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- 12201: Is Chivalry Alive Today
- Chivalry is the type of thing that would be great to have in our society but I don’t believe that it exists too much anymore in the world today. Let me break down here some of the chivalry rules compared with the actions of the people of the current world. One rule of ... in the days of King Arthur this was carried out greatly but if you look at the lack of respect given to women today you see that this rule of chivalry no longer exists. Women’s right have made great strides in the past few decades but women are just not given the respect that they deserve. Women were put in high regards back in King Arthur’s day. Now they are not as respected as they should be. When you look at the cases of rape, assault, and battery you see just why the Knights were so honorable. There are some ...
- 12202: Education
- ... at the same starting line. Next, DeMott gives general ideas about the American publics denials, and the educational system, provides for students. To support these denials DeMott gives us some assumptions of the general public s beliefs on education. The first assumption is about intelligence, an individual is college material, intellectual because he/she was born smart and it s up them to take advantage of it, and that teachers see this genetic trait. According to your intellectual level the school system will see this and place you in the proper educational training which best ... much the town can invest in your education. The inequality differs in the sense that wealthy communities see as smartness as a gift. Your occupation is determined by you level of intelligence. Poor people don t share these ideas. The rich believe that if they tax themselves heavily, they will produce better quality of students, they call this fairness. DeMott then analyzes American education by its beginnings and how this ...
- 12203: Inhalants
- The use of inhalants is a growing problem among teenagers. Inhaling, also called “huffing,” can severely damage someone. Teenagers aren’t the only ones subject to its influence. Adult use is on the rise and younger kids are getting into it. These deadly substances are not something that you have to buy off the street. These ... in the vapors a substance gives off. The sole purpose is to get high. Surprisingly, these inhalants are legal. Things like markers and even cooking spray can be found in any local grocery store. It’s uses like huffing that cause these items to be misused. Inhalant use is not something that only a few people pick up on either. By the time a person reaches 8th grade, one in five ... Mothers who use inhalants during their pregnancy will leave their baby to suffer similar results of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. There are many long terms effects as well. Permanent brain damage can occur. A person doesn’t even have to be doing it for very long before the brain starts to get clogged. Loss of memory is one of the first signs of brain damage. Signs that may alert you to ...
- 12204: Remember Me: Review
- ... lives for the moment. She has the ideal life of sex, parties, friends, and a handsome boyfriend. Her parents are rich and did not hesitate to buy her an expensive, red sports car. She can't imagine her life getting any better. She has the immortal feeling of most teenagers until she is pushed from a balcony at a party and killed. Her soul does not leave this earth in the ... to go back. It turns out that she is given the chance and she comes back to earth as Jean Rodrigues, a poor, Mexican, teenage girl living on the bad side of town. She doesn't immediately remember her past life but as she slowly does aspects of Shari Cooper's personality begins to show up again as the personality of Jean Rodrigues disappears. Shari, as Jean, is now wiser, more compassionate and is using her life to help others. She begins to write stories, ...
- 12205: Jailer Jailed
- By: Greg CHEKHOV'S THE MASTER Anton Chekhov is a master at showing aspects of real life; how fed up people are, how it really is without the everyday pleasantries, and how exploitable people are by one another. Chekhov ... his life the way he is. The above is a direct example in life as how fed up people are. It just makes weird sense that a man with so much power with people doesn't have a prayer with his wife. "Milksop" is another one of Chekhov's stories showing how real life is, but this particular one depicts life without its pleasantries. This story is about a reporter who wants to be invited to this prestigious party but can't go ...
- 12206: A Cray SuperComputer Comes to the University of Toronto
- ... U of Toronto this September. The Cray is a well respected computer - mainly for its extremely fast rate of mathematical floating-pointcalculation. As the university states in its July/August computer magazine "ComputerNews", the Cray's "level of performance should enable researchers with large computational requirements at the university of Toronto and other Ontario universities to compete effectively against the best in the world in their respective fields." The Cray X ... calculations, you would be led to believe the Cray is only about 20 times faster that the PC. Obviously, this is not the case. The Cray handles data considerably differently than the PC. The Cray's circuits permit an array of data (known as a 'vector') to be processes as a SINGLE entity. So, where the IBMPC may require several clock cycles to multiply two numbers, the Cray performs everything in ... X-MP/22 title refers to the two million 64-bit words (16Mb) of shared central memory. This can be expanded to four million words in the future if the need arises. But it doesn't stop there! The Cray can pipe information back and forth between the CPU memory and the Input/Output Subsystem (IOS). The IOS then takes it upon itself the store the information in any of ...
- 12207: Declining Trust in Our Government
- Declining Trust in Our Government Is the American people's trust in our government declining? According to most people, it definitely is. Recent polls make this argument very valid. In 1995, the Princeton Survey Research Associates conducted a telephone interview of 1514 random sample adults ... time. When asked the same question of their state governments, the results were only slightly better. Thirty percent said most of the time and sixty-two percent said only some of the time ("Why Don't"). This indicates that a majority of the American people believe that the American government is not doing the right thing in a lot of the actions it takes. Of course, nobody expects the government to ... the American people. One reason cited by some is that it is the fault of poor leaders. Two commonly blamed leaders are President Johnson and President Nixon. Two of the biggest drops in the public's confidence in our government occurred in 1964, during the bombing of Vietnam, and in 1972, during Watergate (Nye). Although these two events may have contributed to the distrust of the American government, I do ...
- 12208: Hunting my own "Bear"
- Hunting my own "Bear" In William's Faulkner's book "The Bear,'' Ike is a young boy which for the most part of his life has been looking to hunt down a certain bear. However, when he has the chance, he decides not to ... up on a job you would get yelled at, most severely. One day, as I was waking up from a deep, Sunday sleep. I was thinking: why does he always treat me like I can't do anything, what can I do to show him. So all the way to the shop in my uncle's car I sat quietly thinking about what I did on my part to make ...
- 12209: Fallen Angels
- ... and asks himself with “all the dying around me, all the killing, was making me look at myself again, hoping to find more then the kid I was. Maybe I could sift through the kid’s stuff, the basketball, the Harlem streets, and the find the man I would be.” In the beginning of the book Perry is very different than he is at the end. In the beginningof the book Perry goes into the war a little scared, because he doesn’t know what to expect. After Perry is wounded and sent back to war he becomes horrified by the thought of going back to war, and throws up. Another difference between Perry before an after the ... scared Perry for the rest of his life were the sounds he heard after Brew, and himself had been shot. He saw them trying to help Brew, but then “ I heard the zipper. I didn’t have to see it. I heard the zipper (208).” This sound, you can only imagine, is one of the scariest things you could hear, because you hear them working on him, but then to ...
- 12210: Celia Behind Me
- ... Pressure to fit in and be accepted. The main character, Elizabeth, struggles with her own insecurity and position within the group of kids. The result of her insecurity is frustration she expresses on Celia. Elizabeth s position within the group of those kids was unstable. She makes herself believe that she is a part of the group. They go home together and they pick on Celia together. That makes her believe ... me all the way to Grade 3 where I now balanced at a hazardous point, (292). Fear from being teased empowers her to pick on Celia with the rest of the kids. Part of Elizabeth s frustration comes from the fact that Celia represents much of what Elizabeth doesn't like about herself. She would be happy if Celia reminded her of some better-looking person. But that s not the case. Her conscious reminds her of similarities between two of them. I was ...
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