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- 18651: Affirmative Action
- ... of affirmative action allows universities to admit applicants from certain ethnic and minority groups with lower credentials. The main purpose of affirmative action is to produce a diverse campus population that is comparable to today's society. The use of race as a facto by which someone is admitted to college in the long run will compromise the quality of the university. Implicating affirmative action to solve the problem of diversity on today's campuses has lead to the creation of problems. The discrimination against Caucasian and Asian American students a long with the toleration of lower quality work produced by African American students and other minority students is ... caused by Affirmative Action. Although affirmative action intends to do good, lowering the standards by which certain racial groups are admitted to college is not the way to solve the problem of diversity in America's universities. The condition of America's public schools is directly responsible for the poor academic achievement of minority children. "Instead of addressing educational discrepancies caused by poverty and discrimination, we are merely covering them ...
- 18652: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table: An Epic Hero for Modern Times
- ... this is so because the Medieval Period in general, and King Arthur in particular, have an air of mystery, romance, fantasy, and adventure that are popular themes in all times and cultures. I compared Malory's Morte d' Arthur with Camelot, a movie produced in 1967 that stars Richard Harris as King Arthur and Vanessa Redgrave as Guenevere. Camelot covers the period in Arthur's life from when he meets his future wife Guenevere to the beginning of his siege against Sir Lancelot's castle in France. The short excerpt of Morte d' Arthur tells of how King Arthur abandons his assault on Lancelot to defend Camelot and all of England from Mordred. Because Camelot seems to immediately ...
- 18653: Jack London
- ... theories or race and adventure in his writings. Jack London was born in San Francisco and abandoned shortly after birth by his father, London took the name of his step-father. Because of his family’s poor financial condition, London was forced to leave school at the age of fourteen and find work. He labored for several years as a cannery worker, a longshoreman and as a nocturnal scavenger of San ... fabulous success was due not to special favor of any kind, but to a combination of unusual mental ability and immense vitality. Many people have noticed Darwinism determinism appear frequently in literary criticism of London's works and historical analysis of his life. Darwinism is the theory referring to biologist Charles Darwin's beliefs that the origin of species is a result of variation due to a genetic mutation from the parents, with individuals who are best adapted to survive chosen through the process of natural selection. ...
- 18654: Amelia Earhart
- ... girls moved to Des Moines to be with their parents, Amelia was 10 years old when she saw her first airplane at the Iowa State Fair. It would be more than a decade before Amelia's interest in aviation would be awaken. Amelia began to realize that her father was a drunkard as well as to neighbors and friends around them. In 1914 Amy and the girls left Edwin after he ... Long Beach. She had several accidents during this period, some could be attributed to unreliable engines and slowness of the planes. By October 1922, Amelia began participating in record breaking attempts and set a women's altitude record of 14,000 feet, broken a few weeks later by Ruth Nichols. In 1925, Amelia took a position at Denison House in Boston as a "novice" social worker and was later employed as ... On to London, then to the States to a full calendar of tours. Amelia was in great demand on the lecture circuit and pictured frequently in the newspapers. Behind the scene, George Putnam kept Amelia's name in the forefront of everyone's mind and in the pages of newspapers across the country. Amelia flew a solo flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast in September 1928 to attend ...
- 18655: Arab-Israeli Conflicts
- ... the Arabs continued despite provisions in the 1949 armistice agreements for peace negotiations. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs who had left Israeli-held territory during the first war concentrated in refugee camps along Israel's frontiers and became a major source of friction when they infiltrated back to their homes or attacked Israeli border settlements. A major tension point was the Egyptian-controlled GAZA STRIP, which was used by Arab guerrillas for raids into southern Israel. Egypt's blockade of Israeli shipping in the Suez Canal and Gulf of Aqaba intensified the hostilities. These escalating tensions converged with the SUEZ CRISIS caused by the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egyptian president Gamal NASSER. Great Britain and France strenuously objected to Nasser's policies, and a joint military campaign was planned against Egypt with the understanding that Israel would take the initiative by seizing the Sinai Peninsula. The war began on Oct. 29, 1956, after an announcement ...
