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- 4421: Catcher In The Rye 2
- ... begins to propel him through his novel and in the end gives him a purpose to even continue living. Since the beginning of the novel Holden never really expresses any liking for anything in the world except his sister. When he begins to think about his sister and all of the things she is going through he begins to feel a purpose and. To a person who never felt like his ... of his protection of innocence evidently because this is one example of something that he has always done. It has not occurred because of his want to become a "catcher". Holden simply feels the outside world is phony and does not want his sister corrupted by them. Holden would like to keep children as innocent as he can, he believes that he has already lost his innocence and eventually gives up ... history teacher Mr. Spencer and the idea that when someone becomes that age they get a second chance to have the same fun that a child would have. Finally, Holden shows his disgust for the world that has lost it's innocence. When Holden's character is examined it is obvious that he does not like things that are unnecessary. To Holden the words Fuck you and the graffiti are ...
- 4422: The Chosen By Chaim Potok
- ... a month. During this time, Reuven befriends Danny as he constantly visits him due to his guilt about almost blinding Reuven. Danny comes to the hospital to chat with Reuven and occasionally talk about the war or his study of the Talmud. When Reuven gets out of the hospital, Danny brings him to his home for Shabbat and to meet his father. Reuven is overwhelmed by his father's calm and ... Danny hit him in the eye. The event is able to bring them closer together. After many visits to the hospital to visit Reuven, Danny totally changes him: "Somehow everything had changed...it was another world."(p.96) Danny opens his eyes to a new culture and people that Reuven hardly understands. They hang out together a lot and Danny brings him to his home. Here is where Reuven sees a different world just a few blocks away from his own house: "The liquid streams of racing children, the noisy chatter of long-sleeved women, the worn buildings and blotched banisters, the garbage cans...gave me the ...
- 4423: Roman Acheivements
- ... it competes on the same literary plane as Plato's Republic and Homers duet epics, the Illiad and the Oddesy. Created an Empire The fact that they conquered so much land (most of the know world) is amazing in itself. The tactics used to rule these land would be questionalble now but were acceptable (as if there were any choice) during their reign. The tactics included outright conquering through war, extortion or a combination of the two. War was a common thing for the Romans for the waged it regualrly. When the Romans defeated an enemy (an enemy was anybody who didn't stand down to the mighty power of Rome) they ...
- 4424: Bermuda Triangle
- ... then west to a point through the Bahamas past Puerto Rico to about 40* west latitude, and then back again to Bermuda (Gaffron 14). This area occupies a disturbing and almost unbelievable place in the world’s catalogue of unexplainable mysteries. In the Bermuda Triangle more than 100 planes and ships have literally vanished into thin air, most of them since 1945. More than 1,000 lives have been lost in ... an instant (Berlitz 56-57). One of the most celebrated stories of the Devil’s Triangle is that of the SS Cyclops. The navy supply ship disappeared on a clear day in March 1918, during World War I. The Cyclops was a steamship, 542 feet long, one of the largest vessels afloat. Twenty-four hours after she left the West Indies bound for Norfolk, Virginia everything went dead (Berlitz 46). Since ...
- 4425: Atomic Bomb 3
- Atomic Bomb On August 2, 1939 Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This was right before the start of World War 2. In this letter Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of the efforts Hitler was making to purify U-235 in which he hoped to make an atomic bomb. This is when the United ... to make these formulas. At the end of the six years and after spending $2 billion they had what they thought was a working bomb or a very expensive dud. At 5:29:45 (Mountain War Time) on July the 16th, 1945 the "Gadget", the code name for the bomb, was tested in the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico. This was the first atomic bomb ever detonated. The Gadget ...
