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- 13831: Affirmative Action
- ... race, color, religion, gender, and national origin. The work force should be well represented by the different ethnic backgrounds of our society. Some people look at affirmative action as reverse discrimination, but this program doesn’t guarantee employment based on race, ethnicity, or gender. The affirmative action program gives equal consideration to individuals from a different race, ethnicity, or gender, but not one of these factors may be the only factor used to determine an individual’s qualifications for any job. The biggest dispute of the program is the belief that the policy allows less qualified candidates to progress due to different standards for minorities and non-minorities. People need to realize that affirmative action gives balance in the workplace so that everyone from different ethnic backgrounds would be represented in today’s diverse society. There are few social policy issues that gauge the racial and division among the American people than the affirmative action. Affirmative Action is a term referring to the laws and social policies ...
- 13832: Portrait Of A Lady
- Portrait of a Lady Isabel Archer doesn't go away with Casper Goodwood because it would mean giving up what she values most, her freedom and independence. The very first time we meet Isabel she tells Ralph that "I'm very fond of ... James says, "The idea of a diminished liberty was particularly disagreeable to her at present, since she had just given a sort of personal accent to her independence by looking so straight at Lord Warburton's big bribe and yet turning away from it" (p. 104). She goes on to show her independence when she speaking with Casper Goodwood by saying, "it's no kindness to a woman to press her so hard, to urge her against her will" (p. 137). Isabel came to Europe because she wanted to experience life and the freedom that eluded her ...
- 13833: Marijuana And Its Effects On Humans
- ... reported negative side-effects. Various studies have claimed that cannabis destroys brain cells. However, several other studies found no structural or neurochemical atrophy in the brain at all. Furthermore, it should be noted that Heath's work was sharply criticized for avoiding safeguards of bias and reporting "changes" that occur normally in the mammalian brain. Wu et al. found a correlation between cannabis use and low sperm counts in human males ... function, it has never been reported to cause a single instance of lung cancer. Tobacco, though, is expected to kill 400,000 people this year. If cannabis is so much more dangerous to a user's lungs than tobacco and is so much more carcinogenic, why aren't there stacks of reports of cannabis-induced lung cancer? One interesting theory is that it's because tobacco tars are significantly radioactive, while marijuana tars aren't at all. Winters found that a pack- ...
- 13834: Pygmalion 3
- How does Henry Higgins get 'some of his own back' in Acts IV and V? When he says,"How the devil do I know what's to become of you?", he caused Eliza to feel unwanted and abandoned. He used his rough tone of voice and unpleasant words to show Eliza that he did not care for her. His exasperated and irritated tone expressed that he wanted to wash his hands off the whole affair. The quotation,"I know you don't care. You don't care if I was dead. I am nothing to you -- not as much as them slippers." has shown that he had given Eliza the impression that he did not care. The next quotation,"Eliza ...
- 13835: Being an Outsider
- ... her appear stronger and wiser for having played this crucial role in society. There are minor and major factors that lead Lorde to view herself as an outsider. One of the minor factors in Lorde’s life that show her outsider status is her family. Lorde knows that she is very different from those around her when looking at her family. She sees the color of the skins of her mother ... contributors to her knowing and first understanding her outsider status. Lorde looks more like her father, but is never around him much. Her dark color gives rise to her feelings of inadequacy and her mother’s treatment of her made her always feel inferior. Her first memories of herself are those looked at through eyes that enabled her only to see the outer shapes of things. Having such bad eyesight was ... the girl would be vice-president she felt this horribly unfair. It was her first taste of the ways the world was ran at that time. Men first, ladies second. A major factor in Lorde’s life that demonstrates her outsider status is her color. I am not talking about just within her family. I am talking about when she notices that she is black and that there are racial ...
