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- 10101: Personal Writing: The Path to the Unknown
- ... to obtain the application material. Days went by, and eventually I had forgotten completely about the event, until Mr. Yeazell once again brought it up,"Everybody involved in the District VIII Honors Jazz Band don't forget your first practice is tomorrow down at University of Dayton. I have maps and room numbers for those of you who have never done this before. One more thing Willie Anderson, the coordinator, asked ... throughout that night, I could not think of anything but the mistakes I was going to make on Saturday during practice. What if I screwed up? What if I was made fun of? I didn't think I would be able to handle that kind of put-down. That night I had a terrible nightmare. It was the first day of practice, and when I walked into the room, I was ... fact that I was going to know four of the people in the band because they also came from my school. When we arrived, people were just unpacking their instruments and getting seated. I couldn't help but notice there were only three other trombone players in the room. About ten minutes later, a rather large, black man entered the room. He announced himself as Willie Anderson, the coordinator and ...
- 10102: Groups In Society
- ... psychological or social) then labels them a group (i.e., gay and/or Maori). Secondly, internal and external validity of a groups identity. For example, Breakwell (1983) describes that "the importance of a social group's identity can become important when the content or value of the identity is at issue. Members of the group believe the group has an identity based on certain characteristics and that these have specific values ... to different groups (Cited in Phinney, 1993, p 49). Greenwald (1988) uses the term collective self as a construct - of an identity relationship in reference to groups, this leads to the adoption of the group's values and goals (Greenwald 1988, Cited in Phinney 1993, p 49). Both theorists identify self-attributes with reference to individualised identities within the group(s) they co-exist in. "I like to listen to American songs but, that doesn't make me full American because I eat Mexican food but, that doesn't make you full Mexican. Its what ...
- 10103: Theory Of The Firm-are Firms J
- ... will not own stock in the company which may lead to strongly differing goals of owners and managers. Since ownership gives a person a claim on the profit of the firm, the greater the firm's profit, the higher the owners income. Hence the owners goal will be profit maximisation. When managers salary stays unaffected by higher profits they may pursue other goals to raise their personal utility. This behaviour strikes ... as a profit maximising response to the high opportunity cost of a top executive or an expensive and costly executive status symbol. Baumol (1967) hypothesised that managers often attach their personal prestige to the company s revenue or sales. A prestige maximising manager therefore would rather attempt to maximise the firms total revenue then their profits. Figure 1 illustrates how the output choices of revenue- and profit maximising managers differ. The ... revenue curve will rise as output goes up. Hence a revenue-maximising manager would continue to produce additional output regardless of its effects on cost. Given this information one might ask why the owners don t intervene when their appointed managers don t direct their actions in the interest of the owners, by maximising profits. First of all, the owners will not have the same access to information as the ...
- 10104: Mark Twain and Racism
- ... is not simply ridiculing the times by using it, but saying, "this is how it is." He conveys the idea that whites are superior to blacks in different ways. While he might criticize white people's actions, he never lumps them together, attributing similar characteristics to all of them by the use of a term like "nigger." By doing this, he is also offending about 15% of the United States population ... such lines as: "Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped run away, coming right out flatfooted and saying he would steal his children-children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no harm"(Twain, P133), he illustrates this. Additionally, the character of Jim is not a well-developed character like Huckleberry or even Aunt Sally, but is flat, and is never the ...
- 10105: Teens and Sex
- ... problem rather than solve it. The reason that people want to distribute condoms in high school is to try to prevent teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and (I separate this from the category of STD's because it is so widespread, deadly, important, frightening, etc.) H.I.V infection. The theory is that if condoms were given out or made available at high schools, then the students would be more inclined ... moment, to engage in sexual intercourse, then it is more likely that they have a condom if schools distributed them. This sounds good in theory, but will it really work? If schools distribute condoms, shouldn't they also teach the students how to use them and teach them a little about sex (sex education in schools, another controversial topic)? The world certainly needs to try to decrease teenage pregnancies, STD's, and H.I.V. infection. In an article from the New York Times, the United Nations reports that women, especially sexually active teenage girls, have a higher rate of H.I.V. infection than ...
