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- 3161: Roger Rosenblatt's "The Bill of Rights": Inescapable Dilemma
- ... problems mostly through petitions, rallies, picketing, writing letters to Congressmen, etc. But would one expect to see Huckleberry Finn writing an angry letter to his Congressman? Would one see him picketing Jim's master's house in Hannibal because he didn't support slavery? It is highly unlikely. Instead, Huck simply tore up his note and uttered the famous quote. That is what makes him different from modern man. According to ...
- 3162: The Threat of Nuclear War
- ... fire has been given. This involves the reduction of negative control, and can be the cause for problems. An analogy for positive control could be a father, knowing that there is an intruder in the house, having his rifle loaded and ready to fire. Under both exceptional pressure and apprehension, the rifle could easily be fired by accident. So when all the safeguards are removed, all it takes is a few ...
- 3163: The Inconvenience of Convenience
- ... I call his again, and so on... It may get to the point where you know the machine better than the person you're desperately trying to get a hold of! Moving away from the house, we encounter the car. The car creates so many hassles all by itself. The convenience of owning your own personal mode of transportation is far ( really far ) from cheap. The duty and obligation associated with ...
- 3164: Leacock's "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town": Ironic Sketches of a Little Town
- ... Pepperleigh by Mr. Pupkin. It is established that Pupkin is extraordinarily shy, and in the presence of the attractive Zena that shyness is compounded to the point where Pupkin "rode fifteen miles to pass [her] house twice, and even then it took all the nerve that he had." (Leacock. p.124) The entire romance of Pupkin and Pepperleigh is humorous because it doesn't go beyond physical attraction. The relations between ...
- 3165: Cry Wolf
- ... their presence contribute to them" (Askins 16-17). Ms. Askins claimed that the significance of returning the wolf to Yellowstone resided in its power as a "deeply and profoundly symbolic act" (17). She told the House Committee on Resources: The story of this conflict is the story of how we view ourselves in relation to animals, whether we can replace the assumption of "dominion" that has been so destructive to us ...
- 3166: Peplau and Campbell's "The Balance of Power in Dating"
- ... that my Father makes the decisions and my Mother stays at home, they believe in making all family decisions together. They also share the responsibility of paying bills on time and doing chores around the house together. In their relationship and like many other traditional relationships, even such a thing like birth control the responsibility would be shared as a whole. A traditional couple might view getting a woman pregnant as ...
- 3167: Transcendentalism
- ... nights out there can cleanse the body of stress and help the person think. Trees and plants don't just come down because of room, those trees might just as well be used for the house that is going to be built where the tree formerly lived. Clear-cutting can upset the balance of nature by having a large mudslide onto what ever might be below because the roots of trees ...
- 3168: High School Education In Japan And United States
- ... in the United States, there is no need to take any tests because in the United States, education requirement is until high school. The students go to high school where the nearest school to their house is. In Japan, the students have to take a test to get into both private and public high school. The tests for private school are made by each private high school: are expected to make ...
- 3169: Trigonometry
- ... other parts of the universe. Works Cited 1. “Mathematics Made Simple.” Sperling, Abraham, Ph.D., and Stuart, Monroe. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group: New York, 1991. 2. "High School Review: Math II.” French, Douglas. Random House, INC.: New York, 1998. 3. “Mathematics.” Pascoe, L.C. NTC Publishing Group: Illinois, 1983. 4. “How Math Works.” Vorderman, Carol. The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.: New York, 1996. 5. “Schaum’s Outlines of Theory ...
- 3170: Education vs. Corrections
- ... education, and keep prisons maintained. Congress was trying to cut education spending but president Bill Clinton vetoed several bills that congress came up with. They submitted a $792 billion tax cut bill to the white house that planned to “pay for their pet projects at the expense of our children’s education.” Clinton said the republican bill could mean layoffs for some five thousand teacher that were hired to reduce class ...
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