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Research paper thumbnail of Producing More Does Not Mean Importing Less

Our growing needs for energy is pushing countries to produce and import it more, increasing CO2 e... more Our growing needs for energy is pushing countries to produce and import it more, increasing CO2 emissions. The lack of relationships between the variables studied indicates that the use of a type of energy source is independent from the others (with one exception). Interestingly, I invite researchers to look at the natural resources of countries and to look at population (size) to explain the need for energy and how it is produced.

Research paper thumbnail of Romanticism in Frankenstein

she tells the story of a scientist: Victor Frankenstein whom, interested in modern sciences decid... more she tells the story of a scientist: Victor Frankenstein whom, interested in modern sciences decided to create a better version of the human kind. Sadly, the results of his experiment were disastrous and he ended creating a monster. -Moreover, Mary Shelley emphasizes in her book the awakenment of Frankenstein as someone who extirpated himself from the enlightenment's ideas. This awakenment truly takes place at the beginning of the third book when he describes Clerval as a being formed in the "very poetry of Nature" (Frankenstein,161), meaning as a follower of romantic's ideas. However, to this description, Mary Shelley added in footnote Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey, a reflective poem which invokes the world of nature and the love of men for it:

Research paper thumbnail of THE KKK OF THE 1920S AND ITS PROPAGANDA

kkk in the 1920s and it’s propaganda , 2019

This paper examines the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and its aim is to analyze the pr... more This paper examines the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and its aim is to analyze the propaganda that the organization used during this time. This paper will start out by briefly introducing the historical context and the reasons behind the second resurgence of the KKK. Then, we explore the organization of the KKK and its main leader, Simmons. This paper will extrapolate the second Klan’s ideology and beliefs, examining the different techniques their propaganda used to encourage audience identification and consubstantiality. This analysis mainly explains how the Ku Klux Klan was able to achieve a height of 5 million members in the 1920s through the help of propaganda. This paper will examine propaganda methods and techniques such as logical fallacies and pre-existing myths, along with the utilization of press, cinema, and song lyrics to further spread their message. The last part of this paper focuses on the influence of the KKK’s propaganda on the American people. Then, it will end with a brief conclusion and a note on the KKK’s existence in the American society today.

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Research paper thumbnail of The successful management method and the overly confident phenomenon: A qualitative research on young, wealthy women in France about the complexity of researching health information online

The successful management method and the overly confident phenomenon: A qualitative research on young, wealthy women in France about the complexity of researching health information online, 2020

This research paper has been inspired by my close female friends who are all vegan, vegetarian or... more This research paper has been inspired by my close female friends who are all vegan, vegetarian or eating a non-conventional diet and who have and continue to use the internet for dietary purposes. This research was aimed to understand "How have young, wealthy women in France reinforced their eating preferences by "successfully managing" the complexity of the health information online?". This research question is opposed to the existing literature that has explained that because the internet is complex, people do not have an active choice in how they interact with it. The objective of this research was to understand how young, wealthy women in France have reinforced their eating styles while researching health information online and the role their education has played in this process. To do so, this research has looked at women's internet consumption of the health information online and the steps as well as the overall process they have followed to manage to complexity of the internet. This research was done qualitatively, and the sampling size was of height. The methods used were in-depth open-ended interviews and mediated interviews. This research will argue that my interviewees have become active participants in their use of the internet by elaborating the successful management method but that they have failed to successfully manage the complexity of the internet because they became overly confident in their abilities to use that method. The successful management method is a method that allows the control and the organization of online researches and is composed of five parts: a desire to know, followed by elaborate and lengthy research, the selection and the comparison of health information, and finally, the critical processing of the information from which they have acted upon. The "overly confident" phenomenon is the belief to have the ability to successfully manage the complexity of the internet but to have failed to do so because of a wrong use of the successful management method or because of an unawareness of the nature of the internet. This paper will conclude that the internet is not a great choice for online health information researches because its complex and critical nature have made the practical use of the method difficult. In addition, it will explain that wealthy women in France are more likely to reinforce their dietary preference based on wrong, incomplete or bias evidences because they can become overly confident with their abilities to successfully manage the complexity of the internet and tragically they might not even realise it. What is important here is that this research has shown us that people are active when they use the internet and that the educated ones even consider themselves as successful participants, which is at the total opposite of the existing literature in the medical field.

