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- 4881: Life or Death: Who Chooses?
- ... unwanted children was permissible, but as out civilization has aged, it seems that such acts were no longer acceptable by rational human beings, so that in 1948, Canada along with most other nations in the world signed a declaration of the United Nations promising every human being the right to life. The World Medical Association meeting in Geneve at the same time, stated that the utmost respect for human life was to be from the moment of conception. This declaration was re-affirmed when the World Medical Association met in Oslo in 1970. Should we go backwards in our concern for the life of an individual human being? The unborn human is still a human life and not all the ...
- 4882: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... is the most melancholy of subjects. He was quoted to say, Death, when it most closely allies itself to beauty: the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world - and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such a topic are those of a bereaved lover. . 6 Regardless of whether or not one agrees with Poe s belief, Annabel Lee ... the one sepulchral Idea. 10 From this case we see that Poe found presences of his lifetime as inspiration for expression. He took his surroundings and allowed himself to be set free by adapting the world to suit his mind. An adequate example of this fact can be found by reading The Murders of the Rue Morgue. This story can be described as a black comedy in a sense, but also ... including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created Sherlock Holmes. Doyle always acknowledged his own personal debt to Poe for being his influence for Holmes. Another instance in which Poe took the happenings of the real world to make a tale is evident in The Mask of the Red Death. Here, Poe places the reader in the middle of a masquerade ball, attended by the rich, that is interrupted by a ...
- 4883: Edward Vii
- ... the throne to his son, King George V ( www.spartcus.com). The very first decade of the 20th century is the decade in which Edward VII reigned. This era is known as the Edwardian Era (World Book Encyclopedia, 59). It is King Edward's era, being named after him. " The Edwardian Era was the beginning of the 20th century, and led to all sorts of predictions by all sorts of people about how that century would signal the start of a truly golden age," said Richard Washington. This era is known as the sanest era in the history of our world (www.geocites.com). Edward VII along with other Edwardians helped to make it that way. Saki is a novelist and short story writer born in Akyab, Mynamar on December 18,1870 ( www.spartcus.com). Munro ... com). In June of 1916, Saki goes back to London to spend time with his sister and brother. Three months later, he becomes a lance - sergeant ( langguth, 22). November of the same year, Saki enters World War I. Hector Hugh Munro, Saki, is killed by a sniper in the early hours of a winter day, on November 13, 1916 ( Langguth, 98). Saki is remembered for his fiction pieces distinguishing by ...
- 4884: Africa
- ... However, the residents of this country still believe that where there is a will, there is a way. Africa is a country where many think that nothing works. A country filled with poverty, corruption rule, war, famine, and pestilence, Africa still remains instable. The aid from other countries, which the nations beg for, is just not enough to help. No help results in over 740 million residents to erase their vision ... their democracies, to give praise on their efforts in social and economic growth, and to ultimately promote a new relationship with Africa. The residents of Africa are hoping that with the President visiting, a new world of opportunities will be opened to them and that they will be partners insead of patros with the U.S. Although the residents of Mozambique, Eritrea, Mali, and Ghana are nations with high poverty rates ... to take any kind of assistance from foreigners. They feel that accepting aid from countries other than their own corrupts government, and hampers possible solutions to their problems. Eritrea and its people are in a world all of there own because they posses the quality of willingness. They sacrifice anything that they can just to make their country a better place. They are also devoted to making sure that they ...
- 4885: Kitty Freemont
- ... typical girl next door, she was a different kind of woman than most would expect her to be. The reader was lead to believe that Kitty had a disliking for the Jewish population of the world near the beginning of the novel. One could also take this as simply being a misunderstanding of culture, and a source of intimidation. Brought into the whole Exodus situation by coincidence, Kitty was caught unprepared ... She wasn't in agreement for what was happening to them, but she wasn't prepared to take a side for them. She seemed to follow the passive way of so many others in the world of just thinking that maybe what was happening was right and they must have had some clarification for it. "Everything connected with Caraolas is neck deep in politics. I am certain that the British have ... When Kitty gave into Ari Ben Canaan's offer for her to work as a nurse in Caraolos, it was initially for the wrong reasons, but she had never actually intended on giving in. "The World is filled with suffering. I can give my services a thousand places just as needful as Caraolos, without the strings attached." (kitty,pg51) As Kitty is exposed to more and more of the Jewish ...
