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- 1381: Malcolm X
- Malcolm X Malcolm X, a civil rights leader in the 1960's believed that blacks and whites should be segregated. He also believed that white man was evil and were trying to brainwash all blacks and that Martin Luther King's "non- violent protests" weren't working and that violence was needed for change. Malcolm X's life was a life with a lot of conflict and violence in it. Malcolm X was born under the name of Malcolm Little ...
- 1382: Mrs. Warren's Profession
- Mrs. Warren's Profession In life the struggle between what is good and necessary for the individual and the moral values placed upon people by society is constantly present. This is true of the characters in George Bernard Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession. Shaw demonstrates that doing something frowned upon by society does not have to be an evil thing so long as it is good for the individual. Perhaps the most obvious example of societal ...
- 1383: Redemtion And Salvation In A T
- ... a man of great potential, has wasted his life and ends up giving his life, in an act of redemption. Dickens, in A Tale Of Two Cities, shows that no matter how bleak a person's life might seem, redemption and salvation are always possible. Dickens develops the theme of redemption and salvation through Dr. Manette's painful experience in prison and his resurrection back into society. The famous quote, "Recalled to life" (Dickens page 8), is used many times in A Tale Of Two Cities to describe Dr. Manette's escape from sure death in the Bastille. Dr. Manette's story begins when he is imprisoned unjustly for eighteen years. The solitary time spent in the prison waiting for his certain death is so ...
- 1384: Interior Monologue
- ... you looking at? Do you have a problem? Give me a bloody break and stop looking at me. Im sick of these damn people. Look at them acting so bloody stupid and ignorant. Cant their minute brains comprehend that someone in a wheelchair is normal? Do they think Im some sort of freak, some circus act, some goddamn freak show! Do they get their kicks out of just ... up that new CD I wanted. But as usual I have to deal with being stared at continuously by these narrow-minded people who just think of me as some kind of retard. I dont remember the accident, the car accident that is. I remember growing up in the wheelchair though. Well, for a while when I was young it wasnt a wheelchair that I had; it was this little skateboard type thing you could say. It used to bother me how I saw kids running around and playing while I was there in my ...
- 1385: Gimple The Fool
- A deeper look at "Gimple the Fool" At one time or another, everyone, in their life, has looked down upon someone because that someone isn't as rich, attractive, or even as intelligent as most people. People do this without any regard to the people's feeling, and without ever imagining what it is like to be in that person's shoes. In Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Gimpel the Fool", a man named Gimpel was harassed and teased because of the fact he was gullible, or so the people believed. The townspeople looked at Gimpel ...
- 1386: J.P. Morgan
- ... John Pierpont Morgan is considered one of the founding fathers of the modern United States economy. He was an industrial genius that is accredited with the founding of many companies including General Electric and AT&T. However, Pierpont is looked upon as a saint and demon the same. He received a honorary degree from Harvard university that read: "Public citizen, patron of literature and art, prince among merchants, who by his ... any other person at the turn of the century. Morgan was a banker, railroad czar, industrialist, financier, philanthropist, yachtsman, and ladies' man. He was king to a handful of millionaire barons who controlled the country's wealth in an era of little government regulation. The wealth of the Morgan family did not begin with Pierpont but with his grandfather Joseph Morgan. Joseph prospered as a hotelkeeper in Hartford, Connecticut. He helped to organize a canal company, steamboat lines and the new railroad that connected Hartford with Springfield. Finally he became one of the founders of the Aetna Fire Insurance Company. Joseph's first son was Junius Spencer Morgan, also destined for the life of a businessman. He spent a number of years as a dry-goods merchant before moving to Boston and into the foreign trade ...
- 1387: The Death Penalty
- ... control, but capital punishment has been one of the most widely contested issues in recent decades. Capital punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a major crime. It isnt meant to inflict pain or torture, but rather another form of punishment. It removes the punished criminals from society forever, instead of letting them sit in prison. The death penalty has been imposed through out ... and hanging. Today, these punishments would be considered unusual and cruel. The United States uses four different types of execution. These punishments are lethal injection, gas chamber, hanging, and electrocution. These types of execution arent meant for torture, but to see that the convicted receives punishment fit for the crime. For the past decades, capital punishment has been one of the most widely contested political issues in writing. Most of ... oppose capital punishment, believe that this discouragement is mostly an assumption. An assumption it is not. If we are to dismiss capital punishment, we might as well eliminate all prisons as well because they dont seem to be anymore effective in the deterrence of crime. In 1985 a study was published by economist Stephen K. Layson at the University of North Carolina that showed that every execution of a ...
- 1388: Bridge To Terabithia
- There are many main themes in Bridge to Terabithia. One of the most important is Jesse and Leslie's magical kingdom in the woods called Terabithia. Terabithia is a small castle they built in the woods where they go to escape and have magical adventures. The "bridge" is a rope they use to swing ... get their way by whining. He has a younger sister who looks up to him and a baby sister, who of course, gets all the attention. Every time the baby cries his mother assumes it's because Jesse had something to do with it. A few main ideas are the differences between Jesse's family and Leslie's family. Jesse's family is quite poor and high strung. Jesse's mother is a housewife. She cooks; she cleans and raises the children. Jesse's father is usually angry. ...
- 1389: Melatonin And The Pineal Gland
- ... fend off diseases. Being set in the middle of our brains, the pineal gland has no direct access to sunlight. Our eyes send it a message of how much sunlight they see, and when it's dark. The sunlight prohibits the gland from producing melatonin, so at night, when there's no sun, the sleep-inducing hormone is released into our bodies. Because of the pineal gland and melatonin, humans have known to sleep at night and wake during the day since long before the age of alarm clocks. Humans don't produce melatotin right from birth; it is transfered in utero to babies through the placenta. For their first few days of life, babies still have to receive it from breast milk. Our levels of ...
- 1390: A Deeper Look At Gimple The Fo
- A deeper look at "Gimple the Fool" At one time or another, everyone, in their life, has looked down upon someone because that someone isn't as rich, attractive, or even as intelligent as most people. People do this without any regard to the people's feeling, and without ever imagining what it is like to be in that person's shoes. In Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Gimpel the Fool", a man named Gimpel was harassed and teased because of the fact he was gullible, or so the people believed. The townspeople looked at Gimpel ...
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