|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 3201 - 3210 of 8980 matching essays
- 3201: Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Analysis
- ... slave life that found their way into the book. Some of the novel was based on her reading of abolitionist books and pamphlets, the rest came straight from her own observations of black Cincinnatians with personal experience of slavery. She uses the characters to represent popular ideas of her time, a time when slavery was the biggest issue that people were dealing with. Uncle Tom's Cabin was an unexpected factor ... century, they subtly influence people in the novel, such as Mr. St. Clare and Miss Ophelia, to change for the better. In the same way, Stowe aspires for people reading her novel to evaluate their personal view of blacks and hopefully make societal improvements. Eva's innocence makes her ideas persuasive. Stowe glorifies Eva so that her vision seems even more magnificent. While still retaining all a child's fanciful graces ...
- 3202: The Hobbit
- ... like. Its entertainment value is that of an A.Tolkien's dry humor and relations of imaginary characters to emotions in real life give the reader a good sense of clarity. In the area of writing style I give this book an A, due to the smooth writing of the story, which ties all the smaller adventures together. The theme of this book expressed the age old moral of greediness, and how it gets you nothing in the end. Though this theme is ...
- 3203: An Argument for the Legalization of Drugs, Based on John Stuart Mills' "Revised Harm Principle"
- ... drugs were legalized, the government would not be legally able to force addicts into treatment programs, and the number of addicts would grow exponentially. This scenario leads to the problem of security, both economic and personal, for the vast number of Americans who probably would not become addicted to drugs if they were legalized. Drug use would become as prolific as alcohol consumption, and the number of societal and health-related ... deal with the health problems caused by addiction. These consequences would have a direct effect on people other than the drug users, thus negating the concept that drug use is a self-regarding act. Regarding personal security, legalization advocates try to draw a line between drug use and drug abuse. As it is impossible to predict who would use drugs "responsibly" and who would succumb to addiction, the government has a ...
- 3204: Setting Up A Dummy Corporation...
- ... an officer or new account teller and tell them you want to open a business checking account. All you need is the corporate seal, certificate of incorporation and the tax ID number. They might require personal ID so show them your phony drivers license (see Creating a New Identity). You'll need to fill out a few forms, stamp your corporate seal and before you know it you're out the ... company" telephone number. Make sure the fax number is not one digit off the telephone number like: Tel: 555-5000 and Fax: 555-5001. This obviously means only two lines. Don't ever make a personal call from these telephone lines. Don't ever call home or anyone you know personally, not even a beeper. These phones are for the "sting" They will be investigated after you're gone. Make sure ...
- 3205: The Banning of Guns Is Ineffective
- ... the new world were used initially for hunting, and occasionally for self-defense. However, when the colonists felt that the burden of British oppression was too much for them to bear, they picked up their personal firearms and went to war. Standing against the British armies, these rebels found themselves opposed by the greatest military force in the world at that time. The 18th century witnessed the height of the British Empire, but the rough band of colonial freedom fighters discovered the power of the Minuteman, the average American gun owner. These Minutemen, so named because they would pick up their personal guns and jump to the defense of their country on a minute's notice, served a major part in winning the American Revolution. The founding fathers of this country understood that an armed populace was ...
- 3206: William Blake
- ... Blake's family was Nonconformists Protestant dissenters from the Church of England. They had Blake christened on December 11 at St. James's Church in Piccadilly. Blake's mother educated him in mere reading and writing, and he worked in a shop until the age of 14. His family ran this shop, and later his brother and he acquired the store through inheritance. Despite those misgivings, he taught himself Latin, Greek ... visions of experiences he had while in the surrounding countryside. He said he saw angels on a tree at Peckman Rye, and the famous prophet Ezekiel in a country field. These occurrences influenced Blake's writing later. Similar to his religious beliefs, Blake thought we have war, injustice, and unhappiness because our ways of life are founded on mistaken beliefs. Blake was the starting poet of the Romantic Movement, which had ...
- 3207: Serial Killing: Is It An Addiction?
- ... among alcoholics. Again, as with alcoholics, sexual addicts evidence these tratis before and after the act. Furthermore, research into further traits of alcoholics yielded an excellent motivation for drinking: alcoholics commonly identify drinking with enhanced personal power, and greater self-worth (Marlatt and Fromme, 1988), and thus drink for greater power and self-esteem. It is not difficult to see that the sexual addict, contemptuous of self, seeks increased self-esteem and greater personal power through the act of sex. Similarities, in fact, between addicts are surprising. Virtually all addicts show low levels of self-esteem , and other similar traits. Commonalties such as this underline the equivalencies in the ...
- 3208: Winston Churchill
- ... he wrote for the Morning Post and the Daily Graphic . 11 He was paid to tell them about the happenings surrounding him and his own experience. At this time Churchill discovered his own gift for writing. He wrote many things from a novel called Savrola to a bibliography on his ancestor, the First Duke of Marlborough. Since writing came easy to Churchill he ventured into journalism. He sent his letters from Cuba, which were published in the Daily Telegraph . 12 Although Churchill was an accomplished journalist and had served in his nations military ...
- 3209: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... held for the next 6 years despite a serious heart attack in 1955. The Texan proved to be a shrewd, skillful Senate leader. A consistent opponent of civil rights legislation until 1957, he developed excellent personal relationships with powerful conservative Southerners. A hard worker, he impressed colleagues with his attention to the details of legislation and his willingness to compromise. In the late 1950s, Johnson began to think seriously of running ... Vietnam. American troop strength in Vietnam increased to more than 180,000 by the end of the year and to 500,000 by 1968. Many influences led Johnson to such a policy . Among them were personal factors such as his temperamental activism, faith in U.S. military power, and staunch anti-communism. These qualities also led him to intervene militarily in the Dominican Republic-allegedly to stop a Communist takeover-in ...
- 3210: The Tower of Babel
- ... other human beings that are equal and parallel in all ways except beliefs. In doing so, he created the novel Kidnapped. In the novel Kidnapped, Stevenson carefully molds his theme of duality and character's personal and cultural conflicts to narrate a story about a kidnapped boy, named David, who, through his growing cultural tolerance and open-mindedness, matures from a naive adolescent to a young man capable of dealing with ... rich, whether I could change a five shilling piece" (Stevenson 102-103). Perhaps the worst fault shown by Stevenson in the Highlanders is the treachery and murderousness in much that they do. Despite David's personal conflicts between the two cultures, much of his own attitudes change. For through these cultural conflicts, he learns not to be judgmental and realizes the virtues of the corresponding faults that the Highlanders possess, thus ...
Search results 3201 - 3210 of 8980 matching essays
|
