|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 11471 - 11480 of 18414 matching essays
- 11471: Scarlet Letter 8
- ... contrast, Dimmesdale grew weaker. He felt he had not a soul to share with. He could not talk to Hester and Pearl, for fear his black secret would be uncovered. He was alone in the world, with no one to confide in. Dimmesdale finally chose to risk his reputation and arranged to see Hester and Pearl in the forest. After Hester took off the scarlet letter and after Dimmesdale agreed to ... contrast, Dimmesdale grew weaker. He felt he had not a soul to share with. He could not talk to Hester and Pearl, for fear his black secret would be uncovered. He was alone in the world, with no one to confide in. Dimmesdale finally chose to risk his reputation and arranged to see Hester and Pearl in the forest. After Hester took off the scarlet letter and after Dimmesdale agreed to ...
- 11472: Bootleggers Boy
- ... Ouachita River. His dad worked at the toll bridge over the river. In 1941 he and his family moved to Long Beach, California. They moved there so his dad could work on ships during the war. When the war ended he moved back to Crossett, Barry just finished the third grade. His dad went through many jobs but didn t gain any money. Then he decided to go to Louisiana and buy a few ...
- 11473: Internet Censorship
- ... cartoons to pornography, internet is a place that has no limits and if used properly can bring great joy and can have useful purposes. If used wrong, this wonderful place turns into a dirty little world. Internet in schools is has endless learning possibilities. (Heller) This is a whole new line of information, but if this privilege is abused we may not be able to see kids learning faster and easier ... down on pornographic cites but they cannnot ban porn straight out of the internet, after all it is a right. This is all legal because the internet does not belong to anyone but to the world . Thirty years ago, when youngsters wanted to see pictures of bare-naked ladies, it required no small measure of ingenuity.-Bruce Handy. Nowadays kids just turn on their computers and within two clicks they are ...
- 11474: Stanley Renshons' High Hopes: Clinton's Actions
- ... dealing with many different types of situations, they are a person's goals. "Ideals are aspirations that are often easier to hold in the abstract than they are to live by the face of real-world temptations and disappointments" (41). I feel that one's ideals are obtained early on in one's life. In Clinton's experiences, those who influenced him and prepossessed his ideals the most were his mother ... the limits of government. In the recent past we have learned again the hard lessons that there are limits to what government can do-indeed, limits to what people can do. We live in a world in which limited resources, limited knowledge and limited wisdom must grapple with the problems of staggering complexity (66). I feel that this quote has more to do with Clinton protecting himself and all of his ...
- 11475: El Nino
- ... to 5 years, lasting anywhere from 12-18 months. The El Nino or El Nino southern oscillation(enso) phenomenon is a disruption in the eastern equatorial pacific, which contributes to major climatical changes throughout the world. During the disruption, trade winds weaken over the central Pacific Ocean, resulting in a dramatic rise in the ocean temperatures and a depression of the thermocline in the pacific. The thermocline is the layer of ... already descendeing food chain on our earth, the warming water also effects the atmosphere, resulting in more extreme temperatures, more rain, and more drought periods, costing more money to our already debted economy, and the world. An example (demonstrated here by alaska) brought about by the extreme temperatures was during the 1976-77 el nino, which brought severe cold to the polar regions. The polar regions were so cold, that the ...
- 11476: Macbeth A Story Of Our Time
- ... of obedience, to name but a few. Macbeth is no exception. It is an example of lust for power and the destruction that follows in its wake. We have many contemporary examples of this in world dictators, military juntas and corporate criminals. So Macbeth can be seen as having contemporary significance. We may now ask why the works of Shakespeare enjoy an undiminishing acceptance in most countries of the world and an aura of immortality. It is perhaps because we see in Shakespeare the mirror of the human condition with which we may all identify and gain a sense that in some strange way his ...
- 11477: Police Brutality
- ... of this research paper is took look at some police brutality cases and try to determine how big of a problem it is. This is just four cases of thousands of cases all over the world. So the answer is police brutality is a big problem and should be stopped by whatever means necessary. Work Cited Brancato, Gilda and Elliot E. Polebaum The Rights Of Police Officers New york, A.C.L.U. 1981 Streisand, Betsy L.A. Chooses Sides : Cops vs. Aliens U.S. News and World Report Aprill 1996 10 Bruning, Fred Rogue Cops and Civillan Beatings Newsday April, 1996 : 15. Daher, Kate Justice For Jonny {htpp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ ~pshell/gammage/flyer.htlm October 1995. Winters, Paul A. Policing ...
- 11478: The Effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- ... allowed positions of influence or leadership roles in society. Legend holds that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1682 he said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war". The impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin did more to arouse antislavery sentiment in the N orth and provoke angry rebuttals in the south than any other event in antebellum era. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 ... was only a matter of time before conflict came to a head. Differing views about the institution of slavery contributed to the growing rift between the north and south. This chasm became the American Civil War. Uncle Tom's Cabin gave a powerful and moving voice to the Abolition movement. It shook out of complacently northerners and southerners alike, and forced a nation to look within its collective soul at the ...
- 11479: Platinum
- ... A considerable amount of the platinum used in the United States goes into jewelry, in which it is often alloyed with gold. It is also used for dental fillings. Platinum is mined all over the world; in the late 1980s the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and South Africa were the leading producers. Canada, with mines in Ontario, where platinum is associated with nickel ore, ranked third in world production. Other leading producers are Colombia and the United States.
- 11480: Land Ethics In Our Communities
- ... people proclaiming their ethics about the treatment of this planet. I have yet to see a serious and unwavering campaign to stop placing ourselves so high up the evolutionary ladder that the fate of the world we live in, will eventually crumble, as will our race and every other animal along with us. Michael Soule stated in his article, What is Conservation Biology (1985), that we cannot change the past, but ... businesses recycle, and teaching farmers alternative ways to take care of their crops, such as using bats instead of pesticides to keep insects off of their plants. Each culture responds differently to the problems our world is facing. Each generation is hopefully one step closer to saving this planet. We, as the human race, need to adopt the idea of cooperating with our land, rather than competing in a free for ...
Search results 11471 - 11480 of 18414 matching essays
|
