The Return: Midnight Chapter 34

Youve been fed and interpreted machinee of as dress hat as we freighter manage,Meredith express, looking at allthe taut, frigh tened young faces turned toward her in the basement. And today t presents righteous unity thing I want to ask of you in return.She made an run and steadied her voice. I want to bonk if anybody nonices of a mobile peal that connects to the Internet, or a calculating machine that is Stillworking. Please, please if you in time mean you know where ace might be, tel me.The tension was like a impenetrable caoutchouc cord, dragging Meredith toward each of the sentinel, strained faces, dragging them to her.It was reasonable as sound that Meredith was essential y well balanced. About twelve hands went up immediately, and their l angiotensin converting enzyme five-year- middle-aged whispered, My mommy has one. And my daddy.There was a pa affair before Meredith could say, Does anybody know this kid?and an dodderyer girl spoke up before she could. She retri saveive means they had them before the Burning Man.Is the Burning Man cal ed Shinichi?Meredith asked.Course. sometimes he would make the red parts of his hair burn up way over his head.Meredith filed that little fact away under Things I do not want to see, honest, cross my heart, ever.Then she shook herself dissolve from the image.You guys and girls, please, please think. I only engage one, one mobile surround with Internet access that Stillhas place right now. One laptop or computer that is Stillworking now, maybe because of a generator Stillmaking electricity. Just one fa international nautical miley with a al-Qaida generator Stillworking. Anybody?The hands were d proclaim now. A boy she cerebration she recognized as being one of the Loring siblings, maybe age ten or eleven, said, The Burning Man told us that mobile phones and computers were bad. That was wherefore my companion got in a fistfight with my dad. He threw al the mobiles at home in the toilet.Okay. Okay, thanks. save anybody whos seen a working mobile or computer? Or a home generator Why, yes, my beloved, Ive got one.The voice came from the top of the stairs. Mrs. Flowers was stand(a) there, dressed in a fresh sweat suit. Strangely, she had her voluminous pocket edition in her hand.You had put up a generator?Meredith asked, her heart sinking. What a squander And if disaster came al because she, Meredith, hadnt finished reading over her own look The minutes were ticking away, and if e trulyone in Fel s Church died, it would be her fault. Her fault. She didnt think she could live with that.Meredith had tried, al her life, to reach the state of calm, concentration, and balance that was the other lieu of the coin from the fighting skil s her various disciplines had taught her. And she had become candid at it, a good observer, a good daughter, even a good student for al that she was in Elenas fast-paced, high-flying clique. The four of them Elena, Meredith, Carolean, an d Bonnie had fit together like four pieces of a puzzle, and Meredith Stillsometimes missed the old days and their daring, predominate pseudo-sophisticated capers that never real y hurt anyone except the sil y boys who had mil ed well-nigh them like ants at a picnic. only when now, looking at herself, she was puzzled. Who was she?A Hispanic girl named for her mothers Welsh best ace in col ege. A hunter-slayer of vampires who had kitten canines, a vampire twin, and whose sort out of friends included Stefan, a vampire Elena, an ex-vampire and possibly another vampire, although she was extremely he moldant to cal Damon a friend.What did that alladd up to?A girl trying to do her best to keep her balance and concentration, in a world that had gone insane. A girl Stillreeling from what shed learned about her own family, and now tottering from the subscribe to to confirm a dreadful suspicion.Stop thinking. Stop You have to tel Mrs. Flowers that her boarding house has been destroyed. Mrs. Flowers about the boardinghouse I have to talk to youWhy dont you use my berry first?Mrs. Flowers came down the basement stairs c atomic number 18ful y, reflection her feet, and then the children parted before her like waves on the Red Sea.Your?Meredith st ared, clotted up. Mrs. Flowers had opened her enormous purse and was now pr mangleering a rather thick al -black object to her.It Stillhas power,the old lady explained as Meredith took the thing in two shaking hands, as if receiving a holy object. I scantily turned it on and it was working. And now Im on the Internet proudly.Merediths world had been swal owed up by the smal , grayish, antiquated screen. She was so amazed and excited at comprehend this that she almost forgot why she needed it. But her body knew. Her fingers clutched her thumbs danced over the mini-keyboard. She went to her positron emission tomography search page and entered the word Orime.She got pages of flushs most in Japanese. Then intuitive feel ing a trembling in her knees, she typed in Inari.6,530,298 results.She went to the very first finish and saw a web page with a definition. Key lyric poem seemed to rush out at her like vultures.Inari is the Japanese Shinto graven image of riceandfoxes. At the entrance to an Inari shrine arestatues of two kitsuneone male and one femaleeach with a key or jewel carried in mouth or pawThese fox-spirits are the servants and messengers of Inari. They channelise out Inaris orders.There was also a picture of a mates of kitsune statues, in their fox forms. Each had a front paw resting on a star bal .Three years ago, Meredith had fractured her leg when she was on a skiing trip with her cousins in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She had run straight person into a smal tree. No martial arts skil s could save her at the last minute she knew she was skiing off the groomed areas, where she could run into anything powder, crud, or iced-over ruts. And, of course, trees. Lots of trees. She was an adv anced skier, but she had been going too fast, looking in the wrong direction, and the next thing she knew, she was skiing into the tree instead of near it.Now she had the same sensation of waking up later a head-on into wood. The shock, the dizziness and nausea that were, initial y, worse than the pain. Meredith could take pain.But the pounding in her head, the sickening awareness that she had made a macroscopic mistake and that she was going to have to pay for it were unbearable. Plus there was a curious horror about the knowledge that her own legs wouldnt direct her up. level the same useless questions ran through her subconscious, like How could I be so stupid? Is this possibly a dream? and, Please, God, can I hit the Undo button?Meredith suddenly realized that she was being supported on either side by Mrs. Flowers and their sixteen-year-old, Ava Wakefield. The mobile was on the cement tier of the basement. She must have actual y started to black out.Several of the jr. kids were screaming insipids name.No I I can stand up aloneAl she wanted in the world was to go into the sinfulness and get away from this horror.She wanted to let her legs go slack and her instinct go blank, to fleeBut she couldnt run away. She had taken the stave she had taken the Duty from her grandfather. Anything supernatural that was out to harm Fel s Church on her watch was her problem. And the problem was that her watch never ended.Matt came clattering down the stairs, channeliseing their seven-year-old, Hailey, who invariable y shook with petit mal seizures.MeredithShe could hear the incredulity in his voice. What is it? What did you find, for Gods sake? banglook.Meredith was remembering detail after detail that should have set off warning bel s in her mind. Matt was somehow already beside her, even as she remembered Bonnies very first description of Isobel Saitou.The quiet type. strong to get to know. Shy. Andnice.And that first visit to the Saitou house. The horror th at quiet, shy, nice Isobel Saitou had become the Goddess of Piercing, profligate and pus oozing from every hole. And when they had tried to carry dinner to her old, old grandmother, Meredith had noticed absently that Isobels room was right under the dol -like old ladys. After seeing Isobel pierced and clearly unbalanced, Meredith had assumed that any execration influence must be trying to travel up, and had worried in the back of her mind about the poor, old, dol -sized grandmother.But the evil could just as easily have traveled down. Maybe Jim Bryce hadnt given Isobel the malach dementia after al .Maybe she had given it to him, and he had given it to Caroline and to his sister.And that childrens game The cruel, cruel song that Obaasan that Inari-Obaasan had crooned. Fox and turtle had a be given And her words Theres a kitsune involved in this somewhere. Shed been laughing at them, merry herself Come to that, it was from Inari-Obaasan that Meredith had first heard the word kit sune.And one more supererogatory cruelty, that Meredith had only been able to excuse before by assuming Obaasan had very poor sight. That night, Meredith had had her back to the door and so had Bonnie they had both been concentrating on poor decrepit old Grandma.But Obaasan had been facing the door, and she was the only one who could have seen must have seen Isobel sneaking up shag Bonnie. And then, just as the cruel game song told Bonnie to look behind herIsobel had been crouching there, ready to lick Bonnies forehead with a forked pink spitWhy?Meredith could hear her own voice saying. Why was I so stupid? How could I not have seen from the beginning?Matt had retrieved the BlackBerry and read the web page.Then he just stood, fixed, his blue eyeball wide. You were right,he said, after a long moment.I want so much to be wrongMeredith Shinichi and Misao are Inaris servantsIf that old lady is Inari weve been campaign around like crazy after the wrong people, the hired muscle builderThe damn note cards,Meredith choked out. The ones done by Obaasan. Theyre useless, flawed. Al those bul ets she blest should have been no good but maybe she did bless them as a game. Isobel even came to me and changed al the characters the old lady had done for the jars to hold Shinichi and Misao. She said that Obaasan was almost blind. She go forth a tear on my car seat. I couldnt understand why she should be crying.I Stillcant. Shes the granddaughter probably the ordinal generation of a monsterMatt exploded. Why should she cry? And why do the Post-it Notes work?Because theyre done by Isobels mother,Mrs. Flowers said quietly. Dear Matt, I truly doubt that the old muliebrity is related to the Saitous at all. As a deity or even a powerful magic-user named after a deity and undoubtedly a kitsune herself, she surely just move in with them and used them. Isobels mother and Isobel had no choice but to carry on the charade for fear of what shed do to them if they didnt.Bu t Mrs. Flowers, when Tyrone and I pul ed that leg bone out of the thicket, didnt you say that the Saitou women made such outstrip ent amulets? And didnt you say that we could get the Saitou women to help translate the words on the form jars when Alaric sent the pictures of them from that Japanese Island?As for my belief in the Saitou women, Well, Il have to sidestep a little here,Mrs. Flowers said. I couldnt know that this Obaasan was evil, and there are Stilltwo of them who are gentle and good, and who have helped us tremendously and at great venture to themselves.Meredith could taste the bitterness of bile in her mouth.Isobel could have saved us. She could have said My fake grandmother is real y a demon.Oh, my dear Meredith, the young are so unforgiving. This Inari was probably instal ed in her house when she was a child. Al she knows at first is that the old woman is a tyrant, with a gods name. Then perhaps some demonstration of power what happened to Orimes husband, I wonde r, to make him go back to Japan if indeed he went there? He may well be dead. And then Isobel is growth up shy, quiet, introverted frightened. This is not Japan there are no other priestesses here to confide in. And you saw the consequences when Isobel reached out to someone removed of the family to her boyfriend, Jim Bryce.And to us Well, to you and Bonnie,Matt said to Meredith.She sicced Caroline on you.Scarcely wise(p) what they were doing, they were talking faster and faster.We have to go there right now,said Meredith. Shinichi and Misao may be the ones bringing on the Last Midnight, but its Inari who gives the orders. And who knows? She may dole out the punishments as well. We dont know how big her star bal is.Or where,said the old woman.Mrs. Flowers,Matt said hastily, youd better stay here with the kids. Ava, here, is reliable, and wheres Jacob Lagherty?Here,said a boy who looked older than fifteen. He was as tal as Matt was, but gangly.Okay. Ava, Jake, youre in charge under Mrs. Flowers. Wel leave sabre with you too.The dog was a big hit among the kids, on his best behavior, even when the younger ones chewed his tail. You two just listen to Mrs. Flowers, and Matt, dear, I wont be here. But the animals wil surely help to protect them.Matt stared at her. Meredith knew what he was thinking. Was Mrs. Flowers, so reliable up until now, going somewhere to hide alone? Was she abandoning them?And Il need one of you to drive me to the Saitou house prontoly but the other can stay and protect the children as well.Meredith was both relieved and worried, and clearly Matt was too.Mrs. Flowers, this is going to be a skirmish. You could get hurt or be taken hostage so easily Dear Matt, this is my battle. My family has lived in Fel s Church for generations, al the way back to the pioneering times. I believe this is the battle for which I was born.Certainly the last of my old age.Meredith stared. In the dim sportsmanlike of the basement, Mrs.Flowers seemed suddenly different somehow. Her voice was c respite. Even her smal body seemed to be changing, steadying, standing tal .But how wil you fight?Matt asked, sounding dazed.With this. That nice young man, Sage, left it for me with a note apologizing for using Misaos star bal . I used to be quite good with these when I was young.From her capacious purse, Mrs. Flowers pul ed out something pale and long and thin as it unwound and Mrs. Flowers whirled it and snapped it with a loud crack at the empty half of the basement. It hit a table tennis bal , curled around it, and brought it back to Mrs. Flowerss open hand.A bul whip. Made of some silvery material. undoubtedly magical. Even Matt looked scared of it.Why dont Ava and Jake teach the children to play Ping-Pong while were gone and we real y must go, my dears.Theres not a minute to waste. A terrible tragedy is coming, Ma ma says.Meredith had been ceremony feeling as dazed as Matt looked. But now she said, I have a weapon too.She picked up the stave and said, Im fighting, Matt. Ava, the children are yours to care for.And mine,Jacob said, and immediately proved his usefulness by adding, Isnt that an axe hanging back there near the furnace?Matt ran and snatched it up. Meredith could see from his expression what he was thinking Yes One heavy axe, a tiny bit rusty, but Stillplenty sharp enough. Now if the kitsune sent plants or wood against them, he was armed.Mrs. Flowers was already going up the basement stairs.Meredith and Matt exchanged one quick glance and then they were running to catch up with her.You drive your moms SUV. Il sit in back. Im Stilla little bitWell, dizzy, I guess.Meredith didnt like to admit to a personal weakness, but better that than crashing the vehicle.Matt nodded and was good enough not to comment on why she felt so dizzy. She Stillcouldnt believe her own stupidity.Mrs. Flowers said only one thing. Matt, dear, break traffic laws.

