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- 5611: The Abstract Wild
- ... blind to its true importance as an ecosystem. The wild and the sacred of the forest is lost. The degradation of wild nature is a direct result of our language and economic perceptions of the world. Of course, the first step toward finding solutions to ecological problems would be changing our language. Turner offers the solution that if "we refuse these three moves- the abstraction of things into resources, their commensurability in translatable units, and the choice of money as the value of the units- and economic theory is useless(64)." The preservation of the wild nature requires a deeper geocentric view of the world. Chapter five delves into the Turners knowledge and experience of the white pelican. Little is known about these ancient birds because they avoid human contact. Turner is intrigued by their behavior. He observes the ... the mistake of wilderness for wildness. It was Henry David Thoreau who was first mistaken. Thoreau was an American pioneer of the wild. His most famous quote is "In Wildness is the preservation of the World." Unfortunately, that quote is now severely misconceived; for we have replaced Wildness with wilderness. The word Wildness has negative connotations in todays society. Thoreau was describing Wildness as a good virtue connected with ...
- 5612: Computer Crime
- ... s the weekend, you have nothing to do so you decide to play around on your computer. You turn it on and then start up, you start calling people with your modem, connecting to another world, with people just like you at a button press away. This is all fine but what happens when you start getting into other peoples computer files. Then it becomes a crime, but what is a ... pursuit of knowledge. Of course this is still against the law. But where did all of this start, MIT is where hacking started the people there would learn and explore computer systems all around the world. In the views of professional hacking is like drugs or any other addictive substance, it's an addiction for the mind and once started it's difficult to stop. This could be true, as hackers ... BBS', Credit Card numbers, etc. This is where a majority of Hackers and Phreaks come, as well as those who continue to pirate software come to meet and share stories. In this is a new world, where you can do anything, there are groups that get, crack, and courier software all over the world some of them are called: INC: International Network Of Crackers, THG: The Humble Guys, TDT: The ...
- 5613: Inclusion
- ... of their effort, disabled children can feel better about themselves in spite of the disability that ails them. Inclusion in a regular school gives disabled children the social skills needed to live in the outside world. Disabled children learn important lessons to help them adapt to the real world. They learn how to interact with other people and how they are expected to act in public. According to Scott Willis, Advocates of mainstreaming, on the other hand, claim that the mainstreaming of disabled students ... ridicule and challenges that only make them stronger against those that may put them down. Dealing with and learning from everyday problems now will only help disabled children as they grow up in an unkind world. Immersion in regular curriculum gives disabled children a chance to test their abilities. Disabled children can test their skills and see what areas they excel in. After children find something they excel in, they ...
- 5614: How Technology Effects Modern America
- ... competition, technology, deregulation, the decline of unions and defense cuts technology is probably the most critical. It has favored the educated and the skilled," says M. B. Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report (7/31/95). Since 1973, wages adjusted for inflation have declined by about a quarter for high school dropouts, by a sixth for high school graduates, and by about 7% for those with some ... under the age of 18. This government policy was conducive to our economic markets, and allowed our country to prosper from 1950 through 1970. Now, our own prosperity has moved us into a highly technical world, that requires highly skilled labor. The natural answer to this problem, is that the U.S. Government's education policy must keep pace with the demands of the highly technical job market. If a middle ... a college diploma, as it was for the children of the 70's to get a high school diploma. This brings me to the issue of our country's political process, in a technologically advanced world. Voting & Poisoned Political Process in The U.S. The advance of mass communication is natural in a technologically advanced society. In our country's short history, we have seen the development of the printing ...
- 5615: Oligopoly
- ... few sellers. Each seller knows that the other seller or sellers will react to its changes in prices and also quantities. This can cause a type of chain reaction in a market situation. In the world market there are oligopolies in steel production, automobiles, semi-conductor manufacturing, cigarettes, cereals, and also in telecommunications. Often times oligopolistic industries supply a similar or identical product. These companies tend to maximize their profits by ... larger the cartel, the more likely it will be that each member will increase output and cause the price of a good to be lower. The majority of time an oligopoly is used describe a world market; however, the term oligopoly also describes conditions in smaller markets where a few gas stations, grocery stores or alternative restaurants or establishments dominate in their fields. A distinguishing characteristic of an oligopoly is the ... or if the Telecommunications Act of 1996 were not railroaded through Congress. These regulators have let these mergers slide, under intense pressure from the telecommunications and entertainment industry. Microsoft, the biggest Software Company in the world, has been through a lot of debate of whether they have a monopoly and have the ability to establish an oligopoly industry. Microsoft Corporation has the ability to control software prices in the market. ...
