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- 6441: Green Grass Running Water
- ... a celebration where the sacrifice of past difficulties and misdirected ideals and/or paths may cause the participants to gain strength and understanding in their lives . This is also a time to celebrate how the world was once created and to insure harmony between all living things. Thomas King proves this thesis using the characters Alberta, and Lionel. Alberta Frank is a Native American woman teaching native studies to a small ... a part of his culture. The Sun Dance does not allow any form of recording devices or cameras. It is not until Lionel runs into "four old Indians" who are "trying to fix up the world," that he begins to put aside the "white man" in him, "fix up" his past mistakes and community image. After he meets the four Indians, he begins to realize all of the things his family ... is important and his own integrity is worth fighting for, opens him up to the idea of once again participating in the Sun Dance. When his uncle asks "If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?," he responds that most of his life he had been "here. In Blossom." With that, Lionel is taken off and told that it is about time he went "Native," he ...
- 6442: The Problem Of Personal Identi
- ... So in this case, if you had twins you would say that they are the same. Some philosophers say that we are never identical from moment to moment, because we are always changing and having new thoughts and memories in our brains every second. Personal identity cannot help with the Tommy Vladek case, because you can say that Tommy s physical appearance has not changed at all. But then you could ... your soul goes into another body, and you continue to live. However, if this were the case then the survivor of the operation would be Sam because he is the one who is acquiring the new body. The biggest problem with the theory of body transfer, is self-identity. Let s say you were the best basketball player in the world, and one-day you woke up in the morning with someone else s body. Even if you could play the same and think the same, you would still have a very hard time trying ...
- 6443: Faustus
- ... limits are for human power and knowledge and ponder what would happen if one man tried to exceed those limits. The play opens up with Faustus, who is supposedly the most learned man in the world, talking about how he has mastered every field of knowledge known to man. He is bored with theology, finding that man is doomed no matter what happens, and he has become a master physician, curing ... irony in his downfall. He refu Secondly, Faustus originally asks Mephistophilis and Satan for the power to do anything, “be it to make the moon drop from her sphere / Or the ocean to overwhelm the world” (1.3.38-39). He is even promised this power for twenty-four years if he sells his soul to Satan. However, when he is given his extraordinary power, he resorts to using it for ... or he would have realized that even after he had committed blasphemy by conjuring spirits, he could have turned back to God. He also is a tragic hero because of his methods of using his new power. Instead of using it to attain the secrets of the universe, he plays petty tricks and tomfoolery on various important people around the world, including the pope and the German emperor. Finally, he ...
- 6444: Othello - Manipulation To Gain Power
- ... Desdemona to Othello. He awakes Brabantio by saying "Awake! What, ho, Brabantio! Thieves! Thieves! Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags! Thieves! Thieves!" (I.i.76-78) By saying this, Iago shows a new perspective to Brabantio by insinuating that Othello has stolen his daughter. Iago reinforces this when he say's, Zounds, sir, y'are robbed! For shame. Put on your gown! Your heart is burst, you have ... snorting citizens with the bell, Or else the devil will make you a grandsire of you. Arise, I say! (I.i.83-89) After hearing Iago speak, Brabantio has had his eyes open to a new perspective of the situation. Iago then begins to uses a new manipulative strategy, he starts using bestiality to describe Othello. Iago calls Othello a "Barbary horse" and then says, Brabantio's grandsons will neigh to him and his relatives will be coursers (I.i.108- ...
- 6445: Juvenile Crime
- ... children that are more likely to become persistent offenders, are: highly impulsive and hyperactive, with relatively low intelligence and school attainment. A commission was formed to examine what was known about violence from across the world. The commission appointed scientists, leaders of business, the women's movement and trade unionists, and supplied them with a budget and staff to bring the scientific studies together. The following factors were the first six ... the Hatch and McCollum bills would give states financial assistance to help them combat juvenile crime. The McCollum bill would replace the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) with a new Office of Juvenile Crime Control. In addition to serving as a clearinghouse for information disseminated to state officials, this office would make $500 million available to the states: $250 million in the form of "incentive ... by using their police forces more effectively, and by integrating community police work with the efforts of community leaders and other agencies in the criminal justice system. This is happening already in such localities as New York City, Charleston, and South Carolina. The McCollum bill would help the states by removing the federal mandates that prevent them from adopting many innovative solutions and by providing funds for effective new programs, ...
- 6446: On Man Ray’s Violin D’Ingres
- ... ideals about what “strait photography” should be. While American schools of photography believed that an art photograph should only be made with a large negative with maximum depth of field, Europeans were busy experimenting with new uses of the medium as well as experimenting with altering the image in serious ways to change the meaning. Man Ray was born the son of Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia. He moved to Brooklyn where he was able to learn a broad scope of the arts and have access to all of New York’s resources. There he met Steiglitz and became interested in the 291-gallery crowd, but it was when he became acquainted with New York City’s Dadaists that exploration of his self such as this became possible. The time this photograph was taken explains much about why it was taken. The period between the world wars was ...
- 6447: Cassablanca
- ... 1942, the year of the creation of one of the most historical movies known to date. That movie, Casablanca, based on the play "Everybody Wants to go to Rick's", still captivates audiences around the world. The setting of the movie is Casablanca, Morocco during the second world war. Casablanca is the jump off point to get to Spain and then to America, but refugees must obtain a fairly costly exit Visa to get onto the plane. In the middle of all this ... even till the last few moments of the movie but despite all that, it made it bigger than any other movie in it's time. The movie took place in 1942 and was based around world war II which in reality was taking place as they filmed. It was because of the war that Rick and Ilsa were separated, and this was an idea that was not so far fetched ...
- 6448: Early Flight
- ... on November 28, 1896, aerodrome number six flew for a good three-quarters of a mile. Langley was very happy about the success that he had with these two aerodromes, he had proven to the world that machined powered flight was possible. At this point, Langley wanted to build a large full-scale model aerodrome but said that he would not because it would take too much time, effort, and money ... pumped out eight horsepower, and that was only for a limited amount of time. Manley then took over the whole project. He tried to modify Blazer’s engine into a radial. Langley now wanted a new engine that was a single motor and could put out twenty-four horsepower. Manley redesigned the engine to meet the new demands of Langley. The engine that Manly redesigned was still a five cylinder, and the motor was completed in December of 1901. This new engine far exceeded any engine around, producing more than fifty ...
- 6449: Prejudice
- ... know I'm joking and so do I. We both think it is funny. By dogs bark at everybody no matter what you look like. My dogs are probably the least prejudice species in the world. It is the Homosapien species that need to figure out how to not be prejudice. Were told that our species is the smartest species yet we do not accept other people of the same species ... beings no matter what color our skin is, or where we come from. It is Francis Bacon who says, "All colors will agree in the dark" (Paige). I personally love back quote. If only the world could be pitch black all the time, and no one could see what color other people were to hold prejudice against them. Unfortunately how likely will the world turn pitch black - probably never? One last personal prejudice of mine is actually a stereotype. When I see Asians, I tell people watch out, crazy driver. Yet my best friend though who is Asian ...
- 6450: Why Are There Poor People
- ... while so many others are lucky to find a scrap of bread in a dumpster. It wasn't until I was about nine or ten when I realized that there were poor people in the world. My family and I had been on our annual trip to New York City to see the Christmas play at Radio City. I didn't understand why all these people kept asking my dad to spare them some change, or why a family was searching through the ... the same life as our family did. Some kids parents didn't have jobs to go to every day, or cars to take them wherever they needed to go, and not every family in the world had breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. He told me that I was very lucky to have all the things that I had, and that millions of kids in the world would die to ...
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