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- 4831: A Separate Peace: Social Sterotypes
- ... an exaggerated prep, just like Phineas is an exaggerated jock. He is obsessed with learning just for the sake of learning. No real hardcore prep thinks that way! Chet Douglas lives in his own educational world. He's so absorbed in this alternate reality in which Calculus has a justified existence that he forgets what the school is trying to teach him, and actually goes out and seeks more academia than ... the sake of being accepted by others. Real individualists are not those people with blue and green hair you see on talk shows. Those people conform to a subculture, something that was less common during World War II. The real individualists of the world are quickly disappearing, as conformity becomes more popular. I haven't met any real individualists, so I can't say whether or not Knowles exaggerates Lepillier's ...
- 4832: Terrorism
- ... 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 ...
- 4833: Life and Work of Shirley Jackson
- ... deflect the knowledge of its own death on a victim. That uneasy consciousness is waked in the reader himself by the impact of the story. Miss Jackson's great gift is not to create a world of fantasy and terror, but rather to discover the existence of the grotesque in the ordinary world.” (Janeway, 58) Fritz Oehlschlaeger, a literary critic, stated that, "a conflict between male authority and female resistance is subtly evident throughout "The Lottery." Early in the story, the boys make a 'great pile of stones ... great truth because of the depth and consistency of her own feeling about life and because she was so extraordinarily successful in making her readers feel what she felt. She plunges the reader into a world of her creating and leaves him wondering about what he has always believed to be the real world"(32). Geoffrey Wolff points out that "the secret of her art in this novel is her ' ...
- 4834: The Death Penalty: Why We Should Have Capital Punishment?
- ... western, industrialized nations to treat public safety as though it were a trivial privilege that they can ignore, neglect, and deny their decent, law-abiding citizens. Indeed, no other time in the history of the world has public safety ever been more trivialized than it is today. But there are indications that this will change. As the flagship of democracy, it is the United States responsibility to demonstrate that public safety ... set the example that every civilized nation has a moral responsibility to defend the safety of their decent civilians at least as diligently as they defend national security with an army. Every country in the world is ready and willing to kill thousands, even millions of human beings in brutal, merciless ways to defend their nation from the aggression of other countries. I don't see why public safety doesn't deserve as much respect and protection as a nation's national security does. In fact, it can be reasonably argued that supporting armies and waging war is far more barbarous than the death penalty is. So I find it hypocritical that the same countries who have abolished capital punishment because it is "barbaric" to defend public safety that way are ...
- 4835: 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 ...
- 4836: Lamuel Gulliver
- ... Gulliver is an excellent protagonist: a keen observer, and a good representative of his native England, but one who loses faith in mankind as his story progresses. He ends up in remote areas of the world all by accidents in his voyages. In each trip, he is shipwrecked and mysteriously arrives to lands never before seen by men. This forms an interesting rhythm in the novel: as Gulliver is given more ... prideful, greedy, and cruel in response to him; he always manages to be peaceful with them. For example, when the Lilliputians and the people of Blefuscu (the British and the French in reality) go to war, Gulliver ties a knot to each of the Blefuscan ships and brings them together to the Lilliputian king. Then both of the countries negotiate and settle peace. Thus, Gulliver stops the friction between the two ... This marks a characteristic of wisdom within Gulliver and the apple on his shield signifies this quality. We must always take into account that this novel was written at a time when England was a world power that was dominant in remote parts of the world, such as India, the Caribbean, and America. Gulliver is a good representative of England, but one who loses faith in mankind as the story ...
- 4837: Censorship
- ... are also being brought against the educational system, films, radio, television, and against the graphic and theatre arts. However or whenever these attacks occur, they usually fall at least one of the following categories: Religion War & Peace (Violence) Sociology & Race Language Drugs Sex Inappropriate Adolescent Behaviour What is Obscenity? Clearly something hard to talk about constructively. "Obscenity" is difficult to discuss honestly. After all, what makes a thing obscene? It is ... have people outraged. In school libraries, the most frequent complaints come from parents about the school's selections. And in public libraries, parents were once again the single greatest source of challenges to materials. The world is filled with "obscene" things. And it would seem that those parents are just trying to protect their children from the outside world. But does it really help? These day, an average elementary school student knows many things. They are influenced by a wide range of sources, from television and other forms of media, their environment at ...
- 4838: How Do Elizabeth Bennet’s Relationships Show Her Process Of Moral Growth?
- ... by a painful self-appraisal and leads to clearer insights into [her]self and others” (33). Elizabeth’s relations with several characters illustrate these various stages of her moral development. From her detachment from this world in her associations with Mr. Wickham and Charlotte Lucas; to her dependence on her sister Jane to teach her indirectly about her mistakes; and finally to Mr. Darcy’s help in gaining self-knowledge one can see how Elizabeth grows as an individual by learning about herself and the world in which she lives. Elizabeth quickly catches on to the failings of many characters, yet she chooses to see Mr. Wickham’s lies and hypocrisy. Wickham grabs Elizabeth’s mind, unlike Darcy who wins her ... and joy. Disappointed by Charlotte’s marriage of convenience, Elizabeth turns in the direction of her sister Jane. It is Jane who comforts Elizabeth when she turns to cynicism because she recognizes that viewing the world unemotionally serves only as an example of irresponsibility and cowardliness. Jane is the hero of positive thinking and allows the reader to understand her sister’s choices and mental growth, and she is neither ...
- 4839: Puritans Vs. Anti-puritans
- ... on a hill: A new nation is born The city on a hill idea was first taught by the puritans that came from Europe, that wanted America to be a shining example to all the world. It was to be a place built on new rules and new ideas. Overall, it was supposed to be a nation that rose above all the others so that it could be marveled at and ... tyranny. Before the federalists, the anti-federalists ruled the states, and they were very tyrannous. For example, they wanted all of the states to each take up a portion of the debt from the revolutionary war. This was easily payable by the larger states that had much industry, but for the smaller or less industrially developed states, this was a debt that they were just not able to handle. The federalists ... to be jailed for their debts, until the people were so tired that they staged a rebellion, the federalists got rid of this and set up the bank and took over state debts from the war. Finally, the federalists protected all the things that they gave to the people. They maintained the army and made sure also that they had a militia that was ready to defend the country when ...
- 4840: The Drinking Age: An 18-Year-Olds Right
- ... as a minimum drinking age is a much more realistic goal. The theory is that by 19 most people have completed or are at least out of high school and are out functioning in a world much older than that of their days in school. They are expected to be more mature, and to act as adults in all other ways. They can smoke, marry, have sexual relationships, have children, buy ... are drinking anyway,'' Scott Gorton Marine spokesman at camp Pendelton in San Diego also feels as Gain does and adds, "`If you're going to ask a young man or young wife to go to war and potentially spill blood or die for their country, I think it's safe to say they're old enough to handle alcohol."(Castaneda 1) Alcohol consumption is part of the American culture, and creates ... age is too high". “The Observer.” http://www.cwru.edu/orgs/observer/083096/ forum1.html (Febuary 18, 1998: visited site September 30, 1998). Gordis, Enoch. "Alcohol research and social policy: an overview." Alcohol Health & Research World September 1996: 208. Toomey, Traci L., Carolyn Rosenfeld, and Alexander Wagenaar. “The minimum legal drinking age: history, effectiveness, and ongoing debate." Alcohol Health & Research World September 1996: 213. Tumulty, Brian. "Should the Drinking Age ...
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