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- 25981: Red Grange
- Red Grange One of the most publicized figures in the history of U.S. sports was the “Wheaton Ice Man,” a ripping, tearing ball carrier whose correct name is Harold Grange. Perhaps the greatest broken-field runner of them all, Grange terrorized the opponents of the University of Illinois ... later years sports writing took on a more businesslike attitude as the reading public developed a healthy cynicism in regard to some of its heroes. Undoubtedly the game that sprang Red Grange into the nation’s headlines was the 1924 Michigan encounter. The red head was a junior then and, although he had a great sophomore season he literally ran wild all over Michigan. In the first eight minutes he completely ... to work, taking the ball at his own five-yard line all the way to the end zone for a score. Still in the first quarter Grange scored three more times on break a way’s of sixty-six, fifty-five, and forty yards. But the amazing part is that the red head scored the first five times he touched the ball. Coach Zuppke took him out the game to ...
- 25982: Antigone Tragic Hero
- ... hero. She tries to help her brother without worrying about what will happen to her. She says, "I intend to give my brother burial. I'll be glad to die in the attempt, -if it's a crime, then it's a crime that God commands" (Sophocles 4). She was also punished for doing what was right. Her epiphany came, hidden from the audience, before she hung herself. Creon's "nobleness" of taking in young Antigone and Ismene is overshadowed by his egotistical nature. He will not allow justice to come about simply because he wants to protect his image. He says, "If she ...
- 25983: The Insanity Defense
- ... M'Naghten Rule focused on cognition rather than the function of the person in an integrated fashion, the Irresistible Impulse Test abstracts the element of volition in a way that fails to assess a person's function in terms of an integrated personality. Another criticism of this test is the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of proving the irresistibility of the impulse, which the definition of the test requires. The jury ... medical concept, and insanity is defined within the context of an adversary system wherin psychiatrists and lawyers battle one another over the meaning of terms such as right and wrong and ability to control one's behavior. Mental illness and mental disease are psychoanalytic concepts, not scientific concepts. Mental illness is defined by talking to people or by giving them written tests, and there is no agreement among psychiatrists as to ... Rule, and the relationship between law and psychiatry must be reestablished on a more scientific level, based on the neurological work now going on in the brain sciences. The insanity defense is impracticle in it's present usage and should therefore be abolished.
- 25984: To Autumn by John Keats
- ... created life to flow in upon him and rich store of sense-impression is absorbed and transmuted into an act of calm, meditative wisdom The rhythms of the seasons are inevitably the rhythms of man’s life, and Keats in enjoying this autumn accepts the brute fact of winter, and affirms faith in the ultimate but constantly return of spring. Thus, when he dies, but the generations renew himself. The poem experiences these facts and unflinchingly comes to terms with him. Such a poem is an enduring nourishment to one’s humanity; it alerts one’s vision of the world and it grafts itself into the spirit and the memory.
- 25985: Violent Crimes Involving Guns
- ... over gun control is not about controlling inanimate objects; it is about controlling people. To extend gun controls would make the nation better for criminals and worse for the rest of us. Works Cited U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Lifetime Likelihood of Victimization," BJS Technical Report,Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, March 1987. Gary Kleck, Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America (Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991), p. 203. Gary Kleck, "Lifesaving Benefits to Use of Weapons for Self-Defense," Houston Chronicle, May 31,1992, p. 1E. David B. Kopel, The Samurai, the Mountie and the Cowboy (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1992); and Kleck, Point Blank, pp. 188-91. Kleck, Point Blank, p. 44; U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Handgun Crime Victims, July 1990.
- 25986: Could the Greenhouse Effect Cause More Damage?
- ... supposed to simulate what many see as the coming apocalypse. (global warming) "By 2050, if we decide to load trace gasses - mainly carbon dioxide - into the atmosphere at our current rate, we can expect Earth's temperature to increase by any-where from three to nine degrees. The Vostok record confirms that," says Harte. The grid is divided into ten sections. Each of the ten sections covers thirty square yards of ... to melt will bloom sooner then the pollinators of those plants can get to them. That would be harmful to both of the species involved. Harte says that this project should confirm that people don't have any time to waste when it comes to saving this disaster from happening. In three years, Harte and other researchers will be able to tell whether or not Global Warming will be the next ...
