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- 761: Jem's Journal: Chapter Summary
- Jem's Journal: Chapter Summary Chapter 4 - I think at times my sister, Scout can be disgusting. I came home from a long day at school. I found Scout on the porch chewing a wad of gum. I knew it was gum because she had it in her mouth for a long time and plus I could see it ... and that if she wasn't dead and didn't feel sick. She was obviously mad at me for ruining her chewing enjoyment but I didn't want her getting sick because knowing Atticus, I'd be the one who would have to take care of her and that wouldn't go over to well with me since I know I could have stopped her from getting sick. I think I ... to them it only made things look hotter than they really were. I noticed that Dill was making a cigarette out of the things he had and then he challenged me. He asked if I'd cross the part that I was pointing to. I noticed that Dill was almost done with his cigarette and I wanted to change the subject so I told him not to smoke his cigarette ...
- 762: Gun Control
- ... who was seriously injured when he was shot during a 1981 assassination attempt against Reagan) was signed by President Clinton, on November 30, 1993, and took effect in March 1994. This measure imposes a 5-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns and provides for the creation of a national computer network to check the backgrounds of gun buyers. The Clinton Administration was also able to pass an assault-style ... in an atmosphere of hysteria that discourages critical reflection. The Gun Control Act of 1968 was approved soon after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. In fact, on the very day that Kennedy died, President Johnson issued an emotional appeal to Congress demanding passage of a federal gun-control law. Two dramatic incidents had helped create a sense of crisis, which Johnson used to his advantage ... members on their views and how their Congressional representative rates in the area of gun-control laws. In 1992 the organization had about 2,500,000 members. With headquarters and a strong lobby in Washington, D. C., the NRA mobilizes its members through some 14,000 affiliates. Its activities are both educational and recreational (educating police firearms instructors, sponsoring shooting competitions, promoting safety) and political (lobbying against gun-control legislation). ...
- 763: The Cathedral
- ... that the narrator is blind to the reality of the world. The narrator s blindness is certainly not limited to Robert he no better understands the relationship between his wife and the blind man: They d become good friends, my wife and the blind man On her last day in the office, the blind man asked if he could touch her face She told me he touched his fingers to every part of her face She never forgot it. She even tried to write ... narrator completely misreads the situations in the world around him. Notwithstanding, the narrator s emotional blindness can be seen most clearly in his inability to comprehend Robert and Beulah s relationship. The narrator muses, They d married, lived and worked together, slept together and then the blind man had to bury her. All this without his having ever seen what the goddamned woman looked like. (Carver 1054) Here, the narrator ...
- 764: I Know WhyThe Caged Bird Sings
- ... surprised when Mr. Freeman had began to sexually abuse and rape Maya because I didn't think that he would do such a thing to his girlfriends daughter, and who would have thought that he'd be such a cruel person to do that to a young helpless girl that didn't know right from wrong at the time. § I predict that Maya will finally fully overcome her rape and live ... the world back in her life and start to be happy again. § The most important thing about this book is that it tells about how rape to a young child can affect their life. § I'd like to tell the writer that she did a very good job in writing this book and that I admire her for writing about her life and the hardships she's gone through. § I'd like to ask the writer what happened to her and her son later on in life. And did it help a lot more to tell your story to others and get your feelings out ...
- 765: I Know WhyThe Caged Bird Sings
- ... moving in with Vivian and her boyfriend, Mr. Freeman. Chris Corey pg. 6 7) Plot "I" 2 - Vivian worked in a gambling parlor. Mr. Freeman always waited for her to come home at night. One day after Vivian had left the house, Mr. Freeman molested Maya. He threatened to kill Bailey if she told anyone. He avoided her for weeks before he did it again and ignored her for weeks after ... with Grandmother Baxter. A policeman later told Grandmother Baxter that Mr. Freeman was beaten to death. - Mrs. Flowers broke Mayas silence from school by offering her books to read under the condition that shed have to read them aloud in class. - Maya took a job for Mrs. Viola Cullinan and met the cook, Miss Glory. One of Mrs. Cullinan's friends enraged Maya when she suggested shed be called Mary because Margaret was too long when her name wasnt even Margaret. Miss Glory explained that she had changed her name too from Hallelujah to Glory. Chris Corey pg. 7 - Maya ...
