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- 15311: Capital Punishment
- ... death. Justice must be served. Placing murderers in prison is not a tough enough punishment. In jail they will have a possible chance for parole. If they happen to make it back out in the world, who is to say he or she would not kill again? This means additional people had to die before these murderers were sentenced to death. Capital punishment provides the greatest justice for the victim and ... so we need not worry about them harming others. The crime rate would probably drop from people being scared of being sentenced to death instead of life in prison. Imagine for a minute what the world would be like if every time a murderer killed someone, and he or she dies instantly. More than likely, there would be an extremely low homicide rate. Of course it is impossible to make this ...
- 15312: Macbeth: The Symbol of Blood
- ... with several other passages dealing with the symbol. Perhaps the best way to show how the symbol of blood changes throughout the play, is to follow the character changes in Macbeth. First he is a brave honoured soldier, but as the play progresses, he becomes a treacherous person who has become identified with death and bloodshed and shows his guilt in different forms. The first reference of blood is one of honour, and occurs when Duncan sees the injured sergeant and says "What bloody man is that?". This is symbolic of the brave fighter who been injured in a valiant battle for his country. In the next passage, in which the sergeant says "Which smok'd with bloody execution", he is referring to Macbeth's braveness in which ...
- 15313: The Chocolate War
- ... seventies or the early eighties. Most of the story takes place at Trinity High School in a town that the author doesn’t reveal. 5. Jerry Renault, the protagonist in The Chocolate War, is a brave and caring young man. He proved himself to be brave by standing up to the vigils like no other student had, and agreeing to be in the boxing bout knowing his chances of winning were slim to none. Jerry always felt sorry for his dad ...
- 15314: The Portrayal of Women in the Novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Marquez and "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende
- ... Hundred Years of Solitude albeit the figure of Eve in her roles is split between the matriarchs of Macondo namely Pilar Tenera and Ursula Iguaran. In the beginning of One hundred years of solitude: "The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point." And in this fledgling world Jose Arcadio Buendia is Adam and Ursula Iguaran is Eve, both of whom are"…joined by a bond that was more solid than love: a common prick of conscience. They were cousins." Incest is the ...
- 15315: Bosnia-Hercegovina
- ... 1404-09, 1421-43) used a seal similar to his father's, with the arms of the Kotromanic family itself, which are the bend between 6 fleur-de-lys, a crowned helm with thesame crest. New coins are issued starting in 1436, markedly Western in style, which display a full-blown achievement: an escutcheon bearing the letter T, crowned with an open crown of fleur-de-lys. The helm is crowned and the crest is a hop-flower on a long stem. The letter T seems to stand for the name of the king. Later, around 1450, impressive new gold coins show the Kotromanic arms. The last kings are Stjepan Tomas Kotromanic (1444-61) and Stjepan Tomasevic Kotrmomanic (1461-63). The kingdom disappears in 1463 when he is killed by the Turks. In the ...
- 15316: Of Mice and Men and The Pearl: Characterization
- ... us our first hints about them. One of Steinbeck's favorite books when he was growing up was Paradise Lost by John Milton. In this long poem, Milton describes the beginnings of evil in the world. He tells of Lucifer's fall from heaven and the creation of hell. He also describes Adam and Eve's fall from grace in the Garden of Eden. By giving George the last name of ... they look and in their personalities. George is described as small and quick with sharp features. Lennie is described as big, slow witted, and shapeless of face. George can comfortably fit into the ranch hands' world. He plays horseshoes with the others and goes along to the whorehouse on Saturday night. Lennie plays instead with his puppy in the barn and spends Saturday night in Crooks' room with the other outcasts ...
- 15317: Tigers
- ... length of the tail is 90-120 cm. The foot pads vary in size with age, resulting in inaccurate estimates when used in censusing wild populations. The heaviest tiger recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records is a 1,025-pound male Siberian tiger. Most Bengal (Panthera tigris tigris) tigers (See diagram C) live in India, and some range through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Myanmar. The estimated wild population is ... found only on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. About 400-500 wild Sumatran tigers are believed to exist, primarily in the island's five national parks. Another 235 Sumatran tigers live in zoos around the world. The South China (Panthera tigris amoyensis) tiger is the most critically endangered of all tiger subspecies. Found in central and eastern China, it is estimated that only 20-30 South China tigers still exist in ...
- 15318: All Quiet on the Western Front
- ... to visit Kemmerich at his hospital. Kemmerich now knows that his leg has been amputated, but Paul tries to comfort him and convince him that he will be returning home soon. Paul wishes that the world would acknowledge Kemmerich’s suffering but he knows that the world will not. When Kemmerich suddenly begins to gurgle violently, Paul rushes to find a doctor. However the doctor he finds is in different to Kemmerich’s suffering and by the time they get to Kemmerich ...
- 15319: Macbeth: A Man of Established Character
- ... his nature violently demands rewards: he fights valiantly in order that he may be reported in such terms a "valour's minion" and "Bellona's bridegroom"' he values success because it brings spectacular fame and new titles and royal favor heaped upon him in public. Now so long as these mutable goods are at all commensurate with his inordinate desires - and such is the case, up until he covets the kingship ... variety of potentialities. And it is upon the development of these potentialities that the artist lavishes the full energies of his creative powers. Under the influence of swiftly altering environment which continually furnishes or elicts new experiences and under the impact of passions constantly shifting and mounting in intensity, the dramatic individual grows, expands, developes to the point where, at the end of the drama, he looms upon the mind as ...
- 15320: Character Relations In The Awa
- ... her, we see that Edna thinks independently of outside interference. When she was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her she does just that she realizes the world within her, not without her. That is to say, she does this entire awakening on her own. She does not directly receive any outside influence. Edna Pontellier, as a whole, is a woman completely different ...
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