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- 10551: The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby is A Pathetic Character
- ... was very unlikely that any woman would leave her husband for any reason at all. Everything that Gatsby ever did in his whole life was based upon his pursuit of the dream. He moved to New York and bought his very expensive mansion because of Daisy. Jordan Baker said, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay."(Fitzgerald 83) He held many expensive parties in the ... he behaves like a child and he cannot handle adult situations like an adult. His childish demands show that he is a pathetic and immature human being. Jordan says, "I immediately suggested a luncheon in New York - and I thought he'd go mad: """I don't want to do anything out of the way!"" he kept saying. ""I want to see her right next door."""(Fitzgerald 84) At Gatsby's ... was a failure because he tried to live his life according to a plan that he considered to be flawless. In life, however, it is more important to be able to adapt to and handle new situations than it is to have a flawless plan, because the truth is, there is no such thing as a flawless plan. A successful person would achieve their goals by meeting their needs in ...
- 10552: Analysis Of Platos Simile Of T
- ... the past. Plato describes men as being chained in a dark subterranean chamber with their eyes permanently turned to a screen before them, upon which pass the shadows of men living and working in the world of light. Since the prisoners in the underground cave have never known reality other than those shadows, they take them for all that actually is the whole truth , and if voices from the world above do reach them, they believe it is the shadows speaking. In comparison of this to our government today, many similarities can be seen. Citizens of our nation today are often blinded from the truths ... themselves, this is the way that they will always live their life. Plato symbolizes this by suggesting that one of these men is freed and ventures out of the cave into the light, or the world above, and sees the sun, symbolizing the form of the good . Plato s object in this work was not of personal enlightenment; he had the sense to understand that where communication was lacking, such ...
- 10553: Explain and Evaluate Critically Malthus's Population Theory.
- ... counts were available to subtract from natural rates of population growth, thus revealing net reproductive growth. Malthus observed that under such ideal conditions, during each 25 years the human population tends to double. So if world population is represented by 1, then after each 25 years it would be 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and so on, provided there were no limits on such "natural" rates of population increase. Food. To ... so on. In other words, food could only increase arithmetically, whereas the population if otherwise left unfettered would tend to increase geometrically. Checks on Population. Malthus concluded that, since food is necessary to human life, world population will necessarily grow slower than its natural trend. Malthus postulated two types of checks on human population growth--- positive and negative. Positive checks are increases in the death rate as a result of wars ... other words, his core conclusion was that unless people stopped multiplying, there would not be enough food, regardless of how hard they worked to produce it. Maltus's fearful prediction has not yet been fulfilled world wide, although it is a reasonable description so some countries, past and present. Although the world's population has continued to increase at a phenomenal rate, the overall food supply generally has kept pace. ...
- 10554: Roosevelt and the Great Depression
- ... While the Great Depression of the 1930’s proved devastating to the American economy, the efforts of Franklin D. Roosevelt turned the nation around and helped to improve the terrible conditions of the time. His “New Deal” plan did indeed stabilize the economy and encourage a more just and fair society. Three of his plans, the Agriculture Adjustment Act, the National Recovery Administration, and the Wagner Act became the basis of ... struck down by the US Supreme Court in US v. Butler in 1936, however, the program was a great success. The National Recovery Administration, or NRA, also proved to be one of Roosevelt’s greatest New Deal plans. Designed to balance the interests of business, labor, and consumers, it attempted to reduce unemployment and restructure the economy. The NRA was created under the National Industrial Recovery Act and set codes of ... collectively through labor representatives. It defined unfair practices on the part of the employer, and it compelled employers to recognize a union if over 50% of the employees joined this union. This act gave tremendous new rights to workers and certainly helped pull the nation out of financial crisis. Challenged by the National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp, the United States Supreme Court upheld the decision and ...
- 10555: Panopticon: The Ideal Social Order
- ... may wish to put it to, produces homogenous effects of power." Panopticism is a style of controlling the individual and making him conform to the system. That system could refer to the police or the world as a whole. There is never a definite top position, therefore, everyone feels as if they are being monitored by someone else. It is for this reason that this disciplinary mechanism is so effective. The ... to restore the individual to a being that can be a productive and positive influence. The system has two main purposes, the distribution of power and the means of establishing discipline. Every aspect of the world has the ideas and principles of panopticism behind them. The world is full of intricate and complicated people. These people group together to create tribes, governments, countries, and or civilizations. What are the rules? How are we, the most complicated form of life that we ...
