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- 11711: Hills Like White Elephants
- ... impossible" (466). Here, she is implying the experiences we encounter daily—pregnancy on her part—give us the freedom we hold so dear. "I said we could have everything…(w)e could have the whole world" (466), and with this freedom the possibilities are endless. The man’s speech shows the he believes abortion is not a big deal: "I know you wouldn’t mind it, Jig. It’s really not ... not have the abortion his freedom will be taken from him. He feels the additional responsibility would limit his opportunities and thus his freedom. When the girl says, "It’s ours," referring to everything the world has to offer, the man replies, "No, it isn’t. And once they take it away, you can never get it back" (466). He is telling her that once they take ‘it’—their freedom—away ...
- 11712: The Role Of Spirituality And R
- ... continuance of the novel highlights the internal conflict Eliezer faces: the problem of religious conscience in all aspects of his life. The problem that grows out of the religious conscience is the division of our world. This is the inner division of our impulses, desires, and aggressions juxtaposed with the conditioned behavior of our religion. Out of religious conscience, we have produced rote behavior motivated by guilt. Eliezer struggles with this ... to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without man, without love or mercy. I had ceased to be anything but ashes, yet I felt myself to be stronger than the Almighty, to whom my life had been tied for ...
- 11713: Ludwig Van Beethoven The Incessant Sound Of A Fallen Tree
- ... feared that he too would face a premature death as his idle, Mozart, had done. This pushed productivity out as Beethoven constantly felt a sense of urgency to make his destined contribution to the musical world. Beethoven had made his concert debut at the age of eight and had already tenured as a performer in the Electorate Chapel in Bonn when the famous composer, Haydn, found opportunity to view Beethoven’s ... thereby incapable, to hear. This was still the Word of God being spoken, an eternal thing of great substance that does not gain it’s power from the person who it is meant for (the world). To the contrary, I consider that sound is simply that name given to the difference made to an individual when his ear transposes the environmental changes (sound waves) produced by a particular event. From this ...
- 11714: Effects of Deforestation
- ... on the fringes of fragmented forests. The effects for the animals include greater exposure to the elements (wind, rain etc…), other non-forest animals and humans (Dunbar, 1993). This unnatural extinction of species endangers the world's food supply, threatens many human resources and has profound implications for biological diversity. Another negative environmental impact of deforestation is that it causes climate changes all over the world. As we learned in elementary school, plant life is essential to life on earth as it produces much of the oxygen that is required for humans and other organisms to breathe. The massive destruction of ...
- 11715: Evolutionism
- What is Evolution? Evolution is the theory that all living things in the world have come into being through a non-guided, natural process starting from a primeval mass of subatomic particles and radiation, over 20 billion years ago (History). This theory says that all living things have increased intelligence or have changed in other ways over many, many years. The theory of evolution hasn’t been around for ever. Before the 20th century, people wanted to understand the world around them, but many of them believed that God created everything. A small number of scientists believed that living things had evolved from each other and there was no God. The theory was sort of ...
- 11716: Euthanasia
- ... most stick it out to the end, not giving up taking the easy way out. As long as a person still is able to know what is happening around them and can interact with the world around them it should be illegal for doctors to aid in their suicide. "Some say that doctor-aided death is widespread already, only covertly, and that the Netherlands is a model of how to establish ... a valid reason for leagalizing anything. Where would it end if the practice of euthanasia were to be legalized, how far would it go? Would it end with assisted death for the terminably ill? The world looks to the Netherlands as the only working model of assisted death, a nation known for its open aproach to abortion, prostitution and drug use. “A ‘ coffieshop' next to an Amsterdam police station has on ...
- 11717: Aids
- ... be tested to see if they were at risk for developing AIDS, and scientists could get some idea of the form the epidemic, if unchecked, might grow to take in the USA and around the world. The news was not good. The epidemic was shaped like an iceberg, with a small visible tip and a huge invisible base. For every person who was sick with AIDS, thousands of others were infected ... epidemic in the United States and Europe, at $15,000 or more a year they are far too expensive for use in the impoverished countries of Africa and Asia, where the vast majority of the world's H.I.V. infected people live. For these countries, the best hope against AIDS lies in the development of a vaccine that can prevent people who are exposed to H.I.V. from acquiring ...
- 11718: Suicide in Las Vega
- ... rooms shook. "It's not necessarily gamblers," Keeton goes on. "Just people who've planned one last fling. We used to get a lot from Los Angeles. Now it's people from all over the world. We had a young man fly in from Ireland. On his immigration card, it said he seemed either on drugs or depressed. He came here and went to a pistol range, shot targets for a ... had the thrill of stealing millions. I had the thrill of never going back. If you're going to check out, do it in the city of instant gratification, in the biggest hotel in the world. Do it in Las Vegas. The reality is that Judge John C. Fairbanks killed himself by putting a hotel shoe bag over his head. The bag was plastic, with a drawstring, the kind normally hung ...
- 11719: Martial Arts
- ... energetic. Ever since martial arts began appearing on television and movies more and more people have been doing it. Also, a lot of places to learn martial arts have been popping up all over the world. It comes as no surprise that the percentage of people doing martial arts today has greatly increased in the United States and the rest of the world.
- 11720: Periodical Review Of Human Com
- ... June 1996. The journal takes a behavioral science perspective in its research of human communications. Research areas include Interpersonal, organizational, mass communication, methodology, information systems and persuasion. HCR is a periodical that recognizes that the world is constantly evolving and that communications research must do the same in order to develop a more clear understanding of the important issues and situational demands that are at hand. In maintaining this approach, HCR ... communication and are consistent with what is trying to be achieved by HCR. The intent of this journal is to improve human communication in areas that it would be widely useful consistent with the changing world. By researching different perspectives of issues, HCR hopes to get a better understanding of what the obstacles have previously been in order to try and improve communication relationships. An outline of some of the main ...
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