|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 261 - 270 of 1458 matching essays
- 261: The Storm by Kate Chopin
- ... she got up hurriedly and went about closing windows and doors. Out on the small front gallery she had hung Bobinôt's Sunday clothes to air and she hastened out to gather them before the rain fell. (Pickering 1992, p209) Calixta's unbuttoning of her jacket foreshadows the sexual encounter to come, but her actions imply something greater. She is ignorant of the storm's approach; although she is married and ... is explained in another Chopin story, "At the 'Cadian Ball" (1892), but in this earlier story the attraction between Calixta and Alcée is only briefly explored. With Alcée's arrival comes the beginning of the rain, and he asks to wait out the storm on the front gallery: "May I come and wait on your gallery till the storm is over, Calixta?" he asked. "Come 'long in, M'sieur Alcée." His ... fuller of figure than five years before when she married; but she had lost nothing of her vivacity. Her blue eyes still retained their melting quality; and her yellow hair, dishevelled by the wind and rain, kinked more stubbornly than ever about her ears and temples. (p210) Nowhere does Chopin suggest that this is Alcée's vision of Calixta. The author's purpose in describing Calixta, then, is to clearly ...
- 262: The Storm 2
- ... p146]." What the two of them do not know is that not only is a physical storm looming but also a disturbance to their family. In the beginning of section two, it becomes dark and rain begins to fall and here also enters Alcee to Calixta's house. Alcee intended on just staying outside and wait for the rain to let up, but the storm grew more violent causing Alcee to go in doors. As the storm grew more bold so did Alcee's intentions. At the middle of this section we have the ... of today, where affairs are common place. Therefore because of the cultural at that time, affairs must have transpired occasionally. This can be paralleled to storms, which also occur occasionally. Calixta exclaimed, "My! what a rain! It's good two years sence it rain' like that." From this information we can see that it was a rare occasion. As one can see from the text, it must have been warm ...
- 263: The Theory of Evolution
- ... atmosphere of today. Most evolutionists disagree about whether or not oxygen was present in the primitive atmosphere. But, Francis Hitching made an interesting point when he said: "With oxygen in the air, the first amino acid would never have got started; without oxygen, it would have been wiped out by cosmic rays" (Hitching 65). Although scientists may speculate about the primitive atmosphere, the fact remains that no one knows exactly what ... most stubborn problem that confronts us [evolutionists]" (Wald 49, 50). But, this is not the only problem that the organic soup faces. Out of 100 amino acids, only 20 are needed for life. Each amino acid comes in two shapes. If the acids are found at random, statistically, half would be one shape, and half would be the other shape. But, all 20 of the amino acids needed to produce life ... creatures produced urea. But, because urea is a non-soluble solution, any embryo that stays in urea will die. So, a chemical change had to take place to protect the young. Consequently, reptiles emit uric acid, which is a soluble form of waste. Still, there is another major difference between the pre-reptilian embryos and reptilian embryos. Pre-reptilian embryos are released from their shell before they are fully developed. ...
- 264: A Farewell To Arms
- ... that he is to receive a medal for his courage he doesn't think he deserves it. The main character does not do things to be a 'hero'. Catherine also shows her fear of the rain mainly because she associates it with death and suffering: "I've always been afraid of the rain-and sometimes I see you dead in it." This morbid image that Catherine associates of the rain to death and suffering shows that rain can be just as unpredictable as the war, which is what Catherine has a fear of, loosing Frederick Henry to the unpredictability of the war. Another prominent ...
- 265: Finland
- ... s most important natural resource. Some three-fourths of the total land area is forested, with pine, spruce, and birch being the predominant species. "Government cultivation programs, among other measures, have prevented forest depletion; and acid rain, which has devastated forests in central Europe, has not had any serious consequences in Finland." Much land has been taken out of agricultural production, and most farms consist of smallholdings. "Finland has been self-supporting ...
