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- 9001: The Awakening- Edna Pontellier
- ... you why she was crying." (7-8) As time goes on we can see that her depression grows ever so slightly, and that it will continue to grow throughout the novel. Such happenings are nothing new to Edna: " Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life. They seemed never before to have weighed much against her husband's kindness and a uniform devotion which had come to ... But I don't want anything but my own way."(105) Edna is not willing to talk about what grips her, and after Robert leaves her again, she becomes completely depressed and dead to the world. From this point on she doesn't know what she is doing. Despondent, Edna returns to Grand Isle, the place of her awakening and happiness with Robert. Yet she seems not to know what her ... of thought." (108) Edna's body has taken over because her mind has gone: "Despondency had come upon her in the wakeful night, and it had never lifted. There was no one thing in the world that she desired. There was no human being whom she wanted near her except Robert; and she even realized that the day would come when he, too, and the thought of him would melt ...
- 9002: The Awakening Symbolism
- ... mentioned that she feels as though she has "slept long and soundly." (Chopin, 40) This symbolizes the fairly tale aspect of her sleep. Chopin relates Edna to the Sleeping Beauty who has awoken to a new world with a new perception of her surroundings. Symbols of the moon are another aspect that s ignored in the movie. During Edna s first solo swim, the author describes how the moon gave her the power and ...
- 9003: Tobacco
- ... Apparently so. The industry started lowering the tar in cigarettes to create a smoother flavor. But lowering the tar also meant lowering the nicotine because this method affected both aspects. So the industry generated a new breed of tobacco plants. The nicotine levels of the new flue-cured, Y-1, and rustica tobacco plants were 6% of the plants body weight. Before, tobacco only had 2%-3.5% nicotine. Chewing tobacco and snuff products have always contained fiberglass in them ... such as that could ever be more ignorant and bemused. This scheme only gives rise to the industry. More profit for the tobacco unit would just make them that much wealthier. And in todays world wealth is the father to power. The whole raising prices idea has loopholes to it. Depending on how high the prices went up, some consumers would look the other way and decide that it ...
- 9004: Anger
- ... wind whipping through his tattered blanket, anger keeps him warm. A building rage accumulates in him, and drives him to seek freedom, a freedom he deserves. This scene repeats itself throughout time, all over the world. Anger sends adrenaline surging through a mother's body in a time of crisis, giving her enough strength to lift a car off her struggling child. Without anger lives would be lost, tyranny would go ... emotion of the soul's repertoire, destroys and creates in the same breath. A swaying balance is a representation of anger; every shift toward an apocalypse is countered with a swing in the direction of new life. Moving from one person to the next anger is an ever present force in our world, and has been since the beginning of time. No one can defeat anger since it is not a foe, and no one can embrace anger since it is not an ally. Anger is a ...
- 9005: Color Blindless
- ... color. If you looked through green tinted glasses, your green vision was normal, but all others colors were off. Bibliography Adolf Fick, Color Vision, 1961 ed., s.v. "Color Blindness," 40-46. David Marr, Vision (New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1982), 252-264. Mark Fineman, The Inquisitive Eye (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981), 3- 12. Ramesh C. Tripathi, Brenda J. Tripathi, World Book Encyclopedia, 1993 ed., s.v. "Color Blind-ness," 827. Gypsytech Vision Site (Internet). "http://www.gypsytech.com/clrbld.htm", as of December 2, 1996.
- 9006: The Education System
- ... easy to buy clothes for their children every day. For example, one of my friend's daughter goes to high school and her mother works full time she is not making enough money to buy new clothes for her daughter every day. Therefor, the good thing about uniform is that it is not expensive for parents to get uniform for their children and beside that it is more organize too for ... in to sections which is very helpful for the student to remember the materials otherwise it is hard to remember the whole book for final. Finally, there are many differences between education system in the world and there are many similarities between them too. My country education system is very different than American education. The uniform, the classes and the grading system I hope one day each system could look at the each others system and find out what is good and what is better for students and change their old system to a better and new system.
- 9007: Anabolic Steroids
- ... wether it be international or national. Even though this is true many top athletes as well as amateur athletes use steroids. Athletes first used drugs in compettition in 1954 when the team physician for the world weight lifting team, John Ziegler, went with the team to the world championships in Vienna, Austria. Ziegler then met the Russian team doctor that told him that the Russians where using testosterone. Ziegler brough the news back to the united states and soon every weight lifter was ... manufacture anabolic steroids have improved their security efforts. Some of the steroids have actually been taken off the market which makes it even more difficult for the black market dealers to obtain legal manufactured drugs. New ways for the dealers to make and buy the drug have been created to serve the demand for them. The government now believes that most of the steroids now produced and being sold are ...
- 9008: AIDS and Its Causes
- ... by immunosuppression associated with opportunistic infection( an infection caused by a microrganism that does not normally produce disease in human; it occurs in persons with abnomality functioning immune system), secondary neoplasms( any abnormal growth of new tissue, benign or malignant) and neurologic mainfestation, which has come to be known as AIDS. Though Aids was first discovered in U.S.A, AIDS has been reported from more than 163 countries around the world and an estimated 10 million people are infected worldwide. Worsestill, the pool of HIV- infected persons in Africa is large and expanding. 2.RISK GROUP AND MODE OF TRANSMISSION Studies in the U.S.A ... infected cells. Hence, the three major routes of transmission are sexual contact , parenteral routes( ie adminstration of a substance not through the digestive system) and the passage of the virus from infected mothers to their new borns where are mainly by three routes: in the womb by transplacental spread, during delivery through a infected birth canal, and after birth by ingestion of breast milk. 3. CAUSES It is little doubt ...
- 9009: Transition From Adolescence To Young Adulthood
- Transition From Adolescence To Young Adulthood Experiencing the transition from adolescence to young adulthood confronts a person with role transitions, which involve taking on new responsibilities and developing mentally as people move from one phase of life to the next. Beginning at the age of twenty and up to the age of thirty I assume that I will experience several ... 296). For many students, attending college immediately after high school permits them to grow and develop intellectually and personally. I feel that attending college plays a very important role in gaining experience for the real world, acquiring knowledge beyond my career field, and growing cognitively by thinking in new ways. College is the perfect time to learning to think cognitively because although learning continues through adulthood, it becomes more laborious the older a person gets (315). In support of this idea, Perry found ...
- 9010: Discovering Sicke Cell Anemia
- ... I will discuss what exactly it is, how it is caused, any known treatments or cures, and many other facts that are important in this disease. Sickle Cell Anemia is a health problem throughout the world. More than 250,000 babies are born worldwide with this inherited blood cell disorder (http://www.medaccess.com/h_child/sickle/sca_01.htm). The disorder causes red blood cells to extend into a sickle ... not live as long as normal cells. Normal healthy cells can survive for about 120 days , while the more fragile sickle cells can survive for about 60 days or even less. The body cannot make new red blood cells as fast as it loses sickled blood cells. A sickle cell patient has fewer red blood cells and less hemoglobin than normal red blood cells. This results in less oxygen being convenient ... episodes and hospital visits. Preventive administration of penicillin to affected children by the age of four months greatly decreases mortality from infections. While researching this topic and studying about the disease, I have learned many new details about it. I realized that even the slightest change in the sequence of amino acids can lead to very harmful effects. In this disease, only one amino acid was substituted and still the ...
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