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- 5301: Major League Baseball Needs A
- ... dollars for their roster.(Weiner, 1) They had all-stars like Kevin Brown, Gary Shefeild, and Bobby Bonnila on their team. The Marlins owner actually lost money that year, but his team still won the World Series. This just proves that without a salary cap any team can win the World Series as long as the owner is willing to put up money to get players and even risk losing money. The salary cap also keeps teams more competitive and closer to equal talent than without ... managers, not over paying average players, and getting good players for good prices. An example of the salary cap not keeping teams competitive is the New York Yankees of 1998. The Yankees basically bought their World Series Championship like the Marlins of 1997, but they proved what big difference it makes when you have the money to have five all-stars on your team. The New York Yankees won over ...
- 5302: Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
- ... name Roark. Rational thinkers, do not make decisions in a give or take scenario, but instead they carefully distinguish between be extremes of the Black, the White, and the median Gray. The Fountainhead, simulates the world as a whitches cauldron, filled with many evils, among which only one true and worthy victor can pervail. Ayn Rand explores the many facets of power within a structural community, relying upon her philosolophy as ... an engine over heated, Toohey is too power hungry, in turn his eminent downfall. He knows quite well that he is incapable of acheiving true power, so his conscience convulges and lash back at the world that he dispise. His destructive natural corrupts and he vows vengence. ‘ I have no private purpose. I want power. I want my world of the future. Let all sacrefice and none profit. Let all suffer and none enjoy. Let progress stop.' Like a fugitive who fear being caught, Toohey has to live in the agony of having ...
- 5303: Frankenstein: Technology
- ... problems technology is causing today. Learn from me. . . at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow (Shelley 101) The popular belief of how Frankenstein came to be written derives from Shelley herself, who explains in an introduction to the ... s discourse community were theological, Bacon, as we have seen, used the authority of theology to validate the rhetoric of science. As science and technology and the persuasiveness of the rhetoric of science changed the world and the way people viewed it, the competing authorities changed their balance until today the rhetoric of science is used to lend authority to religion (Rankin 25, 37). Tillyard confirms the proof of science and ... depended on authorizing some possibility of belief" (Rankin 42). Science provided in the novel provided that authority, creating a foundation story in what the English culture current with Mary Shelley would have taken as real world possibility. The rhetoric of science in fiction is not merely a modern overlay on storytelling, nor is it employed, except fortuitously, to convey newly discovered information about the world. Once upon a time fiction, ...
- 5304: Monopoly And Microsoft
- ... integral part of society. Its software not only includes the Windows operating systems, but spreadsheets, word-processing programs, databases, and reference works. Microsoft programs run on a great percentage of all the computers in the world. We rely upon them to sort, send, and receive information in school, business, and even our personal lives. The Microsoft Network provides online content, and it’s Internet Explorer browser battled Netscape's for market ... their leverage in one market area, such as graphical user interfaces, to gain leverage in another market, such as operating systems, where they may have competition (Maldoom 2). In the preceding example, Microsoft bundles their World Wide Web browser, Internet Explorer, into their operating system, Windows 95/98. Netscape, the maker of Netscape Navigator, currently the most widely used Internet browser on the market is now facing some fierce competition from ... and wants it. We can't limit Microsoft for delivering a product that the public prefers. It's simply the basic economic principle of supply and demand. Works Cited Check, Dan. "The Case Against Microsoft." World Wide Web. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/spazz/mspaper.htm. 1-5. Maldoom, Daniel. "The Microsoft Antitrust Case." World Wide Web. http://www.londecon.co.uk/pubs/comp/microsft.htm. 1-5. “Monopoly.” Webster’ ...
- 5305: Jane Eyre: The Settings
- ... her state of mind, but her circumstances are always defined by the walls, real and figurative, around her. As a young girl, she is essentially trapped in Gateshead. This sprawling house is almost her whole world. Jane has been here for most of her ten years. Her life as a child is sharply defined by the walls of the house. She is not made to feel wanted within them and continues ... eight years. She has learned a great deal but all she finds for herself, when she does finally decide to leave, is "a new servitude." The idea that she might be free in an unbounded world is not yet part of her experience -- in a sense, it never will be. Once again, Jane changes setting and circumstance and into a world that is completely new to her experience. Thornfield is in the open country and Jane is free from restrictions on her movements. Jane has always lived within confining walls and even as a teacher ...
