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- 581: Homeopathy And Women
- ... and Women Over the course of the past several decades feminist scholars, in company with medical historians, have developed a sophisticated framework for identifying the ways in which Western medicine, as a system of social control, tends to reproduce and legitimate the construction of gender in the wider society. Wielded by physicians holding positions of power, the notion that "anatomy is destiny" can become a potent ideological weapon, labelling actions that ... Foucault argued that the modern state, with its vastly enhanced powers of surveillance and regulation, is able to exert unprecedented pressure upon people to become just so many "docile bodies." As one means of enforcing control, the state uses "dividing practices" to label and separate off the insane, the delinquent, the hysteric, and the homosexual. For Foucault, one focus of interest therefore concerns the way in which various civil institutions, such ... function is easily dissembled as a concern for the sick, so that in a typical medical encounter both client and practitioner are likely to experience "keenly felt gratifications, which mask elements of ideology and social control that are present on a deeper level" (Waitzkin 1991:41). It can be a complex and delicate matter to identify suppression under such circumstances. In Foucault's early work there is a totalizing thrust ...
- 582: Octavian Augustus
- ... forced the upper class Romans, known as patricians, to give them more rights and liberties (Hadas 1969). The Republican government in Rome was established to satisfy the plebeian, while still leaving a majority of the control with the patricians. The government consisted of three main parts: the senate, the assemblies, and the magistrates. The Senate was a group of former state officials, usually patricians, who acted as advisors, controlled public finances ... conquered. Antony controlled the East and Octavian the West. Lepidus controlled Africa. The leaders led a ruthless campaign to punish Caesar's assassins but soon turned on each other. Octavian first attacked Lepidus and took control of Africa and all of Italy. Antony strained relations between Octavian and himself by divorcing Octavian's sister, in favor of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Finally, in 31 B.C.E., war broke out between ... Octavian's offer to resign; he controlled a vast army and had tremendous personal wealth not to mention being the man who brought the civil wars to an end. The Senate decided to give Octavian control of the provinces of Gaul, Syria, Spain and Egypt. These areas had large numbers of troops stationed within their borders giving Octavian almost total military authority(Coppolino 1997). In 23 B.C., Octavian renounced ...
- 583: Spy Games - Creative Essay
- ... cleaning of our guns during study breaks would do us some good. Both to help us relax to study, and ensure the guns worked properly. With that we said our good-nights. When I mention gun, I'm not talking about the kind that carry bullets and actually kill people. The guns we carry are of a much less harming sort. We carried CO2 powered paint guns which fired paint pellets ... feat was not possible. So, we stood about 40 feet back from the target and began to take aim. We aimed for the heart area and the head. In real life though, with a real gun, you'd aim for the person's head. After all, leaving any witnesses around was sealing your fate. However with only paint pistols, we didn't want to take any chances on hitting someone in ... could be done. We worked on various techniques. Such as doing a forward summer salt, standing up and shooting at the target. Another one was to walk by the target unsuspiciously, the quickly remove your gun and shoot. The later was my strong area while Jen seemed to have mastered them all. In a while, both targets were covered in red paint. A quick hose down with water, and they ...
- 584: MMX Technology
- ... 2000 Inc. is a 200 MHz-MMX PC system that comes with an array of high quality peripherals, such as a plug-and-play Crystal Scan monitor featuring Toshiba filtering technology and a new digital control wheel that makes fine-tuning your display as easy as tuning a radio dial, as well as, some fine components blending to make an excellent, well rounded computer system. According to PC Magazine, using components ... amount of cache, however it still out performed any of the non-MMX systems they have reviewed in the past. Easy-to-use features make the Platinum 2240 a very family-friendly system. Its MediaSelect control panel, which is about the size of a mouse pad and fits under the monitor, provides simple one-touch access to the volume control, TV channel selection, Internet access, fax and scanner suppo! rt, and voice mail, as well as, audio CDs. These quick-access features makes them much more useful than when they are controlled only through ...
- 585: Compaq Computers
- ... For example, Sony President Nobuyuki Idei was quoted as saying, "In order to compete with Dell and Compaq, we need more speed in the supply chain. We need to build powerful global networks for tighter control of inventories, to see in real time figures like sales, profits, and market demand." In other words, it can be said that the industry Compaq is competing in is a very volatile one, where efficiency ... words, Compaq's entire organizational structure is at stake unless it finds a CEO to lead them flawlessly through this transition period. An annual report of management in 1997 stated that Compaq maintains an effective control structure. It consists of organizational arrangements with clearly defined lines of responsibility and delegation of authority, with comprehensive control procedures. This allows assurance that transactions are executed in accordance with management authorization and generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). An internal audit is also performed in order to maintain the control environment. For the ...
