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- 201: Jude the Obscure: Summary
- ... a gin which would cripple him, if not her also, for the rest of a lifetime?" The marriage continued even after Arabella confessed but the passion is gone. Jude decided to forget his miseries by drinking. He tries to push himself away from Arabella and away from the society that does not want him by sitting in a tavern for hours on end drinking until all is forgotten. Jude uses liquor as the escape from his miseries. Irving Howe shows that Jude needs to confront life by writing: "Throughout Hardy’s novels there keep appearing figures who need to ... woman named Sue, who also happens to be his cousin. Jude and Sue have a sexual relationship for a while and during that time Arabella enters Jude’s life once again. While Jude is out drinking he meets Arabella who is working as a bartender. Jude has found a new life with Sue Bridehead and Sue does not want their relationship ruined by Arabella. Jude, since he is married to ...
- 202: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- ... in Clatskanie, Oregon to working class- parents in a alcoholic home where reading material was limited to Zane Gray novels, and the newspaper. Following high school, Carver married his pregnant high school sweet hart. His drinking became heavier. A list of meaningless jobs followed , in which writing only provided a emotional outlet. During this time, Carver's hard life may have instigated the disjunction he portrayed in his earlier writings. Poverty ... as a result of alcoholism. In 1977 he received a National Book award nomination and had several stories published in various magazines and book presses. After 1977, when he met his second wife, Carver stopped drinking. This is when his stories of disjunction become more developed. He published several collections including What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. In May of 1983, Knopf published Cathedral, Carvers third major book ... Gazebo", from the collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, contains a excellent example of disjunction. The story opens in a motel suite, where the two main characters Duane and Holly, are drinking alcohol and hashing out their marital problems. They end up generally stop caring for one another and realize their " days are numbered, " both as hotel managers and as a married couple. In the last ...
- 203: What We Talk About When We Tal
- The short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, by Raymond Carver, is about two married couples drinking gin and having a talk about the nature of love. The conversation is a little sloppy, and the characters make some comments which could either be meaningless because of excessive alcohol in the bloodstream, or ... people involved may have misconceptions about their love, but this love will eventually die off or develop into something much more meaningful. The author sets the scene with the two couples sitting around a table drinking gin and making small talk. The real story begins when the topic of love comes up. Terri, Mel s wife, was once married to an abusive man, who ...went on dragging me (Terri) around the ... or so, and are still gaga (p 113) according to Terri, say (with slight indifference) that they would like something more to eat; Nick says, Sounds fine to me...Eat or not eat. Or keep drinking. I could head right on out into the sunset. (p 119) This shows that Nick and Laura are still in their early stages of love and are not sure if it will either wither ...
- 204: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome And Fetal Alcohol Effects
- ... gestation have an increased frequency of premature deliveries and deliveries of babies small for gestational age. [11] In one study, Mills et al [12] prospectively studied 31604 pregnancies in an attempt to determine how much drinking in pregnancy is safe. The consumption of at least one to two drinks a day was associated with a substantially increased risk of giving birth to a growth-retarded baby. [12] Alpert and Zuckerman [13 ... 99-457). The American Academy of Pediactrics supports federal legislation that would require the inclusion of health-and-safety messages in all print and broadcast alcohol advertisements, based on the US Surgeon General's warning: "Drinking during pregnancy may cause mental retardation and other birth defects. Avoid alcohol during pregnancy." The Academy supports the development of state legislation that makes information about FAS and FAE available at marriage-licensing bureaus and ... Streissguth AP, Myrianthopoulos NC. Outcome in offspring of chronic alcoholic women. Lancet. 1974;1:1076-1078 12. Mills JL, Graubard BI, Harley EE, Rhoads GG, Berends HW. Maternal alcohol consumption and birth weight: how much drinking in pregnancy is safe? JAMA. 1984;252:1875-1879 13. Alpert JJ, Zuckerman B. Alcohol use during pregnancy: what is the risk? Pediatr Rev. 1991;12:375-379 14. Charness ME, Simon RP, Greenberg ...
- 205: House Made of Dawn: Religious Names
- ... symbolism. As we know, Francisco is the Spanish equivalent of Francis, which could refer to Saint Francis of Assisi. Saint Francis was a rich youth who spent considerable time failing to be a knight and drinking too much. However, once he realized his holy vocation, he lived a life of extreme poverty, choosing to return to the teachings of the gospel and to shun material wealth (Matz, n.pag.). While we ... it came Abel's turn, he made a poor showing, full of caution and gesture. Angela despised him a little …" (Momaday 42). We also see Abel after his prison sentence, living in Los Angeles and drinking to excess. While his friend Benally tries to convince him to get a job and to stop drinking so much, Abel pays no attention and delves deeper into his drunken depression (Momaday 161-162). This is very similar to St. Francis' behavior after his failure in the Crusades. By remaining drunk, both ...
