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- 6791: Appearance vs. Reality of Modern Music Affect on Teenagers
- ... they have millions of following teenagers. The biggest one I can think of (in modern music) would be Nirvana. Their lead singer Kurt Cobain was the creator of this whole "grunge" thing that took the world by storm a couple of years ago(baggy ripped jeans, plaid, easy repetitious music). Kurt Cobain was basically to be a savour to all teens, he related every thing he wrote to when he was a teenager and put words to peoples experiences and looked like a rebellious teen himself. When he died the whole world was in mourning all of teens never even have met him were taking the death way to far. There were three suicides that week in the USA, with notes reading they could not live with out Kurt Cobain. He is just one of the many who are brain washing teens world wide every day. Another really big band who is known for manipulating teenagers minds is Marilyn Manson. Over the last couple years they have started a new world order for teens. Their main ideas ...
- 6792: The Scarlet Letter: Dimmersdale is a Coward and a Hypocrite
- ... congregation, but somehow can never quite manage this. He is a typical diagnosis of a "wuss". To some extent, Dimmesdale's story is one of a single man tempted into the depths of the hormonal world. This world, however, is a place where the society treats sexuality with ill grace. But his problem is enormously complicated by the fact of Hester's marriage (for him no technicality), and by his own image of ... dungeon of his own heart_of breathing the wild, free atmosphere of an unredeemed, unchristianized, lawless region." In short, fallen nature has set him free from his inner distress, but left him in an "unchristianized" world, a heathen world, damnation. He has given in to sin. He has, in effect, willingly agreed to commit more sins. Dimmesdale realizes he is doing this but is too much of a coward to ...
- 6793: Cholera: Virulence, Origin, and Pandemics
- ... have been connected to mild diarrhea cases, often after eating undercooked shellfish (4). Cook your fish! Virulence Factors From the earliest recorded cholera history, the classical V. cholerae strain predominated over its counterpart throughout the world until the 1960s (1). Then in about a decades time, the El Tor strain almost completely wiped out classical V. cholerae. Why? Ewald (1) uses his cultural vector hypothesis to explain that water ... type O blood worse than those with other blood types. The reason for this phenomenon is still under question (4). However, I think is important to note that between forty and fifty percent of the worlds population has type O blood. It looks here as if the V. cholerae pathogen has naturally selected for a trait that is dominant, at least the most common, to its host. Darwin can rest ... 4). Mortality rates were near record heights. Interestingly, after recession of this pandemic, cholera would not wreak havoc on South America for over a century while it was still present in the rest of the world. Pandemic number six (1899-1923) affected the Near and Middle East with reckless abandon. It moved on to the Balkan peninsula, but did not progress greatly after that. This pandemic is important because it ...
- 6794: Ethnic Diversity In Nigeria
- ... They were also Islamic and the Hausa and Fulani generally lived together on good terms. In times of droubt, however, the two groups were in conflict over resources and led to the Fulani-led holy war with the Hausa in the beginning of the 19th century. Fulani leaders took power, intermarried with the ruling families, and were assimilated fully into the urban Hausa culture and language. For this reason, by the ... more anger and fear rather than just dissagreement on a political isssue. This party bred hatred led to tension and violence. Parties were abolished when the military government took power in 1966. The Biafran Civil War was a result of fears created by party leaders. The Ibo fears of genocide from more powerful political/ethnic groups led to their secessionist movement and civil war. Later when political parties were reinstated, in order for them to be recognized they had to call support from all over the country. Ethnic tensions in Nigeria have caused the end of the first ...
- 6795: Buddhism
- BUDDHISM Buddhism is recognized as one of the great religions of the world. To call Buddhism a religion by itself would do injustice. Buddhism is a school of moral thoughts and principles as well as a religion to worship. Unlike other religions Buddhism's' sole purpose is not ... that are separated from what you love and now have the suffering from having a sense of thinking you are unloved. 2. Objective and Subjective Existence In Buddhism one is to understand how real the world is. For instance his/her birth is known due to his existence, but one is to grasp the organs it has because of birth. A nose that smells, and eye that sees, and a tongue ... all negative Karma from you soul and later create parinnirvana or final nirvana in which during this you reach your death. Today Buddhism is still a well-known religion. It is practiced all over the world. It is probably the major religion throughout the Orient. "In the last century Buddhism has emphatically arrived in the West and up to one million westerners have become Buddhists" (www.fwbo.org) One would ...
