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- 19221: Chesapeake Bay Pollution
- A Look at the Chesapeake Bay The Chesapeake Bay is America's largest estuary and one of the world’s most productive. The Bay is home to over 2,700 species. It draws water from over 150 rivers, streams, and creaks, receiving roughly 70,000 cubic feet of water every second. That water reflects the ... oyster and blue crab catch, however, continues to dwindle, and some find fish populations have declined. Species, such as striped bass have increased to the point that they are commercially viable again. The Chesapeake Bay's decline was evident as early as the 1950s. In the late 1970s, state and federal scientists began an extensive study to determine the reasons for the Bay's decline. Three major problems were identified; ...
- 19222: A Portrayel Of Women In The Or
- ... is Clytaemnestra. Clytaemnestra is consumed with thoughts of revenge. She seeks vengeance on Agamemnon for the loss of their daughter, Iphigeneia whose life was forfeited in order to appease the goddess Artemis so that Agamemnon's troops would be allowed passage to the Trojan shore. Clytaemnestra displays more intelligence than any other character in The Oresteia in the way she manipulates the events leading up to Agamemnon's execution in the play "Agamemnon." Her scheming ways and clever word play make her intimidating in the eyes of the people of Argos. She is looked upon with revulsion because of the manly way she ... breaks with female tradition, Electra is the preserver of the status quo. Because Clytaemnestra is not motherly, Electra who has already lost her father to the depths of Hades, loses her mother to that one's all-consuming hate of Agamemnon as well. And so she seeks revenge towards her mother, the cause of all her misery in taking away the only family she ever had. She desperately awaits the ...
- 19223: The Right To A Free Trial
- ... of the most important freedoms in the American judicial system is the right to a jury trial. This allows a minimum of six Americans, chosen from a list of registered voters, to determine a person's guilt or innocence through deliberations. They have the power to express the conscious of society as well as interpret and judge the laws themselves. If they feel that a law is unconstitutional, evil, or even ... system, but no such thing has occurred. It has produced a feeling of involvement in the judicial system and government itself. Throughout this essay, a comparison of a real jury, a simulated jury, and Hollywood's perception of a jury will be discussed. The television special, Inside the Jury Room, showed a videotaping of a real life jury as seen in a small criminal courtroom. The case was Wisconsin v. Leroy ... Angry Men. Discrimination against blacks has always existed; and until the fifteenth amendment was passed, and the Grandfather Clause, White Primaries, and literacy test were declared unconstitutional, they could not vote. Women, although the population's majority, were the last to be given suffrage rights. The men in the movie seemed affluent and business-like. Some of the men came from meager backgrounds, yet they all act as if they ...
- 19224: The Americanization Of Canada
- ... It is slowly being assimilated and in fact Americanized in aspects of social identity, national identity, and cultural identity. First, Canada is being slowly Americanized in its social identity. When we talk about a country s social identity, we examine a few areas. First is the media, which is constantly bombarding Canadians with images and values of American culture. Through the images we see Americans constantly fighting, either in aspects of global policing in their own backyard with Americans killing Americans. Through situation comedies and news we Canadians are hit with a whole other value system not of our own, saying it s okay to fight to solve our differences. The second aspect of the social identity is sports. This is quite financially the one factor that affects everyone. Every Monday night during the summer and on Sundays ... police, beavers, ice hockey, and wide land mass. In fact, our national identity has been brought about by the American way of life. This buying spree essentially started when Walt Disney purchased the Mounted Police s image o it could be displayed in the Ebcot center. The most powerful, stunning uniform is to be adorned by some no-account, flag-waving, hillbilly yokel. Another national image wh8ich spans all three ...
- 19225: A Dolls House 2
- After reading A Doll s House by Hendrik Ibsen. I can conclude that there is both a parallel and a contrast structure in the characters of Mrs. Linde and Nora. A contrasting difference in the characters, are shown not in ... Nora. It gives us an image of who the character Nora really is. Mrs. Linde shows her loyalty to her family when she did not think that she had the right to refuse her husband s marriage proposal. After taking into consideration her sick mother, her brothers, and Krogstad having money. She married for the welfare of her family. Which means that in this society family is top priority. To the women is this era, loyalty to their loved ones is highly expected. Then, we have Nora, who on the same token saves her husband (Torvald s) life, which portrays again, the trend of women sacrificing for their families. They both (Mrs. Linde and Nora) express their feelings of pride and fulfillment in helping their significant others by sacrificing themselves. Nora ...
