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- 211: Chinese Economy
- ... in reforming centrally planned economy. I believe if China continues to improve its productivity, and the number of monopolies decrease as studies show, China will move into a capitalist front only to prosper. An Inflationary crisis within two years will test the government's reformist mettle: The 14th Communist Party Congress, set the official seal on the fourth wave of economic reform. Market Splintering: l feel that China should allow labour ... the more the retained earnings, the more the employees receive in bonuses, and that will make them work harder. A bracing wind is blowing through the open door: China follows the policies of its East Asian neighbours on foreign trade and investment. In 1978 China had an isolated economy, with a minimal share of world trade, commodities, especially oil which was China's main export. It has now blossomed into a ...
- 212: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- ... control over his life. Dr. Jekyll is forced to act out his evil side through the actions of Mr. Hyde. Accepting this side of him was not something that Jekyll wanted to do. This identity crisis cost him not only his friends and socially accepted lifestyle, but it cost him his life as well. Often those having identity crisis' resort to the use of drugs and allow it to take over ones life. The potion that Dr. Jekyll became addicted to can be seen as a drug. The need for him to be Mr ... was trying to allow a part of him that he needed to express to come through. Often one fights the urges to allow their evil side to emerge. When one is having such an identity crisis, he wants to join both the good side and the bad side of the personality together. In this book Dr. Jekyll was unable to accomplish that. He was too weak of a person to ...
- 213: Technological Development and the Third World
- ... surroundings that should be concurrent with technological development. With ours as the only current model of successful development, newly industrializing countries such as South and Central America, and Africa (and up until quite recently many Asian countries) attempted to achieve results in the same way. The problem that ensued for these countries was that instead of working slowly towards their goals, they sold themselves to get ahead economically. Instead of recognizing ... result with problems of rising crime and unhygenic living conditions. This puts terrible strain on both the human and physical environment, creating a situation with little hope for a successful future. SOLUTIONS To combat these crisis, we must adopt some new behaviors. Our current model of development is showing some obvious flaws and it is evident that it is the impact of technology that has resulted in. environmental damage. But technology ...
- 214: Three Gorges Dam
- ... they will be able to 'prove' that their communist system is working, since Chinese communist leaders in the past have suggested building the dam. Having lived for a total of about one year in various Asian countries, including China, I have a greater understanding of the Asian culture and way of thinking. I have come to the conclusion that the Asian countries in general have no respect for their environment whatsoever. This could be due to the fact that bribery between companies and government is rampant throughout Asia. I was appalled at the amount of ...
- 215: The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
- ... Colored People. In 1966, the National Organization for Women (NOW) was organized, soon to be followed by an array of other mass-membership organizations addressing the needs of specific groups of women, including Blacks, Latinas, Asian-Americans, lesbians, welfare recipients, business owners, aspiring politicians, tradeswomen, and professional women of every sort. During that same time frame, thousands of young women on college campuses were playing active roles within the anti-war ... on a wide range of issues. Small groups of women in hundreds of communities worked on grassroots projects such as establishing women's newspapers, bookstores, and cafes. They created battered women's shelters and rape crisis hotlines to care for victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence. They came together to form child care centers so women could work outside their homes for pay. Women health care professionals opened women's ...
- 216: Universal Neurosis
- ... of the perceptions, strategies and scars of a conflict the individual underwent during his or her preschool years. According to Freud, these perceptions, etc., later color and shape the individual's future experiences. This psychological crisis results when a young child's sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex collides with the competition, rivalry and overwhelming power of the parent of the same sex. According to Freudian theory, the ghosts of this oedipal crisis haunt us our entire lives. Psychopathology, slips of the tongue, dreams, and religious experience all were understood to be functions whose origins and energy resulted from this repressed material. In his later work, Freud interpreted ... s perception of his or her projected parental imago, the characteristics of which were produced by the inherited trauma of the pre-historic experience of humanity along with the subject's resolution of the Oedipal crisis. . The experience of the projected imago as real is a function of wish fulfillment; it is tied to illusory beliefs accepted on the basis of their conformity with the subject's wishes. The resulting ...
- 217: Analysis Of 1 Samuel 1:28
- ... in battle that a king offered. Samuel admonished the people and told them that God provided their protection and he would lead them in battle. The people of Israel were gripped by internal and external crisis. The external threat comes from the Philistine s desire to expand their empire by conquoring territory belonging to Israel. The internal crisis comes from Israel being a loose federation of tribes that cannot adequately defend itself from the Philistines. This combined with the corruption in the house of Eli (through his sons) make for chaotic times for ... the powerful presence of the Lord, bringing plagues on the Philistine people. Human leadership plays no role in these events. The divine power mediated by the ark is equal to the challenge of the Philistine crisis. As a result, the demand for a human king seems unnecessary and shows that whatever will unfold in Israel will truly be by God s will. God s message throughout 1 Samuel is a ...
- 218: Who Was Responsible For The Cold War?
- ... threat of total devastation, caught between the nuclear arsenals of the United States, Great Britain, and France on one side and the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China on the other. Any crisis precipitated by the struggle between the forces of democracy and communism could trigger a nuclear exchange of such stupendous proportions and overwhelming horror and suffering that would render life on earth utterly impossible. In reality ... vicious arms race that brought the advent of the H-bomb, and the escalation of the space program race. In addition, the fear that the United States was possessed by gave way to the U2 crisis as well as the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Although some of the United States fears had some foundation, the Cold War can easily be seen to have grown extensively from the minds and imaginations of the American people rather than the actual ...
- 219: Personal Reflections
- ... which mirrored his career, a famous art restorer. I never told him I loved him. We had an emotionally distant co-existence. One thing I have held dear like the person in Living through Personal Crisis by Dr. Ann Kaiser Stearns who saved all the clothes of their loved one is a small crystal Easter egg that he gave to me one Easter. It is a symbol of his love, and ... to about these things so I was sent back here to Baltimore and to Sheppard Pratt So not only did I lose my love of two years, I also lost myself. That was too much crisis at one time but the murder of my father was most traumatic. I did not get the help I needed until seven years later in Sheppard Pratt. Ever since Sheppard Pratt I have had a ... me to greatly to deal with my loss over the last seven years. I have a sense that no matter what happens all is well and will be well. Dr Stearns book Living Through Personal Crisis has taught me to view grief in all these different ways, mentioned above. Now I will write how Hugh Missildine's parental attitudes have also affected the perspective of my life. Being the youngest, ...
- 220: Abraham Lincoln 3
- ... on the brink of secession, and disunion sentiment was rampant in the border states of Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. When Lincoln reached Washington on February 23, he found the national government incapable of meeting the crisis. President James Buchanan deplored secession but could not check it, and Congress fruitlessly debated compromise. The national treasury was near bankruptcy; the civil service was riddled with secessionists; and the miniscule armed forces were being ... the end of three years struggle," he wrote, as the war reached its climax, "the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it." Sumter Crisis In 1861, Lincoln's weaknesses were more evident than his strengths. Immediately after his inauguration he faced a crisis over Fort Sumter in the Charleston (S. C.) harbor, one of the few remaining U.S. forts in the seceded states still under federal control. Informed that the troops would have to be supplied ...
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