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- 8891: The Red Badge Of Courage 2
- ... concerns only two days in his life and he is a boy when the novel begins, a man when the novel ends. He enlists in the 304th Regiment of New York Volounteers against his mother's wishes, and spends many boring months in training. He is sent into battle finally. The battle of Chancellorville is the agreed upon location where the book probably takes place. It is mentioned that he travels ... the closest the South ever came to Washington D.C. and it was a very intense battle. Against a background of battlefield trauma, Crane sets a very important battle: the battle going on in Henry's mind. Henry believes he is faced with imminent death, and throws down his rifle and flees during the second skirmish on the first day. He attempts to rationalize his actions and becomes increasingly ashamed of ... he deserts another friend dying and runs. He wants to make a wound for himself so that he is removed from the battle, and by accident is hit on the head by a deserter. He's discovered by another soldier, who helps him return to his regiment. There he lies and says he was wounded in battle. The next day he goes to the front again, and actually retrieves his ...
- 8892: “Images of Law Enforcement in the Toilet”
- ... up to please their advertisers and owners, choose to show dramatic pictures in order to keep their viewers interested. What better way to do this then by taking a once noble profession and tainting people’s perception of it? The heroic feats performed daily by police officers are surpassed or distorted in order to keep ratings up. What the media is also accomplishing by focusing on ratings, in my opinion, is ... in prison without the possibility of parole. Brady was sentenced to nine years in prison for violating the civil rights of Hispanics (Bates 1999). Looking at this argument from the other side, justified homicide, let’s examine the example of the case of Officer Gentner of LVMPD and John Perrin. Officer Gentner thought Perrin matched the description of a reported drug dealer in the area. As soon as Gentner made eye ... ran, leaving Gentner suspicious. Gentner watched Perrin meet up with another man after crossing to the other side of the street. Gentner decided to stop the two men but the other man ran and wasn’t persued by Gentner. When Gentner ordered Perrin to the front of his cruiser, he ignored the command and started to reach into his waistband for an object with his body turned half away from ...
- 8893: Where Did UNIX Come From and Why Are There Different Versions Of UNIX?
- Where Did UNIX Come From and Why Are There Different Versions Of UNIX? The first efforts at developing a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system were begun in the 1960's in a development project called MULTICS. While working for Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1969 and 1970, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie began to develop their own single-user, multi-tasking small operating system and they ... in 1975, the portability of the C programming language was used to "port" UNIX to a wide variety of hardware platforms. For legal reasons, Bell Labs was not able to market UNIX in the 1970's, though they did share this operating system with many universities - most notably UC-Berkeley. This led to some of the variations in UNIX which we see today. After the divestiture of the Bell System, their parent company, AT&T, became much more interested in marketing a commercial version of UNIX. And today we see that many companies have now licensed their own version: AT&T's System V, Versions of System V such ...
- 8894: Crime
- Crime in today's world has become more gruesome with the times. With the crimes comes jail, so more jails are being built for the prisoners. More people are being criminals are being sent to jail and getting the death penalty. Some feel that the death penalty is also a gruesome act of murder. People who commit crimes get what they deserve and if that's the death penalty they should get it, because they are taking up our space and our time. Crimes have become a major pollution in this country. If people want to commit crimes so badly they should pay for what they do. Gangs and organized crime have added more to this country problem. Some people think it is fun or they are deranged. To put it simply, they shouldn't do the crime if they can't do the time. Even though some people are committing crime and some of them are getting away with it. Today's law system has many loop holes ...
- 8895: Fiber Optics
- ... so it can be used. All of this seems to be a very "modern" concept, and the technology we use is. The concept though, was the idea of Alexander Graham Bell in the late 1800's. He just didn't have a dependable light source... some days the sun doesn't shine! He thought of the idea that our voices could be transmitted by pulses of light. The people who thought that audio, video, and other forms of data could be transmitted by light through ...
- 8896: Women’s Gender Role
- Women’s Gender Role Throughout history, women have been labeled as inferior to men. But as years go by, women have been trying to climb up the ladder to equalize themselves with men. Women have accomplished a lot, but there is still more that needs to be done. In order to better understand women’s strive for equality, it is necessary to examine the past history of women, women’s present status, and what is still being done to change the discrimination of women. In the past, women were traditionally supposed to stay at home while their husbands went to work. Once it was ...
- 8897: 1984: Lack of Humanity
- 1984: Lack of Humanity Humanity includes a person’s range of emotions, the actions that result from them, and a person’s identity. If the government can control the humanity of its people, then the government is in complete control of its people. In George Orwell’s 1984, the government maintains a complete control of its population through its manipulation of people’s humanity. The Inner Party (often referred to simply as the Party), the governing force in Oceania, hopes that ...
- 8898: Flowers For Algernon
- ... was about a mentally retarded person, named Charlie who had an operation to increase his intelligence, but the operation was a failure and Charlie is slow again. He wants to move now so society won’t ridicule him for being slow again. Daniel Keyes wrote this short story for good reasons. Daniel Keyes wrote "Flowers for Angernon" to show people from an outside look on how we treat mentally challenged people. When you treat people as you always do, you don’t see how mean or how cruel it really may be. It could just be your personality or the way you were brought up. By him writing a story on a mentally challenged person wanting to ... In the story, there was a point where Charlie was at a party and they got him drunk, and made him dance with a girl. Charlie had never been with a girl before and didn’t know what to do. They were tripping him when he was trying to dance with the girl. Later after the operation when he is smart he says "…people were laughing and making fun of ...
- 8899: Gertrude Stein
- ... childhood, and into their adulthood. Though she had completed few years of high school, and did not meet the requirements in Latin, when Leo attended Harvard in 1892, Gertrude followed in 1893, in the women’s Harvard Annex. While at Harvard, she was taken under the wing of noted psychoanalyst, William James. James had an effect on Stein’s later writings as well. His method of “automatic writing, in which subjects wrote down their unedited, free-associative thoughts” (Gombar 42), was often the way Gertrude wrote many of her literary pieces. In 1897, she was denied her bachelor’s degree, but the next year, she graduated magna cum laude with the class of 1898. Because of high recommendations from James and her other professors, she was granted admission to Johns Hopkins Medical School, ...
- 8900: Abortion
- ... of this decision almost every third baby conceived in America is killed by abortion, over one half million babies a year (Willke 7). Abortion is the choice of a woman whether or not she want’s to receive one. Under the 14th Amendment’s “personal liberty” women are given the right to receive an abortion. The 14th Amendment’s concept of “personal liberty” and restrictions on state action is enough to allow a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. The right to choose to have an abortion is so ...
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