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- 18961: False Advertising
- False Advertising "My mailbox and million of demographically similar others are choked with flyers from companies (Wal-mart, Victoria's Secret) bent on publicizing both their wares and their social bona fides by displaying black and white models at cordial ease with one another. A torrent of good will messages about race arrives daily - revelations ... place of security, and equality for the sole purpose of media. However, I see it differently I feel that advertisements both in magazines and on television there is no such underlying messages. Perhaps in Demott's generation it was normal to crucify and analyze interracial relationships. My generation is different because interracial relationships are of the norm and there is more of a chance to find someone who believes there is ... interracial relationships have become much more common among our generation and do not shock us as much as those from other generations. On the other hand, those who have only known differently such as Demott's generation find media and new trends as very different and disturbing. However no matter what generation one has derived from there should be nothing wrong or awkward about an advertisement or a movie involving ...
- 18962: Did Sparta Achieve Her Goal
- Did Sparta Achieve Her Goal? Sparta is the most formidable city known in history. Famous for her impressive military power, she proved that strength didnt lie in numbers, it lay in Spartan discipline. Sparta started out as a small city fighting only to survive against enemy invaders. Her goal was to avoid defeat from other city-states and she very ... with the same rivals to fight off foreign invaders. When Greece was threatened by Persia, Sparta halted her competition with Athens and relentlessly fought back the enemy forces. After her triumph over the Persians, Spartas temporary peace with Athens was short-lived. The Greeks soon returned to their petty affairs. For 75 years Sparta and Athens fought for supremacy. Eventually, Sparta won, but in doing so she finally allowed all ... to witness her tragic flaw. Militarily, Sparta was more than impressive. However, in many of the city-states she now had in her power, she set up harsh discipline and dictatorships. This proved that Spartas weakness lay in organizing peace among her new found successes. When the disaster of Spartas catastrophic defeat from little Thebes reached her people, they continued to celebrate their Youth Festival refusing to show ...
- 18963: Kreutzer Sonata
- Leo Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata is a powerful example of the consequences of a strained marriage. In Kreutzer Sonata, Tolstoy explores the importance and relevance of love in relationships as seen through the eyes of an old ... first thing that attracts their fancy. Thus he believes that men must keep women in check, not only to regain their balance of power, but also to prevent affairs from occurring. He says dryly, "Don't trust your horse in the field, or your wife in the house" (p.528). This distrust in a relationship leads to the man taking drastic measures to prevent his greatest fear from becoming reality. Once in a marriage, Pozdnyshev feels that it is the man's job to instill fear in the woman. "Yes, the female sex must be curbed in time or else all is lost!" (p.528). This fear would be the means of molding the woman into ...
- 18964: Powder: Questions
- Powder: Questions 1 Jeremy's original source of rejection came from his parents who banished him from his home. He was to live in the basement, away from society. This hurting he received made him a more compassionate, caring and ... an albino genius, it would be simple to understand his difficulty of fitting and acquiring new friends that he can socialize with. Thus he became a shy boy that pretty much kept to himself. Jeremy's characteristic that distinguished him from the rest of society in which he lived in. Although he was persecuted, beaten, and ridiculed at. He understood his characteristics and understood why the boys hated him It was fear! 3. I respect Jeremy's caring. Like Christ himself, he wouldn't fight or use any sort of violence to resolve problems. Jeremy would speak his words of wisdom, or use his divine powers of mental stability and force ...
- 18965: Langston Hughes
- ... he was working as a busboy in a restaurant in Washington, D.C., when he accidentally left three of his poems next to the plate of Vachel Lindsay, an American poet. She helped him ge! t publicity for his works and she got him seriously started in writing(Encarta). In an article about Langston Hughes in The Reference Library of Black America it talks about all the places in the world ... Davis). Hughes was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance because he was one of the most talented and famous black writers in his time. The Harlem Renaissance was the black movement during the 1920's. Many African-Americans got famous during this time and more people in the United States and the world got to see another side of African- Americans which had never been seen before. People saw that ... success in many different fields of writing. His best drama, "Mulatto," a play, was performed on Broadway 373 times in 1935. In his best comedy, "Little Ham"(1935), again he uses themes from Harlem. Hughes's best fiction is in his "Simple" series. In his lifetime, Langston Hughes won several awards. In 1925 he won his first prize for poetry in the Opportunity contest and third prize for essay in ...
