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- 10621: Comparing Dinosours Divorce An
- ... who is a forest ranger, also takes the girls to work with him sometimes. The children's roles and responsibilities to the parents are also very positive. The girls show respect and acceptance for their new father, and they even made him a card for Father's Day. In Dinosuars Divorce, again, gender roles are not differentiated. There are illustrations of both divorced mothers and divorced fathers, both are aslo shown ... make things easier for their parents by being more independent and helpful around the house. However, it does caution that children should not try to turn into adults over night. If the parent meets a new friend that may become a new spouse, children are told that they should be respectful and give them a chance even if they don't like them at first. It also disucusses children's responsibilities to eachother when stepbrothers or ...
- 10622: Benedict Arnold
- ... landowner. His mother was Hannah King Waterman Arnold. While a boy, young Arnold twice ran away to join the colonial troops fighting in the French and Indian War. When he was 21 he settled in New Haven. In time he became a prosperous merchant and a captain in the Connecticut militia. He married Margaret Mansfield in 1767. They had three sons. Arnold played a gallant part in the American Revolution and ... He met Maj. John Andre, a British spy, and made final plans. Andre was captured, however, and his papers indicated Arnold's treason. Arnold heard of the capture and fled to the British headquarters in New York City. He was given a command and about 6,300. He served with the British for the rest of the war, leading troops on raids in Virginia and Connecticut. After the war he lived ... in a big explosion. When he was a little older (about 17), Arnold twice ran away to join the colonial troops fighting in the French and Indian War. When he was 21 he moved to New Haven. In time he became a prosperous merchant and a captain in the Connecticut militia. He married Margaret Mansfield in 1767. They had three sons. Arnold played a gallant part in the American Revolution ...
- 10623: Racial Discrimination And Prej
- Racial Discrimination and Prejudice Racism and prejudice has gradually become one of the major impacts and burdens all over the world. They have existed for thousands of years and have been transmitted from generation to generation. However, racism has not always been the same, it has changed through history and every day it has become more ... was killed by an assassination but the dramatic and tragic death did not overshadow the achievements of his life. Many people died in the civil war because of racism but not as many as in World War 2. This war was started when Germany's dictator Adolph Hitler invaded Poland. He became the leader of the Nazi party in 1933; the party was against communism and believes in strong national government. They enslaved and murdered Jews, gypsies, and other minorities, whom they blamed for all Germany¡¦s problem, form defeat in World War I to unemployment and inflation. However, his plan was not effective other countries saw what he was doing, after a bloody war; Germany's economy still suffers for his mistakes. Nevertheless, even this ...
- 10624: Kant: the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative
- ... The initial stage of the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative requires that a maxim be universally applicable to all rational beings. M1 succeeds in passing the first stage. We can easily imagine a world in which paramedics always answer widows truthfully when queried. Therefore, this maxim is logical and everyone can abide by it without causing a logical impossibility. The next logical step is to apply the second stage ... but ended up drowning, and he was wearing a brown suit and brown loafers, then you should tell the widow that he died instantly in order to spare her feelings." We can easily imagine a world in which all paramedics lied to widows in this specific situation. That does not necessarily mean that it will pass the second test however. Even if it does pass the first test, narrowing down maxim ... everyone else. If you create a maxim about lying to widows that is specific enough to pass the first test, so can everyone else. One must ask if rational beings would really will such a world in which there would be many, many specific, but universal, laws. In order to answer this question, one must use the rational "I" for the statement "I, as a rational being would will such ...
- 10625: Hamlet - He Loves Her? He Loves Her Not?
- ... to seek revenge for his father’s murder. Since, Hamlet discovers the murder of his father, and the adultery and incest committed by his mother he retains a very bitter and pessimistic view of the world. "That the Everlasting had not fixed His cannon ‘gainst self-slaughter … how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world." (14 Act 1 Scene 2 Line 131). It is through his soliloquy’s that the audience learns the depths of Hamlet’s depression. Hamlet not only regards the world with pessimism, but he also has suicidal feelings. The main reason at this point for his anger and frustration, is his mother’s abrupt marriage to Claudius. The actions of his mother seem to ...
