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The Contemporary Child Solider Professor Anne Farina International Child Welfare George Warren Brown School of Social Work Washington University in Saint Louis Introduction In the contemporary battlefield of today, child soldiers are becoming normalized in the majority of conflicts. Motivations for child recruitment include children’s limited ability to assess risks, feelings of invulnerability, and shortsightedness. Child soldiers are more often killed or injured than adult…

Obstruction of Justice In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes: Hound of the Baskervilles (1986), the idea that justice is put forth over the character’s individual righteousness is the privileged idea. What is actually being shown is that the characters, even Sherlock Holmes, favor what they personally think is right ahead of what is just. Sir Henry Baskerville takes it upon himself to chase down Selden because he knows he is a convict, but he does not stop to consider that he should…

During the film Fury, which take place in the midst of one of the most gruesome periods in human history, Norman who has only been in the Army for eight weeks and is trained as a typist, must gear up and become a tank crewman. He’s portrayed as un-masculine as he is belittled by his crewman both for his lack of experience and for his reluctance to kill Germans. Throughout the film he transitions from boyhood to manhood through the completion of manhood acts and homosocial interaction, including…

Mount lavinia hotel can accommodate occupants at a time. Built environment of the hotel possess multiple natural environment features over the time which the building itself and the occupants should be overcome those to provide sustainability in building and comfortless to the occupants. Natural environment constraints  warm and humid climate  High winds  Different high levels of sounds (mount lavinia hotel located near the coast and near a railway. Therefore it should mitigate the sounds…

Doina Musat English 254, sec: 003 12 October 2017 The Hound of the Baskervilles: Element of Surprise Arthur Conan Doyle is widely recognized as one of the most thrilling adventure novelists during the Victorian era. Through his use of linear writing style and various literary techniques, Doyle is able to captivate the world with his famous Sherlock Holmes novels. In one of Doyle’s novels, The Hound of the Baskervilles, he is able to instill the sense of adventure for the reader to follow…

With continuously increasing of the social development, more and more human being pay attention to environmental issues that could be hurting for the place where we are living, as well as, threatening for our future. Thus, the environmental problem is very important that people need to take into consideration such as global climate change, deforestation, food and water shortages, air quality, and pollution and so on. “There is enough in the world for everyone’s need; there is not enough for…

In the article, “The Teening of Childhood” by Kay Hymowitz, she discusses what age group media is aiming towards and what steps they take to get the tween’s attention. A tween is in the age group between eight to twelve. They are just beginning to figure out who they are and want to be when they grow up, so they are experiencing many changes in their lives. The media aim their advertisements toward the pre-teen age group because tweens want to be like the “cooler”, older kids. If the media shows…

One Muckraker’s Societal Influence: The Movement of Federal Food Regulation Issued in the United States Upton Sinclair, once said due to public recognition of his 1904 novel, The Jungle “I aimed for the public's heart, and by accident I hit the stomach instead”. A socialist, and muckraker railed for public outcry of labor equity. He launched a consumer movement through the midst of a harsh stockyard strike from unfairly payed wage workers, socialist writer Upton Sinclair visited Chicago’s…

’The center of gravity means something to everyone, but not the same to anyone’ (Saxman, 1992 p. 4) Introduction Since Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz’s treatise of On War was pub-lished in 1832 (Clausewitz, 1989 p. XI), the world has changed. Indeed, one could argue that Clausewitz, developing his theories, was never able to visualize dynamic and complex environment of contemporary warfare, fighting the enemies like al Qaeda or little green men, likewise, envisioned new domains…

Conclusion Heart rate variability has considerable potential to assess the fluctuations in the autonomic nervous system. Here we have examined the impact of meditation – Dialogue with the Body – on heart rate variability. A relaxing effect of meditation on Heart rate variability was observed. Thus this non-invasive methodology is of substantial utility to evaluate autonomic control mechanisms in spite of an incomplete understanding of the physiological significance of HRV parameters. There…