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- 4061: Gun Control And Violence in Canada and the US
- ... handguns and other restricted weapons..." . The purpose of the 1977 leglislation was to reduce the availability of firearms, on the assumption that there is a "positive relationship between availability and use". In Robert J. Mundt's study, when compared with the United States, trends in Canada over the past ten years in various types of violent crime, suicide, and accidental death show no dramatic results, "and few suggestions of perceptible effects ... by other methods, but it is less likely for these suspects to kill multiple victims". From the study conducted by Sproule and Kennett the rate of violent crimes was five times greater in the U.S than Canada, and "almost double the rate of firearm use in American than Canadian homicides" (32-33). In short, the use of firearms "in Canadian homicides has declined since the legislative changes in gun control ... peace unlike the American Frontier heritage. From our textbook, Why Nothing Works , Marvin Harris points out that the "American Constitution guarantees citizens the right to bear arms, and this has made it possible for U.S. criminals to obtain firearms more readily than their counterparts in countries like Japan...". Marvin Harris indicates that "the high rate of homicide in the United States undoubtedly reflects, to some extent, the estimated 50 ...
- 4062: Faulkner Vs McCarthy
- McCarthy vs Faulkner Though Cormac McCarthy’s All The Pretty Horses and William Faulkner’s The Unvanquished are completely different, their style and plot techniques share more similarities than differences. All The Pretty Horses and The Unvanquished both depict the importance of honor in a persons life, whether it be ... he did not avenge Blevins’ death. John sets out with a passion to kill the captain and regain the horses, but realizes that the captain will have a tougher time staying alive and John let’s him go. This relieves the tension that Blevins’ death caused. Honor towards family plays one of the most important roles in The Unvanquished as well as in All The Pretty Horses. Bayard must honor ...
- 4063: The Great Gatsby Character Dev
- ... no kind of change in any of the characters the novel would be almost pointless. Stories need to have rounded characters, whether they change for the better of worse, if nothing happened the novel wouldn t be much to read and wouldn t leave the reader satisfied one way or another in the end. What is interesting is when the narrator takes on a different type of role in a novel. He is no longer used merely as ... to the main character Jay Gatsby. This novel takes a very different approach in its development of the characters. Having the narrator change more than any of the other characters, this thesis will explain Fitzgerald s unusual development of the characters and their greater significance through the novel. For although we would expect a certain, standard technique in telling a story, Fitzgerald uses a much different method. The first person ...
- 4064: The Awakening: Edna Pontel
- The Awakening: Edna Pontel Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is a work of fiction that tells the story of Edna Pontellier, Southern wife and mother. This book presents the reader with many tough questions and few answers. It is not hard to ... in history, women did just what they were expected to do. They were expected to be good daughters, good wives, and good mothers. A woman was expected to move from the protection of her father’s roof to the protection of her husband. Edna didn’t fit this mold, and that eventually leads her husband to send for a doctor. It is here that Edna Pontellier says words that define The Awakening, "I don’t want anything but my own ...
- 4065: Biography of Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... was born in Bristol, England. She had many brothers and sisters, but she was not the youngest. Since Elizabeth and her sisters were girls Miss Major was the only one who would teach them. Elizabeth's father was fun and loving, and he owned the biggest sugar refinery in Bristol, but when Elizabeth was ten years old there were a lot of money problems in her dad's company. Elizabeth, her mother, Miss Major, the servants, and Elizabeth's brothers and sisters all moved to the country home to get away from the danger. Father met up with them a couple days later. His plant had been burned to the ground. In August ...
- 4066: An Analysis Of John Berger
- Pictures Don t Always Paint a Thousand Words John Berger makes a bold statement in saying No other relic or text from the past can offer such a direct testimony about the world which surrounded other people at ... been the focal point of all modern learning.. Literature lets the reader feel what the author is thinking, not just see it as you would in a painting. This can be proven after reading Berger s descriptions of paintings in Ways of Seeing and also reading parts of literature written by W.E.B Dubois. When a reader reads literature it is easy to feel what the author is writing about . An author s job is to show the reader his point of view. He does this by describing things, offering opinions, and making conclusions. By doing this the author can get his point across and the reader ...
- 4067: The Existence of God: Theories of Thomas Aquinas, St. Anselm, and William Paley
- ... of non-perfection and corruption. I have always questioned, as I am sure we all have, how, if there is a God, he could allow such terrible things to occur as they do in today's world: The starving in Third World Countries, the destructiveness of war, and especially the anguish of losing a loved one. In the Bible, a book meant to be the word of God, condemns such things ... of these things to occur. He would not only condemn them in an ancient book, but abolish them altogether along with any other things evil. If God is supposed to be the “heavenly father” wouldn't he want and impose onto his children his goodness and weed out all evil? Aquinas also shows this non-existence through Objective 2 where he writes how it is expecting too much for something that ... that can account for everything we see in our world supposing God did not exist. All things can be reduced to one principle, that of nature and therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence. Once more I agree with his rationale of this subject, for it is logical to believe in a simple, visible, measurable concept such as the principle of nature, instead of something so complex ...
- 4068: The Human Brain
- ... very fine threads called nerves. The nerves and the brain make up a system somewhat like telephone poles carrying wires across the city. This is called the nervous system. The nerves in the body don't just send messages from the brain to the organs, but also send messages from the eyes, ears, skin and other organs back to your brain. Some nerves are linked directly to the brain. Others have to reach the brain through a sort of power line down the back, called the spinal cord. The brain and spinal cord make up the central nervous system. The brain doesn't just control your organs, but also can think and remember. That part of the brain is called the mind. PROTECTING THE BRAIN Twenty-eight bones make up the skull. Eight of these bones are interlocking ... cerebrum more area to work. Inside the cortex, the cerebrum is largely made up of white matter. White matter is tissue made only of nerve fibres. The middle region is deep inside the brain. It's chief purpose is to connect the front and the back of the brain together. It acts as a "switchboard", keeping the parts of your brain in touch with each other. The back area of ...
- 4069: Preface to Short Story Selection - The Matisse Stories
- Preface to Short Story Selection - The Matisse Stories The book that I read by A S Byatt called the Matisse Stories was a trilogy of stories about Matisse’s paintings. The first story took place in a beauty salon where the protagonist, Susannah usually had her hair done. The salon was painted in soft pink colours and Matisse’s Le Nu rose hung in the window. The owner went away and the salon was closed for redecorating. When the owner came back and opened the salon, Susannah was surprised to find that the ...
- 4070: Shiloh
- ... to life than crawling around on the ground. She has with-in her, the power to grow wings and fly away; The opportunity to view the world through the eyes of a butterfly. Since Larry\\'s accident, she has come to realize that she has reached a crossroads in her life. If she goes straight on through, complacency and neglect are the only stops ahead. If she veers to either the ... she has opted for some change, and begins her adventure in experiencing new things such as \\"... cooking unusual foods - tacos, lasagna, Bombay chicken.\\" She begins to work on her body, borrowing the idea from Leroy\\'s rehabilitation equipment, which would otherwise be collecting dust in a corner of the house somewhere. She begins to take writing classes to improve her mind, which further represents her need for change and something new ... I believe that she was implying that she was never going to find the strength to carry the two of them through this relationship when she stated, early in the story, \\"Feel this arm. It\\'s not as hard as the other one.\\" Norma Jean is a woman who had accepted her marriage for what it was, until her husband came home. It was than that she realized that this ...
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