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- 1141: Where Should the Line Be Drawn?
- ... extradition and makes it to America. In America, Campbell lives in New York City which he describes as purgatory. After a short time, Campbell makes a new friend by the name of George Kraft. One day while he and Kraft are together, a man by the name of Dr. Jones comes to Campbell and tells him that he has found Helga. After much time, “Helga” confesses that she is actually Resi ... same night, Campbell turns himself in to stand trial in Israel. In an Israeli prison, Campbell writes his memoirs. In the final chapter of the novel, Campbell faces his trial to be held the following day. Many people are willing to testify against him, but no one is willing to testify for him. At the last minute, Howard receives a letter from Frank Wirtanen who has agreed to testify on Campbell ... can see a portrait of Campbell. Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, “This is my own, my native land!” Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d As home his footsteps he hath turn’d From wandering on a foreign strand? In this novel, Campbell is not an antagonist, but a protagonist, or the main character. By giving him believable, human ...
- 1142: Sudden Infant Death Syndrom
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrom Sudden infant death syndrome, better known as S.I.D.S., is one of the leading causes for the inflated infant mortality rate in this country today. It is often misunderstood or unrecognizable. For the most part, the causes of SIDS are unknown to the ... and Human Development. Researchers analyzed 130 SIDS cases and 1,930 members in their control group that survived the first year of life. They found that infants whose mothers smoked ten or more cigarettes a day had increased their infants chance of SIDS by almost 70% (Raub). So it can be seen from this that the more cigarettes a mother smoked per day while pregnant would do nothing but increase their infants chance of SIDS, according to this research. These researchers also see that maternal smoking may predispose infants to SIDS by impairing their normal development of ...
- 1143: Overpopulation
- ... friend, the assailants vary from crazy, maniacal murders to fellow street bums just looking for a better place to stay, the last particular attendant was ‘picked off’, but don’t let that discourage you, I’d say they wont find you for a few days or so.” A very frightened Little Billy looks Jim up and down, “Uhhhh how can I get away from them? I’m lost and I need ... petty offense in the home of some sort, I’m guessing you either forgot to take out the garbage or got a bad report card. I’ve seen thousands of people like you in my day, and they always end up around here… Ya know, there’s only a 5% survival rate among little children who run away from their parents in this ghetto. Luckily I found you, so I can ... for him. “Well, little one, the reason is a large part due to the economy, overpopulation, and overall, the way things work in our strange, anarchist’s society. Out here, in the boondocks as I’d like to call it, the is a very small population of people due to the striking of mass murderers, overcoming of people with diseases, and the low life expectancy of the habitants of this ...
- 1144: The Bogus Logic Of The Beak Of
- ... our lifetime. Yet, while various strains of E. coli may appear or may become predominant in a certain environment, they do not become something else. They are still E. coli. Six billion people defecating every day, you'd think we'd notice if they had become something else! The book lists a number of examples of natural selection in species: Gouldian Finches, guppies, cotton moths, fruit flies, sandpipers, (the crossbill experiment does not count since ...
- 1145: Learned Optimisim
- Dudley Randall was born in 1914 in Washington, D.C. blessed with parents who focused on education. Mr. Randall received his bachelor's degree, in English at Wayne State University in 1949, and his master's degree, in Library Science, at the University of ... and W.E.B. the writer says "for what can property avail if dignity and justice fail. Mr. Randall writes "If the white man took the name Negro and you took the name Caucasian, he'd still kick your ass, as long as you let him." The death of the children in that church doing the freedom march on the streets of Birmingham was very tragic and should be a national holiday. Also it should be a reminder to all parents, which the struggle for existence continues to this very day. The Ballad of Birmingham shows sixty-five years of conscious compassion for the plight of African Americans. The Ballad begins with a little young person addressing her mother as "Mother Dear," and concludes with ...
- 1146: To Kill a Mockingbird
- ... a strict standard on how her students are expected to behave, but when she encounters something different, such as Scout's advanced ability to read, she advises Scout to stop being advanced, whereas a modern-day schoolteacher would capitalize on Scout's ability to read and encourage her to read more. "You won't learn to write until you're in the third grade." (pg. 23) The strict, recipe-style, rubric ... Might've looked like the right thing to do at the time, I'm sure. I don't know, I'm not read in that field, but sulky……dissatisfied…… I tell you if my Sophy'd kept it up another day I'd have let her go." (pg. 235) It is amazing that Mrs. Merriweather does not recognize her seemingly straightforward hypocrisy. Just a short while ago, she was complaining about the poor Mrunas in ...
