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- 4221: The Sun Also Rises By Ernest H
- ... it? Do you realize that you ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already? Jake weakly answers, Yes, every once in a while. They book focuses on the dissolution of the post-war generation and how they cannot find their place in life. Jake is an example of a person who had the freedom to choose his place but chose poorly. This point of Jake s life is centered on readjusting himself to normal life after World War I. Jake is lost and doesn t know what to do. He has a few friends with whom he goes and drinks and eats with, but it seems at times that he doesn t ...
- 4222: Lord of the Flies: Characteristics of Children
- Lord of the Flies: Characteristics of Children Children all over the world hold many of the same characteristics. Most children are good at heart, but at times seem like little mischievous devils. Children enjoy having fun and causing trouble but under some supervision can be obedient little ... are bathing, Piggy points beyond the platform and says, "That's where they're gone. Jack's party. Just for some meat. And for hunting and for pretending to be a tribe and putting on war-paint."(163). Piggy realizes exactly why the boys have gone to Jack's, which would be for fun and excitement. The need to play and have fun in Jack's group, even though the boys ... standing on the beach making no noise at all." (221). The previously wild savages are now quiet little boys in an orderly semi-circle. With the arrival of an adult authority figure from the outside world, the boys are beginning to return to the decorum of their innocent, more childlike past. The boys are in a semi-circle instead of in a pack of savages, they are coloured with clay ...
- 4223: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- Study on Juvenile Psychopaths What is the "super predator"? He or she are young hypercriminals who are committing acts of violence of unprecedented coldness and brutality. This newest phenomena in the world of crime is perhaps the most dangerous challenge facing society and law enforcement ever. While psychopaths are not new, this breed of super criminal exceeds the scope of psychopathic behavior. They are younger, more brutal ... can be isolated in determining whether young people will be criminal in their behavior is moral poverty," Greenberg says. (3) According to the recently published "Body Count: Moral Poverty . . . and How to Win America' s War Against Crime and Drugs," a new generation of "super-predators, " untouched by any moral inclinations, will hit America's streets in the next decade. John DiIulio, the Brookings Institute fellow who co-wrote the book ... a psychopath could be a highly functioning and highly successful individual in society. In contrast, the "super predator" lacks the intelligence or the "masking capabilities" of the psychopath to achieve success outside of the criminal world. (9) The "super predator" is not psychotic. Psychotics are largely out of touch with reality. They suffer from delusions, hallucinations, or other disordered states. They are often found not guilty of crimes they commit ...
- 4224: Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
- ... two National Golden Glove Tournaments and two National AAU titles. It took Cassius only six years to win the Heavyweight Gold Medal at the Rome Olympics and 10 years to become Heavyweight Champion of the world. During Cassius’s early boxing career, he declared himself a Black Muslim and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. Because of his religious beliefs, Ali took a controversial stand against the Vietnam War. Consequently, the New York State Athletic Committee suspended Muhammad Ali’s boxing license. Muhammad’s recognition as a champion was withdrawn and he was also suspended from the Nation of Islam because he planned to ... Ali fought Leon Spinks, winning the heavyweight title for a record breaking third time, Ali announced his retirement from boxing. When Muhammad retired from boxing, he continued to be great source of inspiration to the world. Muhammad Ali traveled across the globe on missions related to child hunger, peace and humanitarian goals. In spite of his diagnosis of Parkinson’s Syndrome, Muhammad Ali traveled to Iraq in 1991 to meet ...
- 4225: Shakespeare's Use of Trickery and Disguise In His Plays
- ... in Much Ado is modeled after Kate in the Taming of the Shrew, given that the two plays are separated by about five years" (Charney 58). Beatrice and Benedick wage what Leonato calls a "merry war" where "they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit be-/tween them" (Shakespeare, Much 1.1 60-61). Don Pedro's plot, which includes Claudio, Hero, and Leonato, centers around informing both Beatrice and Benedick that the other one is madly in love with the other but does not want to reveal it. They believe, correctly, that faced with this knowledge the "merry war" between them will end, and the romance will start. Trickery, present in all the works, generally plays the same role in each. Each instance of trickery has been the result, either directly or indirectly, of ... of high water and ships running aground are crucial in the play's development," according to David M. Bergeron (116). Bergeron furhter elaborates that, "experience at sea and its conseuqnces help delineate Shakespeare's romantic world, a world that he inherited in which problems, expecially love problems, are solved" (112). Besides shipwrecks and trickery, many of the characters in Shakespeare's plays are similar. For example, "In The Merchant of ...