- 19226: Colt: A Man and His Guns
- ... born in 1814 to a family were money was not the pressing issue. His father , Christopher, was a man that owned his own silk mill in the town where Colt was born, Hartford, Connecticut. Colt's mother died when he was six and his father's business started to fail. When Colt Colt was seven, he was fascinated by guns. He took apart his father's gun in a field and was able to successfully rebuild it. At the age of ten Colt was an apprentice in his fathers mill, mostly dying clothes. Science, adventures of an active life, and ...
- 19227: The Iran-Contra Affair
- The Iran-Contra Affair The tangled U.S. foreign-policy scandal known as the Iran-contra affair came to light in November 1986 when President Ronald Reagan said yes to reports that the United States had secretly sold arms to Iran. He said that the goal was to improve relations with Iran, not to get releases of U.S. hostages held in the Middle East by terrorists (although he later agreed that the arrangement had in fact turned into an arms-for-hostages swap). People spoke out against dealings with the hostile Iranian government ... arms sale or contra aid or both, including marine Lt. Col. Oliver North of the National Security Council (NSC) staff. Reagan appointed a review board headed by former Republican senator John Tower. The Tower commission's report in February 1987 criticized the president's passive management style. In a nationaly televised address on March 4, Reagan accepted the reports judgement without serious disagreement. Select committees of the Senate (11 members ...
- 19228: Odysseus Portrayed As A Hero Who Uses Brains
- ... Throughout Odysseus’ trials he imbraces his craft to the point where it associates him with the gods. By contrast, Achilles disassociation with his divinity provides for him the turning point towards his destiny. Finally, it’s a combination of Odysseus’ humanity, brawn and consistency to his craft that makes him a full dimensional hero, opposed to the one dimensional hero of The Iliad. In The Iliad, Achilles exemplifies being a great ... of gods must be respected. After finally being beaten down by Scamander, Achilles pleads to Zeus for divine intervention. (Book 21 ll 309-320) Hera sends Hephaestus to rescue Achilles from the river god. It’s Achilles realization of Scamanders’ divinity, which is paradoxically a kind of acceptance of his own humanity. Throughout The Odyssey, Odysseus rarely shies away from his craft. He’s a tactful thinker. His tactfulness is shown when he is trapped in Polyphemus’ cave. After seeing the Cyclops devour his companions, he plots a plan. He offers Polyphemus a mellow wine, after which Polyphemus ...
- 19229: Billy Bud
- ... attitude, Billy is transferred to another British ship, the Indomitable. And while he is accepted for his looks and happy personality, hardly here [is] he that cynosure he had previously been among those minor ship s companies of the merchant marine (14). It is here, on the Indomitable that Billy says good-bye to his rights. It is here, also, that Billy meets John Claggart, the master-at-arms. A man ... books or licentious living but born with him and innate, in short a depravity according to nature (38). Here then, is presented a man with a personality and character to contrast and conflict with Billy s. Sweet, innocent Billy immediately realizes that this man is someone he does not wish to cross and so after seeing Claggart whip another crew-member for neglecting his responsibilities, Billy resolved that never through remissness ... surprise and concern when ultimately he found himself getting into petty trouble occasionally about such matters as the stowage of his bag which brought down on him a vague threat from one of [the ship s corporals] (31). These small threats and incidents establish the tension between Claggart and Billy, and set the stage for a later confrontation. They also force Billy to search for help. The person he goes ...
- 19230: Candide The Satire Of An Age.
- ... companion is of course Dr. Pangloss. He consistently dribbles to Dr. Pangloss about what should be done. At last to the happiness of readers Pangloss is killed by being hanged. But this means that Candide s reason is also dead! No problem he just goes finds a new companion, Lacking him [Pangloss], let s consult the old woman (37). He soon loses her, gains another, looses him, and then gains another. Thus we see that Candide can only think if he has a companion. Voltaire is thus saying that ... the nobles are really idiots and says they are only smart because they have philosophers. This is typically Enlightenment, because nobles, are stupid and must have philosophers to make them Enlightened. For example L Hospital s a French Noble had in his possession mathematicians that developed new ways of taking limits (a Calculus idea). Yet in today's society we call this way L Hospital s Rule, not Bernoulli s ...
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