Education is the backbone of human growth in all fields of lives, by that economy, society, morality or personal development. It is the answer or solution to all the problems encountered by an individual, society or a nation. Through the direct use of knowledge, an educated person can help himself and others around him to overcome obstacles, develop himself and reach his highest potential. Therefore, education has been among the highest priorities of nations all over the world. Education has been among primary goals of all governments that ever ruled America and it is reason of American's success and hegemony in the world. Thus, the candidates of American Presidential elections have come up with scrupulously detailed plans on improving the quality of education for people of America. John Kerry is the candidate of the Democratic Party. He plans to increase job opportunities, increase the access and improve the quality of health care facilities and education, strengthe

Marriage is the most significant moment in life for many reasons. First, it is the binding of two people together into a permanent relationship that should last the rest of their lives. It creates a bond between two people that is more lasting than any other bond, and together, this couple will create a life together, raise children, and add to their community in a wide variety of ways. In addition, it has been show marriage helps couples live longer and happier lives, and a stable marital relationship even adds to a person's affluence. In fact, it has been shown that marriage is more important than education, job skills, or w

The Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf, is considered the oldest piece of written English literature and could very well be the first piece of historical fiction. The relationship between the historical and the mythological in Beowulf cannot be overlooked. The Beowulf poet incorporates the traditional Christian beliefs into this tale of chivalry that also involves the ancient myth of superhuman heroes fighting evil monsters and dragons. These elements operate on a level that demonstrates that over 1,000 years ago, audiences were entertained with tales of intrigue that include fiction combined with a healthy does of history. Historically, we are aware of the fact that Beowulf is a narrative that revolves around the noble heroes and kings associated with the Geats and Denmark. Theirs is a tale that is significant to understanding the development of those nations that are brought together by the heroic Beowulf. While the written version of the tale emerges from history aro

The current business environment is constantly changing and diversifying and companies need to find the appropriate solutions to create long-term growth and ensure that their core business activity does not become obsolete. A good idea in this sense would be to diversify one's business by prospecting new economic sectors and by creating viable alternatives in other areas. A practice much used nowadays creates new businesses within the mother companies, but serious challenges appear, related to the organization, prospect, evolution and survival of this "intrapreneuring". Indeed, these new businesses face just as much of the challenges associated with any new business and, besides these, several new ones, associated with their particularities. Their primary condition implies the fact that their initial evolution and creation is strictly related to the corporate culture a

Analysis of Fiction with Documentation "Where are you going, Where have you been'" By Joyce Carol Oates When asked this question, teenage girls like Connieâ€"past and presentâ€"are faced with few options

Early 20th century saw the outbreak of a deadly mysterious disease, pellagra that could cause anything from fever to dementia to death. The disease that had killed over 100,000 people by the end of 1914 was shrouded in deep mystery because of the fact that the epidemic was largely limited to the South and was exclusively affecting the peasant class. It was indeed a poor man's disease and conventional wisdom suggested it had something to do with sanitary conditions. "Pellagra, a classic dietary deficiency disease caused by insufficient niacin, was noted in the South after the Civil War. Then considered infectious, it was known as the disease of the four Ds: diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia, and death. The first outbreak was reported in 1907. In 1909, more than 1000 cases were estimated based on reports from 13 states. One year later, approximately 3000 cases were suspected nationwide based on estimates from 30 states and the District of Col

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the book "Disappearance of Childhood" by Neil Postman. Specifically, it will focus on what Postman means by "shame," how and why TV undermines the feeling of shame, and whether the benefits of shamelessness outweigh any drawbacks. Shame is not always a bad emotion. While keeping some societal secrets can be harmful, keeping some secrets is a good idea, and creates a more balanced society.

All organizations no matter what the industry benefit from management planning and strategy identification. The medical and health care industry in recent times has been attempting to streamline its operations and improve performance and productivity. For the purpose of this paper, the planning and management process of a medical center offering services for the most modern technology in medicine such as Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT) imaging, Positron emission Tomography (PET) is discussed. In this paper, this center will be referred to as "ABC Testing".

Stem cells are a hot topic for the media today because our understanding of them has potential for incredible scientific advances in the field of biotechnology, yet we struggle because there are questions of morality raised by the methods by which they might be used. While in centuries past, it was commonly accepted within the scientific community to vivisect the mentally insane or criminally convicted for the purpose of scientific knowledge, today religious groups are concerned about the fate of single stem cells being used in experiments. Stem cells have paved the way to cloning and bioengineering of humans, allowing scientists to ""bring... a sperm and ovum together to create an embryo, harvesting the cells, and then discarding the embryo." (Celia) The concern for many people is that working with embryonic stem cells especially may somehow he breaching the rights of people and taking science to a point where it is playing god in a dangerous way. Some ad