- 25987: Marijuana: The Untold Story
- ... plant kingdom. Used for a number of things including clothing, paper, fuel, food, and medicine, marijuana seems to be a wonder crop. However in 1937 due to some of its medical and chemical properties, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Marijuana Traffic Act, outlawing the possession and sale of marijuana. Since then the majority of countries around the world have created similar laws. Why would the world shun such ... The campaign was born because their main hemp suppliers The Philippine and East India were taken over by Japan. The military had many uses for hemp such as; parachutes, uniforms, and tents. The fabric canvas’s name was derived from cannabis, the main fiber that is used to manufacture canvas. The fibers from the bark of marijuana plants are used to make a great variety of textile products, including coarse fabrics ... fighting for the reform of marijuana laws and now are being heard louder than ever because of the Internet and the sudden popularity of medical marijuana. Marijuana has been looked down upon since the 1930’s for the wrong reasons. It has been misunderstood and classified as a schedule 1 drug such as heroin. However evidence has proven that marijuana is only as harmful as alcohol is, which is legal. ...
- 25988: America And Individualism
- ... point of an election is to choose representatives whom the voters can expect will manage the social institutions in a responsible manner, will have a completely different image of politics. The Founders believed in men's right to choose the government they lived under, and they believed that to protect the ability to exercise that right, that particular government could not be allowed such a monopoly of weapons as would enable ... as a whole, and of course believed that people with arms, like anyone else, were subject to law, to civilization, and to basic rules of behavior, and had duties as citizens to protect each other's freedom and safety. However, these were obligations whose existence did not depend on the particular government that the people had chosen. In fact, the government was subject to these things just as much as individuals ... Individualism breeds fragmentation and brings about disconnectivity and this is in complete contradiction with the 'connected' governmental system in the United States where the governmental divisions are always checking each other. On one hand, democracy's project is unrealizable, because it is contrary to nature. On the other, it is impossible to stop short of this democracy and go back to aristocracy. This is because democratic equality also conforms to ...
- 25989: Lewis Carroll
- ... he never married. In 1855, he was appointed lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church. A position he held until 1881. Six years later he was ordained a deacon, but he never proceeded to a priest’s orders, probably because he stammered. He did, however, preach from time to time, mostly to children. The next part of this life was dedicated to his writings. Alice and Wonderland was started as a picnic ... wrote out the Alice stories and they were published under his pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland is undoubtedly his most famous book. Harvey Darton once said that it “changed the whole cast of children’s books.” Carroll continued to write poems and riddles. One of his more famous poems is one entitled Jabberwocky (see attached sheet). This poem is still confusing to many and can be interpreted many different ways ... that weighed two pound I sawed it up one day In pieces eight of equal weight! How much did each piece weigh? (Everyone says “a quarter of a pound,” which is wrong) Answer: In Shylock’s bargain for flesh was found No mention of the blood that flowed around: So when the stick was sawed in eight, The sawdust lost diminished from the weight. In conclusion, Lewis Carroll was a ...
- 25990: Greeks
- ... Graham, et. al. 57). The Greek pantheon consisted of the twelve gods who lived on Mount Olympus (Craig, Graham, et. al. 83). These gods were: -Zeus, the father of the gods, -Hera, his wife, -Zeus’s siblings: Poseidon, his brother, god of seas and earthquakes, Hestia, his sister, goddess of the hearth, Demeter, his sister, goddess of agriculture and marriage, -Zeus’s children: Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, Apollo, god of sun, music, poetry, and prophecy, Ares, god of war, Artemis, goddess of the moon and the hunt, Athena, goddess of wisdom and the arts, Hephaestus ... strong hand together with thunder and lightning, whirling an awesome flame. The life-giving earth crashed around in burning, and the vast wood crackled loud with fire all about. All the land seethed, and Ocean’s streams and the unfruitful sea. The hot vapor lapped round the earthborn Titans: flame unspeakable rose to the bright upper air: the flashing glare of the thunderstone and lightning blinded their eyes for all ...
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