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- 15471: To Kill A Mockingbird -
- ... returns again in chapter 12. Jem is telling her he doesn't want her around him anymore. She stays with Cal until Dill comes. However, Dill writes Scout a letter saying that he has a new father and will not be coming to Maycomb that summer. The legislature was called to an emergency meeting and Atticus was to leave for two weeks. When Atticus left, Cal decided to take the kids ... already knows all that stuff, however Atticus rebounds that comment by saying that Alexandra insisted that he knows the truth. Dill runs away and hides under Scout's bed in chapter 14. He said his new father bound him in chains locked him in the basement. Atticus calls Dill's Aunt Rachel and asks if Dill can stay with them. The remainder of this chapter deals with a night time conversation ...
- 15472: Power Shifts in Intergovernmental Relations: A Result of Fiscal Federalism
- ... has continually altered intergovernmental relations. Since the Depression, fiscal federalism has caused the national government to dominate the states; recently, however, reforms have begun to return power to the states. Policies and precedents of the New Deal centralized power in the national government. To remedy the devastation of the Great Depression, it assumed a more direct and prevalent role in the lives of the people. Congress passed the 1935 Social Security ... aged, blind and disabled administered by the states were federalized, requiring more money from the national government. Additionally, general revenue sharing was signed into law, once again increasing state dependence on federal funds. Nixon's New Federalism implemented major expansions of federal regulatory power over state and local governments. Concerned about the dominance of the national government, the reaction to this continual increase in federal power and influence is a decrease ...
- 15473: Gun Control
- ... 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 ...
- 15474: Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Encyclopedia Extract
- Shilstone, F.W.(1996). Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. In World Book Encyclopedia (Volume 2, pp. 655-656). Chicago: World Book, Inc. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the best-known poets of her time. The oldest of twelve children in an upper middle-class family, she received no formal education, but a desire for ...
- 15475: Ideals Satirized In Candide
- ... the kings have been dethroned by war, family or chance, and some have been in prison. Its ironic that all these men are sitting, having dinner together, it shows that even the kings of the world are human and can be hit by hard times. Theodore of Corsica mentions, "I used to coin currency, and now i dont have a cent"(393). Voltaire pokes fun at the royals here while most ... view of life in these times. No one was safe from caos. And those most deserving punishment go free. Satire is a weapon of the writer used to inform his readers of how sick the world really is, and for them not to believe the lies told to them on a daily basis. Sometimes it is neccessary to step back and see what is going on around you, if only to ...
- 15476: Prose and Style in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers
- ... clear. Lawrence uses many examples to illustrate ideas. He compares life to a flood saying that it carries people along through time, and he compares Paul and Clara's life as what makes up the world to what makes up a blade of grass or a tree. The most notable illustrative example is also an allusion from the Bible comparing Paul and Clara to, “ Adam and Eve when they lost their ... and connotation. Denotation is an indication or a sign. An example of this is the use of the word, “ nothingness” in line four. “Nothingness” in this sentence denotes Paul and Clara's insignificance to the world as a whole. Connotation is an idea or notion associated with a word or phrase. For example, the word, “ verification,” in line seven, connotes an oath, such as marriage; the word, “belief,” in line eight ...
- 15477: The Adults Are Always Right?
- ... television." Kids hear: "nag nag nag nag nag nag nag." They think of us as being lazy, and irresponsible, selfish and useless. Some adults quiver when they hear how we will one day run this world. What makes us lazy, the fact that we watch an hour of television after a hard day at school, before eating dinner and doing our homework? Why are we irresponsible, because we don't have ... over-exaggerate and all but what can we do about technology? Is it our fault it exists? They don't understand how times have changed, and how kids are growing up in this, the modern world. They grow up with music, and sports, and fast cars. Adults criticize these kids. Just the other day I was at the mall and two Greek women were talking about how I looked and what ...
- 15478: Issues Of Sexual Morality And
- ... makes. According to society, Sula is using men solely for her own selfish pleasure. Unlike Hannah, society feels that Sula doesn’t deserve any sympathy for her actions. While Hannah may be looking for a new soul mate to fill the role of her husband, Sula is only looking for a quick fix. Every society has its own distinct values and certain ideals of how a person should behave, especially in ... that are established differs in each society. Those who follow the rules are rewarded with praise and approval; they become apart of the majority and, as a result, become part of the process of adding new rules and revising old ones. Those who don’t play by the rules, like Sula, are viewed as outcasts. In most societies, sex is an uncomfortable topic of conversation. It is difficult to distinguish what ...
- 15479: Elizabeth Bishop and Her Poem "Filling Station"
- ... of the sound. Moreover, when studying the [oi] atmosphere throughout the poem the [oi] in doily and embroidered seems to particularly stand out. The oozing of the grease in the filling station moves to each new stanza with the mention of these words: In the fourth stanza, "big dim doily", to the second last stanza, "why, oh why, the doily? /Embroidered" to the last stanza, "somebody embroidered the doily". Whereas the ... or she the station, one who drives by the station or one who gives to the station? Bibliography Bishop, Elizabeth. "Filling Station." An Introduction to Poetry. Eds. Dana Gioia and X.J. Kennedy. Eighth Edition. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1994.
- 15480: Capital Punishment .
- ... six states have legislated capital punishment statutes (Capital Punishment 1992). All but thirteen states and the District of Columbia have the death penalty as a sentencing option, including Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin (Norman 1). Since capital punishment is already in existence, the problem is that it is not enforced. This lack of enforcement translated into inefficient functioning ... from death row after evidence of their innocence was proved in the appellate levels of the court systems (Bruderhof 1996). Another reason why many feel the death penalty is wrong is because in several states, new legislation drastically limits possibilities of appeals and stays of executions, ensuring that increasing numbers of capital defendants will be executed because they are unable to obtain adequate, if any legal representation (Bruderhof 1996). More timely ...
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