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The purpose of this essay is to explore and analyze Jane Austen's emphasis of Christian morals in Pride and Prejudice. Throughout the novel, Austen writes her characters into various situations concerning marriage and courtship. Inextricable from these scenes are the "lessons" they contain about major Christian teachings, including practicing universal kindness, humbleness before the lord god, not using deception to get something, that beggars can't be choosers, and that love (Enlightenment love that is reasonable and has merit) can overcome. Austen's critique of parents interfering in their children's marriage plans will be discussed. In the opening scenes, Mr. Bingley's and Mr. Darcy's attitudes are juxtaposed to make for an awkward arrangement between themselves and some local girls, Jane and Elizabeth. Although Bingley, a young wealthy gentlemen, is sensitive and modest in the countryside surroundings, Mr. Darcy is immediately rude, haughty, and condescending

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In the case of Frontera v. Sindell in 1975, the Sixth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals stated, "The common, national language of the United States is English" (Baron 2). Despite this legal precedent, there are people who disagree that English should be the national and primary form of communication in all areas of education and commerce; these are mainly immigrants and those that advocate for immigrants. These contesters assert that because the nation's Spanish-speaking population is increasing, Spanish should become the national language, or at least a co-primary language along with English. Nevertheless, there are important reasons that English should remain the national and primary language in America. One of these is that it is "the language of the Constitution, laws, and government operations" (Baron 3). Allowing another language to be primary would mean converting all of these into the second language, thereby making them

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Introduction In today's environment of global communication and global politics, understanding the religions of the world is essential to understanding world events. Christianity dominates the religious thinking of the West; Islam has become a significant factor in the politics of the Middle East and elsewhere. Israel's conflicts with its neighbors have a religious component, and in Asia, the rise of Japan and Chinese as major economic powers must be considered in light of the religions-or lack thereof-that dominate those countries. Yet religion by its very nature is a highly emotional issue, and writers are likely to have their own bias and agendas when they set out to write about the religions of the world. Two recent works, A Christian Introduction to World Religions: Neighboring Faiths by Winfried Corduan, and Religions of the World by Lewis Hopfe and Mark Woodward, seek to provide a survey of major world religions. This research evaluates the two books, compare

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Introduction & Sociological Background It is clear in American society that minority groups often lag behind their white counterparts in terms of standard of living and other aspects of class stratification. As sociologist Joseph F. Healey argues in Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class, "minority group status affects access to wealth and income, prestige and power" (16). From a sociological standpoint, when various groups view themselves as being denied access to the conventional markers of upward mobility and status in society, deviance arises. Feeling a lack of connection from white, successful social groups, African Americans turn to gang membership and violence (i.e., deviance) as a means of achieving solidarity, status and economic success. This fits in with Emile Durkheim's belief that weak bonds in society cause people to deviate from social norms and values, "In a society with strong solidarity, the members are likely to conform to share norms and

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There are a number of different types of organizations and activities related to the virtual economy. As Townsend, DeMarie and Hendrickson (2008) notes, "The World Wide Web has revolutionized the way we learn, work, and live our lives" (p. 2). This is why distinctions related to these activities and organizations like E-commerce and E-business are useful and significant. Distinctions help make communication, especially with new technologies and terminology, clearer and more effective. E-commerce generally refers to activities and organizations that sell to consumers via the Internet. E-commerce generally equates to the va

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The difficulties that have evolved in the relationship between SDC Corporation and Hangsu Manufacturing in Japan derive in large measure from the fact that SDC chose to use MTC, a Japanese trading company to negotiate the initial agreement with Hangsu. What needs to occur immediately is a meeting between SDC and Hangsu to address the technical and production problems related to Hangsu's components and to consider how to avoid communication problems and technical problems in the future. As noted by Stahl (2000), dealing with overseas suppliers can be extremely difficult due to communication issues and while it can be useful to involve a third party intermediary or negotiator, this extra layer between the two

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The new regulations that have been imposed, together with further regulatory changes that have been proposed. By the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are motivated by several objectives. The first objective is to improve the quality of patient care outcomes. This approach may appear at first glance to be counter-intuitive, as decreasing or restricting provider reimbursement would not seem to be the best way to m

