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- 8611: The Neccessity Of School Attendance
- ... paragraphs I am going to give you a few examples. School Attendance is a preperation for the future. If you don't attend school properly, how are you ever going to function in the real world, where there is little room for attendance error? School attendance can be trying at times when you are a student. There are many demands and deadlines made on students, which are more like the real world than most students realize. In that aspect school attendance is a necessity, it is a building structure in which students are supposed to help build, to enable them to become functional and successful people in the real world. Who decides when students have to go to school? WHo decides when students shouldn't have to go to school? This is a question in which I personally have a lot of difficulty with. ...
- 8612: Candide - Voltaires Writing St
- ... dishonest face. In Candide, Voltaire makes use of several characters to voice his opinion mocking philosophical optimism. On page 1594, Candide is asking a gentleman about whether everything is for the best in the physical world as well as the moral universe. The man replies: ...I believe nothing of the sort. I find that everything goes wrong in our world; that nobody knows his place in society or his duty, what he's doing or what he ought to be doing, and that outside of mealtimes...the rest of the day is spent in useless ... or more companions have set out on a great journey filled with adventures. It is in this journey that Candide's outlook on life is challenged; he is forced to become less optimistic about this world being the best of all possible worlds. Similarly, in The Divine Comedy, Dante goes on a journey as well; through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven with his guide Virgil. Through his travels he is shown ...
- 8613: The Theme of Diversity in Novels
- ... Last night, she might have wondered what undergrounds apart from the couple she knew of communicated by WASTE system. By sunrise she could legitimately ask what undergrounds didn't." (Pynchon 124) This is extremely different world can be thought of as factitious. The diversity in The Crying of Lot 49, is a slightly different form, it is seen as an entirely different world as the one we think of on a regular basis. The underground mail system functions on its own without anyone knowing anything about it. This proposes the question of whether it is completely a solipsism in Oedipa's mind. She is an outcast in her society and is trying to investigate about the underground mail system. Her diverse world that she lives in is completely not as society tends to portray daily activities. Maus I, A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds History, written by Art Speigelman, creates a society that a present ...
- 8614: Stressed With Stress
- ... events such as the death of a loved one seem to cause enough distress to lower the body's resistance to disease. Something not so obvious though, is that even positive things such as a new job or a new baby in the house, can also worsen a person's ability to fight off disease. Below is a chart that some social scientists have devised. It is a list of life events rating the stressfulness ... Marriage 50 Being fired at work 47 Marital reconciliation with mate 45 Retirement from work 45 Major change in the health or behavior of a family member 44 Pregnancy 40 Sexual difficulties 39 Gaining a new family member (e.g., through birth, adoption, moving in, etc.) 39 Major business readjustment (e.g., merger, reorganization, bankruptcy, etc.) 39 Major change in financial state (e.g., a lot worse off or a ...
- 8615: Knowledge is Power: How To Buy A Computer
- ... That means that even if the consumer pays a large premium for the fastest possible system, he may not see a corresponding increase in performance. Buying the latest computer system is like buying a fancy new car. One pays a high premium just to get the newest model. When the consumer drives the car out of the showroom, it becomes a used car, and its value goes down several thousand dollars. Similarly, when a new computer model comes out in a few weeks, his "latest and greatest" becomes a has-been, and its value plummets. Some people think that if they only buy the most powerful computer available, they will ... about $200, including installation. The resulting computer is fast enough to run any of today's software, and the price was a lot less than Intel charges for its "Overdrive" chips, which add a fast new processor to a current (slow) motherboard. The reason I was able to perform the upgrade so inexpensively is that the original computer had an industry-standard sized motherboard in a roomy mini-tower case. ...
