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People's Behavior And The Affect Of Social Situations
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 453.... was useful in that it showed people that the environment does have an impact on behavior. It was also realistic, because there have been cases of mental illness in jails and things like this have happened in real life.
The second experiment was the ROTC Experiment. In this experiment, two groups of people were put in a flight simulator after being given an eye exam, and being exposed to different situations. The first group was given a vision test, then was given flight suits, and was told to read the same test off a plane that was to fly by in the simulator. The second group .....
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Faith Vs. Temptation
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 815.... stay. This good bye is Brown’s chance to choose faith over temptation. “Poor little faith, thought he, for his heart smote him. What a wretch am I to leave her on such an errand!” Brown gives in to temptation. This won’t be the last time.
Being scared and alone on his journey, Brown talking to himself says, “What if the devil himself should be at my elbow!” A few more steps and Brown now has a companion; coincidence? I think not. “The only thing about him that could be fixed upon as remarkable as his staff, which bore the likel .....
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The Archetypal Hero Journey, J
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2048.... provides an understanding for the paths heroes take pertaining to their specific circumstances.
Two characters that follow the hero journey are Job of the wisdom books of the Old Testament and Murder in the Cathedral’s Thomas Becket. Job is a fortunate and distinctively devout man. Satan wants to prove to God Job’s faith will falter if his blessings are obliterated. Satan creates an agonizing event sequence Job must suffer through. Job’s children, livestock, land, and health are taken away from him, and his comforters--three friends and a wife--believe Job deserves the tu .....
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Romeo & Juliet Basic Summary
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 375.... agrees in hope of ending the feud of the two families.
Juliet sends her nurse to find Romeo the next day in the town square. He tells her to tell Juliet to meet her in Friar Lawrence's cell.
He marries them.
Tybalt and Mercutio fight in street. Romeo blocks Mercutio from fighting and Tybalt slays him from the side and he dies. Romeo then slays Tybalt. Since Romeo killed Tybalt, and Tybalt was to be killed anyway for killing Mercutio, Romeo is banished from Verona.
Juliet is in morn over Romeo's banishment. Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a potant to put her .....
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My Antonia 2
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1037.... down before the tree……" History shows that the Bohemian people were constantly revolting for their freedom. This was probably one of the reasons for the religious Shimerdas move to America, to get away from those many "hard times." "All the time she say: 'America big country; much money, much land for my boys, much husband for my girls…my mama, she want Ambrosch for be rich, with many cattle." This must have been the main factor for the move from their "kawn-tree." Unfortunately, not all the Shimerdas were excited by the move. "My papa sad for the old cou .....
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Human Comedy Pain
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 565.... a war going on so he thought it didn’t
matter if he or Mr. Spangler died in the holdup. He believed
that stealing the money and causing Mr. Spangler pain would
relieve the pain of all his mistakes, but all it would really do is
cause more pain in himself and others. Mr. Strickman’s actions
are that of an evil man but “I really don’t believe that the evil
know they are evil.”(p.131)
People who can recognize pain but only in themselves are
selfish and self absorbed. Pain is every where but “a foolish
man will not even notice it, .....
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To An Athlete Dying Young By A
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 680.... The speaker relates this joyous time to the present, where "Shoulder-high we bring you home; And set you at your threshold down". With the phrase "shoulder-high" he connects the race to the funeral procession. The honor of this treatment was endowed the first time for victory, and the final time for homage. The "threshold" symbolizes the grave of the athlete, his entry into the afterlife.
The ironic tone of the poem becomes forlorn, almost envious as the speaker ponders upon his own past. Satire presents itself in the line "Smart lad, to slip bedtimes away; From fields .....
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Net Censorship
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2541.... enforced crime of distributing knowingly to children under 18. The congress overwhelmingly passed the bill with a landslide
414-16 House vote and a 91-5 Senate vote.2 It seems now that the wide bill might not be what it cracked up to be, as it
stands now, anyone who might upload James Joyce’s Ulysses could be placed in jail for two years and have up to a $250,000
fine.3 Representatives of on-line services industries were concerned about the bill, and feared they could be held criminally
responsible for Internet conversations.4
"We face a unique disturbing and .....
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