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- 951: Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
- ... the film, Walter Lee Younger does not do either one of these things. Walter doesn’t show up for work regularly and he certainly has no intentions of playing by the rules to get a business licenses. Walter Lee is a man stuck in a dead end job that he sees as demeaning and he becomes desperate to free himself from the bonds of poverty, oppression and racial discrimination. Walter Lee ... not shared by other tenants. Walter’s sister, Beneatha has a dream of going to medical school and being able to help others. And Walter wants it all! Walter wants the money, the house, a business, and an overall good life for him and his family. Walter, like many other Americans, measures his dream by income (Stein 1). Mama, deciding that the family needs to realize the dream of owning their ... white hegemonic neighborhoods have become diverse and rich in many cultures (Cornell). Walter, rejecting the values of his mother’s generation, decides to fulfill his lust for instant monetary success. By conspiring in a risky business venture and Walter loses the money that the family had so many hopes for! Desperate and destitute, Walter has dashed the family’s dreams of owning a home, of Beneatha’s chance at medical ...
- 952: ISDN vs. Cable Modems
- ISDN vs. Cable Modems 1.0 Introduction The Internet is a network of networks that interconnects computers around the world, supporting both business and residential users. In 1994, a multimedia Internet application known as the World Wide Web became popular. The higher bandwidth needs of this application have highlighted the limited Internet access speeds available to residential users ... is surprisingly less so. Because the models break down the costs of each approach into their separate components, they also provide insight into the match between what follows naturally from the technology and how existing business entities are organized. For example, the models show that subscriber equipment is the most significant component of average cost. When subscribers are willing to pay for their own equipment, the access provider's capital costs are low. This business model has been successfully adopted by Internex, but it is foreign to the cable industry. As the concluding chapter discusses, the resulting closed market structure for cable subscriber equipment has not been as effective ...
- 953: Interest Groups
- ... government to take action when problems become evident when they monitor programs. The traditional interest groups have been organized around some form of economic cause, be it corporate interests, associates, or unions. The number of business oriented lobbies has grown since the 1960s and continues to grow. Public-interest groups have also grown enormously since the 1960s. Liberal groups started the trend, but conservative groups are now just as common, although ... by serious conservative rebuttals. As the 1970s progressed, a core of politically active conservative intellectuals, most prominently Irving Kristol, began to argue in publications like The Public Interest and The Wall Street Journal that if business wanted market logic to regain the initiative, it would have to create a new class of its own --scholars whose career prospects depended on private enterprise, not government or the universities. "You get what you ... intellectual horsepower, they would have to open their pocketbooks."1 The rise of Nader's Raiders and similar public-interest groups--which achieved remarkable results, considering how badly outgunned they were; brought a change in business thinking about money and public affairs. So did the frustration felt by oil companies, which were being fattened by rising prices but still dreamed of being fatter if federal regulations were abolished. They were ...
- 954: Watergate: Was The Nixon White House Involved?
- ... development of what was, in effect, a “secret government” (Gettlin and Colodny 6). The word, “Watergate”, refers to the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. In addition to the hotel, the Watergate complex houses many business offices. It was here that the offices of the Democratic National Committee were burglarizedon June 17, 1972. Five individuals were arrested at the Watergate complex after the burglary. Charges were also pressed on G. George ... of two of the burglars the police retrieved the name and phone number of E. Howard Hunt. Police traced the number and found it to be in the Nixon White House. Bringing to question, what business did members of a CIA task force that specialized in burglary and spying have with officials in the White House? Also retrieved from the five individuals detained at the scene, was, altogether, $2,300 in ... skim off the top of the 1972 campaign funds to be held in a safe-deposit box (by Alex Butterfield ) for ‘ emergencies'” (342). Perhaps, Nixon and his cabinet members and the other officials who did “business” with Nixon, saw the Democratic campaign as an “ emergency” that they needed to take action against. In May 1973, the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Activities opened hearings on Watergate, placing Senator Sam Ervin ...
- 955: Monopolies - A Case Study
- ... hands of an oligarchy is an apparently unacknowledged destruction of the economy. In the imperialist nations (USA, Canada, Germany, Japan) a whole leferature has sprung up in support of what is proudly called the "big business." The job of the economists, publishing this garbage, is not to shed light on the debilitating methods of imperialism but to turn it into an act of skill and wit (which it uncontestably is) and ... doubling, their profit. The purpose is to eliminate or "buy out" the other monopolies or to merge and create one "super enterprise". To achieve total dominance, the monopolies artificially lower prices to put the small business out of business. After they have asserted total market control they double and sometimes triple the prices to make up for the loss. For this reason, mergers should be viewed with suspicion because the benefits they appear ...
