... there is much deeper understanding by their students. The benefits are quite obvious when you really look at the results of these differences in both countries. There are far too many add-ons and extras in our schools as well as far too little time being spent covering a specific subject so that they may be fully understood by all students. We tend in our schools to feel that if a student doesn’t quite get something, they will be able to “pick it up� the next year, but that rarely happens. In Japan, a student is not promoted until he has mastered his current level. Also in Japan, classes are set up heteroge ...

... monitoring effects a employees health, then the employers has gone to far. Advance technology has lead to monitoring devices such as via computers, video surveillance, and active badges in the last decade, but as the intensity of the surveillance increases so do the negative effects on the employees. There has been a huge increase to pass legislation’s that will regulate the employer in monitoring his employees’ by via computer. Monitoring an employee by via computer is one of the latest innovations in electronic monitoring, which is done by purchasing and installing software in the companies comput ...

... important source in understanding Native American religion is Emile Durkheim. As shown in this religion, Durkheim analyzed initiation rites that consisted of long ceremonies that would take a person from the profane world into the world of the scared (Durkheim). Since the idea of entering the sacred world was such a special occasion, proper rituals were enacted. The Native Americans focused extensively on rituals in joining a specific culture or tribe, involving the whole community and bringing everyone together throughout the area. These bonding rituals reiterated Durkheim's belief that everyone belonged ...

... that “, is a way of coping with unpleasant realities” (Knatz, 1999). She then goes on to explain that: , in the psychological/psychiatric vernacular, is a defensive strategy to minimize anxiety. It is defined and conceptualized in a number of ways, which differ according to theory. In classical Freudian terms, is a defense mechanism invoked by a person when there is a danger that he or she will become aware of or act on unconscious primitive impulses that are unacceptable. We defend against such impulses, it is said, by unconsciously limiting our awareness of them, or perhaps attributing them to ot ...

... growing role of technology will lead to many changes. The structure of the industry as well as the conduct and performance of the firms within it will give an idea of where this industry may be moving. From my research and analysis, it seems evident that the industry is growing due to the emergence of on-line investing. Also, on-line brokers and full-service brokers are converging towards a middle ground as the industry adapts to this new technology. First, it is necessary to give some background information on this industry. As of September 1998, there were 5,591 firms in the industry. The Securities and Exch ...

... got to you, and where they thought they were going. If you have paid attention to the news lately, you will know that many bad things have been happening recently in Cookieland. Keebler Elves have been on strike, Oreo's aren't just fun to twist, and Little Debbie has been on the rise and is taking away a majority of business from these wonderful people. So, like immigrants back in the 1800's, the cookies want to get out of their homeland and onto a better place. So, this is where the Cookieland Government comes into play. They have proposed a "plan" which reads as follows... "All cookies wanting to ...

... Rich’s essay “What Does a Women Need to Know?” she argues that women have been demoralized throughout time. Rich says “when we think of what an independent women’s college might be: a college dedicated both to teaching women what women need to know and, by the same token, to changing the landscape of knowledge itself.” (Rich 45) This means that she believes that women should be taught the skills that they will need to succeed in life as a wife and as a “self conscious, self-defining human being.” (Rich 45) She then gives examples of her life experience ...

... many governments have embraced the idea of privatization, brought to the fore mainly as a part of the adjustment and stabilization programs of the mid-eighties and the nineties. Privatization now frequently features in government policy statements and in conditionalities from donors. The past decade has also seen the World Bank and other donors get increasingly involved in lending operations towards parastatal sector reforms that included privatization components. African countries share a number of common features in relation to the drive towards privatization. For most of these countries, the first twenty ...

... of does not render as architecture until the form it creates has evolved past a mere physical entity into an experiential existence. I have chosen the Farnsworth House because it is one of the purest forms of modern architecture I know today. The energy behind Mies van der Rohe's work is free from restraints of a specific order, lead only by structural clarity and simplicity. One of his most famous statements, 'less is more', is backed up in full by the Farnsworth house. The House consists of parallel floor and ceiling planes measuring 29x77 feet, sandwiching a steel skeleton enclosed by a continuous glass-plane ...

... primary schools of thought on the processes involved: the "soup" theory and the "sandwich" theory. According to the more-popular soup theory, chemical evolution first took place in the upper atmosphere, where ultraviolet radiation from the sun could generate an assortment of simple and complex organic (carbon- based) molecules out of the basic components of the atmos- phere. As these molecules slowly rained into the early oceans, a kind of primordial soup was created. Via the ultraviolet radiation, light- ning, volcanic action, and other forms of heat and energy, this soup was able to slowly combine the organ ...