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- 431: The Suffering of The Jews In The Holocaust
- ... free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Ellen Goldstein was the third child out the four kids. In 1933 Ellen started to see how things was changing even though she four she knew that something wasn't clear. When she turn six she started to figuring out what was going on. She noticed that her family was always sad. She always heard her mom and dad crying at night. She thought it was the course of her and her sister's fault. That's when the chaos started. All of Ellen's family where put into camp. A lot of Ellen's family died in the Holocaust." I could say that almost all of my family died in ...
- 432: Citizen Kane: An Accurate Portrayal of William Randolph Hearst?
- ... Hearst and Kane. In order to make clear at the outset exactly what he intended to do, Orson Welles included a few details about the young Kane that, given even a rudimentary knowledge of Hearst's life, would have set one thinking about the life of that newspaper giant. Shortly after the film opens, a reporter is seen trying to discover the meaning of Kane's last word, "Rosebud." He begins his search by going through the records of Kane's boyhood guardian, Thatcher. The scene comes to life in midwinter at the Kane boarding house. Kane's mother has come into one of the richest gold mines in the world through a defaulting boarder, ...
- 433: Mark Twain’s Greatest Downfall
- Mark Twain’s Greatest Downfall Mark Twain is one of the greatest humorists and writers that the world has ever seen. Mark Twain had a natural ability to portray the lives of real people and also add a humorous twist to their lives. As most people know, Mark Twain’s real name was Samuel Clemens. Samuel Clemens, despite his fame from his books and short stories, did not have success with his financial dealings. Samuel Clemens was a regular man who took financial risks and ... His life was always moving, always traveling from place to place. He was never happy with the success and fame that writing had given him. He was skilled in taking financial risks that probably wouldn’t turn out. He was always seeking another source of income or a way to get rich. Hot-tempered, profane, wreathed in tobacco smoke, enthralled by games and gadgets, extravagant, sentimental, superstitious, chivalrous to the ...
- 434: The Y2k Issue
- ... of the Y2K issue than nearly everybody around you. Talking about Y2K is very difficult for most people because most people react with strong emotion when you suggest their lives may be severely disrupted. Life’s hard enough jim’s networking for ap for them right now, and they sure don’t want to hear any more bad news. Even if it might be correct. Unfortunately, this mode of thinking is more than just dangerous to them. It’s also dangerous to you! The less prepared ...
- 435: Reductive Psychology
- What is reductive psychology? I took the subway after a whole day of work. It was already 7 PM, but the heat of the severe summer of Buenos Aires didn t dismiss the daylight yet. The subway was full. The people felt bothered by the closeness of their neighbors, sources of heat. We did our best to fight against our irrepressible wishes to shout, to push everybody else far from our reach. He didn t. The heat, the pressure in the office, the air feeling like soup (we were the noodles), some argue with his wife on the phone that afternoon, they all made him to explode and shout to ... because of the lack of oxygen that made them feel in such a bad mood. Those people were healthy. They were responding to their environment in the proper way. They were reacting to (I don't want to use the word) their stimuli in the normal way that any human being would. If they didn t, they would get home with this anguish in their chests, due (no doubt) to ...
- 436: Mountain Bikes
- ... started with some guys from California who took their bikes out for a ride on their day off, they modified their bikes and turned a hobby of theirs into a worldwide phenomenon. The mountain bike's rapid increase in popularity was influenced by social and economic situations, and by technological improvements that had the needs of bike riders in mind. The introduction of the mountain bike at a bike convention in Long Beach, California, early in the 1980's coincided with the need for a bike that combined technical superiority, ease of care, and multipurpose use. Technological advances came extremely fast after it's introduction into the world. The advances have made riding mountain bikes easier, which makes it possible for the rider to explore new terrain. I hope that this report will be able to provide some ...
- 437: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories Raymond Carver, poet, essayist, and short story writer, was very different from some other writers in that he clipped his writing until only the essential remained. " Carver not only acknowledged the effect that ... situations and applies the knowledge to their own lives. It is within this realm of character affirmation that Carver draws a much more elaborate, and meaningful detail in his short stories. I propose that Carver's characters either connect or fail to connect on an intimate, spiritual level. It is this difference in his short stories which either draw the reader into or away from the meaning. These relations make certain writings in Carver's stories more interesting. More directly, it is the communion in his later writings, and the disjunction in his earlier writings, that distinguish the two types of styles. Communion within the characters of Carver's ...
- 438: Independent Study Project on Role Playing Games
- Independent Study Project on Role Playing Games What are Role Playing Games? Quite simply, RPG's are games where YOU assume the role of a different person. Then, you with other adventurers, must play that role in the setting in which the game takes place. Playing and RPG is much like acting, only you don't know what is going to come next. RPG's utilize at least 3 players. One, called the Game Master, or Dungeon Master, is the person who runs the game. He is "the umpire," who decides where the players are going and who knows ...
- 439: Fountain And Tomb- Ignorance A
- ... whether Truth is something that always needs to be known. Will the Truth ultimately do more harm than good? Is there ever a time when the Truth must be told? Are there times when it’s better for the Truth to never be known? Truth is constantly sought out in Fountain and Tomb. Our young narrator is often like a detective, listening attentively to conversations, making keen observations of situations, and seeking out answers to questions he doesn’t know. “The day is lovely but redolent with mystery,” our narrator says, identifying all the unknowns in the world around him (Mahfouz, 15). An issue which is mentioned throughout the story is the concept of “Ignorance is bliss”, which is an old cliche meaning what we don’t know can’t hurt us. While massaging his naked female neighbor’s body, the narrator is asked if he’s going to tell his mother. No, he answers. “So you even know that certain ...
- 440: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories Raymond Carver, poet, essayist, and short story writer, was very different from some other writers in that he clipped his writing until only the essential remained. " Carver not only acknowledged the effect that ... situations and applies the knowledge to their own lives. It is within this realm of character affirmation that Carver draws a much more elaborate, and meaningful detail in his short stories. I propose that Carver's characters either connect or fail to connect on an intimate, spiritual level. It is this difference in his short stories which either draw the reader into or away from the meaning. These relations make certain writings in Carver's stories more interesting. More directly, it is the communion in his later writings, and the disjunction in his earlier writings, that distinguish the two types of styles. Communion within the characters of Carver's ...
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