- 8616: Global Warning
- As the world's expanding population burns large quantities of fossil fuels and simultaneously cuts down large expanses of forests worldwide, the concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases are building up in the atmosphere. "The green house ... expanding oceans may cause floods." The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts that there will be an increase in sea level by the year 2100 of 1.5 feet . "Twenty Five percent of the worlds population lives less than 1.1 meters above see level." The IPCC also predicts that there will be " droughts, heat waves, expanding deserts, ecosystem disruption and increasingly severe weather", as well as the productivity ... of twenty percent below 1990 levels would cause a drop in the U.S. Gross Domestic Product by 1 to 2 percent". "As great as the challenge of reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the industrialized world is, the challenge of reductions in the rapidly industrializing developing countries is huge." By the year 2030, China is expected to be the largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world . We cannot address ...
- 8617: Perfect Day For A Bananafish,
- ... People who have never faced the horrible images lack the understanding and compassion needed for a war veteran to reestablish themselves. The alienation an individual suffers from family and friends thrusts them further into a world of confusion, forcing them to take drastic actions to find peace. The effects of war have the capacity to undermine the belief system that a person once lived by, cuasing them to question every aspect of their life. J.D. Salinger eloquently places the reader into the life of Seymour Glass at a time when he is struggling to find peace in his life after returning home from World War II, in the short story, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish." Seymour's struggle emanates from the psychological effects of the war, alienation from society, lack of compassion and understanding from his peers, and the lack of innocence he finds in the materialistic post-war society he returns home to. Seymour Glass is a veteran of World War II, who is caught in a tangled emotional web. The horrors of the war have left him reeling from post traumatic stress disorder. Once a strong, spiritual man who thrived on innocence and ...
- 8618: War of the Worlds
- ... think back on the past and we hear about how wild the twins were and how their father helped them when there were in trouble. The problem was that the twins wanted to change the world and therefor wanted to speak in the Gurudware. The twins said some thing, which specially the men didn't like. Therefor the father had to save them from the angry men. In the end of ... In this case the twins learned from the situation and discorvered thart not all Indian women have a choice. This situation could be the reason way the twins wnated to change the system or the world. The title War of the Worlds could tell us that the twins have started a war which should change the world. Or maybe change it to another world - a westen world. I would say that the writher wants us the believe that you can achieve many good things if you are ready to fight for ...
- 8619: Women of the Civil War
- ... time before her death, she petitioned for a veteran's pension. Two years later the pension was granted to her by Congress. Some women did not dress up as men to fight. Southren women in New Orleans despised the Yankee men that occupied their city. They spit on, cursed at, and even emptied their chamber pots on Yankee soldiers whenever they got the chance. Because these women were of the upper class, the officers were reluctant to punish these ladies. General Order No. 28 was put into effect by Benjamin Butler, the Union major general in charge of keeping peace in New Orleans. The order said that women who insulted Yankee soilders would be treated as a woman of the town. This terrified the ladies so much, that no officer had to carry out the order's ... The Battle of the Handkerchiefs refers to a tale about a group of outspoken Confederate women and some Union officers. When a group of Confederate captives was being shipped to Baton Rouge, the women of New Orleans threw a levee to show their sympathies. The mob of women waved parasols and handkerchiefs and refused to disband. The Union officers had a hard time controlling the riot. Southern newspapers ridiculed the ...
- 8620: U.S. Wage Trends
- ... competition, technology, deregulation, the decline of unions and defense cuts technology is probably the most critical. It has favored the educated and the skilled, says M. B. Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report (7/31/95). Since 1973, wages adjusted for inflation have declined by about a quarter for high school dropouts, by a sixth for high school graduates, and by about 7% for those with some ... under the age of 18. This government policy was conducive to our economic markets, and allowed our country to prosper from 1950 through 1970. Now, our own prosperity has moved us into a highly technical world, that requires highly skilled labor. The natural answer to this problem, is that the U.S. Government's education policy must keep pace with the demands of the highly technical job market. If a middle ... a college diploma, as it was for the children of the 70's to get a high school diploma. This brings me to the issue of our country's political process, in a technologically advanced world. Voting & Poisoned Political Process in The U.S. The advance of mass communication is natural in a technologically advanced society. In our country's short history, we have seen the development of the printing ...
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