- 956: The Right To A Free Trial
- ... Clause, White Primaries, and literacy test were declared unconstitutional, they could not vote. Women, although the population's majority, were the last to be given suffrage rights. The men in the movie seemed affluent and business-like. Some of the men came from meager backgrounds, yet they all act as if they were solvent. Also, the men were adorned with professional attire. In contrast, Inside the Jury Room chose a group of jurors of mixed ethnic backgrounds and genders, in various occupational settings. There were psychiatrists, teachers, and business people with many different life experiences. Also, the dress was not at all formal. The differences among the jurors contributed greatly to the insight and opinions shared about the case. A psychiatrist was able to ... their significance and was ready to send a teenager to death without even a discussion. Baseball tickets and the overwhelming heat concerned the jurors more than the actual case. Some members played games and told business stories rather than pay attention. It was not until key points expressing doubt in the boy's guilt appeared that everyone realized their significance. Life experiences and stubbornness still prevented many of the jurors ...
- 957: Huck Finn Grows Up
- ... America shortly after the Civil War. The nation was seeing things that it had never seen before, its entire economic philosophy was turned upside down. Huge multi-million dollar trusts were emerging, coming to dominate business. Companies like Rockefeller s Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel were rapidly gobbling up small companies in any way possible. Government corruption was at what some consider an all time high. The Rich Man s Club ... drove blacks down to a new economic low. What time would be better than this to write a book about the great American dream, a book about long held American ideals, now squashed by big business and white supremacy? Mark Twain did just that, when he wrote what is considered by many as the Great American Epic . The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The great American epic, may be one of the ... the classic American idealism, consisting of freedom, morality, practicality, and an alliance with nature. Twain manages to show all this while poking fun at the emergence of the robber barons, better know as the big business of the late nineteenth century. Twain portrays many different American values in this book by expressing them through one of the many different characters. The character that Twain chose to represent morality and maturation ...
- 958: Affirmative Action
- ... pushed back to later dates. Phones are being answered, but put on hold for the next available representatives. The president of the firm puts out a notice of hire. The word is spread throughout the business community through the newspaper and the internet. Resumes are received every business day. The board members of the firm review hundreds of resumes that are received daily. They rate the applications according to qualifications and experiences. The names are disregarded at this point. A dozen of the ... our workforce. In the work place, people hired under special assistance may slow the process. If someone was hired over another simply because of the color of his skin, and not by his qualifications, the business loses as well. They must pay someone the same salary they would have paid a more efficient employee. Lowering standards in the workplace, to accommodate a race, is a step back to poorly made ...
- 959: Chanel, Gabrielle
- ... no Piaf--led her to take up with the local swells and become the backup mistress of Etienne Balsan, a playboy who would finance her move to Paris and the opening of her first hat business. That arrangement gave way to a bigger and better deal when she moved on to his friend, Arthur ("Boy") Capel, who is said to have been the love of her life and who backed her ... reputation got ugly: World War II. This is when her anti-Semitism, homophobia (even though she herself dabbled in bisexuality) and other base inclinations emerged. She responded to the war by shutting down her fashion business and hooking up with Hans Gunther von Dincklage, a Nazi officer whose favors included permission to reside in her beloved Ritz Hotel. Years later, in 1954, when she decided to make a comeback, her name ... does Karl Lagerfeld's theory of why, this time around, the Chanel suit met such phenomenal success. Lagerfeld--who designs Chanel today and who has turned the company into an even bigger, more tuned-in business than it was before--points out, "By the '50s she had the benefit of distance, and so could truly distill the Chanel look. Time and culture had caught up with her." In Europe, her ...
- 960: Fascism and its Political Ideas
- ... devastation of World War I, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Fascism is a philosophy or a system of government the advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of aggressive nationalism. Celebrating the nation or the race as an organic community surpassing all other loyalties. This right-wing philosophy will even advocate violent action to maintain this loyalty ... be fashioned around the good of the community or nation. Everyone would work for the benefit of the nation and that is all. Regularly this would take place with the merging of the state and business leadership, with concern only of the nation. In this the nation will also take care of its members if the need should arise. This could be money ,shelter, food, or any other need that might ... and even selling out to international organizations. The drug problem is one of the major areas the group centralizes on. Even though the CIA has taken Noriega out of the drug cartel in Panama the business is still running just as strong due to other members of drug families were put back into power. Most of the people who choose to become part of these groups have several factors influencing ...
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