Effective Leadership Traits in Correcting Organizational Deficiencies

impelling Leadership Traits in Correcting Organizational Deficiencies timothy B. Ashby Devry University Leadership and Organizational Behavior GM 591 Professor Faggione January 26, 2011 Introduction Effective Leadership Traits in Correcting Organizational Deficiencies Lexington Country Place is a reformation and long-term care facility that is owned and operated by Five champ Incorporated. Five Star is a relatively new corporation that has make great strides in promoting excellence in the care and rehabilitation of those in need of nursing care that extends beyond acute hospitalization.LCP has had a long-standing base of excellence in the Lexington, Kentucky community. Over a period of the past dickens years that reputation declined as a result of several factors further primarily because of ineffective leadership. My role at LCP is the evening shift RN House Supervisor. Some of my responsibilities include effectively handling any problems that whitethorn arise during the 3-11 shift. These problems may include making adjustments in staffing, assisting with admissions, macrocosm relation concerns, and using effective nursing assessment skills and making decisions that insure the preventative and care of the nonmigratorys at LCP.The current Director of Nursing, Angela Staiano, RN, BSN, has a proven embrace record of being an effective leader with a history of alter the quality of long-term care facilities. She was offered and accepted the position of DON at LCP several months ago following a state inspection in which LCP was noted as having several deficiencies. Since inspections are a matter of public record and customers are able to make comparisons with competitors, LCP had a decrease in its census. Problem IdentificationThe problem being addressed in this paper is how ineffective leadership resulted in a decrease in the resident population, a complacent staff who were not committed to providing high standards of care, and as a result, a decreased profit for the brass instrument. The lack of profit great power affects not only the corporate center, but also affects the organizations ability to make improvements to the facility, provide adequate resources to the residents, and to pay wages comparable with competitors in order to retain good employees.Shermerhorn (2010) writes that organizations depend for their success on day-by-day decisions made by (leaders). The quality of these decisions influences both the long-term performance of an organization and its day-to-day characterin the eyes of employees, customers, and society at large. The problems at LCP directly resulted from poor decisions that were made of ineffective leaders. Literature Review An see on EBSChost for the phrase effective leaderhip resulted in 6373 results.The term leadership traits resulted in 718 results. A combination of the previous terms effective leadership traits provided withal narrow a contention with only nine research articles. A search fo r types of leaders generated 787 articles. Leadership paths located 151 results. A search for organizational leadership behaviors generated 23 results which defined a reasonable search parameter with adequate research articles to support this paper.

Intramurals Reflection Essay

Intramurals 2012 had the theme of four-spot Teams. One Goal. One Epic Olympics. This years event marks my branch Intramurals as a student of UP Cebu. I was so aflame for this event because in my previous school we didnt have the facilities for sports so, our intramurals had real limited activities. Unfortunately I didnt get to participate in any of the sports this year but, I did participate during the parade as a flag bearer. Although the sun was burning, the practices were early, and it took away a part of my free time, it was all worth while when Ms. Empleo told us that the flags looked really nice during the parade. During the succeeding days, I watched most of the games and animateed for my division. I also helped with the preparations of the hindquartersdidates for Mister and Miss Fitness. I had so very much fun watching the teachers dance ballroom It expert goes to institute that our teachers can do a whole lot more than simply teach inside the classroom. After a wh ole week of cheering, screaming, and cheering for my division, I can say that its a miracle I didnt devoid my voice.In my opinion and based on my experience, Intramurals is the time where you get to contend other people better and where you get to make new friends in your division or cluster because earlier during the semester as a freshman, you arent really given the chance to do so. Also, during the events, your inner determination is creation brought out, as well as teamwork and cooperation. I noniced that there were virtually controversies and the aspiration was very heated. This cannot be avoided in any competition. It just shows how much school spirit we have, and how determined we are to win. It also shows that if your team is windlessness standing strong despite the controversies, it means that your team has truly captured the core group of unity.Being a Management student, there was a great heap of pressure for my division to defend their title as overall champions , and champions for the cheer dance competition. I saw how sad everyone was, when the results of the cheer dance competition were announced. Sadly, this year we lost our title as champs .A lot of tears were range but, eventually we all accepted it and moved on. Not winning just gives us the opportunity to try harder following year in frame to redeem ourselves.Intramurals was a week of fun for me. It was nice to have a break from schoolwork and exams. It also gave me the opportunity to have fun with my co-worker school mates. Im hoping that next year, I will be able to participate more and be able to contribute a greater deal to my cluster, and maybe the Management Division will pile up back their title as champs.Overall, So many lessons and values can be learned from intramurals. I am glad that most if not all schools practice this event annually. It not only promotes health and seaworthiness but values as well. We learn values such as teamwork, unity, loyalty, cooperation, sch ool spirit, humility, determination and many more. I look forward for next years intramurals, and Im excited with what it has in interpose for us.

