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Different Personality Traits
Personality
There are five personal traits, they are openness, conscientious, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Everybody has at least one of these traits in their personality. Openness personal trait is when someone is curiosity. These people use saying like “I have rich vocabulary” or saying like “I have vivid imagination. ” These kind of people usually get…
Biography of the French Modernist Painter Edouard Manet
Art
Painting
Thought
To have a deeper understanding of the French modernist painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883) and his masterpieces, together with his contemporaries, first we have to delve into the art movement that they have pioneered — Impressionism. But before that, it is just proper to discuss Realism, the movement that came before it. The rising Modern Age…
Altruism and Nature Fundamentally Selfish
Altruism
Nature
Altruism for Survival “Pure” altruism is defined as the showing unselfish concern for another’s welfare without personal gain. However according to Richard Dawkins, in his Selfish Gene theory, pure altruism does not exist. This theory all boils down to expanding and maximizing inclusive fitness. The term selfish does not imply that there is any motives…
The Case of Spelunkers
Behavior
Morality
Problem Solving
The surviving members of Spelunkers should not be held responsible for committing murder. This is because their behavior was influenced by the extreme circumstances they found themselves in and their innate human instincts. Initially intending to climb a mountain, four Spelunkers became trapped inside a cave instead. Regrettably, they did not bring an adequate amount…
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Cognition
Human Activities
The Story of an Hour
Being written by Kate Chopin in 1894, “The Story of an Hour” describes hour from the life of Louise Mallard, a woman with heart trouble, immediately after receiving news of her husband’s death. Despite the traditional perceptions of loss experience associated with grief and sorrow, Chopin’s heroine has a moment of relief realizing the freedoms…
On Refuting a Pro-Smoker’s Lament
Critical Thinking Skills
Discrimination
Fallacy
Logic
Persuasion
Reasoning
Persuasion by argument can be tricky. Without being critical, one’s opinion can be swayed by a falsely constructed argument loosely based on logic and heavily tinted with fallacious, emotional and biased statements, or by an illogically constructed text which ignores counterarguments and rebuttals. In this paper, the author will examine an argumentative text entitled…
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Professor Wade
American Culture
Culture
Human Activities
the handmaid's tale
Offred’s story was found by Professor’s Wade and Pieixoto on the site of what was once the city of Bangor, in what would have been the State of Maine, which was a prominent way-station on what Offred refers to as “The Underground Femaleroad”. The story was of spoken form, recorded on approximately thirty cassette tapes…
Nature Versus Nurture: What Is Stronger?
Nature Versus Nurture
The issue of nature versus nurture has been around for years, and still it has not been resolved which of the two has greater effect on a person. Scientists on both sides conducted research and experiments and they have supported their findings with good reasons as to why nature – heredity, or nurture–environment is the…
The Statement of Principles functional statement
Principles
The primary purpose of developing a consensus conceptual framework is to serve as: a structure for establishing accounting standards, a foundation for resolving accounting conflicts, and basic principles that do not need to be reiterated in accounting standards. Nonetheless, a major limitation of a conceptual framework is its potential to be overly broad and having…
India – the Land of Magic and Mystery
Mystery
There can be no better introduction to the magic of India, its splendour and diversity, than the words of India’s great poet Allama Iqbal: “The great civilizations of Greece, Rome and Egypt have vanished from this earth, but the unique identity of Indian civilization survives”. It is the land about which the great philosopher Rabindranath…