- 766: Robert Hunter
- ... Take your shift at the mine?' Conventional wisdom is a motif that Hunter uses in several of his traditional poems, namely "Greatest Story Ever Told", and "Uncle John's Band". These deal with aspects of day-to-day country living and the common-sense wisdom found in many classic folk tales. "Uncle John's Band" is the prime illustration of this theme, and is perhaps the epitome of Hunter's traditional style of ... homes. A good example of this is the traditional "Tennessee Jed": ...You know you bound to wind up dead If you don't head back to Tennessee Jed. Tennessee, Tennessee Ain't no place I'd rather be. Honey, won't you carry me Back to Tennessee. In this instance, Jed plays the role of the seeker or lost character, and the singer is his guide, warning him that he ...
- 767: There Are No Children Here - S
- ... seven. He spent only a few hours with them interviewing for the photo essay. Lafeyette had an impact on Kotlowitz. When asked what he wanted to be, Lafeyette responded with "If I grow up, I'd like to be a bus driver." Meaning, at ten years old, he wasn't sure if he'd make it to adulthood. In 1988 Kotlowitz suggested to the boys' mother, LaJoe, the idea of writing a book about Pharoah, Lafeyette and the other children in the neighborhood. LaJoe liked the idea. However, she ... be children." Alex Kotlowitz entitled his book, There Are No Children Here. It is a story of two brothers growing up in a housing project of Chicago. By the author following the boys throughout their day to day lives, we, the readers, are also enveloped in the boys' surroundings. We learn about their everyday lives, from how they pick out their clothes, to how they wash them. We go to ...
- 768: Hume
- ... theology any relevancy in conclusions arrived at over and above what can be independently and directly supported by empirical study of the universe. Such innocuous-sounding, even camouflaged assertions by Hume were in actuality a D-Day invasion on the Normandy Beach of the Deists. The first salvo is a statement of the terms of reference: You then . . . have acknowledged that the chief or sole argument for a divine existence (which I ... only and final interlocutor and arbiter, why can one not use one's experience and say that a half-finished building, surrounded by all the materials and tools necessary for its completion, will be one day complete? Or, cannot Robinson Crusoe, seeing one human footprint on the shore, conclude he is not alone? This objection he answers through his dialogue partner: There is an infinite difference between the human and ...
- 769: Police Work and Related Fields
- ... Some advantages and disadvantages that are associated with this field of work as stated by officers in the field are: Advantages - A sense of good for helping others - The variety of the job in each day - Being able to help individuals who are victims of a crime or An accident. - being able to meet all kinds of different people Disadvantages - The probability of injury or death on the job - Working nights, weekends, and holidays - being on call 24 hours a day - Working long hours during an emergency - Moving around the country 8. Post secondary education that is required for the job of a police officer are: A degree in sociology and or criminology, training at the ... have the necessary education to Perdue this career? B) Can I preform the to physical and mental demands of the job? C) Can I adjust to another part of the country if I am transferred? D) Can I handle going to a crime scene where there is a victim of a homicide or suicide? e) Can I preform under a great deal of stress? F) Can I preform to the ...
- 770: The Great Gatsby 16
- ... first thing that the reader learns about them is their financial status: His [Tom Buchanan s] family were enormously wealthy even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach but now he d left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance he d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest. It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that. (10) Fitzgerald portrays Tom Buchanan as a ... understands what kind of person Daisy really is: She s got an indiscreet voice, I remarked. It s full of ----- I hesitated. Her voice is full of money, he said suddenly. That was it. I d never understood before. It was full of money---that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals song of it . High in a white palace the ...
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