Euphemism

Cover page: What is the root of poor decisions that leads one to an imprisoned life being weighed down by shackles that one created on their own? Throughout this project my question has remained the same. What is the hold up to a successful life? As I began to explore my line of inquiry I came up with a few proposals to how one can be influenced to live a destructive lifestyle where their definition of success and goals was taught to them by hiphopcracy. A strong proposal that dominated my…

To encourage you to look beyond what just meets the eye and to help find, rescue and rehabilitate human trafficking victims. Human trafficking has become one of the most notorious human rights violations. Human trafficking is a modern day euphemism for slavery. It can be defined by the illegal trade or sale of human beings for sexual exploitation or forced labor through abduction, the use or threat of force, deception and fraud. It knows no gender, race, age, or even boundaries, due to…

Australia is a very multicultural country so by understanding the different expectations and traditions of each individual patient we can help reduce the racial gap. Cultural beliefs have been recognised as an important determinant to the psychological outcomes during the diagnosis and treatment of culturally diverse patients. Certain cultural traditions influence the roles and needs of the patient and their families in comparison to how we are taught to legally and ethically treat and converse…

Effective organizational communication is critically important; it can literally be the decisive factor in an organization’s success or lack thereof. In particular, communication at the managerial level is essential as it relates to interactions between management and employees. As Shelby (1993) noted more than two decades ago, managerial communication has an identity of its own (Shelby, 1993, p. 254). Indeed, these identities are established at the group and individual level and are…

Lucy and the other vampire women are seen as “bad mothers”. They do not raise kids, they eat them. Mina is modest and is only romantic towards her husband Jonathan. Lucy however gets four blood transfusions from four different men. Since blood is euphemism for sex, that means Lucy is very promiscuous indeed. She had a transfusion from Arthur, Dr. Sewards, Van Helsing, and Quincey, only one of those men is her husband. In the whole novel, Mina is not once even the slightest bit risqué towards…

“Hills Like White Elephants”, written by Ernest Hemingway, is part of the collection Men Without Women. This particular short story takes place at a bar while waiting for a train. The two main characters consist of an American man and a women named Jig. The two order a cold beer, as the man introduce the key focus of their ensuing discussion, a simple operation, which in this case alludes to an abortion. Throughout the story a lot is hidden through the dialogue and symbols, including the ending.…

Research questions Most current articles and books about testing mostly concentrated on the testing as an educational reform. However, only some of them drew the questions exactly for children, their thoughts, and expectations from this policy. In the article “I Like to Read, but I Know I’m Not Good at It”: Children’s Perspectives on High-Stakes Testing in a High-Poverty School” E. Dutro & M. Selland raised two important questions related to high-stake testing its content and impact on…

A look Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go novel depict a dystopian society where it happens to deal with the question of what it is to be human. Never Let Me Go tells the story of a society where individuals are cloned and excluded from the outside real world in order to provide organs for their normal counterparts and thus live relatively short lives. Though in the novel, the clones or students aim to always attain happiness and are conditioned to be content within their place in social…

of a parallel between the relationship of the Duke and the Duchess, and Neptune and the seahorse as the Duke’s intentions to assert dominance over his future Duchess follow the same pattern as Neptune’s taming of the seahorse. Additionally, the euphemism “I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together” makes reference, through alliteration, to the transformation of his last Duchess into a medium to which he is no longer subject to her “trifling” situation and can exert his power and control…

not to grieve when a fellow believer passes away? One major theme of these letters is eschatology regarding the return of Christ. Verse13 has been abused by some believers and used as a directive to not grieve when a loved one goes to “sleep” (a euphemism for death). Grieving is natural and dangerous to suppress. Instead, Paul is making a distinction between two kinds of grieving: (1) Grieving as those with no hope, namely, those with no ultimate expectation of the resurrection, and (2)…