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...Assignment Five: Urbanization and sports—from bare knuckle boxing to Jack Johnson The sport of boxing in the twentieth century was very common within the working class, especially popular among the young men, yet there were long time competitors that strived to continue and uphold their titles within the ring, for other reasons besides having the title – reasons that young competitors would not yet fully understand. Being in the ring was a scary place to be, but with the right training and preparation, one could leave the ring with glory from defeating their opponent – exemplified by the press, and with large sums of money to make all ends meet. As young competitors joined the sport and prepared for their upcoming matches, they were more often than not competing for one reason and one reason only – the glory, the admiration, and the reputation. But there comes a time when all motivation within the ring changes. Although the boxers had nothing against each other, and the game had to be played, the incentive behind the aging boxers was no longer the same as it was during their youth. They were no longer competing just for the glory; they were now competing for their families at home; competing to make ends meet to continue to support their loved ones. When taking a look at the lifestyle behind the sport of boxing in the twentieth century for the working class, I found that a quote from the boxing movie Rocky interpreted the lifestyle quite well. The quote is as follows,...
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...ay Price Wars Summary: Price wars have plagued industry after industry in recent years. Indeed, price wars must be avoided like the plague! More often than not, there are no winners, only losers. The effects of price wars are not only severe but also enduring. Price wars can lead to a severe erosion of profits. Unless there is a significant cost advantage, for the company introducing the price cut, a price reduction will lead to retaliation by competitors. So dropping prices normally does not lead to an increase in market share. Instead it leads to a sharp drop in profits. Price wars also shape customer expectations. Research indicates that the lowest price people pay for a product or service is remembered longest, and becomes their reference point. Driving down prices to unreasonable levels, has a dramatic influence on a customer's perception of what is a "reasonable" price long after the war ends. Price wars also divert the attention of customers away from product benefits towards price. That is usually bad for the industry. Many of the justifications given by managers for entering a price war are untenable. The claim that weak competitors can be knocked out through a price war is weak. Indeed, there is sufficient empirical evidence to indicate that price wars are not guided by any logic. They tend to get emotional and continue long after it has become economically unviable to offer these products at such low prices. As Robert A. Garda and Michael V. Marn, point out,...
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...Maria Oldham PSC 441 2-13-13 The multitude of differentiating definitions of terrorism through out the world’s governments, agencies, and international community has led to a confusing and bleak understanding of the true nature of terrorism. Now I do not believe that my definition of terrorism will be any better in helping understand this matter but it does help define my personal view of terrorism, terrorists, and their tactics. My definition of terrorism is any deliberate, planed use of force or violence, or the threat of such actions, against innocent people, with the aim of inducing fear or intimidating some other group of people into a specific course of action for political, religious, philosophical, or ideological aims. In my paper I want to examine the implications of my definition with regard to my assertion that terrorism is only carried out against innocent people. In my definition I define terrorism as actions or threats of actions against innocent people. To me this is a very important idea. I feel that terrorism works because it induces fear in the general public and people become afraid because they are faced with the fact that even though they have done nothing wrong they could be attacked. I feel that violence is never legitimate when used on innocent people and thus a terrorist is never legitimate because they are attacking innocent people and that can never be seen as a justified act. The idea that the victim of terrorism has to be innocent has......
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...There are emerging and ongoing wars that destroy lands and nations. There are the continuous dilemma of inequality, discrimination and other social issues that despite the modern trends and rapid technological advances of the society are still haunting and dividing the members of the society. The perfect society does not exist. This Utopia does not physically exist, but in our minds, it goes something like this. In my ideal society, every person is treated as an equal. No one person would think or act as if they were better than someone else was. There would be no racism present, all types of people would reside here and get along together. It would not matter if you were African, Caucasian or any color of the rainbow everyone is treated the same. In addition, there also would be a diverse amount of different religions that would coincide with each other in the ideal society. Today religion is one of the most controversial topics in society. There are countless numbers of active religions coinciding with and contradicting each other. In the ideal society people would love their religion and respect the others. All religions would co-exist peacefully. An ideal society should not be bound to the oppression of the wealthy and powerful. This society should not be unfair or unjust to the citizens that are of a different color or race that of the minority. An ideal society is one in which people act together as one for the greater good of the......
