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- 1321: TV Violence
- Effects Of Television On Violence Date Submitted: 2000-03-09 Word Count: 1410 Effects of Television on Violence What has the world come to these days? It often seems like everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the streets, back alleys, school, and even at home. The last of these is a ... major source of violence. In many peoples' living rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is the television, and the children who view it are often pulled into its realistic world of violence scenes with sometimes devastating results. Much research has gone into showing why children are so mesmerized by this big glowing box and the action that takes place within it. Research shows that television ... causes children to be violent and the effects can be life-long. The information can't be ignored. Violent television viewing does affect children. The effects have been seen in a number of cases. In New York, a 16-year-old boy broke into a cellar. When the police caught him and asked him why he was wearing gloves he replied that he had learned to do so to not ...
- 1322: A Critical Analysis of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
- ... was written out of Melville's person experiences. Moby Dick is a story of the adventures a person named Ishmael. Ishmael is a lonely, alienated individual who wants to see the watery part of the world. Moby Dick begins with the main character, Ishmael, introducing himself with the line Call Me Ishmael. (Melville 1) Ishmael tells the reader about his background and creates a depressed mood for the reader. Call me ... nevermind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." (Melville 1) Ishmael tells the reader about his journeys through various towns such as New Bedford, Nankantuket. Eventually while in Nankantuket, Ishmael signed up for a whaling voyage on the Pequod. The Pequod was the whaling boat Ishmael sailed on where such characters as Queequeq, Starbuck, and the captain ...
- 1323: The Threat of Nuclear Energy
- ... wrote, "One pound of plutonium-239, distributed to the lungs of a large population, could cause between ten and fifteen million lung-cancer deaths" (32). Plutonium is rapidly becoming more and more common throughout the world because it is being produced all the time in nuclear reactions. The Nuclear Control Institute, in Washington D.C., published a paper on the Internet describing the problem of plutonium production. By the turn of ... needed to build a Nagasaki-type bomb. The amounts will continue to grow rapidly. By 2010, there will be 550 tons of separated plutonium in commerce, more than twice the amount now contained in the worlds nuclear arsenals. By that time, Japan will have acquired an amount of plutonium equivalent to the present U.S. military stockpile. ("The Problem", 2) The quote above has a few hidden statements behind it ... a great problem. For instance, anyone can purchase a copy of "The Los Alamos Primer" for approximately twenty-three dollars. This book details the work of scientist who participated in the Manhattan Project tests in New Mexico. Inside the book, a terrorist could find the amount of uranium needed to create a successful nuclear explosion. In addition, the book details the different types of nuclear bombs and how to construct ...
- 1324: Legalizing Idustrial Hemp
- ... shower curtain, because it is light and -- now get this -- it does NOT mildew. You can write on it too, for it makes one of the finest papers ever known. The "it" is not some new miracle compound invented in the science labs of industry, but an ancient plant that is one of the oldest cultivated crops in the world: Hemp. The first known rope was made from it. The Chinese used it to make the first fish nets 6,500 years ago. The ancient Greeks wore hemp garments. Thomas Jefferson raised hemp on his ... 1988.5 In 1993, England began to produce hemp for fiber (British Farmers). In 1994, Canada harvested its first crop of industrial hemp after more than 50 years of prohibition (Turner, Craig). The re-emerging world hemp industry is growing steadily, and farmers are excited and enthusiastic about the potential of hemp crops. Hemp has been valued throughout this country's history as an important raw material. Until the late ...
- 1325: Violence On TV
- By: Anonymous VIOLENCE ON TV What has the world come to these days? It often seems like everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the streets, back alleys, school, and even at home. The last of these is a ... major source of violence. In many peoples' living rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is the television, and the children who view it are often pulled into its realistic world of violence scenes with sometimes devastating results. Much research has gone into showing why children are so mesmerized by this big glowing box and the action that takes place within it. Research shows that it ... causes children to be violent and the effects can be life-long. The information can't be ignored. Violent television viewing does affect children. The effects have been seen in a number of cases. In New York, a 16-year-old boy broke into a cellar. When the police caught him and asked him why he was wearing gloves he replied that he had learned to do so to not ...
