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- 28691: American Dream, The Great Gats
- ... an old acquaintance, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is an incredibly rich man, who attempts to win his love with his money. He knows that without his money, his chance with Daisy is impossible. Excluding the Wilson’s, each character is given the easy path of life. Money brings them happiness and love. The Wilson’s who work hard for what they have, are viewed as troubled and unhappy. Each of the characters represents money. What distinguishes each character from each other is how they use and view their money. Gatsby ...
- 28692: ON POVERTY
- ... But the revolution went parallel with Protestant ethic and the laissez-faire economic view. These two had important effects on the poor. The Protestant ethic emphasised individualism, the view that one is responsible for one's action and conditions in life. People tended to be judged according to their wealth. The laissez-faire economic theory claimed that the economy and society in general would best prosper if business and industries were ... the costs of labour down. Moreover in welfare state there were also the same pressures to keep welfare payments down and that one of the reasons introduced in 1970s and 1980s has been the capitalism's inability to meet even the limited costs of the welfare state constructed after 1945. The process of economic restructuring in the world also encouraged a dual labour market with well-paid jobs at the core ...
- 28693: The Controversy of Capital Punishment
- ... and lethal injection (introduced in 1977 by Oklahoma), the majority of states provide for death by lethal injection. Supporters of the death penalty believe it is a better deterrent than imprisonment because taking an offender’s life is a more severe punishment. They also argue that no adequate deterrent in life imprisonment is effective for those already serving a life term who commits murder while incarcerated, those who have not yet ... life term if arrested, revolutionaries, terrorists, traitors, and spies. The classic moral arguments in favor of the death penalty have been scriptural and retributive. For example, the statement from the Bible that “whosoever sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed” (Genesis 9:6) has usually been interpreted as a divine warrant for putting a murderer to death. “Let the punishment fit the crime” is its secular counterpart ...
- 28694: Biome Broadcast
- ... down the mountain about ten feet. We all ran over to her and discovered she had broke her leg. Darian and I went to find some branches so we could make a splint for Laura’s leg. We found some branches and went back over to Danny and Laura. We assembled a splint and put it on Laura’s leg. It was just strong enough for her to be able to walk. So we continued making our way down the mountain and luckily we found a compass! We knew we had to travel north ...
- 28695: Communism 2
- ... which does not harm others... It is a question of the liberty of man regarded as an isolated monad, withdrawn into himself." Marx elaborates: "The right of property, is, therefore, the right to enjoy one's fortunes and dispose of it as he will; without regard for other men and independently of society... It leads every man to see in other men, not the realization, but rather the limitation of his own liberty."(On the Jewish Question) Marx's solution, the route to human emancipation, was Communism, which would give people the freedom that bourgeois society denies them. Communism is, he explains, "the positive transcendence of private property, or human self-estrangement, and therefore ...
- 28696: Microsoft: A Monopoly
- ... theory this is true, it does not give the real facts of how powerful Microsoft and Bill Gates are in the computer software industry. Gates is counting ALL categories of software from spreadsheets, to children's games, to computers for banks, and the newest WebTV. What the government is focusing on is a much smaller category, the market for the operating- system software that runs personal computers. To make Gates's theory more clear, it is as if Gates is talking about the whole drinking business, from beer, to soda, to Kool-Aid, to milk. But the government is only talking about soda. If Bill Gates ...
- 28697: To Sir With Love - Change
- To Sir With Love - Change Change: Man's ability to adapt his thinking In the novel To Sir With Love various human characteristics are portrayed. Of these, the idea that humans are able to adapt and change their way of thinking seems to ... going through many changes that ultimately result in their coming to change their way of thinking about each other. In life, as in this fictionalized account, the ability to adapt to the world around one's self is a very important trait. In my own life, this has occured on many occasions. Thus, it can be said that to be able to change and adapt ourselves and our ways at looking ...
- 28698: Riches, Knowledge, and Power....
- ... of things and figure out things nobody else could. Also I would choose knowledge because being smarter in figuring things out, would be much better then being rich because if you had knowledge you wouldn't need to be rich. If i was extreamly smart, I could build an invention that would probably help mankind. I could maybe devolp a cure for dieases, or make a new transportation vehicle that would ... in my life span would be a challenege. Everything would be so easy to finish or accomplish because i'd already know how to do it. Being smart would also be bad because you wouldn't learn new intreasting things like how a car works, or even being excited by going on your first roller coaster ride because you would already know the motion you would be going at and the ...
- 28699: Armadillo
- ... carry. They all are great burrowers. They sink a hole with them in it as one approaches. It takes a good man to haul even a little one back if it is halfway down it's retreat under the ground. They are active, running with a tiptoe trot. Their trot is as an aged pony that is tired. They have a varied diet. They hunt by night. Today's Armadillos are not the biggest armadillos that have ever existed. The soil of South America is full of larger Armadillo bones from the past. Some of the past bones were as much as sixteen feet ...
- 28700: Medieval Castles
- ... very frequent and many employees were assigned to it. The castle was the heart and soul of the country. The king and queen and all of their loyal servants were inside, running the country. That’s why villains would raid the castles for land or money, knowing that they could hold the king and queen for ransom. A interesting fact about castles were the kids who’s job was to go to a certain spot inside the castle and place the ear on the ground listening for any sound that represented men digging. This helped the soldiers inside the castle to dig ...
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