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- 10261: Camus' "The Stranger": Choice and Individual Freedom Are Integral Components of Human Nature
- ... individual freedom are integral components of human nature, and the commitment and responsibility that accompany these elements are ultimately the deciding factors of the morality of one's existence. Meursault is placed in an indifferent world, a world that embraces absurdity and persecutes reason; such is the nature of existentialist belief, that rationalization and logic are ultimately the essence of humanity, and that societal premonitions and an irrelevant status quo serve only to ...
- 10262: Henry James Book Report
- ... somehow feel that they are being independent. Isabel justifies her intentions of staying with Osmond, despite her great unhappiness, with the following explanation: "One must accept one's deeds. I married him before all the world; I was perfectly free; it was impossible to do anything more deliberate. One can't change that way" ( The Portrait of a Lady, 521). The very appropriate metaphor of being trapped in a cage is ... Lily ponders 'the great gilt cage in which they were all huddled for the mob to gape at'( The House of Mirth, 51). Wharton emphasizes Lily's awareness in the following line: 'How alluring the world outside the cage appeared to Lily as she heard its door clang on her'( 51) ! Isabel is trapped because she has money and Lily is trapped because she does not. However, Isabel has fewer barriers ...
- 10263: John L Lewis
- ... also including the before nonunion South. This campaign was trying to get the coal miners of America to regain their trust is the union. After WWII had broken out and the Americans had entered the war, the UMWA singed the no strike pledge. Coal production was booming but the accident rate was up to, also the miners were sinking farther and farther into poverty because of growing inflation. In 1943, John ... effect the national coal reserves. Cause of these walkouts congress passed the Smith-Connally Act, which subjected unions to tighter regulations about strikes. John did get health care and pensions from these strikes. After the war the need and use of coal was dropping drastically. With this happening many men left the union to get other jobs, this weakened the stability of the union. John was approaching his 80th birthday and ...
- 10264: Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim Prediction of the Future
- ... into a protest against a quasi-utopian society and a totalitarian government. The book appears to be a satire at the start, similar to books such as “Gulliver’s Travels”, or Huxley’s “Brave New World”, but all too quickly the reader will “discover, quite unpleasantly, that it is not a satire at all.” Nineteen Eighty-four is not simply a criticism of what Orwell saw happening in his national government ... consequences of the contemporoary political paths we are following, or were at the time the book was written. The bombs in Nineteen Eighty-Four symbolize Orwell’s pent up rage about everything in the political world from the disasterous state of unemployment of the 1930’s, to the ignorance of the leftist intelligensia, stupidly justifing Stalinism. Some literary critics have attributed the book’s extreme grimness to Orwell’s declining Health ...
- 10265: The Adults Are Always Right?
- ... television." Kids hear: "nag nag nag nag nag nag nag." They think of us as being lazy, and irresponsible, selfish and useless. Some adults quiver when they hear how we will one day run this world. What makes us lazy, the fact that we watch an hour of television after a hard day at school, before eating dinner and doing our homework? Why are we irresponsible, because we don't have ... over-exaggerate and all but what can we do about technology? Is it our fault it exists? They don't understand how times have changed, and how kids are growing up in this, the modern world. They grow up with music, and sports, and fast cars. Adults criticize these kids. Just the other day I was at the mall and two Greek women were talking about how I looked and what ...
- 10266: Gays In the Military
- ... that hinders the military from fulfilling this role is a potential threat to national security and must be looked at in an objective manner. The military's attitude towards homosexuals dates back to the Revolutionary War when General George Washington approved the discharge and court martial of an officer for attempted sodomy. Every year more than 800 service members are separated from the military based on sexual orientation. The Department Of ... Homosexuals are being persecuted in the military for being different from the mainstream, just as blacks were maltreated in the 1940's and 50's" ( Duke A1, House Of Representatives 95-21). From the Revolutionary War to present day homosexuals have served in the military with distinction and pride. Yet although many have died in defense of the principles upon which our nation was founded they are being denied the fundamental ...
- 10267: Nicholas: The Last Tsar
- ... abdication. The Deputies ordered the arrest of Nicholas II and the members of the Romanov dynasty on March 3, 1917. The family and everyone who remained with them were to be isolated from the outside world within the confines of Alexander's Palace, complete with an inside and outside guard. However, soon after, rumours were spreading that claimed the imperial family had escaped to England. Therefore, the provisional government sent the ... a pre-selected gravesite. Thus, within a time span of just over a year, both the rule and lives of the imperial family were ended by revolutionaries, and one of the greatest dynasty's the world has ever known came to an end.
- 10268: Assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar
- ... for one year. During this time he defeated Pompey. In 45 B.C. the Senate made him consul for ten years, but in 44 B.C. after winning his final victory and pacifying the Roman world, Caesar decided to became dictator for life. This prompted Gaius Cassius and Marcus Junius Brutus to plot an assassination to preserve the Roman Republic. On March 15, 44 B.C. Julius Caesar was killed in ... power. Eventually Octavius "Augustus" Caesar became sole emperor of Rome, and from there out Rome declined. Bibliography: [1] Funk & Wagnalls Corp. (1994). "Caesar, Gaius Julius", Microsoft ® Encarta. [2] Perry, Marvin. (1988) "A History of the World", Houghton Mifflin Company. [3] Concord Reference Books, Inc. "The New American Desk Encyclocpedia", Signet Classics & Nal Books
- 10269: The Life of King David
- ... wolf tried to steal a sheep, he didn't run, he stood his ground and killed the wolf. One day his father told him to go to the land where his brothers were fighting a war against the Philistines. When he got there, he saw the giant Goliath cursing God and making fun of the Hebrew warriors. David was the only person there with enough courage to fight Goliath. With God ... s help David killed Goliath with a sling and a stone from a brook nearby. When he killed Goliath, the Philistines were really scared. They all fled for their lives and the Hebrews won the war. During David's life he makes many friends. One of the people who was David's friend was king Saul. David played his harp for Saul and made him feel better when life was getting ...
- 10270: Tourism In New Zealand
- ... motivate tourists to think of our country as a destination which will be able to satisfy their needs. The Nature of Tourism There is not really a universally accepted definition of tourism. In 1994 the World Tourism Organization (WTO) revised its definition. It says the tourism comprises of the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure ... market, fostering regional development and maintaining much of the tourism infrastructure used by overseas tourists . Structure of the Tourism Industry There are a number of major international organizations, which are primarily involved with tourism. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the biggest. WTO began in its current state in 1975 but was previously known as the International Union of Official Travel, which began in 1925. The current objective of the WTO ...
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