- 10556: Comets
- ... the sun) 3. (OrbitalPeriod(years))squared = (OrbitalRadius(AU))cubed A comet that has been discovered more recently is the Hale-Bopp comet. It is scheduled to appear in April 1997. Alan Hale is a native New Mexican. Hale is a professional astronomer, he specializes in studying sunlike stars and searching for other planetary systems. He has been studying comets since 1970. Here is how he discovered the comet: “During my normal ... watching M70 slowly drift across the field, when it reached a point 3/4 of the way across an alight glow appeared on the eastern edge. I repositioned the scope to the center on the new object but was unable to resolve it. I called to Jim and asked him if he knew what it might be, after visual inspection he stated he was not familiar with it but would check ... to locate the correct address and confirmation was requested. At 8:25 A.M. July 23rd, 1995, Daniel Green of the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory telephoned and said, “Congratulations Tom, I believe you discovered a new comet.” And that was one of the happiest moments of my life.” Thomas Bopp lives in Glendale, Arizona. (Small suburb just barely outside Phoenix) He is the supervisor for a construction material company in ...
- 10557: Hyperspace
- Hyperspace A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension Imagine a you are sitting next to a pond. Now imagine such as how the fish in that pond would view the world around them. Living their entire lives in the pond, the fish would believe that their “universe” consisted of the murky water and the lilies. Spending most of their time foraging on the bottom of the pond, they would be only dimly aware that an alien world could exist above the surface. The nature of that world would be beyond their comprehension. You could sit only few inches from the fish, yet be separated from them by an immense chasm. You and the fish lives would be spent in two distinct ...
- 10558: Cloning 3
- Cloning humans is a threat to our society. It presents a vast number of problems that arise with each new discovery. The first is the decrease in distinct genetic make-up. Cloning also brings up many ethical points dealing with creation and psychological well being of clones. Cloning is such a new area of study that it requires a large amount of money and offers a lot of room for mistakes. The biggest problem with the use of cloning is the decline in genetic diversity. The biological ... feel obligated to follow the pre-determined path of their gene donor. This would bring about a lot of confusion and emotional damage for the individual. There is a great margin of error in the new technology of cloning. Because we are still developing these scientific procedures, there is a lot of room for mistakes. This means that in the process of experimenting, clones with great genetic abnormalities could be ...
- 10559: Euthanasia and the Moral Right to Die
- ... the doctor refusing it, thereby, sentencing the patient to a possibly protracted and painful existence for the remainder of their life. Works Cited Foley, Karen. "Competent Care for the Dying Instead of Physician-Assisted Suicide." New England Journal of Medicine 336: (1997): 54. Landau, Elaine. The Right to Die. New York: Franklin Watts, 1993 Rachels, James. Euthanasia: the Debate Continues. http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/intro/part/Rachels.txt 9 March 1997. Shavelson, Lonny. A Chosen Death. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995 Webster's New American Handy College Dictionary. 1981 Westley, Dick. When It's Right To Die. Mystic: Twenty-third, 1995
- 10560: Eve and the Apple
- ... only increased their desires. However, this may have been a necessary development in the creation of mankind. After consuming the apple, Adam and Eve were banished from the sacred garden, and sent to the outside world. They had committed a sin against God, by not only disobeying his commandment, but by wanting to be gods themselves. They were banished from the garden not only as punishment, but also because God did not want them to eat of the tree of life, of immortality. They were not killed as God had originally threatened, but told to be fruitful and multiply. According to Milton, in the outside world Adam and Eve repented their sins to Jesus Christ who in turn asked God for forgiveness. God once again accepted them but stated that they would never again set foot in Paradise. But by this grace, his creation was complete. God's warning was definitely effective because he accomplished exactly his purpose : The creation of this magnificent world that we live in today, which was all started by God, Adam, and Eve. God didn't give Adam and Eve a complete warning about the tree because he did not tell them that ...
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