.... to measure contrasts between societies. Each indicator in measures and compares a specific element of standard of living in a country. In this essay, we will compare the old human development index to the new and improved human development index. We will also learn about Canada's ranking in the world and some of the problems Canada is facing today. The old human development index, used by the United Nations consisted of three main indicators. The first indicator used in the old human development index was the infant mortality rate. The infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of infan .....

.... caroling time is now a chaotic, screaming in someone's face nightmare. Relatives avoid each other for fear of actually reliving bad childhood family moments. Children still run around the house clamoring over presents, but not from under a nice smelling pine tree, but from an aluminum death trap waiting to fall over and spit out sparks of electricity. While the children still enjoy this time, they too have lost all sense of the Christmas spirit. They throw tantrums and scream and shout over the Furby or Pokemon doll that they didn't get. So what if their parents are having trouble ma .....

.... and survived. Others have admitted to infidelity and seen their political careers plummet. The fact that morality seems to be in decline may be, in large part, due to the media. Advancements in technology have made it possible for peoples lives to be quickly and more widely known; therefore, making the public more aware of what is happening. When Americans look for something to blame for declining morals, they point straight at the media, particularly the entertainment media, and especially TV. Jason Sines of Chase, Md., says “the worst is television.” He notes that TV is rea .....

.... all over the globe killing every living organism, sometimes even bacteria because of it’s intense radioactive levels. In the novel, , when the character Moira Davidson, a young ambitious girl who wanted to study and visit places throughout the world is faced with the fact that neither she nor anybody else in the Southern Hemisphere is going to live for more than a few months because of a nuclear bomb launched in the Northern Hemisphere, she gets very furious and frustrated. She says, “There never was a bomb dropped in the Southern Hemisphere. Why must it come to us?”(7th last li .....

.... on another person or situation. I think that influence is a direct effect of communication. I say this because what one person says to another will always have an influence be it negative or positive. Some positive examples of influence are speeches given by some of the great men of our country's past. Men like Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy have had a powerful impact with their speeches. Speeches like Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation", King's " I have a dream" and J.F.K's "We Choose to go to the Moon" have influenced people in many ways. There have also been .....

.... and around, and every time he sees her she’s wearing the same thing. This makes him extremely happy knowing that although she’s experiencing the different things in life and moving on, she still is going to stay the same. The ducks: The ducks symbolize Holden. He’s at a point where he doesn’t know where to go. Like the ducks, his lake has frozen over and his time has come where he can’t stay in the same period for the rest of his life, he has to move on, yet he doesn’t know where to go or what to do. So he asks various people where the ducks in Manhattan go .....

.... his own government. Riel would have been an asset to the Canadian government. In 1884, Gabriel Dumont rode to Montana and asked Riel to defend the Métis once again. Riel returned to help the natives once more. Riel was risking capture when he returned. This was a very noble act on his part. Instead of staying nice and safe in Montana, Riel gave up his safety for the Métis. Riel decided to try an unviolent approach this time instead of starting an all out rebellion. Riel and the Métis drew up a petition and presented it to the government. The petition, which demanded more food .....

.... It's actually thousands of little dots lined in place to create a picture. But the fun doesn't stop here! One of the biggest parts of a working TV is the picture tube, which has four basic parts. The glass face panel is the screen that pictures appear on. It's coated in phosphor, which is any material that when expose to radiation, emits visible light. Suspended directly behind the face is a steel shadow mask, with thousands of square holes. This panel is fused to a glass funnel, and the rear of this funnel converges into a neck, which holds the electron guns. This is where color TV c .....

.... is the small crawlway leading out of the plane used in the event of an emergency. He believes "it is an obstacle put there by providence as part of the plot that would destroy him" (Heller, 57). Also during one of Yossarian's flight he goes over the treacherous city Bologna against his will, but fulfilling the mission requirements. Suddenly black smoke is seen surrounding the plane and at any moment the plane could explode. Yossarian knew there was "nothing he could do but sit there like an idiot and watch the ugly black puffs smashing up to kill him" (Heller, 156). Yossarian is consider .....

.... jobs are seemingly always lined up for them. For example, Dugan Fife, former captain of the University of Michigan basketball team, was employed by the Detroit Lion's front office one summer. Also, if the student athletes feel cheated because their university is turning a profit from their name and likeness, they are obviously good players who will go on to play professional sports anyway. They should be able to wait and in a few years they'll be in a professional league, raking in ridiculous amounts of money. College athletes should not recieve income from their universities. The .....