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- 641: Comparing "Witness for the Prosecution" and "Wine": The Keys to a Great Story
- Comparing "Witness for the Prosecution" and "Wine": The Keys to a Great Story What certain qualities are necessary to create an excellent literary work? What makes one work impossible to put down while another work is difficult to stay focused on? There are several key elements essential ... it was Romaine's false testimony that got her husband aquitted of his murder charges. The conclusion of the story tells the reader everything that Mr. Mayherne knew and draws an excellent ending to a great mystery. After carefully contrasting the key elements in "Wine" and "Witness for the Prosecution" it has become apparent that "Witness for the Prosecution" contains the qualities necessary of a great literary work. "Wine" is lacking too many of the key elements essential in making a good literary work. The differences between the two the two stories makes "Wine difficult to stay focused on because ...
- 642: The Great Gatsby: Is Nick Genuine?
- The Great Gatsby: Is Nick Genuine? Nick Carraway is a very genuine character throughout the novel. He gets involved with situations such as Daisy and Gatsby, he helps them rekindle their love and he also becomes a ... starts off not having to many friends, until he starts getting involved other people. It all starts when Jay Gatsby, Nick's neighbour, invites Nick to his party. Nick decides that it would be a great idea so he attends. While attending the party Nick gets acquainted with many of the guests. Then Gatsby sends for him to come and meet him. At first Nick has no idea where he is ... He helped Gatsby and Daisy find their lost love for each other, and he was always there for Gatsby as a true friend. So Nick Carraway truly is a genuine character in the novel The Great Gatsby.
- 643: Commonwealth
- ... skilled metal-workers. The Celts followed around 200 BC coming to Ireland from France and Spain. They brought their own language and iron weapons and tools. The Beginning of Christianity: Saint Patrick was born in Great Britain. In 432 he came to Ireland to teach Christianity. Monks began to build monasteries and wrote many manuscripts in Gaelic and Latin. "The island of saints and scholars". Ireland became an outpost of European ... Irish Republic with equal rights for people of all religions. In 1798 a rebellion led by Wolfe Tone failed. Ireland unites with Britain: Protestant Irish Parliament was abolished by the British. Ireland was united with Great Britain into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Daniel O´Connell succeeded in ending the Penal Laws against Catholics by peaceful means. He also called for political independence for Ireland. The Fenians: The Irish Republican Brotherhood was founded in ...
- 644: The Great Gatsby
- The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby F.S. Fitzgerald, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. pp 182 This novel is in general about middle and upper class american citizens and their lives a few years after the first world ... German Kaiser Van Wilhelm. Racism and sexism, which were also a integral parts of life back then were also included in the novel. The book mirrored the time in which it was written well. The Great Gatsby turned out to be a mildly interesting surprise.
- 645: The Gilded Age
- ... does not overrun the other. “The real struggle is over a vastly more important issue: who owes what to whom. This most hoary and basic of all social debates usually afforded reverence and inattention of great art: People know its there and mostly they ignore it”(Wines238). Society will constantly debate this issue. By very definition, however, there will also always be a wide spectrum of opinions because of social status. Naturally, the poor will always feel cheated because they feel as if opportunity never has and never will pass them by. The rich, conversely, will always feel as if they are doing society a great favor simply by having their wealth. Poor versus rich debates will never go away no matter how much change is done to government and society. The “just deserts” theory of poverty is one that best ... been plundering the roads and speculating on their securities to their own enrichment”(Meltzer91). The corruption spoken about in the above Daily News article had been brewing since the beginning of the generation of such great wealth. The exploitation of corporation would only go unnoticed for so long and finally the general public began a series of defensive strikes. These strikers sought not to run the entrepreneur out of business, ...
- 646: Taxation & Democracy
- ... the modern industrial state; yet we know very little about it," author Sven Steinmo states at the opening of Taxation & Democracy, a publication detailing the politics and development of tax systems of the United States, Great Britain and Sweden. The three nations discussed are prime examples of "industrial democracies," and Steinmo looks at each in comparative fashion, showing many differences but more abundantly the similarities between the three. In his introductory ... us. "Indeed, not only do we know little about tax policy, but what we think we know is often wrong." As an example, he states that it is commonly assumed that the U.S. and Great Britain have had much more progressive tax systems than "socialist" Sweden, where the system leans much more to the regressive side. In addition, it is widely misconstrued what taxes are actually used for; it is ... in all of those same nations in the past 40 years. General consumption taxes, such as VATs that tend to grow with economy and are hidden from the consumer, on the other hand, have enjoyed great success and growth. Steinmo offers this summary: "In sum, the desire for increased revenue constrained by public resistance to taxes, the demand for more fair taxes, and the need for economic growth are pressures ...
- 647: Insomnia
- ... is difficult to guess the causes of insomnia without detailed knowledge of the individual case. Certain factors have a definite and often predictable influence on sleep, and sleep experts are trying to identify those with great precision. Factors that are known to affect sleep. The causes of insomnia fall into three categories: physical, mental, and behavioral/situational. However, it is impossible to determine whether mental, physical, or other reasons are prime ... sleep disorder called periodic limb movement are all known contributors. Early morning insomnia causes people to wake one to four hours before the normal waking time. This type of insomnia is caused most often by depression. People who suffer from depression tend to experience frequent pre-drawn awakenings. The environment of the room can be another cause of early morning insomnia. Factors such as light and noise can easily disturb a sleeper in the last ...
- 648: Great Expectations: Pip's Life in the Upper Class Society
- Great Expectations: Pip's Life in the Upper Class Society In Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," an orphaned boy, by the name of Philip Pirrip, known as Pip, lives his life and find out the many attributes life has to it. He finds how the society treats the different classes ... accustomed to in his previous, low class lifestyle) but as it were a regular, common thing that if not used quickly, would soon be out-dated. He goes through his teens like this and finds great differences in his new lifestyle and his old. Pip gains much with his new found wealth. He gets new clothes; which help him fit into his new lifestyle. Also, he makes new friends and ...
- 649: Oedipus - Fate
- ... questioning as if he did not understand what Teiresias was talking about. The tragic hero must learn a lesson from his errors in judgment and become an example to the audience of what happens when great men fall from their lofty social or political positions. According to Miller, a person who is great, who is admired everywhere, and needs this admiration to survive, has one of the extreme forms of narcissism, which is grandiosity. Grandiosity can be seen when a person admires himself, his qualities, such as beauty, cleverness, and talents, and his success and achievements greatly. If one of these happens to fail, then the catastrophe of a severe depression is near (Miller 34). Those actions happen when the Herdsman tells Oedipus who his mother is, and Oedipus replies "Oh, oh, then everything has come out true. Light, I shall not look on you ...
- 650: Power Shifts in Intergovernmental Relations: A Result of Fiscal Federalism
- ... alter policies and legislation in accordance with its agenda. The manner in which the national government has wielded the influence of money throughout the history of the nation has continually altered intergovernmental relations. Since the Depression, fiscal federalism has caused the national government to dominate the states; recently, however, reforms have begun to return power to the states. Policies and precedents of the New Deal centralized power in the national government. To remedy the devastation of the Great Depression, it assumed a more direct and prevalent role in the lives of the people. Congress passed the 1935 Social Security Act, providing retired persons pensions and benefits for the unemployed and disabled. In addition ...
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