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- 881: The Odyssey
- ... husband, Odysseus responds as a perfect Greek hero. During the Calypso episode, Homer teachers that one must remain faithful in their hearts. The Circe episode shows the loyalty between a commander and his troops, burial rights, hospitality, and the relationship between host and guest. The Calypso episode explains how a man must be faithful to his wife in his heart. The Calypso scene opens with a description of how beautiful her ... their home and their wives in their hearts. The stories involving Circe describe several values. The stories describe hospitality, the loyalty between a commander and his troops, the relationship between host and guest, and burial rights. When the story begins with an analysis on how guests ought to be treated. Circe is an enchantress who welcomes some of Odysseus’s troops into her home for food and drink. Then, she made ... to leave, Circe grants him his desire, and she even helps him. Here, Homer demonstrates that it is necessary to give the host warning when planning to leave and even ask the host for leaving rights. Circe tells him to visit Tiresias in the Kingdom of the Dead for advice on how to get home safely. Then, on their final departing from Aeaea, Circe gives them food and drink to ...
- 882: Nothing
- ... the second American to be so honored. Sinclair Lewis, author of Babbit and Main Street, had been the first. In the 1950s, black Americans, especially in the South, stepped up their struggle for the civil rights so long denied them. At first, Faulkner supported them. As you can tell from reading The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner respected black people. Dilsey keeps the Compson family together, and she and her sons ... of his other books, like Absalom, Absalom! and Go Down, Moses, Faulkner even said that the guilt for slavery was a curse that would destroy white Southerners. As the years went by and the civil rights movement achieved some success, however, Faulkner backed away. He said blacks deserved equal rights in American society but needed time to prepare for them. He advised black leaders to move slowly. He wrote that Mississippians should integrate their schools voluntarily, because integration was right. But if the government ...
- 883: Censorship
- ... is seen on television. Censorship does not violate the first amendment and it prevents the harmful effects of graphic television. Many people are in favor of censorship and it may be accomplished without violating the rights of broadcasters or any other individuals. Censorship "refers to suppression of information, ideas, or artistic expression by anyone, whether government officials, church authorities, private pressure groups, or speakers, writers, and artists themselves" (Grolier, Inc.). Censorship ... or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. In no way does censorship violate the first amendment. Censorship prevents broadcasters from infringing on the rights of the viewers. Censorship has really been limited to obscenity and gratuitous violence or nudity because people in the media have policed themselves pretty harshly. The most prominent law established due to censorship is the ... 8:45 in the evening"(Congressional Quarterly report). Things like that situation should not happen. Young viewers should not be subjected to such obscenities and TV violence. Broadcasters argue that censorship violates their first amendment rights, but it does not. Violence and obscene language violate viewers rights. The benefits of censorship are simple. Less violence and graphic scenes will result in a better society. Many people believe that TV violence ...
- 884: Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson
- Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson Jesse Louis Jackson is one of America's foremost political figures. Over the past three decades he has played a major role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. Jackson has been called the "conscience of the nation" and "the great unifier." He is the best-known living American leader in the United States. Jesse Louis Jackson ... and was awarded a football scholarship to the University of Illinois. Later, he left U. I. And enrolled in North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensburo. There he became class president and the civil rights activist began to show himself to the world. After graduating in 1964, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary until he joined the civil rights movement full time in 1965. Before graduating he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by Martin Luther King Jr. King appointed him to the head of Operation Breadbasket in Chicago. In 1971 ...
- 885: Computers and Society
- ... today, protection from hackers and other people who will steal personal secrets and then rob someone blind, or protection from pornography or white supremacists or millions of other things on the internet. The recent communications bill that passed is supposed to ban pornography on the internet, but the effects aren't apparent. There are still many US “pages” with pornography that have consent pages warning the user of the pornography ahead ... don't see what you don't want to, and if that amounts to a boring time, then don't surf the net. When speaking of computers and the internet one person cannot go unmentioned, Bill Gates, the president of Microsoft. Microsoft has a basic monopoly on the computer world, they write the operating system and then the applications to run of the system, and when everyone catches up, they change the version. Bill Gates started the company in the early 1980's with DOS, or Disk Operating System, which just recently was made obsolete by Windows 95. Bill Gates has now just ventured into the internet and ...
