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- 3761: The Sun Also Rises 4
- ... Generation; specifically, on one man named Jake Barnes. This novel is titled "The Sun Also Rises". The Lost Generation is a group of people left feeling emotionally isolated in society due to the effects of World War I. Although most see the physical effects of the war, the emotional effects left a greater void in the hearts of many. This is what "The Sun Also Rises" deals with throughout its pages. The narrator, Jake Barnes, is scarred both emotionally and physically by World War I. He spends most of his life trying to repress his pain and fill the void he feels inside; he does this in many different ways. The first way Jake tries to fill the void inside of him is through a large consumption of alcohol. He uses alcohol in order to repress the emotional distress he feels. Jake receives an injury in World War I that leaves him impotent, which is the main reason he has this overwhelming void in his soul. His masculinity is taken, and now he believes he is less of a person because ...
- 3762: The Power of the Situation
- ... their society and step beyond their social roles? The answer can best be illustrated by considering at an experiment preformed 20 years ago in Stanford, California. "The Stanford Prison Experiment (Haney & Zimbardo, 1977) created a new "social reality" in which the norms of good behavior were overwhelmed by the dynamics of the situation." (Zimbardo 586). In the same sense, the outcome of the verdicts, which was totally unexpected by those who most identified with Rodney King, created a new social reality, a society which does not deliver justice to blacks and minorities in their minds. Just as the Stanford students radically altered their mind-set to adapt to the situation, the rioters disregarded the norms of society because they were overwhelmed with the new social reality created by the outcome of the Rodney King case. Once a few members of the community began committing crimes, those who identified with their view of social reality and shared the same ...
- 3763: The Internet, Pornography, and Children
- ... nor is it a single service. The Internet is not owned by or governed by anyone. It exists solely through the support of the companies and institutions that access it. Though the Internet seems relatively new, its roots actually start in the 1960s. In 1969, the Department of Defense started the “ARPANET” project. ARPANET was a decentralized computer network that was used to link military researchers at four universities. The Internet later evolved out of ARPANET. Funding from the National Science Foundation in the 1980s eventually led to the Internet being opened to commercial traffic. Services provided over the Internet include the World Wide Web, electronic mail (the most popular service), Newsgroups, and Chat. For one computer to communicate with another computer on the Internet, both computers must be connected to the Internet. Connection to the Internet can ... or under the age of 18. Even though the general statutes regarding child pornography would seem to already adequately cover the Internet, the laws in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Virginia go further. These laws include sections concerning the distribution of child pornography and/or the sale of pornography to minors via computers or computer storage devices. For example, Oklahoma ...
- 3764: Slang in America
- ... of the common people (MacNeil 143). Change in the grammar and diction of a language is natural, and English is always confronted with changes. Among them are the use of slang, clipped word endings, and new dialects. Some Conservatives do not like changes because they claim that standard English is a perfect language; they do not want to corrupt it. Others simply do not like change. Neither group of Conservatives has any new arguments, and nothing to fear from change. Slang worries Conservatives the most because it affects the vocabulary of English. American English, especially, is always adding new words to its vocabulary for social, scientific, or artistic reasons. The scientific and artistic words do not bother these people; only the social, or slang, words do. Slang is usually created by children or ...
- 3765: The Women Of Jane Austen
- ... quo of her time: Marriage, almost inevitably the narrative event that constitutes a happy ending, represents in their view a submission to a masculine narrative imperative that has traditionally allotted women love and men the world (Newman 693). In reality, Austen can not accurately be evaluated as an author (or feminist subversive) without first examining the eighteenth century English society in which she lived and placed her heroines. Watt says that ... her sister, she fulfill[s] her obligations as a daughter, a sister, and a member of society while trying to control the anguish of disappointed love (45). In most of her dealings with the outside world, Elinor represents the sense side of the equation. Her sister, Marianne, is quite different. Marianne, according to Liddell, lays an undue stress on the feelings and is blinded to reality by her overwhelming tide of ... that forces her to face the irrational, emotional side of herself her heart. She realizes that there are things, especially significant people, that are important enough for which one should disregard perceived social expectations. This new understanding of the proper place for emotion enables her to sob in front of Edward when he tells her that his brother, Robert, has married Lucy Steele and that he wants to marry her. ...
- 3766: Every Gain There Is A Loss
- ... that humankind fails to pay any attention to is just this; for every gain there is a loss, and we shouldn't try to control all that is natural. Man's dream of a perfect world is devoid of any unhappiness or pain, filled with laughter and peace and well-being. But that world cannot exist. For, without tears, we may not laugh, and without grief, we experience no joy. Living in a three-dimensional world means accepting the two sides to everything. In the book "The Giver" by lois lowery, the authour makes her point very clear. Through the mind of a twelve-year old boy chosen to recieve ...
- 3767: Einstein
- ... characteristic. Einstein’s character was so simple that people were astonished that he was able to deduce such complex theories. His childhood also shows contradictions about his failure in school and rejection to teachers. The world’s genius, Einstein, never settled down in one country nor admired Hitler as most of German people. Although he was a simple and optimistic character his life doesn’t reflect a normal stable attitude. As ... equipment such as dynamos and electrical lamps. He introduced Einstein to the mystery of matter when he gave him a compass at the age of four, which seemed to Einstein that it came from another world as it behaved in such a determined way that it didn’t fit to his into the nature of events. He said “this experience made a deep and lasting impression on me” and he was ... father used to take him at the electromechanical fairs to present his electrical inventions. Perhaps such attitude from Albert’s father had helped him to desire physics and imagine the unknown puzzles of the physical world. However, Albert didn’t see an optimistic world through his mother’s world as he saw through his father’s and hence she didn’t have such impact on him as his father. Einstein ...
- 3768: Eugenics
- Eugenics Throughout the course of time, science has been somehow responsible nearly every time a major concept in society was changed. The early twentieth century is no exception. This was a period of novelty; new inventions, new luxuries, and new ideas. One of these new ideas was the concept of “eugenics,” or genetically improving the overall quality of the human race. It started out seeming like a practical way to eradicate certain genetic deficiencies, ...
- 3769: Truth and Consequences: Taking Advantage of the Loser of WWI
- Truth and Consequences: Taking Advantage of the Loser of WWI Although the costs and strain that World War I placed on the countries involved in it were unimaginable, the peace treaty Germany was forced to sign was neither fair nor just. Millions upon millions of men lost their lives or were wounded ... to reduce the chances of another war. This Covenant of the League of Nations was made the first part of the Treaty of Versailles. Further on in the treaty Germany was forbidden to create any new or maintain any old fortifications on the left and right banks of the Rhineland and Germany was forced to renounce the government of the Saar in favor of the League of Nations as trustee. France ... the war." In plain English, Artice 231 states that Germany has to take the fall for not only its own actions, but for those of its allies. Even though Germany was the major cause of World War I, they should not have had to agree to such a harsh peace treaty. The Treaty of Versailles only proves the old saying 'In war, the loser always pays." Bibliography: 1) Bennett, Geoffrey, ...
- 3770: Creation Story Of The Iroquios
- The Native American Indian tribe called the Iroquois contributed greatly toward America. They have many stories about the world, and how things came to be the way they are. They have one story about the creation of the world. They use oral traditional elements in this story which is represented by nature. They also use a romantic aspect, which is represented by God’s and the super natural. In the beginning there were two worlds. The lower world, and the upper world. Everything existed in total darkness. The upper world was to hold mankind, and the lower world was where all of the monsters lived. A woman gave birth too twins. One ...
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