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- 5551: The Atomic Bomb
- The Atomic Bomb The year was 1945. The war in the Pacific had reached it's climax with the attack on Pearl Harbor, or so the world thought! In 1943 a new era was just being discovered when Albert Einstein had uncovered a new way of destroying things. One so powerful it could wipe out entire cities in seconds. When Albert told the president of the U.S.A. he had no idea of what the army was ...
- 5552: The Handmaids Tale
- ... scribe tried to scrape clean a parchment in order to reuse it. Sometimes the scraping process was not complete enough to obliterate all traces of the original text, which could be read faintly underneath the new one. What is suggested by the fact that the immediate supervisors of the girls are women but these women are not allowed guns? What is suggested by the fact that the girls have to read ... pun onit? In the gospels, Martha was one of two sisters. She devoted herself tohousework while her sister Mary sat and listened to Jesus. The irony here isthat Jesus praised Mary, not Martha; but the new patriarchy has chosen Martha asthe ideal. What is suggested by the existence of "Colonies" where"Unwomen" live? What are the crimes the Martha's gossip about in their"private conversations"? Chapter 3 What evidence is ... it. Note how much more open-ended and suspenseful Offred's narrative is. Section IV: Waiting Room Chapter 8 What is "Gender Treachery?" The passage on the etymology of the term "Mayday" is correct. During World War II, the opening rhythmic pattern from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was interpreted as the Morse code for "v" (dot dot dot dash), and used to symbolize "victory". What do we learn about Offred' ...
- 5553: How Would the Characters of "The Scarlet Letter" See the White Whale of Melville's "Moby Dick"
- ... or beauty of a white steed etc.) and proceeds to say Moby Dick is all of these things, "Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt?" He is esentially asking us "if you lived in a world where nothing had any meaning, and a great white whale was taunting you to give chase, what would you do?" My method of attacking the question, how would the three main characters from Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter see the whiteness of the whale?, is going to be a comparison to Melville's characters. The first comparison is between Hester Prynne and Ishmael. Hester Prynne is a brave lady who faces her sin, as seen in her ability to face severe ridicule on the scaffold. Ishmael is a brave young man who handles any conflict with a strong will, as seen in his agreement to sign onto a whaling ship without knowing the captain. It is also seen in his ability to share ...
- 5554: Wise Blood: Whose Deformity is the Most Serious
- ... believe that his blood is wise and can lead his life. By bestowing his trust in his blood, he often takes things too literally. For instance, Hazel Motes preaches that his religion desperately needs a new Jesus, and Enoch, perceiving this Jesus to be an actual being, follows his instincts and brings Hazel a three-foot shrunken man whom he honestly believes to be the savior. Before actually donating the messiah ... lack of friends, and recovers his body with the ape costume. Following this transformation the narrator describes Enoch with this statement, " No gorilla in existence, whether in the jungles of Africa or California, or in New York City in the finest apartment in the world, was happier at that moment than this one, whose god had finally rewarded it. " Perhaps the narrator is correct by saying that its gad had finally rewarded it because as deformed and distorted as ...
- 5555: The Catcher In The Rye: Connection to the Title
- ... This title greatly explains the main character, Holden Caulfield, and his feelings towards life and human nature. In society he has found enormous corruption, vulgarity, harm and havoc. He knows that the children of the world are ruined by the corruption of adults around them and, he states later in the novel, his new purpose in life will be to help save the children from this vulgarity. Holden wants to be a "Catcher in the Rye." We first hear the title of the novel being used in chapter 16 ... Caulfield. He sees himself as the savior of children, of innocence and basic human dignity. What ultimately drives Holden mad is the realization that he cannot single-handedly eliminate the corruption and vulgarity of the world. When he understands that he must redefine his purpose in life and shift the focus of his good intentions to those areas where he can accomplish good, he is able to pull himself out ...
