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- 4081: Hughes' "Black Voices oby the Tales of Simple": Jessie Semple
- ... years (post-war years), Semple who is from the urban ghetto is himself free of the problems that plague many ghetto dwellers during this time. Semple is a man who avoids the inhibititions of welfare, crime, and drugs which is something that many of his neighbors do not do, yet in no way is Semple ever shown to possess the intelligence of a genius, not even for his seemingly flawless character ...
- 4082: Lung Cancer
- ... on patients when a physician suspects lung cancer. Chest x-rays are used to examine the lungs for tumors (World Book, Lung Cancer ). A CAT scan, series of x-ray images put together by a computer, is also performed (Scientific American, Lung Cancer ). During a biopsy, a physician removes a small amount of tissue and examines it. A microscope is used to analyze cells in order to determine whether a tumor ...
- 4083: Opium Wars
- ... imposed on the Chinese was weighted entirely to the British side. Its first and fundamental demand was for British "extraterritoriality"; all British citizens would be subjected to British, not Chinese, law if they committed any crime on Chinese soil. The British would no longer have to pay tribute to the imperial administration in order to trade with China, and they gained five open ports for British trade: Canton, Shanghai, Foochow, Ningpo ...
- 4084: Charles Dicken's Novels: Literary Criticism
- ... story portrays a French physician, Dr. Manette, who has been wrongly put into prison in the Bastille for nearly eighteen years before the story even begins (Constable 24). Because he witnessed the aftermath of a crime that was committed by two other fellows, the doctor was thrown into prison. The entire prison experience is something that he can never fully shake free from. In moments of stress throughout the novel Dr ...
- 4085: David Copperfield: A Novel of Hypocrisy, Sexual Degradation, Selfish Exploitation, and Fraud
- ... with his odious 'firmness' 'Cold-hearted fraud' this is probably the most serious offense that is committed in David Copperfield because it actually means: trickery or scheme to deceive. In other words it is a crime, there were only a few occasions where this occurred and mostly they were to do with Heep: firstly the way the evil and slimy character deceived Mr. Wickfield accounts on several occasions with the faking ...
- 4086: A Review of Huxley's Brave New World
- ... New World with the sorts of biological paradise that may be enjoyed by our ecstatic descendants. Brave New World is a benevolent dictatorship: a static, efficient, totalitarian welfare-state. There is no war, poverty or crime. Society is stratified by genetically-predestined caste. Intellectually superior Alphas are the top-dogs. Servile, purposely brain-damaged Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons toil away at the bottom. The lower orders are necessary in BNW because ...
- 4087: To Kill A Mockingbird: Trading Places With Atticus Finch
- ... fun either. The other main difference was that he lives during a whole different time and place. The era of today is a lot nicer, materially, than back then, but there wasn't so much crime, either, which leads me to believe that they were better people. I would still like to try living during that time for a couple of days, if only for the above reasons. I try to ...
- 4088: Review of The Scarlet Letter
- ... as the case may be. Also the townspeople, the magistrates, and Chillingworth, Hester's true husband, can be seen in both lights. Either they can be perceived as just upholding the law -she committed a crime, they enforce the law. On the other hand are they going to extreme measures such as wanting to take Pearl, Hester's daughter, away just because Hester has deviated from the norm, all to enforce ...
- 4089: Resurrection in A Tale of Two Cities
- ... He has been traveling back and forth between France and England and is thought to be a spy. The people in the crowd are sure that he will be found guilty, the punishment for this crime being death. Darnay is saved by the ingeniousness of Sydney Carton, and he too is suddenly resurrected or "recalled to life". In both "Book the Second" and "Book the Third," the reader gets different perspectives ...
- 4090: Hololiterature: a Holographic Interpretation of the Scarlet Letter
- ... comparing functions, structures, and similar operations to known items or concepts one can obtain a hold on the unknown and even extrapolate unknown processes from known ones. (For example, the brain is similar to a computer. They both have memory, input/output, and similar structures-transistors to synapses.) This technique works with literature and a deeper understanding a grasp of a book's meaning becomes possible. The Scarlet Letter can be ...
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