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- 3851: A Guy's Sense Of Manhood
- ... who views the process of getting these women as a mere game. He is quite different from the gentleman described above. The media only adds to the veneration of players. Music, for instance, which is great at conveying messages to the youth, is full of exonerating players and the treatment of women as garbage. For instance last year's number one song according to the billboards contained the chorus "I'm ... nothing else to define who I was. I grew up in a family that stressed the importance of athletics, not to mention the fact that I have always looked up to my uncles who had great division I careers in sports: one even played pro football for a short while. I felt inferior to anyone with athletic success, or at least had a high respect for anyone with such success. I ... enter his home to see. They say that sports are the closest thing to combat you can get, while still remaining indescribably different from the real thing. It follows then that this would be a great method to prove one's masculinity, as it closely resembles the way that men have done it for years. This superficial way that men prove their manliness speaks volumes about how we perceive ourselves. ...
- 3852: Shockwave Rider
- ... is not to say that he does not illustrate it as a very negative reality in the world he presents to the reader, but he does indicate that the world wide datanet and technology has great potential to make the world a better place for all concerned. In Brunner s book we have a reality that is incredibly tense, and almost plausible today. The space that the author deals with is ... in light of this, what makes us think that a reality, such as the one portrayed by Brunner, could not be a real possibility. We allow the government, for the most part, to make a great deal of decisions that affect us in many ways. We live in a world that has the ability to clone a human being. And we live in a society that has gone to great lengths to investigate the use of microchips that can be placed under the skin to help locate human beings. These are realities, and as any good science fiction writer knows, it is important to ...
- 3853: A Nation of Immigrants: An Overview of the Economic and Political Conditions
- ... laborers available. Mexican workers migrated to the United States to fulfill these new labor needs. International corporations have been the major influence on U.S. politics and the economy since the 1920's. When the depression hit African and Latino Americans struggled because white people took over many of the low wage jobs. After WWII the United States began to dominate the world economy, for many decades. During this time many ... all Americans about all other Americans, interaction between all ethnicitiys in a positive atmosphere, and finally the removal of all stereotypes, stigmas, oppression, discrimination, and labels. With this the people of America can share this great land in peace and with a degree of harmony.
- 3854: Birdhouse
- ... school was even worse Each room was painted a dark green, while the desks where in a triangular form as if it were an elementary class. Besides the schools lack of fashion Beverly had a great time getting to know everyone. If you lived close by (which she did) you could just spend the night at home, but if not the school principles were always willing to rent dorms to those ... a nightstand right beside it. So clearly they were very small! That is unless you had a room-mate then you were allowed to have a two to three bedroom dorm which are obviously a great deal larger then the one bedroom. When summer was over she went back home to her mother, but soon after she left Chuffy had sent a letter informing Beverly that they wished her to back ... Beverly Clare. A young adult, who fights to have both emotional and physical independence. Basically it tells the story of her life, who she is and what she does. During the novel Beverly meets a great number of men. Some of these men were married, while some just couldn t handle long distant relationships. Luckily Ms. Cleary found her special someone. His name was Clarence and is about the same ...
- 3855: Beowulf, Epic Hero
- What Makes an Epic Hero? In your opinion, what characteristics makes an epic hero in a story? Is it someone who can defeat many enemies? Or is it someone of great nobility? In the poem Beowulf, Beowulf is the obvious hero in this story. What makes him so great is his fear nothing attitude, as well as his nobility and leadership. He has many loyal men that would die for him, because he gives them something to live for, a better life style. So ... many things to fear such as getting mugged, robbed, raped, killed, or even just getting lost, but none of these compares to fighting gigantic sea-monsters and vicious beasts. Although these are fictional obstacles of great feats, they are still scary to think about. Imagine watching a monster eat your friends, and then come after you. Forward Grendel came, stepping nearer. Then he reached for Beowulf. Beowulf grasped his arm ...
