(112). Napoleon, being the dictator he intended to be, decided to be selfish and replace a retirement ground for his own good. Also, the barley, that was used to make beer from, was only shared among the pigs with Napoleon getting half a gallon daily and the rest of the pigs getting a pint of beer daily. Napoleon symbolizes Joseph Stalin and his dictatorship in Russia. Joseph Stalin took Trotsky’s idea of a five-year plan and…

never felt love, as love has no age, and a person can fall in love at any point in their life. Nevertheless, the largest secret is Old Hamlet’s Ghost in the castle. This secret is emphasised throughout the play; Hamlet made his friends, Horatio and Marcellus swear, saying “Never make known what you have seen tonight” (I, iv, 149). This secret is kept between this group, not shared with Ophelia, which shows Hamlet’s unwillingness to share his life with her. Soon after, he makes his plan of a…

his points are going to be a huge help overall to every country they applied to, and they were. “Wilson 's Fourteen Points won him acclaim around the globe. People from all walks of life welcomed Wilson 's vision of an international system based on shared mutual interests and collective security. The Fourteen Points became the moral standard to which liberals and Socialists rallied.” Leading to the forming of the League of Nations and eventually national tranquility, the Fourteen points were a…

sacrifices. This is seen in the two characters, Margery Kempe and Lanval, as described in the Book of Margery by Margery Kempe and Lanval by Marie de France. Margery is a wife and mother turned Christian mystic. Lanval is an honorable Knight who shares a secret love with a mysterious…

"Yes boss, it is the same signature. No, I am still looking into it." "I understand, a report will be ready when you return. Have a safe trip." She hung up and placed the phone into her lab coat's pocket before she slid on a new pair of rubber gloves, prepared for another long night in the cold autopsy room. No pun intended, but the cold never bothered her anyway. Securing the procedure mask over her tall nose and thin lips, she focused on the lifeless body that lay face up on the large…

Figuring out the identity of oneself can be a struggle because with it comes the disclosure of dark secrets that oneself has to accept in order to truly recognize who he or she is. “A Line In The Sand” is a Canadian play that was recently presented at the Factory Theatre in Toronto. The play was authored by two renowned playwrights Guillemore Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef. The play was established in the era of the Gulf war and deals with a number of complex posts and pre-war issues. One of the…

All people have conflicts that arise within themselves and their conscience. To most it is clear this is happening in their own mind, but to some it is difficult to differ between reality and fantasy. In the short stories, William Wilson and The Secret Sharer, both of the narrators can be interpreted to suffer from split personality disorder just as Dr. Jekyll did in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Each of these stories explores the concepts of good and evil and the idea that mental…