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- 10101: Gender Testing in The Odyssey
- ... you’ll unman me, strip away my courage!” He demands that she swear an oath never to plot against him. Then he says, “She began to swear the oath that I required…and when she’d finished, then, at last, I mounted Circe’s gorgeous bed…” (p. 241) If that was Penelope being described, she would lose her high standing in the poem. Sexual freedom is more of a man’s ...
- 10102: Drug Legalization
- ... America to overcome. The banning of illegal drugs takes many back to the days of the Prohibition problems involving the banishment of alcohol. Prohibition obviously did not work in the 1920’s, and some modern day people feel that making drugs legal would solve the constantly rising drug problem. In his article Facing up to Drugs: Is Legalization the Solution?, Pete Hamill presents both sides of the argument very thoroughly. Using ...
- 10103: Iliad/Odyssey Summary
- ... Odysseus and his men were separated by the other Greek ships, and they were lost. Odysseus spent many years trying to get back to his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus-who he left the day he was born. He told Penelope to promise to remarry if he had not returned by the time Telemachus grew a beard. As he and his men searched for Ithaca, they came across an island ...
- 10104: Panda Report
- ... panda’s diet consists of 99% bamboo along with small percentages of fish, pikas, rodents, vines, irises, crocus, and murices grass. Pandas eat in a sitting position and since they eat about twelve hours a day, they sit a lot! During these twelve hours the pandas will have consumed somewhere between twenty-three and thirty-six pounds of food. Pandas may eat a lot, but they can be very picky eaters ...
- 10105: Essay On "Things Fall Apart"
- ... my life. The beating of one's wife is not condoned under any circumstances, and effects the community as a whole. This is regarded as totally unacceptable but not because it happened on the wrong day but because it's morally wrong.
- 10106: Group Polarization And Competi
- ... all "non-essential" services due to what was, for all intents and purposes, a game of national "chicken" between the House Speaker and the President. And, at an estimated cost of 200 million dollars a day, this dubious battle of dueling egos did not come cheap (Bradsher, 1995, p.16). Why do politicians find it almost congenitally impossible to cooperate? What is it about politics and power that seem to always ...
- 10107: Do Unto Others, As You Would Have Them Do Unto You
- ... did not have any outside connections, Mr. Wright probably was the one to kill her only friend. The neighbor, Mr. Hale, and his son Harry were on their way to Mr. Wright’s house the day that he was found dead. Mr. Hale was going over to Mr. Wright’s house to try to convince him to go half-and-half on a telephone service with him, which would make the ...
- 10108: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
- ... and a politically motivated sense. He finds it sad how readily ‘citizens… consent to wear chains in order to be able to give them in turn to others.’ (888) This indeed remains true to this day, with people all over the world competing as individuals, and the nations of the world competing for status.
- 10109: Sigmund Freud
- ... I have to feed them, I have to bathe them, I have to wash them, I have to walk them - just like a small child. Except they won't disobey you, and I expect they'd be a little more respectful of all that I would do for them. Psycho: Okay, the next word is religion. Jenny: Futile. Non-lasting. Psycho: Love Jenny: Useless. Really, love means nothing, just like marriage ...
- 10110: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
- ... to be done. Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. (Longfellow) It was decided that, on Saturday, April 15, 1775, something was going to happen. A move by the British was truly inevitable. Paul Revere was to warn Sam Adams and John Hancock ...
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