- 5616: Diversity
- Diversity Creates Dimension In Our World Philosopher Jerome Nathanson once said that, The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience. These words hone in on the philosophy that, diversity creates dimension in our world. Our world has been growing and growing for centuries now, yet people, especially in 1999, sometimes fail to realize the importance of diversity. Not just cultural, race, or gender diversity, but the diversity of ideas as ...
- 5617: Battle Of New Orleans
- ... of 1814, 11,000 to 14,450 of Great Britain s finest troops were lead to destroy a much smaller force of 3,500 to 5,000 United States troops. This was part of the War of 1812 that was fought from June 1812 to the spring of 1815. The War of 1812 was considered a second war for independence with its high point being the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815. Under the command of General Andrew Jackson the Marines soundly defeated British forces that were attacking the city ...
- 5618: Comparison Of Social Indicator
- ... landscape stands in stark contrast with the country's wide spread poverty. Landlocked and endowed with few natural resources sustainable for commercial exploitation, Nepal remains one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world with its social indicators one of the lowest in the entire Asia Region. Unlike Australia, whose social welfare system is among the finest in the world, Nepal suffers much from its lack of an organized system of social welfare and adequate health services. Life expectancy at birth in Nepal is 57 years and the infant mortality rate at 82 per 1,000 live births is among the highest in the world. Medical facilities are shockingly incomplete, partly due to the huge skill shortage and Nepal's woefully inadequate transport network - 1 qualified physician has to be shared amongst 12,700 Nepalese. Australia, however, enjoying the ...
- 5619: The Bronte Sisters, Jane Eyre
- ... and the remaining parent or relative must raise the child. Both stories make use of the popular nineteenth century motif of the orphaned child who must make his or her own way in an antagonistic world (Dunleavy 242). Besides the absence of a mother figure, both sisters spent most of their lives in isolation on the Yorkshire moors, another important influence on the novels (Abbey and Mullane 414). Rebecca Fraser, a ... since. Perhaps the most wonderful fact about the Bronte sisters is that the liberation of English fiction from the chains of conventionality was brought about by these "little provincial Puritans" (Gosse 62). In the modern world of literature, both are equally hailed as the precursors of feminist novelists for their originality in form and content. Their talents were highly superior to those of their contemporaries (Draper 497). Many critics recognize the ... Literature Criticism, Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1983. Cerrito, Joann and Paula Keppos. Emily Bronte. Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 35. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1992. Draper, James P. Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte. World Literature Criticism: 1500 to the Present, Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1992. Dunleavy, Gweneth A. Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte. Magill s Survey of World Literature, Vol. 1. ed. Frank Magill. New York: ...
- 5620: The Puritan Society in N. Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
- ... native England. They were brutally persecuted and were not allowed to practise their religion, because they said that the beliefs taught by the Anglican church were against the Bible. When they arrived in the New World, they were confronted with numerous threats from the outside. Their trying to take land away from the Indians caused many fights and attacks. Moreover, they had to deal with the total wilderness surrounding them. Under ... antique oak and is secured with iron spikes. The age of the wood symbolises another reason why the Puritan ideas could not be realised without violating human nature, namely that they came to a New World, but built their settlement on an antique, even anachronistic basis. Their pessimistic belief that the human species is doomed and has no free will also contributed to the failure of their Utopia. The heavy look ... not at all capable of celebrating freely. Interestingly, the single day of the year on which Hawthorne depicts the Puritan crowd in high spirits is also the day on which the contrast between the Old World they originate from and the New World they have come to and to a certain extent created becomes most obvious. The New World is full of purity and piety, strong emotions and feelings have ...
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