Miscellaneous Essays
Marijuana 2
Marijuana 2 Marijuana is a drug that comes from the plant cannabis. When marijuana is in the smoking form it usually looks like small bits of plants and flowers that has been crushed. When it is in the smokeable form it is usually put into a pipe then smoked or rolled up in paper then smoked. When made in a form of a cigarette it can be called a joint or a reefer. This drug (marijuana) is also known by a variety of other names, including pot, tea, grass and weed. This drug can also be sniffe...
Marijuana 3
Marijuana 3 Marijuana is a green, brown, or gray mixture of dried, shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the hemp plant. You may hear marijuana called by street names such as pot, herb, weed, grass, boom, Mary Jane, gangster, or chronic. There are more than 200 slang terms for marijuana. Sinsemilla (sin-seh-me-yah; it's a Spanish word), hashish ("hash" for short), and hash oil are stronger forms of marijuana. All forms of marijuana are mind-altering. In other words, they change how...
Management in the year 2000 gl
Management in the year 2000 gl Management in the year 2000 global organization ��Technological advances at the end of the 20th century have allowed companies to globalize, facilitating the sale of their goods and services in foreign markets. Communications, empowerment, and learning will be the three greatest deciding factors in the success of these new multinational firms.�� To be more successful in business in the global environment, it will be necessary to expand...
Management policy
Management policy OPERATION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT All organizations have operations.� A manufacturing company may conduct operations in a foundry, mill, or factory. Our interest is in the management of operations, or operations management (OM), including the usual management cycle of planning, implementing, and monitoring/controlling. The driving force for OM must be an overriding goal of continually improving service to customers, where customer means the next process as well as the f...
Managing Materialism and Carna
Managing Materialism and Carna Managing Materialism and Carnality The acquisition of material has been equated with happiness in this country. The majority of Americans believe that wealth and happiness are the same. It is a result of our market economy that encourages consumption and conditions us to think that we need material possessions to be happy. Our materialistic attitudes are a result of the free market economy in this country. Consumers are taught that they need to have all t...
Managing change in Operations
Managing change in Operations Behavior Traits of Successful Businesses August 29, 1999 Business Innovation Opportunities Businesses are resource limited and must determine where and in what way to allocate resources to achieve business mission objectives. This translates to why it is so important for business to be creative and actively plan for innovation correctly. Innovation is a change of direction and it alters investment policy so it is essential from the onset for...
Managing overtime
Managing overtime Managing Overtime Worked in Area Offices Of the United States Postal Service Abstract In the following report, I will be give illustrations and possible solutions for an overburdening problem that exists in the U.S. Postal service Operations throughout the country. Overtime is an age-old problem that has gone long overdue without someone or a group paying serious attention to correcting this problem. Introduction The United States Postal S...
Male and female observation t
Male and female observation: t Male and Female Observation Paper: Touch He slid a hand through her hair, the glossy strands sifting through his fingers. He lowered his mouth to hers, his kiss smothering any protest she might have made. The taste of her was sweet. The feel of her body in his arms regenerated his strength. Desire burned away the fatigue and the kiss burned hotter, wilder. (Hoag, 232) When a person touches someone, even with the ...
Male, Female, and Religion
Male, Female, and Religion Male, Female, and Religion It is a perforated, light blue swatch of mesh that represents the obstructed view of the world for a nation of people who were once free. Embedded in this piece of the burqa is the story of the Afghan people--the story of the tears, suffering and suppression of millions of Afghan women, the denial of human and religious rights and the history of a conflict that brewed for years. Although many international organizations and national g...
Mali, One of the Greatest Afri
Mali, One of the Greatest Afri Mali, One of the Greatest African Civilizations Mali�s Culture and Government After the kingdom of Ancient Ghana, the next great West African Empire to emerge was the kingdom of Ancient Mali. Ancient Mali and Ghana shared a number of different features, however they also were extremely distinct from each other in many ways as well. For example, unlike Ghana, a great deal more information and written records about the kingdom of Mali still exist. ...
Malthus
Malthus MALTHUS Two hundred years ago, Thomas Robert Malthus, a British economist , wrote �An Essay on the Principle of Population� in which he argued that the world population would increase faster than the food supply, with disastrous results for the general human welfare. A world population of 250 million at the time of Christ has now grown to 5.7 billion in spite of wars, plagues, famine, and epidemics. World food production has been keeping pace with population growth until r...
Man is our true enemy
Man is our true enemy Once someone said Man is our true enemy. And that person was right. In the modern time (now) the word enemy means: A hostile power or force such as a nation. As an example let�s take the Middle East nations suck as Iraq. We can also be our own enemy. How? By testing nuclear devises or dispose of hazardous materials in the environment suck as potation. Why are we been our own enemy? By trying to develop our selves we extract negative effects out of our positive ...
Management from the Corps
Management from the Corps I want to use this opportunity to discuss two things, both near and dear to my heart; The United States Marine Corps and Management. Throughout this paper I want to focus on how I think civilians can learn to be better managers by using what that corps has established over it�s illustrious 223 years as the �Best Management-Training Program in America� Inc. (Freedman). The United States Marine Corps manages using a principle I learned in this course: Dec...
