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- 7021: Prophecy in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
- ... system usually insures a very good follow-up on outpatients. Luckily, Mr. Bradbury was wrong about that prediction. People have been making predictions since the beginning of time, since they have been able to tell stories. Some have called themselves prophets and others have called themselves messiahs. Society may chose to listen to what they have to say or simply discard them as charlatans. Mr. Bradbury paints a dark picture of ...
- 7022: The Theme of Diversity in Novels
- ... there one full week." (Spiegelman 83) The images are graphic but the words have more of an impact. It is a revelation to any reader who did not live through the period or ever hear stories about the difficulties that people suffered in order to save their own lives. "Therefore I arranged for us a very good hiding spot- in our cellar where it was coal storage." (Spiegelman 110) The diversity ...
- 7023: Joining The Tribe: Homosexuality
- ... with no where to turn. One would think things would get better when entering college. For a homosexual things were still just as hard. "I was getting beat up on the bus just for having short hair and dressing like a boy. I’d see women and think, they’re holding hands - what’s going to happen to them? Pg. 118. Many begin to find support groups that where lacking in ...
- 7024: The Right To Die
- ... greater burden on their loved ones. Unfortunately. groups on all sides have scare tactics. They do not attack the issues directly, but feed the media to alarm the public. These methods may work on the short term to bring the issue to the forefront but I do not believe the will work in the long run. Eventually, each person will need to decide on their own and disregard the media hype ...
- 7025: To Clone Or Not To Clone
- ... explains is that cloning can be taken as something normal, as an in- vitro fertilization, for example. Many people do not really know what human cloning really is and misunderstand its meaning. Macklin gives a short explanation, but as every experiment, it must have some dificulties. Krauthammer's essay is totally against cloning. He is very persuasive and gives examples that will change the way of thinking of many people and ...
- 7026: Gold And Its Uses
- ... rivers and then by mining. But most of it has been produced in the last 150 years, since the major discoveries in the United States and Australia in the mid-19th century. Then, in the short span of 50 years, more was mined than in the preceding 6,000. Today, worldwide production amounts to about 2,300 tonnes annually, having doubled since 1980 due to higher prices and new technology. Although ...
- 7027: Violence Against Women In The
- ... go through it would help in the fight against violence as, even if the victim decides not to pursue her attacker, the police can follow through the charge with or without her help. This, in short means that even if the man sweet talks his wife/girlfriend etc into dropping the charges the police can go ahead and charge him anyway. This will help the courts in the sentencing of violent ...
- 7028: The Mysterious Stranger: Dependence On Others
- ... The people of Hadleyburg possess the same weaknesses as the citizens of Eseldorf and though the particulars of each story is different, what they reveal about human nature is the same. The parallels between these stories demonstrate that the appearance of society may change over time but its basic features do not. There is always weakness and corruption and the key to confronting this is through knowledge. If knowledge is withheld ...
- 7029: The Jătaka: "The Cheating Merchant", "The Monkey's Heroic Self-Sacrifice", and "The Hare's Self-Sacrifice"
- ... Heroic Self-Sacrifice", and "The Hare's Self-Sacrifice" The three jătakas in our literature book are: "The Cheating Merchant," "The Hare's Self-Sacrifice" and "The Monkey's Heroic Self- Sacrifice." The jătakas are stories about the lives of the Bodhisatta, who in each life moves closer to being an enlightened being or a Buddha. In "The Cheating Merchant," the Bodhisatta is a merchant named Wise whose partner is named ...
- 7030: Persuasion in Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention
- ... the learned group of men at the Virginia Convention, Henry had to provide substantial proof endorsing his position. While an appeal to their emotions would rouse them against the British for the moment, emotions are short-lived and their endurance would depend on proof. Henry asks, "are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?" "what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us ...
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