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            One would thin that as we become more sophisticated in our technology, we would also become more sophisticated in our thinking. This is not really the case, and our everyday life reflects this fact, in looking at critical thinking and arguments in daily life.             In this essay we will examine three fallacies that…

Creating and Presenting – Writing in Context Prompt: ‘To conform to the expectations of others can be destructive to the individual. ’ Statement of intention: This persuasive piece explores the ways in which young adults and even others in work places conform to the expectations of others and highlights the fact that this can be…

Brief It is a real experience that I had in my father’s company. This spring, our company planned to add one floor on the top-storey of their 3-floor office building. Before construction, our Company needed to obtain an inn owner’s permission, as the addition floor will block light shining into some rooms of his inn–…

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a novel by Douglas Adams, the Earth disappears, leaving Arthur Dent as the sole remaining Earthling in the universe. Ford Perfect, Arthur’s alien friend who saved him, joins him on an extraordinary journey that completely derails Arthur’s life. As a protagonist with a laid-back and hapless hero persona,…

Roslyn Willet wrote in her essay, “Working in a ‘Man’s World’”, that women are subject to closer scrutiny and harsher criticism than their male colleagues, which is why women always have to prove that they are different from and better than the “average” female, yet rarely dares to threaten their male coworkers by surpassing them…

I.     Executive Summary A year after starting up, excellent and complete facilities drove sustained new-member gains at Workout World (WW).  However, the organization had effectively become decentralized with four independently-run service groups seemingly inclined to operate as they please.  Worse, service gaps had opened in point of adherence to operating hours while maintenance and cleaning…

WeberIn literary works by Gaetano Mosca and Max Weber, the idea of “power” can be extracted and further understood by examining related notions of power such as the “ruling class” and “legitimate domination” presented in them respectively. In particular, through the analysis of power, the distinction between individual and collective contexts of power becomes evident….

Positive Psychology and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) share a focus on the promotion of human flourishing. They have common techniques for accomplishing this via goal setting, psychological strengths, mindfulness and the clarification of values and their relation to the meaning of life (Ciarrochi & Kashdan 2013). ACT emphasizes creating steps that move toward committed…

The essay posted on The Atlantic by Jean M. Twenge can be rhetorically analyzed as an interestingly compelling argument concerning the ongoing cultural topic of teens and smartphones being a crisis to Society. The main claim of the entire essay is that smartphones are changing the lives of teenagers, socially and mentally, at a dramatic,…

Damsel in Distress : Snow White Snow White, the first Disney Princess, was created during the Great Depression in 1937 (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs). Being the first Princess, she portrays the traditional social structure of women during the 1930s. Snow White is soft spoken and submissive, sweet natured, temperate, and obedient to the…