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- 16331: The Advantages Of Stupidity
- Most people say being stupid will lead no where. They claim that it is the worst possible condition in which to spend one's life, and if possible, it should be completely avoided. They would even suggest if the symptoms of stupidity are caught in the early stages, it could easily be treated by a surgeon. The most effective method used to do this is the chainsaw technique, later described in volume two. Yet, perhaps if people took a closer look at some of the advantages stupidity had to offer, they wouldn't have such a negative attitude toward it. After reading this paper, one will understand the advantages of stupidity. Admittedly, stupidity has certain disadvantages. Life isn't a bowl of cherries. And being stupid doesn't make it any fruitier. Being stupid can annoy even the most sensitive people. If one acts stupid, and does it in the wrong crowd, like ...
- 16332: Sex In Advertising
- Sex In Advertising There is no dispute over the power of advertising to inform consumers of the various available products, and in today's economy, effective advertising is essential to a company's survival. The purpose of advertising is to convince people that a particular company's product is better than their competitor's product. Advertisers must carefully aim the product to the appropriate audience, and this is often obtained by using sex in the advertisement. Unfortunately, this can be a ...
- 16333: Teen Pregnancy
- ... than it is on others. When having a baby there are a lot of things to worry about, for the most important part financial problems seem to be the most talked about of teen pregnancy's. In the prevention of teen pregnancy there are many things that are helpful. For example Abstinence is a for sure factor of not getting pregnant. There are also other helpful ways to help prevent teen ... hangs around are just as important. " The Nurture Assumption " says that peer groups matter a lot more than parents influencing how kids turn out, because you can pass your genes, but not your values. CDC's National Survey of Family Growth stated that teens are having less sex. CDC's also stated that more teenagers surveyed that their closest friends were involved in some sort of sex education class, and they were not sexually active. Abstaining from sex and learning more about sex are ...
- 16334: Child Abuse: Saddest and Most Tragic Problem Today
- ... old as well as teenagers are subject to child abuse. There are four types of child abuse: physical abuse, physical neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse. Child abuse is a serious problem that plagues America's youth and should be stopped. Physical abuse is a form of child abuse that should be stopped as soon as possible. According to social agencies, beatings of children have multiplied over the past twenty years ... doctor causes great bodily harm and/or results in hospitalization for treatment of this injury or condition; this may include physical injury sustained as a result of abuse or conditions which result from a parent's willful failure to act to stop this from happening to the child. Physical neglect is defined as failure to provide for a child's physical survival needs to the extent that there is harm or risk of harm to the child's health and safety. Physical neglect includes these four things: inadequate food, inadequate shelter, inadequate medical care, ...
- 16335: Does Heaven Exist?
- ... Carl Sagan, presents one long chain of teasingly open-ended questions about reason versus faith and technology versus religion, and ends up embracing mysticism over rationality. Or at least it tries to (Zemechis 1). Ellies scientific quest is a lonely one. Her superior, Dr. David Drumlin, tells her the SETI field is professional suicide, however her obsession runs deep. With her father, she shared the excitement of picking up distant ... man who does believe in God. They have a brief but important love affair, and then when Drumlin pulls the plug on her research, she leaves for New Mexico and an alternate SETI site. Ellies research project has all but ended when there is a sudden breakthrough, intelligent signals from space. Drumlin, in the manner of all the bureaucrats everywhere, forgets his opposition to SETI and takes the credit. The ... oversimplification of the truth, or that the truth is not hidden in the texts of the Bible waiting for us to unravel the secrets of humanity. Yet if biblical accounts and the scientific accounts dont match up in all their details, there are many parallels. Perhaps most importantly, both suggest that the universe came into being out of nothing some amount of time ago. Many religious believers see the ...
- 16336: Othello: Iago As A "Type" Of Satan?
- ... is actually the Satan we hate and fear. Even if this is not really true, we certainly can typecast ourselves into that role if we become too self-absorbed. A prominent character in William Shakespeare's Othello is be a perfect (or maybe not so perfect) example of what can happen to a man who lets greed and jealousy rule his actions. Iago shows us that he is a type of Satan by his behavior; he is deceptive, evil, and self-absorbed. Iago deceives all of those around him. He leads Othello into believing that Othello's beloved bride, Desdemona, has been unfaithful to him. He also makes Othello believe that Michael Cassio, Othello's right hand man and faithful friend, is the one doing the dirty deed. Iago uses his deceptive devices on Cassio to get him to drink so that he can use it against him; Cassio ...
- 16337: Sybolism In White Fang
- ... carefully thought out and made interesting for the reader. Symbolism, meaning and detail are all applied effectively to keep the book an on-going page-turner. Such a fine example of this is Jack London s White Fang. A very wonderful tool to an author is the use of symbols within a story. One of the more common symbols throughout short stories and novels ultimately refers to the bible and religious ... throughout the novel, brilliantly placed and inciting vocabulary keeps this book hard to put down. Also a lot of well thought alliteration words are used to give it that enjoyable reading feeling. Furthermore, the character s style of speech is, for the most part, slang with kind of an accent, which gives the characters a more realistic vocabulary. An example of this is in the beginning of the novel when Henry says to Bill, Shut up your wishin an your croakin . Your stomach s sour. That s what s ailin you. Swallow a spoonful of sody, an you ll sweeten up wonderful an be more pleasant company, (9). London does a really nice job with the style of ...
- 16338: Population Control
- ... reproduce or even survive. An examination of world population control would not be complete with out including war. War also performs wonders at controlling population by murdering most men of child rearing age. In today s day and age, with our current technology increases disease outbreak and famine (except in some 3rd world countries) is not much of a factor any more. War is not considered a valid population control method due to today s new wars. Without the three largest population controllers much of a factor anymore population is free to run out of control. This provides us with an ever-increasing controversy; this is whether government or society ... over family size, but these are considered more community norms as opposed to hard fast rules such as governments can set. Two examples will follow. First, we will look at our society. Yes, the USA s turn to no child and one child families. This was caused by society. Society pushes Americans to have successful careers both male and female. There has been a switch from families to careers. This ...
- 16339: Whitman's Democracy
- Whitman's Democracy "I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God! I will Accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms." This is Whitman's expression of the idea of democracy taken from "Song of Myself." In this all encompassing interpretation Whitman says that the freedom offered by democracy is for all not a chosen few. It included all people ... poems Whitman wrote. In his poem "To a Common Prostitute" Whitman wrote: "Not till The sun excludes you do I exclude you." He has accepted the women as a prostitute, but this also conveys Whitman's ideas of democracy. The notion that all people should be covered under the cover of freedom. The sun is used as a metaphor for democracy in this poem, as it should shine upon all ...
- 16340: Animal Farm By George Orwell
- Animal Farm By George Orwell George Orwell's novel Animal Farm does an excellent job of drawing parallels from the situation leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Animal Farm is a satire that uses its characters to symbolize leaders of the ... starvation. Old Major gave many speeches to the farm animals about hope and the future. He is the main animal who got the rebellion started even though he died before it actually began. Old Major's role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas would spark the communist revolution. Lenin became the leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, and their determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major ... authority and preached all the time, and the people suffered and finally demanded reform by rebelling. The animal Napoleon can be compared as a character representing Stalin in Russia. Both were very mean looking, didn't talk very much but always got what they wanted through force. In one part of the book Napoleon had the dogs charge Snowball, another animal, as soon as he thought that the pigs were ...
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