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- 25441: Bless Me Ultima-luna Or Vaquero
- Luna or Vaquero? The Vaqueros and Lunas are two very different cultures. Lunas are very quiet people who farm and live by the moon. Vaqueros are very wild people and don t like to stay in one place. Tony s parents are both. His moms family are Lunas and his dads family are Vaqueros. Tony has to decide what blood runs through him before he will know who he really is. The Vaqueros are people ...
- 25442: Body Piercing Will You Conform To The Norm
- ... Perhaps you've noticed the new fashion trend. The average youth today has at least one form of piercing ranging from earrings to genital rings. One of the piercing uproars of the eighties involved men's piercings. The question of which ear to pierce became the controversy. In the gay community piercing the right ear meant that you were a homosexual. The gay society was very much in the closet at ... soft femminine tones associated with it. Eyebrow, chin and facial piercings all arived on the same boat when there were still tremors in the Richter scale form the last punctures. The last piercing, whch wasn't of and entirely crude nature was the tongue ring. Finally the nastiest of all and the most recent are nipple and genital rings. The old line "I'm just expressing my individuality" is getting worn ...
- 25443: The End of World War Two
- ... of World War Two As the war with Germany drew closer to the end, the Allies waged an increasingly effective war against Japan. After the fall of the Mariana Islands, including Saipan, to the U.S. in July of 1944, the impending defeat of Japan became increasingly apparent to many Allied and Japanese leaders. The Marianas had been a key area within Japan's defense perimeter; now Japan would be within range of bombing runs from Pacific Ocean locations that were superior to the China bases that had been used for bombing missions. And so from November 1944 onward ... run out of industrial targets to bomb. With this said, the only thing left to bomb are the innocent Japanese civilians. While Japan was being bombarded from the sky, a Naval blockade was strangling Japan's ability to import oil and other vital materials and its ability to produce war materials. Admiral William Leahy, the Chief of Staff to President Roosevelt and then to President Truman, wrote, that "by the ...
- 25444: Red Badge Of Currage
- ... people can endear. Even through the harshness of war people will find something inside of them, overcome it and not let it bother them. The tattered solider goes out and lives through the tough endurance's of war but he finds something inside of him to live through it. The perfect solider is what Jim Conklin brings to the book. Jim never complains about war and fights as good as the ... Wilson. It is natural for people to cover their true nature in front of new faces. Towards the end of the book Wilson starts to care about Henry. hen Henry is injured and he doesn't try and fight the other men anymore. True to human nature once times start getting more difficult and Wilson becomes more comfortable with his surroundings he transcends into the calm compassionate person he really is ...
- 25445: Report On Historical Fiction B
- ... across miles of barren terrain in the Times Without Light (when the sun would not show for almost six months). The social structure of the bands is described in detail throughout the book, from Galeena's filthy, crude band who become covered in a glacier to the Ghost Men who live underground and prey on their fellow man, who are annihilated by Torka and Navahk's band. The author seems to wish to show the value of life, for Torka for a time is part of each of these bands until they do something that violates Torka's person code and he is driven from their camp or leaves of his own accord (such as when he discovers the Ghost Men hunt other humans and he leaves). All in all, the author ...
- 25446: Borderline Personality Disorder
- ... diffuse and internally contradictory concept of oneself. Kernberg is quoted as saying, Borderlines can describe themselves for five hours without your getting a realistic picture of what they are like. In I Hate You-Don t Leave Me!, Jerold Kriesman and Hal Straus refer to BPD as emotional hemophilia; [a borderline] lacks the clotting mechanism needed to moderate his spurts of feeling. Stimulate a passion, and the borderline emotionally bleeds to ... extremely stressful episodes, and hospitalization may provide the temporary removal from external stress that is so strongly needed. Outpatient treatment can be difficult and long-term. A positive result from therapy would be a person s increased tolerance of anxiety. Therapy should help to alleviate mood-disturbance symptoms and unite the whole personality. The goal of the therapy is for the patient to be able to change the rigid patterns set ...
