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- 5921: La Cosa Nostra
- By: Natalie Ann E-mail: CampYomeca@aol.com La Cosa Nostra Perhaps one of the most poignant moments in American cinema is the closing scene in the film “The Godfather” when Don Vito Corleone’s son Michael takes over his father’s position... and one of the most unforgettable moments, a severed horses’s head lies bloody in a man’s bed. It is this tradition and brutality that characterizes the Mafia, a secret Sicilian society that lives and functions just as much today on American soil as ...
- 5922: Tenskwatawa
- ... known as Lalawethika or The Prophet. He is inevitably compared to his heroic brother Tecumseh and fails to measure up in both physical and moral stature. He seems hidden in the shade of his brother's name, whereas his brother would never have had the stature he received if it were not for The Prophet's religion of classical Indian heritage. Lalawethika seemed to be plentiful of both physical and social shortcomings. An unimpressive-looking man of below-average height, fond of wearing jewelry, especially small medals, which he hung from ... for his misfortunes but was only counterproductive in making "a truculent, bragging personality that earned him his nickname Lalawethika (The Rattle or Noisemaker)" (p. 73). Two activities Lalawethika liked were drinking and talking. He wasn't as gifted a speaker as his brother Tecumseh, but he was nonetheless manipulative and forceful. Using these qualities he became a medicine man in Tecumseh's village. Lalawethika's transformation from a lazy drunkard ...
- 5923: Families On The Fault Line
- Lillian Rubin's book, Families on the Fault Line, goes directly to the experience of everyday people and shows how the connection between economic decline and racial tension is continuously reinvented in America. She interviewed 162 families in ... but including a substantial number of blacks, Latinos, and Asians, many from families she had kept in touch with since first interviewing them for her book Worlds of Pain, written about twenty years before. Rubin's compassion for her subjects' situation is clear, and this, added to her training as a psychotherapist, enables her to gain their confidence and draw out the truth about their experiences and their attitudes. She argues ... put all old theories about the family to the test. One major change has been evolving in recent years is the rise of the dual-earner family. Accompanying this dual-earning family change, the women’s position in the family has been changed radically from that of one hundred years ago. There are specifically three important issues have been raised about women’s position in the family. This first issue ...
- 5924: Abortion: Birth Control or Legal Murder?
- ... in their offices waiting for their next patient--the accomplice to the murder. This is the murder of an innocent child by a procedure known as abortion. Abortion stops the beating of an innocent child's heart. People must no longer ignore the scientific evidence that life begins at the moment of conception. People can no longer ignore the medical and emotional problems an abortion causes women. People must stop denying ... blob of tissue until it is born, or the statement: life begins at birth. Abortion is not as simple as removing a "blob of tissue" (as the pro-abortion activists put it) from a woman's body. Abortion is the destruction, dismembering and killing of a human life--an unborn baby. "But it is scientific and medical fact based on experimental evidence, that a fetus is a living, growing, thriving human ... entitled 'Plan Your Children' it states "an abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun. It is dangerous to your life and health" (Factbot). Even though abortion is dangerous to a woman's life, and it kills her baby, Planned Parenthood still offers it as a safe solution. This statement contradicts what most abortion clinics say. It is not possible for abortion to be offered to women ...
- 5925: Louise Brooks
- Louise Brooks “There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!” --Henri Langlois The flapper’s icon, Louise Brooks was a talented silent film star of the Jazz Age. Her rise as a personality and as a film star was in keeping with the central phenomenon of the flapper era. Her ... of the most striking and original film actresses of time. She has something “modern” and timeless about her image and attitude that all attempts to acknowledge her as just another representative of the Roaring 20’s are doomed. The motion picture camera renders her dreamlike; her spirit injects dark blood and ivory flesh into and onto the shadowy image. Onscreen, she is, she lives a merciless, innocent creature, frankly carnal yet ... she is a magical presence, a real phantom, the magnetism of the cinema.” Louise Brooks was born in Cherryvale, Kansas on November 14th, 1906. At the age of ten, she was already dancing at men’s clubs and women’s clubs, fairs and various other gatherings in Southern Kansas. At age 15, she went to New York where she auditioned for, and was accepted by, the newly formed Denishawn dance ...
- 5926: Paralytic - Sylvia Plath
- ... disappointments it contains which makes it heavy. Plath continues on to say that she has no fingers or tongue. This could be taken as if she has no one there for her and no one's fingers to grip but I look at it as though she herself is missing them. I think that she feels like she has lost control of herself and her body. It is as though she can't force herself to hold onto anything or speak. Comparing God to an iron lung also gives several connotations. An iron lung would be inflexible, unchanging, and permanent, just as God is all of these things ... that God loves her, she must also realize that he must be doing this for good reason. Comparing her lungs to dust bags is a curious thought, however. It seems as though if a person's lungs are full of dust, they must not breath in any new air. This seems to suggest that her life is very repetitive and there is nothing new for her, or perhaps that she ...
- 5927: The Life of Hitler
- ... could not apply to the school of architecture, as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the dean's office that day. Many Historians like to speculate what would have happened IF.... perhaps the small town boy would have had a bit more talent.... or IF the Dean had been a little less critical ... September 12, 1919 - a fateful day in history, Hitler was sent to investigate a small group that called itself the "German Workers Party". Hitler was not too happy about his assignment. He thought it wouldn't be worth it to even go. At the group mainly talked about the Countries problem and how the Jews, communists and others where threatening the master race and offered their own solutions. The meeting bored ... into one to survive. His natural ability to speak impressed the leader of the group and at the end of the meeting he gave Hitler a pamphlet and an initiation the next meeting. He wasn't interested in attending but after reading the hand out he accepted. He later joined the German Workers Party and was in charge of Propaganda. The party was small at first but Hitler's great ...
- 5928: Taxation & Democracy
- ... upon by us. "Indeed, not only do we know little about tax policy, but what we think we know is often wrong." As an example, he states that it is commonly assumed that the U.S. and Great Britain have had much more progressive tax systems than "socialist" Sweden, where the system leans much more to the regressive side. In addition, it is widely misconstrued what taxes are actually used for ... provided is the values explanation, which looks into the fact that different publics want different public policies. A major weakness of this explanation is that because political values are very broad and vague, they don't specifically translate into policy alternatives. "In sum, the values explanation fails to link general ideas to specific policies," Steinmo states. Thirdly, the state explanation looks at the role of the state and how it effects ... derived within different economic and political structural contexts. Steinmo states that the institutional foundations that the three nations are based upon are of the most critical importance to the decision-making structures. Since the U.S., Sweden and Britain are representative democracies, they are presented with the dilemma of linking the wishes, desires and preferences of those who they represent with the decisions of the "political elite," even when the ...
- 5929: Abortions
- ... illegal if you are going to go out and have unprotected sex, then you should be willing to take responsibility for your actions. The unborn child that is conceived has done no wrong and shouldn't have to suffer because of the mothers actions. Women shouldn't have a "right" to kill their preborn child. The word "choice" shouldn't be used in regard to abortions, since killing a preborn child offers the child no choice at all. If you think about it nearly 30 million preborn children have been slaughter in their mother' ...
- 5930: The Road To World War II
- By: Julia In the early days of the First World War, the United States was desperate to stay out of the European war and institute a neutrality policy. However, the two sides fought for U.S. support, often even at a danger to the U.S. The passive stand that America took in involvement in World War I only prolonged the inevitable and came at a price to the U.S. The American public didn’t want to be involved in World War I, and Wilson and the democrats knew it, although neutrality was a difficult stand to take. The British, who wanted the Americans ...
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