.... when we look at the “individual social mobility, it makes America a “rat race� country. Since America is known as a land of opportunity, which will lead into a “rat race� because people may want to accomplish or fulfil their goal. Everybody is trying to get the highest position in his or her job. Everybody is trying to make higher profit in his or her life. They will do anything to get into that “position� even though they have to do something illegal, something bad, something deceitful, corruption. Everybody is competing and just thinks about him or her self. Like in the Glengarry Glen Ross, everybody is trying to keep .....

.... had given the control of all of the mainland Europe except for neutral Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and Sweden. At this time Soviet leader Joseph Stalin pushed US President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to mount a force against the powerful Germans. Plans though always fell through due to lack of numbers and insufficient military craft. Britain however, began to conjure theoretical plans to return to the main land. Then on December 11, 1941 Hitler declared war against the United States. This caused military officials to begin planning their own timetable. The two then sternly pressed for an early invasion. .....

.... sections of the wall to be connected to form one long wall as a protection against invading nomads, or wandering tribes, from the north. The nomads he was especially concerned about were the Hsiung-nu, sometimes thought to be forebears of the Huns. One reason the Great Wall was built was to keep Chinese farmers from leaving their farms,and the second reason was for protection. The wall helped in wars because it provided square stone windows ,which let the soldiers in the wall, fire there weapons at invaders. But sometimes the wall didn't help ,because invaders went around it,or over it. The wall is simple in structure. It is built of .....

.... for a redress of grievances." Since the early history of our country, the protection of basic freedoms has been of the utmost importance to Americans. In Langston Hughes' poem, "Freedom," he emphasizes the struggle to enjoy the freedoms that he knows are rightfully his. He reflects the American desire for freedom now when he says, "I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread." He recognizes the need for freedom in its entirety without compromise or fear. I think Langston Hughes captures the essence of the American immigrants' quest for freedom in his poem, "Freedom's Plow." He accurately de .....

.... discrimination. Men fit for work, women and children of all ages were not sorted and suffered the same fate. These events would be known as “the Final Solution� to the Jewish problem faced by the Nazis. Captive Jews were held in areas called “ghettos� ultimately commanded by the Germans. Following through with the elimination of the Jews, the Nazis gave them fierce living conditions often housing dozens of people in small buildings. Food was administered in very small amounts. Those that did not starve to death were either shot or sent to camps. Some were sent to concentration camps. There were also labor camps. During som .....

.... the years it went through at least five conceptual revisions. The tomb was to have three levels; the bottom level was to have sculpted figures representing Victory and bond slaves. The second level was to have statues of Moses and Saint Paul as well as symbolic figures of the active and contemplative life-representative of the human striving for, and reception of, knowledge. The third level, it is assumed, was to have an effigy of the deceased pope. The tomb of Pope Julius II was never finished. What was finished of the tomb represents a twenty-year span of frustrating delays and revised schemes. had hardly begun work on the pope’s tomb w .....

.... drugs. Marijuana evolved from its "black and Hispanic, jazz-minded enclaves to the outlying zones of the white middle class young" (Gitlin 200). This new drug allowed a person to open their mind to new understandings and philosophies. But it wasn’t just marijuana that opened the minds of the youth; a new drug known as LSD came into existence: Depending on who was doing the talking, [LSD] is an intellectual tool to explore psychic ‘inner space,’ a new source of kicks for thrill seekers, the sacramental substance of a far-out mystical movement- or the latest and most frightening addiction to the list of mind drugs now availab .....

.... the most respect ( Hamilton 28 ). Hera, the goddess of the protection of marriage, took care of married women. The sister and also wife of Zeus, the king of the gods, Hera may be the most well known of the goddesses. The Titans of the Ocean along with the Tethys raised Hera ( Hamilton 28 ). Most people knew Ilithyia , Hera’s daughter, for her help of women through childbirth. Hera held the city of Argos sacred along with the peacock and cow. In Roman mythology, the name of Hera was changed to Juno, queen of goddesses ( Pinset 20 ). Artemis, or Diana in Roman mythology, had the role of Leto and Zeus’s dau .....

.... attack on Waco. He also shows that the reason given by government officials for gassing the Davidians was inaccurate. They said it was to persuade them to come out, the U.S. Army Field Manual states “Generally persons reacting to CS(type of gas used) are incapable of executing organized and concerted actions, excessive exposure may make them incapable of vacating the area.” Also stated in the Army Field Manual “Warning, when using the dry agent CS, do not discharge indoors, accumulating dust may explode when exposed to spark or open flame. The author concludes that Waco will haunt the government until the truth comes out. .....

.... (Cashman,206.) The AFL was first established as the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor of the United States and Canada from several independent national trade in 1881 and it took its definitive form and new name in 1886.The AFL was decentralized and organized as a loose coalition of almost autonomous national (Cashman,205.) The advantage to this was that decisions were made in each union where the leaders understood the situation. However, the AFL retreated from its Marxian origins to become a profoundly conservative organization restricted to the ranks of skilled, white males. This restrictive policy was a major flaw of the AFL .....