ShantanuT01/DACTYL-Pretraining huggingface dataset:
Introduction Art is the conscious arrangement of items in order to influence and affect people. This is made possible by involving their emotions, intellect and senses. Art may range from the use of music, photography, paintings, films and sculptures. This paper will look at a sculpture as a work of art and assess the emotional effect it has and relate it to a piece of music. The sculpture, that is going to be studied through iconography, is a work by Donatello and is a sculpture of David. It is basically derived from the biblical context. Description The statute is a classical ideal created by Donatello is a structure made out of bronze. It is a one hundred and fifty eight centimeter tall statute and it portrays David nude, with a broad smile and holding Goliath’s sword. Below him, is Goliath’s head and it appears as if David is celebrating victory. The statute was created in the 1440s. The work of art is a freestanding sculpture and was created during the Renaissance period and it describes the biblical text found in 1 Samuel 17. The story is about a battle between the Israelites and the Philistines and Goliath seems to be the most dangerous of them all due to his height and strength advantage. The Israelites soldiers are well trained but none of them is brave enough to approach the giant. It was then that the young boy, who had not reached the age required for one to become a soldier, stepped up and accepted the challenge. The sculpture indicates a contrapposto when one looks at the positions of the legs and portrays elegance with the gothic sway. The structure is well created and is made as realistic as possible. The statute had found its place at the courtyard and has frequently been considered as a political monument although the actual significance of it in the courtyard has been of much debate among scholars. How it affects me emotionally The work of art by Donatello brings out a great story about David and Goliath. It is an inspiring piece of art since it shows the power and potential that is in the young and weak individuals. Those who are believed to be too weak to handle situations may be even more capable than those who are well trained for the particular task. The sculpture clearly shows a small, young boy holding the sword of the giant and stepping on his head after the victory. His courage is an inspiration and should be emulated. David had been thought to be naïve and incapable of doing much. He was even too young to get into the army, so when the situation arose, he was the last person anyone could think would want to get involved. When the time came for the brave to step up and confront the most dangerous enemy soldier, those trained for the job coiled their tails and retreated. David, on the other hand, took a step forward and accepted the challenge. He was so untrained in the art of war that he did not see the need for weapons and armor. He bluntly refused. He chose to use his slingshot, which he had been using for hunting and games around the village, to confront the fierce giant. One shot from his sling was enough to put th
Webster’s dictionary defines skyscrapers as “A skyscraper is a very tall, continuously habitable building.” Any building that has more than 20 stories can be classified as a skyscraper. They can also be linked with the economic prosperity of a country because the more skyscrapers are building, the more economically prosperous the country is. The first skyscraper was built in the United States during the 1800s. They were built because of the limited area for development and also the growing population, which had no place to live. Hence these were used at that time for such practical reasons. They are now made for offices, and also as hotels and malls, and to bring modernization to the city of the country. The crucial materials needed for modern skyscrapers are steel, glass, reinforced concrete, water pumps, and elevators. Although these buildings are very beautiful and good tourist attractions and are of good architect value. I believe that they should not build skyscrapers unless they really have to. They are much reason that these building should not be built, but the main three reasons, they are not economically viable, unsafe during disasters and last are not eco friendly. Firstly, the skyscrapers are both money and time-consuming. They are very expensive and need 30% more energy to build and operate. They need more material that can withstand the ailments that can bring death to the skyscrapers. They are not economically viable and sometimes would seem a bit impractical. Such buildings are also energy-consuming and require a great deal of electricity, for its lights, elevators, heaters and also other appliances which would be installed by the inhabitants. Overall the modern skyscrapers are a bit impractical and also economic consuming. Secondly, they are unsafe during disasters. This point is of great importance after the disaster of 9/11 struck. The plane crashed into the building. It was hard to get out of the building; many bodies are still not found. I believe a building should not be so tall so that firefighters cannot reach it. The same thing occurred in many different places, that when the fire broke, the firemen had a hard time reaching the topmost story since the elevator did not work and the stories were incredibly high to reach through steps on time. There are also other dangers, such as storms and other natural calamities, that affect these buildings because of their high altitude. One could easily imagine the skyscrapers collapsing against each other. Builders should take measures, but otherwise, skyscrapers can be a threat. Lastly, skyscrapers seem to be quite overbearing that boasts power and inequality. And sometimes, they are very disrespected by religion as they are taller than most churches, mosques, and temples. I, for one, am not a religio
