Abstract
In the short story "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence, the writer creates a spooky fantasy in which three major themes, luck, money and love combine to form a bizarre and deadly unity. It discusses the lack of love in families in modern society and how people can become obsessed with money. The author creates a symbolic representation of life that is not truly lived, but in which concepts of luck, money and love are perverted into an imitation of life, the falseness of which kills the protagonist, the boy Paul.

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"This is a story about the "devastating effects that money can have on a family" (Watkins 295). It is a story in which money has replaced love. The mother no longer loves the father. "She married for love, and the love turned to dust" (Lawrence 967). Her love, Lawrence is saying has dried up:
The desiccating materialism of modern society has destroyed the ability of Paul's mother to feel love; in place of love, she lusts after "luck" by which she means the power to get money (Watkins 1)

The family's house is "haunted by the unspoken phrase: "There must be more money!" " (Lawrence 968). The children imbibe this atmosphere on a daily basis. They know there is never enough money for the parents to keep up the social standard to which they aspire. The parents are the role models who "set the tone (economic scarcity) and determine the values (consumerism) of the world they inhabit" (Watkins 297). This is a subject about which Lawrence is passionate:
This is one of Lawrence's most savage and compact critiques of what he elsewhere calls "the god-damn bourgeoisie" and of individuals who, despite their natural or potential goodness, "swallow culture bait" and hence become victims to the world they (wrongly) believe holds the key to human happiness (Watkins 295)."

Tags:horse, money, modern, society, boy, love, 'The, Rocking, Horse, Winner', D., H., Lawrence

Abstract
The paper argues that having the death penalty does not deter murder and, furthermore, a society cannot teach not to kill by killing. The paper also contends that in a society where money equals power, many people end up on death row simply because they could not afford a good attorney. The paper contends that life without the possibility of parole is a miserable and monotonous existence that can better show other would be offenders what will happen to them if they commit a violent crime.

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"The death penalty is an arbitrary and contradictory form of punishment. This way of dealing with criminals does not achieve its main objective in deterring murder. The Use of the death penalty actually promotes murder. A society can not teach not to kill each other by killing.
"It can be noted that in the United States, states that use the death penalty have higher murder rates than states that do not employ such tactics. The U.S. alone has seen an increase percentage of crimes that involve murder."

Tags:death, row, parole, deterrence, money, justice

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This paper states that the methods, utilized by the U.S government to recruit military personnel, is a shameful process often specifically targeting certain groups of underprivileged students. Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC), the high school version of ROTC, targets poor, black and Latino children, who have limited life options. The author points out that the armed forces expends vast amounts of money for advertisements enticing young people, for schools visits and for free video games, which simulate actual training. The paper concludes that some of these children become trained killing machines committing terrible atrocities, which mark them for life. These children, who follow orders like a trained dogs, are faultless victims of war.

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"The processes paramount recruitment tactic remains the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC), the high school version of ROTC that was established by an act of Congress in 1916. This program was created to develop citizenship and responsibility in young people. JROTC is currently experiencing the most rapid expansion in its history. Junior ROTC provides both citizenship and leadership experience for today's high school students. The program instructs students in public service, civic values and personal responsibility. Junior ROTC is not a military recruitment program but is based on proven motivational training and classroom teaching
methods."

Tags:harassment, minorities, salesman, jrotc, money, brainwashed

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The following paper examines how violence is a driving force for society. It is of the opinion of the writer that we have learned to accept it and have lowered the value of the human life, as a result. The writer makes reference to John McMurtry's essay entitled "Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw!" written in the early 1970's where he compared the game of football to war; in which the hidden object of the game at that time wasn't to win by scoring the most touchdowns through skill and athletics, but instead to win by being the first team to disable its opponent. This paper discusses how football today is no longer played tough in the pros because team pride is no longer eminent. The author argues that money is the driving force of the game and is the only incentive seen by the players.

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"The average American who has sat in front of the TV has experienced this dilemma: "We interrupt this program to bring you breaking news." In my personal experience the second I see a guy standing in front of a microphone talking about the latest corporate scandal I change the channel, but if the image on my television displays a bird's eye view of a car chase or better yet a bank heist, I watch patiently no matter how actionless and boring the breaking news is. In fact, if I happen to suddenly need to use the restroom or make a phone call, I'll press the record button on my VCR just in case I miss a gun battle or a car fire while I'm away. Myself and the majority of Americans, especially males, thrive on other people's adrenaline and demolition. It has indeed become an integral part of our lives: "Competitive, organized injury" can be seen almost everywhere; especially in sporting events and other entertainment such as movies. It has even made it's way into children's video games."

Tags:competive, crush, eat, em, ethos, football, injury, john, kill, mcmurtry, morality, organized, play, raw, society, warrior

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The paper relates that political organizations tend to be viewed as less fair and less ethical than private organizations, and discusses how the word politics seems to be connected to lack of ethics through citizens' views that politicians are weak in character and unable to make the best judgments. The paper shows how the power of money has depleted the moral fiber of politics and left the system with serious ethical issues; from Watergate to Iran-Contra to Halliburton's pipeline being built in Iraq and Afghanistan, the ethical judgments of elected servants are clearly lacking. The paper further asserts that people make a career of lobbying for companies that have covered up the obvious facts that their products kill people and countries that have mass murders as their leaders all for money. The paper explores how ethics can survive in this type of environment.

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"Political organizations tend to be viewed as less fair and less ethical than private organizations. The word politics seems to be connected to lack of ethics through citizens' view that politicians are weak in character and unable to make the best judgments. The power of money has depleted the moral fiber of politics and left the system with serious..."

