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Amiri Baraka's play, Dutchman, was shocking several decades ago when written and first performed, largely because it addresses racial mingling between a Black man and a White woman. Lula, the female protagonist, is Eve with the tainted apple, the temptress who is actually death in disguise, and the symbolic manifestation of White society in its determination to prevent African-American manhood from flourishing or achieving autonomy. Clay, is a Black man who cannot tolerate being Black in a world that is dominated by Whites and who has a murderous desire to eliminate the White oppressors from his life. Set against Clay is his White counterpart, Lula, who attempts to access Clay's unconscious by getting behind the surface that he presents to the world and forcing him to recognize that he is at heart a murderer. However, as the final scene of the play in which Lula focuses her attention on yet another Black male on the train demonstrates, Lula is compulsive in her attention t

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At a time when Obama is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for waging three simultaneous wars and Osama bin Laden has emerged as the latest climate alarmist, Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" richly repays examination. In his essay, Orwell cautions us against the Structure of Power's use of language. Orwell rules out the possibility that the decline of a language may result simply from a litany of bad writers. To the contrary, the decline of a language is provoked by political and economic causes. To this end, Orwell's analysis focuses on the elite's strategies for shaping the Truth according to their preferences. These linguistic strategies include manipulation of metaphors, pretentious diction, and the use of meaningless words. In America and around the world, the manipulation of language is ubiquitous and has effectively stalled a citizenry that has in its own eyes become sluggish. Too cowardly to "talk about sex, politics, and religion in good company," and too infantile to question the relationship of the State to the issuance of fiat money, much of Americans' usage-time of language in 2010 revolves around to what Orwell (and Plato) would call bad (dan

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Introduction Few people are surprised to see mobile phones in unusual places, whether in the hands of a tourist hiking in rural New Mexico or in the densely packed streets of Tokyo. Japan and the United States both have high adoption rates of mobile phone technology, but there are vast differences in how individuals in both countries use their mobile devices. This research investigates the mobile phone infrastructure and technology in both countries, compares the adoption and use of a specific mobile device-the iPhone-in Japan and the USA, and examines cell phone culture in both countries. Finally, areas for improvement in the cell phone industry are considered. Infrastructure Japan is a much smaller country than the United States physically, but it has nearly one-half the population of the States. This means that the population density is far greater in Japan than in the USA, which makes building cellular infrastructure more cost-efficient. Where

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Understanding Serial Killers What causes an individual to become not merely a killer, but a serial killer? Criminal justice researchers suggest that the personalities of those individuals for whom multiple killings are recorded are in some substantial ways different from the personalities of the more typical murderer - an individual who kills in the heat of passion, from greed, or as a consequence of some exceptional situation that leads him or her to abandon social norms and inhibitions (Schmid, 2005). At issue herein is a discussion of several well-known serial killers with the goal of identifying what specific elements in their lives or personalities may haven been responsible for or conducive to multiple murders. One such killer is Lee Boyd Malvo (also known as John Lee Malvo or Malik Malvo), who was 21 years-old when convicted in the series of sniper shootings taking place in the Washington, D.C., area in 2002. He was born in Jamaica but left in his early teens, movi

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Introduction The focus of the discussions that are presented in this paper is on the threat posed to the United States by foreign intelligence services. "Foreign intelligence services", as the term is used in the discussions that are presented in this paper, are interpreted to include (a) formally constituted state intelligence agencies and (b) non-state intelligence services. Non-state intelligence services, as considered in the discussions that are presented in this paper, refer to intelligence activities conducts by organizations such as al-Qaida and Hezbollah. The principal objective of the discussions that are presented in this paper is to identify the foreign intelligence service that represents the greatest threat to the United States. The term "greatest threat", as the term is used in the discussions that are presented in this paper, refers to the potential relative strength of the threat of any negative impact on the national security of the United State

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Integrated Development Planning (IDP) has been characterized "as an approach to planning that involves the entire municipality and its citizens in finding the best solutions to achieve good long-term development" ("Integrated Development Planning..." 1). The South African system of IDP is a process by means of which municipalities prepare five year strategic plans reviewed annually in consultation with communities and stakeholders. Such plans seek "to promote integration by balancing social, economic, and ecological pillars of sustainability without compromising the institutional capacity required in the implementation, and by coordinating actions across sectors and spheres of development" (Coetzee 1). These IDPs are increasingly recognized in South Africa and elsewhere as having the capacity to achieve government priorities via strategic budgeting, priority setting, stakeholder participation, and ongoing sustainable development activities. IDP is further recognized as particu

