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- 1531: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
- The Effects of One Person Upon The World From an apprehensive child growing up in a small town in Arkansas, Maya Angelou has evolved into an influential, wise, and respected woman. She has overcome obstacles and has grown into one of the élite intellectual people of this ... and as a result, became dormant towards society. This was such a traumatizing event in her life that struck her obviously, in a physical sense, but moreover, mentally. Where she was once a brilliant outgoing child, she became a quiet, somber adult. As a result of this, Mrs. Flowers stepped in and told Maya to, bear in mind, language is man s way of communicating with his fellow man and it ... it brings. Earlier in Angelou s life, she was interested in comics and some poetry, but now a new outlook was imposed upon her, the power literature. This discovery changed her life drastically. From a child who once wished for a super hero to rescue her from the monster who was molesting her, Maya now realized the truth and what can be solved through knowledge and what can t be ...
- 1532: Killer Instinct
- ... you any presents if you don' hurry home for lunch." "OK. But I brought something for you." "Something for me? Well! Maybe it's MY birthday today," he'd chuckle softly. Sometimes it was a child's painting, still damp from the excess of watercolours used. Sometimes a treasured marble, a baseball card, or a stick of gum, the wrapper sticky from being clutched too long on a warm day. But ... voice trembled as he gestured with the handkerchief. "Enough talking," snapped the gunman. He reached over towards Janice, and before she could react, he grabbed the little girl and pulled her towards him. "Billy," the child's voice rose to a terrified wail."I want my Mommy." Billy knew her only as Karen. Just two days before, she'd passed a bunch of dandelions to him through the marina fence. "It ... t be...." "Hey!", screamed the ski-mask. "Is anybody listening to me? You got five seconds, you hear me? Five seconds to deliver, or the brat gets it." He aimed the pistol at the struggling child's head. "Five.....four..." "Billy! I want my Mommy. Please....." "Three......two....." Billy began his shuffling dance, head bobbing and weaving, the familiar incatation rolling easily from his lips... "Useta be a fighter. Coulda ...
- 1533: Mill's Utilitarianism: Sacrifice the Innocent For The Common Good?
- ... It is generally good for society to reward people for doing right and to punish them for doing wrong. Using this belief in the value of justice, a utilitarian would have more trouble torturing the child of the terrorist than with torturing the terrorist. The dilemma would be similar to that of precedent. A utilitarian would ask how much it will harm society's faith in the punishment of evildoers and the protection of the innocent to torture the child. The sum of the consequences would then be compared to the sum of the welfare considerations to decides whether or not to torture the terrorist and whether or not to torture the child of the terrorist. In some way, these things must therefore all be comparable and assigned weights; however, Utilitarianism offers no method of comparison. There must be some percentage of consideration given to the harmful ...
- 1534: Shiloh
- ... his time at home sitting around watching Donahue and making needlepoint pillow cases. Two stereotypes that are indignant to most housewives. I believe that this marriage was doomed from the very beginning. They conceived a child out of wedlock when they were both eighteen years of age, and married, more out of respect for the baby and family, than out of love; I believe that it was their intent to do the right thing. The state of their marriage further declined when their child, Randy, died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) while they were watching a movie at the local drive-in. \\"They never speak about their memories of Randy, which have almost faded....\\" shows that they never talked about the death of their child, thus never coming to terms with this tragic situation. The climax of their failing marriage began when Leroy\\'s rig jack-knifed while in Missouri. Leroy and Norma Jean were always able to dismiss ...
- 1535: The Inevitable Inequality in Modern Democracy
- ... it is our environments that will have the ultimate impact on the kinds of individuals that we will become, we have failed to discuss the magnitude of the difference in these environments. For example, a child who is born into poverty will have to face a completely different environment while growing up than a child who is born into wealth. The experiences associated with poverty present real difficulties, while the experiences associated with wealth present remarkable opportunities. Thus, wealth is the essential difference between two otherwise ‘equal’ human beings. The ... the choice not to educate oneself, was what created eventual economic disparity. This is not true. A family that lives from one paycheck to the next, may not be able to afford to send their child to university or college. Thus, by “lacking accessibility to power resources, certain classes of people will chronically gain a deficient share of the social desiderata.” (Parenti 1994, 185) In consequence, frequently there is no ...
