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The Secret is a book authored by Rhonda Byrne that was published in 2006. It is based on a film of the same name produced in March of the same year. The Secret centers on the law of attraction. Byrne expresses positivism about notions that can change life. The book has been translated into more than forty languages. Byrne has used the power of the pen to impact positively on people’s lives. Her well-choreographed description of the chronology of events helps her make the change. This is what makes me like her style of writing and delivery of the message. This paper seeks to prove this success. Byrne starts by explaining the dynamics of the law of attraction, and then she explores how men and women used its power to gain wisdom. This shows how well she is prepared before beginning to write the book. Byrne explains that people through their positive thinking can change their health, expand wealth, and become happier. She analyzes the law of attraction in a perfect way. She illustrates how the law attracts events, situation, and experiences of people by matching their feelings and thoughts. She further inspires people from the fact that two years before she wrote the book, she underwent a terrible condition that brought trauma. This gave her the opportunity to read varied genre of literature by great scholars and thinkers. Through this, she gained wisdom and proper methods of delivering the message to the world. Therefore, when you sit down to read The Secret, you know you are reading a piece of work by the author who was ready for her job. This book is planned well and its content collected over time. The Secret is a well thought out book based on rich wisdom that Byrne acquired by reading widely and internalizing from articles that enriched her mind, giving her adequate capacity to write. To confirm that she did a better job, The Secret gained popularity selling more than nineteen million copies earning Byrne a call to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The fortunes from the sales of the book were marvelous. I contributed to this because I acquired a copy to make sure that I am part of the population that benefited from this knowledge. The book plays a big role in empowering people who want to be self-reliant. Her explanations of the thoughts and feelings transmitting into the surrounding from the human brains, to attract equivalent actions and situations and therefore creating experiences are very fascinating. Through this, the book has managed to transform the thinking of many people. People’s thoughts have shifted to the positive minds. This has created confidence and self-belief, which are key elements to success. Byrne uses metaphors to pass her message to the readers with clear expressions. She does this by comparing the power of thoughts to a transmission tower. The tower transmits frequency to the universe and then relays the same to the earth in equal measure. Her prowess is captivating and is felt when she derives from the Bible to create her three-step process for manifesting the dreams. Byrne outlines that it is Ask, Believe, and Receive. She combines these by capturing the complete hu
Introduction In order to understand and preach religious doctrine, psychology is required. Religion is a faith based belief in what is unseen. It centers on ways in which humans are required to adopt in order to tap into a greater being. Since religion is based on faith, passing the intended message to humans is challenging especially when facts are required to support the message delivered. Religious teachers and preachers have had challenges in their work as the people they address have their own ideas formed in the mind. Religious messages are not to be dictated and one needs to be convinced. In order to understand the relationship between psychology and religion it’s important to understand the difference between the two and how the two work together. Body Psychology is a form of science that deals with the unseen part of the human brain, usually the conscious and subconscious mind. Those who use psychology to pass messages have seen tremendous results. Examples can be cited in advertising where information is repeated over and over to create attraction to a product or service. The unseen mind consists of the subconscious and conscious. If belief can be created in the sub-conscious mind then the conscious mind can be made to perform actions that relate to the belief. Psychologists use the subconscious to get what is in the subconscious. They use questions to probe the conscious into revealing what is in the subconscious. After consciously releasing what the client feels, the psychotherapist can inform new ideas to the client. This are done in such a way that the client gives views on the way forward, hence, owning the remedy for the problem. The religion and psychology parallel has been used over the years in most religions but in a reverse manner. Religion informs beliefs into the subconscious that can be used later by the conscious in actions. The world is too complex for the human mind to fathom that there is none greater than humans. Over the years human generations have continued to believe there is an unseen overall power that controls the universe. This belief has led to shift of worship from greater things such as celestial images, enormous structures and other visible things to worship of the unseen overall power. This is evident in all religions but with different names. Humans were created with a conscious and a subconscious mind. These synergetic parts of the brain help in the advance of humans. Psychologists use the working of the brain to tap into a clients mind to better understand their thoughts and intentions. Religious teachers, on the other hand, use the mind to plant beliefs that can be us
