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- 2111: Sorrow
- ... very, very hard to deal with, but some strong people can do it with time. Bad things happen to everybody, but not everybody lets those things get to them. Everyone has a choice. Sorrow can control you, or you can control sorrow. It's your choice. People need to learn to deal with it properly. When a bad thing happens to them, they need to ask themselves, " Ten years from now, how will I look back ... my life? " Most causes of sorrow will not have an important impact on a person's life. Sorrow is not a fun emotion to experience so why choose to have it. People need to take control over their lives. I think the old Chinese proverb states it best; " You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your ...
- 2112: Analyzing The Struggle For Power In Four Novels: Fahrenheit 451, Invisible Man Lord of the Flies and Julius Caesar
- ... book. For instance, the novel 1984 by George Orwell is about the struggle of a man and a woman to somehow find a way to get out of the constant barrage of cameras and mind control conducted by their government. Although the two of them eventually lost the battle, there was still a victor in the struggle for power: their government. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the main ... of Julius Caesar, he portrayed one of the greatest struggles for power and self-fulfillment in the history of man. From the dramatic fall of the great Roman emperor Caesar to the fight for remaining control over Rome by Marc Antony vs. Brutus and Cassius, Julius Caesar depicts one of the largest struggles for power ever seen in literature. The first major struggle for power in Julius Caesar comes from the ... Flies by William Golding, there is a struggle for power that is more common today than any of the aforementioned conflicts. Like most power struggles of today, it deals with two individuals trying to gain control over land through two different personalities. Both of these personalities are children, so that factor makes the conflict all the more interesting. On one side of the battlefield there is Ralph, and on the ...
- 2113: 1963: The Hope That Stemmed From the Fight for Equality
- ... it well. "Every channel of communication, every medium of mutual interest, every reasoned approach, every inch of middle ground has been fragmented by the emotional dynamite of racism reinforced by the whip, the razor, the gun, the bomb, the torch, the club, the knife, the mob, the police, and many branches of the state's apparatus." (275) The southern city in the greatest spotlight was Birmingham, Alabama. It provided a graphic view of the conditions common in cities all over the country. Staged sit-ins at segregated lunch counters started off as the main form of demonstration. The police rushed in and tried to take control, but with the reoccurrence of this act came the withdrawal of the police forces on the scene. Lunch counters simply closed down. The next form of battle was mass demonstration. In these mass demonstration marches ...
- 2114: It Is Human Nature to Strive for Success and Personal Achievement
- ... imperialistic. There was one problem to there imperialistic minds. They all wanted a piece of the same land. That land was Morocco. All three of these countries wanted it, but only one of them could control it. This created conflict between these countries. Imperialism isn't always a good thing. As a result of this conflict, it led up to WW1. What Hitler did with Germany is a textbook example of ... could all be credited back to when Rome was a small-unified state, that got the urge and desire for personal profit. They then became the largest Imperialistic Empire the world had ever seen, taking control of everything they desired. This never would have happened without a strong sense of nationalism and a desire for conquest, power and prestige. Back in the 17th century Dutch Boers colonized the Cape of Good Hope, no more than a forming group of people. The Boers used Africans as slaves on their farms. Britain occupied the cape and took complete control after the Congress of Vienna. Britain abolished slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833. Many of the Boers decided that they could no longer live under British rule. They moved Northward and established two ...
- 2115: Wolf's "The Child By Tiger" and Bowen's "Tears, Idle Tears": The Innocence Of The Child
- ... Tiger", Wolfe creates the characters of Randy Shepperton and his friends to help in the description of Dick Prosser, the main character. An example of this can be found when the children find Prosser's gun in his room. This incident foreshadows the future events of the story: "I was just fiction' to hide this gun away twill Christmas Day"(29). Eventually the reader finds out what Prosser really intends to do with the gun on Christmas; he runs around town shooting everyone. Because the author used children and their natural innocence, he was able to share a piece of information about Prosser without the children realising the significance ...
