Touching the Void

Music have different impacts on people’s life as it alters people’s thinking, attitude and emotional states. While music facilitates and drives many to be more motivated, efficient and focused in accomplishing personal goals, some are easily led astray and become truant when obsessed with rap music or subcultures that exert negative influence on them (Hunter & Schellenberg, 2010). To me, listening to various types of music boost my performances in within the group ( Hunter & Schellenberg, 2010).…

criminal case is based upon the principle of protection of the innocent. There can be no valid objection, therefore, from anyone, to the continued existence of the requirement of voluntariness. The clearest example of an interrogation practice that will void a confession is the infliction of physical force or pain upon the person under interrogation. This is also true as regards indirect physical harm; for instance, an unduly prolonged interrogation or the deprivation of food, water, or access…

He believed that our perceptive senses (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting) deceive us, and therefore cannot be fully trusted; since, of course, we experience everything through our perceived senses, he deduced that we cannot know anything – anything, with the exception of ourselves. Descartes developed…

onto. I will never forget the day I walked into church having no clue what God had planned for me that night. It was that night that I finally chose to forgive the man who caused me so much hurt, I chose to forgive my grandmother who I blamed for the void in my life that I tried filling with things that only provided temporary fulfillment and I chose to accept the grace, forgiveness, and peace God had been trying to give me my whole…

Nurses are key pieces to the sometimes puzzling features of safety. At my workplace nurses go the extra mile to keep patients safe while under our care. Although policy of our hospital is to round on patients every hour, we have a designated staff member who rounds in between each hour throughout the day. We use three patient identifiers, which include name, birth date, and the last four of their account number. As with many to all hospitals there are plenty of protocols and policies to keep the…

We have selected Touching Bottom written by Kari Strutt. Our group decided on this short story because it demonstrates a significant change in the protagonist over the course of the story. Touching Bottom focuses on a character who starts off as extremely dependant and then morphs into a person with independence and the ability to be the guide of their own life. To show the dramatic change in Kari’s life we chose a scene that demonstrated this to the extreme. Kari had a multitude of things in…

Aired on February 3, 2002, this Budweiser commercial offered an emotional and sensible tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. By using a national tragedy for product advertising, Budweiser boldly went were few companies had succeeded before. The result was one of the most memorable tributes to 9/11, and an overwhelming response from Americans from across the nation. The commercial, which contained no words, aired only once, so Budweiser…

Social media is more addictive than alcohol and cigarettes; it provides us with pitiful, temporary pleasures that numb us. The addiction has only gotten stronger and we all know that addictions can be dangerous. They can threaten the relationships we have with others, the way we see ourselves, and our sexuality. Over 80% of Americans watch television daily. Though television is more [accessible] it is not the only form of media that influences our daily lives, of course. Movies, online pictures,…

Dear Amanda, while Yellowface by R. F. Kuang has its flaws, like the racism the book sweeps over, it ultimately should be a part of a 10th-grade English curriculum at the A-school because of its portrayal of the toxicity of social media and cancel culture. My main issue with this novel is the casual racism the author uses and then does not acknowledge the issues with it. Usually, I think adding racism to a book is important if a character is a person of color or if it is a book primarily about…

background so to make assumptions about identity. Masking the character 's true identity comments on how each individual is not truly their own person if they are influenced by the same things as others in society, such as a simple act like shoulder touching, “Something Ruth, for all her close study of them, failed to spot- and this was how so many of their mannerisms were copied from the television”(Ishiguro 120). The use of the words “was” and “were” in this quote help to explain to the reader…