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- 26711: Delinquints
- ... offenders. Young delinquents usually are sent to juvenile courts, where the main aim is to rehabilitate offenders, rather than to punish them. But the term juvenile delinquency itself has come to imply disgrace in today's society. A youngster can be labeled a delinquent for breaking any one of a number of laws, ranging from robbery to running away from home. But an action for which a youth may be declared ... may officially be declared delinquents. Crime statistics, though they are often incomplete and may be misleading, do give an indication of the extent of the delinquency problem. The FBI reports that during the early 1980's, about two-fifths of all arrests in the United States for burglary and arson were of persons under the age of 18. Juveniles also accounted for about one-third of all arrests for larceny. During ... may appear in a juvenile court at least once. Girls are becoming increasingly involved in juvenile delinquency. Today, about one of every five youngsters appearing in juvenile court is a girl. In the early 1900's, this ratio was about 1 girl to every 50 or 60 boys. Sociologists have conducted a number of studies to determine how much delinquency is not reported to the police. Most youngsters report taking ...
- 26712: Forests Cannot Absorb CO2 Emissions
- Forests Cannot Absorb CO2 Emissions The world's dwindling forests cannot be relied upon to absorb the industrialized world's carbon dioxide emissions. Environment ministers and experts from around the world will be meeting in Buenos Aries. There they will try to map a course for industrialized countries as they try to rein in emissions of greenhouse gases in line with the Kyoto treaty, signed last year. A new report tells people that one third of the world's forests are at dying risk because of climate changes. This new report tells people that the industrialized countries should cut on CO2 usage and emissions. The report listed that twenty forest regions on five ...
- 26713: Lord Of The Flies 9
- ... of having two groups within the whole, a leader must emerge in order to keep the two groups working efficiently. Since there is no adult on the island to take on the responsibility, the character s environment once again forces them to elect a leader. The person who is elected is Ralph. He is forced to be organized and insightful on how to keep everyone alive. This is shown through him ... not qualified to be leader of the entire group and did not want to follow his orders. Therefore, the leader of one group was Ralph and the leader of the other group was Jack. Jack s group moved into the forest to live. Golding decides for that group to move there because that group is evil, and savagery. This is what most people believe to be the place where savages live ... spirit and the civilized. The setting in the Lord of the Flies is quite significant in the development of the story. William Golding uses it to motivate character behavior, foreshadow events and represent his character s personalities. He did an excellent job in painting a setting that did more than play a background but a literary element that helped make the novel more entertaining.
- 26714: Lord Of The Flies - Civilized
- ... gnawing at raw meat right off of the bone. In a way that stereotype was satisfied in this novel. Savage behaviour might be best described as the act of living like primitive animals who don't care for others and expect 'instant gratification' from almost everything they do. Instant gratification can be best described by the following: to do something and expecting immediate results. The result for savage behaviour is that ... savage they go so far that it results in the destruction of their environment as well as the destruction of their civilized minds. On the other hand, civilization is the partial suppression of a human's natural thoughts and movements. Civilization is the ability to take all force associated with savagery and to use it to create and maintain a certain order. At the beginning of this novel, the boys make ...
- 26715: Social Inequality In 1820s
- By: N.S. Social equality has been a goal of America since its very beginning. However, it was only an intention to be socially equal, but not a goal. Social equality or the fact that all men were ... the Black man from hell and his own savagery. Social and Racial Equality in the south was incredibly hard to obtain because blacks were considered childish, stupid, inferior, and hell-bound without the white man's help. On page 83 of The Mind of the South, W.J. Cash states, "The black man occupied the position of a domestic animal. without will or right of is own." And yes, the black ... of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim. " This passage from Frederick Douglas's Independence Day Address, 1852, defines the true nature of the blacks. They were not recognized, they were treated socially unjust, and most of all, America did nothing about it from its establishment in 1776 ...
- 26716: Animal Farm
- ... have slowly over time began to turn nto humans. They lived in the house, ate out of dishes, got drunk, never worked and were using the other animals as laboreres. They began to wear Jone's clothes, smoked his pipes and even carried trotters. One day people came to visit the farm and as the animals looked into the house they were amazedto see the animals and the farmers playing cards ... game. The rest if the animals sad as to realzing what has happened to the once all equal animal farm which now became to Manor Farm in which pigs played the role of Mr. Jone's. They heard shouting and returned back to see what's wrong and saw the pigs arguing with the men. They looked from pig face to man face back to pig face and couldnt tell the difference. Thoguh it was now the pigs who once ...
- 26717: Reconstruction
- By: Kevin Bosco After the end of the Civil War at Appomattox, our nation’s leaders attempted to reorganize state and local governments in the fallen Confederacy, reestablish normal relations between the North and South, and to instill a sense of national loyalty once again. What transpired was a unforgiving ... Southerners saw the Republican party as the party of the “negro and corrupt white man,” who hated the South. Eventually, former Confederate states were limited to only the one-party system. Also, although the U.S. Congress tried to give more political and voting freedom to blacks in the 15th Amendment, Democratic leaders limited their access by reducing the number of eligible black voters. Literacy and educational tests, poll taxes and ... of the Radical Republicans in Congress during the post-war decade who were so determined that Southerners should pay a heavy penalty for secession, reconstruction was largely unsuccessful. It is quite possible that President Lincoln’s more lenient reconstruction plan would have brought more economic, political, and social results for Southern society in the postwar years. Word Count: 535
- 26718: Existentialism
- ... provides this definition. Subjectivity refers to the radical freedom to choose with or without a God, but also that this radical freedom becomes a responsibility to use or not use. Another definition, provided by Webster’s dictionary defines existentialism as a philosophical movement especially of the 20th century that stresses the individual position as self determining agent responsible for his or her own choices. It becomes very clear through the definitions ... Both theories stress the importance of individual responsibility and decision making. Existentialism continues to be used in contemporary society. Expressions of existentialism can be found in different literary pieces, novels, plays and films. Woody Allen’s film, Crimes and Misdemeanors and Peter Shaffer’s play, Equus are examples of existentialism in contemporary society.
- 26719: Silas Marner
- ... they also have a child together. Godfrey is in love with Nancy Lammeter and has decided to keep this marriage with Molly a secret. He is ashamed of her because of her addiction and doesn’t want the public to know about it because it will ruin his reputation. Because Godfrey has decided to abandoned his wife and child, the mother dies, but the child soon finds her way to the ... of Silas Marner and he was able to experience all of the fatherly love that is shared between the father and its child, and this is what made Godfrey so jealous of Silas. To Godfrey’s misfortune, he has no memories to look back on because he refused to admit secrets and refused to keep the child There are many different meanings throughout this novel that will justify the meaning of ...
- 26720: How Earthquakes Are Caused
- ... mostly does not just come out of a big hole in the ground. It comes out of mountains. When the molten material is pushing up through to the surface of the land, the earth doesn't just move apart to let it through. The igneous rock that the lithosphere of comprised of gets pushed up with the material, forming the mountain you see the molten lava and ash spew out of ... more igneous rock, making the mountain larger. So as you can see, plates cause a lot of commotion when moving together. They deform the land, and create large mountains of mostly volcanic attributes. And it's not gentle, but our earth is tough; I think it can handle it.
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