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- 3331: Creative Story: Fast Eddie
- ... to me." He waved his arm and my two guards immediately took me away. One of the guards handed my a notebook and a pen and told me to spend the rest of the day writing down anything I could remember about the computer room. That brings me to now. I have sat here hiding in my cardboard boxes writing this story. Unfortunately I don't know how it will end. I have to re-examine the key points. The UnderNet was a major cause of the civil war- the civil war was killing everyone ...
- 3332: Relationships
- ... partner has been insecure about the “love” that the other person had for them. I myself have been in only one relationship where there was a lot of insecurity that went both ways. In my personal opinion, I feel that this is one of the biggest reasons why relationships do not last. For example, Dustin and I were always worried if the other was cheating. When he or I would go ... us nowhere and eventually we broke up. But I would have to say that the biggest problem in a relationship is the need to control the person who is supposed to be cared for. From personal experience this would have to be the worst thing that could ever happen to someone. You feel as though you do not have your own life anymore and almost like you are a puppet. It ...
- 3333: Age of Reason
- ... in which he is personally interested . . . than in those connected by a man of letters in his study”(16). Although studying through letters may bring knowledge, it is the engagement in interesting experiences and subsequent personal reflection on these experiences that bring insight, a more desirable quality. According to René Descartes, this insight is the key to fostering internally the ability to clearly “discriminate the right path in life and proceed ... during his life in Ireland and England. Though much of this work is focused on singling out and satirizing specific events and people of his time, there is undoubtedly an underlying reflection of Swift’s personal philosophies and worldview through the thoughts of the narrator, Gulliver. One such theme, especially dominant in Book IV, is a clear reverence for reason, much like Swift’s predecessors Descartes and Locke. Swift however, unlike ...
- 3334: Legalizing Physician Assisted Suicide
- ... a graceful exit. The decision to die would be at the patient’s request. Religious organizations and opinions would be respected by their non-involvement in active euthanasia. The choice could be compared to other personal issues such as abortion, marriage or divorce, and sexual behavior. Proper controls and accountability through the legal system could prevent the slippery slope argument of active euthanasia leading to greater social ills. We already allow patients to refuse medical treatment without having created any woes from the slippery slope argument. More personal autonomy will be gained by giving people more choices rather than fewer ones. If active euthanasia were legalized it could become the final control that a dying patient has. That person will not be denied ...
- 3335: Assisted Suicide
- ... against their own wishes, thus denying them their right of self-determination as citizens in a free democracy. Competent, rational human beings must have the right to determine their own health care according to their personal wishes, values and beliefs, as long as such a determination does not jeopardize the safety or well-being of any other person. We do not believe, for instance, that people have the right to kill ... outlined some of these problems. "Developments in the medical sciences and in the protection of human dignity have created expectations in Canadians that they will be able to exercise greater control over fundamental issues respecting personal autonomy and human dignity, bodily integrity and issues of life and death.... The advances in medical science, and in particular the capacity of medical science to intervene in the natural cycle of life and death ...
- 3336: All Around The Town By Mary Hi
- Mary Higgins Clark started her writing career writing suspense stories and she hasn't changed very much since then. All her books are very interesting to read and they will always keep your attention to the end. All Around the Town was one ...
- 3337: Tupac Shakur
- "Murda, Murda, Murda, and Kill, Kill, Kill…", these are the lyrics to one of the songs written by Tupac Shakur. Amidst all the controversy surrounding his personal life, this artist has managed to overcome all obstacles and spread his hope/hate message to a surprisingly receptive audience. Tupac’s music borrowed from the styles of early rap and hip-hop yet its ... my niggas we tha last ones left, but life goes on....". These words of hope give strength to those who can relate and endear these words to their heart. Tupac’s music resounded with his personal quest for a better life: "…a life where we don’t need no welfare shit with our whole family. Maybe it’s me that caused it--- tha fightin and hurtin, in my room crying cause ...
- 3338: Assisted Suicide
- ... Sullivan argues for this point by saying "that the U.S. law has never addressed this issue squarely. On the one hand, the Constitution protects the right of self-determination in many significant matters of personal choice, including choices involving treatment of one's own body. On the other hand, the law also appears to recognize state interests in preventing suicide. Because the Supreme Court has never spelled out the principle determining which personal choices are protected from state interference and which are not, the Court cannot be said to have taken a stand on the issue of suicide. The only resolution to this problem is to go in ...
- 3339: Biblical Allusions and Imagery in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- ... Otherwise, he does not believe that they will be of any value beyond artistic impression. Therefore, most of his novels take place in California, the site of his birth and young life. In preparation for writing his novels, Steinbeck would often travel with people about whom he was going to write. The Grapes of Wrath was no exception to his other works. To prepare for it, he joined migrants in Oklahoma ... he lived with them, joining them in their quest for work. By publishing these experiences and trials of the migrants he achieved an effect that won him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962. The writing of The Grapes of Wrath coincided with the Great Depression. This time of hardship and struggle for the rest of America gave Steinbeck inspiration for his work. Other peoples' stories of everyday life became issues ...
- 3340: 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 ...
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