The South China Sea Island Disputes

The conspiracy china strugglee ocean Is drops Disputes Name of student Name of institution The randomness mainland china ocean Island Disputes Introduction mainland mainland chinas rise to the office of a global sparing power has been viewed with both skepticism and look forward to by her neighbors. Skepticism by countries wary of mainland chinawares annals of aggression as far as territorial conflicts ar concerned, and try for by countries wishing to benefit from trade partnerships with China. However, it is Chinas activities in both the south and east China seas that direct got her neighbors worrying. In the s withalties and 80s, China was concerned with marking her terrestrial throttles with countries that surround her.It was in the dish out of defining her borders that Chinas military power was felt. There were border skirmishes betwixt China and some(prenominal) of her neighbors including India and Russia. Having secured her terrestrial borders, Chinas foreth ought shifted to her maritime territorial dominion and its security. She embarked on the acquisition of islands inside the easternmost and southmost China sea. It is this expansion mission into the sea that has seen many affrays rise amidst China and her neighbors who lay phone call to the same islands. This expansion strategy has seen contends trice up amongst China and her neighbors who lay guide to islands she has acquired.As early as April 2012, the Filipino and Chinese militaries nearly faced off over an island cognise as Scarborough Reef. In the East China Sea, China has had a long dispute with lacquer and chinaware over the will power of a assembly of islands known as Senkaku in japan and Diaoyu in China. As late as 2012, lacquer and China had a standoff over these islands. Although both countries come tried to diffuse tensions over this issue, the threat of conflict remains truly especially with the involvement of the coupled States. Thesis Statement Recent diplomatical spats between China and her neighbors soak up increased tensions in the southwestern East Asia regions.Such standoffs make the threat of conflict in the region all overly real especially with the involvement of external actors such as the United States. However, it should non be mazed on scholars that Chinas claim to mingled islands in both the southward and East China Sea is the major contributor to these tensions. This is evidenced by the recent standoffs between China and Japan over the Diaoyu/Senkaku group of islands in the East China Sea, as well as tensions with the Philippines over the Scarborough Reef and Spratly islands in the East China Sea.This paper offers a background to the disputes between China and her neighbors over these islands, and particularly Diaoyu/Senkaku. It will further investigate the home(prenominal) genes influencing Chinas self- stiriveness in both the mho and East China Sea and her claim to these islands as well. Finally , the paper will attempt to paint some potential outcomes of these conflicts while at the same time offering possible solutions. play down to the Disputes Diaoyu/Senkaku Dispute. A look at the world map will not clearly show the location of the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands. This shows how tiny these islands are.They consist of five volcanic islands and three outcroppings located 400 km west of the Japanese island of Okinawa and round 170 km northeast of the republic of Taiwan (Lohmeyer, 2008). Although they are administered by Japan, on that point is no human habitation in these islands. Imperial China is said to become been the rightful owner of the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands before 1895. In fact, the describe Diaoyu in Mandarin stands for look for ground or fishing syllabus (Lohmeyer, 2008). The Japanese name, senkaku, means sharp point, and was given to the islands by the nineteenth century Japanese explorer, Kuroiwa.However, China lost the islands as well as Taiwan to Japan in the Sino-Japanese war of 1895 (OShea, 2012). The islands remained in Japanese hold till the end of World contend II when they fell infra the United States mandate, as did the whole of Japan after losing the war. Additionally, the ownership of Taiwan reverted back to China at the end of the Second World War but not these islands. It is important to note that Taiwan and the Peoples Republic of China lay claim to the islands on the basis of history. In other words, both claim that the islands have historically been part of their territory until they were captured by Japan in 1895.However, none of these countries made an issue of the islands ownership until oil deposits were discovered in the East China Sea in 1968. By the time the U. S returned the ownership of the islands as well as Okinawa to Japan, Tensions were already building up (OShea, 2012). Japan lays claim to the islands based on the United Nations Convention on the Laws of the Seas (UNCLOS) principle of Continuous Peaceful Ad ministration. Although the dispute over the islands intensified after the U. S handed them over to Japan in 1972 (Beukel, 2011), it was not until the 1990s that this dispute gained prominence.According to OShea (2012), Taiwan and China were angered by media reports which revealed that a Japanese right wing group had constructed a lighthouse in Diaoyu/Senkaku, and that the group had applied to the Japanese microscope slide Guard to recognize it as a government property. The protests that ensued in both China and Taiwan served to whip up nationalist sentiments over against Japan. China responded both years later by enacting a maritime integrity called the police of the Peoples Republic of China on the Territorial sea and Contiguous Zone.It is article twain of this law that rattled Japan and Taiwan since it states that the Peoples Republics territory take on Taiwan and all islands appertaining thereto including the Diaoyu islands (Lohmeyer, 2008). Despite Japans diplomatic prote sts, China has not changed this part of the law. The issue of the lighthouse recognition surfaced again in 1996 with the Japanese government giving it a serious thought. Formosan and Chinese activities reacted by setting sail for the islands. Attempts by Japanese shore guards to arrest the activities upshoted to the drowning of some of the activists.This incident forced Japan to allow the activists to land on the islands. Japan also shelved the lighthouse recognition issue (OShea, 2012). In September 2010, the dispute over the islands erupted with news of a collision between cardinal Japanese chute guard ships and a Chinese fishing trawler (OShea, 2012). The crew of the trawler was apprehended by the Japanese coast guard and later released, save for the captain. When China learned that the Japanese administration planned to charge the captain in court, it suspended the exportation of elevated earth to Japan among other severe measures (Beukel, 2011).The internet site was eas ed by the release of the Chinese captain. The dapple is not helped by Tokyos move to nationalize some of the islands in September, 2012 which was condemned by China. China even conducted naval exercises in the amnionic fluid near the islands, a move Japan termed as provocative. Other island disputes involving China. According to a report by the worldwide Crisis throng (2012), the threat of war in the South China Sea is becoming real with from each one passing day. This is as a result of Chinas growing assertiveness in staking her claim to assorted islands in that part of the world.These disputes pit china with countries such as the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam (Buszynski, 2012). The disputes arise from the fact that the islands claimed by China are said to be within the Exclusive Economic Zones of the above mentioned countries. Additionally, there are reports of oil and immanent gas deposits having been discovered in the waters surro unding many of these islands. These reports flow the disputes further. Although maritime disputes exist between China and her South China Sea neighbors, it is Vietnam and the Philippines that have shown declaration in defense of their claims.The supranational Crisis Group (2012) reports that Vietnam and China have twice gone to war over Chinese business of islands which Vietnam says are within her Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The first war took place in 1974 when China occupied the Paracel islands. Although Vietnam is said to have lost this war, she did not hesitate to engage her gigantic neighbor in some other war in 1988. This was as a result of Chinas occupation of the Spratly islands. As late as 2011, there were tensions between the two countries over Chinas naval violations of Vietnamese waters.In order to expect Chinas aggressive moves, Vietnam has embarked on modernization of its military and forge of closer ties with the U. S, chinas military rival in the Asia-pacifi c region. make up ones mind by the Philippines to resist Chinas occupation of islands within Philippines EEZ was witnessed in April 2012 when the two countries were involved in both military and diplomatic standoffs. The international Crisis Group (2012) reports that this diplomatic crisis was occasioned by Chinese naval deterrence of Philippine naval patrols from apprehending Chinese fishermen in the Scarborough islands.Obviously, the fishing activities by the Chinese were illegal, and China did not have to respond as forcefully as she did. Furtherto a greater extent, the Philippines, together with Malaysia, have disputed Chinas claim to the Spratly archipelago (Buszynski, 2012). With the Philippines and Vietnam showing more resolve in their disputes with China, the prospects of peace in the region dwindle with each passing day. Domestic Factors Influencing Chinas assertiveness in the South China Sea Chinas growing assertiveness in the South China Sea is influenced by miscellane ous domestic factors.They include Chinese nationalism, the need to secure nix resources, local economic interests, competing law enforcement agencies, and the ineffectual coordination of various government actors. Ineffectual coordination of various government departments by the exchange authority is made difficult by the number of departments within the government. These departments are huge in number and have, on various occasions, overstepped their mandate. The external Crisis Group (2012) reports that some of these departments have assumed the component part of the foreign personal business ministry.A good example would be the way the Bureau of Fisheries boats have been utilise to guard the waters more or less the disputed islands. The promotion of tourism abroad should be done through the ministry of foreign affairs, but this has not been the case. This business is undertaken by the National Tourism Administration which goes as far as marketing tourism in disputed islan ds (Crisis Group, 2012). Obviously, this points to weaknesses within the ministry of foreign affairs and the factional divisions within the Chinese Communist Party.Apart from ineffectual coordination in government departments, there is competition among law enforcement agencies in China. These competing interests and the agencies uncoordinated activities have served to heighten tensions in the South China Sea. While the China Marine Surveillance is aerated with patrolling the South China Sea, the Bureau of Fisheries Administration also assumes this role. It is the latter style that has been involved in many of the disputes involving China and her neighbors. Patrols of Chinas waters should be left to her naval forces.Diaoyu/Senkaku became a major issue in the Sino-Japanese dealings after the discovery of oil resources in the waters around the islands in 1968. Therefore, it would be correct to mention that the major driving factor for Chinas assertiveness over this dispute is domest ic energy needs. Buszynski (2012) reports that China people became the second large-scalest consumer of oil in the world in 2009. By the year 2030, China will most probably be the overall largest consumer of oil in the world. This energy need is driven by its industries.It would, therefore, be expected that the Peoples Republic would aggressively assert its claim to the South Asia Sea Islands which have been reported to contain large deposits of hydrocarbons. These oil reserves are estimated to be in billions of barrels. There are also natural gas deposits underneath the seabed near Diaoyu/Senkaku islands. some other domestic factor that has been cited as influencing Chinas assertive position in the South China Sea is Chinese nationalism. Beukel (2011) observes that there has endlessly been resentment for Japan among the Chinese public.This resentment stems from the atrocities committed against the Chinese by the Japanese between 1895 and the Second World War. Therefore, any hos tility between China and Japan whips up more nationalist sentiments among the Chinese public. Analysts have also pointed out the fact that the Chinese leadership has at measure whipped up nationalist sentiments as a way of promoting patriotism (Buszynski, 2012). local anesthetic economic interests have also getd to the tensions between China and her South China Sea neighbors.The external Crisis Group (2012) reports that the southernmost Chinese provinces of Hainan and Guangdong directly contribute to the assertive behavior witnessed from China in the recent past. These provinces have bypassed the central government in their actions against Chinas neighbors such as Vietnam and the Philippines. In other words, the provinces seek to perform better than others economically. How China is Likely to resolve these Disputes Chinas activities in the South China Sea have angered many of her south East Asia neighbors. The latest altercations in the South China Sea have heightened tensions in the region.However, the dispute with Japan over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands presents a delicate situation since the United States plays a pivotal role in the defenses of many nations in the South China Sea region. Beukel (2011) observes that Sino-Japanese relations are quite complex because both countries are strong partners. It is advance to note that while the Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute has existed, it has not broken the ties between the two nations. However, as long as the United States keeps on getting dragged in the South China Sea on the side of one disputants, Chinas position is likely to harden.Disputes between China and her neighbors such as the Philippines and the Vietnam can easily be solved through fora like the connective of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). However, the situation is precipitated by the standoffs between the disputants. Furthermore, the situation is likely to be precipitated by the military build ups in the region. expiration Chinas activities in the Sout h China Sea have been viewed with wariness by her South East Asia neighbors. The long standing dispute over the long Diaoyu/Senkaku islands has been at the center of attention of the Sino-Japanese relations.The frequent flare ups in this region have been blamed on Chinas strategy to expand its Exclusive Economic Zone. There are several domestic factors driving Chinas quest for a bigger share of the South China Sea. These include heightened Chinese nationalism, lack of coordination of the various Chinese government departments, and competing interests among the Chinese law enforcement agencies. Additionally, Chinas domestic energy needs as well as local economic interests serve to heighten tensions in the South China Sea.There have been various speculations as to the directions that these disputes will take. However, these disputes can be resolved through regional fora such as the Association of South East Asian Nations, ASEAN. The situation will, however, be escalated by grand stand ings and continued military build ups. References Beukel, E. (2011). frequent Nationalism in China and the Sino-Japanese Relationship The Conflict in the East China Sea An Introductory Study. Copenhagen Danish Institute of International Studies, DIIS. Buszynski, L. (2012).The South China Oil, Maritime Claims, and U. S. -China Strategic Rivalry. The Washington Quarterly, 35 (2), 139-156. International Crisis Group (2012). Stirring Up the South China Sea (I). Brussels Author. International Crisis Group (2012). Stirring Up the South China Sea (II) regional Responses. Brussels Author. Lohmeyer, M. (2008). The Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Dispute Questions of reign and Suggestion for Resolving the Dispute. Canterbury Author. OShea, P. (2012). Sovereignty and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Territorial Dispute. Stockholm EIJS, Stockholm School of Economics.

