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- 3221: Failure of Gun Control Laws
- ... 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 ...
- 3222: Historical Background To Anima
- Karl Marx was a German scholar who lived in the nineteenth century. He spent most of his life studying, thinking and writing about history and economics. A many years of study, much of it spent in England, he believed that he understood more deeply than anyone who had ever lived before him why there is injustice in ... though, Hitler broke this agreement and attacked Russia. In 1941 St was forced to enter World War II and make an alliance with Britain and America This takes us up to the time of the writing of Animal Farm - 1944. As you see, nearly every event in the novel can be traced directly to an event in Rus during the period from 1900-1943. An interesting project is to list the ...
- 3223: The Great Gatsby: The American Dream
- ... submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved" (page 17). Ignorance and the ideal of looking out for oneself is prevalent. Where as in the pure American Dream striving to accomplish ones' own personal goal is ones main focus. One should use the American Dream for motivation and hope that one can achieve ones personal goal. The American Dream should not be centered on money and other materialistic things but on a real goal.
- 3224: Slaughterhouse Five
- ... World War II, a former prisoner of war, and a witness to a great massacre, and that fact lends a certain authority to what follows. Vonnegut shares with us his enduring inability to render in writing the horror of Dresden. There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre, yet he feels the need to say something. The book unabashedly charts the author's struggle to find a way to write ... after every report of every death. It becomes a mantra of resignation, of acceptance, of a supremely Tralfamadorian philosophy (something we will be introduced to later). But because the phrase is first uttered by Vonnegut writing as Vonnegut, each "So it goes" seems to come directly from the author and from the world outside the fiction of the text. Chapter One also hints that time will be an important part of ...
- 3225: Cannabis Hemp. . .Marijuana!
- ... no other rational environmental choice but to give up fossil fuel. ENERGY SECURITY At this point, we can tell OPEC goodbye forever. The national balance of payments deficit is cast by the wayside and your personal energy bills can by cut by at least 50%, and perhaps as much as 90% with biomass from hemp and recycled waste. No more elderly or poor people freezing to death or living in misery ... DuPont has created strains of grain--for example wheat--that will only grow with thier petro-chemical fertilizers. Their intention is to eradicate the surviving natural wheat and rye seeds, in the name of their personal corporate profits, leaving the planet (and all humans) soley at their corporate mercy for their hybrid strains which must have their petro- chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Corn is already so hybridized that it is not ...
- 3226: Capital Punishment: Pros
- ... 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 ...
- 3227: Volunteering For A School Of Handicapped Children
- ... who usually do not work with the handicapped at least come in contact with them (most of the time people are scared of them). Other significant issues the center helps these kids with is education, personal grooming, manners and all of the elements that are needed to be able to fit into the regular world. The education that the children receive is based on their mental capacity to comprehend and learn ... a child who does not understand the concept of numbers. So the teachers find and make a syllabus for each child according to their intelligence, giving each lesson for that child the maximum learning benefits. Personal grooming habits is somewhat self-explanatory, in that a child is asked and then suggested what he or she might do to themselves in order to have a nice appearance. Appearance is not something that ...
- 3228: The Treatment of a Women in Sports
- ... of what proper behavior should be for females, for most the reasoning then goes, "there must be something wrong with them". Focusing on sexual orientation unfairly denies women opportunities in sports on the basis of personal preferences irrelevant to athletic abilities. According to Mariah Burton Nelson, in her book, Are We Winning Yet? "Homophobia in sports serves as a way to control women, both gay and straight. Whether a woman is ... women from pursuing traditionally "masculine" activities such as contact sports and team sports for fear of being labeled a homosexual" (Nelson 145). Only one well-known woman athlete, Martina Navratilova, has dared to bring her personal sexual preference out in the open. Even then, however, Navratilova lost corporate endorsements because of her sexuality. Homophobia in sports not only causes discrimination against lesbians, but it also hurts all women by heightening the ...
- 3229: A Trip to the Dark Side
- ... other than me. I sentence you both two eternities in the dark side. When each man arrived, they both physically looked the same, but neither could find each other. God had put them both in personal evil afterlives. For Steve it was a life full of eating only celery and continually working. His life, or death as you may call it, turned out miserable. His laziness caused him to be in his own personal darkness. Hector was given a life of constant and unending eating. He did nothing but eat. His love of gambling also brought him into an eating game. Hector continually won at cards. His desire for ...
- 3230: Auguste Rodin
- ... Paris, France. Very few would dispute the statement that Rodin was the greatest genius in the world of sculpture in the late 19th century. There were very few artists who faced the criticism; slander and personal insults during their lifetimes as was given to Rodin likewise there are few artists who have known such personal glory during their carriers. Rodin's sculpture was so powerful and original that those in control of the art world did not understand him in his day. He was refused admittance into the Ecole des ...
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