Chandler thinks of "fortune"" being useless to struggle against rather than misfortune, and Joyce gives this deliberate syntax to convey Chandlers limited awareness, by positioning the usually cherished thing that is fortune against struggle. ... Joyce uses subtle sarcasm in noting this observation of fortune to be the culmination of his experiences, and one gets the logical impression that his life has been a largely unexamined one. ... The thought of interacting with a life that held adventure and poetry, gives him a hope for himself that he is too fragile and weak to conjure up for himself....

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However, Marx notes that humans are fallible, and will often place way too much worth or attention, or fetishize, certain commodities for rather arbitrary reasons. Marx notes that the main thing that gets fetishized in a capitalist economy is money, and that when people place too much importance on this, there becomes an imbalance in both the economy and the society as a whole (Marx, 1965). ... Through showing the exploitation and class division that occurs in a capitalist market, Marx notes that this type of inequality can only lead to a revolution, which in this case would bring about commun...

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*NOTE: General widely accepted definitions will be used due to the controversial nature of the two topics amongst Political Scientist agreeing to just one permanent definition for each. ... Section IV: Empirical Research, data collected from interviews, books, journals, websites, and class-notes, will be compiled to answer the questions presented in the introduction. ... *NOTE: The preceding paragraph was based off of Prof. ...

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It is, however, more likely that job sculpting will give you another tool to retain those people you cannot afford to lose. 2. ... Rub it out; eliminate, toss obliterate, nuke it; give it the old heave-ho, force it to walk the plank, turn it into road kill."" ... At that point he stood down for Gordon Moore to take the lead (Rijamampianina course notes). 5. ...

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Singer gives a very basic example: "A stone does not have interests because it cannot suffer. ... Yet the question arises as to the coherence of giving varying species members equal consideration morally. Philosopher Evelyn Pluhar notes the sharp distinction most humans wish to draw between racist and sexist bigotry and that of speciesism when she writes "Racism and sexism are plainly irrational because they do not discriminate on the basis of morally relevant differences. ... For as Pluhar notes, whether one being prefers to read the newspaper, or have his back scratched seems irrelevant to a...

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His explicit accounts and recollection and details from other prisoners give an in depth scope to let the reader know what life really is like in the system. ... Santos also had to confirm the validity and the accuracy of the prisoners account by note taking and reading verbatim what was said back to the prisoner he was taking notes from and interviewing at that time. ... Throughout Santos' novel, he had his observations and notes that, as mentioned, were comprised via the viewpoints and takes of other inmates. ... While inmates focus on survival and fulfilling their sentences, the US F...

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One must note that in the Confucian view point, war is something to not be avoided at all cost like most pacifist would normally promote seeing that Confucian view points  acknowledges that human institutions will never reach or fulfill the ideal standards in this moral theory. But it's important to note that to go to war the end result but be more significant than the cost to make it worth it since we view that war means the loss of tremendous resources such as human beings and land that maintains the entirety of a powerful empire. ... Externally, states can grant trading privileges for...

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Abstract This paper evaluates Briggs and Stratton's accounting polices and examines how the company's accounting policies affect the firm's key success factors. It also assesses Briggs and Stratton's quality of disclosure and addresses potential red flags and unsustainable income and expenses. A company has a variety of accounting options it can use when reporting earnings to the public. These options affect how a company accounts for virtual ever item on its financial statements. Differences in estimates and accounting policies can significantly affect how a...

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The constant images of cigarette and alcohol consumption exposed to children and young adults, give them a false recognition of the products at hand. ... Mills and Chaisson note that there are two significant types of parents, "some parents argue with children, while others purchase advertised toys to keep children from experiencing distress from not having what they want" (122). Robertson adds, "North American children nag their parents to buy them something on average of 15 times during each shopping trip, but Mom gives in only half the time" (340). ...

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Coronary arterie3s divide into smaller branches forming interconnection called anastomoses which constantly and fairly gives heart muscle supply of blood Right coronary artery provides blood for right ventricle Left coronary artery provides blood to left ventricle Right side of heart has Deoxygenated blood Left side of heart has oxygenated blood Heart is autorhythmitic Nodal cells are pacemaker cells create electrical impulse at regular intervals Two types of nodal cells Sinoatrial node (SA) on wall of right atrium Atrioventricular node (AV) located where atria and ventricles meet SA node sets...

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Mattox (1995) notes in regard to the trend in the US: "In 1975 sixty two percent of all women aged 40-44 had given birth to three or more children over the course of their life-times. ... The percentage of those giving birth to just one child rose from 9 to 15 percent during the same time period" (p17). There could be several reasons why there is an increase of those giving birth to only one child. ... Women sometimes give birth at a later age because they are so busy with their career. ... LaDou (1993) notes for example that "workers in poor countries--usually with limited educational, skill ...

