ShantanuT01/DACTYL-Pretraining huggingface dataset:
Introduction The demand for solid, lightweight, reduced-power electronics intensified by the rising need for enhanced data output and transmission is influencing the application of optical expertise in aerospace and military operations. Optical elements and systems are progressively being examined, in addition to adoption by aerospace and military engineers, for diverse air, land, space, and sea operations. Clients are progressively requiring more optical advances in the mil-aero sector, and the concern is characteristically propelled by optics’ benefits over copper. There are numerous advantages to optical computing encompassing decreased size, power, and weight, in addition to electromagnetic interference resistance. These are some of the reasons behind fiber optics providing a safe communication system where any tapping might be discovered with the effortlessness of installation and information frequency over distance. Most of the gains from fiber optics are inter-reliant, for example, attributable to its being immune to electromagnetic interference, it is not essential to shield the cables. Petrescu (2019) has established that shielding is difficult, increases size, and generates installation and operation issues. In some airplanes, distinct provisions are necessary to ensure that shields bond to assigned grounds and for the fortification of shielding in relation to lightning. Optical fiber technologies tackle nearly all the underlying military operation problems successfully. Optical Fiber Products Apart from enabling enhanced computer networks and high-speed internet, fiber-optics products play a fundamental role in military engagements across the globe. The application of fiber-optics technology in
The concept of the “image of God” reflects the symbolic relationship that exists between God and man. The concept portrays man as a being showcasing the likeness (in characteristics) and nature of God. This means that man has unique attributes that are similar to those that define God (Shelly & Miller, 1999). They include creativity, consciousness, personality moral judgment and abstract thinking. This perception of the concept impacts our definition of nursing in the following ways: nurses are often described as compassionate and nurturing people who love, care and support others in times of need and hardships. Restoration of health (healing) has been documented (mentioned 129 times in the bible) as one of God’s abilities and an example of love and care for humanity. A whole is assumed to be greater than the parts that unite to form them. As such, a human being is never whole unless the three main components (body, soul and spirit) are present. These three components greatly influence each other. The human body represents the physical part, the soul represents the psychosocial part and the spirit represents the spiritual part (Colson & Pearcey, 1999). The body enables human beings to survive (walk, talk among other bodily functions) while the soul enables them to interact, relate and form emotional bonds with each other. Finally, the spirit acts as a moral compass on which moral judgments can be based on. Therefore, these parts are well connected and are often considered when describing a particular human being. An individual’s perception of health and illness depends mainly on their cultural background and education level. Most cultures define illnesses and health as forms of curses and blessings. As such, people with such beliefs may refuse to take medical advice because they take illnesses as a form of punishment for wrongs done. On the other hand, educated people define health and illness as products of metabolic processes. Consequently, doctors are often consulted by these people to provide medical solutions for the illness.
