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- 3591: American Families
- ... Middle-and upper-income people who don't spend a lot of time with their kids are not teaching how members of a community live together and respect each other's rights. When parents put personal goals ahead of family, how will kids learn the opposite?" Families are the institution in which character is formed, and what kinds of characters are being forged, what kinds of citizens are being molded to ... of seriously disadvantaged people who will have little if any prospect of acquiring the skills necessary to revitalize the economy (Wallerstein). If we cannot bring ourselves to feel compassion for these young people on a personal level, we must at least recognize that our economy and our society will suffer along with them. CITING: Brokaw, Tom. "New Realities of Changing Families," Good Housekeeping, Oct 98, Vol. 221 Issue 4, p106. Congressman ...
- 3592: Cicero
- ... of his life, Cicero as a roman and a person abolished. One trait at practice was the stoics aversion to violence stoics as Cicero also shared this disgust. In addition stoics also avoided and scorned personal glory. However Cicero had a very different demeanor towards this type of behavior. The quest for glory on a national and personal level was a widely held feature of roman disposition. It was intensely present within Cicero's temperament, the posterity of his and his family name was an abnormally great desire. Cicero's family name was ...
- 3593: The American Tax System And Th
- ... years and a 17 percent rate for subsequent years. Individuals and businesses would pay the same rate. The plan eliminates all deductions and credits. The only income not subject to tax would be a generous personal exemption that every American would receive. For a family of four, the first $35,400 in income would be exempt from tax. There are no breaks for special interests or loopholes, just a simple tax ... rates saves it $1,250 in lower interest payments. That family is $500 better off under the flat tax with lower interest rates--even without the home mortgage interest deduction (and not counting the higher personal exemptions). Also, as incomes rise under the flat tax, so too may donations to America's charities. The flat rate income tax is the answer to most of the problems in our income tax system ...
- 3594: Communism East Europe
- ... to coerce the people into believing in the positive virtues of marriage and children. Divorce was made more difficult and abortion was prohibited. Thus the peopleÆs right to choose and exert control over their own personal and familial decisions was removed. In schools, the teaching of the social sciences was curtailed and Marxist and Leninist theories were expounded. In the late thirties fees were reintroduced for the three upper forms of ... nationÆs intellectual and cultural life. People were simply not allowed to form an opinion contrary to that of the communist state. People were also not allowed to choose their own religion or follow their own personal religious beliefs. The state outlawed and censored religious ôpropagandaö and publications. The Soviet state actively and brutally persecuted the churches. A large number of these were desecrated or destroyed. More than half of all monasteries ...
- 3595: The Clinton Sex Scandal
- ... Internet media shares the same issues that the written or televised press have: censorship and morality. It does not seem logical for the media to feel they have the right to publish the President's personal letters, such as the ones from Kathleen Willey: Dear Mr. President – You have been on my mind so often this week – There are so very many people who believe in you and what you are ... attitudes toward presidential scandal may have arrived at yet another level in the late 1990s. "Perhaps we've reached a point where Americans really do compartmentalize to separate the president's public actions from his personal life", says Larry Berman, a political science professor at the University of California, Davis. "Today the voters realize they have a human being in the White House who has the same shortcomings and foibles that ...
- 3596: Scarlett Letter Log Of Chapter
- ... A Forest walk Summary: Hester and Little Pearl go for a walk in the forest. Pearl asks her mother if she has ever met the man in black. Hester replies yes she has. Hester is writing something for Dimesdale at the end and Dimedale walks in and she tells her to go and play. 2. Did Hester Still have feelings for Dimesdale? 4." O brook! O foolish and tiresome brook! Why ... him and he offers Dimesdale some medicine and Dimesdale refuses. This is when Chillinsworth knows that Dimesdale knows. He also tries to say something bad to the deacon. After he tears it up he starts writing like mad as if he were inspired. 1. I think that Dimesdale is too involved in his religion. Chapter 21 The New England Holiday Summary: Not much happens in this chapter. Hester, Pearl, and Dimesdale ...
- 3597: An Analysis Of Much Ado About
- An Analysis of Much Ado About Nothing Written between 1598 and 1600 at the peak of Shakespeare's skill in writing comedic work, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's wittiest works. In this comedy, Shakespeare's drama satirizes love and human courtliness between two couples who take very different paths to reach the ... what Shakespeare was thinking when he wrote his plays, but it seems to me that a man who would create Beatrice and put her in a play with Hero, then name Hero, "Hero" was not writing to be understood on merely one level. Comedy at it's best makes us laugh when we want to cry. There is nothing funny about Hero's "death". The comdey is in her triumph over ...
- 3598: Michelangelo
- ... in the 1540s, his main energies were directed toward architecture during this phase of his life. Instead of being obedient to classical Greek and Roman practices, Michelangelo used motifs—columns, pediments, and brackets—for a personal and expressive purpose. A Florentine—although born March 6, 1475, in the small village of Caprese near Arezzo—Michelangelo continued to have a deep attachment to his city, its art, and its culture throughout his ... his view of himself and the world even more directly in his poetry than in the other arts. Much of his verse deals with art and the hardships he underwent, or with Neoplatonic philosophy and personal relationships. The great Renaissance poet Ludovico Ariosto wrote succinctly of this famous artist: “Michael more than mortal, divine angel.” Indeed, Michelangelo was widely awarded the epithet“divine” because of his extraordinary accomplishments. Two generations of ...
- 3599: Dreaming: Function And Meaning
- ... can be useful while you are developing your dream recall to keep a complete dream journal. Keep the journal handy by your bed and record every dream you remember, no matter how fragmentary. Start by writing down all your dreams, not just the complete, coherent, or interesting ones--even if all you remember is a face or a room, write it down. When you awaken in the night and recall what ... to have built-in dream erasers in our minds, which make dream expenences more difficult to recall than waking ones. So, whenever you remember a dream, write it down. If you don't feel like writing out a long dream story at 3 AM, note down key points of the plot. Also write down the precise content of any dialogue from the dream, because words will almost inevitably be forgotten in ...
- 3600: Beowulf-canterbury Tale Alagor
- Allegory is defined as any work of literature in which character, action, or setting represents an abstract idea or moral concept. Many authors use allegory to make their writing more meaningful than what is simply written on the paper. Allegory is a very effective way for a writer to make a point. Allegory is used in Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales to make the ... and if it is used properly it is a very good way to teach a lesson. The authors of these stories had very good usage of allegory and it was very effective in making the writing deeper and more meaningful than it is at first glance.
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