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- 10371: Veganism
- ... among family and friends. Cultural pressures, the demand for conformity, and the personal desire for acceptance can challenge a vegans confidence and self-esteem. Because vegans so acutely see and feel the suffering of the world, and are at odds with many widely accepted social customs, some will invariably experience occasional bouts of the blues. Vegans who experience anger, pain, or frustration for extended amounts of time may become depressed and ... a surgical procedure performed on about 20 % of Australia s 150 million sheep. The great majority of wool used for clothing in the United States comes from Australia, which produces nearly one-third of the world s supply. Mulesing involves cutting large strips of flesh off of the hind legs of 4 week old lambs. Another procedure is called tail docking, designed to maintain the salable condition of the wool surrounding ...
- 10372: I Have a Dream
- ... Luther Kings speech was to persuade the people listening to him and also the people all over America to join in the fight for civil rights. He also wanted to convey his idea of a world in which all men are created equal. A world in which black men can live and work along with white men in social harmony. In the introduction to his speech, Dr. King uses many parallels between his speech and Abraham Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation ...
- 10373: Ark 2
- ... him to also build a barque, also with the exact dimensions given, and instructed Noah to bring on board his family, their families, and two, a male and female, of all the animals of the world. However, there is no mention of this news of a flood coming to Noah in a dream, nor of him being permitted to bring with him any other humans besides his immediate family, and their ... are discrepancies between the two tales, the fact that both are describing the same occurance is truly remarkable and definitely says something about the cataclysmic impact which this event must have had on the ancient world.
- 10374: Rutherford B. Hayes
- ... were weary of continuing to battle southern retaliation to the reconstruction, especially when there appeared some possibility that the South was ready to give more than lip service to the rights promised by the Civil War Amendments. This bargain quickly caused an uproar by its opponents. Democrat William Clay said, "Instead of withdrawing, he should have sent more troops in there". Hayes was convinced that this policy was best for everyone ... administration, Hayes had set out his southern policy very clearly. He wanted to eliminate political acts of violence against blacks. He insisted, and believed, that white southerners would adhere to the tenets of the Civil War Amendments. He insisted that the federal government had a responsibility to provide aid for education and public improvements. He also believed it was essential that honest government by educated citizens be restored in the south ...
- 10375: Light In August By Faulkner
- ... Christmas is left confused. Because he has no idea of his origins, he has no idea of self, even to the extent of not being sure of his race. Christmas is thoroughly alone in the world, irredeemably separate from everyone. "Well, here I am" (Faulkner, p.134). This is the first thing The boy Christmas says. A fitting statement on his utter aloneness. While Christmas is emotionally alone, he is not ... scenes, that end in him "entering the negro church as Satan and that is what he has become. Man perverts the best in himself continually." (Gold, p.42). Christmas is drawn into evil, by a world that would never let him be anything else. Christmas symbolizes the cause and demonstrates the effect of man's falling. His dual coloring is an ironic emblem for the divided society in which he moves ...
- 10376: Scarlet Letter - Pearl
- ... with demon like qualities, yet she is spirited and very loving towards her mother. Hester Prynn constantly questions Pearl's existence and purpose asking God, "what is this being which I have brought into the world, evil?" or inquiring to Pearl, "Child, what art thou?" Hester sees Pearl as a reminder of her sin, especially since as an infant Pearl is acutely aware of the scarlet letter A on her mother ... is deep even though she does not always show it. Hester feels guilty because she truly believes in her heart that it is her sin causing Pearl to become aware of harsh realities of the world. Pearl responds to this harshness by defending her mother, sticking up for Hester against the Puritan children when they start to hurl mud at her. Pearl's lack of friends forces her to imagine the ...
- 10377: Georg Cantor
- ... amazing discoveries. For his work, he was promoted to full professorship in 1879. However, his new ideas also gained him numerous enemies. Many mathematicians just would not accept his groundbreaking ideas that shattered their safe world of mathematics. One of these critics was Leopold Kronecker. Kronecker was a firm believer that the only numbers were integers and that negatives, fractions, imaginaries and especially irrational numbers had no business in mathematics. He ... the century Cantor applied the tools of mathematical rigor and logical deduction to questions about infinity in search of satisfactory answers. His conclusions are paradoxical to our everyday experience, yet they are mathematically sound. The world of our everyday experience is finite. We can't exactly say where the boundary line is, but beyond the finite, in the realm of the transfinite, things are different. Sets and Set Theory Cantor is ...
- 10378: The Giver
- ... can be broken or else whoever broke it is punished or released. Only the reciever knows anything about the past. They get all the memories from the previous reciever. They are memories of things like war, love, starvation, climate, and lots of other good and bad things. Another bad thing is that they cant love anyone. Their spouses are picked for them and they consider the word love improper English ... life is really like. Once the Giver showed Jonas the memory, the memory the Giver has is gone. When Jonas started his training, he started with pleasant memories but later saw what could happen in war time and the feeling of extreme pain. The receiver before Jonas got scared and tried to run away from the town to Elsewhere. The memories she received became lost in the town. The community has ...
- 10379: The Changing Role In Viola/Ces
- ... whereas, in her female identity she would not be. Thus, a customary role in society and to the outlooks of others is portrayed. Orsino sees Cesario, as a young squire just starting out in the world, much like himself as a young, spry lad, so he has a tendency to be more willing to unload onto her with his troubles and sorrows, seeking a companion with which to share and to ... believes he shares with a peer. So, she grows to love him. But, Orsino's motivation is actually not love for Viola, but rather he seems to be in love with love itself. His entire world is filled with love but he knows that there might be a turning point for him, like when he says: If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that ...
- 10380: Red Badge Of Courage
- Belief is defined as "a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing," according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary 1998. Throughout the civil war people believed many different things. My mandala shows how the north and south believed in different things and what the characters in the book believed; furthermore, what each group or individual learned from there original ... of two separate beliefs into one common nation. The words mix into one also to represent unity. In the end I felt both the character in the book and the north and south in the war, all believed in something and fought for it. In the end the all learned from their actions. The north learned that the south had great ambition and the north felt great honor toward the south ...
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