Alexander III of Macedonia, commonly referred to as Alexander the Great, exhibited military genius, great courage, and lasting cultural impact during his reign as a king. He was born in Pella in 356 B.C. and until his premature death at the age of 33 years in 323 B.C. Alexander the Great’s impact on the world was of great significance, and he left a legacy that is still being admired by many (Speake, 13). General Impact of Alexander the Great on the Empire’s Status His short-lived reign began in 336 B.C. when his father, Philip II of Macedon, was assassinated. The teachings of the famous Greek philosopher, Aristotle, greatly influenced his life. When his father died, Alexander inherited a strong kingdom and an experienced army. Coupled with his tactical ability and skills in military conquests , he was successful to conquer much of what was then the civilized world. The political and cultural impacts of these conquests lasted for centuries. Due to many territories that he conquered, the dominion that Alexander the Great had was regarded as one of the greatest in the history of the world. Through these conquests, he managed to bring together Greece, Egypt, and the Middle East to form one culture referred to as the Hellenistic civilization. The ideals of the new Hellenistic culture tremendously changed the world even after his death. Due to Alexander the Great’s politics, individualism, philosophy, learning, and economics principles were considered to be part of the new culture. As his biography states, during the reign of his father, Alexander assisted him in conquering Greece. This experience led to the cavalry during the Battle of Chaeronea, which was one of the critical victories for Philip. After his father’s death, due to his skills in the military campaign and the love that his army had for him, he started by conquering the Persian army. The Persians were controlling most of the known world at that time, including Egypt. Alexander continued with his father’s pragmatic approach to leadership and all through the many battles that he fought, he did not lose even one of them. However, he was not yet contented with the victories, and he proceeded further to the east. He continued to push as far east as Pakistan and India. In 324 B.C., because his army rejected his opinion to advance further, he came back to Babylon. Before his sudden demise two years later, he started making plans for his new empire and prospects of making it larger. How Did Alexander the Great Impact the World? Still, even though his vast empire started to fall soon after he died, Alexander had left a significant political and cultural impact, which was able to transform the world. For the Greeks, he had increased their territorial boundary four times. Since many Greeks had gone with him to the campaigns in Pakistan and India, on coming back, they started to open their thoughts to the big world around them. Therefore, they paid less attention to their poleis since they saw themselves not merely as citizens of a polis, but as individuals. As a result, many of them
Introduction The American constitution has been very important in defining the relationship that exists between the three arms of government. The executive, judiciary, and the legislature are three independent units of the government. The constitution explains how these three arms of the government should relate to one another. The legislature is responsible for enacting laws. The executive implements the law while the judiciary is always called upon to interpret the law. Jefferson (1995) says that these three bodies should discharge their duties without any form of intimidation from other arms of government. In this particular case of New York Times versus the government, the court was called upon to undertake its constitutional right of interpreting the law. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the New York Times. Analysis of the Case It is important to understand the constitution of this country in its entirety before finally concluding whether or not the decision made by the courts was correct. Understanding the Constitution’s Articles II, III, and the First Amendment may shed more light on what could have lead the judiciary to make its decision. Article two of the American constitution defines the formation and powers executive, while Article 3 talks about the formation and powers of the judiciary. From these two articles of the constitution, it comes out clearly that the judiciary is bound by no laws to make decisions in favor of the executive. The judiciary is an independent arm that is responsible for the Americans. To this extent, it would be easy to say that the Supreme Court was justified to decide by favoring the New York Times because their interpretation of the law guided their decision. Moreover, the courts are responsible for the people of America and not to the executive. The decision of the courts could have been because the executive lied to the public, and there was every right to make the public aware of this fact. To the Supreme Court, the executive had no moral right to classify information that was misleading to the public. The supreme court must have felt that the executive- being answerable to the people of America- had a responsibility of coming out and telling the truth about this issue instead of misleading Americans (Whittington, 2006). In this light, the court’s decision could be considered right. However, it is important to understand the constitution in its holistic form other than from one biased side. It is important to understand the letter and the spirit of the law in order to make sound decisions. The United States executive has a mandate from people to engage in wars whenever this may be considered necessary, especially when there is a feeling that these external forces threaten America’s interests. During such wars, it is important to consider some information classified to protect the nation. For instance, the United States is home to people from all over the world, including the people of V
