The Dark Sides Essays

  • Recording Techniques for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon

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    Recording techniques for Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon The album The Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd was an album that pushed the boundaries on multi-tracking and tape looping, as well as mixing in1973. The engineer, Alan Parsons, use many unusual techniques to help create the sound that we know and love. Which landed the album on the charts for 750 weeks. Dark side of the moon was first lead engineering job Alan had with Pink Floyd and only took a year to record. To record this album

  • Dark Side Leadership: The Rise Of Dark Side Leadership

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    “Dark side” leadership can cause significant harm to the organization and its members, yet individuals with these tendencies still reach positions of power since dark side characteristics are hard to detect and easy to overlook. Dark side characteristics is describe as undesirable characteristics that affect the relationship between supervisors and followers and his or her success at creating a cohesive team (Hogan, Curphy & Hogan, 1994). They can include characteristics such as narcissism, Machiavellianism

  • The Dark Side of Bullying

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    Good afternoon students, I am very honoured to be called upon today, to speak to you on a very emotional issue which is the dark side of bullying. This issue has become commonplace in modern society especially among you teenagers and therefor needs to be addressed.Bullying is a very emotional and prominent issue accross the world today. For many years now, this issue has been present and it seems as if, day by day, the fatal consquences bullying has on the society and individuals is increasing. Bullying

  • My Dark Side

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    to their literature. Similarly, enclosed inside every person lies a dark side usually involving something they purposely try to hide or conceal. Deep within me exists my jealous side. Jealousy is known to twist human emotions and is known to lead to harm and revenge towards others. On the other hand, the type of jealousy I possess is manifested only in relationships and I have a hard time shutting it out. This jealous dark side of mine adds conflict to majority of my relationships resulting in many

  • The Dark Side of the Moon

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    The moon has two sides, the side that is ever illuminated by the sun, and the side we see, and then there is the dark side; forever cast into the shadows, never to see earth, nor be seen by earth. Similar to the moon, humans never merely have one side but are multifaceted. The character Salome has many different sides, and even more that the characters of the play see, though all the characters do see Salome in the moon. Herod originally only sees Salome as a beautiful erotic creature, however when

  • The Dark Side of Sports

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    Greece, where competitors consumed infused herbs and mushrooms in an effort to enhance their performance (Mazzeo, Filomena; Ascione, Antonio 2013). The promise of enhanced performance, greater power, and super natural strength has driven many to the dark side of the ergogenic world. The use of ergogenic aids of any type, brings about many differences of opinion and is the topic of great debates the entire world. Ergogenic aids may in fact be one of the few topics that raise eyebrows worldwide. So what

  • The Dark Side of the Olympics

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    young people an opportunity to dream that it could one day be them standing on the podium. They have the power to unite people from around the world to celebrate with pride the achievements of amateur athletes. This all sounds great but there is a dark side to the Olympics that needs to be considered. What used to be a celebration of amateur sport has turned into a commercial enterprise that caters to the interests of the wealthy and big business over the average citizen. The Olympics are really an

  • The Dark Side of Love

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    The Dark Side of Love In Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe’s Faust (Part One) as well as in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Nathan the Wise, love plays a vital role. Love is the reason that an individual strays from the path to enlightenment and begins to act in strange, unpredictable ways. It decreases an individual’s ability to reason and takes away any incentive he might have to seek enlightenment. Since love is based on faith, it goes against the ideals of enlightenment which stress individual thinking

  • Critical Evaluation of a Magazine Advertisement

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    dimensional and real. The ribbon and the button around the bottle seem to look like a present. The words on the bottle are very easy to read and on the left side it is lighter then those lines on the right side. Since we read from the left to the right we follow the lighter part of the bottle toward the words and in addition, the dark sides on the left prevent out eyes from wandering off the page. This advertisement is appealing to woman interested in buying perfume. Even if the buyer is not

  • Free Essay on Shakespeare's Macbeth - Deceitful Lady Macbeth

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    Deceitful Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth’s wicked character has an extreme impact towards her husband. Lady Macbeth is responsible for influencing her husband to commit both crimes; she unleashes the dark side of him and motivates him to become an evil and horrendous man. In various parts throughout the story we find that Lady Macbeth strives beyond limits to be converted into a bitter and sour women. The audience is revolted by her horrific actions and although she may seem repugnant, she is an

