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- 14561: Whale
- ... are two basic types of living cetaceans: baleen, or whalebone, whales of the scientific suborder Mysticeti; and toothed whales of the suborder Odontoceti. General Characteristics Whales live in all of the open seas of the world, though some occasionally enter coastal waters. Some species, such as the white whale, or beluga, may travel upstream in large rivers. Some species migrate with the seasons; others remain year-round in the same habitats ... humpback, right, sei, and sperm whales as endangered species. Therefore, we should take goof care of whale. Works Cited Cousteau, Jacques, and Paccalet, Yves. Whales (W.H. Allen, 1998). Tinker, S.W. Whales of the World (Bess Press, 1997). Day, David. The Whale War (Sierra Club Books, 1997).
- 14562: Austen’s Marriages and the Age of Reason
- ... ability to make out people’s personalities. Now, she realizes that all this time she has been ignorant, biased, and prideful, therefore driving “reason away”(171). Reason, which is the main theme of the Enlightenment World View, is clearly the most important characteristic to have. Emphasis is placed in the stable, reasonable man and woman. Up to this part in the novel, we have believed that Elizabeth was the ideally rational ... the second time around. Elizabeth can not be happy until she sees that her sister is happy once again. This time, Jane and Bingley are successfully engaged. The Bennets became the “luckiest family in the world, though only a few weeks before, when Lydia had first run away, they had been generally proved to be marked out for misfortune” (282). Mr. Collins observes that “Lydia’s sad business has been so ...
- 14563: How Were Women Treated In Juli
- ... Compared to today, that portrayal is completely different. Today many men and women believe that we are equals, and that women can do just as much as men in this (as of now) male dominated world. According to the roman research that I have done, this is indeed the right portrayal of women in the time frame that Julius Caesar took place. In all of Shakespeare's plays, women were never ... woman who is pretending to be a man! It would be (in my opinion) much easier to let a women play the part. After all, some of the best performers and entertainers in our modern world are women. Well as you can see, women were not treated the same way as men in the time of Julius Caesar, and I do believe that Shakespeare portrayed them effectively and just as they ...
- 14564: Bullfrogs Hearing Capacity
- ... a number of bullfrogs from a natural habitat and place them in the lab made habitat, which would be similar to the one that they were removed from. Hopefully, the frogs will adapted to the new habitat and carry on as they did in their old habitat. Tampered bullfrogs such as those raised in labs or pets would not be used because the results would be inaccurate. The inaccuracy would be ... of the experiment, I want to observe whether the bullfrog can hear the frequencies sent out to it and if so will it move in the direction that the sound is coming from. Inside the new habitat there are two pathways that connect to a small platform about 2.5 inches high. The set up is high enough so that the frogs can not hop out (measurements of how high they ...
- 14565: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- ... of each other like spoils of war. The less the chance of surrender, the more relentless is the pursuit. The story begins with the Marquise de Merteuil corresponding with Vicomte de Valmont regarding a luscious new act of ‘revenge’, as she describes it, against the Comte de Gercourt. The young Cecile de Volanges has just come home from the convent and her marriage to Gercourt has been arranged. However, before he ... though Les Liaisons Dangereuses sold out within days of the initial publication in Paris (1782), it was considered a most abominable piece of trash and created an incredible uproar. De Laclos shocked his readers to new heights of intrigue and disgust. At one point, the French government actually banned the book. However, it continued to be read and discussed, and has thus endured as a most disturbing portrait of eighteenth century ...
- 14566: Welfare In The U.s.
- ... percent because it won't hurt that much. Most importantly we have to do a better job at finding all the people who cheat the program and make them work to repay it. Bibliography 1. World Almanac and Book of Facts 1995 Published by: Funk & Wagnalls Corporation 2. World Almanac 1997 Published by: Washington Times Corporation 3. Welfare Pros and Cons, Jeffrey Belle Published by: Random House Books, 1992
- 14567: Humanism The Renaissance And M
- ... percentage of people were formally educated. The universities helped many people become educated, and their education helped all of society because many of them went on to challenge their teacher’s rash observations of the world and make great discoveries. This proliferation of education was also helped by many inventions such as the printing press which came about because people had more to live for. Many great thinkers during the renaissance were also affected by the ideas of humanism. More people were educated during the renaissance and therefore more intelligent people that simply thought about the world and ways to make it better. These thinkers included Da Vinci, Galileo, and Machiavelli. Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most influential people of the Renaissance. His notebooks were recovered and they contained schematics ...
- 14568: The Seminoles
- ... killed many of the Seminoles, separated many of the towns, and caused many tribes to break up. Over the past centuries, they faced enormous pressures to change to give up their own view of the world and the systems they had developed to substitute systems of belief and actions that, did not always work for them as well. In order to understand the true importance since 1957, it is necessary to ... had already been a part of that land for thousands of years were the ancestors of the Seminoles. The ancestors of the Seminoles fought with words, weapons, and with their own blood to protect their world as they knew and understood it. In the end of the American Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States in 1784, white settlers moved south into the Spanish and English colonies. It became ...
- 14569: Existentialism in the Early 19th Century
- ... reacted against an attempt to put philosophy on a conclusive rationalistic basis—in this case the phenomenology of the 20th-century German philosopher Edmund Husserl. Heidegger argued that humanity finds itself in an incomprehensible, indifferent world. Human beings can never hope to understand why they are here; instead, each individual must choose a goal and follow it with passionate conviction, aware of the certainty of death and the ultimate meaninglessness of ... on language. Sartre Sartre first gave the term existentialism general currency by using it for his own philosophy and by becoming the leading figure of a distinct movement in France that became internationally influential after World War II. Sartre's philosophy is explicitly atheistic and pessimistic; he declared that human beings require a rational basis for their lives but are unable to achieve one, and thus human life is a “futile ...
- 14570: Edna Pontellier Wants To Swim-
- The Awakening by, Kate Chopin Edna Pontillier Wants to Swim Edna Pontillier is a woman playing the role of the wealthy New Orleans housewife. She has a generous husband, children, financial stability, and a great deal of friends. What she also has, unfortunately, is a kind of generic happiness that is the result of such a conventional ... how to enjoy moments in time. These simple things are things she has never done. This awakening sounds like a wonderful experience, but it soon goes sour. Perhaps she gets a little spoiled by her new life, or maybe she could not handle the responsibility of such a change. After Robert returns, she is ready to love him again. She thinks this there is no reason why they shouldn t be ...
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