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Music And Poetry Plato Republic
1,297 wordsPlato's Republic is mainly the discussion of justice versus injustice and the task of defining each. To figure out how to grasp a definition, Socrates, Glaucon, and Adeimantus set to creating a Just City as a model for the individual. Eventually they come to the point of seizing the land of neighbors, discovering the origins of war (373 e). With war as a factor, they must create guardians not only to fight to gain land, but also to protect the city. Socrates states that the work of the guardians...
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Walking Down The Street Pit Bull Bulls
831 wordsThe soccer ball hit the grassy field with a minor thump, while screams centered attention near the goalies post. The childs puny hands showing little resistance to the canine incisors planted deep within his pierced left arm. The Pit Bull only winced his eyes to squeeze the blood laden arm beyond the shattering point. The Pit Bulls head shaking as a crocodile with mornings breakfast, forced his meal to lifelessness on the soiled grass. The childs lame arm dropped, signaling the lost battle. Why ...
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Israeli Prime Minister Six Day War
1,885 wordsOn November 29, 1947, the United Nations voted to divide the Middle Eastern land called Palestine into two independent nations, one Arab and one Jewish. On May 14, 1948, a new nation was born: Israel. The Jews of Israel and the world celebrated with joy and gladness, because for over two thousand years, they had hoped to return to the land of their heritage. (Silverman, 1) However with Jews from all around the world returning to Israel, the Arabs residing in this land were forced into exile. The...
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Fooled Into Thinking Company Of Their Own Kind Whites
1,215 words... cist. Today, one of the favorite slogans that define the asymmetric quality of American racism is "celebration of diversity. " It has begun to dawn on a few people that "diversity" is always achieved at the expense of Whites (and sometimes men), and never the other way around. No one proposes that Howard University be made more diverse by admitting Whites, Hispanics, or Asians. No one ever suggests that National Hispanic University in San Jose (CA) would benefit from the diversity of having ...
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Is Peace Possible Between Israel And Palestine
1,749 words... ers political and lawful rights, agreed to end the years of conflict, and pledge to work for coexistence, peace, and security (Benvenisti 217). However in 1994, an Israeli extremist fired on Muslims worshiping at a Mosque in Hebron. Twenty-nine people were killed and many more wounded. Although Israeli leaders condemned the attack, the PLO temporarily stopped talks with Israel (Goldschmidt 356). In 1994, Israel signed a peace treaty with Jordan. In 1994, terrorist suicide bombings began, lau...
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Surface Area J S
1,313 words... t an advantage because it doesnt need to wait for a male to fertilize a female. The amount of time it takes for seed dispersal to occur is greatly reduced. All of these factors combine to make the poplar a successful plant that can adapt to almost every habitat. The poplar is very light dependent; it needs lots of light for its leaves to achieve enough photosynthesis so growth can occur properly. Poplar roots are shallow, especially on wet soils. Most poplars may have extensions called root ...
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Domestic Violence Mike Tyson
1,674 wordsIts another quiet night outside the house. Not a sound can be heard throughout the darkened street. But, inside the house, a slamming door shatters the silence, the force causing the house to rock as John storms into the bedroom in the search of his wife, Miriam. The walls are still quivering as a new tremor shoots through them. This time its Johns voice as he bellows for his wife. He finds her cowering behind a chair. He grabs the chair and beats her with it, hitting her again and again while s...
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Victor Ivanov Sarcophagus Covering Chernobyl
1,480 wordsTHE CHERNOBYL SYNDROME by Olivia Ward Moscow Bureau Ten Years After the Worlds Worst Nuclear Accident, the Ukrainian Plant Is Still Generating a Lot of Heat CHERNOBYL Sometimes, on a good day, Victor Ivanov forgets the moment that exploded his life. The heat, the metallic-tasting smoke, the jolting shock of realization: Something has gone wrong. Something has blown up. Something that will burn itself forever into the mind and the body. That was April 26, 1986, the day a computer program of the C...
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Blind To The Truth Capitol Hill
1,132 wordsThe Need for Knowledge: The Choice To Be Blind While the bodies pile up in what we call our Nations Backyard, the rest of the country chooses to deny the facts and to remain blind to the truth. The gruesome statistics, and tales of violence in The Murder of Thirty of My Neighbors by Jim Myers has the ability to force just about anyone into understanding the severity of the situation the residents of service area 109, also known as eastern Capitol Hill, are facing. It isnt often that people see o...
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Reverend Parris Witch Trials
783 wordsGreed can be a very destructive part of everyone? s life. It can control our every action at times. Some people let their greed get out of control, which was exactly what happened in Salem during the witch trials. Three people? s greed brought up this whole tragedy of the trials, convictions and hangings. These three people are Reverend Parris, Thomas Putnam and Abigail Williams. Thomas Putnam was a? well-to-do, hard-handed, landowner. ? He valued his land probably more than his marriage, his ot...
