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- 4511: A Rose for Emily
- ... and she finds it hard to let go. Emily was raised in the ante-bellum period before the Civil War. This story takes place in the Reconstruction Era after the war when the North takes control of the South. Like her father Miss Emily possesses a stubborn outlook towards life, she refuses to change. This short story explains Emily, her mystified ways and the townsfolk's sympathetic curiosity. The plot of ...
- 4512: Use of Paralanguage and Kinesics in Everyday Life
- ... sound at all. If the eyes are the "windows of the soul," certainly the mouth is the very door. The grimace, in contrast to the movement made by a tic, is voluntary and within the control of the person who does it. Pouting is a well-known kinesic act of children. Sticking out the tongue among the children of Western cultures is a widely-known expression of insult. Protruding the tongue ...
- 4513: How Do Elizabeth Bennet’s Relationships Show Her Process Of Moral Growth?
- ... unaware. At first, Elizabeth and Darcy are lacking self-knowledge, which leads to misunderstanding and confusion between them. Elizabeth is willing and able to think for herself; she knows that she is not under the control of social structure. “This final title [Pride and Prejudice] is distinctive, memorable and accurate, provided that readers recognize that both hero and heroine are proud and that both are prejudiced … Elizabeth’s pride is personal ...
- 4514: Animal Farm: Struggle for Power
- ... This story is the basic story of how a farm goes from bad ownership by humans, to bad ownership by pigs. There is a definite show of communism, the display of one party taking complete control of the land, making all the rules, and making all the decisions, being as biased as possible. The animals run the humans off the farm, after their oldest and wisest pig, Old Major has a ...
- 4515: Juvenile Crime: Crime Rates
- ... less) to help break the cycle of poverty and crime. Predicting a generation¹s future crime pattern is, of course, risky. Especially when outside factors remain unpredictable (Will drug use be up or down? Will gun laws be tightened?). Also, from year to year, crime rates can fluctuate much like the stock market. What goes up generally comes down, and what goes down generally comes back up. It is probably no ...
- 4516: Jesus and Youths In America
- ... know who have to be on prozac to have the will to wake up in the morning, I speak of the countless multitudes of young women who purposely vomit because they feel they have no control over their lives or because they feel they must aspire to be thin enough to houlla hoop in a Cherio. The plight of youth is not the measure of their morality. The plight of youth ...
- 4517: Is the Criminal Justice System Racially Biased?
- ... device the powerful use to carry out their policies. Also it serves as an instrument of repression designed to maintain the powerful in their privileged positions. Here plea-bargaining is used to effectively enforce social control over the poor at a reduced cost to the state. However, this is not to say that the powerful do not commit crimes. Their crimes are called white collar and are usually handled in courts ...
- 4518: Paradise Lost
- ... but Homer's high precedent, or Vergil's, prescribed the old images as well. Milton's choice of imagery, however, is distinguished from that of other important epic poets of Western Europe by an iron control over, a virtual renunciation of, animal similes. (534) Whaler comments that Milton "selects an animal image only when the perfect opportunity appears" (545), that Milton "must have felt they had had their day" (538). Whaler ...
- 4519: Maria Mithchell
- ... She resolved to give up the life of an independent scientist and devote her efforts "to the intellectual culture of woman." She struggled to promote the cause of women's education. Her patience and self-control offers encouragement to young women considering astronomy as a career. Maria Mitchell was given many awards and honors during her lifetime other than being the first woman admitted to the American Academy of Arts and ...
- 4520: Social Environment and Its Effect On One's Life
- ... eliminated because they are no more than mere pests, irritating the rest of society. In my opinion, there isn't much to be done to change the way society thinks. As long as the elite control businesses and schools, they will still have the authority over what the public thinks and does. The best thing to have is a positive outlook on all situations and never stop trying. If one never ...
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