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- 3061: A Tale of Two Cities: Summary
- ... nine days straight. France's citizens arm themselves for a revolution and, led by the Defarges, start the revolution by raiding the Bastille. Shortly before the start of the revolution, the Marquis runs over a child in the streets of Paris. He is assassinated by Gaspard, the child's father, who is also a part of the revolution. Three years later, right in the middle of the revolution, Darnay is called to France to help Gabelle, an old friend. As soon as he ...
- 3062: Chromosome Probes At The University Of Toronto
- ... to have no children or to have only girls. Confirming gender in children with ambiguous genitalia is another medical reason for using the test. A quick examination of the X and Y chromosomes of the child would indicate whether genetically the child is male or female. As yet, Willard has been unable to develop a probe for chromosome 21. Down's Syndrome results from three copies of chromosome 21 (trisomy 21). "I think we'll know within ...
- 3063: Summary of Nathaniel Hawthornes "The Scarlet Letter"
- ... disgrace, Roger Chillingworth, an old man new to the village, asks members of the crowd about her and learns as much of her story as is commonly known. When he asks the identity of the child's father, he discovers Hester has refused to divulge this information. From the balcony overlooking the scaffold, the young Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale also asks for this information and eloquently appeals to Hester to publicly name ... mother's altered appearance, comes reluctantly. Pearl then bursts into a fit of passion and insists her mother don the letter and cap before she will behave civilly. Hester does this sadly. Dimmesdale gives the child a kiss, which she immediately washes off in the brook. Upon returning to the village, Hester makes arrangements with the ship's captain for the passage. Arthur is secretly pleased they will not leave until ...
- 3064: Discovery
- ... that there is a lot about her past that she doesn’t know. “the feeling that a very vital part of me was missing and that I’d never belong anywhere.” When she was a child, her best friend was Winnie the Pooh. She felt that she had a lot in common because they both felt like misfits. Both her mother and grandmother know that Sally doesn’t know much about ... out the truth. A big example of this is Aborigine’s who were taken from their parents as children and sent away to work as slaves. In Sarah’s story she explains how as a child, just like Sally, she was told that she was not aboriginal. She was white skinned living with her white skinned father and had to be taken away because people believed that white skins should not ...
- 3065: Frankenstein: The Forbidden Fruit
- ... maker. All he wanted then was companionship, someone to talk to that would not flee in terror. Therefore, when he came upon Frankenstein's young brother, he decided to take him, thinking that an innocent child might not flee in terror from him. The child resisted, and informed the Monster that he was in relation to Frankenstein. The Monster then killed him in rage, and cleverly averted the blame to someone else that was close to his creator. Later, when ...
- 3066: Hedda Gabler
- ... Lovborg, by challenging his masculinity, into going to Brack's bachelor party and resuming his drunken ways of old. Hedda's "reward" for this is to find that Lovborg's manuscript, his and Thea's "child" falls into her hands, where she burns it, thus destroying the child and alto the relationship, both of which Hedda was jealous of. Similarly, Hedda seeks to push her husband, Jorgan, into politics: "(I was wondering) whether I could get my husband to go into politics…" This ...
- 3067: Childhood Experience Of Religion Conflicts
- ... who I was but she stubbornly turned around and whispered something to the person next to her. "What is going on here?" I asked my self, I knew I wasn't welcomed back. With a child's mind that I had, I still had hope of being welcomed by my best friend. I was going to see her after school at the same bench that we all use to sit and ... same as it was before. I asked my mother, "Why are my friends acting that way?" With a sad face she said, "Just stay away from them. They are not your friends but your enemies child." She still did not answer my question and I refused to believe what she told me. The next day to school I saw them again, this time I was full of anger and confusion I ...
- 3068: The Coming Food Crisis
- ... taken farmers off their fields and into industrial factories. The result is cropland disappearing and water becoming scarce in some areas. China’s huge population increases by about 15 million each year, even with one child per family. China’s booming economy has made some people wealthy enough to pay off government restrictions of one child per family. China has been trying to solve this problem in many ways. It has put a restriction on the number of children a family can have, which is one. This for some families who ...
- 3069: The Power and the Glory: The Whiskey Priest a Saint?
- ... helps to validate that the whiskey priests statement is inaccurate. Graham Greene portrays to the reader that the whiskey priest thinks of others before himself. This is clearly evident when he goes to help the child's dyeing mother even though he knows that he will miss his boat: But the stranger got up as though unwillingly he had been summoned to an occasion he couldn't pass by. He said ... her pregnant. Later abandoning his daughter Brigitta: “When you-know-what happened, I was proud. I thought the good days would come back. It's not everyone who's a priest's women. And the child... I thought you could do a lot for her. But you might as while be a thief for all the good...” (P. 79) This quote is used to show that the whiskey priest is not ...
- 3070: Les Miserables 3
- ... excuses for his deed. With this scenario, Hugo shows the cruelty of a civilized world that would cause a man to suffer unending prejudice for stealing a single loaf of bread to feed a small child. As the ill treatment continues, Valjean becomes more and more bitter toward society. He probably would have been pushed too far, and would have lashed out against his aggressors, if he had not been shown ... beliefs, he uses the example of Jean Valjean, a man condemned to a life of running and hiding from the accusations of society, all for stealing a single loaf of bread to feed a starving child. Despite turning his life around and doing whatever he could to help those in need, he was still forced to run and hide whenever his past was discovered. He had been branded evil by society ...
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