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- 3071: "Violence in Schools"
- ... hurting others is wrong. We were also taught at a very young age that what we see on television is make believe. So why is it that parents are afraid to send their children to school? To "SCHOOL". Of all places to be afraid to go, school should not be one of them. Since we have all this violence in the world today, people are not safe in their own houses anymore. Schools are supposed to be an institution of higher ...
- 3072: Abraham of Chaldea
- ... his family to live in Sodom. When Abram was returning, the king of Sodom came out to meet him at the King's Valley along with Melchizedek, king of Salem and "priest of the most high God." 10 Melchizedek brought him bread and wine, and blessed him by saying, "Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand." 11 Hebrew tradition says that Melchizedek was Shem, son of Noah and survivor of the flood This tradidion believes he was still alive at the ...
- 3073: Volcanos
- ... and rubble called block flows. It may also form mounds of lava called domes. Other lava formations are spatter cones and lava tubes. Spatter cones are steep hills that can get up to 100 feet high. They build up from the spatter of geyser-like eruptions of thick lava. Lava tubes are tunnels formed from fluid lava. As the lava flows, its exterior covering cools and hardens. But the lava below ... from shield volcanoes is usually only one to ten meters thick, but the lava may extend for great distances away from the vent. The volcanoes of Hawaii and Iceland are typical shield volcanoes. Magma with high gas contents and high viscosities are usually more explosive than the lava that flows from shield volcanoes. This gas-rich lava in many occurrences is blown very high into the air during an eruption. The magma falls as ...
- 3074: Tradgedy 2
- ... good that Oedipus was capable of achieving. Macbeth was as capable as Oedipus. Macbeth was the greatest military hero in King Duncan s court. He had replaced a traitor and taken the robes of a high level Thane. He was a well respected lord of Scotland. His greatest flaw was that he thought he could fool his way into greater power. Macbeth was a good leader but not one fit for ... When he learned the truth he realized that indeed he could never deceive himself, even if he could deceive others. Macbeth, like Oedipus, reached selfdestruction at his highest point. Macbeth was Thane of Cawdor, riding high on a military victory and on top of the world. This confidence was a facade he put up to advance himself. He had fooled even King Duncan into believing he was greater than he really ... deceptive charade began to crumble. They were so highly critical that it was not others who eventually crushed their personal dignity, but their own ideals of success and failure. Oedipus as a king would have high goals, but at a certain point goals that are to high are tragic. Oedipus was an accomplished king, but his Kingdom was in famine so in order maintain his reputation as a good king ...
- 3075: Mrs Dalloway
- ... the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June. (4) As Clarissa continues through town to the flower shop, the din begins to shape itself into rhythm. When an ... very profound. (18) After the ripple crests to ``a general shindy'' and then dissipates, another important sound, which may subtly evoke Indian music, enters the scene. Above the rhythmic sounds of life drones ``the strange high singing of some aeroplane'' (4), ``boring into the ears of all people in the mall'' (18), like the drone of a sitar or chanter whom the tabla accompanies. A similar percussive ``surface agitation'' ripples throughout ... the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June. (4) As Clarissa continues through town to the flower shop, the din begins to shape itself into rhythm. When ...
- 3076: What Is Radar
- ... come in many sizes. A small set, made for use in a guided missile, is not much larger than a coffeepot. The larger sets used to study distant planets may oupy a building many stories high. The size of a radar set depends on the job it is expected to do. But all radar sets, regardless of their size, use the principle of the echo. How Radar Works Radar sets produce ... war and later created both early) warning (DEW) lines of radar extending the coverage of radar detection system. Later developments included the ballistic)missile)early warning system(BMEWS) and the combining of radar equipment with high)speed digital computers. Radar Systems A radar set, also called a radar system, has four main parts)a transmitter, and antenna, a receiver, and a indicator. The transmitter produces the short radio pulses. Each pulse ... tube in a television set. On the face of this tube, the operator sees a maplike picture of the surrounding region. This picture looks as if it were made liking down at the area from high above the radar set. The blips show where land areas are located. Blips also show the position of targets such as planes and ships. The radar operator can pick out these targets because they ...
- 3077: WoodStock Music Festival
- ... inconvenience to the surrounding communities and some area residents were suspicious of the looks and behavior of the young people who attended. Yet the festival was peaceful. The event, thought by some to mark a high point in the American counterculture History WoodStock music festival, took place near Woodstock New York, on August 15, 16, and 17, 1969, and became a symbol of the 1960’s American counterculture and a milestone ... inconvenience to the surrounding communities and some area residents were suspicious of the looks and behavior of the young people who attended. Yet the festival was peaceful. The event, thought by some to mark a high point in the American counterculture History WoodStock music festival, took place near Woodstock New York, on August 15, 16, and 17, 1969, and became a symbol of the 1960’s American counterculture and a milestone ... inconvenience to the surrounding communities and some area residents were suspicious of the looks and behavior of the young people who attended. Yet the festival was peaceful. The event, thought by some to mark a high point in the American counterculture History WoodStock music festival, took place near Woodstock New York, on August 15, 16, and 17, 1969, and became a symbol of the 1960’s American counterculture and a ...
- 3078: Profiles In American Enterpris
- ... to credit (Hoover, 1993, p. 2). These debts were included because the debts were more or less sold to banks and other money lending institutions who were more willing to take the risk for the high interest rate. This drop in interest rates did wonders for the brokerage firms involved and also corporations that had acquired debt over the years. The fall of interest rates was great for the brokerage firms ... The current outstanding shares are 63,430,245. From that number the number of shares held by insiders is 2,238,256 and the number of shareholders is 21,500. On January 31, 1997 the high for the price of the stock was 34.625 and the low was 33.125 and then closing at 34.000 (CD, 1996, p. 8). The stock price for March 4, 1997 was a high for the day at 36 and a low for the day at 35 3/8 and then closed at 35 3/8 which is the unchanged price from the previous day (America Online, 1996). ...
- 3079: Catcher In The Rye 2
- ... in the Rye . Like most people, Holden s mind wanders, and that s what I found the most interesting about him. He s sixteen years old, and he just got kicked out of another boarding school: Pencey Prep. He s tall, and skinny and he's not broad-shouldered. He s got a crewcut. His dad s a corporate lawyer and he is pretty rich. Holden really is a nice guy ... keeps showing up. Her old man s always a tall attractive gentleman about 20 years of age. That kills me. Old Phoebe. I swear to God you d like her." Setting Pencey Pencey is the school Holden attends until the beginning of the story, when he has just got kicked out. The story starts there. The Christmas vacation is about to start for all the students. It s pretty a traditional school, its advertisements in the papers say: "Since 1888 we have been molding young boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men." New York City, New York, USA. Christmas 1949. The book doesn t make you ...
- 3080: A Portrait Of The Artist As A
- ... novel and autobiography, I feel called upon to see Joyce's schoolfellows in two ways at once. They are characters in a novel, bigger than life, and they are real people like me and my school and college pals. (280) The Catholic religion is a significant and recurring theme in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Though brought up in the church, several major events lead Stephen to defy the lessons of his Catholic school education and choose a life of his own, the life of an artist. Through his experiences with religion, Stephen Dedalus both matures and gradually discovers an identity of his own. As a young boy, religion is crucial to Stephen's life. Stephen was reared in a strict Catholic family. The demand for compliance placed on Stephen shapes his life early at Clongowes, a preparatory school run by the Jesuit order. Even as he is adhering to the principles of his Catholic school upbringing, he becomes increasingly disillusioned. Even though Joyce spoke warmly of his own experiences at Clongowes he ...
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