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- 861: Oprah Winfrey
- ... was recognized by Time magazine as one of "America's 25 most influential people of 1996".(Oprah Winfrey talk show bio 1997 p1) According to US news & World Report, Oprah has an ability called "Oprah effect". It is her ability to make a connection with ordinary women and through that connection, she makes herself one of the most popular women (Dickerson 1997 p.10) In spite of her wealth, she has ... It is uncertain that whether she will still keep hosting her show or not, though many women are hoping her to remain in the show and share her power and intelligence with them. Oprah's effect on T.V is so great that since she started to appear on the show, many similar talk shows increased dramatically. And most of these talk show hosts are very popular just like Oprah. Though ...
- 862: Oedipus Rex (film Vs Text)
- ... Greece. During the time of Greek Drama, plays were acted out by 2 to 4 actors who took all the roles of the play upon themselves, which is where the importance of masks came into effect in order to help the audience distinguish between different characters. The Royal Shakespeare Company has taken Oedipus Rex and made some changes with it in their film, some of which make sense and some others ... used more than 2 to 4 actors seems to be a logical decision by today's standards and essentially only takes away a small portion of the play and may even help it's dramatic effect. The company also took the clothes and costumes of the characters and modernized their look, which strikes me as odd because this seems to take away a large portion of the visual affect. The biggest ...
- 863: The Emergence of Ghettos
- ... the years progressed the factories were starting to close down and move to the suburbs. As the factories left, this left many blacks jobless and stuck in the ghettos. Urban problems were also a major effect on the ghettos. Railroads had brought many blacks up from the south and into the ghettos. More importantly, blacks were competition to the whites for jobs. During the 1900-1920 time period racial violence broke ... These associations would stop real estates from selling houses to blacks. They would lobby for public investment, so they can buy out the blacks that had moved into the white neighborhood. These associations had an effect of keeping the blacks in the ghettos. Furthermore, real estates were now moving blacks out of the ghettos and into the white neighborhoods, this was known as block busting. During 1950-1970, the black population ...
- 864: New Reproduction Technologies
- ... moral rights of individuals who were unable to have children of their own without the help of NRTS. The debate continued by stating that denying individuals the right to utilize NRTS was immoral and in effect discriminated against them due to their unfavorable situation. In contrast, the opposition against NRTS raised very negative concerns which included the commercialization of human reproduction, quality control, generating waste products, and the rights of the ... was Paul s response to the issue of choice and the societal influences that gives choice a negative connotation. For once an individual is presented with a treatment option, not to pursue it is, in effect to choose childlessness and to accept responsibility for it. From a situation in which infertility is a relational problem for which no one is to blame, it becomes an individual problem for which a woman ...
- 865: Religion: Taoism
- ... the two great forces in the universe. The yin was the female and the yang was the male. They also used many symbols from nature to explain the teachings of the Tao-te-ching. The effect that this religion had on daily life was enormous. After the release of the Tao-te-ching Taoism changed the way that many Chinese and other Asians viewed and led their lives. It had little effect on social customs though, seeing as Taoists avoided all social obligation. Taoism effected may people, some in different was than others, but all that followed were forever changed. Taoism has basically no followers today and ...
- 866: Freedom And Revolution
- ... Leninists and anarchists agree that, unlike most others in the working class, they have both an analysis of how society works and practical experience drawn from involvement in struggles. These are the tools needed to effect a complete transformation of society. However anarchism and Leninism diverge on the ability of the working class to run society. They have differing estimations of how aware the working class are of their revolutionary potential ... Lenin tended to do), short term expediency is likely to lead to long term damage. The questions revolutionaries must ask is, are our actions necessary and 'objectively unavoidable' or can they be avoided? Furthermore, what effect will they have on the process of introducing socialism? Again, the answer given will depend on what socialism is considered to be. The Secret Police Only two months after the revolution (well before the start ...
- 867: Saint Thomas Aquinas: Proof of the Existence of God
- ... must be a first mover, and this he understands to be God. The second proof, efficient cause, is very similar. The difference between efficient cause and motion, is that this explanation describes the cause and effect relationship. In the case of the first proof, one could say that a rolling stone is only rolling because something pushed it. With the second theory, one would continue by saying that the squirrel would not have died if the rolling stone had not crushed it. Therefore, the rolling stone was the cause, and the dead squirrel was the effect. The third proof as to the existence of God comes from the possibility and the necessary. Aquinas says in his Summa Theologica that "we find in things some which are able to be and some ...
- 868: Fair Labor Act Of 1938
- ... before the signing. He warned: "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."2 In light of the social legislation of 1978, Americans today may be astonished that a law with such moderate standards could have been thought so revolutionary. Courting disaster The Supreme ... he said, required immediate Congressional action: "The exploitation of child labor and the undercutting of wages and the stretching of the hours of the poorest paid workers in periods of business recession has a serious effect on buying power".27 Despite White House and business pressure, the conservative alliance of Republicans and Southern Democrats that controlled the House Rules Committee refused to discharge the bill as it stood. Congresswoman Mary Norton ...
- 869: The Buddha's Four Noble Truths: A Logical Basis for Philosophy
- ... there ....{5} There are three sub- divisions of tanha: kama-tanhβ (desire for sensual pleasures), bhava-tanhβ (desire for existence), and vibhava-tanhβ (desire for non-existence). These three types of desire have a common effect - they result in the continuation of suffering and the instantiation of the dukkha. The causal relationship between the tanha and dukkha is delineated by the related concepts of karma and karma- phala. Karma is the ... so will cause the existence of dukkha in their life. This belief is another way of viewing the old axiom that what goes around, comes around, a simple observation about the nature of cause and effect in relation to human actions. "There is this noble truth of the cessation of suffering: It is the remainderless fading and ceasing, the giving up, relinquishing, letting go, and rejecting of that same craving." - Shakyamuni ...
- 870: A Discussion on the Myth and Failure of Reconstruction Following the Civil War, and How This Failure Impacted and Changed America
- ... had not really seceeded and some Radical Republicans were now saying that the states had really left the Union.(Tindall 458) Charles Sumner "maintained that the southern states, by their acts of secession, had in effect committed suicide and reverted to the status of unorganized territories subject to the will of Congress."(Tindall 458) The "forfeited rights theory" maintained that the states, by the acts of secession and war, had forfeited ... had unlawfully removed Stanton and had failed to give the Senate the name of a successor. Article 9 accused the president of issuing orders in violation of the Army Act. The last two articles in effect charged him with criticizing Congress by 'inflammatory and scandalous harangues.' Article 11 also accused Johnson of 'unlawfully devising and contriving' to violate the Reconstruction Acts, contrary to his obligation to execute the laws. At the ...
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