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- 19131: Red Badge Of Courage Book Repo
- ... to become a man softens to a mere whisper -- Henry is afraid. He, too, threw down his gun and fled. There was no shame in his face. He ran like a rabbit. Crane uses Henry’s fear to symbolize how a true-life person would feel. Not many people can relate to a super hero who can face all fears, but they can relate to a person who shows fear, without ... battle. In the end, Henry has overcome his fear and shows pride towards his becoming of a man. Another soldier who had a great impact of symbolism was Jim Conklin. To begin with, Jim Conklin’s name has symbolism -- his initials are J.C. just like Jesus Christ. Don’t ask me how I figured this one out. Just like Jesus Christ, Jim was the perfect man who taught all the other soldiers to find peace, good, and inspiration inside every one of them. ...
- 19132: Investing in the Future
- ... welfare programs as well as programs that provide breakfast and lunch at schools. They argue that people should be able to provide for themselves and their children with minimal government assistance, and spending other people's tax dollars to assist the less fortunate only makes the problem worse. The main problem with this line of thinking is that it forgets about the children involved. Children have no control over what family ... reduced lunches help many children get their only decent meal of the day. Many areas are starting to provide school breakfast programs, and this is being met with much opposition. People feel that they shouldn't have to use tax dollars to provide a meal for children that they should receive before they get to school. But, the sad truth is that many children aren't given breakfast before they are sent to school. Some research suggests that eating breakfast helps children perform better during school hours by increasing their attention and motivation. Test scores and sports performance of children ...
- 19133: The Truth About Airbags
- The Truth About Airbags Airbags began being installed into automobiles around the mid-1980’s (Dowd 136). Since their introduction, airbags have been present in 2.6 million accidents (Carbonara 132). In those accidents they have saved over thirty-four hundred people (Carbonara 132). The shocking fact is that more ... driving to Washington, D.C. ,with his two sons and his daughter, Alison, on October 15, 1995, when his life took a turn for the worse (Dowd 136). Robert was driving to his ex-wife’s house to drop off his children (Dowd 136). As he left his house, his sons, in the rear of the vehicle, wanted to hear the Redskins game that was on the radio (Dowd 136). Alison ... Also, people that are shorter than five foot nine inches should sit as far away from the steering wheel as possible while driving (Koscs 32). The steering wheel should at least be a full arm’s length away (Koscs 32). Also, anything placed in front of the airbag will be projected toward the seat at speeds up to two hundred miles per hour (Koscs 32). Anything going that fast toward ...
- 19134: Nature
- ... he makes use of nature imagery on both the human relationship with objects and nature. The Oxford Reference Dictionary defines "nature" as "1. The phenomena of the physical world as a whole . . . 2. A thing's essential qualities; a person's or animal's innate character . . . 4. Vital force, functions, or needs." We will see how Louis Dollarhide comments on all of these. Several natural themes run through the story, one of which is the image of a ...
- 19135: Lord Of The Flies
- ... on several different levels underline and emphasize this theme. Examples of these conflicts are the conflicts between the conch group and the savages, between the boys and the terrifying «beast», and the conflict between Jack’s band on the one hand and Ralph and Simon on the other. This theme is mostly revealed through symbolism. Ralph is the symbol of good, while Jack is the symbol of evil. This can be ... only to preserve a good situation and health for their fellow islanders. Jack is a symbol of evil. He and his choir boys, who are presented almost as an army, have no respect for Ralph's government at all. They resent all kinds of authorities and restricting rules. In the beginning, Jack attempts to take over the conch group from Ralph, but he fails in all his attempts. This leaves him with envy and a desire of revenge towards Ralph and his rules. Jack withdraws from the conch group and froms his own "tribe", which will not submit to any governing force. In Jack's world, anarchy rules. The boys that join Jack's army do it because they get to hunt pigs and they don't have to work.
