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Laura Esquivel’s film adaptation of Like Water for Chocolate and Kate Chopin’s stories, A Pair of Silk Stockings and The Storm, share a similar theme. They all focus on the complexity of women’s struggles to discover their freedom and individuality against social norms and traditions. At first they all place their desires aside because they feel a sense of duty whether they are forced or self imposed. Eventually, each woman takes a step to fulfill their desires if only for one brief time. In…

Throughout reading Dante’s Inferno written by Dante Alighieri, Dante wanders through Hell, escorted by the Roman poet Virgil. Together, the pair move on through the nine circles of Hell, witnessing the horrors inflicted on the souls of the damned. In this Divine Comedy, Dante molded the arrangement of hell and the circles justly based on events that occurred and experiences the poet witnessed in his life because Dante’s Inferno is a work of fiction. This is made clear through Dante’s expulsion…

Most entities co-occur only a few times in the PubMed corpus and there are often diverse ways to describe the same meaning relation between an entity pair. To conquer this issue and take the leverage of the redundancy of the corpus, we decide to cluster synonymous relation phrases. Relation vector based clustering: Follow the traditional principle for such task, we run k-means clustering method on relation…

People often do or take parts in acts that are not only morally wrong but also extremely painful to the victim. When someone is order by a higher authority figure they do what was ordered forgetting about their morals and the consequences that it may have. It is important to understand that just because the order was given by a person with a high status or rank it doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do. In 1963 Stanly Milgram a psychologist at Yale University carried out an experiment where he…

There had been a lot of controversy dealing with Nike whether it being paying the workers low, physically and verbally abusing them. Nike has been accused of using sweatshops since the early 1970s, when it making products in Taiwan ,South Korea and China. When the economy grew and people had more money workers got more motivated and productive. wages rose, and a lot of the workers moved up to higher paying jobs. At that time Nike found cheaper labor in the People's Republic of China, and…

In the piece drawn by the artist Mike Luckovich, there is no title for the picture provided, the artist uses both text and figures to enhance the message. The piece of art is in color. Although he uses humor as a strategy, the author is serious about what he is portraying as an issue. He uses a standard font, but capitalized. The layout divides the picture into four different scenes, it shows president Obama in all four scenes, he is sitting down behind a table and facing the screen, wearing…

still had that guilty feeling in my stomach. Oh well, how could I fix what I did anyways? While I was thinking about my problem, Cush came by and told me it was time to get my mules ready, so we could deliver supplies to the Yankees. Later on, we got ordered to form into a wagon train and we soon started our journey. After traveling for some time, we arrived at a warehouse, where we had to pick up our supplies. Cush and I had the duty of carrying the kegs of powder, which was the worst thing you…

If forecasted demand shows that the store sells 7,000 pairs of shoes per week across the 700 Feets stores, and the vendor takes 2 months to deliver the order, it would call for Feets to set is minimum inventory level at 56,000 pairs. When the invetory reaches this predetermined minimum level, the supply chain system may then place an order according to the forecasted demand to replenish the…

way to stay alive throughout the war because without each other they would not have been able to survive. On April 1975, Ung and her family were forced out of their hometown by the Khmere Rouge. Loung’s father helped the family escape the city and ordered them what to do, while, Kim, Meng, and Khoy sacrificed to bring food back to the family. Loung and Chou stuck together through the rough times in the children work camp, whereas the mother stuck with Geak to help her survive. On April 17,…

As horrid as the gas chambers were, they might have actually been the lucky ones. The “medical experiments” conducted by German doctors in the camps illustrated the pure evil that could be found in humans. Relating with the ongoing war in Europe, Nazi soldiers forced prisoners to stand outside, naked, in freezing temperatures, to determine how long German pilots who were shot down in extreme weather conditions could survive. In the Buchenwald camp, one of the experiments included forcing the…