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- 5031: Modibo Diarra
- ... this past summer at an AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) event. On the court any professional scout in America (including myself) will tell you that come next year Modibo will have the luxury to pick whatever school he wants. He is that talented and that special of a player. Still, there is something about Modibo off the court that makes him such a terrific human being. At a recent hoop tournament that ... as well. They have goals of being successful in life and taking care of their family. When a down and out coach from American University was trying to recruit another player to come to his school, that player decided on playing European ball instead. Scott Spinelli saw a pickup game going on near by, so to ease off his disapointment he stuck around to watch. What he found was were kids ...
- 5032: A Separate Peace
- ... a fairy to everyone.” (909). Finny, more of a rebel, is very outgoing; he, however shows himself off as a perfect individual. One day at Devon, he gets into small dispute because he wore the school tie as a belt. This he frees himself from quickly, explaining, “It goes with the shirt and it all ties together…with what we’ve been talking about, this bombing in Central Europe.” (910). Complying ... He likes to be the best that he can. He likes being in difficult situations to see if he can get out of it, showing his ability to express himself. Finny, one day wears his school tie as a belt, but he easily solves of this problem by explaining that he did it to show the link between Devon and the war. (909-910). Finny, a natural person who shows himself ...
- 5033: The Effects Of Television Viol
- What has the world come to these days? It often seems like everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the streets, back alleys, school, and even at home. The last of these is a major source of violence. In many peoplesÕ living rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is the television, and the ... young viewer into a hypnotized nonthinker (Langone 48). As you can see, television violence can disrupt a childÕs learning and thinking ability which will cause life long problems. If a child cannot do well in school, his or her whole future is at stake. Why do children like the violence that they see on television? ÒSince media violence is much more vicious than that which children normally experience, real-life aggression ...
- 5034: The Reagan Tax Cuts and Foreign Policy
- ... s the Mellon tax cuts were implemented by Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon during the Administrations of Hoover, Harding, and Coolidge. In the 60's Kennedy introduced tax cuts. In both instances the decrease of high marginal tax rates somehow increased tax payments by the rich. Perhaps a foreshadow of things to come. Debates were raging over the Reagan tax cuts, known as the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 (or ... reducing excessive tax rates stimulates growth, reduces tax avoidance, and can increase the share of tax payments given by the rich. With respect to foreign policy Reagan's performances especially with Mikhail Gorbachev showed a high approval of performance with the people. Reagan had the highest poll ratings for performance of any president since World War 2. It appears that his leadership helped to make the feeling of the country to ...
- 5035: A Room With A View Windy Corne
- ... as opposed to the vibrancy of Windy Corner. Forster’s comment that it is ‘well-appointed,’ is another of his satirical observations, and this leads us to believe that perhaps it does not have such high standards after all. The physical interiors are just as different as their appointed names. Mrs Vyse’s flat is not described in too much detail, but just enough so that the reader has a clear picture of it in our minds. As mentioned above, the flat is proved not to have such high standards when Mrs Honeychurch reveals that there is a “thick layer of flue under the beds.” It is not a very pleasant place, as we see when “darkness enveloped the flat.” By contrast, there is ...
- 5036: Television Violence In The United States
- ... part in the attack said they were imitating a scene form Born Innocent, an NBC television movie they watched three days they committed the crime. The movie, which takes place in a girl's reform school, shows a new inmate cornered by four girls and graphically raped with the handle of a plumber's helper (Levine 12). It is time to move past the debate of whether or not the entertainment ... tenets: first, by accepting the child's behavior and feelings; and second, by provoking the child with opportunities for "catharsis" (Kauffman 185). Therefor the development of critical viewing skills should be part of every elementary school curriculum. Teaching children how to watch television more productively is extremely important because the use of educational television and other media appears to be growing throughout all educational levels. (Primavera 8) Parents also play a ...
- 5037: Kerouac's On the Road: Living in Clip
- ... a periodical entitled "The Know-Nothing Bohemians,"which describes the life and legacy of the beats: On the surface, at least, the Bohemianism of On the Road is very attractive. Here is a group of high-spirited young men running back and forth across the country (mostly hitch-hiking, sometimes in their own second-hand cars), going to 'wild' parties in New York and Denver and San Francisco, living on a ... shoe-string (GI educational benefits, an occasional fifty bucks from a kindly aunt, an odd job as a typist, a fruit-picker, a parking-lot attendant), talking intensely about love and God and salvation, getting high on marijuana (but never heroin or cocaine), listening feverishly to jazz in crowded little joints, and sleeping freely with beautiful girls. Now and again there is a reference to gloom and melancholy but the characteristic ...
- 5038: Drinking: A Love Story - A Review
- ... was out with the night before and fish for clues as to how her behavior was, if anything seemed to be wrong, if she had anything to be embarrased about. Caroline describes herself as a “high-functioning” alcoholic who is a main editor at a prestegious magazine. She has never let alcohol interfere with her work, never missed a deadline, never been late to work, always looked and played her part ... she blamed her drinking on her depression. She said, “I’ll stop drinking when things get better, when I’m not so depressed.” It wasn’t until she realized that her father was also a high-functioning alcoholic and she had committed herself to rehab that she could say “I am depressed because I drink.” Only once she saw things from this perspective did she have the power to make a ...
- 5039: An Attempt At A Rhetorical Ana
- ... In every example, he shows that the imagination is used to take us beyond the literal meaning of a word or phrase. In his final talk, Frye takes more casual stance. Instead of standing at high on the podium with 20,000 people, he talks to a class of 30. Throughout the talks he speaks to, as he calls them, a “blind audience.” It seems, however, his tone shifts for his ... authentic poets, that gives a social vision to both Lincoln and Gandhi. It never speaks unless we take time to listen in leisure…” (155-6) It seems as if he wants to end on a high note, but he crashes back down to earth stating that when we really listen, all that voice is telling us is “we are not getting any nearer to heaven, and that it is time to ...
- 5040: Miyamoto Musashi
- ... by the town elders. Musashi used his strength and demeanor in his first real duel with a known samurai when he was thirteen years of age. He fought against Arima Kigei from the Shinto Ryu school of Military Arts. Unarmed, Musashi threw the samurai to the ground and beat him savagely with a stick until Arima died vomiting his own blood. Musashi’s next duel came when he was age sixteen ... life. Musashi’s personality is best summed up in his own words, "When I reached thirty I looked back on my past. Perhaps it was natural ability, or the order of heaven, or that other school’s strategy was inferior." Musashi invented the style of fighting with two swords which was called Ni Ten Ichi Ryu. The writings that Musashi left behind are sort of like his final teachings to the ...
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