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- 6001: The Death Penalty: To Be or Not to Be...
- ... 93 % felt that crime was either increasing or staying the same. And it is not just statistics: I consider myself along with those 93 %. Because while Guiliani administration is talking about crime rates in the New York City going down, all I see and hear in the media are reports about horrible crimes committed by New Yorkers. As George Pettinico states in his article " Crime and punishment: America changes it's mind ": The media's extensive coverage of crime, especially the most brutal and horrific cases have heightened the public's ... death penalty, or as it is sometimes being called " capital punishment " is the hardest punishment that could be received when a person is convicted of a capital offense. Until recently it did not exist in New York State but after new governor, George Pataki was elected he managed to bring it back. Since September 1, 1994 the death penalty law was in effect. And even though, as far as I ...
- 6002: Ernest Hemingway: His Life And His Stories
- ... Hemingway's short stories, " Soldier's Home," "A Cat in the Rain" and " A Clean Well-Lighted Place, in terms of their relationship to events and experiences in Hemingway's own life. His stories from World War I reflect deeping despairs, and a conviction that life ultimately was without meaning. Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21,1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. His father was the owner of a prosperous ... coeducational, and dancing together led to "hell and damnation" Grace hall Hemingway, Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. She was a dreamer who was upset at anything which disturbed her perception of the world as beautiful. She hater dirty diapers, upset stomachs, and cleaning house; they were not fit for a lady. She taught her children to always act with decorum. She adored the singing of the birds and ... use forbidden words just to create a ruckus. Ernest, though wild and crazy, was a warm, caring individual. He loved the sea, mountains and the stars and hated anyone who saw him a phony. During World War I, Ernest, rejected from service because of a bad left eye, was an ambulance driver, in Italy, for the Red Cross. Ernest was injured in his knee and recuperated in a hospital, tended ...
- 6003: Nuclear Weapons and Their Hazards
- Nuclear Weapons and Their Hazards The modern world is threatened by atomic bombs, chemical weapons, and other nuclear weapons. The nuclear weapon is the number one problem facing the world today. We have not been able to get nuclear weapons under control yet but we all know that our world will be totally destroy. Since the development of nuclear energy, the outcome of human civilization was very slim. It was intended for a good cause, when a Germany-Jew split the atom and found ...
- 6004: Managing Waste, To Save Our World
- Managing Waste, To Save Our World Have you checked your garbage lately? Are you aware that you are throwing away many materials that could be saved? If we did simple things like reusing glass, we could reduce our municipal landfill sites ...
- 6005: Burger King and Its Advertising Campaigns
- ... and "best food for fast times" brought a lot of attention to the company. In 1988 "We do it like you do it" was used often but a year later they came out with two new slogans which confused the customer. In 1989 "Sometimes you gotta break the rules" and "BK tee vee" with MTV and Dan Cortese with "I love this place". This was another huge setback for BK because ... thing that hurt them was the fact they didn't lower prices to keep competing with their competitors this led to a below average sales growth. Many in store promotion also failed. In 1993 a new CEO was introduced, this allowed for huge turnaround and in fact it did. He helped please the franchises and responded to their problems and listened to their recommendations. Then later he lowered prices and hired a new advertising agency. 1. In reading this case analysis I figured Burger King to advertise the Whopper, but throughout the past years they didn't do this. I figure the whopper or the flame broiled ...
- 6006: China
- The World is forever in debt to China for its innovations. Ancient China was extreme advance and many of its discoveries are still in use today. This is what Robert Temple, the author of The Genius of ... mathematics, warfare and transportation, to name a few. Although Temple wrote about eleven fields of invention, I feel that these three sections contain the greatest examples of Chinese innovation, and the debt that the modern world owes China. The first main area is the field of engineering. Within this chapter, the development of iron and steel is the greatest achievement. The development of iron and steel led to other advances. By ... Irrigation allows for greater and more intense farming, thus resulting in a better crop yield. With the greater crop yields larger populations can be supported. The chain pump was exported to all parts of the world by way of visiting ambassadors and dignitaries. The first European chain pump appeared in the sixteenth century, and was a direct copy of the Chinese version. The second area of great Chinese achievement is ...
- 6007: AIDS Esssay
- Eng. III AP- AIDS Essay Typically, people in today's world cast those with AIDS off into an unwanted world of immorality. The world sees AIDS as people who have had a history with drugs or the homosexual life. One would most likely consider AIDS a moral issue. AIDS has an affect on everyone- we have to make ...
- 6008: China's Economy Evolution
- ... People's Republic of China saw reform as the way to realize the broad goal of the Four Modernizations, and to bring China into the community of advanced industrial nations by the start of the new millenium. The Four Modernizations were announced by Premier Zhou Enlai in 1975: the modernization of industry, agriculture, science and technology, and national defense. The reform movement had antecedents in Chinese history in the Han (206 ... performance. Agricultural development required resources and investment as much as industrial development. The government, however, was reluctant to divert scarce resources and funds from industry to agriculture. Therefore, alongside the HIODS, the government adopted a new agricultural development strategy that did not compete for resources with industrial expansion. The core of this strategy involved the mass mobilization of rural labor to work on labor intensive investment projects, such as irrigation, flood ... dividing the obligatory procurement quotas to individual households in the collective. A year later those collectives brought out yields far larger than those of other teams. The central authorities later conceded the existence of the new form of farming, but required that it be restricted to poor agricultural regions, mainly to hilly or mountainous areas, and to poor collectives in which people had lost confidence in the collective system. However, ...
- 6009: Censorship In Mass Media
- ... unjust to prohibit someone from reading or seeing "inappropriate" material based on the opinion of someone else. Governments are developing a big brotherly attitude towards people, and it is becoming more prominent all around the world. In a world where most countries are free to do as they please, conesorship in the media is like the modern day "double speak" of the book 1984, limiting the thoughts of the people who are forced to ... to escape the persecution by the government against the rights that the forefathers knew they had. 3Censorship is based on the concept of minority rule. If violence, language, or sex , which is enjoyed around the world, is unappropriate for even a miniscule percentage of people viewing it, then it is deemed inappropriate for every one. What kind of government is holding the reins to what people can and cannot see? ...
- 6010: Lord Of The Flies 5 -----
- ... book, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is a book full of symbolism. The biggest symbol is the entire island itself. This island and everything connected with this island is a symbol of the world in which we live today. The characters are symbolic of certain groups of people in our society, their actions are comparable to the actions of people in society, and the destructive, physical changes are similar to the changes of this earth. Each character on the island is equivalent to different groups of people on earth. Ralph and Jack represent the leaders of this world. Ralph leads because he wants everyone to work together, representing presidents, kings, all good leaders whereas Jack leads to gain power, thus representing emperors, tyrants and a dictatorship. "Ralph looked at [Jack], eager to offer ... not feel any remorse for what he does. These groups of people are evident in life and in most stories. Most people in life can be compared to one of these characters on the island world. Not only are the characters in the island world similar to people in society, the actions of the boys on the island are similar to actions of people in society. Some things that Jack ...
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