... of honor; and, when they speak of holding their honor sacred above all else, they mean keeping their reputation good in the eyes of men. For this reason, they value any office or reward that adds to their reputation; and the more their reputation grows and the more distinction they earn, the more honorable they feels themselves to be. This was the idea of honor existing among the ancient heathen people before the Christian era. You know that, after the fall of the great Roman Empire, there was a period of about a thousand years, when the light of civilization went out in Europe, and the darkness of ignorance and barbarism took its place. During these dark days, ...

... mom. that is a metaphoric process a metaphoric substitution for the phallus for the words of mom the privileged words with mom. Pleasures that are gone. Once you are in language you are force in to a split your being or your meaning. You can’t have both of them. your being your jouissance your pleasures stemming from earlier development and socialization. You can be in those pleasures but not at the same time in societies meanings in the language of society the symbolic order. Which tells you the law of desire. If you are in meaning that is in societies language you are not able to represent what is un-representable what is repressed and gone. Your ...

... remarked that the purpose of higher education was to promote “ equal liberty and equal opportunity to differing individuals and groups, and to enable citizens to understand their responsibilities as citizens of a free society.” Society in general associates the major emphasis of higher education with getting a good job and increasing income. A survey conducted by the American Council on Education found that obtaining a job is by far the most important benefit that individuals associate with going to college. In part, I too agree that job attainment and improved earnings are an attribute of higher education. The disparity in annual income as evidenced by the gra ...

... causes ice to from on the roads making driving almost impossible. During these snowstorms or freezing rain storms the roads are so poor that school buses cannot travel or sometimes even start in the morning, because of the cold. Because of this school children cannot attend classes and miss school, much to their delight and not their parents, who all to often have to drive in these conditions and have problems getting baby-sitters for their kids. Many people go down South during the winter for a vacation and they love the weather down there and claim they can’t wait till they go again the next year, yet when the same weather comes to Southern Ontario during the ...

... in a piece of writing can bring rewards like nothing else can. Voice is the key to getting the reader involved in an essay. Without it, the reader becomes passive and the essay can not be comprehended. Most essays have the essential material, so the manner in which the material is presented can make a difference. When voice is properly executed in an essay, the reader can interact with the writing and make the necessary connections. The best sportswriters in the country are experts in using voice. How else can one become involved in the action? Without voice, a play by play description can become a tedious mass of words. Voice is a logical facet of writing w ...

... Such enthusiasm may do them in, as COK's often divisive rhetoric and tacit endorsement of vandalism threaten to alienate the very people it needs to reach in order to be successful. The animal rights idealogy crystallized with the publication of philosophy professor's exploration of the way humans use and abuse other animals. Animal Liberation argued that animals have an intrinsic worth in themselves and deserve to exist on their own terms, not just as means to human ends. By 1985, ten years after Peter Singer's watershed treatise was first published, dozens of animal rights groups had sprung up and were starting to savor their first successes. In 1994 Paul Shapir ...

... field, thus the historical ‘process of specialisation of a particular product’ became large scale, even regional- when before it had been produced for domestic purposes. This introduced a capitalist commodity, whereby a profit is made from trade, termed “waged labour”. This capitalist commodity affected a range of changes. Firstly there were geographic and historical changes between the links of the United Kingdom and its international setting which resulted in a social relationship between the two, thus causing social changes. The geographic trading links widened the exchange possibilities creating a more “varied local diet”, which in turn caused trade and sp ...

... side. They are sticking with their proposals without any thoughts of changing them. Confusion is setting in on both sides. They are finding it hard to lean toward a goal when they do not know what they want. The baseball strike involves greed, uncertainty, and lack of desire to resolve the issue on both sides. While confusion mounts among owners and persistence rides high among players, things are only going to get worse until they come to some sort of an agreement. The baseball strike of `94 officially hit the hearts of America on August 12, three quarters into one of the most intriguing seasons in a long time. A season on the verge of breaking many ...

... on the type of punishment and the severity of the punishment given to the student. The classroom teacher had the most say in the matter since it was the teacher who usually administered the punishment to the students. Because of this, some teachers (who especially liked the idea of physical punishment) took advantage of the minor guidelines set by the principal to protect students from excessive physical beatings. These guidelines varied from school to school, but often included length, width and thickness of the paddle or any other weapon used, the amount of times the student may be struck by the weapon, and other minor details about other types of physical ...

... pending trial for computer fraud. When he was a teenager, he used his knowledge of computers to break into the North American Defense Command computer. Had he not been stopped, he could have caused some real national defense problems for the United States (Sussman 66). Other "small time" hackers affect people just as much by stealing or giving away copyrighted software, which causes the prices of software to increase, thus increasing the price the public must pay for the programs. Companies reason that if they have a program that can be copied onto a disc then they will lose a certain amount of their profit. People will copy it and give to friends or pass it aro ...