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- 3431: Sister Carrie
- ... not the plot or characters which are dominant elements of it. The taste and the literary value of Dreiser’s novel is shaped and created by its setting and the author’s tone. Chicago and New York have almost as organic and important role in the novel as the characters. They do not just form the simple environment for the novel, but they influence its character and a very strong impression. Chicago’s character is kind of more "positive", it is a city of promise, luck, rise (Carrie). We can say that in Chicago, Hurtswood means something. New York ‘s character is different. It’s a city of lies, fall, impersonal isolation of "walled city where surviving is much more difficult than in Chicago. In New York, Hurstwood means nothing. The setting creates different expectations to people. During the reading of "Sister Carrie", I was interested in searching and revealing the different kinds of desire. Generally we can say that ...
- 3432: Fire 2
- ... life cycle. Indeed, the extreme weather and forest fires we are experiencing this spring and summer are not unique -- Canadians have endured forest loss, flooding and heat waves for many, many years. But what is new and alarming is the frequency at which these events are now occurring. In the last fifteen years, we have experienced five of the seven worst forest fire years in recorded Canadian history. And, not surprisingly ... over long distances, and over decades and centuries of time. We can describe weather and climate by analyzing information about such factors as temperature, rainfall, and winds, gathered at thousands of locations all over the world. Meterologists use this information to predict what the weather will be like for the next few days or hours. Climatologists use some of the same information to describe climate in various regions by figuring out ... Eastern Canada, where they had also settled. This period is known as the "Little Ice Age." It is clear that climates change naturally on their own. What has caused these changes? Scientists all over the world are studying this problem, and are coming up with many theories. Many natural events appear to have altered global climates, including meteorite impacts, volcanic eruptions, and changes in the compositions of the earth's ...
- 3433: McCarthyism
- ... events of American history. It destroyed people’s lives and shattered many families. It threw innocent people into a whirlwind of mass confusion and fictional portrayals of their lives. McCarthyism spawned for the country’s new found terror of Communism known as the red scare. McCarthyism was an extreme version of the red scare, a scare whose ends did not justify the means. The Red Scare happened twice in the history of this great country. When the communist took over Russia in 1919, the American people were unnerved. They were afraid of a communist take over in the states. When the First World War ended in 1918, there was still an ideological war going on in a very divided United States. "The red scare was another sort of war—one against dissent and nonconformity. It changed the psyche and face of the United States as surely as did World War Two (Fariello, 24). This was a time in American History where panic and terror controlled the lives and the laws of this country (Fariello, 28). When in 1919 the newly appointed Attorney General, ...
- 3434: James Watson's The Double Helix: A Review
- James Watson's The Double Helix: A Review A review of Watson, James D. The Double Helix. New York: Atheneum, 1968. James Watson's account of the events that led to the discovery of the structure of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) is a very witty narrative, and shines light on the nature of ... small scientific meeting on the structures of the large molecules found in living cells. Watson had always been interested in DNA ever since he was a senior in college. Now that he learned of some new research on how to study DNA, he had the craving to discover the structure of the mysterious molecule that he believed to be the "stuff of life". Watson never had the chance to discuss DNA ... reflections. Upon completion, Watson and Crick were ecstatic about their accomplishment. To be the first to discover the structure of such an important molecule like DNA was going to make a major impact in the world. A phone call was made to Wilkins asking that he come to Cambridge to view the model and issue his opinion on its validity. The next day both Wilkins and Rosy came to Cambridge ...
- 3435: The African Queen Summary Char
- THE AFRICAN QUEEN Short Summary: "The African Queen" is the tale of two companions with different personalities who develop an untrustworthy love affair as they travel together downriver in Africa around the start of World War I. They struggle against the climate, the river, the bugs, the Germans and, most of all, against each other. In the course of much misery, they develop love and respect for each other. Detailed ... his spinster, prudish sister Rose Sayer, who is utterly devoted to her brother. Rose is also very naive and pious. She thinks, God would not permit a war between England and Germany or the whole world.. Some day, German troops marches into that village. Merciless, without any warning, these troops invade the village, they burn down the huts and the church. Livestock, poultry, pots and pans and foodstuffs even the portable chapel had been taken by the German soldiers. Only the mission bungalow was spared. Samuel goes on praying the awful calamity of war which has descended upon the world would soon pass away, so that slaughter and destruction would cease and that when they had regained their sanity men would turn from war to universal peace. Because of this war they were cut ...