- 3856: Continental Drift
- ... imagined, that every family has. Odysseus is a mythical figure, the ultimate man. He surpasses his peers in every manly endeavor, "Then there was no man who wanted to be set up for cunning against great Odysseus; he far surpassed them in every kind of stratagem," whether it is with his wit, bravery, skills as a warrior, strength, or charm, (Homer, 54). Odysseus represents the timeless virtues of masculinity that all ... men, including Bob, desire. That Bob seeks to break the free of his average life, tries to become something other than the sad normal man that his father was; that he endeavors to become a great man, is what brings these two stories together. As the men in The Odyssey look to Odysseus as the touchstone of masculinity, Bob Dubois looks to the men in his life in his attempt to ... praised in Odysseus was not his vast wealth, but his abilities as a man. So when sees only weakness in his father, while admiring Ave Boone and Eddy, he is doomed never to become a great man. In the end, he is not even a good man. Bibliography Works Cited Banks, Russell. Continental Drift. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994. Homer. The Odyssey. Richmond Lattimore, Trans., Harper Perennial, 1999.
- 3857: Beowulf 15
- ... the morals taught in the epic poem Beowulf. Beowulf is a very altruistic hero as all hero's are and he is therefore rewarded with the accomplishment of his missions and challenges. One of his great missions was his victory over Grendel. Grendel is a monster in human-like shape descending from Cain. He lives under an inherited curse and is denied God's presence. He is also known as the ... resemble early thoughts and descriptions of Satan. Beowulf and his men slept in the mead hall one night and everybody lay awake for they feared when Grendel may come. When Grendel came crashing through the great doors of the mead hall he grabbed one of Beowulf's men who he let be devoured by Grendel. When Grendel came to Beowulf he immediately saw who he was and before Grendel could grab ... have a weapon either therefore Beowulf would be shamed if he slew Grendel with a sword. After pulverizing Grendel he finished him off by tearing off his arm which Grendel then fled and died. The great arm of Grendel was hung above the mead hall. This lesson teaches us that if you fight fair you are destined to win. A second moral taught in this poem is that good must ...
- 3858: Shpere
- Burrito's are a great food that is very tasty. Sometimes burritos are made of the exact same ingredients but taste totally different. Sometimes burritos from food chains are different from location to location. Good burritos are a perfect combination of spice and flavor. Both of these are also two qualities that SPHERE by Michael Crichton has. SPHERE is a great unpredictable and exciting novel. The transformations between Introduction, Rising Action, Climax, and the Summary is almost perfect. As the wire snagged something the crew laying the cable on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean realized ... be from anywhere but the habitat or the ship that the sphere was on because of the speed of the transmission. It was so fast that the distance between them and the surface was so great that it was impossible to send a signal that fast without the communication cable that was inactive. They finally ciphered the code at realized that it was a being that since their thoughts, knew ...
- 3859: Books And Technology Is The Future Of Printed Books In Jeopa
- ... resort to ordering everyday necessities, like groceries, over the computer? I feel that if a person has to order online items that they can buy in their community, he must be extremely lazy. Computers are great for research, but one must be sure that the information they are uncovering is credible. Computers may make activities like filing or organizing much simpler, yet people are not using their own minds to accomplish ... another university recently called herself 'part of the last generation to learn from reading books. She said that other people after her learned from reading on computers.' (Lauerman 1) How can one enjoy reading a great novel on a computer? It seems there is something not quite right with that process. Perry states, "The experience of reading where you go back to look at another page, or compare passages, that cannot ... to exist. Hopefully, this will become a major issue in the future and will instigate some form of protest. Computers are very useful but do not provide much room for imagination. I think it is great that technology has produced innovations such as audiobooks, CD-ROM's, and electronic books. But as an avid reader and lover of printed books, I would like to state that technology should not step ...
- 3860: Sam Walton
- ... be poor, and this helped to push him when the going got tough because he knew what the possible outcome would be. For example, when Walton first started producing more Wal-marts, he was in great debt. In fact the only way he could get out was to make more stores and continue to set lower prices than the competition. Walton grew up into a poor environment as a child, so ... and his idea of Wal-mart. So several years and several hundred stores later, Sam Walton was finally able to make Wal-mart the nations largest retailer in 1991. Walton saw this as a great achievement. Just to show his appreciation, he held special pep-rallies with his employees all across the nation. His plan was to excite the workers and make them feel like their attitude and determination were ... and go through to get to where he was. The sacrifices and choices he had to make along the way were inspiring. I now understand exactly why Sam Walton deserves all due respect for his great accomplishment. It can definitely be declared that Sam Walton was an entrepreneur in business. He was not only able to use his talent and search out and take advantage of new business opportunities, but ...
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