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- 13201: Mark Twain 3
- ... both by virtue of his birth and by the fact that he studied law. He was Justice of the Peace in Florida and he owned 3 slaves, inherited by the death of his father." Samuel s father was the owner of a 75,000 acre estate in Tennessee--land he had purchased for 500 dollars convinced that he was securing his family s eventual fortune. Despite owning an estate in Tennessee, in 1839 James Clemens moved his family to Hannibal, Missouri where he hoped to find prosperity. 8 years later, Samuel s father died of pneumonia leaving behind a family of five. Samuel was 11 and was devastated.(Miller, 4&5) Samuel Clemens was a difficult child. He almost drowned on nine separate occasions. Within a ...
- 13202: Creative Writing: A Day at the Park
- Creative Writing: A Day at the Park It was a day I was subconsciously waiting my whole life for, but I didn't realize it until it was happening. The day was August 8, 1996, just 25 days before my son's first birthday. The Texas Rangers, my favorite baseball team, were in town to play the K.C. Royals. I had always dreamed of one day, taking my son to his first Rangers game. A father taking his son to a baseball game is just the American thing to do, and there I was, taking my son "out to the ball game"; Americas favorite pastime. I hadn't been to see a Ranger game in years and had been wanting to, for quite a while. But like many other young married couples, we didn't really seem to have the time, nor ...
- 13203: Is The History Nonsense?
- In responding to the President Bill Clinton's call for a national dialogue on race, Luis J. Rodriguez, the author of an article "Stop the Lies", suggests that we need to give the people in different colors a proper recognition in our history ... the only history that we need to care about is " the history we make today."We can see they have different attitude towards the history, and we may think the author would disagree with Ford's statement; but by examining both quotes closely, we may ask :"Does the author diagree with Ford's statement at all?"; in other words, the author may consider there is a valid aspect in Ford's statement. Let us take a look what and why the author may disagree with Ford. Ford ...
- 13204: The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy or Single-gunman?
- ... Nazi dictator of Germany during World War II, once said, "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it." Although this may sound ludicrous, we can see many example of this in the world's history. One example would have to be the John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassination. For over thirty years the people of the United States were led to believe that a single gunman shot and killed Kennedy in ... this time, Kennedy was shot in the head and neck by a sniper. He was then taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Later, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine, at a nearby theater. By the next morning, Oswald was booked for the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Two days later, Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, while he ... the bullet to reach the victim. Also, you must remember that sound travels at about one thousand-one hundred (1,100) feet per second, or a little over half as fast as the Mannlicher Carcano's bullets. When keeping this in mind, it is expected that witnesses heard the shot at some point after the bullet passed. The following shows a break down of the frames of the Zapruder film: - ...
- 13205: Lord of the Flies: Golding Reduces the Power of his Message
- ... proves its point. It is still possible though, that the bad luck of the boys could have been experienced in real life. I think that without this bad luck, the point of the story wouldn't be as great, because without the restraint's Golding placed on the boys, life on the island would have been too easy for the boys. The major constraint that Golding puts on the boys is the personality clash between Jack and Ralph. From the beginning, when Ralph is elected leader, Jack hates Ralph, and towards the end of the book, the feeling becomes mutual. Without Jack and Ralph's problems, life would have been easy, and the `darkness of man's heart' would not have been conveyed to the reader. Jack shows `the darkness' and if he and Ralph had just been friends, ...
