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- 3161: Definition of War: Sherman's Hell
- ... glory in it, yet they do it for freedom, and most if asked would say that they would do it again. In all of these wars, the soldiers believed they were fighting for their own personal freedom, or the freedom of some other group of individuals. Had they not believed this, they would not have risked their lives. War it a last resort. Generally speaking, people do not like war, and ... the oil, Kuwait would seem to powerful countries as much more distant place. The fact is, Kuwait does have oil, and as a result the U.S. deals with Kuwait on a very close and personal level. With this kind of relationship, it is only natural that we would protect Kuwait if their freedom was threatened. War is painful, bloody, and terrible, but as long as people want freedom, it will ...
- 3162: Increase In Violence In Video Games Targeted At Children
- ... do not even pay attention to the ratings on these games, and the majority of youths under the age of eighteen are not under parental supervision while they play violent video games (Josef 1). A personal essay written by Nick Honeywell of London England stated that video games is a way to let out a natural aggression that you have and can’t show it anywhere else. He goes on to ... but he would never put his actions into real life. Nick states, “Because I played doom, and I felt like doing it in real life? .. NO!” He also states in his essay that in a personal survey done through his friends, they do not believe that violent games can turn normal people into psychopaths unless they are mentally unstable. Nick says that it would be better for parents to have there ...
- 3163: “Style Critique on The Hot Zone”
- ... while others were fascinated with the virus and wanted to work in Level 4. Preston tries to develop the characters, make them more reals. He gives background information, physical description, and occasionally talks about some personal habits or what others thought of them. “Some of the officers at Fort Detrick had noticed a certain abrupt quality in her hand motions and had accused her of having hands that were “too quick ... that?” “I mean a virus that wipes us out.” The final chapter, when he visits Kitum Cave in Africa, is also told in the 1st person. Preston uses the 1st person to make it more personal. He also uses it at the end in order to portray his feelings toward the subject. “ Ebola had risen in these rooms, flashed its colors, fed, and subsided into the forest. It will be back ...
- 3164: Marketing Project
- ... be to establish a client list so I would post fliers, hand out business cards, and use word of mouth to my advantage. I would concentrate on keeping expenses down so my own salesmanship and personal contact would be my biggest assets. Once I had a reasonable client list and history of satisfied clients, I could approach the major franchises with respectable proposals. Selling my service to retail stores in conduction ... help whenever you need us! We're only a phone call away! For more details please call: 1-800- 555-1234 I wouldn't rely as much on the newspaper ads as I would on personal contact and sales. Although the ad may sound 'cheesy', it is simple and to the point. The importance would be in the initial phone contact. If the call was a Q & A about the business ...
- 3165: Ernest Hemingway: Allegorical Figures in The Sun Also Rises
- ... he reads. D. To feel like a man. 1. Boxes. a. Helps him to compensate for bad treatment from classmates. b. Turns him into an armed romantic. 2. Likes authority of editing and honor of writing, but is a bad editor and a poor novelist. E. Looks for internal strength in outward signs and sources. F. Willing to suffer publicly and to absorb insults for sake of true love. G. He ... like a man, Cohn became a boxer. Boxing turned him into an “armed romantic” (Bloom, 1985, p. 108). Cohn became an editor and a novelist. He liked the authority of editing and the honor of writing, but was a bad editor and a poor novelist. He looked for internal strength in outward signs. Cohn always found himself ready to fight for a woman and when he did, he knocked down his ...
- 3166: Macbeth
- ... be effected by utter extirpation of the precepts of natural law deposited in his nature. And he imagines that the execution of more bloody deeds will serve his purpose. Accordingly, then, in the interest of personal safety and in order to destroy the essential humanity in himself, he instigates the murder of Banquo. But he gains no satisfying peace because hes conscience still obliges him to recognize the negative quality of ... only temporal of nothing more that escape from a present evil. At the end, in spite of shattered nerves and extreme distraction of mind, the individual passes out still adhering admirably to his code of personal courage, and the man's conscience still clearly admonishes that he has done evil. Moreover, he never quite loses completely the liberty of free choice, which is the supreme bonum naturae of mankind. But since ...
- 3167: Mozart 2
- ... he was a keyboard virtuoso, so much so that Leopold took Wolfgang and his sister Maria Anna on a performance tour of Munich and Vienna. From that time on, young Mozart was constantly performing and writing music. Wherever he appeared, people gaped in awe at his divine gifts. By his early teens, he had mastered the piano,violin and harpsichord, and was writing keyboard pieces, oratorios, symphonies and operas. His first major opera, Mitridate, was performed in Milan in 1770 to such unqualified raves that critics compared him to Handel. At fifteen, Mozart was installed as the concertmaster ...
- 3168: Tatoo
- ... rubbing irritants into a wound. Body painting is most commonly practiced for participation in ceremonies, feasting, and dancing. Among the people of Mount Hagen, New Guinea, it is used as part of a complex of personal decoration that may express the prestige and unity of a clan, individual health and wealth, and also may reflect links with the ancestors. Painting for war is also widespread; in this case body-marking symbolizes radical change in the pattern of social relations. Christian Clerk Bibliography: Field, Henry, Body-Marking in Southwestern Asia (1958); Faris, James C., Nuba Personal Art (1972); Hambly, Wilfred D., The History of Tattooing and Its Significance (1925; repr. 1975); Strathern, Andrew and Marilyn, Self Decoration in Mount Hagen (1971). He will tattoo you What most people see as skin ...
- 3169: A Duty Dance With Exploring De
- ... Billy says as he goes on with his daily affairs. He spends much of the rest of his life "actively disseminating that philosophy, first preaching it orally on the all-night radio program and then writing letters to the Ilium New Leader" (Bryfonski and Senick 615). But Vonnegut disagrees and "rejects the Tralfamadorian philosophy… [and] Billy's total "incapacity to understand the significance of the death of human beings" (Bryfonski and ... death he simply says: "The Son of God was dead as a doornail. So it goes" (Vonnegut 203). With his "wild black humor mixed with his innate pessimism and particular brand of compassion [in his writing], Vonnegut [goes on to] ask his readers not to give up on their humanity" (Shepard 5) either. When this is given up, the pain always stays, and "the condition it exemplifies leads men to take ...
- 3170: Nelson Mandela - Long Walk To Freedom
- ... Indian goals, eventhough he did not agree with them. Nelson faced many hardships through his struggle and this had to cause some resentment against his oppressors. But if anyone would not be bias in his writing, I would say it would be Nelson Mandela. He has showed in his book that he is great individual and that he will not let his past feeling cloud his writing. You can see his feelings in his book and that is what makes it so good, but I believe he does not hide anything from us on both sides of the stories. In conclusion, Mandela ...
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