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- 14681: Skin Cancer
- ... decades worshipping the sun has become a cult. A deep tan and is popularly regarded as a sign of robust health and beauty. Some go as far as using artificial tanning milk if they can't get one naturally. While millions bask in the sun and follow the sun far south in winter, artificially produced tanning rays can give people their tan at home.(Brody, 1982) Unfortunately, ultra violent rays are a trouble maker. A good appreciation for the sun's harm is long overdue. Most people won't abandon their sun god overnight, dermatologist hope that a better understanding on the sun's harm will inspire a safer form of worship.(Brody) The lack of understanding has spawned fatal and very morbid ...
- 14682: Albert Einstein from Start to Finish
- ... also considered a Jeckell and Hide. Albert Einstein was considered mentally retarded as a young child. This was because he simply chose to do what he wanted to do, in terms of schoolwork. He didn't like school too well, except for Math. In his classes he daydreamed constantly because he was so board with the lesson. His teachers came to the conclusion that he was mentally retarded and his classmates ... Math and Science? He began high school at the age 12. He was only interested in Mathematics and Philosophy. Therefore he made no effort to work in his other classes. His father, Hermann Einstein, didn't want him to study Philosophy. He wanted him to take over the family business and study electrical engineering. He and his mother would practice the piano for hours. He mastered it! He then moved on the violin. He took his violin to school and everywhere he went. Albert's father had business problems as he was growing up. His father was never around to love or help Albert. When he was home he drank and had no patience for poor Einstein. When Albert ...
- 14683: Law Enforcement Today
- ... is breaking the law and how they will enforce the situation. Law officers are sometimes expected to be perfect. They have to catch all the bad guys and save all the innocent. Unfortunately it doesn't always work that way but officers try to do the best of their ability. All officers are different in that some are more strict and you can't get away with as much, and others are very laid back and you are apt to get a way with more. I believe all officers should be strict when it comes to safety issues, and people's health is at risk. I also believe officers should try and teach you what is against the law before you are punished, like warnings should be issued when no one is in harms way. ...
- 14684: Young Goodman Brown 2
- ... and religious that evilness is all around us and most people will never ever find out the truth. The character Young Goodman Brown written by Nathaniel Hawthorne finds many issues of evil concerning the town s people in which he lives, about himself, and the reality behind the evil. In the story Young Goodman Brown Goodman Brown learns about evil in the towns people and how what he thought was the truth is really not. When Goodman Brown starts his voyage he knew what he was going in the woods to do, what he didn t realize is that the same reason he went to the woods was the same reason as the towns people. When Goodman encounters Goody Cloyse in the woods he is shocked that he sees her out ... it hits the ground it turns alive and Goody Close disappears. Leading you to believe that she is just an imagination to get Brown to believe in the evil. Goodman Brown also sees other town s members in the woods such as highly respected people such as Deacon Gookin, and even his wife Faith. When Brown learns of Faith participating in this gathering in the woods he is distraught he ...
- 14685: Of Mice And Men
- Crooks Character Analysis In John Steinbecks novel Of Mice and Men, the character named Crooks was segregated from the other men because he is black. This caused him to be lonely. He was forced to sleep in a separate bunk than ... that he actually wanted someone to talk with. During his conversation with Lennie Crooks reveals his loneliness on the ranch. "I seen it over an over a guy talkin to another guy and it dont make no difference if he dont hear or understand." Although he is talking to Lennie about George, he is actually speaking of his own life. He needs someone, someone to talk with, a friend. After Lennie explains his dream to ...
- 14686: The Bell Jar
- ... pondering the execution of the Rosenbergs. Esther the main character is in New York because of contest held by a fashion magazine. While in New York Esther tells about her life by the encounters she's had. She is a college student and is in the honors courses. The whole trip to New York had messed up Esters way of thinking. For example before she went to New York she had ... was not accepted. This was what pushed Esther over the edge. She became more and more obsessed about how she would kill herself and planed it out carefully. When the time came she just couldn't do it. So she began to preoccupied herself by thinking of other ways of death. She couldn't sleep or read this bothered her because she loved to read. Finally she went to see a doctor who gave her shock treatments. This made Esther even worse an so she slipped even deeper ...
- 14687: Logictisicul Agnosticism Philo
- ... by a reliance on the basic belief that God made the universe. This belief creates a chain reaction which people use to support a whole set of various religious beliefs. Can one really assume God's existence is unquestionable due to the absence of an opposing deity or far greater power? Since there is no tangible proof of God, wouldn t one assume that humans would neglect the ancient scripts? The answer is no since the belief in God and his heaven are only a mental insurance policy for life after death but that is a good reason to believe in something if you do not have any information to back you up other wise. If the world is a means to an end, why didn't God skip the intervening stages and create the end? He created an animal that in its creation was already decide of its outcome with a eternity of pain or a eternity of pleasure. Why ...
- 14688: How has AIDS affected our Society?
- How has AIDS affected our Society? Today more Americans are infected with STD's than at any other time in history. The most serious of these diseases is AIDS. Since the first cases were identified in the United States in 1981, AIDS has touched the lives of millions of ... other in modern history. Changes in social behavior can be directly linked to AIDS. Its overall effect on society has been dramatic. It is unknown whether AIDS and HIV existed and killed in the U.S. and North America before the early 1970s. However in the early 1980s, "deaths by opportunistic infections, previously observed mainly in tissue-transplant recipients receiving immunosuppressive therapy", were recognized in otherwise healthy homosexual men. In 1983 ... was initiated in which each panel of the quilt was dedicated to the memory of an individual AIDS death. This quilt has traveled on display from community to community to promote AIDS awareness. The U.S. government has also attempted to assist HIV-infected individuals through legislation and additional community-funding measures. In 1990 HIV-infected people were included in the Americans with Disabilities Act, making discrimination against these individuals ...
- 14689: The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoe
- ... in a short story, a symbol is a detail, a character, or an incident that has a meaning beyond its literal role in the narrative. Gilman uses symbols to tell her story of a woman s mental state of being diminishes throughout the story. The following paragraphs tell just some of the symbols and how I interpreted them, they could be read in many different ways. The title itself, The Yellow ... tried to play a role in society she was just not taken seriously, or felt like trying to play a role was getting nowhere. The way Gilman describes the wallpaper tells of what the narrator s mind is thinking, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide. (Gillman 206) She doesn t think this on the conscious level but more on the unconscious level. When the narrator writes, (The designs) destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. (Gillman 206) She is speaking of her state of mind ...
- 14690: The Old Man and The Sea
- ... destruction to himself. This might accomplish nothing but the satisfaction of doing this and also has great risks. Finally he comes upon a painful experience with his hand which is in great pain and won't move. This is useful in the place where Christ loses his physical self and has less to deal with. On the third day, he recovers himself and returns to his home even though his only ... first it has a hunter vs. his prey. This hunter does respect th e prey. Throughout the book it has this series of events: encounter, battle, defeat, and respect for the prey. This is Hemmingway's `Code of Honor'. This part of the novel has to do with relationships between two characters. The first to discuss are Santiago and Manolin, Manolin being the small follower of the old man named Santiago ... rather than being lucky. The other relationship in this story has to do with Manolin and his parents. Manolin seems to be very rebellious against his parents, although he does submit to their demands. Santiago's greatest link to the village is the boy. Santiago may be poor in the story, yet is proud. This story when compared to being imaginative is good, but in real life is somewhat of ...
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