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- 6631: Manuscript For Experimental Ps
- ... make sure equal number of both sexes conduct the experiment. A larger population would also be beneficial to increase the external validity of the study. In addition, conducting the study in various parts of the world (rural, urban, 1st world countries, 3rd world countries etc.) would definitely bring about more concrete support in determining how gender and the number of bystanders affect helping behavior. Helping behaviors is important and in today's 'dog eat dog' world, it ...
- 6632: Another 1984
- ... their lives to try and recapture what we take for granted today. Winston and Bernard try to keep their individuality and recapture through their jobs, and the way they live. Both 1984 and Brave new World show us that we must be careful to protect our ideas and way of life. Through the two main characters, Winston and Bernard, the authors show the readers that once tyranny takes hold reality and ... metal etching of a church, a bookshelf filled with ancient tomes. Winston and Julia use these items as constant reminders of the past they are longing for. They believe that they can safely enter this world, separate from the one of the Party and Big Brother. In their mind it is a safe haven, in reality it is a rat, pest and filth ridden slum. It is not even safe from ... control their own lives, just like society where no one has a control. Bernard didn’t have a nostalgic apartment, what he had was a way of life contrary to others. No one in his world wanted to worry about anything. They would drown their worries in the pleasure drug Soma. What Bernard would do is think about his problems, tell them to his friend, and find other ways to ...
- 6633: Maurice Sendak
- Maurice Sendak may be the best-known children's author / illustrator in the world today. His artwork has become somewhat of an American icon; some even became the basis of an advertising campaign for Bell Atlantic. This extremely gifted genius was actually cultivating within Sendak since his childhood, and ... dreams, imagination, drawing, etc. This allows children to be who they want to be. Along with In The Night Kitchen, Sendak's most famous book Where The Wild Things Are exemplifies a child's dream world at best. One of Sendak's earlier stories, The Sign On Rosie's Door, exemplifies a child guided by her own imagination and features, "Real children, playing only as real children know how". Only Sendak ... Rosie, she is now, "Alinda, the lovely lady singer." She has a certain charisma about her with which she can impose her fantasy on her less-imaginative friends and bring them into them in her world. She is by far the most popular child on the block because she makes the boring summer days more fun with the imaginary scenarios she creates. This book inspired an animated film called Really ...
- 6634: Sports Entertainment ( Wrestli
- ... ENTERTAINMENT Years ago sports-entertainment in the form of wrestling, was just another small business traveling through small towns entertaining few crowds. Now sports-entertainment is a multi-billion dollar business traveling all around the world and watched by billions of fans as the number one show on cable television. During its rise to the wrestling has undergone many changes, these changes may also be the demise of the World Wrestling Federation. The critics say that these changes are setting a very bad example to the young fans. Wrestling is not supposed to be real, it is not ment to be real. True fans know ... school teacher and wrestling fan Raymond Butler, some kids do copy the move, but he say the don't go overboard , "I don't see them jumping off tables or anything." According to the WWF ( World Wrestling Federation ) their target audience is between the ages of 18 and 34, although much of the fans are teens. With RAW's rating of 14+ I do not see why wrestling is such ...
- 6635: Homeless 2
- Outcast of Society As the world population grows exponentially, people are finding it harder to maintain a job and a place to live. Many must face the harsh reality of having to live on the streets. Others are fortunate enough to ... of income then the government should make it mandatory to donate so much of their money to a charity that can help people less fortunate. For instance, Bill Gates is the wealthiest man in the world. He has a net worth that topples over ninety billion dollars. If he were to donate thirty billion dollars in helping out the poor, he could place hundreds of homeless people in homes and still ... in New York, only a mere twenty-seven percent of the crimes against homeless people are solved, while sixty-seven percent are solved about people who are not homeless. This chilling survey suggests that the world today does not care if homeless men and women are being beaten or killed. Sadly these are only a few hardships homeless people must face. As the population grows rapidly, we as a society ...
