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- 3281: Homeless: What has been done to decrease the problem?
- ... food, clothing, housing, and medical care and necessary social services, and to the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. This is a step in the right direction. However, this is not enough. These rights are subject to the discretion of the government of the country who decides to obey these universal rights. How much ... to "cheat the system". With no will to search for work many of these recipients remain at home and reap the benefits of their weekly cheques. This causes the government to create other services to control the amounts of money being distributed to those people. This process is costly and would be unnecessary if all of the recipients decided to take an honest approach to this service. What can the government ...
- 3282: Toronto Homeless
- ... food, clothing, housing, and medical care and necessary social services, and to the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. This is a step in the right direction. However, this is not enough. These rights are subject to the discretion of the government of the country who decides to obey these universal rights. How much ... to "cheat the system". With no will to search for work many of these recipients remain at home and reap the benefits of their weekly cheques. This causes the government to create other services to control the amounts of money being distributed to those people. This process is costly and would be unnecessary if all of the recipients decided to take an honest approach to this service. What can the government ...
- 3283: Things Fall Apart: The Loss of a Tribe's Livelihood
- ... will someday overlap; but perhaps it is not really a loss after all. In Chinua Achebe's words: . . . the world is changing so fast around us, and a lot of it we are not in control of, but what we do control I think we should think about seriously. . . . Where one story stands, bring another one to stand beside it, and if that's a better story, then it should displace the bad one. I think that ...
- 3284: Multinational Companies
- ... to get in, or at least wanting to share some of the wealth with the well off. What should the rich do? In the heart of all of this are the multinational companies that practically control every developing country in the world. These companies have a very significant impact on who lives and who dies, and at the same time, they have a grim grip on the needy nations of the ... is from Gulf and Western. The locals have a name for this company, El Pulpo, meaning octopus (Hilsum, 1). When a company's own employees to be calling it an 'octopus', meaning that the companies control everything such as resources and most of the land of the country, something has to be blatantly wrong. The main reason for this is that since G&W has come into the Dominican Republic, they ...
- 3285: Media Controls
- ... the communications industry. Not long after the bill passed mergers that before were not legal began to happen. Disney and ABC merged to form one of the large conglomerates in the world. Together they now control over $16 billion in annual revenue. CBS was soon to follow suit when it merged with Westinghouse. And NBC is owned by General Electric. These mergers are monopolies, and they compromise the integrity of the ... most free in the world. The First Amendment guarantees that newspapers and television stations may print what they choose, yet they choose to print substandard information. Profit margin, big business practices, ratings, and advertising money control the information we receive and alter the decisions we make. Only through careful thought and a large pool of information can we find the truth. 1 Edward S, Herman and Noam Chompsky, Manufacturing Consent:Pantheon ...
- 3286: Brave New World
- ... guides the reader through the factory - puts it in the first chapter is to make “people like their unescapable social destiny.”3 In order to uphold a state of social stability various methods of social control are used. After birth each person goes through a process of “conditioning” that makes them eagerly seek the pleasures of sex and sport and fearfully avoid non-social activities that isolate people from each other ... The next day he chose the ultimate escape; he killed himself. The significance of John’s suicide is that the idealist has no place in a world with an over-dependence on technology and social control. To Huxley the tragic ending was a parable of the individual’s struggle in a mass community.16 Huxley believed that we live in the age of the mass. Politicians, salesmen and entertainers aggravate our ...
- 3287: The Physical and Psychological Effects of Marijuana
- ... adolescents: "Adolescents who engaged in some drug experimentation (primarily with marijuana) were the best adjusted in the sample. Adolescents who used drugs frequently were maladjusted, showing distinct personality syndrome marked by interpersonal alienation, poor impulse control, and manifest emotional distress. Adolescents who, by age 18, had never experimented with any drug were relatively anxious, emotionally constricted, and lacking in social skills." Among other findings, Utah Power and Light spent $215.00 per year less on health insurance benefits for drug users than on the control group, and employees who tested positive for cannabis at Georgia Power Co. had a higher promotion rate than the company average, and were absent 30 percent less (Morris, 1991). Conclusion Whether cannabis use causes permanent ...
- 3288: AMERICAN ADVANTAGES
- ... British did not push to accelerate the war in 1775 and 1776. The Americans won the war because Lord Howe, a British leader, and his troops did not fight to destroy, but rather fought to control. If Howe would have fought to destroy, the Americans could not have fought back. England did not win the war because they were unprepared and over confident. In my mind, the Americans cherished a moral ... fighting. This tenacious confidence proved to be the most effective fighting technique of the Americans. On the other hand, the British held the attitude that they were only keeping a bunch of weak farmers under control. From the British point of view, America acted as a giant trading post used to benefit England. The English stupidity combined with other disadvantages denied them even a chance of winning the war. Overall, there ...
- 3289: The Clinton Sex Scandal
- ... the Presidency must battle against Newspaper journalists, radio personalities, televised news reports and now, even more menacing: the Internet. Presidents who are constantly reminded of their power and prestigious rank, become exasperated because they cannot control the news media, even though they can to a large degree set the news agenda. Media has expanded in its presence, becoming widespread on the Internet, perhaps monopolizing the domain, by becoming more powerful and more used than written, televised or radio journalism. The Presidents' inability to control the press exposes their vulnerability and tends to question the actual power they can actually exert. All presidents, at some time or another, became frustrated at what they perceived as unfair treatment by the press ...
- 3290: "Evil is the Underlying Element in Life of a Living Creature"
- ... feud inspired Romeo's hatred for Tybalt and Tybalt's hatred for Mercutio and the Montagues. Therefore, we can conclude that the pernicious and destructive actions of the characters were caused by their inability to control their hatred for one another. In Mildred Taylor's novel, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, hatred leads to prejudice towards colored people. Prejudice towards blacks and other minorities was nothing odd during the 1930's ... feud inspired Romeo's hatred for Tybalt and Tybalt's hatred for Mercutio and the Montagues. Therefore, we can conclude that the pernicious and destructive actions of the characters were caused by their inability to control their hatred for one another. In Mildred Taylor's novel, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, hatred leads to prejudice towards colored people. Prejudice towards blacks and other minorities was nothing odd during the 1930's ...
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