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- 3681: Internet In Our Lives
- ... has maintained its role as a full service provider without the addition of online trading. Although they have decided to enter the online trading segment they still want to maintain their high broker network and personal service. Merrill feels the Internet should be an extension of their services and not just a service in itself. They have elected to only offer online trading to a select few of their customers and ... an experienced professional. this is evident by the moves that companies are making now. The industry is striving to develop detailed easy to use platforms for the individual investor while at the same time provide personal service when desired. The advancement of IT will enable brokers to spend less time dealing with the customer and more time researching the market and developing strategies for the individual investor to use. Some other ...
- 3682: The Search for a Better Tax System
- ... and was later pushed through by his successor William H. Taft, both of whom were Republicans (Tyson 8). (This must have been before the term "anti-tax-and-spend" was commonly associated with Republicans.) Today, personal income taxes account for about 85 percent of federal government revenue (Tyson 8). In contrast, the states generate only about thirty percent of revenue from personal income taxes, relying instead on taxes generated mostly on sales transactions (Murray 2). In 1932 Mississippi introduced the first sales tax (Murray 1). Since then, all but Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon have ...
- 3683: The Right To Die
- ... the natural desire to live, it harms other people, and life is the gift of God and thus can only be taken by God. The other major viewpoint argues that suicide is a matter of personal choice and that it is rational under some circumstances. These two positions remain virtually the same today. Euthanasia is only one of the many hotly debated topics of our time which revolve around personal choice. The other two prominent topics are whether gays and lesbians should be given a choice of whether to marry and should women be allowed a choice to abort their unborn children. All three of ...
- 3684: Panopticism
- ... watch the many citizens. It must be acknowledged that to view each citizen is not simply to watch them, but to exercise the power that surveillance entails. And unlike the methods of judicial or administrative writing, what was registered was in this way were forms of behavior, attitudes, possibilities, suspicions a permanent account of individuals behavior.(331, Focault) The powerful results of surveillance can be seen when Focault discusses lepers and ... surveillance; it is rather that the individual is carefully fabricated in it, according to a whole technique of forces and bodies (pp.333-34). Foucaults argument may not be understood with his difficulty of writing, but with the examples and proof of such a mind-game that we live in our society today is a good way to understand his point of judgement. We live in a society that watches ...
- 3685: Robert Frost And His Life
- ... by teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy. In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. His efforts to establish himself and his work were almost immediately successful. A Boy's Will was accepted by a London publisher and brought out in 1913, followed a year later by North of Boston ... s Will enabled Frost to buy a farm in Franconia, N.H.; to place new poems in literary periodicals and publish a third book, Mountain Interval (1916); and to embark on a long career of writing, teaching, and lecturing. In 1924 he received a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for New Hampshire (1923). He was lauded again for Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936), and A Witness Tree (1942). Over the ...
- 3686: Cormyr
- ... different title, the title reflects accurately what the book is about. In the story of Cormyr, the author conveys over and over how history always seems to repeats itself. I believe the authors purpose in writing this book was to explain a theory in an entertaining fashion. I do not know much more about the author except that my brother told me that Ed Greenwood writes good stories. The story takes ... Anudar and the unfaithful were rooted out by decree of the recovered King and the princess found what she lacked in character. I think that this book was a very good book and that the writing style was very interesting. The thing that I thought was interesting was how the author weaved what happened in the past with the present. The present day characters also seemed to tie in with people ...
- 3687: Canada Immigration Laws
- ... expired. Domestic workers have been denied basic freedoms that other workers enjoy in modern society: the freedom to choose and change occupations, to change employers, to have their own places to live, and to enjoy personal lives outside work and away from the direct control and supervision of employers. The attitudes and opinions in which Canadian born people form about immigration comes mainly from the media. Newspapers such as the Toronto ... of in many cases the victims. The point is not that these immigrants should all be granted citizenship, simply that biased, racist conclusions about these peoples positions should not be made without knowing each individuals personal situation. The media coverage surrounding the situation with domestic workers has been minimal. The circumstances around this issue have not been covered to the degree that it should. Many peoples ideas and feelings about immigration ...
- 3688: Fascism and its Political Ideas
- ... could be money ,shelter, food, or any other need that might come about. The ideology of Fascism has been identified with totalitarianism, state terror, fanaticism, arranged violence, and blind obedience. Adolf Hitler established his own personal ideology, Mein Kampf, which means My Struggle. The book was written while Hitler was in prison and not yet in power. Mussolini fashioned his ideology after he took control of Italy. Despite their two different ... visual tools providing easy recognition and visibility, allowing for an increase of notoriety in and out of the Nazi party. Hitler then created a special unit that would only answer to him and be his personal body guards. The elite groups was known as Schutzstaffel, the staff guard or SS for short. The SS took a black uniform , modeled after the Italian Fascists. Josef Berchtold, a former stationary salesman, was the ...
- 3689: Gender Roles 2
- ... Not everyone will agree with my point of view and that is something I understand, but its all about being open-minded which is obviously not the message gender roles send. Works Cited: Finaut, Jim. Personal Interview, 11, July 1999. Hales, Dianne. Invitation to Health: Power of Prevention, eighth edition. California: Brooks/Cole, 1990. Richards, Orland. Personal Interview, 13 July 1999. Tannen, Deborah. You Just Don t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation. New York: Ballantine, 1990.
- 3690: Into The Forest
- ... the box. They searched frantically to find more, they found some but it taught them a lesson about surviving on what they have and not to take things for granted. Nell is character that is writing the logs in the novel. As she does this we, the audience, find that she appears to be a deep thinker and more academic than Eva who is more practical. This can be seen throughout ... see that Eva has a different personality. She appears to be much more self-assured than Nell is. In there own way they seem to be very focused; Nell on here reading, study, learning and writing, and Eva on her ballet. Although they have these different interests, they are simular in a way, because they are both are striving to achieve something and to make a name for themselves, Nell with ...
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