Category: Essays

The community is an essential cell of human society, said Pope John XXIII. Indeed, the role of community in human life is hard to overestimate. Everyone has its history, traditions, culture, and social structure with a high interdependence of people within it. Even a small group of people can still be considered a particular community if it represents an independent social unit. The demonstrative example is McLeod Lake Indian Reservation (MLIR) of British Columbia, Canada.

MLIR illustrates a typical aboriginal Indian reservation. The development of this community is to a great extent conditioned by the degree of integration of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. The interaction of individuals within the MLIR community is rather tight. The observations showed that the role of close relations among people is vital. It is reflected soundly in the social structure of the community. Gender roles are very close to matriarchy society as women do the most of the collective work to contain the families. A family takes an essential place in MLIR society hence the establishment of the community daycare system for children. Another critical element contributing the development of this community is social work. Social workers pay much attention to all fields, from daycare to forestry. The power structure of MLIR is a democracy. The majority chooses counselors and the Chief every three years. Continue reading “Field Trip Summary Report”

Introduction, some facts about Philip Larkin
To start with I should say that before searching for some Philip Larkin poetry and analyzing it directly, I tried to deal with a lot of sources just to learn more about Philip Larkin as a brilliant representative of post-war and modern literature. His volumes include “The Ship of the North” (1945), “The Less Deceived” (1955), “The Whitsun Wedding” (1964), “High Windows” (1974) and many others. He saw himself as writing in the tradition of Thomas Hardy in refusing to do the mantle of self-conscious poet hood, but fastening without pretension on the everyday experience, pinpointing its impact on the senses and hinting at its half-glimpsed meaning – or more often its fully glimpsed meaninglessness – for a modern man. The feeling recurs that man has lost his footing amid natural and civilization instabilities. But all in the central theme of Larkin’s poetry are losses, loneliness, human solitude, suffering, an opposition of something eternal and transient in a life of a man. And of course, I can’t help saying that a specific thread of irony is appreciable and visional in almost all his works. Continue reading “Philip Larkin Poetry Essay”

The subject of human relationships is one of the most complex issues in our life. Our opinions on marriage, love, sexuality, and cohabitation vary from person to person, and there is no single point of view. One the acutest problems is cohabitation before marriage. In the current paper I will discuss it using information from interviews with five people having marriage experience (see Attachment) and the textbook.

Before getting married it is important to know the partner very well. According to the survey I conducted, it is possible now to create a list of things I would want to know about prospective marriage partner. This list will include the following facts: propensity of the partner for drinking alcohol or taking drugs; his habits and traditions in everyday life; his interests and hobbies; his behavior in sexual life; his financial state and relation towards money; his goals in life and plans for future; and his attitude towards family members and children. It is possible to learn these things while cohabiting with a partner. However, if being careful and attentive, you may find out many important facts even without cohabitation before marriage. For example, Mr. Priestley did not live with his girlfriend before getting married, and they had to learn many things about each other while being married. The differences of their habits in everyday life led to some problems in their relations. However, Mr. Priestley and his wife overcame those difficulties, and they live together for eight years already and consider their marriage successful. Continue reading “Cohabitation and Marriage Essay”

The article by James C. Hyatt entitled “Birth of the Ethics Industry” appearing in Business Ethics Magazine deals with sweeping changes that occurred in corporate America with the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Corporations are investing time and effort into compliance with the legislation, but they are also working to increase internal controls by introducing “a vast new industry of consultants and suppliers,” creating a new profession and industry (Hyatt, 2005). New business emerges for compliance companies such as Los Angeles-based LRN that has signed a new contract with New York Times and providers of ethics hotlines like Oregon-based EthicsPoint. Section 301 of Sarbanes-Oxley has helped hotlines.

That “requires board audit committees to create a reporting system to receive complaints and tips” (Hyatt, 2005). Continue reading “Ethics Article Review Paper”

Slavery in the 17th century was one of the most dramatic events for the African community. Unlike all the previous forms of slavery, it developed the ideas of racial inequality and contributed to racism. It was caused by the economic reasons and had a significant influence on the development of the American trade. Since the first commercially successful harvest of tobacco was grown, the necessity in cheap labor increased every year, since tobacco required a significant amount of labor to be cultivated and handled. Not only tobacco but also other kinds of agricultural activities required a great amount of labor. As a result, the concentration of black slaves was greater in some part of America that in the others. Slaves at small farm often were in better conditions than at big plantations. At big plantations, the conditions of work were much worth, and due to the number of slaves, the attitude was more animal-like. As a result, the rates of mortality were greater. Those who were brought as the servants often found themselves within the households as cooking and cleaning stuff. For that life was easier, however, they still depended on the master to the very large extent. The declaration of independence. Continue reading “Essay about Slavery in America”

1. Buddha’s principle of Anatta or “No soul” is one of the major teachings of Buddhism. The doctrine of Anatta states that there is no eternal soul, thus, it is impossible to say that a person has a soul; however, Anatta also rejects the material theory, which states that a person doesn’t have a soul.

