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- 13651: Nicolet Minerals Company and Wisconsin
- ... The townspeople were intent on changing things. During the next town board election in April of 1997 nearly 100 percent of all eligible voters cast their ballot. After the election was over, there were four new members on the board, leaving only one in from the previous board (Fantle). The new town chair of Nashville was Chuck Sleeter. He set out to put things right. He called to attention that the mining agreement made between the previous town board was not binding because the negotiations were ... in the Wolf River headwaters near Crandon and several other proposed mine sites. While the mining industry admits that their previous mining activity in sulfide ore bodies has caused environmental damage they now claim that new technologies will prevent such damage. I and other legislators would rather not take Exxon’s word on this matter (Baldwin). The people of the state have voiced their opinion. They do not want sulfide ...
- 13652: Hesiod and the Ascent of Zeus
- Hesiod and the Ascent of Zeus The Theogony, attributed to the Greek poet, Hesiod, is a description of the creation of the world and Zeus's rise to power through the succession of fathers to sons. It starts with Ouranos and ends when Zeus prevents the succession from continuing to his own son. The very first being is ... children at first sight, so he kept them trapped inside the earth and would not let them "rise to the light" (Theog. 157). But this caused Gaia great pain. She created a sickle from a new form of metal, then went and asked her children for help. Kronos, the "clever devisor" (Theog. 168), was the only child who spoke up. Kronos follows his mother's plan, cuts off Ouranos's genitals ...
- 13653: Do What You Want, Just As Long As They Say So
- ... their native lands. Why are they coming here? They must obviously see something that many of us born here have taken for granted our entire lives. Americans are stubborn people. We have been given a world to live in, where by law, no one is oppressed or forced to do anything. But given even this amount of liberty, too many of us feel it isn’t enough. They constantly search for ... take what we have for granted and who don’t realize that America is the perfect assimilation of what society should be. Let those who refuse to see this stop their crying or find a new country.
- 13654: Journey Towards Wealth
- ... from working at my first job. I was hired as a seasonal help, or until some of the older college help returned from school. So even thought I could be the best worker in the world I would have to prove myself to everyone. First impressions can be very important, but with the case of my boss, Ed, you have to talk to him for a while before you can begin ... I was doing this out of my free will. Now every time I see him, he still thanks me, and that makes me feel like I am doing my job. When my parents built their new house they paid a whole lot more than they would really like to admit. But they were having a private builder build the home for them. This costs extra money, but they thought that it ...
- 13655: Slavery Reparations Are Wrong
- ... 174); many suggest that perhaps we ought to provide black student with their own curriculum, such as to instill in them a sense of pride that will improve their education. The U.S. News and World Report comments: "The Afrocentric curriculum is usually presented as an attempt to develop pride in black children by giving them a racial history… But what kind of pride and self-esteem is likely to grow ... conferring upon youths of African descent their own "different" history will not only further the racial segregation, but also provide them with a false sense of history, fueling the animosity. If the rest of the world were to suddenly step down and bestow upon Africa special privileges and grants, it would only create a sense among the global village that Africans are 'different' and require some sort of special assistance in ... believed they are deserved of reparations, it would be impossible for an international body to distinguish or properly disburse the requite among Africans of diverse backgrounds. Some Africans have indeed become wealthy within then white world and do not require assistance - yet it would be unfair to slight them their share - did they not also once suffer? It is equally impossible to prove whether or not someone actually was a ...
- 13656: The Way An Individual Interprets Things Is Based Upon Their Opinions
- ... canvas. In a camera, an image of something as it was in time and space is being comprised. Any form of art is expressing a feeling or sensation of a prior experience. Without recreation, our world as we know it would be tasteless. Color would be conventional. From Britain, John Fiske brought the study of popular culture, both political and social, to America. The British style studies helped him to contradict the once believed ideals that “popular culture was either condemned as “trash” or celebrated as a new form of art.”(p.156) Critics want to understand the complex social and political interests behind the artists; their states of mind, values, beliefs, and even behavior of the audiences consuming the product, whatever it ...
- 13657: Women in the Odyssey: Valued Beings or Forgotten Slaves?
- ... it is she who protects Odysseus from harm. Homer writes: Pallas Athene, daughter of Zeus, who always stands Beside you and guards you in all sorts of troubles (page 181, lines 300-301). Up until World War II, women stood by the side and watched men go off to war and then waited hopefully for their return. But in the Odyssey, it is a woman who saves the day several times ... dear husband Who had excellence of all kinds, since he was foremost of the Achaians! Homer gives the women in this story, especially Athene and Penelope, hero qualities. Both women are virtuos. They are also brave. Penelope, living in a male-dominated society, survives for twenty years as a "widowed" queen, rebuking the advances of many noble suitors. She outsmarts them and never stops waiting for Odysseus' return. Athene goes up ...
- 13658: Free Will Versus Determinism
- ... feel we are not forced, we could have acted differently. That is why I choose to side with free will. Determinism has too many extremes and limits that, already shown, is not possible in this world. Free will is the mind's ability to choose with intelligence. That doesn't mean that our choice has all the freedom in the world. Our choices cannot and obviously should not be totally free from our knowledge, values and perceptions of everyday life and the things around us. Our choices are not free from past thoughts and decisions or ... be able to change his actions, therefore no one could ever be held morally responsible for his own actions. Common sense says that we can change our actions by our own choice. Everyone in this world has common sense. In this argument determinism is definitely not true. One can want to do something, but from past experiences, can stop and not do the actions he had planned. A thief, who ...
- 13659: Critical Summary of Cultural Effects on Eating Attitudes in Israeli Subpopulations and Hospitalized Anorectics
- ... instantiated as well as the results they attained from conducting the survey. Apter explains to us that anorexia nervosa is a severe eating disorder that affects mostly upper & middle class teenage girls in the western world. This disease is both physically and psychologically damaging to these girls. For these girls, thinness and self-appearance is what they revolve their lives around. Studies conclude that people in professions where physical appearance is of extreme importance are more likely to develop an eating disorder. In the Western world, over the past two decades eating disorders have increased substantially. People believe that this increase in eating disorders is due to the fashion industry. The fashionable female figure of today has become thinner and more tubular (Szmulker, McCance, McCrone, & Hunter, 1986). In the world today, Apter believes that thinness is more and more a symbol of the feminine ideal. He finds that the Western role of a woman is now beginning to include success in the work force, ...
- 13660: George Bernard Shaw and His Short Story About the Cremation of The Narrator's Mother
- ... remained an unemotional observer on a journey through the crematorium with humor as the buffer between reporting the event and expressing raw emotion. Humor is the device to release himself and the reader to a new level of understanding. Plentiful details provide insight into the thoughts of the narrator as well as a time schedule through the cremation. Shaw relates about cremations that “people are afraid to see it, but it ... at this point that their relationship will survive by humor in memory thereby overcoming the morbid aspects of death. The narrator has relived the entire experience by retelling it, but he has also reached a new level knowing his memories will survive and his mother's spirit will live on in a new shared understanding.
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