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- 18861: A Farewell To Arms
- ... is much different than that of The Sun Also Rises. The characters in the book are propelled by outside forces, in this case WWI, where the characters in SAR seemed to have no direction. Frederick's actions are determined by his position until he deserts the army. Floating down the river with barely a hold on a piece of wood his life, he abandons everything except Catherine and lets the river ... life that becomes increasing difficult to understand. The escape to Switzerland seemed too perfect for a book that set a tone of ugliness in the world that was only dotted with pure love like Henry's and Cat's and I knew the story couldn't end with bliss in the slopes of Montreux. In a world where the abstracts of glory, honor, and sacrifice meant little to Frederick, his physical association with ...
- 18862: Columbine
- ... because of their skin color, their status amoung the high school, or because of their religious beliefs. One student named Cassie Bernall, a 17-year-old junior was killed because she believed in God. Cassie's martyrdom was even more remarkable when you consider that just a few years ago she had dabbled in the occult, including witchcraft. She had embraced the same darkness and nihilism that drove her killers to ... stature, but lifted weights and played football and wrestled. Bench-pressed twice his weight. "He was the nicest person I knew," remembers classmate Justin Norman. "He would always go up to you and say, 'What's up?' even if you didn't know him." A transfer student from Lakewood High School, he was shot in the head execution-style in the school library, specifically because of his race and athletic interests, witnesses said. His father says ...
- 18863: The Penalties of Drunk Driving
- The Penalties of Drunk Driving Drunk driving is wrong, it's irresponsible, and does cause a senseless waste of lives. All but 2 states (Massachusetts and South Carolina) and the District of Columbia have per Se laws defining it as a crime to drive with a ... of your license in New York lasts until prosecution is complete. New York is the first municipality in the nation to seize the vehicles of motorists arrested for driving while intoxicated. Under New York City's new drunken driving policy: motorists with a blood alcohol level of .10 percent -- the legal limit -- or higher will have their vehicles seized on the spot; while the motorist faces prosecution in criminal court, the ... for the following offences. "Having Care and Control of a Motor Vehicle while Impaired" is another offence. Having care and control of a vehicle does not require that you be driving it. Occupying the driver's seat, even if you did not have the keys, is sufficient. Walking towards the car with the keys could be sufficient. Some defenses are you were not impaired, or you did not have care ...
- 18864: Carl Friedrich Gauss
- ... other half. One day he gave half of students, Gauss was in this half, to add all natural numbers from 1 to 100. 10 year old Gauss put his paper with answer on the teacher's desk first and he was the only who has got the right answer. From that day Gauss was popular in the whole school. On October 15, 1795, Gauss was admitted to Georgia Augusta as "matheseos ... was born in 1799, she was the youngest daughter of a Professor Of Law, Johann Peter Waldeck, Of Gottingen. Gauss married her on August 4, 1810. The new marriage was a happy solution to Gauss's nonscientific problems. Two sons and a daughter were born in the new marriage, Eugene on July 29, 1811, Wilhelm on October 23, 1813, and Therese on June 9, 1816. In 1816 Gauss and his family ... lived in the east. During the following years, Gauss and Harding installed the astronomical instruments. New ones were ordered in Munich. Among other times, Gauss visited Munich in 1816. After the intense sorrow of Johanna's death had been mollified in his second marriage, Gauss lived an ordinary academic life which was hardly disturbed by the violent events of the time. His powers and his productivity were unimpaired, and he ...
- 18865: Synthesis On Race And Ethnicit
- ... but because no one wants to take on the responsibility of breaking the "Berlin Wall" of segregation. We have, however, come a long way from the kind of segregation that was imparted in our country's fledgling stages, slavery being the number one offense of segregation. A quarter-century ago, race was part of everyday public discourse; today it haunts us quietly, though on occasion - the Rodney King beating or the Simpson trial or Eric McGinnis's death - it erupts with jarring urgency. At these moments of crisis, during these squalls, we flail about, trying to find moral ballast. By then it is usually too late. The lines are drawn. Accusations are ... the oppressors because of the shear evidence of the numbers, showing Whites as the majority. Morrow lends a good point when he says "this might be because of the simple fact that most of America's celebrated heroes are White." Then again, with rising minority populations across the country, soon we will all be on a level playing field, speaking the same language and things of that nature. Language is ...
