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- 7251: Realism In The Great Gatsby
- ... well known for its deeply entangled plots and sub-plots. At first Fitzgerald used realism to develop these plots by choosing plots that would be believable to readers. For example, the main plot of "The American Dream" (Jay Gatsby's dream of becoming rich and successful in order to impress Daisy) is easily believable and is still a quite common dream today. Smaller plots, such as Tom Buchanans affair with Myrtle ...
- 7252: Romeo And Juliet Vs. West Side
- ... The Jets wouldn't let the PR's come on their turf, such as Doc's store. The PR's were not wanted in the U.S. and they were given a hard time. The American's were prejudiced of the Puerto Ricans, so they did cruel things to them. Another act of prejudice in West Side Story was the Jets having prejudice against Anybody's joining their gang. They told ...
- 7253: The Puritans and the Salem Witch Trials
- The Puritans and the Salem Witch Trials In 1692 the Massachusetts Bay Colony was an isolated but growing Puritan community in the North American wilderness. The colonists frequently mistrusted each other and quarreled about petty things. The spiritual life of Puritans who lived in isolated areas like Salem Village may have added to their sense of vulnerability. Puritan doctrine ...
- 7254: Scarlet Letter- Guilty Heart
- ... Dimmesdale said to Hester, "Thy heart must be no longer under his evil eye...it were far worse than death" (Hawthorne 135). This shows how bad Chillingworth eventually torments Dimmesdale. Arthur begins his progressive moral revolution and self-hatred. He despises the hypocrisy of such a vile scoundrel, as himself preaching from behind the pulpit, yet can never bring himself to admit his corruption before his congregation. From this undesirable spiritual ...
- 7255: Satires In Huckleberry Finn
- Mark Twain, a famous American writer-satirist wrote many books highly acclaimed throughout the world. For his masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce ...
- 7256: Autism 2
- ... Cited Adams, Lynn, and Susan Conn. Nutrition and its Relationship to Autism. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities 12 (1997) : 53-59. Kazdin, Alan E. Replication and Extension of Behavioral Treatment of Autistic Disorder. American Journal on Mental Retardation 97 (1993) :377-380. Lovaas, Ivar. Autism: A New Behavioral Treatment. The Harvard Medical School Mental Health Letter 1989: n. pag. Online. Internet. 31 Mar. 1998. Available: www.mentalhealth.com/mag1 ...
- 7257: She Walks In Beauty
- ... syllable that allows for a rhythm to be set by the reader and can be clearly seen when one looks at a line: She walks / in beau / ty like / the night. T.S. Eliot, an American poet criticizes Byron's work by stating the poem, "needs to be read very rapidly because if one slows down the poetry vanishes and the rhyme is forced" (Eliot 224). With this rhythm the reader ...
- 7258: Antibiotic Resistance 2
- ... multicellular organism in which the cells interchange their genes with ease. Bacteria have evolved several ways to share their resistance traits with one another [see "Bacterial Gene Swapping in Nature," by Robert V. Miller; Scientific American, January]. Resistance genes commonly are carried on plasmids, tiny loops of DNA that can help bacteria survive various hazards in the environment. But the genes may also occur on the bacterial chromosome, the larger DNA ...
- 7259: Slaughterhouse Five
- ... and around Slaughterhouse Five, the very hellhole in which he toiled for his captors. The former is no doubt less autobiographical, but the main character certainly has many things in common with his creator: an American artist within Nazi Germany, doing what he felt was necessary to stay alive and to further his work. The author himself tells us he had to write this book. His subtitle A Duty-Dance with ...
- 7260: The Day Of The Jackal
- ... just a lot of guns and noisy, exploding stuff. The entire setting of Forsythe's novel is discarded in this remake, and except for the enigmatic Jackal, the plot and characters are drastically altered. The American government learns that The Jackal is on a mission and FBI agent Carton Preston (Sidney Poitier) is charged with finding him and bringing him down. That's about as much of Forsythe's story to ...
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