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- 25971: Anthem
- ... life without being confronted by some sort of obstacle. This not only presents an immediate external conflict, but also, in most cases, causes an internal conflict to arise. Such was the case in Ayn Rand's novel, Anthem. The main character Equality 7-2521 not only has to confront external conflicts, but also has to try and make peace between his mind and soul. A brief analysis of these interrelated aspects of Equality's life will reveal an interesting fact. The torment he suffers can only be ended when he resolves both conflicts, but only if he eliminates them in the correct order. Equality 7-2521 not only confronted ... write this" proves as much. With the progression of events, This internal conflict is only made worse by the the forces opposing him on the outside. As the analysis of these two facets of Equality's life progresses, the reader soon becomes aware that if the main character is to attain liberty, he must resolve his two separate problems. However, the correct conflict, either internal or external, has to be ...
- 25972: The Battle of Antietam
- ... in the Civil War. It took place on September 17, 1862 in Maryland. It was at once the climax and the end of the first Confederate invasion of the North. It happened between the U.S. Army of the Potomac under Gen. George B. McClellan and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee. The battle began early in the morning at about 6:00 A.M. and ... as if a Northern victory were certain and there were no Confederate reserves remaining to oppose their advance. Too much time had been wasted and the last Confederate division, that had been left at Harpers Ferry to supervise the surrender of the garrison, was approching the battlefield. They came upon the flank of the Union forces and drove them back. At the end Confederate generals urged Robert E. Lee to ... but he refused. At dawn, on the 18th, the army was still there inviting attack. Although more then 10,000 additional Union troops reached the battlefield McClellan made no move. Lee had had read McClellans mind, he also knew his own men. He knew that his soldiers prestige and morale would be strengthened if they believed that the Army of Northern Virginia could never be driven from a battlefield. ...
- 25973: Fallacy of Personal Attack
- ... eat seafood any you do not. This form of rejection is not logical. There are three forms of personal attack, character assassination, circumstantial and tu quoque. Character assassination is a personal attack where the arguer's reputation is considered evidence that his argument is false. For example, if a convicted felon out of jail has an argument, most people will not believe him because of his prior involvement with illegal matters ... attack is tu quoque. Tu quoque is like hypocrisy. For example, who If a person who is in jail because of drug charges tell a teenager not to do drugs and the teen says "Don't tell me not to do drugs...you did!" then the fallacy of tu quoque has occurred.
- 25974: Censorship
- ... the viewers. Censorship has really been limited to obscenity and gratuitous violence or nudity because people in the media have policed themselves pretty harshly. The most prominent law established due to censorship is the Children s Television Act of 1990. It was established to "remind broadcasters that there is indeed a common ground outside their narrow interests, a responsibility beyond profiteering, a common civic well where national purposes may coalesce" (http ... them all kinds of products, you d kick him right out of the house," says Yale psychology professor Jerome Singer. "But here you are; you come in and the RV is on and you don t think twice about it" (Abandoned in the Wasteland). TV violence is one of the culprits of adolescent criminal behavior. Violent programs may have a negative influence on those individuals who are already violence-prone or ...
- 25975: The Oddysey
- ... beach while he is sound asleep. Poseidon sees that Odysseus has reached home and asks Zeus if he can punish Odysseus for the final time. Zeus suggests he punish the Phaecians instead for helping Poseidon's enemy. Therefore, as the Phaecians' ship is just outside the reach of their harbor on the journey home Poseidon sends the ship crashing into the rocks. Alcinous then speaks of a prophecy that his father ... Alcinous told of the prophecy and Poseidon punishing the Phaecians. The second and main setting is Ithaca. This was when Odysseus finally reached home. It is here he met Athena and learned of his son's own personal odyssey. A good deal of imagery was present in this chapter. One image that stood out was that Odysseus was finally called King Odysseus (288). This shows that Homer is trying to finally ... sea and was amazed by great ships. Ithaca was also presented as beautiful imagery. By doing this, Homer shows how much Odysseus loved his homeland and how beautiful it really was. The imagery of Athena's eyes was also repeated in this book. "Athena answered, her eyes brightening now " (294) is just one of the lines used. Odysseus was very dynamic in this Book. In the beginning, he seemed so ...
