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- 19001: Affirmative Action
- By: Jack Frost E-mail: frost@hotmail.com Politics is assuming command of the American economy in the form of pervasive "equal opportunity" enforcement. In today's society, everyone is supposed to be equal and have equal rights, but in employment, there is more discrimination than ever. American citizens need to do away with affirmative action so that America's job opportunities can once again be based on merit, not skin color or ethnicity. Laws have been passed, quotas have been established, and seemingly, everything has been done to prevent discrimination, but rather than ending ... qualified person to receive a job, you get it, but that is no longer the case. Now, in order to be employed, qualifications do not always matter as much as the color of a person's skin or his ethnicity. In dealing with this subject, the first question that is always asked is, "What is wrong with quotas? What is wrong with companies hiring a variety of blacks, Hispanics, women, ...
- 19002: Minnie Bibble
- Minnie Bibble In many short stories authors develop the characters by using different ways of characterization. These methods may include both direct and or indirect characterization.In the short story "He Thinks He's Wonderful," F. Scott Fitzgerald develops Minnie Bibble in both of these ways. Fitzgerald uses direct characterization first in describing Minnie. Direct characterization is statements or facts that the author tells the reader directly. Using this ... also learn immediately that she has taken a liking to the main character Basil. He thinks "She is certainly a wonderful girl" and that she is very addicting. As the story develops so does Minnie's character. After she and Basil had made plans for him to accompany her and her family to Glacier Park and talked about meeting each other constantly, her plans fell through. Though Minne seemed not to be very upset about leaving Basil, his heart was broken that she was gone. Through Fitzgerald's methods of characterization we know that Minnie Bibble is a round character because of her change of heart at the end of the story. At first it seems Minnie and Basil were to have ...
- 19003: Olenka In The Darling
- Olenka was quite a darling. She was quiet, and always had an imaginative smile. Unfortunately, she had a personality defect. Her problem was the fact that she didn t have a personality of her own; it was always that of her lovers. In the beginning of the story she was married to Kukin. When she was with Kukin, he complained about the rain on his garden. He said, Almost every evening it rains. It is simply awful! The public doesn t come, but I have to pay the rent just the same, (172). This foreshadows what is going to happen to Olenka when Kukin dies. She worked hard at taking on his beliefs and opinions, and ... and it was her only way of life. Then when he died, her mirror was broken. This left her not knowing what to do cause she had no personality anymore because it died. After Kukin s death, Olenka did nothing else but cry and dwell on the fact that she had no one to love. As she mourned, she said, my precious, my darling! Why did I ever know you ...
- 19004: Race In The New England and Southern Colonies
- ... less individualistic than the southern colonies. The New England colonies were based on religious freedom, thus their society was reflected the religion. "These underwritten names are to be transported to Virginia, embarked in the Merchants Hope, Hugh Weston, Master, per examination by the minister of Gravesend touching upon their conformity to the Church discipline of England, and have taken oaths of allegiance and supremacy:" (Ships List of Emigrants Bound for Virginia). The use of the word "Master", shows, that the southern colonies were more of a individualistic state rather than a communal state(New England). This individualism was the effect of the motivation of the southern colonies for economic opportunity. "We whose names are underwritten, being by Gods providnce engaged together to make a plantation...." (Articles of Agreement). The New England settlers, again were of a communal nature, in how they are binding together for the good of the community. "We intend ...
- 19005: Greek and Roman Influences on Modern Society
- ... the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. That theory, and many others, are still used today. Another man, Euclid, was very important in today's mathematics. He compiled the Elements of Geometry, which remained in use in many classrooms until very recently (including Montgomery). Sadly, Pythagoras, and other mathematicians, hit a roadblock which stopped mathematics almost completely until modern times ... been around for a while, but the Greeks brought new ideas to them, and changed them into the form they are today. For many years, men had documented the events of time, but it wasn't until Herodotus and Thucydides that men tried to make an actual story, from beginning to end, of an event. Today, many people write stories about 'what could have happened' in an event, or predict something ... the most original thinkers of the Classical period, but not necessarily the most important. The Greeks invented science and philosophy, and advanced them both greatly, and they refined history and drama. The Romans, however, didn't do anything very new in any of those fields. Their biggest advances were in law. The Roman government was first a republic, the Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR), or the Senate and the People of ...
