Miscellaneous Essays

The actual strength of the Marxist anthropology lies in its ability to reinvent Marx's conception of alienation and labour theory of value. Otherwise, the anthropological enquiries of Marxism cannot become a revolutionary tool in the hands of working class.

The need for harmony with nature in the face of industrial agriculture; the importance of rural life to the national psyche; and Canada's commitment to multiculturalism. (Prince Charles Speech. Canada’s culture is intrinsically more valuable since it values multiculturalism. Being Canadian means being a global citizen.

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It should be noted that structural failures result from a variety of causes including both technical or physical problems and human error or procedural errors. However, it is important to stress that these causes are often difficult to isolate and quantify because structural failure is often due to a combination of interrelated deficiency.

Scientific geography was a very important part in the exploration. They used maps and explored the societies deeply as they were to produce a detailed account of whatever they were traversing. The adaptation of the culture and norms of the east Africans by the Arabs and the Swahilis is also a point of major importance.

In other words, the total of all things that refer to religion, roots of people, symbols, language, songs, stories, celebrations, and all expressions of our way of life. It encompasses food production, technology, architecture, kinship, the way we relate to each other, political and economic systems, and all the social relationships these entails.

However, until recent years there has never been a medical label linked between the actual criminal behavior and a medical disorder, although the theorization existed that a psychological disorder was in all probability the defining cause for many people to act irrationally and commit deviant acts.

The law became effective on January 1, 1808,  from which time the importation of African slaves into the United States was prohibited. It was prohibited because the moralists who considered the practice of slave trading inhuman and immoral believed that once the importation of slaves was made illegal, the entire practice of slavery would begin to die out.

Someone is benefited by guilty pleas, otherwise, there would be none. Our question of the research is to determine what these benefits are, and who obtains them. Do they occur to attorneys and courts interested in speed and efficiency at the expense of the accused? The paper has suggested an affirmative answer to these questions in the light of the available history of such cases supported by the literature at hand.

It is also important when comparing populations to determine disease risk. Measures: Attributable proportion among the exposed is the appropriate measure. In the present scenario the exposure is pregnant women dying during first year after giving birth. This is due to development of complications.

Barak Obama appears to be giving sleepless nights to his rival John McCain as far as the electoral battle is concerned. Shift in many of the existing policies is quite apparent and John McCain too has said that, "I am not President Bush." This makes the presidential race all the more interesting.

The computer games manufacturing process does not differ greatly from other production processes thus, it takes into account the unique nature of the computer games industry and customers’ demands. Put simply, the product life cycle (PLC) plots the sales volume and profit curves for the industry (or company brand) over the history of the product.

The legal sphere would like to claim the victory in ensuring that affording equal rights towards African Americans was instituted; however, there were other events that helped to change the attitudes of Americans towards the status of African Americans. One particular event that happened in the late 1940s to change the attitudes towards the equality status of African Americans was the introduction of Jackie Robinson into the baseball league.

The foster care system in the United States continues to face challenges related to the quality of care provided by foster parents. Although legislation has been passed by the federal government aimed at improving the system, the pervasive negative stereotypes of foster care remain. This is especially true when it comes to the safety of children placed in this environment.

The statistical representation of Six Sigma describes quantitatively how a process is performing. To achieve Six Sigma, a process must not produce more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities. A Six Sigma defect is defined as anything outside of customer specifications.

This is the response King Henry V gives to Dauphin’s messenger who delivers a crate of tennis balls sent by Dauphin as a mocking reminder of Henry’s irresponsible and wayward youth. With menacing and icy wrath, Henry turns the Dauphin’s jest on its head, threatening the messenger with a promise to treat the field of France as a tennis court and play a game for Dauphin’s father’s crown.

This essay discusses that The fertility rate has increased same as the life expectancy. Gradually the industrialization has enticed a huge number of migrants from villages in search of better surveillance.The urbanization has a pressurized city municipal sanitation system and there was an extreme shortage of basic needs.

Priorities concerning domestic as well as international economy and the judicial sytems were severely affected by the said incident. The government of America was challenged by the tragedy and focused on strategies to avoid future terrrorist attacks. As much as the law implementers, military and concerned citizens were so motivated to punish the alleged "brains" of the attack, they decided to be more rational in selecting interventions which will ensure safety and fearless sovereignty.

