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- 16891: Are Blacks Too Cool For The Web
- Do less blacks than their fellow white Americans use the web? According to the Pew Study on Internet Usage , the answer is yes, but this study is also quick to point out that it s not merely color, it s a mixture of things. However, according to Leonce Gaiter , author of Is the Web too Cool for Blacks, the web mocks our fundamental beliefs, our core desires. (p 643) Gaiter flatly states that the majority ... black deficiency, but continues to rattle on about prejudice and racism, not even stopping to document proper sources. Have morals and values changed in America and left blacks behind? According to Gaiter, the web can t help us achieve our 50 s and 60 s ideals (p 643). Blacks still want the traditional American Dream. Well, what is the traditional American Dream? Perhaps, the dream is to have a nice ...
- 16892: Jules Verne
- ... grew up to be a very disobedient child. Verne tried many means of stopping this delinquency. He put Michel in jail in an attempt to stop the "madness". He was really unhappy over his son's behavior problem. Late 1879, Verne ended up throwing Michel out of the house. Michel ran off and married an actress. In 1887, he attended and recognized Michel's second marriage which helped in reviving the relationship between father and son. Jules Verne was an avid traveler and sailor. He visited many places with his brother, Paul. Paul helped Verne in many technical parts of his novel. In 1859, he and Paul made a summer trip to Scotland. Verne was very impressed by Scotland as a whole and it became the setting in one of Verne's novels. He also visited North America for a week. He visited New York, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto. He loved America and was very sad that he was never going to come again. Verne owned ...
- 16893: Supply And Demand 2
- ... organ donors and patients with a diseased organ . Just as there is a supply and demand in any given market, there are also complementary and substitute goods. Who decides who gets transplants and who doesn t? This question implies that the organ market also needs to have various, effective allocation mechanisms. The organ market has complementary and substitute goods and can use various effective allocation mechanisms. A person that receives an organ transplant almost always requires several complementary goods. One obvious good is the medical care received for the actual transplant and for follow-up doctor s visits. For most people who undergo an organ or tissue transplant the quality of their life and general overall health improves following the transplant. Persons who receive a transplant are frequently required to take a ... removed. These people will be placed back on the waiting list for another organ (Yoakam). Two more goods are the medication to prevent rejection and (assuming the patient has insurance) payments made by the patient s insurance company for the patient s care. The donor s family is not responsible for the costs incurred through organ donation. The recipient, most times through their insurance carrier or Medicare pays for all ...
- 16894: Film Review: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- ... because of his unrelinquished need to answer his own questions. Although this is obviously a science fiction film, Dreyfuss also turns in just the right amount of delightful comedy to keep boredom from the audience's grasp. Spielberg has won a hit with his heartfelt, intriguing, sci-fi flick that has that patented Spielberg ending we all have grown to love over the years. The reason for the greatness of this ... a knack for being able to portray an erratic man who in one instant is completely normal, and at other times becomes utterly insane. Melinda Barro also puts in an extremely believable performance as Dreyfuss's side-kick in search of her abducted son. But perhaps the most hidden success of this movie is the very underrated actress Teri Garr, who put in her two cents as Dreyfuss's wife. Garr did play a small role, yet it was effective, it produced a gauge of just how crazy Dreyfuss was really getting. The wonderful acting carried the film over the obvious special effects ...
- 16895: Consumer Appeal
- ... and television satellites. Most of them had female voice-overs with predominantly white actors and/or actresses. The actors and/or actresses were also good-looking, thin, and of high- to medium-status. In Steinem's terms, and as mentioned by Cayo Gamber, an advertisement is generally linked to the article, or in this case, the program. The show is seen as a "complementary copy" for the commercials; because it included certain accessories to a person in the same life-style as the characters in the program. The cars advertisements, in particular, were at times found in the show. However, the other products weren't really enforced by the program. Above all, the program did help maintain the intended target interested and tuned in to that specific channel. The benefit of airing commercials at that specific time of "Profiler" is great. It airs at a time that is not too late and, therefore the commercials will not be forgotten. Many times, specifically the Wrigley's Winterfresh , the Maxwell House, and the Allstate Insurance, the commercials were loud and peppy. The Wrigley's Winterfresh commercial actually shows the product, the pack of gum even has the price on it. It ...
