Essays Tagged: "danger"

Pulp Fiction - JOURNEY AND REDEMPTION

hing you know you're saluting. This story is a cleverly disorienting journey through a landscape of danger, shock, hilarity, and vibrant local color. Nothing is predictable or familiar within this irr ...

(5 pages) 229 0 4.8 Sep/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Endangered Species

ants and animals. All over the planets, millions of animals from thousands of species are in danger. As humans interfere with the environment, the habitats animals live in are destroyed, and th ... ving up and downstream. Also, too many cattle or sheep put out to pasture in natural grasslands can dangerously thin out our foliage because of grazing and trampling. Pollution is another serious thre ...

(11 pages) 326 1 4.3 Apr/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

What was the witches' role in Macbeth?

title, he believes that the other prediction, namely his kingship, must come true. Banquo notes the danger inherent in believing (and subsequently acting on) the witches' predictions; he says, 'Were s ...

(4 pages) 78 0 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

Date Rape

sibility to herself and tounderstand the risks and to protect herself fagainst them (Date Rape: The Dangeris Not From a Stranger 13). One of the biggest risks from a male to a female isdate rape. Date ... rape? More women then men say yes.There are no laws to destinquish these situations (Date Rape: The Danger in NotFrom the Stranger 6). There shouldn't have to be laws to say when it is rape. If awoman ...

(3 pages) 143 0 3.7 Oct/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Justification of Violence

f-defense. I believethat if an innocent person is attacked for some reason and their life is put in danger, they have theright to fight back to save themselves. How can a person let themselves be atta ...

(4 pages) 130 0 4.9 Feb/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

"Raptor Red" by Robert T. Bakker

dinosaurs that mills around in the open meadows, feeding high in the treesand sniffing the air for danger. The eyes belong to a female Utahraptor. " The female Utahraptorfrom the book called Raptor R ... er nose (not blood), through out one very tryingyear of her life. During this year she goes through danger, happiness, and a lot of other emotions.Thought this book is a fictional writing it is very g ...

(2 pages) 44 1 4.2 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

No Future? An essay comparing future in Back to the Future and THX1138

nology and the advances of the future. THX 1138 and Back to the Future both portray technology as a danger to society that could ultimately lead to its downfall.George Lucas made THX 1138 long before ... the person. When people are treated like machines and not allowed any freedom of thought it is very dangerous to society as we know it. This could easily end society through the emission of people's r ...

(6 pages) 95 0 4.6 Feb/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Late term abortion

ut ten times per year.Without the benefit of this type of treatment many pregnant women might be in danger of their lifes. Not all babies will be concieved without genetic or other disorders. This is ... f a pro-life defendant puts so much value in the life of an unborn fetus, why are they wanting to endanger the life of another human.In 1995 there were over 1,500 acts of violence made by pro-life act ...

(5 pages) 237 2 3.9 Mar/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Importance of Keeping Secrets in the Nursing World: Ethics of Confidentiality

foundation of the helping professions. Without confidentiality, the client/nurse relationship is in danger of losing the developed levels of trust. Nurses carry a particularly heavy burden of responsi ...

(3 pages) 474 2 4.5 Mar/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

3 Gorges Dam Opinion Essay Against building it

help China in many different ways, but Ithink that more than helping China out, it will bring more danger and damage to it. I thinkthat the dam should be stopped and should no longer be built. It wil ... d and should no longer be built. It will greatly destroy theenvironment and effect the people and endangered species in the area. It has already killedsome of the people constructing it. Why go furthe ...

(2 pages) 55 0 4.3 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering

The Threat of Nuclear Smuggling

in a brief manner. It statesthat some analysts dismiss it as a minor nuisance whileothers find the danger to be very real and probable.This reading stands mainly for the belief that nuclearsmuggling ... be very real and probable.This reading stands mainly for the belief that nuclearsmuggling is a real danger. The analysts that find thisissue to be a problem say that nuclear smuggling presentsgrave an ...

(2 pages) 131 2 4.4 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

Human Cloning Should Not Be Banned.

se they are based on erroneous views about what cloning is and what it can do for people today. The danger, therefore, lies not in the power of the technology, but in the misunderstanding of its signi ... hat genes contain a person's destiny. It would be unfortunate if, by treating cloning as a terribly dangerous technology, we encouraged this cultural myth, even as we intrude on the broad freedom our ...

(12 pages) 707 3 4.3 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Pre-employment Screening

employers used personality testing to weed out the crazies, people who looked like they might be a danger to others or to them self. Now employers use it more commonly to decide if you are the right ...

(5 pages) 433 3 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management

The importance of violence in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor.

w people's attitudes and perspectives of lifechange when they are faced with a situation of violent danger. The story is about a familyof six who, on their way to Florida are murdered by an escaped co ...

(3 pages) 369 1 4.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Consent and It's Place in SM Sex

obvious reason consent is important in SM play is the risk of injury and the potential for unwanted danger is avoided. In addition, with understood consent, trust is developed, making the experience m ... cur only under certain circumstances.When dealing with SM, there is a greater risk of injury and of danger than missionary position sex, simply because of the dynamics of it. When an individual is bei ...

(6 pages) 42 1 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Safe v.s unsafe sex

The 'sexual revolution' of the 1960's has been stopped dead in its tracks by the AIDS epidemic. The danger of contracting AIDS is so real now that it has massively affected the behavior of both gay an ...

(4 pages) 92 0 2.6 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Why Eveline Chose Dust in "Eveline" by James Joyce

ce reveals how hard and undesirable her life actually is when he tells us that she "felt herself in danger of her father's violence." She gets "palpitations" because she is so afraid of her own father ...

(3 pages) 206 1 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

the teachings of Thomas Hobbes in his book Leviathan

sence of an organized government. These laws are extremelycut throat, and place people in extremely dangerous situations where theirlives are in danger. Government is the answer to this dangerous situ ... ion.'3Hobbes felt that one's obligation in foro externo ended whenfulfilling the obligation would endanger the life of the person. Every lawof nature is geared for the preservation of the life of the ...

(3 pages) 129 0 3.0 Apr/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

existence, the serch for identity

e who have not found wholeness arecharacterized by an unconquerable desire to be safe, to be out of danger andto avoid risk.The first step in the search for identity is to answer the question, Howdo y ...

(4 pages) 136 1 3.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Antigone: A Tragic Hero

born in the House that she is born into. As Antigone defies Creon's law, she is cast into a pool of danger between what she believes is right and what the state's law decrees is right. As Antigone is ...

(4 pages) 107 0 3.0 Sep/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology