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- 3111: Malcolm X
- ... War would take place in which whites would be destroyed and black people would rule the world through the benevolence of Allah, their creator. To prepare for this new order, the Nation of Islam stressed personal self-restraint, opposed the use of drugs and alcohol, and organized economic self-help enterprises that eventually included farms, food stores, restaurants, and small businesses. The Black Muslims recruited heavily among the poorest of urban ... that Malcolm was too powerful and more important than Muhammad. This is a type of organized crime used by the police. Malcolm X left a very complicated legacy and affected many blacks and whites. His personal journey from petty criminal to spiritual leader was unique. He was admired for how he transformed himself intellectually from a preacher of racial hatred to an advocate of interracial and international brotherhood. Malcolm X significantly ...
- 3112: Native Son By Richard Wright
- ... attempt to correct their wrongs by donating to various black charities. They create a boy's club, donating 4 ping pong tables and various other impractical items. In doing so, they do not make any personal sacrifices and basically give only minimal personal involvement to the cause. They have not developed a genuine understanding of the economic and social conditions of the black people. Mr. and Mrs. Dalton are naive about their lack of impact on the social ...
- 3113: Historical Background To "Animal Farm"
- Historical Background To "Animal Farm" Karl Marx was a German scholar who lived in the nineteenth century. He sp most of his life studying, thinking and writing about history and economics. A many years of study, much of it spent in England, he believed that he understo more deeply than anyone who had ever lived before him why there is injustice i ... though, Hitler broke this agreement and attacked Russia. In 1941 St was forced to enter World War II and make an alliance with Britain and America This takes us up to the time of the writing of Animal Farm - 1944. As you see, nearly every event in the novel can be traced directly to an event in Rus during the period from 1900-1943. An interesting project is to list the ...
- 3114: The Time Maching (analysis)
- ... examination and win a scholarship to the Normal School of Science, where he stayed for three years and, most importantly, was exposed to biology under the famous Thomas H. Huxley. Wells went into teaching and writing text books and articles for the magazines that were of that time. In 1894 he began to write science-fiction stories. -James Gunn Wells vision of the future, with its troglodytic Morlocks descended from the ... but helpless Eloi devolved from the leisure class, may seem antiquated political theory. It emerged out of the concern for social justice that drew Wells to the Fabian Society and inspired much of his later writing, but time has not dimmed the fascination of the situation and the horror of the imagery. The Time Machine brought these concerns into his fiction. It, too, involved the future, but a future imagined with ...
- 3115: Antigone Greek Ideals
- ... person, and acceptance of her brother by the Gods was very important to her. She felt that "It is against you and me he has made this order. Yes, against me." Creon's order was personal to Antigone. His edict invaded her family life as well as the Gods'. An important ideal in Ancient Greece was the belief that the government was to have no control in matters concerning religious beliefs ... decision to capture Antigone was his own, and was not backed up by the majority of the people. She feels that Creon is abusing his power as king and dealing with her task to a personal level. Creon's actions are guided by the ideal that states "Man is the measure of all things." The chorus emphasizes this point during the play by stating that "There is nothing beyond (man's ...
- 3116: Calvin And De Las Casas
- ... it was the case that many rectors have tried to do the same in Calvin's defense failing and having to flee for their safety. "Rector after rector neglected to insist that students declare in writing their subscription to the full version of confession of faith which seems quietly to have fallen into desuetude. The intention, at the outset, had been to deny entry to the unsound in doctrine lest they ... Casas by supporting his plan to build a colony of farm communities in Venezuela. "Disappointed in the results of his political activities, Las Casas joins the Dominicans in Santo Domingo and focused his energy on writing...'Concerning the Only Way of Drawing All People to the True Religion"7 Las Casas political ambitions did not stop there. He them returned to Spain to get a decree prohibiting the enforcement of slavery ...
- 3117: Excessive Alcohol Consumption--its Effects And Social Accept
- ... talk about alcohol use and abuse these days, people are lost between fact and fiction. All of this tossed in with the truth leads to confusion where most of society is torn between tradition and personal beliefs. Alcohol is a destructive drug that can lead to addiction, arrest, illness, and even death; all of these consequences, however, have not caused much of a dramatic change in alcohol s social acceptance or ... that a teenager waits to start drinking (Patrick 62). Excessive alcohol consumption has some negative side effects that do not deal with health; consider the fact that drinking is a leading cause of social and personal problems and loss of income (Fettner 276). Individual factors, environmental factors, and genetic influences all impact drinking behavior and alcoholism risk. Two broad dimensions of personality deviance proneness and negative emotionality have been associated with ...
- 3118: Employee Assistance Programs
- ... help? How do they work? Are they worth the hassle? What are they? By definition employee-assistance programs (EAP's) give a business the means for identifying employees whose job performance is negatively affected by personal problems. EAP's should arrange for structured assistance to solve those problems with the goal of reestablishing the employee's job performance. Three ways they help the employer and the employee: First, EAP's should ... them to the company's medical department. Today, EAP's train supervisors to manage the problems affecting job performance and to refer poorly performing employees to the EAP for diagnosis and treatment of the "underlying" personal problems. This assumption leads to studies being purely derived from the outcome and generally state that employees who use the program show an increase in job performance. A most recent study surveyed 508 human-resource ...
- 3119: Nostradamus and a Grim Future
- ... Nostradamus was the eldest son and had four brothers. Nostradamus's intelligence became apparent while he was still very young, and his education was provided by his grandfather Jean, who taught him the languages and writing skills of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Along with the grammatical skills, Nostradamus learned the theories and systems of mathematics and astrology. When Nostradamus's grandfather died, he ventured into Avigon to study astrology. When Nostradamus ... to famines, plagues, earth-shaking changes, and wars. I think that the insight is rather predictable given that the shit was literally about to hit the fan (the religious wars of Europe) when Nostradamus was writing his writings. In fact, all hell broke loose literally as soon as his book got into print" (5). A consequence of this weapon is the destruction of crops (Resten 68). A "rain of milk," (as ...
- 3120: Existentialism
- ... In the philosophy of Sartre, the word nausea is used for the individual's recognition of continual, absolute freedom of choice (Olson). It is through these senses that people perceive responsibility. Existentialists regard responsibility as personal and subjective (existing only in the mind; iIlusionary), considering people decide morality, not a supreme being. E)dstentialists have insisted that personal experiences and acting on one's own convictions are essential in arriving at the truth. Accordingly, truth is subjective. Thus, the understanding of a situation by someone involved in that situation Is superior to that ...
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