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- 4031: Celebrities And Their Salaries
- ... Supreme Court justice gets $170 000. The average annual American household income is $34 076. And Steven Segal? He makes $10 million per picture. We want celebrities to be like us, and then we don't. We want them to inhabit a world of glamour, but we don't want them to be stuck up. We want to gaze at their big faces on the screen, yet it's our own narcissism we are feeding. Yet one thing's for sure - we don't like to hear about them making $10 million for lousy movies. For the most part, celebrities are not worth ...
- 4032: The Last Hung: Joop's Mid-Life Crisis
- The Last Hung: Joop's Mid-Life Crisis In Horst Stern's The Last Hunt, a man named Joop is portrayed as a professional worker in a very well known bank. Outside of being a banker, Joop enjoys to hunt wild animals. This has been a hobby of his since he was a young boy. Throughout the story many questions are raised about Joop's true feelings about his job, hunting, and his life. In the beginning of the story, a women walks in on Joop while he is staring at a picture on a wall in his office. ...
- 4033: The Wierd Sisters In Macbeth
- ... and evil has been waged for thousands of years. Evil has always tried to find some way to corrupt the good. In the play Macbeth, that is exactly what happens. In this battle for Macbeth's soul, the witches had to first gain his trust. The predictions were the tools for doing so. The apparitions were cleverly shrouded in deceit. The apparitions brought about Macbeth's downfall. Evil has always longed to destroy a good soul and make it one more loss for Nazareth. But before it can do that, the good have to believe in evil. This is why the ... their predictions. In normal circumstances, Macbeth would have ignored them. So the witches called him by his name and his current title just to catch his attention. They knew who he was and he didn't know who they were. This made them mysterious and it appealed to his superstitious and imaginative nature. Macbeth drew closer. Then the witches called him Thane of Cawdor. This prediction was to gain Macbeth' ...
- 4034: Malaysia Car Industry
- 1.0 MALAYSIA CAR INDUSTRY 1.1 Background Malaysia is one of the smaller Southeast Asian markets for motor vehicle production and sales and ranks behind South Korea, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia. Since 1985, when the first made-in-Malaysia car, Proton rolled off the production line, it have been spearheading Malaysia's ambitious plan to become one of the world's most advanced industrial societies by the year 2020. To date over one million Protons have been sold in 51 countries throughout the world. By contrast, Malaysia's motor vehicle industry actually remains heavily protected ...
- 4035: Children Stories
- ... the child has the will to read further. Roald Dahl has written numerous books such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches and Matilda whereby imagination plays a key role in capturing the child's attention. How is an author capable of incorporating imagination throughout a novel? Roald Dahl's novels are filled with imaginative situations, characters and devices that capture the attention of readers of all ages. To begin with, Roald Dahl creates numerous amounts of outrageously imaginative situations that make each one of ... intrigued by the chocolate that flows like a river and ends up falling "into the river" (p.76) due to his need to eat the chocolate. Furthermore in entering the gum room, Violet, the world's champion gum chewer, must test Mr. Wonka's knew gum ball but upon chewing this piece of gum Violet finds herself changing into "a gigantic blueberry"(p.103). Violet inflates like a giant balloon ...
- 4036: Catcher in the Rye: Holden Portrayed as a Troubled Young Man
- Catcher in the Rye: Holden Portrayed as a Troubled Young Man In J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield is portrayed as a young, troubled individual. He tells us his story from the mental institution where he is currently residing. Holden refuses to acknowledge his emotions in regard to the death of his brother Allie. In reaction to Allie's death, Holden hides from himself, his true feelings about change, death and relationships with other people. He does not realize that his Allie died of leukemia three years before this story takes place. Holden speaks ... how Allie was younger than him but fifty times as smart. Holden also tells us that Allie was much more mature for his age then he should have been. This is the basis of Holden's fear of growth and change. The more you grow, the closer to death you find yourself and death is the ultimate change. Reveling in innocence, perfectness, and being untouched by change is the most ...
- 4037: THe Use of Marijuana
- ... government? George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew marijuana for recreational use. Are the harmful effects that marijuana has on your body worse than those of alcohol? Is it the state of mind that marijuana's active ingredient, THC, induces that causes our government to keep marijuana illegal and keep alcohol legal? Is marijuana's addictive nature more harmful to an individual than alcohol's addictive nature? Are marijuana's harmful affects more destructive to our society than alcohol's harmful effects? Is marijuana so detrimental to the good health of America's population that it should be illegal? ...
- 4038: Gene Therapy 2
- ... The process by which this is done is called gene therapy. Gene therapy is the deliberate alteration of the human genome for alleviation of disease. The studies of gene therapy began in the mid 1980's to early 1990's. The focus then was "treating diseases caused by such single-gene defects as hemophilia, Duchene's muscular dystrophy, and sickle-cell anemia."1 As time passed new technologies, techniques, strategies and ideas for transferring genes have been presented. William French Anderson, Michael Blaise, and Ken Culver performed the first successful ...
- 4039: Thesis: More should be done to reform the United States Prison System
- ... done to reform the United States Prison System I. FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS A. 63,000 civil cases filed by inmates in 1995 1. one-fourth of all civil filings in the United States 2. prisoners dont pay court costs B. Prison food lawsuits 1. Lawrence Bittaker suit a) soggy sandwiches b) broken cookies C. Abuse by prison officials 1. brain implant transmitted thoughts over PA system a) cost the state of ... 2. prisoners have closed-circuit television studio a) sex b) horror c) violence C. Socializing with society 1. Outta Joint picnic a) clown b) puppet show c) political-satire performance d) eight bands 2. Lifers Banquet a) 33 convicts and 49 invited guests b) catered prime rib D. Vocational training 1. Charles Logan quote a) treatment not effective in rehabilitation E. Hilleary Van quote 1. unsensible to provide luxuries to criminals that many citizens cant afford III. EARLY RELEASE A. Overcrowding B. Repeat appeals 1. death-row cases take up to 20 years to finish 2. since 1976, 50 death-row inmates have been released C. Juvenile punishment 1. ...
- 4040: Holdens Shithole
- ... perception of the world does not change significantly through the novel. However as the novel progresses, Holden gradually comes to the realization that he is powerless to change this. During the short period of Holden's life covered in this book, "Holden does succeed in making us perceive that the world is crazy".1 Shortly after Holden leaves Pencey Prep he checks in to the Edmont Hotel. This is where Holden's turmoil begins. Holden spends the following evening in this hotel which was "full of perverts and morons. (There were) screwballs all over the place."2 His situation only deteriorates from this point on as the ... completely immoral and unscrupulous. The three days we learn of from the novel place a distressed Holden in the vicinity of Manhattan. The city is decked with decorations and holiday splendor, yet, much to Holden's despair "seldom yields any occasions of peace, charity or even genuine merriment."3 Holden is surrounded by what he views as drunks, perverts, morons and screwballs. These convictions which Holden holds waver very momentarily ...
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