Introduction We all have different methods to enjoy our free time. The current use of the internet explains why many people will not spend their time reading books or novels. The number of people reading various books and documents for pleasure is decreasing. Some scholars and theorists explain why people should make reading part of their culture. Reading is a good practice that presents numerous universal benefits. According to Waxer (28), “reading for pleasure becomes one of the best practices towards a successful life”. This essay seeks to outline the benefits of reading for pleasure. The discussion explains why reading is beneficial to every person who embraces the practice for pleasure. Why People Should Read for Pleasure The benefits of reading for pleasure are inexhaustible. Reading is a good practice that improves people’s ideas. The practice can also expand a person’s cultural understanding. Many books and novels can inform the reader about tragedies, comedies, and history. These themes are relevant in every social group. Individuals who read widely tend to have a bigger understanding of life. Such individuals are also aware of the issues or events affecting their lives. This practice explains why such individuals will achieve their goals faster than those who do not read for pleasure. Reading for pleasure is a healthy practice. The practice “makes it easier for readers to gain new ideas” (Court 48). Imagination is the best method to widen our understanding. This practice creates much fun in our minds. Every child enjoys new stories and fairy tales from his or her parents. These tales help children create the best images of their surrounding world. These stories help these children create new imaginations. Every person can also benefit from the power of imagination. Readings give a person the ability to create imaginary pictures and scenes. The reader can use “such imaginations to address every challenge affecting him or her” (Court 48). Many readers can create new ideas and make appropriate decisions based on their imaginations. Reading for pleasure becomes the best practice towards achieving most of our goals. Every person wants to have the best vocabulary and command of English. Every person can increase his or her vocabulary at any particular age. A person who reads many books and articles will make quick decisions (Bloom 18). Reading is helpful because it helps a person express his or her ideas to the other people in a better manner (Court 53). This explains why every person should read widely in order to expand his or her vocabulary. The individual will make better decisions and communicate the best ideas to his or her friends. Many books are grammatically formal. These books will help more people expand their vocabularies in order to express themselves much better. Communication is a critical aspect of human interaction. A person who comm
Discrimination in relation to the race question was not ceased with the end of the Civil War in the United States. As a result, the period of the 1950s-1960s is characterized by the active civil rights movement. In this context, the figure of President Dwight D. Eisenhower can be discussed as influential in coping with segregation issues and protecting the African Americans’ civil rights because he demonstrated the significant political courage in enforcing the Civil Rights laws in 1957 and 1960 in order to regulate the voting procedures and provide the discriminated African Americans with the civil freedoms and opportunities. Thus, the Civil Rights laws of 1957 and 1960 affected the nation positively because the principles of the free civil society were stated legally for all the categories of the population without references to racial differences. The 1950s in the history of the United States are characterized as the period of segregating the whites and blacks regarding their civil rights and principle of equality. The idea of social and civil inequality of the African Americans was actively supported in the Southern states of the USA, thus, the black people had no opportunities to receive the education or job position equal to the white people’s ones, and the right to vote was also limited (Dudziak 59-62; Finley 111-120). The focus of the Southern states’ governments on the segregation principles led to the significant tensions between the federal government and states’ governments because of the necessities to overcome the observed racial discrimination. Signing the Civil Rights Act in 1957, President Eisenhower demonstrated his political courage and readiness to oppose the Southern states’ forces which could share different visions of the issue because the law determined equal voting rights and protections for the white Americans and African Americans. The Little Rock Crisis of September, 1957, was the clear illustration for the discussed problem. The authorities of Arkansas rejected enrollment of the African American students in the school of
Introduction Race thinking remains one of the primary ideologies defining the experiences and lives of many immigrants in different parts of the world, such as the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The article “After the Terror Attacks in Germany, Are We Still Safe?” provides a detailed analysis of some of the obstacles immigrants and their descendants go through in Germany. These predicaments relate directly to the heinous acts of the Nazi regime before the end of the Second World War. This analytical paper uses the arguments and insights the author of the selected article presents to explain why a paradigm shift would be essential in German society. Author’s Argument and Biases The events and experiences the author outlines in the presented article are troublesome and worth addressing. Feroz (2020) uses the Hanau attacks to explain why different media houses and government officials got it wrong when they identified the terrorist as a lone wolf. The outstanding message is that German society continues to grapple with a complex and wider challenge that has