Either of the two, the ways to make the publication an indeed successful one to relate to the readers, the music fans who will patronize, to put it more appropriately. The reason being is that the life and existence of the publication depends on the music fans, if the overall being satisfyingly suffices their musical appetites, caprices, demands and requests.

This limitation refers to the reality that it should convey but in actuality, it only makes people perceive the so- called reality through the raw material being used such as color, sound etc. In the movie as an example, Arnheim stretches out that once the film is played, it just sort of imitate the real by manipulating the materials to make the events portray the real.

Studies show that these females are more likely to have problems with drugs, alcohol, suicide, and educational performance. They are very likely to have a teen pregnancy and be involved in criminal activity. The status of single parenthood throughout the country has become a dilemma but the studies of the effects of this situation on the adolescent female have grim results.

The papers considered thereof, were 'On the Relation of Neurology to Psychology' written by Henry H. Donaldson in 1889, and 'The Psychologist's Use of Neurology' written by Madison Bentley in 1937. Both cited in different editions of the American Journal of Psychology.

To guarantee independence like this, only one branch should not have more power than the others when it comes to choosing members of the other two branches. If this theory was seriously followed, it would suggest that the citizens must opt for the president, the legislators, as well as the judges. The framers identified certain realistic problems.

It is assumed that a new service provider wants to set up a new business in Mexico and the various aspects that are to be considered and kept in mind by the service provider have been discussed and depicted. Mexico is a large country containing almost 2 million square kilometers. Many parts of the central highlands have "perfect" weather all year round.

For example there are different types of cotton; jute, hides and skins are supplies to the producers of cotton textiles, gunny bags and shoes respectively. At the same time manufactured goods, which have been produced with the raw materials, are supplied to the consumers.

Things have changed much since Milton Friedman’s narrow description of the social responsibility of business. The growing influence of corporate brands and the spread of pervasive information and communications technologies have increased the visibility of a business. Large businesses have become more prominent and have wide-ranging social impact and influence.

There have been quite a lot of research and analyses on the arguments for and against the federal estate tax which result in evidence in favor of as well as against the Federal Estate Tax. Whereas the various political and economic arguments for and against the death tax magnetize popular attention on the issue, a sociological perspective on the question gives a more complete and supreme argument against the Federal Estate Tax.

The power of reproduction never matches that of the original body, and therefore the power of art has its limits in a philosophical realm. It is the connection to the physical that is most important and provides consolation to Genet in the face of the anguish created by the contemplation of the universe.

Madison asserts, "The prescriptions in favor of liberty ought to be levelled against that quarter where the greatest danger lies, namely, that which possesses the highest prerogative of power. But this is not found in either the Executive or Legislative departments of Government, but in the body of the people, operating by the majority against the minority" (par.

It will only be the manner of his death that will be expected and disclosed. For a reader/audience, it would not be an exciting and attractive fiction if it is already known that the protagonist dies at the end of the story. The manner of his death and the motive for his death are not usually as inviting as having a victorious and adventurous major character.

The WHO has estimated about 420,000 new MCT infections in children in the year 2007 (WHO, 2008). This mode of transmission of HIV infection is almost preventable (WHO, 2008). This is the best method of prevention of infection in the child and is 100% effective.

(Heery and Noon, 2001). The state provides a compulsory mechanism through which enforcement of the employment law is achieved. (Heery and Noon, 2001). This mechanism rests on a number of legal sanctions that may be criminal (fines and imprisonment), or civil (e.g.

In Freud’s book, “Totem and Taboo”, Freud postulates the ideas regarding the nucleus of primitive religion by adopting psychological concepts This research enabled Freud to form a nexus between the genres of psychology and religion. Critics have pointed out this fact as being instrumental for the rise of a phraseology called psychological reductionism in the schools of comparative religion .

A high unemployment rate is a signal that a country is not healthy, and hence is not operating at its potential. An economy is said to be fully employed when the number of job seekers equals the number of job vacancies. In other words, members of the labor force who really want a job have one.

