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- 1741: Marco Polo
- Marco Polo is one of the most well-known heroic travelers and traders around the world. In my paper I will discuss with you Marco Polo’s life, his travels, and his visit to China to see the great Khan. Marco Polo was born in c.1254 in Venice. He was a Venetian explorer and merchant whose account of his travels in Asia was the primary source for the European image of the Far East until the late 19th century. Marco's father, Niccolò, and his uncle Maffeo had traveled to China (1260-69) as merchants. When they left (1271) Venice to return to China, they were accompanied by 17-year-old Marco and two priests. Early ... the personal life of Marco Polo. It is known that he was born into a leading Venetian family of merchants. He also lived during a propitious time in world history, when the height of Venice’s influence as a city-state coincided with the greatest extent of Mongol conquest of Asia(Li Man Kin 9). Ruled by Kublai Khan, the Mongol Empire stretched all the way from China to Russia ...
- 1742: Training
- Training For this paper I couldn't really just choose one question to do my paper on so I decided to do it on all of Chapter 7 which covers training. Some of the things that I will be writing about will ... budget on research. This includes follow-up and evaluation of the training programs. These programs are now disproving the six main myths about training. These myths are 1) positions turn over so fast, it doesn't pay to train. 2) Experienced employees don't need training. 3) What do we have a human resources department for? 4) Training is a waste of time. 5) Training is simple. Anybody can do it. 6) Employees always resist training. The first ...
- 1743: "Afrofornication", The New Black Culture Of Indiscriminate S
- ... everything else) that it takes a fair bit of knowledge and intelligence to survive in the woods even with modern tools - imagine it with stone tools! This is the complete opposite of Africa, with it\\'s abundant fruits and game. This is a land in which you must use your brain, and must learn in order to survive. The threat of being attacked by a rival was always less than that ... behavior, the more the state will reward them for it by paying them more welfare, in effect encouraging it. Negroes are now breeding solely for the purpose of gaining more welfare money! If you don\\'t believe me, take your life into your hands and go into to the Negro neighborhoods and talk to some of these welfare recipients, most of them will tell you outright, almost as if they are ... birth illegitmacy rate (1999) among Negroes in the United States, they know that if they get married, then they will lose their welfare. Also, because of their natural tendency toward the \\'R-Strategy\\', they don\\'t usually feel any desire to settle down with a partner and build a family. It is here we start to see the connection between the \\'R-Strategy\\' and the current Negro culture of fornication. ...
- 1744: The Internet And Its Effects And Its Future
- ... literally a network of networks. It is comprised of ten thousands of interconnected networks spanning the globe. The computers that form the Internet range from huge mainframes in research establishments to modest PCs in people's homes and offices. Despite the recent hype, the Internet is not a new phenomenon. Its roots lie in a collection of computers that were linked together in the 1970s to form the US Department of Defense's communications systems. Fearing the effects of nuclear attack, the government dispersed its information across several computers rather than just one central computer. A set of rules or protocols, known as TCP/IP was developed to ... send across the world almost instantly, and that it can unite people in wildly different locations as if they were next to each other. The soundest claims for the importance of the Internet in today's society are based upon these very facts. People of like minds and interests can share information with one another through electronic mail and chat rooms. E-mail is enabling radically new forms of worldwide ...
- 1745: The Death Penalty
- ... lethally injected? I highly doubt it. So what is it that is running through your mind? Do you honestly think you can murder or rape some innocent person and get away with it? I don’t think so. I feel the death penalty is a great concept. My philosophy is, why should someone that murdered an innocent human being still be able to breathe, while his or her victim cannot? Life ... feel comfortable with the idea that some person that killed or raped or robbed some innocent person could be released out of jail for “good behavior”. As said in the Bible, “Whomever sheds a man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed” (Genesis 9:6). This has been taken to signify “Let the punishment, fit the crime.” The Risk of Executing the Innocent. I really do feel that this ... the death penalty. And with the way our court systems work, I’m afraid were unable to trust them 100 %. Look at Oj for instance, he was guilty, and should have been executed, but he’s walking the streets today sewing phone companies. But hey, there’s nothing we can do about the court system. The decisions they make is going to be the decision that is final. We need ...
- 1746: Antigone Vs. Billy Budd
- ... of pity and fear and to purge them of these emotions and helping them better understand the ways of the gods and men. Tragedy is also in a language in both verse and song. Aristotle's definition is clearly applicable to both Herman Melville's Billy Budd and the famous Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. Antigone is definitely a good example of a Greek tragedy. It contains all of the elements of Greek tragedy as defined by Aristotle. Billy Budd ... For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life, and life consists in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality. Now character determines men's qualities, but it is by their actions that they are happy or the reverse. Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character: character comes in as subsidiary to the ...
- 1747: A Raisin In The Sun
- ... is most commonly referred to as the American Dream. For most Americans, this high status is very difficult to achieve. The play ,A Raisin in the Son,(written by Lorraine Hansberry) examines an African-American's family's struggle to break out of the poverty that is preventing them from achieving some sort of financial stability, or the American Dream. It focuses on Walter's attempt in "making it," or "being somebody." In this play Walter has become corrupted by the more Materialistic ideals of America's society The frustrations that Walter has to deal with affects the family ...
- 1748: The Big Day
- ... slip back towards tranquillity again. "Love you," I whispered. "Excuse me, you were saying?" she said sarcastically. "You heard me," I said a little louder yet trying not to strain my tired voice. "I didn't say I didn't fucking hear you, I asked you what you said. Repeat it, louder. And try opening your eyes this time." After a moment of contemplating the situation I forced myself to make an effort and sat ... about her was beautiful even in the morning. The way that curly almost black hair just touched her shoulders. The casual pose she held sitting on the edge of the bed in that worn Lakers T-shirt. I took her hand and pulled her a little closer admiring her mischievous smile. She wanted to say something but she waited for me to speak first. I kissed her hand repeatedly and ...
- 1749: Personal Writing: The Hamster
- Personal Writing: The Hamster "Is it dead? What happened!" I said as I rolled my sister's hamster around in it's little cage. It was a Sunday evening when I said these words, I was all alone, and I was very confused. I didn't know what I was going to do at that point. The only person who I could talk to and help me out in this situation was a friend that I had been talking to ...
- 1750: In Shape
- The Impact of Women Redefining Sexual Identity in Middle Adulthood It is becoming an increasing phenomenon that women are coming out as lesbians in their middle-adulthood. While defining one’s sexual identity is often a confusing time for youth it becomes that much more difficult for women as they get older. As women age they are more likely to get married, have children, begin careers ... family, and fear of homophobia from friends and cowoorkers. p. 2 Research is indicating that women who come out as lesbians in their middle adulthood go through a ‘second childhood’. These women go through Erickson’s ‘identity consolidation vs. identity confusion’ and ‘intimacy vs. isolation’ stages all aver again (Jordan, Deluty, 1998). They experience confusion and questions about their family life, chosen job, and their future career trajectory. They wonder if ... and clean and are told early on that one day they will marry a handsome man and have lots of babies. We are taught gender specific roles from the day we are born. Women don’t usually have same sex experiences until they are twenty- three or twenty- four and women are pushed to marry by the time they are twenty or twenty-one. If a woman marries at that ...
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