- 4426: Holocaust 7
- ... measures against the Jews. They burned the Talmud, a book of civil and religious laws, and torched other holy writings. Jews have always been considered lower class and were classed as dirty. The Holocaust of World War two emphasizes the mistreatment and brutality towards Jews more graphically than any other historical event.The Nazis began the terror by passing a series of laws that massively discriminated against the Jewish race. Jews were ... www.holocaust.history/children.org) Two million children died of cold, thirst, heat, fire, abuse, crushing, piercing, disease, gunshot and gassing. At the final count, almost nine out of ten Jewish children alive before the war were dead after the Holocaust. The Jews from western Europe often traveled in passenger coaches to the camps. But the (Rossel, 1989) Nazis packed their Polish victims into freight cars and cattle cars. Vicious ...
- 4427: The Middle East: A Great Deal Of Variation?
- ... to wage Jihad against pro-western Arab regimes, with the aim of setting up Islamic republics in their place. 3. However, the Islamic fundamentalist challenge is not directed solely at incumbent regimes in the Moslem world. Frequently they widen their range of targets to include westerners within their country. For example, the GIA in Algeria has deliberately targeted French citizens in Algeria since September 1993, because they allege that France is ... historically responsible for the situation in Algeria. But, as the GIA's hijack of the Air France Airbus A300 on Christmas Eve 1994 demonstrates, the Islamic terrorist groups are also prepared to take their terrorist war to France itself. There is little doubt that the terrorists fully intended to crash the Airbus over Paris. France is, of course, not the only foreign target of such groups. All these groups are bitterly ... is a further highly dangerous aspect to the threat of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism against Western targets. The findings of the FBI and the judiciary in America indicate that the group responsible for blowing up the World Trade Center building in February 1993 was operating as a type of independent or freelance group of Islamic fundamentalists 4. The Middle East is also the major region of state sponsors and supporters of ...
- 4428: Woman To Man
- ... every man. The title Woman To Man makes the poem universal, more than just a poem from Judith Wright to her husband. There are no names given to the woman and the man within the world of the poem. The experience of 'the Woman' becomes the experience of 'every woman'. The third audience for this text is the literati – the world of literature. Judith Wright is a well-known Australian poet; this poem has been published many times; this poem obviously did not stay between Wright and her husband. The poem displays the poet's highly ... conception, pregnancy and childbirth in an era when women did not speak of such things publicly. Her purpose is not only to reveal her emotions to her husband, but to reveal her emotions to the world. We need to consider the social context of the poem. Woman To Man was written in 1949. During the post-war years Australia was experiencing a period of affluence. Men were enjoying their role ...
- 4429: Freedom of Speech & Censorship on the Internet
- ... warning labels like those on records this may serve to whet appetites. Warning labels involve some sort of judging and then the question is raised as to who shall be the judge. The Internet is world-wide so would the First Amendment apply in Germany? The material on the Internet which is grossly offensive by any standards, such as paedophile material, is extremely difficult to find because of its small amounts ... understand many of the questions raised an understanding of how the Internet originated is important. The internet grew out of developments in packet switching and distributed computer networks designed to be secure in time of war: distributed computer networks are less susceptible to damage because transmissions can be routed around the damage. Standard protocols ensure that any platform can be connected to this network and this meant that local area networks ... informal network of networks spanning the globe, with almost 4 million hosts, each of which may be serving anywhere between one and 2 million users. Theorists believe that by the year 2003 everyone in the world could be connected to the Internet (Treese, 1994). Alongside this growth that is aided by availability of low-cost computers, free software and inexpensive telecommunications, is the most important fact that the Internet is ...
- 4430: Comparison Of 1984 And The Cry
- ... Waknuk have been ‘brainwashed’ by Christianity in the same way many people in Great Britain in 1984 have been ‘brainwashed’ by the party and Big Brother. Each use repetitive slogans, in 1984 such slogans as: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” are used and more subtly in Christianity in the form of prays and commandments. The Party and Christians each worship a figure, Big Brother and God respectively ... has regressed, almost started again. Prejudges in the Crysalids often has echoes of Hitler’s Germany. Purity of the race is often discussed suggesting similar fascism as the persecution of the Jews during the second world war. Female blasphemes (those who do not conform to the true image as God) are sterilized before being sent to the fringes. In both societies there is evidence of children being taught how to live ...
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