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- 22991: Casinos
- Casinos Casinos have become a large part of cities' economy and hundreds of thousands of people's lives. Casinos are exciting for many people who feel they have a chance to win it big. Because so much money is flowing into casinos, the local business are being affected. Most are not thriving with the new tourism and the seemingly revived economy. In 1994 more people made the trip to a casino then to a ball park (Popkin). The casinos are attracting so much of American's dollars that they spent less on books, music albums and attractions (Reed). The people are spending less money outside of the casino. Which is not helping the vast majority of local businesses. This is what ... of casinos. Across the continent casinos have created tens of thousands of jobs for unemployed people (Clines). Indian casinos in Minnesota have created approximately 5,000 jobs. Between 1975 and 1992 employment in Atlantic City's service industry grew 608 percent, a significant part of this came from casinos which created 95 percent of the new jobs. The casinos increased construction jobs ninety three percent, and created 600 new transportation ...
- 22992: Herman Melville
- Herman Melville In 1850 while writing The House of the Seven Gables, Hawthorne's publisher introduced him to another writer who was in the midst of a novel. This was Herman Melville, the book Moby Dick. Hawthorne and Melville became good friends at once, for despite their dissimilar backgrounds ... and his descriptions of his bizarre experiences suited the taste of a romantic age. As he wrote Melville became conscious of deeper powers. In 1849 he began a systematic study of Shakespeare, pondering the bard's intuitive grasp of human nature. Like Hawthorne, Melville could not accept the prevailing optimism of his generation. Unlike his friend, he admired Emerson, seconding the Emersonian demand that Americans reject European ties and develop their own literature. "Believe me," he wrote, "men not very much inferior to Shakespeare are this day being born on the banks of the Ohio." Yet he considered Emerson's vague talk about striving and the inherent goodness of mankind complacent nonsense. Experience made Melville too aware of the evil in the world to be a transcendentalist. His novel Redburn based on his adventures ...
- 22993: Iran-contra Affair
- ... not as nationalists, but as representatives of a communist conspiracy that must be stopped. “ Lurking in the background of these affairs, then, was the ghost of McCarthyism…”(Draper 568). The White House took the 1950’s idea of McCarthyism to take every method short of a full-scale war to overthrow the Sandinista regime. The War Against the Sandinistas The United States Central Intelligence Agency armed and trained an anti-Sandinista ... steadily growing death toll in Nicaragua. It is estimated that 20,000 Nicaraguan men, women and children were killed in these attacks. (“1986…”) These attacks’ purposes were to terrorize the people and destroy the country’s economics. I believe the Reagan administration was wrong in doing this, even though they had good intention to stop communism. They only brought unnecessary blood shed. Arms for Hostages The Iranian end of the affair ... able to keep such an intricate web of lies from being exposed. They had already been in direct violation of the Boland amendment, which prohibited aid to Nicaraguan rightists. As word leaked out about North’s role in the operation, North and others lied under oath, adding perjury and obstruction of justice to their other crimes. Exposure In Firewall, Walsh explains to us the exposure of Iran-Contra that came ...
- 22994: Magnetic Therapy
- ... Probably one of the largest contemporary trends in the therapeutic world is the use of magnetic therapy. However, it is also one of the least researched modalities, and has very little sound explanation for it's effectiveness. Winning over its clientele with testimonials by everyone from doctors to elite athletes, magnets are making a place for themselves in the health and therapeutic fields. This is accomplished by utilizing many different marketing ... to the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, magnetic fields from the external environment enter the body easily because it is approximately 70% water. After penetrating into the tissues, a change in the alignment of the body's electromagnetic fields and an interaction with acupuncture points and meridians on the body occurs (Robinson, 1846). Magnetic fields also aids the following functions: cell division and replacement, blood circulation and hemoglobin saturation, flushing of deposits ... magnetic field to the injured site to aid in the healing process. The human body has a natural tendency to better perform and succeed in this negatively charged environment. These charges applied cause the body's water, because of its diamagnetic properties, to have a repellency affect. In response to this applied magnetic field, the electrons in the water molecules make slight adjustments in their motions to repel. Like water, ...
