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The paper discusses how "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is one of the more provocative feminist tracts of the 1960s because it poignantly and powerfully captures the angst of an early second-wave feminist, Esther Greenwood, as she grapples with making it in a tough man's world - all the while tormented by what society expects from her as a woman. This paper explores how the title suggests the profound sense of imprisonment and entrapment that Esther experiences in 1950s New York; the paper also notes that, whilst it is easy to blame Esther's problems on "the patriarchy," it is only appropriate to note that Esther is a woman who is emotionally frail and perhaps not up to the challenges confronting her in a tough profession marked by professional greed, politicking and hyper-competition. In any case, the paper asserts that even if one concedes that Esther's setbacks are not entirely the fault of others, there is little question that she finds herself in a world wherein women are defined by their biological capacity to have children; they are deemed ill-suited for anything else.

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""The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is one of the more provocative feminist tracts of the 1960s because it poignantly and powerfully captures the angst of an early second-wave feminist, Esther Greenwood, as she grapples with making it in a tough man's world - all the while tormented by what society expects from her as a woman. This essay will explore how the title suggests the profound sense of imprisonment and entrapment that Esther..."

Tags:second, wave, feminism, 1960s

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The paper shows how the Big Wave Cruise organization must make some significant changes to their human resources strategies in order to become more competitive in an increasingly competitive industry. The paper discusses how the organization does not have the level of employee commitment to the organization that is so critical to its success. The paper contends that Big Wave Cruise must address the training issue currently plaguing the company, the perception and/or reality of an excessive workload on employees and the unacceptable compensation plan.

Outline:
Introduction
Division of Labor at Big Wave Cruise
The Perception of Lack of Skills by Big Wave Employees
The Perception of Excessive Workload by Big Wave Employees
Inadequate Compensation Received by Big Wave Cruise Employees
Conclusion

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"The cruise industry is a hyper-competitive industry, as the Big Wave Cruise organization has discovered. Even with the phenomenal growth rate of the industry, Big Wave has felt the increased competition as competitors enter the market with newer ships, better technology, and more exotic destinations. Add to this challenge the increased demand from customers for higher levels of customer service, including 24-hour entertainment options and catering, and it becomes clear that even a well positioned cruise line is bound to feel the strains from increased threats in the industry. For Big Wave Cruise, these threats are compounded by internal weaknesses specifically within their human resource strategies."

Tags:employee, compensation, competition, training

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This paper examines how Marlo Thomas's children's book, "Free To Be You and Me", published in 1974, is a prime example of second-wave feminist activism. It looks at how, unlike first-wave feminism, typified by the suffrage movement and personified by women like Susan B. Anthony, second-wave feminism had two primary agendas, which can be seen in Thomas's novel. It attempts to show how second-wave feminism, with such slogans as "the personal is the political," and the ideology of consciousness raising, are implicitly, as well as explicitly, exemplified in "Free to Be You and Me".

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"Millett's highly influential text led women to see patriarchy as ever-present and ever-expansive. Women's oppression was not only played out in the traditional political structures that first wave feminists had identified (legal, economic, educational), but it was also played out in women's minds and bodies. Hence, rejecting gender conditioning and fighting for reproductive choice became key second wave issues. The short skits and catchy songs of Thomas's storybook were meant to stop gender conditioning at the core; the most influential period, childhood. Titles like "Housework," "Ladies First," and "Grandma," identify and attempt to dismantle many commonly held gender stereotypes of the 1970s, and contradict most other books and programming available for children at that time."

Tags:consiousness, suffrage, movement, patriarchy, gender

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This paper analyzes the history and political impact of the Czech film industry while focusing on the emergence of the Czech new wave movement, so called because it represented a break from the dominant film styles that preceded it. This paper details the differences and similarities between Czech new wave films and other films from the same region which yielded much insight into the characteristics and virtues of this particular movement. In order to better understand the Czech new way movement, this paper contains a brief yet concise account of the Czech film industry in the first half of the 20th century as it is related to Czech history as well as samplings from the social, political and economic realms. This paper also details the characteristics of the Czech new wave movement as well as relevant information regarding how the movement contrasted with what came before it.

From the Paper
"Under pressure from Hitler, Czechoslovakia collapsed in 1939 and was divided into a number of separate regions with different ultimate fates. The film studios that had been built in Czechoslovakia were taken over by the German film industry, which used them mainly to produce artful yet propagandistic films to garner Nazi support throughout the 1940s. This continued until 1944, when the area was liberated by Soviet troops. A new Republic of Czechoslovakia was formed, but it was not artistically fruitful. In 1947, a communistic government was established after a coup in Czechoslovakia."

Tags:czech, film, industry, political, communism, history

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The paper contends that the use of wave energy is an excellent, as yet largely untapped, alternative to the continued use of fossil fuels. The paper examines the science and technology behind the exploitation and use of wave energy for the production of electricity. The paper then examines the Pico Power Plant at the Azores Islands which uses oscillating water column technology for the production of electricity and the scientific, technological and financial implications resulting from the project. The paper includes tables and illustrations.

