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- 171: Rap Music; Its Impact On Society Since Its Birth.
- ... the top names of hip-hop and jazz (Rose, 1994, 67). Rap is still a new music form. It is expanding every day, and the sound has grown wide enough to include scores of future stars. Some rap is rock-based, some is funk, and some is very close to the original "street" sound. A few of the present stars will definitely have a noticeable impact on the future of rap. Themes that are found more and more in rap lyrics are: pride in an African heritage and the call for harmony between men and ...
- 172: Religious Imagery In Moby Dick
- ... Genesis 1:1-3) As you can see the wind is a representation of God in the first lines of the book of Genesis also. . The wind from these lines can be compared with the stars in other lines and the ocean in even more. Imagery of Nature seems to be used in the book to represent the force of God. At one point along the voyage, Ishmael takes, "the mystic ... all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man. Nor can piety itself, at such a shameful sight, completely stifle her upbraidings against the permitting stars. (Melville 126) The issue this quote deals with is the fall of a man s soul from valor to ruin. By using the metaphor, mankind is represented by the crew, this quote can be applied ...
- 173: The True Evil - Frankenstein
- ... that the poem can be interpreted as a symbol of the industrial revolution and its positive and negative effects on society. "Hammer," "chain," "furnace," and "anvil" provide this illustration of the industrial revolution. "When the stars threw down their spears / And water'd heaven with their tears, / Did he smile his work to see? / Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" (Lines 17-20) Lines 17 through 19 follow directly ... from heaven (Isaiah 14:12-15). These lines also parallel the Bible's tale of Revelations. "Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth (Revelation 9:1)." The stars are an obvious symbol of heaven. The throwing "down of their spears" symbolizes God casting Satan out of heaven. The Bible then tells of great sadness in heaven due to the loss of a brother ...
- 174: Technetium
- ... for the element in terrestrial material have been made without s uccess. If it does exist, the concentration must be very small. Technetium has been found in the spectrum of S-, M-, and N-type stars, and its resence in stellar matter is leading to new theories of the production of heavy elements in the stars. Nineteen isotopes of technetium, with atomic masses ranging from 90 to 108, are known. 97Tc has a half-life of 2.6 x 10^6 years. 98Tc has a half-life of 4.2 x ...
- 175: Oxygen
- ... OCCURRENCE Oxygen is formed by a number of nuclear processes that are believed to occur in stellar interiors. The most abundant isotope of oxygen, with mass 16, is thought to be formed in hydrogen-burning stars by the capture of a proton by the isotopes of nitrogen and fluorine, with the subsequent emission of, respectively, a gamma ray and an alpha particle. In helium-burning stars the isotope of carbon with mass 12 is thought to capture an alpha particle to form the isotope with mass 16 with the emission of a gamma ray. In the terrestrial environment oxygen accounts for ...
- 176: When Will We Learn
- ... Goddamn situation in Kosovo too. Hussein sees his chance, his blessed opportunity to inflict whatever the fuck anthrax shit he s got onto everyone. The time is so perfect. Like it was written in the stars, our painful fate is unraveling. No. Not written in the stars, but in Revelation. Not that I proclaim to be anything religious, but bot that I think about it, I believe that if there is a god, he is reigning in his own little heaven watching ...
- 177: Gailileo
- ... made a series of telescopes whose optical performance was much better than that of the Dutch instrument. The astronomical discoveries he made with his telescopes were described in a short book called Message from the Stars published in Venice in May 1610. It caused a sensation. Galileo claimed to have seen four small bodies orbiting Jupiter. These last, with an eye on getting a job in Florence, he promptly named the "the Medicean stars." It worked, Soon afterwards, Galileo became "mathematician and Natural philosopher," to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. In Florence he continued his work on mation and on mechanics, and began to get in disputes about Copernicanism ...
- 178: Poem "Lucifer in the Starlight": New Meanings and Ideas
- ... from heaven, and sent to the underworld of hell, where he known as Satan. The title refers to the devil as "in starlight", so this means he has to rise to a place where the stars are visible, not the fires of hell. This rising from the underworld is summed up in the first line. It is later explained that he is doing so because he is tired of his dark ... elevated himself above the "rolling ball". However, god imagined the world as planar, with heaven on a higher plane, and hell on a lower plane, not spherical as defined here. From his place in the stars above earth, Lucifer looks down through the clouds, and observes the sinners. He is talking about the denizens of the earth, for since Adam sinned in the beginning, all of his sons and daughters are ...
- 179: Animal Rights Protests
- ... a powerfully charged drama has unfolded in New York's Broadway venues and spread to the opera houses and ballet productions of major cities across the country. Its characters include angry college students, aging rock stars, flamboyant B-movie queens, society matrons, and sophisticated fashion designers. You can't buy tickets for this production, but you might catch a glimpse of it while driving in Bethesda on particular Saturday afternoons. If ... action protests and demonstrations is just one way that the animal rights movement has mobilized to end the fur trade. The larger animal rights organizations have conducted attention grabbing media blitzes with the help of stars like Paul McCartney, Melissa Etheridge, Rikki Lake, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington. Lobbying efforts by animal advocacy groups have resulted in trapping restrictions in numerous states and an end to federal fur industry subsidies. People ...
- 180: Theme Presented in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- ... pity on My soul in agony." To the Mariner, nature has become foreign. This is a very low point in his spiritual journey. The Mariner then has a reversal of sentiment. While looking at the stars and the moon, the Mariner notices that the stars have a place in the sky, and they belong to a set position; the moon, however does not, and is on a journey, just like the Mariner. It is then that the Mariner decides to ...
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