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- 4371: Jeremy Rifkin's "The End of Work"
- ... churches and neighbourhood group activities. Rifkin suggests that the government should encourage this advancement of the third sector (eg. volunteers, non-profit organizations) by offering a "shadow wage, in the form of a deduction on personal income taxes for volunteer hours given." (Rifkin p.257). It has also been suggested that the government issue a minimum social annual income so that non-profit organizations' employees get an actual salary, this would ...
- 4372: Phoolan Devi: Perceptions of Power
- ... do an Internet search on her name. Photographs, newspaper reviews, magazine articles, newsgroup posts, all proving her power to reach out across the planet and touch people or infuriate them, depending on an individual's personal philosophies. Through her story many have become more conscious of the plight of her caste and gender in modern India. She has the power to inspire and inform. I have read on the Internet that ...
- 4373: Lt. Colonel Jay R. Jensen's "Six Years In Hell"
- ... Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Ribbon, Vietnam Cross for Gallantry with Device, and Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal. All these decorations and the time spent in the military I believe more than present his qualifications for writing this book. This book that he was so qualified to write I must bend to say was rather well written. The author took time to explain everything individually and even those things that seem quite ...
- 4374: Lighting Advancments
- ... Online. Pacific Bell, 23 January 2000. N. pag. Available http://www.hubble-ltg.com. Lighting F.A.Q. Rudd Lighting. Online. Pacific Bell, 22 January 2000. N. pag. Available http://www.ruddlighting.com/. Neitzke, Ron. Personal Interview. 16 Feburary 2000. Sabin, Louis. Thomas Alva Edison. New Jersey Troll Associates, 1983. Thwig, Leroy. Flickering Flames. Tokyo; Charles E. Truffle Company, 1962. Why Electro-luminescent lamps. Industrial Tehcnology. Online. Pacbell, 7 January 2000 ...
- 4375: 1984 by George Orwell: Character Sketch
- ... people can be watched through TVs (telescreens). Because of this paranoia, he found a place in his apartment were he could sit without being seen. He spends much of his time sitting in this corner writing in his diary. In his diary, he writes things that could easily have him killed. Winston is a quiet person who has a few friends. He has a strong feeling about how the world is ...
- 4376: Kahlil Gibran
- Kahlil Gibran Information on the Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), a poet, philosopher, and an artist was born in Lebanon, a land which has produced many prophets. The millions of Arabic speaking people, familiar with his writing consider him a genius of his age. However, his fame and influence was not limited to the Near East only, but far beyond these borders. His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages ...
- 4377: Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
- ... on what is possible when one has time to reflect In this I mean that Never Cry Wolf seemed to hold a more meaningful message for modern times. As well I found the style of writing in the Mowat novel to be clearer then in Siddhartha. These were some of the factors that combined to produce a situation where Never Cry Wolf captured my attention more than Siddhartha. It was for ...
- 4378: Historical Truth And Imaginati
- ... him on through the gloom. He is speaking of a verse in Matthew, chapter four, that speaks of ministering angels. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass combined many aspect of literature and creative writing to produce "the most artistically crafted and widely read of all the American slave narratives." His narrative touches the hearts and leaves the reader to "feel" the pains and sorrows of slavery, and the joys ...
- 4379: The Awakening: Public Controversy
- ... the more well known, and well loved novels of the time. Why did this happen? Well maybe it was because of the contravercy it introduced. To tell the truth, " the misunderstanding that surrounds Edna's personal history, as well as the history of Chopin's novel itself, attests to the greatness of both Edna and her creator." ( ? ) Chopin went from being known as an outcast of society to a pioneer of ...
- 4380: Plato's Republic
- ... criticism of politics in general. Both sides have legitimate arguments, and there is evidence within the text to support each opinion. When Plato wrote Gorgias, he made it clear where exactly he stood on his personal involvement in politics (Cornford 1941, xix). “ Unlimited power without the knowledge of good and evil is at the best unenviable, and the tyrant who uses it to exterminate his enemies and rivals is the most ...
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