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- 11561: A New Generation
- ... first Roman Catholic accomplishments was the formation of the Peace Corps, which sent young American volunteers abroad to help less developed nations raise their standard of living. This organization did more than combat the Cold War, it created nations. Although this was an important organization, many feel that it was created to maintain the support of the younger American and to add to his image as a people pleaser. The space ... He threatened the Soviets with the result of WWII if they attacked the U.S. missiles were drawn, and JFK promised that the U.S. would never invade Cuba. He feared appearing weak, consequently risking war, and strongly so quickly. I believed from reading the book, that JFK's only major accomplishments were the Peace Corps and the space program, with his foreign issues full of flaws and mistakes. From my ...
- 11562: A Raisin In The Sun
- ... the Sun, the playwright Lorraine Hansberry depicts the life of an impoverished African American family living on the south side of Chicago. The Youngers, living in a small apartment and having dreams larger than the world in which the live, often use verbal abuse as a way to vent their problems. Many times, this verbal abuse leads to unnecessary conflict within the family. The most frequently depicted conflict is that between ... are portrayed in the play. Above all, the conflict between Walter and Beneatha is the most frequently depicted. Nonetheless, the conflict that is endured in this play could be easily identified by anyone in the world. Resentment, jealousy, and disagreement are all feelings evident throughout the play. The theme of conflict is one that is hard to endure, yet is very prominent and realistic throughout A Raisin in the Sun.
- 11563: Frankenstein: Good and Bad Choices
- ... it pure evil, but in reality, Victor made his being evil. When Prometheus opens the box that his bother sends to him (Pandora's box) he lets out all the evil things that corrupt the world. Frankenstein can be compared to Prometheus. Both Frankenstein and Prometheus made things that undoughtily went wrong. Frankenstein made the being and by the end of the book the being had turned out to be an ... and are left to die but neither one of them are able to die and have no way of getting out of the situations they are in. Everything is made up of choices. In the world today there are good choices and there are bad choice. Everyone has to make choices and through Prometheus and through Victor Frankenstein anyone can see what happens when you make the wrong choice.
- 11564: Ireland An Expansion Through
- ... number, stretching across vast territories that would become in time the countries of France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, would be numerous. (192) For it would be Columbanus that would truly spread Christianity throughout the western world, setting precedent in Italy where the holy city of the Vatican would later come. It was in this way that Ireland saved civilization, through their solidarity in the Christian religion. Which allowed them to expand ... and their ideals. Ireland as a country fostered the ideas of Patrick, Columcille, and Columbanus and allowed themselves to become one with those ideals. It was these Irishman that would spread their faith throughout the world from the eyes of Ireland. They not only had a God that would believe in them but they also had a country that would support them. For as Reinhold Neibuhr says in the foreword of ...
- 11565: An American Epidemic
- ... children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children. Between 1979 and 1993, guns killed more than 60,000 children, a figure greater than the number of Americans killed in the Vietnam War. Also, a child in the United States is 15 times as likely to die as a result of gunfire than is a child in war-torn Northern Ireland. The statistics only succeed in proving what is becoming incredibly obvious; guns have become the clearest evidence of a growing despair among many American teenagers. As one young man puts it, That ...
- 11566: "The Typical Abnormal Teen"
- ... the developing of their physical selves, their changing mental awareness, and their responses to many outside factors. Some of these factors are relationships, peer pressure, sexuality and spirituality. There are many different people in the world and it can be very difficult to term one type as the "norm". While the average household can be statistically described as one husband, one wife, 2.4 children, and so forth, it can be ... adulthood. The inability to be understood is one of the trademark characteristics of the typical teenager. Throughout the novel, Holden acts the way he does because no one seems to share his view of the world; no one understands what is going on in his head. Holden also uses colloquial speech instead of forming sentences with proper words and grammar. Many reviews of The Catcher in the Rye say Holden's ...
- 11567: The Future of NASA
- ... years from now, NASA's space program will not be so far advanced that people will be able to beam around the Universe or travel through time. However, unless something goes terribly wrong with the world, it is expected to advance tremendously. New, high-tech designs for rockets will make them more environmentally safe. Rockets will also be recycled and reused. Systems retrieving parts of rockets that are today, left behind ... solar-powered energy sources will also be available. Space Internet may be created, so that astronomers and anyone else that happens to be in space can upload pictures and chat with the rest of the world while they are actually in outer space. In general, there is a bright future in store for NASA, with new and advanced technology waiting around the bend of the twenty-first century.
- 11568: Elie Wiesel
- ... tried to look at it positively and saw it as A little Jewish Republic(Wiesel 9). People tried to live as normal and felt they would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war. However this would not be the case. Elie's father brought news to his family that they would be deported and the ghetto was to be destroyed. They did not know where they were going ... and hopefully one day have liberation. They were assigned to Block 17 and told to go to sleep for the evening. The words of the Pole did boost moral and there were hopes that the war was almost over. The next day they would be given their identification numbers which would be tattooed on their arms. This number became their name. They stayed at Auschwitz for three weeks. The day they ...
- 11569: The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires
- ... to the west. Gatsby came east looking for another type of money - Daisy. Gatsby and Daisy had last seen each other about five years before, when they were dating. Then Gatsby had to go to war. While he was away in war, Daisy met Tom and then married Tom. Daisy had always been rich and thought that in order to get Daisy back, he need to have money and be able to give Daisy anything she wanted ...
- 11570: Hamlets Madness
- ... readers and characters. With the death of his father and the hasty, incestuous remarriage of his mother to his uncle, Hamlet is thrown into a suicidal frame of mind in which "the uses of this world"seem to him "weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable." No man in his right state contemplates suicide and would take his life due to human frailty. Ophelia tells us that before the events of the play ... readers and characters. With the death of his father and the hasty, incestuous remarriage of his mother to his uncle, Hamlet is thrown into a suicidal frame of mind in which "the uses of this world"seem to him "weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable." No man in his right state contemplates suicide and would take his life due to human frailty. Ophelia tells us that before the events of the play ...
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