Orient Express

Agatha Christie is the most well-known author in the mystery genre. With 85 books written, she has ample expertise in the field. Her simple writing style combined with intricate plot lines is what sets her apart from the other mystery writers of the same era. Her personal life is also clearly reflected in her novels, including And Then There Were None, one of her most famous. Agatha Christie began writing because her sister dared her to “write a good detective story.” This challenge resulted…

Venus Express: Payload, Mission Goals and Venusian Discoveries L. B. Breitenfeld Introduction: In November of 2002, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that their first mission to the planet Venus, titled Venus Express, would launch in 2005 (Abbott and Schiermeier, 2002; Hoofs et al., 2009). The Russian Soyuz-Fregat launcher in Baikonur Kazakhstan on November 9th 2005, launched Venus Express into space (Fabrega et al. 2007). After traveling a distance of 440 million km, Venus Express…

Love, in most people’s eyes, would be classified as a noun. In actuality, love is an action word, otherwise known as a verb; you express love to prove love. Though people commonly use materialistic things like roses, cards, and chocolates to express their love towards one another, expressing love can be done verbally. In particular, the two poems, “There is a Garden in her Face” by Thomas Campion and “ Sonnet 130” by William Shakespeare, project their love verbally. Though, both poets give…

Over a millennium after Aristotle wrote his unmoved mover argument. The Catholic philosopher Saint Thomas Aquinas reintroduced the idea as part of his five proofs for the existence of God. Aquinas’s first way is derived from motion. Following the same premise as Aristotle, Aquinas argues that a first mover, existing in a state of perfect actuality, must exist to move things from potential to actual states. Absence of this first mover would result in an infinite regress; therefore, the…

Intellectual Achievement The United States and the Soviet Union have had multiple stressing issues throughout history prior to and during the time of the second World War. Such issues were deep-seated mistrust and hostility due to the Soviet government withdrawing Russia from the first World War and was opposed to a state ideologically based on communism. During the second World War the United States and Soviet Union were allies, based on the common aim to defeat Nazi Germany. However, the…

Apuleius’ The Golden Ass and Juvenal’s Satires 3 and 4 use black humour as a leeway to express the seriousness of the situation through humiliation and dramatization in order to keep the audience entertained. Humour, especially black humour, which often involves a taste for the macabre, is used to make light of something that is considered serious or taboo. In The Golden Ass, black humour is used to illustrate Lucius’ trial where he is made a ridicule of in front of Hypata’s citizens for the…

Organizational culture is defined as “ a collaborative process of creating shared awareness and understanding out of different individuals. Perspectives and varied interests”(Watkins, 2013). It helps to orient the members of an organization by acting as an immune system (Watkins, 2013). Every organization has it’s own values which defines the culture and belief of an organization, guides the outline and action of an organization and helps to deal with the issues that may arise within…

instructions, other hospitals serving the pediatric population. Friends and family should be involved for support, freeing the parent to research or intercat with staff. (Where canI use this) 2. Discussion Question: Tanya has made an extra trip to express her concerns, brought new information and family history, and made it clear that she did not want Noah to have an unnecessary surgery. Was the ENT specialist listening to her? Why or why…

ideology and communication, according its genesis, its structure and function. The first consists of systems of representations and attitudes; they refer to all the familiar phenomena of social or racial prejudice, stereotypes, beliefs, etc. They express a social representation that individuals and groups are formed to act and communicate. It is these representations that give physical form to this reality and imaginary half is social reality. With regard to the phenomena of social…

This is followed by the declaration of General William Westmoreland that “The Oriental doesn’t put the same high price on life as does the Westerner. Life is cheap in the Orient.” He speaks as if Vietnamese are animals who are not affected by death and civilized people are, as a means of justifying their senseless slaughter. The footage that followed undeniably portrayed the falsity of this assumption. This was one of countless…