Mafia
Mafia Mafia. What does this word mean? The actual members of the Mafia aren�t even sure where the word first originated or what it really means. One of the theories as to where the word came from is from Sicily, where people would yell � Morte alla Francia, Italia anela!� (Death to France, Italy groans!), therefore forming the acronym MAFIA. Others claim the word derived from the battle cry of rebels who slaughtered thousands of Frenchmen after a French soldier raped a Palermo woman...
Major League Baseball Needs a
Major League Baseball Needs a �Major League Baseball Needs a Salary Cap� A salary cap in pro sports is the amount of money every team in a league can spend on all of the players on its roster in one year. Major League Baseball does not have a salary cap. The reason for a salary cap is to keep teams competitive and not have just two or three outstanding teams that dominate everyone. Another reason leagues like the National Football League and the National Basketball Association have a ...
Makeup
Makeup MAKEUP What is makeup? War pain, a mask, and things a woman uses to embellish herself because of low self-esteem? The answer is no. Often these terms have been some of the insults makeup has been hit with over the years. It's true that women spend a lot of money on makeup, maybe an average of $1000 a year, but its all for a good cause. Makeup, if used correctly, can have many benefits. It would be unjust to brutally criticize makeup without looking at its benefits to the wearer. Mo...
Making a Web Page
Making a Web Page Making a Web Page For my science project I chose to create a web (internet) page, dealing with science. This project consists of using a computer and a html editor to create a page that can be found on the internet. The next paragraph will explain how to make an internet page. The steps to making a web page to post on the internet, is very easy. Most web pages are made in a code called html, which is what I am using to make my science web page. Html is an acron...
Making the corps
Making the corps Thomas Ricks, author of �Making the Corps�, gives a description about the United States Marine Corps� basic military training. The book�s main focal point is Platoon 3086 at Parris Island, S.C., in 1995. Their story is about their eleven weeks boot camp training to become a full-fledged marine. Mr. Ricks writes about what separates the marines from American society, he writes how the Marine Corps differ from other branches of the Unites States military, as well a...
Malaysia Car Industry
Malaysia Car Industry 1.0 MALAYSIA CAR INDUSTRY 1.1 Background Malaysia is one of the smaller Southeast Asian markets for motor vehicle production and sales and ranks behind South Korea, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia. Since 1985, when the first made-in-Malaysia car, Proton rolled off the production line, it have been spearheading Malaysia's ambitious plan to become one of the world's most advanced industrial societies by the year 2020. To date ov...
Macbeth Macbeth is not a killer
Macbeth: Macbeth is not a killer Throughout Macbeth, the characters moods and opinions change. Macbeth turns from a keen, moral, skilled kingsmen to a power hungry murderer. In this essay you will see that Macbeth did not want to kill the king (Duncan) and with Lady Macbeth\'s smart and cunning ways, brainwashed him and convinced him to commit the murder and turn him into a heartless killer. The story of Macbeth started when three witches confronted him and tell him that he will become t...
Machiavellianism
Machiavellianism After months of routinely being metal detected and blindly handing over my bags to be searched, I finally stopped to think about it the other day. I realized that all the �security� cameras, metal detectors and guards were merely used to gain power over the people by oppressing them and forcing their submission; not to protect us. We are all blind to this. We think it�s for our own good, but it�s all part of a Machiavellianist Plot. Niccolo Machia...
Machiavelli’s View of Human Na
Machiavelli�s View of Human Na Machiavelli looks at man from a leader�s point of view. Machiavelli�s philosophy about the nature of man is that man possesses both good and bad qualities, but will lean towards his own self-interests when all things are equal: thus man is a fickle creature. Machiavelli�s view of human nature influences his view of government. Machiavelli writes, �that man has qualities that will bring him either praise or blame� and because a prince is a man; th...
Machiavelli’s philosophy appli
Machiavelli�s philosophy appli Machiavelli�s philosophy of �the end justifies the means� can be applied to the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica. The definition of his philosophy basically means that no matter what goal is set forth, it must be accomplished by any means necessary. Many times in history this is true. This is also the case in the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica. In the case of Mesoamerica, the �end� is the downfall of 3 very advanced civilization, the Aztecs, I...
Macro Signals Declining Effici
Macro Signals Declining Effici It may be useful to put the discussion of performance constraints of the Thai economy briefly in perspective. Over the past 2 decades, the Thai economy has been one of the best performing economies in the world, characterized by sustained high growth rates, averaging 10.3% 1985-90, and 8% in the years prior to the crisis (1990-96). This growth was accompanied by a dramatic decline in the incidence of absolute poverty, from 57% in 1962 to 14% in 1992, with per c...
Madagascar The Exotic Island
Madagascar: The Exotic Island Looking at a map of the southern hemisphere, one wouldn't expect such a seemingly "small" island to be so exotic and bountiful, but the island of Madagascar is just that. A 226,658 square mile (587,041 square kilometers) piece of land, with a a coastline of about 2,480 miles (3,990 kilometers), it's a beautiful and different view of its large neighbor, Africa. The island itself is made up of ridges, rivers, valleys, and tropical forests sectioning off the dif...