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- 4091: Roles In Frankenstein
- ... Doctor is expected to have a certain amount of respect for the scientific community and uphold its morals and ethics. The novel shows how a person or thing may not act according to how it's supposed to. The monster is wrongly treated on the assumption that he actually is a monster. He is scorned attacked and shunned due to his outward appearance. This is not justified by anything except his demeanor. He doesn't commit any heinous actions towards the people he meets. People are also afraid of him because people are afraid of things they know nothing about. The character of Justine can be used to display societies affect on people. Society doesn't kill her, but the ignorance of people does. Society can't kill a person, but it can influence the actions of its people. She is held accountable for a murder she didn't commit. ...
- 4092: Tobacco
- Tobacco Canada has one of the world's toughest antismoking campaign. They have passed laws against tobacco advertising and have used virtually all of the Presidents proposals against tobacco. Now they are saying that if Clinton's proposals do become a law it won't do much good. By 1993 the tobacco taxes in Canada had a pack of cigarettes up to $5.00 a pack . Thanks to these measures, Garfield Mahood, Executive Director of the Toronto based Non- ...
- 4093: Issue of Gun Control and Violence
- ... 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 ...
- 4094: Sexism-Patriarchy
- ... of female job promotion. Women with the same qualifications as a man that applied for a job would be turned down based on the simple fact that they are a woman. Prior to the Women's movement women were constantly discriminated against in this manner. Sexual discrimination still exists but its occurrence has drastically reduced, subtle discrimination is however, still quite prevalent in our society. Salary is one aspect of this ... who have little or no power in decision making and earn a low salary. The women that do get promoted are often the subjects of rumor and remarks made in poor taste. Men just can't stand to see they're egos shattered and so they lash out against the woman with authority. They demean her position and make it seem less important or trivial. All of this does hurt female ... resists and he persists, as in both the movie and the Harlequin formula, it is an even clearer form of sexual harassment." In many cases if a woman does not give in to a man's sexual advances she stands the chance of losing her job! This was the tendency and in many instances still is the tendency of many men who have authority over women. Sexism runs rampant in ...
- 4095: Blackness
- ... America up to that time. Pittsburg Landing was an area from where the Yankees planned to attack the Confederates who had moved from Fort Donelson to Corinth, Mississippi. The North was commanded by General Ulysses S. Grant and the South by General Albert Sydney Johnston. The Union army was taken by surprise the first day when the Confederate Army unexpectedly attacked, but after Union reinforcements arrived the fighting virtually ended in ... Fort Donelson. His army had moved up to a port on the Tennessee River called Pittsburg Landing in preparation for an attack on Corinth, Mississippi, where the Confederate troops were located. General Halleck, Western U.S. Army commander, had ordered Grant to stay put and wait for reinforcements. Grant had given command of the Pittsburg Landing encampment to General William T. Sherman while he waited at his camp in Savannah, Tennessee. (1) At Corinth, Confederate Generals Albert Sydney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard worked feverishly to ready the 40,000 plus troops there for ...
- 4096: Educational System
- ... ideal system of education requires distinct characteristics. Our education system today is not quite perfect. All education institutions share a common goal. The goal is for all the students to gain knowledge that they didn't have before in order to compete in the real world. Morowitz wrote that many people believe education is a method of transferring knowledge from master to pupil. The majority of people believe this is "obtaining ... program called 60 Minutes , aired a special investigation of the United States educational system when compared to the educational system of China and Germany. The results of this investigation surprised many citizens of the U.S., including myself. According to 60 minutes, the United States system of education is failing tremendously when compared to other to Germany and China. They found a direct connection between the failure of U.S. students and the teaching methods the U.S. imposes on them. Also, the success of the student s of China and Germany shared a similar philosophy. China and Germany greatly promotes interaction between the ...
- 4097: The Indians and Losing Their Homes
- ... residence. But I believe that a home takes on a somewhat different meaning to that definition. A home is where one feels security, where one is comfortable from whatever it is that surrounds them. Ones home is not the address of your house or the location of your room, its the place in the world where one can feel secure and peaceful, not afraid or insecure. People like the Native Americans felt there home was in the United States, but the white man thought of it differently. The Native Americans fought for their home because they did not feel secure in the place they were being sent to. When ones comfortable place is taken from them, they have no where else to turn but violence. Violence towards the people who stole away their security while replacing it with fear and apprehension. The Sioux tribe ...
- 4098: Biological and Chemical Weapons!!
- Biological and Chemical Weapons!! Introduction Human lives are at stake as we are approaching the new millennium. Its been 1000 years, and we sure have evolved in many ways in building our technology. Invention of telephones to televisions to VCRs to planes, and to much more, technology has been a good friend to ... the shadows of the doubt, the answer is no. Discovery of ammunition, guns, warheads, and biological and chemical weapons sure is on the negative side of the field with respect to our technological developments. Isnt it ironic, the same technology that made us strong, is also the demon of our lives? Indeed it is. Biological and chemical weapons are mass destructive anti-civilian weapons. They can kill 100 000 people ... the initiator as well as the target. Due to this, mostly anthrax spores have been used lately,
which enter your lungs and hatch bacteria that multiply within your body and finally kill you, but dont infest anyone else in the meanwhile.4 Anthrax is predominantly found in animals, mostly in grass-eaters, and can be transmitted to humans through skin infections, tainted food or even through inhaling the actual ...
- 4099: The Crucible: Hysteria and Injustice
- The Crucible: Hysteria and Injustice Thesis Statement: The purpose is to educate and display to the reader the hysteria and injustice that can come from a group of people that thinks it's doing the "right" thing for society in relation to The Crucible by Arthur Miller. I. Introduction: The play is based on the real life witch hunts that occurred in the late 1600's in Salem, Massachusetts. It shows the people's fear of what they felt was the Devil's work and shows how a small group of powerful people wrongly accused and killed many people out of this fear and ignorance. Also important to ...
- 4100: The Life of King David
- ... being a giant slayer, to a king, to a man in exile and, then he went back to being a great man. As a boy, David was a shepherd. He took care of his father's sheep. He was a very courageous boy. When a wolf tried to steal a sheep, he didn't run, he stood his ground and killed the wolf. One day his father told him to go to the land where his brothers were fighting a war against the Philistines. When he got there, he saw the giant Goliath cursing God and making fun of the Hebrew warriors. David was the only person there with enough courage to fight Goliath. With God's help David killed Goliath with a sling and a stone from a brook nearby. When he killed Goliath, the Philistines were really scared. They all fled for their lives and the Hebrews won the ...
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