basement as a place of practice; he consented and the 120 styles began to formulate. By 1979 through Allah’s Supreme Mathematics all things became clear pertaining to the martial arts and the Black Gods were able to unite the styles together into a conglomeration of 120. Also, it was the FOA’s objective to teach their people the true history of the martial arts, its origin and how it first started with the Original People. Note: All styles are…
In his dialogue Timaeus, Plato discusses the nature of the physical world as well as its purposes and properties. He claims that since nothing becomes or changes without some cause, then the cause of the universe must be a demiurge or god. He goes on to claim that since the universe is fair, this shows that god looked to the eternal model in order to create it. According to Plato, god needed to look at something in order to create the universe and the eternal perfect world of forms was his…
desired message towards a targeted audience in order to achieve their ultimate goal of selling their product. This essay examines the Katy Perry ‘Killer Queen’ perfume advertisement with a semiotic analysis approach. Furthermore, it analyses the conglomeration of connotations, denotations, indexical signs, symbolic signs, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations represented throughout the advert. It additionally explores the approaches of Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Peirce’s and their views…
History unveils the profound social, religious, economic, political and cultural transition that many nations have undergone since long. They have discarded some traditional practices while adopting others, catering to new circumstances as conglomeration of different cultures, emerging as new cultures. The idea of modernity caused the process of accepting and adopting alien cultures, which has acquired global identity. Through migration, displacement of people, translation of works, study of…
The United States, a melting point of ethnicities, was founded as a nation of diverse populations coming together for one central goal: freedom. Years later and the definition of freedom has been distorted and altered. The country has seen racial and gender oppression of many sorts, from Native American residents to Mexican immigrants, that still continues in many ways today. With a surplus of ethnicities, there lie a surplus of cultures. These cultures represent themselves with different…
Upon acceptance of a position a drug screening should have been arranged. If a person wants a true test, they should be tested as soon as possible. This should have been followed up upon much earlier. The training room had been double booked for the time that was needed by Carl and Monica, with technology services for computer training seminars on the new data software implementation. This mistake perhaps falls on the Operations Department. Along with the double booking the training manuals…
GMO Labeling: A Path Toward Food Transparency Imagine being transported back in time to 1955. Inside a family run grocery store, there are isles of canned vegetables and soups. Even more shelves were lined with multicolored boxed cereals, bottles of soda pop, and various soaps. As creative as each product’s label appeared, none of them contained nutritional information, ingredient lists, or allergy warnings. A consumer had little more than their own taste buds to guide them…
When confronted with cultural differences, people tend to ignore practices that they find unattractive. They look away not out of fear or grief, but rather confusion and conflicting thoughts. A practice found in a culture might conflict with their deepest moral beliefs. Yet people find themselves asking the question, “Who am I to say that isn 't right?” Or they will answer in defense of a conflicting culture, “That 's just your opinion.” There is an obvious discourse here. Are morals…
According to The News Observer, “The first official slave owner in colonial America was a black man, not white.” While slavery did play a large role in the actions of Southerners in the early 1860’s, slavery was not the only issue. The idea of slavery did not begin when the first captured Africans were brought to Jamestown, Virginia by entrepreneurial English settlers. People have been enslaving one another since the birth of humanity. Southerners, though, felt that their very way of life…
Hector Sanchez 58 years old, is married to Celia and is the father of Junior, Emilia, Vicki, Gloria, Alejandro, and Carmen. His is the grandfather of Joey and the uncle to Roberto Salazar. He came to the United States in 1979 as an undocumented young agricultural worker. In 1986, Hector was given a green card making him a legal permanent resident. He then applied for the same statue for his wife and three children they had at the time. They have since had three children who are all United State…