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- 4001: Indigo
- ... place for her and her soul. That is going under the assumption that there is a place. "Indigo did not tell her mother about Mr. Lucas being so evil, nor did she mention that her new fiddle could talk."(Norton 43) With in the first few lines of the story Indigo’s violin begins its transformation from merely and instrument to an extension of her soul. Symbolically Indigo’s violin is ... rejection her violin her mother rejects the heart and soul of Indigo. Only when she flees to Sister Marie Louise’s shed is she able to play her music and bare her soul to the world. The violin takes on the presence of sin in her life as her mother forbids her to play. It is the forbidden fruit that Indigo longs to taste. Indigo’s character constantly revolves through the ... blush, hurriedly out the fiddle back into the case, the Colored and Romance having got the best of her."(Norton 45) Indigo is not ready to take that final step into womanhood but she is brave enough to sample. Placing a label on the character of Indigo’s out her into the category of a round character. Everything that she experiences affects her both on the inside and the outside. ...
- 4002: Inexcusable Acts In Literature
- ... people played an immense part in what was viewed as right and wrong, just as in today's day. In Boccaccio's Decameron, "Tenth Day, Tenth Story", the main character, Gualtieri wants to test his new wife to see how loyal she is to him. In the beginning of the play, it is portrayed to the readers that Gualtieri is a very well respected, moral man. After being told that it ... what. This is ironic for him to say, due to the actions he takes later in the story. As the play proceeds Gualtieri's actions become more inexcusable and immoral. He "wished to test his new wife's patience" to see if she truly was as loyal a wife as she seemed to be. He first insulted her with "harsh words", than told her the child that she bore was not ... by the people of the land. The actions Gualtieri took were very harsh, in the current views of our time and even of his time. When he pretended to murder his children and take a new wife "his subjects criticized him bitterly and regarded him as a cruel man." Once he revealed his plan though, he was thought of in the highest manner, as the wisest of all men. Therefore, ...
- 4003: Pros And Cons Of Abortion
- ... unwanted children was permissible, but as out civilization has aged, it seems that such acts were no longer acceptable by rational human beings, so that in 1948, Canada along with most other nations in the world signed a declaration of the United Nations promising every human being the right to life. The World Medical Association meeting in Geneve at the same time, stated that the utmost respect for human life was to be from the moment of conception. This declaration was re-affirmed when the World Medical Association met in Oslo in 1970 (Sproul) Abortion is a very controversial subject that has been continually argued over for the past few years and probably many years to come. The main controversy ...
- 4004: Johnny Got His Gun
- This anti-war novel is written from the point of view of an injured World War I infantryman (Joe Bonham). As the plot progresses we realize how severe the injuries are (most of his face has been blown away and eventually his arms and legs must be amputated--leaving a ... breath, smell, touch, or walk. Only in that state can a person really appreciates life. Johnny got his gun to fight for a cause, but what was that cause? Was he fighting to make the world safe for democracy, was he fighting for glory, for honor, for patriotism? He was used just like many other foolish young and old men who went to fight. They did not really understand what war ... land or something else that didn’t mean anything." Joe Bonham experiences much internal conflict within this story. He struggles for survival and staying sane, but his major conflict is with communicating with the outside world. He hopes to one day be able to make his feelings known and have his thirst quenched by the answering of his questions. He yearns to break free from his hospital room and be ...
- 4005: Journey Of The Magi
- ... to Christianity (Fleisner, 66). Therefore the theme of religion is an important one if we are to analyse the poem correctly. In the book of Ephesians in the Bible, Paul describes the rebirth of the world upon Christ’s death, emphasising the Ephesians’ new life (2:4-5). This theme of death and rebirth is present in the poem Journey of the Magi, which, I will argue, is structurally and internally divided into three stages; corresponding to the Sacrament of Penance: contrition (guilt), confession and satisfaction. To understand this poem, one has to understand the impact that Christ had on the World. At the time of his birth, however, the known world was not stable; people worshipped many gods, and we get a full description of the way life was by the Magus who narrates his ...
