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- 7031: The Scarlet Letter: Physical and Psychological Effects and Consequences of Adultry
- ... of Adultry Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is about a young beautiful woman, Hester Prynne, who comes to Boston from England. While living by herself, waiting for her husband to move to the New World, she becomes entangled in a love affair with the town’s pastor, Hester Prynne suffers many consequences of committing adultery. First of all, she becomes pregnant. She has to go through all the pain of ... view. All of the citizens of Boston look down and condemn her for the sin she committed. Although Hester is clearly a Puritan, she does fully acknowledge her sin and boldly displays it to the world. She dresses Pearl in scarlet as a second symbol, and wears the scarlet A long after she could have removed it. All these things are proof that she was trying to hide nothing. Hester’s ... Pearl. His hatred became so great, that he was led to insanity. There is one particular point made in chapter seventeen, where Dimmesdale says to Hester: “We are not, Hester, the worst sinners of the world. There is one worse than even the polluted priest! That old man’s revenge[Chillingworth] has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of the human heart. Thou ...
- 7032: Object Oriented Analysis
- ... or technology. Design models specify how a particular system will be built within the context of a given implementation environment. To solve the problems of past, a new school of thought has emerged within the world of computing, object-oriented analysis and design. An oft used, but misunderstood phrase. Object-oriented is used in a variety of ways, but the term always suggests an association between (abstraction of) things in the real world and computer chunks, or objects. Edward Yourdon provides the following definition in his book: An object was is defined as an abstraction of something in a problem domain, reflecting the capabilities of the system to ... their exclusive Services. An OOA model depicts the object representing a particular application domain together with various structural and communicational relationships. The OOA model has two purposes. First, it formalizes the view of the real world within which a software system will be built. It establishes the objects which will serve as the principal organizational structures of that software system and the various rules of constraints which the real world ...
- 7033: The Internet
- ... do homework. They would be able to look up information quickly and get plenty of sources for reports, easily (Perez 1). Laptops with wireless modems, that are connected with the Internet have, helped the business world incredibly. By using a laptop with a wireless modem, making business plans with other people via e-mail or ordering plane tickets can be done anywhere at any time, easily. Being able to connect to ... tool, a lot of bad thins come with it. One thing is that most websites are in English only and very few are in any other foreign languages. What is the purpose of it being “World Wide” if most other countries cannot understand it? Another bad thing is that it can be time consuming to get a computer fixed. If a business owner relies on the Internet for making appointments or ... anytime by anyone. It is also very hard to catch them because they do not have to tell who they are (infor@wentworth.com). Jean Hellwage, president of Privacy on the Internet, said: “Imagine a world without privacy--where everything you did or said was public knowledge. Imagine what it would be like if anyone who wanted to could review your financial records or medical history. Sounds pretty scary, doesn’ ...
- 7034: Death Of A Salesman
- ... quality in such plays that does shake us... derives from the underlying fear of being displaced, the disaster inherent in being torn away from our chosen image of what and who we are in the world" (Miller, "Tragedy…"). Willy's "underlying fear of being displaced" is the real tragedy. He wants to do things right, but the fact is he has many incidences that haunt him. Consistently throughout the play, Willy ... even pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw away the peel! A man is not a piece of fruit" (Miller, Death… 82)! He, however, refuses to change his view of the world and continues his struggle upstream. What makes this tragic, though, is that he does not change. It is his "tragic flaw" that brings this failure about him. His unwillingness to submit passively to the established ... saw the life of a salesman and refused to do anything else. He had decided what he wanted to be. In the end, because of his unwillingness to change and submit passively to the established world, Willy dies at the hands of his tragic flaws. The common man, indeed, can relate to Willy Loman. His stubborn refusal of character change along with his fear of being denied his identity by ...
