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- 16761: Families Portrayed In Roddy Doyle's Books
- ... young knockabouts and unemployed workers who spend a lot of time watching T.V. drinking Guinness and jawing at the pub, trying to stave off the feelings that they are nondescript people in a nondescript world."2 The Commitments is Doyle's first full-length novel. The main character Jimmy Rabbitte, the eldest son, puts together a band. It is almost every teenager's dream, at some point, to be famous ... a source of family strength. As soon as the father shows a little bit of unhappiness the rest of the family start to lose hope. Doyle once said "Friendship is something that is understood the world over, and unfortunately, so is unemployment." Doyle makes his belief clear in The Van by showing the pain that is put on the family when one bread-winner loses his job. Coming from a family ...
- 16762: Fear
- ... real or imagined, is still fear. Change goes hand in hand with fear, for change is the cause of all fear. Even positive change can leave one in fear: the first day of school, a new job, moving day, a wedding, the birth of a child. Change, the process of all growth and life, is greeted generally with a feeling of fear. Fears seem to sneak up on us, drenching us ... our breathes for, of war, of starvation, of toxic pollutants, of disease and other events. We fear for the uncertainty of our loved ones or the loss of a loved one, an ancient fear yet new to every generation. Still we acknowledge these fears, try to cope with them and just as every age of man has done, we continue on. Fear will always be with us in virtually everything we ...
- 16763: Essay on Mystery
- ... such as using several suspects, additional murders, red herrings, threats of violence were all used habitually, until it got to the point where I was sick and tired of all these different suspects and a new murder at every corner. As for the basis of the romantic suspense, I have only based this on the fact the Liz always had a love for Ted, and it could not be shown until ... not think that I should try and elaborate as if I am dead wrong on what a romantic suspense is, I will just be making a fool out of myself. Finally, I believe that all new authors are trying to get away from classic writers, and that is why authors like Clark have only shown bits and pieces of the lost art known as a classic mystery, so I believe that ...
- 16764: A Raisin in the Sun: Struggles
- ... insurance check which is to be arriving in the mail shortly. Lena Younger, more widely known as mama, achieves her dream of buying a house and immediately puts thirty-five hundred dollars down on a new house and sixty-five hundred into Walters care. All hope is lost when Walter loses the money and the family ends up back to where they started, with nothing. Though the money is gone ... live in their own communities, states Mr. Lindner. The Youngers reaction towards this is in a calm manner, with their dignity still at hand. The family pulls through, disregards the racism and moves into the new house nonetheless.
And we have all thought about your offer-- And we have decided to move into our house because my father--my father--he earned it for us brick by brick. In conclusion, one ...
- 16765: Dead Boy
- ... people who did not ever meet or see the child but realize what kind of a tragedy this death was. Ransom makes a statement at the end of the first paragraph "Nor some of the world of outer dark, like me". This is a strong statement for the simple fact that this shows how much of the town, city, world is affected by one child's death. This next paragraph is by far the harshest. The voices are that of the town's people who say this child was helpless. His death was felt as ...
- 16766: Character Analysis for The Portable Phonograph
- Character Analysis for The Portable Phonograph Walter Van Tilburg Clark's short story, The Portable Phonograph, is a tale about the last survivors in the world after the total destruction of a war. The author gives clues and hints of this throughout the beginning by writing in a narative voice and describing the scene in dark war-like terms. The characters ... as happy as the company he receives every week. The contrast between the happiness that the men get from his musical device and the lack of fulfillment this provides for him is interesting. In the world that this story describes, the reader expects the the doctor to be happy with all that he has. As the story unfolds, you gain an understanding of the feelings behind his possessions. Doctor Jenkins is ...
- 16767: Mitochondrion
- ... the energy atoms will be bonded in a different molecule to form ATP, or adenosine triphosphate. ATP has an adenosine core and three phosphates attached to it, hence its name. These phosphates will store the new energy. ATP can travel throughout the cell freely and allows the stored energy to then be distributed evenly in the cell. Other organelles will find the ATP and break off the phosphates full of ready-to-use energy.Once the adenosine has been stripped of phosphates it will travel back to the mitochondrion to be reloaded with new phosphates.
- 16768: Cuban Revolution
- ... revolution can be viewed as a success (if communism ca n be seen as acceptable), but for America, the result was a failure. Latin America is one of the poorest and underdeveloped sections of the world. Because of this fact, it is difficult for its nations to compete and thrive in the world market with modern nations as they struggle to industrialize and improve their status. Capitalism, as a basis for an economy, means that each man has to struggle to make a living, that each man may ...
- 16769: Networks
- ... O/S. This design was created to prevent crashes from driver conflicts in 3.51. Support of Plug and Play is supposedly due in '97 when hardware vendors will have had a chance to write new drivers. Power Management is not available either in 4.0. Early reports of its installation on Notebooks report a high crash rate and slow recognition of cards and links to docking stations. Multimedia support will be very limited. This will mean that Win95 will be the main platform for multimedia (and games). Object linking 2.0 is included for both 16 and 32 bit applications. This with a new version of Telephony will allow linking to computers by various connections. Security can be controlled centrally and from each workstation setting access on a folder and file level basis. Each station can also create a ...
- 16770: Ah, Woe Is Me
- ... conscience that made her give Janet the clothes, but there is no way to be sure. I am, however, inclined to believe that the narrator has finally realized how immense the difference between the "black world" and the "white world" really is. However, the things she gives Janet (some money and the handkerchief) will not last long, and what will Janet do then? Come back for more, of course. I am not saying that the ...
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