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Gambling on sporting events at both the amateur and professional levels is common throughout the United States. Sports leagues ranging from the National Collegiate Athletic association (NCAA) to the National Football League (NFL), the National Basketball Association (NBA),and Major League Baseball (MLB) have all gone on record as being opposed to any efforts to extend gambling opportunities which would impact on their games (Feinstein 88). The leagues theorize that by legalizing gambling on sports, states might make a great deal of needed money to support a variety of important programs, but the leagues themselves will be damaged because this would introduce new opportunities or reasons for unethical and illegal behavior such as point shaving and game fixing. Feinstein (88) notes that in 1992, Congress passed legislation banning states from allowing sports betting wile grandfathering in four states that already allowed it: Nevada, Oregon, Delaware, and Montana. Until recently,

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1. What are four general obligations of corporations? Before laying out answers to these questions on corporate ethics, I think it is important to lay out a basic framework for talking about corporations in the first place. First, the old model of seeing a corporation as a well-maintained machine is no longer salient or useful to the analysis of ethics. Second, we need to substitute a new model of the corporation as organism. This switch should make clear the ethical issues. It will also help managers and employees to overcome some destructive assumptions; that everything is a resource, that resources are unlimited, that the corporation must grow to survive, that the purpose of the state is to legitimize exploitation, that the purpose of humanity is to produce and consume, and that the purpose of the universe is to supply human and corporate desires. Additionally, the machine analogy of the corporation leads to false economic assumptions; that mass production is most efficie

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Introduction The protagonist of Richard Wright's short story "The Man Who Was Almost A Man" is an adolescent named Dave who works with older, tougher men who he feels view him with little respect. He preoccupies himself with thoughts of owning a gun, believing he would win the respect of the others if he did. Dave ultimately acquires a gun but disaster occurs when he does. Rather than making him win the respect of others, the gun causes Dave to be ridiculed and censured for his accidental killing of a mule. Instead of paying for his mistake, Dave hops a train and leaves town in shame. Dave's experience fails to win him respect but does cause his loss of innocence and initiation into adulthood. Body Dave is a young man who works with older and more experience field workers. They treat him with little respect

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The combination of creative design and innovative technologies has become a commonplace feature in the modern era. New technologies as this study demonstrates are emerging each and every day, creating new opportunities for the development of products that meet multiple needs, serve many different user communities, and enhance the quality of life (Dant, 2005, p. 33). A number of these products ranging from Apple's smart phone to the Magic Mouse also created by Apple demonstrate the ways in which products that are radical in terms of their design concept become standardized and ultimately commonplace as they are adopted and accepted by user communities. Interestingly, as the report suggests, technologies that are initially developed for one purpose are amenable to transformations that make them viable in consumer products. Even the Internet which was originally developed to facilitate military communications, owes its origins to a non-commercial use though it has become in relat

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In early 19th-century New York, transportation was problematic. Even then, New York was already a hub of trade, and that trade was hampered by inefficient modes of transportation. Both rural farmers and urban tradesmen suffered from the lack of efficient transportation. Farmers struggled to get their wares to the city where they could be sold, and tradesmen were impacted by an inability to bring in and distribute goods quickly enough. Farmers had to transport their goods by cart over primitive dirt roads that were "very rough and in poor condition," so they "drove slowly over them in carts and wagons pulled by horses, oxen, an mules" ("19th Century Transportation: The Erie Canal"). Although New York was blessed with rapid rivers that could move goods more quickly, steam-powered engines were not being widely used, and most of the rivers did not lead to the destinations that farmers needed to transport their goods to ("19th Century Transportation: The Erie Canal"). This mean

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Professional standards for teachers and administrators exert an impact on education but do not guarantee a good education. Standards merely ensure that teachers and administrators are sufficiently equipped to educate students, not that they will be adept at it. Without standards, anyone might be allowed to teach, whether they themselves had an education or not. Standards at least provid