- 25976: Slaves Of The White God
- ... Mexico was inspired by the protests of the Black Consciousness movement of the late 1960s, which demanded the inclusion of the black experience in academic work, and in this case, in Latin American history. Palmer's work was the first book to be published in English on blacks in colonial Mexico, however he was not the first scholar to engage this topic, that distinction belonging to Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran, who published ... the quantity but in the eventual evolution of slavery in the New World. Historiographically, the study of blacks in Mexico is plagued with a glaring lack of contemporaneous documentation. One of the deficiencies of Palmer's work is that the perspective of the enslaved Africans is largely absent. The practical reason is that the literature simply does not exist. There were neither slave narratives, nor extensive observatory accounts to articulate the ... use of force to control, and resistance of the enslaved was similar to that in other parts of the New World, though documentation of such is a bit less abundant in this instance. Overall, Palmer's book was an important contribution to what has now blossomed into an entire body of work, and even a field of study focused on the historical experiences of Africans throughout the Diaspora.
- 25977: A Modest Proposal: An Analysis
- ... all wondering what his proposal will be. He then tells us that a young healthy child at a year old is a most delicious, nourishing and wholesome food. The first thing that went through everyone's mind is that this man is crazy. Cannibalism? That is disgusting. Yet he continues on as if he said something completely rational and sane. According to his proposal, twenty thousand children may be reserved for ... the highest importance. All his proposals are satirical, some even revolting. The poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be liable to distress, and help to pay the landlord's rent. Once again he refers to the land lords. Not only will they sell their babies to them but if they do not pay their rent, the landlords can take their babies. The babies are ... be consumers of infant flesh at merry meetings, particularly weddings and christenings. We are told that families will celebrate the introduction of a family and a christening of a child by eating some poor person's baby. The narrator then lists several ideas that could be used as a remedy. Possibly to try to make his proposal seem sane. His ten proposals are not erratic. They are modest but far ...
- 25978: Child Abuse
- ... to get a child to behave. The best way to stop the child abuse and stop the abusive parents from abusing their children is by forming a non-profit organization working in cooperation with U.S. Dept. of Welfare , a resource for children and families to report a child abuse and to search for the abusive parents and put a penalty on them. These type of organizations have worked considerably good ... fairly well. In this Article " The goal of NCMEC," The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children states that "The goals of the NCMEC: A private, non-profit organization working in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice, NCMEC is a vital resource for families and America's 17,000 law enforcement agencies in the search for missing children and the quest for child protection." In 1986, six youth and adult survivors of child abuse and neglect formed what has become a ...
- 25979: Computer Crime 3
- ... instead is dependent on computers due to their incredible capabilities. Mankind has progressed further in the last fifty years than any other period of history. This reason is due to the introduction of computers. Everyone s daily activities are affected, in some way or the other by computers. With the computer things that were impossible have now been easily accomplished. The computer allows us to store large volumes of data into ... easily defined and subject to criminal sanctions. The computer has also brought along with it a host of potentially new misuses or abuses that may, or should be criminal as well. The problem with today s computer crimes are that the criminal justice systems have not been able to keep up with the technological change. Only a few countries have adequate laws to address the problem, and of these, not one ... such things as transportation systems, nuclear power plants, and economies of developed countries. So you can see data is a very important resource as well as valuable. There are two main reasons for the law s difficulty in treating electronic material as property. First data is always changing forms, second is the nature of the network. Originals are in no way distinguishable from copies. Therefore each copy may be altered ...
- 25980: A Comparison of Arthur Becomes King and David and Goliath
- ... from very humble beginnings. David and Goliath, written by Samuel, is a bible story about a young boy defeating a huge Philistine soldier by fighting in the name of God. Arthur Becomes King, written by T. H. White, is a story about a young squire becoming the rightful king of England by pulling the sword from the stone. Arthur Becomes King and David and Goliath, stories about an unlikely person turning ... subordinate to their older brothers. When David goes to the battlefield to consult Eliab, his oldest brother, Eliab becomes angry with him and tells him to go home to his sheep (David watches the family's sheep). When Sir Kay realizes that he has forgotten his sword, he refers to Arthur as a squire and orders him to retrieve it. David and Arthur both become heroes while running an errand. David ...
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