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- 1991: The Scarlet Letter: Ways People Are Punished
- ... do and be punished properly. For example, if a man rapes a woman he should be castrated. This way people would have fear and not commit crimes. Torture is also a better punishment rather then death. When a person dies they don't pay for what they have done, they simply die. When they live with pain, they pay for it. For example, a person whose havds were cut off for ... that people are tortured there. Many of the men who are sent there are raped by other men. The recent movie Dead Man Walking, was a true story about a man that was given the death penalty fro raping a girl and killing both her and her boyfriend. He should not have been killed but instead tortured. He could not take his guilt that later he confessed in tears. There are ...
- 1992: Society's Views on Family Values and Children as Reflected in the novel The Handmaid's Tale
- ... church either ran the land or had a strangle hold on the people. If the church thought there was one way to do something, one had to do as the church requested or suffer great penalty. To go against the church was to go against God, and that meant death. The king was supposed to be chosen by God to rule the people in the way he commanded. The king was the closest thing to God on earth. Monarchs generally ruled hand in hand with ... and the women are taught how to become Handmaids. A Handmaid is a woman who goes into a home, usually of a high ranking official, to get pregnant because in this age of pollution and death, may people are unable to procreate. The Handmaids are sent to live in the homes and take the name of the male in the household, where their goal is to become pregnant. If she ...
- 1993: Marijuana
- ... healthy adult poses no greater risks than the moderate consumption of alcohol. Although the misuse of over-the-counter medicines such as aspirin, acetaminophen, and antihistamines each year kill hundreds of Americans, not a single death has ever been credibly directed to smoking marijuana or consuming marijuana in the 5,000 years of the plant's recorded use. Marijuana is one of the few therapeutically active substances known to man for ... for a simple possession was between five to ninety years. In Missouri a second offense could result in a life sentence. And in Georgia a second conviction for selling marijuana to minors could bring the death penalty. As marijuana use became widespread among white middle class college students, there was a reappraisal of marijuana laws that had sent Mexicans and African-Americans to jail for decades. It wasn't just them ...
- 1994: Drunk Driving
- ... led my MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) persuaded much of the country, over two decades, to view it as a type of criminal negligence. Public patience with drunk drivers quickly grew thin as well-publicized death tolls mounted. ( Mishra, Internet source) What exactly is drunk driving? This is a question that has yet to be answered. To determine the concentration of alcohol in the body at any given time, it is ... threatening. At a BAC somewhere between .30 and .40 percent, the drinker falls into a coma, which may or may not result in irreversible brain damage. A BAC above .40 percent almost invariably results in death, usually because of respiratory failure. A 1996 study showed that 2.6 million teenagers don t know that a person can die from an alcohol overdose. (Henderson, 26) America has always been a country that ... of your mandatory court appearance. Failing to appear in court may result in the State charging you with the crime of failure to appear. Even the lowest charge of failure to appear carries the potential penalty of 1 year in jail and/or a $2,000 fine. America is not putting a deaf ear to the war on drunk driving. It is far from over, but every step we take ...
- 1995: The African Queen
- ... the Captain that Allnutt and she have brought the African Queen down to the rapids and through the Bora delta. This causes the Captain's admiration for Rose: He won't punish her by the death penalty. In the cabin, when looking round for Charlie, Rose becomes conscious of his sick weariness. The Captain knows that normally he has to intern the two persons. He doesn't want to do that because ... has to behave very pious. The first time she is thinking of herself is on "The African Queen". From that point her character begins to change. Rose, just suffering the grief of her brother's death blames indirectly the German for that event. The Germans make her furious and she feels, the very first time, a kind of patriotism. She is determined upon doing something for England. During the travel, ...
- 1996: Hamlet Character Analysis For
- ... the play. In Shakespeare s version, in the beginning of the story, Hamlet s character was struggling with the sudden marriage of his mother, Gertrude, to his uncle, Claudius, a month after his father is death. He is disturbed at the speed with which his mother has recovered from mourning her dead husband to marry the new king. He expresses his frustration and confusion during his soliloquy in Act 1, Scene ... he knew there had to be some kind of foul play. Upon meeting his father s ghost, he learns that Claudius killed his father, and that he must take on the task of avenging his death. This encounter changed who he is completely. He said that he will wipe away books, the past, and all of the things he was taught. He will live within the book and volume of brain ... in which he also treats his mother is outright rude. He felt betrayed by his mother because he loved and trusted her, but she went and married his uncle so soon after his father s death. 3He has no feelings anymore; feelings of love, pity and remorse were no longer a part of him. Hamlet finds himself unceasingly at war with his own hesitancy and indecisiveness. As if to provoke ...