Sappho’s lyrics are the subject of various debates concerning the spiritual perception of love by the ancient Greeks. Sappho’s poetry can be called a treasury of feelings and experiences. The main theme revealed in this poetess’s poems is love. Feelings in her lyrics take on their own unique image. The poetess really showed the world a new hypostasis of human existence – that boundless and mysterious microcosm of love, which alone gives human existence singularity and uniqueness. The semantic load of the poems of the poetess gives an opportunity to take a closer look at the woman’s attitude to love. Sappho expresses love as a passionate feeling, which deprives speechlessness, which penetrates the body from head to toe and makes a woman powerless. Love in Sappho’s poems has exceptional emotional power. It is necessary to analyze one of Sappho’s poems in order to understand the relationship between love and the poetic language used by the writer. Sappho wrote wedding songs, hymns and other melodic poems. The collection of her surviving poems consists of more than 200 fragments, only a small part of which contains complete texts. Initially, the corpus of her works, according to antique sources, consisted of seven books, most of which in their form related to monodic (solo) lyric poetry written in complex poetic measures, the unit of which was not a line but a stanza. Sappho’s muse is full of strong, sometimes agonizing passion; she calls for love, graceful beauty, for the sun. Sappho puts her poems in a variety of complex metrical forms. Analyzing one of the poems by the poet, it is worth paying attention to the way Sappho uses language to express her feelings of love. An important observation here is that especially vivid and important feelings for the author are brought out separately in each stanza (Wisner 2021). In other words, the first three lines of each stanza are aimed at description and characterization, while the fourth is the concluding, associative one for the lyrical heroine. At the very end of the piece, the main idea is brought out strictly in a separate line, summing up all the reflections and uncontrolled feelings. Thus, it is in the last sentence and the fourth line of each stanza that the main message lies (Wisner 2021). In the fragment, it can be seen how the author extols the object of her love experience. Sappho depicts the feelings a woman experiences when she is near the person she loves. She deifies those people who, being near her lover, can behave calmly. In this, the contrast between the people who are indifferent to love and her can be seen, the woman who is passionately in love. Then there is the mind-boggling flow of emotions and feelings associated with being close to the person she loves. Sappho describes the emotional outburst that occurs when she is near the object of her love experience. A further observation important to the characterization of the writer’s language is t
What Is Service Quality? Service quality is a notion which seems easy to define, however, when it comes to an action, it turns out that the service quality cannot be easily considered. According to Kotler, Armstrong, Wong, and Saunders, quality is defined as “the totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs”. 1 However, there are other approaches to this definition which consider the notion from different perspectives. Therefore, if to dwell upon service quality from philosophical approach, it turns out to be a “synonymous with innate excellence”. 2 The service quality from the technological approach considers this notion as the ability to meet the technological standards. 3 Finally, service quality from the user-based approach is the most spread one as it is based on the opinion of a customer about the service quality. Therefore, several approaches to the service quality help consider it from different perspectives and highlight the advantages of the service quality. However, there are several barriers service providers meet when customers consider service from the user-based approach. Therefore, dwelling upon service quality and its application to the workplace, a number of positive and negative aspects may be considered. Negative Aspect to Workplace There are several aspects which negatively affect service quality, and sometimes these aspects do not have anything in common with philosophical and technological approaches. Sometimes, negative consideration of the service quality is based on the personal perspective of a customer, however, the objectivity of the negative effect cannot be measured. Here is the example of the negative aspect of the service quality. It should be said that personal emotions prevent a customer from assessing the service quality objectively 4 and the subjective opinion may also be wrong due to the lack of knowledge. Working in the Thailand restaurant, there was a situation when a customer complained to the services there, however, the complaint was based on personal feelings about the food she knew nothing about. Generally, the food was of the highest quality, however, the lack of knowledge about the traditional Thai cuisine made a customer doubt the quality of the restaurant that led to the conflict between the client and the manager. Thai beef salad is a warm salad, and a customer was very disappointed about it. Therefore, a complaint was caused by the desire of the restaurant to serve the customers the quality food of the traditional Thai cuisine. Positive Aspect to Workplace Nevertheless, the negative effects of the service quality are not that numerous in comparison to the positive ones. Improving the service quality, many companies refer to the training programs. Considering the barriers the Thai restaura
