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    in the overall health care model must include a culture. About a specific section related to the concept of cultural concepts depends on the development of the second chapter throughout the text. Such coexistence‚ mosaics‚ such as the salad bowl metaphor was used to describe the cultural diversity that characterizes the United States. According to the US Census Bureau‚ 50 percent close of the US population is composed of people of minority Emerging used to classify the population terms in 2050 diverse

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    Summary: The essay “The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle” by Peter Singer is about global responsibility‚ absurd conception of success and circle of ethics. The essay begins by asking students the questions about what they do if there was a drowning child. The essay later goes into detail that we shouldn’t limited ourselves to problems within a local area and that we must be focus on problems affecting the global community. Towards the end‚ it talks about society’s want for material thing

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    Erving Goffman developed a metaphor of theater to explain the social interaction with different forms of behavior on front and back stages. Front stage is the area of social interaction visible to the audience‚ and back stage is the social interaction not visible to the audience. Front stage is a behavior that we do when other people are watching or are aware of us. Being in this front stage behavior‚ we focus on how others view us and what they expect from us‚ which can drive the behavior all together

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    Adam Smith and Capitalist Philosophy Adam Smith was the first major capitalist philosopher to praise free market economy and no government involvement in the economy. Smith was an 18th century philosopher whose beliefs led to some of our modern day theories; his work marks the breakthrough of an approach which has progressively displaced the stationary Aristotelian view. His most famous book is An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations‚ which was written in 1776. Adam Smith

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    Northrop Frye in ‘The motive for metaphor’ compares science and art. The common element between the two seems to be imagination. In science it becomes the final element and in art the starting point. In Frye view‚ a scientist examines the world which we are given to live‚ scrutinises all the data and attempts at forming certain theories which would underlay the rules governing the world. I doing so‚ he moves from the known realm‚ tangible world towards the concepts in his mind‚ therefore a creation

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    shown a historical distrust of metaphor. English utilitarianist Jeremy Bentham portrayed legal fictions as ‘syphilis’ which runs along the veins of legal arguments‚ arguing that metaphors are not valid as a basis for reasoning in legal arguments. Justice Cardozo warned that while metaphor begins by liberating thoughts‚ they often end up by enslaving thoughts. Often a phobia of indeterminacy led to a confusion of the real with the literal‚ and mistakenly linked metaphor to falsity. Despite the prevalent

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    California’s Mountain Man: Jedediah Smith Michelle Barnett June 30‚ 2013 Jedediah Strong Smith was born in New York in 1799. His New England ancestors came to America in 1634. Growing up Smith’s close family friend‚ a pioneer physician‚ mentored his love of nature and adventure. Smith was raised hunting and trapping in the forests of New York‚ Pennsylvania‚ and Ohio. He had also learned to read and write‚ skills that not many had learned on the American

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    idea to hurt others may seem like a logical and good idea at first‚ it may turn out to do harm to the attacker alongside the victim. For example‚ Macbeth cannot think straight‚ “full of scorpions is [his] mind” (Shakespeare‚ 3.2.38). He uses the metaphor of scorpions of King Duncan’s murder‚ constantly stinging his thoughts and poisoning his mind with thoughts of more killing. After the king’s death‚ Macbeth feels guilt for what he has done‚ first being unable to keep his crime out of mind in case

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    and political forces that make up history and society‚ but they also contribute remarkably to the social processes that refigure individual identity and the socio-political‚ historical situation (174). Veenstra maintains that Greenblatt’s “economic metaphor” enables texts and their symbolic significance to prevail in society insofar as the texts’ literary devices reflect the social energy circulating in other texts that speak of the same subject matter. He further elaborates that Greenblatt’s ideas

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    Horace Smith and Daniel Baird Wesson founded Smith & Wesson when a partnership was formed in 1852 as both partners intended to manufacture a gun that could fire a fully self-contained cartridge. The company is headquartered in Springfield‚ Massachusetts‚ with manufacturing facilities in Springfield‚ Houlton‚ Maine‚ Rochester‚ and New Hampshire creating guns for sport‚ recreation‚ personal use and protection. Smith & Wesson firearms were always distinguished for their modern design‚ high quality and

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