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- 1061: The Problem of War and Peace
- The Problem of War and Peace Dear Mr. Secretary General, In conducting research for an essay that I am writing on constructive approaches to the problems of war and peace, I read a short, but thought- provoking fable by an unknown author. I would like to share that story with you, as well as my ... Leaning to Do Unto Others As You Would Want Others To Do Unto You could be developed into a world peace theme program and taught in schools world-wide. This simple verse has become my personal philosophy of life for dealing with individuals and groups within my own family, school, and community. I believe that this verse can be used to develop an educational peace program for my generation because it ... themselves is offered in the world's school system then, as tomorrow's leaders, we will not allow other governments, drug dealers, or friends to manipulate us, nor will we choose to manipulate others for personal gain. Each day the media details story after story of youth violence within families, schools, and communities. An educational program is desperately needed in the schools to teach K-12 students how to make ...
- 1062: Anne Hutchinson
- ... paved the way for religious freedom in the strictly Puritan environment of New England. Another interpretation of the controversy surrounding Anne Hutchinson asserts that she was simply a loving wife and mother whose charisma and personal ideas were misconstrued to be a radical religious movement. Since this alleged religious movement was led by a woman, it was quickly dealt with by the Puritan fathers as a real threat. Whatever her motives ... journal of John Winthrop is often used to encapsulate the male attitude toward women in early America. A young woman had lost "her understanding and reason" because she had given "herself wholly to reading and writing, and written many books." If she had kept her place, Winthrop said, if she had attended to household affairs, and such things as belong to women, and not gone out of her way and calling ... England, where no legal safeguards were observed...the result was foregone conclusion. Yet the clever and witty woman conducted her case admirably... Anne's unruly member gave her away. She declared, even boasted, of her personal revelations from the Almighty; and that was to confess the worst. For in this the Puritan agreed with historical Christianity, that divine revelation closed with the book of Revelation. Convicted out of her own ...
- 1063: Motown’s Evolution and with Emphasis on Its Women
- ... in the south. He was instrumental in exposing much of the early motown sound to the south. Berry began coaching artists as he sat at his piano and played. He worked more like a broker, writing songs, finding talent, and turning that talent over to the big record companies. Berry wanted a create a place where a kid off the street could walk in one door, an unknown individual, and walk ... same music started being played on white stations it was called “pop music.” As Berry started having more success with the pop songs, he steared himself in that direction. The writers, now of Motown, were writing for success. Berry began to use other writers, such as the Holland Brothers, Mickey Stevenson, Clarence Paul and Janie Bradford to write the pop songs that were taking off on “white stations” and becoming very ... different record company, Stax, which allowed her to continue her blues style. Motown’s turn towards pop was not her style. Mabel never really wrote songs. When she was signed to Stax the method of writing went like this: Isaac Hayes would sit at the piano and play, Mabel would start telling stories (not singing) and David Porter would start writing lyrics derived from Mabel’s stories that would fit ...
- 1064: Huck Fin 2
- ... his books. His father died when he was 12. After his father died, he went to work as a printer¹s apprentice and eventually as a printer in Missouri, St. Louis, and New York often writing a few works himself for periodicals. He worked as a printer and a reporter selling much of his work to newspapers. He continually moved from town to town. In 1857, he decided to move to ... diction is typical of the southern speech of a young boy during that time and area. The diction is very informal. This makes the diction simple and easy to understand with humorous differences between this writing style and other more formal ones. Much of the descriptions and imagery is humorous in this way. Twain also uses a lot of irony. Twain¹s also pays close attention to the diction of the speech of the various people from the various areas down the river. The writing style in this book is not flowery or poetic, but simply the speech of a young boy. Passage 1: ³By and by he rolled out and jumped up to his feet looking wild, and ...
- 1065: How To Write An Essay 2
- Writing an essay may seem like a huge obstacle to overcome, but with a plan of attack and a little organization, it can be easily completed. All it takes is seven easy steps. The first step in your writing process is to just sit and think. If your essay is on an assigned topic, sit and think about what approach you will have to the subject, if it s possible to take a position ... ideas better, paying attention to any grammatical kind of errors is not a very big deal, as you will pick these up later after revising. You will want to follow some form of basic structure writing each of your paragraphs, which will make it much easier and clearer for the reader to understand. To start each paragraph, it is best to write the main idea of the paragraph, and then ...
