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- 8781: Compare and Contrast on Characters Rayona and Pearl
- ... and Pearl were two characters that were very alike in the stories. They are also somewhat different. They lived lives that were very troublesome. Rayona had to go through the tough times of her mother's sickness and the death of her brother. She lived away from most of it, but still had to live with it. Pearl had to go through the tough times of her mother Hester being charged with adultery, she also had to go through all of her trials. Rayona and Pearl are similar in that they both went through the tough times of their mother's problems. Rayona lived with knowing her mother was very sick. Pearl had her mother's scarlet letter to live with. As children they didn't know who their fathers were, they were forced to guess. Rayona and Pearl were also similar because they both had a tough time getting ...
- 8782: Huckleberry Finn - A Racist No
- ... too loosely. Mark Twain never presents Jim in a negative light. He does not show Jim as a drunkard, as a mean person or as a cheat. This is in contrast to the way Huck's (white) father is depicted, whom Twain describes using all of the above characterizations and more. We see Jim as a good friend, a man devoted to his family and loyal to his companions. He is ... to his magic hairball for answers about the future, we see that he does believe in some foolish things. But all the same, he is visited by both blacks and whites to use the hairball's powers. This type of naivete was abundant at the time and found among all races-the result of a lack of proper education. So the depiction of Jim is not negative in the sense that ... the way Jim is denigrated: by being locked up, having to hide his face in the daytime and how he is generally derided, are necessary for historical accuracy. So, Mark Twain had to display Jim's treatment in this manner, even if it is not the way he felt. Huck, however, does not treat Jim as most whites do. Huck looks at Jim as a friend, and by the end ...
- 8783: Battle Of Shiloh
- ... area, was forced to fall back, giving up Kentucky and much of West and Middle Tennessee. He chose Corinth, Mississippi, a major transportation center, as the staging area for an offensive against Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee before the Army of the Ohio, under Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, could join it. The Confederate retrenchment was a surprise, although a pleasant one, to the Union forces, and it took Grant, with about 40,000 men, some time to mount a southern offensive, along the Tennessee River, toward Pittsburg Landing. Grant received orders to await Buell s Army of the Ohio at Pittsburg Landing. Grant did not choose to fortify his position; rather, he set about drilling his men, many of which were raw recruits. Johnston originally planned to attack Grant on ... Nest, but massed artillery helped to turn the tide as Confederates surrounded the Union troops and captured, killed, or wounded most. Johnston had been mortally wounded earlier and his second in command, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, took over. The Union troops established another line covering Pittsburg Landing, anchored with artillery and augmented by Buell s men who began to arrive and take up positions. Fighting continued until after dark, ...
- 8784: Battle Of Hurtgen Forest
- ... air. Lack of sunlight turned the forest floor into a dark, damp place devoid of underbrush. Sgt. George Morgan, 4th Division, describes it best: "The forest was a helluva eerie place to fight. You can't get protection. You can't see. You can't get fields of fire. Artillery slashes the trees like a scythe. Everything is tangles. You can scarcely walk. Everybody is cold and wet, and the mixture of cold rain and sleet keeps falling. They ...
- 8785: Ragged Dick
- Ragged Dick Ragged Dick is a novel written in the 1800 s by Horatio Alger. It is a story about a young boy named Richard Hunter, also known as Ragged Dick, as he progresses though his childhood. Ragged Dick is a typical Rags to Riches story where ... shining shoes for working men, making only about ten cents a pair. Although he works and struggles to remain an honest, hardworking boy, he also gets caught up with smoking cigarettes and gambling. Through Dick s shoe-shining business, he tends to meet lots of people. Each and every day is another learning experience for Dick. There are many times when Dick s integrity and honesty are tested, yet being a boy of good trust, he never cheats anyone. As time goes on, Dick eventually meets a young boy named Frank, who is of a wealthy family, ...
