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- 1211: Introduction to Business
- ... capital and technology. These resources may be limited at any given time, varying within the world at large, from country to country. This business cycle explains how business fluctuates from high to low prosperity, recession, depression and recovery over time. The major challenges faced by our nation today are the Federal Budget Deficit, international trade deficit, the Decline of Smokestack America, and the conservation of energy. The Federal Budget Deficit occurs ... inventions and technology, political assassinations, the discovery of physical and natural resources, labor negotiations, government action, and many others. When the economy is strong and the demand is high, businesses can prosper. Regardless of how great the economy may become, businesses still must compete with other firms for scarce raw materials and labor. A businesses environment creates many opportunities as well as problems for prospering businesses. The environment determines what a ... the fact that the Small Business Administration assists sole proprietors in obtaining loans and capital necessary in order to create a business. While they can neither guarantee nor provide these funds, they can be of great assistance. People obtaining small businesses through franchising have a much higher success rates, for obvious reasons. They are a good choice in order to avoid the many problems of creating a small business on ...
- 1212: Industrial Revolution 3
- The second industrial revolution started in the late nineteenth century and continued through the 1930's. The revolution provided great opportunities as well as troubling times. The United States citizens struggled to gain control over their lives in an industrialized economy. Moreover, the second industrial revolution changed the lives and attitudes of the working class ... reform in a number of ways. They felt that the economy needed to be reformed in order to regulate monopolies and to investigate trusts and big business. The need for political reform was also very great. Municipal and state-level governments were under constant attack. The progressivists wanted to eliminate political parties from everyday life. Another important type of reform was the reform of social justice. Social gospel became a controversy ... class and progressivists were clearly regaining control of their lives. However, many more changes were to come. Franklin D. Roosevelt had a plan to restore confidence in the workers during the rough times of the Great Depression. This plan was called the "New Deal". He launched the Agricultural Adjustment Act to aid farmers by halting the fall of farm prices. The next step towards recovery of the American worker was ...
- 1213: The Life of Jack London
- ... Chaney that she was pregnant Chaney panicked and told Flora to leave his home at once. Flora took an overdose of opium. When that failed, Flora shot herself in the head, but missed. Flora's depression kept led her into a mental institution. Six months later, on January 12, 1876, Flora gave birth to her son, whom she named John Griffith Chaney. Flora was too sick to care for her child ... fittest.” In the fall of 1904 it was official that Jack London was divorced from Bess Maddern. After the divorce Jack starts his semi autobiographical book John Barleycorn. Jack was in a serious state of depression. His former wife Bess would not allow him to see his daughters. He was afraid that he might kill himself in his sleep, but his state of mind did not affect the quality of Jacks writing. After Jack's great depression he decided to take a seven year voyage around the world. He decided to build a custom made boat to get him around the world. On November 19, 1905 Jack London married Charmain ...
- 1214: Legalization of Drugs: Against
- ... killing the fetus and putting the mother's life in danger. Even one use of crack can cause serious damage to fetus or to a breast-fed baby. Heroin is another illegal drug that causes great harm and can be life-taking too. When heroin is used it reaches the brain via the bloodstream and is transformed into the depressant morphine. Heroin produces feelings of euphoria, mental confusion and drowsiness. In addiction to many other effects on the body, it depresses respiratory function (168). Thousands of heroin addicts die from overdoses each year. Heroin users are also at great risk of getting AIDS from the used of unclean needles. An estimated 60 percent of heroin addicts in New York City carry the virus, and needle sharing among addicts represents a major potential route for ... in fatty tissues of the brain, lungs, and reproductive organs, where they remain for a long time. In a book titled, Drug Policy and Intellectuals, Stephen Thomas points out that one of the areas of great concern about the effect of smoking marijuana is the changes in the reproductive system (156). Heavy marijuana smoking reduces the level of testosterone, the principal male hormone. It may delay sexual maturation in teenage ...
- 1215: The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Opression of Women in Society
- ... ultimate fall into dementia. By being forced to be her own company, she is confined within her mind. Likewise, part of the narrator's mental confinement stems from her recognition of her physical confinement. The depression the narrator has experienced associated with child bearing is mentally confining as well. Specifically, she cannot control her emotions or manage her guilt over her inability to care for her child. These structures of confinement ... most men had over women in the late nineteenth century. He decides everything on her behalf, including what room she will stay in and who she will be allowed to see. He diagnoses her postpartum depression as a "temporary nervous depression--a slight hysterical tendency" and in doing so, diminishes her complaints and demeans her individuality. His prescribed treatment is worse than the disease; every hour is scheduled, she is forbidden to write, told what ...
