Politeness

Technological devices have made it possible for people to converse without face-to-face interactions. Technological devices that this essay focuses on are cell phones. Communication through cell phones has dramatically increased, causing a lack of physical interactions. This lack of physical interactions eventually leads to the development of social anxiety. Social anxiety is a chronic mental health condition in which social interactions may cause a person to feel irrational fear. Some…

Sir Robert Peel created the “Nine Principles of Reform” in 1829 the first principle was “The basic mission for which law enforcement agency occurs so that they can avoid wrongdoing and complaints as an alternate suppression of corruption and complaints by soldierly strength and strictness of lawful penalties.” (Peel R. , n.d.) What he was implying was that the police are to prevent crimes and any other disorders The second was “The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent…

Primary health care principles aims at promoting health equities, social justice and person-centred approach to care (Gargioni and Raviglione, 2009). The social determinants of health are circumstances that where people born, live, grow, age and work had an impact on their life expectancy and health outcomes (Gupta, 2004).This is reflected in Mrs Samira Azizi, a 56 year old with an Afghan cultural background living in the community that require a nursing care, particularly post-operative…

Chivalry was the moral code that the noblemen of the middle ages strived to follow. This code outlined how a knight should behave in battle and to a greater extent how they should act at home. Gawain and the Green Knight and Marie De France’s Lanval can both be read as explorations of chivalry. Both works present chivalry as an impossible ideal rather than a fact of medieval life. Lanval, Gawain, and Arthur’s court are all pillars of the chivalric ideal, in Marie De France’s Lanval Arthur’s…

Rahab The life story of Rahab is one that is unique. Her story is found in Joshua 2:9-13 and Joshua 6:17-25. She was a woman who was a prostitute. She lived in Jericho, which was the Promised Land and assisted the Israelites in Capturing the City. She is lauded as an example of living by faith while being justified by her works. In Joshua 2:1 When the Hebrews were encamped at Shittim in the Jordan Valley opposite Jericho, ready to cross the river ,we find out that Joshua sends secretly two spies…

Using Symbolism through Characters in Lord of the Flies Lord of the flies is an ingenious work of literature in which the author- William Golding explores the issues of civilization and savagery. About literary technique, he mainly uses symbolism as a special way to convey his messages. In the other words, symbolism plays a key role in story development. Through out the story, we can find out many important objects containing the symbolic meaning such as the title, the beast, the conch shell,…

German Culture Culture is the norms that are socially accepted by a society within a territory. Horton and Hunt defined culture as “everything which is socially shared and learned by the members of a society”. The five characteristics that define and make up Culture are learned, social, shared, transmitted and accumulative (Farooq, 2011). Understanding a region’s cultural characteristics can assist when traveling to another region to avoid disrespecting the locals. Germany has a very…

Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” contains several short stories each containing their own morals. Two of these stories are “The Life You Save May Be Your Own" and "Good Country People", both of these stories take place in the South and revolve around a seemingly innocent man who ends up taking advantage of a young woman. In “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, a man wanders to the house of an elderly woman willing to help out for no pay, and eventually is married to her daughter…

The core values of bayanihan, politeness, hospitality, and so on makes the essence of being a Filipino. Such deep-rooted principles of the past contributes to the current state of the Philippines, one of them being a democratic country. Employing democratic ideals to the government scheme, as expounded by the Oxford English Dictionary, means practicing fair and equal approach to society and having election of government officials by eligible citizens of the country. PRE-COLONIALISM Origins…

Languages. German, French, English, Italian, Mandarin or even Russian. They are thousands of languages still spoken today. By all means, language is a powerful and vital tool for every single person’s life. In fact, it is something that has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years. It is something so unique and complex, yet so beautiful in the same time. Taking that into account, linguistics has a very difficult, yet significant job, in today’s society. Linguistics. What is it exactly?…