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- 6401: Jobs Are Not For Everyone
- ... not for me, at least not at this point in my life. Many different employers have employed me and I have had a taste of what the job world is all about, but I don’t want any part of it. Every job I have had has had people above me who were not always the most intelligent people around. There is nothing I hate more than unintelligent people telling me ... the most difficult part of being employed to me. At the grocery store that I worked at for a short period of time, I remember being constantly pulled aside and being told that I wasn’t bagging the groceries properly. The strange part was that when my boss would tell me these things he would always take me to isle seven to yell and scream at me. Why couldn’t he take me into his office where it would be private? Instead he would make a big scene in front of all the old women shopping for those lovely canned foods and completely embarrass ...
- 6402: Cloning
- ... had been ongoing for over 40 years. Up until now, scientists thought that adult cells could not be “reprogrammed” to behave like a fertilized egg and create an embryo, but the evidence obtained by Dolly’s success prove otherwise. The issues of cloning have been around for a long time, starting with the publication of Joshua Lederberg’s 1966 article on cloning in the American Naturalist, and the publics interest has been perked by many sci-fi books, films, and movies including Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New World,” 1973’s “Sleeper,” the 1978 film “The Boys from Brazil,” and most recently, the movie “Multiplicity” (Mario, Christopher). The ethical, legal, and moral issues aroused by cloning have been ...
- 6403: Tragedy Of Macbeth From Macbet
- William Shakespear's Macbeth is a macabre tale of the downfall of a noble man who goes from being revered as "O' valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!" (I,ii,24)at the beginning of the play to being reviled as "abhorred tyrant" (V, vii, 10) by play's end. The play unfolds this downward spiral from heroism to villainy with some of Shakespeare's most dramatic and descriptive language. Shakespeare unifies his tragedy with a number of image patterns which help to create atmosphere, establish theme, and elucidate character. The imagery of clothing in Macbeth is used to ...
- 6404: Findley's The Wars: Analysis
- Findley's The Wars: Analysis The Wars by Timothy Findley is a tragic story of a boy who goes to war, suffers many hardships and never gets to go back home. The novel focuses around a boy ... his friends die off and finally Robert passes away as well. After being horribly burned, he dies 6 years later on a hospital bed. The novel deals with all aspects of war and a soldier’s life, but most of all it illustrates just how horrible war really is. The Wars is an accurate portrayal of what life was like for the combatants in the first world war. Evidence of this ... a tragic end. Furthermore, from the conflicts on the battlefield, to the conflicts of the mind, to the final conflict before death, like real soldiers, the characters in the novel cannot avoid crises. Finally, Findley’s theme is that war is one horrible tragedy after another for all who are involved. Robert Ross could have been any soldier in the First World War by another name. He went through many ...
- 6405: Great Depression
- The 1930's An Age of Depression The Great Depression was started on October 24th also known as “Black Thursday” when the Stock Market crashed. When this happened many thousands of banks failed, sending millions of people to the unemployment line. Also at the time there was an extensive drought in the United States of America. The Hindenberg was another disaster that happened in the 1930's, the Hindenberg was the length of three football fields and was held aloft by 7 million cubic feet of hydrogen gas. It also had giant Swastika’s painted on the tail fins. The Hindenberg was coming in to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Onlookers spotted flames near the stern of the enormous zeppelin. In seconds the blimp was a gigantic fireball ...