the potential to disorient the lives of more people. The article reveals that children of migrants and foreigners are not safe in this country. The concept of a quintessential multicultural society characterized by cohesion and peace has become a thing of the past. This specific attack portrays the realities many foreigners face in this county. The attack led to the death of individuals who were up and raised in Hanau (Feroz, 2020). These attributes show conclusively that the current attack is a clear representation of terror against migrants who might have found themselves in Germany through various means. The decisions the murderer made were questionable since he was educated and aware of the historical issues that had been recorded in the country. For example, he understood the malpractices associated with the Third Reich and other cases of oppression against non-whites. Such actions portray the fascist, inhuman, and racist ideologies that have prevailed in Germany. Government officials and agencies have also been involved in some of these malpractices (Sasnal & El Menouar, 2020). The absence of proper strategies to meet the demands of foreigners in this country will complicate the situation and make it impossible for them to achieve their maximum potential. From the presented information, it would be possible for the reader to identify some biases that could make the information questionable. The first one is that the author has failed to accept the fact that the lone murderer could have been a person with a troubled mind. It is possible to think so he does not buy the idea that an educated man could kil
It is hard not to notice that Of Mice and Men is written in a circular manner with the heavy use of locations that are repeatedly used in different scenes throughout the novella. Steinbeck made sure that all scenes are grouped by twos, thus balancing the repetitive pattern of the narration. The opening scene of the book is set in the same place as is described in the closing chapter— “green pool” (Steinbeck 1). It seems that the symmetrical nature of the novel’s beginning and the ending is meant to reflect the fact that the characters’ dream was never going to come true and that it was nothing more than a reflection in the Salinas River. It can be argued that the snake that survives at the beginning of the book and dies at the end foreshadows the tragic events that were meant to happen. It also shows that Lennie and George were never going to escape the desperate circle of the routine of their lives. “The deep green pool of the Salinas River” that is “still in the late afternoon” creates the impression that the heroes have never moved from the place in which they revealed themselves to the reader for the first time (Steinbeck 36). Nonetheless, it provokes a deep sense of completeness and shows that just like the day marked by an event of a great loss, the story itself is coming to an end. However, the story of George cannot be finished without Lennie. He falters at the realization of what is about to happen. George listens to the playful recital of their dream and thinks about a cold and cruel reality in which his friend has to be shot. The notion that a dream strengthens friendship and gives hope is an important theme in the novella. It runs throughout the whole book, showing that a sense of importance that one can get from having a common goal with someone allows them to surmount life’s struggles and tribulations. The first instance of this theme in the novella is the story of Candy and his friend. When this “tall, stoop-shouldered old man” loses his dog, he decides to become a part of George and Lennie’s team and to share their dream of becoming landowners (Steinbeck 12). The emptiness of the loss could only be filled with a new meaning, which comes from having shared aspirations with someone. When Candy tells George that he is willing to put in “three hundred an’ fifty bucks,” he feels like there is a possibility for new hope. Moreover, his desire to “make a will” and leave his part of the land to his friends shows that the hero’s soul lies open before new friendship. Another example of the theme of a dream is Crook’s memory of the past, which he holds in an attempt to bring his happy experience of the bygone days into the present. The character longs for the lost equality of relationships, and this dream provides him with relief from his sickness and bitterness. Crook expresses his desire by telling Lennie that every person “needs somebody” to be around (Steinbeck 24). I
In recent years, owing to advances in technology, readers are increasingly decamping from traditional reading models into electronic reading systems for digital text. E-readers such as Kindle and Nook have found great favor among an unprecedented number of young technology-savvy readers, who argue that the e-reading platform provides mobile accessibility, expanded digital content and affords them the capability to carry hundreds of books at once. Of course there exist many other benefits that e-readers provide to users that may never be accessible in paperback contexts, but the present paper argues that traditional books are not about to be replaced by e-readers. There exist several reasons why e-readers are not about to replace traditional books even though they may have received acknowledgement as an improvement of the print reading experience. The first of these reasons can be illuminated by the phrase “old habits die hard.” Most people who were already accustomed to traditional reading formats find it increasingly difficult to shift to devices centered on seamless, wireless media consumption, suggesting that nostalgia, attachment, comfort and convenience afforded by traditional hardcover or paperback reading can never be replaced by e-readers. The saying goes that there is something special about curling up in bed with a good book in one’s hands that e-readers such as Kindle and Nook can never substitute irrespective of the fact that the latter provides a more customizable reading experience