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- 20441: Eugenics
- ... those of humans. They believed that in order to survive this new era, a species capable of defending and hunting for itself was needed. Their skins were think, hard but flexible, and dark. The skin’s ability to relect the ultra violet light given off from the sun kept its body from great harm. The thick coat game it more protection from air pollution and water pollution and many other harmful substances. Developed on its back were wings to soar through the air as a means of transportation. The creature remained bipedal but it’s efficiency in using its hind legs could not be increased. Their eyesight was perfected to prevent any visually challenged individuals. Their sense of smell was increase by about 10%. Other specific organs and appendages were ... closely to the parents for long periods of time. The parents communicate with their infants as soon as they are born. As time passes they learn to allow the infant to do things on it’s own and teach the infant what to do. They are taught to craw ans walk and talk. The infants seem to have a touch attachment to their parents until the age of 3 where ...
- 20442: Slavery: A Justified Institution
- ... legal justification for their practices. Clear-cut attempts to bend the rules on the legality of slavery in documents like the Lecompton Constitution made some rationalizations look weak and rash in concept. With the South's slavery dependent and fragile economy, Southerners were ready to fight for their survival with whatever means were necessary. Proslavery whites launched a defensive against slavery which explained the "peculiar institution" as a positive good, supported ... that the relations between slave and man, however admitting to deplore abuses in it, was compatible with Christianity, and that the presence of Africans on American soil was an occasion of gratitude on the slave's behalf before God – basically, the slaves should have been grateful for their bondage. Plantation owners even stressed religion by teaching the slaves the principles of Christianity and by brainwashing the slaves into thinking they were ... newly surveyed territory – which directly relied on the idea of popular sovereignty to be compromised. Due to the fact that popular sovereignty is an ideal based on the tenets of democracy which support the "people's will," Southerners used popular sovereignty to justify their slavery practices – ultimately slavery is supported through popular sovereignty since it is the "people's will" to enslave blacks, or at least the "Southerners' will." Another ...
- 20443: V-Chip and Television Censorship
- V-Chip and Television Censorship There's far too much sex and violence available to our children today. Appropriate steps must be taken to shield our young ones from these dangerous influences. Fortunately Congress and the President have signed into legislation a ... compare the rating codes to values preset by the viewer. If the rating codes are higher than the preset values, the television signal would be blocked, and a blank screen would be displayed. The ACLU's responce to the v-chip is as follows."Although its supporters claim the v-chip gives parents control over their children's viewing habits, in fact it will function as a governmental usurpation of parental control. Under the legislation, it is the government (either directly or by coercing private industry),and not the parents, that will ...
- 20444: The Yellow Wallpaper An Inside
- The Yellow Wallpaper An Inside look "The Yellow Wallpaper", written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a story of a woman, her psychological problems, and her husband's so called therapeutic treatment of her aliments during the late 1800s. The story begins with a young woman and her husband traveling to the country for the summer for the healing powers of being away ... assumption is to believe this to be the initial sign that the feminist perspective will be presented throughout. The narrator shows how although she has a formed opinion, she is still swayed by her husband's direction with the following passage, "I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus--but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think ... to oppose with him because she is a woman, yet another feminist insight. The final passages of the story, at last, successfully evident a display of power and possible regain of independence through the narrator's finally standing up to her spouse by locking him out of the room in which he has imprisoned her supposedly for her benefit. Upon which, for the first time in the story he must ...
- 20445: Blazing Satire
- ... Mel Brooks is notorious for his satires of many different films and film genres, and Blazing Saddles follows true to form as, in some opinions, one of the funniest films made. Many of the film’s ideas and problems are common in most westerns, although Mel Brooks has added a twist. In addition, the movie pokes fun at a more modern theme, racism. Many westerns contain some of the same elements ... employs a huge army of bandits ranging from cowboys, to Germans, to Middle Eastern terrorists. A parody since many of the bandits would not be able to come to the United States in the 1800’s. Furthermore, the lack of intelligence of the bandits is over-exaggerated. An example illustrating their low intelligence is when Bart, the sheriff, places a dime toll- booth in the middle of the prairie, hoping to slow them. When the army gallops to it on their way to destroy Rock Ridge, they stop and exclaim, “Somebody’s gotta go back and get a sh*t load of dimes!” No person, in an actual western, would stop; they would simply ride around the building and carry on with business. Another example is, ...
- 20446: Ballad Of Birmingham
- Dudley Randall's Ballad of Birmingham Dudley Randall's Ballad of Birmingham gives a poetic account of the bombing of a Birmingham church in 1963. The poem was written in ballad form to convey the mood of the mother to her daughter. The author also gives a graphic account of what the 1960's were like. Irony played a part also in the ballad showing the church as the warzone and the freedom march as the safer place to be. Writing the poem in ballad form gave a ...
- 20447: Blind Mans Bluff
- Blind Man’s Bluff Sometimes in literature, the characters in the story make an important contribution to society. In the novel, Blind Man’s Bluff, by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew, the brave men and women that served in the Navy’s ‘Secret Service’ did just that. If it wasn’t for them, many more lives would have been lost and more land would be destroyed. They had to endure many hardships and suffer for this ...
- 20448: "Is Moral Egoism Correct?"
- "Is Moral Egoism Correct?" Moral Egoism states that "one never does wrong if one does what's in one's own self-interest; it's always morally acceptable to just look out for number one" (Barcalow, 295). I feel that I should do what is in my own self-interest for the most part, but not for everything, thus ...
- 20449: Violence on Television
- ... as if one is afraid to speak to someone for the first time. I believe that television has helped our society alot more than it is normally given credit for. For example in my grandparent's generation it would have been a sin to talk about sex. These day we have a better understanding of peoples preferences whether we agree with them or not. The most important thing that deals with ... an ironic idea. This idea dealt with people raising their young like cattle for about two years or until fatten and then sell them to rich greedy English landowners for there fancy feast. I can't speak for anyone but the violent mental picture I had after I read that story for was enough to make me more sympathetic for the people involved in this situation than if the author wrote ... being lead by a greedy and ignorant shepherd. One last thing if people had never heard of the horrors of the concentration camps in Europe during World War II. Can anyone say that they don't believe that they would have happened a couple of more times in this four or five decades that have gone by and if it did do you believe that the world would stand for ...
- 20450: Three Ways to End Racial Discrimination
- ... children continue to learn and play together and racism will have no place in society. Some argue that racism will not end, yet look at the deterioration over the past 200 years. With time America's decline of racism will continue. Jim Crow Laws prevented blacks from exercising their right to vote in the late 1800's. In 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., MLK, won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading a nonviolent fight for racial equality (New Student Bible 1180). At the turn of the new millenium a growth in ... All Asians are smart. These stereotypes can be proven wrong with education. MLK was a prominent African American and certainly not a gangster. "Any time you have the opportunity to accomplish something and you don't, you are wasting your time on earth," Roberto Clemente the first Hispanic in the Baseball Hall of Fame said (www.majorleaguebaseball). Clemente a 12 time all-star does not meet the definition of lazy. ...
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