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In Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Grand Inquisitor, we see that the Inquisitor is an atheist who prosecutes Christ. He tells Christ he has prevented human beings from being able to achieve redemption because he has given them the option of choice. This is a freedom that most human beings cannot handle, according to the Inquisitor, so they are doomed to sin and suffer. The

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There are three main effects on wetland plants from global warming, each of which will create worsened conditions for them. Flooding, sea level rise, and intense storms all threaten wetland plants but in different ways. Intense storms are expected to overwhelm wetland plants and soils which can "only absorb a certain amount of water" (Gl

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The family in Ordinary People immediately evokes feelings of alienation. On the surface, the Jarretts are a picture of middle-class perfection, if one ignores Conrad's suicide attempt, which frames the drama in terms of family therapy. Imagining oneself as part of that family evokes a sense of dread at the prospect of being isolated even when the entire group is present to one another. The main effect of Bucky's death appears to have been to incite Beth and Conrad to withdraw from the world--he because of guilt, she because of anger. Conrad's withdrawal is more noticeable not only because of the suicide attempt but also because he does not seem to have the maturity to conceal his behavior behind the screen of social accomplishment and authority. That artfulness belongs to Beth, who may not even recognize her project of concealment; certainly she does not acknowledge the depth her anger toward Conrad until it bursts out of her at the golf course. Meanwhile, Calvin appears to be searchi

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My ambitions started early in life, growing up in the Middle East. I have been on my own since the age of 18, helping my family and taking care of my parents. I worked hard and built my own business, gaining a wife and five children through the years, but the economy in my town took a dramatic downturn and like many others, I lost everything. I am now 34 and working to rebuild my life.

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Right for Vladimir Lenin meant seizing and holding onto power at any cost in his efforts to modernize the Soviet Union according to Communist principles. Lenin tried to enact many changes when he became head of the Soviet Union, including "electrification" of the whole nation, free "universal health care," and the "first-ever" Soviet plan

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The features of Obama’s proposed health care policy are universality, public option, deficit neutral, “bend the cost curve,” and insurance reform. There are currently about 45 million people who lack health insurance, and Obama’s plan would increase the availability of health insurance, both public and private, by mandating coverage and granting government subsidies to existing health systems (Muskal). In this respect, the plan aims to guarantee “universal” coverage for all Americans. The president has called for the establishment of a “public option,” which can potent

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Cap and trade is a policy tool that places an upper limit on emissions and establishes a system of permits which firms or individuals may purchase or trade in order to have the right to pollute. The permits are traded in a market according to the laws of supply and demand. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, successful cap and trade programs reward innovation, efficiency, and early action (EPA). By this model, firms who increase their efficiency will be able to spend less—or nothing at all—on the right to pollute because the rate of pollution produced per unit manufactured will decrease. Although cap and trade has the potential to reduce emiss

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The Clash for Clunkers program was designed to revive business at car dealerships, remove inefficient cars from the road, and boost struggling auto companies. The first installment of $1 billion dollars was so popular among consumers that congress appropriated another $2 billion to the program. Aside from the popularity of the incentive—up to $4,500 dollars in trade-in value—it created a massive bureaucrati

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President Obama urged members of congress, governors, and some of his cabinet members to conduct town hall meetings during the summer of 2009 in an effort to grow populist support for his health care agenda. The town hall format, permitting citizens to ask questions directly to the speakers, ostensibly exemplifies participatory democracy. But this summer, dialogue erupted into disaster when anti-fascist protesters raised the roof of convention centers and meeting halls nationwide in what amounted to a fatal blow to the president’s plan. In the midst of the town hall blitz, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) laughed to a reporter that the health-care reform bill pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire bill before voting on it. “If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,” Hoyer told CNSNews.com at his regular weekly news conference (Gabr

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Introduction According to Biosurveillance, itself part of Veratect, a US Pentagon and Government-linked epidemic reporting center, on April 6, 2009 local health officials declared a health alert due to a respiratory disease outbreak in La Gloria, Perote Municipality, Veracruz State, Mexico (Biosurveillance).  The outbreak was linked to subtype-A influenza, surprising for its occurrence during summer time as most influenzas strike during autumn. The symptoms of the purported Swine Flu are not at all clear according to virologists and public health experts, and little consensus exists. They are saying symptoms are general and nonspecific, including but not limited to fever, body aches, large amounts of phlegm, and coughing. One doctor interviewed by CNN said, “So many different things can cause these symptoms, it is a dilemma. There is not a perfect test right now to let a doctor know that a person has the Swine Flu” (CNN). Characteristics and Origins According to investi

