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- 21041: Technology And The Stock Market
- ... in the world.” The key to that leadership has been the state-of-the-art technology and systems development. Technology serves to support and enhance the human judgement at point-of-sale. NASDAQ, the world’s first fully electronic stock market, started trading on February 8th, 1971. Today, it is the fastest growing stock market in the United States. It alo ranks second among the world’s securities in terms of dollar value. By constantly evolving to meet the changing needs of investors and public companies, NASDAQ has achieved more than almost any other market, in a shorter period of time. Technology ... ability to provide new and enhanced information services to their trading desks and institutional customers is provided. They have a comprehensive order-management system, that systematizes and tracks all outstanding orders. Technology gives a market’s member organizations flexibility in determining how to staff their trading floor operations as well as flexiblity in using that market’s provided systems, networks and terminals or interfacing their own technology. They are given ...
- 21042: Bram Stokers Dracula
- ... people there. However, a group of friends, including an open-minded but ingenious professor, a psychologist, an American, a rich man, as well as Jon an Harker and his wife Mina, learn of the Count's sinister plan and pledge to destroy him before he can create an army of un-dead vampires. They systematically destroy his coffins with holy wafers and chase him out of England back to Castle Dracula ... in first person like many other novels but then it differs slightly. The book starts off as a first person Journal of the first character describing his experiences. But then it switches to someone else's journal, and then to letters between two characters, and later to a newspaper article. It follows this pattern roughly throughout the book. At various points, the plot builds up with one character's journal and then it jumps to another character's journal so that you must read a ways through it before the exciti conclusion to that particular event is revealed. At other times deductions must ...
- 21043: Brave New World 2
- ... The over use of soma would actually, therefore, lead to a race of continually depressed, brain-dead people. A society as such can not survive its own mood swings in that situation. Evidence that Huxley s claim is true is also apparent in today s society. The general use, misuse, and abuse of tools such as the internet is one such piece of evidence. The vast amount of knowledge and information to be found there is rendered all but useless ... a society, we can already see what prices we are paying for these advancements. Vast overpopulation is a major problem in many of the countries around the world. With the baby that raised the world s population to 6 billion, we see that we are living longer with a higher standard of living that would promote such growth. Again, this pleasure found in this system can only last so long, ...
- 21044: Heracles
- ... Zeus was not a very good husband to his wife, Hera, the queen of the gods. Zeus has cheated on his wife Hera many times and once with a Greek woman named Alcmene. When Alcmene's husband, Amphitryon, was away, Zeus impregnated her. This made Hera so angry that she tried to prevent the baby from being born. When Alcmene gave birth to the baby she named him Herakles. The Romans ... rest of Hercules life as miserable as she could. When Hercules grew up and had become a great warrior, he married Megara. They had two children. Hercules and Megara were very happy, but life didn't turn out for them the way it does in the movie. Hera made Hercules go so crazy that put him into a great rage. Heracles murdered Megara and the children. When Hercules regained his senses ... to the temple where Apollo gave such advice. It was in the town of Delphi and was called the Delphic oracle. Apollo said that in order to purify himself for the spilling of his family's blood, he had to perform 12 heroic labors. Apollo declared that Heracles had to go to the city of Tiryns where he would serve for 12 years working for Eurystheus. Eurystheus had a reputation ...
- 21045: Breakfast Of Champions- Kurt V
- BREAKFAST OF CHAMPONS- KURT VONNEGUT In Brandon Boyd s Make Yourself he states that if [he] hadn t assembled [himself] that [he] would ve fallen apart, implying that if one does not take the time to understand and build his or her own values and morals that one will live in confusion and falter. Throughout Vonnegut s Breakfast of Champions, Kilgore Trout goes through the process of realizing who he is and then learns to remain true to himself. At first Trout is a pessimist who strives to be heard. Trout ...
