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- 2231: Brave New World: The Advancement of Science
- ... believing that soma is a cure- all remedy. Since soma has no side effects, it can be a threat to society because people may be drugged into a hallucinatory dream world twenty-four hours a day. It could be used as a drug not to escape the pressures of life, but to escape life itself. Similar to biology, technology can be a danger to society if used without regard for the ... Brave New World 35). Unfortunately, these psychological advancements cause the reservation to be a world without individual thought. Each person is conditioned into a life, which is believed to be most advantageous for them. Thomas D. Clareson points out that "The Brave New World is mindless... it's citizens are 'nice tame animals'..."(Huxley, DISC). The conditioning methods in Brave New World take away all freedom of choice and decision in ... changing to suit human needs, rather than changing the human race to suit science. With the increasing progress in biology, technology and psychology, this may be an impossible feat to overcome. The world may one day be without individuality, emotions or free thought. In Brave New World, the scientific advances show to be a threat to society, where "One could of course, exist. . ." though, "... One could not-in the fullest ...
- 2232: To Kill A Mockingbird: The Theme of Prejudice
- ... of us: Walter Cunningham was sitting there lying his head off. He didn't forget his lunch, he didn't have any. He had none today nor would he have any tomorrow or the next day. He had probably never seen three quarters together at the same time in his life. I tried again: "Walter's one of the Cunninghams, Miss Caroline." "I beg your pardon, Jean Louise?" "That's okay ... then you. For instance in the novel Jem and Dill got into a little argument about which county was better, the people from Maycomb, or the people from Meridian. "But Dill got him the third day, when he told Jem that folks in Meridian certainly weren't as afraid as the folks in Maycomb, that he'd never seen such scary folks as the ones in Maycomb. (Chapter 1, page 13) Prejudice is often referred to as the regular "disease" of small towns. Prejudice is born when people form an idea ...
- 2233: How America Should React To Ho
- ... it is important to realize that homosexuals are an integral part of our society. Your neighbor, your co-worker, your hairdresser, your child and even your spouse can be one of them. According to Richard D. Mohr "[t]wo out of five men one passes on the street have had orgasmic sex with men. Every second family in the country has a member who is essentially homosexual and many more people ... homosexual behavior akin to lying and stealing and, therefore, support the idea that gays and lesbians deserve to suffer. As Pete Hamill points out ,"…gay-bashing is real; homosexuals are routinely injured or murdered every day, all over the world, by people who fear or hate their version of human sexuality"(532). But as was mentioned above, the medical studies confirm that being gay is not a matter of choice or ... 964-970. Hamill, Pete. "Confessions of a Heterosexual." The Aims of Argument. A Rhetoric and Reader. 2nd Ed. Timothy W. Crusius and Carolyn E. Chanell: Mayfield Publishing, Mountain View, California,1998: 531-536. Mohr, Richard D. "Gay Basics: Some Questions, Facts, and Values." Taking sides: Clashing Views on controversial Issues. Moral Issues. 4th Ed. Stephen Satris: The Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc, Guilford,1994:186-194. Nickel, Jeffrey. "Everybody’s Threatened ...
- 2234: How America Should React To Ho
- ... it is important to realize that homosexuals are an integral part of our society. Your neighbor, your co-worker, your hairdresser, your child and even your spouse can be one of them. According to Richard D. Mohr "[t]wo out of five men one passes on the street have had orgasmic sex with men. Every second family in the country has a member who is essentially homosexual and many more people ... homosexual behavior akin to lying and stealing and, therefore, support the idea that gays and lesbians deserve to suffer. As Pete Hamill points out ,"…gay-bashing is real; homosexuals are routinely injured or murdered every day, all over the world, by people who fear or hate their version of human sexuality"(532). But as was mentioned above, the medical studies confirm that being gay is not a matter of choice or ... 964-970. Hamill, Pete. "Confessions of a Heterosexual." The Aims of Argument. A Rhetoric and Reader. 2nd Ed. Timothy W. Crusius and Carolyn E. Chanell: Mayfield Publishing, Mountain View, California,1998: 531-536. Mohr, Richard D. "Gay Basics: Some Questions, Facts, and Values." Taking sides: Clashing Views on controversial Issues. Moral Issues. 4th Ed. Stephen Satris: The Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc, Guilford,1994:186-194. Nickel, Jeffrey. "Everybody’s Threatened ...