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Abstract The lives of immigrants are generally regarded by social scientists as complex and characterized by certain inescapable difficulties associated with assimilation and acculturation and the transformation from a life in a known culture to life in a less understood culture. This process can be challenging and even traumatic but for certain individuals it is less stressful than might be imagined. A case in point is the famous composer and conductor Arturo Toscanini, born in Italy and yet very much a citizen of the United States whose professional life took him to all corners of the globe often for extended periods of time. While the literature on acculturation and its stresses focuses on the difficulties that ordinary immigrants confront in the migration phenomenon, individuals like Toscanini who are true internationalists may represent a separate class of immigrants. As this study demonstrates, Toscanini's adjustment to later life in the United States does not appear t

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How to Control High Blood Pressure "Many people have high blood pressure for years without knowing it." -Author Unknown The purpose of this research is to explore and analyze different approaches to maintaining a healthy blood pressure. High blood pressure is a condition that affects over 60 million Americans (Emedicinehealth, 1). The clinical name for high blood pressure is hypertension. Over time, hyp

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Article 125 of New York State law (2010) defines homicide in general as conduct causing the death of a person or an unborn child with which a female has been pregnant for more than 24 weeks. Article 125 differentiates between murder and various levels of manslaughter. Murder is characterized by the presence of intent to cause the death of another person, aiding another person in the comm

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Psychoanalytic theory is generally attributed to Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Freud is considered the father of psychoanalytic theory, and his original thoughts on the idea sprang from his study of physics, in which he determined that the human personality is a type of energy system. Psychic energy may be diverted to some subconscious process or issue that the person has yet to work out and then may surface in some unintended fashion until psychoanalysis enables him to figure out what is causing it and resolve it. Freud's perspective was that the individual's subconscious mind exerted a powerful impact on his behavior, often without his being aware of it himself. A "Freudian slip," for example was an inadvertent misstatement or faux pas that Freud believed came from a subconscious agenda. A woman who accidentally calls her youngest child by the name of an older sibling that has died may have had the youngest child as a psychological replacement for the dead chil

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The Miami Valley Home Health Care Agency has benefited greatly from the implementation of emergency medical record, or EMR, systems. The agency provides home companions, personal care aides, and round-the-clock live-in assistants to local area elders, enabling them to continue living in their own homes rather than being transferred to nursing home facilities. Although most elderly people prefer living in their own homes, the ambulatory setting is associated with a higher risk of adverse drug events, of which an approximate eight million occur each year-one-third to one-half of which are preventable (Hillestad, Bigelow, Bower, Girosi, Meili, Scoville, & Taylor, 2005, p. 1109). When EMR systems reduce adverse drug events, they also reduce the office visits, hospitalizations, and additional care associated with such events (Hillestad, Bigelow, Bower, Girosi, Meili, Scoville, & Taylor, 2005, p. 1109). It is estimated that an annual savings of $3.5 billion in medical expenses cou

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Jail Overcrowding About 500 of every 100,000 Americans are behind bars in local, state or federal prisons and jails (Cloud, 2009). Prisons are almost universally overcrowded, and with more than $62 billion being spent by government on corrections, the problem is significant. As John Cloud (2009) pointed out, many states faced with budget crises and competing demands for dwindling resources are looking for ways to reduce incarceration rates and levels, often by means of programs designed to facilitate early release, community-based corrections outside of traditional prisons and jails, and through more effective and targeted vocational and academic education and training programs. As this essay will demonstrate, such efforts are meant to reduce recidivism as well, but their success varies often quite substantially from one locale to another. Early release programs are meant to bring down incarceration rates and attendant costs (Cloud, 2009). Such programs focus on returning non-violent offenders, offenders with excellent rec

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Before getting into the statecraft of my utopia, I need to make clear one point: If you can control language, you can control the world. That being said, a principal function of the social body of my anarchosyndicalist utopia will be to take charge of certain terms like wage, employment, owner, value, the State, and rework their accepted definitions under late capitalism into more egalita

