Women are often defined by their ability to successfully juggle a career and family life. This fact is evidenced by the film Mildred Pierce. Though women's roles have changed significantly over the last several decades, certain facts related to women's roles remain the same. This includes society's vision of woman as a duplicitous creature; one that should be able to manage professional and personal aspirations with equal success and finesse. She is measured by society based on her ability to manage each of these roles successfully, despite trends in society that do not support a woman's role in neither the home nor the workplace to any great degree. Women have faced an upward battle defining their roles over the last several decades. These ideas and more related to the changing roles of women over the last 40 years are analyzed and described in greater detail below. In the movie Mildred Pierce Joan Crawford plays a woman who is divorced and ends up in a twisted ta

Assertiveness is a necessary quality for success in virtually any professional field, and it is often helpful in non-business dealings and relationships, as well. On the other hand, assertiveness is a double-edged sword, because in some contexts, several elements required for assertiveness can cross the line into abrasiveness or aggressiveness.(Carnegie, 1981) Confidence is a necessary component of being assertive, because one must be able to articulate his position, in the first place. Even in normal professional interactions, lack of confidence can undermine one's ability to function productively, because a characteristic feature of lacking confidence is reluctance to express one's self, verbally. Substantially more confidence is required in confrontational negotiations, or in any exchange of differing points of view, in particular. Occasionally, someone utterly lacking confidence attempts to adopt more assertive spe

In his novel A Painted House, John Grisham tells the story of the events of one summer as viewed and interpreted by a young boy, Luke Chandler. The book presents a view of how a group of people interacts together: a cotton-growing share-cropping family, the transient workers they hire to help them pick the cotton, and their neighbors. The story delineates the social status and interactions between the various groups: sharecroppers, "mountain folk" who come down to help with the picking, and itinerant migrant workers from Mexico. In the process, Luke learns to look past surface assumptions about people. This is reflected by the emphasis on the surface appearance of his family's house -- whether it is painted r bare wood. In the view of the people who inhabit Grisham's story, a painted house is superior to an unpainted one, and reflects increased status, because a a painted house can only be afforded by those who could spend extra money on paint instead of necessities. Luke's grand

In his article "The Internet: Privacy and Security Issues in a New Communication Infrastructure," author Ryan Lambe explores the continuing rise of cybercrimes in general, and of computer hacking in particular. Despite laws and enforcement by the FBI, Lambe points out that hacking continues. Current laws fail to act as deterrents to computer hackers. Lambe posits two reasons behind the ineffectiveness of laws against hacking. First, the inherent anonymity of computer technology makes it difficult to enforce laws and even fosters a sense of "invincibility" among computer hackers. Because the crime is committed from afar, the sensation that a person is physically committing a crime is significantly lessened. This anonymity also allows hackers to defer any responsibility for their crimes. More importantly,

The patient's history shows a history of high blood pressure, with nifedipine (trade name Procarid) prescribed to manage this high blood pressure

Introduction: Effective written and oral communication is critical to the efficient management of any organization as it is the process through which information moves and is exchanged throughout an organization. More important, poor communication can actually affect a company's bottom line for the simple reason that ineffective listening can prove to be expensive. For example, a simple $10 mistake, made by each of the over 100 million workers in the United States, would cost over a billion dollars. Besides the dollar cost, little mistakes result in irate customers, alienated employees, and ultimately lost productivity and profits. In fact, many a labor problem can be attributed to managers who are poor listeners (Harris, cited Steil; Wakin; DiGaetani, 1993, p. 233). The truth of the preceding observations is illustrated in the case of the Chicago branch of Standard Parking Corporation (SPC), which this paper will use as a case study on communication in the work environmen

Herring writes a broad and sweeping history of the Vietnam War, fitting it within its historical context. He recounts how two sisters, riding elephants, led a rebellion against China's dominance in the first century A.D. just as they resisted French imperialism in the 20th century. He demonstrates how the roots of the American/Vietnam War were seeded in 1945 when Vietnam first declared its independence from France, and how the United States helped France re-establish itself there while claiming friendship with Vietnam. By the late 40's, the United States was worried about the spread of Communism in Europe. During that time, Herring reports that Vietnam made overtures to the United States that were badly managed and affected by cultural and racial prejudice, setting up a pattern that would result in American concerns about the spread of communism in So

This is a critical global concern. Although for some countries it has more concerns that other countries. The reasons are that within any country, with the liberalization of trade, many of the traditional jobs such as manufacturing have been displaced to other countries (Brewer and Young, 2000). No doubt that liberalization of trade brings some sort of equality between different countries, but also creates havoc on the families who loose their jobs. And most countries are likely to make minimal efforts to compensate the losers. Such domestic conflicts have long been evident in the United States in the textile, steel, and automobile industries, but their importance increases as the pace of globalization accelerates. More generally, a more open, competitive global economy can be expected to harm the welfare of low-skilled workers in the industrialized countries. In my view, the liberalization of trade should be a choice only when the citizens of that country have en

