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- 22171: Truth and Consequences: Taking Advantage of the Loser of WWI
- ... of the major allied powers, Clemenceau of France, Geroge of Great Britain, Orlando of Italy, and Wilson of the United States, were supposed to draw up a document for long lasting peace based on Wilson's Fourteen Points, but the other leaders were vengeful. They wanted Germany to pay in a big way for their losses and costs incurred. Instead of choosing to aim for long lasting peace by basing their ... of reparations by Germany. Germany immediately stopped all reparations payments. In the economic panic that followed German money became worthless, and many Germans were financially ruined. Through all this, the Germans hoped that President Wilson's Fourteen Points would be ratified and the Treaty of Versailles would be nullified, but to no avail. The treaty was given to the German delegation to sign at Versailles on May 7, 1919. The German delegates strongly objected to its severe terms. and they stated that the terms were not consistent with President Wilson's Fourteen Points. Although the Allies made only small concessions, the German delegates signed on June 28, 1919. When Wilson was notified that his Fourteen Points had been shot down by the other power players ...
- 22172: A Rose For Emily
- ... not backward to an age gone by. Since Miss Emily can not bear to live in any world but that which her father had helped maintain, she eventually succumbs to the pressures of the town s leap into modernism. She does so, by committing murder and necrophilia in order to preserve her way of life. In "A Rose for Emily," Faulkner uses Miss Emily s childhood as a catalyst for her unwillingness to let go of the past, and cause conflict between her and the modern town. From the beginning Miss Emily was at odds with the entire town. Emily lived with her father throughout her entire adolescent life, and was never exposed to the real world. Miss Emily s father selfishly kept her to himself, making it impossible for her to meet, let alone become friends with anyone in town. Miss Emily never experienced love with anyone but her father because he chased ...
- 22173: The Orestia
- ... of a jury on the charge of matricide. The jury hands in a tied verdict and the goddess Athena casts the deciding vote in favor of Orestes. This of course begs the question: Was Athena s decision fair? I believe that this decision was in the best interest of fairness because Orestes was motivated by Apollo, enraged by the murder of his father, and aggrieved by the vicious cycle of antisocial ... behavior that was running rampant in his family. Often, jurists, counselors, judges, politicians, and citizens alike are called upon to distinguish the difference (and subsequently choose) between the interests of fairness and justice. While Athena s decision might not have carried out the value of justice, it upheld the advantages of reasonable fairness. The supporting rationalization, I listed above might not have been taken into Athena s consideration of this matter; however, one must consider the practical application of the verdict. This application ceased the Taleonic nature that had befitted the House of Atrius. Although it is difficult to imagine that ...
- 22174: Compare And Contrast
- ... two In the story "The General History Of Virginia" by John Smith, was a story on how he made people come to the new world. John Smith style of writing was more poetic than Bradford's, John Smith used lots af adjectives. And William Bradford he was a plain writer he did not use any special words he would use normal words and to his point. Even though these men lived ... other. John Smith and William Bradford were both really prejudice and hated the Indians, But towards the end William Bradford became nice to them and John Smith was still making fun of them. John Smith's and William Bradford's writting was quite different then each others. John Smith always exaggerated in his writting not to always to make everything boring. He is very poetic and also uses lots of adjectives. And William Bradford ...
- 22175: A Good Man Is Hard To Find Ana
- In her short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor seems to portray a feeling that society as she saw it was drastically changing for the worse. O'Connor's obvious displeasure with society at the time is most likely a result of her Catholic religion and her very conservative upbringing in the old south. She seems to depict her opinion in this particular story by using the character of the grandmother to show what she saw was happening to the times. Evidence of society's "demise" is woven into the story, and presented through an interesting generation gap between the grandmother and her family. The grandmother is representative of devoutness and Christianity which O'Connor apparently believed to be more ... world. O Connor described the old woman as she settled herself comfortably, removing her white cotton gloves and putting them up with her purse on the shelf in front of the back window. The children's mother still had on slacks and still had her head tied up in a green kerchief but the grandmother had on a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on ...
