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- 19061: Chaucer
- ... record and eternize" (Blake 51), wrote The Canterbury Tales in the late fourteenth century in England. Religion dominated this time period in history; and therefore, it played a huge role in literary work. The Tale's plot is based on a very religious practice, a pilgrimage. The narrator of the Tales starts out by saying that he is "ready to go on my pilgrimage to Canterbury with a most devout heart ... pilgrimage, a third of them were associated with the church in some way. He uses these characters to show how corrupt the church had become. The monk in particular is described as man who "didn't give a plucked hen for that text which says that hunters are not holy men, and that a monk, when he is heedless of duty, is like a fish out of water"(Chaucer 11). Chaucer ... The people feel that he has been sent to them by God to save them from Grendel, the treacherous monster that is taking over the land. This fight is part of the "feud between God's people and the race of Cain" (Goldsmith 3), and Beowulf uses God to help him defeat Grendel. Many times while fighting, Beowulf refers to God for help, he believes in God and that "fate ...
- 19062: The Internet Beyond Human Control
- ... and receive mail. This mail is called electronic mail usually known as e-mail. This mail will be sent to where you want it the second you click send with the mouse. The regular U.S. mail takes two days if you are sending mail from Philadelphia to Media. Now if you mail from coast to coast that could take up to two weeks. When my parents went to Mexico for two weeks they tried to send me a postcard, but I didn't receive it till the next day they came back. This could very well end up to become a problem. Soon no one will even want to use U.S. mail. A big part of the government money is from the costs of stamps. If no one uses U.S. mail ; there will be nobody buying stamps. Now the government is not bringing the ...
- 19063: The Catcher in the Rye: Creative Writing Assignment
- The Catcher in the Rye: Creative Writing Assignment Why the hell do so many people's lives revolve around some stupid football games played on a Sunday afternoon. I mean, do people actually enjoy watching a bunch of overgrown morons bang into each other for 3 hours? There are sometimes when ... the highlights in five minutes on the news instead of wasting my hole freaking day. These morons (players) are getting paid millions of dollars to run around on a football field all day long. That's just the beginning of the money they make. They get paid millions to be in a commercial or say that they wear a particular brand of sneakers or something stupid like that. These guys have ... cold water on them, sort of like an air conditioner. Some of these guys even have the nerve to give up on a play or two. They can even admit to their fans thatthey didn't want to get hurt or something really stupid like that and expect them to still cheer for them. The worst part about actually going to watch a game at the stadium rather than on ...
- 19064: A Critique Of the Stanford Experiment
- A Critique Of the Stanford Experiment "The Education of a Torturer" is an account of experiments that has similar results to that of Milgram's obedience experimentsthat were performed in 1963. Though both experiments vary drastically, both have one grim outcome, that is that, "it is ordinary people, not psychopaths, who become the Eichmanns of history." The Stanford experiment was ... abused each other because I requested them to. No one questioned my authority at all." I have a hard time believing the statement that they experimenter said. He had reviewed the work of Stanley Milgram's experiment and how individuals became so violent. Haney, Banks, and Zimbardo had to of known that if they gave the power to take control of a situation the guards that the power would be abused. The experiment took place in 1986 and though there had been many years passed since Milgram's experiment was conducted in 1963, people then and still today try to get to the top of every situation. In this case, the guards were given the power, and it probably took a day ...
- 19065: The Short Board
- The Short Board Surfboards were invented for the pure pleasure of riding with mother nature’s waves. The long board was the first creation of surfing known to mankind. It was and still is very easy to ride, but it was almost to boring for some. So somebody decided to come ... a shorter more fun board. They called it the short board. It became very popular and won the hearts of many dedicated surfers. The short board first made its big impact in the mid 60’s. David Nuuhiwa was the one of the first men to ride a short board in the US. He was at the Huntington Beach Pier, when one summer, board officials came up with a crazy surfing ... board. This is because of all the extra paddling and movement required for the short board. The newer younger surfers were stoked on the idea of the short board, but because the older surfers wouldn’t convert, it caused a serious generation gap. There ended being many confrontations when paddling for waves and many disputes between witch board was better. From the pintail, to the diamond, then to the rounded ...
