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- 14631: Abortion
- ... that is just sick. I think that it is in humane to kill a live child. Just think, it is alive. It needs oxygen to breath. It needs food to live. And if you don't take care of the baby, it wouldn't come out. Like if you do drugs or alcohol, it will ruin the child. There is one exception that I would have is if the girl got raped. Even though I still wouldn't approve of it, I think there should be an exception. I think that if the woman had any brains, that she would want to have the loving child. Just think you come home from ...
- 14632: Isadora Duncan
- ... was a piano teacher, and her father, Joseph Duncan was a banker, journalist, and poet. Her parents were both well educated, charming, and an altogether happy couple. However, their marriage fell apart soon after Isadora's birth. After the divorce, Dora was left with little money to support her four children; Augastin, Raymond, Elizabeth, and Isadora. She gave her music lessons, but still was not bringing in enough money to keep ... lessons. To Isadora this was "irritating and meaningless." She hated school. She said later in her autobiography that her real education came on the nights when Isadora and her siblings would dance to her mother's music and learn about what they were interested in -- literature and music. Isadora was told as a child that she would have to learn to depend on herself to get what she needed in life. So as Isadora grew older, she began to understand her family's financial condition and was eager to help. She and her sister Elizabeth began baby-sitting to help the family. To keep their charges busy, they taught them how to dance. The dance lessons were ...
- 14633: Audens Dystopia - The Merchant
- Auden, W.H. "Brothers and Others." "The Dyer's Hand" and Other Essays. New York: Random House, 1948. In a casual but seminal essay on the play, Auden calls The Merchant of Venice one of Shakespeare's "Unpleasant Plays." The presence of Antonio and Shylock disrupts the unambiguous fairy-tale world of romantic comedy, reminding us that the utopian qualities of Belmont are illusory: "in the real world, no hatred is totally without justification, no love totally innocent." Auden's Dystopia The Merchant of Venice is Far from Perfect In a perfect world, hatred would be without justice; love would be totally innocent. However, utopias like that are nonexistent; thus, one can easily look ...
- 14634: The Symbol Of The Sun In The S
- ... for feelings and emotions, which Monsieur Meursault cannot deal with. There is a sun motif present throughout the novel, which perniciously characterizes the usual fondness towards the sun. The sun is a distraction from Meursault's everyday life and he cannot handle it. The sun first presents a problem to Meursault at his mother's funeral procession. Even before the procession embarks, Meursault remarks of the sun, calling it "inhuman and oppressive." Meursault has shown no emotion towards his mother's death and he directs his bottled-up anxiety at the sun. To Meursault, the sun is an influence on all his senses, as he cannot hear what someone else says to him. He pours ...
- 14635: Econimics-Merger Between AOL A
- ... the two companies prior to the merger, identifies the issue/issues at hand, presents an in-depth analysis, and suggests alternatives using course concepts. Overview America Online Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia, is the world's leader in branded interactive services and content. The company provides two worldwide Internet online services, America Online and CompuServe, with approximately 16 million members. Other branded Internet services operated by America Online Inc. include AOL ... Communications is a supplier of AOL Inc. Netscape is upstream from AOL; Netscape supplies its Internet browser (Netscape Navigator or Netscape Communicator) to AOL. AOL is being charged a fee for the use of Netscape's product. This fee is based both on a fixed and a variable component. Netscape is currently undervalued as a company, but has valuable technology and resources that AOL can incorporate into its offering to its consumers. America Online's proposed $4 billion acquisition of Netscape would offer a graceful and lucrative exit for an Internet pioneer that's been foundering for a year. This will give AOL a chance to advance its position ...