- 8786: Fingerprinting Kids
- ... Island, Kansas, Illinois, and Indiana.) Most of this activity was stimulated by the passage of the Missing Children Act in October 1982. What the new law did was to legitimize the use of the FBI's national computer network,the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) for non-criminal purposes. All of the programs are voluntary. In some cases the police departments retain the records, while in others the fingerprint cards are ... incest, child abuse, abandonment, child pornography and the procuring of children, but they are rarely enforced." POINT: Conscientious parents should have their childrens' fingerprints recorded to help in the event of an abduction; they shouldn't wait until after something terrible happens, but should take reasonable steps now. Thousands of children are runaways, and in many cases it is all but impossible to determine clearly who they really are. People change, but fingerprints don't. Well-intentioned but misguided civil libertarians worry about Big Brother. But they tend to overlook the obvious benefits of the program and concentrate on wildly imaginative fantasies about Big Brother. If they would come ...
- 8787: Anti -semitism
- ... you will learn about what life was like for the Jews during this time. After reading this I hope that you will have a better idea of what anti-Semitism is and how one man s obsession turned to millions of lost lives. The man I mentioned in the first paragraph obviously had a name. His name was Adolf Hitler. Let me give you some background information on him. He was ... By this time he had developed extreme racist qualities and an extreme hate for Jews. In 1923 he tried to seize Bavaria but had no success. There was an increase in the number of Nazi s between the years of 1929 and 1930. Hitler was then appointed Chancellor of Germany. Hitler started a campaign to destroy world Jewry. He met with high ranking officials and created the final solution to the ... either being shot or gassed. Ravensbruck was the largest concentration camp for women in Nazi Germany. 92,000 women and children died here. My Grandfather is Polish and was in a concentration camp. I don t remember which one but I do remember him saying that it was horrible. He said that they were given one loaf of bread every week and his family had to split it among themselves. ...
- 8788: The Red Badge Of Courage
- ... Rebellion, the War of the Secession, or the War for southern Independence. But regardless of what it is called, the war was a great turning point in American history. What is so interesting about Crane's Red Badge of Courage? I found out that war turns boys into mature men, the real dialect and slang used during the war, and what it's like to be a soldier in the Civil War. The whole novel covers only two days in the life of Henry Flemming, the main character. In that amount of time, war can turn a boy ... a battlefield. What can make one a hero or a coward? Fears, emotions, thoughts, and feelings can be the factors that contribute towards the struggle. As I read this novel I lived not only Henry's actions, but also his individual thoughts and feelings. There was shootin' here an' shootin' there, an' hollerin' here and hollerin' there, in th' damn darkness, until I couldn't tell t' save m' soul ...
- 8789: Rasputin: The Man, The Mystery
- ... on the Toura River. This was a small city located near the Ural Mountains. At the center of the village stood a large white church with a guilded dome, which was a symbol of Russias strong religious background. At the age of eighteen Rasputin went through a religious transition. He eventually went to the monastery at Verkhoture. At this place he became aquatinted to the Khlysty sect. After spending some ... returned to his home in Pokrovskoe. There he fell in love and married Praskovia Fyodorovna. Together the two had three children. They had Dimitri in 1897, Maria in 1898, and Varvara in 1900. Marriage wasnt enough to keep Rasputin in one place. He continued to wander to places of religious significance suck as Mt. Athos, Greece, and Jerusalem. He was a self-proclaimed holy man. He had the power to heal the sick and the power to predict the future. His fame grew greatly. Soon people traveled from long distances in search of his well heard about abilities and insight. For Rasputins help, people would repay him with food, presents, and money. Rasputin has had no long period of religious or spiritual training. He also had very limited education so he was left illiterate. This made ...
- 8790: Software Piracy: A Big Crime With Big Consequences
- ... user is both tempted and immersed in software piracy in its many forms. One of the most disturbing facts behind this crime is that many people who participate in the distribution of commercial software don't even know they are committing a crime. Software piracy is a very serious and widespread crime that must be acknowledged and dealt with. Software piracy is the unauthorized duplication and or distribution of copyrighted programs ... the deliberate copying of copyrighted software and distributing it. An example would be an MIT student named David LaMacchia. This individual served and maintained a computer that was connected to the internet that offered it's users more than one million dollars worth of software 'free of charge.' Mr. LaMacchia was caught by the authorities and was acquitted of this piracy due to the lack of legal standards for this crime ... return the original rented piece of software to the renter. This method of piracy is not as common as the rest due the nature of the distribution but it does exist. The Software Publishers Association (S.P.A.) have sued the owner of a store located in Winnipeg called 'Microplay' for the renting of software to its customers. This type of piracy does exists but it is usually halted soon ...
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