Essays on Personal Beliefs

“The impact feels much closer when it’s someone in the public eye because we feel we know them and we make assumptions about their life” said Los Angeles Times writer Madelyn Gould after two very wealthy celebrities express their unhappiness through death. This one sentence…

Superstition in Egypt There are words on our tongues such as this is a superstition, or is this woman getting dizzy, or is he suffering from dementia and other words? When did she appear in society? The word “superstition” is always associated with the grandmothers’…

In the book Siddhartha the author Herman Hesse uses gustatory imagery particularly with the Samanas, for example ‘The world had a bitter taste.’ ‘And Siddhartha’s soul returned; it had died, it had rotted, it had fallen into dust, it had tasted the dismal intoxication of…

Superstitions have always occupied an indispensable place in my life. They govern almost every aspect of my life from the time I am awake, until I go to bed. I feel that my religion particularly might have something more to do with it. After recollecting…

According to The Open University (2019, Block1, 2.1) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a business model that helps a company be socially accountable — to itself, its stakeholders, and the public. The well-known corporate culture of J&J is concerned to its Credo, which was written…

I believe that you should stand up for what you believe in. If people are telling you to do bad things or things that you don’t think should be done, then you should be able to stand up and tell people your opinion and how…

As a fourteen year old high school boy, I have a lot in mind. I have a lot of beliefs and opinions, some of which are bias and some of which I would never tell another person, but some of these a lot of people…

Introduction Training is a learning process which implies that current performance needs to be improved and there is a gap between what we know and what we don’t know. We as an adult learn by many ways as we have tendency to learn in a…

The word “post-truth” defined as “circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief” was selected as word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries in 2016. In the same year, an article named “The Age…

Introduction All my life I wondered which of the thousands of religions, if any, is the right one to believe in. Do you have to believe in a religion to be considered a better human. The definition of religion means to believe in, worship, and…

Preface “Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby The American Dream is a lifestyle, or a wish…

The Main Thing We must rely on the way we were brought up, specific cultural norms and our feelings. When there’s a bad behavior at a very young age that we don’t agree with, the first reaction might be a stern “no” followed by an…

Why did you choose to study in Australia and not in your home country? My choice on the University of Adelaide varied on a number of advantages and what impact it will have on my professional status. In Kenya, there are quite a number of…

I was born in Eritrea. I have had my elementary and high school in Asmara. I was really good in maths and science subjects like biology, physics and engineering. Growing up I was one of the very few people who had access to the computer…

In the current information age, driven by the Internet and other so-called “reliable” sources of media, misinformation spreads like wildfire. Manual fact-checking and traditional technologies cannot be scaled to deal with this menace. Data needs to be interpreted more objectively and this can be achieved…