- 19066: To Err and To Be Careful
- ... philosophical arguments behind the existence of an omnipotent, all- loving god who allows evil to exist by attacking not the actual idea of evil but by dissecting the reasons for error. In defense of God's pefection, however, Descartes maintains that God is perfect and thus would not create imperfect beings; hence man as well is perfect. To elucidate on this point the author states that perfection for mankind is perfect ... created perfectly. Exactly thus, Descartes addresses the idea of error: in order to attack vicariously the idea of evil itself by indirectly attacking the idea of error. The author feels a need to establish God's perfection while also maintaining that this perfection rests on the fact that he would not ever fail and thus would be perfect in everything he did, including in everything he created. Descartes while having addressed ... a perfect cause but imperfect effect, although Descartes refuses to put it in such terms. This argument provides Descartes with a tool to justify his project, the meditations. Obviously, to maintain the validity of God's existence as well as God's perfection the author must at least broach the idea of the imperfection of man. While he explains th epossibilty of error in man, Descartes also explains how such ...
- 19067: Book Report, Reinventing Government
- Book Report, Reinventing Government In 1992, David Osborne, a journalist, and Ted Gaebler, a former city manager, wrote a best-selling book that became the handbook or inspirational guide for the Clinton Administration’s National Performance Review. Their book, Reinventing Government, How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector, leads the cheer for the latest round of reforms that was beginning to erupt in state and local governments ... have to be able to “do more with less,” government can become more efficient if it learns to behave more entrepreneurially and less bureaucratically. The authors present the argument that the structure of this country’s 100-year-old government bureaucracy was well-intentioned in its development—to combat corruption and control the internal workings of government—it has outlived its usefulness. They claim that the development of the bureaucracy cleaned ... government’ is from a Greek word, which means to steer. The job of government is to steer, not to row the boat. Delivering services is rowing, and government is not very good at rowing.—E.S. Savas.” The second principle, community empowerment, refers to how communities can be better at solving their own problems, once given the power to do so. The authors offered examples in policing, public housing, and ...
- 19068: Does The Mass Media Cause Unde
- ... enrich society, and ways that deteriorate and perplex it. It is not a surprise to learn, then, that the mass media is the most powerful source of information we have, and nothing else in today’s world influences public perception quite as heavily. Unfortunately, however, most of what is broadcast or transmitted in the news today is with reference to the chaotic condition of our planet, or something else that society ... pictures of women who mountain-climb or women who water-ski; only images of make-up and text referring to skin care would be relevant. Clearly, society does not consider women to be beings who’s only purpose in life is to worry about make-up and skin care; but why are the complaints only directed towards pornographic media then? The answer to this question may be more complicated, however, what ... college students were asked to spend one and a half hours in an isolated room with a large volume of pornographic media, as well as a large volume of non-explicit media such as Reader’s Digest (Howitt, Cumberbatch 1975:80). The study was conducted over a three week period over which time it was discovered that the males involved in the experiment began to lose interest, or become desensitized ...
- 19069: All The Kings Men- The Spider
- The Spider Web of Life Throughout the novel, All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, the characters are constantly feeling the effects of their action later in the book. Every one of their sinister, sketchy actions were dealt with again later in the book and ... got him. When Jack reveals his findings to Judge Irwin, his father, he ends up killing himself before Jack has a chance to talk to him father to son. Although, for the most part, Jack's goal as stated at the beginning of the book was that he was to pursue truth and knowledge, he needed to leave this alone because it was a pursuit of knowledge, but it had no ... bite him in the rear. Willie, up until his death had gotten away with this philosophy, "Goodness You got to make it Doc And you got to make it out of badness Because there isn't anything else to make it out of."(257) With this motto essentially everything he does is justified as long as some kind of end product is good. Eventually Willie's theory had to come ...
- 19070: Racism
- ... there because there are millions of Americans that believe in their message of white pride. The African American population is growing and Americans are now a mixed group of people. Black people are white people's neighbours, doctors, friends. With a growing unity between the two races, why does racism continue? The answer is simple. Racists from many years ago raise their kids in clans and white supremacy groups and teach ... Eventually the group grew, fluctuating, but grew to become the first white supremacy group in America and with that growth, their hatred grew as well into what was seen in the early and middle 1900's and what is seen today. Along with the KKK, other anti-black, pro-white groups formed and stemmed out all over the U.S.A. The Neo Nazis who are more commonly know by the term "Skin Heads", are a growing force in hate groups. There hatred of Hispanics, Jews, Blacks, and others are now the fastest growing ...
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