- 18656: The Role of Fate in Antigone
- ... of a young woman battling for justice at all costs. The idea of fate is a staple throughout Greek Literature, and Sophocles uses the concept of fate to dictate the actions of a character. Antigone’s destiny is one of predestination, a mission of the gods which begins with her ill-fated family and Creon’s decree, and ends with her own actions. The Ancient Greek plays contain a concept of fate that dictates every action taken by, and every word spoken by a character. Sophocles’ Antigone is not different, fate controls Antigone’s life in various ways including her lineage. Antigone is the product of an incestuous relationship between Oedipus and Jocasta, her cursed family history suggests that she too is subject to the curse. The acts ...
- 18657: The Sport Of Swimming
- ... the strokes in one race making you tired very quickly. The Im makes you have to do the equal amount of strokes in the order of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. for those who don't know the 200 is 8 laps which means you do a 50 of each strokes in the 200 which means you have to do 2 laps of each stroke. The butterfly is the hardest stroke ... been swimming for a while you get to learn what you are capable of. Also while swimming the butterfly you have to watch your breathing. most swimmers breath everystroke when doing it, yet I don't recommend it. I think the first lap you should breath every three and the second lap you should breath every two. the reason why I think this is because it takes energy to breath so if you breath every stroke you might get tired , you shouldn't breath every 4 or 5 strokes because then you won't get the required oxygen and that will also make you tired. Some ther tips on the butterfly would be to remember basic tips ...
- 18658: The History and Progress of Wrestling
- ... them through the struggle. This great sport called wrestling has been developed in many cultures and civilizations from ancient times to the present. The oldest actual evidence of wrestling was uncovered in 1933 by Dr. S. A Speiser and his party representing the university of Pennsylvania and the American schools o f Oriental Research. While making excavations in Mesopotamia, they found the ruins of a temple at Kyafaje, near Baghdad, two ... was said to have won his third at death. His opponent was choking him while maintaining a leg scissors hold around his body in a standing position. In a final effort Arrhachion grabbed his opponent’s foot and fell to his side. His opponent suffering a dislocation gave up. As they struck the ground Arrhachion died of suffocation (Frazier, 287). The second style obtained by the Greeks was mostly forming the ... in New Salem, Illinois between a local street fighter; Jack Armstrong and a 6’4” 180 pound clerk named Abraham Lincoln. Neither man was able to gain quick advantage and Lincoln became angered by Armstrong’s tactics. At that point according to Carl Sandburg, “Lincoln lifted him by the throat, shook him like a rag and then slammed him to the hard ground.” When Armstrong’s friends attempted to corner ...
- 18659: Mars
- ... million kilometers) and the last terrestrial planet from the Sun. Mars follows closely behind Earth but is comparatively smaller, with about half the diameter of Earth (6,794-km) and about one-tenth of Earth’s mass (6.419 x 1023 kg). Thus the force of gravity on Mars is about one-third of that on Earth. Mars is probably the planet we know the most about since it is so ... gorges, riverbeds and islands suggest that great rivers once marked the planet. Temperature Mars is smaller and, because of its greater distance from the Sun, cooler than the eearth. It has seasons similar to Earth's because the tilt of its rotational axis to the plane of its orbit about the Sun is about the same as earth's. Interestingly, unlike Earth the significant elliptical shape of the Martian orbit means that the seasons on Mars are also affected by varying distance from the Sun. In the case of earth, because of its ...
- 18660: Th Threat of Terrorism
- ... of the 20th century due to technological advancements in explosives, microelectronics, and transportation. Terrorism is a product of a fierce nationalist demanding for change or more power to a specific group.1 In the 1990's the number international terrorist attacks decreased, however the number of deaths that occur during the attacks have increased largely. A example of a very lethal attack was in Tokyo in March 1995. Sarin gas was ... a unusual occurrence for terrorist to use such a deadly substance, however this shows how advance and more brutal the terrorist groups are becoming.2 Another, more recent act of terrorism happen at the U.S. embassies in East Africa. This brutal act killed at least 70 people and injured 500. A bomb was simply placed between the Trade Center and the embassy. The bomb was not place right next to the embassy itself because of the embassy's bomb-proof construction.3 As a retaliation for this act the U.S. launched attacks on six sites in Afghanistan and a factory in Sudan. The U.S. believed that the Osama bin Ladin' ...
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