The University of the West Indies Open Campus Caribbean Civilisation Foun1101 Think Piece: Liar King Kellyander Morris #620049710 June 12th 2015 The Caribbean is beautiful place‚ with distinct culture‚ filled with many talented singers and songwriters.The song King liar was written and song by one of fellow “caribbeanites” Lord Nelson(aka Robert Nelson). He was born and raised in Trinidad & Tobago but seeked fame in the United States of America and found it in his own backyard as a calypso artist
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Hindsight is Always 20/20 Many of us tend to dwell on our past. We live insecure and ashamed of the choices we made and the person we have become. We live in excruciating pain because of the wrong people have done to us. Soren Kierkegaard tells us‚ “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward.” He makes a valid point when he said this. We may not understand why an adversity strikes us exactly when it happens‚ but hindsight is always 20/20. When my parents got divorced
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Commentary: Lorna Sage‚ Bad Blood (2000) In the passage ‘Bad Blood’‚ Lorna Sage writes about her painful childhood memories and school life. It consists of three paragraphs. First paragraph touches upon the narrator’s past experience with school. The second paragraph explores the relationship between narrator and Gail. The last paragraph focuses mainly on Gail. Lorna starts off the passage with an effective opening‚ as the first sentence “So the playground was hell”. The conjunction used to start
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should we be focusing on keeping what remains of our country together‚ or defending and trying to gain back what has been forcefully taken from us? (A) Isrrael: As a wise man once told me‚ “A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought‚ nor must he take anything as his profession but war‚ its institutions‚ and its discipline.” This being said‚ I believe that we must try to gain back what has been stolen from us. We must strengthen our military and focus our efforts on winning back our country. The only way to keep and properly rule
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As a result of this‚ all "training" must take place behind closed doors‚ far from the prying eyes and ears of the news media or the public. But this has not always been the case. Niccolò Machiavelli was brave enough to give the leaders of his day a how-to guide. In this work‚ The Qualities of a Prince‚ we are given a point-by-point description of what a leader should do to effectively lead his country. Machiavelli explains that‚ because leadership is (obviously) a position of command‚ "[war]
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Polonius’s Advice This short piece of the story of Hamlet‚ talks about how Polonius is giving some good advice to his son Leartes who is the king of Denmark and he teaches him three basic things before he leaves to travel to a foreign country. These three concepts are money‚ friendship and self-confidence. First‚ Polonius tells his son to be careful with money‚ which is an important advice for a young person who lacks of financial experience. I think this is a very important advice‚ especially
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There is a lot of resentment from Prospero toward his peers in Milan because of how he had been mistreated. The tempest he stormed up was a result of his anger and his desire to protect his daughter‚ Miranda‚ which clearly upsets her. Although getting revenge is very important
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Niccolò Machiavelli was a Renaissance’s leader and also one of the greatest political thinkers of that time. He was born in 1469‚ and came from a Florentine family that was very respected by many. In 1498‚ Machiavelli entered the political world and was voted the Chief of the Second Chancery and then later on the Secretary to the Ten of Liberty and Peace. It was here where he gained much of his knowledge on military and foreign affairs. Machiavelli was first commissioned in 1499‚ but his first commission
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POLY SCI 132 5/3/11 Machiavelli the Realist Machiavelli revolutionized the way the worldviews politics. However‚ when we read his writings today‚ the ideas don’t seem very revolutionary. This is because his thoughts came to embody political structure. Machiavelli is known for being the first political philosopher to apply realism to politics. Machiavelli wanted to find a solution to his dark reality. Machiavelli’s The Prince presents us with the reality of the political arena
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Thought Piece: Mnemonics As a student‚ it is always my mother’s interest to know how to help me achieve higher results by remembering more information related to exams. When it comes to the ability to remember‚ we should talk about ‘memory’. Memory is the nervous system’s capacity to retain and receive knowledge and skills; this system includes three main stages‚ which are encoding‚ storage and retrieval (Gazzaniga ‚ Heatherton. & Halpern‚ 2013). Actually‚ there are three types of memory
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