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The average person is aware that he or she has an intelligence quotient, or IQ, but most people are not aware that they also have an emotional quotient, or EQ. Just as the IQ is a measure of one's intellectual intelligence, the EQ measures the level of emotional intelligence that an individual has-that intelligence that enables one to understand not only one's own but others' feelings, as well as the emotional components and implications of people's behavior. Emotional intelligence expert Daniel Goleman (2006, pp. 36, 37, 41) refers to it as "a different kind of intelligence," pointing out that these "people skills" are what set people apart from the Star Trek character Data, who lacks humanity and thus is unable to arrive at the best human solution in situations. It may at first be difficult to figure out what differentiates EQ from IQ. Steven J. Stein and Howard Book (2006, p. 13), authors of The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success, suggest writing dow

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This paper presents evidence that African Americans are underrepresented on American prime time television. This study operationalizes variables-it defines what could otherwise be subjective measures, so that they can be better quantified. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, African Americans represented 13.5% of the U.S. population in 2007. The predicted percentage in 2050 is 15% ("African Americans..."). Using interpolation, the current percentage in 2009 can be estimated to be 13.6%. This number was compared to African American representation in prime time television shows in December 2009. "Prime time" television shows can be defined as shows that occur between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m., when the largest audience is watching ("Prime Time"). To select a sub-sample, the "Top 100" shows (those with the hi

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This research examines marketing issues confronting the high-end department store Nordstrom's. It will identify the relationship of various marketing forces with the store chain and suggest how Nordstrom should best respond to each force, and it will discuss how Nordstrom should position itself for entry into the Mexico market. Political Forces. The impact of political forces on Nordstrom overlap and converge with cost issues in the current political climate as regards the inflated cost of primary health care in the United States. Although Nordstrom "offers comprehensive, flexible benefits to our employees and their families" (Nordstrom 2010), the pressures of maintaining a benefits package are bound to increase and could affect the company's financial position over the long term. That is a political force affecting Nordstrom simply because the future of primary health care in the U.S. as whole is decidedly a political issue, with the protracted debate and apparently i

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Introduction Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina is facing possible impeachment proceedings based on an affair he had with a woman from Argentina. As with President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, it is not the tryst itself that is at issue, but lying about it and, in Sanford's case, using public funds and/or not performing his gubernatorial duties as appropriate. In addition, the governor did not inform the lieutenant governor or others about where he was going or how he could be reached. This research evaluates two articles, one of which supports impeachment and the other which argues against it, and weighs their approach and persuasiveness. The Case for Impeachment The Charlotte Observer made the case the Sanford should be impeached because he used state and campaign resources for his personal benefit. These acts are unethical, and possibly illegal, according to the paper and meet the admittedly vague criteria of the state constitution regarding impeachment. The constitution itself says that imp

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The purpose of this essay is to examine the character of David Copperfield and to compare the character to the author Charles Dickens. The plan of the research will be to set forth the historical and social context in which David Copperfield was published and then to discuss ways in which the novel can be considered autobiographical, with a view toward identifying, through the prism of the novel, Dickens's attitudes toward life, literature, and the world in general. It is a commonplace of literary history that David Copperfield can be considered a draft of Charles Dickens's autobiography. The pattern of ideas in the novel mirrors the pattern of events in early nineteenth-century England. In turn, the novel's pattern of events is very much drawn from the society in which Dickens grew up. The appalling social inequities exacerbated by the Industrial Revolution, the rise of the bourgeoisie, and the great influence of rationalist utilitarianism as a mode of respectable expe

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Even a cursory glance at today's public school systems reveals that there are teachers who lack any sense of a calling in their work. Teachers that turn a deaf ear to students whispering test answers to each other in class, that deliver the same canned lesson to every class each year, and that opt for the popular rather than the instructive-coloring books instead of textbooks-are legion. For them, teaching is just a job, and a low-paying one at that. This observation is supported by Walter Brueggemann's (1986, p. 19) assertion in his book Hopeful Imagination that "a sense of call in our time is profoundly counter-cultural...the ideology of our time is that we can live 'an uncalled life,' one not referred to any purpose beyond one's self." A study of first- and second-year teachers in Massachusetts confirms Brueggemann's observation, finding that only a few of the teachers surveyed regarded teaching as their calling, and most did not plan

