As Americans, we love our freedoms. Our country was founded on the right to choose all sorts of things, including how to worship, what to say, and what to read. However, the Supreme Court ruled a long time ago that one person's freedom ends when expressing that freedom puts others in harm's way, so we can't yell "FIRE!" in a crowded movie theater just to get a reaction from others. Obviously it is a bad idea to create a panicked stampede in

There are many types of nurses and they undertake different functions in the treatment of their patients. Of the lot, the type of nurses who are in regular touch with the families are the medicine nurse. They provide care to the patients, educate the families about health and promote the proper care for health for both individuals and families. They are often the first point of contact between the families under their charge and the overall healthcare system. When the doctors come, they are also an important point of contact. They ensure that the care that patients get is the most suitable for the patient, and also cost effective. (About the Nursing Program) Due to their close contact with the families they get to know the families and individuals well. They provide care that can be accessed by all without regard to the financial position of the family or the geographical location, social status, c

Creslaw Milosz's American Ignorance of War is a critique of America's obliviousness to the fact that there could exist differences in social orders and values, which could be as natural as the American way of thinking and life. It is important to note here that Milosz goes to great length to prove that different states, such as war, can grow to become as natural a condition as times of peace, since both become part of man's experience. To illustrate this point, he points out that human nature is so geared to survival that it quickly learns to adapt to new living conditions. Therefore, he says, that one can even conceive "â€of the day when a thoroughly self-respecting citizen will crawl on all fours, sporting a tail of brightly colored feathers as a sign of conformity to the order he lives in." (Milosz, 1953) Milosz supports his argument in three ways. One, he explains that America's obliviousness is an outcome of Americans never having experienced the trauma of a war or social order

One of the most interesting characters in literature is Merlin the magician. His name conjures up images of mystery and his actions reflect a medieval mysticism. Thomas Malory brings the role of Merlin into a place of significance in his tale, Le Morte D'Arthur by combining the elements of mysticism and religion. Malory adds a depth and texture to the character that represents Christian and mystical skills alike. Through this unlikely combination, Malory creates a Merlin that is worthy of inspection. The goal of this paper is to examine the character of Merlin as he is depicted in Le Morte D'Arthur and how Malory utilizes this character. The most interesting aspects of Merlin are that he is a splendid combination of secular and religious characteristics. In regards to understanding the role of Merlin and the mystical in Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, we must first examine the context in which medieval stories were written. According Geoffrey Ashe, author of The

Greylord: Justice, Chicago Style written by James Tuohy and Rob Warden in 1989 speaks of a true event in the history of the justice system in America and is told in a fictional style making the interest of the reader twofold, one by reading a fiction and the second by knowing the facts behind the fiction. The book is about dishonest and corrupt justice system wherein the most prominent role was played by the "crooked" judges. The style of the book is both narrative and funny, where at some points the author makes possible to indulge some funny moments to ease out the tense situation that may arise out while reading a mystery or adventurous novel. Therefore to say that Greylord is an adventurous novel may not be incorrect. For some the book may be very heart and mind sickening, while for some mind-blowing. The book tells us that James Tuohy and Rob Warden, the authors of the book is the editor of the monthly investigative journal Chicago Lawyer who uncovered

In the small geographic area of Greece, and the Greek Isles, Lotus Car Rental is an established company headquartered in Athens, Greece. The company has numerous offices throughout out the islands, and is positioned to serve the tourists which come to view the historic cradle of western civilization. The company has earned an excellent reputation in the Greek tourism industry, serving the population for over 30 years of experience. LOTUS provides a wide selection of rental vehicles for hire in Greece from 1000cc to 2000 cc. (lotuscarcompany.gr, online) their vehicles include luxury cars, 9 seat mini-buses and convertibles. The company lives by a commitment to provide a rental service in Greece of the highest standards, which has resulted in gaining a large number of repeat customers who have become accustomed to our total reliability. The successful introduction of hybrid and other alternate fuel vehicles in the marketplace presents a unique opportunity for the com

The term minority interest in the balance sheet of Eastman Kodak appears in the balance sheet as reported by all the major sources. The term is used with a meaning not common in most other applications. In the financial world, the term minority is normally used to mean a group of shareholders who are not associated with the group who are running the company. Often enough this group is just interested in the dividends and other benefits that they can get from the company. Some companies also give large and regular dividends, and this stops the price

In the book, Washington: The Indispensable Man, author James Thomas Flexner exposes the real man behind the myths that surround George Washington, the father of our country. In doing so he portrays Washington as a man with real flaws and real strengths. This paper deals with the beginning of Washington's political career and answers questions about Washington's influence in shaping a new united nation from 13 independent colonies several years after its independence from Britain and the man behind the nation's birth. George Washington was a Federalist who fervently believed in a strong central government, which would hold power that would pervade the 13 colonies, which represented the Union of the late 1700s. In private writings, Washington wrote, "experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power (198). Without this coercive power, Washington