- 7035: In-Just Topographical
- ... the second line builds suspense when the reader pauses to simulate white space, and again, after “spring” when a child-like description defines what is uniquely available only in the spring. That is “when the world is mud- / luscious”(lines 1-2). Almost immediately cummings uses white space to direct the sound and rhythm of the poem that is not unlike conversation. A gradual dream-like state is suggested to the ... did for the similar line six, and the conflicting tempo effectively increases the tension felt for the “queer / old balloonman”(11-12) who seems to interrupt the speaker’s pleasant memories every time the springtime “world” is viewed approvingly. The refrain at this point in the poem begins to slow tempo considerably since white space and its required pause separate “and” and “wee”(13). The refrain’s final repeat has each ... lines probably command greater significance. The double-spaced indentation of “the” in line nineteen holds much suspense for the audience since “the” follows “and” a structural change from the poem’s refrain of “when the world is...” (2&10) that until this point follows “spring”(2&9). The added suspense comes with the extended pause to simulate the end-line white space and the indentation. However, “the”(19) prepares an ...
- 7036: Colonial Super Mom
- ... grow. Martha gave birth to seven children who all needed attention as much as the next one. Martha managed to teach her children manners and courtesy as well as how to get along in the world. She sacrificed to get the girls a weaving machine so they could make their own cloths for their families when they married. Even when they were older she was able to support them. Through all ... a woman it was hard to earn money in those times for things other then knitting and what not. Martha was a ground breaker though and proved that a woman could succeed in the new world of America. She was considered the main doctor in town and she had that respect. When there were medical problems other then pregnancies she was there to offer her helping hand. She might not know ... problems but she would always give them a good foot bath or a cold towel on the fore head. Even when she was at the age of seventy she was still bringing babies into the world with as much tenacity as she was decades earlier. Now we have a woman who raised seven children and brought thousands into the world, but she also had to take care of family issues ...
- 7037: The Computer Revolution
- ... each other. This is largely due to the massive improvements and development of communication technologies throughout the years. The massive increase in the number of satellites orbiting our planet means that no place in the world is out of range of a satellite. This means that microwave between the ground and between stateliness is permanently possible and practical. This linked with the millions of communications towers across the world makes the mobile communications revolution a reality in today's world. Communication of another sort that exploits IT and which is exploited heavily by IT in turn is optical communications which has developed rapidly over the last ten years. It forms the backbone of global ...
- 7038: Accounting Information Systems in A Changing Environment
- ... changing business environment and it’s impact on accounting information systems; computerised accounting systems and their cost; and the advantages of a computerised system. 2. The Changing Business Environment THE ONLY CERTAINTY IN TODAY’S WORLD IS CHANGE The world is growing smaller. Most markets are becoming unified across the world and this has created increased uncertainty. Along with these changes is a demographic explosion and dramatic changes in technology. According to Schutzer (1991: xiii) technology accelerates knowledge diffusion by increasing speed at which new ...
- 7039: Gatsbys Dream
- What is the American Dream? In the Webster's New World Dictionary, dream is defined as: "a fanciful vision of the conscious mind; a fond hope or aspiration; anything lovely, etc." In F. Scott Fitzerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the lead character Jay Gatsby defines ... Gatsby's idealistic dream. "No-Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dream ."(6) Gatsby lives in a fantasy world that he has created base on his dream, and his dream has elicited several qualities in Gatsby. Such dream and qualities make Gatsby appear to be the "knight in the shining armor." However, such dreams ... Gatsby to his tragic end. For one thing, Gatsby is amoral in many ways. First, he is a crook, a bootlegger who has involved himself with swindlers like Meyer Wolfshime, "the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919."(78) Secondly, he is dishonest, because he tells lies about himself. "I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west-all dead now. I was brought up ...
- 7040: Gender Communication In The Wo
- ... these differences are erased if variables such as employment, family, and age are similar for men and women, it remains true that women have a larger more diversified network of family ties. In the business world, women must face many obstacles to succeed. Women have to adapt to a male-dominated culture to be promoted and rewarded. Research has shown that communication styles between males and females can create conflict in ... sleeping their way to the top. A woman who has to face these types of accusations and stereotypes cannot effectively complete the tasks assigned to her. Much of the conflict facing women in the business world can be seen in Cheris Kramarae’s Muted Group Theory. Because language is a "Man-made construction. The language of a particular culture does not serve all its speakers equally, for not all speakers contribute ... Sloan, Food Service Director of Marriott. She has worked for Marriott for eighteen years, and advanced quickly in this male-dominated company. When asked what she felt were the obstacles facing women in the business world, Ms. Sloan stated" women are faced with stereotypes, excuses and discrimination". She felt that the biggest obstacles facing women was women themselves. She felt that women had created the idea of a "glass ceiling" ...
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