There are times when the ethical/moral obligation of confidentiality seems to be absolute. One of these is, and must be, that between a recognized confessorâ€"priest, rabbi, ministerâ€"and the person confessing. Whether there are or should be exceptions to this is debatable; does the confessor have an obligation to make known an individual's intent to commit murder, for instance, or the fact that a murder has already been committed' It is interesting, and, while not the subject here, may shed some light on the ethical basis for confidentiality between lawyer and client. In addition, for lawyers, the obligation of confidentiality is a formally imposed obligation (as for priests). In fact, religion as known for the past couple thousand years would not be what it is without it, a mechanism for cleansing souls, among other things. Just so, the system of British jurisprudence would not be what it is without the obligation of confidenti

Purpose of study In "Danger expectancies and insight in acrophobia," Ross G. Menzies and J. Christopher Clarke examine whether patients suffering from acrophobia have a distorted view regarding the danger of heights and falling.

The company I am working for produces sneakers. The company now produces exclusively sneakers for the population, as opposed to a few years ago, when our market was half population and half sports. The personalization of the sport sneakers in time have made us realize that we cannot really compete with the giants if the industry, so that we have discovered a profitable niche in designing and producing sneakers for the elderly population. These sneakers generally have in mind two types of potential customers. The first one is represented by what we called "sporty" older people and, in many ways, the sneakers are still the same with the usual sneakers. The second types of sneakers that we design are medical and orthopedic sneakers that almost anyone can use, but are specially made for older people. As such, the business has been quite profitable and we have decided to expand overseas. Now, in many ways, Europe is the best continent to first expand over

Short of asking the deans of various English Literature departments why they have virtually removed the women's short story genre from coursework, perhaps another way to get at an answer is to review the status of "women's lit" generally in the society. A very basic place to start (and one isn't arguing that it is literature in the same class of art with the aforementioned short stories) is with romance novels. In 1999, 41 million Americans read a romance novel. It made up 38.4 percent of all adult popular fiction sold in1998, and more than 54 percent of all paperbacks. These figures dwarfed sales of science fiction (which one might reasonably call half of men's lit), mysteries, Westerns (arguably the other half of men's lit) and genera

Some insights into novelists' use of their life histories and personal psychology might best be investigated by looking briefly at those aspects of the careers of both literary giants, and more popular writers.

Macroeconomics is based in the systems theory of output and income and to the interrelations among sectors of the economy. It is concerned with large-scale or general economic factors, such as interest rates and national productivity. A major factor in macroeconomics is the extreme variability of exchange rates. Considering that prices of goods reflect stocks of money, prices of comparable goods should not be different in two locations so that the rate of depreciation of the currency is maintained at a rate equal the difference between the two countries inflation rates (Roubini and Backus Internet source). Between April of 1990 and July of 1993, the yen "rose" from 158 yen per dollar to 106, a thirty percent rise in three years. Since Japanese wages didn't fall relative to those in the US, this meant that Japanese exporters, like Toyota, faced a comparable increase in their costs. In the North American market, this gave the Big Three a big competitive advant

Although it may be difficult to conceive of in our modern era, as film has taken its place alongside the long-accepted artistic mediums of painting and sculpture as an art form,' during the early era of silent film this was far from the case. At the beginning of the 20th century, film had the status more of a modern technological curiosity or freak show' rather than the status of art. The earliest works of film of the very end of the 19th century encouraged the viewer to simply marvel at the moving picture' before his or her eyes, almost regardless of its content. Quite often these early clips of film had no narrative to speak of. The purpose of such shorts was to simply show the nature (and the limits) of the medium and to capture, however imperfectly, dancers, actors, and other noteworthy individuals of the day in motion, much like a moving newspaper. This changed with the Lumiere Brother's early efforts at cinema. The brothers showed such novelties

The primary difference between the early Russian films of the first half of the 20th century, and those films that exemplify the artistic ethos of the German Expressionist movement is that of the significance given to narrative and to expressing a singular and coherent ideology for the viewer. While Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" has a clear narrative and ideological gloss, German Expressionistic films such as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" encourage viewers to accompany the director through a series of images that take him or her on an internal, expressive journey within him or herself, creating subjective associations within the unconscious that may vary from viewer to viewer. The way this effect is accomplished is through, in the case of Russian filmmakers such as Eisenstein, through what is termed an "associative process" of narrative interaction with the audience. In other words, the narrative and descriptive sequences of the film are manipulated over

The story of Pocahontas is well known, at least as it has been recorded by the Europeans. Many Indian nations including actual ancestors of the Powhatan tribe feel it is an inaccurate account of events. The Walt Disney Studios attempted to bring a story to the children of America. The objective was profit and entertainment so historical accuracy was overlooked. The 1995 Disney version of the story has dramatized the story of Pocahontas and John Smith. The writers and directors took obvious liberties and altered the story for the audience. The film directed by Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg seems to have held true in the overall European theory of the story. Basically, the daughter of a chief of a Native American Indian tribe fell in love with an English explorer and soldier and that romance affected the overall relationship and outcome of the meeting between the Native Indians and the English colonists of 16th century Virginia. Walt Disney Studios used their c

