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A calm before the storm can be seen in a look back over the fall of the Conferderates in 1865. As one soldier "felt that there had not been a finer day than this one since the creation." A woman of Massachusetts said "she never saw a calmer Sunday morning." During the services on that Sunday morning in April "dignitaries were called out ... from [Mr. Davis'] church and from others."(Catton 444) The town slowly began to realize something was wrong, as the news spread that "Lee was going to retreat, ... the Yankees would take over in the morning."(Catton 445)

Works Cited

Catton, Bruce. Never Call Retreat. Garden City New York:

Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1965. 444-445.

Code of Ethics

I don't believe that the Qatar Code of Ethics is a code of ethics. I believe that it is a list of rules and should be treated that way. When you break a rule you get punished, with a code of ethics it is an 'on your honor' system. There is nothing enforceable about a code of ethics and no way, in court to present it as such. The first two statements are mostly for virus protection of the system. The third is the campus protecting itself from getting in trouble by the software companies. The fourth and fifth statements are 'do unto others' comments. There is no way to strictly enforce any of these terms and there is no way to hold them up in court as legitimate rules if you were to try and get somebody expelled or suspended based on them. I think they need to be written differently, stated in more of a rule-consequence manner. I also think that everyone on the system should have to read and sign a copy saying that they will follow the rules and they understand what will happen if they do not.

A dear friend

A friend of mine died this week. He was shot while waiting for police to respond to a call he made about burglars breaking into his apt. It is a tragedy that this happened and that nothing could be done about it. I am thankful for the news stations though, I now see the usefulness of his death being broadcast across the state. People are a little more wary about strangers and I found out about his death, when I wouldn't have been able to otherwise. I am saddened and my prayers go out to the family and all of his other friends.

Corruption

I believe that corruption should be rooted out of places when it is found. Promoting the practice of local corruption only makes it solidify in the culture. We do not stand for it in our own culture so why would we tollerate it anywhere else? Disguising it as local culture is no excuse, it is not a cultural pracitice that should be allowed to be carried on. We find genital mutiliation abhorable, and try to get rid of it when it is found, so why not do the same with corruption. They serve the same purpose to keep a society where it is, and not promote progress.