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- 7101: Analysis of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"
- Analysis of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is a short story with a memorable and chilling plot. It tells the tale of a town in which the random and systematic execution of a citizan has become a yearly occourrence. Beyond the horror of the plot ...
- 7102: Hong Kong Transferring Hands
- ... Dutton, she sees privacy as a disguise for hiding illegal practices. It is also the step in centralizing the media, which would not be a far jump to the government of Hong Kong dictating how stories will be written. The liberty of freedom of the press is some thing that acts as check on every government. It keeps a limited amount of power in the peoples hands it lets them ...
- 7103: Holocaust 9
- ... the Jewish people will never be the same. The third category is psychological numbing. This has been determined by psychologists as a "necessary psychological defense against overwhelming images." This defense is only good for a short time because after long term numbing the survivor can feel withdrawal and depression. Many survivors numbed themselves to all emotions and became insensitive to death. The fourth category is suspicion and paranoia. The survivor is ...
- 7104: Hobbes Leviathan
- ... s labour offered the means of turning that outcome into money. Since land ownership is a prerequisite to making money and money is a pre-condition to owning land, the two became inexorably linked. In short, the introduction of money led to unlimited accumulation, scarcity and, ultimately, conflict. Although the sufficiency limitation remained intact, there was no longer as much and as good land for everyone and, as a result, a ...
- 7105: Prayer In Schools
- ... is diverging from God and is perishing in iniquity. The prayer issue has rapidly changed in the past three decades. For numerous years, after the ringing of the bell, the Lord's Prayer, or a short school written prayer, was recited throughout the classrooms by all students, teachers, and administrators. Students learned their alphabet by quoting scripture. "A" was not for "apple"; "A" was for "A gentle answer turns away wrath ...
- 7106: Hitler 3
- ... the swastika. The German Workers' Party name was changed by Hitler to include the term National Socialist. Thus the full name was the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) called for short, Nazi. Hitler and his Nazi party grew rapidly and before you know it Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany. Hitler despised and overthrew other political parties. He gained popular vote from people by limmiting unemployeement ...
- 7107: History Of The Olympics
- ... and even a hotel for the wealthiest of spectators. Vendors were there, selling wine that the spectators drank along with the cheese, bread and olives they ate. Sanitation was basically nonexistent. Water was always in short supply until Herodes Atticus of Athens built an aqueduct and a water system. This did not occur until the games had been taking place for 900 years. The contests consisted of foot races, horse and ...
- 7108: History Of The French New Wave
- ... then a large fund would build up which the government made specifically available to producers to fund future films. This encouraged production companies to make popular and safe films with star names and well known stories, and discouraged experimentation. Throughout the early and mid 50s many literary adaptations, costume dramas and huge co-productions with cast and crew drawn from both France and other European countries were made. They were predominately ...
- 7109: History Of The Civil War
- ... burning when they arrived. The fires had been set to cotton bales by Confederate Calvary to prevent the Federal Army from getting them and the high winds quickly spread the fire. The controversy would be short lived as no proof would ever be presented. So with Columbia, Charleston, and Augusta all fallen, Sherman would continue his drive north toward Goldsboro. On the way, his progress would be stalled not by the ...
- 7110: Iran-contra Affair
- ... communist conspiracy that must be stopped. Lurking in the background of these affairs, then, was the ghost of McCarthyism
(Draper 568). The White House took the 1950s idea of McCarthyism to take every method short of a full-scale war to overthrow the Sandinista regime. The War Against the Sandinistas The United States Central Intelligence Agency armed and trained an anti-Sandinista Guerrilla force based in the neighboring countries of ...
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