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- 1391: A Comparison of the Magic in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" and "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"
- ... Stephen King horror genre. These tales encompass an undeniable amount of magic, faith, greed, vindication and misunderstanding. Pelayo and Elisenda, in the Garcia Marquez yarn, find the soul retriever on his way to take their child to heaven, or so it is thought. The magical angel's identity had to be discovered by a neighbor of the couple because they didn't think that an angel could wind up on their ... just like in the story. The fact that the poor couple makes money off the angel could be a testament to him being their guardian angel as opposed to the harbinger of death to their child. They continue to make money off this freak of nature until another shows up. The spider girl is just another form of greed in this story. The actual freak is probably just a costumed human ... while he was stuck recovering in an animal's residence that was like a miniature circus tent. After he finally recovered with dawn of spring, he took to flight. He certainly wouldn't take the child with him for fear of staying any longer. He escaped the place that did nothing but use him to move on to provide miracles to people who were worth it. Lastly, intertwined in these ...
- 1392: Hidden Persuaders in Advertising
- ... went by and more competitors came along the advertisers turned to another method of advertising they started making advertisements which were aimed at the subconscious. They started making mothers fell guilty for not giving their child a certain brand of milk. This was done by showing that the best mother in the world acted by some beautiful model gives her children that brand of milk. The children are showed to be happy and lively and the mother asks here audience "Why don't you give your child Nespray and make him grow healthier. By doing this they make the mothers guilty for not giving their child this brand of milk. So they are compelled to buying that brand of milk by the advertisement. This is not because the child wants it but because the mother wants to remover her guilty ...
- 1393: Albinism
- ... albinism apart. However, these hair tests cannot identify types of albinism, particularly in young children, whose pigment systems are immature. Therefore hair tests are not helpful in predicting the extent of visual disability of a child. "Ty-Neg" (also called Type 1A) albinism results from a genetic defect in an enzyme called tyrosinase. Tyrosinase helps the body to change the amino acid tyrosine into pigment. The genetic defect that causes albinism ... that it involves other enzymes used to make pigment. Albinism is passed from parents to their children through genes. For nearly all types of albinism both parents must carry an albinism gene to have a child with albinism. Parents may have normal pigmentation but still carry the gene. When both parents carry the gene, and neither parent has albinism, there is a one in four chance at each pregnancy that the baby will be born with albinism. This type of inheritance is called autosomal recessive inheritance. If a parent has a child with albinism, it means the parent must carry the albinism gene. Until recently, unless a person has albinism or has a child with albinism, there was no way of knowing whether he or she ...
- 1394: A Comparison of the Magic in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" and "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"
- ... Stephen King horror genre. These tales encompass an undeniable amount of magic, faith, greed, vindication and misunderstanding. Pelayo and Elisenda, in the Garcia Marquez yarn, find the soul retriever on his way to take their child to heaven, or so it is thought. The magical angel's identity had to be discovered by a neighbor of the couple because they didn't think that an angel could wind up on their ... just like in the story. The fact that the poor couple makes money off the angel could be a testament to him being their guardian angel as opposed to the harbinger of death to their child. They continue to make money off this freak of nature until another shows up. The spider girl is just another form of greed in this story. The actual freak is probably just a costumed human ... while he was stuck recovering in an animal's residence that was like a miniature circus tent. After he finally recovered with dawn of spring, he took to flight. He certainly wouldn't take the child with him for fear of staying any longer. He escaped the place that did nothing but use him to move on to provide miracles to people who were worth it. Lastly, intertwined in these ...
- 1395: A Violent Illumination of Salvation
- ... faults. Without God, a "good man" doesn't exist and with God, he knows that he is a "sinner" (Masterpieces 498). Even though each story contains violence, a story is more horrific when an innocent child is the victim. Walters explains that a spirit is better off violently escaping surrounding evils by dying, than existing in a "living hell" without religious guidance (76). Norton in "The Lame shall Enter First" and ... form of faith to explain his mother's death. Rufus supplies answers and convinces Norton that he can locate his mother in Heaven and join her there if he goes while he is still a child. Unfortunately, he hangs himself, but according to Rufus, he is with his mother. Another example of the absence of faith is the tragic death of Bevel. The child is consistently exposed to a corrupt society from malicious playmates and his parents' circle of friends. While his parents nurse a hangover, the babysitter, Mrs. Connin introduces Bevel to religion. Bevel, totally oblivious to ...
