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- 23151: "Speak and You Shall Be Heard"
- "Speak and You Shall Be Heard" The expression of a person's spoken word can be the most powerful means of communication. When someone expresses how he or she feels through speech, it can be emotionally moving and sometimes packed with knowledge. A great man Martin Luther ... by Martin Luther King Jr. moved you emotionally and mentally, left you to think about how the world would turn out, if mankind would come together as one and unite. Though Martin Luther King Jr's spoken word, he reached over 200,000 people at the civil rights march and hundreds more over national broadcast. Even though this speech was given in 1963, this still holds a place in our hearts ... the spoken word you can remember key parts the speaker reflects on and hope that those points are addressed at a future date, or maybe even changed. The tone expressed through Martin Luther King Jr's speeches was not of hatred or resentment, just love for all mankind no matter what color or creed they may be. Martin Luther King Jr. came across as a kind human being, not a ...
- 23152: Lord Of The Flies - Analyzing Ralph
- ... the island sooner or later; he is so sure that he even insists that they should have fire at all times to signal. However, when the boys abandon the fire which is symbolic of Ralph’s hope of getting saved, Ralph faces an internal conflict that makes him fear about their future; perhaps they will not be rescued at all. By insisting that the children should keep the fire going, he ... significantly bothers Jack because he wants to have fun and do things that he never did back in the civilized society. Jack is eventually successful of pulling nearly all of the children out of Ralph’s control to form savages. Ralph represents the civilization, and Jack represents the primitive society. Moreover, Ralph is Golding’s symbolic method of democracy. To the audience, Ralph seems like Franklin D. Roosevelt during the World War II—he was certainly capable of stopping the World War II from breaking out, but he could ...
- 23153: Joan Of Arc
- ... was not a well-educated woman. She had never learned to read or write but was skilled in sewing and spinning. Her deeply religious mother and father, Isabelle and Jacques d'Arc raised her. Joan's father was a small peasant farmer, poor but not needy. Joan was the youngest of a family of five. She grew up herding cattle and sheep and helping in the fields during the harvest. Joan ... army set out to rescue Orleans from English control. At first the French commanders hesitated to obey her orders but eventually listened to her. Ten days after arrived in Orleans, April 28-May 8, Joan's forces broke the Siege of Orleans and the English ran off. After her tremendous victory she wanted Charles to receive a proper ceremony to crown him as king, this is called coronation. Joan led Charles ... She was tried on charges of witchcraft and heresy. Heresy is disbelief in the accepted religion. They wanted her to deny that she had heard the voices of the saints and to remove the soldier's or men's clothes that she wore, since this was a violation of Church rules, but Joan refused to do what they wanted. Joan insisted that her visions and voices came from God. Charles, ...
- 23154: Metamorphous, Relating To A Personal Incident
- ... mad amount of shit this week. His brother went up to New York and broke off like two "O^Os" for him. We goin’ to get crazy fucked up tonight." I could see in Cas’s eyes that he had turned into a fiend just by the way he was so excited to be here. I personally, came up to be with Cas and say what^Os up to happy. I did not care much for getting mentally distorted but would do it anyway. It did not make sense but that^Os the way things were. All I could say to Cas’s statement was, "Phat, phat. It’s going to be phat." When we got to the door I could smell the devils harsh scent. It put butterflies in my stomach but I ignored them. I was the first to enter the ...
- 23155: Computers As Medical Treatment Devices
- ... the retina. Early treatments included the wearing of lenses, which corrected sight abnormalities, or even physical surgery with the scalpel which could release the tension on the cornea and allow it to form into it's proper shape. Now, with the help of modern science and computers, it's possible to use lasers in surgical procedures to reshape the lens. The procedure consists of creating a "flap" on the outermost layer of the cornea, and folding it back, allowing the laser to change the ... so as to be the most effective; and of course so as not to cause damage which could be irreparable for the patient. This in itself could be considered a pre- surgical treatment, however it's other use can demonstrates both the versatility of computers and the reliance we have on it. Even though the patient is lightly sedated underneath the laser, there are bound to be moments when the ...
