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- 2641: Ordinary People: Loss
- ... of the family is ideally the leading light, holding the family together. In this case the father, Cal, seemed to be confused. While he truly blamed himself he was very secretive about it, he doesn’t want to believe that it wasn’t anyone’s fault. The death of his first son leaves him confused and looking for answers. The first question he asks himself is who’s responsible. The real truth was there wasn’t anyone to blame; ...
- 2642: Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X
- ... man who received little schooling and rose to greatness on his own intelligence and determination. Martin Luther King was born into a family whose name in Atlanta was well established. Despite segregation, Martin Luther King s parents ensured that their child was secure and happy. Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925 and was raised in a completely different atmosphere than King, an atmosphere of fear and anger where the ... great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral conscience. King basically adopted on an equality philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should ... through his speeches to rise up and protest against their white enemies. After Malcolm X broke away from Elijah Mohammed, this change is reflected in his more moderate speeches. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King s childhoods had powerful influences on the men and their speeches. Malcolm X was brought up in an atmosphere of violence. During his childhood, Malcolm X suffered not only from abuse by whites, but also ...
- 2643: The 1960's
- The 1960's Many social changes that were addressed in the 1960s are still the issues being confronted today. The '60s was a decade of social and political upheaval caused by student and anti-war protest movements, political ... construction, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, along with the space race with the USSR. The decade ended under the shadow of the Vietnam War, which deeply divided Americans and their allies and damaged the country’s self-confidence and sense of purpose. Even for someone who wasn’t alive during the sixties, it is known what was meant by “ tune in, turn on, drop out.” Every person knows why we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday. All of the social issues ...
- 2644: A Rose For Emily
- A Rose for Emily William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" tells the story of a young woman who is violated by her father's strict mentality. After being the only man in her life Emily's father dies and she finds it hard to let go. Emily was raised in the ante-bellum period before the Civil War. This story takes place in the Reconstruction Era after the war when ...
- 2645: Lord Of The Flies Themes
- ... were careless about the way they kept the fire going. Some of the themes in the story were a result of there nature as children, such as the way they instantly made fun of Piggy's name on p. 29 and how the younger children spent most of their days playing on the beach. But this is because they were only children and therefore acted like children. Another theme was the ... of the smoke from the fire that Jack had lit to capture Ralph. He believed that without the fire there is no chance of being rescued so from this we can determine that Ralph doesn't want to stay on the island. His other problem was Piggy who he had to defend from the others and look after because of he problem with his eyes (He was unable to see without ... the one that blew the conch, calling the meeting which showed the others that he was suited for chief. b) The leadership that Ralph offered was criticized a lot of the time because he wasn't able to control the "littluns" or many of the others but he still persisted to be chief and to keep things organized for the rest of the group. c) Jack's challengers towards Ralph ...
- 2646: Edgar Allen Poe
- Many people label Edgar Allen Poe a horror writer, plain and simple others refer to Poe as the father of the detective story, but over all he´s one Americas greatest writers. His ability of expressing the world in gothic ways, really captures the reader´s attention. Even though he lead a tough life and was known as a sadistic drug addict and alcoholic, he still managed to produce great pieces of literature. Three of his greatest works were "The Tell Tale heart", "The Fall of the House Usher", and "The Raven." All of these are very known troughout the world and are considered three of Poe´s greatest pieces. He was born in Boston on January 19, 1809, his parents, regular members of Federal street theater, named him Edgar Poe. Shortly before his mother's death in Richmond, Virginia on December ...
- 2647: History of the Computer Industry in America
- ... Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the U.S. and one out of every two households (Hall, 156). This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years ... in computers took place in 1694 when Blaise Pascal invented the first digital calculating machine. It could only add numbers and they had to be entered by turning dials. It was designed to help Pascal's father who was a tax collector (Soma, 32). In the early 1800, a mathematics professor named Charles Babbage designed an automatic calculation machine. It was steam powered and could store up to 1000 50-digit ... began to rekindle the interest (Osborne, 45). Many of these new advances involved complex calculations and formulas that were very time consuming for human calculation. The first major use for a computer in the U.S. was during the 1890 census. Two men, Herman Hollerith and James Powers, developed a new punched-card system that could automatically read information on cards without human intervention (Gulliver, 82). Since the population of ...
- 2648: Loyalty
- Loyalty Be Loyal is to be faithful to one's friends , principles , country , school , job , etc. Loyalty is a tenet that everybody have , animals have it too . Gorillas are a clear example of it . In Africa these great apes live in group . As many as ... fall. They also get injuried by running into sharp , pointed branches . When they can , they treat their own wounds . They lick the broken skin and pull the hair from the injured area . If they can't reach it , another animal in the group will care for the wound . In this group of gorillas we can appreciate a family loyalty . We see how loyal the leader is to his family and the family to his leader . Inside a family is the same , the loyalty from the children to their parents and vice versa . We care about our family 's members and we always try to take care of them . The same thing happen in our Dojan , we are like a family that take care of each other . We are loyal to our teachers ...
- 2649: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
- ... man who received little schooling and rose to greatness on his own intelligence and determination. Martin Luther King was born into a family whose name in Atlanta was well established. Despite segregation, Martin Luther King’s parents ensured that their child was secure and happy. Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925 and was raised in a completely different atmosphere than King, an atmosphere of fear and anger where the ... great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral conscience. King basically adopted on an integrationalist philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should ... through his speeches to rise up and protest against their white enemies. After Malcolm X broke away from Elijah Mohammed, this change is reflected in his more moderate speeches. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King’s childhoods had powerful influences on the men and their speeches. Malcolm X was brought up in an atmosphere of violence. During his childhood, Malcolm X suffered not only from abuse by whites, but also ...
- 2650: Reversing The Aging Process, Should We?
- ... process. Man has a natural tendency to play the role of G-d. Man has a an inherent need to affect others, be it through the vises of war, power, manipulation or politics. However man’s natural tendency to play G-d has reached it’s final manifestation. By attempting to slow down the aging process man is using himself as the ultimate canvas, to play the role of the omnipotent. Research into the process of aging began in 1961(Rose ... we age, is discovering how to stop it. An intrinsic characteristic of Man is His obsession with superficiality. Superficiality is equated with appearance. The appearance of beauty can be equated with youth. Therein lies man’s obsession with age, ceasing to age means being eternally beautiful. As usual man’s actions are dominated by ego and self-preservation. Within the confines of youth there lies a certain fountain of power. ...
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