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- 5791: Sexual Pressures
- ... teen. There are many consequences of being sexually active, one of the major one being sexually transmitted diseases. A sexually transmitted disease might not sound so bad but, some can cause sterility and even worse , death. Even when condoms are used, a STD can still be transmitted. Depending on the type of std they can or can not be cured. A few diseases that can not be cured include herpes, HPV, And HIV, which later turns into the virus AIDS. "The disease HPV can cause cervical cancer and HIV results in a long, painful death. Almost a third of sexually active teens contracted a new STD within a mere six months, reported one study, even among condom users"(Terilliger 2). Once a teen has become sexually active he or she ...
- 5792: Ancient Egyptian Religion As S
- ... tombs. Such edifices were skillfully painted with murals to depict the purpose of the room or section; a temple would have pictures of the gods, and a tomb would have art showing a burial or death. In addition, ancient mythological texts were beautifully carved and painted on these walls. Although these were all applications of art and architecture in religion, the most prominent is most likely the funerary art of the ... the body of a powerful ruler but also to glorify the gods to the fullest degree. It was believed that the body, or the ³ba,² was merely a transport for the earthly life, and in death the spirit, or the ³ka,² would be resurrected to pursue a life in the hereafter. This is why such emphasis was place upon the grandeur of funerary art and architecture. Although the Ancient Egyptians¹ religion ...
- 5793: Child Abuse
- ... physical abuse at the hands of adults. One sad case that I came across in my research was the case of Terrell Peterson. “Terrell died January 15, 1998…he was beaten and near starved to death…his grandmother, aunt, and aunt’s boyfriend are due to go on trial this year on murder charges in what is being called one of the most horrific cases of child abuse ever seen in Fulton County.” The state of Georgia’s child protective services is under investigation for the death of this child. Many times when a parent or guardian causes physical abuse, the child is not taken for medical help, even when wounds or injuries are very severe. When they are taken to the ...
- 5794: The Son Of Sam And Terror Of N
- ... before; this according to psychologist should have erased all former feelings of being unwanted. When David turned fourteen his adoptive mother died. This tore David up inside. A little over a year after his mothers death his father remarried, this left David with a feeling of being abandoned and betrayed. He lived with them for a little while, but unhappy he moved on. He went to join the Army and had ... he started school, he skipped often and would try and find ways to stay home. (New York Times,May 9, 1978) The only real thing that made David odd from others was his fascination with death all his life.(Abrahamsen 1999, 104) David's victims were all meant to be women but the last was a man also. The reason of this could have steamed from a detachment complex with his ...
- 5795: Heart Of Darkness
- ... intense and hopeless despair" (239). His ivory face is an ironic statement; it seems to imply that the ivory became part of him. He had power over the savages, and now he realized at his death that he had no hope. As they left the darkness, Kurtz life seemed to run out of him. "The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness" (237). The current ran from the ... full significance of the wilderness can be seen only through Kurtz, because he gives in to the powers of the wilderness. Through the influence of the wilderness, Kurtz’ basic human nature is revealed. At his death, he sees the true state of mankind. His gaze is "piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness" (241). His final statement of "The horror! The horror!" (239) is his judgment ...
- 5796: Heart Of Darkness
- ... camp in Northern Russia for alleged revolutionist plots against the government. Due to the harsh conditions of the prison, Conrad’s mother died within three years and his father four years later. It was the death of his father that sent Joseph into a fit of melancholy, and it was within this sadness that Joseph turned to writing to ease his grief and carried his pain and suffering into most of ... celebrity within literary circles. From his world-renowned success, Conrad became very rich, and paraded himself as the typical aristocratic high-hat, and for the most part was allowed to play this role, until his death in 1524 from a heart attack. He died and was buried at his home in Canterbury, England. Within the actual story, Heart of Darkness, Conrad takes us into the mind and morals of a sailor ...
- 5797: Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
- ... was decapitated. Later that night Sirius Black was caught coming out of the secret passage of the Whomping Willow and was taken up to stay in Hogwarts so the Dementors could perform the Kiss of Death; A Dementor takes off its hood and kisses the victim, sucking the life and happy memories out of it, worse than death. Professor Dumbledore (the head of Hogwarts) knew it was the wrong choice to kill the Hyppogrif and wanted to take action on it. She gave to Hermione a while back a time capsule that lets ...
- 5798: Cigarrete Kills
- ... vice and too little things have been told about danger and harm of smoking. It is obviously that smoking kills or/and it causes several diseases and health problems, which can lead you to early death. Today smoking is the most common addiction. There are more have been more researches done studying social and psychological problems that lead people to consume tobacco. There are also researches about consequences of smoking and ... is a big difference between smokers and non-smokers, especially about health and length of life. There are a lot of diseases known which are consequences of long-time smoking such as lung cancer, early death cause my heart attacks, nervous break downs and many others. The smokers should know that inhaling of cigarette smoke is harmful for the veins, because nicotine is one of the leading causes of heart attack ...
- 5799: Creation Vs Evolution
- ... on when they think it’s going to end. But in my opinion, the only one that knows the answer to this age-old question is the Creator, our heavenly father…God. Shortly before Jesus’ death, while he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, four of his disciples came to ask him for a “sign” to the end. Jesus did not give just one event as “the sign.” He told ... it. “In one place after another pestilences.”-Luke 21:11 Right after World War I more people died of the Spanish flu than had died of any disease epidemic in the history of mankind. The death toll was 21 million people. Yet pestilence and disease continue to rage. Millions die each year from heart trouble and cancer. Sexual diseases are spreading rapidly. “There will be earthquakes in one place after another ...
- 5800: Hans Christian Andersen
- ... soon after, Serena Joy finds the cocktail dress the General gave to Offred. She knows her husband is to blame, but accuses Offred anyway and sends for the police to take her away to certain death. When the van arrives to take her away, however, it is driven by rebels who carry Offred to safety. The creation of Offred, the passive narrator of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, was ... include existential apologia, oral history, speculative fiction, confession, and dystopia. Existential apologia is a defense and celebration of the desperate coping mechanisms by which endangered women survive, outwit, and undermine devaluation, coercion, enslavement, torture, potential death sentences, and outright gynocide. Like Zhukov in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Offred clings to sanity through the enjoyment of simple pleasures: smoothing lotion on her dry skin and ...
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