Since the New World was first discovered, there has been an enormous influx of people from various parts of the world and differing cultures who have wished to resettle in what is now the United States. Of course, these immigrants have historically arrived in the United States in waves, with different portions of the globe and different ethnicities being represented in each individual wave. Yet, one characteristic that has remained constant over the history of immigration in the United States is the general apprehensiveness with which new immigrants have been welcomed by the established culture and society. Although the issue of immigration amnesty has been debated for centuries, it still remains one of the most hotly contested and influential topics in modern public debate. The current wave of immigrants is largely represented by people from Mexico, along with several other Central American nations. Since, unlike in the past, these immigrants are capable of entering the United St

This paper presents a comparison between Buddhism and Confucianism. The writer explores each topic, lists their strengths and concepts and then compares them to each other.

Muhammad Yunus grew up in Chittagong, the largest port city in Bangladesh. His father was a jeweler. His mother was a strong influence on Yunus, always giving money to the poor relatives who visited from distant villages. "It was she," says Yunus, "who helped me discover my interest in economics and social reform." Yunus would read anything he could. Detective thrillers were his favorite. He even wrote a mystery when he was young. The two boys would do anything-honest and not so honest--to get more books to read. When he was seven years old in 1947, a major event occurred in his life. The "Pakistan movement" reached its peak. Areas of India with Muslim majorities were fighting to become an independent Muslim state. No one knew how this was going to impact family and friends. As a result, his family became a part of Pakistan when Britain gave up India rule. One of the special moments that stands out when Yanus was growing up was on a bus trip for school

Dear Dad, I know that you are angry and upset with me, and I understand why-but I also want to explain myself to you. I am too uncomfortable to talk with you in person and I thought that, by writing you a letter, I could say what I needed to say without either one of us getting too upset or fighting. I also hope that you will really, really read what I have to say and give thought to it so that you understand me better. I don't think that you realize how incredibly important this is to me, but I'm not blaming you for that. I think it's because I haven't expressed myself correctly, in the way that I need to, in order to make sure that you understand how I actually feel and why...and in order to make sure that you realize what my girlfriend means to me and that this is not just some passing fancy that will only last a few months and then be over with and gone – entirely forgotten. That will not happen. First, I understand why you are upset about the other day when I climbed the wal

The history between giant oil companies like Shell, Mobil and Exxon and the national governments under which these and other companies operated goes back many years. In the United States in the 1930's, there existed a huge oversupply of crude oil which upset the oil market and created the collapse of oil prices. And as more and more oil reserves and deposits were discovered, some began to suggest that the U.S. government should step in with new conservation measures and production controls. But this quickly raised many questions related to who should control oil production and if it should be a voluntary or under the control of the government. In the early 1930's, a major divide occurred between the Standard Oil Company which supported voluntary controls and one of its giant subsidiaries which supported governmental intervention. Those at the top of the oil industry suggested that it should develop some kind of program for voluntary self-control and regulation; however, a n

TIGER WOODS: When Tiger Woods fails to win a "major" (the Masters, the British Open, the U.S. Open or the PGA Championship) it makes big news. When he wins a major tournament, it's what the media, Tiger's fans, and the sporting public expect. He is that good, and that dominant a player. He is clearly the best player in the world. But he is also the best-paid player, and Nike is one of the main reasons he makes so much money. Tiger earns about $90 million a year, according to an article in Golf Digest (Morrice 2006), and a large part of his earnings come through endorsements. Tiger wears the Nike "swoosh" logo on his hat and on his shirts. He endorses Nike, Nike golf clubs, along with Buick automobiles, and several other products. The Nike driver Tiger endorses (Nike SasQuatch) costs $350. Marketing professionals find Tiger Woods to be one of the most powerful spokespersons in the sporting world, not just because he is so successful (he has won 11 major to

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the short story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Specifically it will discuss the Puritan elements found in the story, and how Hawthorne uses these elements to represent the struggle between good and evil found in all men. "Young Goodman Brown" is one of Hawthorne's most enduring short stories. It tells the story of a young man who leaves his wife for an errand in the woods one evening, and returns a changed and bitter man. He meets the Devil (who bears a striking resemblance to his late father), sees the townspeople participating in Devil worship (even his adored wife), and stumbles out of the woods the next morning a changed man. The story represents the classic tale of good versus evil, with a twist. The story also illustrates many strict Puritan beliefs and elements throughout the story to illustrate how evil can lurk in any man, no matter how pious or "Goodman" they seem to be.

