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- 801: Questions of Ethics In Computer Systems and Their Future
- ... Oh, yes you won't even have to tell your voice activated computer not to run your computerized sprinkler system for your lawn because it will have realized from the weather report that it will rain.
- 802: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... the woods with him. She doesn't share the same opinion. Holden meets some more people, but non of them can solve his problems. He feels more depressed and lonely. He walks around in the rain soaking wet, he is sure he is going to catch pneumonia. But before he leaves this world he wants to visit his little sister, Phoebe, to say good bye. He admires her a lot and ...
- 803: A Woman on a Roof
- ... not realize is that they were not "free" or "on a different level from ordinary humanity" (704). They were commonplace roofers. Being on a roof did not change this fact. The "black roofs, slimy with rain" illustrates the reality of their position in life. Tom had the "devout conviction that he was there to protect the woman from Stanley" (705). Tom felt that she was being unfair to him and that ...
- 804: The Great Gatsby: Doubleness
- ... He expected her to turn up at one of his parties, and when she didn't, he asked Jordan to ask Nick to ask Daisy. And so Nick does. A few days later, in the rain, Gatsby and Daisy meet for the first time in five years. Gatsby is at first terrified, then tremendously excited. He takes Nick and Daisy on a tour of his house and grounds and shows them ...
- 805: Theme and Summary of The Color Purple
- ... her breaking away from her old lifestyle. Another symbol was the “roofleaf” this symbolized shelter form the white englishmen. The leaves that they put on their houses shelter then from the rail and weather. The rain and the weather is also a symbol whichj represents the harshword of the whiteman. The title of the novel The Color Purple shows royalty by the color purple often being associated with monarchs and royal ...
- 806: Homesteading by Percy Wollaston
- ... rest or wash up. The promised flagstone floor was laid and the lean-to kitchen was built but waster had to be carried from the few pot-holes of run-off which remained after a rain or hauled all the way from the creek a mile away." A community had to be built. This promised land was nothing but dirt. The railroads were just waiting for these hardworking men and women ...
- 807: Silent Spring: Pesticides
- ... long-term effects, if any that pesticides might have. When applying pesticides one must take into consideration the amount that actually remains on the plant as compared to the amount that is washed away by rain, carried off by wind, or absorbed by microorganisms and other living animals. In the case of DDT, or Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane which was first synthesized in 1874 was thought to be the miracle due to the impact ...
- 808: Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol
- ... equipment that would enhance the learning experience and/or create the opportunity to explore subjects such as science. As for the physical attributes, these school buildings are in horrible condition with “barrels…filling up with rain in several rooms… Green fungus molds... growing in the corners of the room in which the guidance counselor met kids who were depressed.” (p. 151-152) Qualified teachers are also in dire need. “…students seldom ...
- 809: The Return of the Native: The Opening Chapter
- ... letter to Eustacia, coupled with the fact that Captain Vye unwittingly kept the letter from Eustacia until it was too late, suggests that perhaps destiny is against her. It is under the downpour of the rain, on the rugged heath where Eustacia laments her fate. Eustacia’s own remark, “how destiny is against me!” (354) and “I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control!” (354) affirm ...
- 810: Bless Me, Ultima: Antonio
- ... the River Valley, moon and the sea,God and the golden carp -- and make something new." In a dream he once had, Ultima informs him that "...the sweet waters of the moon which falls as rain is the same water that gathers into the rivers and flows to the seas. Without the waters of the moon to replenish the oceans there would be no oceans. And the same salt waters of ...
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