- 1147: Ethan Frome: Poor Surroundings, Poor Life
- ... and the arid acres of his farm yielded scarcely enough to keep his household through the winter” (pg.13). Even the place they live on depicts their doomed life. Since Zeena “...was losing ground every day” (pg.109) because she was sick, naturalism shows in the type of weather. It seems to be winter the whole year in Starkfield and that's when all the bad things happen. After Zeena lost ... with taking care of people who betrayed her. The third character named Mattie comes to live “...under his roof for a year...” (pg.32) to help Ethan and Zeena. Her troubles all started the first day she arrived at Ethan’s farm. Mattie splits Ethan and Zeena in two because Ethan likes Mattie but Zeena thinks Mattie’s worthless. Zeena’s feelings are that “she’s a pauper that ‘s hung onto us all after her father’d done his best to ruin us” (pg.115). With these kinds of hostile surroundings Mattie is surely doomed. Ethan does put hope in Mattie’s life by treating her well and trying to leave ...
- 1148: The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
- ... controversy since it was banned in America after it's first publication. John Lennon's assassin, Mark Chapman, asked the former beatle to sign a copy of the book earlier in the morning of the day that he murdered Lennon. Police found the book in his possession upon apprehending the psychologically disturbed Chapman. However, the book itself contains nothing that could be attributed with leading Chapman to act as he did - it could have been any book that he was reading the day he decided to kill John Lennon - and as a result of the fact that it was 'The Catcher In The Rye', a book describing nervous breakdown, media speculated widely about the possible connection. This gave ... are the opposite values to those Holden calls 'phony'. One of the things Holden often calls 'phony' is the world of movies and everything about it. Examples of it are his anger toward his brother D.B. because he moved to Hollywood, aversion of Sunny the prostitute who tells him she spends most of her time in film theaters and derision to the three women he met at the bar ...
- 1149: John Coltrane
- ... also Monk, with his spare and unpredictable chords and clusters. Davis, characteristically, paid the tersest homage, when, on being told that his music was so complex that it required five saxophonists, he replied that he'd once had Coltrane. In the late fifties Coltrane released a number of sessions for Prestige (and, more notably, Blue Train and Giant Steps for Blue Note and Atlantic respectively) in which he was the nominal ... absolute purity through the abnegation of sentimentality. Sonny Rollins, the contemporary tenor most admired by Coltrane, always had a richer tone, and Coltrane himself said of the mellifluous Stan Getz, "Let's face it we d all sound like that if we could." Despite these frequent and generous tributes, Coltrane's aim was different, as is clear in his revival of the soprano sax. Rather than lushness he sought clarity and ... and more clearly what we are. In that way, we can give to those who listen the essence, the best of what we are." The continuity of Coltrane's influence has been carried into present day. Coltrane's works have been increasingly used by acclaimed directors. His works can be heard in Spike Lee's "Mo' Better Blues" and Oliver Stone's "The Doors." This renewed interest can be attributed ...
- 1150: The Beginnings of a National Literary Tradition
- ... young writers in the later part of the 19thCentury to begin to build a genuine "discipline" of Canadian literary thought. This group, affectionately known as ‘The Confederation Poets', consisted of four main authors: Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Archibald Lampman. The Poets ofConfederation "established what can legitimately be called the first distinct "school" of Canadian poetry"(17, Keith). The term ‘The Poets of Confederation' is a ... try and identify a "national" literature. He realized the importance of having a specifically Canadian literary tradition. An important stepping point in Lampman's career came after he read the work Orion by Charles G.D. Roberts. Lampman describes his over powering emotion when as a youth he came across this published work(in the quote on the title page). The importance of having this distinct literary "school" was a driving ... because it was great and beautiful in itself but because it was a refuge from the society he had found to have neither. Nature is a refuge for man from the angst and frustration of day to day urban life. While his published verse was for the most part naturistic, living in Ottawa had given him a sense of disgust for urban civilization. This is perhaps most evident in the ...
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