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- 3001: Penguin Books: Introduction to Modern Business
- ... ten Penguin paperbacks. Today, over 600 million paperbacks are sold yearly. At a time when there was still little of entertainment, paperback books brought reading to the masses. Nowadays, paperback books bring reading to the world. During the last six years (1990-1996) Penguin Books Limited was faced with many "environmentalist pressures," with a continuous change inside the company, and competitors trying to imitate its successful innovations on both sides of ... including some major best sellers and agreed to a joint venture with the BBC for mass market paperbacks and film deals with two major Hollywood studios. During 1993, Penguin accelerated its media involvement by publishing world-wide "The Viking Opera Guide" as a book and CD Rom. In 1994, the publishing industry realised that certain amount of people do choose books on the basis of who publishes them rather than who ... build turnover," said P. Mountain, deputy editor of The Bookseller magazine. In the next months it was seen how different publishers were competing in their own different ways. Penguin and Wordsworth Editions declared a price war selling paperback classics for Pounds 1 each. These "up-market" or "down- market" were the ways of selling literature. In September 1994 Pearson brought a new change by announcing that publishing should be grouped ...
- 3002: Drugs Debate
- ... true desires, even when considering subjective values. The problem lies in the fact that the realization of this true desire might arise only after seeing the consequences or only in inchoate form. In an ideal world, effective police forces could eliminate any mind constricting drugs and this would unarguably be an ideal situation. Since an ideal world doesn't exist, reducing the amount of mind constricting drugs available and creating troublesome consequences for dealing or using them, leans closer to an ideal world than allowing its use. From a utilitarian prospective, the use of mind constricting drugs is immoral since it, if not immediately, eventually, diminishes collective total happiness. For example, if a country were in a ...
- 3003: The Bluest Eye By Toni Morriso
- Post World War I, many new opportunities were given to the growing and expanding group of African Americans living in the North. Almost 500,00 African Americans moved to the northern states between 1910 and 1920. This was ... physically and towards his daughter Pecola sexually. Pauline is a "mammy" to a white family and continues to favor them over her biological family. Pecola is a little black girl with low self esteem. The world has led her to believe that she is ugly and that the epitome of "beautiful" requires blue eyes. Therefore every night she prays that she will wake up with blue eyes. Brought up as ...
- 3004: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
- ... the University of Miami. Lastly in 1973, he received the Order of Merit.[3] Dirac was well known for his almost anti--social behavior, but he was a member of many scientific organizations throughout the world. Naturally, he was a member of the Royal Society, but he was also a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforsher and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He was a foreign member of Academie des ... the American Physical Society, the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in India, the Royal Danish Academy, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.[4] The world wide respect he earned for his work was well deserved. A prolific writer, Dirac published over two hundred works between 1924 and 1987, mainly papers in physics journals on topics relating to quantum mechanics. His ... physics. The theoretical work had been underway for several years before his entry into the field. It was plagued with difficulties, in part because of the radical change in the way one thought about the world around us, and in part because it was a difficult problem. The important developments of the beginning of this century were carried out by Max Plank, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, ...
- 3005: Aristotles The Poetics
- ... a tragic hero. Page 2 Aeschylus makes the audience feel for the tragic hero because Agamemnon had to endure the pain and suffering of sacrificing his daughter and then watch, his people die at a war fought over a woman. The tragedy of the war is briefly described in the beginning of the play. The audience feels a great deal of pity for the young men that died and the families that suffered the loss of a loved one. The reason for the war was meaningless. It was fought to win back a woman. The arousal of fear is provoked in the audience when Cassandra gives the description of the murdered of the children of Thyestes being eaten ...
- 3006: Tupac Amaru And The Comunero Revolt
- ... generally don't acknowledge it as much as the carnage and slaughter we are all so use to reding in history books. For an eighteenth-century rebel perhaps, a revolution is more than the actual war in the battlefield. Although it might be a very important facet of it, the physical is but an outcome of ideas and energy that has been building up for years previous to the confrontation. So ... had been enough by itself to maintain order in the colony."1 Nevertheless, when Spain found itself having to seek external revenue in order to cover the expenses of their participation in the American Revolutionary War, they did not hesitate to consider the establishment of new fiscal policies in New Granada as a certain source of income. After all, they figured if the people hadn't been involved in matters in ... problems that were the original cause of the movement, but nonetheless showed the strength of feeling on the issue). So yes, there were improvements in the financial districts of New Granada, however once the American war was over, there was no longer a need for higher taxes anyway; not to promote troops or to fund naval bases,. Hence, one can surely predict that even without the uprising, the tax situation ...
- 3007: Democracy in Ancient Greece
- Democracy in Ancient Greece The Greeks were very advanced for their time. They realized that they need a new form of government and they were able to invent the first democratic government in the world. The democracy that the Greeks came up with was based on two important factors. The first one was the population growth in Athens grew at a very fast rate. The second was the advocating of ... personal gain. The results though have not always been as what they had expected to have been. Many of the lower classes were treated very unfairly and rulers lost popularity to the lower classes. Civil war was even about to break out at one point due to Draco's codes and laws. When civil war almost broke out in Athens the codes and laws were once again revamped. This time a pathway was attempted to be laid down that would accommodate both the upper and the lower classes. In ...
- 3008: Wutherinng Heights
- ... her social means were somewhat lesser compared to the emotional content surrounding her. Furthermore, writing is such an impassioned state; it could well have been her only means to free her soul toward the outer world. In other words, her writings was the means by which she could search and question her personal knowledge on society. Wuthering Heights develops the search for knowledge or truth that subsequently damns and saves her ... passionate emotions of her savage companion. Social knowledge becomes more important to her : (to Heathcliff) " It is no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing..." (p.69). Catherine starved from the outer world has no choice by primal hunger to assimilate the plush and more intricate social contract that the Linton's offer. She explains her thoughts clearly to Nelly when discussing her marriage proposal. " And he will ... plants have climbed over from the moor..." (p.168). Catherine has chosen a place where she may be as close to the wild moors of her youth while never leaving the confines of her new world. We are also faced the impossible relation of composing with the Romantic and Victorian differences in character and social context. Emily Bronte might wish us to understand that it is difficult to find in ...
- 3009: Issac Asimov
- ... wrote I, Robot, in this Novel he creates, the term robotics, and the three laws of robotics, which have been adopted by science fiction writer in the present. In his future books, he shows the world his vision of the future of robots through his stories. Today robots are not as advanced as Asimov envisioned they would be, although some of the problems he predicted are arising. Sadly, Isaac will not ... will be greatly missed by the readers of science fiction, although he leaves behind him a legacy, he has forever altered the future of humanity. Isaac coined the term Robotics in 1950, he gave the world laws to govern the robots, most importantly, he greatly influenced the world s vision of future robots for all time, and he did this at a time when not even the simplest one existed. Asimov is a human writing machine, who has published more than 500 ...
- 3010: Media Manipulation
- ... sell a product or service or to promote a political figure by any and all means necessary including brainwashing the general public. Companies try to make the consumer aware of its product and convince the world that its product is better than that of the competitor as seen with the war between McDonalds and Burger King restaurants. This misuse of triggering the subconscious minds induces the public to buy things without knowing they have been deceived. Parents have the heaviest influence in shaping ones values ... propaganda, yet that person does not exist or is a dying breed at best, for every human being has formed at least one opinion/belief based on something the mass media has dictated to the world. The mass media prevents us as human beings to be fully human. Propaganda unconsciously causes the public to act in ways they may not have, had they not been exposed. Values and attitudes no ...
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