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- 4311: Overpopulation
- ... on Earth’s life-support systems. Throughout time, humankind has been living as though there are no consequences to its actions. But now, as people of the future, we see what is happening to the world that we live in. Despite all we know, these easily seen problems are still being ignored. Our actions in the past determine the present, and our actions now determine the future. In other words, we ... lack of resources due to of the increasing number of people. Tropical forests cover only 7 percent of the earth’s surface, but it holds over half of all plant and animal species in the world. The rate of destruction of these resources is now so far in excess of their renewable rates that they have effectively been turned into useless land. Although 3/4 of the earth is covered by water, less than one percent is readily available for human use. As the world population increases, this incredibly small amount of water will be the only supply for all humans, plants, and other animals on earth. Once this percent of water lessens even more, the agriculture will suffer, ...
- 4312: Ceremony
- FEAR=DESTRUCTION "They fear They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves." "They will kill the things they fear all the animals the people will starve." "They will fear what they find They will fear the people They kill ... The ancient Indian story that the passages are pulled from also explains how Indian witchery led to the invention of the white people and all the evil inside of them, causing them to destroy the world and everything else that inhabits it. When the wind blew the white people across the ocean, thousands of them in giant boats (Silko 136), they were faced with the unfamiliar culture of the Indian people ... he thinks about killing a fly or any animal for that matter. Old Betonie, the medicine man, recalled a time when the white people were extremely fearful of Indians. He said, "I was at the World’s fair in St. Louis, Missouri, the year they had Geronimo there on display. The white people were scared to death of him. Some of them even wanted him in leg irons" (Silko 122). ...
- 4313: The Narrator and Sam Cavanaugh: Dolls to Control?
- ... keep America pure with whites and not just white paint. Next, the invisible man must walk down a long, pure white hallway. At this time he is a black man symbolically immersed in a white world, a recurring idea of the novel. After receiving his job, the narrator goes to meet Mr. Kimbro. In this scene, Kimbro teaches the narrator how to make the ordinary white paint into "Optic White": Ten ... only to be insulted by Mr. Kimbro. Mr. Kimbro, in no way what so ever, wants any of his workers to think. He just wants them to obey. The white paint may represent the white world, perhaps even America, as alluded to in the company's advertisement. The black formula is what makes the white paint into "Optic White", a much better, whiter, white. The formula, perhaps, represents the behind the ... for the whites so that society persisted as it did in that time period. Another example is when the narrator joins the Brotherhood organization. In order to become a member he must live under a “new name”, “new identity”, move, and have no communication with his family (Ellison 309). During his first Brotherhood meeting, he exclaimed, "I am a new citizen of the country of your vision, a native of ...
- 4314: Robert Frost
- ... after William's childhood hero, Robert E. Lee. Frost's father died from tuberculosis at age thirty-four, in 1885. Isabelle took Robert and his sister back east to Massachusetts. Soon they moved to Salem, New Hampshire, where there was a teaching opening. Robert began to go to school and sit in on his mother’s classes. He soon learned to love language, and eventually went to Lawrence High School, where ... poetry four times (1924, 1931, 1937, 1943) and became the first poet to read a poem at the presidential inauguration of John F. Kennedy. His poetry was based mainly on life and scenery in rural New England, and reflected many values of American society. He died on January 29, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. His epitaph reads: "I had a lovers quarrel with the world." Frost once said, "I guess I must be just an ordinary man" (Cox 5) and though he is, without a doubt, and extraordinary man, there is some truth in the statement. Throughout his poetry, ...
- 4315: Capital Punishment
- ... cruel and unusual punishment. But the court left open the possibility that the death penalty might be imposed for certain crimes and if it was applied according to clear standards. After this decision was made, new capital punishment laws were made to satisfy the Supreme Court's requirements. These laws limit the death penalty to murder and to other specified crimes that result in a person's death. These crimes include ... of capital punishment. Following a number of controversial executions, a statute was put into effect in 1957 that restricted the death penalty to murder. All other offenses were punished by imprisonment. After objections to this new law, an act was passed in 1965 abolishing the death in its entirety. This act remains today in England. In the United States the existence of the death penalty is a matter of state law. Although it was never used as much as England in the 18th century, between 150 and 200 persons were executed each year in the decade before World War II. After the war, the number of executions declined to 50 per year. Doubts about whether the death penalty was constitutional during the 1960s led to a series of Supreme Court decisions. In ...
