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- 14721: Personal Writing: The Dangers of Drinking and Driving
- Personal Writing: The Dangers of Drinking and Driving You don’t realize how precious a friend is until you loose them. A guy Kyle; he was a friend of mine that has died in a car accident. Why did this horrible accident happen? This tragedy changed ... matter how bright your future looks it could end at any moment in time. I just hope God has a good place for him because he had a good future ahead of him and it’s a shame he died his senior year before he could even graduate. What happened to Kyle also showed me that drinking and driving kills. Now if I’m ever in a situation where the driver ... know they are really impaired I would not get in the car with them. I also try to speak logically about drinking and driving to others. I guess I’m sortof preaching but I can’t help it Kyle’s death sticks in my head everyday. I know that deaths like Kyle’s could have been avoided but instead there stupidity has killed themselves or innocent people. I would never ...
- 14722: Gender Communication
- ... have noticed the differences between men and women in some of my relationships. For example, I may say to my husband, "I feel that it is unfair that you get to set back and watch t.v. while I clean house." "When you get a chance I think you need to help me." Using words like think and feel do not register as well with the male gender as with females ... direct orders to clearly understand what is really being asked of them. When I asked my husband to help me with the house, in his eyes he never had a chance because the game on t.v. lasted several hours. When I spoke more directly, with a commanding voice rather than a polite request, and gave a set time and he understood me and we did not have any misunderstandings. ANALYZE ... fact that men and women view the world differently. The sexes have distinct viewpoints and attitudes towards life, they think differently and therefore do not have the same ideas of what is essential. A woman's personality, which includes our views and our thinking, is reflected in our conversations. The genders have different opinions about the purpose that a conversation should fulfil, and they can be perceived differently by the ...
- 14723: A Separate Peace: Truth, Lies, and Violence
- ... is interested in two things, the Academic Building (First Building) and the tree. He visits these places and we find out that his worst experiences happened at these places. Before you can really understand Gene’s personality you have to have some one to compare it to. Also in order to examine Gene’s personality you have to bring certain personality traits from someone. That person is Phineas (Finny). Gene has always been one to stick to the rules and regulations. He has always obeyed his superiors. He would ... an individualist or a person with a distinct characteristic. He admires people who are extreme individualist. I think that is easier for Gene to go with the crowd than to go against it. Gene doesn’t like to express his emotions directly. An example of this is when Finny says that they are good friends, Gene has trouble accepting it. Gene is a person who is dissatisfied with his life ...
- 14724: Should Athletes Use Creatine?
- Should Athletes Use Creatine? In today’s society, athletes are always trying to find new ways to enhance their performance. Athletes want to be able to improve their performance, in the fastest ways possible. Many athletes have turned to a relatively new ... are meat and fish. After a meal, Creatine is absorbed from the blood into skeletal muscle through the activity of muscle surface transporter molecules. (Dr. Omar, 3) Creatine Monohydrate involves a workout with. You can’t just take it and expect to see results. One of the myths that have appeared around Creatine is that it is only beneficial for weightlifters. (Zeibak, 1) That is not true. It’s just that weightlifters were the first to discover creatine’s ability to extend workout time and decrease recovery time. Other sports such as track, swimming, cycling, football, tennis, baseball, hockey, rugby, and soccer are ...
- 14725: Doctor Assisted Suicide
- ... they choose to. The only problem is that some states have decided to not allow physician assisted suicide. For example, people like Dr. Kevorkian has been under much scrutiny for assisting in deaths. I don’t necessarily agree with his bedside manor and his “icy okey-doke” (Goodman, 495) But when somebody decides to take his own life, it is up to the individual to do so. Another problem is the ... is terminally ill and is going to die from the illness, then the only thing to do is to take his or her own life to end suffering. Take for example, if somebody has Alzheimer’s disease, or Parkinson’s disease, that person will eventually lose the mental and physical capacity to function as what society thinks is a human being. They will suffer for a long period of time until they die. In ...
- 14726: Old Man and the Sea: Themes of Santiago Against Nature, Figures of Christ and Relationships Between Characters
- ... 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 ...
- 14727: Like A Winding Sheet
- In Ann Petry’s 1945 short story "Like a Winding Sheet". Johnson is a black male struggling with racism and societal pressures. Johnson faces many challenges. As one reads, one cannot help but feel his anger, frustration and tenseness. Petry tells it in the following way, "The knowledge that he had struck her seeped through him slowly and he was appalled but he couldn’t drag his hands away from her face." Petry goes on further to tell us, "He had lost all control over his hands." This rage Johnson is experiencing is described as a "winding sheet". Johnson’s everyday routine causes anger and frustration to build up inside him. Get up, go to work and come home; get up, go to work and come home. The routines of standing in line to ...
- 14728: The Pit and the Pendulum
- The Pit and the Pendulum The Pit and the Pendulum is a story about a man confined to a prison cell and tortured mercilessly in Toledo Spain during the Spanish Inquisition. Edgar Allen Poe's story is powerful because the prisoner tells the story of his torture. Given this you know he is going to survive which helps make the mystery so much more complex. The plot is very believable ... he inflicts on other people. The story is suspenseful because all through the reading you think he is going to die but he seems to overcome every obstacle that he comes across. The character doesn't seem realistic because it doesn't seem possible that a human could survive the constant torture that he endured couldn't last as long as he did. The torturer's motives at first seem to be to cause death on ...
- 14729: The Horror of The Black Plague In Europe in 1347
- ... the crisis worsened. The swiftness of the disease, the terrible agony, and the grotesque appearance of the victims, all served to make the plague particularly ghastly. With the loss of about one-third of Europe’s population, serious political, social, and economic problems arose. Politically the plague didn’t have much effect on Europe. The Hundred Years’ War was being fought, and the plague added more fatalities to the war. The war was suspended and the fighting stopped in 1348 because of the number ... the family name. A common nursery rhyme came out of it: Ring a-round the rosy Pocket full of posies Ashes, ashes! We all fall down! Ring around the rosy: rosary beads give you God’s help. A pocket full of posies: used to stop the odor of rotting bodies which was at one point thought to cause the plague, it was also used widely by doctors to protect them ...
- 14730: To Kill A Mockingbird-book Rep
- The novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, takes place during the 1930 s in Maycomb County, Alabama. Atticus Finch, a white southern lawyer, is appointed to defend Tom Robinson, an innocent black man accused of raping a white woman. Throughout the story Atticus children learn the meaning of true courage. Although Atticus proves Tom s innocence, the prejudice white jury s verdict is that Tom is guilty. The assumed black characteristics of immorality, dishonesty, shiftlessness and personal squalor are embodied by the white Ewell clan. This is a glaringly obvious fact that the prejudiced Maycomb ...
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