Environmental health focuses on public health as a result of influences from natural and man-made environments (Friis 7). Quality of life is often influenced by external environmental stimuli that causes changes in the health aspect of human lives. For this reason, there has been an increased focus on the monitoring of external variables, such as the environment, in an effort to ensure an improved quality of life. In the recent past, air quality has come under focus as a result of the environmental degradation experienced in many parts of the world. Terminal illnesses, such as a wide range of cancers, have been attributed to air pollution. This alarm has forced environmental scientists and researchers to explore the extent of harm to public health as a result of air pollution. The increased attention to air quality is a recent development as people were previously not concerned about the quality of air in the atmosphere. However, owing to the harmful effects linked to air pollution, the status of the environment has received the attention it deserves. Air pollution is primarily the result of carbon emissions that occur from burning fossil fuels. Owing to the dependence on fossil fuels to run industries as well as manage different means of transportation, poor air quality affects the majority of individuals in many countries (Mudakavi 33). The contamination that results from such processes uses the air as the medium. The fact that living organisms depend on air for survival makes air quality a major issue. This environmental health issue is based on an accurate assessment of its role in the survival of living species. This situation is proven by the existence of the air quality index. The air quality index is a measuring tool that assesses the quality of air in the atmosphere through different color coded classifications (Abhishek and Colls 15). The quality of air has gotten worse with industrial and economic development. The growth of industries such as the auto industry has brought to focus the effects of discharged pollutants (McGranahan and Murray 23). Air pollution has adverse effects on human life as a result of illnesses such as cancer and asthma (Hollar 12). If this trend remains unchecked, the loss of human life will be catastrophic. However, the public has taken notice of the dangerous effects of air pollution and has resorted to using and advocating for green technologies that are friendly to the environment. This development has led to the usage of clean energy such as solar, geothermal and wind energy. The issue of air quality affects every individual since the premise of human life is based on the presence of oxygen that supports life. Prior to the assignment, I was aware of the principle of air pollution. However, undertaking further research on the topic brought the realization of the dangerous situation currently affecting the human race. The views of air quality have changed from undertaking research on the topic. In this regard, one is able to realize that a clean environment is as a result of collective effort and every measure, regardless of how small it may seem, is
The effect of personality on US foreign policy is as great as the concerned president is influenced by events that shaped his personality when he was growing up. According to Hanami, psychological personality has indeed determined the ideological stance from which Various US presidents have been operating while exercising their presidential duties. Hanami finds an example in Reagan’s extreme conservative stance in foreign policy. Reagan was devoted to combating communism and détente was not enough for him to judge that the world order is safe and stable. Unraveling the underlying psychological mechanisms behind this, one finds that Reagan looks onto the US fight against communism as a grand cause. The antagonism towards the USSR is a projection of the hidden anger that has been building up within him while growing up, especially against his father. Reagan grew up in a poor and unstable family. The greater part of the unpleasant upbringing he blames onto his father. Reagan’s relationship with US wars overseas is that of someone who looks at them as an opportunity to participate in noble causes and take part in bringing in some order into the world. Hence, as controversial as Vietnam War was, he was eager to participate in it and believed that it was a heroic war. From all of this, Reagan’s conservative worldview has emerged and built up. He sought an order in Vietnam War. He sought heroism and found it in combating communism. George Stoessinger is an important IR theorist who believes that the personal overlaps with the political. Stoessinger believes that many wars have occurred because of the personal attributes of the concerned leader, and not merely due to the unfolding of events. Under this, one finds George Bush’s war in the Middle East. George Bush has typically fallen in a wrong misperception of war. Bush has fallen at least in 3 misperceptions in his war in the Middle East, notably, the war in Iraq: unwarranted optimism, mistake enemy’s intentions, and Misjudge enemy’s power. These misperceptions have nothing to do with the objective events out there, they pertain mainly to the personality of Bush. Bush was an opt
