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- 24201: Family Values: Importance
- Family Values: Importance America's family values are very important to our citizens. For many years the American family and its values have been one of the top priorities of our nation. The family is even an essential part of ... America is measured by how well one can provide for their family. But what does citezenship have to do with family values? It determines these values and set a standard for the whole of America's people. Family values are of the utmost importance to the American citizen. Family values are basically the core of our way of living. They have been important since, and even before, the very beginning of ... values which are of immeasurable cost. This loss is due to a reduction of morals by our society and a brainwashed acceptance of what we know is clearly wrong. It is one of a citizen's most important duties to uphold family values. Failure to do so may result in an incalculable loss such as the destruction of a society we have strived so long to build. This is one ...
- 24202: Illuminated Manuscripts Of The
- ... an expensive white fur. It suggests that the knight is very rich. It is a male horse and it has very small ears. The knight is shown at the moment of taking off the hawk's hood, a rarely depicted detail. It is not clear where the knight is located since the background is painted in plain gold. Also, there is no perspective in the painting. Surprisingly, this illumination has a very simple border. The style with its bright colors and simple outlines, as well as the expression of the falconer's face show that the miniature is painted by an artist coming from Normandy or the south of England. The manuscript was made for an unknown, possibly noble patroness, who had herself portrayed in a kneeling ... of saints who were especially venerated in the monastery of Fécamps in north-west France, which suggests that she lived in that neighborhood. This manuscript suggests that religion played a big role in the people’s lives during the Medieval Times. The wealthy were very generous to support the creation of these, often expensive, manuscripts. We must consider that the artists used real leaves of gold that were most probably ...
- 24203: How do Textual Features Combine To Convey a Theme of the Poem?
- ... blindness. He questioned the meaning of this tragedy, of the future, and God for his blindness within the sonnet. Even though his whole life and work involved his eyes, he accepted this eventually. Within Milton's sonnet about his blindness: figurative language, personification, his intent and prosody are adopted to convey his questions and heart felt acceptance of his blindness. Milton uses figurative language to express his grievances and discontent. He ... transition between problem and solution is achieved. The problem was whether or not he should continue to write. Yet, in line 8 the personification conveys the theme of acceptance through Patience. More or less, Milton's patience, or a result of his patience, is telling him that God accepts whoever bears his burdens and has no need of Man's ideas and creations. Furthermore, he states that God is served by your own means and that there are many ways direct or indirect to serve and satisfy God. Some serve as priests and popes, “ ...
- 24204: Robinson Crusoe
- ... live a life. As it would encounter the least amount of troubles. His mother, on the other hand, was not as strongly objective as his father was. She was just very concerned of her son's well being away from home, as any other mother on the globe would be. Nevertheless, neither his father's lecture, nor his mother's concern did take his passion away; he went on a voyage. This first voyage was not very successful one, as the ship and her crew were encountered with a violent storm. After the voyage, ...
- 24205: Malcom X And Charles Sheldon
- ... others are very aggressive about it. Charles Sheldon a Christian who tried to push a movement throughout the Christian church based on what Christ would do. Individuals in the church and the community viewed Sheldon’s movement as a strong and sometimes “impossible” feat. However, it was never found to be a major threat to the society that it took place in. Sheldon was trying to start this movement within the church so that it would spread and the “unreached” people would see the light of Christ Jesus in Christians in the way that they live their everyday lives. Sheldon’s attempt to live in the theme of “what Jesus would do”, did not force any beliefs on anyone or threaten anyone’s beliefs. It was purely a movement of self-commitment that an individual made on there own basis. Sheldon did not look at those who did not take the challenge of following “what Jesus would ...
- 24206: Mayor Of Castrobridge
- ... of alcohol, Henchard made the biggest mistake of his life. But with the help of soberness, he demonstrates that he cares about his daughter and his wife. He is a persistent man, and he doesn't quit. When he tells Elizabeth Jane about the past, she turns away from him weeping. "Don't cry! Don't cry!…I am your father; why should you cry?…I'll do anything, if you will only look upon me as your father." Henchard shows passion toward his daughter through his cry toward her. ...