- 22176: A Statistical View of European Rural Life, 1600-1800
- A Statistical View of European Rural Life, 1600-1800 Between the 17th and 19th centuries, the average European's diets varied greatly due to natural causes. Most peasants lived in unsanitary conditions, far away from conventional medical help, and would live in a single room with a large family. Most farmers were illiterate especially ... had predictable weather patterns and were able to grow an abundance of crops. The farther East a country was, the lower its yield would be due to poor and unpredictable weather. The average European peasant's diet was poor and not sufficient to human needs. Most diets included bread, cheese, and butter. Meat and vegetables were rare and eaten possibly twice a year. Most peasants were always on the verge of starvation and ate anything edible to survive. The average person's requirements are about 2,500 calories to function normally. Few people even met the standards; most peasants were malnourished, since they did not meet all of the food group requirements needed for a healthy ...
- 22177: The Theme of Love In The Odyssey
- ... out the course of this book there is one major emotional theme which is love. Often times in life we search for a companion, someone to share our love and life with. Odysseus and Penelope's lasting relationship is an obvious representation of love in the Odyssey. Although Odysseus is gone for twenty years he never forgets his faithful wife in Ithaca. This love almost seems to help him persevere through ... Ithaca, she stays loyal to Odysseus by unraveling his shroud and delaying her marriage to the suitors that are courting her. She always keeps the hope that her love, Odysseus, will return. Odysseus and Penelope's marriage clearly illustrates the theme of love. There are also many other bonds formed in life that show great love and guidance. One of the most emphasized in the Odyssey is the father - son relationship ... issue of love in the Odyssey. The father - son relationship between Odysseus and Telemachos is a little awkward because they both never really got to know each other but they still care for each other's well being. When Odysseus hears of all the suitors devouring Telemachos's future fortune and mistreating him, he wants to return and revenge the misuse of his family and property. Odysseus, like any parent, ...
- 22178: Aids In The USA
- ... and is not helping the AIDS epidemic. The media has lacked attention to the AIDS epidemic as well and this has also contributed to the spread of AIDS. Some of what caused the American publics lack of interest in AIDS are prisons, foreign countries, and the U. S. statistics on AIDS. American public always stay away from things they dislike and this is the case with the spread of the AIDS virus. My first proof is that prisons are afraid of the Federal ... should. We have many immigrants coming into out country, each year and some of them carrying the AIDS virus. We can not let this virus keep spreading so in my opinion I think the U. S. should join all these other countries and research this virus and try to find a cure for it. If they do not, I believe everyone in the United States is in some trouble. My ...
- 22179: A Separate Peace - Inflouence
- ... about by World War II. The maturing influence of the war on Finny was a considerable one, even though it did not seem to the other boys that he was growing up at all. Gene's jealousy leads him to the point where he has to destroy Finny's greatest asset, his skill in sports, just so that he does not have to be the "popular guy's friend. Gene knocks Finny off the tree limb and breaks his leg. Everyone at Devon except for Finny suspects that Gene caused Finny to fall off the branch, not Finny's loss of balance. ...
- 22180: Marijuana
- ... early as 2700 B. C. in China. (Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia, 1995). The cultivation of the marijuana plant began as far back as the Jamestown settlers, around 1611, who used hemp produced from the marijuana plant's fibers to make rope and canvas. It was also used in making clothing because of it's durability. These uses fit in with the social climate of the time, because the main focus was on survival rather than for psychoactive purposes. During the prohibition, marijuana was widely used because of the scarcity ... with fines of $2,000 for drug posession and jail sentences for evasion of the tax. For this reason marijuana use in the United States appears to have gone into decline in the late 30's (Grolier Wellness Encyclopedia, pg 54). Then marijuana was outlawed in 1937 as a repressive measure against Mexican workers who crossed the border seekingjobs during the Depression. The specific reason given for the outlawing of ...
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