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- 15961: Counterfeiting: We're In The Money
- ... prove their economic wizardry by making the new one hundred dollar bill nearly impossible to counterfeit in attempt to protect our economy. This is just the first step in improving our currency system. Counterfeiting U.S. currency is an illegal practice that has has been around for years and, unfortunately,is getting worse. "Last year, ...the Secret Service cooperated with the Italian authorities' seizure of $43.8 million in counterfeit U.S. currency, Germany's capture of more than $19 million in counterfeit cash, and the Canadian authorities; seizure of than $129 million in counterfeit U.S. currency." (Gomez, Bertha. "Officials Say..") In a small town north of Chicago, ...
- 15962: Hesiod and the Ascent of Zeus
- Hesiod and the Ascent of Zeus The Theogony, attributed to the Greek poet, Hesiod, is a description of the creation of the world and Zeus's rise to power through the succession of fathers to sons. It starts with Ouranos and ends when Zeus prevents the succession from continuing to his own son. The very first being is Chaos. Next is ... She created a sickle from a new form of metal, then went and asked her children for help. Kronos, the "clever devisor" (Theog. 168), was the only child who spoke up. Kronos follows his mother's plan, cuts off Ouranos's genitals and throws them into the sea. The blood landing on Gaia forms the three Erinyes or furies, the giants, and the Melian nymphs. Then "foam" (Theog. 191) rising from the sea out of ...
- 15963: Elie Wiesel
- ... boy and interested in studying the Zohar “the cabbalistic books, the secrets of Jewish mysticism”(Wiesel 3). His teacher was a foreigner, Moshe the Beadle, a “poor barefoot of Signet”(Wiesel 3). He was Elie's teacher until he was forced to leave Signet by the Hungarians because he was a foreign Jew. After several months Elie saw Moshe the Beadle once again. Moshe the Beadle told his story about his ... rules were set by the Germans. Jews were confined to their homes for three days and they could no longer keep valuables such as gold, jewelry and other objects. The Germans took it all. Elie's father managed to bury the family's savings in the cellar. After the three days Jews had to wear a yellow star. After this more rules were set. Jews could not go to restaurants, travel on railways, go to synagogues, or ...
- 15964: Who is Amelia Sedley?
- ... her entry into society. She is sensitive, good, “a dear little creature”, and is destined to become a wonderful wife. Amelia is married to a snobbish man named George Osborne who will not allow Amelia’s brother to marry Becky simply because she is a “low connection.” Instead she marries a man named Rawdon and her social difficulties and marital problems are paralleled by Amelia’s. Amelia’s marriage to George Osborne is threatened when her family sinks into financial ruin and George’s father refuses to countenance a union between his son and the helpless daughter. However, inspired by his friend ...
- 15965: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Love and Attraction
- ... a story of love illustrated through the romantic longings and attractions of the three eccentric characters; Miss Amelia, Cousin Lymon, and Marvin Macy. McCullers depicts love as a force, often strong enough to change people's attitudes and behaviors. Yet, the author seems to say, if the love is unrequited, individuals, having lost their motivation to change, will revert back to their true selves. The allure of the different characters, which ... and homemade remedies. Still, everyone is shocked when the handsome outlaw, Marvin Macy, falls in love with her. Marvin is a "bold, fearless, and cruel" man who changes his unlawful ways to win Miss Amelia's love. Rather than robbing houses he begins attending church services on Sunday mornings. In an effort to court Miss Amelia, he learns proper etiquette, such as "rising and giving his chair to a lady, and abstaining from swearing and fighting". Two years after Marvin's reformation, he asks Miss Amelia to marry him. Miss Amelia does not love him but agrees to the marriage in order to satisfy her great-aunt. Once married, Miss Amelia is very aloof towards ...