- 886: Neil Simon
- ... is difficult to determine the root of her feminist beliefs. Today's terms for first wave feminists were not used in Nellie McClung's era. Now, these activists are labeled as either maternal or equal rights feminists and such a label would seem to dictate a distinct philosophy and motives for reform. McClung is difficult to label since she seems to alternate between the two types of feminism. The discussion of first wave feminism is problematic as feminists are branded as maternal or equal rights feminists, terms which were not even applicable at the time. Maternal feminists, for example, sought the vote in order to reinforce the influence of women and the family in Canadian society, and to introduce "feminine morality" into Canadian politics. On the other hand, equal rights feminists fought for the vote based on the assumption that men and women are equal, and therefore everyone shares the right to participate in a liberal democracy. As Davis and Hallet point out, "while ...
- 887: The Prediction of 1984
- ... which may be ours in the future, that the experience is a blood chilling one...”1 The book is indeed “a blood chilling” one that reminds citizens of a democracy how important their freedoms and rights are. 1984, which is split into three sections, deals with how rebellion is achieved and taken away in a totalitarian society. The first part deals with the structure and a person’s awareness of his ... a forced labor camp.”6 The punishment of the citizens, by the government would occur since the people did not have laws to protect them. Because they did not have laws the people had no rights. Since the citizens did not have rights because there are no laws, the “FREEDOM” of having no laws became the “SLAVERY” of having no rights. ‘IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH’ is the last of the three party slogans that demonstrates Oceania’s totalitarian ...
- 888: Hostile Takeover of the New World
- ... the states east of the Mississippi, have, one by one, been exterminated in their abortive attempts to stem the western march of civilization……If any tribe remonstrated against the violation of their natural and treaty rights, members of the tribe were inhumanly shot down and the whole treated as mere dogs…It is presumed that humanity dictated the original policy of the removal and concentration of the Indians in the West ... of Energy Resource Tribes to balance the use of natural resources, mining, oil and gas exploration scars thousands of acres of Indian lands. (Lewis, 2) Sportsmen and state governments largely debate Indian hunting and fishing rights. Off-reservation hunting and fishing is already limited. These regulations hit Native fishermen in the Northwest particularly hard .In the 1960s; Indian activists staged fish-ins to publicize the situation. Eventually the case was taken to court. In United States v. The State of Washington (1974), Judge George Bolt reaffirmed the rights of Northwest tribes to harvest fish under the provisions of the 1854 Treaty of medicine Creek without interference by the State of Washington. The Boldt Decision restored a measure of Indian control over their ...
- 889: The Industrial Revolution
- ... the mines. He said, " women and children chained and belted, harnessed like dogs in a go-cart, black, wet, half-naked crawling on there hands and feet, and dragging their heavy loads behind them." The rights of both women and children prior to the Refom Act were nonexistent. They had no say in what they did and what was done to them. They were exploited to the maximum capability of the large capitalist industries and the wealthy aristocratic society that helped the Industrial Revolution to progress. The Reform Act of 1832 introduced the rights and beliefs of the people. "Reform Act of 1832: the measure that increased the size of the electorate by at least 50 percent and gave industrial cities [like Manchester] direct representation in parliament for the ... class was able to vote, the Laws and Acts that Parliament had previously passed went before the people who would mainly be affected. The result was that the Laws and Acts applied more to the rights of the exploited working class. Thus, the result was an unhappy and less powerful middle class. Prior to the Reform Act, Parliament did not help to better the lives of those living in such ...
- 890: The Seneca Falls Convention
- The Seneca Falls Convention On July 13, 1848, five women met for tea in Seneca Falls, New York. The pioneer of this woman’s rights movement was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton poured out her discontent with women’s legal and social situation in such passionate terms that her friend’s were stirred to call a public meeting to address the issues she raised. They daringly announced A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman for July 19 and 20 in Seneca Falls. In the history of western civilization, no similar public meeting had ever been called (USA 80). Using the Declaration of Independence as the framework, they connected the campaign for women’s rights directly to that powerful American symbol of liberty. Eighteen specific areas of life were enumerated where women’s rights were denied. In 1848, married women in most states legally dead in the eyes of ...
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