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...The problems faced by Developing Countries This is my essay on the problems faced by developing countries. A developing country is a poor country faced by many problems like Civil War, drought, famine and lots of diseases including Cholera and Typhoid. One of the problems is civil war. Civil war is a war between two areas of a country fighting for leadership. During a civil war many people are wounded or die. Children as young as 5 years old are made to fight in the war and some children are separated from their families. The government spend their money on weapons to help the country to fight. The money to pay for the weapons has to be borrowed from richer countries. This sometimes puts the government into debt, therefore they don’t have enough money to spend on building new schools and improving the health care in the communities. Drought and famine are another two problems for developing countries. Drought occurs when there is a shortage of rain water resulting in no clean drinking water. Famine is when there is not enough food for everyone. Famine is sometimes caused by drought because there is no water to help the crops grow, therefore there is a shortage of food. Unfortunately they do not have the resources to overcome the consequences of famine and drought which can result in dehydration, starvation and premature deaths. Cash crops are crops which farmers grow to sell to other countries to make money to buy food and clothing for their families. Some......
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...Global Peace and Justice Begins at Home. Wars are everywhere. Wars define destruction. Not only does it destroy the Earth and whatnot but what a lot of us, naive people do not realise is that it also destroys the pure innocent minds of the little, chaste children. Many of us people misunderstand the concept of opening the minds of the kids to wars. The main reason why we do so is to make sure that the kids would not start any wars and let the peace on Earth sustain. Without realising the consequences, the erroneous thing that people do now is to open the minds of these children to the basic ways of starting a war. Global peace is a personal choice, hour by hour. Ask yourself, "Am I going to add to the fighting in the world? Or offer up something greater?" If you want to obtain peace, then start changing the world by changing the ways you teach these children. They are supposed to be playing hopscotch, filling in colouring books, having pets, playing hide and seek. What happened to that? I no longer see kids doing these things. Based on what I see on the Internet, parents are starting to neglect their responsibilities and instead of teaching their children good things, they are literally teaching them stuff like how to use a gun and how to use army knives. Despite the fact that these kids are still too small to be carrying out these type of activities, they are also too gullible to barely even think about the ramification of learning these stuff. Parents who train......
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...The word violence extends well beyond the typical thought of gore and anger. Violence can be broken down into sectors such as verbal, indirect, physical and emotional. For instance, the dehumanization of enemies in war. Enemies are given slanderous names, emotionally are affected by the deaths that they see, physically by the enemies that they kill and indirectly combatants will often pillage towns for food and shelter when needed. Once somebody returns from war, all of these factors affect their views on war, instead of just the act of killing. He stated that “the survival of the fittest” leads to the best adapted individuals to excel in their certain niche. This is a direct correlation to the four questions for what it means to be human and to live a life of meaning and purpose. Humans are a set of complex individuals who with an intelligent brain are able to fight over their thoughts and beliefs, which leads to violent actions. The main purpose for a human is to pass on their genes through babies, and fight for the resources against any resistance. This conveys light to scientific disciplines that look into the mindset of humans to understand who “The Other” is. This colloquium is quite similar to the topic in class today about the “tragedy of the commons.” Violence often occurs because humans are fighting for a limited amount of resources. Though it may be construed through verbal or physical means, humans often feel the need to put down others for their......