- 13836: THe Life and Work of John Keats
- ... a unique passion for details. In his lifetime he was not associated with the senior poets who began the movement at the time of the French Revolution. He was unlucky in the respect he didn't, fit into the older, respected group based on his age, nor in the younger group, for he was neither a lord nor in the upper classes. He was one of the “middle class” poets of ... eight and his mother when he was fourteen; these sad circumstances drew him particularly close to his two brothers, George and Tom, and his sister Fanny. (Kipperman 246). As an orphan, he became a surgeon's apprentice before enrolling, in 1815, as a student at Guy's Hospital. He registered for a sixth-month course of study required for him to become a licensed surgeon and apothecary. Soon after he had came to a conclusion that he was not going to ...
- 13837: The Life of Sally Ride
- ... the way for other women, like Sally Ride, in the field of women in science and aeronautics. Sally Ride was born in Encino, California on May 26, 1051. Science has always been present in Sally's life. Her father, Dale, was a Political Science professor at the nearby University. Her mother, Joyce, stayed home to raise Sally. She attended Westlake High school and was a very aggressive athlete. Her original intentions ... had always been military pilots, but now NASA wanted to hire scientists and technicians who could monitor the complex technology of the shuttle. Prior to her application, no women had ever been accepted into NASA's space program. There were over 8,000 applicants for the thirty-five positions available. 1,251 of the 8,000 people who applied were women and only six were accepted. Sally Ride was one of the six, although she didn't go into space right away. Her first assignment with NASA was On-Orbit Capsule Communicator (CAP-COM), or mission control. In August 1979, she completed her training and education and was designated as a ...
- 13838: Brutus, A Tragic Hero
- Brutus, A Tragic Hero "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." (Shakespeare 3.2.21-24) William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, is based mainly on the assassination of Julius Caesar. Ironically Brutus, Caesar’s loyal friend, who was fashioned by Cassius and the Conspirators, is the one who made the assassination happen. Artemidorus, Calpurnia, and the Soothsayer were just a few who warned Caesar of what was to come ... March (March 15), but he turned his back. The conspirators killed Caesar because he was too "ambitious," and left Antony to live, which was a mistake. At the end of the play, Antony and Caesar's nephew, Actavius, defeat Brutus and Cassius's army at the battle of Phillipi. Indeed, Brutus was the tragic hero in the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. As a tragic hero, Brutus was dignified, ...
- 13839: My Secret Confessions From The Grave: Al Capone
- ... Soon after, I joined the James Street gang, which was headed by a guy named Johnny Torrio. In 1920, Torrio asked me to go to Chicago and work with his uncle who controlled the city’s largest prostitution and gambling ring at the time, and boy did I like that idea. Later that year the Prohibition act came into affect and I became interested in selling illegal whiskey and other alcoholic beverages. Torrio’s uncle did not agree with this idea but within the next month he was shot and killed. Torrio and I took over Torrio’s uncles business and added the selling of illegal alcohol, see I always get what I want. After Torrio was gunned down and almost killed by a rival gang, he retired from the underworld, which ...
- 13840: The Tradgedy Of Julius Caesar
- The Tragedy of Julius Caesar does not focus on Caesar. Although the plot of the story revolves around him, the focus of the story is on his lover, Marcus Brutus. Because of this, Caesar's character remains an enigma. He envisions himself as an invincible god, however Shakespeare portrays Caesar as a common man with many weaknesses. "The gods do this in shame of cowardice. Caesar should be a beast ... what offal, when it serves for the base matter illuminate so vile a thing as Caesar!" (p.45). Caesar was by no means only shown as a foolish man who thought highly of himself. Caesar's statements about his distrust of Cassius are correct. Caesar has every excuse for distrusting Cassius, who was already plotting his murder. "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much, and such ... formulated by a group of self-seeking nobles and politicians under the leadership of a misguided lover of Caesar. At the beginning of Act 1 Scene 2, Caesar talked to Antony about touching Calpurnia, Caesar's wife, because Calpurnia was sterile and Caesar believed that the touch might have taken the sterility away. "Forget not in your speed, Antonius, to touch Calpurnia; for our elders say the barren, touched in ...
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