Apparent magnitude

of the United States and its people. The Dean and Academic Board have the grand responsibility of preparing the nation its finest, educated warriors through the Academy. As such, it is vital that the Dean and Academic Board takes into account the magnitude that technology plays not only in the life of a cadet, but more importantly in the life of an…

The realization of truth can hurt one’s feelings for a short period of time, however, the magnitude of the agony of a lie can hurt oneself in the long run. The denial of truth and reality is used by one’s self-interest to protect and retain their dreams and illusions from being destroyed. The protagonists in the movies “The Matrix” and the “The Truman Show” perceive who they truly are and realize their purpose in life because they choose to discover the truth rather than accepting a delusion.…

Orwell’s 1984 is a novel that satirizes totalitarianism and utilizes contrast and contradiction throughout to emphasize the party’s use of fear, restriction of independent thought, and abhorrent tactics, such as physical and psychological torture, to further their goal of creating a unified idealistic regime. In such a regime, all logic and rational justification that was previously believed to be true, ceases to exist–the party’s word and dogma is the truth. Contrast and contradiction are…

Alcohol use is often glamorized in society and viewed as an acceptable form of socialization and fun. Thousands of youths, college students, and adults partake in this behavior in order to either fit in with their peers or find an escape for their problems. Although many individuals are able to keep their drinking within an acceptable limit, others often exceed the boundaries and enter dangerous territory. The movie entitled “28 days” exceeds an audience’s expectations in regards to correctly…

divert from others to aim it towards himself. To further show that Tom is a true villain, only villain’s care about titles that show their name because most are attention seekers, like the Joker, and usually the heroes don’t care spectacles of that magnitude, maybe like a little character name Huckleberry Finn. Even though Tom…

virus has been passed down generation to generation, and Harold Bloom is letting everyone know that they have been infected (Shapiro). He is less interested in the physical condition of the Shakespearean virus, but he is extremely familiar with the apparent psychological…

The book This Republic of Suffering illustrates the great deal of hardship the American Civil War brought upon not only the soldiers fighting the battles along with the generals and political officials at the front of the war but also how the civilians were affected. The book shows how people of this time dealt with death and how the death of so many young soldiers would change their lives forever. It is evident after reading this book that the war brought many struggles that the American people…

Since Thomas Robert Malthus first forwarded his theory of population in 1798, it has been an influential and widely-debated economic topic. To fully understand the relevance and cogency of Malthus’ population theory, here we analyze the strength of Malthus’ key justifications and conclusions from both historical and modern perspectives. Malthus was the first to present a formal socioeconomic analysis of the population growth potential in terms of the availability of resources. Concisely,…

dishonourable by the conspirators that he deserved “death” for them.it Conversely, Anthony depicts Caesar as both a noble, virtuous and honourable man, making use of dramatic devices and an extraordinary rhetoric throughout his eulogy. Made readily apparent to the audience by Anthony’s repetition of the phrase “Brutus is an honourable man” as a refrain. Obviously, Anthony’s tone becomes increasingly sarcastic and ironic as his eulogy progresses, providing additional oratory effect for both the…

et al., 1982; Poo and Cone, 1974). However, it is important to stress that the movement of rhodopsin restricted to approximately two-dimensional environment of membranous phospholipid bilayer would rather reduce its dynamic freedom by orders of magnitude relative to soluble proteins. Such reduction in diffusion from three to two dimensional biological membranes most likely would stimulate receptors clustering even in cases of low affinity interactions. In fact, more thorough investigations on…