Introduction A distinguished nurse, social scientist, and chaired professor at Pasadena City College, Patricia Benner, dedicated her professional experience to the study of nursing behaviors and proficiency. The scholar developed a working theory of nursing competence together with her former students in four years (Benner, Sutphen, Leonard, & Day, 2009, p. 9). The theorist’s decision to develop the system of expertise levels for nurses was stipulated by the idea, according to which there appeared a significant distance between acute care and critical responsibility (Benner, Hooper-Kyriakidis, & Stannard, 2011). From Novice to Expert: Critical Analysis The work summarizes the key points of Patricia Benner’s article that discloses the peculiarities of contrastive proficiency levels (Benner, 2011). The study provides a consistent evaluation of nursing skills. Primarily, the author points out that the art of nursing has been long ignored for two reasons. First, the medical workers were not inclined to adopt a nursing profession as a long-term career. Second, health-care activities were not fully developed since little attention was paid to the patients’ comfort. Therefore, Benner theorized a set of proficiency stages that demonstrate a worker’s occupational progress in the position of a nurse. These are novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expert (Table 1). The author describes each stage in detail and lists some recommendations on competence improvement. The Significance of the Theory for Modern Nursing Education The distinguished scholar strives to prove that proficiency levels can represent a ladder of success. Thus, it should be noted that every novice can become an expert, provided he/she receives appropriate instructions. Subsequently, the idea of nursing education, today, targets five levels of competence. For instance, the facets of personal digital assistants for novices are reviewed in the research studies (Krauskopf & Farrell, 2011). Consequently, Patricia Benner managed to prove that nursing proficiency may be acquired through elaborate educational preparation.
One of the most important literary devices has traditionally been considered setting, because it is namely by providing an appropriate background for the development of literary work’s plot that author is able to instill readers with a proper cognitive mood. For example, one of the reasons why Shakespeare’s tragedies were able to gain such an immense popularity with contemporaries is because the themes of love, treachery and revenge, contained in them, had been explored amidst clearly Italian settings. While referring to the role of settings in Shakespeare’s tragedies, Jones (1970) states: “Italian settings function as one of the allusions through which the world of Elizabethan plays is created, but Italy is not the world of these plays” (251). The role of setting in Anthony Burgess’s dystopic novel A Clockwork Orange can be defined in a similar manner – even though it does not immediately affect the way in which novel’s characters address existential challenges, it nevertheless make it easier for the readers to gain a better insight into the workings of characters’ psyche. In our paper, we will aim at exploring this thesis at length. The foremost reason as to why A Clockwork Orange is being commonly referred to as dystopia is that Burgess’s description of a futuristic society features the elements of capitalism and communism organically interwoven with each other. On one hand, people in Burgess’s society appear to pursue with consumerist mode of existence, while taking a particular pleasure in being exposed to different forms of mass-entertainment, but on another – even the private aspects of their lives appear being controlled by the government, which in the novel serves the function of suppressing people’s ‘anti-social’ anxieties. Nevertheless, unlike what it is being the case in Orwell’s 1984 , in A Clockwork Orange the government seems to be controlling citizens rather indirectly. This, however, does not weaken the extent of government’s oppressiveness. In his article, while referring to the particulars of Burgess’s vision of dystopian future, Waterman (1984) states: “In Burgess’s dystopia, it is not the State which holds direct power over the individual, but rather labor unions to whom one owes allegiance… Only criminals and the insane would choose not to identify with the collective” (106). Thus, the foremost function of setting in A Clockwork Orange ca
Abstract Face recognition to determine gender is something everybody does at the first sight. However, the gender determined by face recognition is not always correct. There is a very simple explanation for the same. All of us have some preconceived notions about the facial appearance of a particular gender and this preconceived notion is not always correct. But the question is whether different sexes have a difference in determining gender by face recognition. To answer this, a quasi-quantitative experiment was done and analyzed. The findings are presented in this paper. It was found that there is no significant difference in the way different sexes determined gender by face recognition. Both men and women were almost identical in either making a mistake or choosing correctly the gender of an individual by recognizing his/her face. Introduction While sex is a biological attribute gender is a social creation. This is the reason that explains while there are almost infinite varieties of sex but only three varieties of gender. It should be correct to explain this at this point itself, because to most of us sex and gender are almost identical which is not true. We know of three sexes – male, female and transgender. But could it be possible? Simply not; because “Nature does not present itself to us with sharp contours”. Therefore, while it is very rare to