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- 4641: Natural Fiber - Natural Color
- ... thousands of years ago, around 2700 B.C., in Indo-Pakistan, Egypt, and Peru. It grew in natural colors - mocha, tan, gray and red-brown - and was prized by the hand-spinner. With the industrial revolution and its newly invented looms, short-fibered colored cotton was displaced by longer fibered white cotton. As the white variety grew in popularity, colored cotton nearly isappeared, kept alive only by the hand-spinners. That ... thousands of years ago, around 2700 B.C., in Indo-Pakistan, Egypt, and Peru. It grew in natural colors - mocha, tan, gray and red-brown - and was prized by the hand-spinner. With the industrial revolution and its newly invented looms, short-fibered colored cotton was displaced by longer fibered white cotton. As the white variety grew in popularity, colored cotton nearly disappeared, kept alive only by the hand-spinners. That ...
- 4642: Romantism
- ... it with an understanding beyond your belief. You are able to see all that is happening in your world, and you are able to understand it as God does. Emerson also shows it in “The American Scholar”. It says “To young minds everything is individual…it finds how to join two things and see them as one nature; then three…it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running ... be happier in life, and they will be able to be there on person and not live by the rules which society has put in place for them. Then there is another example in “The American Scholar” by Emerson. “Meek young men grow up…Believing that it is their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given…instead of man thinking, we have the bookworm…who ...
- 4643: MEDLINE
- ... was expected that they would use this interface regularly. That search interface is still available and is still the choice of many medical librarians for speed and effectiveness. The purchase of MEDLINE data by other American organizations began in early 1970's. A few third-party vendors, such as SILVERPLATTER, OVID, and DIALOG, saw several untapped markets. These vendors took the data and developed their own user interfaces, then repackaged everything ... offered through PUBMED and Internet Grateful Med. Use of the Critical Incident Technique to Evaluate the Impact of MEDLINE. This report from the NLM's Office of Planning and Evaluation, with the support of the American Institutes for Research (AIR), Palo Alto, California, employs the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) to identify the impact of MEDLINE-derived information. Study conducted in 1988. Dr. Felix's Free MEDLINE page. PubMed Free MEDLINE Lowdown ...
- 4644: Speciesism and Animal Rights
- ... but, Can they suffer?" (Bentham 440) This part of the passage is about inherent value as well as intrinsic value, but the most important part is the last question, will they suffer? According to The American heritage Dictionary, the word ‘suffer' means to feel pain or distress: To undergo or sustain (an injury, loss hardship etc.) and also To appear to be at a disadvantage. (American Heritage Dictionary 864). If we examine this definition closely, it becomes clearer that we are infringing upon the rights of animals when we unnecessarily abuse them or use them to test cosmetic products. Animals are ...
- 4645: The Simpsons: The History
- ... from papers that printed the strip. Groening presented Brooks with an overweight, balding father, a mother with a blue beehive hairdo, and three obnoxious spiky haired children. Groening intended for them to represent the typical American family "who love each other and drive each other crazy". Groening named the characters after his own family. His parents were named Homer and Margaret and he had two younger sisters named Lisa and Maggie. Bart was an anagram for "brat". Groening chose the last name "Simpson" to sound like the typical American family name. (Varhola, 2) Brooks decided to put the 30 or 60 second animations on between skits on The Tracy Ullman Show on the unsuccessful Fox network. Cast members Dan Castellaneta and Julie Kavner did ...
- 4646: Inanimated Objects in Death Of A Salesman
- ... for their father. The fact that Willy doesn't know how to work the machine shows that Willy far behind on the technological that is surrounding him. Above all the tape recorder represents the failed American dream. As his name says he will always be a "Loman" The rubber tubing shows the darker side of Willy Loman. He wanted to die, the rubber tubing is a painful reminder to Willy's ... the struggles in Willy's life. We can relate to these objects, so the reader of the play becomes more involved with the characters that objects relate to. The inanimate objects above show how the American dream was crushed. All of the objects in the play, described above, contribute to the "Death of a Salesman."
- 4647: The Godfather: Gangster Genre
- ... centers on the Corleone crime "family" in the boroughs of New York City in the mid 1940s, dominated at first by godfather "Don" Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), the head of one of the five Italian-American "families" that operate a crime syndicate in New York City. This epic story traces the history of one close Mafia family and organisation over a ten year period (although the word "Mafia" is never mentioned ... a heavy accent, desperately asks for a favor - proper "justice" for the threatened rape and brutal beating suffered by his daughter by her non-Italian boyfriend and his friend (off screen) In the underlit office, American justice has failed. Ostensibly, the Don is a gentle, restrained, 62 year old ageing man, sitting behind his study's desk. His face has a bulldog appearance with padded cheeks, and he speaks with a ...
- 4648: Death of a Salesman: Willy's Suicide Is His Downfall
- ... to be a successful person. In Willy’s mind success, respect, affection, and authority come to those who are liked by everyone not the studious people who others disliked. Willy is also disillusional in his American dream. He asks Bernard in Act 2, “What-what’s the secret”(1391). Willy wants to know the “key” to being successful. He does not understand that the “key” is to work hard to get ... again here because it is not certain that Willy’s suicide will be called an accident. Biff may not receive the money after all. Finally, Willy Loman is a very confused and disturbed man. His American dream went wrong. He never understood that hard work is the “key” to success. His last gesture for success caused him to take his life. He took the wrong way out instead of being honest ...
- 4649: Misinformation In The Media
- ... with misinformation. Causes of misinformation could be inaccurate data or sensationalism in order to sell newspapers. It was the year 1898. Cuba had America’s attention in 1895, a revolt had broken out against Spain. American businesses did not support the rebellion because of millions of dollars involved in trade with Cuba however, the rebels had rallied support, due to the fact that Americans knew they were being put in concentration ... Pulitzer printed articles and comic strips about Spain oppressing Cuba. This was so he could survive the deadly competition for the readers. On February 15, 1898, the Maine , a U.S. battleship exploded killing 266 American crewmen in Havana harbor. On the front page of Joseph Pulitzer’s Thursday, February 17, 1981 edition of World, the headline read “Main Explosion Caused By Bomb Or Torpedo?”. Meanwhile, there was no concrete evidence ...
- 4650: Romanticism: Grande Odalisque
- ... form of the composition draws your eye all around the composition. The eye starts at the top right with the Revolutionary figure holding on to a piece of cloth in the colors of the French Revolution and then is drawn down the diagonal. Géricault then depicts the striving, the dying, and the dead as they overlap each other in a fierce struggle to survive. The eye is then drawn up and ... heated debates between moralist of the Romantic school and the scientific naturalist of Realism and the combinations and the divisions of the two schools. The art of these times paralleled the economic divisions. The industrial revolution helped fuel the fire of the rivalry making the rich richer and the poor poorer; the art always reflecting the differences in the classes and their attitudes about the quality of life in their day ...
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