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- 411: Childhood Enemies
- ... period of significant change. These changes bridge the transition from childhood to adulthood. Teenagers today live in a media-saturated society and they deal with a bouquet of formidable issues like sex, drugs, divorce, and gun violence. These conditions can become significant factors in an emerging personality (Doherty, 1997). How do these circumstances influence young people who are searching for the roles and values that will guide them all their lives ... begin to think of social values as principles and call ebadf and egoodf ebad.f The airwaves get polluted with filth. The static makes it difficult to get a clear message from radio control.h In a 1992 statement, the U.S. Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Department summarized literally hundreds of research studies of environmental changes over recent years: Unfortunately, economic circumstances, cultural norms, and federal legislation in ... Gibbon, identified five main causes of the decline and fall of the Roman civilization: 1. the breakdown of the family structure 2. the weakening of a sense of individual responsibility 3. excessive taxes and government control and intervention 4. seeking pleasures that became increasingly hedonistic, violent, and immoral 5. the decline of religion. His conclusions offer a provocative and insightful perspective through which we might look at our culture today. ...
- 412: The Real Reason Behind The Rec
- ... determined three reasons on which to blame the shootings. First, the nation blamed it on televisions violent programs. Following that, Americans gave the music recording companies the evil eye as well as attacking the gun manufacturers. All of these reasons involve material objects that are unable to think for themselves. Televisions and CD players do not control themselves, people control them. Finally, boundaries controlling the television programs children view should be set by the parents. The same explanation applies to firearms. How can it be a guns fault that a person killed another ...
- 413: Movie: The Last Supper
- ... five of the students are stunned by the remarks that the trucker is making, especially one of the students that is Jewish. They all get into a heated argument and the trucker goes out of control; in addition, he grabs the Jewish student and puts a knife to his throat. They are all shocked by this and they immediately attempt to calm the trucker down. He releases the Jewish student and ... old girl who was against the distribution of condoms and the teaching of sex education in high school. I think that at this point they all have realized that everything has really gotten out of control. The director seems to miss out on a few flaws that I observed while watching the film. When the trucker breaks one of the student's arms, nonetheless, you see the student with a cast ... on his arm. Two scenes later you see the same student playing a game of skeet shooting again and all of a sudden he has the cast on his arm and he is firing the gun just fine. Did the director forget to observe that scene? I guess it was such a low budget film that they could not afford to hire some professional editors. The director shows some very ...
- 414: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... forces were quick to react and Castro ordered his T-33 trainer jets, two Sea Furies, and two B-26s into the air to stop the invading forces. Off the coast was the command and control ship and another vessel carrying supplies for the invading forces. The Cuban air force made quick work of the supply ships, sinking the command vessel the Marsopa and the supply ship the Houston, blasting them ... 5th battalion was lost, which was on the Houston, as well as the supplies for the landing teams and eight other smaller vessels. With some of the invading forces' ships destroyed, and no command and control ship, the logistics of the operation soon broke down as the other supply ships were kept at bay by Casto's air force. As with many failed military adventures, one of the problems with this ... the slow moving B-26s of the invading force. On Tuesday, two were shot out of the sky and by Wednesday the invaders had lost 10 of their 12 aircraft. With air power firmly in control of Castro's forces, the end was near for the invading army. Over the 72 hours the invading force of about 1500 men were pounded by the Cubans. Casto fired 122mm. Howitzers, 22mm. cannon, ...
- 415: Stocism in "Enchiridion"
- Stocism in "Enchiridion" In Enchiridion, Epictetus stresses that human beings do not and cannot control life. Terrible things can and will happen, including the death of children and spouses. But human beings do control how they respond. We always have a choice about the contents and character of our inner lives. This is what constitutes our personality or attitude, the control, or lack thereof, that we have over our emotions. We have control over our thoughts and our will, but we do not have control over external fortune. Not what we do or what happens ...
