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The English Language Make It Official
1,399 wordsIn the beginning, this country was a melting pot. Many different people, from many different countries, of many different ethnic groups, speaking in many different tongues came to America. English arose as the predominant language of the United States. Over time, people realized the importance of staying in touch with their cultural backgrounds, including the language of their native countries. The main problem presented now lies in communication and interaction with each other. It is obvious th...
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Gun Control Legislation Arms Shall Not Be Infringed
1,133 wordsOn April 20, 1999, what is quite possibly the worst school shooting ever to occur in the United States took place at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. Around 11: 30 in the morning, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold moved from the hallway, to the library, to a science class, to the cafeteria killing students as they went, and then finally ending up in the main office where the killing spree finally ended with both killers taking their own lives. In a period of about fifteen minutes two gu...
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Forced Labor Labor Camp
598 wordsIn 1984, Ingsoc or English Socialism state employed Newspeak, a language meant to mislead and control its people. Even single words seemed to lose their meaning: peace meant war, love became hate and freedom referred to slavery. Orwell envisaged a disastrous and shocking consequences to a society where hypocrisy rules supreme. Doublespeak is not an innocuous euphemism meant to alter harsh realities for the sake of compassion or humorous disposition, doublespeak is an expression of duplicity that...
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The Average American Book Review
725 wordsThe Average American Book Review Every citizen of our country knows the term the average. Although the researchers and scholars often refer to the term the average American, nobody knows exactly who that is. More than 250 pages of the book by Kevin O'Keefe explore the meaning of average. Kevin O'Keefe notes that the person, who inspired him to write a book, was not an average person. His name was Lambert Adolph Jacques Quetelet, the man who created the first international statistics conference (...
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Thomas Paine 1737 1809
1,107 wordsThomas Paine (1737 - 1809) Thomas Paine is a recognized figure of the American history. His contribution to its history was criticized but John Adams said about him: Without the pen of the Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain. Paine was a famous author and a revolutionary activist, who played a monumental role in American and European histories. His Common Sense shook the Americans like no other book, his Rights of Man made him a national hero, his Age of Reason still s...
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Act 3 Scene 1 Merchant Of Venice
452 wordsSHYLOCK: The Jew An in-depth character analysis Often, The character Shylock, in Shakespeare s The Merchant of Venice, is portrayed as a beastly monstrosity, with a lust for Antonio s life. Through a more careful examination it can be determined that Shylock was an upstanding member of his community, who endured abuse, forgave easily, and upheld the customs and law. Shylock endured much of Antonio s abuse, overt a long period of time. This can be seen by the sheer volume of disgraces he has bore...
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Citizen Kane Love Story
634 wordsCharles Foster Kane Who Was He? The story of Citizen Kane drew many people to the theatres since they wanted to find out who this Kane fellow is or was. It is unarguably one of the best films ever produced. Orson Wells portrays Kane as mysterious person but also a sad person. The different accounts are shown throughout the movie through the reporter wanting to find out who or what Rosebud is. Rosebud was Kane s last dying words. The first person the reporter Jerry Thompson sees is the owner of W...
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One Million Dollars Rich And Famous
1,569 wordsCharles Manson. Charles Manson Charles Manson. He and his cult, The Family, together killed seven people, bloodied and butchered. The people who he and others killed, the Tate and La Bianca families, were wealthy and well-off. What could have made them do such a thing without pity or remorse? Read on? MANSON: The Man Himself In 1954, Manson set up a commune-based cult, drawing in hippies, drifters. and the unemployed at the Spahn Ranch, near Los Angeles. Manson had lovely ideas and his followers...
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Jean Jacques Rousseau Madame De
922 wordsJean Jacques Rousseau was a very famous french philosopher. He wrote many popular stories and operas during his life. He was a very smart man who was born into a disturbed family. Jean Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva on June 28 th, in 1712. Rousseau? s mother died while giving birth to him. His father was a very violent tempered man and he paid little attention to Jean? s training. His father would eventually desert him. The fact that his father deserted him gave Jean a passion for reading. ...
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United States Citizens Illegal Aliens
1,266 wordsImmigration in the U. S. While immigration has played an important role in the building and formation of America, new federal laws have resulted in mass immigration. Throughout history, Congress has enacted laws and has had to amend them to control the flow of both legal and illegal migration to the United States. In 1948, legislation was first enacted in an effort to control the number of applicants fleeing persecution; it permitted 205, 000 refugees to enter the United States. In 1952, Congres...
