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- 3051: Government Spending & Budget
- ... an average $12 to $26 under the GOP plan. The top 1/5 income families would receive more than 60% of the tax relief. A HHS analysis states that the GOP plan would also boost child poverty rates from 14.5% to 16.1%, and poor families with children would loose 6% of their income. Conclusion: In the end, budget reduction is no easy task. "...fixing the National debt is like ... quantifiable goal, that includes short term goals, and eliminated gimmicks. Countries like Sweden and Canada have successfully reformed fiscal policies. Sweden's government elected to abandon welfare, pensions, health insurance, unemployment programs, family assistance, and child allowances. Their deficit soon fell by 3.5% of GDP in one year alone (Urresta 51). Sweden's plan was three times as intense as Congress' current plan, while cutting spending in half the time ...
- 3052: Elli
- ... to work for them. She was trying to get some blood redemption by being so harsh to the Jewish prisoners, even though she was Jewish herself. In the death camps, as well as much physical abuse, they were also the victims of constant moral abuse. For example, the male guards were always calling them "Blode Lumpen" which means "Idiotic Whores", also "Blode Schweine" meaning "Idiotic Swine", finally to "Blode Hunde" meaning "Idiotic Dogs". They found the latter the easiest to ...
- 3053: Hedda Gabler, By Henrik Ibsen
- ... Lovborg, by challenging his masculinity, into going to Brack's bachelor party and resuming his drunken ways of old. Hedda's "reward" for this is to find that Lovborg's manuscript, his and Thea's "child" falls into her hands, where she burns it, thus destroying the child and alto the relationship, both of which Hedda was jealous of. Similarly, Hedda seeks to push her husband, Jorgan, into politics: "(I was wondering) whether I could get my husband to go into politics " This ...
- 3054: The Son Of Sam And Terror Of N
- ... force.(Hill 1999) David once wrote his father a letter, which described being hated by all and being cold and gloomy. David had lived signs of an identity crisis. As an adult and as a child, David constantly lost interest in every activity that he tried. His crisis started as a baby though, when his mother gave him away. Even after he was adopted and stable, he never had any real ... 1993, 142) Unlike most serial killers, David had no real significant childhood traumas.Many have severe falls or hits on their head, which is sometimes a common childhood experience of killers. He was a solitary child though. As he got older, he would start little fires around places. When he started school, he skipped often and would try and find ways to stay home. (New York Times,May 9, 1978) The ...
- 3055: Mary Shelleys Frankenstein
- ... revenge. The incident where he loses his last hope of ever being seen as anything but a monstrosity is when William Frankenstein, the younger brother of his creator and also a young and hopefully unprejudiced child, proves to see him the way any adult would, with disgust and horror. After completing the act of killing the child, he resolves to "carry despair to [Victor Frankenstein], and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him" (p. 137). According to the monster, the function of appearance is to make society react to you ...
- 3056: Elie Wiesel's Night
- ... nation into ashes. "I believe profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple." (p. 13) Elie Wiesel was a child of such high religious values, who at the age of just twelve, before even Bar-Mitzvah, wanted to delve into Jewish mysticism. As he states, he was studying Talmud during the day , and praying during the night. You would think that a man like this would never, ever loose faith in his God, let alone a young child. In his novel it clearly states in many places that the sights he saw caused his belief in God to diminish. "For the first time I felt a revolt arise up in me. Why should ...
- 3057: Mozart
- ... greatest musical genius who ever lived. Mozart 's full name is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Most people called him Mozart or Wolfgang. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, January 27, 1756. Mozart is the greatest musical child prodigy who ever lived. He began composing minuets at the age of 5 and symphonies at age 9. His father took him on a series of concert tours together with his sister, Maria Anna; born four and one-half years before Mozart. She too, was a child prodigy. Both played the keyboard, but Mozart became a violin virtuoso, as well. In 1762 he and his sister, "Nannerl," as she was nicknamed, performed before the Elector of Bavaria in Munich, and at the ...
- 3058: Thomas Edison
- ... great influence he had upon Americans and the world. He sparked the movement of todays computer ran world. Thomas Edison was born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Edison, Jr. and Nancy Elliot Edison. His parents had no special mechanical background. His mother was a former schoolteacher; his father was a jack-of-all-trades - from running a grocery store to real estate. When Thomas was seven years old, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. He was a very curious child who asked a lot of questions. Edison began school in Port Huron, Michigan when he was seven. His teacher, the Reverend G. B. Engle considered Thomas to be a dull student.(Allen pg. 22) Thomas ...
- 3059: Poverty vs. The Economy
- ... unfairly hindered in preparing themselves for productive adult lives. Low-income families are often driven into poverty by birth of additional children. In society that ignores need in setting wages and that balks at providing child care for women who might earn needed income, a higher incidence of poverty among larger families is a logical consequence. Poor children also have special needs beyond those which can be provided by giving their ... enhance the opportunities of their children to escape from poverty. Helping families to avoid having more children than they desire is one of the most productive ways of eliminating poverty. Proper care for mother and child is also extremely important, so that the young will be healthy. The government also provides some compensatory education from preschool to college for poor children. Overall, is isolating the impact of these programs upon beneficiaries ...
- 3060: The Scarlet Letter: The Puritans Are Wrong in Thinking That Pearl Is Wicked
- ... first see the A', they want to replace it with an A' made out of rheumatic cloth. The Puritans look at Pearl in the same way; they do not think Hester deserves such a beautiful child. The Puritans like simple, bland things and shun beauty because it is tempting. This view of the Puritans appears again when the Reverend Mr. Wilson first sees Pearl in Governor Bellingham's mansion. Mr. Wilson ... opposite. The sunshine loves her so much that it plays enthusiastically with her. The mother and daughter soon come upon a babbling brook. The brook sounds "kind, quiet, soothing, but melancholy"(171), like an unhappy child or a person who knows only sadness. Pearl calls the brook "foolish and tiresome"(171) and asks it why it is so sad. Pearl is like the brook in some ways. She has been through ...
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