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- 27211: World Cultures: Comparing China and the United States
- ... of their communist government. They want to do everything for the good of the group, or their country, the more they can help out the better. The government of China you probably already know, it's one of the last communist governments left in the world. In a communist government the government runs everything, the businesses and jobs, they pay everyone equally. This does though have problems. People have no incentive ... been Communist ever since then. There are no social classes in a Communist society everyone is equal and on the same level, because everyone is supposed to have the same amount of money. This didn't work quite exactly right though in China because leaders in the government become corrupt and take more money for them self. So realistically there are two social classes, the government and high ranking officials, and ...
- 27212: Diplomatic Immunity
- Diplomatic Immunity INTRODUCTION United Kingdom, 1982 While unloading the ship which carried the embassy's materials, one box marked "household effects" dropped from a forklift. More than six hundred pounds of marijuana worth 500,000 British pounds (1982 prices) spilled dockside. For centuries governments have used ambassadors, and diplomats to ... country is also involved. Once a diplomat is accused of a crime in the host country the only means possible to bring the diplomat to justice is to have the sending country waive the diplomat's immunity. In most cases the sending country wishes to protect its reputation and ultimately the reputation of the diplomat, therefore refusing to give up immunity. The question of rescinding immunity brings up the second major aspect of this topic. When a crime is committed what options do the two countries have to solve the problem? The first option is to have the sending country waive the diplomat's immunity, allowing the diplomat to be punished for the crimes committed in accordance with the laws of the host nation. While this is a preferable solution, it is not very common as explained earlier. ...
- 27213: The Work of Poet and Philosoher Archibald Lampman
- ... body dwells no more Or mind or soul,--an idiot! I take this strange group to mean two things: a divorce of intellect and coporeality, to the corruption or both; and a division of society's destructive implications for individuals and societies alike. It hath no name that rings; But I have heard it called in dreams The City of The End of Things When the poet sayshe hears of the ... that "moulder out and die" reflect the extinictions of imaginative energy that has long since doomed its residents. The visionary faculty is eclipsed, and with it the source and song that make us human. Lampman's emphasis on the inhuman character of the place amplifies the horror as a grim transfiguration of our own society. In this city of the damned, behavior follows neither instinct nor intelligence, but comforms to an ... shall flee Their incommunable skill. A stillness as absolute as death. Again we see the author giving character to death, but this passage focuses on another topic. The topic is machine vs Man. The "Master's touch" shall flee, their "incommunable" skill, here we see Lampman show that he believes machines can never have the qualities that man has. Man can never program a machine to act as he does, ...
- 27214: The Impact of the Second Industrial Revolution on Europe
- ... of quinine opened up Africa. Quinine was a medical advancement in which protected Europeans from Malaria. Africa was very attractive to the Europeans due to its rich supply of raw materials. Africa and all its rich land was spilt between the European countries. Most of the continent went to Britain and France. Belgium acquired the very rich land of the Congo. Germany and Italy were late comers and were forced ... search of jobs as unskilled workers. They lived in overcrowd tenements or factory barracks, working long hours, often for very low wages. These new city residents and workers both drove the Industrial Revolution and Europes new prosperity and were its principal victims. Disease was another social consequence in which effected the new workers of the cities across Europe. Tuberculosis was a major killer in 1870. TB is an airborne disease ... to organize and therefore become more powerful and allowed them to take a stand against the owners who controlled the capitalist society. With the large size of the working class many governments took the workers side against the factories in fear of revolution. The governments had two choices either gradualism, which extended the vote or revolution. Most governments decided to extend the vote and loose political power and avoid ...
- 27215: Congressmen and Their Influences
- ... perceptions that people have between these two branches of government. It can shift quickly producing conflict and also compromise. It may produce a better bargaining relationship where the two try to accommodate each others agenda's where they overlap. The President is also able to influence congress down to the individual members by lobbying them directly for their support or by giving or withdrawing patronage services. Members of the same party ... time or be diparaged for his ties to to the executive branch. Natural allegiances between the President and members of congress, such as party, geographic concerns and economic priorities help greatly to advance a President's goals. These members may be an advocate all the way to the floor and within the committees. Other informal ties help to influence the Executive-Legilative relationship as they work together. For the first two years of Clinton's term, he worked with a unified government to pass many of his ideas that he gained support for through public appeals. Many of the members who supported the President were passed over for re- ...
