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- 9321: 1984: Summary
- ... Many major ideas, conflicts and themes are introduced. We are shown how the earth has changed, into 3 main continents. we are also introduced to the main character and how he fits into the new world. Also we are shown how the computer age has taken over peoples minds. The language is easy to understand, it has not really changed much over time. It seems like there is nothing left after nuclear war, just ruins remaining. We are introduced to Tom Parsons which Winston is contrasted with. The city is very drab. The Golden country that he dreams about is definitely a release or a freedom from the ...
- 9322: View of Individual and Society by Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Mark Twain
- ... by secluding himself at Walden Pond for years and, upon returning, refusing to pay his overdue poll tax. After being jailed for this offense, Thoreau even goes as far as to say, I quietly declare war with the State. By reading his works and hearing his quotes, his position becomes blatantly obvious. Thoreau blames society rather than the individual. He blames the government, more specifically, but the government is a supposed ... was, but he did readily recognize how compliance can hinder the individual. In one of his essays, he mentioned, Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this worldand never will. Twain is against conformity, but he is not necessarily for rebellion. What he does stand for is freedom. If rebellion is necessary to obtain that freedom, then so be it. To expound ...
- 9323: Eaters Of The Dead
- ... ones culture alive. A good proof of this is the lack of knowledge of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, the narrator of the story. He is an Arab who "knows nothing of the ways of the world" (p. 77) because he has never truly experienced the world before that day, since he does not care for adventure. Having no experience with the world and having no knowledge, Ibn Fadlan slowly learns the Northmens way of life. In the end, felt he "had been born a Northman" (p. 152), having spent much time in their company and ...
- 9324: The Story of an Hour: Irony
- ... detected is in the way that Louise reacts to the news of the death of her husband, Brently Mallard. Before Louise's reaction is revealed, Chopin alludes to how the widow feels by describing the world according to her perception of it after the "horrible" news. Louise is said to "not hear the story as many women have heard the same." Rather, she accepts it and goes to her room to be alone. Now the reader starts to see the world through Louise's eyes, a world full of new and pure life. In her room, Louise sinks into a comfortable chair and looks out her window. Immediately the image of comfort seems to strike a odd note. One reading this ...
- 9325: Basic Discription Of Microbiology
- ... that spans out into a variety of areas. I am a person who is entering the health care field, and it is inparitive that I know the subject of microbiology and how if effects the world in which we live. Part one of this essay will deal with defining bacteria, viruses, fungi, microbes, and pirons. Part two of the essay will focus on indigenous micro flora that is on and in ... caused by harmful bacterium is Gonereah. A contagious bacterial infection spread through sexual contact, including vaginal, oral or anal sex. Also called "the clap," it is one of the most commonly infectious diseases in the world. It is treated with antibiotics (Jenson & Wright, 1989, p. 452) Viruses, as described by Englekirk & Burton (1979), are a particular type of microbes that are very tiny in design, and they are classified as living ... replication of viruses and its structure. The study of microbiology is a very vast subject. Our whole life and existence relies on microbiology, and a better understanding of how it works for and against our world and bodies will only enhance our existence. TABLE OF CONTENTS MICROBIOLOGY ESSAY
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- 9326: Cfc
- ... became widely used in automobile air conditioners and nontoxic propellants in aerosol cans. It's insulating properties also was used for blowing agents for plastics and foam cups. Thus CFCs became used all over the world and its business got bigger and bigger until late in 1973. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina, two distinguished chemists, came up with a surprising result in his calculations concerning the CFCs and ozone layer. CFCs ... realized that the calculations of Rowland and Molina were absolutely correct at the end of the 1980's and in the early 1990's when large holes in the ozone layer began appearing around the world, especially over Antarctica. It appeared that for every molecule of chlorine some 10,000 to 100,000 ozone molecules were being destroyed. Adding to that depletion can also be caused by bromine, a close chemical ... also suffer because of nitrogen deficiencies, due to the sensitivity that microorganisms such as cyanobacteria(which fixes the nutrients) to UV-B. In short the effects of UV-B has been detected all over the world in all kinds of environments, even 60 feet under clear water which hurts many types of fish, mollusks, and most importantly phytoplankton. Destruction of these phytoplanktons would give serious problems to fishes which depend ...
- 9327: Tragedy and the Common Man
- ... fear that is classically associated with tragedy. More important, from this total questioning of what has previously been unquestioned, we learn. And such a process is not beyond the common man. In revolutions around the world, these past thirty years, he has demonstrated again and again this inner dynamic of all tragedy. Insistence upon the rank of the tragic hero, or the so-called nobility of his character, is really but ... in such plays that does shake us, however, derives from the underlying fear of being displaced, the disaster inherent in being torn away from our chosen image of what and who we are in this world. Among us today this fear is as strong, and perhaps stronger, than it ever was. In fact, it is the common man who knows this fear best. Now if it is true that tragedy is ... our minds. The commonest of men may take on that stature to the extent of his willingness to throw all he has into the contest, the battle to secure his rightful place in the his world. There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity ...
- 9328: Walking Around
- ... when he was a boy. The line that confused me was when he says that it would be "delicious to kill a nun." I thought that because of his experience of loosing a friend during war, he would be against any kind of violence. But, I then I thought that since existentialism consists of an active role of the will, and not the reason, Neruda was just being spontaneous. He probably ... if this meant going to the extremes. Neruda was probably disappointed of the new inventions, and the destruction of nature and man itself. This poem clearly shows that Neruda is tired of living in the world around him.
- 9329: Great Wall Of China
- ... Dynasty( 1368-1644 A.D.), the Great Wall was repaired by General Xu Da and watchtowers were added by General Qi Jiguang. Most of what tourists see today was made by these two generals. During World War II, the Great Wall was used for the transportation of troops. The Great Wall is so huge that it is the only man made creation which can be seen from the moon. Bibliography
- 9330: History Of Railroads
- ... one crossed southern Ontario between Niagara, N.Y., and the Detroit River. During the 1850s north-south routes were developed both east and west of the Alleghenies. It was not until after the American Civil War, however, that a permanent railroad bridge (as distinguished from a temporary wartime structure) was constructed across the Ohio River. After the Civil War the pace of railroad building increased. The two Pacific railroads-one, the Union Pacific, building westward from Omaha, Neb.; the other, the Central Pacific, building eastward from Sacramento, Calif.-had been started during the war to help promote national unity. They were joined at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869, completing the first rail connection across the continent.
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