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The US government GETS what it DESERVES!!!
Posted by Julia R. toLet’s take a flash back and find out why the US is engaged in so called war on terror. First of all, we need to take a look on our history.
In 1964-1974, government of the US has been trying to engage with Vietnamese insurgents to “protect” the peaceful people of Vietnam. The truth is that it was basically protection of zones of control from the Soviet Union. Continue reading…
(4 Votes)Why do ALL WOMEN want to get married?
Posted by Julia R. toIt has been always believed that every woman wants to get married.
Starting from the moment when a girl realizes she is a Homo Sapiens Femininum she begins dreaming about the day of her wedding.
I guess, this belief must be born in female bones since the time when a woman was meant to get married. Marriage was something like a license for a man to use a woman (his wife) as a device for delivering his offsprings, cleaning up the house and cooking. Later women made up a beautiful tale about a noble prince “driving” a white horse, with beautiful attires on followed by nice ceremonies and happy years of life with the prince. And men kindly agreed to suffer the WHOLE ceremony knowing that then they will be able to do what they want with their wives.
What else? Continue reading…
(2 Votes)A Good Excuse to Skip a Writing Class
Posted by Julia R. toOkay, I know that skipping classes is wrong, and that I will be cursed for this article. But hey, how can you sit in class when spring is in its full blossom? Once in a while it is even helpful to run away and have a nice quiet day to yourself. If you find a good excuse to get out of the class, no one will even think that you are lying. And if you are not creative enough or think about the best way to escape, I can offer you nine effective excuses. Continue reading…
Comment(2 Votes)How Weird Are Your Professors?
Posted by Julia R. toDo you remember the first part of the movie “Men in Black”, where Will Smith looked at the monitor displaying aliens on Earth, showed at the woman and said:
- Unbelievable! I was sure that this woman, my teacher, was from Mars!
- Jupiter, actually, – his supervisor corrected him.
Didn’t you think about something like this when looking at your professor? I bet you even tried to give him typical characteristics. Most probably, they looked like this: Continue reading…
(No Ratings Yet)Severe Punishment
Posted by Julia R. toAre you saying your school’s rules are unbearable? Pity the Germans, for their educational system is much more severe than yours. A 15-year old girl from a German town was sentenced to two weeks in a jail. She got punished for skipping classes.
Girl’s parents failed to pay a fine for the daughter. The girl herself refused to fulfill a certain amount of community services. Therefore, the district court ruled to send her to jail for two weeks. A spokesperson for the state education department refused to comment on the decision.
Next time you decide to skip classes, think if it’s worth enough doing? Continue reading…
(No Ratings Yet)Report Writings: History
Posted by Julia R. to
Report writing itself evolved from the necessity to report information on actions taken to prevent any negative effect, and not from the access time and mean plans of your teacher. Did you know that the first police offices (and police establishments contributed a lot to the history of writing reports) appeared in 27 BC, and were the attempt of Caesar’s nephew, Gaius Octavius, to revenge his uncle’s death.
The police was called the Roman vigilies. They were to protect the emperor, provide daytime fire brigade assistance, and to protect the citizens from thieves, vagabonds and other potentially dangerous people. The vigilies also had to report on actions taken to the emperor.
The first professional police force in the world was the British Bobbies in 1829. They practiced such things as discipline, appearance, recruitment, and report writing.
1902 was the year when the International Association of Chiefs of Police started working in America. In 1918 August Vollmer, chief of the Berkeley P.D., USA, became the patriarch of police professionalism. This man was responsible for introducing America to crime labs, fingerprint repositories, and uniform crime reporting – official data on crime that is reported to law enforcement agencies across the United States. Continue reading…
(1 Votes)Dissertation Writing: History
Posted by Julia R. to
Today dissertation writing opens doors to endless possibilities, high social status, and a well-paid job. Rejoice, oh student, for medieval masters and doctors didn’t have as many possibilities, as nowadays candidates do.