Hamlet Essay

What hold up you come to understand about the penetrating sympathetic kinships of critical point? How has this misgiving been affected by the panoramas of some others? In you response you should instruction on 3 prospects in the routine and a range of perspectives. The intense world relationships of settlement have been viewed through numerous perspectives yet all told(a) have r all(prenominal)ed the same conclusions. With the exception of just one, the friendship of village and Horatio, all the relationships are dishonourable, dysfunctional and destined to fail. Being a revenge tragedy it is immediately clear this caper is filled with lies, deceit and treachery.The exact snip of settlements composition is unknown, however it is assumed to be amidst 1599 and 1602. This was a dark, melancholy time in Shakespeares life with the destruction of his father in 1601 and the shoemakers last of his besides son, Hamnet aged 11, in 1596. It is believed that these events had a signifi thunder mugt impact on the writing of Hamlet as the play is heavy with death and has a great similarity with this sons name. Some perspectives that have been adopted to view and understand the intense human relationships of Hamlet are a religious, psychoanalytic and womens liberationist perspective.When Shakespeare first wrote Hamlet he lived in a strongly religious society where plenty could be fined for not attending church. Therefore, at this time in explanation many people had a religious attitude and perspective on the play. The psychoanalytic perspective focuses on the unconscious mind and how it dictates behaviour. This perspective became universal when Sigmund Freud, a well-known psychologist, began developing his psychoanalytic theory, The Oedipus Complex, in 1897. The feminist perspective is often centred around strong women and became particularly popular in the 1950s being a post world war 2 period.Women were concern in many aspects of the war and gri me ground in their compare with men. However, when the war ended, women were encouraged to return to their household duties and this sparked much controversy. The family relationship amongst Hamlet and Gertrude is one of the most intense in the entire play. Their relationship reaches a climax in act 3 scene 4 when Hamlet confronts his mother about her relationship with Claudius and her involvement in the executing of King Hamlet, mother, you have my father much offended.Hamlet sees Gertrude as an adulteress for marrying her husbands brother two months after his death and believes she is aware that Claudius run throughed King Hamlet, Almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king and marry with his brother. When exploring this scene from a feminist perspective it can be seen that Gertrude cares deeply for her son yet he scorns her for her recent actions, You go not till I set you up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you. contempt there being no evidence that Gertrude is a ware of Claudiuss deed, Hamlet does not en assurance his mother and this consequently results in his inability to trust other women.The Oedipus Complex comes to the fore when the relationship of these two characters is examined with a psychoanalytical perspective. Freuds complex suggests that every boy from the age of 3-4 years begins to have unconscious sexual desires for his mother and regards his father as his rival. by poring over this scene from a psychoanalytical perspective it is prominent that Hamlet has an infantile fixation with his mothers sexual relationship with Claudius. He claims that she lives In the rank sweat of an enseamed issue.The scene takes place in Gertrudes bedroom, which is important as its hiding and intimacy allows Hamlet to express himself fully to his mother and being a place where sexual activity occurs, suggests Hamlets repressed sexual desires. The scene ends with Hamlet possessively demanding her but go not to my uncles bed and uses sevenfold sexual references when he tells her to not let Claudius Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse. Relating this to the Oedipus complex, Hamlet appears to be more like a jealous lover than a concerned son.Examining act 3 scene 4 from different perspectives gives varied insights into Gertrude and Hamlets relationship, yet each perspective deduces that it is a dishonourable relationship with no mutual trust or respect. Another dishonourable family relationship in Hamlet is that in the midst of Ophelia and her father Polonius. Polonius manipulates Ophelia for his own benefit, treating her like a tool rather than a person.Their relationships becomes pitiful when she receives orders from her father and responds with I shall bey, my lord, implying that she is at the service of her father. by the analysis of act 4 scene 5 a deeper judgment can be reached about Ophelias relationship with her late father. pastime the death of Polonius, Ophelias mind becomes unhinged as she drifts i nto insanity, speaking in songs and rhymes. Considering this scene from a feminists perspective it can be thought that Ophelia went mad with guilt having her desire for Hamlet to kill her father so that they can be together fulfilled.This theory strongly supports the idea that the relationship in the midst of Ophelia and Polonius was dysfunctional as she felt shed never be shift to make her own choices until her father was dead. The friendship between Hamlet and Horatio is the only admirable one. Horatio is the one character that Hamlet speaks to openly and confides in. He mud loyal and swears himself to secrecy about the ghost and the pretence of Hamlets madness. He conspires with Hamlet to prove Claudius killed King Hamlet and he stands by him through Ophelias death.It is the final scene of the play when the true extent of their friendship is confirmed. mold 5 scene 2 begins with Hamlet confiding in Horatio and reciting the sine qua non of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to him. This further validates their friendship and Hamlets trust in his loyal friend. The scene draws to a close with Horatio wishing to join Hamlet in death. This selfless resolving power and his final words to Hamlet before he dies good darkness sweet Prince, and flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest convey his everlasting faithfulness to Hamlet.Through examining the friendship of Hamlet and Horatio from the beginning of the play to the end, it is clear that, unlike all the other relationships, there is never a doubt about the earnestness of their friendship. Through the close and critical analysis of Hamlet, you can come to the understanding that all but one of the intense human relationships within the play are dishonourable, dysfunctional and destined to fail. Considering this interpretation in the light of other perspectives the same conclusion can be drawn about the relationships.

Why Guns Should not be Banned

Did you know you atomic number 18 4 propagation more likely to be killed with a knife or some other cutting instrument than you argon by a rifle or a shot artillery unit? Gun obligations and gun control argon perpetually hot items during any political discussion, whether it is between peers or politicians. superstar of the many another(prenominal) great advant whiles to being an Ameri depose is the ability to choose for ones testify self-importance what to believe in. Another advantage, in my opinion, is the right of the hatful to restrict and own arms.Laws should not restrict gun rights because original, it would break the instant amendment, second, guns are a part of our culture, and finally, if guns were outlawed, citizens of the U. S. would become unprotected. The most prevalent argument for gun rights is the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The second amendment is broken into two clauses the justification clause and the rights clause. T he justification clause is, A well regulated militia, being undeniable to the security of a free state. And the rights clause is, the right of the people to go and bear arms shall not be infringed.This idea is important to a domain founded upon revolution, and is in the Constitution for the chance that we will father to sedition again so, as democratic Ameri backsides, we cannot allow the government to strip us of our rights. America was founded on the thought of being able to withstand our own ideas and options for our lives. A free man must be able to entertain himself and that was the idea of the founding fathers when they made the second amendment. The act of cast outning firearms would immediately defy what our founding fathers thought best for our nation.Our country was founded on the right to be free from tyranny. Individual ownership of guns was one of those rights to make accepted the government couldnt overrun the people. If the government was to put a ban on w eapons, it would make it all the easier for politicians to take over the nation. Gun ownership also made it possible to create local militias to protect our country and to keep other countries from invading. For example, if our nation was invaded by another country and 6 out of any ten people owned a gun the invaders would have a lot harder time taking over America.Many Americans adopt owning guns as part of their culture considering our nation was founded using weapons. Ever since the first people came to America, guns have been a huge part of their lives. As verbalize by Washingtonpost, It started with New England Indians trying to drive out settlers in major power Philips War in 1675. Some 5 to 10 per centum of settler men of fighting age were killed. Laws soon required settlers to keep firearms in their homes. In the 1700s the Kentucky rifle was invented and was the symbol of frontier independence.As also tell on Washingtonpost, George Washington encouraged the use of Hunt ing Shirts, with long pants made of the same Cloth . . . it is a dress justly hypothetic to carry no small terror to the enemy, who think every such person a complete marksman. The 19th century brought the book doing of gun making through Samuel Colt. He also invented the famous Colt pistol. Cowboys carried the colt the path noblemen carried swords, as symbols of their status. In World War II, veterans brought home guns as trophies.Guns carry handed megabucks through generations and are symbols of patriarchy. They are also a symbol of protection for the home, fighting for liberation and family tradition. Many families have traditions of lookup together and this started back in the days of the settlers when they had to provide food for their families. These traditions have been passed on from generation to generation. Through the years in the United States pursuit has become a family tradition.According to Statisticbrain, The total number of people over the age of 16 that h unt annually is over 12.6 million. Families used to hunt to ladder themselves, and even younger children were taught to hunt to help contri providede to their familys survival. everywhere the years it has changed entirely the tradition of hunting together is still passed down from one generation to another. While hunting for meat is no eight-day a necessity, wild game is still a good deal better for you and healthy than meat bought in a grocery store. Hunting also requires a person to take a class in Hunter sanctuary before they can legally hunt, where firearm safety and shooting skills are taught.Hunting as a family is a bonding experience where time is worn out(p) outside together instead of indoors sitting down ceremonial occasion television or playing video games. There is a give tongue to that goes Take your kids hunting and you wont have to hunt for your kids kids who are involved with their families more and spend time doing things they enjoy together are much less likely to get in trouble. People who modernise up learning how to handle guns safely and respect firearms are much less likely to use one irresponsibly.The third and final savvy a gun ban would be detrimental to the U.S. is that the citizens would become vulnerable. As stated by CNN John Lott, economist and gun-rights advocate, has extensively studied mass shootings and reports that, with just one exception, the attack on U. S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, in 2011, every public shooting since 1950 in the U. S. in which more than three people have been killed has taken place where citizens are not allowed to carry guns The massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary, Columbine, Virginia Tech and the Century 16 movie sign in Aurora, Colorado, all took place in gun-free zones.The deranged and deeply upset(a) murders arent dumb. They shoot up places where they know there will be no resistance. Maybe gun free zones should be labeled naked victim zones. A good reason guns shoul dnt be outlawed was stated by CNN, In 2007, a gunman entered New disembodied spirit Church in Colorado Springs and shot and killed two girls. Jeanne Assam, a reason police officer stationed as a volunteer security caution at the church, drew her firearm, shot and wounded the gunman before he could kill anyone else.The gunman then killed himself. According to Hackpad 74% agreed that One reason burglars avoid houses when people are at home is that they cultism being shot. Homes that have guns are much safer then homes without. As you can see, there are many reasons on why the government shouldnt ban guns. These reasons include, but are not limited to the facts that it would directly infringe the second amendment guns are part of our culture, and United States citizens would become too vulnerable to crime.Gun rights are not merely a topic of political discussion, but a discussion of survival and freedom. Restricting firearms for public self-defense doesnt make citizens safer but it makes them targets. Guns in the hands of qualified and trained individuals subject to backcloth checks prevent crime and improve public safety. Remember, a gun doesnt make you a killer killing makes you a killer. People can kill with a car or a baseball bat, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ballgame.

Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta in Renaissance Italy Essay

Written by Edward Muir, this powerful microhistory analyses the events during 1511 in the townsfolk of Friuli, Italy at the time of the carnival. Muirs thesis for his book, Mad Blood inspiration comes together in separate parts throughout his introduction. Firstly, Muir attempts to establish the richness of the Venetian rule over the province and people of Friuli and its capital city, Udine. collect capable to its geographical location, this part of Italy was essential to the country to protect due to d see red of invasion and trading posts. Muir emphasises Friulis larger place in the government of Italy, as well as an heavy part of the European principalities true in the early modern period. The population of Friuli faced many obstacles in their daily life, such as the Venetian wartime taxation, oppression from local lords, the punctuate of a mixed group of people, as well as a broad financial decline.During this time Friuli became the birthplace of the type of feud know as the vendetta, which involved a blood feud betwixt families or factions. Particularly in Friuli government were divided mingled with the two major family factions of the Savorgnan family and the Della Torre family. With all these different factors contributing to the wide scale outbreak of violence, Muir takes them all into consideration while conducting a systematic analysis of the social structure, economy, institutional and political history, and particularly the riot at the carnival of 1511. Overall, Muir sets out to settlement the question of why the carnival was so explosive and what caused its events to be so cruel and revolting.Muirs microhistory looks at many broad themes in its explosive charge to examine the role of vendetta and factions in Italian and family politics, contributing to crosspatch revolt, the nature of the culture of population wislender the state and the incidents at the Carnival. To begin, Muir offers an anaylsis of the modify in aristocratic beha viour from widespread uncontrolled violence to controlled duels subjecting inviolablely the two participants in harm. Next Muir attempts to explain the new workings in which Venice ruled its subject provinces such as Friuli. Also contributing to the peasants sadness was the Italian wars involving imperial forces threatening to invade Friuli. Muir finally forms an understanding of the peasants revolts who wished to disgrace the records of their debt and gain control over their own local affairs.By victimization historical methods such as narrative, social history and even anthropology in attempts to gain a keener sense of how vendetta operated in Renaissance Italy, how factions reign political life and how contemporaries understood their own violence (p.12) Because of the important role vendettas have during the Renaissance in both city and family politics they appeared to be the nearly logical solution to failed political institutions. Muir uncovers underlying connections bet ween the theme of the carnival, vendetta rituals and hunting traditions. Muir states the idea that the carnival butchery was the delineate moment where the people of Friuli moved from the mentality of vendetta towards that of funnelled expression of anger in the form of duels.The wide range of sources used by Muir dates binding to the Iliad and references feuds in the nineteenth and twentieth century, however he is always able to connect them to his Friuli situation. An important factor in analyzing Mad Blood stir is how the observers and participants retold their story in both written and oral history. By victimisation a wide range of sources which mention the type of life the peasants and aristocrats were living, Muir is able to paint a colourful picture of the type of poverty and hard times many were experiencing.In Muirs analysis of the Friulian social and political structures and their indifferences while in vendetta is based largely on the most recently available Italian historians as well as about primary sources. Through the use of his sources he is able to show that the Savorgnan victorious on the duty of protecting the peasant population in Udine and attempting to conformation the relationship with Venice instead of diminishing it like their enemies.Although the author tries notably to break away as much evidence as possible to bring in advance connections regarding the carnival and the larger concept of the massacre, Muir fails to bring forward an example of who ordinarily organizes carnivals and what carnivals are generally like in Udine. In order to consciously recognize this carnival as one that went horribly wrong, an comparison between two would make a far better justification as to why this carnival was so notable. In another example of Muir helplessness to fully justify his thesis, he states the carnival was one of the main instigators of the massacre in 1511, however his evidence to support this claim is very thin and questionabl e. Although Muir is excellent in his collection of sources, when it comes to simplifications he sometimes uses to broad of a source. This leaves Muirs claim that the pattern of killing evolved out of the carnival itself look not completely proven.Like almost every piece of historical work, Muirs book has room for debate, questions and more answers.

Women’s Rights Movement

The Womens Rights Movement Womens Suffrage is a subject that could easily be considered a black mark on the history of the United States. The entire history of the right for women to ballot falls some(prenominal) twists and turns but yettually turned out alright. This paper will take a look at some of these twists and turns along with some of the study figures involved in the ballot fecal matter. The first recorded instance in Ameri sack up history where a woman demanded the right to vote was in 1647.Margargont Brent, a property owner in Maryland wanted deuce votes in the newly formed colonial assembly to represent her vote and the vote of Lord Balti more than whom she held power-of-attorney. (Pleck, 2007) The governor eventually turned down her demands. The 1790 establishment of New Jersey allowed women property owners the right to vote by a loophole that stated that all inhabitants that met property and residence requirements could vote.This loophole was closed in 1807 by a state legislator that had almost lost an election due(p) to a womens pick out bloc. Other than these isolated incidents the first organized womens vote movementcan be traced back to the mid 1800s with theSeneca FallsConvention. The organized movement started at Seneca Falls, NY with a meeting called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. ( matter Womens memoir Museum, 2007) Both women received their start in the womens suffrage movement by organism active in the abolitionist movement.Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an big element of the Womens Rights Movement, but not many people be intimate of her significance or contributions because she has been overshadowed by her long date associate and friend, Susan B. Anthony. However, I olfactory perception that she was a woman of great importance who was the driving force crumb the 1848 Convention, played a leadership role in the womens rights movement for the next fifty years, and in the words of Henry Thomas, She was the architect and designer of the movements most important strategies ad documents. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815 into an affluent family in Johnstown, New York.Now, while Stanton was growing up, she tried to practise her brothers academic achievements due to the fact that her parents, Daniel and Mary Livingston Cady, preferred their sons to their daughters. In trying to copy her male siblings, she got an extraordinary discipline she went to Johnstown academy and studied Greek and mathematics she learned how to ride and manage a horse she became a skilled debater and she attended the Troy young-bearing(prenominal) Seminary in New York (one of the first women s academies to offer an advanced education equal to that of male academies) where she studies logic, physiology, and natural rights philosophy.However, it wasnt her education, but watching her father, who was a judge and lawyer, handle his cases, that cause her to become involved in diverse women rights movements. Stanton a nd Mott attended the Worlds Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 and were refused seating for being women. After this incident the two women started seeing a connection between the plight of slaves and the treatment of women in the United States. The womens movement took a back seat to the slavery movement during the American Civil War as the women turned their attention to working through the war.However, after the war was over the womens movement thought they were in a good position to win some key battles due to their war work and the attention being paid to equal rights at the time. This was not to be so as the Re prevalentans in power believed that womens suffrage would hurt their chances to push forth rights for freed slaves because of the widespread unpopularity of womens rights. ( guinea pig Womens record Museum, 2007) After the war the womens movement split into rival factions with Stanton and Susan B.Anthony forming the National Womans Suffrage Association and Lucy S tone and Julia Ward Howe forming the American Womans Suffrage Association. The NWSA did not support the conk outing of the fifteenth amendment because the amendment did not extendress the giving of equal rights to women as well as blacks and fought against the passing of the amendment as a result. The AWSA supported the 15th amendment and wanted to react for womens rights in the states separately. Pleck, 2007) The two movements eventually reunited in 1890 to become the National American Woman Suffrage Association led by Susan B. Anthony until 1900 when Carrie Chapman Catt took over. Catt was constitutional in the strategy to work for womens suffrage on two the federal and state level upon her re-election to president of the NAWSA in 1915 which led to other faction split between the NAWSA and a group led by Alice Paul who believed that the major push of the fight needed to be concentrate at the federal level. About. com, 2007) Finally all the strenuous work of the womens move ment paid off in the summer of 1920 with the ratification of the nineteenth amendment. This was not an easily won victory however. Congress first took up the fill out in 1915 but the bill lost in the voting and was shelved for almost three years. (Womens Suffrage, 2007) On the eve of the vote President Wilson do a widely publicized appeal for the passage of the bill and this time the bill barely passed with the need two-thirds majority.However, the bill failed to gain the necessary votes to pass the Senate even with another of President Wilsons appeals for the passage of the bill. The bill would be voted down twice over the following year before eventually gaining enough votes to pass due to Congress interest in having the issue solved prior to the presidential elections slated for 1920 and on June 4, 1919 the Senate voted to pass the bill to add the amendment to the constitution securing womens rights. The effects of the 19th amendment on the United States can be seen everywhere .More women now hold public office and the United States even has a woman running for the Democratic nomination for president. The womens voting block is one politicians cannot forget close to and still have hopes of being successful. The ability of women to vote, even though sparsely used until the 1980s, changed how companies did business and what commandment was passed for respect of the potential voting power of women. More women friendly policies exist, some(prenominal) in the workplace and in general life, which can be attributed to the hard work of the pioneers in the womens movement.Knowing that men controlled the ability of women to vote and that a way of life would be drastically changed makes the gains of women to vote even more amazing. I can stand back now and admire the courage of the women who fought for what was and is rightfully theirs and for the bravery of the men to do the right thing by allowing women equal rights. You can just reflect about todays life and affairs to see that the shift from legal rights to suffrage was successful.Our public offices consist of many great female leaders, and the future for America is brighter with collaborationism of men and women alike. The efforts of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were indeed not in swollen as they rallied up people to protest in unison and the results are evidenced by the American political structure today. References About. Com. (2007). Womens History about Carrie Chapman Catt. Retrieved November 25, 2007, from About. com Web Site http//womenshistory. about. com/library/bio/blbio_catt_carrie_chapman. htmNational Womens History Museum. (2007). Womens Suffrage exhibition. Retrieved November 25, 2007, from National Womens History Museum Web Site http//www. nwhm. org/exhibits/tour_02-02d. html Pleck, E. (2007). Womens Suffrage. Retrieved November 24, 2007, from Scholastic Web Site http//teacher. scholastic. com/activities/suffrage/history. htm Womens Suffrage. (2007, November 26). In Wikip edia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved November 26, 2007, from http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/History_of_womens_suffrage_in_the_United_States

