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- 1591: Howard Stern: The King of Mass Media or the Anti Christ?
- ... for that matter. He constantly pushes the limits, and is a nuisance to the air waves. His comments about personal life styles, women, different races, and ethnicity are repulsive and detrimental to society. As a child growing up Howard Stern lead a sheltered life confined to his house his mother Ray Stern was over protective and would not let Howard leave the house. The years of confinement from the real world contributed to the way that Stern is today. Stern had no friends as a child because of his mother’s overbearing protective nature. This had a direct effect on Howard Stern. Stern does not know how to treat people, because he had no experience as a child due to his mother’s over protectivness. Ben Stern his father also contributed to the way in which Howard conducts himself in his job and his personal life. Howard says that this was an ...
- 1592: Inexcusable Acts In Literature
- ... He "wished to test his new wife's patience" to see if she truly was as loyal a wife as she seemed to be. He first insulted her with "harsh words", than told her the child that she bore was not good enough because it was not a male. In turn, Gualtieri ordered his wife to give him the child to be killed, to this his wife obeys. His plan, the whole time, was not to kill the child but to send her "to one of his relatives in Bologna" to be raised and educated. When the next child came, Gualtieri took the same monstrous act. The last scheme to his plan was ...
- 1593: Wuthering Heights: Dark and Evil Themes
- ... live apart from each other, but Heathcliff and Catherine: “… they forgot everything the minute they were together again – at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge…” (50). Even so, Hindley’s abuse is almost solely directly towards Heathcliff. The only time Hindley abuses anyone else is when he is drunk. Unlike Hindley, whose reason for his abusive power is his hatred for Heathcliff, Heathcliff’s abuse is directed at avenging past results. Through gambling, Heathcliff is able to acquire all of Hindley’s properties but instead of abusing Hindley, Heathcliff waits for Hindley to die as a drunk person and then ... its masters and a lack of freedom for its inhabitants. Hindley Earnshaw and Heathcliff both use tyranny as weapons to hurt each other and others they despise. Heathcliff’s tyranny is a product of the abuse of Hindley and the insults of Edgar Linton. Hindley’s tyranny is the abuse of power out of hatred for Heathcliff. Emily Bronte’s novel effectively shows what happens when hatred becomes a way ...
- 1594: The Life and Works of Samual Clemens
- ... system of filing the towns peoples fingerprints. He was like by most and was basically a fair and honest man. A young slave woman, Roxy, fearing for her infant slaves life, exchanges her light skinned child with her masters. She feared he would be sold down the river by York Driscoll, her master, when the child was of age. So she made the exchange and raised Driscoll's child as her own, allowing her child to be raised in a good environment with no chance of being sold. When York Driscoll comes up dead, all evidence points to his slave which is presumed ...
- 1595: Frederick Douglass and Slavery
- ... the struggle to overthrow it, as well as the condition of free blacks both before and after the Emancipation, the politics of the Civil War, and the failed promise of Reconstruction the followed. As a child, Douglass was taught how to read by Sophia Auid. She was drawn to the questioning mind of Douglass. Her husband however, put a stop to this stating the teaching of Douglass to read would, "Spoil the best nigger in the world... forever unfitting him for the duties of a slave." As a slave child some experiences were hard to describe. Douglass witnessed, as a child, what he called a "horrible exhibition." He lived with his Aunt in one of the master's corridors. The master was an inhumane slave holder. He would sometimes take great pleasure in whipping a ...
- 1596: The Lorax
- ... choking in the polluted pond, the "Swomee-Swans" overcome by smog, and the "Brown Bar-ba-loots," starved by the loss of the Truffula Fruit. Approaching intense ecological problems in a colorful nonsensical tale. The child-sized Lorax emerges from the stump of the first Truffula tree that is axed as a sort of nature spirit, and he then uses the stump as a type of pulpit to deliver his desperate ... forest. As he delivers the last Truffula seed to the boy, his formerly capitalistic tendencies evolve into a sense of responsibility for the wave of destruction that he initiated. The regretful Once-ler entrusts a child with the responsiblity of using the last of the Truffula seeds wisely. His words are a plea to future generations, challenging the youth to revive the wilderness ravaged by their predecessors. The boy's duty is to plant a seed and care for it, a simple task that would not seem daunting to a child, but maybe too time consuming for an adult. Seuss's characters and suggestions are carefully placed on a child's level, making environmental advocacy seem possible for a person of any age. Seuss does ...
- 1597: The Town of El Dorado Springs
- ... daughter of one of the town's wealthier families, that left El Dorado Springs after high school. I don't remember where she ended up, but she married a black football player and had a child. Well, things didn't work out for her; she ended up getting a divorce, so she brought the child back to El Dorado Springs for the grandparents to raise. They raised him and nothing was ever said about the child because the family was prominent and well to do." Ms. Swager asked me. "Do you know anyone else from the town to interview?" "No, I'm really going into this blind. I've just ...
- 1598: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- ... as he could, not because he wanted to be a martyr, but because he knew nothing else to do. After twelve hours of travel he reached the village where his one-time mistress and his child lived. The woman took him for a night, and the following morning he said a mass to the villagers. Before he could escape the police entered the village. Marcia spoke with him as her husband, and his child, a little girl of seven years old, named him as her father. In that manner he escaped. Meanwhile the police decided to use a new tactic in searching him. As they passed through each village ... place of temporary safety. After traveling for some time, he met an Indian woman who could speak only a few words of Spanish. She wanted to make him understand that something was wrong with her child. He went with her and found that the baby had been shot; his immediate guess was that the American bandit had done the deed. After making rites over the child, Father Montez continued his ...
- 1599: Comparing Dinosours Divorce An
- ... horror stories. It may be misleading and it really has nothing to offer children who are dealing with all the mixed emotions involved with the trauma of divorce and remarriage. It may also cause a child to have high or unrealistic expectations for their own situations. I don't think I would want to read this book to a classroom, because there is no way to know exactly what each child's family is like. If there happens to be a child who does live with a stepparent, and they do not fit this image, this child might begin to feel self conscious or believe that something is wrong with his or her familyAs far as ...
- 1600: Computer Crime
- ... crime on the Internet is increasing dramatically. Many say that copyright law, privacy law, broadcasting law and law against spreading hatred means nothing. There's many different kinds of crime on the Internet, such as child pornography, credit card fraud, software piracy, invading privacy and spreading hatred. There have been many cases of child pornography on the Internet, this is mainly because people find it very easy to transfer images over the Internet without getting caught. Child pornography on the Internet has more the doubled on the Internet since 1990, an example of this is Alan Norton of Calgary who was charged of being part of an international porn ring. Credit ...
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