- 3436: The Koala
- ... sadly enough, too many people are making millions on koalas. That's why they're endangered species. Habitat The koala is distributed along the eastern coastal semi-tropical forests of Australia, ranging from north Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and a small area in the south of Australia. Breeding The male koala and the female koala have two very different mating calls. When humans reach their sexual maturity at around the ... lots of ways that we can save the koalas. First of all, we can stop cutting down the eucalyptus trees. Second of all, BRAKE FOR KOALAS! Third, there are hundreds of save the koala associations world wide. Another reason koalas are dying is because of fires. Most of these fires come from careless smokers. If you go to Australia one day and you see someone smoking, tell them to make sure ... Britannica, 1992 ed., 6:922, 23:357, 8:642-3. (Chicago: Encyclop'dia Britannica, Inc.) S. Bahr, Lauren, e.d. & Johnston, Bernard, e.i.c. Collier's Encyclop'dia, 1992 ed., 3:253, 14:129. (New York: Macmillan Educational Company) Encyclop'dia Americana, 1996 ed., 16:526, 18:371. (Danbury: Grolier, Inc.) H. Harris, William, e.d. & S. Levey, Judith, e.d. The New Columbia Encyclop'dia, 1975 ed., p. ...
- 3437: Nikola Tesla
- ... founded telephone company in Budapest, and in late 1882 he joined the Continental Edison Company in Paris. Tesla went to the United States in 1884 because he was unable to interest European engineers in a new alternating-current motor he had invented. For nearly a year he redesigned dynamos for Thomas Edison in New York City. He began an impressive career of research and invention when he established his own laboratory in 1887. He became a U.S. citizen in 1891. By the turn of the century Tesla s accomplishments had made his name as world famous as Thomas Edison s. Tesla's first and probably greatest achievement was his discovery of the rotating magnetic field. This was a magnetic whirlwind produced in a motor winding by the interaction of ...
- 3438: Emily Dickinson 3
- The complex fate of human beings in this tragic yet beutiful world and the possible fortunes of the human spirit in a subsequent life is what interests us all in life, and this is the central theme in most of Emily Dickinsons work. In her enticing poetry ... be mariied to God. When 'Death ' first appears as a suitor she changes from a girl to a blushing virgin. This must be a 'stealthy Wooing,' for though she knows it will result ina glorious new status for her, she is vaguely aware that it will mean a renunciation of all the world she has known. She shows a maidenly resereve by the manner in which she forces to conduct his courtship, by 'palid imnnuendoes' and a 'dim' approach.' But he does win at last and attains ...
- 3439: The Making Of The Cat
- ... the atmosphere to form ozone, water, free nitrogen, and more carbon dioxide. Over the next billion years, blue-green algae polluted the Earth with enough free oxygen to completely change the entire chemistry of the world. Gone was the pristine methane, ammo- nia, and carbon-dioxide early atmosphere, to be replaced by a corro- sive mixture of free nitrogen and free oxygen, surrounded by a thin layer of ozone. It is ... merg- ing. All this specialization required that some cells spend their time reproducing not themselves, but the creature as a whole. These cells must, then, carry the genetic code for the entire creature. Since the new creature produced by a division and merging would start as the merger of two gametes, hence a single cell, it follows then that all cells in a creature must contain the entire genetic code for ... the Earth is punctuated with many Dyings and two (maybe three) Great Dyings. In a Dying, vast numbers of species vanish suddenly (geologically speaking) over a wide area. In a Great Dying, this area is world wide. Such an occurrence leaves uncounted ecologi- cal niches empty: those species that do survive the Dying are then presented with an opportunity to undergo rapid radial evolution, a phenomenon wherein each surviving species ...
- 3440: Fahrenheit 451: How Montag is Convinced to Change His Mind about Books
- ... actually happy leading a death-in-life, and Montag quickly realizes that he is not happy when he enters his sterile and fully automatic house" (Zipes 185). Clarisse opens Montag's eyes to a different world, a world full of books and people communicating with each other. In the novel Clarisse asks Montag if he is happy. At first he denies it, but then after thinking about it he changes his mind about ... that really makes him understand the true meaning of books. Montag now knows what he needs to do. He wants to share what he knows and what he has learned with the rest of the world. Beatty, the fire captain, tries to warn Montag throughout the novel what would happen if he were caught with the books in his house. He warns him by sending the mechanical hound to his ...
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