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- 8411: Fahrenheit 451
- Fahrenheit 451 Life may be confusing to you when your job is to commit arson to any house that has a book in it. At least that's the way it was for Guy Montag. Guy Montag was a fireman and in the future, a firefighters job wasn't to stop fires, but it was actually to start them. In the future, books were known as bad and shameful and if anyone had possession of a book whether it was in their house or in another person's house, then the house was to be burned. Guy was never really sure what was so bad about the books. He never really knew the reason why he would have to burn down a ...
- 8412: The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases
- ... In the past twenty years strict controls have been implemented but the system still has symptoms of racial bias. This racial bias was first recognized by the Supreme Court in Fruman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972). The Supreme Court Justices decide that the death penalty was being handed out unfairly and according to Gest (1996) the Supreme Court felt the death penalty was being imposed “freakishly' and ‘wantonly” and “most often on blacks.” Several years later in Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), the Supreme Court decided, with efficient controls, the death penalty could be used constitutionally. Yet, even with these various controls, the system does not effectively eliminate racial bias. Since Gregg v. Georgia the ... on death row 41% are black while 48% are white (Gest, 1996, 41). This figure may be acceptable at first glance but one must take into account the fact that only 12% of the U.S. population is black (Smolowe, 1991, 68). Carolyn Snurkowski of the Florida attorney generals office believes that the disproportionate number of blacks on death row can be explained by the fact that, “Many black murders ...
- 8413: Abolishing Grades
- As our country moves into the twenty-first century, it must closely evaluate its current system of doing things. Where better to start looking than at its future, today's students? However, an evaluation of today's students would probably not be positive. This is because students fear of failure and fear of getting bad grades. A simple solution to this problem would be to eliminate grades altogether and to reinstate the ... Abolishing grades would work toward eliminating the apathy and lack of learning currently displayed by most students. For a long time, achieving good grades and nothing more, has been the ultimate goal in a student's academic life. This is a standard that was set centuries ago by "grownups" who needed a way of ranking students based solely on letters or numbers. Individuality and creativity were pushed aside so colleges, ...
- 8414: Essay On Poems
- ... are all based on females. They are all of change and transformation. Two of my selections, "The Friday Everything Changed" by Anne Hart, and "Women and World War II " By Dr. Sharon, are about women s rites of passage. The third choice, "The sun is Burning Gases (Loss of a Good Friend)" by Cathleen McFarland is about a girl growing up. The first selection of mine was a short story called "The Friday Everything Changed" by Anne Hart. The changes in this story are good in a woman s point of view. The author Anne Hart talks about her school years in this short story. She talks about how a girl in her class asked a question that changed their lives forever. The question her friend Niles asked was "Why can t girls go for the water, too?"1. In those days getting the water for the class was a boy s job. To go out every Friday, to fill the bucket up with water, and ...
- 8415: Advertising 2
- ... times we may view it positively, at other times we may just skip or ignore it. In order to attract audience, advertisers use various techniques on their advertisement to make people aware of the firm's products, services or brands. Although the methods used by advertisers are infinitely, they have a common goal to persuade those who may become their customers to buy their products. An excellent advertisement will create a ... deep impression on its potential customers through particular techniques. Glancing through a magazine, one is overwhelmed with the amount of product advertisements or services they are encountered with. If you re like me, you don t pay attention to the majority of the ads, but to the few that presents a special feature that catches your eyes and indulges you into them. These ads are the ones that touch you in ... On the contrary, the ad presented by the Kalisto Biological company displaying the Endochek Plus machine is very different from the Abaxis ad. The first thing one would notice when viewing this ad is, it s extremely wordy. This might be a turn-off to an interested buyer. However, the ad does show its simplicity (if any) and friendliness with animals. The clashing of blue and black as the primary ...
- 8416: Experimental Training Program: Wilderness/Adventure Learning
- ... that has only recently come into action is an outdoor- based experiential training program. Commonly called "ropes courses," wilderness courses or adventure learning programs have been in use in the USA since the early 1980's, and by organizations in the UK since the early 1970's. Outdoor programs have been most beneficial when used to promote effective work teams and used to enhance leadership and management skills in the participants. Outdoor- based training programs seem to accomplish these objectives by allowing ... your subordinates? Organizations need great leaders to help them successfully survive the many difficulties of this decade. Yet, the very notion of leadership has rapidly degenerated into a cliché, a buzz word. In many people's minds, leadership has become identified with an overly simplistic conception of vision and empowerment. Although these concepts do play an important role in the leadership process, they only scratch the surface of what an ...
- 8417: Neil Postman
- ... definition, or meaning that a teacher has rambled off to them. Neil Postman states his feelings on this best when he writes, It is a form of stupidity when to accept without reflection someone else s definition. He wants people to realize that definitions are not god given, and that to question the validity is acceptable. Upon looking in a dictionary at any word you will see that all have several ... communication. For example: in the practice of law a case might call for someone to define the freedom of press, and that very definition may mean two completely different things to two different people. Postman s first principle was one that I feel needed to be addressed. Too often our teachers impose the same definition they learned, valid, or not. If one is not allowed to defend a definition, especially an unjust one, then communication becomes more difficult. All the knowledge one could ever attain is by asking questions, so logically these questions should be properly formed. Postman s second principle involves the skill of question asking. Simply put, this means that the answer we get depends on the question we ask. How you phrase a question makes all the difference in the ...
- 8418: Disease In Africa
- ... devastating losses to its society due to trypanosomiasis. The disease ended up killing over 200,000 people in less than 6 years. "Understandably, the new colonial powers, including Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, and King Leopold's Congo Free State, perceived sleeping sickness to be a grave threat to African laborers and taxpayers, which in turn could dramatically reduce the utility of the new territories."(Kiple, 556) Sleeping sickness is still a common disease that usually isn't discovered until severe symptoms set in. Treatment is available today, only if the disease has not caused brain damage. Another disease that has had a major impact on Africa is malaria. Malaria is ameboid-type ... young adults start to gain an amunity to the disease and eventually only suffer minor symptoms if they are affected. Since children were mainly infected with malaria, a nickname was brought about called "black children's grave." This nickname represented a large portion of tropical Africa. After World War II, Africa began spraying DDT on large areas that were infested the mosquito colonies. This only worked for a short period ...
- 8419: Battle Royale
- Battle Royale Ralph Ellison begins the story of the main character's life with the Battle Royal episode, setting the tone for the rest of the book, as well as providing a symbolic statement on race relations in America. The main character delivers a speech to his ... that he has never seen for himself. At this point of the novel, he is idealistic and thinks he will be able to overcome the obstacles to equality by proving himself in the white man's world, on the white man's terms. The content of the speech and his attitude toward it is important because it shows he is striving for a goal he can not and has not seen achieved. He will devote the ...
- 8420: Gangs: A Violent Reality
- Gangs: A Violent Reality Gangs are a violent reality that people have to deal with in today's cities. What has made these groups come about? Why do kids feel that being in a gang is both an acceptable and prestigious way to live? The long range answer to these questions can only ... peers into becoming part of a gang by making it all sound glamorous. Money is also an crucial factor. A kid (a 6-10 year old, who is not yet a member) is shown that s/he could make $200 to $400 for small part time gang jobs. Although these are important factors they are not strong enough to make kids do things that are strongly against their morals. One of ... hours of television watched by children are educational, so other ideas are being absorbed during this period of time. Many shows on television today are extremely violent and are often shown this from a gang's perspective. A normal adult can see that this is showing how foully that gangs are living. However, to a child this portrays a violent gang existence as acceptable. 'The Ends Justifies the Means' mentality ...
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