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- 4101: Television 2
- ... television equipped with a cable system has a number of educational channels. For example, PBS, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, The Food Channel, and even MTV are all educational channels. Documentaries, ranging from The Civil War to baseball to home repair are always airing on television. A person can learn things from television that they otherwise never would have even heard about. In other words television can be a great instrument ...
- 4102: The Vesus The Heart In The Sca
- ... was one of the few that knew of his crime. All of these factors piled on to the back of Arthur Dimmesdale leaving him in a decrepit state and on the brink of insanity. The war between the law and the will of the heart took its toll on everyone. Hester and Pearl suffered isolation, Arthur suffered severe mental anguish, Roger suffered the painful want of revenge, while society lost a great holy man. This war caused a lot of pain and suffering, yet it accomplished nothing in the end. Today we continue to fight the war between the law and the heart and we can not help wondering if it will ever end.
- 4103: Thomas Jefferson
- ... his career in public office and made his greatest contributions to his country in the field of politics. He loved liberty in every form, and he worked for freedom of speech, press, religion, and other civil liberties. Jefferson was the 3rd president of the United States and best remembered as a great president and as the author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson's interests and talents covered an amazing range ... a bill for establishing religious freedom in 1777. When it was enacted in 1786, it firmly established the separation of church and state and provided the basis for the First Amendment's clause on religion. ...War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. The First Amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of ...
- 4104: Curfews
- ... them getting arrested every time I send them outside to play.” (“Do You Know Where Your Children Are?” 4). Parents aren’t the only ones upset with this problem-causing ordinance. In 1995, the American Civil Liberties Union, acting on behalf of thousands of law-abiding youth in California, filed suit in Federal District Court to challenge the state’s juvenile curfew ordinance (“ACLU Challenges California’s Curfew Law” 1). With ... be an example of a status law (“The Impact of Juvenile Curfew Laws in California” 3). Adolph Hitler implemented status laws in Germany as well. Ten years later his country was in ruins, destroyed by war. Granted his status laws were much more tyrannical than that of curfew laws, but it had to have started somewhere. Nighttime and daytime curfews are an obvious hindrance to society. It is a simple case ...
- 4105: Power Does Not Come From a Gun
- ... man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." A leader in the Black community and the recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, King's accomplishment of attaining civil rights for Blacks was a great one, but the road to achievement was long and full of sacrifices. It was a time when Blacks had no rights and most of them accepted this as the ... and marches, making the non-violent resistance stronger than it had ever been before. He succeeded in making people aware that every human being is born equal and that no one should be denied his civil rights. Martin Luther King had a dream and he knew that there was only one way to make it come true, to wake up and to take action. He was a true example of someone ... were immeasurable. He found something to fight for and he did, never suing violence, even if it could have worked to his advantage. He was a man much like Martin Luther King Jr., both achieving civil rights for their people and attempting to abolish discrimination. Unfortunately, Gandhi too, suffered from his opposition. he too was arrested on several occasion and was the victim of murder. The day he dies was ...
- 4106: Research Paper On The Lord Of The Flies
- William Golding’s Lord of the Flies can be viewed as a political allegory with characters representing world leaders during World War II. It can also be seen as symbolic, with many different objects representing other things or ideas. On the island, Ralph wants democracy, Jack wants dictatorship, and Roger is the sadistic one who provides evil ... of the novel, some of the boys decide to join Jack’s tribe and abandon Ralph. This wipes out the democratic rule on the island, just like several European countries were wiped out during World War II. Henningfeld stated, “In the early 1950’s, the world appeared to be divided into two camps: the so called Free World of Western Europe and the United States, and the so called Iron Curtain ... the sow’s head on a stake which is the lord of the flies. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is indeed seen as a political allegory with characters representing world leaders during World War II. It was also seen as symbolic, with many different objects representing other things or ideas. The Lord of the Flies was a political allegory because Ralph was the democratic ruler, Jack was the ...
- 4107: Thomas Jefferson
- ... a search, the Leopard fired upon it. The helpless American ship was thereupon forced to surrender four of its men. One was a British deserter, but three were Americans. Many Americans wanted to go to war against Britain over this incident. However, Jefferson was determined to avoid war, feeling he could bring Britain to terms by applying economic pressure. In December 1807, the Congress passed the Embargo Act. American ships were forbidden to sail from American ports to any European port. Jefferson believed ... without American trade. However, he had greatly underestimated the effect of the embargo on the United States itself. All parts of the country were affected, especially the industrial and commercial North. In order to avoid war, Jefferson was forced to act against two of his principles by risking American commerce and terminating friendly relationships with other nations. Despite the unavoidable circumstances that caused his actions, Jefferson still proved to be ...
- 4108: John Savage Desires What Makes
- ... were perpetually intriguing for high-grade jobs, and all the people with high-grade jobs were counter-intriguing at all costs to stay where they were. Within six years they were having a first-class civil war. When nineteen out of the twenty-two thousand had been killed, the survivors unanimously petitioned the World Controllers to resume the government of the island. Which they did. And that was the end of the ...
- 4109: Child Labor
- ... a seafood cannery in Biloxi, Mississippi, with a shrimp pail in each hand and a mountain of oyster shells behind his back. He is typical for thousands of working children in the years before the civil war, especially the turn of the century. America's army of child laborers had been growing steadily for the past century. The nation's economy was expanding. Factories, minds and mills needed plenty of cheap labor ...
- 4110: The Communication Decency Act: The Fight For Freedom of Speech on the Internet
- ... Internet users some of the above problems. I also believe that the use of log-ins, passwords, and rating systems on pages for the Internet are a good idea, and are not violations of our civil rights. They simply allow the user to choose what they want to see. Some of these systems are already in use today, along with programs that watch for obscene and profane keywords, and links to ... lead this country, bringing it back to what it used to be. Also, it is time to focus on the things we need to have in this country, like building a new society. After World War II and Vietnam, I believe it is the computer generation's destiny to rebuild our family and give community abilities to evolve, solve problems, generate and distribute wealth, promote peace, and personal security. Finally, freedom ...
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