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Summary Of The Main Ideas Of Ethical Stoicism

Stoicism is a philosophical school, which emerged during the early Hellenistic and retained its influence until the end of the Ancient World. Its name is given to the title of the portico Stoa Poikile, where the founder of Stoicism, Zeno of Citium, the first appeared as a teacher. In the history of Stoicism there are three main periods: Ancient (Old) Stoa (end of the IV century BC - the middle of the II century BC), Average (Medium) Stoa (II-I century BC), New Stoa (Late) (I- III century BC) (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1997).
In modern times the best known Continue reading...

Zincarlin is a variety of cottage cheese produced in Ville di Muggio, Ticino,, Switzerland. It is made from unheated curd from cow’s milk mixed with little goat milk and spiced with salt and pepper. The cheese takes a minimum of four months to twelve months to mature. This cheese is characterized by its distinct taste and shape that resembles an overturned cup. Zincarlin cheese is not only a specialty agricultural product produces in the Alpine valleys but it has a distinct history that has made its production and consumption a tradition, particularly among the residents of the Alpine Continue reading...

Technology

Introduction
The computer applications world is exponentially increasing in size. Together with genuine applications that help human progress, there is considerable incidence of malware in the Internet. Producers of malware invariably take steps to ensure that their creations are not easily cracked and defeated. For this purpose, they use techniques of anti-reverse engineering. anti-disassembly and anti-debugging.
Anti-Reverse-Engineering
Anti reverse engineering is a framework incorporated in software, likely to be malware, which ensures that it becomes very difficult for others to analyze the software. Similarly, authentic corporate firms may desire to incorporate anti-reverse engineering in their software to ensure that Continue reading...

In the yesteryears, self-portraits were considered the artists’ way of expressing themselves whilst demonstrating their skills in manipulating colours in order to create stunning masterpieces. Due to the invention of the camera, more people are able to capture their ‘moments’ within a flick of a finger through their smartphones, tablets, and digital cameras. In his dissertation, Professor Azar Rejaie noted that one purpose of self-portraiture was for the sake of remembrance, and to honour an artist’s contribution to the society1. This type of painting differs from the regular painting. Painting one’s self requires more attention to the Continue reading...

Analysis of the Novel The Time Machine

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Introduction

The concept of time machine, as a machine that could enable travelling through time, was first coined by H.G Wells the author of the novel “the Time Machine”. The same idea has been shown in several movies and novels since then.
The story of the novel is presented in the 19th century in London. 19th century is considered an important time for works of science fiction in books as well as movies. Several famous and new concepts were introduced at this time. So naturally a good choice for the background setting for the Continue reading...

Question 1

Apparently, while a retailer can control some variables when working on his or her retail strategy, some variables remain uncontrollable. In this case, the following are the uncontrollable variables when working on a retail strategy:

Consumers

Technology
Economic conditions
Legal restrictions
Market competition
Seasonality
The variables above cannot be controlled by a retailer because it depends on other factors that are beyond the scope of the retailer.

Question 2

Though I have since experienced a number of situations where I felt unsatisfied with the customer services offered, one experience that would remain memorable is the one I experienced in a particular restaurant. Continue reading...

1. Mechanism that result in a patient showing hyperreflexia and hypertonia
Hypertonia is muscle stiffness. It can also be associated with the increased muscle tone. Reflexes (such as a knee-jerk reflex) in hypertonia are stronger or increased. Hypertonia may hinder walking, movement or speech of a man. Muscles are strained and tight to the touch. Tonus is increased by the spastic type; muscle tone in the study of the resistance is felt at the beginning of the movement (a symptom of ‘folding knife’). The obvious hypertonia is characterized by contracture. In hemiplegia (hemiparesis) in hand, tone increases in adductor Continue reading...

Introduction

When the United States of American sends ambassadors to foreign countries or signs a treaty with a foreign nation, it is said that the nation is practicing foreign policy. The constitution of the United States of American gives extensive powers to the congress on shaping the foreign policies. Although the law makers really interacts with other nations on foreign policies issues, the laws passed by the congress, the nomination and treaties approved by the senates has a great influence on the United States of America on how it interacts with other countries. There has been tension over the issues Continue reading...

The federal government have too much power as compared to states government. At first, the state government had a lot of power than federal government but the power of federal government grew with time until to overcome that of state. However, this affects the life of the American citizens. Gaylord (all) argues that there is great need to develop balance between the state and federal power. The balance I power between federal government and state government will assist the two to control each other.
There various ways in which the state government should do in order to counter the Continue reading...

Louise Cowan’s “The Necessity of the Classics” and Walker Percy’s “Diagnosing the Modern Malaise” are concerned with the role of classics in the modern Western culture. They show how present-day lives in Western societies can be understood or positively influenced using classics. The two essays show that classics can be used to understand and cultivate admirable values such as heroism, and avoid undesirable feelings such as unhappiness and loneliness. As such, she, particularly, argues that classics should be primary basis of present-day curricula in western education societies. In this essay, it will be shown how Cowan and Continue reading...