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- 18201: How Is The Greek Idea of a Sound Mind and Body Essential for The Successful Characters of The Odyssey?
- ... Only Nestor and I were superior. When we met our enemies in battle, he did not lag among the crowd or in the scrimmage, but showed himself well in the front, the bravest of the brave: many a man killed in fair fight. {page 134}. Achilles was strong and a great warrior once, but now, because he did not possess a sound mind, he lost the one real thing that meant ...
- 18202: Civil War 2
- ... to keeping the bullet on a straighter course this expansion minimized the escape of gas, which increased its range. The Union could have taken advantage of the machine gun but, again were reluctant to try new weapons. In June of 1861 J.D. Mills showed President Lincoln his machine gun. It was mounted on wheels and had a tray that held cartridges which dropped into the rotating cylinder as one turned ...
- 18203: Bornstein
- Although Bornstein argues that gender is entirely socially constructed I find it hard to believe that he is completely correct. I do agree that gender is influenced by the world we are born into. I understand that from birth we are partially programmed by our society to become something, but I do not agree that this is the determining factor in what we become as ...
- 18204: Cold War Book Review
- ... her censor, Drakulic approaches each aspect of communist control with the same importance. Her stories focus on one topic at a time and colorful descriptions fill the pages. For example, Drakulic describes the influence her new doll had on her childhood ideas of the status of women: nobody told us why a doll (a girl, a woman) had to be pretty. We just knew it had to be so. We painted ...
- 18205: Queers
- ... threatened by the violence but as the table shows, homosexuals have not been through anything remotely close to what African Americans have been through. Homosexuals also have no right to special privileges, because according to world renowned scientists, homosexuality is not an immutable characteristic such as skin color or eye color (Schmidt 225). For example, Thomas Schmidt says Were born man, woman, and sexual beings. We learn our sexual preferences ...
- 18206: Daddy, Vampires, Black Hearts ( an insite into a life )
- ... do not do" and "Daddy, daddy, you bastard". Fear from her childhood moves her in directions that will take her far from herself. In one line in the poem she brings us starkly into the world of a child's fear. She uses words that sound like the words of a child staring out at us from behind "a bardwire snare" "I have always been scared of you." This poem portrays ...
- 18207: Free Will Vs. Determinism
- ... infer in our minds that A causes B, but there is no actual proof, just regularities. That is all there is to causation. Human behavior shows just as much regularity as events in the natural world, so we have just as much reason to say that our behavior is determined. This is natural necessity. Where people go wrong in thinking that we are not determined is that they think of causation ...
- 18208: Race
- ... or exterminat Frasier 2 members of the group. In the United States, prejudice has led to the lynching of blacks, bombing of synagogues, the massacre of Native Americans, the illegal imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the harassment of homosexuals, and other violent acts against minority groups. But sometimes people who have prejudiced attitudes are prevented from discriminating because of the law, or social convention, or other interests. Even ...
- 18209: Sickle Cell Anemia
- ... died" (Ferraro, Newspaper Article) What the doctors did was replaced the boy's bone marrow with stem cells taken from the umbilical cord blood of an infant not related to him. Dr. Ruby Bellevue of New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn has patient that he wants to do the transplant procedure on, but he is waiting for more studies to come out to see what the long-term effects are. Some ...
- 18210: The Myth of Perfection
- ... Nora from "A Doll's House" tries to live up to her husband's expectations of a perfect wife, she builds up enough self-hate to leave everything that she loves and start an entirely new life. Striving to be this ideal person, like attempting to acquire any other impossible goal, is damaging to the characters in both cases. The fortunes of these characters illustrate the harm in attempting to achieve ...
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