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- 4431: John Paul Jones
- ... be brought to hit the attacker), but The Richard quickly moved ahead and Jones was nearly able to hook up and board the Serapis. By this time over 80 of the 144 men working the gun deck battery of Richard were either killed or wounded and the deck was slippery with blood and fragments of bodies. Unfortunately, it was also riding two feet lower due to water entering through cannon shot ...
- 4432: Ethics and Advertising
- ... when advertisers employ the use of weasel words, words that suck out all or most of an ad’s meaning. For instance, Listerine “fights” bad breath, but it does not cure it; Selsun Blue “helps” control dandruff, but they don’t say it gets rid of it; and Dawn dish detergent gets dishes “virtually” spotless, but not completely clean. The last big deception is the use of faulty comparisons. Pizza Hut ...
- 4433: To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout
- ... street, Atticus kills the dog with one shot. "Jem became vaguely articulate, ‘you see him, Scout? You see him just stand there? All of a sudden he just relaxed all over, it looked like that gun was part of him …and he did it so quick, like…I hafta to aim for ten minutes fore I can hit something,…’"(Lee 97). That is when they realize that their father is a ...
- 4434: Progressivism
- ... structure of government, especially at the municipal level. Some reformers, viewing immigration, urban immortality, and incipient social disorder as the central problems, fought for immigration restriction, the abolition of prostitution and saloons, and other social-control strategies. Like the movement itself, the progressives comprised a diverse lot, aligned in shifting coalitions that might unite on one issue, then divide on another. The native-born Protestant middle class, including the new white ...
- 4435: Accusations By The Media
- ... the collision of different ideas, but recently it seems as if the problems are being stretched way too far. This homicide in Littleton has turned from a mass killing into a nationwide crusade to limit gun sales; a disturbance in rural America has become a ripple in the way parents should raise their kids. Personally, I don't buy into it. Yes, I feel bad for the victims, but there is ...
- 4436: Freedom in the United States
- ... school newspaper. Superior Court Judge, Robert E. Francis ruled that the student's rights were violated under the state Constitution. I feel this is a major break through for students' rights because it limits editorial control of school newspapers by educators and allows students to print what they feel is important. A newly proposed bill (A-557) would prevent school officials from controlling the content of student publications. Critics of the ...
- 4437: The Power of the Situation
- ... for the Denny's assailants, Denny himself. "Prejudice is the learned attitude toward a target object, involving negative feeling (dislike or fear), negative beliefs (stereotypes) that justify the attitude, and a behavioral intention to avoid, control, dominate, or eliminate those int he target group." (Zimbardo 615). The "us" versus "them" mentality results in social categorization in which people place themselves and others into groups. To say that prejudice had little or ...
- 4438: The Deaf Culture
- ... They had a certain distrust for the hearing. The daughter was ashamed to have deaf parents and to sign in front of hearing people because she didn't want to be different. Her parents had control over her life and she would nit allow herself a life because of them. The mother and daughter wind up resenting each other and fighting. In the end the mother realizes that the way they ...
- 4439: Reform Movements Of The Nineteenth Century
- ... s rights. Her main demand was the right to vote for women. The results of the women’s reform movement were shown slowly throughout history. In Mississippi married women were granted the right to take control over their property in 1839 and after eleven more states follow suit. Women also began to work out of the home during this period. With the expansion of school and the education reform, women first ...
- 4440: Gay Marriages-Acceptable to God and America?
- ... other gays. After reading science journals and medical research articles, my personal belief is that homosexuality is innate from birth. I feel that with the technology that exists today, especially the ability to determine and control the sex of your unborn child, homosexuality is a relatively understandable concept. It’s when people fail to understand, or alienate themselves to the fact that gays have no say in their sexual orientation that ...
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