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- 3211: Renaissance Poetry
- ... important because it shows the way that women must, " write within and against an ideologically problematic discourse, revising the representations of the female body fueled by Petrarchism that positioned them as written text rather than writing subject." However women thought of themselves as capable of writing from the position of subject in the Renaissance and of poetry as a feminine activity, and as Anne Southwall says in a letter to the Lady Ridgway, " being thus poetically composed; How can you bee ...
- 3212: Drug Abuse
- ... it causes respiratory illness and kills mucus membranes. Heroin is the most addictive dangerous illegal drug on the streets. You'll become a so- called "junkie" if you use it. It affects the hygiene and personal appearance of the user a great deal, because nothing is as important to the user anymore as where that next hit will come from. Heroin is injected and sometimes snorted. It causes great euphoria, but ... support their habits, and all users, addicts or casual users, are careless and reckless when under the influence. Drug users commit property crimes, such as robbing a house or a store. Drug users also commit personal crimes, like mugging, armed robbery and even murder. Drug use, itself, can be a crime. It makes innocent citizens scared to walk out of their own homes, in their own neighborhoods. Drug abuse is a ...
- 3213: Importance of Good Self-Esteem
- ... that you just need to be a strong individual to make it in the world. But they are wrong according to, Glenn R. Schiraldi, author of “Building Self-Esteem.” Self-Esteem is the source of personal confidence and strength in the world today. Therefore, their argument is not even viable. According to Steven Stosny, The first step in having “good” self-esteem is “identifying whether or not you have low self ... don’t like. Or maybe your friends are being a negative influence on you, thus you could stop hanging around them as much. Being a negative person can have a very strong influence on your personal sanity. Many people find themselves at the brink of suicide because they are so negative about others or themselves. And have pushed themselves to that point by not thinking that life is worth living because ...
- 3214: Adolf Hitler
- ... the end of 1942, defeat against Hitler brought the war to a turning point. Hitler turned away from the reality of the situation, only listening to positive reports, which were given to him by his personal secretary. Germany was facing a desperate situation because they were not receiving no useful help from her weakening ally Mussolini. The Years of 1943 and 1944 saw several assassination attempts on Hitler's life. They all failed making his personal security tighter. As 1945 came around, Hitler was found in a bunker where he was planning his last efforts to stop the incoming forces of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the British. On ...
- 3215: The Debate Over Capital Punishment
- ... commit any types of crime ranging from auto theft to 1st-Degree Murder, never take into account the consequences of their actions. Deterrence to crime, is rooted in the individuals themselves. Every human has a personal set of conduct. How much they will and will not tolerate. How far they will and will not go. This personal set of conduct can be made or be broken by friends, influences, family, home, life, etc. An individual who is never taught some sort of restraint as a child, will probably never understand any limit ...
- 3216: Year 2000 Fiction, Fantasy, and Fact
- ... will allow ISIS to operate until the year 2030, when they hope to have replaced the current system by then. For those of you with your own home computers, let's get up close and personal. This problem will affect you as well! Up to 80% of all personal PCs will fail when the year 2000 arrives. More than 80,000,000 PCs will be shut down December 31, 1999 with no problems. On January 1, 2000, some 80,000,000 PCs will go ...
- 3217: Life with Bureaucracies
- ... and Byzantine empires. It was not until recently, however, with the emergence of large societies based on complex technologies, that bureaucracies come to permeate people’s daily lives. The reason seems simple. Spontaneous, casual, and personal relationships, such as those found in primary groups, are inefficient when it comes to coordinating the activities of large groups of people working towards specific goals. Imagine trying to build a library with no hierarchical ... by unqualified people. Finally, relationships in bureaucracies are ideally characterized by impartiality and impersonality of offices and positions. People relate to one another as positions rather than as individuals with special needs and qualities, because personal considerations might interfere with efficiency and fairness. College professors assign grades based on students’ performance, not on the basis of how friendly, interested, or enthusiastic they appear to be in class. To do otherwise might ...
- 3218: The Real Thing
- ... of their pride when they were doing things that they never thought they would be doing in life in order to make ends meet. In doing so they maintained their self-respect, and gained more personal satisfaction. In " The Real Thing ", it is portrayed that the Monarchs have a lot of positive pride, this is exhibited so clearly by the way they are described. The narrator mentions how professional they look ... his wife’s - " who’s already made! " In conclusion, the Monarchs are people who have pride, but in a positive aspect, and not negative. They are people who maintained their self-respect, and gained more personal satisfaction. Pride is very well exhibited in this story, because it shows that even if you are very well to do, things can turn around for the worst, changing you whole life completely. In the ...
- 3219: Cause and Effect of Lack of Education, Communication, and Action
- ... because no one came the man returned raped her again and beat her to death. A security guard later found her. Why did this happen? Because, No one was willing to risk their time or personal well being to help a friend. This is what I mean by the beginning of the end. If no one is willing to risk personal well-being and overcome the mentality of our reward based society, where will it end? In closing, I am convinced that nothing will change and tragedies such as I have mentioned will continue to occur ...
- 3220: The Death Penalty: To Be or Not to Be...
- ... that decision. What they probably though was " some people would not commit a murder, rape or another violent crime if they would know that they could get on a death row for that ". However, my personal opinion is that death penalty has to be justified on its own goodness, rather than by some pragmatic result it brings about. The governor and legislature of New York State evidently agree with this contention ... there are no known reliable statistics that support this belief. Also capital punishment reduces the costs that are required for imprisonment: once a convicted murder is executed and buried, there are no further costs. " My personal opinion regarding this article is that listed above arguments for the death penalty are very wrongful and could be easily turned down by the results of numerous surveys and different statistics. Even the fact about ...
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