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- 3581: An American Epidemic
- ... his friends pushed him in his own locker and secured the combination lock for three consecutive classes. That was the event they say made the boy snap. He brought a gun to school the next day, and even with all of his football training, Chester could not run fast enough to save his own life. He was the first student ever killed in a Michigan high school. Unfortunately, Chester s story ... fourteen-year-old Arthur Bates has proven. Arthur spent many of his early years in mental facilities, but after it was decided that nobody could help him he was sent home to his mother. One day Arthur chose a house at random and planned on robbing it. Once he got in he realized the owner of the home, Lillian Piper, was asleep inside. Arthur proceeded to rape and kill Miss Piper ... Los Angeles police detective Robert Contreras puts it, These kids are getting away with murder. They have no respect for anything and joke that in jail they ll at least get three square meals a day. Obviously, it is going to take more than one person to stop what is being called an American epidemic. Every parent, every child, every teacher, and every citizen is going to have to stand ...
- 3582: A Fatal Mistake The Vietnam Wa
- ... trained and better equipped army(Encarta Vietnam War ). By March 6 of 1946, Vietnam s independence was finally recognized by the Indochinese Federation and French Union, which included Laos and Cambodia (Chant 25). That same day, however, the French launch a swift offensive campaign through North Vietnam, after landing in North Vietnam s largest port city, Haiphong (Chant 25). In a few months, France had reacquired much of the country. Until ... that point, U.S. involvement of military personnel had been limited to advisors. The total of eleven thousand was more than two-thirds American (Chant 31). In October of that year, Kennedy sent General Maxwell D. Taylor to Vietnam to assess the situation, and Special Forces to provide tactical training to the Vietnamese Civilian Irregular Defense Groups (Chant 31). The first true military engagement the U.S. experienced came on August ...
- 3583: Atomic Bombing 2
- ... war against Japan. The Japanese were almost defeated and ready to surrender in being the first to use it, we adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages." ---Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during World War II In early August 1945 atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These two bombs quickly yielded the surrender ... with his advisors, it nonetheless becomes extremely difficult to believe Truman and Stimson's claim that the only reason the bomb was dropped was for military reasons. In his diary on July 17the, the first day of the Postdam Conference, Truman recorded that, "Most of the big points are settled. Stallin will be in the war on August 15the, Fini Japs when that comes about."(Loebs p13) Those last six words ...
- 3584: Atomic Bomb 3
- Atomic Bomb On August 2, 1939 Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This was right before the start of World War 2. In this letter Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of the efforts Hitler was making to purify U-235 in which he hoped ... radioactive glass. The heat reaches 7,000 degrees F. It is so hot that the soil turns into glass. The Gadget worked. People from a nearby community said the saw the sun rise twice that day. It is said that a blind girl 120 miles away saw the flash. The creators of the Gadget had mixed feelings. Some felt that the equilibrium in nature was upset. Others were glad that the ...
- 3585: Analysing War Poetry
- ... country, he is paying it back for all that it has given to him during the course of his life, described at the end of the poem. Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. It could also be said that he has called England her, out of affection, as sailors do for their boats ... as the truth in some poor old lady s mind for the rest of her life. For while he coughed and mumbled, her weak eyes Had shone with gentle triumph, brimmed with joy, Because he d been so brave, her glorious boy. I think this shows the feelings of both people. The awkward uneasiness of the Brother Officer, mumbling a lie he didn t want to tell, and the sad pleasure ...
- 3586: African Culture
- ... was also created out of the doctrine of natural rights, whose restrictive application was continually eroded by the struggles of the excluded: first the European "others," and then the other "others" down to our own day. Throughout US history, racial conflicts continually shaped and reshaped the categories into which identities -- all identities -- were classified. The racial struggles at the heart of US society, the racial projects whose clash and clangor leaps ... contradiction, that constitutes racial dualism at century's end. I anticipate various objections to the line of argument that race no longer operates as a simple signifier -- as it largely did in Du Bois's day -- absolutely locating one in a certain largely homogeneous community or another. Was white supremacy ever truly that monolithic? Did not Du Bois's narrative already expose its delusions of absolute racial difference? And hasn't ... greater profits, from deindustrialization and the "downsizing" of workforces; rather their troubles emanated from the welfare state, which expropriated the taxes of the productive citizens who "played by the rules" and "went to work each day" in order to subsidize unproductive and parasitic welfare queens and career criminals "who didn't want to work." Nowhere was this new framework of the white "politics of difference" more clearly on display than ...
