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- 12211: A Jury Of Her Peers
- ... They became individuals by telling their story that also depicted the difference in worlds. When Johnny Paul tells his story of the palm-of-Christians he tells Mapes, the outer world, "No, Sheriff, you don't see. You do not even know what I don't see" (89). The black men have different experiences and histories that separate them from the outside world. This is constant though the stories. To the Cajuns, the graveyard is more land, but to the blacks it's their ancestors and identity. Without the graveyard, they will not be remembered. Each of the stories is a division between the two worlds. When Charlie returns to his world to confess the he killed ...
- 12212: Huck Finn
- ... he hints towards them or tries to glorify them when he does something that is socially wrong or unintelligent. Huck stages his death. This is not a real bright thing to do even though Huck's father is real mean and is a threat to his life and Huck's life. Huck wants to get away from him so bad that the first thing that comes into his mind is to stage his death so Pap will think he's dead and won't be looking for him ever again. Twain feels that by making Huck do this Twain is poking fun a Huck's intelligence. Not his nature intelligence but his book intelligence. ...
- 12213: Essay on Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... his family, so his kids might have a brighter future not for himself but for his family. While not even liking Tom, Jim risks the dream he had for his family by helping save Tom's life. Jim also shows love and goodwill as kind of representing a father figure to Huck. Jim has not been given all the freedom of the white man but he will unselfishly give to all ... instance Jim is risking his life to possibly find a better way for someone he loves. An act such as this is an unselfish act that could possibly be rewarded with death. Most characters wouldn't give unselfishly such as this. This is truly a charater that is trying to do good and make the best of a bad situation, not for himself but for others. Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer were planning to free Niger Jim. He was owned by Tom Sawyer's aunt and uncle. Before Tom arrived to his uncle's farm Huck was already there and he stopped Tom before the Phelpses saw him. Tom hid until that night when they planned to break ...
- 12214: Bureaucracy And Government Men
- ... designed to care for the mentally ill people within our society. These facilities have set rules and regulations that each patient must fall within. They are required to follow these guidelines, even though every patient's problem is unique and different from one to the next. Local Medical Hospitals care for a large percentage of people suffering with a mental illness; their care is to be breif until a Mental Health ... it hard for these local hospitals to place these patients. Within an Emergency Room setting it can take up to two days to place a patient. The Medical Hospital has skilled staffing for these people's needs however, not for a long-term stay. The patients are in need of a long-term treatment plan that can't be achieved through an Emergency Room. When the Mental Health Facility receives a phone call in reards to a patient that needs placemnet within their care, it takes hours for them to decide if ...
- 12215: Massai Warriors- National Geographic Report
- ... it may not always be that way. The Masai culture finds the changing of boy to man to be a very important event in life. It is not something that will just happen on it s own. It is not something that takes place over the course of a decade, either. It is a very spiritual ritual that occurs over a four-day period. This event is known as Eunoto. It ... his mother. This very important event symbolizes the end of the maternal bond between the two. The morals of this culture seem to leave a little something to be desired, however. Marriage, for instance, doesn t mean quite what it means here (although in some cases, they are more loyal to their spouses there than people are here). A man may be married to more than one wife there, and sex out of wedlock doesn t appear to be frowned upon there. Many times before the Eunoto is carried out, the young men (18 19 years of age) sleep with 9- 11 year old girls. That would be very frowned ...
- 12216: Discrimination Against Women
- ... cultural, civil or any other field. Why can it spread so widely? It is perpetuated by the survival of stereotypes and of traditional cultural and religious practices and beliefs detrimental to women. Women always don't have the same human right as men. In this society, a number of countries throughout the world, women are denied their basis legal rights, including the right to vote and the right to own property. Many countries discriminate against female nationals who marry foreigners. Foreign wives of male nationals may be permitted to acquire their husband's nationality, but foreign husbands of female nationals are not granted the same right. There are very few places in the world where women are denied a formal right to education. In many countries, parents do ... discriminate against women employees by not giving them the same access to family benefits and insurance as male employees. In the recent century, more and more women come out to work. The middle class women's entry into the labor force has helped transform the patterns of family life, especially for parents with young children. But how much have women's traditional gender roles been altered by these changes? Although ...
- 12217: Asteroids
- ... asteroid that will wipe out civilization. There are over one thousand asteroids traveling toward earth and only three quarters are accounted for. Where are the other one forth? No one knows because the government doesn't fund NASA astrologists enough to cover the astroids. Just one impact could end civilization as we know it. No matter where it hits everything would die, even bacteria. To give an estimate how much is spent on asteroid detection. It is said to be less than the cost to operate a single McDonald's franchise. Total disaster would occur no matter where the asteroid hit. Land, sea it doesn't matter. Ocean impact would create a number of things. First, a Tsunami(tidal wave) would be created on impact. The wave would be hundreds for feet high traveling hundreds of miles per hour. It ...
- 12218: John F Kenendy
- John F Kenendy John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29th,1917 in Brookline Massachuttes.He was one of the youngest Presidents in the U.S politics and was the 35th President.He was greatly admired for his statesmanship,unfortunately he was killed only after 1000 days as President.He served in the war for 2 years only to die a ... was to become in politics like his father. Johns political years were good ones and interesting at that.He was a democratic political party like his father. His position before taking office was a U.S Senator. His legal residence was Massachuttes.Some other facts about J.F.K were that he went to Harvard University,B.A in 1940,his religion is Roman Catholic,his occupation was a Public Official ... him.Then the assassination began. It was November 22nd 1963,but who could forget the day that was to follow?He had stopped the limousine twice.Once to say hello to a group of Nun’s and then to say hi to some children.He had been President for little more than 1000 days.It was 12:30 in the afternoon as the motorcade rolled on a man,on the ...
- 12219: Quackery
- ... us. And we'll do it for the same reason people have done it since ancient times... We want to believe in miracles. We want to find simple solutions and shortcuts to better health. It's hard to resist. All of us, at one time or another, have seen or heard about a product - a new and exotic pill, a device, or potion - that can easily solve our most vexing problem ... After all, many treatments we take for granted today were once considered miracles. How can we tell the difference? Not all advertisements for health products are false, of course. In fact, the vast majority aren't .So just what is quackery? Simply put, quackery is the promotion of a medical remedy that doesn't work or hasn't been proven to work. In modern times, quackery is known as health fraud. But call it quackery or call it health fraud, the result is the same - unfulfilled wishes, wasted ...
- 12220: Racism
- ... some other kind of defence to get even. It would be easier if we just come together as one and help the people who are discriminated against in understanding that they are not what person's say they are. From birth to about age twelve, children collect information about their world. They learn from many ways including their school, family, neighbours, friends, and the community. They also get information from books ... and embarrassment. Students admitted that they had used racial slurs when angered. I have noticed in our own school, that the students tell racial jokes and used ethnic names but they say that they don't mean what they say it's just for humour's sake. Race hatred often leads to violence. People whom form groups to defend America from a minority takeover fall into the category of extremists. There are gangs in America today ...
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