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- 5301: Desensitized America
- ... was a truly tragic event. The fact that I cannot remember too much more of this story is an example about how we have become desensitized toward violence in schools. I think that every other day we hear instances of this type of horror. Obviously the one that stands out in my mind is the Columbine tragedy, but in between the huge stories, are the instances that are just as tragic ... title, think, “oh how awful,” then we go on with our lives and by the time lunch comes around we have forgotten who was even named in the article we glanced at earlier that same day. Sad but true, I feel that violence, most especially among our youth in schools has become less shocking to our society, and is on the road to becoming an accepted horror, just as in Candide ...
- 5302: Paul Revere (1735 - 1818)
- ... bravery, courage, his wonderful silver and copper that he engraved in , but everyone mostly new him for the midnight ride on April 18,1775. Paul died on May 10,1818, and that was a tragic day for almost everyone. He was burred in Boston on that day.
- 5303: Interpreting Poetry
- ... meaning. The first poet to be discussed is Shakespeare. The famous sonnet simply numbered eighteen, Shakespeare appears to writing (speaking) to a woman he is fond of. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And ... I love her for her smile – her look – her way Of speaking gently – for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day” – For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee – and love, so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me for A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort ...
- 5304: Hurricanes 2
- ... equator. Most hurricanes appear in late summer or early fall, when sea temperatures are at their highest. The warm waters heats the air above it, and the updrafts of warm, moist air begin to rise. Day after day the fluffy cumuli form atop the updrafts. But the cloud tops rarely rise higher than about 6,000 feet. At that height in the tropics, there is usually a layer of warm, dry air that ...
- 5305: Catcher In The Rye By Jd Salin
- ... his bed and pillow and picks at his pimples then he leaves coz holden has to write that composition. Holden decides to write about his brother Allies baseball glove (Allie died of lukemia and the day he died holden punched out all of the windows of the garage and tried to with the car but they were too tough and he broke his hand now its week and he can't ... He ends up at Mr. Antolini's house where he is given good advice by him even tho he is drunk. Mr. Antolini lets holden spend the night on his couch. Holden spends the next day trying to leave town and head west but because of phoebe he can't. He writes her a letter telling her to meet him at the museum before he leaves. He waits there then she ...
- 5306: Comparison Between Gandhi and Hitler
- ... grades began to fall drastically. When his father died he quit school and for the next few years lived off his family’s money. He did nothing but read books, draw pictures and daydream all day long. When he was 18 (in 1907) he moved to Vienna, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and tried to get into an art school there. But unfortunately for the world, he failed his ... Muslim-majority area of Bengal, placing himself as a hostage for the safety of Muslims living among Hindus in western Bengal. Once again, within days, the fighting stopped and Gandhi’s stubbornness had saved the day. Hitler and Gandhi both had many devices set up to help them not only gain power, but once in power, to keep their power. Hitler chose to scare the masses into following him, while Gandhi ...
- 5307: Edgar Allan Poe - Life And Works
- ... his foster mother, Frances Allan, died. John started showing affection toward his foster son, perhaps as his wife's last wish on her deathbed. John Allan sent money to Poe, and he returned home a day late for his foster mother's funeral service. Furthermore, John Allan agreed to support his discharge and enlistment into the United States Military Academy at West Point. Poe received his discharged from the Army and ... was drunk, he would do and say unusual, and usually things. Once he paraded around a friend's house naked in front the friend's mother. He sent his deep regrets to his friend the day after. Poe's writings and works are as strange as he is. His work reflected almost directly at his eerie personality as in his poem Annabel Lee, dedicated to his dead wife, Virginia. Poe has ...
- 5308: Drug Education
- ... and also the question I’m going to attempt to answer. The government is usually the group that attempts to educate people about the causes and effects of drugs and alcohol through programs such as D.A.R.E (drug abuse resistance education) or S.M.A.R.T. (Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Time-Specified objectives). D.A.R.E. tries to educate kids about drugs and alcohol while S.M.A.R.T. conducts studies to see how effective these programs really are. There have been several studies done that failed ...
- 5309: Compare And Contrast The War Poems By Jessie Pope And Rupert Brooke To Those Of Wilfred Owen
- ... a few. It is more like there are just a few who did not die for their country. The fighting does not end with splendour Pope and Brooke seemed to think there would be. Each day ends with the men shivering in the trenches, thanking God they still have their lives. The so called “show” of Pope’s does not end with a round of applause and the falling of the ... their “tender” minds and “each slow dusk a drawing - down of blinds” The night falls and brings relative safety for the men and worry or mourning for the families at home. The closing of the day is also represented in the poem by a change in tempo. After a quick, driving first stanza the second takes a calmer and haunting tone. The sad eyes of the men are represented by funeral ...
- 5310: “A Worn Path”: Phoenix
- ... unfortunate condition did not stop her from walking down a path, that she has become so familiar with. Phoenix starts walking early one morning down a country path. “It was December” (116) a bright cold day. On this day, Phoenix did what she knows best, starts walking. This was nothing new to Phoenix; she had traveled down this path before. Just a different season for Phoenix. “She looked straight ahead,”(116) and did not ...
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