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- 28191: Mother-Daughter Relationships
- ... her with other people. She was constantly putting her down and denigrating her. Rose tried to do her best just to please her mother, but she would never be satisfied. Rose only wanted her mother's love and understanding. Both relationships resemble in many ways to what our reality comes to be these days. Our mothers are always trying to make us be the way they want. I think that is ... defense mechanism that they are applying on us. It is possible that they are trying to build our life the way they wanted their lives to be like. Many mothers try to edificate their daughter's lives to be a perfect one. It is perfectly understandable that they want the best of the world for us, but they have to let us be ourselves. They have to understand that they cannot ...
- 28192: New High-speed Connections Will Change How We Work And Play
- ... most of us are connected to the Internet, there are limitations to what we can do online. Nearly everyone connects to the Internet using an analog modem. To get online, we boot up our PC s, and using our telephone line, dial in to our Internet Service Provider. Because telephone technology is much older than the Internet, there have been limitations to how fast data can travel over existing copper telephone ... rule, rather than the exception, online content will be further enriched with multimedia content and will be truly interactive. How we work, shop, communicate, and entertain ourselves online will continue to be revolutionized, with today s limitations being eliminated by Cable and ADSL technology
- 28193: To Kill A Mockingbird -x
- ... also known as Scout, and recalls the events leading up to Jem Finch breaking his arm. To Kill A Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee and copyrighted in 1960. To kill a Mockingbird was Lee's first and last novel. After winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1960, Lee never wrote another novel. Lee was told to lengthen the short story to make it a novel by a literary agent in New York and apparently it was a good idea. This novel was probably set in the time it was being written. Probably around the mid 50's in a small southern town that goes by the name of Maycomb, Alabama. This was a time when there was a lot of racial tension, with colored drinking fountain, and restrooms. Basically segregation was everywhere ...
- 28194: The Road Not Taken - R. Frost
- Who Needs Directions? In his poem "The Road Not Taken" Frost's theme is about how the choices one makes affect life. When we come to a fork in the road, a decision needs to be made. Both paths are different and choosing the right one if ... Each choice affects who we are, where we are going, and moreover our lives. The persona had two roads to chose from and wonders what would have happened had he taken the other road. Frost s title reflects this. The first three lines, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both /And be one traveler, long I stood", tell us the speaker must choose between ...
- 28195: Self-reliance By Emerson
- ... their deaths. The true truthfulness behind this statement reflects a major flaw of society. b). The effect of society was not to strengthen the individual, but to breed conformity and fear. This statement reflects Emerson s conflict with society. In his eyes, society was created in order to enforce rules that were generally accepted as correct. In the event that someone disagreed with these rules, he would be punished and reprimanded ... not conform to the norm of society, and one should not be scared to challenge the pre-established dogma. I was drawn to this statement because it showed a situation that still applies to today s society. Any time that someone is put in an uncomfortable or boring situation, he is scared to say so. Instead, he feels the need to politely excuse himself. This should not happen; human nature tells ...
- 28196: Capital Punishment: The Legal Punishment of a Criminal
- ... difference in their crime and murder rate. In some cases, states that do impose the death penalty have a higher crime rate than the states that do not impose this “disciplinary” action. “Whosoever shed man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed” (Genesis 9:6). With this statement from Genesis, some people could almost feel as if they are doing something religious. In the use of the death penalty ... raping a non-white women whereas most black offenders who raped white women were executed. As a person against capital punishment, I feel more thought should be placed on a matter that involves taking someone's life. In my mind and the mind of many others the death penalty will always remain defined as “ “disciplinary” execution.
- 28197: The Death Penalty
- ... the ten commandments and thoushalt not kill Should the judicial system have the right to sentence someone to death, or should we letr god be the one to play "god"? People who ruthlessly kill. Wouldn't they be less likely to kell if they knew that if they too a life , theirs would be taken also? If the death penalty was upheld and used more often, we could eo away with the evils of our society. Jails wouldn't be so overcrowded and if we killed the killers then their organs could be given to science to save the lives of good peo;le who really need the help./ The death of a slayer ...
- 28198: Epics
- ... belief. To fulfill yet another quality of an epic, intervention by God does frequently occur. While the Hebrews were responsible for the production of The Old Testament, the Greeks employed the works of Homer. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are the most famous of the Greek epics. These epic poems tell the story of the Trojan War and the events and famous people surrounding the war. Throughout the Iliad, the universality ... had human or animal characteristics. The intervention of these Gods into the lives of the characters in the Iliad and the Odyssey is another characteristic of epic poetry that is unique to Greek culture. Homer's second epic is the Odyssey. Much like the Iliad, this poem contains definite qualities in theme and structure that make the poem an epic. The most predominant characteristic is the presence of such an outstanding ...
- 28199: Could You Throw Away Your Flesh and Blood??
- Could You Throw Away Your Flesh and Blood?? In Indianapolis on January 26, a boy, about five days old, was found frozen to death ina snow bank outside a hospital. The mother's identity is unknown (Hampson 3). Reading that one short story should be enough to make us realize that something needs to be done about mothers abandoning their children. The problem which results with abandoned children ... a chance it also gives the mother a six month peroid to reclaim their child. This gives the unsable mother a chance to rethink her decision. Safe houses during this peroid attends to the baby's needs and begins looking for a home for the child. The organization is supported by many citizens and is already began helping innocent babies. In order for safe houses to work we must learn to ...
- 28200: Juvenile Crime
- Juvenile Crime One of the biggest problems which the United States is faced with is juvenile crime. The reason experts feel juvenile's commit crimes is because of risk factors when they were younger but experts still have not found the main reason why juvenile's commit crimes. Some risk factors associated with juvenile crime are poverty, repeated exposure to violence, drugs, easy access to firearms, unstable family life and family violence, delinquent peer groups, and media violence. Especially the demise ...
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