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- 10131: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
- ... a True Hero Is a hero the one who decides to stand up when everyone else is only thinking about it? Is a hero the one who retains integrity rather than give in to the worlds everyday temptations? Is a hero the picture of courage, or an example of morals? These are the questions that arise after reading the epic story of Beowulf by an anonymous author, and the romantic tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, also written by an anonymous author. The stories describe two very different heroes. Beowulf was undoubtedly a hero, but as time advanced and the world became more complicated, what constituted a hero became more shady; therefore, while he is not anything like Beowulf, Sir Gawain is also in fact a true hero. Beowulf is a hero. That is an undeniable ...
- 10132: Frederick Douglass
- ... He was internationally recognized as an uncompromising abolitionist, indefatigable worker for justice and equal opportunity, and an unyielding defender of women's rights. Douglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history. During the Civil War he helped recruit black soldiers for the Union army, afterwards supporting Reconstruction and campaigning for Republican Presidents. He was a leading figure in the abolitionist movement. Frederick Douglass created a big impact on society. He ...
- 10133: Pesticides
- ... In 1988, 60 Minutes aired an unproven report that set off a scare over the pesticide, Alar. Ten years later, the Federal Government posed that the U.S. food supply is the safest in the world. (Burros, 14) In response, a representative of the Consumer Union group disagreed and stated, that in a majority of cases, domestic produce had more, or more toxic, pesticide residues than imported produce. (Burros, 14) Consumer ... for Consumers Unions, stated to the New York Times. This is not the first publication that has set off a scare in the pesticide industry; a book by the name of Silent Spring introduced the world to the ups and downs of pesticides. Although the book opened the worlds eyes to the hazardous effects of pesticides, the matter is still unresolved. As an aide to consumers, the National Resources Defense ...
- 10134: Chernobyl
- ... have chosen this topic because nuclear power is not only an environmental issue but also a severe health issue for the citizens around the nuclear site and also for the rest of the country and world because of food products that could be grown there and used as market items. Nuclear radiation is in no way healthy to anyone. It is much more easier to develop a life threatening disease if ... The people living in these areas today are not the only ones effected, but also their unborn children will be effected as well. Is that really fair to these children, to be brought into a world and die only a few months later from a simple illness as a cold. Radiation will always be in the soil around Chernobyl, but we can prevent it from being in the people and children ...
- 10135: The Bluest Eye - Protrait Of A
- ... white means to be successful and happy, and then they look around at their own lives of poverty and oppression and learn to hate their black 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.
- 10136: The Many Aspects of Streets
- ... without a second thought in our everyday language. People do not usually think of materials, or of the uses of streets, or of the symbolism related that appears in all of the streets across the world. Streets are something we use every day and take for granted, yet our world would not function the same without them.
- 10137: Communism An Overview
- ... means of production. Society would be run by and for the people. Marx and Engels expected that this movement would happen in the most highly industrialized nations of Western Europe, the only part of the world where the conditions were ripe for these developments. This had not happened, though, and capitalism, though all its shortcomings, had been retained in Western Europe. Yet in other nations that lacked the conditions they considered ... good example of the rise and fall of communism in some countries. Yet this is not true for all. China for example, after the fall of the USSR in 1991, became the only remaining major world power with a Communist government. The Chinese government worked hard to ensure that its own system did not follow a similar demise by continuing to pursue economic policies that reduced poverty, such as allowing workers ...
- 10138: Identity In Sula
- Many works of contemporary American fiction involve one individual's search for identity in a stifling and unsympathetic world. In "Sula," Toni Morrison gives us two such individuals. In Nel and Sula, Morrison creates two individual female characters that at first are separate, grows together, and then is separated once more. Although never physically ... Sula has surprisingly few ties to hers. Nel's imagination has been so restricted that the messiness of Sula's house along with its strange inhabitants and many visitors must seem like an absolute dream world. Similarly, the tidiness of Nel's house compared with the disorderliness of her own allows Sula to "sit still as dawn." (p.29) Morrison makes it clear in these instances that "each one lacked something ...
- 10139: The Nomination of Andrew Jackson to the "Presidents Hall of Fame"
- ... At this time his political career looked over. In 1814 Jackson was a Major General in the Tennessee Militia, here he was ordered to march against the Creek Indians (who were pro-British in the war of 1812). His goal was achieved at Horseshoe Bend in March of 1814. Eventually he forced All Indians from the area. His victory's impressed some people in Washington and Jackson was put in command of the defense of New Orleans. This show of American strength made Americans feel proud after a war filled with military defeats. Jackson was given the nickname "Old Hickory", and was treated as a national hero. In 1817 he was ordered against the Seminole Indians. He pushed them back into Spanish Florida and ...
- 10140: Acid Rain, Effects And Causes
- ... lakes near Inco's nickel smelters in Sudbury have drastically improved as local levels of acid deposition have decreased over the last twenty years. In the future, it will be very important for the first world companies to lend the developing world its technology and experience, in order to make sure that the same acid rain problems do not occur as these countries consume more energy during the process of industrialization. The Government of Canada, The State ...
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