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- 12141: Stone Boy
- ... still cool pieces of information like this would be all that he needs to get by when (we assume) he inherits the farm from his father. So he would not be very bright by today s standards. Naivety would be a characteristic you would expect from him as well it seems that in his community, mostly everybody would accept what is given to them and not question it. Uncle Andy for instance immediately believed the sheriffs verdict, be it correct or not, and is later quoted to have said, He s a reasonable fellow that s what the sheriff said Everybody (when they were having a discussion in their living room) shared the same subjective view. Arnold would be quiet, but still not keeping to his pact of never asking ...
- 12142: The Book Elements Of Style By
- ... between one person to the next. In the book, White has his rules and Strunk has his own, but they come together to make the book more detailed. Strunk talks about things such as using 's when you are talking about plural, adding 's to make a noun possessive, putting commas where they are needed and breaking sentences off properly. On the other hand, White is talking about things like placing yourself in the background, don't overwrite and don't overstate. Although Strunk's rules deal more with the mechanics of writing and White tends to talk about the presentation of the writing, it comes together to make the book ...
- 12143: Plastic Not Paper
- Plastic Not Paper Walking through the grocery store I always try to look for the best buy. I always buy what's on sale, I guess you could say I'm cheep. Then I get to the check out lane, preferably the one with fewer people. I empty my wallet and pay. Then I wait. I think it's going to happen but I am not sure. Then it does, the baggier says, "Would you like paper or plastic?" I look that person right in the eye and I tell him, "I want the one that's better for the environment, I want the one that will help prevent pollution, I want the one that cost less, I want plastic." Plastic bags save money, they conserve energy, they are practical and ...
- 12144: Personal Writing: Salvation
- ... captive to something beyond my control. The void that I felt inside of me seemed like a bottomless pit that just kept getting darker and darker and deeper and deeper. We all know the sinner’s life. Who hasn’t lied and cheated at some point along their life’s journey? Raised by loving and moral parents, taught a form of godliness though I never really knew the power of God’s Word. Making the most important decision of my life, I gave my ...
- 12145: Decriminalization vs. Prohibition
- ... drugs for the first time. I was with some of my friends that live down the road from me. They asked me if I wanted to get high with them. At the time, I didn't know what getting high meant, so I asked them. One of them pulled ut a long slender object, similar to a cigarette, but twisted on either end. They told me it was something special. I was still bewildered. They said "It's pot, you know, marijuana?" Immediately I said no. I had seen several anti-dug commercials, all with the same motto, "Just Say No". I felt so good about myself. I had done the right thing ... people on TV that were alive, but were not conscious of their surroundings, because of drug use. Their lives were basically over. I had listened to speakers preach that drugs were one of the Devil's tools. There was no way I would even consider ever trying them, because once a person starts, they can't stop. It was a few years later that I heard the other side of ...
- 12146: On The Subway
- ... specifically state how the speaker is and wether it was a incident that happened to the poet. The speaker talks about John H. Cross English 102-03 September 22, 1999 Essay 1 how the boy's appearance frightens her. She talks about his big feet with dark black sneakers with white laces and how they looked like a set intentional scars. Olds talked about what he looks like when he sees him, "He has the casual cold look of a mugger, alert under hooded lids" (7-9). She says that he is wearing red, which makes her thing of the blood inside of one's body. The speaker has on her black fur coat which makes for an inviting target. In the middle of the poem, the speaker questions who has the power between her and the boy in the subway. She says "...I don't know if I am in his power-......or if he is in my power"(14-18). She is saying that she is getting all worried about this boy that is in the subway with ...
- 12147: All Quiet On The Western Front
- 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 ...
- 12148: Life Of The Settlers
- ... slave Harriet was treated brutally. She was beaten and whipped about her face, neck and back. She had the scars for the rest of her life. This all happened because her owners said it wasn’t good enough, without thinking that the work she did was to the best of her abilities because she was five years old. She received no education and so she couldn’t read or write. Yet in later life she gave speeches in support of women’s rights. Harriet was described as a wilful and moody child. She was determined to do outdoor work, and Brodas finally gave in when she was nine years old. She was hired out as a ...
- 12149: Home Shopping
- ... nowadays society. Every weekend or public holiday, we will go shopping with family or friends. So, we noticed that shopping is already become a necessary event in our life. Since we do shopping frequently, don’t we feel that always shopping become tedious and may just give us tons of problem when we forgot to do so? In fact, this type of problems do arise in Malaysia society. Problems encountered in ... in front of the cashier counters, food stalls or even in car park. Time Consuming Sometimes it is very wasting time by just walking around without any purpose. Just like people walking around and don’t know what he/she is planning to buy. Besides, when a person is looking for a particular thing and the thing is located in several floors from where he/she are, then he/she will ... in Malaysia: Security Issues Security Services - These services provide secure identification and secure communication over the Internet. Many tools for these purposes are available commercially including Netscape Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Microsoft CryptoAPI. NCB’s Infrastructure for Electronic Identification (IEI) initiative provides secure communication and secure identification using digital certificates and digital signatures. The first digital certification authority for IEI, Netrust Pte Ltd, enables parties to verify the identity ...
- 12150: King Lear As A Tragic Hero
- In a writing of Shakespeare's play "King Lear", the main character is King Lear who starts off as a respected and powerful king. As the story progresses the king loses his power because of his own stupidity and blindness. The tragedy of this play is shown through the daughters of the king, the fool, and finally when Lear's sanity is tested. At the beginning of the play, King Lear is powerful and harsh. He decides he doesn't want to be king anymore, and so he asks his daughters, Reagan, Goneril, and Cordelia to tell him how much they love him. He does this so he may give them a dowry to ...
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