- 23156: Lord Of The Flies - Analyzing
- ... the island sooner or later; he is so sure that he even insists that they should have fire at all times to signal. However, when the boys abandon the fire which is symbolic of Ralph’s hope of getting saved, Ralph faces an internal conflict that makes him fear about their future; perhaps they will not be rescued at all. By insisting that the children should keep the fire going, he ... significantly bothers Jack because he wants to have fun and do things that he never did back in the civilized society. Jack is eventually successful of pulling nearly all of the children out of Ralph’s control to form savages. Ralph represents the civilization, and Jack represents the primitive society. Moreover, Ralph is Golding’s symbolic method of democracy. To the audience, Ralph seems like Franklin D. Roosevelt during the World War II—he was certainly capable of stopping the World War II from breaking out, but he could ...
- 23157: Oedipus: Innocent by Fate
- Oedipus: Innocent by Fate Oedipus was a tragic hero who’s fate was predetermined by the Gods. His unchangeable fate was determined in two stages that took place at different times in his life. The first stage happened when he was first born. The second stage ... was when he left his home after consulting an oracle. After the first two stages of his fate took place the horrible truth unravels and everything that he held dear to him are corrupted. Oedipus’s tragic flaw is that he was blinded to the truth and could not see his own guilt. From the day he was born, Oedipus, did not have a choice of how he wanted to live ... was said that the boy would kill his own father.”(line 62). Left to die he was found by a shepard who gave him away to who Oedipus grew up thinking was his parents. Oedipus’s parents trying to kill him only leads to the death of his father and the downfall of Oedipus: “Shepard: I pitied the baby, my king,/ And I thought that this man would take him ...
- 23158: Susan B Anthony
- ... amusements of toys, games, and music, which were seen as distractions from the Inner Light. Instead he enforced self-discipline. Susan learned to read and write at the age of three. In 1826, the Anthony’s moved from Massachusetts to Battensville, New York. Where Susan attended a district school, when the teacher refused to teach Susan long division, she was taken out of school and taught in home school set up ... States, and it delt with the abuses of woman and children who suffered from alcoholic husbands. In 1849, Susan gave her first public speech for the Daughters of Temperance, and then help found the Woman’s State Temperance Society of New York. It was one of the first organizations of its time. In 1851 she went to Syracus to attend a series of antislavery meetings. During this time Susan meet Cady Stanton. They became best friends. Susan joined Stanton and Amelia Bloomer in campaigns for women’s rights. She would often deliver speeches written by Stanton, who was occupied with her young children. In 1854, She devoted herself to the antislavery movement serving from 1856 to the outbreak of the civil ...
- 23159: Higher Education
- ... through earlier years of school to succeed in life. It is important to enlighten a national culture on traditional values that were established in the past may they be good or bad. In Virginia Woolf's case she was locked out of a male dominated university lifestyle where women were considered unnecessary of attaining knowledge. In her time period, at the University of Oxbridge, Woolf witnessed how only male students were ... the library alone she was taken for a ignoramus and sent on her way. A civilization cannot further advance at any kind of distance without researching its misjudgments in the past and correcting them. Woolf's situation is a prime example in the controversy of teaching the nation about former traditional values. If a person demonstrates that something in the days of yore did not work, then we can benefit from ... is a worthy inspiration. That is not likely supported by Allan Bloom. Bloom believes that a college is in existence for a student to assimilate as much knowledge as conceivable. An exemplary example of Bloom's opinion is his quote that "It is amateurish; it encourages an autodidact's self-assurance without competence; one cannot read all of the Great Books carefully; if one only reads Great Books, one can ...
- 23160: Aristotle 2
- An ethical issue that is debated in our society is the concern of driving while intoxicated. Although this was naturally not the case during Aristotle s time, many of his ethical beliefs can be applied to refute this dilemma. I will prove the standing issue to be unethical through Aristotle s discussion of virtue and his concept of voluntary/involuntary actions in the Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle believed that of the virtues learned in our youth, each has a respective excess and deficiency. The virtue is the ... day to day lives. Thus, in one word, states arise out of like activities (Aristotle 377). This may be the case with a child who is reared in an alcohol abusive family. Say the child s father frequently drove while intoxicated and the child was lead to believe that this was okay. Although this does not make it ethical, or lawful for that matter, for the child to drive drunk, ...
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