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- 23681: Strikes and Alternative Forms of Coping
- ... will try to prove that he not as goad as that player and that he deserves less. After a contract has been reached both sides are usually content and proceed with their jobs. Labor doesn't always have to go on strike to get managements attention. There are numerous alternatives, however I will only concentrate on two of these alternatives; slacking and sabotage. Alternative coping behaviors may or may not be ... they are for a group. If an individual is caught he or she is likely to be fired or to have their wages reduced to pay for the repair or replacement of the damaged article(s). If a group is seen to be purposely sabotaging stuff, management is more likely to force the entire shift to pay to replace or repair the damages, then they are to fire an entire shift ... sabotage are most likely to be used by the worker who possess' very little strike power, meaning if labor were to go strike management would have problem replacing them with scabs. By public sector employee's, who are forced to under go compulsory arbitration in the event that they cannot reach a settlement on their own and by workers designated as providing "essential" services, such as firefighters or police officers. ...
- 23682: AIDS
- ... AIDS AIDS is defined as a disease, at least moderately predictive of defects in cell-meditated immunity, occurring in a person with no known cause for diminished resistance to that disease. Such diseases include Kaposi's Sarcoma, Pneumocystiscarnii pneumonia, and serious other opportunistic infections. After the discovery of HIV and the development of HIV-antibody test, the case definition of AIDS was updated to reflect the role of the virus in ... the scope of the definition remained almost the same. Being one of the most fatal viruses in the nation, AIDS (Acquired Immune deficiency Syndrome) is now a serious public health concern in most major U.S. cities and in countries worldwide. Since 1986 there have been impressive advances in understanding of the AIDS virus, its mechanisms, and its routes of transmission. Even though researchers have put in countless hours and millions ... along with the rash and other sings of acute viral disease. When the blood test for HIV-1antibodies become available, researchers demonstrated the lymphadenopathy was a frequent consequence of infection with the virus. Scientists don’t know what causes the wasting syndrome, but some experts believe that it might result from the abnormal regulation of proteins called monokines. Between 5 and 10 percent of patients with AIDS and HIV-related ...
- 23683: Symbols in "The Glass Menagerie"
- ... Mountain", "The Fire Escape" and "The Unicorn" are symbols in the " Glass Menagerie" Discuss Williams use of these symbols in the "Glass Menagerie". Mirroring, the social and economic despair of the thirties in the U.S, "The Glass Menagerie" in nostalgia for a past world and its evocation of loneliness and lost love celebrates, above all, the human need to dream. Amanda Wingfield resents the poverty - stricken neighborhood in which she ... gracious, southern life in Blue Mountain, when she was pursued by ‘gentleman callers'. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter, Laura, a husband, the kind of gentleman caller that she herself longed for, who wouldn't have deserted her. She foists her illusions on her unwilling children, living in the past with pretensions to glory. "In the South we had so many servants. Gone. All vestige of gracious living! I wasn't prepared for what the future brought me". p.64. The glass menagerie represents an escape from reality for Laura. Tennessee Williams has said: Those little glass animals came to represent in my memory all ...
- 23684: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... know got himself involved more. Many people and ways of life throughout his career including Neoplatonism, the Hindu religion, Plato and even his wife influenced Emerson. He also inspired many Transcendentalists like Thoreau. Emerson didn’t win any major awards, but he did win the love and appreciation of his readers. Literary Information Emerson wrote many genres of writing including poetry and sermons, but his best writing is found in his ... address, commonly referred to as the “Address at Divinity College,” given in 1838 to the graduating class of Cambridge Divinity College, brought about a problem because it attacked religion and pushed independence. Some of Emerson’s famous titles are “Essays”, which was published in 1844, Poems, which was published in 1847, “Nature: Addresses and Lectures”, 1849, and “Representative Men”, 1850. In 1860, he published “Conduct of Life”, which was the first ... and synthesize the metaphysical ideas of Plato” (Encarta). Ralph Waldo Emerson found motivation to write in anything he did, whether it was visiting England, the Transcendental Movement or if it was abolishing slavery. He didn’t receive much fame during his lifetime, but after he passed away in1882, he was remembered for all of his writing, not just one good essay. “Emerson was the most important figure during the Romantic ...
- 23685: Nuclear Weapons and Their Hazards
- ... for most of the people on earth, the food would run out in a matter of a few months if there were no agricultural production for just one growing season. The majority of the earth's human population is vulnerable to starvation following a large-scale nuclear war. As the radiation affect the human, the skin melts on direct contact, buildings collapse, bodies everywhere, pile up everywhere. When we bomb Nagasaki ... Even if you're able to control the nuclear weapons, some people country such as Iraq would buy the weapon or make their own and other country will start another war. In Iraq, Saddam Hussein's nuclear power plants were destroy because Iraq threaten the world so much that you must destroy his power plant. Like the movie, The Day After, one person launched the missile, and the rest of the ... with a huge comisc radioactive cloud and it'll destroy all living things such as baby with three head, fish with five eyes and other thing such as cats with six legs. We really don't have a choice in this matter, the government is the one that sits behind the desk that holds the buttons to launch, its their country. If they wants to blow up the planets they' ...
