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- 9341: The Conflict in Chechnya
- The Conflict in Chechnya "Slave, who doesn't try to escape slavery - deserves double slavery" Imam Shamil and Naiby - The legendary Chechen freedom fighter. On August 22, 1991, thousands of people gathered in the main square of Grozny, the capital city of the ... Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The jubilant Chechens viewed this as their Independence Day. At the end of the summer of 1991, Dzokhar Dudayev led a movement that expelled the conservative Communist establishment in Grozny. Dudayev's strongly nationalistic group formed a National Guard, declared the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR) dissolved, and proclaimed Chechnya a sovereign republic that would define its future relationship with Russia by treaty. The day ... Republic and ordered a battalion of troops to fly in to restore order. The Chechens rallied to defend their republic. "On November 11, by a vote of 177 to 4, the Russian Parliament rejected Yeltsin's decree and called for the situation to be settled "not by applying emergency measures but by political means." (Herze, P. B., The Chechens: Perennial Rebels of the Caucus.) The parliament's efforts to secure ...
- 9342: Film Development
- ... 8mm film, primarily because that is what most poor, independent filmmakers use. So now I will explain the process which I find amazing, film developing. The Bucket Method has many advantages. The first being it's very quick, taking only about 15-20 minutes to do a roll. It's also hard to screw up, seeing as there isn't much to it. The disadvantage of the Bucket Method is that you will undoubtedly get scratches on your film, as well as these funny little lines that will dance all over the screen. If ...
- 9343: The Cask of Amontillado: Irony and Foreshadowing
- ... seeks revenge when the story starts of with Montresor saying, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge,” (1178). Montresor preys Fortunato’s weakness, priding himself on his connoisseurship in wine, to get his revenge. At dusk, Montresor approached Fortunato during the supreme madness of the carnival they were attending. Knowing that Fortunato is drunk, he asks him ... refuse. Montresor takes him to his catacombs and leads him down to where the pipe is supposed to be. As they are walking, you notice more foreshadowing to the death of Fortunato when he say’s, “ the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough,” and Montresor replies, “ True – true,“ (11800). But unlike his name suggests, Fortunato is not so fortunate. He does not realize that he is walking towards his own death, and example of dramatic irony. While Fortunato is drunk, he gives Montresor a sign that he doesn’t understand. The sign is that of a mason. As a sign to prove to Fortunato that he is a mason, Montresor shows his trowel. The trowel is another symbol of foreshadowing because it is ...
- 9344: Life After Death
- Life After Death As the irritating, yet monotonous beeps of the life-monitor in the emergency room began to slowly die away, George struggled to hang on. It's not my time yet, he thought. Please, give me just one more day… The beeps soon became increasingly far in between, while the doctors frantically bustled on in a futile attempt to stabilize the dying ... George wanted to stay. More than anything he cared for, George wanted to stay right here, basking in the light of love. But he felt something pull him back. Wait, not yet, he thought. It's not my time yet... The next moment, George was somehow reunited with his physical body, lying on that uncomfortable hospital bed, amidst the doctors sighing in relief, surrounded no longer by that soft glow, but again by that rhythmic beep, beep, beep… Is there a parallel between George's account of a near-death experience (NDE), and what really happens when we ourselves die? Is there indeed a part of us that conquers death and continues to live a different kind of existence ...
- 9345: Essential Marketing Features A
- ... he was paying in money or exchange goods. Marketing does not start after production but it starts long before the goods or services go into production. Then new Marketing approach goes deeper into the customer's importance, trying to offer the product, I the right place, at the right price and at the right time . Nowadays most of the companies do not start producing goods or offer services before they meet customer's objectives. Therefore companies can be divided into two categories, the Market-driven and the internally oriented business. Market driven businesses focus on the customer. They define the markets that fall within firms' business. All the departments of the company have in mind that the success of the business is depended entirely on the customer's satisfaction. They know exactly how the customers' criteria are set, trying to match their Marketing Mix with these criteria. Market driven businesses acknowledge the important role of marketing and they invest in market research ...
