Nikos Kazantzakis' treatment of freedom and death in literature
Captain Michalis, the hero of Freedom or Death, was based on Kazantzakis' father Michalis, a traditional Cretan community leader and warrior in the independence struggles who fought in the 1888-89 rebellion. He also introduces the Captain's best friend Nuri Bey and his wife Emine, who he also loves, but in the end he rejects them both in the cause of Cretan independence. The Pasha and the Metropolitan also symbolize the ancient clash of religions, cultures and civilizations that is fought out in this novel—Greek versus Turk, Christian versus Muslim—which also resonates with the contemporary word and the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. These ethnic, tribal and nationalistic hatreds are so great and so enduring that they crowd out all romance, friendship or personal feelings, as all the characters join in the bloodbath. Only Nuri Bey commits suicide rather than go to war against his former friend, but the Captain is totally committed to the Greek cause and quite willing to die for it, taking most of his friends and relatives with him.
Key assumptions and values in eBay's culture before Meg Whitman
EBay is an online place in the internet where buyers meet sellers. Before the arrival of Whitman's as CEO of the company, the value given at EBay to its customers was very high as compared to any other website or working place. This is why EBay was often referred to as a site of the people, by the people and for the people. The values given to people were so strong that the people, who used this site for doing transactions, proudly called themselves as the user of this site and referred themselves as E Bayer's. This clearly indicated that this site was not just a place where people come to buy and sell their goods and services. Moreover, it was a site where the people interacted with each other tried to know each other and tried to develop strong sense of working relationship together with trust being the binding factor as all these things were merely done in good faith (Hill, 1999).
Poverty, Health, and Family Causes of Juvenile Delinquency
Introduction
Juvenile delinquency and its causes have been studied extensively. Many factors that put adolescents at risk of becoming delinquent have been identified. The majority of youth who enter the child welfare system, and many of the youth who are caught up in the juvenile justice system have experienced abuse and neglect, dysfunctional home environments, destructive and inconsistent parenting practices, poverty, emotional and behavioral disorders, poor mental and physical health care, poor family-school relationships, exposure to deviant peers as well as community and societal problems that have contributed to their entry into the child welfare and juvenile justice systems (Miller, Davies & Greenwald, 5-6).