advocacy piece. Megan H. Mackenzie lets the audience know that she disagrees with the current regulations on women in the military. She then spends the next pages arguing for why women should be allowed, even invalidating counterarguments. In one example about physical fitness of women, she says, “The argument continues to receive a significant amount of attention in the United States, despite the fact that other militaries across the world have found that with proper training and necessary…
Neuroeconomics: the neuroscience of decision making Neuroscience is a scientific field that studies brain activity though changes in brain blood flow. Neuroscience is the discipline in charge of studying through the nervous system activation that occurs in areas of the brain. The body receives information by its interaction with the world and that information gets through our senses, that information is caught from the nervous system and passes through the spinal cord until it arrives to the…
1. The boys from MK Place were super excited during the Lava Hot Springs swimming trip. Most of them were finished riding the waterslide, and were just hanging out, splashing water, the excitement was beginning to rise. Bill Smith, the direct care staff, could sense the escalation…
following passages are examples of a few statistics used in the article that, like ethos, makes the article reliable and trustworthy. “According to The Economist, 91 percent of online searches are done through American companies’ services, and 99 percent of smartphones run on American-made operating systems.” “American fund managers handle 55 percent of the world’s assets. American businesses host 61 percent of the world’s social media users.” These are just a couple of the many examples of how…
The thesis focuses on the Expressivism and Aristotelian argumentation of Alasdair MacIntyre’s Ethics in the Conflict of Modernity. Throughout my academic career I have delved into various aspects of philosophical, political, and religious teaching all of which have encompassed ideals of theistic ethics. Today, I will present a claim conceived by Alasadair MacIntyre in his book Ethics in the Conflict of Modernity. I will use the other philosophers as the occasion arises as I provide support for…
In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Mallard at first grieves over the death of her husband, but when she gets upstairs, she finds her new found freedom. In the time frame of an hour, her freedom is snatched from her because her husband is alive. Through effective use of imagery, symbolism, and a third person limited narrator, Kate Chopin shows the reader Mrs. Mallard’s feelings about marriage. Chopin shows her usage of imagery by describing the feeling of Spring. When Mrs. Mallard…
Retaining Innocence In Tony Hoagland’s poem “Please Don’t,” he personifies nature to fully understand the naïve lives of them and the emotions that go along with them being sheltering. The poem takes place in the springtime when the flowers have all merely bloomed. A narrator, from afar, recounts the descriptive poem to the audience. In the second and third stanza, he talks about the relations between different aspects nature, in this case “about the rain, the fog, the dew” and how, in return,…
obstacles that poverty experience and have to defeat to overcome poverty. In fact, Newman praises Shipler on the ideology that the poor class has been taken advantage of as well as don’t have the proper resources to improve their situations, for example Shipler quotes (“They paid low wages, offered no benefits, and led nowhere.”) pg.40). Also, as Newman moves forward she compliment Shipler’s description on the obstacles “The Working Poor” experience that give a domino affect to individuals in…
that of which it branched off of. Crèvecoeur, just as other authors, artfully includes descriptive words into his writing in order to establish his opinions and views. Authors often incorporate adjectives with negative and positive connotations, which aide in the development of ideas throughout their writing. Through Crèvecoeur’s negative connotation, one is able to decipher his views on Europeans. One example of how he critically writes about them, is an excerpt: “can a wretch who wanders…
would struggle almost everyday of their life trying to win the endless battle of miscommunication. But why? Why do we have to fight this battle? What is so important about communication that we use body structure, emotions, imagery, and all those descriptive word choices to get one message across to another person?... Everything. We’re all probably still wondering how miscommunication is so important that we have to fear what we say and how we say things. To answer that question we must first…