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- 2641: From The Floutings Of The Cooperative Principle To Communica
- ... on more clothes. Have a good rest. B: You are not my mother, are you? During the short conversation, B's good intention cannot be doubted; however, it seems that his warmth is out of control. A long series of advice will but intrude the hearer's independence and personal business. In fact, "Take care of yourself. I hope you will get better soon." is enough to express B's concern ... native speakers, it can be assumed that there exists a strong impulse to express oneself on the part of the speaker. Under some circumstances, when the impulse escapes from the grip of the addresser's control, enthusiasm and eagerness to impart more dominates logic and sense, and the only matter that he is concerned about is to inform as much as possible, without paying enough heed to the clarity, orderliness, accuracy ...
- 2642: Abraham Lincoln
- ... D.C. The President-elect was now wearing a beard at the suggestion of an 11 year old girl. Lincoln was sworn in on March 4. After Lincoln's election, many Southern states, fearing Republican control in the government, seceded from the Union. Lincoln faced the greatest internal crisis of any U.S. President. After the fall of Ft. Sumter, Lincoln raised an army and decided to fight to save the ... 4 long years of Civil War. On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. This was Lincoln's declaration of freedom for all slaves in the areas of the Confederacy not under Union control. Also, on November 19, 1863, Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg Address which dedicated the battlefield there to the soldiers who had perished. He called on the living to finish the task the dead soldiers had ...
- 2643: Macbeth
- ... play Macbeth. Is Macbeth still going to contemplate killing the king? No, the witches are fully responsible for the actions of Macbeth in him murdering the king. Although Lady Macbeth is strong and has much control over Macbeth, he considers killing the king because the witches tell him that he will one day take the throne. If Macbeth was never told that he would "be king hereafter (I,iii,53)" by ... is important that the witches are all female because it allows them to be compared to Lady Macbeth. The witches speak of nothing but darkness, curses, and destiny. Lady Macbeth summons evil spirits to take control of her: Lady Macbeth "The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the ...
- 2644: Similarities Between Primates and Humans
- ... were found and approximately 90 percent of the monkeys were infected. She attributed the differences to the Amazonian people. The plants eaten by the muriquis are the same species used by the Amazonian people to control worms and other parasites. Evidence also suggests that the leaves eaten by the muriquis consist of antimicrobial substances and are extremely low in tannins, which make them harder for digestion. The proteins which the muriquis ... to gain access to women involuntarily. Women use marriage as a means of protection from being attacked by other men. However, women pay a price for protection as do primates. They subject themselves to the control of men, in return for their protection. The evidence collected by Strier and Smuts on primates proved to be scientific due to the correlation it has to humans. Striers investigation on the muriquis provide ...
- 2645: Quebec's Quiet Revolution: What Is It? How Has It Changed Quebec's Society? How Has It Affected Confederation?
- ... to improve economic and social standards for the people of Quebec, and the other was to win greater respect and recognition for all the French people of Canada. The Liberals started a program to take control of hydro-electric power companies. French-Canadian engineers from all over Canada returned to Quebec to work on the project. Slogans during these times were "we can do it" and "masters in our own homes ... effects on Bill 101 by the Parti Quebecois. Immigrants were educated only in French. Businesses accused the Parti Quebecois of practising economic blackmail. Quebec Nationalists wanted an independent state so that they could have full control over their territory. But many top authorities in Canada say it is not legal for a Province to leave. Levesque said that he wanted a Quebec that was independent but joined Canada in the market ...
- 2646: "Eveline" and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky": Impulse of Marriage
- ... bride. Once things had time to settle down, he would go out among them. His plan failed because he and his bride ran into Scratchy Wilson. When Scratchy drank too much he looked for a gun fight, anyone would do but Jack Potter was his preferred antagonist. During Scratchy's confrontation with Potter he learned of the sheriff's recent marriage. Potter's marriage had a great effect on this one sided vendetta of Scratchy's. Scratchy became confused when Potter told him he was unarmed and newly married. Potter had no gun, but a wife. Scratchy called off the vendetta. "He was not a student of chivalry; it was merely that in the presence of this foreign condition he was a simple child of the earlier plains ...
- 2647: Why Has Mary Turner Been Murdered?
- ... her power and discovered that she was not a self confident, arrogant person, but a weak woman which someone had to occupy. This role has been taken by Moses who now was the one in control. This was caused by the fact that Dick could not any longer stand the way Mary was treating the blacks, especially the houseboys. They had been leaving in crowds and the Turners could hardly find ... dependant on him, he had now lost. Later, when he is has left she realises how much she needs him for example the next morning her tea is not there et cetera.). He lost his control mainly because of Tony Marston who could not bear any longer the situation and who the worst impression of their relation because he had seen Moses dressing and undressing her. Another point might be the ...
- 2648: The Extermination of Jews Documents
- ... attempt to show varying explanations as to how this abomination known as the Holocaust could have occurred. The first, an excerpt form Machiavelli's The Prince shows reasons that Hitler was able to retain such control over the population. He states that fear enables a ruler to retain perfect control over those he rules. Indeed this was one of Hitler's strategies. He scared people into not reacting by using the threats of imprisonment and death. The statements made by Hobbes attempt to prove that ...
- 2649: Using the Student Study Sheets in the Classroom
- ... which we exercise as self-governing members of a local community and which safeguards our pursuit of economic opportunity. In this context, students might see the Federalist philosophy of Alexander Hamilton as based on social control while Jefferson's Republican philosophy was based on social change (though this is only one of many important points of contrast). These two tendencies revealed their self-destructive potential in 1798, when the Federalists exerted control by imprisoning their opponents and Jefferson, in his Kentucky Resolutions, encouraged change almost to the point of dissolving the Union itself. The study sheet presents an excerpt from this legislation showing Jefferson's reaction to ...
- 2650: Atomic Bomb 7
- ... States did in fact fear from Russia that it might use nuclear weapons on the U.S. in a war. On November 4, 1948 the United States called for a United Nation general assembly to control nuclear arms. Despite the important issues discussed in the United Nation the Russians continued to detonate atomic bombs. This meant that Russia not only opposed the issue of disarmament, but also showed a great threat throughout the world that Russia is still trying to become the more powerful country. In addition in 1949, the United States established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for a second time to control nuclear arms. "One of the chief tasks of the United States policy in NATO, therefore, is to overcome the Trauma which attaches to the use of nuclear weapons and to decentralize the Use of nuclear ...
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