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- 6441: Appearance Versus Reality In T
- ... was based on good ethics; however, with the passing of time it has become distorted. The American Dream no longer stands for equal opportunity and hard work, it involves wealth, false happiness, materialistic possessions and high social status. Individuals who have achieved the materialistic American Dream give the appearance of perfection. However, for many, their lives are not as ideal as what they seem. Issues such as sexual abuse, mental illness ... her life. He not only offered her support as a doctor, but as a husband as well. He was some one she [Nicole] could rely on indefinitely (p.215). Dick was impressed with Nicole s high social status and when Nicole s sister, Baby Warren, proposed the idea of them marrying, he could not pass up the offer. However, Dick was reluctant to marry, and he often believed that he had ...
- 6442: Persuasive Essay on Increasing the Driving Age to 18
- ... most teenagers aren't ready to accept these responsibilities. I think the minimum driving age for Florida should be eighteen. This is because many student go to parties and get intoxicated as a result. The school also provides a safe system of transportation, and some teenagers think they are immortal. When many teenagers go to parties, they might be pressured to do things they might not normally do. Drinking alcohol is ... of alcohol your abilities to drive deteriorate. In this state, you hurt yourself, or even worse you might injure someone else. Many teen deaths result each year from intoxicated driving. Driving your own car to school is not a absolutely necessary. This creates more risks, and more possibilities for a teenager to become involved in an accident. The county provides a entirely safe bussing program. Students can be picked up in ...
- 6443: The Gambles in Life
- ... gamble punishment when he talks back to his parents. If he does not receive any punishment, he might consider himself winning; however if he receives punishment, he has just lost the gamble. After children become school age, one child may get an idea in his or her mind that he or she will pass this extremely hard test through cheating. This person will take a gamble on cheating. If this person succeeds, he will pass the test; nevertheless if this person gets caught , he will receive a zero on the test. When these school age children become dating age, many will take also take gambles. A male will talk a gamble by asking a female for a date. This male is wandering will this lovely female will say "yes ...
- 6444: The True Sinners
- ... to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer! Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness for him for, believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life. What can thy silence do for him, except it tempt him ... with Hester to reveal his identity, now he releases his secret. Chillingworth’s remarks show the importance of Dimmesdale’s confession: “Hadst thou sought the world earth over, there was no place so secret no high place not lowly place where thou couldst have escaped me save on this very scaffold!” I think Dimmesdale has not created the worst sin of the book, even though he inflicted much pain onto himself ...
- 6445: Bias In Printmedia
- ... these types of bias in many articles. One method of bias being used is print media is through statistics and crowd counts. A writer can manipulate the reader into thinking that the results are very high or very low in some cases. In The Toronto Star on October 23, 1999, the article “ Pregnancy biggest threat to women, V.N. says” uses statistics to give an estimation, “ an estimated 585,000 women ... article explains how pregnancy affects many women. By using this statistic, it gives the reader an approximation, but not an exact number. This is used to make the reader think that the statistic is very high. Another article in The Toronto Star, “Tamil health crisis probed”, on October 29, 1999,demostrates bias by saying, “ At least 70,000 people”. The article is talking about the Tamil community and how 70,000 ...
- 6446: Excellence is Your Best Weapon for Fighting Racism
- ... other kind of "isms" keep you from being successful. Often you will hear some minority students at mainly white schools make the statement, "If this place were not so racist I would do better in school." Our nation is way off of being successful, because all racism will never be removed from our schools or society. The likelihood of this happening is about the same as finding elephants roosting in trees ... tomatoes. Let's face it everyone, many of you have not worked up to your full potential. If the police were to arrest some of you today based on the effort you put into your school work, they would have to release you due to a lack of evidence. Academically, if you are going in the wrong direction, for whatever reasons, I want you to know that it is not illegal ...
- 6447: Moll Flanders
- ... in English society, there was little chance for Moll to escape this class. But Moll had the blessing of the kind "nurse" who raised her, kept her out of the dreaded servitude, and found a high class family for Moll to live and grow up with. Moll was a beautiful girl and thanks to her "nurse" and this family, she was well along the road to truly becoming a gentlewoman. Had ... ways only to succumb to temptation and return to the life of a thief. Interestingly, Moll quickly gathered enough money to live comfortably off of but continued to steal. This fact serves to illustrate how high a level of vanity and pride Moll really possessed. No matter what she had, it was never enough. Even when Moll had plenty, she still continued to risk her freedom in order to get more ...
- 6448: The Riddle Of St. Leonards
- ... shelves of a library. She never did it, but still read lots of books throughout her life. Her first efforts at writing were poems. She moved into a journalistic stage which lasted all throughout graduate school. It was after leaving graduate school that she focused on creative writing. She wrote short stories, mostly about science fiction, but one story was inspired by her graduate work in medieval studies. She thought her book would never get published, but ...
- 6449: Early American Writers
- ... Bradstreet's Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666, her house was burned to the ground. Nevertheless, she did not shed to many tears because she knew that "Thou hast an house on high erect," meaning that her real home was in heaven. She found comfort in god and her belief in her made her strong and able to move on in her life. When she starts thinking about all her possessions that she had lost she would "Raise up thy thoughts above the sky . . . " and remember these things do not matter, what matters is her "house on high." Jonathan Edwards also found comfort in god, "leading me to sweet contemplations of my great and glorious God." Jonathan was also a puritan from the early America, however, he was a preacher. Like Anne Bradstreet ...
- 6450: Costly Mistake 2
- ... the weekend. No one in the room seemed to have a care in the world at that point in time, everything was laid back no pressures of the real world, no thought of work or school. The night had started to early I was feeling the effects of the alcohol coming over me like a sickness. Still I proceeded to push the limits to prove something meaningless and dumb. We had ... lawyer, bitterly thinking that I was getting an unfair deal. Since that day, I have had to deal with a lot of extra pressures that I did not count for while I was going to school. And have had to pay everyday for the one mistake that I ever made with the law. Everyday I regret it and think to myself what a costly mistake.
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