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- 2781: Sex Marriage
- ... are created equal. Does this exclude homosexuals? Many think so simply because they believe that marriage is not a right, but a privilege. This argument means that because gays are not going to bring a child into the world, they do not deserve the privilege of marriage. Those that oppose this argument see marriage in a different way. They believe that if you love someone, you have the right to bond ... if a genetic cause of homosexuality is proven, steps will be taken to "correct that genetic defect"(Time, 1995). One of the biggest fears among gays is that pregnant women will be told that her child is going to be gay, and she will choose to abort it. They also fear that employers will begin to discriminate based on sexual orientation. As of now, you cannot tell someone's sexual preference ...
- 2782: Thomas Jefferson
- ... the authorities, rights and liberties reserved to the States respectively or to the people." These views were not only those of Jefferson, but of Patrick Henry, George Mason and nearly all leading Virginians. Kentucky, the child of her loins, seconded the action of Virginia, urged thereto by Jefferson who moulded her resolutions. The revolt against the measures was so widespread that the Alien act was repealed in 1800, and the Sedition ... That country was groveling under the heel of one of the most hideous systems that the baseness of man ever conceived. Who has not read of the nobleman who, when his coachman ran over a child and crushed out its life, was only concerned lest its blood should soil his carriage, or of the poor peasants who were compelled to beat the bogs all night long, to prevent the frogs from ...
- 2783: Miyamoto Musashi
- ... in 1584 in the village of Miyamoto in the province of Mimasake. Musashi’s full name was Ben no suke Shimmen Genshin no Fujiwara no Kami Miyamoto Musashi Masana no Kensei. When Musashi was a child his mother died when he was six years old and his father abandoned the family a year after her death. Musashi was raised by a number of family members and started to train in the ... big and strong for a boy of his age. But with this strength and size came aggression. Musashi was not known a calm and mannerly youth. Rather he was considered a troublemaker and a uncontrollable child by the town elders. Musashi used his strength and demeanor in his first real duel with a known samurai when he was thirteen years of age. He fought against Arima Kigei from the Shinto Ryu ...
- 2784: Making Decisions
- ... person’s life is whether or not to start a family. With having children many concerns arise; is it the right time, how many should they have, and do they feel they can support a child? A person must come to realize all the responsibilities that having a child come with. Having children is a major decisions that not everyone is ready for. Many decisions can be made within a few moments without a second thought. However, there are decisions that a person must ...
- 2785: The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism
- ... do no wrong. Not only Hester, but the physical scarlet letter, a Puritanical sign of disownment, is shown through the author's tone and diction as a beautiful, gold and colorful piece. Pearl, Hester's child, is portrayed Puritanically, as a child of sin who should be treated as such, ugly, evil, and shamed. The reader more evidently notices that Hawthorne carefully, and sometimes not subtly at all, places Pearl above the rest. She wears colorful clothes ...
- 2786: Amazing Grace
- ... exercise, breast-feeding, and infant care, which, says a nurse, are not provided to the patients on the fourth floor. On the fifth floor a nurse is instructed not to document the fact of alcohol abuse in making out a patient’s record. On the fourth floor, in contrast, ‘nurses…note for the records a mother’s drug or alcohol abuse’ and notify welfare officials if a mother uses drugs.” (p. 177) Education is also in a severe predicament in this area. With major overcrowding, students find themselves trying to learn while jammed into spaces not ...
- 2787: Holden’s Revelations
- ... Holden’s ideas change. He realizes that, unfortunately, he cannot escape the world. While talking to Phoebe outside the museum, Holden tells her that she cannot run away with him. Ironically, it is an "innocent" child that he is trying to protect, who helps him come to terms with that comprehension. He tells her it is going to be hard to find a place to live. As he is telling Phoebe ... the corrupted world which always "wears" a shiny surface to hides its evil. It is at this point that Holden realizes that he cannot prevent children from growing up and losing their innocence. If a child falls, no one can do anything about it. Shortly after this point, Holden has his nervous breakdown. This is due to a depressing discovery that the world is corrupt and filled with evil. He knows ...
- 2788: Teenagers Wasting 2.3 Million
- ... main cause of this destruction of youth is the crumbling of families. No more “Wait until your father gets home from work and ask him” but “I wonder if we’re going to see a child support check before Christmas.” With the divorce rate skyrocketing, us kids are feeling more like burdens than blessings. All the problems divorce causes can rip apart a child, and leave him/her craving attention, whether it is negative or positive. To make it worse, while the only parent they live with is working, the two kids turn into a huge group of people ...
- 2789: Faust and Victor Frankenstein: Unconcerned With Reality
- ... treasures, nor worldly honors or earthly pleasures; no dog would want to live this way! (p. 95) The moment Faust sees Gretchen he falls hopelessly in love with her: By heaven, she's beautiful, this child! I have never seen her parallel. (p.73). The feeling of passion, however, is not mutual, and Faust realizes that his simple looks and personality will not attract Gretchen; rather he must deceive and manipulate ... his dreams, by finally completing his creation. Ironically, the attainment of his goal actually causes great stress and agony in his life, for the monster, unwanted and unloved, returns to his creator. Frankenstein loses his child, his servant and finally his wife to the monster. Neither Frankenstein nor Faust is able to completely remove himself from society, nor remain dedicated to his dreams and goals. Neither man is destined to become ...
- 2790: Biography: St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
- ... reduced to poverty when Alfonso was still young. At the age of twenty-six he married Mary Suarez, a woman of his own station, and at thirty-one found himself a widower with one surviving child, the other two having died previously. From that time he began a life of prayer and mortification, although separated from the world around him. On the death of his third child his thoughts turned to a life in some religious order. Previous associations had brought him into contact with the first Jesuits who had come to Spain, Bl. Peter Faber among others, but it was apparently ...
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