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- 18111: A Thousand Acres: The Monopoly Game
- ... did not. He always went out into the fields and returned home to Ginny. Ginny chose the thimble for her piece. Although a thimble does not represent movement, it was her protection from the outside world and from the secrets within her. However, in the end she was the first to leave the farm and start a new life. Lastly, Pete could not decide between the wheelbarrow and the mounted horseman ...
- 18112: Continental Drift
- ... from Wegener’s earlier thoughts. Earlier, Wegener and other scientists had noted that continental crust grows by additions and that a ridge in the middle of the ocean runs almost all the way around the world. It was also noted that continental plates tear apart, drift apart, and collide with each other. Seafloor Spreading Geophysicists, mapping the ocean floor with an instrument that measures magnetic fields, showed that the rocks on ...
- 18113: The Color Purple: African-American and Racism
- ... writing a book that has opened my eyes to the struggles of African-American women. I never knew that they had to over come so much in their community let alone the rest of the world.
- 18114: 1984: Lack of Humanity
- ... the words. The old language, appropriately called Oldspeak is compared to Newspeak as, “… [Oldspek] with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning…Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year? Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?” (Syme, Pg.46) While reducing the range of thought is part of ...
- 18115: The Scarlet Letter: Description, Narration, and Symbolism
- ... likes what Pearl is doing as he calls her an “angel”. Hawthorne uses description to show the strictness of Puritan society. He shows that sins are inherited. “Pearl was a born outcast of the infantile world” (65). By describing Pearl as a born outcast, Hawthorne shows that children of sinful mothers don’t have a chance to live a normal Puritan life. The Puritan belief of being pure is so strict ...
- 18116: Racism In The Invisible Man
- Racism In The Invisible Man Everyday, racism is perceived as a negative aspect of society. When people think of racism, they obviously see hatred, evil, and ignorance. It has been a part of world culture since recorded history and, no doubt, before that. When one thinks of racism in the United States, invariably, though not only, the struggle of the African American is singled out. American literature has long ...
- 18117: The Theme of A Doll House
- ... did not intend it to be, it is a feminist text. "A Doll House" is not a feminist text. The story is about a woman who thought she knew herself, until one event turns her world upside down. Joan Templeton, in her essay "Is ‘A Doll House’ a Feminist Text?", says that "A Doll House" is a feminist (1136). She admits that Ibsen himself says "A Doll House" is not about ...
- 18118: Young Goodman Brown: The Woods
- Young Goodman Brown: The Woods Woods all over the world are basically the same, made up of similar contents, but they all have different meaning in the way they can make you feel inside. In the short story “ Young Goodman Brown” by Hawthrone the meaning ...
- 18119: Miss Brill: A Pathetic Character
- ... origin of her tears, which of course, is her grief and humiliation. She has never before seen herself as “odd, silent, and… just come from a dark little room or even-even a cupboard!” Her world is essentially lived in a shell and almost in seclusion. It is more natural for her to believe the crying comes from the fox’s glass eyes than from her own desolate eyes. Like all ...
- 18120: Cystic Fibrosis
- ... that keep the lungs clear of mucus and microbes to enzyme supplements that aid digestion—many people with CF live into their thirties and beyond (Hopkin, 1998). CF was known as a very deadly disease. World wide about 50,000 children and young adults have cystic fibrosis. Of those, 30,000 Americans have it, 500 Americans die each year (Ansorge, 1994). CF is an inherited disease of the exocrine glands affecting ...
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