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- 14881: Puerto Rican Cultural and Religion
- Puerto Rican Cultural and Religion I am a member of the Puerto Rican American Families research team. I myself grew up in a Puerto Rican American, or "New Yorican", family. The assignment is a field study. The study is on an observation of the religious community. We visited a Roman Catholic church in Buffalo on the west side, which is a predominantly Hispanic area of the city. I myself am also a Roman Catholic. This is a slightly erred site, because I believe that most Puerto Ricans migrated to New York City. However, we were able to make some interesting observations. The group attended mass at Holy Cross; both an English and Spanish mass. It seemed that the group accepted our presence without any apprehension ...
- 14882: The Simpsons - A Cartoon Portr
- ... 1990) that the show was "the dumbest thing I've ever seen." In 1992, a group of parents in Greenwood, South Carolina, protested the school board's approval of the name "Springfield Elementary" for a new school being built there. ("Springfield" is the name of the Simpson's hometown.) The school board supervising Greenwood had sponsored a creative writing contest that would ultimately allow local students to choose the new school's name. The concerned parents group decried the choice saying that the character of Bart Simpson is a bad role model and said that it was disgrace that the district would honor the name ...
- 14883: The Demon Lover
- ... title of the story and imagine that there is a supernatural aspect in the story. In the short story, Kathleen has returned to her home in London that has been abandoned during the bombing of World War II. She is not expected, yet she finds a letter addressed to her on a table in the hallway. Twenty-five years has past since the leaving of her former lover during World War I. Kathleen s lover is had been presumed dead after months of being missing in action and she has moved on. She is now married to a William Dover and living the countryside with ...
- 14884: The Power of The Judiciary
- ... the Supreme Court has made it very involved in decisions concerning important policy issues of the American political system. When it renders a decision on these policy issues, it is in fact changing or creating new policy itself. Now to say that the Supreme Court is only the highest legal institution of the United States would be doing a it a terrible injustice, not to mention selling it extremely short on ... fair in decisions involving the Executive or Legislative branches of the government. An examination of the cases in which the Court has held federal legislation unconstitutional provide an excellent answer to that question. From the New deal to present, the Supreme Court has been active in dealing with cases that involved federal legislation. One specific example that validates this point is the issue of term limits. When Congress passed legislation allowing ...
- 14885: Becoming A Stronger Person
- ... courage is exemplified when she goes to visit her father in California. Maya gets into an argument with her father’s girlfriend, Dolores, and apparently, Dolores ends up calling Maya’s mother a whore. The “new” Maya, filled with anger, responded by slapping Dolores across the face. The small, reticent child had turned into a courageous, young woman. In the early years of her life, Maya had always been pretty dependent ... Angelou’s life has truly formed her into a bold and strong woman. Maya had to make the best of every bad situation, and she certainly did. In that in every situation, she learned something new about herself and, as a result, molded herself into a stronger woman. It is evident that Maya Angelou has dealt with her hardships pretty well, and that it has only made her stronger in the ...
- 14886: Beowulf As An Epic
- ... deeds, be greater than the average character, and be of heroic proportions. Most of all, he must have super-human courage. The poet first describes Beowulf as "...greater/And stronger than anyone anywhere in this world" (Raffel 195-196), without informing us about what he did to acquire this reputation. The reader initially sees him through the awestruck eyes of the Danish soldier patrolling the cliffs. Beowulf's appearance--his size ... 432) showing that this deed is a favor to the people. His manner lacks the rudeness and coldness of a person whose previous accomplishments make him feel superior to other people. His fame as the world's bravest person hasn't gone to his head. The language used in epic style poems is that of a higher language. The epic poet makes use of literary techniques such as similes and kennings ...
- 14887: Legality Of Abortion
- ... form of abortion. Infanticide is grossly just the killing of the baby directly after birth (3 Gilbert). J. Gilbert, the author of an informative Texas state web-page, states that some time after 1750, a new procedure was introduced to abortion. The new procedure consisted of probing objects through the cervix and into the uterus of the women to accomplish the abortion (4 Gilbert). Laurence Tribe, author of Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes, states that the court case ...
- 14888: Beyond The Dead Sea Scrolls
- ... as dead as the Dead Sea itself, but as long as the scrolls remain, so, too, will their theological legacy. Works Cited Cross, Frank Moore Jr. "The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies." New York: Doubleday, 1958. Dupont- Sommer. "The Essene Writings From Qumran." Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1969. Grundy, Robert H. "A Survey of The New Testament." Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994. Vermes, Giza. "The Dead Sea Scrolls." Cleveland: William Collins, 1978.
- 14889: Employee Theft At Staples
- ... though it has helped me to mature. Even though I thought I was right, I realize now that sometimes being silent is better than doing exactly what society says is moral. Throughout my lifetime, the World will always be talking to me subliminally. “Say this,” she’ll utter to me. “Act this way,” she’ll remark arrogantly. “Do the right thing.” It is my job now, as an individual preparing to enter the adult World, to distinguish when she is right and she is wrong despite society’s blind follow. Being a mature decision making adult is different from being a programmed goodie-two-shoes teenager. Decisions are a lot ...
- 14890: Side Mounting
- ... system. Unhooking the tank from the B.C. and pushing it a head of you is not always the safest way to go through an opening where you don't quite fit. There is a new system that allows divers to carry tanks with them and not effect their hand availability or their vertical size. This method is called side mounting. Side mounting places the diver's tanks at the side ... cave. The next phase in the side-mounting history came when Americans began using side-mounted tanks to squeeze into low or narrow underwater cave passages too confined for traditional double-tank rigs. Now, a new system promises to bring side mounting into the mainstream of diving technology. Dive Rite, a huge manufacturer of diving equipment, has developed a method of attaching tanks to the side of their popular TransPac. This ...
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