Of all the events in Homer’s Odyssey (Dover 1999)‚ the most significant event is the manner in which Odysseus carries out his retribution of the maids and suitors. Odysseus disguises himself and lies to everyone he cares about to see who is loyal to him and who is not. He tests the qualities of others‚ all the while showing none of them himself. His untrustworthy behavior makes him hypocritical when it comes to proving others loyalty. Odysseus is not justified in his retribution of the maids and
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CJS/220 Cayla Flowers April 27‚ 2014 Juvenile crime rates in the United States fell to a new 32-year low in 2013. In 2012 there were around 60‚000 violent crime arrests involving youths under the age of 18. From 2011 to 2012 there was a 10% decline in the number of youth arrests for all four offenses‚ which contributed to an overall drop of 36 percent since 2003. In 1994‚ police reported 500 violent youth crime arrests for every 100‚000 10-17-olds in the population. In 2008‚ the arrest rate
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In "What is the Safest Sprint Starting Position for American Football Players[‚]” medical professionals Bruno Bonnechere‚ Benoit Beyer‚ Marcel Rooze and Jan Serge Van Sint‚ provide information on how starting sprint positions can affect American football players. Bonnechere et al. support their claims by collecting measurements of the head‚ trunk‚ and field-of-view of 2-‚ 3-‚ and 4-point positions using twenty-five young males Out of the twenty-five participants‚ thirteen were used as the control
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Current strategic position Type of organization Schultz Wines limited was established in the 1840s by one of the founding winemaking families of the Barossa Valley in SA who migrated from Germany. The current director Fred Schultz is 5th generation winemaker and maintain the tradition of being an independent family wine company with premium brands. What industry‚ product segments/markets does it operate in? * The company purchases grapes from about 185 local independent growers and it has
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race." (http://www.leadershipforwomen.com.au/quotes.htm‚ 12.11.2007) This quote by Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)‚ a pioneer of the American women’s movement‚ clarifies the situation of women‚ not only in leading positions. Even by this day men tend to outweigh women in most leading positions in science‚ politics and the corporate world. Obviously there is a significant problem for women to climb the professional ladder. But what are the reasons for this and are there any chances to counteract this
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availability of pre-baked bread. In the summer of 1787‚ a four-pound loaf‚ two of which were required daily to feed a family of four‚ cost eight sous. Due in large part to poor weather and low crop yields‚ by February 1789 the price had nearly doubled to fifteen sous. In his book Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution‚ Simon Schama notes: "The average [daily] wage of a manual laborer was between twenty and thirty sous‚ of a journeyman mason at most forty. The doubling of bread prices--and of firewood--spelled
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Market Position of Blackberry 2009 The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager. In 2002‚ the more commonly known smartphone‚ BlackBerry was released‚ which supports push e-mail‚ mobile telephone‚ text messaging‚ internet faxing‚ web browsing and other wireless information services. It is an example of a convergent device. Developed by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM)‚ it delivers information over the wireless data networks of mobile phone service
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PR Assignment 7 John Lattimore Position Statement Preventable accidents fill up a vast majority of space of the Emergency Department (ED) in hospitals every day. Due to that fact‚ the National Association of Trauma Specialists (NATS) is in the process of forming an educational program for the public about home and driving safety.i This program will help alleviate a lot of the stress and problems of having an overcrowded ED. The ED is meant for critical and urgent situations such as accidents
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Water‚ Bread and Light are three important symbols in John’s Gospel. How do these symbols help the Johannine community to understand the identity of Jesus? The Gospel of John addresses the Johnannine audience’s journey of faith with theological reflections on the origin and identity of the “Word”. The author uses universal symbols of the light‚ the bread and the water to represent the identity of Jesus to the Johnannine community‚ thus reinforcing a high Christology. The signs performed by Jesus
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Julie Trach The Position of Women in Society In the early days women were seen as wives who were intended to cook‚ clean‚ and take care of the kids. They were not allowed to vote while men took care of having jobs and paying any bills that had to be paid. Fifty to seventy years ago‚ a woman was no more than a house wife‚ caregiver‚ and at their husbands beck and call. Women had no personal opinion‚ no voice‚ and no freedom. Lastly‚ women have always been treated like they are never
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