According to William Dudley, the presence of illegal immigrants in today's America is the product "of the gap between the number of people allowed to legally immigrate to the U.S. and the global demand for U.S. residency" (12) which has created a huge influx of illegal aliens, especially from Mexico, into the United States within the last decade or so. This situation is supported by the findings of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) which shows that between 1992 and 1998, "825,000 people on average annually immigrated and became legal permanent residents" in the U.S.;" however, INS figures indicate that "millions of illegal immigrants" without "green cards" or visas "choose to ignore the law and melded into American society without official permission" from the INS (13). Those who oppose illegal immigration maintain that these numbers are nothing short of an "invasion that threatens the economic and social

The introductory passage from Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses introduces the two main characters, Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha, two Indian men who have been living outside their homeland for some time. They are flying over England when the plane explodes, and both are thrown out and miraculously survive the fall to the ground. The two men are in some ways alternate halves of one personality, and much of the time one represents good and the other evil, as if it were the good and evil existing within each of us. During the course of the novel, these two men both change and, at times, change places. Saladin becomes a satanic figure in the course of the novel, but he is also subjected to a variety of evils when he travels to London he is met with police brutality, racial prejudice, and similar elements showing deep-rooted social problems and the prevalence of evil in the world. Saladin had tried to separate himself from his Indian heritage, but now he is forc

Richard III is considered one of Shakespeare's most evil characters, one endowed with sharp wit and lacking in morals, who governs through fear and force. Richard III deals extensively with the themes of political corruption and dissimulation. Richard's reign is portrayed as a period in which nothing is sacred; neither on a political or social level, nor on a personal one. Richard will stop at nothing, not even at betraying his friends and murdering his kin, in order to become king. Although his traits of character are clearly illustrated through his deeds and words, Shakespeare provides the reader with an important contrast to the character of the king, namely the women of the play. These women are: the Duchess of York, Richard's mother; Anne who later becomes Richard's wife; Queen Margaret who was the former queen and Richard's arch enemy, and Queen Elizabeth, the current queen. Also, Queen Elizabeth's daughter, Elizabeth, is present in the plot but the reader is never intr

Although deference, self-righteousness, rashness, and self-delusion do not help the other characters in Hamlet to understand the truth, Hamlet's perpetual reflection prevents him from taking action. Hamlet seems to grasp the failings of the other characters and the inevitability of death, but cannot blindly accept anything to be the basis of truth. He is not sure whether a ghost's word should be the basis of murder: "Faced with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, evidence that any other character in a play would believe, Hamlet becomes obsessed with proving his uncle's guilt before trying to act," (Phillips). Hamlet even contemplates suicide, but ultimately decides that the terrors of this world are generally willingly preferred to the terrors of a world unknown. Still, his madness spurs him to impulsive action. He kills Polonius without knowing who is behind the tapestry, and he torments Ophelia without any clear intent. This suggests a man who truly believes in nothing, not

As intelligent and beautiful creatures of the sea, dolphins long ago captured the imaginations of human beings. Ancient artists in Crete (2500 B.C.) painted frescoes on the walls of the Minoan palace at Knossis of dolphins jumping in the blue Mediterranean waters. Today, we see dolphins depicted on T-shirts, jewelry, posters, and tattoos. During the 1950s, the television program Flipper (played by a dolphin named Mitzi) made dolphin intelligence widely known. For many years, Mitzi was also the star of a dolphin show in the Florida Keys in which she did amazing tricks and pulled children around in a little boat. Moreover, dolphins are friendly and seem to like human beings. Areas where people live close to the water are replete with dolphin stories about the helpfulness and protectiveness of dolphins. They are said to kill sharks, for example, and to nudge little kids back toward shore when they go out too deep in the ocean. Perhaps because there is such affection for these ani

Clausewitz defines a center of gravity as 'the hub of all power and movement, on which everything depends...' What are the U.S. centers of Gravity for Homeland Defense and Homeland Security? According to Colonel John Osgood, the Army Field Manual 100-5 quotes Clausewitz's definition of center of gravity as "the hub of all power and movement upon which everything depends" in a war(Osgood, 1998). Clausewitz's discussion of the issue suggests that at the operational level the center of gravity is "always found where the mass is concentrated most densely" (Osgood, 1998). Clausewitz believed that at the operational level a commander must understand the dynamics of space, mass, and time. Space was the theater of operations, mass was the army and time was the campaign (Osgood, 1998). But the concept of the Department of Homeland Defense and Homeland Security would seen to thwart Clausewitz's co

