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Majority Of The People Gun Owner
835 wordsTina Gun Control Jamie Scott Tina Sexy English Comp I December 10, 1999 Law Making and Enforcement There are new laws and regulations being made all the time in the United States these days. Politicians think that by making these new laws it will fix their current problems. This is the case right now with the problems they are having with gun control. These new laws do help and prevent a lot of crimes and accidents from happening. This is mainly because of the fear punishment will bring by getti...
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Mont Blanc Relief Explosion
299 wordsHundreds Dead In Explosion At 8: 45 AM, 6 Dec 1917, at the height of WWI, the Belgian Relief vessel Imo, through human error and negligence, collided with the French munitions carrier Mont Blanc in the narrowest part of Halifax harbor. Sparks generated by the collision ignited benzol stored on Mont Blanc s deck; the burning liquid then seeped into the holds, where it lit 2766 t of picric acid, TNT and guncotton. At 9: 06 the munitions ship blew a mile high in the worlds greatest man-made explosi...
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Avenging His Father Death Avenge His Father Death
1,047 wordsHamlet as a Tragic Hero William Shakespeare, the greatest playwright of the English language, wrote a total of 37 plays in his lifetime, all of which can be categorized under tragedy, comedy, or history. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Shakespeare s most popular and greatest tragedy, displays his genius as a playwright, as literary critics and academic commentators have found an unusual number of themes and literary techniques present in Hamlet. Hamlet concerns the murder of the king of Denmark and the m...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Chicago Il
1,528 wordsSince his meteoric life and tragic death, Hannibal Barca comes across the centuries as the military commander with few, if any equals. A courageous leader, brilliant tactician, and steadfast soldier in the service of his beloved Carthage, Hannibal existed for one sole purpose: to defeat and, if possible, to eliminate the power of Rome (Livy p. 207). Hannibal? s destiny was already chosen for him before his own birth. The only thing that couldn? t have been foretold was the outcome of his struggl...
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Good And Evil Heart Of Darkness
985 wordsIn the classic novel Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad takes us on a journey into the soul of man. When the character of Marlow travels into the jungle of Africa to find Kurtz, he realizes that he is in a place where the rules of society no longer constrain human nature, and the frightening truths about human beings can be observed first hand. Marlow finds that human nature is something terrible and unlimited by observing the effects of such freedom on Kurtz. He also discovers that human nature i...
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Hundred And Fifty Vel Zquez
1,376 wordsConquering of the Aztec Empire There is no way but up, there is no retreat. We must go forward to Mexico and see if this great Montezuma is as great as he proclaims himself to be (Chapter 2). Cortes told his men this when they were considering mutiny because of suffering from devastating fevers and constant Indian attacks. After Cortes powerful statement the men then cried out, forward, to Mexico, to Mexico (Chapter 2). This was not, by any means Cortes first exploration. He was a very experienc...
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Nazi Simon Wiesenthal
1,836 wordsPrejudices: We Holocaust Paper Holocaust Prejudices: We all have them. They are part of every one. We all prejudge people. We all must over come them. The Nazi? s could not. With the help of Hitler, their prejudices swept over the world like a disease. They beat and hurt any Jews they could find. The most horrible event in mankind happened because of their prejudices. This, of coarse, was the Holocaust. ? A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and...
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Ladies And Gentlemen Environmentally Friendly
985 wordsGood evening Headmaster, special guests, parents and students, MORE VOICES SHOULD BE RAISED IN PROTEST. (Normal talking) Ladies and gentlemen, the world is full of apathy; full of egocentricity and selfishness. Full of indifference, passiveness and insensitivity. We are happy to sit back and watch horrific things happen right in front of our eyes and we take no action. Look at the tidal wave in New Guinea, the massacres in Kosovo. It does not matter how terrible things are, if we are not persona...
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Lust For Power Quest For Power
648 wordsLiterary Essay Macbeth In William Shakespeare s Macbeth, the play s central character Macbeth displays the atrocities created by greed, one of the play s many themes. The play Macbeth, illustrates to the reader how greed for power and wealth can destroy oneself and everyone in his treacherous path. Macbeth shows this as he is not happy being a high ranking thane. He assassinates Duncan to become king, but not before he kills the innocent and dooms himself. Macbeth proves the argument that giving...
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Central Nervous System Nerve Cells
433 wordsPoliomyelitis, infectious virus disease of the central nervous system, sometimes resulting in paralysis. The greatest incidence of the disease, also known as infantile paralysis, is in children between the ages of five and ten years. The disease was described in 1840 by the German orthopedist Jacob von Heine. In its clinical form it is more prevalent in temperate zones. Symptoms The virus usually enters the body through the alimentary tract and spreads along nerve cells to affect various parts o...
