Miscellaneous Essays
Latin drug trade
Latin drug trade Too many nations have made the mistake of underestimating the nature of the threat posed by illegal drug cultivation, production, trafficking, and consumption. Governments that have tolerated the cultivation of coca or opium poppies have seen deforestation and distortion of the agricultural sector. Nations where drugs have yielded are produced or trafficked have seen their financial sectors and political institutions wracked by economic distortion and corruption. Consuming c...
Law enforcement today
Law enforcement today Law enforcement officers have a very important role in society. They have a job that involves lots of decision making and using personal judgment. Law officers have many duties while at work. Law officers have to decide whether or not someone is breaking the law and how they will enforce the situation. Law officers are sometimes expected to be perfect. They have to catch all the bad guys and save all the innocent. Unfortunately it doesn't always work t...
Law enforcement
Law enforcement When I was a young child, I can remember that a lot of shows and movies were based on the exciting lives of police officers. Both shows and movies often portrayed police work as exciting with a new adventure everyday. For this reason I think a lot of children, such as me, had a desire at one point or another to be a police officer. The TV shows and movies focus only on the exciting parts of police work; the truth is that most police work is done without any excitement wha...
Lady in a rocking chair
Lady in a rocking chair Back … forth … back … forth … she sits in her creaky rocking chair pleasantly reminiscing about her lost childhood as she crochets a warm fuzzy quilt for her granddaughter. Out of nowhere her desire to finish the quilt before noon fades and she find her attention drifting towards the window and looking at a giant maple tree bejeweled in sparkling frost. The tree is old and withered, it has aged immensely; it is somewhat like the old woman ...
Lafollettes licensing of paren
Lafollettes-licensing of paren “Licensing Parents” Hugh LaFollete Would the licensing of parents be morally right and theoretically possible? According to Hugh LaFollette in his essay “Licensing Parents,” it is and would be both right and possible to do so. I will attempt to argue LaFollette's point by using the different scenarios and analogies presented in his essay. I will also be looking at the different objections to LaFollette’s proposal and his re...
Land ethics in our communities
Land ethics in our communities Land Ethics in Our Communities While wading through the reserved reading in the library, I came across the article, “The Land Ethic”, which caught my eye, as well as sparked an interest deep within me. It revealed the idea that we, as humans, tend to be quite caught up in the idea of community; community between neighbors, co-workers, etc. seems to be something we strive for in our society. It seems that we have not integrated the land into ou...
Land of canada
Land of canada Landscape and Memory The purity of our cities; the sanitary; the unpolluted air and environment. These are some of the things we take for granted. Things people around the world, in different countries would love to see and feel. Our air is fresh, clean and odorless, not humid like some of the warmer regions around the world. Brazil, South Africa, India, and Western China are just some of the few places that are so polluted that the air is gray. Fog surrounds their cities...
Landmines
Landmines Landmines A recent report on the ban the production and the use of landmines which appeared in the International Post caught my attention. Credit for the lucidly written report should be given to Ms Kazka, a colleague of mine, who illuminated the pertinent issues involved in the controversy revolving the production of landmines. Although the Philippines is fortunate enough not to have experienced the anguish of states like Afghanistan and Bosnia, we as a nation, averse at atro...
Language conflict in canda
Language conflict in canda The conflict in Canada between the people who speak French and those who speak English can trace its roots to Colonial times. Since Canada was originally a French colony, the majority of the people originally spoke French. In 1760, during the French Indian War, England gained control of Canada. This led to a large number of English speaking settlers who eventually became more numerous that the original French speaking settlers. Two distinct cultural groups evol...
Knowledge 2
Knowledge 2 “Knowledge” Knowledge can be interpreted in many different ways. Some may see knowledge as learned education. Others may see education as intelligence. None of these perspectives of knowledge are right or wrong. Every person is entitled to their own definition, source, and use of knowledge in their lives. I view knowledge as the wisdom and insight that one may acquire over time, by personal experiences and influences in life. Most of the basic knowledge ...
Knowledge building and corpora
Knowledge building and corpora How can we use electronic systems to assist in the sharing of information organisation-wide, the use of this to build expertise and develop and maintain corporate memory? TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION GROUPWARE Challenges related to GroupWare introduction KNOWLEDGE BUILDING AND GROUPWARE SYSTEMS Computer Supported Cooperative Works: ? 1st definition of CSCW ? 2nd definition of CSCW ? Issues covered by CSCW. OT...
LOUIS RIEL
LOUIS RIEL Louis Riel should not have been hung because he represented those who couldn�t represent themselves. Louis Riel was disappointed with the way the M�tis were, so he took it upon himself to represent the M�tis and their rights. Even though the actions that followed, such as keeping the new governor out the colony, was illegal and very wrong. Riel risked it for the rights of the M�tis. As for Thomas Scott, Riel has absolutely no legal right to have him shot, b...
