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- 14091: Gender
- SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER Today’s society plays a very important role in the construction of gender. Gender is a type of issue that has raised many question over the years in defining and debating if both male and female are ... physical ability then jobs then women has. If we look back 20-30 years ago, not many women had jobs or financial responsibility. Today almost every women has a job and contributes toward their family’s income. But the jobs that they have can define gender. For example most female jobs include, nurse, clerks, teacher, maid, baby sitter, and others. But the point is that female oriented jobs are less physical ... not necessarily looked upon as role model and ideals. They are not exactly what is expected out of a usual men and somehow our self conscious tell us not to be like them. You won’t see very many women acting like men either. For example you won’t see as many women wrestler as men, a women driving big motorcycles or women doing “Macho” activities. Their self conscious reminds ...
- 14092: Birthmark
- ... to a more scientific view of the world and its natural wonders. Americans, however, did look at these new scientific discoveries with much hesitation, questioning their long-term effects on society as a whole. Hawthorne’ s work, “The Birth Mark echoes these sentiments and combine natural faith with a confidence in science to make a very interesting tale. This tale and its morality convey a message to the reader that there ... opens by explaining how educated and knowledgeable Aylmer is, and the narrator even suggests that he may have the power to alter nature. “ We know not whether Aylmer possesses this degree of faith in man’s ultimate control over nature (Birthmark, 1262 ).”As Aylmer tries to use science to alter nature, or in this case, the birthmark on his wife’s cheek, his plan backfires and his wife dies. The death of Georgiana shows that knowledge is dangerous if used in the wrong way. The influence of the evolution of culture has caused men to ...
- 14093: Extra-sensory Perception
- ... Extra sensory perception falls into this science and is branched off into different, but specific groups. These groups define extra sensory perception as the ability to pick up information or manipulate things that normally can't happen in everyday life. Many people have claimed an ability of extra sensory perception, and many of their arguments are very effective, but there are many skeptics that claim that it is utterly bogus and ... claims can be easily argued. A person that has a dog may bring a friend over and know that the dog is going to bark when it sees the friend, even though the dog hasn't yet barked, but due to past experience, they can accurately guess towards a future event and see the dog bark. Psychokinesis is a trait that is wanted by many people just for the fact it makes less work. "Psychokinesis is a person's ability to influence a physical object or an event, by merely thinking about it." (Thomas-1) The ability to manipulate things just by thought alone stirs up mixed emotions towards things such as gambling ...
- 14094: Personal Writing: My Dog Skippy
- ... of land. My mom felt it would be OK to let Skippy run around the chiropractors land while she took her appointment. Later that evening my mom came to pick me up at my friend's house. When I got in the truck she told me Skippy never came back after her appointment. As we drove back to Golden to see if my dog returned I remember thinking I would trade ... the house I saw Skippy in our head lights waging his tail like an angel. When my parents decided to get divorced they wanted to sell our house and move to separate apartments. I didn't think about it at first but soon realized I would have to part with my beloved dog. After a few months of fighting over the issue with my parents we came to an agreement. My ... farm and was willing to take Skippy in. I decided if I had to let my dog go, a farm is the only place I'd send him. My mom took Skippy to her friend's house and when she got home I made her call out to the farm to see if Skippy was OK. Her friend said Skippy had run off and hadn't returned. Skippy never came ...
- 14095: Locke Vs. Locke
- ... feasible or fair account of property. To begin, Locke believes that property is not a "thing", rather, it is a relationship between an individual and an item. Property is a natural condition in John Locke s state of nature, meaning it was present since the beginning. "Thus labor, in the beginning, gave a right of property, wherever anyone was pleased to employ it upon what was common, which remained a long ... taken it out of the hands of nature, where it was common, and belonged equally to all her children, and hath hereby appropriated it to himself" (Locke, 20). Here, Locke explains that by mixing one s physical labor with, for example, an apple from a tree, one removes the apple from the common cache of apples in the tree, and the apple becomes his own personal property. Locke believes that the ... titles of property that are as natural as the labor used itself. Marx examines these issues in a more economical sense, focusing on markets and forces of production rather than natural property rights in Locke s state of nature. Forces of production such as labor, land and technology, as well as relations of production ,or the division of labor and property rights, are key to the examination of Marx. Marx ...