- 18966: Marijuana 2
- ... of mid-quality bud could get around 20-30 people reasonably high. Cannabis is sold on the street for anywhere between $25 - $150 per 1/4 ounce depending on quality and location. In the U.S., prices are generally $30-$60 for 1/4 ounce of lower quality and $60-$120 for 1/4 ounce of high quality bud. Prices drop quickly as quantity goes up. Both sales and possession of ... wild specimens is generally quite low. Most cannabis is cultivated intentionally and can be grown either indoors or out. The cannabis plant has been used both medicinally and recreationally for thousands of years. It wasn't until the early 19th century that the use of cannabis spread from China and the Middle East to the population of Europe and then to America in the middle of the century. Cannabis was made illegal in the U.S. in 1937 and has continued to be a popular recreational substance since that time. When smoked, the effects of cannabis begin almost immediately. When eaten the effects can take 1 to 2 hours to ...
- 18967: Technology Advances
- ... skipping a few minute advances in technology like the ODDESY) Then Nintendo, which dominated the market at the time, soon had competition with SEGA. Both of these systems were 16 bit. Theses machines still weren't enough to satisfy consumers for a while so thay came out with the most significant change yet. The change from cartridges to CD's. I believe the first one to use CD technology was 3DO. The 3DO was now the item on evey childs mind. The 3DO featured stunning 3D Graphics as well as the quality sound you recieved froom AUDIO CD's. The only reason this machine did not dominate the market was it's price tag, a whopping 300$. Alot to pay for your childs (or husbands) entertainment. The only prblem I find with sytems ...
- 18968: Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution
- ... and is betrayed by Napoleon. This event is when Stalin kicks out Lenin. Animal Farm is a great example of a "Political Satire". The novel was written to criticize the totalitarian regimes and particularly Stalin's rule in Russia. In Chapter one its tells how the author, George Orwell, feels about the novel. Also it give reference to the farm and how it relates to Russia. But you can see all the satire in chapter two. It tells how inefficient of the idea "communism" does not work. Human nature can't handle "communism". We are too devious and too demanding for the things we want, we are "bossy". From chapter two to the last chapter shows how the novel is a Satire and in the end ... Russia with their bad conditions and no good government. And last of all the plot tells about the same thing, dictatorship never works! George Orwell has made good points in his novel. I think he's a great and very smart writer because his novel was disguised as a children's novel to a Revolution where if you spoke what you thought about it you would get executed. In conclusion ...
- 18969: Capital Punishment .
- ... from the dinner table in the average American home the the oval office in the White House for countless amounts of years. The opposing sides each state their claim on why we should, or shouldn't allow the death penalty to be administered to those criminals who the courts believe should be killed. Each argument has very valid reasons on why the death penalty is right and wrong, and they both ... around since the days of Christ, and its results have not changed, only the way capital punishment is administered has. States such as California use the gas chamber as the means to end the convict's life, while Texas and Florida have used the electric chair in the past, the remedy for death is now by using leatheal injection to end the convicts life. Death has always been used as a ... Two reasons why the death penalty should be enforced are saved time, by the court system through limited appeals, and saved money, by taxpayers due to reduced court and imprisonment fees. Much of the court's time could be saved if death row inmates were limited to a set number of appeals in a reasonable amount of time. Facilitating numerous appeals results in many unforeseen costs. In 1992, expenditures on ...
- 18970: More About The 1968 Tet Offensive
- ... facts in the Communist campaign are still misinterpreted or neglected. In the mid-80, living in Saigon after being released from the Communist "re-education camp," I read a book published in the early 1980's in America about the story of the 1968 Tet Offensive. It said that the North Vietnamese Army supreme command had imitated one of the greatest heroes of Vietnam, King Quang Trung, who won the most spectacular victory over the Chinese aggressors in the 1789 counter-attack - in planning the 1968 operations. The book quoted King Quang Trung's tactic of surprise. He let the troops celebrate the 1789 Tet Festival one day ahead so that he could launch the attacks on the first three days of the lunar new year while the Chinese ... truth, but jumped into conclusion with wild imagination after learning that the North Vietnamese attacking units also celebrated Tet "one day ahead" before the attacks. In fact, the Tet Offensive broke out on the Tet's Eve - in the early morning of January 30, 1968 at many cities of Central Vietnam, such as Da Nang and Qui Nhon, as well as cities in the central coastal and highland areas, that ...
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