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- 4901: Mother Teresa
- ... the Israeli army and Palestinian guerillas to stop shooting long enough for her to rescue thirty-seven children trapped in a front line hospital. Children were always delighted to be around Mother Teresa, but many World leaders quailed at her approach. They knew that she would not flatter them and that she might ask some embarrassing questions. Her requests for their help with her charitable projects were invariably polite and respectful ... like any person that people look up too, the media will do whatever they can to bring controversy to their lives. Even a person like Mother Teresa, who all she did was give to the world, had a little controversy. In a 1994 television documentary called "Hells Angel: Mother Teresa of Calcutta," she was accused of taking her donations without questioning the sources. She also received some criticism for her strong ... for she said " The reason I was given the Nobel Prize was because of the poor. However, the prize went beyond appearances. In fact, it awakened consciences in favor of the poor all over the world. It became a sort of reminder that the poor are our brothers and sisters and that we have the duty to treat them with love." (Balado 135) Also in 1985, Mother Teresa was awarded ...
- 4902: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Rules in Society
- ... this. They follow their fellow men like drone robots, good little servants of society. There are those people in our society that do as they please when it comes to the unwritten rules of the world. They are decent folks who obey laws that doctrine civilized behavior, but they do so in their own unique way, which makes them seem uncivil to the rest of society. Perhaps they do not wear ... live by, however, I do not agree that types of unique behavior or outlandish ideas need to be stifled. Without those members of society who choose to do things differently, without conforming, where would our world be? These non-conformists give way to new ideas and ways of thinking. In my opinion they should not be treated, punished, and subdued through medication and electric shock treatments, but rather shown care through ... their differing ideas and try to understand them, while also trying to develop a sense of belonging in the non-conformist. There are only so many limits that can be imposed on us before our world becomes that of “Big Brother” looking over our every move. I agree with the masses that social disobedience as seen in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is a problem, yet not because ...
- 4903: Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... literary concerns but whose works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized. Melville was born August 1, 1819, in New York City, into a family that had declined in the world. “The Gansevoorts were solid, stable, eminent, prosperous people; the (Herman’s Father’s side) Melvilles were somewhat less successful materially, possessing an unpredictable. erratic, mercurial strain.” (Edinger 6). This difference between the Melville’s and ... Adventures in the South Seas (1847), and Mardi (1849) were romances of the South Sea islands. Redburn, His First Voyage (1849) was based on his own first trip to sea, and White-Jacket, or the World in a Man-of-War (1850) fictionalized his experiences in the navy. In 1850 Melville moved to a farm near Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he became an intimate friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne, to whom he dedicated his masterpiece Moby-Dick; ...
- 4904: Formula One Racing
- Formula One Racing Formula One racing, or F1, is known to be the most prestigious type of auto racing in the world. Unfortunately, in the United States F1 racing is not nearly as popular as other motorsports such as Nascar. On a typical Sunday afternoon if one were to flip channels on the television, Nascar would most ... obviously a large contributing factor towards its immense popularity. Despite the fact that Nascar is the racing preference of most Americans, Formula One racing is the best and most exhilarating type of racing in the world. The action that takes place during an average 190- mile Formula One race is unsurpassed by any other motorsport. The typical racetrack consists of 2.5 miles and 12 turns. During the lapping of this track, the 900- horsepower 1400-pound cars can reach speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour. Even when cars capable of these speeds are put into the hands of world-class drivers such as Ferrari’s Michael Shumacher and McLaren’s Mika Hakkinen, mishaps are bound to occur. This is what makes this sport so exciting to watch. Crashes however, are not the only ...
- 4905: The Philosophical Foundations
- ... severed into two parts, that his body belongs to this dimension of reality and his consciousness to a higher, spiritual realm--and 2) the logical consequence of this mind-body split, the belief that this world is utterly material and carnal, that brute, bodily means are effectual, but that the intellect, since it belongs to another world, is helpless to deal with this one, that the mind is ivory-towered, inefficacious, helpless, that its constructs may be sound in theory but are futile in practice. Just as Jesus is the perfect moral expression of this view--the weak, pacifistic, cheek-turning "lamb" in this world, but the omnipotent deity ruling the next--so Hamlet is its perfect literary expression--the brilliant philosopher-intellectual who excels in the theoretical realm but is helpless to deal with the practical. Such a ...