The book, a long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier , talks about the sociological effects of the war in the Sierra Leone and the effects it had on a boy, Ishmael Beah, his brother and the rest of the society. In 1993, war broke out in Beahs village and he became entangled in it. From then on, Beah and his friends began a life of running away from the rebels, being captured by them or harassment from wary villagers. Despite undergoing these problems, the boys did not give up and they keep on looking for their families. “Blood diamonds,” is a movie that portrays the negative effects of diamonds in the country, Sierra Leone. Due to the civil war fuelled by the diamonds, the country is torn apart as the government and rebel soldiers’ fight each other relentlessly. Both of the stories covered by the book and the movie are set in the republic of Sierra Leone during the1990-2001 period and portray various atrocities committed on the people. These two stories have effectively shown the effects of war in a country and the effect it has on children’s sociological lifestyles. Memoirs of a boy soldier, is told through the life experiences of Beah. Due to the revolutionary united front, the rebels, he became separated from his family and he had to adapt to a life of war. By undergoing these changes, his norms changed and various strain theories could be depicted in his behaviour and that of Simons’ son (Eberts, 2003). Beah like other children in the country suddenly found themselves fending for themselves and having to act like adults in order to survive the war. Due to the rampant insecurity in the villages, the people had to live in the jungle whereby the survivors of the war met each other and encouraged themselves to live through the war. The government soldiers failed to offer security to the citizens and instead were a source of terror to the citizens, the same was also portrayed in “blood diamonds” only that the scale of terror was very high. The RUF was very aggressive in it campaigns against the government and they used the people in their agenda. Just like in Beahs village, the villagers were attacked, captured by the rebels and killed mercilessly. However in Simons’ case, the villagers were attacked, the women killed and others captured into slavery. Due to RUF’s policy against democracy, the rebels hacked of the arms of the villagers in order to prevent them from voting for their leaders. Other villagers, who were found to be physically stronger, were taken to the diamond mining fields and forced to mine diamonds for the rebels (Hemmens, 2009). However in the two stories, the stories are told from the perspectives of two different people. Beah is a boy whose goes through the war and survived to tell it from the perspective of a child. He had to look for his family and was left alone after he could not find them. Simon too, had to look for his family; however he was not a boy but a father who became separated from them during raid in his village. Simon as well was very determined to find his family and was ready to sacrifice anything to find his son. However, he soon learnt that his son was captur
Colonialism in North America started in the 15th century, soon after Christopher Columbus discovered the continent in 1480. Actual colonization started in 1492 when Spanish colonizers started expanding their territories by forcing the native communities out of their ancestral land, and killing thousands in the process. Some of the objectives of the first European settlers in America were to increase their wealth, and, as well, increase political and military influence. According to Middleton and Lombard (2011), most of the first European settlers were entrepreneurs and retired military personnel, who came to the country with vast military experiences and succeeded in subduing the natives. However, it was not until the 17th century that England established dominance in the continent. One of the first colonies was at Jamestown in 1607, with others rising up in Massachusetts and New York. Britain started increasing the number of slaves to work in their fields and by 1770, there were more than 2 million residents working in England’s 13 American colonies. With the new formed colonies and free labor from the slaves, Great Britain expanded its output in agriculture and industrial development. The industrial expansion led to industrial revolution that culminated with the fight for independence (Middleton and Lombard 2011). The demand for raw materials to support the growing industry brought about a change in the way in which people organized themselves. The divide between the rich and the poor widened. As a direct result of capitalism, the rich oppressed the poor by forcing them into deplorable working and living conditions. The wages were low and the workers worked in hostile environments. Land adjudication only profited the rich. For instance, the growing textile industry required a lot of wool to support it. In which case, the rich appropriated the hitherto common land farms and made them into “enclosures” (capitalist farms) forcing out the peasants into slums. They then used the land for sheep production. This was very different from the original ownership of land, which was communal. The capitalistic nature of land possession led to an increase in food production since big owners of land could employ technology in food production. This put a lot of food on the table leading to higher population growths. Even then, these people still lived in slums around the industrially productive areas providing cheap labor to support the industry growth (Middleton and Lombard 2011). How the Indigenous People Reacted To Colonization The colonial conquests greatly affected the indigenous Indian community of North America. While some colonizers approached them in a friendly manner, most of the colonial powers from Europe were very hostile and could forcefully acquire land from the natives, leaving thousands hurt and others dead. Resistance against the colonizers was mainly through political rebellions, the most popular being the Pueblo rebellion, which took part in 1680 (Middleton and Lombard 2011). The rebellion was against the