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- 7111: The Death Penalty
- ... took a literal running jump in order to break his neck but unfortunately the cord broke instead. This caused him to be totally conscious for the rest of the execution. In some parts of the world executions are still performed in keeping with traditions of the Catholic church. In the Philippines, since the church believes that Christ died at 3:00 in the afternoon, every execution done in this country is ... first act geared to more humane executions was passed in 1868 when Britain took execution away from the public eye and performed them behind prison walls. During this time they also started to use the new idea of the penitentiary. This was based on the concept that criminals could be reformed and those who were not sentenced to death were placed in jail for a said amount of time and then ... I personally find these situations very disturbing. It seems that this is something that would have taken place during the 1800's when people were not so civilized. But this is happening in today's world. As close as our nearest neighbor the United States. Although executions take place behind prison walls pro capital punishment groups gather outside of the prison with signs and cheers. In most states the law ...
- 7112: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- ... Princeton, Fitzgerald was quoted as saying to a friend “I want to be the greatest writer who ever lived don't you (Bruccoli, 1981).” In 1917, Fitzgerald joined the army and prepared to fight in World War I. It was soon after his mobilization that he sold his first story to the Smart Set. This was the beginning of Fitzgerald's passion for writing, and at this time Fitzgerald also met ... to go back to Minnesota to start on another book. This book was barely published, but it persuaded Zelda to marry him. So on the third of April of 1920 in St. Patrick's Cathedral New York City they were married. Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise” sold 20,000 copies in one week. Fitzgerald was excited about the money he could make with his writings and this started ... toured Europe and began their history of drinking and destroying their lives. In July, 1922, Fitzgerald wrote a note to a friend saying “I want to see where I stand. I want to write something new something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned (Bruccoli, 1981).” After many attempts at writing a masterpiece, on April 11, 1925, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was released. The Fitzgeralds continued to roam ...
- 7113: Julius Caesar
- Julius Caesar Julius Caesar was a strong leader for the Romans who changed the course of the history of the Greco - Roman world decisively and irreversibly. With his courage and strength he created a strong empire . What happened during his early political career? How did he become such a strong dictator of the Roman Empire? What events led ... his release. He then returned to Rome to engage in a normal political career, starting with the quaetorship which he served in 69-68 BC in the province of Further Spain. In the Roman political world of the sixties the dominance of the optimates was challenged by Pompey and Crassus. The optimates, led by Quintus Lutatius Catulus and Lucius Licinius Lucullus , were chiefly men whose careers had been made by Sulla ... Bibulus, was thrown from the platform and his consular insignia were broken. Bibulus tried to stop Caesar and his supporters from passing any further law but was only able to postpone the creation of the new laws by saying that the skies would not permit it because there was stormy weather and they were very superstitious. Caesar disregarded Bibulus' behavior and the remainder of the legislative program of the triumvirate ...
- 7114: The Writing of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... literature. He is known as the father of the short story. Poe’s works deal with the mind, as well as the bizarre. His terror stories express moral and psychological realities (Vol. 15 591-592 World Book 1990). The way that he uses setting evokes atmosphere and brings out the qualities of the human character. Poe’s most popular stories have a strange, horrible, bizarre setting (Vol. 15 591-592 World Book 1990). He writes Gothic tales that count on atmosphere for their effects. Poe also makes use of the supernatural. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Poe uses the gothic idea of a ... s influence. In “Ligeia” the narrator is obsessed with the woman; he is even scared by her powers that are beyond human. After she dies, he remarries, but is unhappy. He is unhappy because his new wife does not have dark hair as Ligeia did. In the end he believes Rowena, his new wife to be dead, but she rises. It would not have been so terrifying had she not ...
- 7115: The Dow Jones and Company
- The Dow Jones and Company Dow Jones & Company was founded in 1882 by Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is now the world's most vital business and financial news and information service. The DJIA is an index of 30 "blue-chip" US stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tracks the stock performances of about one percent of the companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange floor. It is the oldest continuing US market index at over 100 years. It is called an "average" because it was originally computed by adding up stock prices and dividing by the number of stocks. The methodology remains the same today, but the divisor has been changed to preserve historical continuity. The DJIA is the best-known market indicator in the world because it is old enough that many generations of investors have become accustomed to quoting it, and because the US stock market is the globe's biggest market index. Originally, Charles H. Dow simply ...
- 7116: Imperialism
- ... the gain of both nations. A more powerful nation can better its own economy by sharing the resources of other nations and weaker nations are able to obtain an improved standard of living by learning new technologies that are more advanced than their own. Third world countries can receive food from stronger nations and heathen nations can learn to be civilized from missionaries. Imperialism also follows the laws of social Darwinism, where the fitter and more advanced countries must prosper. An ... as meeting other demands of the Americans. Japans point of view was that by surrendering to the more powerful Americans they could avoid a war that could not be won, and be able to learn new concepts and technologies from the United States that would better their own nation. While Japan was at peace with the United States, a time called the Meiji Period caused newly learned ideas to change ...
