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- 11121: The Great Gatsby: Symbolism in Colors
- ... Page (161-162) Perhaps another sign of his demise. Green is a very strong color in this book. It symbolizes hope. Gatsby and Daisy had met for a short time before he went off to war. When he returned he knew that Daisy had married Tom. He desperately wanted to get back together with her. So much so that he bought a house where he could see Daisy's house from ... lavender, brown and black to symbolize the many other feelings. In this book he shows us how society uses colors to express our feelings. We use black at funerals, white at weddings, and red with war and love. Many people use colors to express their feelings, and don't even realize what they are doing.
- 11122: Creative Writing: The Search
- ... of the blades louder than I remembered. Once we left the city's limits, I began to enjoy the flight. We skipped over the pine forest, an endless field of green. I had forgotten the world outside my office and I began to wish I was home. The sunlight created a glare as it passed through the plastic window of my door, but I could still see the treetops speeding beneath ... slipped it back over my head. With my sleeve, I wiped my face. I lifted the flashlight, switched it off and tossed it to him. "Take it." I turned away and started back into the world. Hendricks' team found me a few miles west of the hole. They airlifted me to the Olympia hospital. I was treated for a broken clavicle and shoulder blade, along with my ribs. The tissue damage ...
- 11123: Paul Ehrlich
- I. A World To Change Everyone on this earth has to be grateful to Paul Ehrlich because he made so many advances in medical research. Our life expectancy rate would still be around forty years if Ehrlich hadn ... Cemetery in Frankfurt. BIBLIOGRAPHY Asimov, Isaac. Asimov’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Garden City, New York. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1982. Pages 547-549. Coleman, Ken. ‘He Opened New Doors to the Unknown’. The World & I. Vol. 11. Pages 172. May 1, 1996. Gillispie, Charles Coulston. Dictionary of Scientific Biography Volume 3. New York. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1980. Pages 295-303. Leyden, John G. From Nobel Prize to Courthouse ...
- 11124: Proposing A Solution
- ... through school without being taught the basic skills necessary to be successful in today’s society. Measures need to be taken so that these students are not pushed through school and thrown into the real world without the skills necessary to succeed. The solution to this is through standardized classes and periodic evaluations of both teachers and students. In the past standardized classrooms have been looked down upon, because of the ... school. Whether it is college or the work force, these skills will set a strong foundation for whatever a person chooses. Is that not the point of school? Please do not throw children into the world without preparing us for it first.
- 11125: Cultural Literacy According to E.D. Hirsch
- Cultural Literacy According to E.D. Hirsch According to E.D. Hirsch, to be culturally literate is to possess the basic information to thrive in the modern world. It is the "grasp on the background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has." In his book, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, Hirsch sets forth 5,000 essential words ... revolutionary philosophy on education, Hirsch stands completely opposite. Dewey's philosophy stresses the crucial role of experience in a student's education and development. His system would prepare the student for life in the "real world" -- for everyday interactions with peer and co-workers. Hirsch criticizes methods advocated by Dewey and Rousseau by saying that a child needs to "learn the traditions of the particular human society and culture it is ...
- 11126: Baseball's New Rules
- Baseball's New Rules I started to watch baseball again since the World Series is starting but I have noticed that there are a couple of new rules in the game that were not there last year and I am not the only one who does not like ... over the wall and caught the ball. This would be usually ruled no home run but the umpire said it was OK. New York went on to win the next game to advance to the World Series. The fans in New York made the little boy a hero for a day and loved him for what he did but most of the other baseball fans all over the country did not ...
- 11127: The Game of Basketball
- ... backboard, a rectangular board generally 4 by 6 ft (1.2 by 1.8 m) that hangs from the ceiling or is otherwise supported in the air. One of the most popular sports in the world, basketball is played by men and women of all ages and ability levels in more than 200 countries. Some details of the game differ when it is played in different countries. Unless otherwise noted, this ... its own guidelines for determining titles. Most states have several state champions, each in a category determined by school size. Professional Competition The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the major professional basketball league in the world, with teams from the United States and Canada. With the addition of the Toronto Raptors and the Vancouver Grizzlies prior to the 1995-1996 season, the NBA expanded to 29 teams competing in two conferences ...
- 11128: 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 ...
- 11129: The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... a motivating force in that it challenged him to try and conquer the fate that was handed him. He would not surrender to that "jealous demon, my wretched health" before proving to himself and the world the extent of his skill. Thus, faced with su!ch great impending loss, Beethoven, keeping faith in his art and ability, states in his Heiligenstadt Testament a promise of his greatness yet to be proven ... the Testament a determination, though weak and exhausted, to carry on-"I would have ended my life-it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed to me impossible to leave the world until I had brough forth all that I felt was within me. So I endured this wretched existence..." Realizing his own potential which he expressed earlier after the completion of the Second Symphony-"I am ...
- 11130: Huckleberry Finn: Controversy Paper
- Huckleberry Finn: Controversy Paper Huckleberry Finn sets each reader back in a time when we as humans where inhuman. All the faults of the world was just beginning to show through and some of the right was being shifted to the side. Just as in Huck Finn, we are reminded of the race relations that we all still face. Mark ... readers and it should not be underestimated by the power that it may hold. Although, it must hold to its meaning, we can not allow it to steer us to the wrong's of the world today. Shelly Fishkin suggests Mark Twain has "obscured" the African American roots when writing Huck Finn. Jim, as suggested by Fishkin, has been plagued with a dialect that should not be represented by the African ...
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