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- 6011: Creative Writing: A Passage Of Time
- Creative Writing: A Passage Of Time "This has simply gone too far!" were the words that echoed menacingly through Bradley's room, which was engulfed in an endless stream of paperwork. University life was not agreeing with Bradley the way he had anticipated - his life, it seemed, had become little more than completing one paper after another. It wasn't that he was unhappy with what he was studying, but he simply couldn't enjoy it the way he had enjoyed high school. Oh, how he wishes he could go back . . . After having yet another exhausting day of classes, Bradley found himself needing to relax. He appeared completely ...
- 6012: "Pope and adult Web sites don't mix."
- ... more adultery amongst bishops and torturing has stopped. For as long as the living of today remember, the pope has indeed been a symbol of spiritual uplifting. We have also learned to accept other people's beliefs, or at least tolerate them. I feel strongly about this topic, and a lot of my feelings are mixed. We have learned to accept other beliefs, but that does not give us the right to degrade others. One can get his/her point across without having to defile another person's point. For these reasons I believe that the court decision was right in ruling for the plaintiff. Even so, a religion should not impede in another's beliefs and rights. Hypocrisy literally means: the practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness. For this reason the Catholic Church had no right to impose laws ...
- 6013: Moral Force Protesting
- ... hope of achieving a purpose and proving a point. For both of these acts of protest, there must be a substantial amount of facts and evidences backing it up. Both protests, no matter how it's done, are in some way seeking for the support of the ‘leaders', most of the time, the ‘leaders' being the government. Moral force protest involves logical convincing speeches which are fighting for a cause within the boundaries of law. It's possible to legally get enough support for a cause and eventually win by never once using any sort of violence. In some cases, hunger strikes by the ‘victims' are also done. Aside from well constructed ... the refusal to abide to certain laws the supporters may find abusive, the moral force protest supporters might find themselves confronting the law, and perhaps even acting illegally. In recent years, certain countries which hadn't previously given women the right to vote changed their decision by receiving strong moral force protest; this right was gained, and nowadays in those countries women possess the right to vote. Physical force wasn' ...
- 6014: The Conspiracy Behind the Beatles
- ... with one another and polished shoes were soon to be seen as a trend. Within the Beatles career though many conspiracies arouse. The most remembered of all of them was the conspiracy on Paul McCartney's death. In 1969 Russell Gibb, a Detroit radio Disc Jockey, announced that Paul McCartney, a member of the Beatles, had died. He claimed he had received a phone call about it and evidence could be ... their albums. Both other radio stations and the media picked up on the rumor, and it spread quickly. As the word spread, the story also got changed. Two different stories are best known for Paul's death. The first one as stated from a webpage dedicated to the conspiracy goes like this: The story that Paul McCartney was involved in a car accident. Apparently, he hadn't noticed that the lights had changed. The accident occurred at 5 a.m. on a Wednesday morning. Paul had died from head wounds. The crash was so severe that his teeth were knocked out, ...
- 6015: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... spoke he had better listen, or there would be consequences. He said, “When the Widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come on time. When you got to the table you couldn’t go right to eating, but you had to wait for the Widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the vicuals...” Huck actually got used to living that way, and liked it ... son, and allowed she sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the Widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out.” When Huck’s father came along he got scared. He was terrified of Pap, his father. He wasn’t in town but a couple weeks, and Pap kidnapped his own son. He took Huck up into a ...
- 6016: The Great Gatsby 2
- ... the good times. He was dead and nobody mourned. This shows that the opinion of the great Jay Gatsby changed by the end of the story. He was an icon of not only every man's image of the American Dream, but he was also apart of Americanism and the American Experience. He was seen as the richest and luckiest man during his time. Unlike any of the other characters in ... charm to get him by. This is how he meets Daisy. She was a very rich girl, from a wealthy family. They were in love from the beginning. Unfortunately, Daisy believed that "rich girls don't marry poor boys." From that moment on, Jay Gatz wanted one thing; to get rich so he could show Daisy that a poor boy could get rich. This obsession ate up the real man inside ... things about Jay Gatsby is where did he come from and where did he get his money? Nobody other than Daisy really knows where he came from. When people were talking at one of Gatsby's first parties, nobody could really say where he was from. They all said different places. When it comes to Gatsby's fortune; that is another enigma all together. When Nick asked about his fortune ...
