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- 4491: Capital Punishment
- ... Bradford Gow, claims that the Bible justifies "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" as stated in the Catholic Bible in the Fifth commandment: "Another kind of slaying belongs to the civil authorities to whom is entrusted the power of life and death, by the legal and judicious exercise of which they punish the guilty and protect the innocent" (Bradford). The Bible is constantly used as a ... were sentenced to death. Today their punishment is considered to have been unjust and cruel. The case outraged many Americans and even Europeans; it became a world-wide affair. Arthur Garfield Hays, General for the Civil Liberties Union, exclaimed: "The death penalty for the Rosenbergs was not justified...." Mr Hays did not argue for the innocence of the Rosenbergs but claims that "this horrible killing by the state is not merited ...
- 4492: The Diary Of Anne Frank
- The Diary of Anne Frank Journeying back to the early nineteenth century, when Nazi forces occupied Germany during World War II, the lives of those living in this territory was spent in constant fear and anxiety. The Diary of Anne Frank leads readers through the harsh times of a family trying to escape imprisonment in ... Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II in an annex of rooms above her father\\'s office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the two years in hiding which Anne refers to as \\"a time when the ideals are being shattered and ...
- 4493: A Bird In The House
- ... he does not raise his voice to her and when he does he instantly apologises. In the story "A Bird in the House" Ewen drops the hint that the time when he was away at war was a time when he was free, it was a time in which he was able to explore different places. Ewen says: "It was kind of interesting to see a few other places for a ... them. Vanessa wrote in order to get away from the harshness of the life, it was an escape from the reality that she lived at home. Ewen had personal freedom when he was away at war, he was away from home and this was a time in which he was happy. Aunt Edna struggled throughout her life and was trapped by Grandfather Conner, she reached personal freedom when she marries Wes ...
- 4494: The Lord Of The FLies
- ... and themes to the story. The story is about a group of boys who have been dropped on a remote tropical island in the vast Pacific Ocean. Their plane having been shot down. A nuclear war has taken place and civilization has been destroyed. Ralph wanders out of the jungle followed by a pudgy boy. His name is Piggy. Piggy is fat, asthmatic, and almost blind without his glasses. He trails behind as Ralph explores the island. Although they were dropped by a plane that was under attack during an atomic war, Ralph thinks he is in paradise. There is a "long scar smashed into the jungle" where the plane dropped them the night before. The boys stand among "skull-like coconuts." This is a foreshadowing suggestion ...
- 4495: "Speed": Methylamphetamine
- ... through some people let a yellowish powder substance control their lives. I feel drugs in our society is a big issue and people need to pull together to stay drug free. In my opinion the war on drugs is the war on people. Drugs have always been in our society forever and I feel the best thing we as people can do is just educate our youth of the dangers of drugs. I just feel that ...
- 4496: Marijuana
- ... degenerate races" (Schaffer, pg. 86). Beginning in the 60's marijuana use saw a resurgence which may be attributed to many causes. One of the main causes was the rebellion of youth against the Vietnam War. They used marijuana as an escape from war to peace. It was easy at this time to depict marijuana as a beneficial and completely harmless substance whose effects were far less harmful than those of legal drugs such as alcohol and nicotine because ...
- 4497: The Effects of Organized Crime
- ... years--and despite the efforts of the Italian Fascists to destroy the organization in the 1920sand '30s--the Mafia flourished in the Sicilian countryside. When the Fascists fled Sicily during the Allied invasion of World War II, the Mafia--the only remaining governing structure--worked closely with U.S. forces. Today it dominates much of the business and industry in Sicily's cities. With the Sicilian immigrations of the late 19th ... 33), it monopolized the trade in bootleg liquor and controlled loan sharking, gambling, and prostitution. Competing Mafia families established mutually recognized territories, reaching agreement by negotiation or by intimidation. The Mustache Petes continued to wage war against each other in what was called the Castellamarese Wars. However, the lieutenants of these gangs had developed other plans. By the mid-1930s the Mafia had taken on the institutionalized structure that is now ...
- 4498: Darwinism On Society
- Darwin is not responsible for 'Social Darwinism.'" War and oppression have always been components of human history, however with the introduction of Darwin's theory of evolution man had a new justification for his cruelty. Darwin's ideas promoted a "superman" or "super ... scientific world of his day and you have the reason to pursue any exploitive agenda. "Might makes right", so why not proclaim yourself the master race and conquer others? Theodore Roosevelt stated that a racial war to the finish with the Indians was inevitable and there should be a spread of English-speaking people all over the world (Morris 1989, 68-70). Some may say that Social Darwinism is the root ...
- 4499: King Tut
- ... the throne, the arms would rest on carved, golden, lion’s paws. The back is sheathed with gold and inlaid with colored glass paste and semiprecious stones. The medallion depicts Tut as if returning from war, preceded by captives and followed by a serpent goddess. The clothing that was found inside the chamber was very abundant. There were various crowns including the Blue crown or Khepresh. This was sometimes incorrectly called a war helmet. The white crown was the crown of Upper Egypt, the "Nemes" was a headdress made of fabric that drapes the head and cascades down the upper part of the chest. The Red Crown is ...
- 4500: African-American Literature, M
- ... Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. The protagonists of both books are African-American females searching in a confused, bewildered world. Meridian is the story of the title character’s life from childhood to the Civil Rights Movement while Eyes chronicle Janie’s ever-evolving character from life with a white family in the Deep South to her return ‘home’ to Eatonville. Meridian and Janie’s constant need to identify and ... s was telling her to be a plaything. This exact moment in time was when Meridian decided that her community, her life for the past 20 years, was not her. She became aware of the Civil Rights movement and of “the past and present of a much larger world” (73). She was to connect with the community through activism, no longer through helpless subservience. She put her baby up for adoption ...
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