- 14096: Essay - Effects of Dam Building
- ... dams are. A dam is a barrier built across a water course to hold back or control water flow. Dams are classified as either storage, diversion or detention. As you could probably notice from it's name, storage dams are created to collect or hold water for periods of time when there is a surplus supply. The water is then used when there is a lack of supply. For example many ... their body. Often, two types of these dams are combined to form a composite structure consisting of for example an overflow concrete gravity dam, the water that overflows into dikes of earthfill construction. A dam's primary function is to trap water for irrigation. Dams help to decrease the severity of droughts, increase agricultural production, and create new lands for agricultural use. Farmland, however, has it's price; river bottomlands flooded, defacing the fertility of the soil. This agricultural land may also result in a loss of natural artifacts. Recently in Tasmania where has been pressure from the government to abandon ...
- 14097: The Hamlet In Me
- ... its moral code that Hamlet not take revenge, Hamlet tries to find the worst fate for his devious uncle possible: "Now might I do it, now he is a-praying, And now I'll do't and so he goes to heave…When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in th' incestuous pleasure of his bed…Then trip him…And that his soul may be as damned and ... act to give his uncle the most cruel and horrible death he deserves. His actions also bring in a conflict between church and the revengeful calls of his families past. If he revenges his father's death then he will be damned to hell according to the church. Without Hamlet's patient and meticulous thought process he would not be able to outwardly expose the king of his wrong doings to Horatio: There is a play tonight before the King. One scene of it comes ...
- 14098: To Kill A Mockingbird: Atticus is Kind, Smart, and Wise
- ... teach his children good manners, and to be good people. When he tells Jem not to kill a mockingbird because it is a sin to so, or when he tells his children that he doesn't use his intelligence over people to his advantage, he is showing wisdom. When his children have a question, he has an answer. He is a lawyer, so it is to his advantage to be smart ... the Tom Robinson case. Even Judge Taylor knew that Tom was innocent, which is why he got Atticus to defend him. Still Atticus sought the truth in the case, even though it was the 1930's and a black man's word was not as good as a white person's word. Atticus believed in Tom. He makes a good lawyer because of this trait of seeking the truth. Atticus would be kind to everyone. ...
- 14099: Roman Mythology
- ... He was either flung from Mount Olympus because Hera was upset with his ugliness and broke his legs as he fell into the sea or he was flung off the mountain as he took Hera's side in an argument with Zeus. (www. hunt) Janus was the god that was not represented in Greek mythology. He was the god of entrances, coming and going, doorways, bridges, ferries, harbors, and boundaries. Janus ... by many, but not achieved by much. They all expressed something with their powers and their ability of ruling over normal mankind. The Romans had nothing to do with any of this. Their religion wasn't as serious as of that of the Greeks. They did not have the mystical life like that of the Greeks, but rather they were represented in statues and worshipped at certain times of the year ... He was either flung from Mount Olympus because Hera was upset with his ugliness and broke his legs as he fell into the sea or he was flung off the mountain as he took Hera's side in an argument with Zeus. (www. hunt) Janus was the god that was not represented in Greek mythology. He was the god of entrances, coming and going, doorways, bridges, ferries, harbors, and boundaries. ...
- 14100: Creative Story: The Chronic Swamp Murders
- ... did you find a dead hunter just lying in the middle of a swamp? Even with these questions police told the Hemps that it was an accident and they were in no danger. The Hemp's life went on with no interruptions until about two weeks after the hunter was found. Another body had been found in the swamp. This time the body was a male whom had a business suit ... that all the doors were locked and he got his shotgun out of the closet. He waited in his dark living room for about an hour and then went back to his bed. He didn't tell his wife what had happened so she wouldn't be scared The next day when Joe was coming home from work he noticed the door was wide open. When he got closer he noticed that the door frame was broken and the door ...
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