Followers of Buddhism believe that the human soul is constantly reborn. Thus the soul cannot be substantial. Buddha defined soul as a combination of human internal forces, including perception, feeling, mind (consciousness) and body matter. These components of the human internal world constantly vary. Thus, the combination of them is always different and does not match the previous combination. The Buddha states that human consciousness depends on all these forces and cannot exist separately from them. The doctrine of Anatta is over 2500 years old, but it remains an object of study for many scientists as well as other two principles of Buddhism – Anicca (impermanence or transience) and Dukkha (sorrow). Continue reading “Essay on Buddhism and Islam”

Introduction
To
begin with, I should say that the primary aim of this paper named “Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts” is to explain some fundamental concepts and terminology, such as organizational culture, diversity, organizational behavior, organizational effectiveness and efficiency, communication, organizational learning. And precisely in the part of the introduction, I would like to give precise, simple definitions, or it is better to say to explain some words using an ordinary explanatory dictionary. I have chosen three words: behavior, diversity, communication. Practice is the actions and reactions of a group of people, person, animal, or thing, either characteristically or under specific circumstances or to be short, the way you act or behave. Diversity is a wide range or variety of something, difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness. And communication is an act of communicating in various ways, the act of imparting, conferring, or delivering, from one to another; as the communication of knowledge, opinions or facts, intercourse by words, letters or messages; interchange of thoughts or ideas, by conference or other means. Continue reading “Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts”

Various theories of personality advance different explanations of individual differences. In doing so, most theorists invoke three fundamental distinctions: genetic versus environmental influences, conscious versus unconscious behavior, and free will versus determinism. Falling in different places of the spectrum, most theorists were able to develop their unique theories that provide additional insights into human psychology.

Speaking of the genetic-environmental distinction (also known as “nature versus nurture”), behaviorism is the school that most emphasized the impact of the environment. This school represented, for instance, by B. F. Skinner and Hans Eysenck, emphasized behavior, not internal thoughts, and expressed the belief that “the sources of behavior are external (in the environment), not internal (in mind)” (Graham, 2005). Studying the social behavior of humans, Skinner even went as far as reject the impact human make on their environment, preferring to see this connection in the opposite way: as environment shaping the humans. In one of his books, Skinner argued that “it is like an experimental analysis of human behavior that it should strip away the functions previously assigned to autonomous man and transfer them one by one to the controlling environment” (Graham, 2005). Continue reading “Nature of Personality Essay”

Introduction
Until
the book “The Invisible Heart: an Economic Romance” came out in 2001 nobody would ever think to unite in one book two utterly different from the first sight ideas. Dr. Russell Roberts, who is the author of the book, was able to write about the essential concepts of economics, explaining the terms, and giving his personal ideas on fundamental economic issues in a very special way. The author wrote about two people Sam Gordon and Laura Silver, who by communicating with each other, revealing very thought-provoking ideas, making the readers look differently on some of the basic economic concepts. Generally speaking, economy and romance are two concepts that are very hard to unite with each other. For many centuries, there has been an argument of physicists and lyrics that could not agree, because physics is the exact science that deals with correct laws and rules, and there are no precise rules or regulations that passionate people obey, but they still are romantic. Continue reading “The Invisible Heart: an Economic Romance Book Report”

Marijuana,
in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known…
It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the DEA
to continue to stand between those sufferers
and the benefits of this substance
(Francis L. Young, DEA’s chief administrative law judge, September 6, 1988)

On hearing the word “marijuana” most of the common people would most probably have an immediate association with “evil.” To some extent, they would undoubtedly be right: cannabis is an illicit drug that has a psychoactive impact and deleterious effects on humans.

But is there a reverse of the medal? Can marijuana have any positive effect? My cousin, who is battling breast cancer, would tell you there is at least one: the drug brings relief to those, who suffer from unbearable pain, those who are seriously ill. Suffering from wasting disorders, cancer, chronic pain, epilepsy, and other diseases characterized by seizures, glaucoma, HIV or AIDS, multiple sclerosis, persistent nausea, etc. – can all be alleviated by medical marijuana use. Continue reading “Marijuana for Medical Purposes Essay”