- 15966: The Chosen
- ... tied to their fathers, and near-neighbors who live only five blocks apart. Still, they attend separate yeshivas and inhabit very different worlds. A baseball league is begun. When Danny Saunders’ school plays Reuven Malter’s, the Hasids are determined to show the apikorsim a thing or two and the competition is fierce. Danny’s murderous hitting is remarkable, but when Reuven comes to pitch he does not back away. A hard ball shatters his glasses and smashes into his eye, sending him to the hospital for a week. At his father’s insistence, Reuven permits the repentant Danny to visit him, and they become friends. Danny dazzles Reuven with demonstrations of his photographic mind, with the quantity of scholarly work he bears each day, and with ...
- 15967: Diocletian
- Diocletian There was a heathen emperor named Diocletian, who was chosen to be emperor over all the earth, though he was a destroyer of men, two hundred and eighty-six years after Christ's incarnation; and he reigned twenty years, a cruel murderer, so that he killed, and bade kill, all the Christians whom he could find out, and burned churches, and robbed the innocent; and this impious persecution ... fully ten years, until it came also even to England, and there killed many who believed in Christ. One of these was Alban, the noble martyr, who was likewise killed in that persecution for Christ's faith, even as we shall tell you here. In those days came the murderous persecution to England from the wicked emperor, and the murderers seized the Christians everywhere with exceeding fury; then a priest escaped from them who ran secretly to Alban's house, and there lay hid from his fierce persecutors, and Alban received him, though he was not baptized. Then began the priest, forasmuch as he loved God, to sing his offices, and fast strictly, ...
- 15968: The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier When a man’s human dignity is beaten out of him, his liberty deprived and is to be perpetually subject to the will of his master at all times, he no longer has faith in himself or his abilities ... harsh and swift punishments. He possessed no civil rights and in the eyes of the law he was not a “person”. His masters were oft to treat him with inhumane cruelty. Similar to Venture Smith’s life growing up in the slavery system, Douglass witnessed brutal beatings given by slave owners to women, children, and the elderly. Young Frederick was grossly mistreated and it did not get any better until he was sent to live with Mrs. Auld and her husband. Mrs. Auld instilled in Frederick the will to learn to read and write. This deed proved to be Frederick’s rude awakening to a world of knowledge that is purposely kept from slaves. Learning to read and write gave Douglass the burning need for freedom. After trying to escape, he was sent to a ...
- 15969: Comparison of Frost's Two Tramps in Mud Time and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Comparison of Frost's Two Tramps in Mud Time and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost is generally viewed as a poet of nature. In fact, much of his fame is based solely on his status ... chopping wood. Although he may not be the best at what he does, he does what he loves and wants to do. The nature flows through him every time he swings the ax, and that's all that matters to him. Also, in another work, frost writes about the beauty of nature. In the poem "The Road Not Taken ", the man has to make a decision at a fork in the ... the other hand, there are a few poems which show that Robert Frost was less in awe of nature and fearful of it. One of these is the poem "Design". It takes two of nature's most innocent characters, the moth and the spider, and then finds a tragic death in their lives. Why must the moth die? Why is nature so cruel? Frost questions how nature can be so ...
- 15970: Beowulf: The Three Monsters of the Middle Ages
- ... creatures are slaughtered by men of incredible strength and courage. The first creature, Grendel, is killed by a man named Beowulf who is well known for his success in defeating villains. The second creature, Grendell’s mother, is also defeated by Beowulf. The last monster is a fire-breathing dragon that Beowulf attempted to kill, but the attack resulted in the death of himself. Instead the dragon is killed by Wiglaf ... was incapable of feeling any remorse for what he had done. Grendel does not feel guilty for his wrongdoing, instead his “heart laughed” at all the men he thought he would eat. Grendel wore “God’s anger,” and he was simply deprived of any joy whatsoever. He was motivated by some kind of “evil desire,” and was angry with the world. Grendel could not be harmed by a weapon of any ... to the people close to his victims, just as murderers do. Grendel represents the evil that will always be present in our world. He signifies the hate and anger that will always be alive. Grendel’s mother is also representative of a type of evil that will hold some people back in their search for salvation in the next life. Grendel’s mother is disheartened by the death of her ...
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