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- 5581: The Nuclear Threat: Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow
- ... remember when my son Dennis was getting ready for bed one night. He was sobbing inconsolably. I believe he was in the 7th grade at the time. He had seen parts of the movie The Day After in school about 5 years after it aired. I know for a fact he did not view that movie when it first cam out. It was hyped with many warning statements as to the ... it to as leverage in obtaining their personal agenda. The nuclear threat is far from over. An article in the Washington Post related an incident that occurred on January 25, 1995. At dawn on this day, a blip appeared on the early warning system of radar screens in northern Russia. A rocket had been launched from somewhere off the coast of Norway. Radar operators alerted Moscow to the possible threat of ...
- 5582: Ethan Frome: Ethan's Failures
- ... and her cousin needed a place to stay, they took her in to help around the house. Ethan took an immediate propensity to her cousin, Mattie, because she brought a bright light upon his dismal day. He seemed to have found someone that cared for him, was always happy and could share his youth, unlike his sickly wife who always nagged him. He longed to be with Mattie, however he had ... house. She told him without any discussion that Mattie had to go. Ethan could not find the words to make her alter her decision. His wife also decided that Mattie had to leave the next day itself and Ethan could not do anything about it. It was stated in the book that his wife had the upper hand in the house by the line "Now she [his wife] had mastered him ...
- 5583: Affermative Action
- ... Reforms. Associated Press Writer. . 19 July, 1995. Buckley, William F., Jr. The Two Sides. National Review 14 Oct., 1996: 95 Cousens, Frances. Public Civil Rights Agencies and Fair Employment. New York: Praeger, 1969. Hair, Penda D. Color Blind-or Just Blind? Nation 14 Oct. 1996: 12. Once to Every Man. National Review 16 June, 1997: 12. Phillips, D. Rhys. Equality in Employment. Ottawa: Canadian Gov., 1985: 285 Porter, Horace. Affirmative Action: 1960s Dreams, 1990s Realities. Chronicle of Higher Education. 29 Nov. 1996: B6 Word Count: 1158
- 5584: Ethan Frome: Fantasy is an Escape From Winter
- ... of Ethan's tragic suffering. The aborted suicide attempt leads to their tragic fate, living a life of physical suffering, so badly injured that former invalid, Zeena is forced to care for them. "If she'd [Mattie'd] ha' died, Ethan might ha' lived" (Wharton 181). It is horribly ironic that, as a result of the accident, Mattie, the source of Ethan's earlier joy, is now an additional trial in an already ...
- 5585: The Swayzak People
- ... the shaman is a type of chief figure, who plays the role of a kind of governor of the village. Below him are many others who carry out and oversee many of the actions of day to day life. The Swayzak people have a deep love and great respect for nature. They believe that the earth is their mother and all that is nessesary for survival. They also believe that answer to all ...
- 5586: Ethan Frome Essay - Irony
- ... leave. Their sorrow over Mattie s departure changes their motives concerning sledding. They see a collision with the elm as a way to avoid parting. Mattie suggests, Right into the big elm So t we d never have to leave each other any more (71). The irony is that sledding, an innocent pastime, becomes a tool the lovers use to try to escape their situation. Another ironic element of the sledding ... becomes the primary caretaker of the two women, who continue to cause suffering in his life. Mrs. Hale says, But sometimes the two of them get going at each other, and then Ethan s face d break your heart .When I see that, I think it s him that suffers most (76). After the accident, the Frome household is caught in a living death, rather than released from its tensions. The ...
- 5587: Little Women Book Report
- ... they knew as Laurie after that, and became the best of friends with him. Despite that one good trait, Jo has an uncontrollable temper that can erupt at any time. This is quite evident one day when Amy burns one of Jo's most precious items-a book that she wrote stories in and had for years. She is so outraged that she cannot even look Amy in the face and ... Laurie warns Jo that the ice is very thin in the middle, but Amy does not hear him and proceeds to skate into the center. Jo does nothing to stop her. Amy almost died that day, and Jo realized that her selfishness and anger almost cost her her own sister. Mrs. March then teaches Jo how to control her temper, and that was one of the most valuable lessons she ever ...
- 5588: Things Fall Apart: The Loss of a Tribe's Livelihood
- ... as the hymn poured into his parched soul. (TFA 104) The mission also gained respect and power by flourishing in circumstances that were believed to bring certain death, as prescribed by Igbo spirituality. The next day the crazy men actually began to clear part of the forest and to build their house. The inhabitants of Mbanta expected them all to be dead within four days. The First day passed and the second and the third and the fourth, and none of them died. Everyone was puzzled. And then it became known that the white man's fetish had unbelievable power. (TFA 105-6 ...
- 5589: "The Journey Through the Twelve Forests" and "The Bhagavad Gita": The Vaishnava Community
- ... reach the highest level of Hindu living. After finding out all of these facts, a person might ask himself or herself How is it possible to give up everything and still live, not knowing from day to day what will happen and where you will be? Why would it be reasonable to do this not knowing for sure the outcome of this life? Why sacrifice so much just to come out even? To ...
- 5590: Bill Gates
- ... scientist." His science teacher, William Dougall, remembers if the teacher wasn't going fast enough, "Bill always seemed on the verge of saying, 'But that's obvious.'" Gates once said to a teacher that some day he would be a millionaire. A grossly underestimated statement. Today Gates is one of the richest men in the world. In the fall of 1968, Bill Gates was entering the 8th grade at lakeside School ... died in an airplane accident. Gates and Allen were offered $2,400 worth of computer time in exchange for a class scheduling program. The boys (Gates now 16 and Allen already graduating high school) worked day and night. Gates soon found out that he could put himself in an all girls classes in every period. Soon Gates and Allen would found a company called Traf-O-Data. The two made a ...
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