“Tell me‚ what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?’ This last line of the poem “The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver reminds the reader that life is what you make of it. Only I am responsible for my experiences and/or consequences. Unfortunately‚ I can’t control the attitudes or actions of others but myself. We all can meditate and send positive vibes but the people around us will always suffer pain and disbelief. Everything that happens is from a greater influence outside of
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Day of Empire Analysis Amy Chua’s thesis in Day of Empire is that the biggest contributing factor of the demise of hyperpowers throughout history is the loss of tolerance by the ruling entity. She believes that when the hyperpowers begin to decline they begin to blame everything on the outsiders. Sometimes this is caused by a regime change or a ruler’s search for a scapegoat. Her theory states that this intolerance causes social unrest and rebellion by the oppressed groups. The Persian Empire
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Three Main Types of Volcanoes The three main types of volcanoes differ in shape‚ size‚ and make-up; the differences partly result from the different types of eruptions. Volcano Type Volcano Shape Volcano Size Volcano Materials Eruption Type UTAH example Cinder Cone Steep conical hill with straight sides Small less than 300m high cinders Explosive Diamond Cinder Cone‚ Washington County Shield Volcano Very gentle slopes; convex upward (shaped like a warrior’s shield) Large over 10s of kms
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In Jerry Toner’s book The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino: Understanding the Roman Games‚ the reader is introduced into the violent‚ blood thirsty society that is the Roman Empire. In the prologue to the book‚ Toner writes “One modern writer described these ‘bloodthirsty human holocausts’ as ‘by far the nastiest blood-sport ever invented. He claimed that ‘the two most quantitatively destructive institutions in History are Nazism and the Roman Gladiators’.” The Roman Empire‚ as a whole‚ was a violent
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opinion about most movies. I didn’t hate Batman v. Superman enough to vomit out my own eyeballs even though the critics told me I should. I adore The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen regardless of the critical backlash. My favorite series is the Now You See Me series‚ and more specifically‚ the sequel is one of my favorite movies of all time. In my opinion‚ the sequel does everything a sequel should do. It answers questions left hanging in the first one‚ and does more of everything that made the first
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centuries‚ as well as how God the Father‚ God the Son‚ and God the Holy Spirit are three separate identities‚ but all one God‚ all divine in nature. One must look at the early forefathers of theology and their doctrine on the Trinity and how the location such as East and the West looked at it from different views. To understanding the term Trinity‚ one must ascertain how it came together‚ along with the relationship of the three identities that make up the Trinity and how they are divine nature. The Trinitarian
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The ‘First day at School’ takes us through the vast stretch of a child’s mind on his first day of school. It voices the feelings of the child; his unknowing mind of the perplexing new world and how that has aroused a sense of anxiety and insecurity inside him. The poem also lets us delve into the child’s misapprehending of his new phase of life; his misinterpretations and how he had gotten the wrong idea. With that many qualities are conveyed to portray all this. In this poem it proclaims to have
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“We see and understand things not as they are but as we are.” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing. The way we attain knowledge will determine how we see and understand things‚ but no matter how we see and understand them‚ it will never bring us to the objective truth. We use our perception to “see” things and we use our reasoning to “understand” things. It is common‚ if not inevitable‚ for us to manipulate the information received using the ways of knowing into what
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The Three Witches Throughout the play‚ the witches—referred to as the “weird sisters” by many of the characters—lurk like dark thoughts and unconscious temptations to evil. In part‚ the mischief they cause stems from their supernatural powers‚ but mainly it is the result of their understanding of the weaknesses of their specific interlocutors—they play upon Macbeth’s ambition like puppeteers. The witches’ beards‚ bizarre potions‚ and rhymed speech make them seem slightly ridiculous‚ like caricatures
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Scenario 3 Question: How do you think this situation could have been prevented? Could the IT department have conducted regular inventories of the software on each computer to identify missing patches? Could the IT department have implemented a process to ensure that no computer is moved outside the boundaries of the firewall? There are steps that the IT department could have taken to avoid the situation that occurred. There should have been policies in place to ensure that antivirus/malware
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