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- 19841: The Riders: Summary and Analysis
- ... with his home. (34). Since the first greeting between peter and scully, peter has schown great enthusiasm to help scully recondition his home on page 24. This even meant putting off his daily post. “Haven't you got the post to do? Diversity, Mr Sculy thats my motto.” Peter Keneally is one of the characters which help reveal scully, his family and general detail of his wife to the readers. For example on page 16, we see the nationality of scully revealed. “Youre the Australian then.” and on page 29, the name of scully's wife, jennifer, is mentioned to the readers “What was her name again? your wife?” Scully is very fond of Peter as on page 35 and on page 47 scully describes him as “he liked him ... always gave scully a good influence, on page 34, “ pete gave him company most afternoons, made him laugh and sped up the work enormously. Readers see peter keneally as a hardworking ,caring person who doesn't like letting people down and is friendly, he also reveals scully life to readers by asking him questions. Jimmy Brereton is a minor character who fills in gaps for readers regarding irish characters. He ...
- 19842: Orgin Of The Korean War
- THE ORGIN OF THE KOREAN WAR When someone mentions the Korean War, everyone knows that it was a civil war between the North and the South Korea. But many don’t know how it actually got started. There are a lot of things that happened before the North Koreans decided to cross over the 38th parallel. The Korean civil war was just a small part of ... to land troops to occupy Korea at the end of the war as soon as they found out that the Russia was interested in overtaking the Korea as their sphere of interest. The Soviet Union’s occupying Korea would create and entirely new strategic situation in the Far East. Though the Pentagon decided that interest towards Korea was not going to be a long-term interest to the US, their view ... was now set up to work as a satellite state for China and South Korea was to become a free nation prepared by the United States. By the year of 1950, the North Korea People's Army was trained and equipped by the Soviet Union. North Koreans were now heavily trained and now had an aggressive military force. They were well equipped with Russian small arms, artillery, armor, and fighter ...
- 19843: The Summa Teologica By Thomas
- ... by the University of Paris where he studied the ancient Greek thought of Aristotle. Educated in both philosophy and theology,Aquinas is thought to be one of the most important philosophers of Catholicism. One ofAquinas s most influential writings is the Summa Theologica. In this document, Aquinas clarifies four questions concerning the Church: Whether it can be demonstrated t Godexist? Whether it is always sinfuhatl to wage war? Whether it is lawful for Clerics and Bishops to fight? And whether it is lawful to fight on holy days? He answers each question thoroughly but ... have power and authority. He first states that all wars are sinful, but if it is justified it is not a sin; however, I feel that just because one has authority over others, this shouldn t mean that he is excused from sin because of his stature; thus his reply is bios. The second necessity is that a just cause is required in order to wage war. According to his ...
- 19844: People Are Still Trading Crime For Crime
- ... If there is one point punk-folkie Ani DiFranco wanted to make clear with her song "Crime for Crime", it was that the answer to crime does not lie in the executing of prisoners. America's best known problem child has raised a lot of dust with this particular song. Not very unusual taking into account it is a song about death penalty and America has not quite come to terms ... of a minority here but finds the matter important enough speak out for. I admire her for taking that stand by singing out for what she herself believes in. The lyrics are not merely someone's state of mind it actually confronts you with certain questions. The finger is pointed at the listener; I think guilt and innocence they are a matter of degree what might be justice to you might ... is almost forced to contemplate over such a line. DiFranco wants you to think about what justice means to you. So you soon realize that listening to the song just is not enough. DiFranco wouldn't be DiFranco if she stopped here. She is someone who takes her listener a step further; You might be the wrong color you might be too poor justice isn't something anyone can afford. ...
- 19845: Persuasive Essays Are Bad Assignments
- ... Assignments There is no logical reason to write a persuasive essay for an English class. Persuasive essays definitely do not need to be a requirement for high school students. The definition of “persuade” in Webster's New College Dictionary is: To induce one to believe or do something; to argue into an opinion or procedure; to plead with, urge. I have always thought that someone who let his own opinion be ... essays written by adolescents are fluff in the eyes of authority anyway. Sure, you could write a persuasive essay about plenty of subjects. For example, “Kids should be allowed to skateboard anywhere they want.” It's a perfectly fine essay for someone who really cares about it. The problem is that most of the authorities who would decide where a youth could skateboard feel that skateboarding is useless. Adults have a ... people who are nonconformists. (On the other hand, not being able to wear a dog collar to school can be a problem for some nonconformists, but I will not delve into that because I don't want to anger myself.) It is hard to be creative in a five paragraph paper about controlling the pet population, yet students are asked to write a persuasive thesis about it, then refer back ...
