.... not welcoming these companies with open arms. There is an interest in the U.S. businesses but as Dianna Jean Schemo reports; it is not uncommon to be threatened by the cartels of Colombia. These cartels want in on the inflow of money and will get involved in kidnappings and murderer if they see it necessary. In 1996, the last year these figures are available, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported 19,645 homicides while in Colombia there were 26,627. For the fear of being on the wrong end of such instances American businesses need to be extra careful when trying to penetrate the Colombian marketplace. would not be as impacted by the threat of cartel interference ....

.... dance, dress or any other mean without fear of ridicule from others. The second is the dancing and its often quasi-spiritual effects on those partaking. The key to the success of raves is the positive atmosphere, or "vibe". Raves are renowned for people's acceptability and tolerance for others. They are safe havens for people who wish to be free from social pressures. Because of this, many ravers (person who attends these parties) are dressed differently then people you would normally see. Bright colors, clothing with different textures and feel, and generally clothes that is very comfortable to dance with. A sense of unity is formed between the partygoers, they attempt ....

.... to play football all his life. In fifth grade he decided which position he wanted to play when he went out for wide receiver and landed on the football after a catch and lost his breath. He told his father, the coach for his team, “I don’t want to play wide receiver no more.” Ever since that day he has been a quarterback after his dad put him as one, and scored 4 touchdowns. As a teenager Brett grew up about the same as anyone else. Since he grew up in a totally football enclosed family, with his brother playing football in college and his father being a coach, he loved the game. He has the same posters, and the same dreams and heroes as most kids of ....

.... is the employers, and on the other side, the employees. But taking a closer look reveals that there is more than meets the eyes. In today's workplace, conflict consists of employer’s associations, employers, government, employees and unions. This essay will focus on the employees’ side of conflict and more notably, the that the employees join. The essay will explain what the do, the benefits the employees’ get out of and what the future will hold for unions. “Trade unions are associations of workers established to improve their economic and social conditions.” (Funk and Wagnall’s 1998: vol. 25 pg.429). This definition, while very b ....

.... As we see from Plato's Symposium, even the wisest of men, in a time when the search for knowledge was seen as the pathway to enlightenment, couldn’t adequately define love and its implications on the human spirit. Though many of the guidelines and characteristics of love set forth by Plato provide important incite to the meaning of love, some have become antiquated and cannot apply to modern society. The Symposium outlines the different popular views about love during Plato’s time. Plato intentionally portrays some as ignorant and others as valid thoughts on the phenomenon of love. Within the discourse, the speakers told of the characteristics of the gods rel ....

.... criminals to death doesn’t solve the crime that they committed, but it helps the victim’s family and friends to feel a sense of justification for what’s happened to them. Capital Punishment has been part of the criminal justice system since the earliest of times. The earliest historical record that contains evidence of capital punishment is the Babylonian Hammurabi Code. “It ordered death for crimes as minor as the fraudulent sale of beer. Egyptians could be put to death for disclosing the location of sacred burial sites.” During the time of the code you were put to death for the smallest crimes, which now would be a minor offense or even considered being nothi ....

.... on how the question was asked, but the ratio remained almost the same. Researchers found that men and women have different beliefs on sexual infidelity. Women believe that men think that “love implies sex more often then sex implies love (59),” and men believe that women think that “sex implies love about as strong as love implies sex (59)”. The difference researchers explain is that there is an existence of a jealousy gender gap. In order to explain what causes the jealousy between genders scientists are now creating tests to prove “whether the mind’s ability to reason, rather than genes, can explain the jealousy gender gap (59).” ....

.... during the 1999/2000 season. On February 21, 2000 the Vancouver Canucks were playing host to a struggling Boston Bruins team who was out of a playoff spot and were only going downwards. There was twenty seconds left in the game with the pitiful Bruins down 5-2 when the assistant coach of the Bruins Jacques Laperriere sent the “tough guy” on the ice to send a message to the Canucks that the Bruins will never quite no matter what the score or time. McSorley was all ready aggravated form a fight that took place earlier on in the game with McSorley on the losing end of the battle with Donald Brashear. Marty McSorley knew that the Bruins were not going to win, so the ....