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- 6121: William Faulkner
- ... The Bear and in "Barn Burning, Faulkner consistently uses hit instead of it. He has a very down to Earth theme throughout his works: The theme being the coming of age type issue. All the stories I wrote about contain this maturing theme in one way or another. Faulkner is both a writer and a teacher-there is much to learn from his works.
- 6122: Lord of the Flies
- ... to pick up the pieces, Ralph continued to endure the hatred and aggravation of Jacks savage society all by himself. Chased onto the beach, Ralph spotted a man, an officer from a naval ship. In short, this man represented the conch. He brought everyone left on the island together, in peace. The power between the children on the island had been resolved.
- 6123: The Legalization of Marijuana for All Purposes
- ... of mind. Hallucinations can occur when taken in high doses. The effects last between two to four hours after ingested, and the user can be left in a relaxed state for several hours after ingestion. Short term memory is inhibited for the duration of the high, and users find it difficult to concentrate on complicated logical concepts like mathematics. Marijuana is not physically addictive, and in fact many users experience a ...
- 6124: Gun Control
- ... because of development, there is not as many habitats for wild game to live on, which causes over population, starvation, and disease, wh ich without sports hunting would cause major declines in animal populations. In short, guns may be a problem in today's overcrowded cities, but it is not the fault of the guns. Eliminating guns would not solve these problems in the cities, and may end up causing more ...
- 6125: A Farewell to Arms: Summary
- ... lines of traffic for miles. Later the Italian army was losing morale, and soldiers tried to escape the war. There was a type of war police which would capture these renegade soldiers, give them a short questioning, and then execute them. Tenente was among these renegade soldiers, but he managed to escape, plunge into a river, and escape on a log. He crossed the Venetian plain on foot, then jumped aboard ...
- 6126: Human Origins
- ... human beings may have evolved from ape-like creatures. Even with this, there are still disputes in the paleoanthropological field of whether or not this is true. Still, many choose to believe their religious creation stories where a God created humans. Whether it is Johanson's idea on human evolution or Leakey's or even the Roman Catholic's creation story, all are an individual own interpretation and neither wrong nor ...
- 6127: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- ... 2.You could probably bring about a cure I think that this quote is foreshadowing what for the whole ward, Vegetables and all, is to happen in the future. They tell you what in six short months, ladies and is going to happen in the story right in the gentleman or your money back. 3.Failures we are-feeble, stunted, weak This is how the patients look at themselves. little creatures ...
- 6128: Q/A: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... turn of the Century. 6. The exhaustive Indian Hemp "Raj" Commission report (1896) by British authorities found no reason to restrict its use. But the notorious yellow journalist William Randolph Hearst fabricated and published horror stories about marijuana that were eventually investigated and shown to be lies, but not until long after the marijuana prohibition was enacted in 1938. Source: Larry Sloman, Reefer Madness. 7. Laws against marijuana were passed a ...
- 6129: William Wells Brown
- ... his day. Brown based this novel on the claim that Thomas Jefferson, who wrote many works on human freedom while continuing to buy, sell, and work slaves, had fathered many slave children. According to the stories, one of these illegitimate children, a beautiful young girl, was sold at an auction. Although the story may or may not be true, Brown used the story to attack slavery and the people for slavery ...
- 6130: The Bluest Eye: Quest for Personal Identity
- ... grotesquely futile effort to fly. Beating the air, a winged but grounded bird intent on the blue void it could not reach-could not even see- but which filled the valleys of the mind. In short, after the rape, Pecola went insane. Pecola's search for identity was defined by her everlasting desire to be loved. Her purpose in life was to be beautiful and as a result of that to ...
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