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- 14871: Susan Smith
- ... enriched my understanding of law as a legal concept, law as a legal system and law as a set of rules. It has shown me first hand the use of these three concepts in our world today. Bibliography Adler, Jerry. "Sins of the Mother" Newsweek, 14 November 1994. Brooke, Heathe. http://www.shij.com/hj/smith/ninedays/1smith.html Brurn, Alex. "Susan Smith Review" Law and Society Review, 28 November 1994 ...
- 14872: Bob Dole: A Race to the Top
- ... that he and Dole will eliminate estate taxes, which has not even been proposed as part of Doles plan. Further, Dole says he can protect the benefits of all veterans, treat victims of the gulf war, and account for all soldiers missing in action in Vietnam, "no matter how much money it takes" (Gibbs 1996). The public obviously does not believe in these promises considering the fact that in a poll ...
- 14873: Video Games And Children
- ... separate fantasy from reality. Another problem is that games stress autonomous action rather than cooperation. Most games are based on a theme of a single character performing an aggressive act against a single enemy. The world of video games has little to do with working as a part of a team. The social content of video games may influence the attitudes of children toward gender roles (Provenzo, 1992). Women are usually ...
- 14874: Vigalantes
- ... and be punished. The truth is that that is rarely the case. It can take months for an offender to even go to trial. The U.S. criminal justice system, however the best in the world, is not nearly efficient enough to properly handle the workload placed upon it. Still the situation comes up that even in a clear-cut case with hard evidence and witnesses, law enforcement will fail to ...
- 14875: Violence 2 -
- ... drinker and gambler. It was a way for him to escape the realities of his life. Perhaps his writing was also a method of escape for him. In his works, he may have found a world that allowed him to be undisturbed by the realities of his life. One of the reoccurring themes in Poe s works is the loss of a true love. It is possible to attribute this theme ...
- 14876: Charlemagne
- ... inherited great wealth and a powerful army, built by his father and grandfather. Charlemagne used the army and his own skillful planning to more than double the size of the Frankish Kingdom. (Halsall 15) The world of Charlemagne was a heathen one, with many warring tribes or kingdoms. Many of these tribes were conquered by Charlemagne, among them the Aquitanians, the Lombards, the Saxons, the Bretons, the Bavarians, the Huns, and ...
- 14877: Virtue Based Ethical Systems
- ... sees nothing bland or boring about the lives these people lived. He has a deep appreciation for their ability to give without end, and to find a higher way of living. For where would this world be without such outstandingly beautiful people? It is through these individuals that we can find that a higher way of living is available to us all, but it is up to us to journey in ...
- 14878: The Marquis de Sade's Attitude Towards Women
- ... tragic one, taking the naive young girl abroad, where she is used and discarded by man and woman alike. This is due to the fact that she is a good woman in a predominately male world. "Justine is good according to the rules concerning women laid down by men." Her reward is rape, incessant beatings, and humiliation (Carter 38). Justine's first encounter in life is with a priest who tries ...
- 14879: John Muir's Trail in History
- ... America's forests, mountains, valleys, and meadows extensively. Alone and on foot, he filled his notebooks with sketches and descriptions of the plants, animals, and trees that he loved. He later took trips around the world, including destinations such as Europe and South America. There he explored the Amazon basin and noted many new plant species. In Alaska, he became the first white man to see Glacier Bay. He definitely made ...
- 14880: Edgar Allen Poe: Writing Style
- ... and the Pendulum" actually was. "Though he lives on the brink of the pit, on the very verge of the plunge into unconciousness, he is still unable to disengage himself from the physical and temperal world. The physical oppreses him in the shape of lurid graveyard visions; the temporal oppreses him in the shape of an enormous and deadly pendulum. It is altogether appropriate, then, that this chamber should be constricting ...
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