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- 2411: Little Women
- ... of the novel. Shangri-La offers him protection and the ability to be unconcerned with the substantial things in modern life. Shangri-La also offers him an abundance of gold, which he thinks might one day may help him to make an economic and personal comeback. The potential for his financial resurrection is what will keep him in Shangri-La, but we are to assume that he will not leave. Charles ... sudden some thirty-five year old British diplomat comes to Shangri-La for a week and a half and is declared the next High Lama, my reaction might be a bit hasty (i.e. I'd lynch Conway). "He was only partly unhappy, but he was infinitely and rather sadly perplexed. He did not know whether he had been mad and was now sane, or had been sane and was now ... It is more of a social commentary and a hope for the future, than it is propagandist. The novel does not provide any answers for the future, it just has an underlying hope that one day mankind will be at peace. The only answer it does provide is moderation, and that is to broad of an answer and not realistic.
- 2412: Johnny Got His Gunn
- ... The story’s purpose as a whole is to inform that war is not filled with glory but pain and suffering. Life is something much to valuable to be taken for granted. People say I’d rather die with honor than live with disgrace. These are the words of stupidity because no one knows what death is like and there is no turning back after you are dead. Johnny was fortunate ... he is truly alone. Johnny stays in this state for many years but he refuses to give up, there will be no abandonment for him because he always has that glimmer of hope that one day he will find a way to communicate and get out of where ever he is. Johnny’s life was filled with many typical American experiences before he reached his horrible fate. He was in many ... didn’t mean anything.” Joe Bonham experiences much internal conflict within this story. He struggles for survival and staying sane, but his major conflict is with communicating with the outside world. He hopes to one day be able to make his feelings known and have his thirst quenched by the answering of his questions. He yearns to break free from his hospital room and be around people, especially American people, ...
- 2413: Racial Propaganda In The Third
- ... of very short stories where in all of them, the Jews are described as hook-nosed, with shifty eyes, and having the look of a criminal. Their teachers taught these stereotypes in the schools every day. Everyone, from the leaders, down to the children felt the same way about the Jews. Hitler had achieved through his use of propaganda the homogenous society he had dreamed of, albeit for only 5 or ... a European cleansing of the Jews, but as a worldwide operation “to rid the world of the epidemic of Jewish domination” (1). This of course was the Germans undoing, which came to a head on D-Day. Although there were many facets to Nazi ideology and culture, none were as violent and deceitful as the racial propaganda. It was because of this fundamental hatred towards minorities that the Holocaust was allowed ...
- 2414: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome I
- ... hope someone s theory is the right one and be thankful that this disease only affects 1-3 infants per thousand born. There are so many questions but not nearly enough answers and until that day we can only do what the experts tell us to do and hopefully the SIDS disease will almost become non-existent. Culbertson, Krous, Bendell, ed. 1988 Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Medical Aspects and Psychological Management. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press Bergman, Abraham B. M.D. 1986 The Discovery of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Lessons in the Practice of Political Medicine. New York: Praeger Publishers Guntheroth, Warren G. M.D. 1989 CRIB DEATH : The Sudden Infant Syndrome Death Second Revised Edition Mount Kisco, New York Futura Publishing Company. Injury Prevention Committee, Canadian Pedrictric Society. Reducing the Risk of Sudden Infant Death. Journal of Pedriactics ...
- 2415: Anti-Vietnam Movement in the U.S.
- ... signs and movement salutes. Some units even organized their own demonstrations to link up with the movement at home (Schlight, 45). For example, to join the November 1969 antiwar Mobilization, a unit boycotted its Thanksgiving Day dinner (Schlight, 45). One problem of the antiwar movement was the difficulty of finding ways to move beyond protest and symbolic acts to deeds that would actually impede the war. Unlike college students and other ... demonstrations on hundreds of college campuses paralyzed America's higher-education system. The Kent State tragedy ignited a nationwide campus disaster. Between May 4 and May 8, campuses experienced an average of 100 demonstrations a day, 350 campus strikes, 536 colleges shut down, and 73 colleges reported significant violence in their protests. On that weekend, 100,000 people gathered to protest in Washington. By May 12, over 150 colleges were on ... Honor. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Gettleman, Marvin E. Vietnam and America: A documented history. New York: Grove Press, 1985. Lewis, Lloyd B. The Tainted War. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985. Meyerson, Joel D. Images of a Lengthy War. Washington, DC: Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, 1986. Schlight, John. Indochina War Symposium. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1986. Small, Melvin. Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves. ...
