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Locked In! Elie Wiesel’s work, Night, published in 1958, demonstrates the struggles Jewish society and other minorities faced in order to live a life of liberty. I, myself, felt bound and trapped, not by iron doors, but by words. Although being open and outgoing can help communication growth, rudeness and unnecessary judgement can hinder one’s ability to socialize and express themselves. On August 21, 2010, as my mother dropped me off at Georgetown Middle School, thoughts of panic plundered…

the White Cliffs of Dover.” As I turned to Robinson who was working next to me, I said, “I have always wanted to see them,” so I ran outside to see the beautiful alabaster coast of England. It took us a few weeks to reach our first port, which was Oslo, Norway. “This is amazing,” I thought. Visiting the land of the Northmen I have reads stories of most my life was a feat that I never thought would happen. Over the next month that the ship was doing maneuvers with other allied ships from…

Miss Ever’s Boys is a flashback, or reminiscent style movie that deals with the issue of racial inequality, race and gender intersectionality, and the African-American’s “double consciousness”. The movie begins with Eunice Evers, played by Alfre Woodard, as a testifying nurse in a Senate hearing who worked as a nurse during the Tuskegee Study, testifying and recalling the happenings of the past. The disaster starts as a simple plan to provide care and treatment for the population suffering from…

Imagine living in a country where every time you wore a turban you were considered to be a terrorist. Did you know that turbans, as well as the other articles of faith worn have an immense spiritual as well as temporal significance? The symbolisms of wearing a turban are many from it being regarded as a symbol of sovereignty, dedication, self-respect, courage and piety, but the reason all practicing Sikhs wear the turban is just one - out of love and obedience to the wishes of the founders of…

Not guilty by reason of insanity(NGRI), means that the person is unaware; incapable of distinguishing right from wrong during the time that the crime is committed. In a case where a person is found not guilty by reason of insanity, the person’s actions are slightly justified. They would receive an acquittal, only if they can win over the court, allowing them to be admitted to a stay, serving their sentence at a mental hospital verses prison. Furthermore, guilty by mental illness(GBMI) still…

Sigrid Undset’s novel, Kristin Lavransdatter, features several strong female characters navigating life and society in fourteenth-century Norway: Kristin Lavransdatter, Fru Aashild, and Ragnfrid. Of these three women, the strongest among them is Fru Aashild. Her intelligence, disregard for societal pressures and success in life support this claim. Fru Aashild, a woman who once lived in seclusion from her community, is welcomed with open arms when she aids in the recovery of Kristin’s younger…

Socrates, wrote a dialogue based on Socrates’s teaching called Meno. In Meno, Socrates claims that wisdom consists with virtue and that virtue is the only quality of the soul that is useful. Panos Dimas, a professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo, summarizes Socrates’s theory in his essay, “Happiness in the Euthydemus”, by saying, “The only good thing is virtue, and since a good thing makes its possessors happy, only wisdom makes us happy.” To get a better understanding of Socrates’s…

Rationale I have chosen to write a transcribed interview with Martin Luther King Jr. discussing his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. King has been interviewed, in this piece, by Petey Greene. An influential African American radio show host who often talked about the poverty and racism which African Americans had to face in America at that time. I have placed this interview in November 1964, about a month after King had received his Nobel Prize. Moreover, this interview is taking place in…

with shame. What all these victims need above all to know is that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled, we shall lend them ours” (the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech delivered by Elie Wiesel in Oslo on December 10, 1986, page 120 of Night). Those who don’t agree with Elie Wiesel need to remember that this quote came from his Nobel Peace Prize speech. Obviously this man is extremely smart and thoughtful when it comes to other peoples’…

2.2.1.1 Temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen After extensive studies, several authors have mentioned certain physical, chemical and biological parameters of water and sediment as important for the aquaculture of marine shrimps. Along with dissolved oxygen, water temperature and salinity are considered as significant parameters because of their close association in aquatic ecosystem (OSPAR, 2005). The maximum water temperature recommended by Nunes et al., 2005 and ABBC, 2005 was 32°C,…