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- 3121: Nelson Mandela
- ... great-grandfather was a King and Mandela's father is a respected counselor to the Thembu royal family. His father has four wives and He is one of thirteen children. On his first day of school, Rolihlahla is given the English name Nelson by an African teacher. After receiving a good education at local boarding schools, Mandela enters Fort Hare University and completes two years before deciding to leave for Johannesburg to avoid a marriage arranged for him by his guardian, Chief Jongintaba. Mandela then earns his B.A. degree, enrolls in law school and joins the ANC (AFRICAN NATONAL CONGRESS) which is an organization est. in 1918 to promote black freedom. Believing that the ANC leadership is too staid, Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Walter Sisulu form the ANC ... great-grandfather was a King and Mandela's father is a respected counselor to the Thembu royal family. His father has four wives and He is one of thirteen children. On his first day of school, Rolihlahla is given the English name Nelson by an African teacher. After receiving a good education at local boarding schools, Mandela enters Fort Hare University and completes two years before deciding to leave for ...
- 3122: Personal Writing: Welcome to Maysville
- Personal Writing: Welcome to Maysville As an enrolled student at Mason County Middle School I welcome you. This school has a great academic status and we are one of the first schools in Kentucky to offer the Student Technology Leader Ship Program (S.T.L.P.). Not only do we have a great school, but we have a wonderful community as well. The east end of downtown is a fast pace area with friendly people. Forrest Avenue (the main street) brings access to many homes, the fourth and ...
- 3123: The Push For Legalizing Marijuana
- The Push For Legalizing Marijuana Currently, drugs remain high on the lists of concerns of Americans and are considered one of the major problems facing our country today. We see stories on the news about people being killed on the street every day over ... the recreational use of drugs in this country; on the contrary it is causing great harm. When most people imagine the legalization of marijuana, they fear a marijuana free-for-all with everybody constantly getting high. Legalization would include a law passed by Congress allowing the government to control the content, quality, and distribution of marijuana. The laws would be similar to the current laws regulating alcohol, including laws governing age ... What science and real experience tells us is that marijuana tends to substitute for much harder drugs like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin (Hagar 1). Another misconception is that marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol. Extremely high doses of cannabis cause death. Extremely high doses are the key word here. *Scientists have concluded that the ratio of cannabis needed to get a person intoxicated (stoned) relative to the amount necessary to ...
- 3124: Emily Dickinson
- ... if not frightening, tone in Dickinson s poem. Dickinson uses controlling adjectives "slowly" and "passed" to create a tone that seems rather placid. For example, "We slowly drove He knew no haste / We passed the School / We passed the Setting Sun ," sets a slow, quiet, calm, and dreamy atmosphere (5, 9, 11, 12). "One thing that impresses us," one author wrote, "is the remarkable placidity, or composure, of its tone" (Greenberg ... ideas on a unifying track heading towards a boggling atmosphere. Dickinson s masterpiece lives on complex ideas that are evoked through symbols, which carry her readers through her poem. Besides the literal significance of the "School," "Gazing Grain," "Setting Sun," and the "Ring" much is gathered to complete the poem s central idea. Emily brought to light the mysteriousness of life s cycle. Ungraspable to many, the cycle of one s life, as symbolized by Dickinson, has three stages and then a final stage of eternity. These three stages are recognized by Mary N. Shaw as follows: "School, where children strove"(9) may represent childhood; "Fields of Gazing Grain"(11), maturity; and "Setting Sun" (12) old age" (21). In addition to these three stages, the final stage of eternity was symbolized in ...
- 3125: Dolphins 2
- ... pirates. Before he was thrown into the sea, he asked for one last wish: to sing a song and then jump overboard himself. The pirates granted him this wish, and he began to sing a high-pitched song. When he was finished with his song, he jumped overboard and was saved by a dolphin which carried him two hundred miles to shore. Obviously, dolphins and humans have been interacting together throughout ... idle communication with other dolphins. This tight knit social structure gives the dolphin its unique and appealing behavior. Humans find an association with these behaviors and, therefore, feel a connection to this aquatic mammal. A high standard of intelligence is only possessed by a few species on Earth. The dolphin possesses such great intellectual ability that it is ranked by humans as the smartest animal. According to Ken Martin of Hawaii ... way that intelligence is represented is by the ability to learn, as opposed to acting by instinct. No one can deny that dolphins can learn delightful tricks totally disassociated from their oceanic background, but their high level of intelligence is what has allowed them to be trained in the first place (Walther 39). Lou Herman, a marine biologist from Hawaii, states that dolphins can be taught a human language and ...