- 1396: Kurt Cobain
- ... rain a year. Kurt was born to Mrs. Wendy Cobain and to Mr. Donald Cobain. Wendy was a homemaker. She had a very tight bond with Kurt. He was her first born. She had another child three years after she had Kurt. Her name was Kim. Donald was a mechanic. He was very into sports. He often tried to push Kurt into sports but Kurt just didn't like them. Even ... t have much they seemed to do all right. Wendy dressed her children in the best clothes she could afford. They always looked like the best dressed kids in Aberdeen. Kurt was an extremely happy child. He would wake up everyday so happy. He was always filled with joy and always had a smile on his face. Kurt once said his upbringing could be decribed as "white trash posing as middle ... kept meeting up with each other through the years on tours and other rock shows. So it seems they were meant to be together. In November of 1991 Courtney Love becomes pregnant with Kurt's child. Sometime in August of 1992 Courtney does an interview for Vanity Fair magazine. It is all about her life, Kurt Cobain, her music, and of course the pregnancy. Vanity Fair prints that Courtney did ...
- 1397: Drugs In Football Making An Ap
- ... shrinking testicles, facial hair in women, and madness (psychosis). Those are just a few con's though. Paul Lowe, an all-pro running back for the San Diego Chargers, testified before the Subcommittee on Drug Abuse and Alcoholism of the California State Legislature. Lowe stated, "we had to take steroids at lunchtime, the trainer would put them on a little saucer and prescribe for us to take them, and if not ... the outstanding, All-American football player, Curt Marsh. Marsh was forced to retire with a severe ankle injury many years ago. Since then, he has spoken to more than 500,000 students on violence, substance abuse prevention, leadership, and positive thinking. Carl Eller, a former All-Pro defensive linemen for the Minnesota Vikings, had a $4,000-a-week cocaine problem. When he started to see opposing players sneer at him ... word on how harmful drug-use is. Now that the future generation has hope, is there hope for the users and abusers now? Again, the answer is yes. The NFL has a very successful "Substance Abuse Policy." Under the program, players are given drug test while in physical and psychological treatment, but the results are used for treatment, not disciplinary reasons. Narcotics Anonymous is another very successful, international community based ...
- 1398: The Spirit Catches You And You
- ... there. One who liked to eat flesh and drink blood and could make his victim sterile by having sexual intercourse with her. Once a Hmong woman became pregnant, she could ensure the health of her child by paying close attention to her food cravings. If she craved ginger and failed to eat it, her child would be born with an extra finger or toe. If she craved eggs and did not eat them, her child would have a lumpy head. When a Hmong woman felt the first signs of labor, she would hurry home from the fields, where she had continued to work throughout her pregnancy. It was important ...
- 1399: Rebecka
- ... her the woman she knew she would never become herself. She and Rebecka were very close. Rebeckas death was an extremly hard crush to Mrs Danvers. Like a mother who loses her one and only child who was her everything. But she always feels Rebeckas presence and therefore keeps the house as it always was. When the new Mrs de Winter came to take Rebeckas place Mrs Danvers went furious. Not ... t divorce her since their marriage seemed perfect on the surface. But she didn΄t really love him. She told him things like what life would be like for him later when they had a child and he wouldn΄t be sure of whose father it was. Not either her cousine Jack Favell. Jack loved Rebecka very much and he met her many times in a cottage near the sea. They ... infiltrated her΄s and Maxim΄s life and made them to a living hell. Because she disturbed Maxim, because she was compared to her in every way. Rebecka had a feeling that there was a child on the way. She had gone to Dr Baker for a birthcontrol. The results were shocking. There were two things: She could never have a child, she was probably crushed, everything so perfect and ...
- 1400: Frederick Douglass and Slavery
- ... the struggle to overthrow it, as well as the condition of free blacks both before and after the Emancipation, the politics of the Civil War, and the failed promise of Reconstruction the followed. As a child, Douglass was taught how to read by Sophia Auid. She was drawn to the questioning mind of Douglass. Her husband however, put a stop to this stating the teaching of Douglass to read would, "Spoil the best nigger in the world... forever unfitting him for the duties of a slave." As a slave child some experiences were hard to describe. Douglass witnessed, as a child, what he called a "horrible exhibition." He lived with his Aunt in one of the master's corridors. The master was an inhumane slave holder. He would sometimes take great pleasure in whipping a ...
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