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- 5531: Lord Of The Flies 3
- Lord of the flies by William Golding has the concept of an Island as a microcosm of the evil we produce in the world today. Greed, power, domination are all factors of evil in the story line and in today's society. The main human instinct is survival. The fittest will survive, as in the book, and in today's world as well. For example, someone who is very skilled in math or physical feats may receive a scholarship pertaining to their skill. Taller and attractive people seem to get the better and higher paying jobs ... at my example above, people that riot have no authority to tell others to stop. You could compare that kind of behavior to what children would do if they were put in charge of the world. Today's society is full of bad leaders such as "Sadam Husain" , "Slobodam Molosovich" , "Adolf Hitler" and many more. They lead their people with false ideals and hidden agendas. Their thirst for power killed ...
- 5532: Essay An Current Ethnics Event
- ... believes that increased globalized trade has hastened the need for an international (universal) code of ethics for communicators. In analyzing the functions of transnational corporations, he describes four social benefits these companies provide to Third World countries: "(1) development of human resources through employment, training, and indigenization...;(2) strengthening the knowledge base through research and development and the transfer of technology; (3) raising standards of living through the creation of wealth ... consumer goods; and (4) enhancing the quality of life by assisting programs that raise standards in health, housing, nutrition, and education." Given that a transnational corporation is actually able to produce these benefits in Third World nations, they are indeed meeting demands of social responsibility. However, Kruckeberg notes that many corporations have encountered criticism relating to graft and corruption issues, consumer issues, environmental/human safety issues, and political/humanitarian issues. For example, Nestle was embroiled in a controversy surrounding their marketing practices in the Third World of breast milk substitutes. Nestle responded effectively and in a socially responsible manner in 1981 by endorsing the World Health Organization's Code of Marketing for Breast Milk Substitutes the day the measure was ...
- 5533: Literature And Its Affect On S
- ... and its Affect on Society All throughout American history, literature has played an important role in the shaping of the nation's culture and ideology. Having an extremely influential past, literature indirectly affects the television world that has swept over the minds of the baby boomers and their offspring. In a recent survey compiled by students at Glacier Bay High School, there were unanimous results that supported the fact that television ... demonstration of the influence mythology has had on times gone by and the present is a perfect example of the powerful affect that fictitious words can have on a group of people. As the new world was found and the nation was settled, literature has had an enormous impact on colonial style, which influenced the newly born Americans and the Europeans still living in the old world. Writers of the eighteenth century had two primary legacies: the romantic revolution and the historical texts, which included histories, sermons, pamphlets, diaries, and biographies (Bercovitch and Jehlen 149). With the birth of a new ...
- 5534: Freedom Of Bytes
- Freedom of Bytes In today s era there exists a medium, which like never before is becoming a medium of communication and interaction between humans, namely the World Wide Web. This old but yet new medium is expanding and changing rapidly, thus making it close to impossible to control. The World Wide Web is offering more to society now than it ever has before, created by the army to keep up communications during crisis, it s importance to the army has also transcended into regular society ... cars to toothbrushes, clicks away from entering a chatroom and conversing with fellow Netizens , and few clicks away from databases, essays, articles, and multimedia presentations on any entity whatsoever. For the same reasons that the World Wide Web is so valuable and popular, it is also bad and dangerous. You might be able to shop around for an airplane ticket and might decide to buy one over the internet, yet ...
- 5535: From Legend To Science The Health Benefits Of Tea
- From Legend to Science: the Health Benefits of Tea Throughout the world, tea and coffee rival each other as mankind's most popular brewed beverages. For thousands of years, however, tea has had one great advantage over coffee: it is believed to have a wide range of ... Korner Journals AP 5 M2) Evans, C. John. Tea in China. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. (Korner GT 2907 C6 E93 1992) Melton, Marissa. Power of Tea: Component Identified That Inhibits Cancer: U.S. News & World Report. Vol125 No24 1998 p. 58 (Korner Journal JK1 U65) Mollins, Ann. New Study Confirms Tea Cuts Risk of Strok: Journal of alternative Therapies. Vol70 No9 1998 p. 162 (http://web3.searchbank.com/itw/session ... of Tea Tree Oil: Natural Life. Vol52 No52 1985 (http://web3.searchbank.com/itw/session/437/213/32071268w3/14!cnb_21_40) Melton, Marissa. Power of Tea: Component Identified That Inhibits Cancer: U.S. News & World Report. Vol125 No24 1998 p. 58 (Korner Journal JK1 U65) Mollins, Ann. New Study Confirms Tea Cuts Risk of Strok: Journal of alternative Therapies. Vol70 No9 1998 p. 162 (http://web3.searchbank.com/itw/ ...
