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- 271: Buried Child
- ... secret. Tilden wants it out in the open, wants the closure, even if subconsciously. Thats why he finds corn, carrots, and potatoes out in the fields, while Bradley and the others see only the rain. The land represents the soul, and is fertile for Tilden because in his way he is seeking to right this terrible wrong by revealing the child. When Tilden covers Dodge with the corn husks, but ... he wishes Dodge would die, so the secret would no longer matter. Tilden wants his father to live on and tell the secret, and be healed. No one else sees the crops because of the rain, which is a symbol of the secret. For all we know, it has been raining since the day the child was killed. The others cant see through the rain to see the truth, the secret must be revealed. After the secret has been revealed to Shelly, it stops raining and everyone sees the crops outside. They can see that it is better to ...
- 272: Buried Child
- ... secret. Tilden wants it out in the open, wants the closure, even if subconsciously. Thats why he finds corn, carrots, and potatoes out in the fields, while Bradley and the others see only the rain. The land represents the soul, and is fertile for Tilden because in his way he is seeking to right this terrible wrong by revealing the child. When Tilden covers Dodge with the corn husks, but ... he wishes Dodge would die, so the secret would no longer matter. Tilden wants his father to live on and tell the secret, and be healed. No one else sees the crops because of the rain, which is a symbol of the secret. For all we know, it has been raining since the day the child was killed. The others cant see through the rain to see the truth, the secret must be revealed. After the secret has been revealed to Shelly, it stops raining and everyone sees the crops outside. They can see that it is better to ...
- 273: Rock Music
- ... the name of "hippie music". Groups that played this music were Country Joe and The Mamas and The Papas. Along with this hippie ideas popularity of hallucinogenic drugs produced a psychedelic style of music called Acid Rock. By the end of the 60's the distinctions between Rock n' Roll and Rock were evident. The early instruments- saxophone, piano, amplified guitar, and drums-had been changed to electric guitar and bass ... was more latin than rock, were created in the middle of this century, like: bubble gum rock, a funny playful music directed to the youngest fans, Punk Rock, "a loud, hard rock style derived from acid rock and marked by its extremes of costume and staging" ("Rock Music", Encarta, p.1), and Heavy Metal, which continued the approach to Acid Rock but with a simpler musical dimension but relying upon the power of repetitiveness, loud volume, and electronic distortion. One famous group of Heavy Metal was Led Zeppelin, a British group that was formed ...
- 274: Becoming A Soldier
- ... passage in my life. At first they took us to a very long trailer. It was brown and looked like it was going to collapse. The paint was coming off from the walls and the rain was coming down heavily on it. The floor was cracking when we walked on it, and it was cold. In the first station they took our fingerprints. The army does that in case they will ... appetite, and when I saw the food I felt nauseous, since it looked dry and tasteless. After the 30 minutes were up we stood outside like we were ordered, and we got wet from the rain, and we were shaking from the cold. It was already 3pm and it seemed to me like the sun had not come out the whole day. From there our commander took us to a big ... three, and what we have to do every time we saw him. He made us run all over the base and finally took us to our tents. The tent was big, and wet from the rain. The bed was actually a piece of hard canvas. It was obvious that sleep was going to be very hard and uncomfortable. We ate dinner, which reminded me of lunch, and later we had ...
- 275: The Periodic Kingdom: Review
- ... elements to each other. He talks of the relationships of elements and how they are grouped together to form families. Here he use for example it raining on the alkali metals, how with lithium the rain cause the terrain to to simmer and bubble, but as you move down the column the reaction between the terrain and rain become more and more violent until the rain causes explosions. I feel this is a very effective technique to explain relationships between elements to someone who is just learning of the periodic table. In Chapter 3 a deeper look is taken into ...
- 276: Is The Illegalization of Marijuana Valid?
- ... a word that no one had ever heard of before... 'marijuana'". DuPont's involvement in the anti-hemp campaign can also be explained with great ease. At this time, DuPont was patenting a new sulfuric acid process for producing wood-pulp paper. According to the company's own records, wood-pulp products ultimately accounted for more than 80% of all DuPont's railroad car loadings for the 50 years the Marijuana ... off of the taxes it could impose on its sale, and its implementation into the industrial world would create thousands of new jobs for the economy. Also, because of its role in paper making, the rain forests of South America could be saved from their current fate of extinction. No recorded deaths have ever occurred as a result of marijuana use, it is not physically addictive like alcohol or tobacco, and ...
- 277: The Grateful Dead
- ... two weeks just to get the spot. This completes the now familiar Dead line up. The Warlocks played their first concert in July 1965 and they played pretty straight rock and roll music until the "acid tests." In early 1965 a state hospital in the Palo Alto area was conducting experiments with hallucinogenic drugs. This was still legal at the time. Robbert Hunter and others volunteered to try them. Before long the whole music group was participating in "acid tests" and their music became more diffused, the numbers stretched out and the volume turned up. Jerry Garcia became known as "Captain Trips" and they played at the Ken Kesey organized trips festival. In February 1966 the Warlocks had to change their name due to threats by an older group with the same name. Legend has it, according to ,"during a acid trip Garcia opened a dictionary and pointed to the word "grateful" on one page and the word "dead" on another", and the Grateful Dead were born. In June of 1966 the Grateful Dead moved ...
- 278: Should There Be A Nuclear Power Plant In Saskatchewan?
- ... produced is from a nuclear power plant is not even a fraction of the amount of sulfur, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxide produced by a coal plant. By building a nuclear power we will reduce acid rain and not add to the global warming. Hydro stations form algae in lakes which reduces the amount of oxygen in the water making it harder for marine life to survive. Although the damage nuclear accidents ...
- 279: Endangered Species Of South
- ... Water pollution and increased water temperature have wiped out endemic species of fish in many habitats. Oil spills destroy birds, fish, and mammals, and may contaminate the ocean floor for many years after the event. Acid Rain, the toxic results of extreme air pollution, has been known to kill organisms in freshwater lakes and destroy large tracts of forested land (Microsoft 3). In any effort to produce global biodiversity and encourage the ...
- 280: Laziness
- ... as soft yellow paraffin or aqueous cream (aquaphor), and these may be effective due to a reversal of the inflammatory consequences of damage to the stratum corneum. Another treatment involoves keratolytic agents, such as salicylic acid, which soften the scaly layers of plaques and ease their removal. These agents also enhance the efficacy of topical corticosteroids and coal tar by increasing their absorption. Phototherapy involves the use of either UVA or ... because a recent study has shown that CD8+ lymphocytes also play an important role in the pathogenesis of this disease. Several orally administered drugs are also used in the treatment of psoriasis. Methotrexate, a folic acid antagonist, has been shown to be effective. It had been proposed that methotrexate may work by causing a blockage of DNA synthesis, but recent evidence has demonstrated that it may affect mononuclear cells in skin, blood, and lymphatic tissue, leading to an immunosuppressive effect. The downside of this treatment is liver and kidney damage. Etretinate, a retinoic acid derivative, is used in conjunction with UVA treatments to lower the effective dose of both. Systemic corticosteroids are also quite effective in treatment of psoriasis, but many physicians do not prescribe them since the ...
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