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Writing is a Lie This essay is structured, labored over, revised. This essay has been read and reread, it has been marked, it has been scrutinized. This essay has been edited a million different ways because that is just what you do with essays; you edit them. With speaking the luxury of editing is not an option. The words spoken are out there for the world to hear the second they are said and there is no backspace button to change that. This drawback of speaking is a problem for some and an…

Revision Behaviors (R): The speaker tends to start speaking and backtrack again, interrupting themselves, with multiple attempts to communicate their idea. 3. Delays Before Responding (DR): The speaker exhibits long pauses before responding to questions. 4. Failure to Structure Discourse (DS): The individual fails to organize…

The Twenty One Pilots song, “Car Radio” is based off an actual event while the singer, Joseph Tyler, was in college. He was running late to class and forgot to lock his car, when he got out of class, his car radio, CD player, all of his CDs and his GPS were all stolen from him. The loss of having music to play in the car helped him realise how much he used music as an escape from life and thinking about existence. Tyler Joseph is not the only one to use music as an escape. One of the reasons…

Paul Krugman’s “Ricardo’s Difficult Idea” is a play on that of a book by the philosopher Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. This book is an examination of the reasons why so many scholars remain unfavorable to the idea of evolution through natural selection. The idea that seems simple to those who understand it, but scholars somehow manage to get confused. The book explains the idea of comparative advantage, meaning a trade between two countries that…

Introduction Doctrine of promissory estoppel is deemed as an exception to the general principle that a promise may only be enforced if it is supported by good consideration. The doctrine of promissory estoppel was first established in the case of CLP v Trees. Even though promissory estoppel is seen an advantage, it does consist some flaws that can have repercussion due to its inconsistency. However it does help weaker parties in legal matters where the doctrine of consideration neglects those…

The medieval people often talked of Rota Fortunae, a vertical-standing wheel of fortune spun by a Lady Fortuna, or the female personification of fortune. As she spun the wheel, men are depicted sitting upon the edges. At the height of the wheel’s rotation, men are blessed by fortune. However, just as quickly as he reached the top, a man will no sooner fall to his gruesome death as the wheel continues to rotate around. This wheel of fortune was the people’s fate, an unknown force that could bring…

Mental health is a problem that can appear in anyone. Many people that are diagnosed with a mental disorder can face many difficulties while growing up. One of the hardest things is struggling in a school environment. Many children begin to show signs of having a mental disorder while in school. This can cause them to act out or fall behind in their schooling. One of the reasons many people struggle so much is that they don’t receive the proper treatment or ever get diagnosed, because the people…

In a recent article, "What Doctors Should Ignore," written by Moises Velasquez-Manoff who is an American writer for the health, science and environment section of The New York Times, addresses the issues in medicine pertaining to doctors using race as a basis of aiding patients. Velasquez-Manoff argues that doctors shouldn't rely on race, because race is socially constructed ideology that creates problems due to the fact that it is self-identified and based on physical features, which history…

Interviewer: Atonement is partly about guilt. You’ve said that a novel can look at all sides of a question and it can refuse to take sides. Nevertheless we are encouraged in Atonement to take sides, partly because the narrator turns out to have been part of the story, and is therefore partial. What is the significance that the ‘atonement,’—the nearest Briony, as a non-believer, can get to ‘atonement’—may be inaccurate? Ian McEwan: May I ask you a question? What makes you think the…

He actually loses me at one point. I halt as soon as I realize he’s not behind me. A tiny bit of me panics. He could have possibly separated himself from me this quickly, but clearly he has. I backtrack, annoyed, going back up the wet alley way and peer into the open street. I spot him before he spots me. He’s down the street, knowing to keep to the shadows. He searches for me and I wait a minute for him to find me. He finally notices me and swiftly…