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- 2591: Labor In America
- ... decision was widely accepted. For many years following this decision, unions did not have to fear conspiracy charges. UNION STRUGGLES In the next two decades, unions campaigned for a 10-hour working day and against child labor. A number of state legislatures responded favorably. In 1851, for example, New Jersey passed a law calling for a 10-hour working day in all factories. It also forbade the employment of children under ... day, laws establishing a minimum weekly wage, the use of arbitration rather than strikes to settle disputes, laws to protect the health and safety of industrial workers, equal pay for equal work, an end to child labor under 14 years of age and government ownership of railroads, telegraphs and telephones. It was impossible for the Knights to operate in complete secrecy. Rumors of their activities reached the press. Newspaper stories usually ...
- 2592: J.D. Salinger
- ... of their people in her society. In Franny and Zooey the sense that letting go of your ego is a large step in the right direction when trying to return to the nature of a child. Restoring the childlike qualities are precisely what Franny needed to do and she was absorbing herself in the little green book, entangling herself in her ego, which was quickly becoming inescapable. As religion is so ... sense? I can not answer all of these questions, but there is one reoccurring fact. Salinger is devoted to the preservation of innocence. One might guess that he admires youth. "It is Phobe the playing child whi keeps him from falling to entire destruction."(Hamilton 24). Like when Holden saw the f-word written on the wall, he had to clean it up, and Zooey trying to protect his sister from ...
- 2593: Assisted Suicide Or Euthanasia
- ... under the statue, and 15 of them used the drugs to commit suicide. A report released by the Oregon State Health Division found that the law was working well and had not been subject to abuse (REED A9). The word Euthanasia originated from the Greek language: eu means “good” and thanatos means “death”. The term euthanasia normally means that the person who wishes to commit suicide must initiate the act (WORLD ... requests assistance in dying. For that reason many suffering patients and their families want it to be legalized. The big question is: Who will the set the standards and does it involve the potential for abuse should it become legal? The Mappe’s and DeGrazia’s Biomedical Ethics book, reviewed and used for reference by the Oregon Health Division, contains the proposed clinical criteria for physician-assisted suicide. These are the ...
- 2594: A Dolls House 3
- ... is implying that one of Nora's duties, as his wife is to physically pleasure him at his command. Torvald also does not trust Nora with money, which exemplifies Torvald's treating Nora as a child. Sometimes, Torvald gives Nora some money; he is concerned that she will waste it on candy and pastry. Nora's duties are restricted to caring for the children, doing housework, and working on her needlepoint ... he really loves her. This situation is what prompts Nora to walk out on Torvald. When Torvald tries to make things better with Nora, she explains to him how she had been treated like a child all her life; her father had treated her much the same way Torvald does. Both male superior figures, not only denied her the right to think and act the way she wished, but limited her ...
- 2595: FENCES
- ... broken by this. She couldn’t believe Troy could do this to her. She devoted her life to him and he goes and stabs her in the back. On top of that, Troy had a child with his mistress. The woman died giving birth. Troy asked Rose to take care of the baby. Rose did, what else could she have done? Troy was not a good husband. Troy took care of ... wants the readers to judge Troy, as a bad husband, a bad brother, a bad father and a bad man. I feel this way, too. He cheated on Rose. Then he left her with the child he had with his mistress. He didn’t care at all about Gabriel. He stole money from him and he sent him to an institution. Troy never cared for Cory. He wouldn’t let him ...
- 2596: Thomas More's Utopia
- ... almost prison like rigidity, with even recreation times scheduled. The children are brought up to do what their parents before them did, or they are adopted into another family which practices this trade. If every child had to move into a different family they would have mixed up identities and a chaotic environment would be created. There are no full time students, unless a child is deemed gifted. If people really wanted to study at home there would be many more correspondence classes in modern society. Food choice is even restricted. One has to eat what the whole district eats ...
- 2597: Fate Of Oedipus
- ... he wants to live. He can only live the life that was set up for him. An oracle told his real parents - Laius and Jocasta that Laius would die at the hands of his own child. Out of fear, they pinned Oedipus' ankles and handed him to a shepherd to abandon him to death. " Jocasta: … An oracle came to Laius " (p. 17) to "…to cast upon a deserted mountain path - die."(p. 17). But instead of killing the infant, the shepherd gave him to another shepherd who then gave Oedipus to the King Polybus of Corinth. So this poor child survived to continue his tragic destiny. As Oedipus grows up, he becomes a self-confident, intelligent, and strong willed person. That is the kind of role that is cost for him by destiny. A drunken ...
- 2598: The United States of America vs. Richard M. Nixon
- ... that a president could withhold national security material but insisted that Watergate was a criminal matter. On July 27-30, the House Judiciary Committee recommended that Nixon be impeached on three charges: obstruction of justice, abuse of presidential power, and trying to impede the impeachment process by defying committee subpoenas but rejected the charges of unauthorized, secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969 and his use of public funds to improve his ... congressional support for the president crushed, Richard Nixon became the first President to resign. criminal matter. On July 27-30, the House Judiciary Committee recommended that Nixon be impeached on three charges: obstruction of justice, abuse of presidential power, and trying to impede the impeachment process by defying committee subpoenas but rejected the charges of unauthorized, secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969 and his use of public funds to improve his ...
- 2599: Crime And Punishment 4
- ... have to forgive themselves and take the path of repentance. Otherwise, rationality at its best turns a man into a tyrant, on a smaller scale than the Inquisitor, but still a tyrant. This ego and child rebellion (against every father possible) of Rodion kill Alyona and Lizaveta and that is why he hurts his mother and sister. Joseph Frank writes: By this time, Raskolnikov has begun to understand how easily a ... and inhumanely callous to the point of inhumanity" (Crime and Punishment, V, 2). In order to defeat evil one has to start with the assumption that there is goodness . To rebel violently because of a child's death only brings greater evil. Ivan does not love others nor does he love himself. He does not accept the most important of all, and what is crucial to Sonya and Alyosha: forgiveness. He ...
- 2600: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- ... sometimes would not hold her up, but with her integrity, she managed to keep up with her self and succeed. In the beginning of the autobiography we meet Maya Angelou on a train, and abandoned child in need of love. At the end she bears a child of her own- a boy, however she also had wisdom she gained from all of the stepping stones that did not hold her up. Angelou is now a complete, knowledgeable, and loving woman, not only ...
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