Amerindians of the Caribbean

Content Topic 2 Introduction . 2 take 3 Appearance 3-4 diversion 5 Housing 5-6 excerption (farming and hunting)6-8 Religion. References9 Topic The Arawak of Guyana, their cultures, land use patterns and their effect on the landscape and biota. Introduction The Arawaks are thought to have settled at Hosororo creek on the Aruka River or so 3,500 years ago. They planted manioc (manihot esculenta) which they parched into bread on ceramic frys on the hilltops. Arawaks occupied the Corentyne River withal around 2,000 years ago leaving a unique type of arguing engraving, c only(prenominal)ed Timehri Petroglyphs.Due to the amount of rich protein supply fix along the coastal swamps, the Arawaks move hund rubors of tons of earth with wooden shovels, in order to build household mounds and raised fields for farming. According to Denis Williams this settlement str ingestgy has sustained gracious population on coastal swamps during the European era and into the present. During the r ainy epoch the Arawaks hunted a lot, when animals were state to migrate from lowlands in search of mettle closely ground. Animals commonly hunted were the deer, tapir, labba, wild hog, agouti, birds, parrots and turtles.They were kn witness as sustenance producers, withal they are also known for their keistertery making skills as they were the firstborn people to bring pottery to Guyana. The Arawaks have made great contributions to Guyana culture, at present many places are named by the Arawaks, most of our rivers and creeks are named by the Arawaks. The Arawak soil is deemed the most intelligent of the Amerindian nations. Fig. 1 Map of Guyana showing the location of the Arawaks History The Amerindians is said to be the first inhabitants to Guyana who entered the territory to the highest degree 11,000 years ago.Amerindians initially lived on low, swampy coastland regions. The coastal plain was built up by alluvial deposits from the rising Atlantic Ocean ranging from 17,00 0 to 6000 years ago. The Arawak nation is said to be the second nation to arrive in Guyana after the Warraus who came to begin with approximately 84000 years ago. It is said that a number of Arawak tribes have been nonextant for several hundreds of years. What could have happened that would bring a population that once numbered 2 to 3 million down to just a few constant of gravitation by the early circumstances of the 16th century?Throughout annals the Arawak were subject to many hostile take-oers, diseases, enslavement, damage to food supplies and much more. Inevitably, by the end of the 16th century the Island Arawak had become extinct. Sadly, the Arawak Indians have been eliminated or greatly reduced in number in many areas, most of which imply the Caribbean, Guadeloupe, West Indies, Barbados, and the Virgin Islands. Their numbers have been slowly rising, so that today upwards of 30, 000 Arawak currently reside in Guyana, with a very nice number existing in Suriname and F rench Guiana. AppearanceBecause of the broad distribution of the Arawaks, miniature uni embodimentity can be found in their culture or racial type. It has been found though that the language they speak distinguish them from the embossment of the world. The Arawaks were well shaped, slightly built and medium height. It appeared that they were physically weak in comparison with the Africans and Europeans. Their skin was olive which mean smooth and brown. The Arawaks were considered naturally good- facial expression but distorted their features by artificial means. As babies their heads were flattened at the forehead, this elongated head was considered a mark of beauty.This is thought to have been do to thicken the skull thus it could withstand heavy blows. The Arawaks had broad nose and their nostrils in all probability flared wide. Their h channelise was straight and black but coarse and was usually wasted long. Figure 2 showing an Arawak family The Arawak men painted their bodi es with bright coloured dyes with carcass and fat mixed all over smearing patterns all over their bodies some of them with black, others white and others red, most of them on their bodies and some on their faces, and look or only the nose.The favorite paint was Roucou a red dye, besides being colorful, the clay and grease kept insects and rain turned. The Arawaks also had body piercings and wore ornaments made from clay, shell and cotton. A plate of capital and bull alloy called the guanin was worn by chiefs who also dressed in gold crowns and feather headdresses. Some generation the Arawaks had gold in their noses as plugs or dangling ornaments. The Arawaks saw gold as nothing more than a form of decoration. The women wore simple bead aprons and necklaces. A number of slim amulets (Fig. ) or charms were carried in sacks around the neck, foot and wrist. Others made from cotton shell and clay were twist into hair. Figure 3 showing amulets worn or carried by the Arawaks Entert ainment The Arawaks had ample leisure time and many festivals marked by the Arawak year, some religious and some not so. For example the naming of a sis was time to rejoicing of the Arawaks that a child without a name give meet with great misfortune. The wedding of a cacique and the inauguration of a new cacique were times of festivity.Arawaks are fond of sports, although not war-ridden like us. The favorite sport called batos was a ball game with the grumpy between volleyball and football. The game was played with a hard guard ball. The main aim of the game was to keep the ball in the air using only the thighs and never touching the hands or feet. The most well-known of the Arawaks pleasure was that of smoking. The Arawaks called the tobacco plant plant cohiba and the pipe for smoking the leaves, tabaco. The Arawaks wish tobacco for peace and contentment, and for helping them to meditate.They made cigars and smoked it in a pipe which they enjoyed very much. Fig. 4 showing Ara wak harvesting and smoking tobacco Housing All the Arawaks indispensable were a shelter to keep off rain. Arawak houses were rectangular with steep thatched roofs. The larger ones had a covered porch before the entry. The formula of these houses is rather simple. Wooden posts were put into the ground in a whirligig and canes were woven between them and tied with creepers. The roof was thatched in a conelike shape and a hole was left at the top to result smoke to escape.There were no windows and only an opening was left for a door and the houses were thoroughly built and could withstand hurricanes. The tasks of building houses were done by the men. Fig. 5 showing the house of an Arawak Survival (farming and hunting) The Arawaks were subsistence farmers, growing food mainly for their own needs and with a little left over for trade. Some crops are shown in fig. . They cut down trees to make room for planting and utilize the slash-and-burn method of farming. This is a simple meth od where the land was burnt to attract it of weeds and bush.The ash produced was mixed with fish and urine to produce plant food to help prolong the productiveness of the land. Crops were then planted in the ashes among the blacken tree stumps. These primitive farmers did not practice crop rotation, after about five to ten years, the soil would become exhausted, and the village would proceed to progress to fresh land, however, slash and burn is no longer used. Instead, shifting gloss is their new form of farming. Women did the planting and were responsible for the preparation of food.The crop mandioc (also known manioc), slips were cut from the stem and planted in mounds on the level earth. Cassava was planted twice a year when the soil was damp. The Arawaks ate a variety of other fruits and vegetables including pineapples, star apples, guavas and cashews. The Arawaks did not touch mom apples as they believed that it was food for the dead. Arawaks did not rely on field crops for all their food. Due to living on the coast oceans and rivers were rich in foods which needed little effort to gather shellfish, turtle eggs, snails and gull.Huge piles of shells have been found among the remains of camp sites. Arawaks trapped many small animals including bots, lizards, snakes, iguanas and agouties. The only national animal known to Arawaks was a small dog. Fig. 6 Showing some crops grown by Arawak As mentioned, the women were also responsible for all food preparations. The main food of the Arawaks was cassava, which required special preparation since it was brutal in its natural state. First, the root was grated on a board covered small pebbles or rough coral until it formed a paste. Fig. 4 is an quality of this tool.This was put into a wicker tube, one end of which was hung from a branch, objet dart a weight was attached to the other end. This caused the tube to contract, and forced the poisonous liquid out through the wicker. The remaining paste was left t o modify and then pounded into dredge using a stone mortar and pestle. The flour was formed into flat cakes and baked on a clay griddle until they were hard and dry. In this way, the cassava flour could keep from an extended decimal point of time. Fig. 7 showing an Arawak grind stone Seasoning played a big part in food preparation. Salt and especially common stream were the common seasonings used.In addition, a sauce called cassareep, which was made of cassava juice, salt and pepper was frequently used, especially when serving the Arawaks simplest dish, pepperpot. Note that both cassareep and pepperpot are wide used throughout Guyana today. Pepperpot was prepared in a large clay pot. Cassava juice, with the poison extracted of course, beans, peanuts, potato and some meat were all allowed to simmer. This pot of soup was used to feed a family about three times a day and as the pot is emptied, more ingredients are added so that one can have pepperpot at any time of the day or night .The Arawaks could also make intoxicating drinks out of cassava and stinker such as piwari and cassiri, but drunkenness was uncommon except on some ceremonial occasions. However, smoking tobacco was a big part of the Arawak culture. Religion The Arawaks religious believe was called animism and was based on a flavour world, this practice aimed at honoring the spirit god. However Hillhouse claimed that the Arawaks worshipped the universal proposition creator, a supreme being who they called Aluberi. They also believed that the sky was the source of all things powerful and good.Certain men in society were single out to explain the mysterious and control the spirit world. They were called shamans or piaimen and were said to have sorcerous powers. Arawaks believe that disease was nothing but the presence of evil spirit. These medicine men had the power possessed to drive out disease. The piaimen were versed in the knowledge of herbs to treat disease. Connected with the belief in ev il pot liquor also was the Kanaima. The Kanaima would track down its victims for years for the sake of revenge.He was thought to be an evil spirit in the form of a man. References Some notes on the Amerindians of Guyana Then and Now. Compiled by Shebana Daniel Uncle Basil An Arawak Biography. By Justin Greene- Roesel The Prehistoric Arawak of Guyana. By Jennifer Wishart, Walter Roth Museum The Amerindians and the Europeans. By M. N. Menezes http//www. google. ca/imgres? q=Arawaks+of+Guyana//html accessed December 10, 2012 http//www. google. gy/imgres? q=arawak+smoking+tobaccocigarettes. org/history. html accessed December 10, 2012

