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- 2521: Comparison of John F Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln's Lives
- Comparison of John F Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln's Lives On April 15, 1865, a tragedy took place as Abraham Lincoln was shot to death by John Wilkes Booth. One hundred years later a similar tragedy took place on November 22, 1963, as John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. The coincidental deaths of both of these presidents ... sat in box 7 at Ford’s Theatre and Kennedy rode in car 7 at the Dallas, Texas Motorcade (“Amazing” 1). Another one of the numerical similarities involves the number 6, which deals with the death of President Kennedy alone. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, which contains six letters (Pockett 1). He was shot from the 6th floor of a book depository (Pockett 1). President Kennedy was shot on a Friday ... Democratic Administration twenty four years later (Perry 1)” Kennedy was also rumored to have had many affairs while serving in the White House. B. Heidrich said, “Lincoln was in Monroe, Maryland just days before his death. Marilyn Monroe greatly admired Lincoln and had a photo of him prominently hanging in every home in which she lived. Kennedy was rumored to have had an affair with Marilyn Monroe (Heidrich).” Kennedy was ...
- 2522: Germany And Its Abuse Of Chemi
- ... asphyxiating gas, was deadlier than chlorine because it incapacitated a solder in less than one-fourth of the time of chlorine (41 seconds vs. 240 seconds) and it required a much lower concentration to cause death. A combination of chlorine and phosgene also caused severe injuries, depending on how much of the gas a soldier breathed. People seldom died when the asphyxiating gas passed over them if they masked quickly enough ... lungs. The critical stage for these men usually occurred within three to four hours after initially being gassed. At this point, either the soldier would recover after sleeping, or his health would deteriorate further with death occurring within the next twenty-four hours. Mustard gas produces a large amount of casualties that require extensive medical treatment. Initially some soldiers did not realize that they had been gassed with mustard because the ... that German gas usage caused during the war. The numbers for casualties range between 300,000 and 900,000. The number of deaths as compared to casualties varied between countries. Russia probably had the highest death ratio, while the US had the lowest ratio. It is also important that the highest death ratio occurred early in the war, but as the war progressed and defensive measures improved, the ratio decreased. ...
- 2523: Legalization of Drugs
- ... replaced by criminal bootleggers." Gang warfare, bribery, and criminal activity reached an all-time high. Standards on illegal alcohol were much lower than those on the previously legal alcohol which led to the blinding or death of many consumers. Finally in 1933, politicians buckled and repealed the 18th Amendment. The Prohibition attempt of the early 20th century provides the perfect historical support for the decriminalization of drugs. "Prohibition will work great ... of police and all judicial players. The courts become backed up with ridiculous cases. Without drug-related cases, our judicial system could run a lot more efficiently and effectively. Drug hunting often leads to unnecessary death of innocent police officers killed in the line of duty. This fear of death causes police to often incite brutality or harass honest citizens. There is no evidence to support the notion that legalization would cause an increase in drug use. "In Europe, several countries have decriminalized drugs ...
- 2524: Frankenstein 5
- ... positive effect. Disease could be banished and self glory could result. "what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death"(40)! Shelley characterizes Frankenstein as a modern a mad scientist. One who fails to look at the moral and social implications when attempting to play god. Frankenstein gets obsessed with the power to master nature ... creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me"(52). Frankenstein believes that there may be little end to his power. "I might in process of time renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption"(53). In order to create the new life Frankenstein must look beyond moral obligation and dehumanize the act of life. He exploits natures resources in his obsession to manipulate nature. For Frankenstein death and decay have no morality. The process is merely scientific, "I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life; I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye ...
- 2525: The Life of Jackie Robinson
- ... April 15, 1947 and it was also in 1947 that he became Rookie of the Year. Soon afterwards in 1949 Jackie received The Most Valuable Player Award. (Athlete of the Century 1997 ) Even though the death threats and discrimination continued, Jackie somehow was able to continue leading the way for others and setting a good example by showing self control. Jackie was not the first black player to participate in Major ... not taken on civil rights. Nixon never took any action, and on October 24, 1972 Jackie Robinson died a disappointed man. (Jackie Robinson and the Civil Rights) On October 27, 1972, three days after his death, Reverend Jesse Jackson delivered this stirring eulogy for his mentor Jackie Robinson. Today we must balance the tears of sorrow with the tears of joy, mix the Bitter with the sweet in death and life. Jackie as a figure in history was a rock in the water, creating concentric Circles and ripples of new possibility. He was medicine. He was Immunized by God from catching the diseases ...
