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- 6821: Elites And The Masses
- ... must gain strength by building popular support and can manipulate information to gain more power. It protects elites from outside mass interference and ultimately makes political participation less necessary for rational decision making. The managerial world view contains two images of the bureaucratic state. The functional emphasis explains that society creates bureaucracies because they are necessary to modern society. Organizations act as an organism, where to sustain life it must grow ... to gain power, and they will use that power to suppress others. One theorist in the functional tradition is George Ritzer, and his essay The McDonaldization of Society . McDonaldization refers to the process which the world is governed by formal rationality. To Weber, formal rationality means that the search by people for the optimum means to a given end is shaped by rules, regulations, and larger social structures (Ritzer, p.19 ... the dimensions of the middle class have changed from small businessmen and farmers to white-collar employees working for large corporate bureaucracies. The old middle class was an independent power base within society and the new middle class is not unified enough to be an important factor for social change. The public often becomes an administrative fact (Farganis, p.298). There are many big differences which set pluralism and managerialism ...
- 6822: Ancient Summerian Mythology
- ... and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel.” (Bailey 59.) The gods decided to exterminate mankind. “For six days and six nights the winds blew, torrent and tempest and flood overwhelmed the world, tempest and flood raged together like warring hosts.” (Bailey 57.) Even the gods were terrified at the flood, they fled to the highest heaven, the firmament of Anu. In Babylonian civilizations, a god is responsible ... the difficulties faced on a quest. In both situations, suffering leads to special knowledge or privileges. Like any serious quest, Gilgamesh’s journey is dangerous because it takes him past the boundaries of the similar world. “He travels to distant places known only in legend, such as the Great Mountains.” (Philip 21.) His appearance, too, becomes less and less civilized as he journeys farther from Uruk. One goddess that the Sumerians ... Her name was Inanna. “Inanna’s descent is needed to set in motion the annual cycle of life on earth.” (Wolkstein 167.) “According to the me, which dictates the order and form of things, a New Year’s Day is ordained that marks the earth’s awakening to new life” (Philip 48.) Inanna, the great goddess followed all these philosophies. The mystery of human life, connected to the mystery of ...
- 6823: Scarlet Letter
- ... is an equal, or even that she is above him. This is possibly one of the reasons that Puritans won't accept these emotional displays- because the society is so socially oriented. Hester, assuming a new position of power, gives a heartfelt, moving speech. The eloquence of her words cannot be overemphasized, and a more powerful statement had yet to be made in the book. Hester's speech turns out to ... such an event occur. Finally, the forest brings out the natural appearance and natural personality of the people who use it correctly. When Hester takes off her cap and unloosens her hair, we see a new person. We see the real Hester, who has been hidden this whole time under a shield of shame. Her eyes grow radiant and a flush comes to her cheek. We recognize her as the Hester ... true thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. It was here that thoughts and ideas flowed as endlessly as the babbling brook, and emotion was as wild as the forest itself. There are no restraints in the natural world, because it is just that, natural. No intrusion from people means no disturbance in the natural order, and therefore serves to bring its inhabitants away from their world, and into this older one. I ...
- 6824: Slavery
- ... created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" (Thomas Jefferson). Slavery in America stems well back to when the new world was first discovered and was led by the country to start the African Slave Trade- Portugal. The African Slave Trade was first exploited for plantations in that is now called the Caribbean, and eventually reached ... languages combined, called Creole. This language now varies from island to island. They also kept their culture which accounts for calypso music and the instruments used in these songs. Slavery was common all over the world until 1794 when France signed the Act of the National Convention abolishing slavery. It would take America about a hundred years to do the same (Slavery Two; Milton Meltzer). George Washington was America's ...
- 6825: Cuban Missile Crisis 2
- ... communism from spreading to other countries. After the Truman Doctrine, George Catlett Marshall, Secretary of State, proposed the Marshall Plan, the European Recovery Program through which the United States provided aid to Western Europe after World War 2, in June 1947. The Marshall Plan was offered to all European countries, but Stalin would not let the countries his military was occupying take part. In April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ... Soviet Union also tested a hydrogen bomb. Both countries developed rockets that had nuclear warheads. By 1957, the Soviet Union had developed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM s). ICBM s could reach targets all over the world. While arms were building up, the Soviet Union went through a major change in power. In 1953, Joseph Stalin, leader of the Communist Party, died. After Stalin s death, Nikita Khrushchev took over the Communist Party. Khrushchev made things different. He said that the Soviet Union would follow a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West. This peace was to continue until the early sixties, when new conflicts surfaced. In the early 1960 s, new tensions arose between the United States and the USSR when Fidel Castro openly embraced communism and allied with the Soviet Union. Anastas Mikoyan, the Soviet First ...