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Treaty Of Versailles Post War
574 wordsThe Duality of Local and Regional Factors in the Rise of Dictators in Post-War Europe After World War I, a majority of Europe was left in utter shambles. The physical and economic structures of a once industrial area had been reduced rubble. The people of the nations cried out for help, but to little avail. What was needed in these war torn areas was a strong government that could meet the needs of the people, and give them strength, power, and most importantly, stability. Unfortunately, what em...
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Merriam Webster Animal Farm
620 wordsThe term propaganda is sometimes brought up in casual conversation, however, many do not realize the potential power that propaganda can have. Merriam-Webster defines propaganda as the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person. In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, propaganda is shown to indeed cause harm. An examination of various sections of the book will be conducted in order to demonstrate three aspects of propa...
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Pythagoras Traveled Bc Pythagoras Society
617 wordsBorn between 530 - 569 B. C. Pythagoras of Samos is described as the first pure mathematician. Pythagoras father was Mnesarchus of Tyre and Pythais of Samos. Mnesarchus was a merchant who was granted citizenship after he brought corn to Samos during a famine. The citizenship was an act of gratitude. There are accounts that Pythagoras traveled widely with his father, even back to his fathers home, Tyre and Italy. During these travels Pythagoras was educated by Chaldaeans and learned scholars in S...
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Kind Of People Harlan Ellison
1,571 words? ? Repent, Harlequin! ? Said the Ticktockman, ? by Harlan Ellison illustrates a futuristic society governed by time. In 2389, when the story takes place, man has become so obsessed with punctuality, that if one does not posses this quality, he can be punished by death. Those who become heroes and strive to save the world from destruction by the clock become enemies by the world because they are non-conformists. This is the case for Everett C. Marm, or better known as the Harlequin, who tries in...
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Mental Illness Bad Luck
913 wordsWhen Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Black Cat in 1843, the word paranoia was not in existence. The mental illness of paranoia was not given its name until the twentieth century. What the narrator is suffering from would be called paranoia today. The definition of paranoia is psychosis marked by delusions and irrational decisions. This definition could best be described in the nineteenth century as being superstitious and believing that supernatural powers are affecting our decisions. Superstition and...
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Muhammad And His Followers Muhammad And His Men Mecca
1,088 wordsRise of Muhammad and Islam When Charles Martel defeated the Muslims in Spain and stopped their advance into greater Europe, he most likely did not know just how much of an effect his victory had on the history of not only Europe, but of the known world. The fact that Islam may have overtaken the rest of the world had it not been for that crucial battle attests to the strength of this relatively new religion. If the strength of the religion is dependent upon those who start it, then it is importa...
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U S Vietnam War
471 wordsVietnam was a struggle which, in all honesty, the United States should never have been involved in. North Vietnam was battling for ownership of South Vietnam, so that they would be a unified communist nation. To prevent the domino effect and the further spread of communism, the U. S. held on to the Truman Doctrine and stood behind the South Vietnamese leader, Diem. Kennedy and Diem were both killed in 1963 and 1964. Johnson took control of the situation by increasing the amount of money and manp...
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Juliet Was Destined Romeo And Juliet
914 wordsRomeo and Juliet It is known that in Shakespeare? s tragedies main characters die in the end, and in his comedies people marry. Romeo and Juliet, is a story of two young lovers, whose love was destined for destruction. They did not imagine that their love would lead to the tragedies that it did. These two young people did nothing wrong except fall in love. Three aspects of their destruction included the feud between the two families, the nurse and her betrayal of Juliet and the most important as...
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Four Hundred Years Romeo And Juliet
1,280 wordsRomeo and Juliet Four hundred years ago, William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a popular play that continues to capture the imagination and emotions of people around the world. The drama portrays the passionate, violent and often desperate lives of the youth of Verona. Even today, the tragedy resembles a blueprint of the problems that the adolescents of the twentieth century must face each day. In this play, Shakespeare explores the pitfalls of young love, and the consequenc...
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Juliet Was Destined Romeo And Juliet
816 wordsRomeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet, is a story of two young lovers, whose love whose love would bring them much more than they had ever hoped for. They did not imagine that their love would lead to the tragedies that it did. In theory, these two young people did nothing wrong except fall in love. Reasons for their demise in this world so early in their lives included the feud between the two families, Juliet s father making decisions that would greatly impact her life without her consultation, an...
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