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- 4131: The HOPE Bill
- ... and understanding in all situations, people caring for the plight of others. In the fourth through the sixth grade, all kids are required to complete at least 5 hours of community service each week; in high school, they are required to complete ten hours a week. This program has caused the world to gain a more caring, empathetic attitude towards the well-being of others. "The needs of the many outweigh the ...
- 4132: The Perfect Storm
- ... this is not a book I would read again. Battling the Halloween Gale vicariously through the character s lives once is enough to last me a lifetime. The Perfect Storm has the potential to teach high school students many of the values that seem to have been lost over the years. Courage, teamwork, and respect for nature are all important themes in the book. The characters in the book have all learned ...
- 4133: To An Athlete Dying Young By A
- ... athlete was to have died in the height of glory. Housman recalls the time the athlete won a race, gaining him public appreciation, "Man and boy stood cheering by; And home we brought you shoulder-high". The speaker relates this joyous time to the present, where "Shoulder-high we bring you home; And set you at your threshold down". With the phrase "shoulder-high" he connects the race to the funeral procession. The honor of this treatment was endowed the first time for victory, and the final time for homage. The "threshold" symbolizes the grave of the athlete, ...
- 4134: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... Cunningham's are very respected by the citizen's of Maycomb county. The Cunninghams took nothing, unless they could pay it back. Walter the youngest in the Cunningham clan was in the same class at school as Scout Finch the daughter of Atticus Finch. While in school, a fresh young new school teacher known as Miss Caroline did not know the reputations of the predecessors of these two children. In what looked like a good day for the rookie teacher quickly turned into complete disarray and ...
- 4135: Katha Pollitt's Argument About Media Being Biased Against Liberals and Allan Levite's Argument That Media Is Biased Against Conservatives
- ... says that the media ignores the other cases of more serious offenses dealing with the same subject. She sights two other cases that she would have us believe are more commonplace than incredibly stupid elementary school kids. Her first example is the case dealing with the sixth grader who received death threats does not even clearly state what kind of hate was involved. It could have been sexual harassment, or it ... argument is just as common as what she is complaining about, or maybe less common. No one is trying to bash feminism. This was not planned out to happen. (I hope) Also, kids in elementary school always are not thinking about getting their secretaries to have sex with them for raises. Personally, I think kids are stupid. Even I was a stupid kid. When I was in third grade a guy ... and getting turned on by this. He now cleans pools for a living. I doubt either of us cared at the time. Although I remember some crying. People who pee in their pants in grade school usually do not pee in their pants when they are grown up to be heads of the country. We would know about it if they did. Many children form weird attractions to doing many ...
- 4136: An Ethical and Practical Defense of Affirmative Action
- ... force people to hire unqualified minorities? No. But affirmative action programs should cause us as a society to re-evaluate how we assess qualifications and how we measure merit. Let us become tenured Harvard Law School professors for just a moment. Suppose we have two applicants for an open associate professor position. The first candidate is white, a Harvard Law School graduate, has impressive board scores, served as editor of the Law Review, etc.... , but has never practiced law before. The other candidate is Black, a Howard Law School graduate, average board scores, has excellent person skills, and practiced law as the county defendant in an inner- city neighborhood. Under the traditional system of merit the white Harvard graduate gets the appointment hands ...
- 4137: Affirmative Action
- ... s Electric Encyclopedia, 1993) Affirmative action plans that establish racial quotas were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the case of University of California VS. Bakke in 1978. This case arose when the medical school of the University of California at Davis twice rejected Allen Bakke's application while admitting members of racial minorities who had lower test scores. Bakke charged that the medical school's policy of setting aside 16 of the 100 positions for racial minorities was a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. In a complex 5-4 decision the Supreme Court ordered ... line in the debate to minority VS. minority, as well as black VS white. On the side of those who favor Affirmative Action and would like for it to remain a part of California's school system are many optimistic voices. Affirmative action at Berkeley represents an essential and healthy adaptation to a changing California and a changing nation. Affirmative action is not for underrepresented minorities. Affirmative action is for ...
- 4138: Loss of Freedom Through Apathy
- ... some other corporate monster disturbing people with their propaganda, I could understand how their sheer rudeness could be justified. But I am not calling on behalf of some annoying telemarketing scheme. I am an eager high school student with a fresh infatuation with politics. I am polling people about the leader of tomorrow, who will directly affect the taxes they spend, the wars they go into, and the moral values that they ...
- 4139: Oedipus The King Sophocles
- ... are debating about who killed Laios. Hence readers are aware through the following quote, “Do you think you can say such things with impunity?” that King Oedipus has a strong passion for the truth and high moral standards. As the play progresses further, King Oedipus’ hubris becomes more prominent as he is determined to find out about his birth no matter what the cost is. Oedipus’ search for the truth leads ... Readers also anticipate that a tragic hero must learn a lesson from his errors in judgement, his tragic flaw, and become an example to the audience of what happens when great men fall from the high social class. The concept of tragedy is most certainly evident throughout the play as well. The tragedy which took place in “Oedipus the King” moved the readers by capturing suffering and pain and therefore learning a moral lesson from seeing a noble man with high social class suffer – especially since Oedipus learnt a lesson from the pain that he experienced. Readers put themselves in the character Oedipus’ place and feel as if they too have gone through the same ...
- 4140: Narrative Voices In Huck Finn
- ... a family with "a handsome lot of quality" (118). He thinks no more about Jim or the raft, but knows he has found a new home, one where he doesn't have to go to school, is surrounded by interior and exterior beauty, and most importantly, where he feels safe. Huck "liked that family, dead ones and all, and warn't going to let anything come between us"(118). Huck is ... Jim, almost exactly mirrors the end of chapter eighteen. Both chapter conclude with Huck enjoying a good meal with good company in a cool, comfortable place. First it is with the Grangerfords in the cool, high-ceilinged area in the middle of their double house. "Nothing could be better"(115), Huck thought. But only a few pages later the raft and Jim provide the same comforts. Nothing had ever sounded so ...
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