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...literature incorporate dynamic characters, a character that changes. In the chapter Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong in the fictional novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, Mary Anne Bell is a prime example of a dynamic character. Mary Anne was an attractive girl, seventeen years old, from Cleveland Heights Senior High. She had a bubbly and girly personality. Her boyfriend, Mark Fossie, got the idea to fly his girlfriend out to his assigned medical outpost in Vietnam. The outpost was near the village of Tra Bong, up in the mountains west of Chu Lai. It was a fun place to be during the war because you only had to tend to the victims and after that you can do as you wish. The outpost has also a base of operations for a squad of six Green Berets aka Greenies. This would all seem like a safe place to protect an innocent girl from war but one way or another you get a taste of it just as Mary Anne did. War has a way of changing people. Mary Anne underwent several drastic changes, one of which was her appearance. When Mary Anne first arrived at the outpost she was dressed in white culottes and a pink sweater, clothing that was very contrasting to her surroundings. She had long blonde hair, and kept herself well groomed and clean. The first few weeks after her arrival everything was good. Mary Anne enjoyed herself and her feminine presence was well appreciated by the others. Then the change began, Mary Anne began helping with the incoming injured soldiers and learning the way......
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...Matt Smith Margaret Neff ENG 112-15 30 January 2012 Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3: A Reinvention of the Shooter Since Activision’s last video game success “Modern Warfare 2” launched in 2009, violence has been used subtly to increase sales. The latest sequel, Modern Warfare 3 has used a variety of minor details to indicate that any gamer that plays it will have ultimate control of the world and what happens in it. The main advertisement was created by Activision’s own Infinity Ward subdivision, Raven Software and Sledgehammer Games. It is well known for reflecting the main idea of the campaign aspect of the game which is, “A single man can change the tide of any war.” This visual’s deep contrast between peaceful and violent aspects drew attention to the idea that whoever is the “strongest” will emerge victorious. This visual depicts a large, blackened soldier holding a large weapon standing in the foreground of a large, white city that also contains various types of military vehicles and personnel. The large silhouette in the foreground establishes a very demanding and overpowering presence compared to the remainder of the military in the image. This overwhelming stance suggests that every decision that is prompted throughout the game directly affects one person. Since the large character is filled in with black, the large weapon and the plethora of his side arms become clearly visible. This showcase of the soldier’s arsenal shows off his toughness and the......
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...War War could be simply defined as an organized armed War is an organized, armed, and, often, a prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extremeaggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality.[1][2] War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities, and therefore is defined as a form of political violence.[1][3] The set of techniques used by a group to carry out war is known as warfare. An absence of war (and other violence) is usually called peace. In 2003, Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley identified war as the sixth (of ten) biggest problem facing the society of mankind for the next fifty years.[4]In the 1832 treatise On War, Prussian military general and theoretician Carl von Clausewitz defined war as follows: "War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will."[5] While some scholars see warfare as an inescapable and integral aspect of human culture, others argue that it is only inevitable under certain socio-cultural or ecological circumstances. Some scholars argue that the practice of war is not linked to any single type of political organization or society. Rather, as discussed by John Keegan in his History of Warfare, war is a universal phenomenon whose form and scope is defined by the society that wages it.[6] Another argument suggests that since there are human societies in which warfare does not exist, humans may not be......
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...Changed from selfishness to selflessness, Changed from apathy to action, Changed from jealousy to joy over someone's accomplishments, Changed from intolerance to acceptance, Changed from being destructive to being constructive, Changed from fighting to peace, Changed from killing to protecting life, Changed from censorship to freedom, Changed from ignorance to education, Changed from fearing our differences to rejoicing our variety. May we each take it upon ourselves to feed the hungry, cure the sick, house the homeless, educate the illiterate, love the unloved, compete to do the right thing instead of winning at any cost, make heros that teach our children to make the world a better place instead of glorifying violence and war, stand up and speak out against things that are wrong instead of sitting back and waiting for someone else, demand honesty from our governments, demand honesty from ourselves. May we each take responsibility for our own actions and realize that by refusing to change ourselves, we condone all the evils in the world. If one person changes they teach others by example, who in turn change and teach more, one person becomes as a pebble rolling down a mountain, picking up more pebbles as it continues, becoming an avalanche of change. It can happen, it must happen, it will happen. To make this prayer work, you have to change...