Isamu Noguchi is an incredibly notable 20th century artist, and quite possibly one of the most influential Japanese sculptors of our time. Born in Los Angeles, California, Noguchi was surrounded by artistic influence from a young age. His father, Yonejiro Noguchi, was a Japanese poet, while his mother, Leonie Gilmour, was an America writer. Born on November 17, 1904, at the age of two Noguchi relocated from California to Japan where his father continued to reside. After relocating within Japan several times, his family settled in a seaside town in time for the birth of his younger sister, Ailes. Noguchi was semi-apprenticed to a carpenter in 1913 in order to help rebuild his family's home, where he acquired many of the skills he would later use in his sculptures. A few years later, he began attending Saint Joseph's College in Tokohama where his family joined him. Noguchi would return to the

One of the first things that strike Americans traveling or doing business in Israel is the exchange rate between the U.S. Dollar and the New Israeli Shekel. Of course, most are extremely happy when they leave the local exchange office or bank with a large wad of bills where they previously had but a few. This is because the current rate of exchange between the dollar and the shekel is 4.48 NIS per one dollar. Unfortunately, this exchange does not necessarily mean that you can buy more in Israel. Take, for example that one wishes to purchase the latest souvenir t-shirt, say "I got stoned in Gaza."

One of the challenges posed by Jane Austen, of her heroine Emma Woodhouse, in the novel entitled Emma, is how Emma must learn to be a good reader of both male and female characters. The persona of Frank Churchill poses a constant series of challenges to Emmaâ€"is Frank a rouge and a coxcomb, or is he a nice young man, worthy (and willing) as a marital prospect' This education of Emma in moral terms is illustrated by the choice eventually posed for the titular heroine, between Mr. Knightly and Frank Churchill. By becoming a better reader of the human character in general, Emma learns that Mr. Knightly is the better choice of the two male romantic prospects, and also, by extension that she has misread the female characters of Harriet Smith and Jane Fairfax throughout the novel. Frank Churchill thus functions in the novel as kind of a transition figure for Emma's moral educationâ€"by learning to read Frank properly, Emma learns to be

This report addresses assisted suicide as a viable option after all avenues of modern medical assistance have been eliminated as a solution for the relief of a fatal disease or an unbearable situation. "Whether to permit assisted suicide and euthanasia is among the most contentious legal and public policy questions in America today." (Gorsuch, 2000) Although the United States Supreme Court has repeatedly struck down both euthanasia and other types of physician or family assisted suicide as illegal acts, as an advocate, I feel strongly that there are many scenarios where euthanasia is far more humane than any solution of an extreme medication or the tried and true "you have to gut it out" therapy for a person in a position of suffering. All those individuals against euthanasia simply because it seems like the politically correct thing to do most take into consideration situations where they put themselves in the place of an individual suffering to a point where death

Horses have been an important and influential part of North American and European history. In his book, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, Alfred W. Crosby argues that horses helped to bring about European's successful colonization of a number of temperate regions such as North America, Australia, New Zealand, and some parts of South America. He argues that the profound success of horses in these regions resulted from the filling of an empty biological niche, and that the arrival of horses on the plains in North America resulted in profound changes in the lives of North American Indians. In his article, The Rise and Fall of Plains Indian Horse Cultures, Pekka Hãmãlãinen argues that the common view that horses brought success to Native Americans is fundamentally oversimplified. He suggests that the common focus on only the successful incorporation of horses by the Lakota people has distorted modern understanding of pla

Many advances have been made in the healthcare field towards recognizing mental disorders as real and serious conditions. In times past, a mentally unstable person may have been thought to be possessed by demons in extreme cases, or considered to just be a lazy or bad person in more moderate circumstances. While many ignorant people still hold the opinion that people who are depressed should "just get over it" and that people can always choose to stop feeling sad or upset if they simply chose to do so, medical professionals have worked to make it more commonly understood that depression, like many mental disorders, may actually be caused by physical factors such as chemical imbalances. This is a very positive change and incredibly welcomed decision by those who suffer from depression, who can finally find help from professionals without being judged harshly. Many avenues are available to assist in the treatment of individuals suffering from clinical depression to

"Incidents in the Live of a Slave Girl" is a moving story of one black woman's struggle in early America. Jacobs shows how she became part of the families she lived with and who held her as a slave, but shows how her own family came first. She saved her children from slavery, but white people also used and abused her. She shows she was a strong woman who knew right from wrong, but could not help but "sin" at times because of her background and her circumstances. Black slaves had very little choice except to submit to their masters' wishes or run away. Jacobs did bo

Introduction Many people seem to feel that adolescent depression is just something that teenagers go through and that there is no real reason to be alarmed. Instead, these young individuals will grow out of it as they get older. However, depression is very real, and it is a disorder. These individuals cannot just snap out of' the problems that they are facing. All too often, these adolescents end up taking their own lives when their depression gets too painful for them and they have not received the help that they need. Even the medications that are designed to help them get through the depression can sometimes make things worse, as various medications for depression and anxiety carry a risk of suicide, especially for young people, when they are just starting or just getting off of the medication. It is important, therefore, to look at the problem of adolescent depression and suicide from the perspective of the different kinds of disorders that cause it a

The central figure in William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" is the innocent young man through whose eyes the story is told, and the boy serves as a way of emphasizing the power of heritage as attitudes are passed from one generation to the next. The young man has a real sense of right and wrong, while his father lacks any conscience at all. The boy does not express his understanding, however, for to do so would bring punishment down on him. The reader sees the story through the boy's eyes, meaning that the reader learns as the boy learns and shares in the family history known to the boy. Faulkner also brings father through the boy's perceptions the ancient ill that Faulkner sees as having been passed down through generations in the South, the evil of slavery and the folly of the Civil War. The boy's better nature represents good, while the father's influence represents evil. The link between the father and the Old South enhances the father's association with evil. The story reflects the maturation of the young man, Sarty, as a struggle between evil and good.

