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- 2711: Dueling
- ... shot him down (Morris 2). Jackson was hit but would not let anyone help him off of the "field of honor" because he did not want Charles Dickinson to have any good feelings during his death. As one can see honor was a big deal in those days, large enough to lose lives. Another way that one would find one's self in a duel was to give written or verbal ... formal duel jus t died out (Williams 77-83). An unknown Georgia poet wrote a piece that sums up the duel of southerners looking through the eye of one. "Set honor in one eye, and death in the other, And I will look on both indifferently: For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death"(Gamble 302).
- 2712: Personal Writing: Memories
- ... I was on the ground and I heard the whistle blow. I saw all the parents going crazy and my coach was in the air. Did I score…? Then I saw the referee signal a penalty kick. My coach pointed to me…I knew what I had to do. There was only about 2 minutes left so I knew if I made this, I would be the hero and my team ... awful. I remember sitting in the limo on the way to the cemetery in New Jersey, where my family has a plot of land. We were at the sight and we were all mourning his death. Then one by one each one of my relatives came up, took the shovel and dumped a scoop of dirt on his casket. I remember wondering whether or not I wanted to drop dirt on ...
- 2713: Florence Nightingale
- ... the lamp is the symbol for nursing. As a result of these efforts, the mortality rate dropped to 2%, down from 60% previous to their arrival (Olson, 2). This is a significant reduction in the death rate and many soldiers and their families where forever grateful to her. During the Crimean War, Nightingale worked all day and wrote all night applying her knowledge of mathematics. She was determined that the criminal ... that time. Many soldiers died due to disease brought about by poor sanitation and living conditions. Nightingale, showed that the main causes were the same as in the Crimea the brew of avoidable sickness and death concocted by ignorance, indifference and incompetence where one soldier s child in five survived into its sixth year (Huxley, 200). Nightingale s work was the basis for present day organizations. Her work in nursing and ... for many. She laid the foundation and framework for modern day nursing care. She was a true leader in many ways and very deserving of the revered status she enjoys today, many years after her death. Nightingale serves as a role model for the modern day woman and the nursing profession. By Laura Willwerth Bibliography Aguirre, Carolina. Women in The Nineteenth Century. (Online) Available http://www.u.arizona.edu/~nelion/ ...
- 2714: Witchcraft
- ... Hammer), two years later. The Archbishop of Treves was convinced that the local Witches had caused a severe winter and therefore 120 men and women who were thought to be the troublemakers were burned to death in 1586. Witches were the most convenient scapegoats for every aspect of life. Besides religious reasons, Witches studied a lot and had a broad knowledge of botany, meteorology, anatomy, veterinary science, psychology, astronomy, and primitive ... relationship with the environment. The Old Religion carries few aspects that are very different from other religions; one of these is "Reincarnation". Witches think that everything will be reborn into the physical world after its' death. Their life follows a cycle of birth, death and reborn just like the endless the cycle of the moon. This is a very important and interesting concept in the Witches' faith (Reincarnation: The Cycle of Rebirth). There is no exact method of ...
- 2715: Natural Raised Killers
- ... he became careless with his later abductions. Bundy was such a confident man that he decided to represent himself in court. That was his most foolish mistake since the outcome of the trial was a death sentence. Ted believed he could fool everyone, because he thought he was so much smarter than everyone else. His arrogance was what defeated him in the end. He lost his trial and was electrocuted in ... his backyard. Gacy was known to the public as such a “nice guy.” He was a clown entertainer for children. When he got the child alone, he would handcuff, rape, beat, and strangle them to death. Gacy had all the details of each murder planned out before it occurred. "Once he entered his murderous fantasy, there was no turning back." (9) Gacy was sick and demented, often offering to read Bible ... his wife complained about an awful stench coming from below the house. Then the Chicago police tracked him down and discovered 30 bodies buried in the crawl space underneath his house. He was sentenced to death row in prison, where he became an artist. It didn’t last long though, because he was executed by lethal injection in 1994. To this day, authorities are still using ground radar to try ...
