Taoism: The Ancient Pantheistic Religion and Its Influence on Chinese Society

 Taoism, also known as Daoism, is an ancient pantheistic religion that emphasises living in harmony with the Tao or ‘The Way’. Taoist ethics tend to differ between schools, but they all share the principles of effortless action, naturalness, simplicity, and the Three Treasures: compassion, frugality, and humility. The Tao Te Ching is seen as … Read more

The Impact of Movies on Everyday Life: A Comparison of Rome Open City and Breathless

 1. INTRODUCTION As movies are stories communicated by filmmakers to an audience through motion pictures, they seem to be having an impact on people’s everyday lives. Because movies are made in accordance to the filmmaker’s point of view or perspective, they can subconsciously control how we as the audiences see the world and behave … Read more

Engaging Women In Economic Empowerment – An Exploration of Entrepreneurship in Rural Turkey

 en’s Economic Empowerment through Entrepreneurship in Rural Areas of Turkey Mike Manaros, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey, Email: [email protected] Asst. Assoc. Dr. İ.Bülent Gürbüz, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey, Email: [email protected] / [email protected] Abstract Nowadays, empowerment of women is crucial to rural … Read more

Exploring the Financial Regulation in Trinidad and Tobago: A Case Study

 Paste your es4 THE REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE: A CASE STUDY ON TRINIDAD      AND TOBAGO 4.1.   Introduction Just like Suriname, T&T is also member of the CARICOM and the economies of both countries depend on exports of commodities. These countries also show geographic and cultural similarities. In relation to other CARICOM members their financial … Read more

Indigenous Social Movements and Evo Morales: Exploring Gendered Power Relations in Bolivia

 In Bolivia, the indigenous people form the majority of the population, but for a long time they have been in a subordinate position (Albó 2009, 19). Indigenous social movements have been active in protest movements, but absent from political representation (Van Cott 2005, 49). By far the biggest indigenous groups are the Quechua and … Read more

Evaluating a Product of Globalisation: the Foreign Exchange Debit Card

 To what extent is your object a product of globalisation, and to what extent has your object perpetuated globalisation? Because the foreign exchange debit card can exchange currency across the globe it encourages the transnational consumption of foreign goods and services in such a way that it perpetuates globalisation. The foreign exchange debit card … Read more

Inspiring Originality: Let Creativity Reign w/ Plagiarism

 Michael Dimaculangan Professor Ann Ilan Alter Expository Writing 101 14 September 2017 The Right to be Influenced Growing up, as students, we were all told to “never plagiarize” and to “always create original pieces of work” from our teachers or parents. Plagiarism can be defined as “the practice of taking someone else's work or … Read more

Revolutionary Women of the Early 19th Century: Their Unheralded Contributions to Abolish Slavery and Secure Equal Rights

 In the early nineteenth century, American women did not have any position in society. Women were supposed to stay at home and play the traditional roles of a wife and a mother. In the 1900’s the man was the head of the household and the wife was his property. In the years leading up … Read more

Solving Misconceptions: Diagnosing and Managing Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)

 Auditory Processing Disorder The child with Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) has difficulty processing auditory information or quite simply processing what we hear, despite having normal hearing.  Over the past thirty years there have been many misconceptions and false information surrounding APD.  This has caused confusion over what exactly APD is and how it is … Read more

Use of Imagination and Intuition in Natural and Human Sciences: Creativity in Knowledge Production

 Creativity requires the use of imagination and or original ideas to create something new and in the case of producing knowledge, creativity can aid in the discovery or creation of new knowledge. From beginning to end, creativity is required to theorize and predict new knowledge but also creates new methods to test knowledge. Imagination … Read more

How TNF Inhibitors Impact Mouse Aorta and Mesenteric Artery: Vaccum Trtmt, Histology Analysis and More

 Materials and methods Mice Adult, male C57BL/6J wildtype (WT) mice were purchased from Taconic Ltd. (Ry, Denmark) and transferred to the Biomedical Laboratory, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. Mice were housed in groups and maintained on a 12 h light/dark cycle and allowed free access to food and water ad libitum. All experiments … Read more