- 5556: Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
- ... the most key things about any theory of gravity prior to Einstein was the fact that none of them proposed the origin of gravity. Newton's law always proved to be true in the common world but did not explain the source of the force (Eddington 95). Albert Einstein proposed his Theory of Gravity in his General Theory of Relativity. In this he said that space was a three dimensional plane ... object would cause a large "hole" and smaller objects would "orbit" it. It is interesting to note that in either case, Newton's or Einstein's law, both prove to be true in the common world. Massive universal objects, such as black holes, are an exception but that's another story in itself (Edwards 498). Works Cited Zitzewitz, Paul W., Robert F. Neff, and Mark Davids. (1992). Physics: Principles and Problems. Peoria, Illinois: Glencoe. Gamow, George. (1962). Gravity: Classic and Modern Views. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books. Eddington, Sir Arthur. (1987). Space, Time, & Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Edwards, Paul. (Ed.) (1967). The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. New York, New York: MacMillan.
- 5557: Cryogenics and the Future
- ... Poland. At this point in history Oxygen was now able to be liquefied at 90 K, then soon after liquid Nitrogen was obtained at 77 K, and because of these advancements scientist all over the world began competing in a race to lower the temperature of matter to Absolute Zero (0 K) [Vance, 1-10]. Then in 1898, James DeWar mad a major advance when he succeeded in liquifying hydrogen at ... day to day basis[McClintock 208- 226]. Then in 1986, J Gregore Bednorz and K. Alex Muller discovered that an oxide of lanthanum, barium, and copper becomes superconductive at 30 K. This discovery shocked the world and stimulated scientists to find even more "High- Temperature Superconductors". After this discovery, in 1987, scientists at the University of Houston and the University of Alabama discovered YBCO, a compound with a Tc of 95 ... can best be summed up by Krafft A. Ehricke, a rocket developer, when he said, "It's centeral goal is the preservation of civilization." References Khalatnikov, I. M., An Introduction to the Theory of Superfluidity (New York: W.A. Benjamin Inc., 1965). McClintock, Michael, Cryogenics (New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1964) Tilley, David R. and Tilley, John, Superfluidity and Superconductivity (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974) Vance, Robert W., ...
- 5558: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
- Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a relatively new disease found primarily in cattle. This disease of the bovine breed was first seen in the United Kingdom in November 1986 by histopathological examination of affected brains (Kimberlin, 1993) . From the first discovery in 1986 ... and grey-matter neuropil was the scientists' overall conclusion (Stadthalle, 1993). These lesions are consistent with the diseases of the more common scrapie family. Without further investigation, the conclusion was made that BSE was a new member of the scrapie family (Westgarth, 1994). Transmission of BSE is rather common throughout the cattle industry. After the incubation period of one to two years, experimental transmission was found possible by the injection of ... animals (Lacey, 1995). Such knowledge for the pathogenesis of the BSE disease shows precisely the actions that must be taken in order to control and minimize the risk of infection in healthy cattle around the world (Darnton, 1996). The appearance of BSE has made a sizable impact throughout much of the world even though few countries, other than the United Kingdom, have experienced positive cases (Burton, 1996). The scare of ...
- 5559: Massai Warriors- National Geographic Report
- ... of cow dung, and their most advanced form of technology seems to be the bark shoes that they wear on their feet. They are fairly quiet, subdued people, and they seem to ignore the changing world around them. Their customs greatly differ from the outside world, and many of them would nowadays be called very inhumane and primitive. But these ways are the only ways that they know. But, unfortunately, it may not always be that way. The Masai culture finds ... is a very rigorous, very challenging, and almost an inhumane ceremony. Eunoto involves the slaying of a lion, the skinning of a buffalo, sexual intercourse with prepuburtal and uncircumcised young girls, the erection of a new building for each young man involved, and very often, the hysterical trance of a young man, during which he may attempt to slay himself with a spear. The young man being initiated finally ends ...
- 5560: Comparison of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and Dali's "The Metamorphosis of Narcissus"
- ... in this painting, to assist his creative process. As Dali described it, his aim in painting was "to materialize the images of concrete irrationality with the most imperialistic fury of precision...in order that the world of imagination and of concrete irrationality may be as objectively evident...as that of the exterior world of phenomenal reality."1 The rich landscape, seems to be limitless in detail. Dali rendered every detail of this landscape with precise accuracy, striving to make his paintings as realistic as possible. In Greek mythology ... perceive them, go unnoticed, yet life continues to go on around them. Both Gregor and Narcissus, in my opinion, are important because the are the center of attention of each piece of work, yet the world around them seems to go on without them, and improve. Both of these works insist that the audience take time to interpret and understand them. This is perhaps one of the most important reasons ...
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