- 27216: Florida Should Legalize Euthanasia
- ... keep many of the people who live on machines from terminally or incurable diseases would be saved, many families would not have to watch there family member die slowly, and many stories like Sue Rodriguez's would never be. In the first place, health care on people with incurable or deadly diseases cannot be paid by many people because of no medical insurance according to Euthanasia questions by the IAETF. The ... in incurable or agonizing pain situations with the better and cheaper treatment of death. Next, not all family life is harmonious, and underlying pathology can often be exacerbated by the stresses of a family member's terminal illness bring says an article in Law Medicine & Health Care of 1992. If euthanasia is legalized the family members of a patient could sleep peacefully knowing that they have been "mercied" and died easily ... Finally, let me tell you a true story from Vess Fast Access TO Information On Euthanasia, about a 31-year old mother named Sue Rodriguez. Sue Rodriguez was dying slowly of the incurable Lou Gehrig's disease. She lived several years with the knowledge that the disease would one by one waste away her muscles until the point while still conscious the lack of muscles would choke her to death. ...
- 27217: A Biography on Carl Sandburg
- ... thirty eight, he published the book, Chicago poems. Two years later, at the age of forty, he published Cornhuskers. The public loved these two marvelous books. Other poets accepted them as wonderful. In the 1920's he became so popular, that he quit journalism to write full-time as a career. He also moved away from the black ink to write songs. Some were accepted into songbooks, such as The Songbag ... was then transformed into an American Marvel. he was very interested in the Ideas of Democracy and Liberty. He was inspired by great men, such as Abraham Lincoln, who was shot eighteen years before Sandburg's birth. He was so inspired that he wrote a book about the man's life. It was called Abraham Lincoln: The war years volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4. These were published in the year 1939, at the late age of 61. The series was so strong and ...
- 27218: The Night Journey In Heart Of
- ... expedition into the mind, which the reader experiences through Marlow, the protagonist. As a 'night journey', the novella informs the reader that all men are capable of abhorrence, of abomination. Conrad effectively illustrates one man's acquaintance with evil through the literary concepts of characterisation, symbol, writer in context, ideology and, reader positioning and the point of view. There are essentially only two characters that are significant to the notions and ... of the night journey of Heart of Darkness are described through the character of Marlow who acts as a mediator as he tells the story. Depth and meaningfulness are given in the text, through Marlow's function, serving as a conciousness. Even before the journey to the Congo, Marlow provides a sense of depravity when he comments (on page 33) that Africa ' had become a place of darkness.' Marlow further describes ... still as a house in a city of the dead' (pg 37). The knitters 'guarding the door of darkness' are often seen as the Fates in Greek mythology, the goddesses who spin threads of men's lives and thus determining their fate. The natives in the text hold symbolic roles as they are mistreated by 'whites', generally caucasians who possess authority over them. The evil in such acts is one ...
- 27219: The Crucible: John Proctor Had Common Sense
- ... bad name. He always wanted to have a good name. When in court John was questioned as to whether he was having or not having an affair with Abigail. The questions were directed toward John's wife Elizabeth. Proctor had made certain to the judge that Elizabeth could not and certainly would not lie. Sure enough, when Elizabeth was questioned she ended up lying to try to save her husbands reputation ... is taking place, it enables the reader to be in suspense right up until the end. "To some people this play may not be a creation of dramatic art, rather a concoction of the author's contriving mind." I disagree with this because I feel as though this is a dramatic form of art because many elements were shown which make something dramatic such as the accusations and the trial in ... the judges, Abigail and her friends claim that they can feel the presence of the devil like a rushing, mighty wind, which is magnificently dramatic and theatrical. It is safe to say the Arthur Miller's play was based on troublous times, and because certain elements of the society look at the theater as "a weapon in the class war," the play can bee seen from many different views. A ...
- 27220: The Crucible
- The Crucible The poem I have chosen to write has to deal with honesty and loyalty. In the story written by Arthur Miller, The Crucible, its major theme is truth and whether or not lying is better and under what circumstances it is acceptable. I will relate the theme of truth and honesty to other themes in the book and discuss ... concerned about his position than about his sick daughter. Even when he questions Abigail in Act I about what took place in the woods, he begins to make up lies, so that his enemies dont find out the truth. He made up stories and denied that he even spoke to her. Just as I said in line 21 of my poem, that there is always a time for truth and ...
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