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- 13871: AIDS
- ... can get this disease, however, the race with the highest number of infected people happens to be Caucasian males ages 25-44. About forty-five percent of the 641,000 AIDS cases in the U.S. have been white people. Blacks aren’t far behind with over 35 percent of cases, and Hispanics have about 20 percent of all cases. Asians have less than anyone does, with 1 percent. Of the estimated 30.6 million people worldwide living ... same age group and the third leading cause of death in women 25-44. Adult males are the leading sex to contract AIDS. They account for over 80 percent of all cases in the U.S. Adult women make up 15 percent and children make up the other 1- percent of the cases. (Encarta 99) People have been lead to believe so many fictional stories about the ways of contracting ...
- 13872: The Black Death In Europe
- The Black Death In Europe Europe has experience two great plagues throughout its history. The first came in 1347, it was known as the Black Death. The second hit Europe’s most famous city, London, in late 1664 or early 1665; residents called it the Great London Plague. During these two plagues, there arose two men willing to tell the world of the horrors these two ... The Decameron is a collection of tales that were “assembled in their definitive form” sometime between 1349 and 1351 (Drabble 260). In his “The Disease of All Diseases” James Fenton describes his assertions on Boccaccio’ s Decameron. Fenton is astonished at the knowledge that Boccaccio presents about this plague: “What he does know, although he doesn’t quite put it like this, is that the bacterium mutated in the course of its progress…. The next source of horror was its speed – three days or less between the onset of symptoms and ...
- 13873: Franklin Delino Roosevelt
- ... influence almost every aspect of federal government today. President Roosevelt rose in political stature during one of Americas most troubling periods of time. With the constant threat of Russia in the back of many people’s minds and the result of the ongoing economical recession now known as the great depression. During his first campaign for president most of the public didn’t understand what most of his platform was. It was just simply known as the new deal. What the public did know was that Hoovers system of government was not helping improve the country’s economic situation. What President Roosevelt came to office the country’s unemployment rates were hitting record highs. The farmers in the Midwest were in a mass migration to large cities in California to seek ...
- 13874: Comparison: Journey To The Center of The Earth & The Time Machine
- ... book Journey to the Center of the Earth uses the plot "The Choice." Professor Hardwigg found a parchment by Arne Saknussemm that tells how to get to the center of the Earth. The professor couldn't resist an adventure and chose to go on it. The Time Machine uses the plot "The Understanding." The Time Traveler had built a time machine and went into the future. The sensation he felt when ... the Eloi. They were beautiful and graceful creatures. They were frail, had no hair, and were only about four feet tall. Morlocks also lived there. They were gruesome, pale, and chinless creatures. The Time Traveler's time machine is stolen and he must try to get it back from the Morlocks or be forever trapped in the future. The setting of Journey to the Center of the Earth took place in ... the Center of the Earth the brave travelers prepared quite well for the trip. They brought: a first class chronometer, one compass for horizontal guidance, another to ascertain the dip, a night glass, two Ruhmkorf's coils, and a voltaic battery. They brought tools to help them descend into the crater of Mount Sneffels. The tools were: two pickaxes, two crowbars, a silken ladder, three iron-shod Alpine poles, a ...
- 13875: The Crucible By Arthur Miller
- Arthur Miller s play The Crucible develops characters that portray problems with their identities. This inner struggle is clearly seen in the main character John Proctor. He is the man Miller has chosen to struggle with the dilemma ... desperation says, I think you must tell him, John. Will you tell him? (2060) This passage is the first time we really see John Proctor struggling with his identity. He is pulled between his wife s honesty and Abigail s dishonesty. He knows he should be faithful to his wife in all ways now, so he furnishes Mr. Hale with the information. The act of Elizabeth being accused as a witch is a defining ...
- 13876: The Bombing At The West Bank
- ... Bank will next be given up; a bombing occurred. The bombing took place at 10:30 A.M. on November 7, 1999. Three pipe bombs were planted next to a bank in a few garbage’s. The bombs went off near a busy bank in the center of Netanya’s busiest shopping center. Police searched for a fourth bomb, around the area and sure enough found one meters away from where the original bombing had taken place. There was a heavy cloud of smoke and ... The bombings are a result of the peace talks, because most likely the ones responsible for these are the ones most against all the peace talks. They are against the peace process, because they don’t feel that Israel has any ownership to the land whatsoever. Ehud Barak will not stop the peace process, even though there are bombings going on, and that is what causes all these bombings. He ...
- 13877: Things Fall Apart 5
- Polygamy in Things Fall Apart It is obvious that in reading Things Fall Apart that polygamy was alive and well in the village of Umuofia. Not only was it accepted it was expected. Men's wealth was judged by their huge barns [and their] number of wives and children. The more wives a man had, usually meant more children. If a man had several wives and many offspring, he of ... one sent the first dish and so on. Not a bad set up if Okonkwo did not like what his first wife prepared, he had two more meals to fall back on. If a man's first wife did not produce the sons he longed for, he had other wives to impregnate and hope they would produce the sons he desired. In Things Fall Apart, the book seems to depict men ... For example wife number one bears no children. Wife number three bears four sons while wife number two produces two daughters. By tradition, wife number one is to have more respect and power, but wouldn't a man that desires son's have to smile more favorably on wife there who gave him these sons? Surely women being women there must be smugness and a feeling of superiority in wife ...
- 13878: To Kill A Mocking Bird Atticus
- ... novel. Atticus is a man who knows no prejudice or racial hatred and this is what makes him unique in the novel. Contrary to the general feeling of the town, Atticus sees past a man s colour and looks into the depth of his character. In the beginning of the novel, on page 34, he tells Scout You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of ... for what he believes is right. When asked by his children why he chose to defend Tom Robinson when he knew he would most likely not win he replied to them that is he hadn t, he wouldn t be able to believe in himself anymore. He chose to defend Tom Robinson because to choose not to would be going against all his personal morals and principles. Because of these strong morals and ...
- 13879: The Scarlet Letter
- The Scarlet Letter There are many things that could be said about the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, “The Scarlet Letter.” The fact that Hester can see the devil in her own daughter’s eyes, and the way that Dimmesdale torments himself nightly with tools of pain. It is like an almost incurable disease that rips apart at their lives. I think that the focus of this book is, Guilt can rip apart your life. Hester is a woman who under the pressures of guilt has started to see bad things in everyone. Hester was looking into her daughter’s eyes, looking for herself, but instead she sees the Black Man. What does this say about what she is thinking? She can’t get the fact out of her head that what she did was wrong and that by the puritan society she will be cast into hell. The only reasons she sees the Black Man is ...
- 13880: The Awakeing
- The Awakeing: A Woman's Fight for Independence Right from the beginning the plot is almost conveniently evident. You find a woman, Edna Pontellier, tired of living her life as a pampered and "owned" wife and mother. She is searching for much more in her life, some sort of meaning for her whole existence. She searches for a long time but in the end, the inevitability of her life's pattern and direction wraps around her, suffocating her. She is overcome with wonder, confusion, and guilt for what she believes and what she does to express her beliefs. She finally finds a way to beat the "proper" 1890's lifestyle by committing suicide. During this story Edna struggles with three main opposing powers. First, there is the society's opinion of what a woman's "roles" in life was and how they should ...
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