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- 4581: Government: Canada And China
- ... people in Canada and with the Dictatorship in China. There lies the difference between the two types of government. That is also what makes America as well as Canada and other governments like ours so great. The people have control over the government. It is something we often overlook and take for granted. I wouldn't want to live in China or any other Communist country. In a dictatorship the dictator gets what he wants, not the people in a democracy the majority gets what they want, but the minority has the right to whine as much as he wants. What a great country we live in.
- 4582: Drug And Alcohol Abuse
- ... than 259,000 Missourians and another 800,000 who are family members of substance abusers. That is roughly 20% of Missourians who are affected. Intoxication by the means of drugs and alcohol contribute to a great percentage of deaths statewide from burns, fires, homicides, assaults, drowning, suicides and traffic crashes. I believe that very stiff penalties must go towards those who manufacture illegal drugs. These people have no regard for human ... drugs and alcohol. Many children and teenagers throughout Missouri experiment with drugs every day. Programs that are already in place for children, such as the "Mo Says No" and "Take Hugs, Not Drugs" campaigns are great, but I believe that these programs should continue to the junior high and high school levels because most drug use begins here, not in elementary. For junior high students, schools should hold voluntary drug testing ...
- 4583: Patrick Henry's Speech
- ... Henry refers to the people with the meaning that destiny is not a choice but a must. Destiny has to be achieved not waited for. Henry shows that his destiny is to defeat his enemy, Great Britain. Patrick Henry uses logic and reasoning and shows self-confidence in his persuasive speech to the Virginia Convention. Through his persuasive word choice, Patrick Henry shows that he is a self-confident eighteenth century ... addresses the congress with the choice of argument with the British; the congress does not refuse because they are tired themselves of dealing with the British ministry. The congress wants to end the rival with Great Britain. “I repeat it, sir, we must fight”(90). Patrick Henry is not willing to let the British ministry get by so easily. Patrick Henry has made many reasonable requests to change the mind setting ...
- 4584: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... American writer, with whom she published one of the first African American magazines, named Fire. Unfortunately, for both Zora and Langston Mrs. Osgood's "gifts" (Lyons 51) resulted in high prices which in affect left great conflicts between Langston and Zora, and so broke up what could have been an awesome African American duo (Lyons 51-7). Despite such a set back Zora's career continued with many popular novels and ... background wasn't her down fault. Zora took pride in what she was and once said, "I have no separate feelings about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the great soul that surges within my country" (Gates 37). Therefore, cultural awareness of the African American society was severely increased worldwide due to her impact upon literature. Even today, as I write this piece, I remember ...
- 4585: William Faulkner
- ... spelled Falkner. The "u" was added by mistake when his first novel was published and William Falkner decided to retain the spelling of "Faulkner". The most distinguished member of William Faulkner’s family was his great-grandfather, Confederate Colonel William Cuthbert Falkner. The Colonel first moved to Mississippi in the early part of the 19th century from his home South Carolina. Faulkner uses Colonel Falkner as a character in his novels named Colonel John Sartoris. Colonel Falkner had a notable career as a soldier in the Civil War and the Mexican War. Colonel Falkner was also a writer like his great-grandson and published one of the nation’s best sellers called "The White Rose of Memphis". Before being assassinated by a former partner in 1889, Colonel Falkner also took the time to build a railroad ...
- 4586: Will Rogers
- ... know what I read in the papers." In this way, he tried to show that he wasn't a Washington insider; he got his information out of the newspapers, just like regular folk. During the Depression, many people were worried about what was going on in Washington. When Will pointed out some politican who said one thing and did another, or criticized some program in Washington he didn't approve of ... himself, which allowed everyone to relax and see the good sense behind much of what he said about the rest of society. This generous attitude translated into many other areas of his life. During the Depression, Will was very sympathetic to those who had lost everything-their savings, their jobs, and their sense of security. He himself had lost his entire fortune when the stock market crashed, but at least he ...
- 4587: Virginia Woolf
- ... has had for two hundred years, a dog’s chance…a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated into that intellectual freedom which great writers are born (740)." So if it is so hard for women to write why should they write? Well, Woolf wants them to write for her selfish reasons. She says like most women she grows tired of histories and biographies about great men. Woolf says there should be more books by women because, "Men that is to say, are now writing only with the male side of brains. It is a mistake for women to read them ...
- 4588: Tim Paterson
- ... Quick and Dirty). After finding bugs in the program, he fixed the problem and named it QDOS.11. By the end of August 1980, the program was working well and being shipped. Not knowing the great potential of his new program, Paterson was not expecting much from it. "I was aghast," says Paterson, "When I heard that IBM was using it (QDOS.11) and not throwing it out the window." Because of the great results from QDOS.11, Paterson and Company wanted to refine the system and create 86-DOS, .33. By December 1980, they completed the task. It combined all the information the company knew and condensed it ...
- 4589: Thomas Jefferson
- ... an alternate. It was at this session that Thomas Jefferson wrote his most famous document, the Declaration of Independence. On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was formally adopted. The connections with America with Great Britain were broken. Within a few days the declaration was being read to people throughout the colonies, and it was received with great pride. Jefferson managed to spend considerable time with his family. Thomas took up building projects at Monticello and continued to develop his land. Jefferson was a philosopher a architect, and an inventor. Thomas invented the ...
- 4590: Thomas Hardy
- ... and Hardy fell deeply in love with her. But in 1872 she broke his heart by returning her engagement ring. She then remarried and had two more children before dying in 1890. Tryphena had a great influence on his writing. On March 7, 1870 Hardy took an architectural trip to a church named St. Juliot. He stayed at the rectory and met the rector’s sister-in-law, Emma Lavinia Gifford ... Blunden, Robert Graves, T.E. Lawrence,, and Siegfried Sassoon. But perhaps the greatest honor he ever received was when he died. His ashes were scattered in Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abby next to the great Charles Dickens. Thomas Hardy by Trevor Johnson is a well written, thorough, and easy to follow biography. Leaving out only ancestry and condemnation, it provided a lot of information on major topics. This book is ...
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