- 4886: Foreign Policy
- ... Presidents took to an interventionist or disinterventionist policy based on conscientious reasons. Economic principles, nonetheless, were the primary dominants in the stand the nation took concerning its foreign policy. McKinley's decision to go to war with Spain was, among other reasons already mentioned, a result of the pressures of those who had much to gain from the war. Many in business favored expanded foreign trade to obtain new markets for their products. Since a victory in the war guaranteed new territory, the war therefore stood as a promise for the new markets to easily develop and control. The new territories also assured of natural resources that would be placed at the hands ...
- 4887: A Separate Peace: Three Symbols
- ... to destroy the warmth of the summer and does so by unleashing an unpredictable frigid blizzard. Likewise, Gene destroys Finny by releasing an uncontrolled jouncing of the tree limb. Nevertheless, the peaceful time and the war time clearly display the innocence of Finny and the evil of Gene. During the peaceful time, not one student thinks about a war. Gene and Finny play blitzball and jump from the tree, making them both happy. Finny willingly breaks the rules at Devon. Like the summer session, the rules do not exist, and the student's minds run wild with carelessness. Finny's imagination and creativity explode during the peaceful time with inventions like blitzball and the founding of the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. However, the war, like the winter session, brings about confusion and hostility. Students like Leper and Quackenbush begin thinking about enrolling in the army. Even Gene considers enlisting until he realizes that Finny needs him. Finny cannot ...
- 4888: Eliot Ness
- ... Did they merely fade away into quiet life? The fate of Ness was quite the opposite, he continued doing what he fell in love with. Taking down corruption on any level. He carried on his war on the mob for an entire decade after Capone, staging daring raids on bootleggers, illegal gambling clubs and generally putting organized crime on the run. Ness exploits in Chicago were chronicled in his book The ... Ness made special arrangements to ensure Capone was lead to his last train ride by The Untouchables. That was the last Ness saw of Capone who was infected with syphilis and died in prison, the world s greatest crime boss died a near vegetable. In July 1934 Ness was promoted and continued his war on bootleggers, in less than a year he and his team made it too expensive to bootleg liquor in Ohio. In November of 1935 Mayor Harold Burton of Cleveland elected Ness to safety director. ...
- 4889: Crazyhorse
- ... forced to take the land from these savage Indians. We should put the blame where it belongs, on the U.S. Government who lied, cheated, and stole from the Oglala forcing Crazy Horse, the great war chief, and many other leaders to surrender their nation in order to save the lives of their people. In the nineteenth century the most dominant nation in the western plains was the Sioux Nation. This ... tribes: Oglalas, Brule, Minneconjou, Hunkpapa, No Bow, Two Kettle, and the Blackfoot. Of these tribes they had different band. The Hunkpatila was one band of the Oglalas (Guttmacher 12). One of the greatest war chiefs of all times came from this band. His name was Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse was not given this name, on his birth date in the fall of 1841. He was born of his father ... Conquering Bears camp, he was given another offer. This time they could choose five ponies from five herds among the tribes. Grattan refused and began to open fire (Guttmacher 14-19). This outrageous act of war was not called for. The Mormons would have surely been satisfied with the ponies or the money the ponies would have bought. The government just did not want to keep the Indian-White relationship ...
- 4890: Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe Many authors have made great contributions to the world of literature. Mark Twain introduced Americans to life on the Mississippi. Thomas Hardy wrote on his pessimistic views of the Victorian Age. Another author that influenced literature is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known as ... and in each one he made a reputation that would give any man a high place in literary history. Poe wrote great short stories, famous not only in his own country, but all over the world (Robinson V)." "Hawthorne, Irving, Balzac, Bierce, Crane, Hemingway and other writers have given us memorable short stories; but none has produced so great a number of famous and unforgettable examples, so many tales that continue, despite changing standards to be read and reprinted again and again throughout the world (Targ VII)." "Poe was the father of the modern short story, and the modern detective story (Targ VII)." "With the possible exception of Guy de Maupassant, no other writer is so universally known and ...
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