Vagueness

San Francisco and Japan, I felt that some of the situations were very vague and some were well defined, it varied on the situation. With Namibia, the uncertainty avoidance isn’t clear, but I believe that because its such a collective culture the vagueness is common but it barley effects the society. With Mongolia I feel that everything is more well defined. When we saw the mom she made it clear to he child about what the child was doing wrong. The power distance between the cultures are very…

A Biopsychosocial Model: Stroke This essay explores how stroke can be caused by referring to the biopsychosocial model and its strength and weakness is evaluated in terms to health. It also address how risk of getting stroke can be significantly decreased by changing our lifestyle behaviour. The links between broader aspects of health with biological or psychological aspect of health is also explored. The biopsychosocial (BPS) model explains that cause of an illness is due to complex interaction…

Charles Darwin in his The Descent of Man and Karl Marx in his The Communist Manifesto suggest similar understandings of progress. For Darwin, progress manifests itself in natural selection, often known as “survival of the fittest,” where fittest refers to organisms that can survive and reproduce successfully and not to the most physically fit. Marx realizes that “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle,” and thus understands progress as the removal of class…

simply refuses. “She felt no interest in anything about her. The street, the children, the fruit vendor, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic.” (72) The repeated vagueness that is caused by the constant use of pronouns reverts the statement from a situation that would apply to only Edna, to a statement that applies to all of the women throughout society. The unspecificity of this passage is the key component…

security against the government when it comes to searches and seizures. With this amendment the officials can’t just search anyone or any location they want to, they must have probable cause and/or a warrant. Within this amendment there are a lot of vagueness as to who gets to choose what is a good “probable cause” or what can lead to getting an arrest…

The article, Syntax and Production by Fernanda Ferreira and Paul E. Engelhardt, focuses on the issues that revolve around syntax and the production of words. Syntax allows for words to be combined and create a sentence that has a specific meaning. Humans are able to communicate almost every thought or idea and this is largely because of syntax. The word hat has a specific meaning but language has the power to be significantly changed by putting together words to create meaning such as in the…

Take me to Church by Hozier Take me to Church is a polysemous song that used love and ecstasy as a religious metaphor. The song simultaneously advocates for the human rights. The choice of words, Americana accents and style as a blues genre made it unique in addition to its sensual and emotional effect. The song is centered on to address man’s struggle to find his own identity in an oppressive culture of church, in a generation greatly influenced by the Catholic church and a nationalism that he…

Joseph Conrad had dreamed of traveling to Africa since childhood. Unfortunately, his trip to Africa in 1890 was described as less of a dream, and more of a nightmare. Conrad reflected his experiences while writing his short novel Heart of Darkness. The novel follows a sailor’s employment for a Belgian trading company and his journey up the Congo River. The sailor, Marlow, encounters intense brutality and cruelty towards the natives forced into work for the Company. As Marlow searches for the…

The Terroristic Threat statute is discussed herein. We start with defining the statute and its punishments, followed by common elements and their importance. Then speculation as to it’s importance in Texas law including how the law’s intent aligns with its application and how its application affects public safety. All states have their own version of a Terroristic Threat statute. While each has it’s differences in definition and application, the common thread is that a threat to commit any…

religious conceptions become factual in our subjective regard, and how through the acceptance of symbolic over-arching authority, one’s motives and actions are reflective of so. The most important contribution Geertz proposes in his work is the vagueness in which his interpretation can be applied. Some, like Talal Asad, argue against his notions of intrinsic symbolic conceptions and their connections to the outside world, arguing they are para-consistent at best. I argue against Asad in saying…