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Nursing Care Plan: Cholecystitis Patient Description: The patient is a 65 year-old female diagnosed with cholecystitis, an acute or chronic inflammation of the gallbladder generally associated with gallstones impacted in the cystic duct, thereby causing distension of the gallbladder (Nursing Care Plan, 2009a). Crystals can also form in the submucosa of the gallbladder causing inflammation and necessitating surgery in extreme cases. According to Coleman (1989), patients suffering from acute cholecystitis accompanied by cholelithiasis are usually treated by surgery although several other treatment methods involving fragmentation and dissolution of stones are now being used. Care Setting: The care setting for this patient is hospitalization in a medical unit and the plan of care addresses the acutely ill, hospitalized patient. Related Concerns: Cholecystectomy fluid and electrolyte imbalances, psychosocial aspects of care, total nutritional support, parenteral/enteral feeding, and patient assessment database. Activity/Rest: Patient exhibits fatigue combined with periodic restlessness (Nursing care plan, 2009a). Circulation: Patient exh

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Hannah Arendt's (1961, p. 7) Kafka's parable holds insights for the human condition. The parable involves a traveler that encounters two antagonists on the road, one blocking the road ahead and the other pressing from behind, leaving her caught in the middle in a gap between past and future. The parable highlights the fact that humans often want to sacrifice the future to hold onto the past, and this sacrifice proves to be one that damages their present as well. As Arendt suggests, the individual who has been ideally educated will discover the treasures in the past to forge a future that is both different and better than the past. Maksymilian T. Del Mar (2009) points out that the person in the middle is there in the scenario along with the antagonist from the past and the one from the present and that the first person "supports him in his fight with the second, for he wants to push

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Ajax has much going for it-especially its phenomenal player development and its excellent approach to communicating with fans, which cuts across multiple communication pathways. However, the company has a problem with player attrition. In essence, it is developing players for the competition, because they stay with Ajax just long enough to become outstanding and then move on to accept offers elsewhere. The major issues inherent in Ajax's problem include the fact that it sees "selling" players as a source of revenue and its migration from being a club to being a business. Ajax's primary source of profitability is its outstanding players, and it takes three years to train each one adequately, so selling its talent to pay for coaches and cover other costs is a failure tactic that has resulted in its churning through players rather than keeping talent on boar

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There are far more people than businesses in this world. However, businesses have a much greater purchasing power than most individuals, making them attractive customers. Business to business selling is about developing a relationship with the client. Individual clients are generally found through advertising. Because individuals are buying few items, it is rarely possible, let alone cost effective, to seek out each individual customer and present the product to them. In fact most companies sell through an intermediary that sells a variety of similar products to capitalize on each others marketing. Industry trade journals are good for advertising to businesses. Yet busines

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In relation to the questions above, the four financial statements considered in answering the questions are (a) balance sheet, (b) income statement, (c) cash flow statement, and (d) statement of shareholder's equity. A balance sheet is a statement of the financial position of a company at the close of an accounting period. An income statement reports the financial performance of a company for an accounting period. A cash flow statement reports the cash position of the company at the end of an accounting period. The statement of shareholders' equity reports the equity position of a company at the end of an accounting period (Weygandt, Kimmel, & Kieso, 2007). Expenses are matched agains

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Dramatic irony is employed frequently by Homer in The Iliad and The Odyssey. Dramatic irony occurs when a character like Agamemnon makes declarations or assumptions that readers know to be untrue. This often occurs in The Iliad through the intervening of the Gods, who often secure the fate of a particular character without that mortal's knowledge. We see in Book II of The Il

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Introduction A mid-range nursing theory, Mishel's Uncertainty in Illness Theory examines how uncertainty can affect a patient's ability to adapt to an illness as well as the outcome of that illness (Neville, 2003, p. 206). Patients facing uncertainty may either have an illness with an uncertain trajectory or may live with the constant possibility that a previous illness could recur (Mishel & Clayton, p. 55). Uncertainty as it relates to illness is defined as "the inability to determine the meaning of illness-related events, assign definite values to objects and events, and/or accurately predict outcomes" (Mishel & Braden, 1988, as cited in Neville, 2003, p. 206). This realm of uncertainty is an uncomfortable one for patients, since there is an inherent desire to know and understand what is happening to one's body. Thus, being forced to deal with the uncertainty of illness is stressful (Neville, 2003, p. 206). Mishel's theory has three primary components-the antecedents t