- 22995: A Comparison of the Medieval and Renaissance Eras
- ... seem to be focused almost entirely on religion and are given heavenly attributes, while paintings of the Renaissance consist mainly of secular subjects and contain much more realism, especially noted in human subjects. In Giotto's Madonna With Child, a Medieval painting, any observer will obviously notice that the child and woman are very awkwardly proportioned, indicating the lack of realism. However, in the Mona Lisa, by DaVinci, and The Marriage ... of them were religious oriented or somehow involved the church, whereas religion or the church was seldom involved in Renaissance paintings. Rather, paintings of the Renaissance involved mostly secular subjects, as seen again in DaVinci's Mona Lisa and also Raphael's The School of Athens. In the case of the Mona Lisa, the subject is a typical woman with a very sublime smile, but with no apparent religious association whatsoever. The same applies to The ...
- 22996: Jumping Off For Freedom
- ... the book or the story is about a fifteen year old man name David Leal that with his family had not other choice but to make a raft and search for freedom, David, Miguel (David's father) and Luis (helped making the raft) were the only ones supposed to get on the raft, but while aborting the raft 'El Toro' (Luis' friend) with the help of Luis got on the raft ... or she is reading and also makes it easy to follow. The exposition introduces the setting and the character, the reader notice this at the very beginning of the book, for example, when Elena, David's girlfriend, told Rosa and Miguel, David's parents that David has been arrested by the police, the reader has been introduced to three characters and one conflict as well. The raising action will follow, this is when the central conflict is ...
- 22997: Ordinary People: Significance of The Title
- ... The Title The significance of the title “Ordinary People” is that it is ironic because there are not ordinary people in the book. It does not correspond with the novel itself. As defined in Webster's Dictionary, ordinary means usual, common, or normal. To most people, this is what they think they are. However, in the book being unordinary is common for most of the characters. The author of this book ... characters are really unusual. For example, most teenagers do not try to commit suicide. However, in this book, Conrad Jarett tries to kill himself. He attempts suicide because he is depressed about his older brother's death. He lost his brother in a boating accident and he blames himself for his death. He believes that he could have prevented the accident by coming in from the sea when the waters began ... as having some sort of mental incapacity and are treated for it. Therefore, this is not ordinary and Conrad was not either. Another character in this book who is not ordinary is Beth Jarett, Conrad's mother. Conrad feels as if she does not love him. She hardly talks to him. She also treats him as if he does not belong in the family, like a stranger. For example, in ...
- 22998: Lord Of The Flies Character An
- In William Golding s novel The Lord Of The Flies, each character represents a part of society. Jack, the leader of the choir boys and hunters, represents parts of society which can be broken down in three ways. The ... fact that Jack frequently picks on Piggy is a symbol of how brawn and brutality will often overwhelm intellect (Piggy represents the intellectual part of society). Jack even goes as far as to break Piggy s glasses, another symbol of order and society, which shows how he is going to later destruct and eventually destroy every last part of normal society that remains on the island. The second part is life and death. In this case, Jack represents death. This is first symbolized by Jack s black choir cloak, since black is associated with death. When Jack first appears, he comes out of the darkness of the forest and Ralph, the symbol of goodness, cannot see Jack s face because ...
- 22999: War Poetry
- ... splendid war poem, but each from different spectrums of war. Everyone Sang is a two stanza, five-line poem that says so much about the imprisonment of war. The poem was written right after Sassoon s release from the British army. He is so overjoyed to be released that he compares it too, prisoned birds must find in freedom Winging wildly across the white Orchards Like many other poets, he is ... made it to the lines he died of blood poisoning. This is obvious when understanding his poems. He has a very positive outlook on war. He has a very strong patriotic love of England. Brooke s wrote, The Soldier , a traditional sonnet. He praises the wonderful land of England. Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England s breathing English air . He is loyal to his country for it has been good to him, and he will honor his country by dying for it. Brooke would be proud to die in the ...
- 23000: The Essenes of Qumran
- ... Frend 18). Moreover, this tradition contributed toward shaping the apocalyptic tradition of the early Church, and in particular, inspired the theology of martyrdom and separation from pagan society, which dominated so much of the Church's thought in the first three centuries A.D. Qumran, the home of the Essenes, was a settlement in Palestine on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. The Essenes lived in caves within the cliffs ... are reflected in the elaborate plumbing arrangements that have been identified at the Qumran site" (Johnson 17). The lifestyle of the Essenes was strictly ascetic and many of their beliefs directly parallel the Christian priest's vows of chastity and celibacy. They are best described in Pliny the Elder's Natural History as "the solitary tribe of the Essenes, which is remarkable beyond all other tribes in the whole world, as it has no women and has renounced all sexual desire, has no money, ...
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