- 2235: Hosea
- ... proud" (Scott 1975 p. 78-79). “Hosea believed the sins were in heavens record. The guilt would not fade with the passing of time. Israel's sins were "bound up" (v. 12) to await the day of judgment" (Wood 1975, p. 121). “Like Gomer wanton Israel is running after other "loves" instead of being faithful in her "marriage" to "God" (NIV Study Bible 1992, p. 987). "The chapter closes with a ... The whole first chapter had me confused and it wasn't until I read the book of Hosea and studied my reference material that I could make sense of what was going on. Once I'd read the entire book I was able to see how God had used Hosea's family life to relate to His relationship with the people of Israel. At first I thought Hosea 2:1 was God telling Hosea to dump his wife for her adultery. It wasn't until I'd read several of my references that I came to realize it was God telling Hosea's children to rebuke their mother for the way she behaved. I also came to realize this was a ...
- 2236: An Economic Intrepration Of Th
- ... the main reason for the construction of the lottery. Over time, people have lost the true meaning of the lottery: it has changed from an actual sacrifice to promote good crop production, to just one day each year that the town gets to participate in a gruesome tradition. Children line their pockets with rocks, one child eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded ... to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live that way for a while. Used to be a saying about Lottery in June, cone be heavy soon. First thing you know, we d all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There s always been a lottery , he added petulantly. (167) Old Man Warner is unwilling to let go of the lottery, it has been set in his head ... by arriving to the lottery late. It is shown that (p)eople who are considered important can keep others waiting (Wood 154). The townspeople have some obligation to him or they would not waste their day waiting for him. He has obviously weakened the people s will creating a dependency that gets harder to break the longer one is associated with the cult [ex. the lottery] (Dupuis, Eden, and Thomson ...
- 2237: Is Sex Eroding Moral Values?
- ... It ought to be the oldest things that are taught to the youngest people," said G. K. Chesterton in 1910. If that guarded approach applies anywhere, moral education would seem to be the place. "The Day America Told the Truth," a 1990 survey of American beliefs and values, contains this scene from a California high school: "It's Friday afternoon and the students are leaving a class in 'social living.' The ... teenage, single, unemployable parents. Is sex eroding moral values? Absolutely. Bibliography Bibliography 1. Cosmopolitan. June 1999 2. "Hunger Point". Jillian Medoff, Harper paperbacks. 1997 3. The Janus Report on Sexual Behavior. Samual S. Janus, Ph.D, Cynthia L. Janus, M.D. 1993 4. Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong. William Kilpatrick. 1992 5. Waste Makers. Vance Packard. 1960 Word Count: 1771
- 2238: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... examine any predicament he might find himself in: "They went off, and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on,- s'pose you'd a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than you do now? No, says I, I'd feel bad " (p.127). Only a few weeks with Jim and still feeling great ambivalence, Huck returns to the river to think. Twain tries here to tell the reader how strong the "mob" really is ... his own. Eventually he goes as far as to risk his life for Jim:"And got to thinking of our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me, all the time, in the day, and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking, and singing, and laughing. But somehow I couldn't see no places to harden me against him, but only ...
- 2239: Geologists
- ... get into this field of work, they are geological/geophysical engineering, geological and related sciences, and miscellaneous physical sciences. If you want to teach in a university or college you will basically need a Ph.D. There is no special licensing or certification for this job. To be successful in this job you will need many different abilities, and qualities. Being curious is essential for the geologist. An ability to work ... brainers. Although being a good independent worker is another essential ability. Good communication skills are very important too. Having computer skills is a great attribute too, and is getting more important in any job every day. Economics understanding is yet another very good thing to have. The ability to visualize in the 3-D is another ability greatly appreciated by co-workers. The only real way that you can advance in this job is to gain experience. When enough experience is gained, you could get promoted to the ...
- 2240: Attitudes Toward Marriage in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- ... the Miller's and the Wife of Bath's Tales. While several of these tales are rather comical, they do indeed give us a representation of the attitudes toward marriage at that time in history. D.W. Robertson, Jr. calls marriage "the solution to the problem of love, the force which directs the will which is in turn the source of moral action" (Andrew, 88). Marriage in Chaucer's time meant ... of jealousy, and at the same time he would obey any command she gave him (Lines 745-750): Of his free wil he swoor hire as a knight That nevere in al his lif he day ne night Ne sholde upon hime take no maistrye Again hir wil, ne kithe hire jalousye, But hire obeye and folwe hir wil in al, As any lovere to his lady shal-- Arveragus' and Dorigen ... Canterbury Tales". The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. F.N. Robinson. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1933. 19-314. Huppe, Bernard F. A Reading of the Canterbury Tales. Albany: State University of New York, 1964. Robertson, D.W. (1962). "Concepts of Pilgrimage and Marriage". Critical Essays on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Ed. M. Andrew. 1st ed. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1991. 87-90.
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