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- 3181: Vietnam
- ... Well, this is it. Today I leave my home in Greensville, Maine for Vietnam. I am going to fight for my country. I am only nineteen years old and I know very little about the war. For better or worse I was drafted early last week. The week had started out normal, and my life seemed perfect. My girlfriend Abbey and I had been together for almost two years, and I ... was going to leave for Vietnam in one week. How could this happen to me, this wasn't part of my plan. What had I done wrong to deserve this? I had been against the war right from the start, and I couldn't imagine fighting in it. Sad, angry, and scared emotions all worked together and overwhelmed my body. I soon found myself crying. Before I knew what was going ... numb with the fear that I will have to kill another human being, or worse I myself will be shot and killed. How could my family and Abbey deal with this? Everyone here hates the war and just wants to go home to their families. Everyday dozens of men are shot or killed by land mines, and I am really becoming depressed. I have seen so many men die just ...
- 3182: Farewell To Arms 6
- The novel A Farewell to Arms, (1929) by Ernest Hemingway, takes place on the Italian front of World War I. Fredrick Henry is an American Lieutenant who drives an ambulance for the Italian army. On his leave time he often visits whorehouses and gets drunk. While fighting in the war, his knee gets injured and he has to go to the hospital in Milan where he meets a British nurse named Catherine Barkley and falls in love with her. During one of their many sexual affairs, Catherine gets pregnant. Fredrick greatly wants to desert the war because he is tired of seeing Italian solders killing each other. Fredrick and Catherine then escape to Switzerland by rowing across a lake. After they escape to Switzerland, Catherine has the baby, but during ...
- 3183: Inventions and Their Importance
- ... industry-processes and products. The majority of economic inventions collaborate with one another; a lot of things were invented to make other inventions work. Another major reason people invent is to satisfy military needs. During war times engineers, scientists, and inventors are brought together and their only duty is to invent military weapons. The weapons that the scientists come up with have to be more powerful and destructive than the enemies, with both sides striving to be the best. War has its negative effects on the world, but it also leads to many useful and positive inventions, such as nuclear energy and radar. Another major reason people invent is to satisfy social needs which include ... There has been no period in the history of the world in which the everyday lives of human beings have changed as rapidly as in the first half of the 20th century (12,129)." World War II played a major role in the enhancement of communication inventions. New systems were thought of to help during the war but proved useful otherwise when they replaced primitive ideas used by society. These ...
- 3184: Cow Lore
- ... you see in all those western movies. Mike pushed the serving girl from his lap and awkwardly staggered to stand atop his table. The music and dancing immediately stopped in respect. "If it's a war the Milkers want," he slurred, tipping this way and that, almost losing his balance. "Then it's a war they'll get." His statement was met with a round of deafening cheers, which soon died back down. "You are all people of war... and when we clash tomorrow, I want you to do what you do best. I want you to destroy whoever gets in your way." Another round of cheers exploded, then died down. "Tomorrow, milk ...
- 3185: The Positive Effects of DDT
- ... clothes moths and parasites of both animals and plants. DDT was welcomed as a substitute for toxic insecticides like arsenic, mercury, fluorine, and lead (Whelan 70). It was used by the Allied troops during World War II in order to kill body lice without having harmful side-affects on humans. The elimination of the lice resulted in the absence of typhus fever (which was carried by the lice) among the Allied troops for the first time in the history of warfare. After the insecticidal effects of DDT had been discovered and proven during the war, scientists soon found that DDT was effective against all sorts of other insects including the spruce budworm, gypsy moth, tussock moth, pine weevil, and cotton boll weevil (Ray 68). The gypsy moth has been a ... need for a safe and effective insecticide was immediate and DDT was the best choice. Later in the early 1960’s DDT was used by the World Health Organization as the major weapon in their war against malaria. In this capacity alone, DDT is responsible for saving at least 15 million lives (Helvarg 232). The myths about the dangers of DDT have been proven in this regard: regulation and control ...
- 3186: Homer 2
- ... said that these works where used in Ancientt Greek education. Today we see These great works put in to the curiculem of almost every school in America! The Iliad is a story of the trojen war. It begins in the in media res faion. That accualy trancelates to, in the middle of things, so that means Homer began his books in the middle of what was happening. The Iliad is set in the final year of the Trojan War. Ittells of an episode in the trojen war, the wrath of Archilles and its tragic consequences, including the deaths of Patroclus and Hector. The Odyssey, beginning ten years after the fall of Troy, tells of Odysseus s wanderings on his way home ...
- 3187: Farewell To Arms
- World War One. The first great tragedy of humanity. That is of course excluding love and life. Combine all three and you find one of the most masterfully written novels about life, love, and war that could only be written by Ernest Hemingway. Born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Hemingway started his literary career when he was hired as a reporter for the Kansas City Star. During the war he joined the volunteer American Red Cross as a ambulance driver in 1918. After being seriously wounded in the line of duty he was decorated with two Italian medals and joined the Italian infantry. ...
- 3188: Censorship and the Internet
- ... Although most people agree that the internet contains some content that children should not view, censoring the entire internet will cause more of a problem because it will infringe on the First Amendment and other civil liberties that Americans have fought and bled over for the past 200 years. Almost three years ago, Congress approved the Communications Decency Act, (CDA) which "was designed to protect children by prohibiting "indecent" speech or ... the Internets most prolific advocates for freedom of speech in Cyberspace is Mike Goodwin. Mr. Goodwin is the founder of the EFF, (Electronic Frontier Foundation) a non-profit organization that deals with the protections of civil liberties in the information age. He was one of the many honored guests that attended the protest rally in San Francisco and was quoted as saying "Take a moment now and listen." Goodwin ripped a ... Internet Day of Protest which flooded Congressional switchboards with thousands of pleas to halt Internet censorship."(Irwin) The many people who placed those calls to congress have now been working for a variety of Internet civil right organizations. Their goals are to stop congress from completely outlawing First Amendment rights over the Internet. Such non-profit groups as the CDT (Center for Democracy and Technology) mission statement states "The Center ...
- 3189: Evita Peron
- ... figure and his aura of power. They talked for hours and left together. Within days Evita had moved into Peron's apartment. In February, Peron engineered the ouster of the president and took over the war ministry for himself. Evita continued her radio portrayals of famous women, but her ambitions lay in the movies. She wanted Peron to help her in her film career, and he did by procuring the film itself, a commodity difficult to obtain during World War II. He offered it to a movie studio in exchange for Evita's starring role in a film. When she arrived for the first day of filming, it was in a war ministry limousine. Four months into their relationship, Evita was named president of a new actors' union Peron had created. (Any actors who wanted to work were obliged to join.) Soon afterward, she began a ...
- 3190: Lord Of The Flies Story
- The war was over, but not without casualties. Numerous ships, planes and factories had been bombed with regular bombs, and London was totally destroyed - by a single atomic bomb. Only derelicts lived there now, not knowing of the harmful radiation that surrounded what once was the great capital. Slowly though, things were getting back to normal, shops began opening, and the war started to shift to the back of people's minds. Life was becoming more normal, but the memory of the war was still there, and always would be. Unfortunately, my memories of our time on the island would never shift to the back of my mind - I would never forget what the war meant to ...
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