The “Pill Mill Bill” or H.B. 7095 was a bill of great importance during this past legislative session receiving significant support from both Attorney General Pam Bondi and Governor Rick Scott and its value was demonstrated as both the House and the Senate passed H.B. 7095 unanimously (LobbyTools, 2011). Prescription drug abuse of both controlled substances and pain killers in Florida has intensified over the years to the point where Governor Scott’s administration felt the only option was to pass legislature in order to curtail the drug abuse. Another significant problem with controlled substances and pain killers was the ease one could receive…
What is the central conflict of the story? What is the source of the struggle?…
The 2nd most important main character is Shahrazad. I think you could consider Shahrazad creative, bold, and sharp. Shahrazad is creative for coming up with stories and telling stories to save her life. She is bold for volunteering to marry the Sultan when no one else wanted to because he was killing off a wife each night. She is sharp when Dunyazad suggested a story to tell, but out of the hundred she had told she remembered she already told that one.…
Characters play a big role in a story. As well as they all have flaws. For example, the narrator’s weakness is her boyfriend, Raheem. She does what he says because “A boy like him can get any girl he want, he ain’t gotta take stuff off nobody.’ As you can tell, Raheem’s strengths are his looks. With his “6 pack” and “honey” brown muscles, all the girls fall for him. Saying this, I don’t…
It is shown that threw out the story the narrator's pride continues to grow over his brother. The significance the argument is that pride can change everyone that it can make the unexpected happen. The author shows in the story that the narrator really loves his brother, but he does not know it himself until the end when he pushes his brother to his death. It is learned from this story not to take things for granted to appreciate everything in life before someone pushes it away. This story shows us the difference is people and the human in them and that everything can change off of one…
Which narrator do you think faces the most significant conflict? What is the conflict that the narrator faces? Is it resolved satisfactorily? Why or why not? Use details from the story to support your answer.…
Lio, Ada. ""The Ramayana" - Summary by Stephen Knapp." About.com Hinduism. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Sept. 2016.…
Rama is the main character and superhero of this story. The main character is a hero, who is often possessed of supernatural abilities or qualities. Rama displays his supernatural abilities by being able to pick up a strong edged bow. Also later in the story he has the ability to fly and having the power to neutralize an arrow and fly a chariot. The hero is charged with a quest. Rama has to leave, because sita has two wishes and one of them is exiling him to the forest for 14 years. His wife is kidnapped and wants revenge on ravanna. The hero is tested, often to prove the worthiness of himself and his quest. By facing ravanna on his journey is challenging his worthiness and it tested him on his quest to revenge. The presence of numerous mythical beings, magical and helpful animals, and human helpers and companions, monkeys were part of the magical quest helping Rama to defeat ravanna.…
Sita’s refusal to do as she’s told is not met with scorn or distaste like Penelope’s actions are. When Sita tells Rama that she is going with him or will take her own life, Rama meets her declaration with acceptance and recognizes that her argument is valid. This, however, is not what happens later in the epic when Sita and Laksmana are worried that Rama has been lead deeper into the forest by the demon Marcia. Laksmana claims that, even though he knows he is right, Sita’s accusations have hurt him and he know that women are “easily led away from dharma; they are fickle and sharp-tongued” and thus heads off into the forest in search of Rama, leaving Sita alone despite Rama’s orders (1191). While Sita is allowed to speak her mind to her husband she—like Penelope—must watch what she says to men that she is not intimately bound to. While both women live in different cultures and are still bound by the laws of such, they do not let those laws interfere with how they live their…
For example, if Penelope chose a husband from one of the suitors, her new husband would be king, he would then take care of her and kill Odysseus if he returned. Odysseus also could have stayed with Calypso forever, but since Penelope and Odysseus shared a familial love for one another, she confounded the suitors, and he came home to her. Same thing could be said for Sita when she was held as a prisoner at Ravana’s palace. Even when Ravana expressed his desire for her and tried to seduce her with his all of his glamour and material objects, Sita refused his advances and struggled to maintain her chastity; which severely shapes Rama’s fate and drives him towards defeating the evil and reuniting with his wife. While it could be possible that there were women like Penelope and Sita at some point in Greek and Indian antiquity, it is more likely that the authors of the poems created in those characters their idea of the perfect women. In those characters, the authors made the perfect counter-balance for their husbands; strong but chaste women who would remain faithful to their husbands and their…
Sita, who is fully devoted to Lord Rama, has to go through a purity test after returning from the Ravana’s Lanka. Why Lord Rama, another avatar of lord Vishnu, was skeptical of Sita, his own wife? Even after she is proved pure and honest, lord Rama banishes her from Ayodhya? What was Sita’s fault if she was kidnapped by Ravana? She didn’t even look at Ravana during her stay in Lanka and suffers the banishment for no reason. Why did lord Rama travel all the way to Lanka to rescue Sita, if he was to banish her…
Protests have swept over the nation after the recent presidential election. The first amendment states that people have the right to go against government leaders if they have any concerns, that was present in the form of protests which took over many cities across the nation. What these people have done is completely justified; however, some others have gone as far as harming supporters of the other party, causing huge traffic jams along with vandalism and it is even a safety hazard for the protesters.…
The Epic of Sundiata is a West African tale that tells the story of the rise to power of Mali's greatest king, Sundiata (Son-Jara). In this epic, the griot Djeli Mamoudou Kouyate begins the story from the humiliating childhood of Son Jara (Sundiata), to the jealousy between his stepmother Sassouma and his half brother Dankaran Tuma, to the continue conflicts with the great sorcerer Soumaoro and the later achievements of Sundiata for his fatherland and his people.…
Throughout all of history there has always been drama within stories. These stories hold virtue and truth, which make them classics and legends. Each story that has been told holds an aspect that can relate to any individual that reads its. Its main theme has always been to overcome the obstacles that come in our way, each time we see this we get a sense that we’ve been there, that we can learn from this book on how to succeed in such trials. The problem that comes into play is not an obstacle from an exterior block, but one from within. Through many stories there are heroes and protagonists that must fight the villain or antagonists, through all this we learn the battles one must endure. Yet through this, to reach such end the protagonist…
What are the anti-immigrant policies? The anti-immigrant policies are congressional acts, that regulate the conditions under which residents of foreign countries, may enter the U.S. to live permanently. Five years ago, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an American immigration policy was established by the Obama administration in June 2012. This policy allows some individuals who entered the country illegally as minors to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a work permit. The purpose of DACA is to protect eligible immigrant youth who came to the United States when they were children from deportation. Approximately 800,000 individuals, referred as Dreamers were enrolled in…