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- 3711: Aphrodite versus Athena
- ... deceits/ and all of the gentle pleasures of sex(Hesiod,67).” Athena on the other hand is quite different. She is known as the virgin goddess and the goddess of intelligence, strength, wisdom, power and war. “ From (Zeus’) own head he gave birth to owl-eyed Athena,/The awesome battle- rousing army-leading, uniting/Lady, whose pleasure is fighting(Hesiod,87).” She is a proficient in the arts, crafts, and civil responsibilities. Aphrodite and Athena are very unique due to numerous factors including their creators, circumstances of birth and the roles each of them is predestined to carry out in their lifetime. There are innumerable significant ...
- 3712: Bias
- ... check. She spoke of her master as though he was the kindest. All the slaves loved their master. He gave them shoes in the winter. He kept the children with their mothers and when the war started he took everyone including the slaves to a safer place. On the other hand, Susan told Augustus a totally different story. She spoke of the whippings in cruel detail. She also spoke of how ... ethnicity, culture, faith, age, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability, citizenship status and economic class. Communities or institutions that discriminate are neither whole nor healthy. We as individuals should be committed to creating healthy communities through civil discourse and respect, which include each of us as individuals and all of us members of the whole.
- 3713: The Effects of Post-industrialism on the Political Economy of Western Europe
- The Effects of Post-industrialism on the Political Economy of Western Europe The Decline of Corporatist Bargaining The sustained, high economic growth in Western Europe during the post-war period until 1973 led to dramatic changes in the region's political economy. As advances in transportation and communication extended the reach of international trade into new areas of the world, as technological advances allowed ... industrial society, where the stable economic order of mass employment in large-scale industry has given way to mass unemployment and a breakdown of the political and social consensus that held sway throughout the post-war period. These changes have fundamentally altered the Western European labor market. This paper will show how post-industrialism has dramatically reduced the ability of many Western European countries to deliver full employment, not simply because ... corporatist solutions to economic problems. The shift to a post-industrial economy that has fragmented unions has created parallel fragmentation within the mass-integration political parties that have governed Western European countries in the post-war period. Parties find their traditional membership increasingly divided on the use of fiscal policy, maintenance of exchange rates and other crucial areas of government policy.2 The internationalization of markets has also diminished the ...
- 3714: Poem~dream Deferred
- After the Civil War won the black people their freedom, it seemed as though their dreams of great opportunities were finally going to come true. However, they were met by even more obstacles, which left the blacks to wonder ...
- 3715: Aztec 2
- ... neighbors surrounded the Aztec and demanded tributes of gold and their only piece of dry land.They soon converted into a powerful empire within two centuries. As As the Aztecs population grew, superior military and civil organizations were formed and established. By 1325, the city of Tenochitilan was founded. The actual religion of the Aztecs originated in the city of Tenochtitlan somewhere between the 14th and 16th century C.E. It ... kill her. A goddess could only give birth once, to the original family of divinity and no more. During the time that they were plotting her fall, Coatlique gave birth to the fiery god of war, Huitzilopochtli. With the help of a fire serpent, he destroyed his brothers and sister, murdering them in a rage. He beheaded Coyolxauhqui and threw her body into a deep gorge in a mountain, where it ...
- 3716: A Study Of The Market Reforms In Post-Communist Eastern Europe With A Specific Case Study of Poland
- ... in east-central Europe. In the 18th century it was divided up by its neighbors and ceased to exist until resurrected in 1918. Again partitioned by Germany and the USSR at the beginning of World War II, it was reestablished as a Soviet satellite state in 1945, and remained a Communist-dominated "people's republic" until 1989. Mikhail Gorbachev's appointment as Kremlin leader in March 1985 was the signal that ... of economic and political freedom in terms of timing. The Western world is in a debt crisis and can no longer help as much as they once would. As well, the end of the Cold War has meant that Poland is no longer as important as it might have been as a lever for the democratic countries of the West. It's pursuit of democracy does not have the same impact as it would have had under Cold War circumstances. From an economic point of view Poland, and every other East European country in this situation, is faced with a lumbering giant of an economy littered with inefficiency, waste, bad management and technology ...
- 3717: Bermuda Triangle
- ... S. Navy supply ship. Known as the U.S.S. Cyclops, it measured over five hundred feet long and weighed more than nineteen thousand tons. The ship set sail on March 4, 1918, during World War I. The oddest thing about this ship was its crew. The captain was a German who was thought to be mentally ill because he often walked about the ship in long underwear and a derby ... in a storm and no wreckage was found. Others thought that the German captain took over and held the ship, but the government never found any trace of the ship or the crew after the war. Not only have ships disappeared in the Triangle, but many ships have been found with no one aboard. One very mysterious case involved a boat called the Mary Celeste. In November 1972, a ship came ... before the incident, and at that time there was no difference. Although many lives have been lost in the Triangle, people have survived crises in this area. Dick Stern, an Air Force pilot during World War II, tells of a particularly intriguing even that happened in The Bermuda Triangle. It was December 1944, and he had been ordered to report for active duty. He was to pilot a plane from ...
- 3718: The Injustice of Slavery
- ... Abraham Lincoln, he wanted to set slaves free. But the southern states had large plantations and needed slaves to help, so this was not a good idea, in their opinion. This controversy led to the Civil War, which was eventually won by the north, and slaves were set free in America. But people discriminated slaves very much, and that was not good. Discrimination of African Americans is not that big now a ...
- 3719: HG Wells
- ... West, in 1914. In the next 50 years he produced more than 80 books. His novel The Time Machine mingled science, adventure, and political comment. Later works in this genre are The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and The Shape of Things to Come; each of these fantasies was made into a motion picture. Wells also wrote novels devoted to character delineation. Among these are Kipps and The History ... other books can be categorized as thesis novels. Among these are Ann Veronica, promoting women's rights; Tono-Bungay, attacking irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through, depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World War I Wells wrote an immensely popular historical work, The Outline of History. Throughout his long life Wells was deeply concerned with and wrote voluminously about the survival of contemporary society. For a time he ...
- 3720: Richard Warren Sears and Sears, Roebuck, & Company
- ... Sears, both of English ancestory. His father led anything but a happy life. He had failed in his quest for gold during the California Gold Rush of 1849 and was a bitter soldier in the Civil War, which he blamed on politicians. He had earned a sizable sum of money working as a blacksmith and a wagonmaker, but he lost it all in a stock-farm venture. Richard's father gave up ...
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