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- 15631: Crime and Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, and Different Punishments
- ... get there shackles off or paying for a private room or for a room with your friend it was usually a pretty bad room but it was still better than the others. Due to the new law of no more public hangings there was a great amount of over population. This over population meant trouble for the prisoners because the prisoners who really didn't commit bad crimes were killed in ... jail by the guards. So now the prisoners who went to jail were there to be executed or if they weren't there for that it would mean they were shipped to factories, Australia or new prisons set up the Queen or King of England. It's a shame these men women and children were so mistreated over such little crimes but it made the crime rate go down. ( Mitchell pg ...
- 15632: The Great Gatsby: Daisy's Love
- ... the book, and intends very much for her daughter to grow up much like she has. "And I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world today, a beautiful little fool." (Fitzgerald 24) She raves repeatedly of boats and large windows and halls where many a extravagant party is held. This only stands remind of her reliance on material goods and ... things that are supposed to buy her happiness but lend her nothing but heartbreak. She is confused and has learned nothing of how to handle true love when it is given to her. In her world she must buy and sell her soul and love like the goods in a store window, for a price. The readers sees her almost as a martyr of her own actions and misconceptions of life ...
- 15633: Tripmaster Monkey
- Tripmaster Monkey Wittman uses theatre throughout the book Tripmaster Monkey to get back to his cultural roots and Asian culture. He is trying to find himself through theatre and to open up a new avenue for his people. There are numerous examples of this throughout the book as he is writing his play and incorporating the old (legends and myths) with the new (contemporary times). The first significant reference to legend occurs when Wittman is putting his entire night s worth of writing into the incinerator (42). As he does so, he reflects on the arrival of Monkey ...
- 15634: Chinook Salmon
- ... eggs. The hydropower plant's turbines are also very dangerous to young salmon. Many of them are killed by the giant turbines on their way back to the ocean. Killing off many of the salmons new generation. Pollution is also a killer of many Chinook salmon. Pollution caused by sewage, farming, grazing, logging and mining find it's way into our waters. These harmful substances kill many species of fish and ... for the head of the fish to fit through, and then the mesh gets caught in the fish's gills. Others are designed to circle around a school of fish and then is drawn shut. New technologies have developed factory stern trawlers which easily haul netloads of up to 100 metric tons of fish. However, when catching the salmon, fisherman use pound nets to catch the fish on their way to ...
- 15635: Media Mergers
- ... only a few men over what is sent into American’s households. Now that networks are allowed to own their own programs, information flow could be corrupted beyond recognition. Should the people of the free world be wary of what these mergers have in store? I would have to answer that with a definite yes, (unless of course I was hired by one of the big five). Scenario: A crude oil tanker crashes into a port off the coast of Africa. The oil spills into the water, killing millions of animals, land and sea alike. These sea animals are vital to the ecology of the world, but nothing can be done to save them now. If it just so happens that ABC reporters are the first and only ones to find out about this catastrophe, nobody will ever know it happened ...
- 15636: Theme and Summary of The Color Purple
- ... black buisnesswoman. There seemed to be numerous smaller themes throughout the book. One such theme would be the rejection of the christian or “white mans god”. Thanks in part to Shug Avery and Nettie, a new kind of god is introduced and is a great comfort to all the women. Cellie’s last leetter is written to this kind of god, which is thought to be a god of nature, stars ... chief agent of her redemption” (Smith 20). In the book there were a few symbols which really stood out. The first of these would be the “Pants-making buisness” that Celie starts. This symbolizes her new independence and her breaking away from her old lifestyle. Another symbol was the “roofleaf” this symbolized shelter form the white englishmen. The leaves that they put on their houses shelter then from the rail and ...
- 15637: Book Review of Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squardron
- ... the Rebel's secret base. The setting then moves to a swamp planet by the name of Imdaar. The setting then moves to Imperial headquarters on the planet of Coruscant. Plot Summary : Corran and his new partners are given a limited amount of training time and are sent out on a mission in just weeks of forming the new Rogue Squadron X-wing fighter group. This book switches the first-person perspective between Corran and Kirtan Loor. While Corran and the Rogue Squadron are off fighting TIE fighters and Star Destroyers, Kirtan is hunting ...
- 15638: Book Review of Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squardron
- ... the Rebel's secret base. The setting then moves to a swamp planet by the name of Imdaar. The setting then moves to Imperial headquarters on the planet of Coruscant. Plot Summary : Corran and his new partners are given a limited amount of training time and are sent out on a mission in just weeks of forming the new Rogue Squadron X-wing fighter group. This book switches the first- person perspective between Corran and Kirtan Loor. While Corran and the Rogue Squadron are off fighting TIE fighters and Star Destroyers, Kirtan is hunting ...
- 15639: Chimpanzee
- ... troglodytes schweinfurthii) are known to kill and eat mammals in various parts of Africa. Monkeys were recorded to be consumed in the Gombe National Park, the Kasakati Basin, and the Budongo Forest. Moreover, there is new evidence that chimpanzees near the Ugalla River of western Tanzania also consume mammals.(Riss, 1990:167) Cannibalism has also been recorded both in the Budongo Forest, Mahale Mountains and the Gombe National Park. In Jane ... to reason that humans should be able to learn from this violence and avoid it? Jane Goodall, in her article labeled, "Life and Death at Gombe" draws a similar conclusion: It is sobering that our new awareness of chimpanzee violence compels us to acknowledge that these ape cousins of ours are even more similar to humans than we thought before.
- 15640: The Hound Of The Baskervilles
- ... two characteristics of Doyle influence his writings. Works Cited "Arthur Conan Doyle." Http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~lmoskowi/Holmes_Quotes/quotes.html., 10/30/98 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1963. Benstock, Bernard. "Arthur Conan Doyle". British Writers. Ed. George Stade. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992 2:159-176
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