  • Wide Awake: Katy Perry

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    commonsceneconspiracy.com (2013), her hit song “E.T.” made many believe Katy Perry “sold her soul to the devil” or the illuminati to reach prominence. In other words, Katy Perry joined the Illuminati and her music video ‘E.T.” gives proof of her joining the “dark side.” Almost anybody who enjoys hearing conspiracy or rumors knows the Illuminati and its problems surrounding what they represent. To explain, numerous people in America believe that Katy Perry joined a group that worships the devil to reach prominence

  • Timshel in Steinbeck´s East of Eden

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    Eden, he captures the idea of Timshel through different characters. Many believe that Timshel is left in open, giving the character the choice. Moreover, Timshel is actually planted in one, they either fight evil with Timshel or give into the dark side. Throughout the vivid text of Mrs. Trask, Steinbeck expresses her as a Timshel-less human. As he talks of her wild actions, confessing “to crimes she could not possibly have committed” (Steinbeck 15) and drowning “herself in a pond so shallow that

  • Life: The Personal Experience

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    Life: The Personal Experience Who would have thought that a night out with a church group could turn into a deadly accident? En route to a spring break camp, one of our van was hit by a 18 wheelers' truck; creating a night we wouldn't forget. The story began with a trip to summer retreat. It was ticket to bring me back to reality, and also tickets for some people to heaven. We loaded our luggage into the back of the vans, and we headed off toward our destination. It is about one or one and half

  • Mankind, Savage or not?

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    the lines of being civilized and turning savage. They fight for leadership which results in loss of order and peace. Golding says “It is the ordered society which keeps us in shape and which enables us to show our right side. Take away these sanctions and we fall into the dark side.” Based on Goldings point of view, without a society, mankind would overtime turn savage due to fear driving them to do unecissary things and always wanting power. Fear has caused people to lose all humanity and do things

  • The Dark Side of Advertising

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    html. “Media’s Promotion of Consumerism.” Free Media s Promotion of Consumerism Research Paper Snowtonka . N.p., 18. Nov. 2013. http://www.bignerds.com/papers/41430/Media-s-Promotion-Of-Consumerism/. Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Print. Supersize Me. Dir. Morgan Spurlock. Perf. Morgan Spurlock and Alexandra Jamieson. Paramount, 2004. DVD. "Tobacco Advertising." Politics.co.uk. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 November 2013

  • Tell Tale Heart

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    Tell Tale Heart "True!--nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses--not destroyed--not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heavens and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?" "...Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded--with what caution--with

  • Persuasive Essay On Drones

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    mostly use to decimate enemy and harm civilians, which is why drones received negative feedback from the public. Not all people use drones in warfare, they also use them as a hobby to film and entertain. Despite drones have negative sides, they also have positive sides as well. In the United States, people worried that drones would be used near their home because they equip with a camera and that make people feel restless or uncomfortable when a drone nearby. A lot of people don’t realize that drones

  • The Dark Side of Adoption

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    In the United States two percent of all children in the year 2013 were adopted. Adoption has always been seen as positive impact on the child. However, this process is not always as perfect as one might have thought. Children who have been adopted do not always go through a normal life, some face difficulties and hardships from the adoption process. As a result of adoption some children face Self-Esteem issues, Social Interaction issues, and Attachment issues. First of all, children that go through

  • The Dark Side of Chocolate

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    everyone enjoys and loves to taste. A product that brings in over 80 billion dollars a year. (BBC Chocolate: Bitter Truth) With that dollar amount to show, who doesn’t love chocolate? The reality, however, is that chocolate also has a different, darker side. The chocolate industry is causing children to work, not go to school, starve, and endure tremendous pain. “How is this happening without the chocolate companies doing anything about it?” you may ask. That is precisely the question many have today

  • The Dark Side of the Internet

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    of a mouse. But as technology changes and progresses seemingly for the good, as always people will find ways to exploit technology and use it with the intent of committing crimes and turning a positive tool into a negative one. As such the negative side of the World Wide Web, cybercrime, has developed as just one of the major disadvantages with the internet. Cyber Crime itself is a broad term and can and does include any crime that is committed via the internet including seemingly minor acts as downloading