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- 10401: The Physicists
- ... personal and physical change is perceptible. Both the main characters and the environment are changing. For an example in act two, Herbert Georg Beutler alias Sir Isaac Newton turns out to be a long lost world famous physicist Alex Jasper Kilton who discovered the "Theory of Equivalents" also Albert Einstein alias Ernst Heinrich Ernesti is the also long lost discoverer of the "Eislereffect" Joseph Eisler. The most noticeable changes are that ... alias Alex Jasper Kilton a famous lost physicist who is now working for a secret Intelligence service discovers first that Johann-Wilhelm isn’t mad he plays this role to save his secret before the world. Then Albert Einstein alias Ernst Heinrich Ernesti alias Joseph Eisler also a lost famous physicist and Kilton try to get in favour of Johann-Wilhelm for their secret service. Johann-Wilhelm Möbius the main character ...
- 10402: Carnivorous Plants
- Carnivorous Plants In a world where plants are at the bottom of the food-chain, some individual plant species have evolved ways to reverse the order we expect to find in nature. These insectivorous plants, as they are sometimes called ... Drosera), produce sticky mucilage that covers the upper surface of its leaves. Insects become mired in this and leaves then bend around or roll up to enclose the prey for digestion. Within the carnivorous plant world there are some truly amazing plants. Of all the hundreds of species Dionaea muscipula, the Venus fly trap, is probably the most dramatic. It is the only species in it's genus and there are ...
- 10403: The Odyssey: Theme of Homecoming and Reunion
- ... earth-shaker, Poseidon, embodies supreme horror. He is hubris personified and his actions are indisputably grotesque, blasphemous, and extreme. He is described as a caveman, primitive and barbarous, unaccustomed to the polite ways of the world of men. According to Zeus' laws of hospitality, it is an egregious error to turn strangers from your feast, and worse still is it to murder a guest, but to eat a guest– or six ... her son “have you not gone at all to Ithaka?” ; his dead shipmate, Elpenor, who, having fallen off the roof of the palace of Kirke, asks Odysseus for proper burial upon his return to the world of light; Agamemnon, angered at his murder and forever bitter at his wife, Klytaimnestra; and miserable Akhilleus. Through the testimony of Agamemnon and Antikleia, Odysseus learns of his cattish wife, Penelope's own unendurable trials ...
- 10404: Self-Reliance
- Self-Reliance Self reliance in Emmersons view is to look upon the world and yourself, seeing the resources available to you and working with them in a fashion which makes you feel you are productive. Deeper than that it's a understanding of what your personal role is in the universe, and acceptance of that justifying it only to ones self. I don't believe one could be truly self reliant and selfish, because self reliance means an understanding of the world around you in order to be independent enough to find confidence with in yourself to exist self reliantly. I think that one could be very independent though, and at the same time be selfish. A ...
- 10405: The Sign Of The Moonbow
- ... had captured the ravenous beast, Thulsa Doom who had killed and hated more fiercely than Cormac did. Cormac was a pirate, Thulsa was evil. Cormac hated Thulsa more than he hated the everyone in the world combined, for Thulsa had plagued his family for centuries. Cormac's only goal in life was to bring an end to this evil, but he could not kill it himself because, "...he could not be ... be brought to an end by a crowned woman, a queen of her land. There was believed to be no such person, but Cormac's quest was to find one so he could rid the world of his eight thousand year old enemy. Cormac's first development occurred when he had witnessed a young girl get raped by four very large men. Cormac had never hurt the defenseless before, let alone ...
- 10406: A History Of The Beatles
- ... insists that there is no more Beatles material that will be released. Even though one of the Fab Four has passed away, they live on, almost vividly, in the hearts of the youth in the world. Nothing before or since the Beatles has affected people in such a huge way. Forty years ago, four young lads from Liverpool, England got together and grew and grew until they were bigger than anything that’s ever been seen in the music industry. They live forever in me, the world, in music, in everything. Love surrounds them for eternity.
- 10407: What is a Luxury?
- What is a Luxury? What is a luxury? Is it a good thing or is it a bad thing? Most people can describe what a luxury is, but the World Book Dictionary gave me an accurate definition. A luxury is defined as the comforts and beauties of life beyond what is really necessary. Immediately, most luxuries that I think of relate to the latest technology in the world. Computers, cd players, cellular phones, and all sorts of nifty little gadgets are all luxuries to me. Again, they are not necessary and anyone can live without them; however, becoming dependent upon them is the ...
- 10408: Cloning Today
- ... we could clone an abundance of trees. This would help the ecological health of our planet. Cloning is good for out wildlife because with cloning it is easier for us, as a nation and a world, to save many different types of endangered species. We would also be able to keep a type of animal from overpopulating its environment. We would be able to keep an animal within a controlled number ... what the possibilities can be. Edward Squires, an equine reproduction biologist at Colorado State, says, "You could blow your mind thinking about the possibilities." These are just a few of the awesome possibilities in the world of cloning. Now we will discuss some of the disadvantages of cloning. Cloning of certain crops will increase the yield and quality. However this will also increase the danger of a disease being able to ...
- 10409: The Bluest Eye
- ... Morrison 105). This is the sky that would never hang above the life of Pecola; therefore, she could not have a beautiful life surrounded by beautiful people. Of all the beautiful people in Pecola's world, she wanted only one aspect of all of them: blue eyes. To her, blue eyes would make her beautiful and people would then love her. Pecola looked at figures in society and worshiped their beauty ... Jane on her favorite candies. Pecola loved eating these candies and, even more, she loved looking at the face on the wrapper. She was mesmerized by the "blue eyes looking at her out of a world of clean comfort" (Morrison 50). Pecola longed for eyes like Shirley Temple's and Mary Jane's. She thought blue eyes would make her beautiful, and therefore, accepted by society. Pecola wanted to be beautiful ...
- 10410: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... steps beyond the bounds of the time in which he lives in, and Newton was one of those men. The only problem with him was, he could think of the processes, and inventions, yet the world at that time did not possess the technology to build and use what he had envisioned. "Newton’s contributions to physical theories dominated scientific thought for two centuries and remain important today" (Serway 86). Sir ... about and without them, manual labor would be used instead of automated labor, which would be a lot more costly, impractical, and inefficient. Let’s face it, it is just this simple, computers run the world as we know it! We rely on computers for everything, and without calculus, computers might still exist, but the programs which run them would be nonexistent, simply due to the fact that the majority of ...
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