- 13206: Legalization of Drugs
- ... of responsibility. "Cocaine, particularly in the form of crack, has gained such a reputation in recent years, just as heroin did in the 1960s and 1970s, and marijuana did in the years before that. Crack's reputation for inspiring violent behavior may or may not be more deserved than those of marijuana and heroin. No illicit drug, however, is as widely associated with violent behavior as alcohol. According to Justice Department ... resort to legal institutions to resolve their disputes. According to the Lindsmith Center "During Prohibition, violent struggles between bootlegging gangs and hijackings of booze-laden trucks and sea vessels were frequent and notorious occurrences. Today's equivalents are the booby traps that surround some marijuana fields, the pirates of the Caribbean looking to rip off drug-laden vessels en route to the shores of the United States, and the machine gun ... past few years can be explained almost entirely by the rise in drug-dealer killings" (Lindsmith Center). Perhaps the most unfortunate victims of the drug-prohibition policies have been the law-abiding residents of America s ghettos. These policies have largely proven futile in deterring large numbers of ghetto dwellers from becoming drug abusers, but they do account for much of what ghetto residents identify as the drug problem. In ...
- 13207: Catcher In The Rye - A Sequel
- ... be the one to decide that. Next thing I know I'm on a 6:30 train to Windsor, CT. It was a Thursday and I received a call from Mr.Spencer, well it wasn't really for me but for my parents. I immediately new who it was, you can just hear it's a school teacher. One can just hear that over the phone. After the phone hangs up I hear a yell, Holden, front and center! Then we go throughout that whole, we had a discussion with ... Chaffee! I said, trying to keep my cool. Why and how did you choose Loomis Chaffee? Then they gave me that same old response. Well Mr.Spencer teaches at a prep school and. I didn't let them finish the sentence. NO! I exclaimed. I refuse to go to one of those prep schools, all of the little kids are phonies. But then as abruptly as that little conversation started, ...
- 13208: The Mending Wall
- ... have an uncanny ability to place themselves at a comfortable distance from each other and call it a mutual understanding, a friendship, or even true love, but it is all lies. The essence of mans mystery is somewhat of a paradox. He yearns to become more familiar with those around him, yet he is unwilling to allow this to happen. The power of "Mending Wall," one of Frost's most often quoted poems, rests upon an opposition. Its two famous lines contradict each other. The poem upholds that: Something there is that doesn't love a wall. But it also asserts that: Good fences make good neighbors. The contradiction is reasonable, for two different types of people utter the conflicting remarks and both are right. Man cannot live ...
- 13209: Herman Melville 2
- ... mystery in his own personal character and this quality is shown through many characters such as Claggart and Bartleby. Besides having a mysterious side to him, this author was stubborn. Even though his work wasn t always praised he remained determined and pretty much always wrote what he wanted to write. This stubbornness was shown through his characters Captain Veere in Billy Budd and Bartleby in the story Bartleby the Scrivener ... characters. An example of this would be his character Bartleby. Throughout the story, the reader has no clue what Bartleby is thinking, so Melville creates an air of mystery about this character. Another of Melville s characters that show this quality is Claggart in the book Billy Budd. Claggart is constantly referred to as being mysterious, a nut not to be cracked by the top of a ladies fan (Billy Budd). Besides being mysterious, Melville is stubborn and this comes out through his characters Captain Veere and Bartleby. Like most writers, Melville s career had its ups and downs, and his work was not always praised. Even though readers didn t always appreciate his writing or writing style, he continued to write the books that he wanted ...
- 13210: Cancer
- ... death in the United States Heart disease is the first. Each year more than a million Americans get medical care for cancer and over 330,000 die from the disease. Cancer is one of mans dreaded diseases. It attacks people of all ages. Cancer kills more children than any other disease. About 4,000 children under 15 years old die of cancer each year. half of the deaths are from ... exactly causes cancer. Once researchers find the cause of cancer then they will be able to find ways to cure and prevent the disease. They also want to develop better ways to detect and treat s all forms of cancer. In the United States, the National Cancer Institue has played a major role in Cancer research since it was established in 1937. The American Cancer Society also support research programs. The National Cancer Act of 1971 expanded government efforts in cancer research. Cancer research and control programs have made definite progress. In 1900, cancer was almost always fatal. I the 1930s fewer than one of every five patients were saved. Today, doctors successfully treat one of every three people who get cancer. Some experts believe that if all present knowledge were used promptly in every ...
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