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- 24321: War Engenders Many Journeys In
- ... choice. One fine example from the novel A Separate Peace comes when Gene made the decision to jounce the limb and make Finny fall from the tree. This, in the end, caused much of Gene s regret and ignorance because it finished Finny s athletic career and later causes Finny to die. Another decision in the novel came when Finny forgave Gene. Even though Gene ruined Finny s life, Finny made the hard choice to forgive and forget what Gene had done. The human mind is a cave swarming with a multifarious amount of emotions, from love to misery. Of all the ...
- 24322: Sexual Harrassment In The Military
- ... of women being sexually harassed is much higher than the percent of men being harassed. Even though it is not tolerated, it still happens regardless of the consequences, even in the nineties. While some women's experiences have been similar to those of black men, their integration into the military has also differed in several ways. Because of our society's fundamental belief that protecting the home and going to war are a man's work, men from minority groups have often been accepted more readily in the military than the women. Women have been viewed as outsiders in a male environment. Discrimination and harassment occurs for women because ...
- 24323: Macbeth: Blood Will Have Blood
- Macbeth: Blood Will Have Blood In Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, Macbeth says, "Blood will have blood
," is implying one of the main themes. Along with this quotation, there are many more quotations throughout the story that support the theme of blood. Macbeth has ... proven so much by the numerous quotations dealing with blood and murder. The first well know quotation to come across, dealing with blood, would most likely be agreed upon to be "Will all great Neptune's oceans wash this blood clean from my hand?" (2.2.78-79) Macbeth says this while talking to Lady Macbeth just after murdering Duncan. Macbeth finds that he has Duncan's blood all over his hands, and attempts to wash them, but has difficulty with removing all of the stain. These are the first signs of blood in this great tragedy of Macbeth. Another well ...
- 24324: Jean-Claude Van Damme - Double Impact
- ... order to build a tunnel between Hong Kong and the mainland. After the tunnel was built and the money collected, Nigel Griffith and Raymond Zhang had a gang of hit men massacre Alex and Chad's family. Frank Avery, a friend of the family, races into the scene and finds the parents already dead. The two babies are in the back seat with a maid. She takes Alex and flees the ... Raymond Zhang, played by Philip Chan Yan Kin, and Nigel Griffith, played by Alan Scarfe. Frank and Chad go to Hong Kong and meet his brother. Interesting events take place when they arrive since Alex's girlfriend Danielle Wilde, played by Alonna Shaw, thinks that Chad is Alex. Alex arrives and head butts Chad. When Chad revives from being knock unconscious, Frank convinces the two brothers to help avenge the deaths ... kill Zhang and Griffith for the massacre of their parents. As the movie rolls on, Alex becomes suspicious of Chad because he thinks that he is playing around with his girlfriend Danielle. We see Alex's thoughts of Chad with Danielle as he becomes drunker and his mind imagines that they are having sex together. These thoughts enrage Alex and he fights his own brother. The whole movie was directed ...
- 24325: The Red Badge of Courage: Fear of First Battle
- ... people who expressed their ideas abou their fears before the first skirmish. They are Henry Fleming, Tom Wilson, and Jim Conklin. Henry is worried about how he will do in this first battle. He isn't sure if he will run or not, and he is scared that he might. He doesn't want to look like a fool and run, but he is also scared of getting killed. Even though Henry never expressed his fears to Tom Wilson or Jim Conklin the audience could tell by the ... parents he writes about how he is going to fight for the first time and he wants to make the proud. After Henry runs away from the first battle he feels embarrassed because he didn't have a wound. No one knew he ran so he still had his pride and after that his attitude changed and he began fighting with no fear. Tom Wilson is another young sodier in ...