- 5306: Jude the Obscure
- ... name Jude, which is an allusion to Judas Iscariot who was a traitor to Jesus. The name Jude can also be a reference to the wandering Jew. The second symbol is Christminster. Christminster symbolizes a world in which Jude sees how remarkable the Church is, but it is a place that exists only in Jude's imagination. Another symbol that we encounter is that of Samson who is symbolic of man ... encounter a negativity towards religion by the town called Christminster. Christminster can be broken down into Christ and minister. At first, Christminster is symbolic of a place that is supposed to be wonderful like the world of the Church. It is likened to the Church by the phrases in which Hardy uses to describe it. He writes that Jude sees Christminster as "the city of the light," in fact it is ... and Christminster. Christminster is also seen as a place where he hopes to fulfill all his hopes and dreams. "From the beginning, Jude sees in Christminster and its university the image of an attainable ideal world. His desire for this ideal vision involves a rejection of reality. For his own sporadically controlled, partially understood world, he substitutes the image of an ideal unified, stable, and understandable one." (Bloom, 193) However, ...
- 5307: Assyrian Art
- ... contrast in the methods used to glorify the king. By examining such factors as style, iconography and historical significance, we find many similarities and differences between the "ceremonial" reliefs and the more common reliefs depicting war and hunting. The reliefs belonging to the sacred or "ceremonial" category consist of panels depicting a sacred tree, a human headed genius fertilizing a sacred tree, a griffin fertilizing a sacred tree, and a scene ... and the griffin genius are facing towards the left with their right feet forward. Because of their stiff stance, these figures highly contrast the movement and action shown in the hunting scenes of Assurbanipal and war scenes of Assurnasirpal. In term of stylization, both the human headed deities and Assurnasirpal have very stylized hair falling in straight locks to the back of their necks; furthermore, they possess highly stylized beards of ... he holds, which is a symbol of "might and military prowess" (Art History Anthology 28). The pair of daggers and the symbolism of the bow are important to the Assyrian culture because they portray their war-like nature. This war-like nature is a common factor that relates these "ceremonial" reliefs to the reliefs described by Henri Frankfort in The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient. Another detail typical ...
- 5308: Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
- ... played that game again, it was to real to be true. The concerns that arose from this book were: what if it was really possible to split the good and the bad, how would the world be? Would the bad be killing the good or the other way around? Would the society turn all bad and have nothing but hatred in this world? That is how I sometimes feel when I see the hatred going on in our society? Why can't we just get along with each other. It wouldn't be that hard. If there wouldn't be any racism around I estimate that there would be about 30% less hatred in this world . If I only had one wish in this world I wouldn't wish for gold or a nice car, I would wish for peace and caring in this world, because in the long run ...
- 5309: Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein: Still the Wretched Fools They Were Before
- ... Before Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein, wrap their stories around two men whose mental and physical actions parallel one another. Both stories deal with characters, who strive to be the übermensch in their world. In Faust, the striving fellow, Faust, seeks physical and mental wholeness in knowledge and disaster in lust. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein struggles for control over one aspect of nature and disastrously, through the monster, nature ... seeks spiritual wholeness in knowledge. Through years of hard study, Faust becomes knowledgeable in math, sciences and religion and yet he becomes inept and incapable of having any romantic or physical relationships with the outside world. As Faust strives to become the "over man" through knowledge, he realizes that books will not satisfy his curiosity and that maybe sensual pleasures will. Therefore, in the process of creating his new life, Faust ... it. In many situations dedication to an act is reputable; education, sports, career. It seems then, that to become the übermensch and pursue excellence, one must stay dedicated to one's goal and dismiss the world around him. In the process of creating his monster, Victor Frankenstein ignores the outside world; The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit. It was a most ...
- 5310: The Rise Of Communism In Russi
- ... program which called for an immediate peas, the transfer of land to peasants, and control of factories to workers. But the provisional government stood in conflict with the other smaller governments and the hardships of war hit the country. The provisional government was so busy fighting the war that they neglected the social problems it faced, losing much needed support (Farah, 580). The Bolsheviks in Russia were confused and divided about how to regard the Provisional Government, but most of them, including Stalin, were inclined to accept it for the time being on condition that it work for an end to the war. When Lenin reached Russia in April after his famous "sealed car" trip across Germany, he quickly denounced his Bolshevik colleagues for failing to take a sufficiently revolutionary stand (Daniels, 88). In August of 1917, ...
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