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"As a society that continues to majorly use non-renewable and unsustainable energy, we must strive to find alternative energy sources that do not deplete resources for generations to come. Oceans cover the majority of the earth's surface, but are largely untapped resources for energy. Three main types of energy that can be harnessed from the ocean include wave energy, tidal energy, and deep-sea thermal energy. In focusing on wave energy, one will see that utilizing this type of energy collection is principally achieved through oscillating water columns, or OWCs. The channeling of wave energy through OWCs at the Pico Power Plant is a prime example of green engineering - the process provides renewable energy to the electricity grid in an efficient and cost-effective manner. "

Tags:renewable, unsustainable, energy, power, output, turbine, harnessing

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This paper takes a look at Wave Hill, a nineteenth century mansion set invitingly among trees and flowers in the northwest Bronx, looking out over the sparkling Hudson River and beyond, toward the towering cliffs of the Palisades. According to the paper, Wave Hill is among the last survivors of the great houses that once lined the banks of the Hudson from the Island of Manhattan to far upstate.

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"Others, including one of Wave Hill's most famous guests/residents, Theodore Roosevelt, took away a different, and more wide-reaching, message from the Hudson River School's attempts to capture nature in her glory and decline. The Roosevelt Family rented Wave Hill for a number of summers in the 1870s. Thus, the house was familiar to Theodore Roosevelt as a young man. Clearly, its beautiful setting helped to shape his adult views in regard to the natural world. Theodore Roosevelt would later travel widely in the United States, and around the globe, visiting many remote places hardly touched by the hands of human beings. On his journeys, Roosevelt witnessed nature in all her purity, in places that most residents of gigantic cities, like New York, would never visit. Though these locations were far from the ever-expanding realm of industries, and hundreds or even thousands of miles away from the dark and crowded tenements of Manhattan and Brooklyn, Roosevelt realized that they represented an aspect of the Earth that needed to be preserved. Roosevelt, schooled literally in the lessons of Wave Hill, and growing up in the shadow of the Hudson River School, would become a leading advocate of the Conservation Movement. "

Tags:artists, writers, philosophers, Theodore, Roosevelt, historic, site, nature

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The paper discusses how, in "To Ride the Third Wave," the author claims that America's top priority should be to address its inadequacies in order to maintain competitiveness in the global market. The paper examines the suggested policies that include reducing the role of the US dollar, altering the U.S. energy policy and practice and revamping the savings, loan and taxation systems. The paper discusses the need for the U.S. to reevaluate top expenditures in health care, social security and national defense and to change labor and educational policies. Finally, the author shows the importance of actively deepening relationships with key global players.

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"The turn of the last century saw tremendous global change including the manifestation of a global market. Although many of the promises of globalization have been fulfilled, its pitfalls and potential problems have only recently surfaced. The United States, which rose to international dominion both financially and politically, faces the greatest challenges in maintaining its edge in the third wave of globalization. Its position of global hegemony is diminishing rapidly. America will no longer be a world superpower unless its policy makers are willing to acknowledge and address the nation's inadequacies. These inadequacies include low educational attainment within the population, inequitable distribution of wealth, insufficient workforce skills upgrades, inadequate critical infrastructure, poor savings, taxation, and expenditure policies, and more."

Tags:global, hegemony, economies, energy, consumption, dollar, health, education, labor

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This paper examines the French New Wave, one of the most significant movements in cinema's history, which occurred during the period of around 1958 to 1964 and contained a whole new interpretation of cinema and narrative techniques. In particular, it analyzes Jean-Luc Godard's films "A Bout de Souffle" and "Le Mepris" and comments on the way these films show Godard's relationship with the classical Hollywood period through the visual style and techniques he uses.

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"European cinema is felt to have gained its greatest strength in producing smaller-budget films as a reaction to the big budget genre films produced by the Hollywood studios. These are called "art-house" films, or "art cinema". Instead of the escapism and spectacle that Hollywood narratives offered, art cinema focused on realism (nouvelle vague), ambiguity and innovative styles. A Bout de Souffle (Breathless), Godard's first feature length film, set the tone for the French New Wave as it was one of the first successes to come out of the period. It is still very much discussed today as it offers a good example of the period's conventions. The film also uses many conventions of Hollywood genre narratives, but whilst it can be seen as pastiche, it could also be said that placing conventions from different cinemas also creates distance between them to allow for intellectual criticism. The film is based on a Hollywood type script by Truffaut, with a 1930's film noir style narrative."

Tags:hollywood, souffle, le, mepris

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This essay will examine the historical development of human knowledge of the wave and particle nature of light in order to understand the crucial changes and reevaluations made in scientific thought.

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This paper will discuss the "French New Wave" of the film industry. It will describe the many aspects of its technology and political developments that contributed to this innovative style. An example will be given of how this is so by the movie "400Blows".