- 6406: Mark Mcgwire Vs. Sammy Sosa
- During the 1998 baseball season, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa have excited fans with the greatest home run race in the history of the game. By mid-September, both players surpassed Roger Maris's single season record of sixty-one homers, set back in 1961. Sosa and McGwire are both great players. However, McGwire has been getting much more media attention; partly because has led the race most of ... because he has admitted to using a controversial drug called Androstenedione. Although reactions have varied from casual acceptance to utter disgust, many people have proposed that the record books contain an asterisk, cautioning that McGwire's record was the result of Androstenedione use. To verify the need for this asterisk, one must examine the significance of this drug, and compare McGwire with the other home run kings. In any issue involving ... testosterone-producing product that is banned in the NFL, Olympics, and NCAA," they fail to mention that neither the NHL nor the NBA has banned this over-the-counter product. More relevant than the drug's legality is it's effect on McGwire's ability to hit home runs. "In 1987, his rookie year, McGwirehit 49 home runs" (Dimanno). In fact, if McGwire had not been injured so often throughout ...
- 6407: Is the US Policy on Drug Prohibition Effective?
- ... The second cost of this "war" is something economist like to call opportunity costs. Here, we have two resources which are limited: prison cells and law enforcement. When more drug crimes take up law enforcement's time and when more drug criminals take up cells, less ability to fight other crime exists. This becomes significant when an estimated 35-40 million Americans use drugs per year. In 1994, law enforcement arrested ... Samper] was said to have taken money from drug traffickers so that the government would stop other groups from exporting cocaine. Because of the problems South American countries have faced because of Drug Prohibition, Colombia's Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez has written a manifesto declaring the drug war as "useless" (15). Action abroad by the United States has also led to an increase in subversive organizations worldwide. Civil ... The United Nations classifies these rights in three "generations": civil, socioeconomic, and solidarity rights (Peterson). Shielding our people from the dangers of a threatening world, therefore, seems to be an appropriate use of the state's power under socioeconomic rights. The danger in thinking in this manner is that it overlooks the individual's contributions to the nation. These contributions, either positive or negative, are generally difficult to regulate by ...
- 6408: Jobs Are Not For Me
- ... not for me, at least not at this point in my life. Many different employers have employed me and I have had a taste of what the job world is all about, but I don’t want any part of it. Every job I have had has had people above me who were not always the most intelligent people around. There is nothing I hate more than unintelligent people telling me ... the most difficult part of being employed to me. At the grocery store that I worked at for a short period of time, I remember being constantly pulled aside and being told that I wasn’t bagging the groceries properly. The strange part was that when my boss would tell me these things he would always take me to isle seven to yell and scream at me. Why couldn’t he take me into his office where it would be private? Instead he would make a big scene in front of all the old women shopping for those lovely canned foods and completely embarrass ...
- 6409: Hate Crimes
- ... bias, for example: · Involves use of language or symbols, such as anti-gay slurs, racial epithets, or swastikas. · Involves use of objects or items that indicate bias, such as a burning cross on the victim's lawn. · Occurs while the victim was engaged in activities promoting the rights of the targeted group. · Coincides with a religious or cultural holiday, such as Yom Kippur or Gay Pride. There are many different types ... African- American man who was a federal agent, was racially harassed. He had a picture of his two children on his desk, which was defaced with a picture of an ape placed on his son's face, pictures of an African in a native dress, the bruised face of a black man, and a black man and a white woman were all placed in his mail slot at his office. The agent also got invitations to office functions with the words "don't come" written over them, were also put into his mail slot at work. The prejudice and raw hatred revealed in these incidents is only one element of a combustible mixture of social problems that ...
- 6410: Czechoslovakia
- The first inhabitants of the Czech lands were prehistoric fish. That's because the country, at the time, was covered by a prehistoric ocean - thanks to which it is possible to find some very nice fossils of trilobytes in the Czech Republic today. Today's Czech Republic was later populated by dinosaurs of all sorts, and later by neanderthals and even by mammoths. The prehistoric settlement of the present-day Czech Republic by people culminated in the fourth century B ... chased out of the region and in part assimilated by the next peoples to inhabit the area: the Germanic Marcomanni and Quadi tribes from the west and the Romans from the south. (The Romans didn't actually occupy Czech territory - they only got as far north as the Danube River, which flows from Germany - through Austria along its border with Slovakia - and then over to Hungary before continuing on to ...
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