- 9346: Does The Pattern Fit?
- ... distinct steps. These steps explain how Shakespeare organized his works from beginning to end. There are, however, slight variations from play to play. The question is, does this pattern fit the tragedy of Hamlet? Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark does fits the mentioned pattern. The first step is establishing the enveloping situation and the environment or world in which the action takes place. The atmosphere frequently ... very moment they are discussing it is the very moment that it appears to them again. “How now, Horatio? You tremble and look pale. Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you on’t?” “Before my God, I might not this believe without the sensible and true avouch of mine own eyes.” (AI, Si, L64-69) This is where the supernatural occurrence is presented. It is thought by the guards to be the ghost of the newly dead king, Hamlet’s father. The next step, which is the establishment of the political realm, comes directly after. Focusing on the main characters that will have an important part in the plot does this. Shakespeare puts emphasis ...
- 9347: The Summer of The Falcon
- ... grows form childhood to adulthood, In the end of the story, June is not a child anymore. Neither is the falcon. It has fully grown and has decided to live independently, without any of June's support. The main theme of the novel is maturity, freedom and realizing the cycle of nature. Of these three, maturity is the most important. When the story begins, June is just a little child, and she hates to do any housework. For example, she dislikes dressing up, cooking, and other chores. We can see that in P.19 "June was still rebellious, "Why can't woman be trained to do something else? Beds and dishes are so horribly dull." But finally, by training the falcon, we can see the comparison between June and Zander(the falcon). First Zander is just ... him grow, because he will not know how to handle the freedom and how to control himself, so he will do the things that may harm other people and himself. In the novel, when June's mother and father are out for a journey, she gets freedom for the first time. Due to her lack of experience and her age, she doesn't realize that will be dangerous. She foolishly ...
- 9348: Michelangelo
- ... who defeated Goliath, actually was. David is shown by Michelangelo as a lithe nude youth, muscular and alert, looking off into the distance as if sizing up the enemy Goliath. The fiery intensity of David’s facial expression is termed terribilità, a feature characteristic of many of Michelangelo’s figures and of his own personality. David, Michelangelo’s most famous sculpture, became the symbol of Florence and originally was place in the Piazza della Signoria in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine town hall. With this statue, Michelangelo proved to his ...
- 9349: Work Stress
- ... Peptic ulcers 8. Constipation 9. Rheumatoid arthritis10. Colitis11. Menstrual difficulties 12. Nervous dyspepsia 13. Overactive thyroid gland 14. Skin disorders 15. Diabetes mellitus16. Tuberculosis Research conducted by Woolfolk and Richardson in 1978 further confirmed Blyth's list that hypertension, coronary disease, infections, and ulcers are highly related to the amount of prolonged stress an employee is subjected to. Evidence for a causal relationship between hypertension and stress was seen in a ... Moreover, many cases of spousal abuse, child abuse, alcohol abuse, dysfunctional families are a result of overstressed employees unable to diffuse or cope with the anger and frustration building up within them. The 1978 IACP's report stated that isolation is a common side-effect of working under tremendous stress. For many service practitioners, they are not always readily welcomed by the clients that they serve. A prime example would be ... despair at failing as a parent 12. Feelings of dread toward an approaching weekend 13. Reluctance to vacation14. Sense that problems cannot be discussed with others 15. Short attention span 16. Claustrophobic 3.0 Management's Role in Reducing Work Stress Employee stress can have an enormous impact to an organization in terms of cost. As many studies have shown, there is a high correlation between stress and job performance. ...
- 9350: Hamlet To Kill Or Not To Kill
- ... the ghost. By doing this, he could see the actions of Claudius while he saw the acted killing in front of his own eyes. I'll have the grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. -Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii 615-617 If the king went into an outrage, Hamlet would know that he was the killer of his father, therefor proving to himself that Claudius was indeed the killer, and the ghost wasn't part of his imagination. Of course then again, if he didn't have to prove it to himself, then he could have killed Claudius right away. The play did come with a success. Claudius did show his disapproval of the play, proving to Hamlet that he ...
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