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- 681: Greasy Lake
- ... began to clutch at one another in passion, began to stroke, fondle, and lick, humping in the grass, plunging into the bushes, running around like nymphs and satyrs at some mad Bacchanal. A senator I'd known for forty years went by me in a dead run, pursuing the naked wife of the Bolivian ambassador; Miss Iowa disappeared behind the rhythmically heaving buttocks of the sour-faced clergyman . . . " (Page 125). Just ... s life shifted gears, lurching into a rapid and inexorable downward spiral . . . The overcoat, of course, became property of the Soviet government. Akaky left the conference room in a daze -- he felt as if he'd been squeezed like a blister, flattened like a fly. His coat was gone, yes -- that was bad enough. But everything he believed in, everything he'd worked for, everything he'd been taught from the day he took his first faltering steps and gurgled over a communal rattle -- that was gone too" (Page 228). Just from the way Boyle writes ...
- 682: Cyril Falls, "The Great War"
- ... Vultures in the skies: This chapter deals about the cause of World War I. At a Sunday morning in June 28 1914 the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria visited the city of Sarajevo. At this day the Archduke and his wife planed a parade through Sarajevo. Everything started quite and the mop was cheering. But while the parade was going on a terrorist who fought for the independence of Serbia from ... died at the place where they got shot at 12.30 P.M. June 28 1914. This event went to the second most terrible war in history World War I, which started at the first day of August 1914 with the declaration of war from Germany to Russia. Chapter II, Plans-Armies-Leaders: Shortly after the declaration of war to Russia, Germany took advantage of her quick acting. The Kaiser agreed ... a terrible new feature of warfare: gas. The gas experiment was made at April 23 1915 at Ypres. It was really just an experiment and no reinforcements were held in the back. But on the d-day when the gas went west by good winds it totally knocked out all the defense of the French and British and the Germans found no resistance until reinforcements were sent to Ypres by ...
- 683: Organizational Review of Plant Automation Group
- ... or by assuming oversight responsibility for contractual development. Once a system is in place, this is a task which cannot be contracted out due to the highly customized nature of the process control software (Square D, CRISP SCADA) design. The Plant Automation Group is also required to be on-call 24 hours a day in support of the Operations and Maintenance Departments; and is a resource to all other departments, providing technical support which primarily focuses on control system and data integration. Secondary Functions The Plant Automation Group was ... its Instrumentation Maintenance Division. C. The Engineering Department's interest is due to their staff's concern in the proper design of treatment processes, and facilities to optimize the treatment of wastewater by the Districts. D. Information Technology is concerned with the management of the Districts' computing and communication resources for the benefit of all of these departments. Reporting Relationship There are three basic options, at this point in time: ...
- 684: Frederick Winslow Taylor: Business Management
- ... to gang boss, Taylor began to put pressure on the men to increase production. The ensuing struggle caused Taylor to realize that the basis for the conflict was that management did not understand a proper day's work. Thus Taylor set out to evaluate a “fair day's work.” By 1885 Taylor had devise a sysyem of production controls. He had introduced stopwatch time studies, that he conducted to set production standards. Adifferential piece rate system was set up to mandate that ... an incentive wage. This scientific piecework system reconciled the managers desire for increased production and the workers desire for a higher wage. Taylor found that on a task where production should have been 10 per day, when a worker was paid 50 cents per unit that the worker finished only 4 or 5 pieces each day. Taylor set a new per piece pay rate of 35 cents if the worker ...
- 685: Cultural Literacy According to E.D. Hirsch
- Cultural Literacy According to E.D. Hirsch According to E.D. Hirsch, to be culturally literate is to possess the basic information to thrive in the modern world. It is the "grasp on the background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has." In ... phrases of which each person should be knowledgeable. The list ranges from idioms to mythology, from science to fairy tales. Why has this list prompted a notable debate on our country's educational standards? E.D. Hirsch believes that the literacy of American people has been rapidly declining. The long range remedy for restoring and improving American literacy must be to "institute a policy of imparting common information in our ...
- 686: Censorship in Public Schools
- ... librarian is forced to resign because she fought the school board's decision to remove Richard Price's The Wanderers, and to "restrict" the use of Stephen King's Carrie and Patrick Mann's Dog Day Afternoon (Jones 33). -An Indiana school board takes action that leads to the burning of many copies of a textbook that deals with drugs and the sexual behavior of teenagers (Berger 61). These cases of ... in the Rye, Holden Caufield reacts to an obscenity scrawled on a wall: It drove me damn near crazy. I though how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they'd wonder what the hell it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them what it meant and how they'd all think about it and maybe even worry about if for a couple of days. I kept wanting to kill whoever'd written it. (Salinger 165) This phrase from Salinger's classic novel, for ...
- 687: Inclusion Of Handicapped Students In Public Education and Politics
- ... handle the handicapped. However, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, institutional abuse became a big issue. Newscasts began to broadcast scenes of bed after bed of small children left alone in a crib all day in a dark and cheerless room with no one but themselves for company. There were no toys in the rooms, the children were neglected day after day, and most died at a very young age, much to the relief of their families. These newscasts also told of other horror stories. Finn (1996) writes that children were abused, burned and beaten by ...
- 688: Summary of The Old Man and The Sea
- ... left him for over eighty days, which means he has not caught a fish for a very long time. The boat the boy is now on is a lucky boat and has caught fish every day that it has gone out. The boy, Manolin, is the old man's closest friend. Manolin get's up every day and helps the old man, Santiago, take the mast down to the shore to his skiff. The captain of the boy's boat does not let him carry anything, yet Santiago let him carry things ... years old. That is how young the boy was when he first started his "classes on fishing" as I would call them. The boy loved Santiago with all of his heart. To prove this one day the boy bought some minnows for the old man. That same day he also bought him a "can" of coffee. That day he wanted to go fishing with the old man, but the old ...
- 689: Abortion
- ... is a unique genetic being (Zindler 27). If one was to abort an embryo than that embryo, that human life would never be duplicated. A scientist that may have found the cure to A.I.D.S. would be killed. There is a better way to solve our problems than by killing children. A fertilized egg is the most beautiful , most innocent being that we could ever create, and can redeem ... After the doctor who performed this procedure saw this film, he never performed another abortion again. But, many doctors still do perform abortion, and in some instances a live child is killed. "About once a day, somewhere in the United States, something goes wrong and an abortion results in a live baby" (Willke 76). Forty five out of six hundred and seven mid trimester abortions done in Connecticut in 1974-1976 ... right to life that is equal to the mothers right. One cannot kill another human being just because they wished it wasn't around. Abortion is murder of the innocent practiced on a national scale(Day 84)." Overall it has been proven that the fetus is a real person. It responds to noise, has feeling and fears. To have an abortion it will destroy an innocent life which is directly ...
- 690: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Huck's Contradiction
- ... one of the calico gowns and I turned up my trouser-legs to my knees and got into it. I put on the sun-bonnet and tied it under my chin. I practiced around all day to get the hang of the things, and by-and-by I could do pretty well in them" (41). If Huck was even remotely lazy he would have just stayed on the island and enjoyed ... search their rooms. So then I went to his room and begun to paw around there. But I couldn't do nothing without a candle, and I dasn't light one. So I judged I'd got to.lay and eavesdrop. I had it before they was half-way down the stairs. the only place I see to hide the bag was in the coffin. when we get down the river ... remorse or regret, but he did care, even if they were murderers. Later, Huck couldn't bring himself to turn Jim in to some men he ran across, and thought to himself: "s'pose you'd a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I, I'd feel bad-I'd feel just the same way I do now," (69). ...
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