Before delving into the feasibility of Kodak's razor and blade strategy, one should have a clearer picture of what this really means. The business model that the American company has decided to use for its inkjet printer was introduced by King C. Gillette and consists of commercializing two complementary products of unequal value. In other words, a company applying such model will establish a master (core) product which is offered at an incredibly low price (and, sometimes, for free) and a secondary one (a consumable) which is vital to the former's functioning and which is sold at a higher price. Thus, the two products are closely linked to each other and represent a profitable business as the loss assigned to the master product is excellently compensated by the benefits attributed to the consumable. A classical example, in this regard, was Standard Oil's attempt to trade oil lamps in China. For successfully entering the Asian market, the US company offered almost 8 mi

Part A Several elements in the history present as possible causes of Ebony's failure to thrive (FTT). In a multivariate analysis, FTT between birth to 8 weeks of age is associated with maternal prenatal factors (such as a lack of transportation, socioeconomic class) and infant postnatal factors (weak sucking). While Ebony has had no significant physical symptoms, the birth weight of 4.9 kg equals macrosomia which can sometime be associated with weak sucking and slow feeding, which in turn can result in smaller quantities being expressed per feeding session and an increase in maternal fatigue. It would be difficult to continue to breast feed exclusively while working full time, without personal transportation and with another child to care for, and Tina should be congratulated for her tenacity in attempting to continue to breastfeed. While working full time, Tina has still had difficulty affording food at times, and it may be that her caloric intake is not enough to sustain a

Throughout history, technological advances have always altered society. Elizabeth Schwartz Cowan argues in her book A Social History of American Technology that from the earliest times, technology has had significant impact on the social, economic and political makeup. This is not a new phenomenon that started with computers. For example, mass production, transportation and especially communications have greatly impacted the world. The Industrial Revolution, first originating in Great Britain, quickly was accepted in the U.S. where it "flourished and took a significant new shape" (Pursell 87) and became the "American system of manufacturers." The whole purpose of this system was to transfer the product from the workers to the machines. Specialized machines could much more rapidly and efficiently mass produce parts used for such consumer goods as sewing machines, bicycles and typewriters. One thinks of Henry Ford's assembly line when regarding mass production

Culture is what keeps a society together so that it can procreate and survive from one generation to another. It includes a system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that members use to deal with their world and with one another and that are transmitted through learning. Does America have a specific culture? Or, is there no distinct culture because the U.S. is a melting pot of many different cultural groups? According to Thomas Sowell, a well-known black American economist, cultural capital, or the habits and beliefs that migrants bring to a new country, is more important in determining the migrants' future than the new homeland's economy, culture, or political system. That is, differences in cultural capital account for differences in economic and social outcomes for separate groups of people. Sowell's argument is that the relative success and failure of ethnic and racial groups is a result of the strong and weak points and degree of development of

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the topic of Soviet Union history. Specifically it will discuss whether the Soviet Union was a relatively stable dictatorship that lasted seven decades or a primarily unstable system that collapsed of its own weight. Communist, democratic, autocratic, the history of the Soviet Union is as diverse as the country itself. Many factors contributed to the instability of the country, from dictatorial leaders, corrupt political parties, and oppression to poor economic policies and social unrest. Socially, the Soviet Union began on extremely shaky roots. The Bolshevik Revolution took place in 1917, and disposed the monarchy, creating instead a Communist state. However, civil wars plagued the new Communist regime until the 1920s, and there were many who fought the overthrow of the Tsar and his family. Before the Revolution, peasants worked the land for the nobles and ultimately the Tsar. Author Suny notes, "Tsar and noble s

Introduction This work will serve as a Lockwood Analytical Method for Prediction (LAMP) analysis of the question of nuclear proliferation in the Korean Peninsula. As an emerging nuclear power North Korea may significantly change the manner in which the political world interacts with it, though you would think that it would not be likely to alter the manner in which individual North and South Koreans live their lives. Though this is clearly a simplistic and westernized view, as the understanding of the strength of a nation is intrinsic we, especially as American's live in a state of almost constant denial of the manner in which the nation has developed "security," perceptually or otherwise. This is including a relatively low level of knowledge among common folk about the nature of armament. The context of North Korea especially is significantly different than this, as individuals have such information and in fact a strong sense of nationalism, born out of Confucism and

