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Centurion Safety Limited is a privately held public safety firm headquartered in the United Kingdom. The firm was founded in 1879 and has emerged as a global leader in above-the-neck personal protective equipment over the course of roughly 12 decades (Centurion Limited General Information Brochure, 2014). Centurion exercises its independence to direct research activities towards technological solutions that intend to protect the creativity of intelligent design within the PPE industry.…

Martel’s comprehension of his audience allows him to utilize persuasive techniques to convince the students that his book is telling the real story of what caused the war. When listing the causes of the war, Martel writes, “we must unravel the diplomatic ties that connected these events to one another” (5), which conveys his own viewpoint rather than relating to any of the views that he previously mentioned. Martel’s use of the phrase “we must,” subtly convinces the audience that they will not…

general. He is still remembered for a quotation that all cadets at West Point, Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, and the United States Air Force Academy are supposed to memorize. This quotation was from his graduation address to the class of 1879 at West Point. Basically, this quotation was that harsh treatment of soldiers would only cause resentment, but giving commands with such a manner and tone of voice that would inspire soldiers, it would inspire in them the desire to…

staff based on merit (Timeline: Prisons in England, 2006). The Prison Act (1877) brought local prisons under the control of the central government and created a Board of Prison Commissioners, including Sir Edmund Du Cane (Terrill, 2015). Finally, in 1879 John Howard adopted reforms that resulted in the shift of emphasis from prisons being a place of punishment to reform (Timeline: Prisons in England, 2006). Ideas such as “decarceration”, replacing sentences with supervision within the…

They were used as bartering devices for families, traded off from father to husband to live in a state of constant subjugation to men. This was a time when women were treated with vitriol not because of happenstance, but because of policy. In 1879, Henrik Ibsen saw the inequalities of society and wrote a controversial play titled: A Doll’s House, which showcased the struggle a woman/wife/mother went through when coming to the realization of their own importance in life and how one may contribute…

Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie’s life embodies the true American rags to riches story. Andrew Carnegie was the son of a man with many struggles to find jobs. Due to his father’s struggles, Andrew Carnegie began to work at many different jobs; he worked in two factories before he found a stable job at a railroad company. Andrew Carnegie rose through the ranks at the company until becoming the secretary for the superintendent. His many trips to England brought his eye to steel which would later…

Philosophers have been thinking about the mind for centuries, however advancement of techniques during the 20th century allowed the discovery of measurable concepts such as reaction times, leading to the notion that a mathematical description of the mind is possible. With inputs from philosophy and sociology, and more recently from physiology and biology, the existence of two opposing approaches is created. ‘Neither of these definitions, however, is satisfactory to the psychology of today’…

What does it mean when someone is called an “Exoduses”? Why did southern blacks participate in the “exodus”? The first and most powerful exodus was in biblical days when Moses inspired by God led the Israelites out of Egypt out of the hands of Pharaoh who held them as slaves for over four hundred years. In retrospect, the same applies to the African American. The Jewish people had to deal with slavery, brutality, and denial of basic right was also the fate of African American. Thus, the name…

Science has revolutionized our world with unimaginable advancements in technology. From the brilliant minds of William Whewell (who coined the English word “science”) to the modern day scientist like Stephen William Hawking (who contributed to the vast amount of today’s knowledge on cosmology and quantum gravity). Furthermore, science has become so advanced in this day-in-age that it has been split apart into different sections that each cover a broad range of technological information,…

Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim are two of the founding figures of sociology. They were the first to explore the relationship between the economy and society in the nineteenth and twentieth century, each developing different perspectives of society. Despite them having significantly different views on modern capitalism, they both played a prominent role in the development of sociology as an academic discipline. This essay provides a biography of Marx and Durkheim and the major works they published.…