- 5536: Lord Of The Flies -
- ... Piggy was an intelligent boy with a good understanding of their situation on the island. He was able to think clearly and plan ahead with caution so that even in the freedom of their unregulated world, his wisdom and his isolation from the savage boys kept him from giving into the evil that had so easily consumed Jack and his followers. The resulting cruelty Jack inflicted upon him taught Piggy how much more pain there was in the world. Lord of the flies used changes experienced by boys on an uninhabited island to show the evil nature of man. By using different characters the author was able to portray various types of people found in our society. Their true selves were revealed in the freedom from the laws and punishment of a world with adults. Under the power and regulations of their former society, Jack's inner evil was suppressed. But when the rules no longer existed, he was free to do what malice he desired. Ralph ...
- 5537: Go Ask Alice
- ... fantastic elements and for the non-linear nature of the story; ideas and conversations are not to be taken seriously, but rather to be enjoyed for their lack of connection and straightforward meaning. The dream world in which Alice finds herself when she enters the rabbit hole is called Wonderland. Wonderland is populated by animals that talk and act like real people and by playing cards that act as a royal court. It does not conform to the reality or physics of the real world. Characters (including Alice herself) grow large and small and disappear at will, games and logic are twisted so that they resemble reality, but only if taken as a half-truth. These same characters contribute much ... the value and relevance of children's education. Instead Carroll emphasize the value of children's curiosity and imagination. At the same time, scientific advances increased people's knowledge of natural laws and the physical world. People believed that nature and knowledge could be organized and classified, that scientists could discover the underlying order of the world. Lewis Carroll plays with these ideas of fundamental order and rules in Alice' ...
- 5538: Death Of A Salesman
- ... identity. From the very beginning of his life, Willy Loman experienced problems with his popularity and personality. His last name is a pun on a "low man." He is at the bottom of the business world as an unsuccessful salesman. In addition, his theories on life and society prove to be very degrading, not to mention influential to his mind set every day. Willy believes that being well-liked and having ... man who cannot sell well, the loss of a salary is very detrimental to his well-being. "Although Willy is aware, maybe dimly and imperfectly, that he is not cut out for success in the world of trade and commerce, he nevertheless nurses the dream of getting the better of everybody else. And this leads him into an alienation from himself, obscuring his real identity." (P. P. Sharma, critical analysis) Willy ... that occurred in Willy Loman's life, it was not surprising when he killed himself. In search of happiness, Willy believed that he could give his family what they wanted if he only left the world. But, his dreams were wrong, as his family did not even care enough to go to his funeral. He died for things that he had lived for- his sons and illusions of prosperity. Ironically, ...
- 5539: Seneca Indians: Allies and Enemies
- ... meeting places. They lived in scattered villages that were organized by a system of matrilineal clans. A calendar cycle of ceremonies reflected their agricultural, hunting, and gathering. The men hunted, cleared fields, traded and made war. The woman gathered various wild plant foods and tended gardens. They had a great agricultural economy. Their man crop was corn, but they also grew pumpkins, beans, tobacco, maize, squash and later on they grew ... in 1779. He greatly opposed land sales to settlers, but to gain his people's support he secretly sold land to keep esteem among the white people. When the Seneca were put into the Revolutionary War in support of the British, Red Jacket proved to be a very unenthusiastic warrior. He earned himself the name Red Jacket from wearing the British's red coat. During the War of 1812 he fought on the American side against the British. Cornplanter- Cornplanter was a famous Seneca Indian chief and statesman, who during the American Revolution led his warriors against the colonists in many ...
- 5540: The Heat Death Of The Universe
- Little Worlds In today s busy world, many people get so caught up in their own ambience that they overlook all the other things out there. Some people seem treat their surroundings as if it were their own little world , creating tunnel vision to the array of the actual real world and all the things that occur in it. Pamela Zoline addresses this and many other issues in the short story, The Heat Death of the Universe . This piece reports the abstract, somewhat crazy thoughts, ...
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