- 2416: Power
- ... to incite the drastic change of Marguerite’s name, although she started it off by calling her Margaret, it was in fact, one of her friends who suggested that “the name’s too long. I’d never bother myself. I’d call her Mary if I was you.”(5) As if showing off to her friends, and proving that she really does have control and power over black people, she starts calling her Mary, much to ... the “hellish horror of being ‘called out of her name’”(6). She came in late, left early, and didn’t clean the dishes properly, among other things, much to no avail. That is, until one day when her brother suggested to her a way to really get Mrs. Cullinan for calling her Mary. Marguerite took away the most precious thing to Mrs. Cullinan, “a casserole shaped like a fish” and ...
- 2417: Atomic Bomb 4
- Atomic Bomb On August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. On that day the United States of America detonated an atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. Never before had mankind seen anything like it. Here was something that was much bigger than an ordinary bomb, yet could ... the Japanese were ready to surrender and was not necessary to hit them with that awful bomb. Second, I hate to see our country be the first country to use such a weapon." (General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander) He did not want to drop the atomic bomb cause it would kill many women and children. He also included that world would think that the United States of America would ... their heritage and they did not want to lose it. But after we dropped the bomb and stopped the war, the United States of America still let the Japanese keep there emperor and to this day the Japanese still have there emperor. For the first time in the history of human existence, here was something capable of wiping us off the face of the Earth. In addition, most people had ...
- 2418: Kurds Vs Turks
- ... separatist guerrillas in an offensive near the Iraqi border. In March, Heavy security was in force in Kurdish areas of Turkey for the New Year festival of Newroz - marked by Kurds as the most important day of the year. This shows how the Turks are abusing their power not even allowing the Kurds to celebrate in their in New Year. Another example of Turkey abusing its power was in April when ... and NVA tanks. "It is well known that under the pretext of fighting the PKK the Turkish government has allowed a massacre of the Kurdish civilian population to take place," Trittin stated. After a four-day visit to Kurdish communities in Turkey, a leading Green spokeswoman, Angelika Beer, declared in an official party press release: "The German Republic is a war party.... It is not a spectator to the war in ... before an international court of justice, where the question of the Kurds could be dealt with. At the end of November the press reported that at a meeting between the prime minister of Italy, Massimo D'Alema, and the German Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, in Bonn there was talk of such an international court. The European spokesman for the PKK, Kani Yilmaz, quoted his general secretary in a press conference on ...
- 2419: Atomic Bomb 5
- ... complete power. Many government officials felt that such a weapon could put an end to the war. For this reason, in 1942, the United States decided to pursue the atomic bomb. Later that year, Franklin D. Roosevelt began the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was a massive engineering enterprise aimed at the ultimate goal of creating an atomic bomb. At one time it employed over 129,000 workers. The United States ... there is the potential for 300,000 Joules of energy to be released. Most nuclear weapons, however, use much more than one gram of fuel. This is why they are so devastatingly powerful. When Franklin D. Roosevelt unexpectedly died in office, Harry Truman became the new president of the United States. He was soon faced with the decision of whether or not to use the bomb. He decided to use it ... Since he was seen as a God to the Japanese, the Emperor s wish was granted, and the Japanese surrendered on August 14, 1945. Since World War II, technology has advanced so much that modern-day Nuclear Weapons are up to one thousand times more powerful than those used against Japan. Such weapons could destroy entire states, and send the world into nuclear holocaust. There are also other ways to ...
- 2420: Ireland 2
- ... to be missed. Eggs, bacon, Irish sausages, black pudding, white pudding, and fried tomatoes are standard. Mushrooms, smoked salmon, and others are sometime included also. All this with a nice pot of tea starts your day off right. Lunch is another story. This is a meal the Irish need to work on. If you order a sandwich, you're liable to get 2 pieces of bread with 1 thin piece of ... refer to the Department of State's pamphlet A Safe Trip Abroad for ways to promote a trouble-free trip. The pamphlet is available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government printing office, Washington, D.C. 20402. Terrorist Activities: A peace agreement for Northern Ireland was ratified by voters in Ireland and Northern Ireland on May 22, 1998. Major paramilitary organizations continue to observe cease-fires. Violence by small splinter ... with mean daily air temperatures of between 4C and 7C, while July and August are the warmest (14C to 16C). May and June are the sunniest months, averaging 5 to 7 hours of sunshine per day. In low-lying areas average annual rainfall is mostly between 800 and 1200mm (31" to 47") but ranges from less than 750mm (30") in some eastern areas to 1500mm (59") in parts of the ...
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