- 16896: Botany and Botanists
- ... you could be an ecologist, taxonomist, forester, conservationist, or plant explorer. Included in all this fun and interesting work is a great deal of traveling, possibly to foreign and exotic lands. What many people don't realize is that most things are similar in both plants and animals. But plants can be much easier grown and manipulated. Botany is an open field for all, and many people do not comprehend that ... botany would be very interesting to work into, many people would wonder what the pay is. Surprisingly, the salary is not too bad for someone working with plants. If one were to get a Bachelor's degree, starting offers would be around $24,000 per year. If one were to get a Master's degree, the pay started at $30,650. The average yearly salary for botanists in a civilian position would be $35,084; federally employed botanists averaged $41,754. Money is not the only reward of ...
- 16897: Book Report For The Odyssey
- ... the men who were still alive devised a plan to escape. Odysseus first found a stick big enough to damage the Cyclops' eye and, the minute Polyphemus fell asleep, stabbed the stick into the giant's eye. When anyone asked him what happened and who did it he told them "Nobody" did it and so no one helped him. The next morning when the sheep went out, the men clung to the sheep's bellies so when the blind Cyclops felt them he wouldn't be able to discover the men. When Polyphemus discovered the trick, he asked Poseidon to avenge what had happened to him. Poseidon agreed and blew Odysseus off course on his voyage home making this ...
- 16898: King Oedipus By Sophocles
- ... Not only does the blindness appear physically, but also egotistically as he refuses to acknowledge the possibility of him actually being the murderer of Laius, the former King of Thebes. Coincidentally, he is also Oedipuss biological father. The use of light and dark in the play is strategically applied in order to better understand the emotion that lies within the characters. As blame is placed upon Oedipus for the murder ... them. Excessive pride fuels his inability to believe the prophecy of Teiresias stating Oedipus is the killer, and that he has married his mother. Until I came I, ignorant Oedipus, came and stopped the riddlers mouth, guessing the truth by mother-wit, not bird-love. Because he continually boasts about how he has saved Thebes from the Sphinx, he believes that no one could know more than he, especially if he is the one to be accused of a crime he knows he didnt commit. In response Teiresias argues, You are please to mock my blindness. Have you eyes, and do not see your own damnation? Eyes and cannot see what company you keep. This is a pivotal ...
- 16899: Cantebury Tales
- By: jeff Canterbury Tales In discussing Chaucer's collection of stories called The Canterbury Tales, an interesting picture or illustration of the Medieval Christian Church is presented. However, while people demanded more voice in the affairs of government, the church became corrupt -- this ... save the souls of the Anglo-Saxons who had brought such bitter times to their people. In their isolation, the British Church had maintained older ways of celebrated the major festivals of Christianity, and Augustine's effort to compel them to conform to modern Roman usage only angered them. When Augustine died (some time between 604 and 609 AD), then, Christianity had only a precarious hold on Anglo-Saxon England, a ... was the uppermost concern, and the wide diversity of medieval piety is simply because people answered the question, 'How can I best lead a holy life?' in so many different ways. Beginning with "The Pardoner's Tale", the theme of salvation is truly paramount. Chaucer, being one of the most important medieval authors, uses this prologue and tale to make a statement about buying salvation. The character of the pardoner ...
- 16900: The Fun Filled Fractal Phenome
- ... the process is repeated infinitely. Fractals often exhibit self-similarity. This means that each small section of the fractal can be viewed as a reduced-scale replica of the whole. Some famous fractals include Sierpinski's triangle, Koch's snowflake and the length of a coastline. Fractals were brought to the public's attention by the work of French mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot in the 1970's. Mandelbrot discovered how to calculate fractal dimensions. The formula for fractal dimension is N=2D where N equals the number ...
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