- 2116: The Inconvenience of Convenience
- ... actually it is more convenient to just say countless than to actually count ) little household items that seem to be convenient until it wants to create havoc for us. The most obvious is the remote control. Yes, that little device that has more buttons than a typewriter, and better disappearing acts than Houdini. Its main purpose is not to play hide-and-seek with, it's to remove the need to ... with the most intricate remote because it has more " features. " Then they won't try to understand how to use it and buy a universal remote to ease the searching for which button on which control does what! Then there is the beloved answering machine for your phone. This miraculous piece of machinery let's you never miss one of those always- important, pesky bill collectors, or the adoring, bothersome in ... work, and were greatly inconvenienced by their sorrow. With that act, he created so much more inconvenience than solving his inconveniences. Convenience must be important. It will erase all the nuances that accompany a remote control. It will allow an impersonal machine to talk to and be answered by a living person of whom doesn't feel any human to human relationship, just human to machine. Convenience will make a ...
- 2117: Sunrise on the Veldt: Order
- ... because people wanted an explanation of death. The order in "Sunrise on the Veldt" was shown in the life cycle. In the novel, The Wave, a teacher sought order to help keep his classroom under control. The order helped keep the classroom under control. But the students began to notice they were not thinking, and the order began to tear the school apart. The teacher sought order because he wanted his students to behave better. Scientists use order to control viruses. Viruses are classified by several attributes; their shape, the vectors that transmit them, and their RNA or DNA content. Once a virus is classified, it can be examined, and controlled. Biologists use order ...
- 2118: The Need for Federal Government Involvement in Education Reform
- ... creating school curricula: * Fact 1: All students can learn and succeed, but not on the same day or in the same way. * Fact 2: Each success by a student breeds more success. * Fact 3: Schools control the conditions of success. In other words, students are seen as totally malleable creatures. If we create the right environment, any student can be prepared for any academic or vocational career. The key is to ... standardized test scores * Some outcomes focus too much on feelings, values, attitudes and beliefs, and not enough on the attainment of factual knowledge * Relies on subjective evaluation, rather than objective tests and measurements. * Undermines local control. NATIONAL STANDARDS Both the "Standards" movement and "OBE" movement have particular strengths and weaknesses. Their means and methods are different however, their objective is the same -- To improve the education of future generations. We all ... note that Many countries whose schools have achieved academic excellence have a national curriculum. "Many educators maintain that a single curriculum naturally leads to high performance, but the fact that the United States values local control of schools precludes such a national curriculum." Although they caution that a well articulated national curriculum is not a guarantee of high academic achievement, Resnick and Nolan offer some powerful illustrations of the effectiveness ...
- 2119: Cultural Diversity in Schools
- ... of view, which will help them to identify, through contrast and comparison, their own personal characteristics as individuals. With this in mind, one is then able to establish an identity, along with a sense of control over it. Not all students learn the same. Teachers need to develop an awareness for individual characteristics as a prerequisite to developing instructional strategies that will meet the learning style of each student. Teaching to a variety of learning styles will increase the probability of student achievement, thereby leading to a greater internal locus of control and improved self-esteem (Ryan, 27-28). Some think that Cortes has the right idea by introducing five fundamental concepts that all elementary schools should introduce to help their students develop greater insight into human ... membership, such programs can over shadow the significance of individuality. Schools need to give equal time to the importance of individual development and achievement. And students need to be empowered with an internal locus of control that will help them develop a stable, personality that is aware of its strengths, weaknesses, potentials, and limitations. In previous years most school children were separated by groups and were taught to be prepared ...
- 2120: Bureaucracy and Modern Organizations
- ... whether the notion of bureaucracy is still applicable when trying to understand modern organizations Bureaucratic hierarchy-centralised, high levels of work supervision, high specialization of work and division of labour, common in large organizations Advantages:-control (highly organized) -over production -profit -cheaper training (easily identifiable skill) Disadvantages:-loss of freedom -uncreative -deskilling -limits opportunities -inflexibility Bureaucracy can be defined as a hierarchical administrative system designed to deal with large quantities of ... impersonal rules. Its permanence and stability, its body of experience and precedent, and its absence of a reliance on individuals mostly characterize it. Bureaucracies have during the years been criticized for their high level of control and impersonal relations with its workers. high levels of labour turnover and absenteeism Modern business environment is increasingly competitive. More competitive companies in the market place has meant that firms have had to act more ... to left to right. This has put more emphasis on teamwork. Although modern organizations can be said to be more laissez-faire in their running they still maintain some level of division of labour and control over the workforce. Especially true for large organizations.
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