- 23686: Capitalistic Punishment
- ... eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"...so says the Old Testament of the Judeo-Christian Bible. Throughout history, different societies have incorporated this principle into their legal and cultural lives. In today's context in the United States, this traditional form of retributional theory has taken the form of state-sponsored capital punishment. The infamous "death penalty," legalized nationally in 1976 by Supreme Court decision, has resulted in ... groups of people who seem to gain anything from the death penalty are those with political motivations and aspirations. Politicians seeking votes and prosecutors campaigning for office or advocating personal views play on the public's emotions by using the death penalty as a scare tactic to appear "tough on crime." Maybe those who support capital punishment simply believe in the "eye for an eye" system of justice. This system dictates ... life of another, then the only fair thing to do is to take his or her life in return. But why not end the cycle of killing? If murder is wrong in one instance, isn't it wrong in all instances? Understandably, a convicted killer must be incapacitated, but life imprisonment without the possibility of parole solves this problem without more death. Finances currently devoted to capital punishment legislation could ...
- 23687: Autism
- Autism Autism is a rare mental disorder that impairs a person's abilities. They have the largest problem talking and socializing with others. Autism is usually diagnosed within the first 30 months of life. Autistic children usually appear to be normal as far as their looks are ... something that a person is born with. In 1911 a psychiatrist named Eugene Bleuer, was the first to discover autism, but he referred to it as a basic disturbance in schizophrenia. In the early 1940's two pioneers named Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger published accounts of this disorder. They contained detailed descriptions, and offered the very first attempt to explain autism. Eighty percent of autistic people are seen as mentally retarded. Autistic people seem isolated, and detached from the world, sort of like they are in their own dream world, which is what separates them from mentally retarded people. They don't seem aware that people are around them, including family members. Another thing that separates them from the mentally retarded is their display of strange postures, manners, habits, and compulsions. They might display rocking, hand ...
- 23688: The Trail of Tears
- ... blood, a trail of death, but ultimately it was known as the "Trail of Tears". In this account of the relocation of the Cherokee Nation we are trying to be as unbiased as possible. It’s the War of 1812. Andrew Jackson is mounting up forces against the Pro-British faction of the Creek Indians. The United States appealed for Cherokee support for aid in war against Tukumsa and another Indian ... luxuries such as coffee sugar and soap. Ross and his committees started to work on indemnities due to Cherokees for abandoned property. All Cherokees where invited to present claims to be forwarded to the U.S. authorities for settlement before they left. Cherokees billed the government for things raging from mansions fully furnished to farm animals and house wares. The government would hope to make this money back by the sale ... still paying the price of "betrayal" from hundreds of years ago. In our opinion, many Indians are still traveling the "Trail of Tears". As far as being unbiased, maybe we blew it . . . but we don’t think so.
- 23689: Ordinary Men, Review
- ... cam forward and, face to face, were paired off with their victims. (Browning, 61) The shear atrocity of this was too much for many of the policemen, so alcohol was provided to calm the men s nerves. Only a dozen men stepped out and refused to shoot at all. As the day went on, however, many could not continue. They even had a special technique dubbed the neck shot . The men ... was ordered to lie down on those who were already shot. This was even more inhumane then the previous killings because there were no neck shots , the victims were often only wounded. The wounded wouldn t die instantly, but would be crushed by the next wave of victims being ordered to crawl onto the bodies of their wounded friends and family. Did Police Battalion 101 significantly contribute to the genocide? With ... the death trains. (Browning, 163) There have been a number of tests performed by psychologists that studied the effects of pressure from authority figures on human behavior. By examining one of the most famous, Milgram s electric shock test, it is hard not to draw some parallels. Milgram noticed that if people did not have direct contact with the people they were inflicting pain on, two-thirds of the subjects ...
- 23690: Irish In America
- ... of many Irish beliefs, to never leave your friends behind, and always remember where you came from (Walt). The Irish men became known for hanging out in the Taverns with friends after a hard day's work. At these Taverns the men sang, told stories, and sometimes fought. Out of these barroom brawls came bareknuckle fighting, the precursor to boxing. John L. Sullivan from Roxbury, Massachusetts, soon became well known for ... ourselves, and our home, and they gave us a model of true friendship, the willingness to do anything for a friend. All of these aspects of Irish culture are still alive today. The Dropkick Murphy's, a Boston punk band, uses the themes of Irish culture in many of their songs. As one song goes: Say hey Johnny Boy the battle call, United we stand, divided we fall, Together we are what we can't be alone, We came to this country, you made it our home (Dropkick). This song tells of the camaraderie which the Irish posses, and how they find strength in numbers. One Irish historian states, " ...
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