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- 25831: Harrison Bergeon Vs. 1984
- Harrison Bergeron vs. 1984 Harrison Bergeron and 1984 were both based on a similar concept. This concept is creating peace by limiting and controlling the population. In George Orwell s 1984 , it was done through brainwashing and doublethink. In Kurt Vonnegut s Harrison Bergeron , it was done by limiting everyones abilities until everyone is equal in all ways. Each author used class systems, nature, and society to portray their negative utopia. Class systems played a more important ... through handicapping all those with extraordinary abilities. The classes were the same as they are in modern America, only with handicaps. Human Nature was repressed in both stories. It is human nature to express one s talents in some way. In 1984, any kind of personal expression was thoughtcrime, and would cause the guilty individual to be taken to the ministry of love, and brainwashed. In Harrison Bergeron, every person ...
- 25832: The Snow Leopard
- ... and dread you must leave your fear of death or it will dominate you wholly. Hallucinogenic experience can set you free by allowing you to live out the fear death, the demoniac rage at one s own helplessness that drug hallucinations seem to represent, and in that way let go of a life-killing accumulation of defenses. (46) Just the very drug lifestyle that most people experimenting with hallucinogenic substances live ... all returns, this is reality, and soul and sanity have no more meaning here than a gust of snow; such transience and insignificance are exalting, terrifying, all at once, like the sudden discovery of one s own transparence. (172) This feeling begs you to return again and again, to be lost in its poisoning experience. It seems somehow familiar. To paraphrase Plato, maybe many lives ago when we followed the gods ... of your trip: is this really what [you] came so far to see? (244). This thought will come to you because you will become disappointed in your experience, and lead yourself to doubt the journey s worth. You will most likely have more experiences than one because you will long to regain this feeling: All sounds, and all one sees and feels, take on imminence, an immanence, as if the ...
- 25833: Legalization of Drugs (for)
- ... drug war seems to be a bit impossible. The war on drugs seems to be accomplishing a lot but this is not true. Different options need to be considered. Legalization is an option that hasn't gotten a chance but should be given one. Although many people feel that legalizing drugs would increase the amount of use, drugs should be legalized because it will reduce the great amounts of money spent ... dollars to build the jail space needed to house all the hard-core drug users in Trenton alone. All of this money could be used on better things. Legalizing drugs would also increase our economy's revenue. During Prohibition alcohol use was still ramped. People were still doing it but illegally. The 21st amendment repealed prohibition and alcohol taxes were increased. The same thing should happen with drugs. The drugs should ...
- 25834: Natural Resources and Management
- ... campsite Indian rock art a tin can a Victorian house an historic mining town an irrigation canal a dam All of these can be cultural resources. Cultural resources are the physical remains of a people's way of life that archaeologists and historians study to try to interpret how people lived. Cultural resources are important because they help us to learn about our past. These tangible remains help us understand other ... or buy or sell grave goods can be fined or imprisoned under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and Department of the Interior regulations. You can help protect America's precious cultural resources: Treat historic and archaeological sites with care and respect when you visit. Take only with your eyes and heart; leave them intact for your children's children. If you see someone vandalizing or looting a site, notify the regional archaeologist as soon as possible. Do not attempt to confront the vandal yourself. Join your local or state archaeological or historical ...
- 25835: Failure of Gun Control Laws
- ... fighters discovered the power of the Minuteman, the average American gun owner. These Minutemen, so named because they would pick up their personal guns and jump to the defense of their country on a minute's notice, served a major part in winning the American Revolution. The founding fathers of this country understood that an armed populace was instrumental in fighting off oppression, and they made the right to keep and ... their plans work completely. It was a full century before the civil rights activists of the 1960s were able to restore the constitutional freedoms that blacks in this country were granted in the 1860s. Today's gun control activists are a slightly different breed. They claim that gun violence in this country has gotten to a point where something must be done to stop it. They would like to see criminals ... not the law allows them to do so. Criminals will always find ways to get guns. In this country we have criminalized the use, possession, sale, and transportation of many kinds of narcotics, but it's still easy for someone to take a ride and purchase the drugs of their choice at street corner vendors. Firearms and ammunition would be just as easy for these black-market entrepreneurs to deliver ...
