Words And Their Implied Meanings
.... defines gang as, "A group of persons working together; a group of
persons having informal and usual close social relations." The definition of a
club reads as follows, "An association of persons for some common object usually
jointly supported and meeting periodically." Hidden beneath each definition,
lies a more subjective, personal definition lodged in each of our minds. Why
must society negatively characterize gangs and positively characterize clubs?
We now associate the word "gang" with group of juvenile delinquents who create
disturbances with violence and misconduct. Commonly, society associates, the
word "club" .....
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Sociopolitical Philosophy In The Works Of Stoker And Yeats
.... represent the Catholic uprising in Ireland in his story Carmilla. Like much
of gothic fiction, Carmilla is about the mixing of blood and the harm that
results from it. When vampires strike, they are tainting the blood of the pure
and innocent, causing them to degenerate into undead savages who will take over
and colonize until their race makes up the condition of the whole world. This
was the fear the Protestants had of the rising Catholic class. They were seen
as a lowly people and the fear was that they too would colonize and degenerate
Ireland, and perhaps the rest of Europe, back into a primitive land of savages.
This .....
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Sorrow
.... going to cost me. I was very depressed. Then I got to thinking.
What's the big deal? It's just a little traffic ticket. Sure, I may get in
trouble, but who cares? It's just a small detail in my life. I can whine and
complain, or I can focus on the more important things in life. Why waste away
the days feeling gloomy and depressed? What good is it serving me to feel this
way?
Sorrow is like a rock being thrown at you. You can choose to watch it
approach you until it hits you right between the eyes, or you can out of the way
and let it pass you by. Of course different levels of sorrow exist and some are
harder to deal w .....
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Summary Of New-Making And Charles Shultz's Peanuts
.... to
associate with life. Many of his ideas, such as "The Great Pumpkin", have
become American past-times.
Charlie Brown represents the "little man" figure; a person struggling to
succeed in life. Many other comic strips have portrayed this also, but none
have lasted so long. This figure has been portrayed in musicals, movies, and
toys. Charles Shultz has put together a real artform according to his own
definition. His definition is that something can only be recognized as art if
it makes the same impression on a future audience as it did in the present.
Since Peanuts has been around for four and one half decades, I would say .....
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Locke's The Second Treatise Of Civil Government: The Significance Of Reason
.... in their state of nature; in this
“state of perfect equality ... there is no superiority or jurisdiction of one
over another” (124). Men, thereby, have the power to “preserve the innocent and
restrain offenders” (124) and punish those who transgress against them and
disturb their “state of nature.” Thus, all men are their own “executioner[s] in
the law of nature,” or the Law of Reason.
While all men are in charge of their own will according to the Law of
Reason in which they are born, some men do, in fact, break or reject this law,
which causes them to enter into a state of war with the others. People reject
the law of nature f .....
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"Muddle In A Puddle": Comparison Of Essay To My Life
.... was actually "Panama." The way we
hear and say things is also very influential in the way others hold us in their
standings. If someone catches us slipping up, they might think we are weird, or
stupid. It could also be a good ice-breaker for a good friendly relationship.
Sometimes not. It just depends where the people are from, and what the
situations are at the time of the incident.
I can remember a time, while at work at the funeral home, I was
discussing school with a bereaving individual. I was trying to comfort this
person, as I noticed she was very disturbed over the loss of a friend. It was
around the tim .....
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Use Of Colors
.... through other people, thus he neglected Pauline.
To make up for this neglect and her own insecurities, Pauline sought
comfort through movies. Here she would sit and watch the perfect "white" world
of Hollywood. Here she would find her colors on the "silver screen". She had a
longing for these colors which was going to affect her life and the lives of her
family until it destroys them, especially Pecola.
When Pecola was born, a major change occured in Pauline's life.
According to Susan Willis, "Adjectives become substantives, giving taste and
color and making it possible for colors to trickle and flow and finally be
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Voltaire's Candide: One Man's Search For True Happiness And Acceptance Of Life's Disappointments
.... meets a
diseased beggar who turns out to be Dr. Pangloss. Dr. Pangloss informs him
that Bulgarian soldiers attacked the castle of Westfalia and killed Cunegonde -
more misery!
A charitable Anabaptist gives both Candide and Dr. Pangloss money and
assistance. Dr. Pangloss is cured of his disease, losing one of his eyes and
one of his ears. The Anabaptist takes them with him on a journey to Lisbon.
While aboard the ship, the Anabaptist falls overboard in the process of
rescuing a crew member. Candide finds it more and more difficult to accept Dr.
Pangloss' principle that all is for the best.
In Lisbon there is an earthq .....
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Voltaire's Candide: "All Is Not For The Best"
.... that there is a "cause and effect" for everything.
Candide is reunited with Cunegonde, and regains a life of prosperity, but soon
all is taken away, including his beloved Cunegonde. He travels on, and years
later he finds her again, but she is now fat and ugly. His wealth is all gone
and so is his love for the Baron's daughter. Throughout Candide, we see how
accepting situations and not trying to change or overcome obstacles can be
damaging. Life is full of struggles, but it would be nonproductive if people
passively accepted whatever fate had in store for them, shrugging off their
personal responsibility. Voltaire belie .....
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Successful Relationships And Short Stories
.... this affair. She articulates this to him later saying "All I wanted
was a little love." Had she addressed this in the beginning, it would have been
clear what her hopes were for this relationship. Mr. Blake however was coming
from the exact opposite angle: "She gave him a drink and said that she was going
to put on something more comfortable. He urged her to; that was he came for."
If these people were openly communicating their intentions to each other would
have been clear therefore enabling them to make an informed decision.
Another example of a successful relationship from the short stories I have read
is character Nanapus .....
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What Is The Price Knowledge
.... act were passed requiring informal consent be obtained
in the testing of these drugs.
Another rascality research project was doctors injected live cancer
cells into underprivileged elderly patients without their permission. The
research went forward without review by the hospital's research committee and
over the objections of three physicians consulted, who argued that the proposed
subjects were unfit of giving ample consent to participate. The revealing of
the experiment served to make both officials and the Board of Regents of the
University of the State of New York, aware of the shortcomings of procedures in
place to protec .....
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Words On "To His Coy Mistress"
.... start of the new
covenant. Because time keeps going, with or without them, they must be active
participants and not just the static spectator. Otherwise, the fate Marvell
relates would become their reality.
Marvell's vegetable love is rather oxymoronic. Love is not normally
like the uncaring, thoughtless, and noncommunicating plant. And yet his love is
vegetable in that it is not adaptable. She is the water, food, and light for
his love; and as long as she is there, he will love her. She is evrerything
that supports his love, and if she is not there, his vegetable could not be
supported and would die. His idea of love seem .....
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