- 206: Frank J. Horgan Filtration Plant
- Frank J. Horgan Filtration Plant Introduction The Frank J. Horgan Filtration Plant is located Southeast of Toronto on the shores of Lake Ontario (See map). Its purpose is to provide safe drinking water to our taps by filtering the water. The water is gathered from Lake Ontario. This plant has a production capacity of 455 million litres per day to supply the residents of Toronto with drinking water. Its average production of drinking water is 355 million litres per day. It is also the newest filtration plant in Toronto. History The Frank J. horgan Filtration Plant was built from 1974 to 1979 on property acquired from the ...
- 207: Alcoholism And Drug Abuse
- ... thousand people die each year of alcohol related problems. Alcoholism is a chronic disease, which is often progressive and fatal. Some symptoms a person may show illustrating an alcohol related problem consist of: 1. closet drinking (drinking alone or in privacy) 2. not remembering discussions or obligations 3. making a ritual of having drinks at particular times and becoming agitated when this ritual is disturbed or questioned 4. losing interest in once ... In ample amounts, alcohol will impair speech and muscle coordination. A person can become dizzy, have steadiness affected, have slow reactions and bad coordination, start to flush, become angry and agitated, or even vomit. Excessive drinking may also result in long-term effects as well. These include: loss of appetite; vitamin deficiencies; stomach and skin problems; liver, brain, and reproductive organ damage; memory loss; depression; money, legal, work, and relationship ...
- 208: Chernobyl
- ... expected to constitute a radiological problem for a long time. Water bodies, such as rivers, lakes and reservoirs can be, if contaminated, an important source of human radiation exposure because of their uses for recreation, drinking and fishing. In the case of the Chernobyl accident this segment of the environment did not contribute significantly to the total radiation exposure. It was estimated that the component of the individual and collective doses ... of water bodies in the contaminated regions around Chernobyl and there will continue to be for a long time a need for careful monitoring to ensure that washout from the catchment area will not contaminate drinking-water supplies. Outside the former Soviet Union, no concerns were ever warranted for the levels of radioactivity in drinking water. On the other hand, there are lakes, particularly in Switzerland and the Nordic countries, where restrictions were necessary for the consumption of fish. These restrictions still exist in Sweden, for example, where thousands ...
- 209: American Prohibition in the 1920s
- ... has law been more flagrantly violated. Not only did Americans continue to manufacture, barter, and possess alcohol; they drank more of it” (Bowen, 154). The Americans that supported the law of prohibition argued that if drinking was not allowed, then Americans would drink less. Although the consumption of alcohol fell immediately after the beginning of prohibition, there was a subsequent increase after less than a year (see appendix i). After the ... they began to drink more hard liquor, which was more concentrated and easier to transport and thus less expensive. Because of prohibition, Americans began to drink more potent drinks and so became more drunk by drinking less. Another downfall of prohibition was that the illegally made products had no standards. Deaths from poisoned liquor rose from 1,064 in 1920 to 4,154 in 1925. Although one would think that prohibition ... this “noble experiment” was not so noble but rather a miserable failure on all accounts. Reasonable measures were not taken to enforce the laws and so they were practically ignored. People flagrantly violated the law, drinking more of the substance that was originally prohibited. The problems prohibition intended to solve, such as crime, grew worse and they never returned to their pre-prohibition levels. Not only was prohibition ineffective, it ...
- 210: Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands
- ... She blamed herself and her inability to have children for much of their problems. Even after his death, she did not want to leave him and her first dream came immediately; it included singing, dancing, drinking, gambling, and wild, passionate sex. In spite of her hating the excessive drinking and gambling, she could only think, “Never again his lips!” Vadinho gave her all the passion and excitement Flor desired. So strong was this passion that it continued, even after his death. From Dr. Teodoro ... shared. With her new relationship she got the security, stability, and social status she wanted but the Doctor could never give her the passion and excitement she needed. Vadinho wanted Flor to support his habits: drinking, gambling and sex. His love for her was more of a passionate sort rather than a romantic one and even during their wedding night he gambled heavily and visited a house of prostitution. When ...
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