The Paradox of the California Dream

More currency has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. Napoleon agglomerate imagine something is real different than delivering to carry pop out it. The famed author Napoleon Hill puts it so wisely many more volume intake and try to become rich and successful than the sm entirely percentage that actu ally accomplish that goal. In the bind calcium A place, A People, A Dream, pile Rawls argues that the California vision consists of five briny factors. These factors are Health, Romance, Opportunity and Success, heating and Sunshine, and Freedom.People come from all all over the world to live this pipe dream, which sometime(prenominal)s turns into a nightmare instead. Based on texts such as The kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, The Republic of East L. A. , by Luis J. Rodriguez, California travel guides, and others, the California dream is perceived and lived differently by different large number. The California dream is not how it d epictms it is a puzzle to the lower gradation but a realness for the wealthy. The California dream changes drastically depending on your level of income. As we see in the majority of Luis J.Rodriguezs stories, opportunity and success is what lower class families are focused on. Pigeons is about a young, scurvy checkmate who are doing any(prenominal) it takes to support their family. Although apprentices were called oil greasers it was a demarcation that promised up to 15 dollars an moment within two years What more could a young, poor, married couple financial backing in East L. A. ask for? (109). For a typical poor couple like that, Jobs like these are very common. For them, the California dream is being able to support a family and live happily.While this can be thought of as a dream, it is what is expected everywhere and is not strange to California in any way. If you compare this definition to Rawls definition, it is nowhere skinny the full California dream. In fact, it is only one fifth of it, which doesnt genuinely withdraw it a dream. In contrast, the California dream changes a hatch for upper and some middle class families. For wealthy families, all of mob Rawls five factors play into the picture when deciding to relocation to California or not. Romance, Warmth and Sunshine, andHealth are all added benefits that California has. These added benefits are some of the briny things that wealthy kinda a little are focused on. Being wealthy, they most promising boast or had some sort of well paying Job/source of income, inheritance, etc. The climate, health, and Romance of California are not things that a single per intelligence can control. They are more or less(prenominal) unique to California and very attractive to peck with disposable income. California Travel guides are generally directed towards the upper class. California Dreaming?Travel deals to Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, is a travel guide for wealthy people out of state. It highlights some of the main things people think of when they think of California. Want to purport like a celebrity while you are at it? pimp in a spa daylight at the Beverly Hills Plaza Hotel and Spa($99, a low by $101 expires June 29). While this sounds attractive to many people in all financial classes, the question is if someone can collapse it without losing a meal or electricity for their family. Unfortunately, many lower class people cannot.Too often, neducated, lower class families come to California with the dream of nutrition a lavish lite like the wealthy this is a jackfruit tetcned dream. Californias lofty court of living makes it hard for a lot of people to think of living here as a dream. With California lodgment prices two times the national median, it takes much perseverance that many people think isnt worth living in the new, overcrowded California. Maribel Vazquez Lemus is one of those people. In an article published on CNN, she talks about her fact. she skips two meals a day so she can afford to feed her kidsShe wants to move East perhaps out of the stateso she can find better meshing and lower rent. Right now she pays $400 for a single sleeping room in someone elses house. She and her two daughters all sleep together in that room. Believe it or not this is quite a common situation for young families. The amount of single parents are growing at a constant rate, adding to the difficulties of raising one or more shaverren. In a recent study done by the United States Department of Agriculture(USDA), the represent of raising a child is the highest it has ever been. The verage middle-class family who had a child in 2011 testament shell out $234,900 to keep it fed and a roof over its head for the next 17 years mingled with $12,290 and $14,320 per year. This is one fifth of the $51 ,017 national median income and it has to be over two fifth with two kids. By moving somewhere else where the cost of living is much cheaper, like Maribel Vazquez Lemus wants to, this number can be lessen significantly. With California being the most populous state since 1970(1970 California Census)and the existence still risingthe cost of living has nothing else o do but rise as well.The California dream is a paradox an idea that is very attractive thinking about it, but very opposite living it. California is perceived as the place to make easy money, meet a partner, and get a tan. These things simply arent realistic. It is comely as hard, if not harder to earn a living in California. And the rising prices honorable adds to the trouble. We see this example of the paradox of the California Dream is The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, when living in California is much different than the main character, Baba, anticipated. Baba loved the idea of America.It was living in america that gave him an Clearly, living in Fremont, CA did not live up to their expectations. At all. Hearing so many positive things about it, they d ont know how they can be experiencing these blackball things such as the the lack of trust. No one trusts anybody Baba says. Later in the book, we see more negative reasons why the state is not living up to expectations. The Bay Areas smog stung his eyes, the traffic noise gave him headaches, and the pollen do him cough. The fruit was never sweet nough, the water never clean enough, and where were all the trees and open fields? (l). More and more things that seem like they should all be here but clearly arent. At the moment Baba and his son are very disappointed, as are many other people that came to California to live the dream but have failed to get that opportunity. maybe the paradox stems from the old California. From the 1970s when the California dream for all classes, not Just the upper class, was actually a realistic thing. Or maybe it stems from the immeasurable celebrities such as Steve Jobs and Tiger Woods ho nave emerged trom Calitornia.Either way, the old Calitornia dream, where an overwhelm number of people came to California with nothing and left with something, is dying out. Whether it is because of the even off in education, the high cost of living, or the unrealistic perception that outsiders have on California, the old dream is being replaced by new, tougher times in California. The California Gold Rush days are long gone. acquire rich so easily Just does not happen anymore. jeopardy is a main reason why people still move to California, and a main reason why they fail, in any case.The future is still radiant for the Golden State, though. Many of the problems that have caused this end to the dream have fixes that arent too complicated. Soon, in the near future, it will be clear for most people that there is no such California dream anymore. Hopefully sometime after that it wont be as clear. And hopefully soon after that it will be clear that the California dream is back. But for now, the California dream is fizzling out. As James Ra wls stated, the California Dream is quite impossibly everythingand quite possibly nothing at all. A paradox for many, a world for few.

The Ideal Vacation Getaway Essay

When thinking of vacations, thousands of references storm the brain. Many do non rank their top vacation destinations, just the ideal vacation destination is one almost all are familiar with, the Bahamas. The ideal vacation would be a trip to the Bahamas, alone. One may think to themselves, why the Bahamas? The Bahamas is the perfect vacation getaway with many exclusive attractions, to name incisively one, the amazing beaches. The Bahamas have world renowned beaches. The beaches have the clearest waters on Earth, not to mention the cleanest. While at the beaches one can adore jet skiing on the crystal clear waters in the blazing hot weather. After a long day at the beach, visitants can make love the toothsome and mouth watering traditional intellectual nourishment during their stay in the Bahamas. It is said that food in Bahamas is never bland, especially entrees like Rock Lobster, is a favourite among visitors. One can enjoy the special soup Sousse as a great appetizer, conta ining oxtail and chicken.Read more Dream vacations essayThe Bahamas specialize in coconut based desserts such(prenominal) as coconut tarts, cakes, puddings, pies. custards and even special ice cream. These desserts are in truth popular amongst visitors and natives of the land. Lastly, one should voyage on this trip to the Bahamas alone. Having family along is no problem, but when one is alone they will meet new people, crap new memories and make new friends. Going alone to the Bahamas would mean loss ones stressful life behind and forget about the worries back home. The visitor would truly enjoy the experience of not having to worry about anyone but themselves on their trip. In conclusion, the world renown beaches, traditional food and fortune to travel alone are just a few of the reasons why a trip to the Bahamas would be ideal. One would have to experience firsthand to uncover what else the Bahamas has in store for them.

Position of women in 16 and 17 century Essay

Women were challenged with expressing themselves in a patriarchal system that generally refused to portion merit to womens views. Cultural and semipolitical events during these centuries increased attention to womens issues such as education reform. Though modern feminism was non-existent.The tender structure women limited opportunities for involvement they served largely as managers of their households. Women were expected to snap on practical house servant pursuits and activities that encouraged the betterment of their families, and more special(prenominal)ly, their husbands. raising for women was not supportedharmful to the traditional female virtues of innocence and morality. Women who utter out against the patriarchal system of gender roles, or any injustice, ran the run a risk of being exiled from their communities, or worse vocal un married women in particular were the targets of witch-hunts.The seventeenth century women continued to play a significant, though not ack nowledged, role in economic and political structures through their primarily domestic activities.They often acted as counselors in the home, tempering their husbands words and actions. Women were discouraged from straightway expressing political views counter to their husbands or to broadly condemn established systems neverthe little, umpteen women were able to make public their private views through the veil of psycheal, religious writings.MarriageThe seventeenth century represents a fascinating period of slope history, drawing the attention of whole generations of historians. This turbulent age saw deuce-ace major events that had a deep impact on England s political as well as social lifethe English Revolution, the counter of the Stuarts in 1660 and the Glorious Revolution in 1688. Amidst the turmoil of the events, peoples e actuallyday lives unfolded. While it was mens preoccupation to keep the landed estates political and economic affairs going, women had an indispensable, though further less public, part to play. This paper aims at providing an outline of the seventeenth-century English marriage, viewed from the womans perspective. It touches upon topics such as concluding marriages, basic marriage values, duties of a married woman and possibilities of divorce. Attention is paid to the areas in which theseventeenth-century reality was different from right aways.In seventeenth-century England, marriage and sexual morals played a far more important social role than nowadays. A family centred around a married couple represented the basic social, economic and political unit. In the Stuart period, a husbands rule over his wife, children and servants was seen as an analogy to the kings reign over his peoplea observation of a hierarchy constituted by God. A woman was regarded as the weaker vessel (a phrase taken from the New Testament)a creature physically, intellectually, chastely and even spiritually inferior to a man therefore, the man had a right to dominate her (Fraser 1981 1).In a society strongly influenced by Puritan values, sexual integrity and the status of a married person gave a woman respectability and social prestige. This, together with the fact that it was very difficult for women to find ways of making an independent living, meant that securing a husband was a matter of great importance. Theoretically, it was possible for two people to espouse very young. The minimum legal age was 12 years for women and 14 years for men. In addition, it was possible for the couple to get engaged at the age of 7, with the right to break off the engagement on reach the minimum age of consent (Stone 1965 652). However, early marriages were rather rarethe bonnie age of the newlyweds was about 25 years.Interestingly, the basic requirement for a legally valid marriage was not a formal consecration in a church, but the completion of a marriage contract, commonly called spousals. Spousals were an act in which the bride and groom said their vows in the present tenseper verba de prasenti (Ingram 1987 126). In a majority of cases, this procedure was accompanied by a church ordinance (banns). Yet if the marriage was concluded without witnesses and not consecrated in a church, it had the same legal validity. This practice had existed in England since the twelfth century and lasted cashbox 1753. Not having to go through a church ceremony make it possible for lovers to marry secretly, without the knowledge of their parents. In this way, they could escape the dynastic astute of their families.

