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- 3171: JFK And The Warren Commission
- ... enigmatic figure. It was evident that he had a fairly unstable and troubled past, which to most people accounted for his behaviour and the manner in which he had allegedly murdered the President. As a child he had been brought up in a single parent family, moving all over the country and living in various places. From aged 20, for a short period of time he had served in the US ... Russian and read a lot of Communist literature. In fact, on 31 October 1959, he gave up his US citizenship and stayed in the Soviet Union where he met his wife and had his first child. However, after expressing a desire to return to the USA, he was allowed back in1962. Despite this, he now strongly believed in communism. He began making some dangerous friends due to this and joined various ...
- 3172: The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby is A Pathetic Character
- ... Daisy's name."(Fitzgerald 84) Gatsby put so much effort into his dream that his dream became his life, and losing control of your life is saddening. Gatsby is pathetic because he behaves like a child and he cannot handle adult situations like an adult. His childish demands show that he is a pathetic and immature human being. Jordan says, "I immediately suggested a luncheon in New York - and I thought ... was. Gatsby lost control of his life by letting his dream become his life. The house on West Egg and the many parties were all in hopes of achieving the dream. Gatsby behaves like a child and shows throughout the book that he is not capable of handling adult situations like an adult. Finally, when Gatsby's dream was crushed, his life ended because he let his dream become his life ...
- 3173: Fighting For Our Love Ones
- ... are depression, epilepsy, migraine headaches, asthma, pruritis, sclerdome, severe pain, and dysteria. Marijuana should be treated like morphine, steroids, and valium. An illegal drug can have a legitimate, legal use. There are laws against the abuse of morphine, steroids, and valium, but they are also properly prescribed by doctors everyday. Just as law recognizes that these drugs and many other controlled substances have a legitimate medical uses, it is time to ... afraid? Is it over the fear of addiction? If so, our government has not read the reports on the countless researches that have proven that marijuana is not physically addictive. Is it the fear of abuse? When marijuana is legalized for medical use, it would be govern the same way as morphine, valium, and any other controlled substance. Honestly, would people fake having deadly diseases such as cancer or AIDS to ...
- 3174: Materialism and Happiness in America: The Gatsby Era and Today
- ... is barely mentioned in the story and is treated as a minor appendage in their lives. Jay Gatsby's "insecure grasp of social and human values (Bewley 47)" are reflected in his reaction toward the child: "Gatsby and I in turn leaned down and took the small reluctant hand. Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don't think he had ever really believed in its existence before (Fitzgerald, 117)." Having lots of things is not what makes happy humans. The characters of The Great Gatsby, like many ...
- 3175: Assistive Technology
- ... improves the function of individuals with disabilities. Assistive technology allows individuals with disabilities to have greater control over their lives and to increase their independence. In public schools, assistive technology must be provided to a child if it is necessary for the child to benefit from a free and appropriate public education. Assistive technology should be considered for every individualized education program (IEP) developed. Assistive technology can be used to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act which ...
- 3176: The Scarlet Letter: An Analysis of the Characters
- ... conflicts. Dimmesdale is continually trying to see who he is. In the beginning of Hawthorne's novel, we are introduced to Hester Prynne, who has been condemned for adultery. Through this sin, she has a child named Pearl. The bigger controversy though, is who is Hester's "partner in crime." But for seven years, Hester does not reveal it to anyone, not even her husband, Roger Prynne, who comes to town ... the night. This is his way of revealing his sin. While he is there, Hester and Pearl walk by. He calls to them and asks them to join him on the scaffold. Pearl, being the child she is, asks him to stand on the scaffold with them tomorrow afternoon. She wonders why they have to do it at night. Dimmesdale tells her that he can't do it tomorrow, but promises ...
- 3177: Picking Up The Pieces: An Analytical Look at Why the Village of Umofia Fell Apart
- ... off the shame of his unsuccessful and dishonorable father. Fortunately, among these people a man was judged by his worth and not according to the worth of his father... As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings. Okonkwo had clearly washed his hands and so he ate with kings and elders. (page 8) This was Okonkwo's motive in life and so he remained ... the stories of past wars with other villages. It is probable that like Nwoye, many children preferred the stories told by their mothers. These stories that centered around events in nature were something that every child could relate to within his or her life and they were able to find purpose and meaning and relate the moral lessons to the actions they would take in their lives as they grew up ...
- 3178: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... and would find his wife praying, he would beat her. "I'm not going to be made unlucky by your sneaking. If you must go flopping yourself down, flop in favour of your husband and child" (p.86). Later, Cruncher had made a vow to "never no more will I interfere with Mrs. Cruncher's flopping." Darnay also took a part in resurrection. Charles Darnay's-Lucie Manette's husband-soul ... I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more" (p.404). Later Carton was spiritually resurrected by Lucie and her family when they had another child named after Carton. As one can see, the revolution was a harsh and horrible experince to go through. Several deaths took place, which seemed, in those days, the center of attention. Every time there was ...
- 3179: Computer Crime
- ... they begin to fear that no information or computer system that we rely on is ever truly safe from hackers. In short computer crime affects the entire world-all of us. Computer use, misuse, and abuse. Hollinger (1988) suggested that computer us is grouped into three (3) categories. Those categories are normal, proper computer use, improper computer use, and criminal misuse (p. 126). Computer abuse, although not illegal, points to moral issues of concern for society as a whole. This refers to legal but restricted web sites and activities belonging to subcultures that do not share traditional value structures that ...
- 3180: The Scarlet Letter: Evil and Mistriss Hibbins
- ... of the characters think in the novel. In one part of the novel, Mistriss Hibbins tells Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne, that Dimmesdale, who is her father, is the "Prince of Air". "They say, child, though art of the lineage of the Prince of Air!" In this quote she was telling Pearl that Dimmesdale is the devil. Pearl gets influenced by her and believes her father is the devil. In ... gone with thee into the forest, and signed my name in the Black Man's book too, and that with my blood." Pearl had saved her from becoming a witch. "Even thus early had the child saved her from Satan's snare." In conclusion, Mistriss Hibbons is a very important character whose interactions which the characters in the book could very well have changed the outcome.
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