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- 3221: Oliver North
- ... he was assigned to counterinsurgency operations in which he met General Singlaub and General Secord, then lieutenant colonels. After coming back from Vietnam, he served as a planner in the Marine Corps headquarters in Washington, D.C. After being promoted to Major in the Marine Corps, North led a detachment of Marines who were to assist the rescuers of the aborted mission to free U.S. hostages in Tehran. A little ... Sept. 16, 1991, after hearings on the immunity issue, on the motion of Independent Council. Today, Oliver North has his own talk radio show, his own website, and a chance to run for President one day. Although many tried to get him to take the fall by himself, he refused to go down. He is still widely respected as a military officer, as a political strategist, and as a political candidate ...
- 3222: Classical Economist - Adam Smi
- ... by private rather than public efforts. People would save and invest for the future because of the inherent desire of individuals to better their own condition. Finally, he sharply criticized the mercantilist writers of his day, who advocated state intervention in international trade to achieve an inflow of foreign treasure. Mercantilist thinking was based on the assumption that the volume of trade was limited and that countries could expand their trade ... thinker whose work covers an immense territory including moral philosophy, political economy, rhetorical theory, aesthetics, and jurisprudence. He laid the foundation for the capitalist, free market economy, and is one of the founders of modern day economics. Though his theories were formed more than two hundred years ago, they shape much of today's economic and political debate, especially current arguments regarding free trade. The Myth of Adam Smith will be of interest to historians of economic thought, philosophers of science, and scholars, and students interested in political economy, economic theory, and economic methodology. To this day, Adam Smith remains one of the most lucid thinkers on capitalism, despite that fact that he is permanently underestimated in the faces of many of his fellow economists. LIST OF REFERENCES McConnell, Campbell and ...
- 3223: Alfred Hitchcock
- ... a spiral of intrigue as she is caught between her boyfriend who is an investigating detective and a person who is blackmailing her. Alice wants to turn herself in, but if she did that she'd have to explain why she had put herself in such a position. Within this film is the typical Hitchcock story that the character wants to tell the police what has happened but they just can not do it. They know they'd never be believed so they must set out to defend themselves. This occurs in "The 39 Steps", a film that will be focused on following this film, as well. Hitchcock loves returning to themes over ... the theater of "The 39 Steps" when you can hear the crowd as well as the man on stage and the band's music. The lighting in "The 39 Steps" is also a technique I'd like to touch upon. One of the first scenes is at the theater where a fight breaks out. The shot shifts from the view from the floor to the view from the stage. In ...
- 3224: Huckleberry Finn
- ... who have sought the coolness of the church and notes "most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different"(122) The narration of Huck's final day with the Grangerfords is prefaced by: "I don't want to talk much about the next day"(124). For Huck's easy-going fluid dialogue to become stilted and censored, the reader knows the young boy has been hurt. A senseless fatal feud is not the only tragedy depicted through the events of that day, also shown is the heartbreak of a young boy who loses every vestige of the hopeful trust he put in a father, brothers and sisters. Huck is shocked to hear the fatherless, brotherless Buck ...
- 3225: Prejudice In To Kill A Mocking
- ... see anybody from Maycomb on a jury-they all come from out in the woods. Atticus leaned back in his rocking chair. For some reason he looked pleased with Jem. I was wondering when that d occur to you, he said. There are lots of reasons. For one thing, Miss Maudie can t serve on a jury because she s a woman. You mean women in Alabama can t-? I was indignant. I do. I guess it s to protect our frail ladies from sordid cases like Tom s. Besides, Atticus grinned, I doubt if we d ever get a complete case tried-the ladies d be interrupting to ask questions (Lee 221). In this quote taken from the novel, Atticus explains to his children that women are frail and weak, which is why they cannot be present on the ...
- 3226: 1984 3
- ... as a warning against the comon persons bvecoming complacent and overly tusting in their leaders. What I learned from this book, is that what happens in this fictional novel, can easily happen to our present day community.Governments lie to us today, so why couldn't they attemp to alter the past like "Big Brother" government did so skillfully and convincingly in 1984. I also came to the understanding the "ignornace is bliss" can be a statement held as dogma to many modern day governments. If the people of a society are uneducated, then they are easy to rule because without knowledge, their is no motivation for one to better his or herself.They are content and happy in ... dangerous views to other people, thus causing his drawn out torture and eventual murder.The main character Winston did not use science to solve his problems in fact the modern science and technology of the day in 1984 was his problem. A "telescreen" was mandatory in all homes, this was a two way t.v/monitor that allowed the government to watch every waking and sleeping moment of a person' ...
- 3227: Youth Violence
- ... youth violence it is necessary to realize how serious this problem truly is. According to the Chicago Tribune, There are three million crimes committed on school campuses every year. That's sixteen thousand crimes per day - one crime every six seconds. Even more frightening is the fact that thirty-five percent of high school students in high crime areas report carrying a firearm regularly. Juvenile arrests accounted for thirteen percent of ... school violence in its annual survey.A National League of Cities study (1994), found that nearly one out of every twenty high school students (4.4 percent) said they had missed at least one school day because they did not feel safe at or on the way to school. Younger, rather than older, students were more likely to miss a day because of fear for their safety. Nearly twelve percent of students (18 percent of boys and 5 percent of girls) reported carrying a weapon to school at least once during the thirty days preceding ...
- 3228: You Belong To Me By Mary Higgi
- You Belong to Me is Mary Higgins Clark's fifteenth novel. It is about a young clinical psychologist named Dr. Susan Chandler who hosts a radio talk show. One day the topic of the show is lonely women who disappear and who are later discovered dead. She brings up one specific case of a lady named Regina Clausen. Another lady calls in the show and ... but she wants to remain anonymous. Dr. Chandler tries to arrage a meeting with her, and she says she will probably not be able to come. That woman is shoved into a bus the next day and is seriously injured. The only witness that saw her get pushed is killed the next day. Dr. Chandler starts following the case, but every time she goes to talk to someone that might be able to give her some information, they are already dead. In the end, Susan is hot ...
- 3229: White Fang
- ... character was first a domesticated dog and then driven into the wild. White Fang was taken in by an Indian as a pup, and taught to live the ways of a domesticated sled-dog. One day his Indian master gave White Fang to a dog figther in exchange for bottles of whiskey. White Fang did not approve of this trade, and became a ferocious animal, which is just what his new master wanted. White Fang fought for this man several times and never lost, untill one day. When the day arrived, White Fang had to fight a bull dog, and if it wasn't for a man named Weedon Scott, he would have died. He was his new master for ever. III. Analysis of ...
- 3230: The Romantically Impaired Pruf
- ... there will be time," Eliot echoes the memorable line: "Had we but world enough and time' from Andrew Marvell's seductive poem, "To His Coy Mistress." Ironically, Prufrock does not feel compelled to seize the day(Pagnattaro 108). Prufrock repeats his conviction that "indeed there will be time" to wonder " Do I dare?' and Do I dare?'"-that is, first, does he dare express his true feelings to the woman he ... Hamlet. Are you? Works Cited Williamson, George. A Readers Guide to T.S. Eliot. 1953. Kenner, Hugh. The Invisible Poet; T.S. Eliot. 1964. Martin, Mildred. A Half-Century of Eliot Criticism. 1972. Alexander, James D.. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.' The Explicator. Fall 1994. Vol. 53. p53. Donoghue, Dennis. Beginning. The Southern Review. Summer 1998. v34. p32-40. Pagnattaro, Marisa. The Comedy of J. Alfred Prufrock ...
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