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- 431: Welcome To The Monkey House
- ... never see a racist comment how are we to know that racism is bad? At the same time Censorship can be a good thing because it keeps children from seeing pornography, and terrible acts of violence. However censorship should not keep anyone from seeing literature, even if it is considered slightly explicit in a sexual, racial, or violent manner. Censorship should leave the ideas of people alone and leave them with ... the right to say what we want and to publish our ideas if we so wish, and to read the ideas that others have published. We can also peaceably assemble, or gather in protest without violence what we think is wrong. The biggest right that we have is that of free speech and press. We can say what we want! As American sometimes we take this for granted. However even though ... to censor for themselves. "The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean" This statement is in many cases true. Small children should not be exposed to pornography, or to extreme violence, for their developing minds are very impressionable. However they can be exposed to a wide variety of ideas, so that as they grow older they can decide for themselves what and who they want ...
- 432: POPULATION REDISTRIBUTION
- ... Japanese-Americans in the forms of protests, discrimination and violent hatred. The Government, including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, were pressured by the restlessness of the people, the threat of a Japanese attack, the threat of violence between Americans and Japanese-Americans and the lack of time to take action. Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt was chosen for the job of defending and protecting the West Coast. He became one of the ... had resided for generations. Recent precedents exist to endorse the concept of forced Population redistributions to bring about domestic security. Since 1991, the newly created nations, which constitute the former Yugoslavia, have repeatedly turned to violence to solve their territorial disputes. Despite the internal peace that had existed in Yugoslavia during the Cold War, the demise of communism has awakened long-standing ethnic rivalries. Bosnia was the center of the fighting ... Japanese-Americans in the forms of protests, discrimination and violent hatred. The Government, including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, were pressured by the restlessness of the people, the threat of a Japanese attack, the threat of violence between Americans and Japanese-Americans and the lack of time to take action. Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt was chosen for the job of defending and protecting the West Coast. He became one of ...
- 433: Labor And Unions In America
- ... would not come easily. Labor in America faced a long, uphill struggle to win fair treatment. In that struggle, more and more workers would turn to labor unions to help their cause. They would endure violence, cruelty and bitter defeats. But eventually they would achieve a standard of living unknown to workers at any other time in history. GROWTH OF THE FACTORY In colonial America, most manufacturing was done by hand ... workers lived in crowded, unsanitary slums. Their conditions became desperate in times of business depressions. Then it was not unusual for workers to go on strike and battle their employers. Between 1865 and 1900, industrial violence occurred on numerous occasions. Probably the most violent confrontation between labor and employers was the Great Railway Strike of 1877. The nation had been in the grip of a severe depression for four years. During ... aftermath, 20 people in the crowd lay dead. Many more were wounded. News of the killings triggered rioting and fires in the Pittsburgh railyards. President Rutherford Hayes ordered federal troops to Pittsburgh to end mob violence. When they arrived, the fighting had already ended. In the smoking ruins, they found the wrecks of more than 2,000 railroad cars. Dozens of buildings lay in ashes. Many strikers were sent to ...
- 434: A Clockwork Orange - Calculated Captivity
- ... like to ignore or eliminate - but cant. This first person narrative is told by Alex a youth of fifteen, who spends his nights with his "droogs", terrorizing the public with their bits of "ultra violence" and engaging in the old "in-out in-out". He beats the elderly, fights other gangs with his "britva", robs stores, breaks into houses, rapes young girls, drinks milk laced with drugs (moloko) and is ... Brodsky. Its purpose is to cure Alex of all that society deems bad - and to provide him with a new artificial conscience. Alex is given injections and is forced to watch films of rape and violence. Through the mixture of these images and drugs, the treatment causes him to associate feelings of panic and nausea with violence. ConsequentlyAlex becomes his own walking prison! He is conditioned by physical sickness to refrain from fulfilling the evil he desires to accomplish. It is at this point that Burgess allows the reader to choose ...
- 435: Loving in Truth: Creating a Society of Living in Harmony in the 21st Century
- ... are aimed at alleviating symptoms rather than correcting the cause of the problems. More prisons, more policemen, gun control, the FBI, and V-chips to block violent programs on TV will never stop crime and violence. When we devote time, money and effort toward problems and symptoms -- without correcting the cause -- the problems and symptoms grow and spread like creeping crab grass. But as an individual, what can one do? The answer is simple. All one has to do is love. Love is the solution to all of the social problems in our society. Adequate love will eliminate evil, crime, violence, mental suffering, the suffering of innocent children, dysfunctional families, the break-up of families, restlessness, discontent, unhappiness--all that is ugly, deplorable, and destructive. But before one can love others, one must learn to love ... from those fears and false beliefs. And it is that truth that has the power to render our families loving, happy, harmonious, functional and stable. Truth has the power to obliterate all social problems
crime, violence, spousal abuse, child abuse, drug abuse, etc. Love and truth are intertwined. We cannot live in harmony with truth without being loving, and we cannot love unconditionally without being in agreement with truth. To ...