- 19846: The Voisey Bay Project
- ... the vicinity of a small Labrador town called Nain. Now the mining companies have to deal with the residents of the area, and they are not happy about certain aspects of the find. The Voisey’s Bay Project: Arguments for and against First of all lets take a look at the bonuses of this find, for the industry and for the residents and town of Nain. The 288 claims is worth ... and over 300 million to Archean Inc. (Flanagan 1995) This is obviously very profitable for the companies involved but also for the shareholders in the companies involved. With industry consuming 60 percent of the world’s nickel, Voisey Bay now provided a stable supply for the next 10 to 15 years. (Flanagan 1995) And as for the town, there are many economic benefits to this find, as well as it provides ... extremely worth while for the province, but on the other hand the government has been very supportive of the people in the past. This also makes life tougher for the companies since the people won’t settle for less than a full claim agreement. (Flanagan 1995) Application of Geographical Concepts The metaphor ‘the tragedy of commons’ has relevance towards the Voisey Bay project. The idea behind this metaphor is that ...
- 19847: Home Computer Network
- ... to have more than one home computer for you and your family? Do you have two or more computers, but need to copy and/or share files and/or programs between them, but you don’t know how? Do all of your computers need Internet access, but you don’t want to have a phone line installed for each of them? Well, you can do all of this. I know, because this is what I did at my home. After doing research I found that ... your network. This is very important if you only have one phone line. If you were to add an additional phone line for each computer you wanted to be connected to the Internet, well, let’s just say that this would be a costly alternative. By using your file server on your network, as a PROXY server, you can just use one phone line to connect to the Internet. All ...
- 19848: Inca Empire
- ... one of the four regions had a governor who was a blood relative of the emperor, known as “apo”. Then, in the political hierarchy of the Inca Empire, were the administrators of the provinces, called “t’ oqrikoq”. In the last level of Inca political hierarchy were the so-called “kuraka” (Inca 376). In an attempt to achieve bureaucratic accountability, the Incas broke all the households in the empire, down into neat ... Rosso 122). Once the child had been weaned, its parents observed a ceremony, called “rutuchicoy”, a feast attended by relations and friends. Here, the senior male relative would cut off a lock of the youngster’s hair (Lost 129). To the boys were given names of animals, or quality associated with an animal, such as Puma, Dragon, Snake, Hawk, or perhaps Brave, Honorable, or Happy. Names such as Star, Halo, Coca ... movement of people (especially the armies) and goods. Moreover, the roads were the pathway of information. Trained runners carried official messages, and had to cover up to 400 km per day (Inca Empire 4). Inca’s road system are often compared to those of Roman Empire. Both were used to maintain control of diverse groups living far from the capital. But even the great Empire of Romans, did not have ...
- 19849: Rescue Of Susanna
- ... listen to them. As Susanna is being carried to her death God hears her prayers and aroused the hold spirit of a young lad named Daniel. Daniel pointed out the weaknesses in the two elder’s stories and the Jews rose against them. This story is memorable for several reasons. One is the fact that Susanna doesn’t give in to the elders’ requests even when they threatened her life and her reputation. She has impressive faith in God and trusts him to make everything right. Another reason this story is memorable is ... saying by not giving in to temptation and by trusting God to work everything out, which he did. One last lesson that can be taken from this story is that lying (especially under oath) won’t get you anywhere. The two elders who lied were found out and punished. The relevance of this story to life in general are the morals it instills. Morals taken from the lessons above shape ...
- 19850: Color Blindness
- Color Blindness Many people refer to problems with one’s ability to see color as color blindness, however, unless a person can’t see any color at all, color vision problems should be called by another term. Common terms are abnormal color vision, color deficiency and color vision confusion. Females maybe be effected by color blindness, but usually ... white. They may even see mint green or pink as an equal to light blue. Red color blindness is the most common. This is when the red color receptors are nonexistent. These people either don’t see red or they see it as black. When the red color receptors are just malfunctioning, they will see red as dark brown or orange. These people often have trouble distinguishing between orange, yellow ...
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