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- 25721: Folk Tales
- When you where a kid did your parents ever tell you stories about your culture or about your family s values? Chances are they where telling you a folk tale. Folk tales are stories passed down usually by word of mouth but often they are written down. Folk tales teach a valuable life lesson while ... to marry him She wishes for him to fall off a cliff and break his neck, when her wish comes true she feels very guilty and makes penance by giving away all of Don Jose s sheep to those poor enough to deserve them. At the end of her penance she finds her son. This story tells allot about Spanish Culture and shows how religious the people are. The second folk ... coming to you.The third folk tale is called In the Land of the Small Dragon. This story has many similarities with Cinderella. It is the story of a beautiful young girl named Tam who s beauty reflects her inner kindness and innocence. Her half-sister Cam is ugly, which reflects her bitter, jealous, and lazy personality. Tams stepmother treats her like a slave and lets Cam do whatever she ...
- 25722: Flowers For Algernon 2
- ... the capacity to learn, to understand, or to deal with new or trying situations. It is a concrete definition in such a way that it also means the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria as tests. Yet the story goes beyond this concrete explanation of what intelligence really is. It shows a whole new perspective of the meaning intelligence ... person that is previously show in the abstract definition. The only positive effects of the intellectual growth that one can gain is to be able to experience what the concrete definition was like in one s own personal experience. Yet the negative effects of the operation, which were great, was the intellectual and emotional growth colliding. As a human that was born with the intellectual potential and without a disability, would have experienced this over a normal human life span, and the emotional growth would increase along side of the intellectual- set by society s standards. Reading the novel has a clear definition of the more maturity you gain the less intelligent you are, and the more innocence you have the more intelligence you gain.
- 25723: The Trade Development in Gotland & Great Zimbabwe
- ... Gotland was used as a trade station_ships from the Baltic area got equipped and traded with the Gutar. Great Zimbabwe is found in the mainland but it is close to the coast. Great Zimbabwe's region contains many gold resources and it is a good agricultural zone. The location of an area and the resources in it could affect the trade and its development tremendously. The markets that the merchants ... Baltic. When Christianity appeared in the area, the Gutar have exported wax, which is used for candles in churches, to all of Europe. Some say that religion was the most important thing in Great Zimbabwe's society and therefore it must have affected their whole life_including trade. Christianity has made the trade of Great Zimbabwe weakened since it came with losing their independence. The people of Zimbabwe have lost their culture and religion and became less united as one nation_these are usually the effects that a forced change in a nation's culture and religion can bring, the Portuguese have done this in other countries, too. The Portuguese have also taken over the trade_it made the people of Zimbabwe more demoralized and less wealthy_they ...
- 25724: CRIMINAL MOTIVATION
- ... there are many more theories but these are the most important. The first and earliest theory on what makes a criminal came from the classical school. They said that crime is caused by the individual's exercise of his or her own free will. The best possible deterrents to crime with this theory were swift punishments that counter any gain that the criminal obtained. This school of though has remained around ... In this theory all crime is genetically based. If you are a criminal, it is said in your genes. Phrenology came from this theory, which is the study of the head to determine a person’s behavior. Also things like somatypes, which study the shape of you body to explain you character traits and behaviors, and atavism, which said that features on a criminal’s body are similar to those of a earlier stage of evolution. Most of the theories in this group fell through as they were continually disputed. The psychobiological theories are by far the most interesting ...
- 25725: Hero Worship
- ... has the courage to stand up and yell child abuse when others are silent, is another case. The people in these three examples all have one thing in common; they may have saved a person's life. The student who does not study and turns to crime, the drug addict who overdoses on drugs, the child that is delivered to a new caring home, all had their lives saved by one ... not had the common sense to call the fire department and rushed in instead, the results might have been different and lives may have been lost. Sometimes being a hero does not involve risking one's own life, but not risking the lives of others. Many consider and call sport superstars heroes. Does passing for a touchdown in the Super Bowl, hitting a game winning home run, or making the winning shot in the NCAA tournament, make someone a hero? Did they risk their own lives in helping others? Did they save someone's life from ruin? There may be several other terms to call these superstars, but to call them heroes or to describe their actions as showing heroism is ridiculous. They may do other deeds away ...
