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- 6361: What To Do When You're A Crime Victim
- ... without the need for coins. If your area has enhanced 911 with automatic number identification and automatic location identification, your name, address and telephone number will be displayed on a screen at the 911 operator's position when the connection is made. Help can be dispatched to your location even if you don't get a chance to saya word! BURGLARY If you arrive at your home or business and feel that it has been burglarized, DO NOT ENTER, but go to another location and call the police. Let ... position so that it can be checked for prints. Notify the police if you find anything that is not yours that may have been left behind by the burglar such as tools, clothing, etc. (Driver's licenses and other identification have been left behind by burglars before!) Be prepared to provide the police with serial numbers and a complete description of all missing property. Tell the police if you have ...
- 6362: Analysis Of Voice In Joyce Car
- Language of Terror When a person is put in an incredibly horrifying situation where the outcome is unpredictable many physical and emotional changes take place. Joyce Carol Oates s story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? places Connie, a typical teenager, in this situation. Throughout the story, occasionally using religious undertones, Connie s language of a typical teenager gradually changes, from calm and somewhat curious to nervous and terrified. Early in the story on a Sunday morning, Connie s family leaves to go to a family barbeque down the street. Connie is left by herself and chooses to wash her hair instead of going to church. When she hears a car driving up ...
- 6363: Existentialism In No Exit
- ... with Estelle until she affirms him. This is anti-existential because according to its principles, he should not have to rely on others for confidence. Inez is in Hell because she had seduced her cousin s wife, then conspired to make his life miserable, until he finally stepped in front of a tram and was killed. Inez also brought a lot of guilt upon her lover, Florence, until she finally committed ... poisoning them with gas during the night. Inez does not refute or regret this, as she states, I was what some people down there called a damned bitch (p. 25), and You know, I don t regret a thing (p. 25). She also states, I prefer to choose my hell (p. 23), which advocates the principle that everyone has a free will. She gives a good example of the concept that mankind has a free will, and that few decisions are without any negative consequences when she says, So now we have to pay the reckoning (p. 17), and people aren t damned for nothing (p. 16). However, she violates the existentialist idea that everything is coincidental, nothing really happens for a purpose, when she persists in telling the others that they have been put there ...
- 6364: In Societies Throughout The Wo
- ... the village after being abandoned by his father to a life of poverty and sadness. Tony is angry with everyone and is desperately lonely. April Dean, the deaf girl also needs friends. April who doesn't have many friends begins a friendship with Tony and this continues throughout the novel. " 'Why don't I have any friends?' April sighed." Page 83 It is evident that the main character has a primary element, one which clearly indicates that she has no friends. As the story goes on, April falls ... he wanted her." Page 103 This shows that April loves Tony and loves the thought of being with him. This continues throughout the story making the texts substantially interesting. In Loving April, Tony and April's growing relationship arouses deep prejudices which threaten to engulf not just Tony and April, but also the whole village. April and Tony fall in love which each other and their love is objected to ...
- 6365: Critical Analysis of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- ... have found this to be true in the poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. Robert Frost has written this poem in way that is easier for a reader who isn’t experienced in poetry to analyze and comprehend. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a simple poem written with a feeling of appreciation for the little things in life. The speaker of the poem ... tranquillity of the snow falling in the woods. The appreciative tone appropriately expresses his purpose for stopping. He wants to truly appreciate this moment. “The darkest evening of the year” (8) “The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake” (11) “The woods are lovely, dark and deep” (14) Most people would find woods that are quiet, dark and deep to be frightening. The positive appreciative attitude ... the little things with a positive attitude. Most people have never stopped to enjoy snow in the mystifying way that Frost expresses in this poem. He gives us the opportunity to see, through the speaker's eyes, a new outlook that we can apply to our own lives. Not just when we have spare time, but even when we are tired and we have a lot of work to do. ...
- 6366: Lyndon Johnson
- ... terms in the Texas legislature. His mother had varied cultural interests and placed high value on education; she was fiercely ambitious for her children. Johnson attended public schools in Johnson City and received a B.S. degree from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos. He then taught for a year in Houston before going to Washington in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. During ... a wide network of political contacts in Washington, D.C. On Nov. 17, 1934, he married Claudia Alta Taylor, known as "Lady Bird." A warm, intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Byrd, born in 1944, and Luci Baines, born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain employment and schooling. It confirmed Johnson's faith in the positive potential of government and won for him a group of supporters in Texas. In 1937, Johnson sought and won a Texas seat in Congress, where he championed public works, reclamation, ...
- 6367: Gatsbys Dream
- What is the American Dream? In the Webster's New World Dictionary, dream is defined as: "a fanciful vision of the conscious mind; a fond hope or aspiration; anything lovely, etc." In F. Scott Fitzerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the lead character Jay Gatsby defines the American Dream as: everyone can rise to success no matter what his or her beginnings. In the First chapter of the novel, Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story gives us a glimpse into Gatsby's idealistic dream. "No-Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dream ."(6) Gatsby lives in a fantasy world ...
- 6368: Approach To Edgar Allen Poe’s Writings
- Approach To Edgar Allen Poe’s Writings Through out Edgar Allen Poe’s life, many factors have contributed and influenced his writing style. He lived a difficult life, because he was raised in a dysfunctional household. He was raised by a step father who did not love him, or he dictated his values so much that it warped Poe’s impressionable mind. But the product of Edgar Allen Poe’s mind is printed in his short stories and poems. Edgar Allen Poe’s stories have similar motifs and composition that would suggest suppressed emotions ...
- 6369: Charles Goodyear
- Charles Goodyear was born in New Haven, Connecticut on December 29, 1800 to Amasa and Cynthia Goodyear. Charles’s father was a hardware manufacture and a merchant. Amasa Goodyear built mainly farming tools like hayforks and scythes, which he invented. When Charles was a teenager he wanted to go into the ministry and become ... hardware store of the Rogers brothers in Philadelphia at the age of seventeen. He worked there until he was twenty-one years old. At that time he returned to New Haven to join his father’s business, making farm tools. For five years he worked for his father, building up the family business. On August 24, 1824, while he was still working for his father he married Clarissa Beecher who also ... father made. Four years after opening this store both Amasa and Charles Goodyear were bankrupt because they would extend credit to customers and the customers would never pay back the money that they owed. Charles’s health started to decline and both father and son owed tens of thousands of dollars. For the next thirty years Charles Goodyear was thrown in prison over ten times because he didn’t pay ...
- 6370: Orphan Trains
- ... were taken from the streets of New York City and put on trains to rural America. A traffic in immigrant children were developed and droves of them teamed the streets of New York (A People's History of the United States 1492-present, 260). The streets of NYC were dirty, overcrowded, and dangerous. Just as street gangs had female auxiliaries, they also had farm leagues for children (These are the Good Old Days, 19). During the time of the late 1800's and early 1900's many people were trying to help children. Progressive reformers, often called "child saver," attempted to curb exploitation of children (The American Promise, 834). One of the people who was obsessed with the plight of ...
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