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My name is Vu Mai An, student from class FB4B in Faculty of International Education in FTU. This is my assignment for the case study on Holiday decision-making, which is related to the lecture about Consumer Behavior. Consumer Behaviors (or Consumer Buying Behaviors) are the decision processes and acts of ultimate consumers/ end users involved…

The decision to drop the atomic bomb was very difficult, and extremely important. In the midst of the Pacific War with Japan, the United States president, Harry S. Truman, was left to decide whether or not to use the most powerful weapon at the time. Many Americans had conflicting views, striving to convince each other…

Critical Thinking Styles and Forces of InfluenceOur basic concept of critical thinking is, at root, simple. We could define it as the art of taking charge of your own mind. Its value is also at root simple: “if we can take charge of our own minds, we can take charge of our lives; we can…

In Melville’s Moby Dick, Ishmael, the narrator, has a distinctive perspective on the magnificent white whale. Despite the use of subtle deceits and external impositions, the essence of substances remains unaffected. Just like a harlot whose allure hides a charnel-house, deified Nature also conceals its truth. Melville employs this theme of uncertainty throughout his remarks,…

What is Truth? Truth exists and is an absolute. Contrary to the mush-minded meanderings of modern educators, truth is not relative. If my truth differs from your truth that can only be because either one or both of us is unaware of the truth and has called something true which is not. Truth must have…

This Be the Verseby Philip LarkinThey fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they hadAnd add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turnBy fools in old-style hats and coats,Who half the time were sloppy-sternAnd half…

Introduction Lying is said to have started in the Bible when the Serpent lied to Eve about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, telling her “You shall not die” (NIV Holy Bible, Gen 3.4). It is indeed as old as humanity itself. Throughout the years, philosophers have contended against each other on…

Molly Ivins, in her Op-Ed called, “Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns,” argues for an absolute abolition of civilian gun ownership. Ivins begins her argument with a sarcastic attitude toward gun laws in the United States. She calls herself “not antigun,” but immediately announces that she is “proknife. ” She…

Author takes many examples to show that dads as the primary child-care provider in this society could cause which kind of comments and effects. At the beginning, writer gives an example from a father named Billy Steel, who has quitted his job staying with his son while his wife go back to work. He claims…

Politics: the inescapable stalker of our societyPolitics is a process by which a group of people, whose opinions or interests might be divergent, reach collective decisions that are generally regarded as binding on the group and enforced as common policy. Political theory or political philosophy is as old as the oldest civilisations. The Greek philosophers,…