Research paper thumbnail of Producing More Does Not Mean Importing Less

Our growing needs for energy is pushing countries to produce and import it more, increasing CO2 e... more Our growing needs for energy is pushing countries to produce and import it more, increasing CO2 emissions. The lack of relationships between the variables studied indicates that the use of a type of energy source is independent from the others (with one exception). Interestingly, I invite researchers to look at the natural resources of countries and to look at population (size) to explain the need for energy and how it is produced.

Research paper thumbnail of Romanticism in Frankenstein

she tells the story of a scientist: Victor Frankenstein whom, interested in modern sciences decid... more she tells the story of a scientist: Victor Frankenstein whom, interested in modern sciences decided to create a better version of the human kind. Sadly, the results of his experiment were disastrous and he ended creating a monster. -Moreover, Mary Shelley emphasizes in her book the awakenment of Frankenstein as someone who extirpated himself from the enlightenment's ideas. This awakenment truly takes place at the beginning of the third book when he describes Clerval as a being formed in the "very poetry of Nature" (Frankenstein,161), meaning as a follower of romantic's ideas. However, to this description, Mary Shelley added in footnote Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey, a reflective poem which invokes the world of nature and the love of men for it:

Research paper thumbnail of THE KKK OF THE 1920S AND ITS PROPAGANDA

kkk in the 1920s and it’s propaganda , 2019

This paper examines the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and its aim is to analyze the pr... more This paper examines the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and its aim is to analyze the propaganda that the organization used during this time. This paper will start out by briefly introducing the historical context and the reasons behind the second resurgence of the KKK. Then, we explore the organization of the KKK and its main leader, Simmons. This paper will extrapolate the second Klan’s ideology and beliefs, examining the different techniques their propaganda used to encourage audience identification and consubstantiality. This analysis mainly explains how the Ku Klux Klan was able to achieve a height of 5 million members in the 1920s through the help of propaganda. This paper will examine propaganda methods and techniques such as logical fallacies and pre-existing myths, along with the utilization of press, cinema, and song lyrics to further spread their message. The last part of this paper focuses on the influence of the KKK’s propaganda on the American people. Then, it will end with a brief conclusion and a note on the KKK’s existence in the American society today.

Research paper thumbnail of The successful management method and the overly confident phenomenon: A qualitative research on young, wealthy women in France about the complexity of researching health information online

The successful management method and the overly confident phenomenon: A qualitative research on young, wealthy women in France about the complexity of researching health information online, 2020

This research paper has been inspired by my close female friends who are all vegan, vegetarian or... more This research paper has been inspired by my close female friends who are all vegan, vegetarian or eating a non-conventional diet and who have and continue to use the internet for dietary purposes. This research was aimed to understand "How have young, wealthy women in France reinforced their eating preferences by "successfully managing" the complexity of the health information online?". This research question is opposed to the existing literature that has explained that because the internet is complex, people do not have an active choice in how they interact with it. The objective of this research was to understand how young, wealthy women in France have reinforced their eating styles while researching health information online and the role their education has played in this process. To do so, this research has looked at women's internet consumption of the health information online and the steps as well as the overall process they have followed to manage to complexity of the internet. This research was done qualitatively, and the sampling size was of height. The methods used were in-depth open-ended interviews and mediated interviews. This research will argue that my interviewees have become active participants in their use of the internet by elaborating the successful management method but that they have failed to successfully manage the complexity of the internet because they became overly confident in their abilities to use that method. The successful management method is a method that allows the control and the organization of online researches and is composed of five parts: a desire to know, followed by elaborate and lengthy research, the selection and the comparison of health information, and finally, the critical processing of the information from which they have acted upon. The "overly confident" phenomenon is the belief to have the ability to successfully manage the complexity of the internet but to have failed to do so because of a wrong use of the successful management method or because of an unawareness of the nature of the internet. This paper will conclude that the internet is not a great choice for online health information researches because its complex and critical nature have made the practical use of the method difficult. In addition, it will explain that wealthy women in France are more likely to reinforce their dietary preference based on wrong, incomplete or bias evidences because they can become overly confident with their abilities to successfully manage the complexity of the internet and tragically they might not even realise it. What is important here is that this research has shown us that people are active when they use the internet and that the educated ones even consider themselves as successful participants, which is at the total opposite of the existing literature in the medical field.