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- 4921: Male, Female, And Religion
- ... place in which women can be together, or alone can be in communication with a personage considered in some senses to be able to help them with the kinds of personal problems in which the high God may seem too remote to be interested. The reasoning behind this is that some of the buried fall under a special category of person, a saint. "These saints are reported to be carrying on ... women are regularly beat and killed for the slightest violations of the exaggerated regulations placed upon women such as attire. "Women and girls in areas controlled by the Taliban are not permitted to go to school or work. The windows of their homes must be covered or painted black. They can leave their homes only in the company of a close male relative, and only if they are completely covered by ...
- 4922: Marketing In Japan
- ... By 1998, only about 7 percent of Japan's GDP was related to imports, one of the few countries with a figure in single digits and the lowest figure amongst industrialized nations. With such a high GDP and a deregulating economy, this presents a huge potential, for American businesses. The options for American firms wishing to enter the Japanese market are as follows: 100 percent ownership Establish a new plant of ... or three person operations, which had been protected from competition by Japan's Large Scale Retail Store Law. These small shops had been tied to a rigid manufacturer-driven pricing system, which had contributed to high product prices. This environment had led to an increasing shift in patronage to larger discount stores that offered a wide range of products at lower prices. Office Depot and Office Max provided a combination of benefits by offering a comprehensive range of products at low prices. Both high labor costs and the difficulty of hiring people have been cited as major problems operating in Japan. As more foreign firms have come into Japan, demand for suitable staff has remained greater than the ...
- 4923: Antibiotic Resistance 2
- ... the drugs are often given to livestock for nonmedicinal purposes) increases the levels of resistant bacteria in people and other organisms who are not being treated--including in individuals who live near those epicenters of high consumption or who pass through the centers. Given that antibiotics and other antimicrobials, such as fungicides, affect the kinds of bacteria in the environment and people around the individual being treated, I often refer to ... then pass the microbes to caretakers and, more broadly, to people who prepare and consume undercooked meat. In agriculture, antibiotics are applied as aerosols to acres of fruit trees, for controlling or preventing bacterial infections. High concentrations may kill all the bacteria on the trees at the time of spraying, but lingering antibiotic residues can encourage the growth of resistant bacteria that later colonize the fruit during processing and shipping. The ... would also take into account the number of other individuals in the setting who are being treated with the same antibiotic. If many patients in a hospital ward were being given a particular antibiotic, this high density of use would strongly select for bacterial strains unsubmissive to that drug and would eliminate susceptible strains. The ecological effect on the ward would be broader than if the total amount of the ...
- 4924: The Dubliners: Summary
- ... in the world of books. He believes that there is much more to learn that what is learned inside the classroom. He believes the real lessons in life should be learned in the outside world. School for the narrator is seen as a strict structure where the education is taught according to what adults want them to learn. So instead of going to school he decides to learn through adventure and romance he has read about in his cowboy novels. " The adventures related in the literate of Wild West were remote from my nature but, at least, they opened the doors of escape. I Like better some American detective stories which were traversed from time to time by unkempt fierce and beautiful girls. (15) He skips school often and hopes to live some of the stories he reads in his Wild West books. During one of his adventures he meets an old man who resembles Father Flynn with his wise words ...
- 4925: Internet Censorship
- ... against, yet it is very destructive to today's modern society. B. Too much information 1. The internet can provide an insane person with the recipe to create a bomb that will destroy an entire school building. Things that are placed on the internet are for all to see, which can turn into a problem. 2. Other forms of communication can be easily traced or kept track of. The internet allows ... up to its potential as being quite possibly the most vibrant and egalitarian form of communication in the media. By becoming active producers of information rather than passive consumers, citizens are also engaging in a high degree of on-line political discussion and education and grassroots organizing to influence public policy. Indeed, the positive implications of the Internet are enormous. However the integration of interactivity on the internet can be harmful ...
- 4926: Intergrating Technology And Le
- ... edu/MentorTeacher/Chapter1.html. Internet; accessed 2 April 2000 *Renaissance Education Foundation, ed. Renaissance Graduate Leadership Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1991. This resource is used as text in graduate level college course. -Haselton, Blake. Principal Oldham County High School Oldham, Kentucky The Leadership Challenge Video. CMR Films. Yahoo Shopping. 2000. Yahoo!, Inc. Available from http://search.shopping.yahoo.com/search?P=all&p=videoconference. Internet; accessed 10 April 2000
- 4927: Middle Adulthood
- ... Lynn has taken her first job in twenty-nine years since the birth of their first daughter. The job came to her unexpectedly and it was an opportunity to work in her youngest daughter's high school. She jumped at the chance and feels satisfied and enriched by the experience. Lynn is definitely a part of the characteristic sandwich generation. She has one brother but finds herself completely responsible for her home ...
- 4928: Lord of the Flies: Golding's Reality - Fact or Fiction
- ... of all men. This book shows how easy it is for man to revert back to the evil that is deep in his heart. This book also shows that if a bunch of well mannered school boys can turn evil, one can imagine what can happen with world leaders undergoing the pressure of world relations. Golding uses setting in Lord of the Flies as a first indication of the evil within ... shy around all the other boys and would try to get away from it all, away from all the evil. "Simon turned away from them and went where the just perceptible path led him. Soon high the jungle closed in. Tall trunks bore unexpected flowers all the way up to the dark canopy where life went on clamorously... He came to a place where more sunshine fell." (Golding, 56) Simon tried ...
- 4929: Rubens
- ... most important Flemish painters of the 17th century. His style became an international definition of the animated, exuberantly sensuous aspects of baroque painting. Combining the bold brushwork, luminous color, and shimmering light of the Venetian school with the fervent vigor of Michelangelo's art and the formal dynamism of Hellenistic sculpture, Rubens created a vibrant art, its pulsating energies emanating from tensions between the intellectual and emotional, the classical and the ... Prince William I of Orange (William the Silent). On the death of Jan Rubens in 1587, his widow returned the family to Antwerp, where they again became Catholics. After studying the classics in a Latin school and serving as a court page, Peter Paul decided to become a painter. He apprenticed in turn with Tobias Verhaecht, Adam van Noort, and Otto van Veen, called Vaenius, three minor Flemish painters influenced by 16th-century Mannerist artists of the Florentine-Roman school. The young Rubens was as precocious a painter as he had earlier been a scholar of modern European languages and of classical antiquity. In 1598, at the age of 21, he was accorded the ...
- 4930: Lord Of The Flies: Comparison of Movie and Book
- ... story starts out with a exploring. "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead." This gives you an idea of how much William Golding (the author) likes ... for days. They arrive at the island and right away they start searching for food and shelter. They are all from America also. In the book it starts out with a boy,from a private school, searching and he meets up with the other boys. They are all British in the book. The one boy, Ralph, meets another boy, "Piggy". Soon after that they find the other boys . The other boys are from a British choir/academy school, and they were all wearing uniforms. The oldest was Jack Merridew, he was he was the captain of the all the boys from the academy. Then there was Maurice he was next in size ...
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