- 4226: History Of Photography
- Daguerreotypes In 1839 the Academy of Science in Paris, France made an announcement that would change our view on the world and ourselves forever. An artist named Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre and a amateur french scientist had developed a process by which a permanent image could be printed on a silver plated sheet of copper and the process could be duplicated and used commercially. France decided to give this gift to the world and thus the first Daguerreotype was born. Although daguerreotypes in truth were not the first photo ever taken but because of his development of the commercial process Mr. Daguerre is usually credited with developing the ... a daguerreotype studio in New York City. Samuel F. B. Morse sends the first successful telegraph message between Baltimore and Washington. James Knox Polk is elected President of the United States. 1846 The Mexican-American War begins. Elias Howe patents sewing machine. 1847 Liberia becomes an independent republic in Africa. (The American Colonization Society founded Liberia.) Gold is discovered in California. 1848 The Mexican-American War ends. Zachary Taylor is ...
- 4227: Slaughterhouse Five
- This first chapter, a preface, is insistent on the fact that the book is based on real events. Vonnegut, like our narrator, is a veteran of World War II, a former prisoner of war, and a witness to a great massacre, and that fact lends a certain authority to what follows. Vonnegut shares with us his enduring inability to render in writing the horror of Dresden. There is ...
- 4228: William Faulkner
- ... the entire population of Jefferson. Jefferson is the main town in Faulkner's fictional county. Faulkner uses a great deal of symbolism in this story. Miss Emily was raised in the period before the Civil War in the south. An unnamed narrator, who seems to be the voice of the whole town, calls attention to key moments in her life, including the death of her father and her brief relationship with a man from the north named Homer Barron. The story basically addresses the symbolic changes in the south after the Civil War. Miss Emily's house symbolizes neglect in the new times in the town of Jefferson. Beginning with Miss Emily Grierson's funeral, throughout the story Faulkner foreshadows the ending and suspenseful events in Miss Emily ... the same characters in various stories allows for Faulkner to enter twine his stories to where they are all dealing with the people of Yoknapatawpha County in the northern regions of Mississippi. "In Faulkner's world men and women are measured by the breadth of their compassion or the quality of their endurance. Although there are villains, few wholly negative characters appear, and the Heroes tend to be larger than ...
- 4229: Lord of the Flies: Success of Golding's Portrayal of the Children
- Lord of the Flies: Success of Golding's Portrayal of the Children Children all over the world hold many of the same characteristics. Most children are good at heart, but at times seem like little mischievous devils. Children enjoy having fun and causing trouble but under some supervision can be obedient little ... are bathing, Piggy points beyond the platform and says, "That's where they're gone. Jack's party. Just for some meat. And for hunting and for pretending to be a tribe and putting on war-paint."(163). Piggy realizes exactly why the boys have gone to Jack's, which would be for fun and excitement. The need to play and have fun in Jack's group, even though the boys ... standing on the beach making no noise at all." (221). The previously wild savages are now quiet little boys in an orderly semi-circle. With the arrival of an adult authority figure from the outside world, the boys are beginning to return to the decorum of their innocent, more childlike past. The boys are in a semi-circle instead of in a pack of savages, they are coloured with clay ...
- 4230: Greek Olympics
- ... states around it that if they were to be allowed to enter they had to stop their wars when it was time for the games. Sparta however did not follow this rule in the Peloponison War against Athens. So Sparta was penalized for it. The sacred way to Olympia started in Elis A city-state 34 miles away. The sacred road went along the low mountains of the western Peloponesus and ... between Elisan the holy city of Olympia. Then the caravan will stop and sacrifice a pig before step on the sacred soil of Olympia. At the same time travelers from all over the ancient Greek World were crowding to the Olympia games some were coming on foot along the coastal road from Athens and Corinth. The others on horses and in carriages crowed the valleys and jammed every road and mountain ... to travel across the sea to compete with the Greek athletes. After a while the games slowly started to fade away. When Augustus Caesar became Emperor of Rome in 81 B.C., he said all war within the empire must stop. This was called the Pax Romana, or Roman Peace, it helped to bring back the popularity of the Olympic Festivals. Even though the Olympic Games changed a little bit ...
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