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- 2661: Negligent Hiring/Retention
- ... Dist. 1984}) a negligent hiring and employment allegation was at issue. The focused action precipitating this case occured after the worker terminated employment. The case involved a customer who contracted with the Apollo Termite & Pest Control Co. to provide regular service in her home. Apollo assigned the co-defendant employee, Randall Payne, to provide service in Abbot's home. Abbot worked full time, so it was necessary for the pest control company to have access to her home while she was away. Therefore the company requested that Abbot provide a passkey. Because Payne would have the key and, therefore, independant access to her home, Abbot sought ...
- 2662: On Happiness
- ... happy life. And recently, mister Francis H. came up with his own idea of happiness. He argues that the problem of happiness can be reduced to wealth, knowledge and a personal belief of being "in control" of one's own life. Let's at first consider these factors. Wealth is important, according to mister Francis H., because it allows the satisfaction of one's basic needs. It seems to me that ... both sides. If you don't like history, go to the nearest psychiatric hospital to see the lack of correlation. Here we come to the third aspect of happiness: The personal belief of being "in control". This is not just a relative factor as the two previous ones. This is a subjective factor, and, to me, the only real one. It is founded on one's opinion or interpretation of external ...
- 2663: An Analysis of Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- ... attention, but never listened to until it is too late. He gets so lonely and frustrated that even he starts to sin. Heller most actively challenges the pureness and rightness of the bureaucratic institutions that control and limit the human spirit . The upper echelons of the army are a mockery of the mess that government has become. Colonel Cathcart stands for the average politician, whose only goal to rise in power ... if it is totally wrong, just to be similar and possibly successful. Heller, through satire, also brings to light some of the other institutions in America and the modern world that have gotten out of control and gone too far. The prime example of this is the medical profession. When Yossarian goes to the hospital, everyone has a different idea of what he has. Doctors say he has this or that ...
- 2664: Hobbes’ Leviathan: Analysis of its Impact on the Framing of our Democracy
- ... resisting his natural tendency toward war. To properly understand how man might live together peacefully, we must first look at why man continues to fail in this regard. Understanding the negatives allows us to potentially control them in order to build a safer and more secure commonwealth. Hobbes addresses this with six key points regarding the differences in man versus the rest of nature. First he states “men are continually in ... offended by others around them. Man on the other hand is “Most troublesome when he is most at ease” (226), because then man finds most pleasurable to show off his wisdom, and attempt to take control from the governing power. Ultimately Hobbes says creatures of nature agree because it is their nature, while men agree by covenant and contract only, which is artificial, and takes constant striving to make the agreement ...
- 2665: Machiavelli's "The Prince": By Any Means Necessary
- ... Prince": By Any Means Necessary Part 15 of Machiavelli's The Prince, entitled Of the Things for Which Men, and Especially Princes, Are Praised or Blamed, states that, in order for a man to maintain control of a government and better that territory, he must engage in certain actions that may be deemed immoral by the public he serves. Machiavelli argues a valid point, that the nature of man is twofold ... a personal, sincere level. By placing himself at the feet of the reader, Machiavelli puts himself and his argument in a position of power. He wastes no time in using this power to gain more control over the reader. In the next sentence he states that his intention is to create an outline for behavior in public office “ of use to those who understand”. This statement compels the reader to agree ...
- 2666: The Origin Of Humanity
- ... a lot more questions that remain unanswered such as if spacemen put us on earth why didn't they bother to teach humans anything? And if the creationist theory were accurate why can't God control natural disasters on his planet? He is so clever to create everything known to mankind why doesn't he make the perfect world if he had that much control? There seems to be quite a bit more sustantial evidence on earth to support the theory of evolution. The evidence is holds up more because actual samples of fossils have been collected and scientifically tested ...
- 2667: Lack Of Knowledge Thesis Examination
- ... greatly by Rousseau, an articulate writer of the “Age of Enlightenment.” (24)[5] In his novel Emily, Rousseau’s new theory on education was that the importance of expression was greater than using one’s control to produce a intellectual and free-thinking child. Her theory on education also led to more lenient and psychologically oriented methods for caring for children. (25)[5] A child taught and brought up through these ... makeup of man. (62) Frankenstein’s own internal makeup that leads him to go around the natural parts of procreation. Frankenstein’s confidence in the man’s scientific ability, the belief in the right to control nature through the collection of knowledge, and his own arrogance, leads Frankenstein to take on the role of God, by bring life to something without a natural process. (67) His knowledge of the world and ...
- 2668: National Socialism
- ... appealed to the emotions of the German people and they elected the National Socialists to a majority in the Reichstag (the German legislative body) in 1932 with 14.5 million votes. (McKay, 971) After taking control of the government, the Nazis eliminated all opposition, arresting all dissidents to the Nazi regime. Nazi storm troopers persecuted Jews and terrorized all who could stand in their way, fulfilling their duty to create a ... affairs. Nazi doctrine of militarism, expansionism, and ultra-nationalism appealed to the attitudes and beliefs inherent in the conscience of the German people at the time. The German people felt that with the Nazis in control they could overcome the problems caused by the Treaty of Versailles. Nazi militarism would restore the armed forces to their greatest capability. Nazi mobilization would create employment and new economic opportunities. Nazi expansionism would claim ...
- 2669: The Politics of Education Reform
- ... seems to have under-estimated the importance of considering those involved. The "community involvement activities" requirement is the Ministry using its power to turn schools into a political society. The political society is how governments control its citizens by force, for example the military, the police, the law, the courts, the prisons. Any society having to live by force alone would never last long without the support of a civil society ... help the boys with their homework. Since the 1960's men and women have questioned and often rejected stereotypes based on gender. However, the Minister of Education and Training, David Johnson, and his command-and control leadership, characteristic of the military and old-line party politics, will make it even more difficult for women to break the stereotypical vision of what a female is: passive, compassionate, nurturing, intuitive, cooperative, emotional, subjective ...
- 2670: Heart Of Darkness 7
- ... and allowed himself to be worshipped as a god. It appears that while Kurtz had been isolated from his culture, he had become corrupted by this violent native culture, and allowed his evil side to control him. Marlow realizes that only very near the time of death, does a person grasp the big picture. He describes Kurtz's last moments "as though a veil had been rent (Conrad, 239)." Kurtz's ... the narrator ( a Marlow or Captain Willard) and Francis becomes Kurtz. "Francis believed that only if he could duplicate Willard's experience, could he understand his moral struggle. In other words, he had to lose control of his own life before he could find the answers to the questions that his narrative asked (Worthy 24)." Coppola's main horror was his fear of producing a pretentious movie. "Eleanor repeatedly calls the ...
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