- 10626: Sphere: Summary
- ... vigorous mental and physical tests. Qualifying them to submerge themselves thousands of feet down into a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions. Many personality conflict arise. At one point communication is almost permanently lost with the surface world. An idea the spacecraft is from the future is shortly lived. Once the Sphere is opened, total anarchy takes control of the scientists lives. A monstrous squid, 15 times the size of a normally larger squid, emerges and destroys the living quarters of the scientists. Now they are forced to live in the spacecraft with all communication lost with the outside world. Killer shrimp, fire, and internal floods follow the introduction of the squid. Barnes is eaten alive by the gigantic squid. After the climax and many deaths the few people left discover whoever enters the Sphere ... think or imagine happens or is created. Either it's conscious or subconscious, while they're sleeping or awake, or even if they really want it to happen. They also it was planted by another world as a test of its full capabilities and consequences. Ted actually imagines his own death, only to kill himself. Once their emergency submarine is lost, they realize they have a serious problem being trapped ...
- 10627: Saving Private Ryan
- ... like Michael Herr and filmmakers like Oliver Stone and Francis Ford Coppola, Vietnam flickers in and out of our imaginations as a minor piece of hell, a torn-out fragment from a Bosch painting. But World War II, the Good War, the Heroic War, the war that saved the world, is different. Yes, we know it was dreadful, but we don't really want to know: We'd rather cling to the image of jutting-jawed John Wayne firing his machine gun at a collapsing line of Axis dummies. After "Saving Private Ryan," the myth of World War II will never be the same. Using the overpowering techniques of modern film, Steven Spielberg has cut through the glory-tinged gauze that shrouds World War II to reveal its brutal reality, creating ...
- 10628: Being A Good Biologist
- ... t been proved” as fact. On the contrary, the lack of proof isn't a weakness and claiming infallibility for one's conclusions is a sign of hubris (Worf, Benjamin. 1940. Science & Linguistics). In this world, nothing has ever been rigorously proved. Often a scientist findings proposes an idea that may attack all cherished philosophical doctrines of what we know about science. Albert Einstien, popular among young scientists, was certainly not ... theory of how it will occur. Proof is just an acceptance process of what a good scientist would have questioned. Consider this, about a century ago many scientists were then mostly creationists, looked at the world to figure out how God did things (Issak, Mark. 1995-97. Five Major Misconceptions about Evolution.), many of these same creationists concluded an old earth and species originated by evolution. Since then, with newer more ... fame and fortune. Even if they are still holding back because they lack certainty in other scientist findings their work has changed our understanding of significant details of how evolution operates. Nothing in the real world has ever been rigorously proved, or ever will be. Proof, in the mathematical sense, is possible only if you have the luxury of defining the universe you're operating in. In the real world, ...
- 10629: Generation X
- ... born between 1965 and 1981. Today there are 52 million Gen-Xers in America, making up about 34% of the workforce .culturally diverse. Now, more than ever before, America is culturally diverse; because of a new wave of immigrants since the 1960’s, and also with the technology phenomena.Culture through music, TV, the information-super-highway, all have given the X Generation many different tastes to choose from. .eco-conscious ... has become a culture of its own. Rollerblading, paintballing, jetskiing, video games, snowboarding, bungee jumping, and of course the mall. .X-treme. X-treme sports and pastimes is a X Generation phenomena. Always looking for new thrills, the Gen-Xers have been watching as technology improved or created new equipment to go higher, faster, at lower cost. i.e. in-line skates, jetskis, snowboards. .open to new technology. Generation X is familiar with technology and comfortable with the velocity and momentum at which ...
- 10630: Bill Cosby
- ... he was very young and he had to get a job to help support the family. In school he was the class clown and was sent to a special school for rowdy boys. In his new school his teacher was Mary Forchic. She saw that he was a great comedian and she put that into her lessons to make them more understandable for Bill. She made the lessons fun for him ... in a correspondence course. By the time his four years in the Navy were up he had a high school diploma. He left the Navy at age 22 with a high school diploma and a new attitude. He was determined to go to collage. He did not have a lot of money though and that was a problem. Cosby had an idea. Because he was a good athlete in the navy ... Cosby got a job working at a night club telling jokes. It was a small job but even though he did not know it, it was his first step toward fame. He soon traveled to New York to test out his real comedy skills. He landed a job at the Gaslight, it was a popular comedy club. They paid him 60 dollars a week (which was a very lot for ...
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