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- 1191: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... there were in 1995, there will be at least 30,000 more youth criminals on the streets. Between 1990 and 2010, there will be 4.5 million more boys, yielding 270,000 young criminals. "The big destruction happens early," Heritage Foundation fellow Pat Fagan says. "By the age of 4 or 5, the kid is really warped. Psychologists can predict by the age of 6 who'll be the super-predators ... NOW FOR THE BAD NEWS: A TEENAGE TIME BOMB., TIME, 01-15-1996, pp 52+. 7-NINA J. EASTON, The Crime Doctor Is In; But Not Everyone Likes Prof. JohnDiIulio's Message: There Is No Big Fix; Home Edition., Los Angeles Times, 05-02-1995, pp E-1. 8-Paul Kaihla, NO CONSCIENCE, NO REMORSE. MACLEAN's 1/22/96 9- William J. Bennett, John J. DiIulio, Jr., and John P ...
- 1192: Drinking Age
- ... drugs and or alcohol. These consists of hard liquor like Vodka and Jack Daniel's. Then there is beer with the lighter stuff like wine, wine coolers, and fuzzy navel. Teens that drive are in big trouble and are at big risk. I'm not blaming the accidents that involve drunk in just teens. Drunk drivers are of all ages. And I'm not trying to say that all teens drink either. But the ones that ...
- 1193: 1984 Thematic Statements
- ... when he wrote such a phrase. The second thematic statement and Party phrase is "Ignorance is Strength." (Pg. 165) This applies to the novel because it promotes the thought that all people should blindly follow Big Brother without thinking at all. The people are stronger as a large group who does not question Big Brother. This statement in some ways applies to life. It almost has the same meaning as "what you don't know can't hurt you." The thought that stupidity helps one through life is a ...
- 1194: Gun Control
- ... Canada is less violent than the United States. Fewer guns are only part of the story. The inner-city slums of the United States are murderous, bombed-out-looking places. American visitors to Canada's big cities often ask where the slums are. The answer is that there really aren't any slums, and the lack of violence there reflects it. Canada's more generous welfare benefits and universal health insurance ... safer cities. The contrasts between extreme wealth and extreme poverty are fewer and less striking. Poor inner-city families do not disintegrate to the extent they do in black American ghettos. Canadian murder rates in big cities are about the same as in isolated rural areas. According to 'THE ECONOMIST" magazine; Blacks, 12% of the United States' population, account for 48% of murders, mostly when inner-city blacks kill each other ...
- 1195: The Catcher In The Rye: Connection to the Title
- ... by protecting them from the evils of life. His little sister, Phoebe, asks him what he would like to be and he answers: " I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean ...
- 1196: Their Eyes Were Watching God: An Epic Search
- ... with Joe, she thinks to herself, "Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them" (31). Joe aims to be a big voice and that is why he comes to Eatonville, Florida. He feels that he will have a better chance at being a big voice in an all black town than in a white man's town. The problem is that he has adopted white man's values and forces them upon the townspeople and, most notably, upon his ...
- 1197: 1984 6
- ... Many people actually thought that George Orwell was a madman for predicting all of these events in this book to happen in the year 1984. The story takes place in Oceania that is as a big country where there are smaller parts to it, like London where the main character Winston Smith lives. London is the former capital of the former country England. Obviously the story takes place in the year ... decaying. Parents are afraid of their own kids because they could be spies for the government. Everyone lives in fear, they are being watched and their thoughts are being monitored by the police. The slogan Big Brother is Watching is everywhere. In Oceania there is only one crime, and it is a Thoughtcrime. A Thoughtcrime is anything that involves forbidden thoughts. There is simply no justice system at all. People could ...
- 1198: 1984 2
- ... minds and bodies of it citizens, such as Winston Smith who does not subscribe to their beliefs, through a variety of methods. The first obvious example arises with the large posters with the caption of "Big Brother is Watching You" (page 5). These are the first pieces of evidence that the government is watching over its people. Shortly afterwards we learn of the "Thought Police", who "snoop in on conversations, always ... government is trying to control our minds, as it says "thought crime does not entail death; thought crime is death." (page 27). Later in the novel the government tries even more drastic methods of control. Big Brother s predictions in the Times are changed. The government is lying about production figures (pages 35-37). Even later in the novel, Syme s name was left out on the Chess Committee list. He ...
- 1199: Hemp: A Help or a Hindrance?
- ... beginning to see hemp for its use as a strong industrial product. For thousands of years, hemp's fibers have been used to make many different kinds of fabric including clothing and rope. Lately even big companies like Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Disney have been testing the waters and offering some hempen products to the market. Not only can hemp fibers be used to make fabric, a 1938 Popular Mechanics ... out the true colors of our society. Some are so blind to things and so set in their ways that they cannot see and accept that change is necessary. The marijuana drug issue is a big problem that needs to be stamped out, but the laws aren't managing to do it. 1.3 million teenagers smoked marijuana last year (USA TODAY Health). "Anyone who thinks we've licked the drug ...
- 1200: 1984: Summary
- ... for the common good by which all of the society will benefit. The party doesn't need to justify its selfish ways because it holds all of the power. The symbol of the party was Big Brother. The idealism of blind loyalty was embodied in this symbol. It was the centre of control. The Party has set its agenda of completely controlling every single human mind by narrowing down the complexity ... to the authorities even though it meant punishment for their mothers and fathers. When Winston was in jail he met a colleague named Mr. Parsons who's child turned him in for saying " down with big brother " in his sleep. Husbands and wives were also affected. They would report their spouses or children if they said anything improper, did anything improper, displayed a facial tick or any other abnormalities. The Party ...
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