Did you know that the degrees of bachelor and master did not originate until the thirteenth century? Before that, the intellectual life was associated only with monasteries, which were mostly concerned with the study of the liturgy and prayer; very few monasteries could boast true intellectuals. And even after the universities were introduced, the mastership originally meant no more than a certificate of fitness to teach at a university. Up to twelve years of studying were required before a student was allowed to obtain the masterate or doctorate degree.
Students also had limited options in studying: after a six-year course of liberal arts (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music theory, grammar, logic, and rhetoric), only three faculties – law, medicine, and theology – were opened to pursue the master’s and doctorate degree.
When completing a dissertation nowadays, each candidate is assigned a supervisor for assistance. And lucky these candidates are, for in Medieval Ages there were no instructors. Moreover, students were tried for crimes in a church court if anything suspicious about them was discovered. Continue reading…
(No Ratings Yet)Flashback on the History of Financial Report Writing
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Financial statements and records have been produced for as far back as there has been human writing. The people in the old Mesopotamian societies operated both insurance and credit corporations, and had the obvious need of record keeping.
The inhabitants of Rhodes were the first ones to introduce the meaning of the “general average”. Merchants whose goods were being shipped together would pay a proportionally divided premium which would be used to reimburse any merchant whose goods were jettisoned during storm.
As to more recent history, one of the most prominent figures of finances and financial report writing was Jean- Baptiste Colbert. He was the financial minister to the court of an even more prominent king – Louis XIV the Sun King.
Colbert is famous for saving France from bankruptcy, into which it got due to the exhaustive war of Fronde. When he obtained access to finances and power, he punished guilty officials, and managed to destroy the deceitful creditors of the government.
Colbert had a simple method of operation. He repudiated some of the public loans, and cut off from others a percentage, which varied, at first according to his own decision, and afterwards according to that of the council which he established to examine all claims against the state. Continue reading…
(No Ratings Yet)It’s Never Late to Learn
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Instead of complaining about how hard studying is, think that some people are longing to study. And age is not an obstacle.
Did you know that the oldest high school student is 86 years old? Kimani Nganga Maruge is a third grader in a Kenyan primary school. He got the possibility to attend it after the free primary school education act was passed by the national government.
Kimani Nganga didn’t have an opportunity to study when he was a child. As soon as he heard of the new governmental program, he immediately visited his local primary school. The headmistress was stunned. She admits that at first she took Kimani for someone’s grandpa, waiting in front of the office. When she heard of his request, she denied him. Several times. But when Kimani appeared in the beginning of a new school year wearing shorts, pullover and a shirt of school uniform colors, the woman gave up.
Kimanu is in the third grade right now. During these years he hasn’t missed a day at school. Old fellow enjoys reading the Bible and getting acquainted with other benefits provided by a school.
Edgar Dowse can be called Maruge’s soul brother. A 93 year old British vicar has recently received a PhD in a London School of Theology. Continue reading…
(No Ratings Yet)Critique Writing: Historical Perspective
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Today professional critiques are a way to earn money. There are specialized magazines and TV-shows. Critique writing also is on the list of academic writing requirements. But its’ original goal was somewhat different.
The era of Renaissance was the time for arts to bloom. However, the influence of Church on public opinion was still enormous. An example with French drama is one of the most obvious ones. Great master of comedy, French dramatist Jean-Baptiste Molière was one of the few people to bring the genre back to life after it was labeled anti-Christian with the collapse of pagan religion. His plays were brilliant, critical, and up-to-date. His protector was King Louis XIV. He adored Jean-Baptiste’s works, and even granted him a spacious room in Louvre, appointed for theatrical performances. However, after Molière wrote his comedy Tartuffe or the Hypocrite, which criticized the Church greatly, he became the number-one public enemy in the eyes of the priests. Molière received his portion of the first greatly planned critique campaign, and even the king couldn’t protect him at this point in time.
It was the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who put critique to theory. In his aesthetic work called Critique of Judgment, he investigated the possibility and logical status of “judgments of taste”. Kant was the first one to state that beauty was not a property of an artwork or natural phenomenon, but a consciousness of the pleasure which attended the “free-play” of the imagination. Continue reading…
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