Causality

Rough Copy Aumio Islam The play Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized account of the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial”. Inherit the Wind was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee and premiered in 1955. In the play, Matthew Harrison Brady, the prosecuting attorney, has three characteristics that negatively influence his conduct during the play. These three character traits are intolerance, conceit, and ignorance. The first of the three traits that…

• What is the speaker’s topic; was it clearly defined? Kelly McGonigal’s topic was about stress and the recent studies that have revealed that stress can actually be helpful rather than harmful. The speaker clearly defined her topic and provided multiple statistics and research findings to help back up her claims. She introduced her topic at the very beginning of her speech by sharing her initial thoughts about stress and how she shared the common belief that all stress is destructive. Although…

Holden is weakened as a result of the hardships he faces in many way but mostly because of the loss of his brother and the separation from his parents. Holden reveals how much his brothers death weakened him through his description of Allie “He's dead now. He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine, on July 18, 1946. You'd have liked him. He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent. He was incredibly intelligent… But it wasn't just that he was the most…

An example of a decision that did not bring expected benefits to an organization. Some organizations hold the notion that their decisions, even though it is against popular opinion, and taking in secret would never come to the public. However, in the world of advanced technology, nothing is secret anymore. If organizations involved their employees in the decision-making process, that will often lead to strategic decisions that precipitate maximum benefits to organizations. However, when the…

Stress: Stress is defined as ‘’the force across a boundary per unit area, for all orientations of that boundary.’’ It is derived from force, a physical quantity and area, a geometrical quantity. Therefore, stress is also characterized as a fundamental quantity, like velocity, energy, etc. that can be brought under quantification and can be analyzed without any obvious attention of the physical grounds of the material or of its nature. Example: When a solid bar is supporting a load, each…

Desmond Tutu once said “You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.” The virtue of a family is present in the Tull family in the novel “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant” by Anne Taylor. The novel is set in the 1930’s about a family who experiences many dysfunctionalities. The novel begins with the father Beck Tull leaving his wife Pearl and his three kids Cody, Ezra, and Jenny. Beck Tull’s distant nature and love for his job always caused him to leave for…

In The Hound of the Baskerville, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the moor, and Sherlock Holmes is investigating. Together they deduce that it is not a cursed hound terrorizing this family. Throughout the novel he theme to not be ruled by fear is developed. This is shown when Sir Charles let his fear of the hound not allow him to go out a night, Sir Henry did not let it control him when he went out on the moor with Dr. Watson and then when Sherlock holmes…

At a time when unemployment is incredibly high, 46 million Americans live below the poverty line, and the minimum wage remains almost 20 percent lower(adjusted for inflation) than it was 40 years ago, farmers are dying at unprecedented rates, and obesity and diabetes are killing millions of people all over the world, there is often a need to find someone or something to blame. In this case, there are multiple factors that play into the global issues we are facing, one of which is the creation of…

Sartre's conception of freedom is somewhat complicated to comprehend. Sartre believed that we are free because we are "other" to ourselves. In other words, because we exist we have the capability of holding ourselves accountable for all of our actions and life choices. He viewed freedom and the human consciousness as one entity and believed that because we have one, the other also exists. Because humans are conscious, they are free. It is hard for me to say that I completely agree or disagree…

Tylor Mateunas Book Report The novel The Sea Wolf is a historical nonfiction book written by Jack London. It is a harder level of reading skill, because not all of the words are spelled like normal. There are also some hard words in the book that someone might not understand. It is based during 1904, with the main character Humphrey Van Weden. It is when Humphrey is picked up by a passing sealing ship. This ship he has been picked up by is known as “Ghost”. He then meets the captain…