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Alfred Hitchcock Rear Window
1,183 wordsMarriage Anxieties and Voyeurism in Rear Window In Alfred Hitchcock? s Rear Window, L. B. Jeffries, played by Jimmy Stewart, becomes completely obsessed with spending all of his waking hours watching his neighbors from his wheelchair. He even uses a camera to better his view and thus enhances his role as both a spectator and a voyeur. This contributes to the creation of a movie being played right outside Jeffries? window. In this? movie within the movie? his neighbors? lives become the subject f...
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Sleep Sleep African Religion
1,612 wordsIn order to understand this work better, it is important to have a bit of background information. This story between a man and a woman, a mother and her son, takes place in Cuba in the early to mid nineteen hundreds at a time of carnival. They are both mulatto's. For the Afro-Cubans, and other Cubans alike, this time of carnival is a time of worship and praise. In the Afro-Cuban religion of Lucumi, or Santeria, the gods are worshipped and praised especially at this time of carnival. The Lucumi r...
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Step Father Summer School
792 wordsIt was Personal Writing Why? ? ? ? ? ? ? It was a warm summer night, and I had just returned from my summer school class. I was extremely upset with my mother for making me go to summer school when I didnt have to. Every night I would storm into the dark house waiting for someone to notice that I was home, not only was I home but I was upset. One night it was different, I was actually happy because I had made friends in the class and I understood what was going on. When I came home all the light...
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Mona Lisa Clinton Administration
2,733 wordsstands for " Pretty PGP PGP stands for " Pretty Good Privacy. " It is an encryption program. What encryption does is hide information from people who do not know the " secret word" to reveal the information. Louis J. Freeh, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, says the honest have nothing to hide, and only criminals would use encryption. The honest, goes the implication, have no need of encryption. Let us think about that, for just a minute. The honest ha...
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Lot Of Things Lot Of People
1,083 wordsPhoenicians were the people who lived in the lands called Phoenicia. These people are famous for being great sailors and traders, and inventing the alphabet. Even though they are very important, we know very little about them. Knowledge about Egyptians, Assyrians, and Chinese was a lot more than the Phoenicians. We got more information about Phoenicians from other colonies than from the Phoenicians themselves. They were known to a lot of people back in the ancient times. One person, called Pompo...
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Drug Dealers Child Molestation
618 wordsPrivacy is the right to be let alone to do what you want in secret. All across our nation privacy is being exploited by companies, hardened criminals and drug users. They use or invade privacy for their own personal gain. We need to change our view of privacy when considering a recidivist criminal to make it easier for them to be prosecuted again. Our goverment must make it harder for insurance companies to gain acess to our most personal records. Pedophiles were one group of criminals who until...
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Young Goodman Brown Ministers Black Veil
1,000 wordsReoccurring Themes And Symbols In Different Works Reoccurring Themes And Symbols In Different Works By Nathaniel Hawthorne Reoccurring Themes and Symbols in Different Works by Nathaniel Hawthorne It is no secret that Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Ministers Black Veil is a parable. Hawthorne intended it as such and even gave the story the subtitle a parable. The Ministers Black Veil, however, was not Hawthorne's only parable. Hawthorne often used symbols and figurative language to give added meaning ...
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17 Th Century Puritan Society
379 wordsReview of Good Wives Today, women are an intricate part of our working society. There are more women holding full-time jobs than ever before. A womens role is just not in the house; it extends far beyond into the working world where women are even holding positions such as chief executive officers of Fortune 500 Companies. When did this change occur? Was it before or after World War II or was in the 1960 s when women battled against suffrage, or did the change ever really occur? Have women alway...
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Lines Of The Poem Dramatic Monologue
1,035 wordsDuring the twentieth century there were poets who revolutionized poetry such as T. S. Elliot and Ernest Hemingway. Of all the American poets in the twentieth century, there was not a poet that was more popular or established then Robert Frost. Robert Frost was the most influential poet in the twentieth century because of his use of lyrics and metaphors in his poems. Robert Frost overcame many hardships and tragedies in his life to write some of Americas best-loved poems. In Robert Frosts Mending...
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Mending Wall Social Norms
893 wordsLiving in America is a unique experience for all of us. Our nation is truly diverse. However, even with a common national home, we continue to erect boundaries around types and groups of people. The two poems, Mending Wall and Pigeons portray the feeling of American social boundaries. Robert Frost s Mending Wall is about barriers people live within for no logical reason. Frost shows immediately that there is something wrong when he begins the poem with something there is that doesn t love a wall...
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