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- 7111: Vietnam
- ... Well, this is it. Today I leave my home in Greensville, Maine for Vietnam. I am going to fight for my country. I am only nineteen years old and I know very little about the war. For better or worse I was drafted early last week. The week had started out normal, and my life seemed perfect. My girlfriend Abbey and I had been together for almost two years, and I ... was going to leave for Vietnam in one week. How could this happen to me, this wasn't part of my plan. What had I done wrong to deserve this? I had been against the war right from the start, and I couldn't imagine fighting in it. Sad, angry, and scared emotions all worked together and overwhelmed my body. I soon found myself crying. Before I knew what was going ... numb with the fear that I will have to kill another human being, or worse I myself will be shot and killed. How could my family and Abbey deal with this? Everyone here hates the war and just wants to go home to their families. Everyday dozens of men are shot or killed by land mines, and I am really becoming depressed. I have seen so many men die just ...
- 7112: The Bluest Eye: Summary
- ... not brought on by herself, but rather society and in particular, her family. Pecola Breedlove is an innocent little girl who, like very other young child, did not ask to be born in this cruel world. It is bad enough that practically the whole world rejects her, but her own parents are guilty of rejection as well. Her own father, who is constantly drunk, sexually molests his daughter more than once. The first time he has sexual intercourse with his ... be white means to be successful and happy. Then they look around at their own lives of poverty and oppression and learn to hate their own heritage for keeping them from the Dick and Jane world. Morrison does not solve these problems, nor does she even try, but she does show a reflection of a world that cannot call itself right or moral.
- 7113: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- ... the people of his time period. Thinking of things that had not already happened was something that only a witch or devil would do (Sulloway p.59). Hopkins work brought a different taste into the world of poetry and everyone will be able to appreciate his work. Most of Hopkins work had to do with religion. Although it sounds like his work should have been praised because it dealt with religion ... was such a great poet. Even if people of his time did not agree with what he wrote in his poems, his name will be preserved forever as one of the greatest poets in the world. His worked changed many views of people and it also caused more people to write about things that were on their minds instead of writing only of what they knew and had already experienced. Works ... the people of his time period. Thinking of things that had not already happened was something that only a witch or devil would do (Sulloway p.59). Hopkins work brought a different taste into the world of poetry and everyone will be able to appreciate his work. Most of Hopkins work had to do with religion. Although it sounds like his work should have been praised because it dealt with ...
- 7114: Keeping Things Whole
- ... a direct and simple was, told up what he saw." (Taylor 159). Chopin translated eight of his works and through him developed her style of writing. She shared his concept of a hero : "An isolated world-weary and misanthropic hero who revels in his own sensuality; who trusts in nature and distrusts human relationships, especially love; who experiences a sense of liberation through solitary walks and confidences in his writing... and ... note saying; "Good-bye-because I love you" (Bloom 11). Consumed by a morbid depression and unable to even care for her children, suicide enters Edna's mind. "There was no one thing in the world that she desired. There was no human being whom she wanted near her except Robert, and she even realized that the day would come when he, too, and the thought of him would melt out ... was that "A woman's personal life centers around home, husband, and children." (Nickerson 1). The Awakening challenged this notion and critics were outraged by it. Critics of the time were brutal in telling the world exactly what they thought of Chopin's controversial characters. In 1899 a reviewer for Public Opinion said he was "well satisfied with Edna's suicide because she deserved to die for her immoral behavior" ( ...
- 7115: Chloroflourocarbons
- ... of skin cancer, cataracts, and impaired immune systems, and is expected to reduce crop yields, diminish the productivity of the oceans, and possibly contribute to the decline of amphibious populations that is occurring in the world. Besides CFCs, carbon tetrachloride methyl bromide, methyl chloroform, and halons also destroy the ozone. In 1985, the degradation of the ozone layer was confirmed when a large hole in the layer over Antarctica was reported ... percent since the mid-1960's with cumulative losses of about ten percent in the winter and spring. A five percent loss occurs in the summer and autumn over North America, Europe, and Australia. The world has been forced to address this issue. Thus, the major powers of the world created a global treaty, the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer. The agreement was put into affect in 1988 and the subsequent Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone layer ...