- 1326: Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe Many authors have made great contributions to the world of literature. Mark Twain introduced Americans to life on the Mississippi. Thomas Hardy wrote on his pessimistic views of the Victorian Age. Another author that influenced literature is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known as ... and in each one he made a reputation that would give any man a high place in literary history. Poe wrote great short stories, famous not only in his own country, but all over the world (Robinson V)." "Hawthorne, Irving, Balzac, Bierce, Crane, Hemingway and other writers have given us memorable short stories; but none has produced so great a number of famous and unforgettable examples, so many tales that continue, despite changing standards to be read and reprinted again and again throughout the world (Targ VII)." "Poe was the father of the modern short story, and the modern detective story (Targ VII)." "With the possible exception of Guy de Maupassant, no other writer is so universally known and ...
- 1327: Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe Many authors have made great contributions to the world of literature. Mark Twain introduced Americans to life on the Mississippi. Thomas Hardy wrote on his pessimistic views of the Victorian Age. Another author that influenced literature is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known as ... and in each one he made a reputation that would give any man a high place in literary history. Poe wrote great short stories, famous not only in his own country, but all over the world (Robinson V)." "Hawthorne, Irving, Balzac, Bierce, Crane, Hemingway and other writers have given us memorable short stories; but none has produced so great a number of famous and unforgettable examples, so many tales that continue, despite changing standards to be read and reprinted again and again throughout the world (Targ VII)." "Poe was the father of the modern short story, and the modern detective story (Targ VII)." "With the possible exception of Guy de Maupassant, no other writer is so universally known and ...
- 1328: Hemingway And Camus
- ... 6) by the number of books (2) that make up The Outsider) and surprise of surprises: the meaning revealing number `666' once again emerges! Clearly, when seen in this light, these two novels take on new meaning, and this pattern discovery provides a conclusive way to counter all earlier critics who have failed to see this talisman of interpretation, this key to understanding the complexities of Hemingway's A Farewell to ... readings" and certainly on that criterion both of these novels are to be counted as masterworks. In the same way that science seeks a unifying theory to account for and predict from events in the world in a broad general way, so too do these two works offer a broad and general theory of the human condition and the human hunger for meaning. What would count as "a broad and general ... by God. The second reading opposes that approach and insists on subjective intensity of passion maintaining that the individual is always becoming as the result of choices, risks, and reactions to the experiences of the world of which s/he is naturally related. The reader of the first text often sees death as a door; the second reader sees death as a wall and as the inescapable and shared destiny ...
- 1329: Romantic Poetry
- ... prospects and even different sex lives for most people. At the same time the French Revolution and the American War of Independence changed the way those countries were govern and made old certainties questionable and new possibilities feasible for everyone else. The cultural, political and economic structures were being laid down by three revolutions The American, French and Industrial. The American revolution had started in 1776 when the thirteen colonies had ... discoveries of Arkwright and Hargreaves brought mechanization and mass production to the cotton industry, and a profound change to English Life. The canal system began energetically with the Manchester Canal in 1761 together with the new roads mobilized society. The changes splintered ancient and venerable ways of life. Even as typhoid departed from London and streetlights arrived, the large industrial cities became more and more crammed with people, filth, poverty and suffering. At the same time, however, a new movement in the history of social thought was beginning to disturb the vast inertia of English political administration. More people began to be concerned with the welfare of the poor, more demands were made ...
- 1330: Romeo And Juliet 7
- ... prospects and even different sex lives for most people. At the same time the French Revolution and the American War of Independence changed the way those countries were govern and made old certainties questionable and new possibilities feasible for everyone else. The cultural, political and economic structures were being laid down by three revolutions The American, French and Industrial. The American revolution had started in 1776 when the thirteen colonies had ... discoveries of Arkwright and Hargreaves brought mechanization and mass production to the cotton industry, and a profound change to English Life. The canal system began energetically with the Manchester Canal in 1761 together with the new roads mobilized society. The changes splintered ancient and venerable ways of life. Even as typhoid departed from London and streetlights arrived, the large industrial cities became more and more crammed with people, filth, poverty and suffering. At the same time, however, a new movement in the history of social thought was beginning to disturb the vast inertia of English political administration. More people began to be concerned with the welfare of the poor, more demands were made ...
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