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the book "Disappearance of Childhood" by Neil Postman. Specifically, it will discuss how social literacy created what we call childhood, and why is childhood threatened today' Author Postman believes childhood is threatened today because children do not have a chance to be children. Modern developments like television and other media are rapidly what the author calls "disappearing" childhood because they alter the way children and families experience early life, and pressure children into becoming "little adults" at a very early age.

The book of Genesis in the Hebraic Bible begins the creation story of the world, rather than specifically of the nation of Israel or the Israeli people. Unlike the Exodus narrative, which often takes up the bulk of Biblical and historical scriptural criticism of the Hebraic Bible, the first two books of Exodus detail not a moment of dated time, but indeed before such dates' could occur. But even from the beginnings of this narrative of origins, Genesis' first two books contain a dual perspective, or two dueling authorships that the redactor, or editor, later attempted to combine in a seamless whole. (Friedman, 1997) The first viewpoint or authorial voice heard in Genesis, as expressed along the general lines of the documentary hypothesis of Biblical authorship, is that of "E" or Elohim. The author "E" is the epic source whose stories always refer to God by the name 'Elohim'. According to Richard Friedman, is thought that this author's collection of tale

The Newsweek article, "What You Don't Know About Fat," discusses the ways in which fat cells work in the body and explains why fat is so hard to lose. Authors Anne Underwood and Jerry Adler begin the article by describing the discovery of Leptin, a chemical that regulates the body's fat cells. Researchers found that when mice were injected with Leptin they were able to eat anything and did not gain weight. researchers found that mice who did not produce Leptin ate uncontrollably and became fat, and normal mice who received a shot of Leptin lost weight. These discoveries seemed as if it were the magic bullet of weight loss, but experts have since learned that fat cells are much more complicated and difficult to manipulate than they once believed. Fat cells, according to the article, are difficult to eliminate because they are a part of the body's mechanisms for avoiding starvation. And, once you have fat cells they work overtime to mai

The theory most discussed during the Vietnam era seems to have been the so-called domino theory. This theory held that if one small nation fell to Communism, then so would its neighbors. The theory was a linchpin of high-level government discussions as early as 1954, when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles used it in a press conference on May 11 of that year. It was still apparently thought to be a cogent argument when President John F. Kennedy spoke about Cuba to the American Society of Newspaper Editors on April 20, 1061. The theory lent support to the arguments, therefore, of both Republicans and Democrats. There is, moreover, some reason to believe that the theory is in fact a somewhat adequate explanation of events; its obverseâ€"turning Communist states into states with representative governments, happened all over eastern Europe and Russia in the early 1990s. In terms of Southeast Asia, however, the possibility of governments f

As a Healthcare Organization The United States healthcare system includes health plans, physicians, hospitals, clinics, consumers, and public health programs as well as hospice organizations. This report will present insights into how the insured and uninsured affect Hospice organizations in our healthcare system. As the median age of the population of the United States continues to rise, more Americans will need the services provided by a hospice organization. Hospice is not a process or facility for curing a fatal disease. Instead, hospice is a healthcare provider that has created an excellent reputation for dealing with the pressures related to the care of terminally-ill patients most of the time in the final stages of life. Hospice is also known for assisting those patients that have a confirmed life-threatening illness no matter what the stage of progression. The main objective of hospice care is to maintain the best quality of life pos

Introduction Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) entered the White House in 1933 in the midst of the nation's largest economic depression. Approximately 25 percent of the work force was unemployed, industrial production was bleak, and the bank system was collapsing. Overseas, the economic situation resulted in the rise of fascist governments. Faced with these challenges, Roosevelt fearlessly experimented with the power of the federal government. His greatest accomplishment was his ability to lead, inspire, and help Americans through bad spells as he displayed a positive attitude. "I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking," he said on March 12, 1933, the first of about thirty informal "fireside chats" that Roosevelt gave over the radio. His ability to communicate directly and personally through the media, addressing each listener as his friend, gave Franklin D. Roosevelt a powerful tool to shape public opinion. This paper describes

It is quite obvious that globalization changes some of the rules of the game. This is becoming more and more noticeable in such areas as risk evaluation, sales, etc., but also in international management. It is becoming clear that globalization changes the way we run a business. In this sense, if we look at the four functions of management, we will better understand what has actually changed. In terms of planning, the factors we need to consider are much br