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- 9641: Anorexia
- ... desire to eat, because they are afraid of becoming fat. Anorexia is characterized by extreme starvation that leads to a disastrous loss of weight. Anorexia nervosa affects a large number of people today in the world, and does not discriminate against anybody. Its victims can be overweight, thin, young, old, or either sex although, its primary victims are young girls between the age of thirteen and nineteen. This disorder has become more and more common around the world today. It has populated many college campuses, and it is spreading. Recent studies show that almost 20% of college women suffer from anorexia or bulimia (bulimia is a eating disorder similar to anorexia), and the ... to treat it. Bibliography Baker, C. The Perfect Trap: College-age Women and Eating Disorders. Copyright Catherine Baker. Pirke, K.M., and Ploog,D. eds.(1984) The Psychobiology of Anorexia Nervosa. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York Tokyo.
- 9642: MP3 Audio
- ... known website such as mp3.com which specializes in the distribution of legal MP3 audio files. By doing this, the band is allowing their music to be heard easily, quickly, and inexpensively all over the world. For music lovers around the globe, MP3s allow easy access to new music. They can easily get on the Internet and find out about new bands and their music. They can also find songs by their favorite bands that had been previously been unreleased or bootlegs from concerts. When the MP3 standard was first developed, it was solely used ...
- 9643: Racism In America
- RACISM IN AMERICA If someone asked you what it would be like to live in a perfect world, how would you reply? Many people might say something like, "A place without and arguments or fighting." Others might say "A place where there is not pollution." But, has anyone one ever thought to say ... If you are a racist, you believe in racism. Racists will often claim that members of their own race or minority are "mentally, physically, morally and/or culturally superior to those of other races." (The World Book Encyclopedia; Pettigrew, Thomas F., 62) For these reasons, many racists think they deserve special rights or privileges. The Bill of Rights was written a little under 200 years ago, yet controlling racism in America ... is a revolutionary war that has yet to and probably will never be won. Slavery is said to be one of the greatest racial tragedies to ever happen in America. Upon the entrance of this new millenium, slavery and racism is still practiced in America. White Americans have their forefathers to blame for the hatred and anger they have in their hearts concerning races different from theirs. What is said ...
- 9644: Alice Walker
- There are many different types of authors in the world of literature, authors of horror, romance, suspense, and the type that Alice Walker writes, through personal experiences. Although most critics categorize her writings as feminist, Walker describes herself as a "womanist", she defines this as ... Walker won a scholarship to Spelman College in Atlanta, where she became involved in the civil rights movement and participated in sit-ins at local business establishments. She transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, graduating from there in 1965. She met her future husband Melvyn Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights attorney, in Mississippi where she was an activist and teacher. In 1967 Walker and Leventhal married, becoming the ... a diversion in the fields of dread". Some felt differently about certain points the book made, one being the its negative portraits of black men, people like Darryl Pinckney state, "Walker's work shows a world divided between the chosen (black women) and the unsaved, the poor miserable critter' (black men), between the 'furnace of afflication' and a 'far off, miystic land of…miraculous. Walker's central characters are almost ...
- 9645: Broken Chain
- ... the chief and the first Indian commander in a western army in the history, but his ambition ultimately put him into the trap set up by the British. Mohahehu, who is succeeded to become the new chief of the six nations, feeling that something has been wrong from the beginning of helping the British to fight against Indians in Delaware. On the other side, there is Sir William Johnson. He is ... As the movie goes along, there are intensions between the Indians and the British constantly. The British always demand the Indians to give help on their problems, but never keep on their promises, such as new settlers were looting Indians’ land throughout the time even when the “chain” was still existed. This fragment in the history, once again supported the basic of the human nature, “Men are born evil”. At that ... s land and resources (example: slaves, land and ore mines). Their sinful minds and technologies afforded them to sail around; colonized {“invaded” is a more suitable word) and brought painfulness to different parts of the world. The third perspective in the movie is the nature of the human conduct, which is one of the fundamentals of political science. If all men are created equal, then the studies of the science ...