- 7117: Major Themes in Faulkner's "Light in August"
- ... Christmas is left confused. Because he has no idea of his origins, he has no idea of self, even to the extent of not being sure of his race. Christmas is thoroughly alone in the world, irredeemably separate from everyone. "Well, here I am" (Faulkner, p.134). This is the first thing The boy Christmas says. A fitting statement on his utter aloneness. While Christmas is emotionally alone, he is not ... scenes, that end in him "entering the negro church as Satan and that is what he has become. Man perverts the best in himself continually." (Gold, p.42). Christmas is drawn into evil, by a world that would never let him be anything else. Christmas symbolizes the cause and demonstrates the effect of man's falling. His dual coloring is an ironic emblem for the divided society in which he moves ... Only this time, Christmas can no longer resist, and is destroyed. He is force to succumb to the "absurdity that Faulkner finds in human life" (Satre, p.198). Works Cited Faulkner, William. Light in August. New York: Vintage Books, 1987 pp. 3- 228. Blotner, Jospeh. Faulkner in the University, Class Conferences at The University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1959 p. 139. Gold, Joseph. William Faulkner: A ...
- 7118: Capital Punishment: For and Against
- ... an appropriate norm for a large, secular, pluralistic, civil society? Can unconditional love for the other that regards the welfare of the neighbor equal with ones own be the ideal expected of the citizens of New York or the United States? Surely, to agree with Reinhold Niebuhr, that would be to hope for an "impossible possibility." Ethical love is a description of ideal life in the family, in the church, and ... ideals defined by justice and the requirements of a moral community. To say it otherwise, ethical love expressed as social policy for large, impersonal societies takes the form of justice. What that norm involves for New York or the United States as secular, pluralistic societies cannot be spelled out here. Within this framework a strong but debatable case can be made for capital punishment. Pragmatically and politically, of course, Christians have ... violent crime. THE CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN WITNESS What, then, is the role of the church? It is two-fold. (1) Ideally and ultimately, followers of Jesus are the salt of the earth, light of the world, leaven in the secular loaf. As such, Christians go into the world with the aim of moving, lifting, and luring society in the direction of ethical love. The vocation of Christians is to hold ...
- 7119: Sylvia Plath Compare To Esther
- ... By the time she entered Smith College on a scholarship in 1950 she already had an impressive list of publications. During the summer following her junior year at Smith, she returned from a stay in New York City where she had been a student ``guest editor'' at Mademoiselle Magazine, Sylvia nearly succeeded in killing herself by swallowing sleeping pills (LW, pg36). After a period of recovery involving electroshock and psychotherapy she ... something else than primarily a housewife, and she uses much of her energy to try to avoid marrying the one she is expected- Buddy Willard”(SP, pg3). Like Sylvia, she did a summer internship in New York City, and suffered a mental collapse, and was institutionalized. While Esther’s future in the novel’s conclusion is still unknown. You can see Esther’s confusion; frustration, paranoia and fear are coming from ... with unbearable situations(kJ, pg.6). Some people cannot cope with it as others can and they feel suicide is an easy way out. It is a known fact that in today’s fast moving world there is too much of competition everywhere in every field(kJ, pg7). Every day we hear cases of adults, teenagers, and even children being pushed around to their best. It brings out the best ...
- 7120: The Yellow Wallpaper: A Woman's Struggle
- ... complains about the wallpaper (Kennedy et al. 424,425). In Charlotte Bronte's novel }{\plain \ul Jane Eyre}{\plain , Mr. Rodchester uses his attic to keep his insane wife hidden from the rest of the world. John's actions can easily be interpreted with the same malice. The narrator's insistence that John is a caring and loving husband draws special attention to the true meanings behind his word's and ... narrator and her husband is portrayed in the necessity for two beds (Kennedy et al. 425). Bechelard goes so far as to say that the house can be seen as a small version of the world and the social problems that burden it (Twentieth 110). Upon close scrutiny of the setting and small detail that the narrator relates, one begins to question the innocence of the quaint "vacation home." While describing ... between the sexes. The setting plays an important role to strengthen the themes and also makes the reader question the innocence and simplicity of what is related to him. Works Cited Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: Signet Classic, 1960 Kennedy, X.J. and Dan Gioia. Literature: an Introduction to Fiction, poetry, and Drama. Sixth Edition. New York: Harper Collins College Publishers Inc., 1995. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 9. ...
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