- 19136: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... people (the people involved with the trials) had endured many coincidental hardships and dangers, which they blamed on the devil. This helped fuel their very religious and superstitious ways (Sebald 67). In fact, the minister's sermons were oftentimes more anti- devil than pro-Christ. In addition, merrymaking and playing were considered very non- religious activities to these people. Their entire lives were devoted to working, and the children were usually ... make her victims fall in love against they're will. Another form of witchcraft was that "witches would make a small wax or wooden image of her victim. She might put something from the victim's body into the image, such as fingernail clippings or a lock of hair. She then would destroy the image by cutting it with a knife, burning it, or sticking pins into it. The victim supposedly ... severe pain or even death"(World Book 310). Also they thought a witch could cast a spell by reciting a magic formula. The spell would make her victim suffer. The witch usually muttered the victim's name while she cast the spell. In some societies, people would often use false names so those witches wouldn't have any power over them. People blamed witches for any unexplainable misfortune, such as ...
- 19137: Famous Explorers Of Africa
- ... about peoples travels to Africa. His readings of Mungo park also stimulated his fascination. Callie had entered a contest for the first person to reach Timbuktu and reach back. He had reached Timbuktu. During Callie's trip he did not find it easy to prove to the French Johann Rebmann Johann Rebmann was a German missionary, who was not like Mungo Park or Rene Callie. The purpose of Rebmann's explorations is to find a place where he might serve God. His most helpful weapon was a umbrella, which he used to fight off lions and would be attackers. Rebmann was the european explorer who ... In 1849 Livingstone had gone with 2 game hunters to be an interpreter for an expedition northward. They had gone north to Lake Ngami in Botswana but they could not go further because of Livingstone's families' sickness at the time. After about a year Livingstone resumed his explorations. Livingstone had heard tales of the rushing waters of the Zambezi River. He wanted to know the source of this River. ...
- 19138: Huck Finn
- ... common sense. Jim and Huck were best friends. Widow Douglas was the lady who took care of Huck. She was a sweet lady who tried to teach Huck how to be proper and civilized. Huck’s father was basically a town drunk who would beat Huck when he drank too much. Tom Sawyer was a very mischievous boy who could make any situation seem more exciting and complex than they really ... the situations seem to rise out of the setting that the particular event is at. Huck is beaten many times by his drunken father and decides to fake his murder and runs away to Jackson’s Island to hide from everyone. While on this island he meets Jim who was a run away slave. When Huck discovers that people are looking for Jim, the two of them ride down the Mississippi River in an earlier discovered raft. As they float down the river, they plan to go to the Ohio River and travel north to free states, states that don’t have slaves. On the way, a steamboat hits the raft and Jim is discovered and gets sold to Silas Phelps. Huck then goes to rescue Jim, pretending to be Tom Sawyer and gets into ...
- 19139: Robinson Crusoe
- ... help me (16). Robinson was smart enough to anticipate what the conditions on the island were and how to protect himself. Robinson took some time and built a strong home so that a storm wouldn t knock it down. I spent a lot of time working on my home so that another storm wouldn t knock it down (29). Robinson also had a choice to add more things to his house to make it better and to protect him. It took me all day to put up my fence, so ... make choices, where they risk their lives in order to make their lives and others better. One night Robinson saw a group of cannibals having a feast and there was this one cannibal that didn t want to join in, so the other cannibals tried to kill him but he ran away so two of the others ran after him, Robinson then killed them both and adopted the other. He ...
- 19140: Cloning And Embryo Research
- ... of the most talked about social issues of our time. The researchers of this scientific breakthrough have made a lot of progress in recent years. Many have heard of Dolly, the cloned sheep, and that’s just the tip of the ice burg. This is undoubtedly the biggest and most recent breakthrough science has seen in some time. Cloning research started in Scotland. According to an article in Science News Online ... is a major obstacle, which is impeding the progress of cloning research. The potential this breakthrough has brought could very well be endless. These researchers have opened up many doors for science. Science News Online’s J. Travis states, “human embryonic stem cells could shine a light on such mysteries as how developing cells commit to becoming neurons or other types of cells” (Travis Par. 21). Dr. Brigid Hogan who was ... Health agreed to an interview with Nicholas Wade of the “New York Times on the Web”. In the interview, Wade gives an idea of the potential of embryo research when she speaks of Dr. Hogan’s research, “With a group of 11 people, including graduate and postdoctoral students, she is trying to reverse-engineer the mouse by analyzing the genetic program that guides its development from an egg” (“In the ...
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