than the former. Second, it can be argued that printed books add physical beauty to the reading experience. A considerable number of people buy books that not only appeal to their inner sense of beauty, but also make bold statements about their reading culture. Book covers in traditional books have been used by authors and marketers as an effective tool to demonstrate these attributes to those who consider them as fundamental to any purchase decision. However, it is difficult for e-readers to demonstrate these attributes. It is therefore conceivable that people who consider books as objects of beauty will go for traditional books rather than the electronic format. The third reason why e-readers may fail to replace traditional books deals with the issue of provenance. Digital book versions contained in e-readers such as Kindle and Nook run into difficulties when it comes to defining the readers and what they represent. On the contrary, traditional books have the capacity to not only define readers and their predispositions, but also act as personal artifacts that can be held as valued family possessions over a long period of time. For this reason, it wo
The book, “Coming of Age in Mississippi,” is Moody’s autobiography about the life she underwent while she was growing up in the times of Jim Crow and her involvement in civil rights associations in Mississippi. The book provides a truly appealing sight at what was happening in Mississippi in the era before the formation of civil rights association. The book also portrays uphill struggle, suffering, and insufficient opportunities which African Americans were facing and even though Moody emphasizes her life history completely on herself, people are able to distinguish the differences between her generation and the generation of her mother. All what Moody faced while in college and work, together with observing the terror and activities of her own mother, made Moody to turn into a woman of charge with the aim of making change happen within the African American community. In many parts, colorism can be observed beginning to appear and it was an exciting historical outlook to the subject and its several roots. Moody herself is not invulnerable from what was happening in the past, she talked about several occasions of hatred which African Americans had. Before gradually recognizing that many people did not have opportunities in many occasions, they had to protect their work, if not their families would go hungry. It is interesting that she was truthful in the book, putting across her personal work which she began when still young and it actually underlined the awful situations which domestic employees at times experienced. Domestic job, like the way we have encounter throughout this mission, was often the last option which everyone was interested in pursuing and the pay was unfavorable. Besides coping with long hours, uphill struggle, and inadequate recompense, domestic aid usually had to cover their actual thoughts and education as Moody was required to. “I was sick of pretending, sick of selling my feelings for a dollar a day” (Moody 226) Change happened gradually in Mississippi since Black generations observed political activism from two distinct viewpoints. For Elnire, her child activism’s behaviors were risky and out of step with the traditions where Blacks had endured the unkind truths of Mississippi prior to the disordered 1960s. Moody’s mother, born in 1920s, faced the Great Depression and the appearance of Ku Klux Klan as she grew up. She was there when African Americans self-depended and have only option of taking certain jobs, which was mainly manual works or working for the whites. They often receive minimal pay and Elnire survived her whole life in horror of whites and that horror provoked all her choices. Blacks and whites where provided with rules of conduct and death were offered to people who break the rules. Her fear of whites was intensely ingrained within Elnire and within African Americans. Elnire was evenly demoralized by African Americans who had a lighter skin just the same as she was to whites. Moody was born around a year before World War Two and she was extremely affected by the killings of Emmi
Introduction International adoption is a situation where a person or a couple legally acquires the responsibility of becoming permanent parents to a child whose country of origin is completely different from that of the adopting parents (Brodzinsky & Schechter, 1990). It is worth mentioning from the onset that those parents who are in the process of adopting across boarders are obliged to meet the adoption requirements of both their country and the country of the adoptee. Different countries have completely different laws governing this issue (Serbin, 1997). Since the concept of international adoption is widely spread, this research paper will only concentrate on the effect on overall early life stage development to adoptees. For this reason, issues addressed include motor development delays as they are more prevalent, cognitive development, language development, emotional and social development. According to Brodzinsky & Schechter, 1990 changing the environment to a new one that definitely affects adopted individuals. This is exactly what international adoption does, it takes children from the environment they are aware of to a new one that they are completely not familiar with; this is permanently. For this reason, international adoption can take one of the two faces; a good thing for some or a long-term nightmare for others. Ideally, it has been argued that being adopted by parents from a different country contributes to making the adopted child feel unloved as well as insecure about themselves. It has been shown that major change in the life of children can have a huge impact on how they developed through various stages. Since adoption is perceived to be one of the big changes in an individual’s life, those children adopted by parents especially from a foreign country have higher chances of being affected (Ho