- 25836: The Forgotten Process
- ... took bits and pieces or what I had learned to make up my own process that has worked for me all through my school years. Now I come to find out that my process isn’t all that different from the one the is “ by the book”. When I get an essay for an assignment I have designed my own little plan to help me get through the project. I start ... a really big influence on the paper. This also put a bit more pressure on my shoulders because I am in a new school with a new teacher that I know nothing about and it’s my first essay. In the process of reading this bit on “The Writing Process” I have learned that I know what they are saying but since it was never enforced before it was all just ...
- 25837: Death Of Pol Pot
- ... Rouge came to power in Cambodia. It was here that Pot, heavily influenced by the Chinese Stalinists, devised the political perspective of what was to become the Khmer Rouge an extreme form of Mao Zedong’s eclectic mixture of Stalinism, nationalism and peasant radicalism. “ It is characteristic of the ideological falsfication produce by Stalinism that form this social and political khemer Rouge ( www.wsws.com, April 19,1998 p 2 ). Pol ... some Khmer Rouge try to make it hard for the people to vote by trying to throw away thr ballot or even trying to kill the voter. U.N offical expalin to the people don’t worry they will be safe and that they have the right to Human Right set up by th U.N. The Death of Pol Pot close another chapter in world history we can compare Pol ...
- 25838: Four Myth Theories
- ... but creation myths give other explanations. The functional myth theory talks about how myths were used to teach morality and social behavior. It states that myths told about what types of things should and shouldn’t be done, and the consequences for those wrong doings. The functional myth theory also states that myths were created for social control and served the function of insuring stability in a society. A story about ... who rebelled against the great serpent, Degei, is a good example of a functional myth. This story is about a tribe who learned many skills from their great serpent god, Degei, and then became Degei’s workers and servants. Two chiefs of this tribe were sick of working for him and tried to defeat him; they were too weak for Degei. Instead of winning their freedom, they were killed in a ...
- 25839: Hysteria In The Crucible
- ... San Francisco earthquake. There is a process of four combined steps that will ultimately lead to this disaster; a fearful event, promotion of the event, attacks due to pretense, and total panic and chaos. Webster's dictionary defines hysteria as a state of unmanageable fear or excess. The process of hysteria is initiated by an event which brings fear, and will eventually cause social unrest, chaos, and distrust. This event usually ... be seen when Abi and the other girls of Salem are found dancing in the woods. The dancing strikes fear of witchcraft, and the process of hysteria begins. The American Communist scare in the 1950's was initiated by the increased popularity of the socialist system of government. Because this system challenged the basic civil rights of Americans, this event involved the entire nation. In order for hysteria to occur a ... of the fear social unrest will not take place. As seen in the Crucible, promotion is shown when Reverend Parris holds a meeting of the largest town gossips to tell them of Betty and Ruth's ailment, and that witchcraft may be involved. This knowledge starts a chain reaction through Salem, which spreads the news to everyone in the town. During the Red scare media exploitation had already plagued America, ...
- 25840: What Is The American Dream?
- ... examination for the bar because he was black. His mother was Carrie Hughes, a woman who studied at the University of Kansas in an ongoing struggle to earn a living outside of domestic labor. Langston’s father left home to live in Cuba and then Mexico to free himself from the Jim Crow laws and Segregation. Hughes then went to live with his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas until he was thirteen. His grandmother, Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston, was very prominent in the African American community of Lawrence. Her first husband was killed at Harper’s Ferry while fighting with John Brown; her second husband, Hughes’ grandfather, was a prominent politician in Kansas during the Reconstruction. During the time that he lived with his grandmother, however, she was old and poor ... House Dictionary: 1. The ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American. 2. A life of personal happiness and material comfort as traditionally sought by individuals in the U.S. (66) Many Americans persist in believing that America is the greatest country in the world and that man is basically good and can be better and has the opportunity to fulfill his productive capabilities. “ ...
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