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- 15401: Jefferson
- ... Jefferson still enjoys his aunt’s cooking, an outside pleasure from prison. The fact that he can still take pleasure from these small outside things clearly demonstrates that Jefferson enjoys a small victory over the world that has locked him away. The second characteristic that shows society does not defeat Jefferson is Jefferson’s remaining strong compassion for everyone around him. This shows that through defeat, Jefferson remains a strong person ... because they make him feel like a better man; thus showing society does not defeat Jefferson as a human being. These three qualities of Ernest Gaines’ work A Lesson Before Dying are evidence that the world can not destroy Jefferson. Jefferson is a tremendously strong character that suffers many travails throughout the novel, and finds a way to overcome all of them. He is one of the best examples in literature ...
- 15402: Jane Eyre As A Modern Woman
- ... and she wrote instead of sewing and housekeeping. For example, Jane uses her writing to better her life. She does this by writing an advertisement which states she’s a governess and she gets a new job at Thornfield. “With earliest day, I was up: I had my advertisement written, enclosed, and directed before the bell rang to rouse the school...nearer to my own age.--89” Another example of Jane ... she does, I am not bound to stay with her: let the worse come to the worst, I can advertise again.--97” Another example of how Jane is independent is how she applies for a new job. She’s not dependent on the school for shelter or food, and she can leave Lowood because of her independence. “Having sought and obtained an audience of the superintendent during the noontide recreation,...mention ...
- 15403: Electronic Money
- ... these cards either use a magnetic strip or a computer chip. My first encounter with such cards was here at WSU. I also found out that these cards are sold by public transit systems in New York City, San Francisco and other cities. The cards are then used by users of the transit system to pay for the fare. On campus the Shocker Card can be used for vending machines, laundry ... ON THE INTERNET Digital cash is the newest form of electronic cash. It is designed to allow Internet users to shop on the net without using a credit card. There are many concerns with this new technology. Several companies have developed software systems that allow shopping on the net. They each claim benefits unique to their own systems. I have chosen to discuss CyberCash's service that allows Internet shopping. The ...
- 15404: Violent Crimes Involving Guns
- ... seize on this estimate to support their positions. Those favoring gun control laws claim that such laws would keep more guns off the streets and out of the hands of criminals in an increasingly violent world. There is no evidence that supports that gun control would reduce crime. By taking a look at evidence gathered form domestic studies, international evidence, and crimes involving guns we can better understand this. Several sophisticated ... often for defensive as for criminal purposes.6 The experience of other nations also provides little support for the notion that guns cause crime.(7) Switzerland has one of the lowest murder rates in the world, and it requires all able-bodied males between the ages of 20 and 50 to have a military-issued automatic weapon, ammunition and other equipment in their dwellings. (8) Israel, which has an extremely low ...
- 15405: The Decline Of Freedom (animal
- The Decline of Freedom on Animal Farm The simple idea of a world with no humans was introduced to the animals by a pig named Old Major. This led to a revolution like no other. The animals of Animal Farm, a book by George Orwell, decide that there ... so hard to gain begins to disappear. With equal blame on the thirst for power from Napoleon and the willingness to follow authority no matter what happens from the animals such as Boxer, the perfect world which the animal s dreamed of becomes worse then they had ever thought possible. Napoleon, a selfish, manipulative pig, decides that he wants power and will gain it using as much force as he needs ...
- 15406: Gun Control and Why People Think It Is Unfair
- ... the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. In 1988 there were 9000 handgun related murders in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by handguns. Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. For example in Washington,D.C. there was an estimated 400 homicides including guns. In addition gun ... knit gangs. Predominantly guns of crime are used by gang members. Many police officers are killed every year due to drug and gang related incidents involving guns. For example in 1988 on February 26 rookie New York City police officer Edward Byre was sitting alone in his police car guarding the house of a drug trial witness in South Jamaica, Queens where he was shot four times in the head and ...
- 15407: Animal Farm 3
- ... the other animals for exposing and removing the traitor, Snowball, from their midst. Slowly, Napoleon gets a stronger and stronger hold over the other animals, dominating their every action. The situation at "Animal Farm", the new name for "Manor Farm", really starts to change now. Napoleon moves into Mr. Jones' house, sleeps in his bed, and even wears his clothes. In order to make his actions appear legal, the law had ... the Bolshevik revolutionaries who led the masses in rebellion against the Czar and the entire royal family. Unfortunately, as with the pigs, power corrupted and the people were then oppressed by their "comrades" under the new communist government. Orwell's message about power, in the hands of a few, is corrupting and does nothing to benefit the masses.
- 15408: Fallen Angels
- ... realizes that if he wants to survive this war, " I better think about killing the Congs before they killed me, and that better be my reason, he had said, till I got back to the World (216)." By the end of the book he realizes he wants to live through this, and the only way he is going to do this is if he puts his feelings aside, and fights for ... will never be able to understand it unless they were there. I do feel though there is a possibility he might use his writing talent for the better, and maybe write a book telling the world about his experience’s in Vietnam. Also I feel that he will go back to states, and take care of Kenny and his mother. When he does get back I feel he will probably be ...
- 15409: Minor White
- ... Throughout his 68 years he taught thousands about the intricacies of photography, none more important then himself. White was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 9th, 1908. He lived there until he attended college in New York some years later. It was in New York and later Portland, Oregon that White taught himself about photography and its art representations. He went on to work with famous photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Nancy Newhall and to teach ...
- 15410: Into The Wild
- ... them. Once he grew up and graduated from college he was on his own and able to make his own decisions. He wanted to go and live of the land and challenge himself with many new adventures. Just because he wanted some new experience in his life dose not make him insane or stupid it just makes him adventurous.
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