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- 4071: Abortion in Toni Morrison's Beloved
- Abortion in Toni Morrison's Beloved In the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison, the main character, Sethe, commits a crime unthinkable and incomprehensible to most people today. She murders her own child, her own flesh and blood. The institution of slavery drove Sethe to make this drastic decision. Comparing the situations of slavery to today ...
- 4072: Saddam Hussien War
- ... am Baghdad time. Bhagdad was bombed fiercely by the coalition's fighter airplanes in the first night of the war. An interesting fact is that several weeks before this, US intelligence agents successfully inserted a computer virus into Iraq's military computers. It was designed to disable much of Baghdad's air-defense system. To minimize casualties, the coalition forces, under the command of U. S. General Norman Schwarzkopf, pursued a ...
- 4073: Linux 2
- ... kernel is commonly bundled with many other components to form a complete LINUX System or Distribution. When most people refer to LINUX, they are talking about this complete set of programs needed to run a computer, not just the kernel. Many people know of, or have at least heard of, UNIX. UNIX is both one of the oldest and one of the most powerful operating systems available today. "How can UNIX ...
- 4074: Summary of "The Death of Woman Wang" and "The Classic Slum"
- ... Schooling. This book depicts life in a slum in Britain in the year 1914 and shows us how bad the hardships were. It shows us how bad the poverty was along with the Illiteracy and crime. Reading this book made me think of how my great grandfather might have felt as he struggled to survive and put food on his families table. This book was also an inspiration to me as ...
- 4075: Gorbachev: Analysis of Three Books About Gorbachev
- ... improving a sick economy" (p. 184). It was very interesting to read about the "battle against the bottle" which Gorbachev started immediately. For him vodka was a "public enemy number one", the cause of increasing crime, poor productivity, an increasing number of problem children of alcoholic parents, reduced life expectancy and alcohol- related health problems, all of which created a heavy burden on the national economy. Some of the measures that ...
- 4076: Prejudice and The Pain and Suffering It Has Caused
- ... courage to stand up for the oppressed. Sheriff Tate defends the different when he says, "I never heard tell that it's against the law for a citizen t do his utmost to prevent a crime from being committed, which is exactly what he did, but maybe you'll say it's my duty to tell the town all about it and not hush it up. (p.276)." Sheriff Tate is ...
- 4077: They Shall Inherit the Earth: Loss of Innocence
- ... anything wrong to deserve this loss. Andrew Aikenhead lost his innocence through the eyes of the people because he had done what he believed to be right and because he had been blamed of a crime he did not commit. There was much confusion about Andrew Aikenhead's innocence because of Martha Choate's accusations about Andrew killing Dave Choate. Andrew Aikenhead was a very successful business man and because of ...
- 4078: Summary of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- ... fight in a bar and is sent to jail. In jail, he meets Jack Duane, an experienced criminal. After being freed from jail, Jurgis and Duane team up in a luxurious, but risky life of crime. Jurgis learns about the connections between criminals, police, politics, and big business. He becomes a member of this complex network and moves into politics. He runs into Connor again, and beats him up again. Connor ...
- 4079: The Effect of Prejudice in To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... Boo "went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in windows
any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work"(9). The town would blame or accuse Boo for any little crime or unexplained phenomenon. Children speculate as well as the adults. Jem speculates to Dill "Boo was about six and a half feet tall,
there was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what ...
- 4080: The Scarlet Letter: An Analysis of the Characters
- ... 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 day she is brought up on the scaffold. Prynne is not happy about ...
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