- 18866: Appleton Police Department
- ... 6 largest city in Wisconsin and the metropolitan area is more then 155,000. The history of the police department is in 1854 they only had a single lawman which was a marshal they didnt have a jail so they shared one with a neighboring town. In 186 the city counsel voted in January to start a permanent police department, so it started out as 1 policeman and as the ... for changes leading to improved police services. The commitment to employees is they are committed to providing their employees the opportunity to function in a rewarding, exciting and challenging work environment. Management philosophy The managements function is to provide vision to the future with organizational values and to promote excellence and quality throughout the department. The efforts is to provide the highest quality professional police with the communitys priority. They believe in the highest professional standards for each police officer they have and to deliver the very best service they have to offer. Appleton management also believe in organizational teamwork, mutual support, ...
- 18867: Electoral College Is No Longer
- The electoral college has been our method of electing presiden's sinc eth constitution was formed. With increasing popoulations and the addition of third parties, it can be questioned however, as to wheth or not this i still a functional method of elections. There have been ... turn voted for the candiate that won the popular vote in that state. Seems to work okay, right? Not quite. Let us say thata candidate has 56% of the vote in a state. That doesn't mean he gets half of the votes, that means he gets all teh electoral votes that state has. This no big if you live in Vermont, but if you are talking about California with 54 ... revision is the answer to this problem or maybe it is just fine the way it is. After all it is a simple fool proof plan. YOU get none or you get all. It doesn't take a math whiz to figure that one out now does it. And with the people nowaday, we probably don't need anything oo complicated. But is it really fair? We are after all ...
- 18868: Personal Writing: Museum of Tolerance
- ... Wednesday during Christmas Vacation, Coley Delaney, Danielle Miller, and I drove down to the Museum of Tolerance to remind ourselves of the great suffering that the Jews endured during the Holocaust. We met at Coley's house at around 11:15 a.m. and prepared ourselves for some things we have never seen before. On our way up to the museum, we made as many jew jokes as we could think ... look at the displays. There were many Jewish items that I had never seen before but Coley pointed out most of them and explained what they were and what they were used for. It didn't take very long for our tour guide to show up and lead us to the main tour. There was a short, maybe 15 minute tour with a tour guide, then a two and a half ... why it was locked she told me that everyone has their own prejudices at one time or another no matter how big or small the prejudice is. When I got to thinking about it, it's true. At least at one point in your life, you have a certain hate for someone just because they are different than you. We walked around for a while and looked at all of ...
- 18869: William Carlos Williams
- ... poetry appeared. It was his relationship with the Imagist movement that taught Williams the necessity of bringing out new styles and techniques of composition that would defer sharply from the poetic styles of the 1800's. Imagism was a literary movement that focused on evoking emotions through clear, simple images presented in common language. There could be no clearer representation of this than in Williams's poetry. Williams eloquently uses colloquial speech and simple everyday characters often set in suburban New Jersey in his poetry. Williams wrote: "By listening to the language of his locality, the poet begins to learn his ... clear description of what seems to be an unimportant incident Williams turns a simple everyday experience into strong poetic emotions. The poem is in fact a letter of apology but crafted into it is Williams's sense of humor as well as sarcasm. The writer of the note isn't at all sorry he ate the plums for in Williams's own words "they were delicious, so sweet and so ...
- 18870: Academic Discourse Vs. Popular
- ... of a basic language that almost anyone who can read can understand. Aiming to grab the attention of teenagers, young adults, and some adults, popular discourse magazines use eye-catching appeals to grab the reader's attention instead of logical information. I compared the two discourse communities and analyzed the different languages and word presentation used throughout the material that I read. All in all I compared the informative information that ... usage throughout the two different completely, simply showing that the two are directed at different types of community group, age and education wise. URB is meant to relate directly to the younger generation in today's society. The topics and word usage is easy to follow and understand. Slang is used freely throughout the magazine and the articles do not seem to discriminate against moral issues such as drugs, sex, types ... and 77, where it reads in large print: "Where are all the people that used to go out, now? Did they just have their fun with the drugs and they went to parties and thats it?
It shows that it's not always about the music 'cause music doesn't really have an age limit on it, ya' know?" In American Psychologist, the words and terms are very technical, ...
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