- 9646: A Dream Deferred
- ... erase this solitude and loneliness. There is no question that Sula alleviates this aloneness with a lascivious and experimental life, "I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world"(143). Nel, however, for the most part, fails terribly at realizing her dreams and experiencing a happy existence. Compromising her individuality, her emotional stability, and her dreams mark Nel's banal and unfulfilling life. Early in Nel's life during a trip to New Orleans, she watches as her mother is humiliated by a train's white, racist conductor; she watches the indignity of her mother's having to squat in an open field to urinate while white train ... and "the strength to cultivate a friend in spite of mother"(29). Nel achieves a degree of her self-described "me-ness," her dream, a separation from her subservient and disgraceful mother, resulting in a new found complacency, "Nel, who regarded the oppressive neatness of her home with dread, felt comfortable in it with Sula"(29). This happiness was present in both girls, "Their meeting was fortunate for it let ...
- 9647: Hinduism
- ... very important stage in the life of a Hindu boy, that is if he belongs to one of the three main castes. This ceremony is considered a birth by which a person is given a new king of life. The ceremony takes place any time between the boys seventh and twelfth birthdays. The ceremony involves putting the sacred thread across the boys body from his left shoulder to his right hip ... is practiced by many Hindus. The word "yoga" means yoking disciplining and it is a means of achieving mastery over the mind by means of exercises. The idea is to cut oneself off from the world and concentrate on Brahman. Hindus teach that Karma decides what form a person will take in the next life. Karma, they say is an action done in a lifetime wether good or bad. A devout Hindu tries to avoid building up bad deeds so as to total as little bad karma as possible. On way to do this is to cut himself off from the from the world and concentrate on Brahman by practicing yoga. Hindu Holy Books Veda The Veda is the most ancient of all books. Veda means divine knowledge. The Veda was composed between 1200 BC and 500 BC. ...
- 9648: Beloved. Who Or What Is Belove
- ... no other friends in the community. Denver must make peace with what her mother did in order for her to survive, and she accomplishes this by making the ghost her playmate. In their own little world, both Denver and her mother acclimate themselves to the sin that they must live with. The appearance of Paul D throws everything into turmoil. To Sethe, Paul D is a man that knows what her ... s guilty detached conscience shows up again, but now in a human form, as Beloved. Sethe's conscience is masochistic in nature. Whenever it looks like her life may improve, her conscience just finds a new way to make her suffer for what she did. So, as life begins to get better for Sethe and Denver again because of Paul D, Beloved shows up, and when she gains some strength she ... now that Sethe was actively fighting it to make her life better. Beloved recognizes Paul D as the source of Sethe's strength, and makes Paul D even more uncomfortable than before. He uses his new knowledge of Sethe's crime as an excuse for moving out not much later. During the entire fight between Sethe and Paul D, he feels Beloved staring at him, adding to his discomfort. He ...
- 9649: Walt Whitman 2
- ... to show the pain that he himself felt inside. This poem was a poem for how the entire country felt at the same time. Another great breakthrough at this time was the development of the new national pastime, baseball. Baseball originated during the 1880 s, and was derived from the British sport of cricket. It was said that the founder of baseball was a man by the name of Abner Doubleday. He started the game in Cooperstown New York. Now, this is not a fact that he was the man that really created the sport, but no one really knows for sure who it was, so he was given credit. There have been ... would make it almost impossible to live there anymore. It ruinded the lives of many of the Southerners. At the same time, there were many black people that were trying to make it in the world, now that they were free and all. They had the right to find a job, but now the problem was that no one would hire them. They were all free, but they had nothing ...
- 9650: Slavery - A Cruel Institution
- ... it is dark enough to overshadow the whole after-life with something blacker than a funeral pall" (36). Bibliography Drew, Benjamin. A North-Side View of Slavery. Boston: 1856. Genovese, Eugene. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Random House, 1972. Halasz, Nicholas. The Rattling Chains. N.Y.: Van Rees Press, 1966. Henson, Josiah. Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson. London: 1877. Northrup, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northrup. Auburn, N.Y: 1853. Roark, James. Masters without Slaves. New York: Norton and Company, 1977. Stroyer, Jacob. My Life in the South. Salem, Mass.: 1898.
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