- 3126: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... his father was a book binder by trade, Erich was brought up in a fairly poor household. That did not stop him from receiving a wonderful education at his local gymnasium (equivalent to an elementary school), then proceeding onto the University of Münster. While attending there, he was drafted in to the German Army at a mere 18 years of age. He was wounded five times, then released. After returning home, he had a plethora of jobs including: a school master, a tombstone salesman, and even joined a Gypsy caravan . His searching for a profession then came to an end when he started writing articles for a Swedish car magazine. He became very well known ... including: All Quiet On The Western Front, Arch of Triumph, and The Black Obelisk. (contd.) Plot Summery Of: All Quiet On The Western Front All Quiet On The Western Front is a record of seven school chums that all enlist in the German Army after being urged by their school master Kantorek. These poor youth are forced to endure the debilitating effects of World War I, and represent the generation ...
- 3127: Benito Mussolini
- ... a bully to the other children around him. He would get into numerous of fights with other children. Benito Mussolini was brought up in one the poorest regions in Northeastern Italy. When he was in school, he always kept to himself and very quiet. He wasn’t a class clown, never cried or rarely laughed. He always sat in the back of the classroom and read a book. He rather do that than play with the other children in his class. He got kicked out his first boarding school. When he was growing up he was surrounded by many political philosophies. There was anarchism, socialism, and others. Both Benito and his father Allesandro had very bad violent tempers. When Benito grew up, he became a teacher in an elementary school in his nearby town; he spread the party of doctrine. He was an editor, Fascist leader, laborer, soldier, politician, and revolutionary. He also became a socialist. He graduated at a teacher training school in ...
- 3128: Rahotep And Nefret
- ... Nefert, is extremely well preserved and there is only a miniscule amount of perceptible damage. Rahotep, who is seated on the left, retains the air of nobility and grandeur that a king’s son and high priest would have undoubtedly enjoyed during his lifetime. His wife, Nefert, sits adorned with an intricate wig and headband that match her bright jewelry and indicate her elevated social status. Together, the figures complement each ... royal funerary art of Ancient Egypt. The statues of Rahotep and Nefert are made of limestone, one of the most accessible and popular materials used for sculpture in the Nile Valley, and are 120 cm high. After these statues were carved out of two single blocks of rock, they were covered with a thin layer of plaster and painted. Copper chisels and stone tools were most probably used to carve them ... Egyptian art. They are both facing perfectly straight ahead and are not looking at each other or to the side. Both Rahotep and Nefert are roughly the same size and are seated in almost identical high-backed chairs with footrests. Rahotep wears a very plain kilt and a small amulet around his neck. He has close-cropped hair and his face is adorned with a thin mustache. He has broad ...
- 3129: Is Our Society Becoming Post-l
- ... large degree of interaction between the storyteller and the people listening to what is being said. Gestures and the use of tone emphasise certain parts of the story. If the values that are held in high regard by the culture shift to suit changing circumstances, the heroes in the tale will acquire new characteristics or even cease to be heroes. In oral societies individual creativity is profoundly rhetorical, for it is ... good for me? but 'what do we need? Mcluhan uses the metaphor of hot and cool to describe the various mediums of knowledge transmission. A hot medium is 'one that extends a single sense with high definition. High definition means a complete filling in of data by the medium without intense audience participation In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing.' (Mcluhan, in Playboy Magazine, 1969). He ...
- 3130: What To Do About Immigration
- ... called "Lifeboat Ethics and Immigration Fears" he explores the issue of immigration and the problems it causes. Mills sees immigration as a threat to American nation as an ethnic group. He expresses his concern that high birth rates and liberal immigration laws allowing to bring relatives result in a high percentage of Mexican population in some areas. In his article Mills agrees with Peter Brimelow saying that "the current mass immigration from predominantly non-European countries threatens not ‘only racial hegemony of white Americans’ but ... an attempt to support his argument Kennedy suggests to look at the numbers more thoughtfully. For example, the numbers of immigrants entering the United States given in the introduction of this article may seem very high, but taking into consideration that the population of the country also grows, "the relative incidence of current immigration to the United States is rather modest," as Kennedy puts it (311). According to the U. ...
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