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For example, in the presentation of the city, Juvenal comments that residents live 'in dread of fires, and buildings collapsing continually' and notes that there are a 'thousand other dangers of savage Rome', but his ultimate grievance, is 'the poets reciting in the month of August' (p. 167). ... Martin Madan notes that 'in the month of August, the hottest season of the year [] most people had retired to the country, so that one might hope to enjoy some little quiet'.7It seems quite reasonable to suggest that by placing the ironic image of the poets ...

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New Zealand primary and secondary school curriculums have been changed and adapted regularly and considerably since the first nationwide mandated curriculum was introduced 1877. This essay will work to respond to the O'Neill, Clark and Openshaw (2004) statement; while identifying and explaining the...

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In contrast, as Ed Cohen notes in Talk on the Wilde Side, "agricultural labourers and the industrial working classes [ ] were largely determined by the material constraints circumscribing their lives- (19), which is to say that the work in which they engaged was mainly physical, intellectually disengaged, and under-waged, so that there was little possibility of accruing excess capital. ... Hence, as Cohen notes, the spectre of failure haunts the middle class even as it anticipates a better life (19-21). ...

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Hobbes notes that there are three natural causes of conflict among people in the state of nature: distrust of one another, competition for limited resources, and glory (to preserve one's reputation): "So that in the nature of man, we find three principle causes of quarrel. ... Hobbes theorized that for the sake of self-preservation, men will give up their rights only when others are willing to do the same, "This is the gospel: Whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them."" ...

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Scheier note that depression rates in optimistic women postpartum are lower than those with negative outlooks, in addition to noting that optimists recover faster post-surgery than non-optimists, both are examples they attribute to the positive manner in which optimists cope with stress. ...

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Hygiene seems to have been a great issue of concern if one takes note of the various public and private baths (Ling 2007:125). ... It is also possible to study the raw materials they used to build with and thus note how advanced they were in this regard compared to the rest of the ancient world (Ling 2007:122). ... However, one crucially important fact of note was later made clear in 1882 by August Mau, a German archaeologist. ...

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In this picture, he may be giving the spectator an idea of his own feelings when he returned home. ... However, Cole also gives the watcher indications of the loss caused by the presence of humanity in nature. ... Until 1983, the only things that evoked its existence were a note in Cole's list of topics, an entry in the Cole memorial exhibition catalogue and the existence of a small draft and a few drawings. ...

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Fairclough gives an example of just such an unequal encounter' during a discussion between medical students and a senior doctor (p37-9, 2001). ... It is worth noting however that the control given in this example is not solely through direct means. ...

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Newton claimed Leibniz stole ideas from his unpublished notes, which Newton had shared with a few members of the Royal Society. ... He gives fundamental properties connecting the length of the radius vector with the angles through which it has revolved. He gives results on tangents to the spiral as well as finding the area of portions of the spiral. ...

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It will give a short introduction on democracy, what classifies as democracy, and the different paths taken to democracy, also stating the different problems that post-communist countries had to face when hey began the process of democratisation. ... In compliance with this thought, we will also look at freedom house, which gives an annual report on the levels of freedom' in each particular country, again proving essential to identify who is progressing and who is lagging or at a standstill. ... It is perhaps useful to note that modern democracies do not fight with each other, proving e...

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Malcolmson (1973) notes that the principal games of folk-football often took place on Shrove Tuesday, Good Friday and Christmas Day. ... Furthermore, women generally were not involved, as Malcolmson (1973) notes, games involved significant proportions of the able-bodied males in a town or parish. ...

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With the understanding of the disease process, there is another important part of the disease that needs to be addressed, which is the care giver. ... In many cases, the care giving role continues over an extended period of time, creating a condition of chronic stress. ... She then describes her feelings at seeing her grandmother at a family picnic planned for celebration before her grandmother was sent to a home: "I wanted to run up to her, give her a hug, and never let go. ... In this girl's position she knows that she can't do much: "I can't cure her, but I can comfort her an...

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There are many other techniques the counsellor can use to teach rational self-counselling skills, such as giving the client homework, which at the start of the therapy could be for the client to keep a diary of anything that makes them feel anxious or depressed, so the counsellor can examine the thoughts surrounding what made them feel that way and teach them a healthy way of thinking. ...

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Christine Geraghty notes that the longer they run the more impossible it seems to imagine them ending'. ... Entertainment is the main purpose of this soap but it also has an educational function for viewers, offering a discussion of topics of concern to them and where to go to get help by giving them phone numbers at the end of the show relating to issues being explored in the soap as for example the issue of teenage pregnancy in Vicky's case and also drug issues as in the case of Kelly or Mark being diagnosed with HIV. ... Christine Geraghty also argues that soaps appeal more...

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