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- 4411: The Things They Carried
- ... a necessity for everyone. Norman Bowker carried a diary. Rat Kiley carried comic books. Kiowa, a devout Baptist, carried an illustrated New Testament that had been presented to him by his father who taught Sunday school in Oklahoma city. He also carried his grandfathers old hunting hatchet. Because the land was was minded and boobby-trapped, it was SOP for each man to carry a steel centered, nylon-covered flak ajcket ...
- 4412: Being Unprepared
- ... there wasn't one when they had parked it. It was at this point in time that they discovered that it was illegal to take a rental car into Mexico. When I was in high school, I was in the band. We lost a competition last year because we had won it the year before, and were cocky enough to think that we could just go down and win it again ...
- 4413: The Stranger: Quote Analysis Expansion
- ... community has a need to find scapegoats and martyrs from which they can validate their actions, never actually finding a cause of their own but, instead, tearing down the beliefs off others in a vain prayer to their god-filled skies to lift them up since they are more righteous than their last victim. When confronted by Meursault, his lawyer sees his way out of this self-destructive cycle of destroying ...
- 4414: Science Fiction
- ... having power To be such as it is[…] The soul[,] is a pure spirit Or intelligence, which has received before birth all the Metaphysical ideas; but after that event it is obliged To go to school and learn anew the knowledge It hath lost (RABKIN, 68). This anti-clerical concept could be found by many to be offensive, but by using alienation to create an alter-reality, its not a direct ...
- 4415: She Works Hard for Her Money
- ... she senses that her body and soul have had enough (Terkel 298). My friend Maureen Walsh has some very different thoughts about the serving profession. She started waiting tables at a local restaurant after high school, and has been doing it ever since. She will graduate from college this December, and plans on getting a professional job as soon as possible after graduation. I started the interview by asking Maureen about ...
- 4416: Recent Changes To Welfare
- ... disaster. The preparation program has little to no focus on post secondary education, which is really what leads into most of the worthwhile jobs (The Issues, Welfare Reform p.2-3). Without even a high school diploma, the majority of the jobs taken are merely in the fast food industry, making 5-6 dollars an hour with no benefits (Heaven knows what would happen if there was an accident.) These type ...
- 4417: A Fantasy
- ... he always came and rescued me. He would take me to places like Disney World and Six Flags and of course he got to ride the rides to. He would even go with me to school some times. Thank goodness he was just in my imagination or I might have gotten into trouble by the teachers. He was my bestfriend, up until about third grade. He was always there to play ...
- 4418: Should Racist Speech Enjoy Pro
- ... to have it shot down by the Supreme Court in 1995 on grounds that the policy "necessarily requires [the] university to assess racial or ethnic content of speech." Since Central Michigan University is a State school, the First Amendment prohibits it from enacting regulations that would limit an individual's right to free speech unless the regulations, according to a 1986 ruling by the Supreme Court, are "narrowly and precisely designed ...
- 4419: The Advantages Of Stupidity
- ... and does it in the wrong crowd, like a group of adults, it will seem more immature than funny. If one is forced to act stupid while dealing with lower life forms, for example, high school teachers, one may encounter barriers such as cruelty and insensitivity, with the utterance of statements like, "Think with your head straight!" or, "You have a brain, use it." Yet these are all true, there are ...
- 4420: The Apathy Of Generation X
- ... them get involved include birth control, use of tobacco products and A.I.D.S. research to name a few more. In 1991, Montanas state Legislature enacted a unique referendum. It allowed the states high school students to determine whether or not tobacco products should be sold to young people. In the turnout, a whopping 51,233 students (76% of those enrolled), turned out to be heard. Therefore there is no ...
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