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- 1441: Agatha Christie
- ... perceptible here in the British stock characters, and men like Christie s Colonel Padgett 2 Arbuthnot one of the Orient Express passengers, are already beginning to seem quaint and old-fashioned. (218) She makes her stories even more interesting when she uses people from all over the world. When she writes using these people, she also adds in the language in which these people speak as well as placing them in different countries than from where they are originally from. When she mixes different people and cultures together, it makes the stories more fun and it even helps to make them more mysterious. All of Christie s novels even contain the same characters. There are a variety of stories other than Murder on the Orient Express that contains the popular detective Hercule Poirot. He is known as a great detective in all of her works. He always get the murder figured out, no ...
- 1442: Kerouac's On the Road: Living in Clip
- ... On the Road is the charismatic adventure of two men, hungry for life, taking the reader on four journeys across America in search of identity through experience. In actuality the story was written in three short weeks; however, the trip itself lasted seven years. The novel includes a wide variety of episodes ranging from promiscuous sex to the alienation and exploitation of random strangers for cash, gas, and hash. The men ... confusion caused by his baffling boredom. Dean is not only a drifter, Sal's friend and companion, but he is also Sal's inspiration (Peck 1). Dean has aggrandized a vivid life in a few short years: " He has had millions of jobs, women, and adventures, been to prison, and across the country"(Hill 1). Dean is not uniformal; he is like a racing heart beat seeking the ultimate rush through ... Dempsey 280). Dempsey ridicules Kerouac for leading a life considered obsolete in today's society such as the teenage valet parking-lot attendant. The characters play an exciting role in the novel; however, they are short-lived and remain in the all too passé romantic era striving for self-reliance. Younger generations appreciate the novel to a greater degree than the aging post war conservatives because they relate more closely ...
- 1443: BDSM
- ... stems form a desire to abuse or to rape. Neithger of these are usually true. The need is for control or to be controlled and that is what is found in BDSM. Although the horror stories are the ones which are often shown in the news, in fact the successes in BDSM are far greater. In short BDSM is normal, and is worthwhile as well. Try it you might like it.
- 1444: Same Sex Parents
- ... not “...have lesbian urges...” (171). Kristin came to peace about homosexuality due to her close exposure to the lifestyle. In other words, she did have trouble accepting it earlier in life. She “...would make up stories to explain Diane's presence...” to her friends that would sleep over (171). These types of situations certainly do not help kids during the most self- conscious periods of their lives. There are many children ... something so minute -simple discrimination is what this is really all about. Until we can open our eyes as a people and realize the constraints we blindly put upon ourselves, we will continue to fall short of our full potential.
- 1445: Sexism-Patriarchy
- ... a boy, no woman had really exuded any power. Of course without God's ordaining that Mary give birth to Jesus this would never have happened. Jesus went around and in all the parables and stories told in the bible, women would flock to his feet and he would always protect and help them. Meanwhile men in the stories would often attain Sainthood and become heroes. To quote the bible,"God, made man in his own image." In other words if God is the supreme being then we at least look like him and ... fooled by the devil and was also the one that forced the fruit onto the "man." This in and of itself is a sexist idea and teaching of the bible. But these are only two stories taught by the Catholic church, there are a great many more. It is precisely because of these blatant sexist ideas that some Catholic men and women are the way they are. Sexism is found ...
- 1446: Australian Life
- ... with blue jumpers in the cold and yellow oilskin jackets in the rain . They wore hard wearing blucher boots and broad felt hats . The bushman would often have a drinkdown the pub . They often told stories to each other as their past time . The bushmans homes were made from slabs of bark , green hide . The houses were simple and didn't always show advantage . Nor dose it have to , the bushman ... only the few wealthy were able to afford the private horse-drawn transport . The wealthy with their transport were therefore able to live out side of the city center . The working class worked and played short distances away from home . In the 1870's the population began to spread as factories and offices moved into the suburbs . The bringing of people out into the suburbs was also because of the advent ...
- 1447: Appearance Is Everything
- ... Game, is a mock court trial where couples who recently broke up argue over whose fault the breakup was. The audiences votes on who is the “loser”. First of all, it is obvious that the stories are fictional and the alleged couples are actors. But the real problem lies within the idea behind the show. Is that the biggest problem the world is facing today? Who to blame in some strange ... Game, is a mock court trial where couples who recently broke up argue over whose fault the breakup was. The audiences votes on who is the “loser”. First of all, it is obvious that the stories are fictional and the alleged couples are actors. But the real problem lies within the idea behind the show. Is that the biggest problem the world is facing today? Who to blame in some strange ... Game, is a mock court trial where couples who recently broke up argue over whose fault the breakup was. The audiences votes on who is the “loser”. First of all, it is obvious that the stories are fictional and the alleged couples are actors. But the real problem lies within the idea behind the show. Is that the biggest problem the world is facing today? Who to blame in some ...
- 1448: Are Females More Observant and Critical?
- ... or bad it will help to determine that of different sexes reactions as well as their memories. Memory is a huge roll in this project, it is an important part because of the use of short term memory. The short term memory will also lead to the stereotype of males and females. The short term memory links into observation as a huge component to judgment also. Different ages of these two sexes may or may not actually have any effect on their awareness skills, or memory skills. Although ...
- 1449: Overpopulation
- ... 1,604), or Hong Kong (14,218). Even those don't necessarily signal overpopulation—after all, the Dutch seem to be thriving, and doesn't Hong Kong have a booming economy and fancy hotels? In short, if density were the standard of overpopulation, few nations (and certainly not Earth itself) would be likely to be considered overpopulated in the near future. The error, we repeat, lies in trying to define overpopulation ... an area overpopulated? When its population can't be maintained without rapidly depleting nonrenewable resources (or converting renewable resources into nonrenewable ones) and without degrading the capacity of the environment to support the population. In short, if the long-term carrying capacity of an area is clearly being degraded by its current human occupants, that area is overpopulated. *35 By this standard, the entire planet and virtually every nation is already ... fields (which represent about twenty years' worth of Dutch energy consumption at current rates) are exhausted, Holland will once again depend heavily on the rest of the world for fossil fuels or uranium. *38 In short, the people of the Netherlands didn't build their prosperity on the bounty of the Netherlands, and are not living on it now. Before World War II, they drew raw materials from their colonies; ...
- 1450: Good Public Relations
- ... want to get out, they want the media to give them as much attention as possible. There is another side to this story though. The media reports on subjects that are considered newsworthy. This includes stories that not only could be beneficial to business, but they also report on subjects that put companies in a negative light. This is where the hate relationship comes in. Negative publicity is the last thing ... a very effective way of getting publicity. Newspapers are always looking for people and things to write about. Radio and television stations are always looking for people to interview and things to talk about. These stories are free of charge, and are of greater value than a commercial would be. People know that a commercial is paid for and designed under the companies own perspective of itself. People are more likely ... to promote a company. A spokes person must be prepared to deal with the media though. If they are not, a television or news paper journalists will tear that person apart. These people want interesting stories, and spokes people must be prepared for the tough questions that will be thrown there way. There are companies that specialize in media training, and will teach anyone who may have to speak on ...
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