find personalities that demonstrate pure male and female attributes; if one examines closely he/she will find that in one’s personality there is a varying degree of male and female attributes. Gender is the creation of society. Society has assigned different attributes to different sexes like a soft character is assigned to females while a rough character is assigned to males. So deeply ingrained is the notion of gender in our brains that when we meet someone what comes to our mind is whether the person is a male or a female. Also, a certain facial expression is assigned to males and females. If someone finds a mismatch between his / her preconceive facial expression and sex; it is taken by surprise and most of the time is not taken well. That is we like a man to look like a man and a woman to look like a woman. What if we do not know the sex of a person and we are shown his / her face. We are likely to make a mistake, whenever there is a clear mismatch. Whether or different sexes will make mistakes to a different extent is what has been examined in this paper. Method & Design Forty participants were selected through friends and family for this experiment. They were an opportunity sample and were asked to experiment at my home throughout the week. Twenty males and Twenty females were selected, their ages ranged from 18-56. The mean age for the males was 47.75 and for females, it was 41.00 with a standard deviation of 14.38 for males and 7.13 for the females. A quasi-experimental design was used in
Introduction To appreciate the role of women in Othello, one may examine the play from a feminist perspective. This way, an individual can pass judgment on the various social values as well as the status of the women in the backdrop of the Elizabethan age. Othello is an archetypical depiction of the expectations of the highly patriarchal Elizabethan community. This is on the premises that many of the female characters irrespective of their perceived importance are diminished and objectified by their male counterparts. This essay discusses in detail the perceptions of society about women in the context of the play. How female characters are perceived in the play A woman’s chastity and fidelity are held in high regard. When Desdemona is perceived to be unfaithful, the consequences are integral in driving the action and ultimate tragedy of the play, although the perception was an erroneous one. The men in the play appear to have different opinions on women. Iago appears to despise them while Cassio and Othello assume a more conventional approach because they idolize them. However, for the majority, a woman does not appear to have much value beyond her femininity and beauty. In fact, from a feminist viewpoint, it is a double tragedy since the actual tragedy of the needless death of Othello and his wife would have been avoided if Emilia and Desdemona had previously been allowed a voice. It is apparent, however, that in the play a man is judged by his actions. He also has to answer for those of his wife. As a result, Othello passes fatal judgment on both himself and his wife, albeit based on a misconception. Women, on the other hand, are not allowed to prove or even defend themselves. Desdemona, for instance, is judged not by virtue of her character, but what others think about her. This is self-evident in the fact that even when there is a dispute about her, she is ironically not called in to give her evidence. Her father determines that she has been forced into marriage with Othello and starts planning to rescue her without first attempting to consider she may want to have a say on the matter. When she claims to love him, Brabantio is convinced she must have been bewitched. He does not beli
All types of businesses ought to initiate social responsibility programs to enhance their relationships with their stakeholders. Social responsibility generally means an adoption by a business of a strategic focus for fulfilling the four types of responsibilities; economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic responsibilities. This paper holds the opinion that out of the four types of social responsibility, economic social responsibility is the most important. This is because any business must have a responsibility to be economically viable so that it can provide a return on investment for its business owners at the same time create job opportunities for the community while contributing goods and services to the economy. Without the economic responsibility, the other three types of responsibility would be meaningless. Contribution of Etihad Airways towards corporate social responsibly (CSR) Etihad Airways is United Arab Emirate’s national airline. Etihad Airways serve over 72 main business and leisure destinations worldwide and targets to fly 25million passengers annually to at least 100 destinations by 2020. Due to such huge involvement with various stakeholders, Etihad Airways formulated a concrete social responsibility strategy. Etihad Airways appreciates its position as an integral part of society and its potential to have both positive and negative impacts on the communities in which it operates. One of the airway’s objectives is to promote its corporate social responsibility through the full range of traditional and new communications channels and in effective reporting. Both corporate and individual philanthropy is an important part of Etihad’s corporate social responsibility. The airline enjoys a high degree of recognition among its esteemed stakeholders in the United Arab Emirates as well as the communities they operate in. They manage their philanthropic giving and community involvement ethically and with transparen