The cruise passenger survey conducted as part of the assignment contained questions relating to passengers’ intentions to return to Barbados for a stayover vacation. Fifteen percent of respondents indicated they planned to return. Discounting this by a factor of two or three would produce intention estimates of 5% to 10%.

There should be a commitment from the Hungarian government in respect of the following concessions/incentives to make the investment in Hungary attractive: A Tax holiday period of the first 10 years after the start of commercial production: The basic incentive that any foreign joint venture partner from a developing economy would expect is the tax holiday period which acts as a financial incentive for any proposal of foreign direct investment.

The agent is a moving principle and the author of his acts. He knows what he is doing and there is no constraint. Perhaps the underlying thought, not rejected by Aristotle, is that since the action is determined by his character, the agent's activity, although a moving principle, is not an original or spontaneous principle of movement.

The water rights are mainly intended to amplify the economic competence of water use and to deal with the conflicts among the various users of the water resources. The most important water rights include the Riparian, prior appropriation, and the hybrid states (CA), and the most important dimensions of these water rights are concerning acquisition, enjoyment, loss, and transfer of water.

Survey methods, formal methods, econometrics, etc., are some of the examples of quantitative research. It's the research and analysis done by the scientists in different kinds of fields like engineering, marketing, etc., yielded fruitful results in the development of different industries, which became more and more consumer friendly.

The user's computer may perform malfunction the ways of damaged files, corrupted audio files, interrupted phone calls on the internet, time lagging, or get disconnected. If we analyze the table below, we observed that in the MPLS model flow VOZ1 has an average jitter of 3571s & flow VOZ2 has an average jitter of 3615s.

The particular HRM methods of performance assessment and employee development have been emplaced at big multinational firms like Ford Motors, Goodyear Tire & Rubber and Dow Chemical, the subjects of this case study. The innovative performance ranking system takes several forms, but essentially it groups workers into the best, the in-between, and the worst performers. 

They do this to increase the productivity and the organizations competence. This benefits the company nationally as well as globally (Robbins & Judge, 2004). For the incorporation of such a concept in the organization the company has to formulate strategies for the maximum results such as training for everyone, fair policies for the minorities, no discrimination in the performance appraisal systems and so on.

Franklin has followed a distinctive structure to present his idea. Franklin narrates a story in which the entire script is narrated by another person. In this way, Franklin has been able to quote himself, but in a modest manner. The narrator, whose narration is again narrated to the readers by Franklin, provides the public with advice on being able to pay taxes and simultaneously provides suggestions on the lifestyle that would lead a person to wealth, independence and respect.

The university would factor in the cost of increased power in their body and provision of storage devices for the laptops. It will also mean that there will be a system that will ensure that there is continuous support for the students since most of them may not be efficient in the use of computers and hence they may prefer to use notebooks.

In a service industry (for e.g. a super market chain like the John Lewis Partnership) the customer is not only a recipient of service but also a part of the service process. Therefore the chief differentiator that determines long term success or failure in a service industry could well be the quality of service.

This research programme was planned and implemented in response to what I observed, over a significant period of time, to be an increasing problem with the efficiency and productivity of regular meetings in my department. These meetings are part of the formal management process that governs the activities of our group and as such are a focal point of our work.

Standardized Testing has been around since early 1900, however time and again, the reliability of standardized testing has often been questioned. There are both proponents and opponents of this testing system. In order to find how reliable this system is, it is quite necessary to evaluate and assess both the positive and negative aspects of this system, before reaching a conclusion on its reliability.

The scope of this paper is to take a position on the success or failure of the effort and offer specific reasons as to why that position is defendable. While some of the issues Reconstruction attempted to address were resolved, one of the most important, i.e., the integration of the former slaves into the political process, never really succeeded.

The paper tells that the shipping industry has been trying to come out with innovative ideas to ensure a safe journey on the high seas. Goulielmos et al (1997) define the economics of shipping by stating that in this industry the factors of production are mainly the vessel (capital), the crew (labor), and the fuel.

Mary is 67 year old lady with severe COPD. A recent exacerbation resulted in a prolonged hospital admission. She has returned home to her family who are her main carers. Her daughter requests a home visit as Mary's condition has deteriorated since her discharge from hospital.