- 25726: Civil Disobedience
- ... someone who accepts the legitimacy of the legal and political systems and who submits to arrest and punishment" (2). Before I supported his civil disobedience, I opted to see if it was justified. For Thoreau’s arrest to be an act of civil disobedience, it has to be publicized. Being publicized distinguishes his arrest as civil disobedience rather than being criminal (7). Thoreau had many people offering to pay his taxes ... his disobedience had an affect. This further justifies his disobedience. Nonviolence is a requirement for an act to be an act of civil disobedience (10). Nonviolence is a defining characteristic of civil disobedience (10). Thoreau’s use of nonviolence means a serious purpose of justifying his protest against taxes and shows the respect for human rights as a moral value (10). Thoreau, when asked to go to jail, agreed to go ... Thoreau and Parks used nonviolent tactics to change political law. I support both Thoreau and Parks for breaking unjust laws to change and make a difference in our government law. I support Henry David Thoreau’s disobedient act against paying taxes. He did not want his money to be use in a way he did not desire. Standing up for what you believe in and being disobedient does not necessary ...
- 25727: Stocism in "Enchiridion"
- ... cultivate an attitude which is free and detached. According to the stoic principles, a happy life is a life free of desires and attachments. Such happiness is possible because external events do not affect one’s internal mind in the eyes of a Stoic. We are affected by the external only if we foolishly choose to be so affected. In side the mind, there can be calm; outside the mind there ... day life, and simply accepting these things was, in my opinion, surrender and the first step toward indifference. However, I came to realize that I missed a crucially important point. I came across Reinhold Niebuhr’s serenity prayer (while shopping at Winn Dixie and browsing through some Hallmark Cards), which says: “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and ... western society. We have the habit of dwelling in our misery. Suffering in silence has become unpopular, and moaning and whining has become a medicine, a “talking cure” that worked. Dignity dies on the psychiatrist’s couch, and encouraged by our culture of therapy, people turn their troubles into theater. Everyday on television, people turn their private lives into a ludicrous soap opera with themselves as the stars and us ...
- 25728: The Ironies Of 1984
- ... the first example of this irony is discovered when the main character, Winston Smith, uses the "Memory hole" to deposit things-one would think that this would be where things are remembered ("Memory"), but it's actually an incinerator. The next example of irony comes when you learn about the departments of Government in Oceania. The Ministry of Truth is actually the maker of lies for the history books, the Ministry ... seen in the name of the leader of Oceania, "Big Brother." The concept of a big brother is one whom is older and wiser and helps the "littler siblings"-this not the case with 1984's Big Brother. The Big Brother in this novel completely watches over every move a person makes keeping them controlled with fear. The next type of irony is Situation irony, which is when a character or a sequence of events appears to be headed one way, but it ends up as the opposite of what was thought. One example of this is Winston's general health. From the beginning of the book, it is shown how horrible his health is and is continually getting worse and more difficult, but as Winston gets involved with Julia then he begins ...
- 25729: Comparison Of Tones Used By Ph
- ... position in serialized her position in society as a slave and In her literature she criticizes slavery through rli Although, Phillis Wheatley was an abolishnist writer, she passive than a lot of her literature didn’t always reflect. At first glance it would For a man going against a legion of non-followers, Frederik Douglass held nothing back. Wheatley, Unlike unFor an abolishnist writer, one must and Although they both took ... law for blacks, and women ere being illetarate for Wheatley and Douglass wroteAt a time where it was forbidden for a Negro to learn how to read and even majority of the white women couldn’t read, Phillis and Wheatley were writing verses that were so powerful wthese two authors, managed to recite speeches and write sonnets to get to n blacks werent to learn how to read or write or even allowed to be literate and even white weren’t allowed to be even women werent allowed forced to be illeterate and were not Although, there apporaches were different theAlthough they would bothWheatley would getting her point across with her subttle but powerful poems ...
- 25730: Community Service At Colleges
- ... at one of 15 different work sites throughout the day. They included campus clean up of litter around the ponds, sorting donations at Windham Area Interfaith Ministry, reading stories to children at the Lutz Children's Museum in Manchester and making tree ornaments with the residents of the Mansfield Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation. "We had a wonderful turnout this time," said Ryan Griswold, Program Assistant. Over 165 students volunteered, including ... in search of new areas. "There is no follow through required," he said. "We have many participants who continue to volunteer, but they do it all on their own. After they are finished, we don't contact them any further." The Center for Community Outreach promotes student learning and development through voluntary and community involvement. It establishes partnerships with both campus and off-campus agencies to help students connect classroom learning ...
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