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- 4781: Our Town By Thornton Wilder
- ... of Emily and George s wedding. We are exposed to all the tremulous events of marriage, yet the scene ends happily. The final act, set in 1913 involves the funeral of Emily Webb. After her death Emily chooses to return to her past, selecting her 12th birthday. Emily is soon returns to the cemetery, finding the whole experience saddening, as she realises the waste her life has been, taking everything for granted, not cherishing the smallest of treasures. Emily accepts death. Throughout this seemingly simple plot Wilder illustrates the relationship of the individual to the vastness of the universe, in fact, it is the simplicity of the plot that allows this topic to be addressed. I ...
- 4782: Native Son
- ... of hope that it will be the former instead of the latter, but the society in which he lives will not take any of the blame for his crime. Therefore, he will be sentenced to death because they think that he is the only savage beast and that if he is put to death, the world will be a safer place. That is the farthest thing from the truth. Until the racism is gone, they will continue to have murders such as the ones committed by Bigger Thomas. At ...
- 4783: Oscar Romero
- ... him. Now he observed that there was no official inquiry. He recognized that power lay in the hands of violent men, and that they murdered with impunity. The wealthy sanctioned the violence that maintained them. Death squads committed murder in the cities while soldiers killed as they wished in the countryside. When a new government, which represented many powerful interests was elected it was seen to be by fraud. There was ... to work for justice, frequently faced with threat and danger from those who opposed his ideas. On March 24, 1980, while celebrating the Eucharist, Archbishop Romero was shot and killed at the altar by a death squad assassin, paying the highest price for the commitment about which he spoke so often and so eloquently. Because of his courageous stand for justice, he became a martyr not only for poor Salvadorians but ...
- 4784: Medical Malpractice
- ... in bad medical care. New procedures carry a higher risk of harm and second guessing later, so doctors stick to conventional treatments, even in terminal cases, for fear the treatment may hasten the patient's death. The opposite is also true, both overtesting and overtreating are standard methods of beating malpractice suits. Thousands of unneeded surgeries are performed each year. Expensive technology is regularly misused – CAT scans to diagnose simple headaches ... for a second opinion. As long as doctors take extra care they should have no fear. If they do, they know they're doing something wrong. More and more doctors everyday make lethal mistakes causing death, pain and suffering, brain damage or scarring. These mistakes must be brought out into the open and damages to the victim should be awarded. Fewer than 5% of the people injured while under medical care ...
- 4785: Why Gun Control is Needed
- ... nobody could interfere. Is that what our anti-gun control activists want? Do they want a country where nobody is safe and where life isn't sacred anymore? Gun control has proven to be effective. Death rates are highest in the South which has the highest gun ownership - in the Northeast, death rates are lowest because of strict gun control laws. If we want fewer Americans to die each year as a result of guns, then we need to look to the part of the country where ...
- 4786: Drug Abuse
- ... every year due to drunk driving. Other physical effects of drinking are vomiting, passing out and sometimes, if enough alcohol is consumed over a long enough period of time, or if mixed with other drugs, death. Marijuana is a popular, and illegal, drug. Its largest consumers are young adults. Marijuana is smoked in a pipe or rolled in a cigarette. Thirty-seven percent of people between ages 12-17 have tried ... drug, its user does not know what potency he is getting from batch to batch. Therefore, there is always the risk that he will overdose and die. Withdrawal from heroin can cause severe illness and death. Drug abuse leads to all sorts of other crimes. Drug addicts need money to support their habits, and all users, addicts or casual users, are careless and reckless when under the influence. Drug users commit ...
- 4787: Malcolm X 2
- ... he decided to move as soon a Malcolm was born to Lansing, Michigan. Here was where Malcolm's father died at the hand of the Black Legion (X 4-! 13). After Malcolm's father's death, his mother who had to take care of eight children and endure threats from the KKK, suffered a nervous breakdown. As a result, Malcolm and his siblings were taken by the welfare department. Malcolm was ... Malcolm and his family were harassed by threatening phone calls. His house was even burnt down. Then finally on February 21, 1965, while addressing an OAAU rally in New York City, Malcolm was shot to death. Malcolm X's disagreed with Martin Luther King's beliefs because Malcolm wanted change now while Mr. King saw that change took time. Malcolm disagreed with Mr. King was because he didn't believe the ...
- 4788: Belzec Concentration Camp
- ... camps, some used gas to poison the people. The Belzec concentration camp is an example of one of these camps. It was established in February 1940 and on November 1, 1941, construction began at this death camp. It was opened for only 9 months and is reported that 600,000 people died there. Belzec had the capacity to kill 15,000 a day. There are only two known survivors. The Belzec ... At this time, World War II was coming to an end. The reason for the shutting down of the camps was so that the Germans would be able to dismantle and abandon all of the death camps so no trace of these mass murders could be found. However, they were unsuccessful. The Allied countries found most of the camps and were able to put some of the SS involved in the ...
- 4789: Black Holes
- ... where even the atomic nuclei are squeezed together. The energy density goes to infinity. For a Black Hole, the radius becomes smaller than the Schwarzschild radius, which defines the horizon of the Black Hole: The death explosion of a massive star, resulting in a sharp increase in brightness followed by a gradual fading. At peak light output, supernova explosions can outshine a galaxy. The outer layers of the exploding star are ... flaw; there is no directionality of the radiation that could result in the observed jets of quasars and other AGN. To correct this would require a flattened cloud of gas that would either hasten the death of the cluster and it would collapse into a black hole, or the luminosity would be so great that the resulting wind of radiation would drive the gas into space, thereby destroying the model entirely ...
- 4790: Minor White
- ... to teach at prestigious universities. Minor combined his photographs with his poetry frequently to offer explanations of his work. His work has been displayed in over 34 exhibitions with at least 7 coming after his death in Boston in 1976. Teaching at 5 different institutions including MIT and RIT as well as being editor of 3 renowned magazines gives Mr. White enough evidence as to the credibility of his work. His influence has not stopped because of his death but lives on in his books, either written by himself or written about him. Minor White's style was to use realistic natural images in an abstract way as to make the viewer think about ...
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