- 10106: Vietnam
- ... war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam and ultimately into an international conflict. The United States and some 40 other countries supported South Vietnam by supplying troops and munitions, and the USSR and the People's Republic of China furnished munitions to North Vietnam and the Vietcong. On both sides, however, the burden of the war fell mainly on the civilians.1 On January 27, in Paris, delegations representing the United ... body. Running my fingers across my arm was like following the tracks of a snail.”3 It really gave me a feel for what they were going through. It made me wonder how they didn’t just not fight. The war wasn’t theirs, but due to bad luck they were stuck in this horrible jungle forced to fight an enemy they had no reason to hate. Living like animals with practically no food and little or ...
- 10107: A Lesson Before Dying
- ... two books were ten times better than A Lesson Before Dying so I can say that I was probably expecting too much. A Lesson Before Dying has a superb depiction of the theme “you can’t judge a book by its cover”. Grant went to help Jefferson with a notion that Jefferson was sewer trash and he would not learn anything from this situation. In the end Grant was wrong because ... weak points for example Grant was always running away from his problems. There were a lot of things in his life that he could not handle and he just wanted to run away. He didn’t know what to do about Jefferson at first and wondered why he had to teach him. He didn’t really know how to handle his job as teacher in the Quarter. He couldn’t make his mind up about God so he just decided to leave it alone. Aunt Emma was a very ...
- 10108: Evironmental Law: Enforcement Measures and Effectiveness
- ... there no laws to control or stop it ? In regards to these questions, Canada has a great many laws to stop and regulate pollution. But despite this, why is it still happening. What are Canada's so called enforcement measures and are they effective ? We have the Environmental Bill of Rights and the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, just to name a few. Sure some polluters break these laws and get caught ... 90,000. (Sterling, 1995, p. B3) Now by examining this company is there a reason why it committed a crime against the environment a second time ? The most obvious answer would be that they didn't learn their lesson the first time. It is not really their fault though, because the fine didn't really hurt them enough to make them really think about what they did. This is the idea shared my most of the repeat offenders. Why are these offenders getting a slap on the wrist ...
- 10109: Johnny Tremain
- Johnny Tremain a young boy grown up as an apprentice during the 1700’s in Boston was an unfortunate but lucky kid. In the next several paragraphs, I will describe interesting parts in the book and also described the to mention my feelings toward the book. One of my favorite parts of the book was when Lyte came in and wanted a silver piece made by Mr. Lampham in which he had made one before, years ago, Mr. Lamphem wasn’t quite sure if he he still had it, so he was thinking of not doing it, but Johnny was so brave and sure only as an apprentice, he offered to do it. To me that ... upon it, it made me feel thankful. Another interesting part of the book was when Johnny went to look for a job. Johnny was so persistent when trying to find another apprentice job. He didn’t really care about what kind of job it was he just wanted a job, he went from place to place trying as hard as he could to hid his crippled hand. When Johnny started ...
- 10110: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- On January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born. James Roosevelt, Franklin's father, was a prosperous railroad official and landowner(Lawson 25). His predecessors, when they came from the Netherlands, were succes Roosevelt learned from private tutors, not going to school until the age of fourteen. He ... law with a New York law firm. While still in law school, Roosevelt met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt a distant cousin, only a few years younger than him(Alsop 28). They were married on St. Patrick's day, March 17th, 1905(Freidel 13). He was twenty-three and she was twenty-one. Her fathe A few years later in 1910, Roosevelt accepted the Democratic nomination for the New York State Senate(Freidel ... the water he was as quick as anyone. In 1926 he bought Warm Springs for $200,000(Hacker 40). In 1927 he contributed two-thirds of his wealth(Freidel 47) a His physical disabilities didn't hinder his climb of the political ladder. In 1928 Roosevelt ran for governor of New York and won the election with a large margin. One of his main goals was that the state should ...
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