- 7116: Written Speech On Teen Suicide
- ... religion, too much television, and too little communication between parents and children have been blamed. Absent parents, too much sexual freedom, widespread use of drugs and alcohol, too many guns, not enough love, and a world that seems hostile has also been blamed for pushing young people to their deaths. All these reasons have probably contributed to the suicides of teens, but none of them provide the final explanation as to ... Low self-esteem. People who feel good about themselves, their personality, the way they look, have high self-esteem. But those who have a negative opinion of themselves, think they have no place in the world, feel inferior to others, have low self-esteem. Often, there is no basis for low self-esteem. Talented, good looking, kind, intelligent people often suffer from it. Next, Loneliness. Lonely people are among the highest ... intelligent, even gifted teenagers. But they set such high standards for themselves that they are never able to meet them. When they fail, they become frustrated, depressed, and sometimes suicidal. Sixth, Pessimism. For pessimists the world is a trap, waiting to spring its jaws shut. Teenagers who have a pessimistic view of the world are more likely to try suicide. They see little hope for succeeding or for solving their ...
- 7117: Louis XIV
- ... for the common people of his country. Regardless of this, it is almost a matter common knowledge that Louis XIV brought France to its peak in terms of its respect and social status in the world. During his reign France became the authority on all that was proper and elegant. All of this seems trivial, but the fact is, it was very important to the people of the upper class, and as always they were controlling the world. There were several qualities that Louis XIV possessed that were found undesirable by his common subjects. His tax system weighed most heavily on the lower class, and they were often called to fight in all ... among these people, but their opinion was really not significant on the grand scheme of his plans for France. There is no question that Louis XIV took France to an entire new level in the world view. During his reign, the French empire grew vastly, and was greatly respected. To this day, he remains a French hero, and is widely viewed as the greatest monarch that ever lived. It is ...
- 7118: Stay Tuned: The Exploitation Of Children In Television Advertisements
- ... in the form of animation (Brady). The advertisements primarily directed towards the childrens' market are for toys and foods (Pediatrics 295). Studies show that children see the images on television as a window of the world, these images affect their thoughts and ideas (Pingree 253). Therefore, advertisers are manipulating children by predominantly showing advertisements that encourage materialism and eating. Research findings on how children interpret television commercials are not the only ... children can not understand the relationship between food choices and chronic nutritional diseases, advertising food products to children promotes profit rather than health (Kotz 1300). Profit seems to be the main motivation in the advertising world. The second effect advertisers promote in young children is materialism coupled often with a loss of self-sufficiency in their ability to make the best with what they have. Due to advertisers influential power on ... get other components to play effectively. The advertiser is getting the child to think in terms of quantity (Carlsson-Paige 69). This creates profit for the advertising industry and creates a materialistic view of the world for the child. Concern of the implications of television has received attention for more than 30 years. Through the pressures of children's advocacy groups, the television market has received some regulation, though minimal. ...
- 7119: The Great Gatsby - The Green L
- The green light is the vision of his goal: to have Daisy. In a world where Gatsby could essentially obtain anything with his money, Daisy presented a challenge to him, because even she could not be purchased. But when, at last, Gatsby believes that Daisy is his, he no longer ... light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one." Therefore the green light has no more symbolic meaning to him, and neither does Daisy. I don't believe that in our world today that we have an object that universally symbolizes the same meaning as the green light did. The green light was physically close to him but he thought he could never actually have it, "it ... able to endure being at a disadvantage, and given this unwillingness I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep the cool insolent smile turned towards the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard jaunty body. (Pg. 63)." Color symbolism is not very noticeable, yet it can tell a great deal about a story. In this case, the colors give ...
- 7120: Explain and Evaluate Critically Malthus's Population Theory.
- ... counts were available to subtract from natural rates of population growth, thus revealing net reproductive growth. Malthus observed that under such ideal conditions, during each 25 years the human population tends to double. So if world population is represented by 1, then after each 25 years it would be 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and so on, provided there were no limits on such "natural" rates of population increase. Food. To ... so on. In other words, food could only increase arithmetically, whereas the population if otherwise left unfettered would tend to increase geometrically. Checks on Population. Malthus concluded that, since food is necessary to human life, world population will necessarily grow slower than its natural trend. Malthus postulated two types of checks on human population growth--- positive and negative. Positive checks are increases in the death rate as a result of wars ... other words, his core conclusion was that unless people stopped multiplying, there would not be enough food, regardless of how hard they worked to produce it. Maltus's fearful prediction has not yet been fulfilled world wide, although it is a reasonable description so some countries, past and present. Although the world's population has continued to increase at a phenomenal rate, the overall food supply generally has kept pace. ...
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