- 25447: Julius Caesar: Brutus' Mistakes or Harmartias
- ... are the most important. The largest harmartia that Brutus makes is listening to Cassius, in the beginning. Another harmartia Brutus makes is deciding not to kill Antony. Brutus also makes the mistake of meeting Antony's army in Philippi instead of waiting at the camp. These three harmartias of Brutus will be greater explained in the next three paragraphs. Brutus made a large harmartia listening to Cassius' speak about assassinating Caesar ... Cassius himself even says, “If I were Brutus now, and he were Cassius, He should not humour me.” (Shakespeare Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 314-315). If Brutus did not listen to Cassius, he wouldn't have joined the conspiracy, and Brutus' tragedy would have never happened. This is why Brutus should have never listened to Cassius' conspiracy plan. A large harmartia that Brutus made was not killing Antony. Brutus says ...
- 25448: Migrant Labour
- ... also shares the view that husbands and wives have become strangers to each other. Who re-acquaints themselves with each other during the annual two weak holiday period. The development of such situations between husband's and wives can clearly be viewed as a result of migrant labor due to the lack of time spent with each other. This time spent together is needed in order to build the bond between ... African children. “Children have now been found to view their fathers as intruders, as a result of the lack of time spent together”(Wilson and Ramphele, 1991). In such an environment where fathers and mother's are away for extensively long periods of time. How is it that children can gain the basic building blocks of life. Children of migrant workers are deprived of their natural guide in life(Wilosn and ... of others feelings”(Bernstein, 1975). It is parents that carry the guidance that is necessary to ensure that children grow up to be productive members of society. When this guidance is absent in a child’s growing years, a child does not learn the basic building blocks of love, trusts, respect and honesty. As a result of this lack of parental guidance which is due to migrant labour. African children ...
- 25449: The Three Paradigms In Society
- “The Three Paradigms in Society” Functionalist paradigm, conflict paradigm, and symbolic interaction paradigm are the three major paradigms that function in today’s society. Functionalist, and conflict paradigms are macro-sociological paradigms. Symbolic interaction is a micro-sociological paradigm. Functionalist paradigm focuses on the integration of society, while social conflict focuses on the issue of division among society ... change as a consequence. The three paradigms are completely different from each other in a social point of view. The macro-sociological paradigms view America as an inequality state. The social conflict paradigm fits today’s society. The functionalist paradigm focuses on the integration of society, and how society how its own groups which has their own functions to help improve the peoples lives. Functionalist paradigm fits in the category of ... view. Symbolic interaction paradigm focuses on the small issues that affect communities in society, therefore making it a micro-level orientation. Functionalist paradigm sees society as a well integrated, self-regulating system that meets people’s needs. While Social conflict views society having many groups that are self reliant, with their own goals and needs. Symbolic interaction explains society is shaped, and constructed through interaction, and communication with others. America ...
- 25450: Confucianism And Japanese Grow
- ... belief in filial piety also caused families and local communities to accept social responsibility for members of their community. This safety net that was provided by communities and families allowed the government to limit it's spending on social welfare programs and thus channel more funds into infrastructure and industry. Confucianism also placed an emphasis on self-cultivation which has helped East Asian Countries to have a skilled and ambitious work ... other circumstances such as situational factors, timing, domestic industrial policy and luck played key roles in allowing Japan and the four little dragons to industrialize. Some of the situational factors were the presence of U.S. aid and leadership which gave many nations such as Japan a jump start on industrialism, the feeling of urgency among countries such as Taiwan and South Korea who felt that if they were not able ... large role was played by the traditions of Confucianism which created a pliant and stable populace, skilled and eager workers, and a meritocratic bureaucracy that were skilled at formulating and carrying out economic policy. Confucianism's traditions are manifested not only in the temples of East Asia but also in the rapid rates of growth this region has experienced.
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