- 6017: Teen Drug Use in the United States
- ... effects on the people who use them. Many teens experimental drug usage leads to addiction. Many types of drugs effect the user in so many ways. Depending on social and family standings in an individual's life, the chance of becoming addicted to the many drugs available on the streets of our nation can really depend on personal circumstances. There are so many drugs with so many different effects that are used by America’s youth across the country. Anything from Marijuana to cocaine, and many more. These drugs have certain psychoactive effects on the brain, which is one key factor towards addiction. No matter what type of drug an adolescent may use, depending on the drug’s nature, can really effect the individual in many different and unique ways. Depressants for instance, as well as stimulants, effect the central nervous system and the brain by blocking the nervous tissue. Some common ...
- 6018: Endangered Species 3
- ... Species All over the world there are species of animals and plants that are said to be "endangered". By calling them endangered, scientists say that they think the species will become extinct if something isn't done about them. Many more species are now threatened with extinction than ther should be because of many reasons. A species becomes endangered when there are fewer and fewer individuals of the species each year ... cut down. The same is true for the Asian ape and orangutan. Another indirect cause of endagerment has come from chemical poisining of the enviorment. When the chemical DDT was widley used in the U.S to control pests, it washed off the plants to the soil and then into streama, rivers, and oceans. There it was taken up with food by tiny sea animals.When fish ate these animals, they ... they broke when the parents sat on them to keep them warm. Some birds stopped laying eggs completely. Other poisins such as mercury, which is used in agriculture and industry, and polychlorinated biphenyls, knowmas PcB's, have found their way into oceans. There they are taken in by fish that are the eaten by sealions, seals, polar bears, and penguins- often far from the place where the chemicals origanally came ...
- 6019: Report On Book Titled Black Li
- ... have done something to help him in some fashion. I think that I am more of a leader than a follower more of an activist. I stand for my rights as well as other people s rights. I was very secure in my feelings through the book in that I was brought up to have an open mind about others racial backgrounds as well as my own. The whole concept of ... the line and lost control. I like to debate over things with others and argue my point until it is at least seen why I feel the way that I do, even if the person(s) so not feel the same way as I do. I feel as if sitting back and letting bigotry and hatred hover over people like a rain cloud waiting to explode into a monsoon is worse than saying all the snide remarks that kill a mans good heart. No man should have to be put under such harsh ridicule simply for being born with his parent s heritage. Under no circumstances is it morally right to purposely, repeatedly, bash someone for something, anything, never mind something that they cannot control or change. This world evolved form one-celled organisms to forests ...
- 6020: Keeping the Reader in Suspense
- Keeping the Reader in Suspense Why are mystery novels so interesting, and how does the author make the reader’s heart pound hard with suspense by just reading the novel? People like reading mystery novels because there is always a question, such as who is the killer and what was the motive for killing, asked ... different people introduced in the book. In “K is for Killer” the victim is Lorna Kepler. She was a beautiful young lady who was really strange and mysterious. Grafton introduces weirdness as one of Lorna's characteristics to create suspense. Lorna was a loner and did not have a lot of friends, and she rarely talked to people. No one really knew her and a lot of people were jealous of her. What creates mystery is the fact that Lorna was a prostitute and that she couldn’t resists flirting with danger. Prostitution is associated with danger, with pimps, johns, and with money and drugs. All those things are illegal, and they are creating suspense. Sue Grafton creates suspense by letting the ...
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