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- 12521: Winesburg, Ohio
- ... her mother believes that Wash would forget what his wife did if he saw her naked again. Then Wash beats her with a chair. Also, Anderson writes that women are sent to prevent making the world worthwhile. Evidence throughout the book shows that Anderson portrays women as resulting from society and also by birth, by a different genetic behavior than men. Negative portrayals of women abound throughout the novel, as evidenced ...
- 12522: Wind From A Foriegn Sky
- ... would not want to live there. For one, it was a time full of great danger for many people, because of the robbers and highwaymen about. For another, there were many dangerous powers in the world, good magic and bad magic. For the time being though I think, I will just stay right where I am. I learned some interesting things about how people from there time thought of other people ...
- 12523: William Carlos Williams
- ... the University of Pennsylvania Williams became close friends with Ezra Pound. Though Williams disagreed with Pound when it came to poetry it was his relationship with Pound that opened the door for him into the world of contemporary poetry. Williams unlike Pound and other Imagists did not go abroad but remained at home and became one of the strongest supporters of the American Nativist movement. In fact it was Pound who ...
- 12524: European Union 2
- ... three fundamental powers: - legislation power - the power of the purse - the power to democratic supervision. The Parliament is also able to guide and promote the EU's development and co-operation programs with all the world's developing countries. By adopting resolutions on its own initiative, the Parliament is a political driving force generating several initiatives for the development of the Community policies. It regularly works together with the Commission and ...
- 12525: Exxon Valdez
- ... gullomot. In some areas, that have been hardest hit by the oil spill, many of the species have an elevated level of mortality. Even though the Exxon Valdez is the most-studied oil spill in world history, it is also a particularly difficult one to research because of the lack of baseline data on the ecology of Prince William Sound (Birkland 1998). Among all the animal casualties, there is another victim ...
- 12526: Who Are We To Judge
- ... to grade and categorize the unknown citizen. The unknown citizen is someone who pays his taxes, satisfies the employers, reads the newspaper daily, has the correct number of children, fights for peace and supports the war. In spite of all these facts, the subject remains "unknown". We do not see any strong traits in this unknown citizen. He is merely like any other ordinary man we can find around us. We ...
- 12527: Where Are You Going, Where Hav
- ... convince her by saying "this place you are now-inside your daddy's house-is nothing but a cardboard box I can knock down any time" (603). Truly believing each word he says, Arnold creates world in which his bemused ideas are reasonable and justified. The mind of a psychopath vastly differs from any sane human. With the help of a great deal of self-justification, mentally deranged humans come to ...
- 12528: Where Are You Going, Where Hav
- ... cheapness and narcissism of life for Connie and her friends who have nothing better to do than to stroll up and down a shopping center plaza looking for excitement. Connie is blind to the real world which surrounds her and ironically enough, it leads to her death. She opens up herself too much to life and believes nothing will ever hurt her. The music and movies she enjoys are her ideals ...
- 12529: What Sort Of Man Reads Playboy
- ... sculpture, while women are observing you. You look down to the bottom of the ad and read what it says. It tells you what kind of man reads Playboy. "He knows taste... Playboy features the world's top artists... More than 2.3 million of the magazine readers make the habit of attending art events, concerts, the ballet...Playboy-it puts you in the picture." After reading that you say to ...
- 12530: Early Leaders And Great Kingdo
- ... predecessor, its growth was substantially accelerated when Askia Mohammed, a general who had been prime minister, gained power in I493. In his thirty-six-year quest to make Songhai the most powerful empire in the world, Askia Mohammed embarked on an effort to expand trade to include European countries. It was during his rule that the sale of Black slaves became a major business. He eventually controlled most of West Africa ...
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