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- 18041: The Godfather: Did The
- ... be harvested from Turkey (not the major supplier of opium in the 40s and 50s), then processed into heroin in Sicily. Drugs have been appealing to any crime syndicates since the Chinese crime world that started way back in the 1800s. Opium was the number one wanted drug as wars started by the Ching Dynasty in 1839 to stop the illegal importation by smugglers form Britain (Britanica ...
- 18042: Fahrenheit 451: The Strength of Beatty
- ... the skill of holding people under his power. Beatty, himself, said, "Knowledge is more than equivalent to force." (Pg. 116) He additionally declared, "I don't think you realize how important we are to our world as it stands now." (Pg. 66) He takes his position to rule the people. By depriving people of books he striped the residents of knowledge and therefore withdrew their power. One of the ways that ...
- 18043: Air Bag Safety For The Prevention Of Injury And Death
- ... designed to reduce the risk of injury. In the past decade, air bags have saved the lives of close to 3,000 people. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) conducted a study of real-world motor vehicle crashes and were able to conclude that the combination of seat belts and air bags is 75% effective in preventing serious head injuries and 66% effective in preventing serious chest injuries. Unfortunately for ...
- 18044: Heart of Darkness: Feelings of Characters and Uncertainties of the Congo
- ... Another would be an act of man to throw his life away. Thus, the adventurous Conrad and Conrad the moralist may have experienced collision. But the collision, again as with many novelists of the second war, could well have been deferred and retrospective, not felt intensely at the time (Kimbrough,124). Heart of Darkness is a record of things seen and done, Then it was ivory that poured from the heart ...
- 18045: Alcohol 2
- ... contain from five percent to twenty percent ethyl alcohol. Distilled contains twelve percent to fifty-five percent or more ethyl alcohol. The consumption of beverages containing alcohol has been practiced in all parts of the world for thousands of years. The first alcoholic beverages were fermented. Scenes showing fermentation appear on pottery made in Mesopotamia as early as 4200 B.C. Mankind early discovered that drinking the fermented juices of certain ...
- 18046: Beloved: We All Look the Same In the Dark
- ... novel, Sethe is lying in her bed, finished with life and everything because Beloved [her] best thing. . . left [her]. Sethe was unable to integrate herself with life, so she was in complete withdrawal from the world. Sethe was down but still [she]ll rise. And she does get back up. Sethe realizes that she is her best thing, for Sethe is herself beloved. Instead of dying, she can now live her ...
- 18047: The Great Gatsby: Typical Male Behavior
- ... out men...He was his wife's man and not his own." (144), a need for control takes over George when he discovers his wife had "some sort of life apart from him in another world." (131) with perhaps another man. To gain control over this situation and thus live up to the social expectation, George takes drastic measures. He states "I've got my wife locked up in there. She ...
- 18048: The Awakening: Edna Pontel
- ... will not because it will disgrace her to leave her husband. No matter how much Edna exceeds social boundaries, she is held down by the will of others, despite what she wants. In todays world divorce, sadly, is almost commonplace, but in her time she would have been an outcast of her society. By the end of The Awakening, Edna feels like a possession - of her husband, of her children ...
- 18049: 1984: Lack of Humanity
- ... the words. The old language, appropriately called Oldspeak is compared to Newspeak as,
[Oldspek] with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning
Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year? Dont you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? (Syme, Pg.46) While reducing the range of thought is part of ...
- 18050: Types of Monsters
- ... some kind of accident or experiment, which causes some sort of deformation. These kinds of monsters often do nothing more than scare kids and dont pose any real threat to anything in the real world. The real life monsters differ greatly from the storybook monsters. Almost all real life monsters are created from some problem from their home life. In some cases it can be caused by some problem with ...
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