- 14636: Capital Punishment Deters Murder, and Is Just Retribution
- ... Retribution Capital punishment, is the execution of criminals by the state, for committing crimes, regarded so heinous, that this is the only acceptable punishment. Capital punishment does not only lower the murder rate, but it's value as retribution alone is a good reason for handing out death sentences. Support for the death penalty in the U.S. has risen to an average of 80% according to an article written by Richard Worsnop, entitled "Death penalty debate centres on Retribution", this figure is slightly lower in Canada where support for the death penalty ... death penalty are in favour of making examples out of offenders, and that the threat of death will be enough to deter the crime rate, but the crime rate is irrelevant. According to Isaac Ehrlich's study, published on April 16, 1976, eight murders are deterred for each execution that is carried out in the U.S.A. He goes on to say, "If one execution of a guilty capital ...
- 14637: Isadora Duncan
- ... was a piano teacher, and her father, Joseph Duncan was a banker, journalist, and poet. Her parents were both well educated, charming, and an altogether happy couple. However, their marriage fell apart soon after Isadora's birth. After the divorce, Dora was left with little money to support her four children; Augastin, Raymond, Elizabeth, and Isadora. She gave her music lessons, but still was not bringing in enough money to keep ... lessons. To Isadora this was "irritating and meaningless." She hated school. She said later in her autobiography that her real education came on the nights when Isadora and her siblings would dance to her mother's music and learn about what they were interested in -- literature and music. Isadora was told as a child that she would have to learn to depend on herself to get what she needed in life. So as Isadora grew older, she began to understand her family's financial condition and was eager to help. She and her sister Elizabeth began baby-sitting to help the family. To keep their charges busy, they taught them how to dance. The dance lessons were ...
- 14638: Tinnitus
- ... rest, acceptability of change, emotional effects, hearing and ability to ignore using the Tinnitus Effect Questionaire. The only major difference that was found was that the untreated group had more acceptability for change. Hegel, Mark T; Martin, John B. 1998. Behavioral treatment of pulsative tinnitus and headache following traumatic head injuries: Objective polygraphic assessment of change. Behavior Modification. 22 (4). Pg. 563-573 This study was done on a 37 year ... less frequent, easier to handle, and decreased annoyance, which in turn helped him cope better. Erlandsson, Soly I. 1998. Psychological counseling in a medical setting-some clinical examples given by patients with tinnitus and Meneire's disease. International Journal for the Advancement of Counseling. 20 (4). 265-276. Counseling patients with Meniere's disease showed that a defensive response to tinnitus or Meniere's disease caused a state of dysfunction and that their psychological adaption was hindered. Some of the patients found it difficult to even talk ...
- 14639: Through The Eyes Of The Dyslex
- ... conditions have matured. There is a difference between retardation, a sub level intelligence, and dyslexia. There is also a difference between illiteracy and a learning disability. Illiteracy can be characterized as a person that doesn't possess the knowledge of reading or writing (Thomas 24). Many people think that the learning disabled are dumb, stupid, or just lazy. When in fact, a person with a learning disability has the same or higher intelligence quotient (IQ) than those people that don't have a learning disability. It is possible for a person to have an IQ of 130 and be dyslexic; it is also possible for a person with an IQ of 80 who is non-dyslexic ... last resort (Levinson 210). The dyslexic person is the same as anybody, just he or she has a harder time learning to read, write, or spell. Perhaps dyslexia is harder to understand because you can't see through their eyes. Dyslexic people are visual, multi-dimensional thinkers. They are intuitive and highly creative, and excel at hands-on learning. Because they think in pictures, their minds have difficulty processing and ...
- 14640: Theory Of Knowledge 2
- ... Myth may pull stronger or hope turning you into the optimist for the day. Today you trust science and the next it will be religion. History like Knowledge is like a Baobab tree, you can t put both arms around it . We have already stated that history is fragmented and it seems that the best way to understand it is to try and touch as many parts of it (Myth, Hope ... is a controversy. We have more knowledge about the bomb now, but does that mean we are closer to the truth we ardently pursue? I believe your knowledge is a myth and you believe mine's is and we both think person X is just a bumbling fool for hoping it will never happen again. We all look at the same event, and see something else. Why? And it told us nothing in terms of the truth so is history and it's parts just a farce? If history's limitations are like those of knowledge, then that's a farce too. Could we then boldly say that Life is a Farce too? Once again the same ...
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