- 266: Plastic Not Paper
- ... and can't afford to lose. The brown paper bags used in most grocery stores are made from virgin paper without any contributions from recycled materials. Paper making pollutes the water, releases dioxins, contributing to acid rain and cost trees lives. Weird as it may sound some virgin paper can be more damaging to wildlife than plastic substances, like 6pack rings. If you choose paper over plastic you are supporting higher levels ...
- 267: Imagine Being A Swinger Of Bir
- ... that defines truth is "reality." This is the earth's truth that Frost describes in the beginning of "Birches." Another way of putting this is that earth's truth is nature with its fire, wind, rain, etc… Heaven's truth can be defined through many eyes as spiritual, imagination, or insight. So the enigmatic truth lies in us and all around us. This is the heaven's truth that "Birches" describes ... the realism comes from the sound of passages: But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay As ice storm do. Often you must have seen them Loaded with ice sunny winter morning After a rain. They click upon themselves As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel. Frost puts fact in place of that joyful feeling. Squires points out that Frost "--begins ... reader; a reality that people live with everyday of their lives. Frost's alliteration--here the repetition of s and k sounds--lets us hear as well as see the birch trees after a freezing rain and the morning after as the melting begins. The k sound in "crack" and "crazes" mimics the sound of the ice in the breeze "shattering" and crashing "on the snow crust." It also imitates ...
- 268: Fermentatiom By Yeast
- ... The test solutions water and glycine did not release Carbon Dioxide because they were not a food source for yeast. The results suggest that sugars are very good energy sources for a cell where amino acid, Glycine, is not. INTRODUCTION Fermentation is an anaerobic process in which fuel molecules are broken down to create pyruvate and ATP molecules (Alberts, 1998). Both pyruvate and ATP are major energy sources used by the ... a minute where as glucose did .014 ml of carbon dioxide a minute a very small difference between the two. Glycine produced no carbon dioxide release at all. This was because glycine is an amino acid and not a good food source (Alberts, 1998). The yeast solution in-turn was unable to induce fermentation. The control for the experiment was water. When mixed with the yeast solution it was unable to ... how certain enzymes, in particular yeast, recognize them. Monosaccharides followed by disaccharides were the best energy producers. The yeast enzymes were able to induce fermentation on the sugar monosaccharides faster then the sugar disaccharides. Amino acid, glycine, was not an energy producer along with water, which is also not an energy producer. The yeast enzymes would not work on these substances. Some further questions are; Are all monosaccharides efficient Carbon ...
- 269: Hurricanes 3
- ... weakened rapidly losing hurricane status about 10 hours later, and it was finally down graded to a tropical depression at 1600 GMT on the 17th, near the city of Saltillo. It was the 210mm of rain which caused the Santa Catarina to break its banks, claiming 200 lives in that city. There are certain conditions which favour hurricane formations such as Hurricane Gilbert. The sea surface temperatures were in excess of ... attempts have been made using cloud seeding . Clouds are seeded with chemicals such as silver iodide sprayed from an aircraft. If all goes well water droplets form around the chemical particles and later fall as rain. Cloud seeding can help to spread rainfall over a wider area and thus reduce the likelihood of a damaging downpour occurring in a small area. This work is still in its early stages, and as yet there are few examples of cloud seeding being used effectively for rain control in natural disasters. This technique may have been useful in examples such as hurricane Agnes in June 1972 were rainfall was produced exceeding 40cm in 24hours. A tropical warning system would be a ...
- 270: Overpopulation
- ... the future there will be more and more people in a small place and the original habitat will endanger. Moreover, human activities negatively affect the Earth’s atmosphere through releases of pollution that causes smog, acid rain, and depletion of the ozone layer. This is directly related to human numbers and lifestyles, because it is largely a result of emissions from automobiles and industrial plants. World vehicle production is now approaching 40 ...
Search results 261 - 270 of 1458 matching essays
|
