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- 26331: Premarital Sex
- Premarital Sex Premarital sexual intercourse in a serious problem in today's society. Having sexual intercourse before marriage is something that, based on research, needs to be stopped. Sex before marriage can lead to sexually transmitted diseases, such as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) Syphilis, and Gonorrhea ... unplanned pregnancies as a result of premarital sex, people that have sex just for fun or just for the experience end up with a child that they cannot support or in some cases they don't even want. Teen pregnancy is a rising problem and premarital sex is a direct result of just that. Over 95% of teen pregnancies are unplanned which makes much sense however it is important to show ...
- 26332: My First Few Days at Dean College
- ... everyone. When it was getting closer to leave for school, I knew that I was going to leaving my best friend and my boyfriend. Even though I am up here they are home it isn’t the same. I miss hanging out with my best friend De-Anna, talking to her on the phone, visiting her at work, going shopping and going to Wendy’s for lunch or dinner. When I had to leave my boyfriend that was hard for me. My boyfriend and I have been going out for almost two years and had share many special moments together ...
- 26333: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- ... one purpose. That purpose is to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness are unheard of. Only happiness exists. But when confronted with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we come to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human soul really craves. In fact, Utopian societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the ... jumble of society. This ends when the curiosity of others ends, and as a supreme result of his arrogant behaviour, he is exiled. The instigator of this curiosity as well as the author of Bernard's fame (and folly), is an outsider know as the Savage. The Savage is brought in from outside of the utopian society by Bernard as an experiment. He faces "civilized society" with a bright outlook, but ... turn owes everything to him or her. This applies to all. No one capitalises on the efforts of others and no one performs excessive manual labour for minimum wage. Everyone is the same. In Huxley's perfect world, sex is a mundane undertaking. It happens to each individual almost every night. And no one knows what marriage is. They simply have each other and move on. All for one and ...
- 26334: Bullfighting
- ... is barbaric and inhumane. The contest begins with a colorful grand entrance by the participants. The actual fight starts when the picadors, who are horse-mounted members of the cuadrilla. They fend off the bull's charges with sharp steel-tipped pikes, called pics. They weaken and anger the bull by piercing its neck and shoulders. Then come the banderilleros, named after their banderillas, or decorated barbed sticks. Clutching a stick in each hand, they rush the bull on foot and plant the barbs in the animal's neck, weakening and angering the beast even more. Finally the matador comes in for the kill. Brightly dressed, he uses a sword draped with a cloth, called muleta. After a number of intricate passes with ... If the sword enters correctly between the shoulder blades, it severs the aorta, or great artery, and the animal dies almost instantly. A crowd-pleasing matador may be awarded one or both of the bull's ears or its ears and tail. An exceptionally fierce bull may be honored by having its body paraded around the arena. The one thing that sets the Spanish apart from most Europeans living beyond ...
- 26335: People Always Tend To Seek The
- ... Multivac, controlled humans by telling the authorities about who was going to commit a crime causing someone to be imprisoned until the danger has passed. It was the computer that made the decision of someone's freedom or imprisonment and that controlled others to arrest a person it suspected of committing a crime controlling his/her destiny. The decision of imprisoning someone for a crime a person did not commit was ... questions that would normally embarrass people if they would have to ask someone else about it. Multivac could access its vast database of trillions of pieces of knowledge and find the best solution for one's problem (All The Troubles of The World 153). All the people believed that Multivac knows the best and allowed a computer to control their lives by following the solutions Multivac had given them (All the Troubles of The World 153). Humans followed a computer's solution to a problem they could not solve themselves allowing a computer to take control over their lives not allowing them to think for themselves. In the Nine Tomorrows, Isaac Asimov often criticizes our ...
- 26336: History of Basketball
- ... Almonte, Ontario. Most people wonder were a young man would think of a game like basketball. The concept of basketball was born from his school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it. Naismith went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. In 1891 (after serving as McGill's Athletic Director) Naismith moved on to the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts where the sport of basketball was born. In Springfield, Naismith was faced with several problems. One problem was making a sport that ... watched his sport, that was introduced to many nations by the YMCA as early as 1893. In 1963, basketball was introduced to the Berlin Olympics. Today basketball has grown to become one of the world's most popular, and loved sports.
- 26337: A Bird Came Down The Walk
- Emily Dickinson's poem "A Bird Came Down the Walk." is an excellent example of how poets use varying styles of rhyme and meter to bring a poem to life. Dickinson expertly uses meter to show how the ... habitat is in the sky. And the he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass– And then hopped sidewise to the Wall To let a Beetle pass– When the bird finally flies away the poem's flow mimics that of a flying bird, very calm and free "And he unrolled his feathers / And rowed him softer home–". She describes a birds flight like rowing in an ocean, but without all the ... be scared because he notices her watching. "That hurried all around– / They looked like frightened beads, I thought– / he stirred his Velvet Head". She rhymes around and head to describe the shape of the bird's head. When she rhymes seam and swim she is comparing the birds flight path to a seam, straight and precise. The change in the rhyme scheme was done on purpose to help portray the ...
- 26338: Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Encyclopedia Extract
- ... the leading writers of the day. In 1845, she began to receive letters from the poet Robert Browning, who, after five months of correspondence, paid her a visit. They fell in love, and when Elizabeth s stern father refused to allow her to spend the winter of 1846 in Italy as her doctors had advised, she and Browning married secretly there (Shilstone, 1996, p.656). In 1849, their son was born ... the Portuguese (1849), Elizabeth let the love for her husband speak. The whole collection is forty-four poems written to Robert Browning. Aurora Leigh (1857) is yet another example of love being prominent in Elizabeth s writings. Another element in Elizabeth s writings is statements about faith and her illness/death. In the closing line of her most famous sonnet (p.656) Sonnet 43 Elizabeth says, and if God choose,/ I shall but love thee better ...
- 26339: The Prison
- ... They are the wives of two inmates and they were there every Saturday morning for the entire visiting hours. I will call them Connie and Carole. They both, talked to me, assured me things weren’t as bad as I was told, and that they would help me with anything I needed. I very quickly, felt a bond with these two women. They explained how things are in prison. They were ... may have not been able to control the angered. Or stop to think a moment, of drunk drivers. Many people have went out to eat, had a few drinks, and drove home. They just didn’t get caught. So, many times, we hear.... how nice the inmates have it. They get to lay around, all day, watch TV and eat and possibly work out .Life of ease. To a point that ... prison. And that is all it took was one weak moment. We all have them. Think about the moment that you want that piece of chocolate cake on the table. And you “know” you shouldn’t but, you eat it anyway. That is a weak moment. Weak moments can be different for each person. But, We All Have Them.
- 26340: Should Scholarship Athletes Work?
- ... scholarships typically cover room, board, books and tuition, but do not cover costs for trips home, gas, laundry and other items. The determination of how much money covers those things is made by each school's financial aid office; most administrators have estimated the costs to be between $2,000 and $3,000 a year. Athletes who choose to work, and their employers, will be required to sign an affidavit that ... it does to ask the NCAA to handle it. The schools have first hand account o f all the players at their school, therefore they are in the best position to enforce the new legislation's requirements. On the job experience is essential when looking for a job after college. Many athletes under the old legislation did not have the imperative experience necsasary. Bridget Niland is a former distance runner at ... example of why the real work experience is necessary to becoming successful. She said, "Athletic experience, while valuable, cannot be equated with real work experience. . . . When you apply for a job, an employer says, `It's great you can run a 4:30 mile, but what work experience do you have?' " Now full scholarship athletes will be able to get at least some real work experience.
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