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- 7501: Mob Involvement With Prohibition
- ... longer did they have to rely on robbery, brothels and cons. There was a whole new business out there and it was making millions. Prohibition also united the American people more than anything since the World War. Everyone, from the poor to the rich, united to break the law. Even the police, yeah sure they will serve and protect, unless they find a better deal. The police were letting alcohol be made ...
- 7502: Human Nature Is Inherently Bad
- ... described as basically atrocities of the century Freud lived in. In example the invasion of the Huns, as a brutal entity designed to portray Man's innately evil nature. And the atrocities of the First World War. Freud's view of Man is an evil one. And that all Men are innately evil and aggression lies within the human as a part of his nature. Our inclination to aggression is apparent in ...
- 7503: View From The Bridge 2
- ... with his brother Rodolpho to work as longshoremen, since at the time (the play was written in 1955) his country of origin, Italy, was going through a major economic depression because of the outcome of World War II. In the play, we are told that Marco's plan is to make enough money to survive and be able to send some of that money to his wife and his three kids back ...
- 7504: Behind Closed Doors: The Correlation Between Multiple Personality Disorder and Child Abuse
- ... with it head on. Ideally, this step allows multiples to become a well-rounded individual who is capable of handling problems on their own without help from the alters. However, it is not an ideal world. Very few MPD sufferers ever achieve total integration. The personalities that have integrated disappear, leaving behind their best traits. Those personalities that have resisted tend to regress until their presence is no longer felt. While ... were able to confirm allegations of parental abuse in 17 out of 20 reported cases. The earlier treatment begins the easier it is to recover, but it isn't commonly until early hood that the world of multiples begins to collapse. While many multiples continue to deny that there is anything wrong with them, those who are brave enough to seek help are among the strongest individuals known. They risk their entire world, but what they gain is immeasurable. They need to recognize that they are worthy, and understand that they are heroes just to be alive. REFERENCES 1. Chase, Truddi. When Rabbit Howls. Jove Books. New ...
- 7505: History Of The Detective Novel
- ... and powers of deduction. These characteristics have helped make Holmes not only the greatest detective of all time, but also the most famous, real or fictional. This greatest of sleuths was first introduced to the world in A Study in Scarlet (1887) which appeared in the 1887 Beeton s Christmas Annual; the story begins with Holmes meeting Dr. Watson, who is destined to become his life-long friend and partner. Soon ... house clue puzzle school, where the outcome of the book rested more on the intelligence and thought processes of the hero, which was usually an amateur. Agatha Christie was responsible for creating many of the world's best-selling mystery books. One of her most famous detectives was a diminutive, meticulous Belgian named Hercule Poirot. Poirot is famous for using his "little grey cells" to tackle his cases. His first English ... the 1930 s, especially Black Mask. Although his cynical detective/narrator changed names many times over the years before finally becoming Philip Marlowe, he remains the one hero in Chandler's dark and traitorous literary world. After Chandler's death, his stories were collected and published under the title Killer in the Rain (1964). Before the book was released, all of the narrators names were changed to Phillip Marlowe. In ...
- 7506: Minstrels
- ... they were accompanied by jongleurs who played musical instruments. The musical instruments the jongleurs played were the fiddle and the lute. The subject of their songs were based on topics such as love ,politics, religion, war, and death. Approximately 400 melodies and 4000 poems have been preserved from medieval troubadours (Microsoft Encarta 96 Encyclopedia.) The German version of the Troubadour was the meistersinger. The meaning of meistersinger is master singer. The ... themselves with harps. Their chief form of expression was poetic alliteration or rhyme. By the 1700's the bards were no longer popular. A famous playwright, William Shakespeare, is often called the Bard of Avon (World Book Encyclopedia pp. 109.) Today bards are often seen and heard at folk festivals. The decline of minstrels was due to that of modernization. The printing press created news papers, books, and other media, so ...
- 7507: Creation Vs. Evolution
- Creationism vs. Evolution The majority of people in this world believe that a spiritual being created earth. In fact, "most religions and cultures believe the universe was created by a 'creative hand,' either a sky god or some other physical object" (Encarta 1). Think of ... through sustained changes in form and function (Encarta 2). Thomas Robert Malthus first stated that the human population was growing too fast for the food supply. This, he said, "Is regulated by disease, famine, and war" (Infopedia 1). Darwin applied this to animals and plants and came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection. His theory stated that the children of a species intensely compete for survival. Those young ...
- 7508: Hills Like White Elephants
- ... little air in" and it was perfectly simple. The man's discussion was simply to say for himself that he would not have any responsibility for her. He felt very distant from her and the world. He reassured her that things would be like they were "in old times." His point of view was that it was good to get past the "trouble" he and the girl caused. The girl in ... it takes to please the man. She is nervous but is in denial; she tries to reassure herself. She feels the man s distance from her and tries to draw him back in to her world. The setting was very important in "Hills like White Elephants" and contained a lot of symbolism. One of the first comments the girl made was that the hills were "lovely", and "looked like white elephants ... the couple had to overcome in their relationship. Hemingway often mentioned the bead curtain between the couple and the workers in the bar. This was the separation between the couple and the rest of the world. The woman who worked on the bar would enter in once and a while, but always in a fleeting moment and never stayed for long. Later in the story, the girl again mentioned the ...
- 7509: Societies Scapegoat
- ... the most obvious source of violence within a home is the television. However, in most cases it is not the true cause. With the TV in the forefront of virtually every home in the civilized world, it's no wonder that it's the easiest target for criticism. It's elementary to blame the tube for a child's behavior; it's a quick and easily identified source of violence within a youths confined world. The TV many times is identified as the cause of aggressive acts to avoid dealing with other underlying issues. Society today has an entire array of different afflictions that plague us from day to day ... hero, it's not the TV's fault!!! (Your kid probably has less common sense than a lemming.) Violence on TV is both unavoidable and necessary for children to learn about their ever changing hostile world. The only question to be asked is, "when is a child mature enough to watch certain programs?" A change in children's programming is not likely to occur any time soon. It's up ...
- 7510: Outdoors Or TV?
- ... long. They don't spend enough time outdoors, hunting, fishing, surfing, and doing all those fun exciting things. The outdoors offers so much to do and takes your mind off reality and into the fun world. When you are outdoors you are free as a bird and there aren't too many rules. The one rule I go by is; “have fun.” When you're outdoors you don't have to ... If you are outdoors you can't watch TV. That means that there would be fewer kids wanting to join gangs and probably less violence. That would stop allot of killing and stealing in this world if every body went outdoors instead of watching TV. Just think, what if kids spent their time outside rather than watching TV and learning how to steal and kill. Maybe our world would become a safer place. Instead of watching TV, I spend my time outside. It is allot more fun then learning how to fight and kill each other.
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