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Life In America Illegal Immigrants
1,668 wordsI had been dreaming of going to America for God knows how many years before I finally came to this land. The various misfortunes in my life gave me a chance of being sent to America by my university only when I was about to be 40 years old. Thinking th at I would take the chance to root myself here, I went through a hasty experience of taking the GRE and TOEFL tests, sending my credentials everywhere and trying to get information from everywhere. For the past ten months I have been sitting in fr...
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Quality Of Life Consumer Society
1,380 wordsWhat do you consider to be the tree most significant shortcoming of consumer society? Why? Widespread consumerism has brought with it many changes in the way people think and live. While many of these changes have been beneficial, there has been a trade off. Although for most of its development members of the consumer society have remained ignorant of them, not willing or able to understand many of their implications. Of the many negative aspects of this new way of living, the three I choose to ...
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Public School System Quality Of Education
654 wordsLong before the beginnings of recorded history, the inhabitants of the American continent developed cultural tradition sand social organizations that formed the core of education for successive generations Education served to unite the generations and to define one s place among the people. (Urban, Wagoner 11). Over the course of the years, education has continually changed with the times and increased their standards of living. There has been a concern for some time now regarding the quality of...
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Modern Society Social Institutions
1,287 words1) An individualist is considered to be someone with personality and character, someone who is not easily intimidated by social pressure or customs, someone with a personal opinion and a singular view of the world. Because modern society finds it important that people think independently, decide autonomously and take personal initiatives, the concept of individualism has acquired a positive connotation. However, individualism is also linked with the tendency to withdraw from social life and turn...
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King Louis Xvi Czar Nicholas Ii
577 wordsBoth the French and Russian revolutions occurred because of two main reasons. Both of these revolutions were the direct results of bad leadership and a bad economy. These two reasons along with other factors caused both of these revolutions. Although they were both similar, they also had differences. A difference between the two is that the Russians had an unsuccessful " pre-revolution" in 1905. Another difference between these two revolutions is the fact that the French turned towards...
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Franklin Arm
771 wordsFair Stood the Wind for France? Book Review The novel Fair Stood the Wind for France by H. E. Bates is a Romance? Fiction set at the height of World War Two. The story follows the main character, John Franklin, through his journey when he brings his aircraft down into occupied France. The novel deals with love, war, isolation and conflict; although there is no specific theme to the book. I felt that the book? s purpose was very clear. Bates wanted to show that within all the horrors of war, two ...
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Franklin Arm
749 wordsBates is a Romance? Fiction set at the height of World War Two. The story follows the main character, John Franklin, through his journey when he brings his aircraft down into occupied France. The novel deals with love, war, isolation and conflict; although there is no specific theme to the book. I felt that the book? s purpose was very clear. Bates wanted to show that within all the horrors of war, two people were able to find love and happiness. Franklin had crashed his plane and his arm was se...
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Draw The Line Moral Obligations
1,804 wordsFamine, Affluence, and Morality Peter Singer Websters English Dictionary defines morality as: the conformity to ideals of right human conduct. With this in mind, I wonder who determines right human conduct? Religion aside, there is no literary context that strictly states the rights and wrongs of human behavior. So who decides? Who determines what we ought morally to do and what we are obligated to do as a society? An Australian philosopher, Peter Singer attempts to draw the line between obligat...
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Ray Bradbury Guy Montag
1,000 wordsNo books and the governments promotion of television dishes society's ability to think and to communicate is what Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451 displays. Firefighters of the future have a different job then presently. In the future, they are to burn books to stiffly the intellects of the society for the government. Because the homes are fire proof, there is no need for them to focus on the homes. The government promotes television to occupy society from conversation with each other and expanding ...
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Released Into A World Japanese Americans Family
521 wordsFarewell to Manzanar Fighting a war against the oppression and persecution of a people, how hypocritical of the American government to harass and punish those based on their heritage. Magnifying the already existing dilemma of discrimination, the bombing of Pearl Harbor introduced Japanese-Americans to the harsh and unjust treatment they were forced to confront for a lifetime to come. Wakatsuki Ko, after thirty-five years of residence in the United States, was still prevented by law from becomin...
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