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- 12181: Darwinism
- ... because they blended in with the grey lichen. Birds had a difficult time seeing these moths. After the revolution, the black moths had a selective advantage, because the trees were now black. This is a great example of microevolution. But can this experiment be extended to prove that macroevolution is possible? No. The moth's color variation is not an example of a new gene evolving. It is an example of ...
- 12182: Essy and Possy
- ... while Vladimir and Estragon waiver between attentiveness and disgusted pain. The speech is reflective of the rest of the play (and transitively, life itself), and therefore open to interpretation. In fact, Beckett himself stated the great importance of the passage, suggesting that one note the "ups and downs" of the speech; here, he said, one could find "hope". The passage becomes something of a Rorschach image with its layers of symbols ...
- 12183: Analysis of Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
- ... is bitter about not progressing within the college and Martha is unfulfilled with the life and status she has. Why, then, are they important characters when they are not, as in an epic, figures "of great national or even cosmic importance." (54) In their degraded state, contemporary readers are able to sympathize with them in a more direct way then a traditional hero. Broader issues of state and humanity are often ...
- 12184: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- ... the reader can delve into it and see all that they never knew or even imagined had happened before. These bizarre and shocking revelations give the reader a horrifying view of the birth of our great nation. The merits of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee far outweigh its faults. The book maybe somewhat difficult to read but thats only because some of the vocabulary in the book was very ...
- 12185: Television - In Living Color
- ... alone does not sell a product. People watch TV to be entertained and advertisers understand that the more entertaining or interesting they make the ad, the more people will stay tuned to watch it. A great example of this is during the Super Bowl. Many people rush to the television in order to watch the commercials because they are entertaining. The ability of an advertiser to tell an interesting story or ...
- 12186: Freud's Oz: Freudian Views in The Wizard of Oz
- ... Em that "all I kept saying to everybody was I want to go home.'" This fits perfectly with the time, 1939, that The Wizard of Oz was produced. One reason was that due to the depression, many people were forced away from their homes and into cities. Another reason was that America was on the verge of entering into another war, WWII, and the threat of having to send troops away ...
- 12187: Movie: Arsenic and Old Lace
- ... obviously set in the mid 1900's. The story in the movie is actually very good , it kept my attention throughout and is one of the few I seen of its kind . This movie is great for anyone who enjoys classic comedies , even if you don't , go out and rent this one . You might not be disappointed .
- 12188: Greek Architecture
- ... and altars were replaced on a grander scale. Several Ionian cities were rebuilt on a grid plan that has been credited to Hippodamus of Miletus. The rise of Macedonia and the conquests of Alexander the Great heralded the Hellenistic period. Old building types became more complex: altars, gate buildings, council houses, stoas with two or three levels, and theaters with large attached stage buildings. Many new building types were introduced, including ...
- 12189: Emily Dickinson 2
- ... Dickinson wrote exactly what she felt in her heart. She chose to keep herself confined in a room and nowhere else. She may have chosen to do this because she was in a state of depression, uncertainty of her well being, or just wanted to keep to herself for her own reasons. Although, it may not ever be certain why she never allowed herself to be exposed to the out world ...
- 12190: Data Warehousing
- ... of design, liberties can be taken to optimise the access of data, particularly in dealing with the issues of normalisation and physical de-normalisation. 3.0 Past, Present and Future Data warehouses represent the latest great paradigm of database management. The earliest data management systems were hierarchical, run on massive mainframes, and were used primarily for archival purposes. The first big change came in the early 1980's, with the adoption ...
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