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- 3411: Abortion
- ... many questions, including issues concerning the rights of the fetus; women’s reproductive rights; women’s role in society, and the list goes on. Philosophical and psychological studies of abortion suggest that although moral and personal issues are interwoven, they are very distinct. At one extreme, conservative Catholic philosophers believe that human life begins at conception, that this life is God-given, and that abortion therefore involves the taking of a ... rest on the right of the woman to freely control her body and reproductive life. While these examples do not do justice to the diversity of the arguments surrounding abortion, they characterize the moral and personal issues involved. (Smetana) Several investigators report that adolences who carry their pregnancies to term have a poorer self-image than those who choose abortion. Some attribute these findings to teenagers’ desires to maintain control over ...
- 3412: Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
- ... was finally allowed to resign after delivering his final lecture at the University of St. Petersburg, where police broke it up because they feared that it might lead the students in an uprising. Dmitri’s personal life was very turbulent as well. In 1863, due to his sister, Olga, greatly influencing him, Dmitri married Feozva Nikitchna Lascheva. Together they had two children, a boy named, Volodya, and a girl named, Olga ... on art considerably and he was elected to the Academy of Arts because he was thought to have insightful criticism and for his painting. As Dmitri grew older, he cared less and less about his personal appearance. In his later years, Dmitri would only cut his hair and beard once a year. He wouldn’t even cut it at the Czar’s request. It was apparent that Dmitri’s work was ...
- 3413: A Season In Purgatory
- ... could possibly want he went to the dinner meeting. Jerry (Gerald middle son) came along to let Harrison on to a proposition that Gerald was offering. Gerald wanted Harrison to bell Constant out again by writing a book about Constant as if Constant himself was writing it. Harrison would get no recognition from the book. Harrison refused but Gerald insisted and was definitely not taking no for an answer. Harrison went to the Bradley’s because Kitt begged him. When he ...
- 3414: “I Won’t Learn From You” And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment
- ... to Kohl, these students turn to creative maladjustment while “breaking social patterns that are morally reprehensible, taking conscious control of one’s place in the environment, and readjusting the world one lives in based on personal integrity and honesty.” The concept of not-learning, being something that can be learned is an interesting phenomenon to me that is explored by Kohl in the title essay of his book. Sometimes a teacher ... ispired him, and showed him the importance of hope. He believes that honoring student’s stregnths and abilities will have a profound effect on them. “If you want to find a child’s weaknesses, failures, personal problems or inadequacies, you’ll discover them. If you look at a child through a filter of her or his environment or economic status, and make judgements through the filters of your own cultural, gender ...
- 3415: Teen Suicide
- ... to a temporary problem. I feel that it isn t the right solution, that there are other options. This is one reason why I chose teen suicide as my I-search topic. I have had personal experience with teen suicide involving my friends, and the next time that one of my friends comes to me saying, I want to die. I want to be able to understand where they are coming ... seek professional help when the concerns persist. ? Change in eating and sleeping habits. ? Withdrawal from friends, and family and regular activities. ? Violent actions, rebellious behavior or running away. ? Drug and alcohol use. ? Unusual neglect of personal appearance. ? Marked personality change. ? Persistent boredom, difficulty concentrating, or a decline in the quality of school work ? Frequent complaints about physical symptoms, often related to emotions, such as stomachaches, headaches, fatigue, etc. ? Loss of interest ...
- 3416: Chaplin's, The Kid
- ... a lost baby is the fact that he first conceived and immediately began to shoot this film barely two weeks after the death of his own three-day-old, firstborn infant son. Having turned his personal pain to such a creative purpose, he gets us to break bread with him and take communion with his grief and loss. By chancing upon a universal form-the myth of the lost child-to ... old boyhood memories, their artistic rendering took place with Charlie's heart, not his head. And the idea probably succeeds because it is largely unconscious rather than self-conscious autobiography. A few days after his personal tragedy, tough-minded Cockney Charlie, the professional actor who had clawed his way out of the slums, zipped up his pain and got on with it. Back at the studio it was business as usual ...
- 3417: The American Pursuit of Happiness
- ... Americans should not be defining themselves by what they have, rather by who they are and who they are striving to be. Success should not be defined by a job title, rather by the small personal success’s achieved by positive interaction in society. Responsibly attempting social justice ought to be considered one of life’s greatest accomplishments; having a large bank account should be perceived as a means to assist ... what is, rather that insisting life be a certain way. Many people find themselves in such a structured frame of mind, that deviating from their individual sense of succeeding is an impossibility. This sense of personal success may not be what is best for the individuals, or the society in which they reside, yet they somehow feel that changing their attitude would be more complicated than the good that would come ...
- 3418: Definition of Integrity
- ... these qualities are honesty, the ability to follow a moral code, and loyalty to yourself and your beliefs. In The Crucible, a prime example of a person with integrity is Elizabeth Proctor. Elizabeth shows her personal purity when she refuses to persuade her husband to confess to crimes of witchcraft. She refuses because she believes that he is good now in God's light. God, to her, will show her the ... all parts of integrity and show up everyday in many ways. To have a true sense of integrity one must posses all three. You have to be honest to yourself and to others, follow your personal beliefs and stick to what you think is right, and you have to be loyal to yourself. Integrity is to be truly honest, and fair, and to uphold the beliefs important to you.
- 3419: Derek
- ... the river, and was bottlenecked by the small width of the old steel bridge. It was jammed, as usual, with a variety of traffic: executives on their way home in their air conditioned self-contained personal transport units, isolated from the very world they controlled, and looking as though their thoughts were unfathomable; toughs in hotrods playing the latest Heavy Metal bands, or classic Led Zeppelin; prim librarians with nouveau- hornrimmed ... private person and did not like to feel that his comings, goings, and doings were known to just anyone. Oddly enough, Derek could justify the volume of his music because it served to mask his personal actions. He looked at Arthur who was eyeing him, fists on hips, with a sardonic grin. Derek ignored it. "You want some?" he said. It was more of a statement than a question; Arthur was ...
- 3420: Wallace Stevens
- ... Wallace also joined the Signet Society, and was soon after elected secretary. It was here where he met his good friend George Santayana. After finishing school at Harvard, Wallace moved to New York and began writing for the New York Tribune. But in 1901 he abandoned journalism and went to New York Law School in 1902. It was here that he developed a professional relationship with W.C. Peckham. After returning ... wrote at this time, which included Donald Evans, Allen and Louise Norton and Carl Van Vechtan. Stevens followed thier work and finally met the group in 1914. Wallace Stevens was also very concerned with the writing of a Harvard friend, Walter Conrad Arensberg. 1915 was the beginning of his friendship with William Carlos Williams, a well- known poet. Wallace Stevens also had a brief career as a playwright from 1916-1917 ...
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