future event or events which are thought to be inevitable” (Rice). Holden resigns himself to fitting in even though he has no real will to do so. He does it because he has no his choice and because he has made a promise to Phoebe. He watches Phoebe ride around the carousel, and, at last, he is happy. Similarly, Holden resembles Odysseus since they both return home with the award of reunion with a loved one; Odysseus with Penelope and Telemachus and Holden with Phoebe and…
and pooped right on the white rock driveway. We thought about cleaning it up but didn’t feel too bad about leaving it there since they never provided us with pitchforks or buckets to clean it. Right after she had done that the crabby barn manager, Sally, walked out of her old fading white house that was sat on the property, and said “are you guys…
The 1970 Act only dealt with equal pay for the same work but in 1975 the EU directive on Equal Pay was passed based on article 119. In 1978, despite the passage of legislation to promote equal pay, women’s position in the UK was still worse than in Italy, France, Germany, or the Benelux countries in 1972. However, The Act has now been mostly superseded by Part 5, chapter 3, of the Equality Act 2010. The Equality Act 2010 legally protects people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider…
Even before Claussen began pushing his architectural vision, others were busy designing the inner workings of the plant. Jan Knau, an engineer, was only 27 when he was asked to come up with a flexible assembly line for the factory. Knau, then just a junior associate, contacted BMW’s top 15 assembly engineers. He invited them to a two-day workshop at a BMW retreat near the Austrian Alps. After a series of marathon sessions that included discussions of every facet of the ideal assembly line, Knau…
While ubiquitous Internet access is extremely convenient and enables marvelous new applications for mobile users, it also creates a major security vulnerability—by placing a passive receiver in the vicinity of the wireless transmitter, that receiver can obtain a copy of every packet that is transmitted! These packets can contain all kinds of sensitive information, including passwords, social security numbers, trade secrets, and private personal messages. A passive receiver that records a copy of…