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- 5271: Ralph Waldo Emerson 2
- ... into severe depression, it could lose all hope and meaning. They could build a morbid outlook on life. Ralph Waldo Emerson suffered these things. He was born on May 25, 1803 and entered into a new world, a new nation just beginning. Just about eight years later, his father would no longer be with him, as William Emerson died in 1811. The Emerson family was left to a life marked by poverty. Ralph' ...
- 5272: African Women
- ... six months of 1996. And what worse is that police estimate that for every rape reported another thirty-five takes place. South Africa, "Already confronting the worlds worst murder rate the country has a harrowing new fact to face: there is a rape every 25 seconds.." Geli wrote, "Being raped doesn’t mean it’s by some you don’t know, I was raped by my husband and his friends…" In ... they can they can. They will rise up against men. Just like in the story The Little Engine Who Could he thought he could and then he did it. Solutions South Africa has made a new constitution with a charter for women. The new constitution will eliminate all laws that discriminate whites and black, and males and females. The new constitution with the first charter for women will give women the rights the deserved. Some of the laws ...
- 5273: Business - Case Study
- ... our objectives had been set, Dr. Lingwood and I began to develop goal-achieving strategies. When deciding on a suitable strategy we decided to take snap shot of Dr. Lingwood’s department in a "perfect world". In other words, we looked at how the department would operate at peak efficiency and work to find ways to achieve that level of performance. Objective 1: To obtain $1.5 million - $2 million in ... deadlines. b) Increase lab organization to ensure that unnecessary time isn’t lost searching for misplaced equipment (it is proven that humans waste one full year of their lives looking for things). c) Look into new innovative lab procedures and equipment that might decrease the time spent on experiments. d) Contract out to companies that specialize in doing lab tests for other organizations. This would ensure that our scientists could concentrate ... end of each day to ensure nothing is left lying about - require that important equipment be signed out so that if it goes missing you can track its whereabouts can be tracked Strategy - Look into new innovative lab procedures and equipment that might decrease the time spent on experiments. Action Plan - contact other labs and compare our equipment with theirs - from this determine whether our equipment is as efficient - determine ...
- 5274: Fahrenheit 451: A World With No Books
- Fahrenheit 451: A World With No Books Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was an interesting Science fiction thriller that provided an odd view on the censorship of books. Not just some books, but all books. An entire distorted culture ... job of using was description. He described things specifically using outstanding similes and personifications. One example is how he mentioned the fire hose. He called it "the great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world." (Bradbury 3) This made the reader not only visualize the hose but get a feel for the mood about the firemen at that time. Another example of good description is how he described the physical ... brought a special part to the story that effected the plot and other characters. One of the most important characters was Clarrise. She was the teenage girl that began Montag's self realization that a world with no books was wrong. For that, Montag had a special appreciation for her. She stated that ,"Didn't firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going." (33) Another relationship ...
- 5275: Italy 2
- Italy Italy is most likely known for its rich cultural heritage and its unique natural beauty. Its cities have spectacular churches and beautiful central plazas. Their museums contain some of the world's best-known art. Italy got its name from the ancient Romans. Romans called the southernmost part of the peninsula Italia, which means land of oxen or grazing land. Italy's landscape is dominated by ... and Sardinia. Two independent countries lie within Italy's borders: the tiny Republic of San Marino, in north-central Italy, and Vatican City, which is located completely within the city of Rome. Italy boasts several world-famous cities. Rome, the capital and largest city in Italy, was the center of the Roman Empire 2,000 years ago. Florence was the home of many artist of the Renaissance, a period of great achievements in the arts. Venice, with its intricate canal system, attracts tourists from all over the world. Italians take great pride in the quality of their cooking. They traditionally eat their meals at midday. Large meals usually consist of a pasta course, followed by a main course of meat or fish. ...
- 5276: Drugs Debate
- ... true desires, even when considering subjective values. The problem lies in the fact that the realization of this true desire might arise only after seeing the consequences or only in inchoate form. In an ideal world, effective police forces could eliminate any mind constricting drugs and this would unarguably be an ideal situation. Since an ideal world doesn't exist, reducing the amount of mind constricting drugs available and creating troublesome consequences for dealing or using them, leans closer to an ideal world than allowing its use. From a utilitarian prospective, the use of mind constricting drugs is immoral since it, if not immediately, eventually, diminishes collective total happiness. For example, if a country were in a ...
- 5277: Israel
- ... a refuge for the poor unfortunate Jewish people who survived the Holocaust. They would, once and for all, have a Jewish homeland, where the key to citizenship was simply being Jewish. The majority of the world had sympathy for the Jewish people, at that time. Along with this sympathy the world had expectations that the Jewish people would be better, morally, than the other nations of the world. As a result, Israel is often put under a figurative microscope and each and every thing she does is analyzed. For many years people only said the nicest things about Israel, but that has ...
- 5278: Jackie Robinson
- ... less difficult for other black athletes to succeed. He also showed people that every slander and ethnic slur anybody ever said or wrote about him was wasted effort because he was too strong and to brave to give up his dream to be a pro baseball player. Bibliography Working Bibliography Rowan, Charles. Wait till Next Year. New York: Random House, 1960. Dorinson, Joseph. Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. Falkner, David. Great Time Coming. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. Weidhorn, Manfred. Jackie Robinson. New York: Macmillan, 1993. Shapiro, Milton J. Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers. New ...
- 5279: International Economic Policy: Book Review
- ... Soviet Union in order to assure that Europe will not be affected by problems such as economic immigrants (204). At his conclusion, he was to mention that Europe could play a similar role to the world trade in the future as the one played by the US after the Second World War. He was to look at the Uruguay Round and have some interesting remarks about it. There are two of them that seemed to me as interesting. The first one states that major achievements in ... need not to be by further liberalization of trade, but by the very fact that such a round reassured the already given promise not to return to protectionism (231). As for instance Japan was fearing "new protective barriers that might be otherwise wise set up against Japan" if the round was not held (69). The second one was to show how the areas in which the round was to seek ...
- 5280: Causes of the American Civil War
- ... said that the slaves were better cared for then the free factory workers in the North. Southerners said that slaveowners provided shelter, food, care, and regulation for a race unable to compete in the modern world without proper training. Many Southern preachers proclaimed that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible. But after the American Revolution slavery really died it the North, just as it was becoming more popular in the South ... treatment for criminals. The South felt these views were not important. All of these views eventually led to an attack on the slavery system in the South, and showed opposition to its spread into whatever new territories that were acquired. Northerners said that slavery revoked the human right of being a free person. Now with all these views the North set out on its quest for the complete abolition of slavery. When new territories became available in the West the South wanted to expand and use slavery in the newly acquired territories. But the North opposed to this and wanted to stop the extension of slavery into ...
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