- 436: Violent Crimes Involving Guns
- ... taking a look at evidence gathered form domestic studies, international evidence, and crimes involving guns we can better understand this. Several sophisticated statistical models have attempted to measure the net effect of firearms on criminal violence. On balance, they show that there is nothing to be gained from reducing the general level of gun ownership.(3) A thorough review of 18 studies of the effects of gun availability among potential victims and criminals found that the overall effect on criminal violence was zero.(4) In one study, researchers found no significant differences in total robbery rates between cities where guns were widely available and cities where they were not; in cities with fewer firearms, armed robbers ... then turn to other weapons. Most criminals do not obtain firearms through conventional sources. Thus, as opponents of gun control correctly contend, gun control measures in the United States, if anything, contribute to increased criminal violence because they deny guns to honest citizens but not to criminals. "Gun control laws might be accurately called victim disarmament laws."(?) Armed citizens pose a risk of punishment to criminals - perhaps more so than ...
- 437: Native Son And Black Boy
- ... affair with Bessie and how its is affected by the difficult conditions they have to live in. 4. A recurring image pattern that was used in this story that I noticed is the cycle of violence and hate that Bigger Thomas seems to be caught up in. The reason Bigger Thomas keeps all of his hate and emotions bottled up is because of the way he lives and the way the white man makes him feel. And because of these emotions he acts them out with hate and violence which in tun makes him feel more powerful so he wants to do it again. When he does this violence over and over again it makes the white people angry at his race so they take it out on them by oppressing them with racism and hate and giving them a bad environment; and ...
- 438: The Black Cat
- ... night, one morning, on the night of the day, etc.). Within the first few paragraphs of the story, the narrator foreshadows that he will violently harm his wife (At length, I even offered her personal violence)"(6). Poe uses foreshadowing throughout the story when he talks a lot about the cat and speaks little about his wife, suggesting that he doesnt care much about his wife and he could hurt ... are going to take place. The cats name, Pluto also foreshadows what is going to happen in the story. His name foreshadows the narrators decent into the murky regions of alcoholism, self-deception, and violence. A further place foreshadowing is used is when the appearance of a hung cat is left on the remaining wall after the house has been burnt. This hints that he will forever be haunted by ... so this could explain how he was driven into madness. Davidson wrote that, " The Black Cat is pointedly addressed to this theme of perverseness... this unfathomable longing of the soul to vex itself-to offer violence to its own nature- to do wrong for wrongs sake only" is represented in the story (190). Contrary to this theme is when Gargano implies that if in fact it was a theme ...
- 439: 1996: A Turbulent Year for Israel
- ... West Bank housing will, said an Egyptian official, "Destroy trust between Israel and it's Arab neighbors." Socially Israel has it's share of problems. In November an Israeli lawmaker who advocated a crackdown on violence against women was "under the spotlight" for allegedly beating his own wife. Haim Dayan was once talking about wife abusers and said, "I would slice their hands to pieces so that would be the last ... under spotlight) The women's rights group, Naamat, estimates that one in every four women are or will be assaulted by their partners. The reason for this says Naamat spokeswomen, Carmel is, "The level of violence and anger is very high . ..and it's influences the family situation. Another Israeli agreed, "Israelis still live by the sword" Violence is also frequently seen in the Israeli abuse towards Palestinians. In November two Israeli border guards were arrested after being video taped beating and kicking six Palestinian laborers. Israeli and Palestinian human rights activists ...
- 440: Christianity
- ... the alliance of the Catholic Church with the Spanish monarchy. The status of the Indians was irrelevant and disregarded by the Christian conquerors and missionaries who wanted to convert them. The missionaries subjected them to violence and reduced them to a laboring population. The Indians, however did not always respond in a negative way to the work of the church. The Catholic Church arrived in the New World immediately after Christopher ... one of the chief cares of this office was when they halted in any town or village, it was his job to assign separate quarters to the Spanish and the Indians. This was to prevent violence from erupting between the two peoples. His principle job; however was to assemble the children in order to baptize them. This was a sad task for Las Casas because scarcely any of the children remained alive a few months afterward. This was due to violence or the disease that the Spanish brought with them. Las Casas on his travels also saw the violence and horrors which the Indians were subject to. Las Casas describes this scene upon entering the ...
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