- 416: Hitler
- ... about Kahr's meeting. Kahr called a meeting of approximately three thousand government officials on November 8 at the Buergerbrukeller (a beer hall). Since the entire triumvirate would be there, Hitler could force them at gun-point to join him. The Putsch Around eight o'clock, Hitler arrived at the Buergerbrukeller in a red Mercedes Benz accompanied by Rosenberg, Ulrich Graf (Hitler's bodyguard), and Anton Drexler. Hitler was wearing a ... Sometime between 8:30 and 8:45 p.m., Hitler heard the sound of trucks. As Hitler burst into the crowded beer hall, his armed storm troopers surrounded the hall and set up a machine gun in the entrance. To grab everyone's attention, Hitler jumped onto a table and fired one or two shots into the ceiling. With some help, Hitler then forced his way to the platform. "The National ... leaving Ludendorff in charge. The Downfall When Hitler came back to the beer hall, he found that all three of the triumvirate had left. Each one was quickly denouncing the affiliation that they made at gun-point and was working to put down the putsch. Without the support of the triumvirate, Hitler's plan had failed. He knew he did not have enough armed men to compete against an entire ...
- 417: Governments In Star Wars V.S. Governments in the Home
- ... living in the building can have a say of what goes on with the policy for the building. Another basic type of government is a dictatorship where only a small group or one person have control of a group of people. There is two different examples of a dictator ship in Star Wars, one is the Emperor's, which will be discussed later, and that of Jabba's. Jabba is a ... controlled by the empire. Jabba has a dictatorship over a small group of people and has a territory in which he has sovereignty, and therefore has all the qualities of a state. He has total control of his area including without having to give to the will of the people he governs. he also has control of the making and enforcing of policies which is the role of government. The Imperial Empire is also an dictator ship as stated above but with a couple minor differences. At one time there ...
- 418: The Dead Sea Scrolls
- ... century BCE, extreme Hellenism came into open confrontation with Judean society. The stage of a Jewish revolt was set when Antiochus IV of the Selucid Dynasty severely challenged the Jewish way of life by taking control of the Jerusalem priesthood and attempting to transform Jerusalem into another Greek Polis. This confrontation of these two opposing forces, the Jewish people and the Selucids, was to ignite the flames of a full-scale ... of the Qumran sect and its establishment in the Judean desert."10 Since the time of King Solomon, virtually without interruption up until the time of the Hasmonaean Revolt, the Zadokite Priests had been in control of the Jerusalem Temple. The Zadokite priests trace their ancestry back to the high priest Zadok, who officiated in King Solomon's Temple. It was members of this group who were to become known as ... Maccabean Wars. There were, however, "many Sadducean Priests during this period who continued to be pious, maintaining the ancient traditions of the Temple in Jerusalem."11 As a result of the revolt, the Zadokites lost control of the high priesthood to the Hasmonaeans (the Maccabean family). When the dust of the revolt had finally cleared, Jonathan the Hasmonaean, who was not of the Zadokite line, but from the house of ...
- 419: Contemporary Thinkers: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aguinas
- ... jurors who would try cases. There also existed a body of ten elected generals who would oversee foreign policy and war. One such elected general of Athens was a political idealist, Pericles. Pericles had singular control of the Athenian democracy and was involved in a war against Sparta and its allies that was concluded in 446- 445 B.C.. After peace was declared, he tightened Athenian control of the empire. He crushed major rebellions, imposed democratic government, dispatched colonies of Athenian citizens to strategic areas, and made tribute collection (the main source of Athenian wealth) more efficient. Convinced of the inevitability of ... warrior Philip II became regent of Macedonia in 359 and its king in 356. Under his leadership, this newly centralized kingdom gradually overwhelmed the disunited land. By easy stages Philip advanced into central Greece, winning control of Delphi as a result of the Third Sacred War (355-47) against Phocis. In 338 he destroyed a Theban and Athenian army on the field of Chaeronea. He imposed a short-lived federal ...
- 420: The Development of Desire
- ... and wealth from Troy and the gods. With all the losses he sustains over the long journey he is unmoved, for his only passion is to return home. Odysseus's biggest attribute is his personal control of emotions and events. He has many emotions throughout the story, but always exhibits control in thinking and actions. Look at the careful planning and patience when waiting for the time to kill all his suitors. Another duration, Odysseus wants to punish his men many times over for the greed and stupidity they show throughout their journeys, My men are mutinous fools... (Homer 146), but he controls his anger and continues on their journey back home. Odysseus, with such control, is the very model of a leader and king. Control was very valuable in Greek society. A perfect contrast to Odysseus's' control is the character Antinous. Antinous has no control over his emotions ...
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