- 21046: A Puppet Without Strings
- A Puppet Without Strings The theory behind fate or predetermination has been embedded in today’s society partially due to literature. Sophocles’ Oedipus The King perpetuates this ideology that the title character pursues a path which happens to be foretold. Oedipus was determined to save his city and discover his identity ... brought it upon himself, what he sought to find out was intentionally kept from him, in the words of the prophet Teiresias, “how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise! (Page 23, line 316)” At first, Oedipus appears to be genuinely concerned about the welfare of his citizens. He is anxious to do all in his power to ensure that the plague that engulfed ... the city was ameliorated by avenging the murder of Laius. But evidently, the people were not his primary concern. Oedipus virtually attacks the prophet when Teiresias challenges him with the truth: “you are the land’s pollution! (Pg. 25, line 353)” and “I say you are the murderer of the king whose murderer you seek. (Pg. 26, line 360)” Oedipus calls Teiresias a false prophet, ridicules his blindness, and even ...
- 21047: Be True To Thyself
- ... obtain a healthy amount of self-esteem, and confidence can they execute decisions concerning their lives. Until then, their actions are merely mimics or derivatives of the thoughts or beliefs of another. In Ralph Ellison s novel Invisible Man, the nameless protagonist does not possess a definite sense of self, which results in his living his life for others. Primarily, the invisible man emulates his life after other people. The first example of this is how he behaves like his grandfather. On his deathbed the invisible man s grandfather tells him to to keep up the good fight (Ellison16). Following this he was always doing what was right and was considered an example of desired conduct just as [his] grandfather had been (Ellison ... him because there really is not a concrete personality to see. Though the invisible man lives a life of emulation for some time, he eventually retreats from others to discover his identity. The invisible man s first step to living a personally fulfilling life was realizing that his future lies chiefly in [his] own hands (Vanzant 1/15). Consequently, if he does not know what to identify himself with he ...
- 21048: Odysseus: Character and Development
- ... destination. His character also awakings when he is with Kalypso for many years. When Kalypso asks him to stay, and if he would stay she would make him immortal, he politely refuses. But he didn't do it in a unprofessional mannor. He had to make sure he didn't upset her. Odysseus tells her that she is far more beautiful than Penelope, but he was in fact mortal and that he wanted to libe old and die old. His skills handling the situation was ... undescribable. He also had a tendensy to boast profoundly of his accomplishments, such as the many killings. This changes later. When Odysseus finally gets hime, he has help from the Almighty Goddess Athena. He didn't reveal his identity at once. he comes inr ags and initiate a few test. These tests were done to see who in fact were still loyal to him. He had to find away to ...
- 21049: Bill Budd
- Herman Melville s Billy Budd is a story about true goodness. It entails the conflict of good and evil, but more than that it portrays innocence in its most purest form. Innocence is an exploitable commodity. While this ... man aboard Bellipotent, lashes out at Billy who is for the most part defenseless. This is an injustice of biblical proportions. What could have prevented this from happening? Perhaps, if Billy picked up on John s malicious intent the entire tragedy could have been avoided. But, on the other hand Billy was good and sought goodness. That is why he failed to see the evilness in Claggart. To discourage Billy s goodness is to compromise the very thing that makes us human in the first place Humans seek goodness instinctively. Thus, it is society s innate responsibility to protect the good (naïve) from those who ...
- 21050: Bilbo The Hobbit
- ... little people, smaller than" dwarves. They love peace and quiet and good tilled earth." A respectable race, hobbits lived for serenity. Bilbo himself enjoyed sitting outside, smoking his wooden pipe. Now if a dilemma hadn't reared its ugly hear, Baggins would probably still be at his house, his worst fear only dealing with messy housekeeping. Such, however is not the case. Gandalf, the Great Wizard himself, and thirteen dwarves (their ... an adventure filled with dangers, dragons, gold, and most certainly unpeaceful realms. As hobbits will do, Bilbo found himself on enchanted paths, wishing he had never gone. He hoped to indeed live up to Gandalf's standard of him, since he was the one who chose him to journey into the desolate lands of Smaug, a golden- red dragon who had stolen hoards of gold and silver wrought by the dwarves ... help of a Ring, enchanted to make the wearer invisible. "Bless my soul, a hobbit CAN be useful!" But usefulness in itself does not a task complete. There was still the fact that the dwarf's gold had not been claimed, and Smaug still lay in the heart of the mountain. The band of travelers had crossed much terrain, hills, mountains, swamps, and gloomy forests, including the dark Mirkwood itself. ...
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