- 19006: Total Quality Mangement
- ... its customer base. It is necessary for them to remember that reputations for poor quality last for a long time and that reliability is the ability of the product to continue to meet the customer's requirements over time, which the company clearly hasn t been doing. There are clear problems with Fresher plc. However the main issues involved are the ones that address management style, customer-supplier satisfaction, employee morale and conformance to customer requirements. All these are problems ... overview of quality. Then the staff will need to be trained and shown how to reallocate their time and energy to studying their processes in teams. Management Commitment TQM will only succeed if the company's chief executive or managing director are emphatic about cultural change. There are several tools and techniques that can be used and it is necessary that the management select the most appropriate and cost effective ...
- 19007: I Aint Got Time To Bleed
- I AIN'T GOT TIME TO BLEED By: Jesse "The Body" Ventura In this book Jesse Ventura talks about when he was a Navy SEAL, being a pro wrestler, and his political career. It is a very interesting ... train to be a SEAL. Finally after they graduated from BUDS they got sent over to Vietnam. During their four years in the Navy SEALs they had to do two nine month tours overseas. Jesse's hero was the pro wrestler "Superstar" Billy Graham, so when he got discharged from the Navy he trained to become a pro wrestler and dyed his hair to look like Billy Graham. He started working ... Vince McMahon lured him to the WWF up north. A few months after Jesse went with the WWF most of the regional promotions were put out of business by the WWF. The end of Jesse's career came soon after he was hospitalized with pulmonary emboli. After that Vince McMahon asked Jesse to be the first heel(bad guy) commentator in wrestling to take the side of all the heels ...
- 19008: Chrysalids 2
- ... meets them and learn what it is like to live in the fringes. When the sealant woman rescues David, Rosalind and Petra they are brought to a big, developed city like the one in David's dreams. Because of the telepathy David discovers that such a city really exists but most of all through Petra they establish contact with a more civilized people than they are. Because of the conflicts in ... the big city were things are different. Some characters died in the final chapter when the helicopter makes a landing killing everything that moves around it. The characters that died where: the spiderman (Gordon), David's father, Sophie and all the people from the fringes and Waknuk that where near the helicopter. Waknuk might be affected by the discovery of the sealant city because the reader finds out (in the final ... If Waknuk will be helped as predicted it may become a big, civilized city like Zealand. The natives in Waknuk will stop thinking that Tribulation was sent by God and that all deviations are devil's creation. They might understand that the radiation might be the remaining of a nuclear bomb or nuclear war. The sealant people might help Waknuk in education and they themselves may build the machines like ...
- 19009: Tim Paterson
- Tim Paterson, also known as the "Father of Dos" is the computer programmer who created the world's most widely used computer program: DOS. Creating DOS at age 24, Paterson claims, "it is an accomplishment that probably can't be repeated by anyone ever." After Paterson graduated from University of Washington in Seattle with a bachelors of science degree, he tried going to graduate school but lost interest. "I thought they were too oriented ... operating system. Ive always hated CP/M and thought I could do it a lot better." Little did he know before he started the project that he was about to create the "the world's most widely used computer program." By the spring of 1980, Paterson had created a program called QDOS.10 (stands for Quick and Dirty). After finding bugs in the program, he fixed the problem and ...
- 19010: The Sextants Of Beijing
- ... and ideas. However, at the same time they were feared that they might lose political and moral as well as their Chinese values and traditions. In each chapter, the author explained the overview of China's contracts with other civilizations, how China participated in a network of international exchange all around the world. In the book, it started out from the year between 629 through 645, which was the Tang dynasty ... this period the most influential features of the traffic were the spread of Buddhism from India to China. Along with them, they took elements of Confucianism and other cultural aspects of Chinese civilization. The China's first identical interaction with Europe and European culture was during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. The urbanization added series of developments including the spread of literacy among both men and women, much wider abilities of ... through the Jesuit missionaries. In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the connection of trade through Southeast Asia and the trade linked to European nations through their colonial activities in Asia. The Qing empire didn't want to allow Europeans to access China's market but they played a central part in Qing empire, which represented a major political and cultural force in the region. Also in the eighteenth century, ...
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