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- 12101: The Great Gatsby
- ... findings were to find out how warlike the tribes are. In the hunting-gatherers tribes, war is not as popular and profitable as in modern society. Two reasons for this is that these tribes don t have most valuable items and there is no shared type of currency to take. In these tribes, war was infrequent and not lead by permanent leaders. As opposed by modern days. What also differs is ... caused by the world he knows, all morally, socially, honor, obedience is lost. The aggression takes control for many reasons. Although an extreme case of aggression, we see what may be societies cause on it s own people. Such a thing is a window to this picture. Another focus would be on Milgram s electric experiment. Here he explored consciousness and conscience of the mind. In the experiments, some showed signs of hesitation in continuing to hurt the subject with the electric shock. As only 35% gradually broke ...
- 12102: The Grapes Of Wrath 4
- In the novel, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck describes a family's journey from Oklahoma to California during the 1930s. The Joad Family has to move to California because they cannot survive the horrible Dust Bowl in Oklahoma. They encounter many problems during their journey, but they ... problems that the Joad family will encounter. In Chapter Five, an inner chapter, land owners in Oklahoma are forced to kick the tenant families off of their land. The owners say, "The tenant system won't work anymore. One man on a tractor can take the place of twelve or fourteen families"(Steinbeck 42). When Tom meets Muley in the next chapter, Muley says that the land owners told him "We can't afford to keep no tenants"(60). Some of the tenant men feel that the land belongs to them since they were born on it. When an owner asks a tenant man to leave the ...
- 12103: The Tempest: Raging Waters
- ... many of the illusions that were created on the island. There are many illusions that seem to happen quite frequently, while the shipwrecked persons of Milan were on the island that was created by Prospero's powers. Many of these encounters may not even be illusions but figments of their imagination as well as hallucinations. While others tend to happen because of the magic that Prospero creates with his mind. The ... be the nymphs (Prospero: "Go make yourself like a nymph o' th' sea. Be subject To no sight but thine and mine, invisible to every eyeball else. Go take this shape and hither come in't. Go! Hence with diligence! Exit[Ariel] . Awake, dear heart, awake! Thou hast slept well. Awake!{act 1, sc. 2} Out if Prosperos' anger he creates a vicious storm at sea causing the ship to become ... farther. Lend thy hand. . . For thou must know farther."(act 1, sc. 2) After this they are like prisoners on his island and do anything for him. The island itself is illusory. It is Prospero's and its warm tropical climate alone would make someone think they were dreaming. Another main part of the illusions would be Ariel and its fairy friends. Ariel was shown throughout the play. It created ...
- 12104: “A Fair Chance for the Girls”
- “A Fair Chance for the Girls” Kerrence S. Spratley 9:00 Recitation Women’s Studies 201 In this article the author Edward Clarke writes about the harmful effects of education on the sexual development and reproductive capacities of women. While reading this article I was forced to be open ... able to better understand them. When he talks of the Miss G. that unfortunately lost her life I can see where he could say that it could come from being educated but he really didn’t explain how this was linked to the brain. When he completed these tests he was under the impression that it wasn’t in a woman’s best interest to be educate because of the ...
- 12105: The Effects Of Poverty In Our
- ... is also becoming even poorer. There are many issues involved when looking at poverty. It is not simply enough (or correct) to say that the poor are poor due to their own (or their government’s) bad governance and management. In fact, you could quite easily conclude that the poor are poor because the rich are rich and have the power to enforce trade agreements, which favor their interests more than ... a stable social environment, freedom, and basic rights to have a fair chance for a decent life. Is this actually progress? On the other hand, are we fooled into believing that it is? The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services placed the poverty level for a family of four at $16,450 in 1998, and the poverty rate in 1996, according to the HHS, was 13.7 percent, or 36.5 million Americans. (Egendorf: 1999, 12). Is there really a way to measure poverty, and to decide exactly what poverty is? Hunger, income level, housing and the economy’s condition of the working poor are just a few example of what needs to be considered when measuring the poverty levels in our nation. Poverty expands and contracts and its definition changes in accordance ...
