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- 5351: Guatemala
- ... direction, and the majority of the people are happy with it. The economy of Guatemala is very poor and it still trying to recuperate from all its complications of the wars and power struggle, it's product per capita of only $3,208and the wealth is kept among the upper classes. Bell: "The economy in Guatemala has never been really stable, or all that great, its more been like an unstable ... is trying to recuperate. About 60 percent of the people are employed in agriculture. Coffee is a major commodity; it counts for 25 percent of the export earnings. Because of the fact that Guatemala hasn't kept with the heavy movement of people in Guatemala City and other City's which has resulted to lots of un-employment. Education in Guatemala is not at the best point; the adult literacy rate is only 56 percent. It is higher for males and for urban dwellers. ...
- 5352: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight: Stanza 74
- ... Gawain, amidst an ethical dilemma, accepts the gift and chooses to conceal it from Lord Bertilak. This passage contains three of the main themes of the story the inner and outer conflicts between Sir Gawains ethics and desire to live, and the test of religion. When Sir Gawain is offered the girdle, his knightly principles are questioned. The honorable thing would be to reject the offer or bring it to the lord of the castle, but Gawain places the preservation of his life ahead of chivalry. The knight has withstood the ladys constant barrage of sexual advances, and kept his promise to the lord of the castle, but when the chance to save his life is presented, he snatches it up without a second thought. This point is shown by the way the author puts "Outright" on a line of its own, emphasizing Gawains quick decision. He is then ecstatic about the thought that he will survive his meeting with the knight the next day, shown by "often thanks gave he/ With all his ...
- 5353: Walmart And Why It Is Good For
- ... consumption of the consumer. Wal-Mart and its quest for capital improvement are playing a major and vital role in the evolution of economic life. Wal-Mart brings positive change to towns in the U.S. They increase competition between retailers, stimulating the economy, and they also bring more capital and tax revenue to at town, some of which desperately need a positive change. I think it s just the natural evolution of growth, says Cynthia Lin, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mat in California. Wal-Mart s expansion and growth, like that of many other large retailers such as K-Mart, Buy Mart and Fred Meyer, is part of a bigger picture involving the evolution of the economy and the way ...
- 5354: The Key To Greatness (great Ga
- ... mistress, marriage, and true love were the different kinds of love that existed. Tom Buchanan was married to a woman named Daisy, but had a mistress who lived in the Valley of Ashes. The mistress's name was Myrtle Wilson. She would wear a tight, brown dress to give the impression that she were rich. Myrtle was not happy with where she was at. She was married to a dirty, greasy mechanic named George Wilson. Myrtle would use Tom to get into the upper-class. Tom in return would go out and show off his girl. "Tom's got some woman in New York. . . She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner time. Don't you think?"(Fitzgerald 16). Everyone knew about Tom's woman, including Daisy. Daisy would not let he feelings about the situation show through to Tom. Tom and Myrtle's love would soon bring Myrtle ...
- 5355: Allegory In Young Goodman Brown
- ... himself interfere with his relations with the community after he meets with the devil, and causes him to live the life of an exile in his own community. "Young Goodman Brown" begins when Faith, Brown's wife, asks him not to go on an "errand". Goodman Brown says to his "love and (my) Faith" that "this one night I must tarry away from thee." When he says his "love" and his ... Eve story is similar to Goodman Brown in that they are both seeking unfathomable amounts of knowledge. Once Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge they were expelled from their paradise. The Devil's staff eventually leads Goodman Brown to the Devil's ceremony which destroys Goodman Brown's faith in his fellow man, therefore expelling him from his utopia. Goodman Brown almost immediately declares that he kept his meeting with the Devil and no longer wishes ...
- 5356: Macbeth: Occurrences That Led To Macbeth's Downfall
- Macbeth: Occurrences That Led To Macbeth's Downfall Macbeth, a tragedy by William Shakespeare, is the story of a man who became so ambitious that he brought upon his own downfall. Macbeth had many elements in his life that many peopled admired. Macbeth was a strong leader, had a beautiful and faithful wife, good friends, and a beautiful castle. Many of Macbeth's characteristics made him a stalwart leader. A particular characteristic, his ambition, contributed to Macbeth's tragic downfall. Many surrounding occurrences aided to Macbeth's confidence that he could not be defeated. Lady Macbeth, the witches, apparitions, and ambitiousness were what led to the tragic downfall of Macbeth. Lady Macbeth ...
- 5357: Surfacing - A Reason To Kill
- A Reason To Kill Margaret Atwood's Surfacing is an intensely symbolic novel about an artist whose weekend trip home to search for her missing father turns into a journey of self discovery. The main character in the story is also the narrator and is not given a name probably because readers will be able to identify with her as the story's heroine. Early in the story, she talks about being married, divorced, and having a child. Later it is made known that she was never married, but has had an affair with her art professor. As ... are several references to jars, bottles and tin cans. These items represent methods of containing or imprisoning life : "I put the worms in a can and some dirt for them." They also represent the narrator's own emotional life which has been put into jars preventing her from being able to feel. The narrator knows that she has feelings, but the trauma of having an abortion has caused her to ...
- 5358: Crime and the Black Market in Modern Day China
- Crime and the Black Market in Modern Day China With a population of approximately 1,203,097,268 people , China, who has the world's largest population, also has the world's fastest growing black market and crime problem. In China, crime rates have been climbing an estimated 10 percent a year since the early 1980s . China is a country that is currently experiencing both political and ... market is a virtual warehouse of "plundered goods". It is estimated that there are at least thirty illegal high tech factories in China that can churn out over 20,000 optical discs a day. America's Microsoft estimates that 98 out of every 100 of its software programs being used in China are illegal copies . Because of these statistics, and because this only amounts to a small amount of the ...
- 5359: The Use Of Psychics In Police
- ... by a psychic. This case was one of the most famous murder cases in British history, that of Jack the Ripper. In August of 1888 six murders of prostitutes in the Whitechapel district of London's east end occurred, all of which were similarly butchered. After the fifth murder Scotland Yard still had no suspects or no leads, so they decided to call in one off the most prolific psychics of ... to tell police where he had been at the times of the murders and had a history of having a split personality and demonstrating violence towards women. After a thorough police investigation into the doctor's background it was learned that he was a cousin of the Queen. This along with the fact that the police had no other evidence to link Gull to the murders, was all it took to ... drowning when she was twelve (Doran 87). In of the more publicized cases in which Alexander assisted police, Alexander was able to tell a policeman by radio precisely where the body would be located. Doran's article describes what occurred: "She told the seashore he would walk by a tile pipe trickling water, he would then have to step over some fallen trees and lastly he would find the body ...
- 5360: Stalin: Did his Rule Benefit Russian Society and the Russian People?
- ... though Stalin made improvements in the Russian industrial system, his rule did not benefit Russian society and the Russian people. In order to accomplish this, several questions must be asked. How did Stalin affect Russia's industrial power? How did Stalin try to change Russia's agricultural system? What changes did Stalin make in society? What were Stalin's purges, and who did they effect? Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili was born on December 21, 1879, on the southern slopes of the Caucasus mountains, in the town of Gori. His mother, Ekaterina was the daughter ...
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