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Jared Diamond, an evolutionary biologist and biogeographer who has worked extensively in New Guinea, rejects racially oriented explanations for differential human development. He agrees that the explication for European success is biological, but believes that intelligence had nothing to do with the differential development of societies. Geography had everything to do with it. Differences among…

The book ‘On Liberty’ was “published in 1859 and was known as John Stuart Mill’s finest and most controversial book” (Austin, 2000). In his classic work Mill (1859) sets out to “investigate the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual”. In ‘On Libery’, it was emphasized…

In chapter III of The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway gives us in multiple scenes a vision about Paris in 1920. The beginning of the 20th century was a time of a large change in the world. He started the chapter by describing the weather, “a warm spring night” Hemingway writes. Sitting in a café watching…

Beowulf ventures out far and wide to help those in need. He helps the Danes when he hears they are being threatened by Grendel, and later, Grendel’s mom. Beowulf trusts he is the most grounded man around, and he goes up against any test. Beowulf’s pride gives him the valor to go up against the…

Erik Erikson, a loyal Freudian follower and student developed an eight-stage theory explaining personality through life development. He believed personality to not be a scandalous product of biological sexual turmoil in one’s life due to passed events, but rather having a genetic predisposition with the acceptance of external factors from the environment (Schultz & Schultz,…

While the course of true love will seldom run smoothly, yet the path can be fraught with unknown perils. Rarely does one realize what rewards and enticements the future will unfold. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is noted for popularizing the literary style of magic realism which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary situations. In…

Purpose of lectures Is to nurture the Intellectual and cultural life of this country, and to be a ITIL element of the contemporary Australian conversation Structure: Effective link to mathematician, ends with a reference of Henry James, reassuring the power words Context: Discovery of how words are power and the key to knowledge Literature was…

“A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality…never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. Thus Kino’s future was real, but, having set it up, other forces were set up to destroy it.” (Steinbeck 29). A historical fiction novella written by John Steinbeck: The Pearl, tells an intriguing story of a poor fisherman,…

In the book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, the author, Jared Diamond, starts his prologue by first posing a question to his readers: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo … but we black people had little cargo of our own?”(Diamond 14). Later revealing that this is the exact question he received…

Dan Koeppel challenges popular belief that you will die if you fall out of an airplane in his process analysis “Taking a Fall.” Koeppel is a journalist and outdoors enthusiast, best known for his knowledge of extreme sports. In “Taking a Fall” Koeppel is instructing the reader on how to survive a long fall out…