- 24326: Tobacco Advertising Makes Young People Their Chief Target
- ... Roberts). So what do the tobacco companies do to keep their industry alive and well? Seemingly, they go toward a market that is not fully aware of the harm that cigarettes are capable of. U.S. News recently featured a discussion of the smoking issue with 20 teenagers from suburban Baltimore. The group consisted of ten boys and ten girls between the ages of 15 and 17. When asked why they ... to your kids at a young age about the dangers of smoking. Identify family members who smoke and ask them to stop (Thomas). Children are the most valuable commodity we are given in life. Let's try to educate them while they're young to be independent thinkers and to not be swayed by the tobacco companies who are trying to take advantage of their mind and body. Works Cited "Bill Clinton vs. Joe Camel." U.S. News & World Report. 2 Sep. 1996: 12. Infotrac. Online. 27 Oct. 1996. "Selling Tobacco to Kids." America. 17 Feb. 1996: 3. Infotrac. Online. 27 Oct. 1996. Roberts, Steven. " Teens on tobacco; kids smoke for ...
- 24327: Computer Software Ownership
- ... this article, an individual published a virus tester program on the Internet. An interested programmer improved the version on his own and published it. What are the ethical issues raised in this case? Morally, it's wrong to improve a program, and publish the newest version. It's like copying homework from a friend, but improving the answers to get a better grade. In this case the second programmer gets all the credit for writing the program. Freeware can be negative in that ... to protect computer programs, as they do for articles or any normal documents. For example, if a quote from a book is used in a paper, the use of quotation marks are necessary, otherwise it s plagiarism. Therefore the same strategy should be utilized for computer software. Furthermore, programmers usually protect themselves by making their coding as complex as possible. Therefore, they're minimizing the chances of having someone else ...
- 24328: 13th Warrior Plot Summary
- Ahmad Iban Fadlan, the main character of The Thirteenth Warrior, by Michael Crichton was chosen as Baghdad s ambassador to the King of Bulgars in 922 A. D. As Ahmad traveled north from Baghdad, he encountered a company of Viking Northmen, and this proved the catalyst for numerous adventures. While Ahmad was greeting ... worshiped a god with sιance-like prayers and suddenly thirteen small bones appeared. She explained the bones signified thirteen warriors, who would travel north to protect Rothgar. The angel of death has spoken, said Ahmad's interpreter, referring to the spiritual woman s prediction. The female soothsayer commanded: The party must be thirteen, and of these one must be no Northman, and so you shall be the thirteenth. Ahmad was chosen as the thirteenth warrior and the ...
- 24329: Women In Battle
- ... in the infrantry, armor and special forces? I definetly do not believe they should. I have concuded that it would be a disadvantage to the United States military to have women in combat rolesbecause womens physical, social, and medical considerations. Today there are many military jobs that are available to women. In the last 20 years women have made many outstanding advances for themselves in different fields. In April 193 ... has been proven though, that women are not physically suite to serve in direct action combat units. Women shold not be directly involved in combat. There are many facts which support the recognotion that womens talents lie not on the combat field. The Atlantic Journal & Constitution magazine states that whatever feminist do to try to make this a gender-neutral society, they can not eliminate the fact that the average ... for women. Another issue that Donnely believes will plague the integration of women into combat arms is the sexual element that will be introduced. She states that, The military is not a social club, its harder to have a fighting unit when the sexual element is introduced. Why should we impose an additioal burden? Combat is tough enough. These issues are just the begining of a list proving why ...
- 24330: Use Of Literary Elements
- ... well defined limits. These limits are that when using stream of consciousness narration, the story line is required to revolve around one and only one main character if the writing is to be effective. With S. of C. writing it is also required that the author develop the main character extremely well into a very believable person both emotionally and physically through thoughts and actions. To write an effective book in this writing style an author must be exceptionally talented, and thankfully Mr. Salinger is just that. The S. of C. writing style is used effectively with the character of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye because the story line Mr. Salinger developed follows Holden specifically as well as the fact that ... style is used as literary tool is with in the thoughts of Holden. In The Catcher in the Rye the character of Holden Caulfield is a mentally unstable person, he is emotional and confused. The S. of C. writing style is effective to present this idea because of its harshness and quick pace, just as the mental state of a mentally unstable person would be. The rambling of the internal ...
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