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Operating leverage describes in mathematical terms the sensitivity of net operating income to changes in sales. As an example, assume that the level of sales for an accounting period is $200,000, and that the net operating income on that level of sales is $20,000 (10% of sales). Net operating income is determined (a) by subtracting variable expenses from sales to obtain the contribution margin, and then (b) by subtracting fixed expenses from the contribution margin. Assume further in this example that variable expen

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In her book The Hip Hop Wars, author Tricia Rose discusses accusations that Hip Hop is destroying America's values and how it demeans women. She provides quotations from prominent individuals on the subject and then counters these viewpoints by placing them in a different context. This paper will discuss both the accusations against Hip Hop and how Rose refutes them. Chapter 4 of Rose's book deals with accusations that Hip Hop is destroying America's values. The first quote that Rose presents in the chapter is that of former secretary of education and former director of the Office of National Drug Council Policy William Bennett, who said, "I think that nothing less is at stake than preservation of civilization. This stuff by itself won't bring down civilization but it doesn't help" (Rose, 2008, p. 95). This quote is followed with one by Bob Dole, who warns that "popular culture threatens to undermine our character as a nation," and then one by Reverend Calvin O

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Introduction The modern world requires that individuals spend a considerable amount of their available time engaged in the activity of making a living. For most, this means working at a job located at a facility separate from one's home, although increasing numbers of people are telecommuting and working remotely. While it is possible for some jobs, such as manufacturing jobs, to be performed only at one location, many people take work home with them. As it has become possible for people to be "plugged in" to the Internet, "taking work home" now means taking it on vacation, or doing work during hours which used to be available for leisure or other activities. Work is thus taking up increased amounts of time in a person's life than previously. The value and meaning that one attaches to work also becomes paramount to the level of satisfaction that is derived on a personal and professional level. Many individuals base their identities in part-and to greater or lesser d

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My personal philosophy of education is based primarily on Jerome Bruner's concept of discovery learning. As Bruner (1979, p. 88) puts it, "to the degree that one is able to approach learning as a task of discovering something rather than 'learning about' it, to that degree there will be a tendency for the child to work with the autonomy of self-reward or, more properly, be rewarded by discovery itself." As one of the major cognitive psychology theorists, Bruner-along with Jean Piaget and Seymour Papert-focused on the internal process that takes place when children learn, a process that requires the student's active participation (Conte, 1995). Cognitive psychology "helped spawn the concept of discovery learning, in which students are put in situations where they must learn for themselves, rather than being told the answers by their teachers" (Conte, 1995). My own educational background was instrumental in helping me arrive at an appreciation of Bruner's discovery lear

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Introduction Special education students have a difficult time with learning due to the effects of their learning disabilities. One of the toughest challenges they face, whether they are autistic, have an attention deficit disorder, or have an emotional disturbance, is paying attention. Some of these types of learning disabilities are basically nervous system disorders, and a nervous system that is too excitable and hyperactive becomes a learning liability. Traditional educational strategies are geared to left-brained, auditory thinkers, but most children diagnosed with ADHD and autism are right-brained thinkers who think in visual terms and "like to see the whole picture and then go back and fill in the information gaps" (Jackson, 2007, p. 2). Because these learners are also imaginative and creative and have a tendency to daydream, they require a different learning approach that addresses their special issues, and incorporating music into the curriculum has been identifi

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Introduction Chinese instrumental music is a significant historical and cultural component of Chinese culture. One form of Chinese instrumental music is known as Jiangnan Sizhu. Jiangnan is the traditional name of the southern region of the lower Yangtze river, and Sizhu translates literally as "silk and bamboo" (Jiangnan, 2010, p. 1). One might maintain Jiangnan Sizhu is a regional form of music, since it is a traditional urban ensemble music that was practiced in Southern China, "above all in Shanghai" (Hunter, 1998, p. 924). Despite its specific instruments and performance features, Jiangnan Sizhu arose largely as a movement by amateur musicians for their own pleasure. Jiangnan Sizhu embodies a small repertory, focusing on Eight Great Pieces, a 1940s composition that continues to be cultivate in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in small clubs by amateurs (Hunter, 1998). Yet few compositions since then have been accepted, and Jiangnan Sizhu retains aspec

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