- 6826: Development Of Charles Darwin
- ... four years, Erasmus became his best friend as the explored the sciences, something that Srewsbury school was seriously deficient in. At this time Darwin also sought the comfort found in the analysis of the natural world. "About the time he began at Shrewsbury, Charles took to going on long, solitary walks in the nearby countryside." (D 9) However silently and patiently his love of nature crept upon Darwin he absorbed it ... perfectly. The homogenization of Darwin's newly found interest in the physical sciences and analytical theory (helped by their father's gift of a chemical laboratory) with the slow and patient love of the natural world had repercussions felt around the globe. From playing with chemicals and earning the nickname of "Gas", to trips to the countryside, the young Darwin had been properly exposed to that which would become his lifelong ... returning from the fateful voyage of the Beagle Darwin may have been sorry to have formed a relationship with Grant. "His old mentor in Edinburgh, the outspoken Robert Grant, would have been receptive [to his new theory] but would have also been the worst possible person with whom to confide. Grant was a natural revolutionary and partly brought about his own academic and social suicide by having no regard for ...
- 6827: Dylan Thomas
- ... they moved to Laugharne, Wales. Their first child, Llewlyn Edouard Thomas was born in January 1939. The Map of Love, soon to be the title of a major film, was published in August and The World I Breathe was released in December.(Bookshelf ’98) In April of 1940 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog was published and in September Dylan began working for Strand Films, Inc. He remained with Strand through the conclusion of the Second World War. His second child Aeronwy, Byrn Thomas was born in March of 1943. Deaths and Entrances was released in 1946. Three years later his child, Colm Garan Hart Thomas, was born. In 1952 his final ... did a series lecture tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, his famous play for voices.(Bookshelf ’98) During his fourth lecture tour of the United States in 1953, he collapsed in his New York hotel. He was but a few days past his 39th birthday. He died on Noovenber 9th, 1953 at St. Vincents Hospital, New York. His alcoholism was legendary and no doubt played a significant ...
- 6828: Excellence In Education
- ... Ravitch, however, does more than only recite her basic ideas on effective schooling. She depicts an actual school which, she feels, incorporates those ideals. That school is the Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, New York and it is run by its principal, Saul Bruckner. Ravitch feels that what Bruckner is doing deserves attention, not because it is the only way or even the best way, but because it is ... R. Murrow High School. At Murrow, all [students] are expected and required to take a strong academic program to graduate- that is a minimum of five academic courses through the school year (Ravitch, 56). Although New York City requires that a certain percentage of below-average students be admitted to Murrow, no student is excluded from upper level academic classes. The school philosophy is that no student should be discouraged from ... failures in many other domains: motivation, creativity, self-awareness, and social justice. The nonsuccess of many educational reform movements can, according to Kincheloe, be creditted to their incapacity to see the critical association between the world of education and the world of work. In contrast, Kincheloe s own intended amendments are contingent on the assumption that schools and workplaces are intrinsically connected, that they are two features of the same ...
- 6829: Daniel 2
- ... to understand, and qualified to serve in the king's palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians." Daniel and the other three men faced many different problems in the new culture of Babylon. They were in the limelight so to speak because they were chosen to be trained for government services. These men had to learn a new language far different from their own Hebrew language. They were taken from their homes in Judah as young men, away from their families and friends. Three major transitions faced these types of men. They had ... end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance." This inheritance is our eternal life in heaven with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. What a great inheritance it is! The whole world will always benefit from both the book of Daniel and the man Daniel himself. It is that kind of faith which Daniel displayed, that God will save us from the devil, the world, and ...
- 6830: Reproduction: A Courting To Nature
- ... lake. Poor goose. Will she mate with the gander of her dreams? Or will she trail him for years, laying infertile egg clutches as proof of her faithfulness? Either outcome is possible in an animal world marked daily by scenes of courtship, spurning and love triumphant. And take note: these are not the imaginings of some Disney screen-16 writer. Decades ago Konrad Lorenz, a famed Austrian naturalist, made detailed studies ... the evolution of males and females during prehistoric epochs when environmental change was making life difficult for single-sex species such as bacteria and algae. Generally, these reproduced by splitting into identical copies of themselves. New generations were thus no better than old ones at surviving in an altered world. With the emergence of the sexes, however, youngsters acquired the qualities of two parents. This meant that they were different from both - different and perhaps better at coping with tough problems of survival. At ...
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