Ornamental body alteration, tattooing and skin piercing, has played a role in various human cultural traditions since antiquity. In the United States, body piercing has become another means of self-expression, and as often as not, teenage rebellion. Some of the more popular anatomical piercings include the navel, septum, as well as cartilage (rather than the lobe) of the ear. Any piercing of the skin carries the risk of infection and subsequent complications, but perforation of oral tissues and the installation of intraoral meta ornamentation poses more serious consequences than other types of superficial skin alterations elsewhere on the body, despite the fact that oral trauma tend to heal faster than damage to the epidermis.(1) Tongue piercings are particularly troublesome from a medical perspective, owing to the structural complexity and functional design of the tongue in comparison to other popular piercing sites. Despite its generally good healing properties from its very gener

Abstract: We are trying to analyze the cause for the downfall of Enron. It is probably the biggest scandal of the connection between American politics and business. The dishonesty of the top executives of Enron is shown with examples, as also the connection between Enron and the top politicians of the present including those at the top. All the connections involve finance, and the giving of money. This money is deliberately kept outside taxation, and is not reported in full. These practices are known within the company and not reported or countered. What is the solution' Discussion What happened to Enron' Enron was the largest power and utilities broker at that time and it went bankrupt, and is probably the largest scandal in the history of American business and politics. What went wrong at Enron' - Almost everything. It rose from a small Texas gas company to become the seventh largest American Corporat

Nearly one-fifth of the world's population claim to belong to the religion of Islam, including over 80,000 Muslim U.S. foreign exchange students, while Christians account for the greatest sector at 33%, or two billion people. The religions of Islam and Christianity both maintain to believe in the same God and accept the Old and New Testaments, but the religious views differ greatly. With so many religious differences rooted in the same God, it is important to examine the teachings of each doctrine to understand the varied religious perspectives of the Word of God, Godhead, the Divinity of Christ, and views on judgment and salvation. The major points of similarity between Christianity and Islam are found in their core beliefs. Both faiths believe in the same God, called "Allah" by the Muslims, as the God of Abraham spoken of in the Old Testament. The prophets play an important role in both religions with Muslims recognizing Jesus, but as a prophet rather tha

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the book "True History of the Kelly Gang" by Peter Carey. Specifically, it will contain a book review of the book. Carey's book is fiction, but it reads like a true history of the notorious Australian gang, and is a must for anyone interested in Australian history, or simply a good read.

If Ross and Rachael are examples of positive interpersonal relationships, and their communication is an example of true interpersonal communication, the human race is in serious trouble. Ross and Rachael are clearly in love with each other, and have been for some time on the hit show Friends, but because neither know what to do with that the level of commitment which is required in order to make a loving relationship work, they fumbled around, in and out of different bedrooms, trying to find the next emotional high' like a drug addict stumbles from friend to friend looking for his next score. The Luke and Leia Fa

Military government, as is evident from the name, refers to the administration of a country by the military. Such a government may be formed when a country conquers another country and establishes a military government or after an internal take-over of power by the military through a coup d'état. While such governments are a rarity in developed countries, they are quite common in the third world countries. This paper takes a brief look at the major strengths and weaknesses of military governments. The basic role of the military is the defense of a country's borders and to protect it from foreign aggression. It is generally expected to operate under the control of the civilian government. However, in a number of third world countries with no established tradition of civilian or democratic rule, the military acquires a lot of muscle and begins to harbor political ambitions. Due to strict discipline and a hierarchical administrative structure, the military organization is often contemp

The implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) barely moved in 2001. In President Arroyo's address during the Congress of the Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO) in November 2001, she admitted that her administration was only able to distribute, as of October 2001, 20,000 hectares out of the 100,000 hectares it targeted for distribution by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR). (It also targeted for distribution another 100,000 hectares of public land under the jurisdiction of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources) (PARFUND 2002). The 100,000-hectare target the Arroyo administration set for DAR is way below the annual average output of the Estrada administration, which was 133,355 hectares. This target places in jeopardy the overall target of completing the agrarian reform program by 2008. As of December 2001, DAR had a remaining balance of some 1.19 million hectares, which means that it has to distribut

In an increasingly pluralistic society, "we need to think ourselves beyond the nation," (158). Traditional concepts of the nation-state focus on land and clearly defined geo-political borders, common languages, common histories, blood ties, and cultural traditions. However, that which previously united a people under a rubric called "nation" no longer applies, as territory itself is less important to the definition of a "nation" than a shared identity forged through what AUTHOR identifies as diasporas. Mass migrations of people across geo-political boundaries has created nations-within-nations, minority ethnic, religious, or racial groups that unite first under their bond and second under the laws and customs of their newly adopted nation-state. AUTHOR calls these subcultures "trans-nations," pointing to the requisite hyphen that attends s