Form 10-K

There is always the conception that extensive rules and regulation which the Australia government placed among its citizens are slowly taking the personal freedoms to take risk away from the individuals. Although the restrictions placed upon its people have certainly help Australia government to earn its reputation as a ‘Nanny State’. It can be argued that we are not in the danger of becoming a nanny state as long as the restrictions are reasonable. This essay will focus on how the rules and…

In this form of government, the public can “express their preferences at elections, but public policy is actually made by the representatives that the citizenry selects” (Dalton, et al.). Populations choose a candidate that best fits their beliefs and values. The advantage of this form of government is that the chosen representatives have a political background, and are better prepared than the rest of the public when it comes to political decisions. The negative side of this form of government…

Civics Lesson Plan Elementary Social Studies Methods Summary: • Students will learn about their community’s government and leaders. Throughout the lesson, students will engage in discussions and be visited by an elected local government official. Students will also conduct their own research to learn more about their local government. Learning Context: • This lesson is designed for third grade and fits in with our community, as our government officials are part of our local community. •…

Tyger” is a poem written by William Blake and published with a collection of poems in a work titled “The Songs of Experience” in 1794. William Blake was born in London in 1757 to James Blake a hosier (Morsberger,). Blake expressed a desire at the age of 10 to study art, which his father allowed, paying for his tuition and for casts to study at home (Morsberger,). At the age of 14, Blake was apprenticed to an engraver, learning a trade that would be valuable to him in publishing his own books in…

Jeff Bussey, the lead character from Harold Keith’s Rifles for Watie, can produce many different thoughts. Jeff is growing up in the Civil War. (Keith.) Not only is the boy growing up during this time, but he is also part of the action in the war, particularly in the Midwest (Keith.) Because of Jeff’s many different choices and actions, he had the greatest impact. Harold Keith portrays Jeff as someone with courage to join the war, but there was more to the boy. His concerned, strong, and…

In Thomas C. Foster’s “If It’s Square, It’s a Sonnet” chapter in How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Foster explains how a sonnet’s structure relates directly to the meaning and the purpose of the sonnet itself. “Sonnet 2” can be analyzed in such a manner, and its meaning and structure are very closely intertwined. The sonnet itself is structured as an English sonnet in iambic pentameter and follows the rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg. The sonnet is broken into three quatrains and a couplet.…

that covers the majority of the material in the book backwards starting with present day and working back to the period after world war 2. This would allow students an opportunity to see the current situation we are in and give them an opportunity to form their own opinions on the reasons why we are in the situation we are in and eventually by working backwards they will learn the real reasons why we are in the position we are…

threat, Orwell rooted his beliefs in anti-Stalinism to ensure that he did not impart and Stalin supports through his writings. Orwell has a strong “love of humanity” (Read 25) which brings to proliferate socialism. He affirms socialism as the best form of government for the people and through his novels, he expresses his philosophy clearly in order to gain support. With support, totalitarianism and other disreputable governments would diminish and leave socialism as the dominant entity.…

In Antigone, by Sophocles, and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, democracy takes light over an authoritarian regime through the use of one’s moral conscience to invalidate the state and its unjustness. Antigone for instance, holds by her moral decision that her brother deserves a proper burial regardless of what King Creon, the state in this instance, has intended for Polyneices. Although it leads to her untimely death, Antigone stands up for her higher moral conscience similarly to how…

Yes, I realize the October update is arriving in November. I knew something good was coming on the 3rd and I wanted to wait so I could tell you about it. On Thursday, November 3rd, Rooted Soul hosted a half-day retreat for local church planters. It was called Abide and is the first of what I hope will grow into be six retreats offered to church planters next year. Abide is spaced created for church planters to reconnect their hearts with the heart of God through meditation on scripture and…