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- 10831: Wuthering Heights 4
- ... to topple, Mr. Lockwood screams and awakens. This scene shows the important role books take on in Wuthering Heights. They seem to have the power to transport Mr. Lockwood between the realms of the real world and the spiritual world. Mr. Lockwood fell asleep reading Catherine s old books which contained Catherine s diary. While dreaming, Mr. Lockwood was in the spiritual world because he was able to communicate and even touch Catherine who had been dead for more than fifteen years. By piling up the books on the windowsill, he was able to bring himself back ...
- 10832: A Farewell To Arms Is A Classi
- ... They did not go out often or do anything that was with other people. They were always together. This is an unhealthy life style. They were creating their own fortress and isolating themselves from the world. My life used to be full of everything, I said. Now if you aren t with me I haven t a thing in the world. p. 257. This quote further supports the idea that they are isolating themselves from the world. Since they were so cut off from the outside world, Mr. Henry has even a more difficult time going back into the reality of life after her death. This theme of man and woman ...
- 10833: Go Ask Alice 2
- ... old school. But she misses her old house and her grandparents who she calls gramp and gran. Alice has a brother called Tim and a sister Alexandria. The two are younger than Alice. At her new school it is horrible for her. Nobody speaks to her the first days. but her brother and sister like the new school. Finally she finds a friend at school. Her name is Gerda, but Alice s mother and father don t like her. Alice doesn t feel happy in her family. She hates his sister and ... are always invited. At first Alice and Chris enjoy the parties, which are really fun but then. December the 3rd. ...Chris and Alice decide to leave this screwed up some. The two girls find their new home close to Berkeley. They work hard to make the apartment looking great. Kids often visit Chris and Alice and tell their problems, but the two girls have enough problems with their lives. Alice ...
- 10834: Political and Economic Changes In Bulgaria
- ... fiercely loyal police and media that have sustained President Slobodan Milosevic in neighbouring Serbia, submitted to the protesters demands on Wednesday, February 5th 1997. They agreed to hand over power to a caretaker government until new elections in mid-April, which they are unlikely to win, when recent polls conclude that only 10% of the population currently support the BSP. "We'd better celebrate now, because we have very hard days ... Forces. ( Source : OMRI Daily Digest, 18th February 1997. ). The newly elected Bulgarian President Petar Stoyanov named an interim cabinet headed by Sofia Mayor Stefan Sofianski to oversee the country and its collapsing economy until a new parliament is chosen in general elections scheduled for April 19. The appointment means that the mass protests forced the leaders of the Socialist majority in parliament to agree to a new ballot 20 months before the end of their elective term. Sofianski's caretaker cabinet includes strong critics of the BSP and has announced it will abolish the economic development portfolio created by them. This ...
- 10835: A Computer For All Students
- ... allow more high school teachers to teach an area mostly untouched, computer symbolic algebra and computer interactive geometry, because it has not been practical or possible. The TI-92 is merely the beginning of the new revolution of hand-held computing tools. The next challenge mathematics teachers are facing is the teaching of traditional paper-and-pencil symbolic algebra skills. This task has been made obsolete by the more accurate and faster computer symbolic algebra algorithms. Students can get a far better illustration of important concepts and applications of mathematics with these new hand-held tools than with the traditional paper-and-pencil task. The paper-and-pencil task and other traditional skills must still be acquired, but students should spend less time acquiring it. More emphasize must ... and thoughtful "problem solvers." The process of changing from traditional methods to a more computer-oriented environment has to be met by the education and mathematics community. Educators should have textbooks that better represents the new technology. Teachers need to be more technology literate. The mathematics community must dispel the image of "doing mathematics" with the traditional paper-and-pencil method. These reforms can better teach students important skills needed ...