George and Lennie Essay

alone the characters played in the novel Of Mice and Men are lonesome, living an unemployed life everyday consisting of mainly hard labor. The characters all live a very disheartening life, with the lack of happiness, love and affection in their lives. This mess be seen alike when George mentions that ranch workers are the loneliest people in the humans and dont belong nowhere. Of the many characters in the novel, Curleys wife might be one of the most pathetic and reviled of the outsiders.Steinbeck introduces her to us as an outcast, where she is isolated from the community. Being a minor character in the novel, Steinbeck manages to illustrate her as a character that deeply influences the lives of the main characters George and Lennie. passim the whole novel, Curleys wifes name is never mentioned. This initiates the readers to timber the sense of belonging of Curleys wife to Curley and to emphasize as an pariah, world careed of, leaving her with no organic structure to talk to and her identity as a mystery. asunder from that, Curleys wife is portrayed as the only female in the ranch, and although she is married to Curley, the bosss son, giving her a high stance at the ranch, they are psychologically separated, and are never witnessed together, leaving her hopeless for camaraderie. Her desire of attendance and escape from loneliness leads her to try to seek attention from other men working in the ranch by flirting. Her flirtatious actions and inappropriate dressing leads other characters to think of her as a tangy.The ranch workers are uneasy about this and avoid her in fear of universe reprimanded by Curley which may cost them to lose their jobs innocently. She is first introduced by Steinbeck when she comes into the bunkhouse disrupting a conversation that Lennie and George are holding. The depiction is dramatic, Both men glanced up, for the rectangle of sunniness in the doorway was cut off. This suggests that she has obscu ruddy the light, and darkened the room with her presence. This gives a dark and threatening image.Steinbeck spots the image of her standing and peering through the door, heavily be with full rouged lips and her fingernails being applied with red nailpolish. The fact that she was looking at in through the door standing there accentuates her as an outsider. She is also described wearing red mules and with bouquets of red ostrich feathers on them. The continuous repetition of the word red used in the novel to describe Curleys wife portrays her as one who is dangerous because the color red is quite provocative and has connotations such as love, passion and danger.Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages implies the extensive amount of time she has, being alone with nothing better to do than to curl her hair. Her inappropriate body language proves how she dreadfully tries to seek attention and flirts openly with men as she positions herself against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward. She smiles archly and twitch(es) her body. This gives the reader the general impression that Curleys wife is an winsome young lady who seeks attention of men.Georges immediate comments such as Jesus, what a tramp, and So thats what Curley picks for a wife and reactions to Curleys wife, however, allows the reader to realize that she is a potential threat to George and Lennie. George fumes when he knows of Lennies admiration of her being one who is purty and fiercely tells him not to steady take a look at that bitch and refers to her as poison and jail bait and to leave her alone. It is obvious that she longs for friends and for someone to talk to, however, males on the ranch dislike her because they see has as one who is a attractive force to trouble.

An Alarming Portrait of the Nuclear Power in the World

Unfortunately, even if some unitary could wave a magic threshold that causes both of the atomic weapons on earth to disappear, many believe that c every last(predicate)able to the depletion of ingrained resources, the earth would still be in danger of catastrophe, and creation in danger of extinction. Jonathan Schells book Fate of the public is an appal depiction of the thermonuclear power in the world. Since the end of World War II, nuclear arms have kept the worlds universe in a put forward of constant concern that something could happen, whether by design or accident.As tensions stick nearly to build throughout the Middle East, particularly between India and Pakistan, and much tardily the nuclear potential of North Korea and China, the nuclear arms race may have subsided between the United States and Russia however, it is still a stretch out and thriving around the globe. As Schell writes, These bombs were built as weapons for war but their significance greatly tra nscends war and all its causes and outcomesThey grew out of account, yet they threaten to end history (Schell 3). The potential for nuclear war seems to ontogenesis daily as more than countries seek to obtain the ultimate weapon of power, the Rolls Royce of combat, the ability to destroy thousands of lives in a flash. Yet with that flash, comes not only the possibility but the prospect of more flashes giveing in incalculable dam geezerhood to aliveness and the earth itself.Schell writes that nuclear weapons are a pit into which the whole world can dip a nemesis of all man intentions, actions and hopes (Schell 3). Yet, many believe that the earths forthcoming tense is in peril even without the threat of nuclear wars. They believe that the stir of man upon the environment and the planets natural resources threatens the earth and humankind as greatly as any nuclear war.Within recent decades, many environmental indicators have moved outside the range in which they have wide- ranging for the past half(prenominal)-million courses (Wallstrom pp). According to a 2004 article in the transnational Herald Tribune, We are altering our life support system and potentially pushing the planet into a far less hospitable give tongue to and if policies cannot be developed to cope with the uncertainty, complexity and magnitude of global change, the consequences for monastic order may be huge (Wallstrom pp).Although there has been much progress during the get going century, much(prenominal) as the eradication of major diseases along with ontogenyd life expectancy and standards of living for many, the global population has trip guide since 1930 to more than six cardinal and shows signs of continue growth, and moreover, the global economy has increased more than 15-fold since 1950 (Wallstrom pp).This progress has led to a wide-ranging impact on the environment as human activities have begun to significantly affect the planet and how it functions (Wallstrom pp). Atmospheric composition, land cover, naval ecosystems, coastal zones, freshwater systems and global biological diversity have all been substantially affected, however, it is the magnitude and rate of this human-driven change that are most alarming (Wallstrom pp). The increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide cod to human employment is nearly 100 parts per million and still growing (Wallstrom pp).This is already equal to the entire range experienced between an glass age and a warm period such(prenominal) as today and it has occurred at least ten times faster than any natural increase in the last half-million years (Wallstrom pp). Moreover, human influence extends beyond atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and increases in global mean temperature (Wallstrom pp). During the 1990s, the average area of wet tropical forest cleared yearly was equivalent to roughly half the area of England, and at current extinction rates, adult male may healthy be on the way to the Earths sixth great ex tinction exit (Wallstrom pp).The Earth is a well-connected system, thus, carbon dioxide emitted in one expanse rapidly mixes throughout the atmosphere, and pollutants released into the ocean in one location are transported to distant parts of the planet (Wallstrom pp). The impacts of global change are complex, since they unite with local anesthetic and regional environmental stresses in unexpected ways (Wallstrom pp). For example, chromatic reefs are now under additional pressure from changing carbonate chemistry in ocean jump waters, a result of the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (Wallstrom pp).Moreover, the wildfires that hit Europe, Canada, California and Australia in 2003 were the result of many factors, such as land management, ignition sources and extreme local weather (Wallstrom pp). However, prevailing warm and dry conditions, most likely joined to climate change, amplified fire intensity and extent (Wallstrom pp). Due to poor glide slope to fresh water, more than two billion people now live under what experts call sever water stress, and with population growth and scotch expansion, this number is expected to double by 2025 (Wallstrom pp).Biodiversity losses, currently driven by habitat destruction associated with land-cover change, will be further exacerbated by future climate change. Beyond 2050, rapid regional climate change, as would be caused by changes in ocean circulation in the North Atlantic, and irreversible changes, such as the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and the accompanying come on in sea levels of 6 meters, or 20 feet, could have huge economic and societal consequences (Wallstrom pp).Past geological records indicate that never before has the Earth experience the current suite of simultaneous changes and many feel that humans are sailing into planetary terra incognita (Wallstrom pp). According to a 1999 article from Cornell University, because population growth can not continue indefinitely, society can every volun tarily direct its numbers or let natural forces such as disease, malnutrition, and other disasters limit human numbers (Pimentel pp).Human population, oddly in urban areas, together with the increasing food, water, air, and soil pollution by pathogenic organisms and chemicals, are causing a rapid increase in the prevalence of disease and human deaths (Pimentel pp). Due to current food shortages, more than 3 billion people are malnourished worldwide, the largest number and similarity ever, and according to the World Health Organization, an estimated 40,000 children die each day due to malnutrition and other diseases (Pimentel pp). Humans are responsible for lambert-five percent of all available water run-off (Myers pp).Moreover, greater amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus are mobilized by humans in the form of crop fertilizer than by natural processes, and humans harvest an amount of ocean fish that reflects fully one third of phytoplankton productivity in temperate continental sh elves (Myers pp). A NASA admit released in April 2005, has revealed the heat exchange between the Earth and space is disadvantageously out of balance, leading researchers to call it the smoking gun discovery that validates forecasts of global warming (Hanley pp).According to computer models of climate change, the global temperatures will rise 1 degree Fahrenheit this century, even if greenhouse gases are lie tomorrow (Hanley pp). And if carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping emissions continue to grow, things could spin out of our control especially as ocean levels rise from melting Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets (Hanley pp). James Hansen of NASA said the research shows that for every square meter of surface area, the planet is absorbing almost one watt more of the suns capacity than it is radiating back to space as heat a historically large imbalance (Hanley pp).According to a Stanford University study release may 16, 2005, the first signs of spring are appearing earlier each year robins are arriving several days earlier, woodpeckers are laying their eggs a week earlier, and Washingtons cherry trees bloom a month earlier than they did fifty years ago (Borenstein pp). The study says that man-made global warming is all the way to blame, and means that the global environment is changing so fast that the mute evolutionary process of species adaptation cannot keep up (Borenstein pp).