- 4006: Catcher In The Rye Holdens Sig
- It s nothing new, that everybody feels depressed at some time or another in their lives. However, it becomes a problem when that depression is so much a part a person s life that she can no longer see ... collectively results in him giving up on life before he ever really has a chance to get it started. Holden lacks the essential ability to motivate himself, which he needs to survive in the real world. He continues to be kicked out of every school he attends because he fails to apply himself, his simple reasoning being How do you know what you re going to do till you do it ... and in which case not to give up so easily. Holden is quite skilled at citing exactly what is wrong with other people. However he never acknowledges his own faults. He was sure the entire world was out of step with him. As Alan Stewart explains, Holden seemed to divide the world into two groups. He was in one group, along with a few other people such as his little ...
- 4007: Vegetarian Diet
- ... and steak fajitas. But there are individuals who do not follow this American norm and have altered their diets so that they do not consume any meat. These people are vegetarians, and they are the new breed of healthy Americans who refuse to poison themselves with fats, cholesterol, and the other harmful additives that A come from meat. And while once thought to be a movement that would never gain much ... made up of grains, vegetables and fruit, but does not include any animal flesh, such as fish, pork, poultry, or beef. But beyond these standards, there are many variations of diet that occur within the world of vegetarianism. The first, and most prominent, category of vegetarianism is a lacto-ovo vegetarian. Mark Messina describes a lact-ovo diet as "...a vegetarian diet (that) includes dairy products and eggs but no animal ... diet can influence the health of those that follow its guidelines, the evidence is very indicative that it may be an important contributing factor. Registered dietitian Johanna Dwyer, of Tufts University Medical School and the New England Medical Center Hospital, Boston, summarizes these benefits: ... data are strong that vegetarians are at lesser risk for obesity, atonic [reduced muscle tone] constipation, lung cancer, and alcoholism. Evidence is good that risks for ...
- 4008: IVF: A Medical Breakthrough or A Medical Burden?
- ... Brown celebrated her 16th birthday. "She's a regular kid who likes sports, movie stars, and MTV. With a mom, dad, and a younger sister, she's a lot like other teens anywhere in the world" (Dreher 1). However, Louise's life did not start out in such a common way. The conception of Louise did not happen within her mother's body. "Instead, her father's sperm fertilized her mother ... General Hospital in northern England" (Dreher 1). Within hours, the fertilized egg was inserted into her mother's womb, where it grew into seven-pound, two-ounce Louise Brown. (Dreher 1). Louise Brown was the world's first "test-tube baby," denoting one of the greatest marvels of 20th century science. However, the medical phenomena of being able to fertilize an egg outside of the body, a technique known as in ... kind' women have been seen in terms of their value as child-bearers. We have to ask, if that last power is taken and controlled by men, what role is envisaged for women in the new world?" (Singer 527) Primarily, the use of IVF, causes many to feel that men are taking over the role of conception because the male population is highly dominant in the field of medicine and ...
- 4009: Robert Frost
- ... Lee Frost, born in San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874, was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially pastoral poet often associated with rural New England, Frost wrote poems whose philosophical dimensions transcend any region. Although his verse forms are traditional--he often said, in a dig at archival Carl Sandburg, that he would as soon play tennis without a ... College, but remained less than one semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taught school and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. In 1894 he sold "My Butterfly: An Elegy" to The Independent, a New York literary journal. A year later he married Eleanor White, with whom he had shared valedictorian honors at Lawrence (Mass.) High School. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special student but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire (purchased for him by his paternal grandfather), and supplemented his income by teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy. In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the proceeds ...
- 4010: The Spread of AIDS
- ... as the 1917/18 influenza pandemic which killed over 21 million people, including 50,000 Canadians. Having been lulled into false security by modern antibiotics and vaccines about our ability to conquer infections, the Western world was ill prepared to cope with the advent of AIDS in 1981. (Retro- spective studies now put the first reported U.S. case of AIDS as far back as 1968.) The arrival of a new and lethal virus caught us off guard. Research suggests that the agent responsible for AIDS probably dates from the 1950s, with a chance infection of humans by a modified Simian virus found in African green ... of illness can unknowingly infect others. On average, the dormant virus seems to be triggered into action three to six years after first invading human cells. When switched on, viral replication may speed along, producing new viruses that destroy fresh lymphocytes. As viral replication spreads, the lymphocyte destruction virtually sabotages the entire immune system. In essence, HIV viruses do not kill people, they merely render the immune system defenceless against ...
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