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- 4281: Blind Obedience
- ... change in their lives as the setting. The story moves quickly and the characters are only briefly sketched out. The story has a science fiction “feel” to it. The events preceding the story include a war (with an unknown opponent) that we have lost. The main character among the children is Johnny whose father fought in the war and is now being held prisoner. Johnny is afraid for his father and about the changes that are coming to his school because of the defeat. The author is able to assume that we all ...
- 4282: Violence: Children Who Own The Streets
- ... of defiance. Ease of access to weapons ; drug addiction; unemployment; and economic motives, are the more obvious circumstances leading to crime; but modern societal stress, breakdown of family life, deviant role models, threats of nuclear war and the confusion in values which produce unstable feelings and distorted ideas, probably all contribute to aggravate violence among youth. Despite the enormous amount of study devoted to it, a great many questions about juvenile ... the reason for offending, followed by lack of money, peer pressure, lack of parental strictness and ability to get away with it. The extent of youthful crime is hard to judge. Since the second World War, a substantial increase in juvenile convictions has been recorded in many countries. As offenders, boys outnumber girls in a ratio of about 10:1. Juvenile delinquency rates may rise with higher general technological economic level ...
- 4283: New Terror
- The world has entered a new venue of warfare. War and the formalities of fighting have not seen this kind of drastic mutation since the British Redcoats were forced to change their tactics of line assault. It is the age of terrorism, and as it ... terrorize would not be possible if not for the advancement in weapons, such as chemical and more frighteningly, biological. Chemical weapons have come a long way, but its development had a plateau in the Cold War, and there is little hope one can have for a technology that statistically backfires, or does not work. There is little that chemical weapons cannot achieve, but as far as research, there has been a ...
- 4284: Nature
- ... call of the wild, this was known as one of the best dog stories ever told. His stories had true meaning he knew what it went to survive in nature. He was correspondent in the war between Russia and Japan, and also helped in the Mexican revolution. Unlike many other American writers he was part of a war. Many weren’t and just told stories of what they heard had happened. So after reading this passage what is nature and what does it have to do with classic American literature. Well the two ...
- 4285: Persian Influence On Greco-rom
- ... objects, were started in the Near East, but spread to Europe through Greece. The Persians also included many stories into their carvings, notably stories of crowing shahs and drawings of soldiers and generals going to war. Also, in many cases, the Persians made carvings of gods that they had, such as Mitra, to honor them (212). The Greeks made wall carvings very similar to the Persian carvings, and many of the ... can see that, despite the dearth of uncovered ancient Persian paintings, the few that have been found show a great similarity with their Greek counterpart. Persian paintings tend to display stories of soldiers going to war, Shahs being crowned, or the Gods being prayed to. Furthermore, Persian artists painted with black and brown as their main colors nearly all of the time (Histoire…vol.1, 238). The stories in the Persian ...
- 4286: Poe And Thoreau
- ... understanding for a better life for mankind. His beliefs of society, government, and mankind while living under his own disapprobation led to some of his greatest works in literature. Some of these works include Walden, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts and A plea for Captain John Brown. In his essay Civil Disobedience, Thoreau expresses his belief in the power and the duty of the individual to determine right from wrong… “It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to ...
- 4287: Nisei Daughter
- ... Sone focuses on, and clearly shows, the tension that arose in the Japanese American community because they felt torn between two distinct cultures and amongst themselves. There was also much confusion in this pre-World War II and during WWII era concerning the place of Japanese Americans in the United States. The Issei, or first generation of immigrants from Japan, were generally highly organized in their communities. They tended to stay ... to Orientals and I doubt if they ever will.” (Sone 115). Monica Sone was extremely confused, hurt, and ashamed, all at the same time because her ancestry suddenly became her identity. Being encamped during the war furthered this confusion and resentment. She had always considered herself an American, but, as she states, “I no longer had the right to walk out of it. It was because I had Japanese ancestors.” (Sone ...
- 4288: Now About Surprises
- ... of one Army." This explains how one must be the "surprisee" and the other is the "surpriser". That is what I had first explained in my paper. This is the element of surprise in a war-like situation and how it can lead to a domination of a war and a victory as a whole. All of the elements of surprise that I have discussed have been explained in great detail and it is easy to see how the element of surprise is so ...
- 4289: Net Censorship
- ... free expresson on Compuserve. II. Where the Internet stands now. A. Judges Panel. B. Congress and other’s opinions. C. Background information. D. Other opinions. III. Solutions. A. Family’s responsibility. B. Censorship Software. C. Civil Rights. A.Conclusion. After threatening the Communications Decency Act with a vetos of the past versions, President Bill Clinton signed the bill into law on February 8, 1996.1 Before hand, congress approved the largest ... to a "CyberNet" list.37 Indecent material is protected by the First Amendment, much of the materials printed in America including articles from Cosmopolitan magazine or James Joyce’s Ulysses could be called indecent. Many civil-rights groups were involved in calling the bill unconstitutional and prevents the citizen’s rights to free speech and privacy. If the U.S. succeeds in censoring the Internet, they will be in a position ...
- 4290: The Christian Gospels
- ... of Jerusalem in 70A.D. The first to be written was the Gospel of Mark around 75A.D. This work was intended for the Jewish audience of Judea, which had just gone through a bloody war with the Roman Empire. With that in mind, Mark focuses his story on the Death of Jesus as its underlying message. As L. Michael White states in his book, Images of Jesus: The Shape of ... Jesus' own times, the Pharisees weren't that prominent a group. He goes on to explain, It's precisely because that's what's going on in the life of Matthew's community after the war. The Pharisees are becoming their opponents and we're watching two Jewish groups, Matthew's Christian Jewish group and the local Pharisaic groups in tension over what would be the future of Judaism (White187). Therefore ...
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