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Gatsby And The American Dream
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Thoughts And Feelings Group Of People
1,176 wordsHere we are in 1999 in a world that is booming with technological advances. One would have to ask, "How did we come so far in such a short amount of time?" It seems as though it was only yesterday that we were traveling by horse and buggy. Now we travel by bullet trains, airplanes, and rockets. Seeing the arts and humanities in everything we did years ago was much easier, because technology didn't seem to advance at the rapid pace it does today. Is that why so many people fail to realize the imp...
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Second Industrial Revolution Social And Economic
1,293 words... g from the first industrial revolution in the 1800 s, the second industrial revolution in the early 1900 s involved industries like construction, petroleum, telephone, and most importantly, the automobile industry. The automobile industry was an excellent example of how competition can improve the industry as whole. Furthermore, the success of the automobile industry was due to the fact that large amounts of capital was not needed to get companies started. Also, the automobile industry prosp...
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Broad Range Marketing Strategy
2,043 wordsWhich is the one place where you can satisfy your every need (almost every need) at your price? Be it airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, mortgages, new automobiles, or even long distance calling time. The answer would be Priceline. com. All you have to do is know your need, state your terms, and make your offer. It doesnt get easier than this! Priceline. com was one of the pioneer online companies to traverse the traditional limitations of the Internet and revolutionize online purchasing...
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Hospitality Industry Recreational Activities
1,189 wordsBy nature, the state of existence for the hospitality industry is different in any perspective you choose to approach it. Since humanities first existence we have sought opportunities to travel, lodge, recreate, and enduldge in diversified food services. Without hindrance, these four industries were forced to become different in any way you approach them. Either historically or economically these industries have undergone many changes from the beginning of the hospitality industry to the present...
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Pneumonic Plague Bubonic Plague
1,804 wordsIn the early 1330 s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China. Plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once people are infected, they infect others very rapidly. Plague causes fever and a painful swelling of the lymph glands called buboes, which is how it gets its name. The disease also causes spots on the skin that are red at first and then turn black. Since China was one of the busiest of the world's trading nations, it was only a matter of tim...
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Men And Women German Culture
1,444 words... one the career. The family, or does the student, or maybe the government! Well the student does initially she told me because they decided on how well they do in school, but if they do not do well they are limited to in advancement, but ultimately the government decides based on test scores, and who gets what kind of schooling. Following this we talked about the working age for children, now as we know here you can start working at like fourteen. However she said in Germany you do not see ma...
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Stop For Death Emily Dickinson
671 wordsPeople who write poetry do so for various reasons. They write to express such things as anger, fear, happiness, and the unknown. Whether it is to have a hobby, do something for leisure time, or to express ones feelings, everyone has their own motive. The later years of Dickinson's life were primarily spent in mourning because of several deaths within the time frame of a few years. Emily's father died in 1874, her nephew Gilbert died in 1883, and both Charles Wadsworth (Emily's lover) and Emily's...
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Maintaining Gender Roles In Contemporary Australian Society
1,290 wordsA distinction is sometimes made between gender and sex, such that gender refers to socially conditioned characteristics or typical behaviour, and sex to the physical characteristics of men and women. The definition of gender is sociological concerns of sexual difference and human behaviours or a set of classes, such as masculine, feminine and neuter, which together include all nouns. The discussion of how the differences of gender are maintained in society today covers many different areas, such...
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Cultural Differences One Culture
450 words[/b] Genetically speaking, there are no physical impediments to interracial marriage. Therefore factors that help or hinder the success of mixed marriages as compared to within-group-marriages are not genetic, but are taught and learned by individuals living in a community. Groups and individuals "speak" through implied and usually unwritten statements that become cultural pressures -- "should's" and "should nots" -- that can affect the potential partners' decisions before marriage and the quali...
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Parents And Children Volunteer Work
2,093 wordsVolunteering Within the Community Throughout the last few years, many volunteer based agencies have found it increasingly difficult to find enough volunteers to carry out their many programs, especially during daytime hours. Economic pressures and changes in lifestyle and family composition have meant there are fewer volunteers available from the traditional sources that these organizations have previously relied upon. At the same time, as the government reduces funding to social, health, recrea...
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Natural Gas Gas Prices
1,778 wordsHigh Prices Gas Scientists and specialists in oil and gas industry believe that energy tops the list of problems facing humanity today because it impacts all other major problems, including water, food, environment, poverty war, disease, education, democracy, and population. Energy impacts everything that occurs in modern society. The US was built on the shoulders of reliable and affordable energy. For the past 50 years, oil has been the primary source of energy in the country, and the price of ...
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Leisure Dress Honesty Traditional Dress Professionalism Teachers
1,603 wordsThe effect of teachers dress on student perceptions Persons appearance influences the way others recognize him / her and cares the information about his / her personality, status, professional characteristics, and social position. The significance of having proper appearance while making a business career has the important place in literature. Nevertheless, the very little research was made concerning the influence of teachers appearance on how students perceive him and his subject. At present t...
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The Advantages Of Senior Citizens In Higher Education
1,952 wordsThe Advantages of Senior Citizens In Higher Education People often think that sometimes it is too late for us to do something. This, probably, is the main reason for losses in our lives. The right time for doing something comes when people have a desire to do it, and this is the only way to become successful. It is a common point of view that education is only for young people and not for the senior. However, sometimes people understand what they really want to do and be only when they become el...
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Playing Video Games Side By Side
1,889 words... seaport city. The Taman Fatahillah Restoration Project, begun in the early 1970 s, has restored one of the oldest sections of Jakarta, known as Old Batavia or Kota, to almost its original state. An old Portuguese Church and warehouse have been rejuvenated into living museums. A key feature in Jakarta's urban development is the focus on environmental planning. This is not the case, as in many areas of the world, where environmental damage from urban development is often over-looked leaving fo...
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20 Th Century Men And Women
646 wordsHow Has Film Influenced Lifestyles And Human How Has Film Influenced Lifestyles And Human Behavior In The 20 Th Century How Has Film Influenced Lifestyles and Human Behavior in the 20 th Century? During the 20 th century, film has been a powerful media in which to influence peoples lifestyles and human behavior. Film is for people who do not enjoy reading or other more stimulating leisure and want to be entertained or escape from everyday life. Movies gave society a great way to see vintage fash...
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Watching Television American Football
334 wordsMany Leisure Time LEISURE TIME Many people today are looking to reduce stress in their lives. I am a great believer in the concept that each person has a skill or talent to do some diversion, which is right. Sometimes this diversion builds in the skill that every one of us uses on work or job everyday, which is different. So a surgeon might be a mountain climber, a lawyer might build furniture and a writer might fish on stream. In living with television, Delmar family has a habit of watching tel...
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Immoral Acts Sex Appeal
515 wordsIZOD: Clothing or Concept Every day, billions are spent on advertising with the intention of selling some product of one kind or another. Every day, even more people come in contact with these ads and are affected by them. As the number of ads continues to rise, the percentage of those that are misleading and manipulative also increases. As a result, we have become more skeptical about what we see and hear, and we have begun to acquire distaste for the marketing world. The IZOD Extreme Leisure c...
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Education System Good Job
335 wordsAmerican Political Culture Overworked American, Chapter 3 If I were to create an American society in which its occupants enjoyed more leisure and less work I would start from the beginning; the education system. In America? s current education system children are taught that leisure is bad. They are taught that happiness comes from materials. Much pressure in put on them from the start to get a good job and make lots of money. In order to do this, children are told, you must go to college. I wou...
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Emily Dickinson Stop For Death
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