- 6636: John Paul Jones: The Undaunted Sailor
- ... am confident you will join me." Jones did not like being idle at all. He wished to stretch his fame around the country by capturing vessels along the coasts of Britain and to bring the war to a quick end. Jones knew that the navy would be most effective if it was to prey on British commerce and raid Britain's coast. In broad strategic terms Jones proposed a plan that ... to secure the coast and cut off the enemies supplies while our army settled the account current. During his cruise along the British coast, his efforts proved to play a huge role in the Revolutionary War. On April 24th 1778, John Paul Jones spotted the HMS Drake and enticed it into battle. When the Drake came within firing range, Jones ordered his men to shoot grapeshot at the masts and sails ... be a gentleman as well as a qualified seaman in decisions and practice. According to Jones, one who was not capable of communicating his ideas on paper was not ready to command a ship of war. Jones also wanted to change the ranking system of the navy. He felt that if there were more steps in the advancement of ranks, young men would be able to experience a sense of ...
- 6637: Lincoln's Battle With His Cabinet
- ... regarded by many historians as the greatest president ever to stand at America's helm. This reputation is extremely well deserved, as Lincoln was able to preserve the Union and gain victory in the civil war, despite his fighting an uphill battle against his own presidential cabinet. Had he not been struggling against this divided government, President Lincoln could have achieved victory with extreme efficiency and a minimum of wanton bloodshed ... back for quite a scorcher." He grew so furious with the President's capable rule that he finally resigned his position (Williams 202). Another weak link in Lincoln's cabinet was his first secretary of war, Simon Cameron. He was considered an honest politician, being that he "would stay bought when he was bought." His reputation as a swindler caused dissent among the cabinet, and he permitted so much inefficiency and ... an excuse to relieve him of his post (Angle, 660). Cameron's successor, Edwin M. Stanton was a man who shared Seward's initial opinion of the President, but who made an excellent secretary of war. Prior to his appointment, Stanton had strongly criticized Lincoln, and mistrusted his motives. In fact, he was later accused of masterminding the plot to assassinate Lincoln. Although no proof was found to substantiate the ...
- 6638: Emily Dickinson 3
- The complex fate of human beings in this tragic yet beutiful world and the possible fortunes of the human spirit in a subsequent life is what interests us all in life, and this is the central theme in most of Emily Dickinsons work. In her enticing poetry ... a blushing virgin. This must be a 'stealthy Wooing,' for though she knows it will result ina glorious new status for her, she is vaguely aware that it will mean a renunciation of all the world she has known. She shows a maidenly resereve by the manner in which she forces to conduct his courtship, by 'palid imnnuendoes' and a 'dim' approach.' But he does win at last and attains his ... see that the speaker is repelled by the suit, thus death is something which she can not be rid of. In this poem we can see that the speaker's willingness to give up this world is continent upon her recognition of the requirement of doing so. Thus in this poem, death is not really a loss for the dying person but is rather a reunion. The speaker does not ...
- 6639: African-American Literature, M
- ... comparisons can be drawn between the novels Meridian, by Alice Walker, and Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. The protagonists of both books are African-American females searching in a confused, bewildered world. Meridian is the story of the title character’s life from childhood to the Civil Rights Movement while Eyes chronicle Janie’s ever-evolving character from life with a white family in the Deep South ... was when Meridian decided that her community, her life for the past 20 years, was not her. She became aware of the Civil Rights movement and of “the past and present of a much larger world” (73). She was to connect with the community through activism, no longer through helpless subservience. She put her baby up for adoption and left to join the movement that would truly connect her with her ... allowed her to, upon her return to Eatonville after Tea Cake’s death, “pull in her horizon like a great fish-net” and to “call in her soul to come and see” (Both 184) the world and community she had once been so removed from. She had finally, at page 184 in the very final paragraph, found her connection to the world and to her own soul. The need to ...
- 6640: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: The chosen task is number 6- a book reviewed by a newspaper (my own doing). A unique cooperation between the New- York Times, the most influential newspaper in the world, Mark Twain, one of the most popular novelists ever lived: Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel about a young boy’s coming of age in the Missouri of the mid-1800s. It is the story of Huck’s struggle to win freedom for himself and Jim, a Negro slave. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was Mark Twain’s greatest book, and a delighted world named it his masterpiece. To nations knowing it well - Huck riding his raft in every language men could print - it was America’s masterpiece (Allen 259). It is considered one of the greatest novels because ... depiction of adolescent life. The novel resumes Huck’s tale from the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which ended with Huck’s adoption by Widow Douglas. But it is so much more. Into this book the world called his masterpiece, Mark Twain put his prime purpose, one that branched in all his writing: a plea for humanity, for the end of caste, and of its cruelties (Allen 260). Mark Twain, whose ...
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