Tags:ethics, leadership, politics

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The massive United States healthcare system plays an important place in society. Enormous amounts of money spent on health care, fail to a large degree in terms of healthiness or life expectancy. Medical malpractice aggravates this situation due to inflating costs. This paper analyzes how the legal system in the United States is putting pressure on the healthcare system, looks at ways that healthcare delivery has gotten more expensive and potentially more harmful or wary of risk. Tort reform is examined with the potential to help reduce medical costs, but does not seem to be a sufficient long-term goal. Finally, the paper explores the idea of medical courts or tribunals, specialized medical decision makers that could help to increase fair and reasonable judgments for medical malpractice claims.

Paper Outline:
The United States' Legal System is Killing Healthcare
The Impact of the Legal System on Healthcare in the United States
Tort Reform
Medical Courts and Medical Administrative Tribunals
Benefits of Medical Courts and/or Tribunals

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"The United States legal system, at both the state and federal level, has never had the direct impact on an industry as it has on the U.S. health care industry. Currently, outside of very lax civil procedure rules, anyone can bring a medical malpractice claim and receive compensation without any factual findings made by a judge or jury. In other words, claimants may receive compensation from defendants without proving their allegations. Parties in medical liability lawsuits can hire so-called experts who routinely testify for the plaintiffs or defendants and skew their testimony towards the side who paid them to testify."

Tags:award, civil, compensation, damages, doctor, health, hospital, jury, lawsuit, medicine, misuse, public, reform, spending, tort, treatment

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This paper looks at how Rousseau and Kant would view a story of someone killing a rich old man who they considered mean and miserly, then giving the money to the poor and assuming control of the city followed by absolute power.

Tags:Rousseau, Kant, theories of morality

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The writer of this paper clearly details the ecological and environmental makeup of Pennsylvania, while also supplying relevant data and statistics regarding the state's economy. Due to the abundant supply of ore and hardwoods for furnaces, iron smelting became important in the 18th century and by the 19th century, Pennsylvania became the nation's leading steel producer. Although the state still manufactures metal products, chemicals and transportation equipment, this paper describes how heavy industry has declined in recent years. This paper delves into Pennsylvania's rich history while citing several major events. Pennsylvania has also been the site for some of America's most horrendous ecological disasters. In 1889, the South Fork Dam gave way after a heavy rain and destroyed the downstream factory town of Johnstown, killing over 2,000 people in what has come to be known as the notorious Johnstown Flood. The first oil well in the U.S. was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859. Pennsylvania became a leader in the U.S. iron industry during the days of the American Revolution. This paper also discusses the fact that Pennsylvania spends a disproportionate share of development money on outlying areas while abandoning established communities, just one of the reasons why Pennsylvania still has a long way to go before it will be a sustainable state.

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"Pennsylvania's state forest system includes sixty-one special natural areas and fourteen wild areas that are set aside to "protect unique or unusual biologic, geologic, scenic and historic features, or to showcase outstanding examples of Pennsylvania's major forest communities." Generally speaking, sustainable forestry is defined as protecting the long-term health and viability of forests by using management techniques that value "all uses of the forests," thus, protecting the forest "ecosystem, recreation, clean water, and the production of timber for current and future generations." Pennsylvania employs sustainable forestry practices of its 2.1 million acres of state forestlands. In 1998 and 1999, a team of scientists praised Pennsylvania's commitment to its forests and its "exemplary practices and innovation in managing forest resources."

Tags:steel, metal, port, maritime, history, ecology, wood, environment

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This paper offers a review of Fyodor Dostoevsky's famous work, "Crime and Punishment". The author explains that "Crime and Punishment" is the story of a desperate young man, Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov, who plots the perfect crime. Raskolnikov, alternately called Rodya, Rodenka, and Rodka throughout the novel, is a handsome, but poor student who lives in a garret in the slums of St. Petersburg. He owes money to his landlady and uses the services of a pawnbroker as a way to pay back his landlady. He plans carefully to murder an unattached pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanovna, an old woman loved by no one, whose conduct is despicable and completely unredeemed. He reasons carefully that it is just for a man of genius, such as himself, to commit such a crime and defy moral law because his action ultimately benefits humanity. He is disgusted by the thought of the murder, and yet he eventually kills the pawnbroker. He is ultimately convicted of the murder and sentenced to Siberia.

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"Like his other novels, Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" is heavily concerned with the psychological life of his characters. While Dostoevsky was alive, he suffered a great deal of criticism over the poor style of his novels, including their "hysterical and morbid nature", and lacking "balance, restraint, and good taste" (Terras, 4). In defense of Dostoevsky, Terras notes, "Dostoevsky's novels encompass antagonistic philosophies and value systems. He is an excellent 'devil's advocate'. Sophisticated readers have mistaken for his own ideas what Dostoevsky was in fact trying to refute"."

Tags:charcater, russia, philosophy, Raskolnikov

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The purpose of this essay is to analyze the phenomenon of wealthy communities that hire soldiers to fight its wars, one that is not so confined to the past, as we'd like to believe. Modern day companies offering similar services like Executive Outcomes which guards important economic and diamond mining interests in South Africa or the lure of U.S. Armed Forces' bonus money and paid education primarily targeting recruits on the lower steps of the American economic ladder reminds us that materially all wealthy societies not just the mercantile Italian cities - will eventually seek to outsource and pay someone else to do the dirty business of killing.

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""The priests and other citizens of Italy being unused to military service," laments Niccolo Machiavelli over the martial decline of his people in his famous treatise The Prince, "they started to hire outsiders as soldiers" (82). It was perhaps impossible for him and other Renaissance commentators to fully comprehend the social and economic reasons why the medieval Italians began to hire foreign mercenaries to fight."

Tags:ages, condottieri, crecy, europe, florence, guilds, hawkwood, italy, machiavelli, medici, mercenaries, merchants, middle, military, pisa, prince, renaissance, warfare