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- 4211: Ideals Satirized In Candide
- ... s Candide is a satire of life before and during the enlightenment period, a black comedy, this story often makes light of religious purgings, executions, the church in general, royalty, government, nobility, ideals of love, war and the country of France. About the only things not mocked are the ideals of true happiness and paradise. The institution of family is mocked when Candide and Cunigonde are caught making-out by her ... to date your friends sister. After arriving in Venice, Martin and Candide are eating supper in their hotel with six men who claim to be ex-kings. Each of the kings have been dethroned by war, family or chance, and some have been in prison. Its ironic that all these men are sitting, having dinner together, it shows that even the kings of the world are human and can be hit by hard times. Theodore of Corsica mentions, "I used to coin currency, and now i dont have a cent"(393). Voltaire pokes fun at the royals here while ...
- 4212: Freedom in the United States
- Freedom in the United States No other democratic society in the world permits personal freedoms to the degree of the United States of America. Within the last sixty years, American courts, especially the Supreme Court, have developed a set of legal doctrines that thoroughly protect all forms ... for the first time. He depicts how people of all backgrounds worked together for one cause: freedom. I selected Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 as a fictitious example of the evils of censorship in a world that is becoming illiterate. In this book, the government convinces the public that book reading is evil because it spreads harmful opinions and agitates people against the government. The vast majority of people accept this ... was the strongest objection to the ratification of the Constitution. Less than a decade after the Bill of Rights had been adopted it met its first serious challenge. In 1798, there was a threat of war with France and thousands of French refugees were living in the United States. Many radicals supported the French cause and were considered "incompatible with social order." This hysteria led Congress to enact several alien ...
- 4213: Environmental And Genetic Affects And Schizophrenia
- ... the triggering, at least, of schizophrenia is supported by a study Susser et al. (1996). In an investigation into the high incidence of schizophrenia in those born in the Netherlands at a particular point during World War Two, Susser et al. (1996) found that exposure to famine was correlated to risk of schizophrenia. At the end of World War Two a Nazi blockade caused a famine in the Netherlands. Susser et al. (1996) found that the risk of developing schizophrenia increased for people born between 10/15/45 and 12/31/45.
- 4214: Diary Of Anne Frank
- ... Anne Frank" is about a young girl who suffered a lot in the Holocaust. Anne Frank kept a diary, which made her a very well known teenagers. She has inspired people from all over the world. Her writings explain the true feeling of being in the World War II. She kept her dairy from June 12,1942 and ended when it was discovered in August 1944. On her 13th birthday on June 12, 1942 Anne received a diary from her parents, Otto ...
- 4215: Jews
- ... the theory that no one could sink in the heavily salted water. There was one difference between the two events. Three years after destroying Jerusalem, the Romans put down the final Jewish revolt of the war by capturing Massada. Three years after the Holocaust ended the State of Israel was reborn. The destruction of the Second Temple serves with the Holocaust as a frame the Jewish experience in the world. For instance just as no other people in the modern era has suffered a devastation comparable to that of the Jews during the Holocaust the attack on Jerusalem was unparalleled in the ancient world. "No destruction ever wrought by G-D or man approached the wholesale carnage of this war" said Josephus.
- 4216: Napoleon And Caesar
- ... himself after, he wanted to be as great, if not greater than Caesar. Looking to the past, Napoleon knew what steps to take in order to achieve success Napoleon devoured books on the art of war. Volume after volume of military theory was read, analyzed and criticized. He studied the campaigns of history's most famous commanders; Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Frederick the Great and his favorite and most influential, Julius Caesar (Marrin 17). Julius Caesar was the strong leader for the Romans who changed the course of history of the Greco - Roman world decisively and irreversibly. Caesar was able to create the Roman Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies (Duggan 117). Julius Caesar was to become one of the greatest generals, conquering the whole of Gaul. In 58 BC, Caesar became governor and military commander of Gaul, which included modern France, Belgium, ...
- 4217: Treating People Fairly Is A Right That Has Been Changed By Affirmative Action
- ... banning discrimination in employment, voting, public accommodations, public education, and all federally assisted programs. Affirmative action was once a bold synonym for equality of opportunity. In more recent years, though, affirmation action entered the political world as a sinister euphemism for reverse discrimination. (Carlton 19-23) In 1971, there were seven female city managers, and in 1986 there were well over one hundred. After 1994 there were five hundred and twelve ... is because he has worked hard, gotten the education the same way a white American has and has paid the price. He should not be turned away because of his skin color. Between 1880 and World War I, about 22 million men and women and children entered the United States. In 1905, 06, 07, 10, 13, and 1914, a million more arrived each year. Many arrivals had left their homeland to ...
- 4218: Bartelby The Scrivener
- ... stories. I think one of the most admirable traits of Hawthorne is his ability to write as though actions are taking place somewhere in the present. Aylmer could very well live today, somewhere in the world with his laboratory in the backyard. Men like Young Goodman Brown are everywhere in todays society, and, still, there are those who try and destroy that which they do not understand or refuse to ... unnecessary, she is quite content with the minor facial blemish until he makes a big deal about it. Maybe this too is a parallel between the mass majority being content with the state of the world and a certain few who would like to make it better, and, in turn, destroy it. I can understand Hawthornes idea. I live in constant fear of nuclear war and the technology that has made it available. But, I am grateful for the medical advances we have today. It is a double-edge sword. (I am not implying that Aylmer is an evil ...
- 4219: A Young Hero
- ... in his left hand. The documents were the research-results and the drawings of the new weapon Hitler's technicians were working on. As a result of the Axis Powers were about to lose the war, Hitler was furious and had given orders to Wernher von Braun, an outstanding German Scientist, to commence the design of two new terrifying weapons. The weapons were designed and produced in the purpose of revenging ... flew through Gregory's mind and he said: "I can still win. And I will win, you nazi bastards! " With his mind set on the happiness and the joy of all the children in the world, all the innocent people in London and many other places of the world. And then thinking that they was to be exposed to a reign of terror from the V1's and V2's showing Hitler's wrath while killing and hurting millions of people, he knew ...
- 4220: The Society Is Flawed
- ... Marx entered the University of Berlin in 1835. His [Hegel] idea was that reality is not fixed and static, but changing and dynamic. Life is constantly passing from one stage of being to another; the world is a place of constant change. But Hegel did not believe the change itself is arbitrary. On the contrary, he thought it proceeds according to a well pattern or method, termed a dialectic, where reality ... and power while the proletariat shrinks, therefore increasing the rift between the two. Marx goes on to describe how this situation came about, with the industrial revolution and other factors. Modern industry has established the world-market, for which the discovery of America paved the way. This market has given an immense development to commerce, to navigation, to communication by land. This development has, in its turn, reacted on the extension ... democracy" (31). So it is clear that the first step is to raise the proletariat to the ruling class, but how is this done? Marx writes that "...we traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat (21- ...
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