- 2526: Kahlil Gibran
- ... everyday situations and what is right and wrong about such things. Among the twenty-six subjects (each given a chapter) that are written about; a few of them are Love, Marriage, Laws, Freedom, Time and Death. The form of expression used in the book can be explained with the help of a few examples: About love Gibran says, "When love beckons you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep ... delight in laying down laws, Yet you delight more in breaking them. Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter˙." From the chapter "Laws" About Death he says, "You would know the secret of death. But how should you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light˙." (From the ...
- 2527: Achilleus
- ... leader even before his time of greatness spoke up for his people against the son of Atreus saying "I believe now that straggling backwards we must make our way home if we can even escape death, if fighting now must crush the Achaians and the plague likewise". Agamemnon who claims himself as the far greatest of all the Achaians shows fear to Achilleus by calling him a "good fighter though you ... be the greatest Achaian soldier and the most respected because he stood up to Agamemnon the "wine sack, with a dogs eyes, and deer's heart; the King who feeds on his people". After the death of Patrokolos Achilleus returns to avenge his friends death in book XXII. In the Iliad Achilleus shows three sides of his personality a great leader towards his people, a brutal killer, and a grieving soldier. There are numerous quotes and statements that prove ...
- 2528: The Story of An Hour: Irony
- ... of An Hour: Irony In Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour," there is much irony. The first irony detected is in the way that Louise reacts to the news of the death of her husband, Brently Mallard. Before Louise's reaction is revealed, Chopin alludes to how the widow feels by describing the world according to her perception of it after the "horrible" news. Louise is said ... not beating the furniture instead. Next, the newly widowed women is looking out of the window and sees spring and all the new life it brings. The descriptions used now are as far away from death as possible. "The delicios breath of rain...the notes of a distant song...countless sparrows were twittering...patches of blue sky...." All these are beautiful images of life , the reader is quite confused by this ... feels like a "goddess of Victory" as she walks down the stairs. This is an eerie forshadowing for an even more unexpected ending. The reader has just accepted Louise's reaction to her husband's death, when the most unexpected happens; her husband is actually alive and he enters the room shocking everyone, and Louise especially, as she is shocked to death. The irony continues, though, because the doctors say ...
- 2529: Man's Journey into Self in the Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now
- ... and Francis Coppola's movie, Apocalypse Now are both stories about Man's journey into his self, and the discoveries to be made there. They are also about Man confronting his fears of failure, insanity, death, and cultural contamination. During Marlow's mission to find Kurtz, he is also trying to find himself. He, like Kurtz had good intentions upon entering the Congo. Conrad tries to show us that Marlow is ... appears that while Kurtz had been isolated from his culture, he had become corrupted by violent native culture, and allowed his evil side to control him. Marlow realizes that only very near the time of death, does a person grasp the big picture. He describes Kurtz's last moments "as though a veil had been rent". Kurtz's last "supreme moment of complete knowledge," showed him how horrible the human soul ... adds that "Since I peeled over the edge myself, I understand better the meaning of his stare… it was wide enough to beat in the darkness…he had summed up." Marlow learned through Kurtz's death, and he now knows that inside every human is the horrible, evil side. Francis Coppola's movie, Apocalypse Now, is based upon Conrad's book "The Heart of Darkness." "Apocalypse Now," is a stunning ...
- 2530: The Stoics and Socrates
- ... which our bodies are animated. The term "mind" usually denotes this principle as the subject of our conscious states, while "soul" denotes the source of our vegetative activities as well. If there is life after death, the agent of our vital activities must be capable of an existence separate from the body. The belief in an active principle in some sense distinct from the body is inference from the observed facts of life. The lowest savages arrive at the concept of the soul almost without reflection, certainly without any severe mental effort. The mysteries of birth and death, the lapse of conscious life during sleep, even the most common operations of imagination and memory, which abstract a man from his bodily presence even while awake; all such facts suggest the existence of something ... a large extent independent of it, leading a life of its own. In the psychology of the savage, the soul is often represented as actually migrating to and fro during dreams and trances, and after death haunting the neighborhood of its body. Nearly always it is figured as something extremely volatile, a perfume or a breath. In Greece, the heartland of our ancient philosophers, the first essays of philosophy took ...
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