- 6796: Rap Music
- Rap Music The music rap only a decade and a haft old , finally notice by the world in 1990 as real music had has its real downfall with violence and corruption that surounds this new kind of music. Its gotten so bad 1/20 people that listen to rap has run into ... to get "Mad loot" (money). Its bad enough we grew up in a era where the slightiest thing could upset any one,like teaching masturbation in public schools or teaching about the creation of the world in christian point of view. We, the society are trying the screen everything, to protect are children from being harm. But its harm we are inflecting on are soon to be leaders of the world,for example tring to banned sex education from the schools,screening the TV from harmful life scaring scenes of nudity,music being edited because of the used of the word "NIGGER" "BITCH" "JEW" "HOE" ...
- 6797: Mysteries 2
- ... this bone-chilling horror may help one decide whether or not to believe in the existence of the beyond. "Everywhere on earth and all through history, people have believed that there is more to the world than meets the eye. Behind the outward material appearance of things there is sensed something inward, immaterial, and probably invisible."(Cavendish 1) Apparitions of things have been seen all over the world. The definition of apparition, as given by Richard Cavendish, is "the supernormal manifestation of people, animals, objects, and spirits." (Cavendish 25) In the ancient folklore of England and Europe, glowing ghosts of little boys who ... usually put to an end by exorcism. On a somewhat humorous note, this terrif! ying creature, whom is feared by many, is said to be frightened of automobiles which explains their absence in modern day world. (Guiley 44) Another fear of children is the closet monster or the monster that lives under the bed. These two phantoms have never been proven, and are simply fears of small children. (Guiley 76) ...
- 6798: Lord Of The Flies 2 -
- ... If a group of well-conditioned school boys can ultimately wind up committing various extreme travesties, one can imagine what adults, leaders of society, are capable of doing under the pressures of trying to maintain world relations. Lord of the Flies's apprehension of evil is such that it touches the nerve of contemporary horror as no English novel of its time has done; it takes us, through symbolism, into a world of active, proliferating evil which is seen, one feels, as the natural condition of man and which is bound to remind the reader of the vilest manifestations of Nazi regression (Riley 1: 120). In the ... in all of Golding's works. It suggests the isolation of man in a frightening and mysterious cosmos, and the futility of his attempt to create an ordered preserve for himself in an otherwise patternless world" (Baker 26). The island in the novel is the actual island; it is not simply an island, though. It is a microcosm of life itself, the adult world, and the human struggle with his ...
- 6799: The New Imperialism
- The New Imperialism Throughout history Imperialism has occurred all around the world, and has been determined by many factors. The New Imperialism that took place in the late 1800's was influenced by two main factors, the Industrial Revolution and the development of technology in the West ... such power to the Westerners, without those elements the new imperialism wouldn't have taken place, and succeed. The idea of the new imperialism was guided to the expansion of the western culture throughout the world. The western culture at that time was one of greed and power, were the poor worked for the rich, and were the rich controlled the poor .The industrial revolution was not good for everybody it ... well as in the colonies the new Imperialism only benefited the Westerners, as in all imperialism the benefited is that who has more power and more control. The way the Industrial revolution has shaped the world we live in, is very simple it has made everybody think that thee who has more power is better than someone else. It has created a way of thinking that the world is based ...
- 6800: The Advancement of Weaponry
- ... advanced and complex weapons such as guns, cannons and missiles. In the beginning of the 7th century armies in Western Europe were little more than armed mobs. The development of weapons and other materials of war became more and more evident beginning in the 8th century and continued to advance dramatically through the mid 15th century when they reached their pinnacle of efficiency. The Middle Ages have long been labeled as ... come by. Protection was limited as these castles were little more than walled enclosures. Military warfare prior to and of this era had much room for improvement. The development of weapons and raw materials of war began in the early 8th century when the mounted warrior began to dominate the battlefields. These armored warriors replaced barbarians of previous centuries (Hindley, 22). Also occurring during this time period was the evolution of ... detailed armor. The objective of this armor was to allow the warrior freedom to use his weapons as well as provide protection from his opponents weapons. This well-made armor included helmets, breastplates, and shields. War horses or chargers as they were commonly called, had to be strong enough to carry the heavily armored knights. Chief offensive weapons were the mace, ball and chain, lance, sword and throwing axe. The ...
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