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Barack Obama won the presidency and made history by becoming the first president of African descent. The election was also historic because it was a reaction to the regime of George W. Bush, the war in Iraq, and the evaporation of their constitutional freedoms before their eyes in the prior 8 years. Obama gained on Clinton late in the election, as his status as a community organizer outstripped Clinton’s formidable legacy to Washington high society. Although Obama ran on “Change,” his first six months as president reveal that he ha

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Introduction Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the United States and its compensation programs have come under scrutiny from critics who charge that they are unfair. The Walt Disney Company is an entertainment conglomerate whose operations include theme parks. Its executive compensation has been scrutinized since the time of Michael Eisner, and that scrutiny continues to bedevil current CEO Robert Iger. This research considers both Wal-Mart's and Disney's compensation strategies in light of the Fair Labor Standards Act and prevailing wage laws. Wal-Mart Wal-Mart's CEO Lee Scott received total compensation worth $23.3 million in fiscal 2007; that included use of the company's corporate jet, an incentive payment of $4.3 million, salary of $1.3 million, and stock options and grants (Waters, 2007). The company was careful to note that the "incentive" payment was not a "bonus." Wal-Mart's sales force is its store employees and the retailer gained nat

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A Comparison Working Capital Strategies Ford Motor Company and AT&T Synopsis on AT&T regarding: (A) Issue identified in the scenario that is also facing the company None of the cash flow issues facing Lawrence Sports is a significant problem for AT&T. Its is using cash, primarily for investment in its wireless service and the introduction of the Apple 3G phone, and increased dividends paid after repurchasing approximately 195 million shares. It also increased its investment in new construction by $2.26 billion. It shows no indication of problems in meeting its obligations. It is deliberately increasing investments in what amount to plant and equipment while repurchasing shares on the open market. This caused the shareholder equity to decrease $2.8 billion, but that was after an increase in treasury shares of $5.7 billion which effectively reduced reported stockholder equity. The repurchased shares produced a decrease in shares outstanding, but are available for

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The history of Valentine's Day is surrounded by legend, only some of which may be factual. One such legend is that it came from the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, a February 15 fertility celebration held every year for 800 years before Valentine's Day was established ("History of Valentine's Day;" "Valentine's Day"). The celebration included a lottery in which young men would draw teenage girls' names from a box, and the girl whose name he drew would be the man's sexual companion throughout the remainder of the year ("Valentine's Day"). When Christianity arose in Europe, the pagan nature of the holiday was a problem. Pope Gelasius changed the lottery so that instead of drawing the names of young girls, the names would be of saints and both men and women could draw a name from the box and strive to emulate that saint for the remainder of the year ("Valentine's Day"). It was also typical for pagan holidays such as Lupercalia to be renamed for early Christian ma

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Essay One Many Hindus believe that when a person dies the "Atman" or what we call the soul or essence of a person goes out of the body and searches for another body in which it can be reborn (Antuna 1). In other words, the reborn being has the same personality or identity of the formerly existing person. Buddhists reject this view of reincarnation. Instead, Buddhists believe in a doctrine known as "no-self," which basically means they do not believe in a permanent or enduring personality or essence (Antuna 1). Instead, Buddhists believe our personality is continually evolving, so at each moment in time we are different person or essence. Buddhists often refer to what happens to the personality or essence of being at death as a flame or flicker of fire. When we die that flame as it is then flickers one final time and "kindles another candle flame in another body and carries with it that causal continuity that establishes some connection between one life

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According to Randall Fitzgerald (144), "because children have lower body weights and less-developed metabolisms, they are more vulnerable to toxic effects from synthetic chemicals." Despite this reality, there is a growing body of evidence that some pharmaceutical preparations are being over-prescribed for children. These preparations include antibiotics, psychotropic drugs, and vaccines - all of which have come under attack in recent years by researchers, including Emilio Sanz (1223) who argues that despite the benefits of such pharmaceuticals, inadequate attention is given to their potentially damaging side effects. Sanz (1223) states that "the use of antibiotics in children as been a sensitive issue since the 1920s when penicillin and other major antibiotics began to be discovered. General practitioners (GPs) and pediatricians have been regularly blamed by academic and research physicians for prescribing excessive antibiotics." Antibiotics are extremely useful in treating

