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- 1091: The Great Gatsby - The America
- The American dream. Everyone has different opinions on what the American dream is. Their ultimate goal in life. The people in The Great Gatsby think they are living that dream, but I beg to differ. The only one who I believe is living out something close to the American dream is Tom, and I will prove so. The many different characters in this book act as if they re having the time of their life and so forth. That is so only on ...
- 1092: America's Social Contract
- America's Social Contract Throughout history, the American system of government has been regarded as one of the best in the world. In America everyone lives like a king. The government is fair and does not get involved where it should not be ... big and overpowering. However, this world view of America is not true today. In fact, the current federal system of government in the United States is failing to meet its social contract obligations to the American people. The first way that the government fails to meet its social contract obligations is in the size and scope of the government. Many levels of bureaucracy exist in our government unnecessarily, some that make ... Many bills sit in congress for ages until they are finally decided on, usually only with unnecessary additions that waste government money for special public works programs. In order to meet its obligations to the American people, the government needs to reduce its size and make it easier to get important programs accomplished while weeding out the needless ones. Second, the government has not met its obligations with America in ...
- 1093: Remains Of The Day
- ... of his life. Ishiguro explores some of the differences between the old English Victorian culture that of the stiff upper lip, no show of emotion, and repression of personal opinion and the no-holds-barred American culture of free expression of opinion and emotion. The American culture s spread into England is hastened with the two world wars, and it ends Stevens old way of work, if not the job itself. Although Remains of the Day concentrates on a particular culture ... old ways are already gone forever. Stevens even relates the subdued nature of English scenery to the proper way of dignified behavior, in his observation that the English countryside is more dignified than the showy American landscape, in its lack of obvious drama or spectacle (28). Obviously, most regular people in England did not act like the butlers. The behavior of the old butlers represents stereotypes which persist today in ...
- 1094: Pluralism As The Most Descriptive Theory Of American Government
- Pluralism As The Most Descriptive Theory Of American Government There are several different theories as to the question of how America is governed. There are those who still espouse the civics book theory, in which the individual is represented by his vote; those ...
- 1095: Remains Of The Day
- ... of his life. Ishiguro explores some of the differences between the old English Victorian culture—that of the stiff upper lip, no show of emotion, and repression of personal opinion—and the no-holds-barred American culture of free expression of opinion and emotion. The American culture’s spread into England is hastened with the two world wars, and it ends Stevens’ old way of work, if not the job itself. Although Remains of the Day concentrates on a particular culture ... old ways are already gone forever. Stevens even relates the subdued nature of English scenery to the proper way of dignified behavior, in his observation that the English countryside is more dignified than the showy American landscape, in its "lack of obvious drama or spectacle" (28). Obviously, most regular people in England did not act like the butlers. The behavior of the old butlers represents stereotypes which persist today in ...
- 1096: Ceremony
- ... into the more “civilized” ways of the colonists of the English people. Many Native Americans have lost their old ways and were pulled into the new “civilized” ways. Today only a small amount of Native American nations or tribes exist in remote areas surviving following their traditions. In the book Ceremony, a story of a man named Tayo, did not know himself and the world around him but in the end ... to see what is truth and false which will consequently turn to freedom. Tayo faced a struggle of recognizing his essence: the true definition of himself outside and most especially inside. Being a half Native American and half-Caucasian in an environment of a Native American tribe in Laguna, he was constantly reminded of being an outcast. Externally, whenever he would try to fit in any of his race, both sides would reject him with ridicules. As Emo stated against ...
- 1097: Critique Of The American Dream
- Critique of The American Dream I think Michael Moore's documentary Roger and Me can be compared to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' "The Silent Partner." Perley, the fiancé of the owner of the mills visited a couple of poor families ...
- 1098: The Rise of Communism in Russia
- ... to socialism. The class struggle of the future would be between the bourgeoisie, who were the capitalist employers, and the proletariat, who were the workers. The struggle would end, according to Marx, in the socialist revolution and the attainment of full communism (Groilers Encyclopedia). Socialism, of which Marxism-Leninism is a takeoff, originated in the West. Designed in France and Germany, it was brought into Russia in the middle of the nineteenth century and promptly attracted support among the country's educated, public-minded elite, who at that time were called intelligentsia (Pipes, 21). After Revolution broke out over Europe in 1848 the modern working class appeared on the scene as a major historical force. However, Russia remained out of the changes that Europe was experiencing. As a socialist movement and ... of Lenin's long-time lieutenants, Zinovieiv and Kamenev, the Central Committee accepted Lenin's resolution which formally instructed the party organizations to prepare for the seizure of power. Finally, of October 25 the Bolshevik revolution took place to overthrow the provisional government. They did so through the agency of the Military-Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet. They forcibly overthrew the provisional government by taking over all of the ...
- 1099: Budgeting And The American Bur
- ... annually agreed on by the executive and legislative branches that allow executive agencies and departments to raise and spend public funds in specified ways for the coming fiscal year, as stated by Stillman in "The American Bureaucracy" He also says that budgets impose a mutual set of legal obligations between the elected and appointed officers of public organizations with regard to taxation and expenditure policies, therefore, is a legal contract that ...
- 1100: AIDS
- ... be a new human retrovirus—a special type of virus that reproduces differently from other viruses—from the lymph node of a man at risk for AIDS. Nearly simultaneously, scientists working in the laboratory of American research scientist Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and a group headed by American virologist Jay Levy at the University of California at San Francisco isolated a retrovirus from people with AIDS and individuals having contact with people with AIDS. All three groups of scientists isolated what is now ... of AIDS/HIV infection had been reported in health-care workers. In 1994 and 1995 AIDS was the leading cause of death among Americans aged 25 to 44 years, the leading cause of death for American men of the same age group, and the third leading cause of death among American women in that same age group. On a global scale, the AIDS epidemic is rapidly expanding. Of the estimated ...
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