- 4316: H.g. Wells The Time Machine
- ... care little for each other. "A queer thing I soon discovered about my little hosts, and that was their lack of interest" ( Wells 33 ). Life had become to them nothing but play time with the world a play ground. "The great triumph of humanity I had dreamed took a different shape in my mind. It had been no such triumph of moral education and general cooperation as I had imagined. "Instead ... people of this future time. An Eloi named Wenna was drowning, while the others just watched, the Time Traveler took it upon himself to save her. He befriended her and together they went exploring this new world and this is when the Time Traveler realizes, " No doubt the exquisite beauty of the buildings I saw was the out come of the last surgings of the now purposeless energy of mankind before ...
- 4317: Bad Luck In Love!
- ... her. I fell in love from the first moment I saw her. My father returned from work at his usual time of 5:30 in the afternoon.I ran out to tell him we had new neighbors. He told me he already knew that. He said he had met Mr. Smith on Saturday when I was camping out. He asked if I had met the daughter yet. I told him I ... the local gossip. Mom told me it was getting late. "Why don't you walk Jenny home so she can get ready for bed. It will be a rough day tomorrow, getting to know a new school. I thought, mom if you only knew how much I really wanted to get Jenny ready for bed, you wouldn't have said that. I took the hint though, I offered my arm to ... jean outfit that really showed off her figure. The guys are gonna *censored* when they see me walking her into school. I can see their tongues hanging out now. I'm on top of the world. Jenny didn't seem too happy to see me. She just grunted a mornin', and started walking toward school. I was a little disappointed. We seemed to hit it off so well at the ...
- 4318: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... great dignity. In fulfilling his old promise to Lucie, Carton attains peace; those watching see "the peacefullest man's face ever beheld" at the guillotine. In a prophetic vision, the former "jackal" glimpses a better world rising out of the ashes of revolution, and long life for Lucie and her family--made possible by his sacrifice. This argument also links Carton's death with Christian sacrifice and love. When Carton makes his decision to die, the New Testament verse beginning "I am the Resurrection and the Life" nearly becomes his theme song. The words are repeated a last time at the moment Carton dies. In what sense may we see Carton's ... a member of your own family, multiply your differences by ten and you'll understand the relationship between Charles Darnay and his uncle. The two men live in different philosophical worlds. Young Darnay signals the new, progressive order (though you'll see that he's never tagged a revolutionary); the older Marquis sticks to the old, wicked ways. The resemblance between Darnay and Sydney Carton is so marked that it ...
- 4319: A Lesson Before Dying
- ... a crime, and though he did not commit it, he is sentenced to death as a "hog" a word that denies any sense of worth or fragment of dignity he may have possessed in a world ruled by oppressive white bigots. Jefferson is at an even greater loss as he has no education and after the conviction he doubts that God can even exist in a world that would send an innocent man to his death. It is clear that Jefferson does not believe he has any value. " ‘I’m an old hog. Just an old hog they fattening up to kill ... for a greater meaning and a higher power, which allowed them to begin to think not of what white men thought of them, but rather what God and what they thought of themselves. With this new way of thinking, they forged a bond and both began to understand the simple heroic act of resistance in defying the expectation of white society that they were members of a lesser race " ‘Do ...
- 4320: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- ... to walk with crutches for the rest of her life. By her death at the age of 39, Flannery O’Connor won a prominent place in modern American literature. She was an anomaly among post-World War II writers, a Roman Catholic from the Bible–Belt South, whose stated purpose was to reveal the mystery of God’s grace in everyday life. Aware that few readers shared her faith, O’Connor ... harder or less sentimental than Christian realism"(qtd. In Harris & Fitzerald 336). O’Connor likes to focus on the rough, often ugly memories of the place she knew best, the rural South. She saw her world as sacrament, brushed with grace, twisted, beaten, but still straining toward her belief in God. The settings of her stories and novels are either Georgia or Tennessee, often backwoods or rural areas. She gives her ... her hand and says, "Why you’re one of my babies" The Misfit, who is affected by what she says, jumps back and shoots her three times. Bibliography Bibliography Bloom, Harold. (1986). Modern Critical Views. New York : Chelsea House. Blythe, Hal.(1999).Flannery Mary O’Connor Biography. The Explicator. [online]. . Candee,Marjorie. (Eds.). (1958). Current Biography Yearbook. New York: H.W. Wilson Company. DiYanni, Robert. (1983).Literature Reading Fiction, Poetry, ...
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