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The Theoretical World & World of Praxis Education or hands-on learning and philosophy or theorizing cannot be shorn from the other. As Michael J. Anthony and Warren S. Benson write in Exploring the History and Philosophy of Christian Education, "philosophy and education cannot be separated because each relies on the other for illumination."[1] In a similar manner, since the theoretical world grounds or serves as a foundation of the world of praxis or experience, the two cannot be separated because each relies on the other. Praxis refers to activity or action and derives from Greek origin and is rooted in the theories of Aristotle. Aristotle argued there were three basic activities of man, theoria, poiesis and praxis.[2] These correspond to three kinds of knowledge: "Theoretical, to which the end goal is truth; poietical, to which the end goal was production; and practical, to which the end goal was action."[3] Praxis, then, is the process or activity th

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The War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) pitted Austria, Great Britain, and the Dutch Republic against France and Prussia. According to McKay, Hill, Buckler, Crowston, and Weisner-Hanks (686), the war began under the pretext that the future Empress Maria Theresa of Austria should not have been allowed to succeed to the Habsburg Empire's throne because of her gender. Perhaps more significan

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Napoleon combined the policymaking functions of head of state with the military strategy-making of armed forces commander, and there were both advantages and disadvantages of this combination. The primary advantage was that Napoleon did not have to collaborate with anyone else to make decisions in either office; he could make his own policies and develop his own military strategies without answering to anyone else. His approach also created a direct tie between the st

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War at sea can be fought using either "sea power" per Mahan or "guerre de course"-commerce raiding. Sea power in Mahan's terms referred to the power of the navy and "maritime economic power" (Pike). Mahan felt that control of the seas and maritime commerce were vital for a nation's war effort, arguing that the use of "large concentrated battle fleets" was a tactic for wresting control

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The American Revolution had more than one cause. There was the clash of ideologies between the British and the colonists, who were devoted to a monarchic rule and rule by the people, respectively. Then there was the economic aspect of the war, in which the British wanted to tax the colonists without representation but the colonists wanted to be represented fairly. In addition, there was a discord over religion, as the m

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Sun Tzu and Clausewitz had differing views on the proper role of the diplomat in war. Sun Tzu argued that "All warfare is based on deception," explaining, "when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive...Attack him where he is unprepared, appear when you are not expected" (Szykman). Sun Tzu contends for an indirect approach and says that although "the direct method may be used for joini

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Introduction The purpose of this paper is to provide a broad overview of pneumothorax as it relates to nursing practice. The paper first defines the condition and briefly presents a history of the disorder. This is followed by an examination of the impact of pneumothorax on the science of nursing as well as a discussion of the role of the nurse in caring for the patient with this condition. The impact of pneumothorax on society is also examined. The final section of the paper presents an evaluation of the condition in relation to medical practice in general and nursing practice in particular. Pneumothorax: Definition and History When free air collects in the chest outside the lung thereby causing the lung to collapse, the condition is referred to as pneumothorax (Currie & associates, 2007). Noppen and De Keukeleire (2008) state that there are various classifications of Pneumothorax. The first classification is traumatic pneumothorax, which occurs due to traumatic injury of

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At issue herein is the question of whether the accounting profession should have rules-based or principle-based standards that function to provide both normative guidance and regulatory oversight for members of the field. Nobes (2005) noted that in September 2002, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) sought input into this issue, stating that the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) required a principles-based approach whereas under the aegis of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, rules-based accounting standards predominate. Interestingly, the question itself may be moot in that Benston, Bromwich, and Wagenhofer (2006) state that rules-based accounting standards are, for the most part, derived fr

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John Hick argues that evidence from parapsychology "may not support the idea that there is life after death" (Kessler 342). This is true whether one is referring to mediumship and talking to the dead or near-death experiences. Hick believes that for life after death to exist, there would have to be a recreation of what he calls the psychophysical aspect of the human being. W

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