- 1066: Catch 22 Analysis
- ... pity and sorrow for the world and its population. The overall theme of the novel depicts a decline in individuality, decay of human moral, and a certain loss of awareness of both surrounding events and personal action. The wartime atmosphere that surrounds the book and its characters has directly helped bring about all three evils. Much of the blame can be placed in the hands of particular characters, such as Milo, Aarfy, and Cathcart, who take advantage of the wartime hysteria for personal gain. The rest can be accounted as the evils of war and the squadron’s compliance to the wrong doings. Catch-22 distinctly depicts a certain loss of individuality among the soldiers of Pianosa. Although ... A similar situation can be seen in the manner which Cathcart treats his squadron. He does not value the lives of his men, but even more frightening, he places them in high-risk situations for personal gain without once thinking of the consequence of losing his soldiers. This can clearly be seen every time Cathcart decides to increase the number of missions to gain recognition for having flown the most ...
- 1067: History Of The Detective Novel
- ... Moonstone to be a literary experiment studying "the influence of character on circumstances"; the story is an excellent example of the mystery detective novel. From about 1920 onwards there became two major schools of detective writing, the country house clue puzzle and the private eye or hard boiled school. The leaders in each particular school have become legends of literature. Agatha Christie was the most famous of the writers in the ... of a sleuth in the country house clue puzzle, one who abhors violence and observes everything. She is imitated in most of the more modern novels in this sub genre. The other school of detective writing is the hard boiled genre. This genre is presented best by the ones who made it popular, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. There heroes, especially Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade have defined the trademark literary ... The Maltese Falcon was later made into a movie starring Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade. Raymond Chandler is one of the most imitated writers in the mystery genre. Like Hammett, Chandler started his career by writing for various pulp magazines of the 1930 s, especially Black Mask. Although his cynical detective/narrator changed names many times over the years before finally becoming Philip Marlowe, he remains the one hero in ...
- 1068: Comparison And Contrast Of Was
- The Romantic era writers, Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe, had many similarities but even more differences, in both writing theme and style. This is very evident in their works, “Rip Van Winkle”, by Irving, and “The Fall of the House of Usher”, by Poe. Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe were both writers who exemplified the writing style of the Romantic era. Both writers used their great talents to take the reader into the story. For example, Irving, in “Rip Van Winkle”, starts the story by saying, “Whoever has made a courage ... haste? Have I not heard her footstep on the stair? Do I not distinguish that heavy and horrible beating of her heart? MADMAN!” This clearly demonstrates the morbidity and obscurity of Edgar Allan Poe’s writing style. These examples of the writing styles and emphasis show the differences of Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe. The writing styles of Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe are very similar in their ...
- 1069: Individiual Understanding
- ... understand anything, nor does it explain humans= ability to understand. In criticizing strong AI, Searle creates his famous AChinese Room@ argument: suppose that Searle was locked in a room with a large batch of Chinese writing. Here, Searle knows absolutely no Chinese, but he does understand English fluently. For Searle, AChinese writing is just so many meaningless squiggles@ (355). Then, someone slips under the door another set of Chinese writing, but along with it an English rulebook. The rulebook shows Searle how to simply correlate one Chinese symbol with another, identifying them only by shape and not by meaning. Searle then strings together his ...
- 1070: Computers and Society
- ... almost every general-purpose electronic computer. By the mid-1970s, microchips and microprocessors had reduced the cost of the thousands of electronic components required in a computer. The first affordable desktop computer designed specifically for personal use was called the Altair 8800, first sold in 1974. In 1977 Tandy Corporation became the first major electronics firm to produce a personal computer. Soon afterward, a company named Apple Computer, founded by Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs, began producing computers. IBM introduced its Personal Computer, or PC, in 1981, and as a result of competition from the makers of clones the price of personal computers fell drastically. Just recently Apple Computer allowed its computers to be cloned by ...
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