- 2716: Reducing Gun Violence
- ... later, the hand gun murder rate in the city that was once known as “the gun capitol of the Midwest” had dropped twenty-two percent” (Leone 143). From the time children are little, they see death as a plot for television and movies. They sit on the edge of their seats while the suspense on the screen builds. The so called bad guy is stalking over our hero. The hero is ... struggling with it for many years without arrinving at a resolution. There are no easy answeres, and the question will be with us for many years to come. Still, they must be addressed. The mounting death toll from firearms will not allow them to be ignored. Young people make up a signifigant part of that death toll. It follows that they must focus on the problem early and that their voices must be heard. Silence, it has been said, can be the greastest crime of all. No matter which side ...
- 2717: Frankenstien And Neuromancer
- ... were an addictive drug and people feel incomplete without it. Case has cold sweats and nightmares when he is unable to jack in. He becomes self-destructive to the point where he desires his own death. Cyberspace has become a part of Case's identity and when he is without it, he is empty and depressed. He feels trapped inside his own body but at the same time he feels empowered ... In a world where the "sanctity of life" and "the miracle of birth" no longer exist and where "life" can be interfaced and augmented with machines, life would no longer have value or meaning and death would lose its supposed sting. The obvious conclusion is that the human race, always trying to go beyond it possibilities, has finally become a prisoner not to its body but to something very inhuman in ... Mary. Frankenstein. Penguin edition 1992. p.47 9 Mellor, Anne. Mary Shelley. p.112 10 Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Penguin edition 1992. p.47 11 Mellor, Anne. Mary Shelley. p.110-113 12 Merchant, Caroline. The Death of Nature. p.193 13 Boyd, Stephen. York Notes on Frankenstein. p.52 14 Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Penguin edition 1992. p.162 15 Mellor, Anne. Mary Shelley. p.114 16 Masuda, Yoneji. Computopia. /Parameters ...
- 2718: Personal Writing: The Dangers of Drinking and Driving
- ... trauma. The other passengers in the car survived with broken bones and stitches as well. This all happened because of stupidity of drinking and driving. This accident opened my eyes to life and how unpredictable death can be. I know now to live life to the fullest because you never know when you’re going to go. Kyle affected all of us at school. The next day after the accident the ... I would not get in the car with them. I also try to speak logically about drinking and driving to others. I guess I’m sortof preaching but I can’t help it Kyle’s death sticks in my head everyday. I know that deaths like Kyle’s could have been avoided but instead there stupidity has killed themselves or innocent people. I would never drink and drive ever. Kyle was a great guy and died to young. He taught me a lot of things due to his death. It’s sad that I had to learn this way. I learned drinking and driving kills. I learned that no matter how well you take care of yourself; God has a plan for us ...
- 2719: Why Murder
- ... character in Killings (Matt) both kill out of love, but the types of love seem to be different. Emily was not what you would call the average murderer. She was strange however, after her own death (which is known to reader in the very first line of the story) the townspeople described her as a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town (73). When ... killer walking about. The amount of anger and pain must have been crippling for Matt and his wife Ruth. While taking the law into his own hands, Matt is trying to avenge his son s death the best way he knows how. The planning and premeditation of Strout s murder would consume Matt until it was complete. Once it was finished Matt appears to be feeling bad; he can t even ... a selfish love, a love she had never been able to know and was unprepared to live without, even if it meant killing to keep it. Matt was just plain revenge, vigilante justice for the death of his beloved son. Perhaps Matt s reasons were nobler but nonetheless they still killed people. The society we live in is not always fair, but that doesn t mean we can go around ...
- 2720: Daisy Miller
- ... Europeanized Americans she meets in Vevey and Rome. At the same time, James shows how Daisy s utter disregard for convention prevents her from successfully relating to others (Fogel p.9) and leads to her death when she disregards warnings not to go the Coliseum at night. James conveys the poetic dimension of Daisy Miller by using symbolism in the names of the characters in the novel. Daisy s name suggests ... 39) Though wealthy, her family is snubbed by other people of wealth because Daisy father most likely made his fortune through commerce. Frederick Winterborne s surname is also symbolically suggestive. Winter suggests coldness and the death of vegetation. Winterbornes s rigidity and his frosty treatment of Daisy in the Coliseum when he believes she has shown herself disreputable chill her, eliciting her exclamation, I don t care whether I have Roman ... trip with Winterborne, was once used as a prison for religious non-conformists. Daisy being a non-conformist like the Protestants of the prison and the Christians of the Coliseum would meet scrutiny and finally death. Daisy is the easiest to relate to in this story. She is ahead of her time. In this time and age, she would be considered a normal young woman. Walking with a man in ...
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