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- 2161: Gun Control
- ... legally. Toughening up gun control laws is not going to reduce crime. Another liberal argument against guns is using their children as the reason for gun control. The liberals will say, Do you want your child to be killed with a gun? That question is absurd. That is like asking if you want you child hit by a bus. Without guns however, how will we be able to protect our families from the criminals that will illegally possess guns? Gun control activists say that waiting periods will reduce the number ... NRA). Children who are properly taught gun-safety measures are less likely to be involved in gun-related accidents or with crime. If an adult in the household has access to a firearm, such a childs life could actually be saved if an intrusion were to take place. As David B. Kopel states, Gun control Advocates are hammering at the issue of children and guns as never before in ...
- 2162: Bipolar Disorder 2
- ... Another problem associated with the use of lithium is experienced by pregnant women. Its use during pregnancy has been associated with birth defects, particularly Ebstein's anomaly. Based on current data, the risk of a child with Ebstein's anomaly being born to a mother who took lithium during her first trimester of pregnancy is about 1 in 8,000, or 2.5 times that of the general population. There are ... of these medications can be used in combination with lithium or in combination with each other. Valproate is especially helpful for patients who are lithium noncompliant, experience rapid-cycling, or have comorbid alcohol or drug abuse. Neuroleptics such as haloperidol or chlorpromazine have also been used to help stabilize manic patients who are highly angered or psychotic. Use of these drugs is often necessary because the response to them are rapid ...
- 2163: Beloved 2
- ... the local spiritual leader, became the driving force in the community, gathering the people together to preach self love and respect. "When warm weather came, Baby Suggs, holy, followed by every black man, woman and child who could make it through, took her great heart to the Clearing..." (Morrison, 87) Twenty days after Sethe's arrival, Stamp Paid brought them two huge buckets of delicious blackberries. With these Baby Suggs and ... into her yard. Because of her fear of returning to slavery and her sense of hopelessness, Sethe resorted to animal brutality, ending her daughter's life so as not to endure one of degradation and abuse. She acted on instinct, never thinking of the consequences and never asking for forgiveness or help. After that nothing was ever the same. "124 shut down and put up with the venom of its ghost ...
- 2164: Light and Darkness Found Within the Gospel of John and in Sophocles' Drama Antigone
- Light and Darkness Found Within the Gospel of John and in Sophocles' Drama Antigone As a child, my world was enraptured by the wonderful Fisher-Price toy known as the Lite-Brite. By inserting multicolored little pegs into their corresponding slots on a detailed guide, I could transform drab, dull, and dark ... two literary works comparable makes them different. While both allow people to embark on the path of light, only the Gospel of John carries the secret to eternal salvation. In a way similar to a child playing with a Lite- Brite, the Gospel of John and Sophocles' character Teiresias allow rainbows of light to exist in a world devoid of color. While both allow the existence of a form of the ... wisdom. Realms of beauty and glory can manifest themselves to individuals who accept the truth and the essence of light as a message from a higher existence. Great joy and pleasure shall come to the child who can find beauty and order in a bleak world full of ignorance and emptiness.
- 2165: Movie: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- ... as a boy Mozart was playing music for the King. At the age of four, Mozart composed his first concerto, at seven, his first symphony, and at twelve, his first opera. He was considered a child prodigy. Salieri wished to become a famous composer, like his idol. However, his father would not allow this. He didn't want his son to be a trained monkey, on tour around Europe performing tricks ... Mozart conducted without notes. Although he recognized that Mozart was a giggling, dirty-minded creature', he was also able to see the genius in him. He couldn't understand why God had chosen a obscene child to be his instrument'. At another time, Mozart's wife presents to Salieri some of his work in an attempt to get him a job as a teacher. Salieri sees that the music sheets have ... Mozart drank too much, he partied all day and composed all night. He disobeyed his father by marrying without permission. He was stressed out. He had bad manners, he was inconsiderate of his wife and child, rude to others, selfish and conceited. He had a horrible financial situation. He spent money he didn't have and had many debts. In other words, the only positive part of his personality was ...
- 2166: Fredrick Douglass 3
- ... the type of wood and the names of these letters.Any boy he met that could write he would challenge them to a writing contest. Frederickwould use the letters he recently learned and told the child to challenge that. He thencopied the Italics in Webster s Spelling Book until he knew them well. All this hard workand years of practice gave Frederick the knowledge to write. After his relocation to Mr ... Frederick refused to doso, and therefore this is where his first of many whippings came from. As an infant, Frederick was separated from his mother. This is common inMaryland in an attempt to destroy the child s relationship with their mother. Theseparated child is placed with an older woman who cannot work. He never saw hismother more than five times, and each time being in the dark. Since she was a field hand,she was unavailable from ...
- 2167: The Importance Of Being Earnes
- ... express their feelings. In contrast, the second group follows a strict moral code, are religious, have high standards and are embarrassed about showing their feelings. Jack is 29 years old yet still acts like a child playing adult game. Gwendolen does not act in an adult way. She only wishes to marry Jack because of his name. Cecily is indeed a child in her playful, irresponsible attitude towards life as is evident to the audience from her first appearance as the pupil of Miss Prism. Cecily behaves like a stubborn child, refusing to work and throwing books. Cecily also plays childish games writing letters to herself and planning her engagement to Ernest shows how she dreams like a little girl. The first group also plays ...
- 2168: Dyslexia
- Growing, developing and learning are the facts of life for all children. Each day children are faced with many new concepts and various challenges. Can you imagine how it feels for a child to face not only new challenges life has, but to face these challenges while living with a learning disability? These challenges are met not just when they begin school either. Students suffer from learning disabilities ... count, but they may have a problem counting objects or money. They can do arithmetic when dealing with numbers only, but when these same numbers are used in a word problem it becomes difficult. The child may have trouble remembering number facts or the times tables. Confusing number symbols so that 3 and 5 get all mixed up are quite common. Because of poor organization, the numbers in an addition column ... Company 1994 Hurford, Daphne. To Read or Not to Read. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. Irlen, Helen. Reading By the Colors. New York: Avery Publishing Group, 1991. Nosek, Kathleen. The Dyslexic Scholar, Helping Your Child Succeed in the School System. Texas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1995. Savage, John. Understanding Reading Problems. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. Wilkins, Angela. What is Dyslexia? http://www.interdys.org/about_dy.stm. May ...
- 2169: A Clockwork Orange: Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
- ... public. This film was best received by the college aged youths of Great Britain. This is a very impressionable time in the life of a person and could influence them into justifying violence and the abuse of women. The British government made the right decision in banning the movie and protecting the ailing moral standards of Great Britain. As stated previously, many scholars believe that A Clockwork Orange was responsible for ... the answer to this question is yes. Human life is worth much more than one man's sarcastic dissertation on violent crime. What will be next--a young girl brutally raped and killed, an innocent child tortured by ruthless villains, and old man shot down in cold blood? One would think a society as educated as ours would recognize the danger in glorifying these films of violence and gore. Our children ...
- 2170: Movie Villains
- ... think in the back of my head that they would come out on top. One villains that totally was intriguing was Noah Cross from Chinatown. He was pure evil committing such crimes as rape, incest, child abuse, murder, conspiracy, kidnapping, and bribery and he actually comes out on top at the end of the movie. The wrong person got shoot and his daughter, which he raped and abused, gets returned to him ...
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