- 24207: Elizabeth Bishop and Her Poem "Filling Station"
- Elizabeth Bishop and Her Poem "Filling Station" Elizabeth Bishop's skill as a poet can be clearly seen in the thought-provoking poem entitled Filling Station. She paints the different language levels of poetry with the skill of an artist-- she seems to have an ... pleasant atmosphere. Bishop aptly arranges her words and expressions through the language devices of voice and metaphor. In Filling Station, Bishop uses tone of voice brilliantly, through the use of phonetics, to create the poem's initial atmosphere. The opening seems to be offering a straightforward description of the filling station: "Oh, but it is dirty!/ -this little filling station,/ oil-soaked, oil- permeated/ to a disturbing, over-all/ black translucency ... does not want the reader to forget that they are in the harsh conditions of the filling station, hence the jarring [k] sound, yet the meaning of the words suggest a kind, comfortable atmosphere. Bishop's attention to the sense of sound throughout the poem aids with the metaphoric meaning of the poem as a whole. At a very simplistic level, the poem begins with the setting of a filthy ...
- 24208: The Police and Corruption
- ... required to protect the interests of the public and to satisfy requirements of operating efficiency” (Reiss, p.130) Now we are telling officer to not enforce the law, but to determine the law. A policeman's discretionary decision may then be evaluated by others both inside and outside of the department. This is the cause for a further complication in the processes because in order to avoid criticism the police officer then might use his own sense of justice. This “police justice” is basically having the officer conduct his own trial. This usually satisfies probable cause but also has the officer concluding a suspect's guilt and a arrest that he determines justifiable. That also leads to the fact that citizens who behave antagonistically towards an officer are more likely to be arrested than those who are civil or very ... in the criminal justice system, in a sense there status is demeaned by the decisions of lawyers and judges. They are treated as less of a professional. To see a person who in the officer's discretion was guilty be released time after time, it is difficult for the officer to keep his commitment to the system. “Where moral commitment is lost, subcultural practices take over. One such practice that ...
- 24209: Coyote
- ... of ten to fifteen (Gilbert, 1991, p. 71). Since the coyote will eat just about anything, its habitat is also thought to be just about everywhere on the Western side of the world. The coyote's habitat ranges from the tropics of Central America to the mountains of Alaska. They also inhabit the deserts of the southwestern United States, and the plains and forests of the Midwest. Like the wolf and ... coyote prefers to live in a self made den. It can tunnel this den in the side of a hill or under a tree (Jones, 1999). Based on the research, it appears that the coyote's biggest competitor is also its biggest benefactor. Gilbert explains that human development has aided the coyote by unknowingly removing many of the predators that once competed with the coyote. The mountain lion and the wolf ... Park, it chased out or killed the coyotes that were inhabiting the area (Gilbert, 1991, p. 76). One of the key changes concerning human involvement with the coyote population stems back to the early 1970's. During his single term, President Nixon passed a law that made it illegal to poison coyotes. Before this law, between 60,000 and 100,000 coyotes were being killed per year ( Dunlap, 1986, p. ...
- 24210: Achilles
- ... fighting, because the end is the same for everyone. In book nine, when Agamemnon admits he is wrong and offers gifts, Achilles still refuses to join his army in battle. He does not see Agamemnon's gifts as a reconciliation attempt, but rather as an insult. Achilles believes that Agamemnon's offerings are selfish and boastful, and he denies them to in order to show Agamemnon that his loyalty cannot be bought. Later in the poem, Achilles revenges Patroklos' death by killing Hector. It is customary ... and it is against the code of honor to perform acts of excessive cruelty. Achilles is so distraught by his friends' death that he contradicts both of these conditions. First, he refuses to return Hector's body to the Trojans, and then proceeds to drag it behind his carriage by the ankles. Achilles' deliberate mutilation of Hector's body shows the reader that he does not hold the code of ...
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