- 1997: Things Fall Apart 3
- ... people, they may certainly seem uncivilized in many ways. Achebe symbolizes the end of this anarchy in Okonkwo s society by the introduction of Christian missionaries who pacify the Ibo people and ultimately cause the death of Okonkwo. I believe Okonkwo is the last and final source of chaos that is finally muted to bring civility to the people. The Ibo people live a very peaceful but ignorant life. At first ... despised the most. Okonkwo was the last of that which was strongly against Christianity and the positive changes. The story of Okonkwo was tragic but it also was a symbolic one. It showed a tragic death but also showed the power of God in bringing change and harmony. I strongly feel that Achebe s purpose in this novel was to show the power of Christianity. Okonkwos society is portrayed as peaceful ... up influencing them to change somewhat and live more loving moral lives with having a greater value for life. Okonkwo was shown to be the final aspect of chaos that was left and with his death that was all gone. It seems after his death there was nothing else stopping the Christians from moving the Ibo people into a civilized frame.
- 1998: Salt Pollution
- ... cause changes in the pH of water. The increase of salt around bodies of water also effect aquatic life in the area. Two main areas that are effected are osmotic regulation in fish and the death of micro-biotic life in ponds and lakes. Most fish life can only tolerate a narrow range of salt content in the water. The increase of salt in the water produced by road de-icing ... microorganism are at the bottom of the food chain, when they die, it doesn't take long for the rest of the food chain to follow. Large increase in salt concentration can cause 75% - 100% death for these microorganisms, The effect of salt is almost immediate. Most of the organism are only one cell big and blow up in contact with increased amounts of salt. Water insects are also effected by ... makes the clay harder and vegetation is less likely to grow. Although salt already effects the soil vegetation grows in, it also can directly effect vegetation itself. Vegetation can be dehydrate to the point of death when in contact with high levels of salt. This occurs because the osmotic stress put on the plant make it react like it was in a drought. A decrease in roots production and burns ...
- 1999: Things Fall Apart
- ... like to live in an African society. The story is about a man named Okonkwo who is a member of the Ibo tribe. Achebe is telling the story of Okonkwo from his childhood till his death. Before I read this book I did not have a very good idea of how people lived in Africa, and the ideas of I did have about life in traditional African societies turned out to ... what it is like growing up in a traditional African Society, and Achebe did a good job a showing that. The book is chronologically organized, starting with Okonkwo as a child and ending with his death. I feel that the audience level for this book would be high school and above. I think that there are a lot of implied messages and ideas that mature readers will pick out easier than ... well written and found it enjoyable to read. I found it ironic that both Okonkwo and his father, Unoka, ended up the same way. Both ended up being put in the evil forest after their death. Unoka ended up in the evil forest because he did from a strange disease, while Okonkwo ended up in the evil forest because he had killed a clansman. I found this ironic because it ...
- 2000: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... and the boy was forced to go back to his father's home at the age of fourteen ("Heinrich Schliemann: An Objective View of a Flawed Man of Genius"). Almost immediately after his wife's death, Ernst had married another servant girl, Sophie, and the two made an unfortunate couple (Duchκne 17). They could live neither with nor without one another, and often quarreled terribly. Schliemann soon left the house again ... journal. He wrote an account of his journey, China and Japan Today, for a St. Peterburg newspaper. The odyssey ended six months later in San Francisco, which he had visited ten years earlier following the death of his brother in California (Duchκne 36). In 1866 Schliemann took up residence in Paris and began to study archaeology at Sorbonne. He also took courses in Asian languages, Egyptology, and Sanskrit. In the beginning ... had the five shaft graves uncovered, and within the first lay a golden mask. Schliemann believed that he held in his hands the burial mask of King Agamemnon (Duchκne 74). Later that month, the remaining death masks would be uncovered, along with golden chalices, seals, vessels, and daggers. "I have the greatest joy," he cabled to the King of Greece, "to announce to your majesty that I have discovered the ...
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