- 1216: St. Joan Of Arc
- ... years, she lived the life of a simple shepherdess. At this time, she was commanded by Heavenly Voices to lead the French armies against the English forces which had invaded France. She did so with great success. Betrayed, she was tried by civil and apostolic courts and condemned to death. She was burned alive at the stake in Rouen, May 31, 1431. A later trial established her innocence and after due ... departure, the King made Joan body armour. Louis de Coitus, was ordered to be the paige of Joan and he served her from Blouse to Orleans and on to Paris. Louis said that ‘ Joan had great confidence as a leader; she continually exhorted her soldiers that they trust altogether in God and confess their sins.' When Joan arrived in Vaucouleurs, she was only a very young peasant girl. The king was ... who are before the town of Orleans, go away into your country, by God. And if so be not done, expect news of the Maid who will come to see you shortly, to your very great injury. King of England, if (you do not so, I am chief-of-war and in whatever place I attain your people in France, I will make them quit it . And if they will ...
- 1217: Crime Films
- ... exhibits constant evolution. The basis of the gangster film lies in the progression thought the ranks of the hood to eventually try to gain power and usurp the organisation. The film usually ends in a great shoot out where the law has finally caught up with the villain, ending in the death or ultimate demise of the gangster. The development of the genre is of utmost importance to the production of ... type of movie. To accommodate this Hollywood tends to exploit the history and events of the era. The development and evolution of the genre can follow many different routes. Events in history have been of great influence in changing the classical genre film styles. The evolution of the women's movement, the roles of the family and the portrayal of war after WWII are some major examples. As we saw in White Heat the use of the A-bomb was integrated into the final shot of Cody Jarret. The great depression in the mid-west was the setting for the rural gangsters of Bonnie and Clyde: a film that changed the way the classical gangster was viewed. Earlier gangsters were all powerful and strived ...
- 1218: Death of A Salesman: The Tragedy of One Man
- ... throughout the play as Willy is railroaded by a capitalist system as he strives to reach his dreams. Willy Loman desperately want to believe that he has succeeded, that he is "well liked"and a great salesman. But at the age of sixty- three and nearing retirement, Willy is seen as a man who gave all of his life to a business, only to be thrown in the scrap-heap and ... and sons because he wants to be seen as a success. But to dismiss Willy Loman as just another obnoxious NPD is to miss the enduring pain of those depleted souls who suffer the empty depression of mirrored ambitions (Welleck 214). It is in this sense that Willy Loman is tragic men as Heins Kohut understood him. Heinz Kohut is a social psychologist who has done extensive research on the influence ... 1734). Willy, seeing his life is not going anywhere and that he has not become the success that he envisioned, uses his son, Biff, to revitalize himself. Will manipulates Biff into trying to become the great salesman that he wanted to be, even though Biff longs for another life. Will is using Biff in this way to fulfill his thwarted ambitions. But this is not the only time Willy has ...
- 1219: The Welfare System
- ... assistance law in 1884 and 1889 respectively. Today European countries such as Germany, Norway, and Sweden have highly sophisticated Welfare systems (Bender, 13). Welfare did not reach the United States, however, until shortly after the Great Depression with Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal." The New Deal brought on new economic and social welfare legislation. This is the first time that the United States Government used federal and public funds to finance ... depending on economic conditions and large companies such as factory workers and concessionaires. Welfare makes consumers out of the poverty stricken and thus helps the economy and secure more jobs for others. Welfare plays a great importance in this economic food-cycle, if you will (Long, 46). Proponents for welfare also point out that the United States is far behind most European countries when it comes to welfare systems. For ...
- 1220: Biogrophy Of Dostoevsky
- ... lack of a father figure to guide him, Dostoevsky was raised by his mother in a devoutly religious home. However, Dostoevsky could not understand how a compassionate God could exist in a world of such great suffering. He soon turned his back on religion and was led astray of his mother's teachings. The anger that he felt towards God for taking his father away from him is evident in the ... Mitya was abandoned by her mother. In 1838 Dostoevsky entered an Engineering Academy as an army cadet. While he was in the service, he was extremely lonely. He had no friends, and suffered from severe depression. He despised the army, and this made him despise all forms of the government, including the Russian Orthodox Church. His lonliness during this period is parallel to the lonlieness that Raskolnikov faces in the novel ... faith in the Christian religion was restored, and he once again remembered how his mother had raised him. Ten minutes before Dostoevsky was to be executed, he was pardoned and released. This act had a great influence on Dostoevsky's life, because it made him appreciate life in general. It also reminded him that man is mortal. This was one of the most religious experiences of his life. In the ...
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