The process of writing a quality work involves a sequence of steps. These steps aid in the development of the work from the seeds of thought to a finished product that accurately conveys the intentions of the author. Following these steps ensures that ideas within the work are organized, thoroughly developed, cohesive, and result in an end-product that has flow and captures exactly what the author wanted the reader to experience. The writing process could be compared to the process of producing a delicious pizza. The six steps involved in the writing process are: 1) thinking; 2) organizing; 3) drafting; 4) re-thinking; 5) editing; 6) final drafting. The first step involved in the writing process is "thinking". This step involves an initial conceptualization of an idea for the written work. This step may not involve too much formal writing at all. Instead, the aim of this step of the writing process is to generate ideas through activities such as brain storming,

The Federal Accounting Standards Board (FASB) creates generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) within the United States. The FASB is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization created to establish financial accounting and reporting standards, for the private-sector. Although the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) legally controls this function for public companies, as part of its mandate to administer and uphold federal securities laws provisions, it has relied on the FASB since 1973 to fulfill this role (Walker, 2004). Of the 159 pronouncements made by the FASB, Statement 95 was issued in November 1987 and focuses on Statement of Cash Flows. The term 'cash flow', in general, refers to the movement of money in and out of a business, with cash inflow typically being correlated to sales and other receipts and outflow attributed to cash payments to others such as suppliers or workers, or more simply – the receipts and payments that are made by an organ

Leadership is still seen to be important in today's society, but it is changing and evolving quite a lot, and delegation is becoming much more significant than it was in the past. Managers often delegate as part of their management responsibilities, and they do this by finding tasks that others can do instead of trying to do everything themselves. When a manager takes on too much he or she is then not able to complete all of his or her tasks in the best way possible because there is simply too much to do. This is unfortunate but it happens all too often, and this is true of all different kinds of companies, not just large corporations (Berner, 2003). How much is delegated to others and what specific tasks are delegated will depend on the business or industry of course, but all different kinds of companies have managers that can delegate tasks to others in the companies or corporation instead of attempting to complete them all. For example, an individual that owns a constr

1.Brief historical review Gap, Incorporated is an American clothing and accessories retailer, who was founded by a couple of ordinary American people (Donald and Doris Fisher) in San Francisco, California in 1969. The denomination of the company comes from the gap of generations, adults and teenagers, regarding different opinions on various aspects of everyday life. Nowadays, Gap Inc. employs approximately 150,000 peoples and conducts business on a world wide basis, in 3,139 stores, on 3 continents: North America, Europe and Asia. Having total global revenues for the year of 2006 of about 15.9 billion dollars, the company markets clothing products for different types of customers (men, women and babies) under various specialized brands: Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Forth and Towne and Piperlime. 2.Current mission and purposes The company's mission and purposes relate mainly to transmitting to customers a feeling of integrity and respect, an assurance of maintaining and creat

The treatment of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice has long been a controversial issue. In the context of the play, Shylock hates Antonio and seeks his revenge in an unusual and even garish way by demanding a pound of flesh. Any villain would be seen as extremely villainous for that sort of behavior, but the villainy of Shylock has been tied to the idea that the play is saying his villainy derives from his being Jewish. In fact, such a view ignores the comic nature of the play itself and also the way Shakespeare gives Shylock real motivations for his actions and treats him more as a human being than would be likely if this were an anti-Semitic stance. First, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice has a number of reasons for hating Antonio and for seeking revenge on him and those Shylock sees as like him. Shylock is a Jew, and he believes he is shunned and hated by Christians. This alone differentiates his treatment in the play from an anti-Semitic rant, for Shakespeare recognizes that

1. The Misanthrope A central theme that runs throughput this play and which forms the basis of this discussion is the issue of the compromise between the critique of the fallacies and pretensions of society and the need to ameliorate these criticisms with false praise and lies in order to make society bearable and functional. This sense of compromise and balance between the realities of social life and societal foibles is one of the central themes expressed in this comedy. It should be remembered that in the genre of the comedy of manners, while society is being satirized and critiqued, it is the natural quality of comedy to soften this criticism and makes us laugh at ourselves and the society that is being exposed. The question of balance between the extremes of the truthful exposure of lies and deceit and social compromise is explored in the play largely through the character of Alceste and the way that he interacts with the other characters in the play. In essence this com