YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The End of the Victory Culture by Tom Engelhardt
Essays 601 - 630
years ago in the jungles of Southeast Asia. It is not just that American troops die everyday in a foreign and a hostile land or th...
of generalities. We know, for example, that a train will leave the station but we do now know precisely what route it will take t...
reinforcement, the response is learned. This principle is frequently consciously used in dog training. For example, the dog is giv...
After nine years of operation, Amazon finally has achieved some profitable quarters but still has not completed a single profitabl...
solely by store credit sales. The case states that 72% will be collected in the month following sales; 17% will be collected afte...
revolution is over because it failed, although people continue to follow along the same course of sexual activity, and then some. ...
friends with the three other musicians in Stalag VIIIA: cellist, Etienne Pasquier; clarinettist, Henry Akoka and a violinist, Jean...
industrial revolution and the transition to a coal-fired economy" (Pan). Roberts points out that the shift from an agrarian econom...
"the aspirations of the people themselves. The controlling idea of the French Canadian is to retain...
rely on "surrogate" decision-makers, family members capable of making treatment decisions on their behalf. As a result, this stud...
become a prominent question in the care of patients. Society and medical practitioners continually face many dilemmas at the end ...
years. Why? "In 1961 the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, made a speech predicting...
people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...
follows: "Open-ended questions power academic and social learning. Such questions encourage Childrens natural curiosity, challengi...
into the Constitution, thus making it impossible to legislate against virtually anything-"doctor-assisted suicide? Or drug use? Or...
an organization designed to move "hardworking inner-city employees into richer jobs markets by providing the job information and p...
by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...
ball games" (Lychack, 1998). What they are doing is extremely dangerous, in many senses. Not only is fraternization with the e...
is on his own journey for he too is aware of the murderer Injun Joe. As such their journeys, while different, essentially stem fro...
him--and pay for the privilege. Tom realizes that "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of wha...
as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...
would marry in 1990 ("Tom Cruise"). They were together for close to ten years and produced two children. His introduction to Ni...
that would "sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge" (Paine). The alternative was to return to British control, wh...
served as a form of currency in these regions because it was used as wage compensation. A crucial point Standage made is that bee...
alike: "Shes a good girl, loves her mama Loves Jesus and America too Shes a good girl, crazy bout Elvis Loves horses and her boyfr...
agree that the most significant debate Jones had with himself concerning virtue and vice was when he decided to marry Sophia, one ...
of an irresponsible alcoholic father and the absence of his mother, he is actually quite fortunate in comparison to some of the ot...
because of its controversial position, and content, that children should not be required to read it, or have it read in class. In ...
of the film as we witness his actions and we become powerful voyeurs in the process, immersing ourselves in his world, and his sym...
beliefs maintained by the slaves when they still resided in Africa. There is also the perspective which argues that the childre...