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...The Red Badge of Courage is a fictional psychological portrait of a young soldier named Henry Fleming, tracing the thread of his emotions and reactions to events that transpire during an unnamed battle of the Civil War (spark notes). Henry is an average farmer from New York. Henry wants to go to war and become a hero like the one he read about in his school. The story starts off with everyone sitting in regiment camp by the river with rumors flowing around. While everyone is thinking about what they will do in war, Henry was thinking of how is he going to react when he goes to the battlefields. How would he react if he was to die? He said, no matter what happens he will not run from a fight. Two of the other guys in the army had about the same courage as Henry, but none of them ever said that they will not run away. Before he can go on to fight in battle, the army puts him in a battle to see if he runs away from fight or not. The northern army is finally put on the move and marched across the river, where they meet with Southern forces. Henry's regiment takes a reserve position, so Henry gets to see a battle before going in to an action himself. Finally his regiment drives back the enemy and Henry feels a joy of success. Then enemy charges again, but Henry flees thinking his regiment will be overrun by the enemy. As he running and trying to justify to himself why he is running. When he gets to the woods he sees a dead man in a clearing. Henry takes the man...
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...Robert Jones (829744) Although cyber warfare tends to be thought of as a fictional concept, it is progressively becoming something that we might concern ourselves with, in an age engulfed in technology. If we ever have to truly concern ourselves with a potential cyber war, we will likely look back at a virus, created a couple of years ago, that became known as Stuxnet. At this point, very few people know of Stuxnet, and, even the ones that do know aren’t quite sure where it originated, which is a bit concerning. Because of its target on Iran’s nuclear program, many people suspect that the U.S., Israel, or Jordan could have created the virus, but no one knows for sure. While there are many different viruses out there in the world, Stuxnet was one of the most unique ever created. Ralph Langner discovered that Stuxnet had two components, and many suspect him as a possible source for the virus. In addition to its two components, there were many other aspects that made Stuxnet unique. Due to its frequent updates, Stuxnet had four zero day exploits, which is unheard of. These updates helped prevent collateral damage, giving Stuxnet the ability to focus on the machinery that it wanted to take out without affecting surrounding sources. The virus was able to focus on this machinery because it was searching for programmable-logic controllers, made by Siemens. Stuxnet was unique in that it had access to genuine signatures, meaning it did not have to create false signatures like most......
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...PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS QUOTES If your opponent is of choleric temper, try to irritate him. If he is arrogant try to encourage his egotism. (If the enemy troops are well prepared after reorganization, try to wear them down. If they are united, try to sow dissension among them. General Tao Hanzhang, translated by Yuan Shibing, Sun Tzu's The Art Of War To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence. Sun Tzu "The first casualty of war is truth. Rudyard Kipling One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage. Sun Tzu There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind. Napoleon Bonaparte In War, the moral is to the material as three is to one. Napoleon Bonaparte We were as hypnotized by the enemy's propaganda as a rabbit is by a snake. General Eric Von Ludendorf, German General Staff, 1918 The British bombarded our front not only with drum-fire of shells, but also with a drum-fire of printed paper. Besides bombs which kill the body, they drop from the air leaflets which are intended to kill the soul. Fieldmarshall Hindenberg, 1918 All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual......
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...shop in the area. When people shop they prefer to go to places where there is a wide choice options. This also gives the opportunities for draw customers who cannot find the right product from the competitor close by. Another advance brought by the high level of competitions is an improvement in the quality of the products/services; the retailers may also concentrate more on innovation to bring new products to the market. There are also advantages for the customers; the customers can have more choices by looking into different retails with similar products. Also, with being close to competitors, most retailers tend to fall into ‘price wars’ in order to attract customers. This is beneficial for the customers but may lead to disadvantage to the retailers. As mentioned above, if the retailers with similar products locate close together, ‘price war’ maybe becomes an issue. When a new merchant is entering an established market, it tends to reduce the price to attract the customers. The others will also lower their prices to match. Because the brand differentiation is low, price will be main competing factor. This affects both tangible and intangible products/services suppliers. This may have more impact on businesses where customer generally choses one over another rather than having multiple choices. For example, restaurants with similar type of cuisine locating near...
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