Management" to define a functional organization design, focused on essential skill sets. Since then, they've been overlaid by concepts like process, projects, programmers, teams, and systems, and by emerging specialists like Marketing and HR. But they're still at the core of much management thinking. Planning - setting objectives, analyzing dependencies and scheduling activities and resources to ensure that objectives are met, Organizing - defining roles and responsibilities to ensure that people with the skills required discharging functions are available with the tools and materials to complete them successfully, Leading - setting long term aims, communicating a vision, and motivating people to achieve them, and Controlling - checking that outcomes match the plan and taking action to bring it back on track when necessary, still have their role to play in success Planning is concerned with the future impact of today's decisions. It is the fundamental function of man

The modern moving assembly line stemming from Ford Motor Industries in the early twentieth century transformed the nature of the national and world economies, of their forms of labor, lifestyles, and politics. In fact, the current capitalist market system owes its foundations largely to the implications of the assembly line. As John Allen notes, the Ford model implied four fundamental aspects of large-scale mass production: the moving assembly line, specialized machinery, high wages, and low-cost products. Each of these things, in turn, affected the way industrialized nations evolved and influenced world economic, political, and social policies. The assembly line labor model replaced the traditional artisan or craft-based labor system in which highly skilled persons completed particular tasks based on their training and education. Within the assembly line framework, workers no longer

"Hierarchized continuous and functional surveillance may not be one of the great technical inventions' of the eighteenth century," according to Foucault, but institutional surveillance nonetheless expresses a social, economic, and political need of a capitalist society (176). Discipline operates as a power structure and functions as a social technology. Discipline finds expression through various social institutions, from the military to the factory, to the school. The purpose of discipline and training is not necessarily to create a unified mass out of a collection of individuals but to individuate the means of production according to the needs of the manufacturer or capitalist. As a relatively simple structure, the disciplinary hierarchy nevertheless implies the means of social, economic, and political control. Discipline, like any mechanical or physical technology, is design

Langdon Winner calls technological determinism "nave," because the viewpoint fails to take into consideration the impact of social and political forces on the shaping of technological systems in society (63). Technology has no will of its own; it would be impossible to separate the psychological, sociological, political, and economic influences on the inventor or engineer from the products that he or she creates. For example, an architect builds buildings according to the needs of the client and in accordance with the building codes and environmental laws of the community. Moreover, the architect brings his or her own aesthetic sensibility to the design project, which in turn impacts the overall atmosphere and feel of the surrounding area. The type of design the architect chooses is equally as informed by culture: a Chinese pagoda would probably not be built among a row of track housing in a Detroit suburb, for example. F

Both Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are often heralded as cinematic comedic pioneers. However, in both of these comedian's short films, entitled "The Tramp" and "One Week," each comedian makes use of common stereotypes of women, and also of common stereotypes of romantic relationships between men and women, to illustrate their comedic creations' personality deviations from the conventional masculine roles of domestic success. Both men in the two films function as failures in the domestic realm. This parallels their failures in conventional life and successes at comedic life. At the end of both films, rejections of conventional domesticity and the feminine become symbolic of these men's failures at conventional, masculine life, but also of their success in the world-upside down comedic, even heroic realm, of unconventional physical prowess and distinction. This is not to deny the groundbreaking efforts of both comedians. Surely, one of the seminal works of

A Black Theology of Liberation was a rare book of its kind and when it came out in 1970, James Cone immediately became a household name for his philosophies and views expressed in the book took America by storm. For the first time, the concepts of black power and black domination were given a stronger meaning and significance as Cone declared that Gospel or Holy Scriptures needed to be read with a new perspective so that blacks could relate to it. In a high controversial book, Cone declared that Christ was black too: "The 'raceless' American Christ has a light skin, wavy brown hair, and sometimes - wonder of wonders - blue eyes. For whites to find him with big lips and kinky hair is as offensive as it was for the Pharisees to find him partying with tax collectors. But whether whites want to hear it or not, Christ is black... with all of the features which are so detestable to white society". This was indeed a new concept and one that whites couldn't relate to since i

When most people think of reading, they think of either reading for entertainment, or for academic gain. However, in Saint Augustine's Confessions, he urges us, through his example and explanation, to view reading as a path to understanding truthâ€"almost as a spiritual practice. Augustine begins his explanation of his philosophy of reading (or of how he arrived at it), in his account of how the process of learning to read as an infant was the beginning of a path to self-reformation. He begins to read the Bible, and extracts from it his "plan for living." It is this plan that helps him to avoid sensual attractions that can distract him from God. The concept of "textual interpretation"â€"and the symbolism of the practice is another example of Augustine's use of reading as a spiritual practice (akin to prayer in its ability to lead one to God). In discussing the interpretation of the bible, he compares the activity of interpreting as a kind of progress of the soul. He introduces the concept of the actual words on the page as "the letter of the text" and the inner inte

Introduction Many companies, because of the improving reliability of computer hardware in general, have become blasé about how and where they keep their fundamental equipment, the servers. In addition, computing itself seems to breed even more computing, so that banks of servers often grow seemingly without human help. This might be nowhere more true than in any sort of health care setting. Needless to say, when servers go down in a health care settingâ€"especially if it looks as if they are doing so without human interventionâ€"it can be especially damaging to the mission and operations of the facility. Yet, despite professional IT departments serving the hands- on health care and administrative needs of a health-care facility, glitches can happen. Diagnosing them can be tricky, especially since the maladies that can afflict these servomechanisms can be almost as subtle as those that sometimes afflict humans.