- 12106: Miramax Films To Hit Web
- Disney’s Miramax films decided to make twelve movies which people will be able to see on pay-per-view downloads through SightSound.com. Miramax is the first major studio to show full-length movies on-line ... companies. Miramax feels that showing movies on the Internet will bring in new audiences. The big concern with web movies is piracy Hower Antipiracy technology is becoming much more reliable. SighSound.com will use Microsoft’s digital rights-management system with encryption technology. Users will be able to download the Miramax titles; the user can view them for 24 hours before they disappear from the hard drive. Miramax has not yet come up with a price for the movies. The movies have not yet been decided either but most likely there will be movies out on home video. I think it’s a great idea to put full-length movies on the web. Miramax is a huge industry so if the movies don’t work they aren’t greatly effected. However, being one of the first ...
- 12107: Childhood Is The Kingdom Where
- ... age and at a certain age the child is grown and puts away childish things" (1,2). I think what Edna is trying to express is that when you reach a particular age you don't just start being an adult. Being an adult is not something you just wake up one day an decide to be. In the third and fourth lines she writes, "Childhood is the kingdom where nobody ... 3, 4). I feel she is stating here that the chid is inoocent from adult feelings. When your a child death does not have a real meaning to you. She writes, "mothers and fathers don't die" (22), and for that matter brothers and sister do not either. When you are young death does not seem to have a impact unless it happens to someone that is in your immediate family ... notice. In lines 9 through 16 Edna writes about how a child might first encounter death first hand when the family cat dies. But the way she writes, " You fetch a shoe-box, but it's much too small, because she won't curl up now: So you find a bigger box" (13, 14), makes the experince seem so cheesey. She follows up with this thought when she writes, "But ...
- 12108: A Farewell To Arms 2
- A Farewell to Arms (2) World War II propels the characters in A Farewell to Arms. Fredrick Henry s actions are determined by his position until he deserts the army. It is during his escape Henry resolves that he is through with the war, a war in which he really has no place, and decides that all he wants is to be with Catherine. Henry doesn t seem to be agonizingly concerned with matters of right or wrong in the war and it seems, in fact, separate from him. Even when he is injured it doesn t appear that he is really a part of the war, which surrounds him. He maintains a distance from it and this distance isn t really closed until Aymo is killed by his own army, ...
- 12109: Ancient Egypt
- ... approximately 7,000BC. Humans were finally able to use the rich silt brought by the yearly flooding of the Nile River which annually flooded since 60,000 years ago. The Nile River is the world's longest river , it is approximately 4,160 miles long and flows from the highlands in Central Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. It is the main reason why the Ancient Egyptians were such a successful people ... it fertilize just a narrow strip of land, eventually the Egyptians built large irrigation systems which would carry water into the desert. Ancient cultures were often plagued with warfare and attacks from other cultures, Egypt's geography protected it from most of its neighbors. The Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Nubian Desert, and the Libyan Desert surrounded Egypt, it was very hard for an outside to even enter Egypt. In ... culture as religion did to other cultures much, a unified sense of faith never existed among them. What I mean by this is that since each city worshipped a different god or goddess, there wasn't really a togetherness in their religion. So if I use the word "worship" in this report, I am referring to the fact that they thought that god or goddess was important. In fact the ...
- 12110: All Quiet on the Western Front: An Analysis
- All Quiet on the Western Front: An Analysis Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that takes you through the life of a soldier in World War I. Remarque is accurately able to portray the episodes soldiers go through. All Quiet ... mentally. After the war the soldiers usually never recovered from the war. Two of the most common side affects of the war were shell shock and stir crazy. When suffering from shell shock a soldier’s brain doesn’t function properly and the man is a “vegetable”. This means the man is alive but he can’t do anything because he is in a state of shock because of the war. Stir crazy ...
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