Labor in america
Labor in america History of Labor in America The Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. At Lowell, Massachusetts, the construction of a big cotton mill began in 1821. It was the first of several that would be built there in the next 10 years. The machinery to spin and weave cotton into cloth would be driven by water power. All that the factory owners needed was a dependable supply of labor to tend the machines. As most jobs in cott...
Labyrinths and mazes
Labyrinths and mazes Labyrinths and mazes Labyrinths and mazes have been around for literally thousands of years. They have special uses in all fields and studies for humankind. Mazes are used to not only study humans and their intelligence, but also that of animals. Mazes and labyrinths are used in so many ways it may boggle the mind. They are used to test memory, to entertain, to provide good story plots for cheesy movies, sometimes even those movies that aren'...
Lacan
Lacan Weve been talking about lacan and the notion that the unconscious is structured like a language. Lacan sees processes of metaphor and autonomy as the way the mind works. The relationship between language and the unconscious to be one of a homogenous structure to work the same way. His vision o the edipus complex as a. The signifier of the desire of the mother, that privileged jouisance that signifier for that pleasure that bonding that I had with mom and is erased by the name of t...
Justify the knowledge or it wi
Justify the knowledge or it wi Justify the Knowledge or It Will be Taught in Vain If you were to ask a teenager today if he or she would rather study or watch television, what do you think the answer would be? From what I have seen in myself when I was a teenager and in almost everyone that I meet, nobody would rather study. Today's fast food culture has sucked the beauty out of individual thought and the acquirement of knowledge. Schools give an insufficient amount of knowledge on a v...
Juvenile crime
Juvenile crime The essay is writen using the (Kolb and fry model) Thesis Statement Concrete Experience Many different types of projects in different countries have reduced levels of delinquency and violence by tackling the causes - to the extent to which crime is reduced through many different types and forms of crime prevention projects including: designing out crime; promoting social control; supporting young persons and families; breaking the cycle of violence against women an...
Karl marxs oppinion on religio
Karl marxs oppinion on religio When Karl Marx said, "Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people." He was trying to summarize his very controversial point of view, that religion is a crutch that people fall back on to escape the physical reality. People use it as a reason to get up in the morning and suffer another day of backbreaking labor so they can afford to buy bread t...
Kingdom of god
Kingdom of god The Kingdom of God Pear gates, marble stairs and a throne of gold, or an inner area in the hidden depths of our own soul? Which can describe the true kingdom of God, a real physical world or a place that is only seen in ones hearts. Some would say it to be a place above man, built by God to be a home for peoples' souls after death. Others might say that it is no more than a place inside us that can only be reached through the right decisions and acts of kindness. A place ...
Kmart corporation
Kmart corporation KMART CORPORATION FACTS- Kmart was formed in the late 1950's to challenge new forms of discount stores. They are a descendant of an organization Sebastian S. Kresge. The average Kmart store is around 100,000 square feet. In 1987 Kmart was the largest discount retailer in the United States. They currently have 2,223 stores and last year they had over $25 billion in sales which is nearly double that of Wal-Mart. In 1991 they opened their Kmart superstores. The s...
John steinbeck
John steinbeck John Steinbeck - The Realist and Naturalist John Steinbeck was born in salinas califorina in 1902. He went to stanford university, but only lasted three years. In his youth he worked as a ranch hand and a fruit picker.John Steinbeck wrote many books his most famous works include Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes Of Wath. Some people catagorize Steinbeck as being a writer of nateralism and realism. John Steinbeck was a model example of the rea...
John stuart mill verses immanu
John stuart mill verses immanu John Stuart Mill verses Immanuel Kants ethical theories; Which makes a better societal order? John Stuart Mill believed in an ethical theory known as utilitarianism. There are many formulation of this theory. One such is, "Everyone should act in such a way to bring the largest possible balance of good over evil for everyone involved." However, good is a relative term. What is good? Utilitarians disagreed on this subject. Mill made a distinction between ...
Journalism
Journalism The following paper was recently presented by Kamlesh Ramji VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES IN JAPAN 1. Abstract In recent years, virtual communities have proliferated thanks to the converging technologies of telecommunications and computing. In the United States, numerous virtual communities exist in the form of bulletin boards, newsgroups, computer conferencing, etc. and have been expanding its scope beyond the national boundaries. But, those virtual communitie...
Journalistic integrity
Journalistic integrity The Media’s Role in Informing the Public “‘We do not often print everything we know,’” reveals David Lawerence, publisher of the Miami Herald (qtd. in Valente 4). There is a contrast between printing everything that is known, selecting information to disregard, and presenting information that is simply false. This difference has an impact on society. Media personnel representing a major bias also have an affect on facts that are being...
Juice
Juice Steroids are known as synthetic versions of the naturally occurring male sex hormone testosterone. Although some people think that there are only positive effects from the use of steroids, there are far more negative effects than there are positive ones. Steroids may make you look bigger and feel stronger, but eventually they will become very detrimental to your body. There are physical and mental side effects to the use of steroids, and the continued use of steroids will be fatal. ...