- 1536: Drugs In Football Making An Ap
- ... shrinking testicles, facial hair in women, and madness (psychosis). Those are just a few con's though. Paul Lowe, an all-pro running back for the San Diego Chargers, testified before the Subcommittee on Drug Abuse and Alcoholism of the California State Legislature. Lowe stated, "we had to take steroids at lunchtime, the trainer would put them on a little saucer and prescribe for us to take them, and if not ... the outstanding, All-American football player, Curt Marsh. Marsh was forced to retire with a severe ankle injury many years ago. Since then, he has spoken to more than 500,000 students on violence, substance abuse prevention, leadership, and positive thinking. Carl Eller, a former All-Pro defensive linemen for the Minnesota Vikings, had a $4,000-a-week cocaine problem. When he started to see opposing players sneer at him ... word on how harmful drug-use is. Now that the future generation has hope, is there hope for the users and abusers now? Again, the answer is yes. The NFL has a very successful "Substance Abuse Policy." Under the program, players are given drug test while in physical and psychological treatment, but the results are used for treatment, not disciplinary reasons. Narcotics Anonymous is another very successful, international community based ...
- 1537: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- ... head under a truck while a gray monkey about a foot high, chained to a small chinaberry tree, chattered nearby," (140). O'Connor's satirical irony is apparent in the scene with the little "Negro child." While the grandmother tries to beautify this poor pant-less black child living in a shack, O'Connor does not allow the reader to see the beautiful picture that the grandmother wants to paint. "...'Oh look at the cute little pickaninny!' she said pointing to a Negro child standing in the door of a shack. 'Wouldn't that make a picture, now?' she asked and they all turned and looked at the little Negro out of the back window. He waved. 'He ...
- 1538: Air Bags 2
- ... a seat belt. Small children and airbags don t mix. Children shouldn t be in the front seat because the force of the airbag is usually too much for them. Never put a rear facing child seat in the front seat of the car. If the airbag goes off, the seat will be pushed forward and the child may get squeezed between the back of the seat and the airbag. Children are less likely to be killed in a crash if they are in the back seat. If someone must put a child in the front seat, they may want to have an on/off switch for the airbag installed on the passenger side. On/off switches are used to prevent the airbag from going off in ...
- 1539: Steps To A Better Life
- ... States. Quitting smoking cuts the risk of lung cancer, many other cancers, heart disease, stroke, other lung diseases, and other respiratory illnesses. Quitting smoking, while pregnant, also increases the chances of survival for the unborn child. Quitting helps a person live a higher quality of life. Depending on how a person chooses to quit smoking, it can be done in under a month, cold turkey or not. Smoking harms and influences ... and going up to 18 months of age, secondhand smoke is associated with as many as 300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia each year. Second hand smoke from a parent's cigarette expands a child's chances for middle ear problems, causes coughing and wheezing, and worsens asthma conditions. If both parents smoke, a teenager is more than twice as likely to smoke than a young person whose parents are nonsmokers. In households where only one parent smokes, young people are also more likely to start smoking. Smoking during pregnancy can cause serious health problems to an unborn child. Smoking during pregnancy accounts for an estimated 20 - 30% of low birth weight babies, up to 14% of pre-term deliveries and 10% of all infant deaths! If all women quit smoking during pregnancy, ...
- 1540: Chernobyl
- ... up DNA. No one knows the genetic purpose, if any, of minisatellites, but their variation from person to person enables scientists to use them as the basis of so-called genetic fingerprinting”.(Dubrova )Because a child's DNA represents a combination of germline DNA from both parents, any sequence in the child that does not have either parents DNA in it, must result from a germline mutation. Dubrova's team therefore looked for minisatelite sequences in the children's DNA that did not appear in either of ... twice the number of mutations in children of exposed Belarus parents as in U.K. children. “We are 99 percent sure that these are real germline mutations and they have been passed from parent to child,”(Dubrova ) Other researchers, such as James Neel of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a 40 year veteran of the Hiroshima research, are not so sure. “I am very doubtful that the findings ...
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