loyalty and duty‚ power and respect. Pietas and gravitas are two ideals are both quite evident in Stevens‚ the main character of the novel The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. In the preface to the Aeneid‚ Bernard Knox defines auctoritas as “the power and respect won by men of experience‚ of successful leadership in war and peace” (p.14‚ Aeneid). In The Remains of the Day‚ Stevens contemplates the idea of “professionalism” – a sense of dignity and poise that all great butlers supposedly carry. Stevens’s
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Who’s Afraid of Gender-Neutral Bathrooms? “Today‚ men and women‚ not assumed only to be heterosexual‚ are expected to function at work alongside one another‚ eat at adjacent seats in restaurants‚ sit cheek by jowl in buses and airplanes‚ take classes‚ study in libraries‚ and‚ with some expectations‚ even pray together. Why is the multi-stall bathroom the last vestige of gendered social separation” (Gersen 7)? As many of us know‚ men and women are constantly being compared in our society‚ based on
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‘Excavated human remains should always be reburied’. How far do you agree? The topic of human remains has been argued over for many years and has resulted in multiple changes to the laws of reburial in the past sixty years‚ but now the laws are that archaeologists can have up to 3 years to research the remains until they should be reburied unless they need to extend their research. Archaeologists have always been fighting to stop reburial to have more time to research them or display them in museums
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Future Development and Enforcement of Environmental Standards within the NAFTA Anthony Green November 16‚ 2011 Dr. Michael Harvey’s International Business There have been critics of the pollution mankind has created since the industrial revolution. Like most new ideas‚ being eco-friendly started slowly. The first environmental regulation attempted to ensure clean drinking water. As time progressed‚ more people started understanding that more than water was being affected. When more government
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Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) For a long period of time‚ illegal drugs have become a nuisance in the society. Many lives have been taken and wasted because of illegal drugs. Many families have also been broken due to drug involvement of one of the family members. The futures of the young people have also been risked by drugs. As such‚ the government has taken all the effort to curtail the illegal drugs in the society by enacting laws criminalizing illegal drug-related activities‚ implementing programs
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between law enforcement and ethnic and social class groups. Some argue police will arrest an African American‚ Hispanic‚ or Asian before they will arrest a Caucasian; there is also a belief police will arrest a person coming from a lesser socioeconomic class before he or she will arrest a person from a more affluent place in society. Unfortunately‚ though the criminal justice system denies these allegations‚ history tells a quite different story. History of Policing Prior to the 1970s‚ law enforcement
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including myself‚ who do not receive a dime in child support and the other parent is walking around free from punishment. The law needs to be enforced‚ so that the children can have the money that they deserve. This will also keep the custodial parent from struggling to not only provide the necessities‚ but to also fulfill the desires of the child. Harsher enforcement measures will reduce the number of non-payers. When child support services are applied for‚ there is a set amount that the non-custodial
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The overlapping characteristics of M. Dupont and Edouard Daladier in The Remains of the Day are illustrated from the descriptions given by Stevens and dialogue between characters such as Mr. Lewis and Lord Darlington. The descriptions and dialogue points out that the presence of Dupont and/or Daladier during the conference was crucial to the Treaty of Versailles’ outcome. Dupont is presented as a fictional character built on top of Daladier and is described as an “extremely illustrious Frenchman”
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America wanted to remain neutral at the beginning of the war because they believed in isolationism. Because of this many americans were resistant to joining the war but things like committees were created to help spark interest. However germany did not think america was neutral because we helped the allied powers by sending supplies to england. This policy with the allies hurt usv in a way because it kind of forced us into the war. We were also pulled into the war because of things like the zimmerman
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You Have The Right To Remain Equal Do you consider yourself equal to your opposite gender? Of course‚ by law men and women are entitled to have equal rights‚ although our public actions show otherwise. When is it okay to divide gender roles? Perhaps when playing a competitive sport. Why? Is it the different capability men and women have? Is it fair to judge women? No‚ especially when the female gender is being picked on harshly. Various cultures depict equality based on their customs‚ however women
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