- 3587: A Speech Given By Frederick Do
- ... have sympathy for the lamenting captives and contempt for the captors in the Psalms passage. If this assumption is correct, then the same pious Christians surely should realize the situation of the slaves on this day and every other. Additionally, in asking this question, he asserts immediately that the meaning of the Fourth of July is entirely different from that of the free, white American. Douglass concedes that the whites of ... are just as many reasons for slaves to scorn the traditional meaning of the Fourth of July. Furthermore, these reasons are as significant as they are plentiful. Douglass asserts that the very reasons why Independence Day is important to the whites are the same rights that are denied of the slaves, making the slaves lack of those privileges the major contributing factor to their abhorrence of the holiday. Therefore, not only are slaves justified in denouncing the Fourth of July as a celebration of freedom, those that are free to enjoy the rights associated with Independence Day should also feel shameful that liberty is honored because the same personal freedom that the colonists fought for in the Revolutionary War are cruelly not permitted in the case of the slave. In this ...
- 3588: Great Expectations & Oliver Tw
- ... questioned about his first visit to Miss Havisham's house, he made up along elaborate story to make up for the terrible time he had in reality. Instead of telling how he played cards all day while being ridiculed and criticized by Estella and Miss Havisham, he claimed that they played with flags and swords all day after having wine and cake on gold plates.15 However, one special quality possessed by Pip that is rarely seen in a novel's hero is that he wrongs others instead of being hurt himself ... Kincaid, James R. Dickens and the Rhetoric of Laughter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. Marcus, Steven. Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey. Great Britain: Basic Books, 1965. Slater, Michael, ed. Dickens 1970. New York: Stein and Day Publishers, 1970. Slater, Michael. Dickens and Women. California: Stanford University Press, 1983. Stewart, Garrett. Dickens and the Trials of Imagination. Massachusettes: Harvard University Press, 1974. Welsh, Alexander. The City of Dickens. Oxford: Claredon Press, ...
- 3589: Jane Eyre - Nature
- ... and "'the solitary rocks and promontories'" of sea-fowl. We quickly see how Jane identifies with the bird. For her it is a form of escape, the idea of flying above the toils of every day life. Several times the narrator talks of feeding birds crumbs. Perhaps Brontλ is telling us that this idea of escape is no more than a fantasy -- one cannot escape when one must return for basic ... in the heath, is the same precipitation that led her to narrate this passage: "But my night was wretched, my rest broken: the ground was damp . . . towards morning it rained; the whole of the following day was wet." Just like a benevolent God, nature will accept Jane no matter what: "Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was." Praying in the heather on ... neither earth should perish, nor one of the souls it treasured." Unsurprisingly, given Brontλ's strongly anti-Church of England stance, Jane realizes at some level that this reliance on God is unsubstantiated: "But next day, Want came to me, pale and bare." Nature and God have protected her from harm, providing meager shelter, warding off bulls and hunters, and giving her enough sustenance in the form of wild berries ...
- 3590: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... will seize Fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend and crush me completely" -- he decides to go on. At a time when Beethoven had reached the end of the musical challenge of the day, he also faced what seemed to him the end of hope in his personal life. In his Testament, death seems imminent -- "With joy I hasten to meet death" -- but hope and determination, though weak and ... accomplish great things" -- withdrawn from the company of men, tortured by his growing deafness, tempted with thoughts of suicide, overcoming despair by the pure strength of faith in his own music, searching for "but one day of pure joy." In a musical perspective, the "Eroica" Symphony established a milestone in Beethoven's development and in music history. His manipulation of sonata form to embrace the powerful emotions of heroic struggle and tragedy went beyond Mozart or Haydn's high- Classic style. Beethoven's new path reflected the turbulence of the developing politics of the day (especially the Napoleonic Wars), ignited perhaps by the hopelessness he felt in himself. He took music beyond the Vienese style which ignored the unsettling currents of Beethoven's terror, anxiety, and death. Indeed he ...
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