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- 5251: The Tragedy at Columbine
- ... fact that the only ones to blame for the massacre are the two dead killers. They were the ones who pulled the triggers and they were the only ones with all the answers. Gun makers, school officials, and the police should not be the scapegoats. They are simply pawns of society who are paid to do their specific jobs, not raise children. Another "sore" afflicting the community is that the parents ... were shooting at everyone. Once again the people of Littleton would love to point the finger a certain race or religion and say they are to blame. However, after police found bombs placed in the school by the killers, it is obviously apparent that their goal was to kill everyone. In closing I would like to remind the people of Littleton that, like a person with Herpes, they will never be ...
- 5252: Alcohol Abuse Among Teenagers
- ... student drinking practices shows that 5% of seventh-grade boys and 4.4% of seventh-grade girls are seriously abusing alcohol (Royce 1996). That's why we see the consequences in terms of antisocial behavior, school failure, attention deficit, learning disabilities and road accidents among the teenagers. THE MAIN CAUSE …..MEDIA. Despite the problems caused to young and old by alcohol, society sends mixed signals to its youth. Media presents alcohol ... relationships and can also place other members of the society in danger. It has a tendency to lower the productivity and the quality of work being done and can cause problems in both one's school and career. Economic costs are also an issue when it comes to underage drinking. IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM: Identifying the teenager alcohol abuser is difficult but not impossible. Specific behavior and characteristics to watch for to ...
- 5253: Joy Luck Club
- ... reason why her mother was upset was not because she had not lived up to her expectations. She was unhappy because June did not care about having the best for herself. She did not have high hopes or a passion to be successful at anything. She failed because she did not try and she did not care. This is in strong opposition to Suyuan's high hopes that originate from the stron g love she has for her daughter. It is not until much later in her life, after Suyuan's death, that June realizes just how much her mother loved ...
- 5254: Midsummer Nights Dream
- ... accessible (available for free on the web) to all that desire it. Once the script is obtained, anyone can perform Shakespeare even everyday, non-actor citizens put on Shakespeare whether it be in parks, at school, or in a forest. My experience reading Shakepearean plays has shown me that reading is necessary and fundamental part of grasping the fullness of the works. I had wanted to read A Midsummer Night's ... hawthorn brake our tiring house." (Act III, Scene i, MND) Once done, like the lovers in the scene, we return to the real world, away from the forest, back to the realities of work and school: "When they next wake, all this derision shall seem a dream and fruitless vision, and back to Athens shall the lovers go." (Act III, Scene ii, MND) And so we did. Although we for the ...
- 5255: Asia 2
- ... ft), including the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest. Other ranges extend east and northeast of the Pamirs (Karakorum, Kunlun, and Tien Shan). Between the Himalayan system and the Karakorum-Kunlun ranges lies the high Tibetan Plateau. Around this central core are arrayed four major plateau regions (Siberia, eastern China, southern India, and the Arabian Peninsula) and several major structural basins and river plains. Several major rivers flow north to ... Asia are employed in manufacturing. In general, urban centers and their industries are not well integrated economically with the rural sector, and transportation systems, both within countries and between them, are poorly developed. A very high proportion of Asia's world trade is with countries on other continents, rather than between Asian countries. The important exceptions are the flow of oil and raw materials from other Asian nations to Japan, and ...
- 5256: The Great Depression
- ... and the middle class, between the industry's and agriculture within the U.S. The imbalance of wealth created an unstable economy and excessive speculation in the late 1920's kept the stock market artificially high, but eventually lead to large market crashes, combined with the unfair distribution of wealth, caused the economy to capsize. The "roaring twenties" as it was called was an era when our country prospered tremendously. The ... and the factories made little to no money. Another major cause was related to farmers. Farmers weren't doing to well because they were producing more crops and farm products than could be sold at high prices. Therefore, they made a very small profit. This small profit wouldn't allow the farmers to purchase new machinery and because of this they couldn't produce goods quick enough. A new plan was ...
- 5257: AIDS:Is There a Cure? Are There Preventions?
- ... common way people get AIDS is by dirty intravenous needles. It is transmitted by the blood or other body fluids on the needle, and when someone else then uses the same needle, they have a high risk of catching the virus. The third most common way AIDS is spread is by blood transfusions. This is done almost the same way as by IV needle but it is always by the blood ... is a thin piece of rubber that fits over the erect penis that traps the semen at the end. (Madaras,166) "Clearly it would be helpful and self protective if a person who has a high risk sexual life-style could at least modify it to make it less risky." (Nourse,128) The only really sure way to protect yourself from getting AIDS by needles is not to use them, but ...
- 5258: The Saga Of Elian Gonzalez
- ... A group of Cuban government psychologists counseled Juan Miguel on what to say to Elian about their separation. It didn’t help much when Juan Miguel saw TV pictures of Elian dressed in a new school uniform. Cuban psychiatrists advised Juan to tell Elian during their regular phone calls that he was on vacation and that they would be reunited soon(Ramo 61). Starting a new school would put a lie to that promise and the family was determined to drag the case through the courts. Juan Miguel pleaded with INS officials to speed up the process because of it maybe being ...
- 5259: The Tuskegee Airmen
- ... in Germany” (Scott 108) providing aid abroad, while he couldn’t even bring aid to those violated against in his own country. Nonetheless, the plans for an all-black squad continued, despite strong oppositions by high ranked armed forces officials, with the hopes that his experiment would fail while in its early stages. Plans for various possible training sites for the experiment included, California, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, and Tuskegee, Alabama. However ... and demands of the champions of every race and creed for the solution of their problems are a danger to efficiency, discipline and morale, and would result in ultimate defeat. (Wynn 24) Little did the high ranked officials know that such experiments wouldn’t be necessary, if they placed their racism, and segregationist beliefs aside, and let these black men prove that they were in fact Americans, fighting for the same ...
- 5260: Signifigance Of Disease And Pl
- ... Hamlet, Ophelia goes insane. This is very noticeable because she is constantly singing and her appearance is also more ragged and dirty. She does not even notice her own brother, Laertes, when he returns from school. Shortly after this, Ophelia is found, drown in the brook. Hamlet triggers Ophelia’s insanity that then leads to her death. While all of these tragic happenings are occurring relationships are also being torn apart ... his sword into what he thought was the king. He was surprised to find that it was not the king, but was Polonious, father of Laertes. Laertes learns of his fathers' death and returns from school. He eventually battles Hamlet and dies. All of these relationships were destroyed do to the actions of the characters themselves. In Hamlet by William Shakespeare, poison and disease both plague the state of Denmark. Relations ...
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