The ethical content of Hinduism

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

An Analysis Of Sea Shipping As Global And Regional Industry

Our hectic world is one filled with constant change through motion: the movement of ideas, political thought, money, people, and cargo all coming together to create an economy of global scale and activity. Transportation is the connection between both these intangible notions and physical bodies. It is through the evolution of one of the fastest growing and most influential transportation industries that we have conquered an international shipping exchange. International trade has dominated as a leader of world economics through the traffic in ports, its ancillary coastal regulations, management of the navigable waterways, and a revolution in containerization. This ‘industry on the sea’ transports billions of dollars worth of goods across rivers and oceans each year. Ports stand as a connecting facility to process this cargo to its final destination. Ports symbolize much more than a coastal processing complex. Above and beyond functional satisfaction, these seacoast landmarks represent business, international relations, a welcoming committee, a center for trade, a fast paced work environment of deadlines and scheduling, and the most expensive, technologically advanced marinas on our coastlines. This study focuses on the value of ports from a practical and business approach, detailing the importance of operational offloading, the container transformation of the shipping industry during the 1960s and its direct relationship to employment, scheduling, overhead, and ship movement, and the technological innovations in port machinery. The overall impact of ports on the environment and governmental interest has also led to multiple Acts, government funding, and country wide initiatives to balance the delicate scale of environmental protection and economic trade. Strict Coastal Zone Management regulations, environmental directives, and efforts to appease the local aesthetic and ecological desires further tip that fragile scale. Recent national and international issues have also substantially impacted the shipping industry and add an interesting segment to my analysis. Hurricane Katrina, forming August 23, 2005, caused havoc in the southern U.S. states, particularly affecting the New Orleans coastal region and one of the largest port centers on the Atlantic coast. Current political controversy between the United States and Dubai has also left many intrigued on our fragile international relations. This study is dedicated to a deeper understanding of ports and their role in our global economy, also focusing on factors contributing to the unprecedented growth. The initiatives taken on behalf of local and federally involved leaders of the shipping world to understand and develop ports as an imperative part of global business truly demonstrate the dependency we have on ports to sustain our trade relationships

My Life and Times in Rochester

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Founding Clown Town: Applying Classical Methods to Devise New Works

As a senior in high school, I only had one thing I knew I wanted to do with my life. Theatre was my passion and had been for many years. I had elected to attend art-focused schools since middle school and truly felt at home in artistic communities. At the time, I just needed an in-state school; I assumed that I would have to go to graduate school to really pursue my specific passion of physical theatre. Yet I am now in Tuscany, Italy, experiencing the epitome of my scholastic career by creating a piece of physical theatre for myself so that I can graduate with the only undergraduate BFA for Physical Theatre degree in America. How did I get here? Commedia dell\u27arte and physical theatre are not familiar concepts to the average person. I am constantly being asked what they are, and I have spent a lot of time trying to explain my major and what I love to do. These ideas must be seen or experienced to truly be understood. No words are sufficient to communicate the ideas I plan to communicate through practical application of the art form. Thus, my final presentation, which is a companion piece to this thesis, will be my definition of physical theatre, a performance in Tuscany that will express what cannot adequately express in words

All Mistakes Were Once New

There is always someone who has done unspeakable things to a child, an animal, a room or tent or cave or car of them. To be insatiable isn’t to be unbreakable. You can mistake damage for passion, the heel of a hand slammed into a wheel for pride, a glass ashtray heaved at an iron radiator for pluck or verve..

Her Life Depends on it III: Sport, Physical Activity and the Health and Well-being of American Girls and Women

Her Life Depends On It III is the Women's Sports Foundation's comprehensive report that reviews existing and emerging research on the links between participation in sport and physical activity and the health and wellbeing of American girls and women. As with the previous editions in 2004 and 2009, this study also confirms that physical activity and sport provides the critical foundation, in no small part, that allows girls and women to lead healthy, strong, and fulfilled lives. Ten years since its first publication, the updated Her Life Depends On It provides an even more comprehensive review of the ever-expanding body of research that demonstrates how important it is for girls and women to participate in sport and physical activity. The report's contents reflect the review of 1,500 studies, nearly 400 covered since the previous edition

Her Life Depends On It: Sport, Physical Activity and the Health and Well-Being of American Girls

This report is a comprehensive compendium of research that points to physical activity and sport as fundamental solutions for many of the serious health and social problems faced by American girls. An appreciable mass of evidence-based knowledge about girls' involvement with sport and physical activity has been generated during the last decade. The amount and quality of this research are uneven and varied. For example, a good deal of research examines the associations between physical activity and risk for coronary heart disease, but studies that focus on risk for Alzheimer's disease are just beginning to issue. Researchers have verified links between high school athletic participation and teen pregnancy prevention, although more longitudinal research is needed to thoroughly confirm the connections. Overall, however, this report shows that the current state of knowledge on the relationship of physical activity to the health and social needs of American girls warrants the serious attention of public health officials, educators and sport leaders