- 586: China
- ... The Chinese Communist party emerged in the 1920s in the midst of a mounting economic crisis caused by foreign intervention and increased landlord influence in the countryside. For more than two decades, it expanded its control over large rural areas by introducing an agrarian program based on the control of rent and usury, and by giving power to peasant associations. On October 1, 1949, the Communist party successfully established a unified national government and economy on the mainland for the first time since the ... Chinese family relies on the effective performance and interaction between religion and family. These concepts strongly clash with western individualism collection of wealth for personal gain. A clear example of this is the overseas Chinese control family-run business empires that already dominate much of Asia. They invest billions in China, helping their ancestral homeland become the world's fastest-growing economy. Together, China and its approximately 56 million offshore ...
- 587: Analysis of Police Corruption
- ... developing polices which are intended to focus directly on factors leading to corruption. What have all these changes done to eliminate or even decrease the corruption problem? Little or nothing. Despite police departments' attempts to control corruption, it still occurs. Regardless of the fact, police corruption cannot simply be over looked. Controling corruption is the only way that we can really limit corruption, because corruption is the by-product of the individual police officer, societal views, and, police environmental factors. Therefore control must come from not only the police department, but also must require the assistance and support of the community members. Controling corruption from the departmental level requires a strong leadership organization, because corruption can take ... other officers within the department will not be that of intimated nature. In addition it may even increase corruption, because officers feel no actions will be taken against them. Another way that police agencies can control its corruption problem starts orginally in the academy. Ethical decisions and behavior should be promoted, because failing to do make officers aware of the consequences of corruption does nothing but encourages it. Finally, many ...
- 588: Martin Luther
- ... the 1640's. It was very difficult for English colonies to compete with the Dutch. With owning 75 percent of Northern Europes' vessels, being well-financed and experienced, the Dutch were going to stay in control of the market unless European Parliament intervined. In 1651 the European parliament enacted the first Navigation Act to undercut the Dutches domination. England was hoping that this Act would exclude the Dutch from trade with ... for the Staple Act to be passed. The Act served no other purpose other than the enrichment of the British people and strengthening of the central government. Another example of the British trying to exert control over America was with the Molasses Act of 1733. This Act imposed a duty of nine pence per gallon on rum, six pence per gallon on molasses, and five shillings per hundredweight of sugar imported from French or Spanish colonies. The was no tax put on british rum, molasses, or sugar imported from British Colonies. The British, trying to control the american colonies, were largely ineffective. The act was vastly ignored by the Americans. The Americans were not going to obey a law passed by the english, when the english had no way of ...
- 589: Contracts
- ... that managers believe that the average employee is by nature indolent and lazy, lacks ambition, is self-centered, and resistant to change (McGregor 1957). The grim consequences that McGregor proposes about management by "direction and control," a style that is and was popular in big business, hardly have been exhibited in the corporate world 40 years later. This fact alone shows that McGregors assumptions regarding Theory X are inaccurate. McGregor ... in a manner where employees can achieve their own goals by directing their personal effort towards organizational objectives. The contrast between X and Y solely relates to who controls human behavior. Theory X touts external control, and Theory Y promotes self control and self direction. The main dilemma with McGregors premises is that Theory Y places an unrealistic amount of burden on the management. Heroics cannot be the responsibility of a manager and the difficulty ...
- 590: Floating Exchange Rates: The Only Viable Solution
- ... nationalism is strong in the world today and most people do not look fondly upon consolidated global power--witness the problems of the United Nations. People would not widely support what would effectively be international control of their country's economic policies and money supply. Speculators, unfortunately, know that governments today are likely to put their self-interest ahead of the nebulous common good and to eventually choose the monetary policy ... they cannot. First, there is the decline of capital controls and the resulting ease with which speculation occurs. With the growing popularity and reality of free markets and with the advent of the "Information Age," control over the international money supply is both unwanted and impossible. The slightest hint of a devaluation can be self-fulfilling as uncountable amounts of money change hands at a whim. Some people argue that making ... their real value is so far from their nominal value that it would be counterproductive to perpetuate the inaccuracy. Second, it can also be argued that central banks simply do not have the power to control the market, both because they don't have enough money (Germany spent 44 billion marks to prop up the pound and the lira in 1993 with very little success) and because their short-sighted ...
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