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The Bata Shoe Museum’s current exhibits include, “The Pleasures and Perils of 19th Century Fashion”, which provides important information on the trading systems and technologies used to create shoes and other fashion items. Insight on the dawn of changes in fashion and its effects on masculinity and femininity can be gleaned from items in the exhibit. This is critical in understanding how people made fashion choices that reflected the culture of various periods in history. Shoes in the exhibit…

There have been various failed and accepted rehabilitative and treatment programs within the criminal justice system. Although the main purpose within the criminal justice system is to provide protection to the innocent and delivering justice, officials must also rehabilitate those who have wronged. Treating offenders with humanity and giving them the opportunities to right their wrongs will help their futures as reentered civilians. Some highly influential programs are work release programs,…

Magic and Merlyn Moment #1 On a warm day near the end of summer, the Wart was sitting near the tilting yard watching Kay practice his skills. Wart was feeling particularly dreary that day and decided to console in Merlyn about his seemingly pathetic dreams of being a knight, like Kay was destined to be. Wart began to go on about how he would call himself the Black Knight. “ And I should have hoved at a well or a fjord or something and made all true knights that came way to joust with me in honor…

to emphasize the difference in the worldviews and relationship with nature between the two settings. For example, whereas Mark’s first view of Belbury is full of tall, unnatural cement buildings, Jane’s walk to St. Anne’s brings her past a row of beech trees, unfenced plough land and a forested plain that stretching as far as she could see. Furthermore, while members of N.I.C.E. are cutting down trees for no other reason than to get rid of them, those who live in the community of St. Anne’s show…

The Dalai lama…a story of reputation “Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing” these words of Abraham Lincoln describes how everyone could see a particular person in different points of view. In this essay, I am going to elaborate on the reputation of the Dalai Lama taking into consideration the issues involved in setting the Dalai Lama in his historical context, the Western and the Chinese’s views of him and how…

respiratory issues (“Forests are good for you”). There are so many types of trees that provide medicine. Dodrill gives a few examples of trees with the relating issue they cure and some of these include: Alder which helps in mending profound injuries, Beech that takes care of lung issues, and Cedar which annihilates fever and cough. The list gets to be interminable in the event that somebody records the therapeutic trees that develop in Africa. It ought to be noticed that a great number of…

Gun control has been an issue for years now and with recent events, it’s time for a change. Guns are a major problem in our society. Lately, there has been school and mass shootings like the Umpqua Community College shooting in Roseburg, Oregon and the mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. The issue with gun control will be that some people think there should be better gun control laws, like myself, and there are people who feel as if theirit shouldn’t be a gun control law because we as…

The emergence of Kickstarter has changed the environment for Start-ups. People can have an idea, whether it be a film, a product, a book, etc. and post it on the site and people can fund this project. In the curated section called, “Greek dads”, I found two projects. The first one is called the “Fidget cube”, and the second project is called “Superb Wooden Marble Run”. I will be explaining these in the following paragraphs. First let 's start with the Superb Wooden Marble Run. This is there…

During the last decade, sexual grooming has been recognized as being part of the victimization process in child sexual abuse in the UK (Craven, Brown and Gilchrist, 2006). Since its recognition, the concept of grooming has become one of the most contentious debates within child sexual offences. The current literature tends to mainly focus specifically on the grooming of children and often fails to take into account other factors contributing to the grooming process (Salter, 2003). The media…

Is Hunting Safe for Deer? The organization, IDA also known as In Defense of Animals, believes that hunting causes problems for the environment and for the deer that are being killed, while other people argue that hunting causes no problems for deer. IDA’s arguments suggest that hunters only kill for sport, and kill too many deer. They also suggest that deer do not have capabilities of defending themselves when a hunter has a firearm at hand. In order to stop the negativity of organizations like…