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- 25911: Illegal Immigration
- ... Negative Population Growth (which is a suspect source), Americans are firmly believe in tough laws against illegal immigrants and that 70% of Americans want no more than 300,000 legal immigrants to enter the U.S. per year. In fact, N.P.G. says that 20% of Americans want immigration completely stopped. Taking these numbers as the truth, it is clear that America thinks that we have too many immigrants. Such a dislike of immigration is interesting considering the success of past immigration. Many people would say that today's immigrants are somehow different than those of the past. However, the truth is that the similarities between the immigrants of today and those of the past are numerous. Their reasons for coming to this country ... is happening today, they "are undergoing the same convulsive demographic and economic disruptions that made migrants out of so many nineteenth century Europeans" (Kennedy p.64). Those who are against the immigration of the 1990's also say that the European immigrants of the past were culturally similar to Americans, and that they were more willing to assimilate and become "American." Neither of these things are true. Old immigrant groups ...
- 25912: To Build A Fire Character Stud
- ... to it was a thought that never entered his head. The Man thinks little of the extreme temperature. He thinks of it as only "a bite of frost that hurt," and nothing more. He doesn t realize that the cold can not only "hurt," but it can kill. During his fateful journey, the Man is given warnings first-hand of the extreme cold and of the consequences of his actions. The ... his own self, which was transformed into his worst enemy by his selfish ego. He pays the highest price for his actions; his life. He could have saved himself had he heeded the old-timer s advice and waited for the temperature to rise or for a traveling companion. But, he let his ego take control of himself and pushed all of the wise advise which he had been given out ...
- 25913: Defining Honor
- ... great honor for Jim Smith to be elected captain of the football team; and then, on the other hand, we talk about a code of honor, -- or the laws of honor. What does Jim Smith's being captain of the eleven have to do with the laws of honor? What we mean, in the case of Jim, is that his election as captain shows that the other boys have confidence in ... when we seek reputation for its own sake, we are yielding to the temptation of vanity; and vanity is a weakness and disease of the soul. Everybody has temptations to overcome, and it is everybody's business to know and work against his weaknesses; but, when our chief ambition in life fosters our weakness, and we deceive ourselves by giving the name of "honor" to that which weakens us, we can ... reputation is what we are in the minds of other men; but the honor of character, which is our sacred obligation to keep the law of our code and to do our duty in God's sight, is just as binding upon us when we are all alone, and therefore it must control our most private acts and secret thoughts. A little newsboy boarded a crowded car the other night ...
- 25914: Rasin In The Sun Two Influence
- ... in it...so go change, huh? " (80) He likes to toil too though, such as when he calls Walter prometheus as they walk out the door to the theater. (86) Also another example of Asagai's return to his youth was when he had the conversation with Beneatha after her brother had lost the remaining of their father's money. His theory on the matter, saying that the money basically should not have been relied on, would probably differ than George's relative to what we know. Both men have different views of their world but both are valid influences on Beneatha.
- 25915: Israeli Palestinian Conflict
- ... are being bullied by Israelis. They are the ones who had their land taken away from them and are left with no where to live. In 1948, there were approximately 860,000 Palestinians inside today's Israel. About 700,000 were driven out or fled during the fighting that followed the declaration of Israeli statehood. The Palestinian population of Jerusalem went from 75,000 to 3,500; of Jaffa from 70 ... ways out of a war that has put the entire Israeli-Palestinian peace in jeopardy. Despite the historical tensions of the Middle East, recent issues have arisen to intensify the conflict. Angry Palestinians protested Israel's decision to open an archeological site, the issue becoming one more in a growing number of Middle East tensions. The Muslim crowd feared the excavation of an ancient tunnel, right beside the foundations of Jerusalem's al Aqsa Mosque compound, would undermine what is the third-holiest shrine in Islam after Mecca and Medina. The tunnel excavation dispute is only the latest indication of rising tension between Arabs and Israelis. ...
- 25916: Alexander Hamilton
- ... brilliant Secretary of Treasury, but a failure as a politician. He was brilliant as a Treasurer basically because he was a great strategist that was very skilled and had a great intellect in economics. Hamilton's plan for centralizing and reinvigorating the national economy was integrally related to his philosophy. He believed that an energetic American government should actively encourage manufacturing, assume responsibility for the country's debts, and standardize and control the currency system through a national bank. He created strong foundations for a system in development to create a nation without economic dependency. He accomplished this by promoting the industry ... revenue tariffs on imports and by proposing an excise tax on American whiskey. He argued that as long as the states owed money to other nations, it could not be truly an independent nation. Hamilton's program had great success in restoring the credit of the United States. His vision of a centralized economy provided the basic model for a system that has survived to the present day. Yet, in ...
- 25917: Romeo And Juliet
- ... caused many problems for Romeo and Juliet: These two young lovers knew this and this is why they kept their marriage a secret. If their parents discovered their secret, they would have made their children's lives miserable. Romeo and Juliet would not have been able to see each other. Both of these families were very stubborn and there was hardly any thing that would have made them become friends. In the prologue we learn that the only way the "strife" could be ended was by the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. "Doth with their death bury their parent's strife". (Romeo & Juliet, Prologue, l.8) Neither the Montagues or the Capulets would have accepted the marriage. Keeping the marriage a secret caused Romeo and Juliet to turn to other people for help. Sometimes these people gave them the wrong advice or just betrayed them. The Nurse was one of these characters who betrayed the young couple. The Nurse who was also Juliet's friend turned against her at a very crucial time. The Nurse told Juliet that it would be best if she married Paris. "I think it best you married with the county". (Romeo & Juliet, pg. ...
- 25918: To Kill A Mockingbird 5
- ... us with courteous detachment" (6) explains Scout, the narrator. Lee writes the story in the eyes of a young- maturing girl named Jean Louise, whom everyone calls Scout. Because the book is written from Scout's point of view, a piece of realism is added to the plot. Using this method the reader can understand Scout's actual opinion of an event or person, "Jem and I hated her. If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze . . ." (99). Harper Lee depicts Scout as ... first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow it was hotter than a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square (5). Maycomb was a typical small southern town with typical country folk. With clear ...
- 25919: Oedipus Rex
- ... Oedipus grows up he will marry his mother and he would also kill his father, "... Why, Loxias declared that I should one day marry my own mother, And with my own hands shed my father's bool. Wherefore Corinth I have kept away far, for long years; and prosperd; none the less it is most sweet to see one's parents' face..."(p36 ln1-6). When his parents herd this they gave Oedipus to a man and he was to get rid of the baby by leaving it in the forest, but an servant of ... Jocasta finds this out he then kills her self, "The illustrious Jocasta is no more..."(pg44 ln18). Therfore after all that being said, I firmly believe that Oedipus was a helpless victime of fate. Oedipus's future was foretold by an Oracle of the Gods, he was to kill his father and wed his mother. Oedipus did all of these and he had no choice in the matter.
- 25920: The Odyssey: Telemachus
- ... his appearance in order to escape danger. Telemachus reveals the information which he obtained from the Old man of the sea to the reader. The Old man told Telemachus of the sorrowful tale of Agamemnon's Murder. The story tells of how Aegisthus paid a man to watch for Agamemnon's return from the sea. After a year of waiting, the King returned in what he thought to be secrecy. The lookout man relayed the information to Aegisthus and he had Agamemnon's finest warriors become preoccupied with a small confrontation in one end of the castle. In the other end of the castle, Aegisthus had a banquet and feast prepared for Agamemnon. Aegisthus took a chariot ...
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