- 4906: The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby's Great Morals and Lack of Glamour
- ... one was ever sure. In this story, one can relate Jay's character to the author, Fitzgerald. Both want to achieve the American Dream but are unable to do it. All the money in the world cannot change the past but Gatsby and Fitzgerald learned that the hard way, They were living in a lie, which says that money can buy anything and everything, only to see that it doesn't ... buy morals or values, either. It is said that too much money can destroy one's life, which leads to isolation from reality. Jay Gatsby begins to express his lack of interest in the real world. This is because every time he is confronted by something or someone, he drifts off into this fantasy world to escape reality. He had to do this to accept himself and to fulfill his life or dream. In the story (on page 105), there is an example of this situation. "For a while, ...
- 4907: "Managemment of Grief" and "A Pair of Tickets": Women's Images
- ... time. She broke the tradition of not revealing and admitting to the feelings of love thus indicating that she disagreed with that tradition. A woman lost two sons and a husband in one day. Her world was shattered, all the dreams and hopes gone; but she still finds enough strength to comfort other people. It was pointed out many times in the story that everybody perceived Shaila as a very strong ... sorrow are concealed within, she deals with them in her own way, courageously alone. A Pair of Tickets introduced another example of female courage and strength. Intelligent and educated woman who went through horrors of war period lost her family and was forced to give up the greatest possession of all - her twin daughters. She moved to a different country, acquired a new family but never did she stop searching for ... and brave, who reached the depth of despair and lived through it. They were mothers, who harbored in their hearts eternal feeling of grief and pain for their lost children, shielding it from the outside world, showing that being a woman isn't the easiest thing in the world.
- 4908: David Livingstone
- ... 1873 Chitambo, Northern Rhodesia Life Span: 60 years, 1 month, 12 days SELDOM ARE GOD'S GREAT GIANTS HONORED by the worldbut Livingstone joins the class of men who rank as the greatest explorers the world has ever produced. Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Charles Lindbergh, Edmund Hillary, and Neil Armstrong all have thrilled the world with their exploits. Add the name of Livingstone who opened up Africa to civilization and Christianity. No wonder the natives gave him the longest funeral procession in history, after burying his heart under a tree ... the slave trade and writing another book, The Zambezi and Its Tributaries. While home, his mother died. Another tragedy in his lifeLivingstone's son Robert, who at this time was fighting in the American Civil War to free the slaves, was killed and buried at Gettysburg. Now the third phase of his explorations began to shape up. The Royal Geographical Society planned and spon-sored his last expedition, which was ...
- 4909: Darkness Be My Friend
- Darkness, Be My Friend is the fourth book in John Marsden's series consisting of Tomorrow, When the War Began, In the Dead of the Night and The Third Day, The Frost, in which seven young people are thrown into the middle of a violent war zone. Ellie, Fi, Kevin, Lee, Homer, Robyn and Corrie set out on a camping trip to a remote part of their district. They find their way into a remote basin surrounded by dangerous cliffs and difficult terrain, where they are completely safe and cut off from the rest of the world. When the teenagers return to their homes, they find that all the families in the district were abducted and locked into the show grounds by armed soldiers who are taking over Australia. After finding ...
- 4910: The Republic
- ... not by mere accident is without a state, is either a bad man or above humanity; he is like the Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one, whom Homer denounces -- the natural outcast is forthwith a lover of war; he may be compared to an isolated piece at draughts. Now, that man is more of a political animal than bees or any other gregarious animals is evident. Nature, as we often say, makes nothing ... like to distinguish between the bodies of freemen and slaves, making the one strong for servile labor, the other upright, and although useless for such services, useful for political life in the arts both of war and peace. But the opposite often happens -- that some have the souls and others have the bodies of freemen. And doubtless if men differed from one another in the mere forms of their bodies as ... be alike common. When the husbandmen are not the owners, the case will be different and easier to deal with; but when they till the ground for themselves the question of ownership will give a world of trouble. If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there ...
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