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Filmmaker Michael Moore's (2002) film Bowling for Columbine documents the tragedy at Columbine High School where 13 students and a teacher were murdered by two students with guns. In the film, Moore argues that it is not guns that are violent, but rather the people who use them in violent and criminal ways, a position that he appears to have adopted from the National Rifle Association. His main argument is that American violent crime rates are the highest in the industrial world because American culture is violent. I agree with Moore's perspective, but with qualifications. Moore's logic is valid. Just as one cannot blame the telephone for crimes committed over the phone and it is ridiculous to blame the Internet because there are people that misuse it, it must be acknowledged that a gun in the hands of a level-headed and nonviolent person is an excellent protection device. The gun cannot really be blamed for the many deaths due to the use of weapons; it is a pe

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Introduction Alice Walker's Everyday Use depicts a return visit home by a successful black woman named Dee. She visits her poor mother and sister Dee. "Mama" and Dee still exist in the humble hard working manner of Dee's childhood. Dee resented her poverty and African American heritage, distancing herself as much as she could from this environment. While Mama and Maggie still rely on the use of the everyday things of their environment and heritage; Dee has distanced herself from these things, transforming herself with education, clothes, and hairstyle. By showing the distinctions in the everyday use of things between Mama and Maggie and Dee, Walker shows how Maggie and Mama remain connected to and live their heritage, while Dee is disconnected and distant from hers. Body Mama's dream that she arrives in style on the Johnny Carson show to reunite with her successful daughter Dee shows how she and Maggie seem inferior to Dee. Dee dresses in designer clothes and stylish sunglasses, wears her hair in stylish fashions, and considers herself sophisticated and modern. Mama's dream is significant to this, because she imagi

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Many nursing experts believe that evaluation is the most crucial part of employee development. A classmate states that evaluations, "when done appropriately, can be an extremely valuable tool" but that "the operative word in the previous statement is appropriately" (Whitehead, Weiss, & Tappen, 2007). This suggests that many evaluations are not done so, because they are not based on attainable goals with explicitly stated objectives. Yoder-Wise (2007) asserts that giving employees feedback on their performance is "one of the strongest rewards an organization can provide," and one classmate points out that evaluation can not only motivate staff but also strengthen the nurse's areas of weakness and result in a pay raise if the evaluation is good. On the other hand, evaluation has some drawbacks as well. As the latter classmate explains, it can create competition between staff members and may cause conflict between the manager and the employees. In addition, bad evaluations can

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Proctor and Gamble - Case Analysis 1. Strategic Direction Procter & Gamble started in 1837 as a low key manufacturer of soap and candles. Presently it is a Fortune 500 company responsible for the manufacture and distribution of a number of popular consumer goods, ranging from Ivory soap to Crisco vegetable oil to Crest toothpaste (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2010). As is the usual business sentiment, there is no where for Procter & Gamble to go but up. The company has gone from an initial investment of nearly $7,000 to a company grossing $68 billion annually (Agenmonmen, 2006). It has accomplished this through a number of acquisitions, most notably Gillette in 2005 (Associated Press, 2005). With so many popular products on the market, Procter & Gamble has established itself as a permanent fixture in the American household. As P&G can old further assert itself in this way, it must presumably seek to acquire a greater diversity of household products. 2. Macro Env

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The blossoming of behavior therapy took place in the 1950s and 1960s, with researchers such as Hans Eysenek, Cyril Franks, Arnold Lazarus, Isaac Marks, S. Rachman, G. Terence Wilson, and Joseph Wolpe contributing to its growth (Antony & Roemer, 2003, p. 184). The realm of psychotherapy was ready for the advent of behavior therapy because of two factors that had prepared the way: the directive nature of behavior therapy and the popularity of learning theory as a basis for clinical phenomena, as in Mowrer's two-factor model as an explanation for phobias as a classical conditioning experience (Antony & Roemer, 2003, p. 184). Referred to in the 1960s as "behavior modification, behavior therapy focused on context and situational factors as determiners of an individual's behavior (Antony & Roemer, 2003, p. 185). Variations on behavioral therapy have been developed. These include such approaches as cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, acceptanc

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