The concept of technology evolved from a broad and abstract term connoting the mechanical arts to a politically-laden concept intimately connected with economics and class systems. Although the idea of technology did not exist until around the time of the Industrial Revolution, during the Enlightenment what we think of now as technology was believed to be a potential driving force in the creation of an egalitarian, democratic society. The "practical arts" were also viewed as symbols o

Thesis Though the stigma of divorce is no more a problem the after effects on the children presents a huge crisis for the American society. Inspite of the huge volume of research done on the effects of divorce there seems to be very little corrective effort undertaken at the community level. As the future pillars of our nation our children need better care, concern and a congenial environment for their overall growth.

A Reaction Christopher Clarks work, Kaiser Wilhelm II: Profiles in Power Series, deals with one of the key aspects of twentieth-century Europeâ€"the last of the imperial rulers of Germany from 1888 to 1918. Clark details the very interesting story of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the King of Prussia and emperor of Germany. On one hand, it is a biographyâ€"placing him as a man of the time leading up to the First World War, and detailing several (interesting) personal details concerning his relationships within his family (especially with his father and grandfather), as well as indications of his personal flaws (especially the Daily Telegraph episode). The book is also an intended work of history, detailing the events surrounding his rein as emperor, especially concerning his role in the outbreak of WWI (which Clark characterized as relatively minimal, both because of his desire to avoid war (218), as w

The Electra Complex refers to a girl's desire for her father and dislike for her mother. This Electra Complex actually derived from the male version of it, which is called the Oedipus Complex. The Oedipus Complex was first described by Sigmund Freud, whose theory suggested that a boy goes through a phallic stage between the ages of three and five. While going through this stage the boy feels sexual desire for his mother, sees the father as competition for this desire and so rejects or dislikes the father. At the same time though, the boy knows that he needs his father. This creates the conflict which the boy must resolve. This is generally resolved by the boy identifying with his father. In Freud's theory, this process leads to the child developing their gender identity. The Electra Complex was later added to the theory by Carl Jung, with the Electra Complex describing the female version of the same process. This refers to a girl feeling desire for her father and rejecting her mother, wh

The National Lesbian and Gay Law Association (NLGLA) promotes equality and diversity for those involved in the legal professions. The NLGLA sponsors the Lavender Law Conference annually in conjunction with the National Lesbian and Gay Law Foundation. The conference, which is held this year in Minneapolis, will feature conferences, course, and other activities for participants. Over seven hundred attorneys, law professors, and law students are expected to attend the conference this year. Topics that the Lavender Law Conference addresses include the revision of sodomy laws, the settling of wills and estates, discrimination, diversity, domestic violence, immigration, and any other issue that affects the gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender communities. A career fair will also be one of the showcases at the Lavender Law Conference, wh

The Upward Mobility Program is an important vehicle for placement of women, minorities, and people with disabilities into such governmental positions where these people are under represented. Purpose: The purpose of the Upward Mobility Program are to provide the means through which the capabilities of participants are increased to their fullest. Some other goals of the Upward Mobility Program are given below: 1. It provides employees opportunities to for different career positions through planned on-the-job and formal training. 2. It helps in increasing employee morale. 3. It attempts to obtain maximum use of available skills to meet current and projected s

This paper examines how external environmental factors impact marketing decisions in both domestic and global arenas. The writer explores legal, economic and technology based factors and how they drive the decisions in the marketing field. There were three sources used to complete this paper.

The knight Sir Gareth of Orkeney is distinct and noteworthy even within Sir Thomas Malory's great tale chronicling the lives of the many valiant Knights of the Round Table. In Malory's Le Morte Darthur, Sir Gareth is different from other knights simply in the depth of his knightly qualities - in many ways he is the epitome of the ideal knight. His character is further defined by his attitude toward King Arthur's court, and his initial reluctance to divulge his noble identity to the court. Sir Gareth's character is different from other knights in many ways. He is the epitome of what a knight should be: valiant, gallant, tender, courteous, and loyal to both family and crown. Gareth's loyalty to Lancelot is beyond question, and he even avoids his own brothers when their behavior is less than exemplary. He is unfailingly chivalrous, even towards Lynette who is abusive and disdainful of him. He is truly one of the most modest, patient, strong, and

The chapter, Celebrating the Nation, 1961-1976, discusses the significance of the United States National Celebration of the Bicentennial, an event that commemorates the country's victory over foreign rule during the historic events of the American Revolution and Civil War. Celebrating these historic events is, according to the article, a direct manifestation of the country, particularly the government's, efforts to perpetuate the spirit of nationalism among American citizens and provide these events with a significant meaning for the society. The process of celebrating these historic events, is done so "on behalf of the nation; it was the nation, with its past, present, and future themes and symbols, that merited loyalty and respect" (228). Nation, in this context, represents the whole American nation, and by centering the government's efforts in celebrating the victory of the American nation in the American Revolution and Civil War, Americans are indirectly parta