- 10836: Optical Storage Mediums
- ... quite far away from the disk surface (a few millimeters compared to micrometers for a hard drive). If this medium is so superior, then why is it not standard equipment? It is. Most of the new computers have a CD-ROM drive that comes with it. Also, it is only recently that prices have come low enough to actually make them affordable. However, as the acronym states, one cannot write to ... disk is ready to be rewritten. The disk needs to passes to change the bits though. The first pass าrenewsำ the surface to what it was before it was used. The second pass writes the new data on. The magnetic fields then alters the crystal structure below it, thereby creating places in which the laser beam would not reflect to the photodetector. Another type of recordable medium, is the one-shot ... normal CD) and the opaque surface the pits (pits on a normal CD do not reflect light back). These CDs, once recorded, cannot be re-recorded, unless saved in a special format that allows a new table of contents to be used. These CDs are the CD-Recordable, and the Photo CD. The Photo CD is in a format that allows one to have a new table of contents, that ...
- 10837: The Watergate Complex
- ... General. He agreed to fire Cox. This event was called the "Saturday Massacre." (Westerfled 48) The nation raged in anger. So Nixon agreed to hand the tapes over to Sirca's court and appoint a new Special Prosecutor. The new prosecutor was Leon Jaworski. Jaworski was a very well known lawyer and accepted the offer on the one condition that Nixon could not fire him. (Westerfled 48- 49) As the presidents lawyers were going over ... was inaugurated. He became the thirty-seventh president of the United States. He told the American people in his first speech "Our long national nightmare is over." (Westerfled 57) Bibliography Gold, Gerald ed. Watergate hearings. New York: Bantam books, 1978. Westerfled, Scott. Watergate. Englewood Cliffs: Silber Burdett, 1991. "Watergate". Grolier Electronic Publishing. 1992. The New grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Danbury, CT: Grolier Electronic Publising Inc., 1993.
- 10838: The Crucible: John Proctor
- ... vice of god and they were pure of blemishes. Proctor also fought the court trying to keep them from convicting his spouse even though nobody else would dare to do. Another quality that made him brave was when he confessed to the court that he had an affair with Abigail just to save his life. That John Proctor is brave, is obvious but ha can also be very extreme at some times. An instance of Proctor's extremity was when he shouted, "I say - I say - God is dead!"(Pg. 119), and that he will ... because the court was controlled by religion. Keeping Mary Warren from court was extreme because he was keeping her from doing her duty and from feeling important for the first time. Even if one is brave or extreme, doesn't mean that they cannot be dignified too. Proctor acted dignified when he tries to please his wife in every way after he admitted to having an affair with Abigail. He ...
- 10839: Filipino Food For Thought
- ... cities. It is true that modernization is God's gift to mankind. Everything has become so simple and effortless. Food cooked in minutes rather than hours, people can communicate to each other all over the world with just a press of a button and so many more. The advantages of improvement are undeniable. Yet, when it comes down to the basics, we must think; is it really worth it? Does this ... price of modernization worth it? Personally, I find that some things are meant to be forever. There may be changes and yet the basic essence can remain the same. People who dwell in the modern world, living a modern life have forgotten what really matters. Custom and traditions make a country what who they are. The personality of each and everyone is molded by the way they are brought up or ... we are. It sounds kind of funny to think of eating this way. If France can eat steak that makes them feel their power, or drink wine, Filipinos must also have something that shows the world what they are. The bagoong, mashed shrimp that doesn't really look appealing, tells the world of its history. The many culinary dishes made up of so many different things show that even if ...
- 10840: The Importance Of Community Pl
- ... applied. For example, a small fishing community can not plan to develop an economy based on mining. It can however influence the future health of its present economy, and encourage the growth and development of new industries. It can maintain or change the appearance of the town. It can preserve or improve the quality of life within the community. Most communities are well aware of the importance of planning, when it ... of town. This doesn't mean they are without use. Proactive planning can help insure these sites stay modern and maintained, before it becomes far too expensive to restore or modify a structure for a new use. Many sites, which are appropriate for a certain use, are allowed to stay vacant or housing low rent businesses, which will not generate the kind of money to maintain the buildings properly. Instead, the activity which could take place downtown is allowed to locate on a new lot, because it saves initial investment capitol. It is often thought that an important part of the planning and business recruitment process is providing economic incentives to new businesses, and this is true. It ...
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