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- 1241: The Positive Effects of DDT
- ... details of everything. Such was the case in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the pesticide DDT was investigated and eventually prohibited. Most of the claims against DDT remain unproved to this day. There were three main allegations against DDT: that DDT caused the death of many birds and could lead to the extinction of some bird populations; that DDT was so stable that it could never be ... their populations were growing every year during the use of DDT. The problem of the thin eggshells had been around long before DDT. The causes of this occurrence include diets low in calcium or Vitamin D, fright, high nocturnal temperatures, various toxic substances, and disease (Edwards 86). Scientific experiments, which involved feeding DDT to test birds in doses that were 6,000 to 20,000 times more than the birds would ... more than two weeks. But in 1968 when DDT was still being used in enormous proportions, residue from DDT was detected in food. A person would typically ingest about 0.065 milligrams of DDT per day (Ray 72). In medical experiments done in order to see how harmful these amounts were, people took capsules of up to 35 milligrams of DDT daily. The DDT was found to pass through the ...
- 1242: Granite - 2
- ... ll ever see him. Only one tear fell the whole night, though. She wasn t as mad as she was blown away at the whole idea that, even though he was her older sibling, he d always be preserved in time, like the granite above him, as a four-day-old infant. She considered this while shifting her vision to the huge slab of white stone near the left road. This was the children s saint, with most of the children buried around it. When ... shiver as the first droplets of a new rain fell tumbling on her jersey. Her eyes showed she was inattentive to it while she kneeled, slowly outlining the word "Joey" with her left pinky. She d always regretted the fact that she never felt any real depression from his death, but how could she? She wasn t even a twinkle in her parents eye when it happened. She drew in ...
- 1243: The Stone Angel - Character An
- ... Laurence 9). As previously mentioned before, Hagar could not portray her mother to comfort her dying brother. She characterized her mother as the woman Dan was said to resemble so much and from whom he d inherited a frailty I could not help but detest (Laurence 25). When Hagar brought upon the subject of marriage with Bram Shipley to her father he made it clear that there s not a decent ... of scornful pride is evidently exhibited. In contrast to her negative character, Hagar exhibits a great deal of courage. Following Hagar s marriage to Bram, she immediately faced the reality of the life. The next day Hagar cleaned the house inside out. I had never scrubbed a floor in my life, but I worked that day as though I d been driven by a whip (Laurence 52). Hagar also had the courage to leave Bram for the sake of her children s future. Physically, Hagar did not lack courage. At ...
- 1244: Huck Finn and The River
- ... they are so devoted," (342) this freedom is very limited in scope, and they must still go out of their way to avoid others, going down the river only at night and hiding during the day. Huck has to constantly think of new stories to tell nearby boatsmen or anyone else who might intrude on their concord. Another appeal of the river is its peacefulness. Huck does not much seem to ... that he is in a way cut off from society, but he becomes somewhat detached from it, not realizing that he is in it at times. This is evidenced when Huck mentions that "sometimes [they'd] have that whole river all to [themselves] for the longest time." (97) Huck becomes so engrossed in the good moments that he forgets how they have to constantly be on the watch for others on ... Huck and Jim were separated, Huck returns to find the raft to find it with one of the steering oars smashed off, "and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt. [It'd] had a rough time." (70) Also, if the raft was too far to the middle of the river, it was in danger of being crushed by waves and damaged by debris; if it was ...
- 1245: T.S. Eliot
- ... in his isolation and loneliness. In the next stanza he talks of how he has "measured out my life with coffee spoons."(51) Showing us how predictable his life is. That the same settings occur day in and day out and that he always has the same reaction to them. He talks of how he has "known the voices dying" and "known the eyes" and of how he "knows the arms."(52,55,61 ... Eliot in His Time. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973. Longman, Addison Wesley. "Literature Online." Kennedy and Gioias Literature, 7th Edition. 8 February 2000. *http://longman.awl.com/kennedy/eliot/biography.html*. Margolis, John D. T.S. Eliots Intellectual Development. Chicago: The University Of Chicago Press, 1972. "T.S. Eliot." On line posting 9 Febuary 2000. *http://www.bbc.co.uk.shtml*. Bibliography 5 Works Cited "Acceptance Speech." ...
- 1246: 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 ...
- 1247: Music and Censorship
- ... to the man, "Thanks man I got mine," causing the crowd to act wild almost as if he had saved someone's life, but ironically he unintentionally destroyed their lives. In addition Bob Dylan(Appendix D and E) also talked about getting stoned in some of his music. The song "Rainy Day Woman #12 and #13," blatantly says that "everybody must get stoned." That tells people to disobey the law and tells people to mangle the temple of God, our bodies by perverting it with drugs and ... their discontent with life and thrust their ideas upon those who hypnotize with the musician's power position, thus, makes the listeners obey their thoughts without fully knowing. The lead singer Billie Jo, for Green Day, says to his fans, " I'm not going to say anything f****** intelligent, I'm just going too swear a whole d*** lot." The Bible tells us that we should let everything that comes ...
- 1248: The Beak Of The Finch
- ... 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 ...
- 1249: Network Security
- ... attack is active attack. These attacks invovles some modification of the data stream or the creation of a false stream and can be subdivded into four categories: a) Masqurade b) Replay c) Modificattion- of messages d) Denial- of services a) A masqurade takes place when one entity pretends to be a different entity. A masqurade attack usually includes one of the other forms of active attack. Like the example given below ... of data unit and it s subsequent retransmission to produce an authorised effect. C) Modification of messages simply means that some porpotion of messages can be altered, delayed or recorded to produce an unauthorised effect. D) The denial of the service prevents or inhibits the normal use or management of communication facilities. Another form of service denial is the disruption of an entire network or by disabling the network or by ... Show me a business that has no trade secrets or confidential records, and I ll show you a business that is not very successful. As the Internet becomes a facility used by businesses in their day to day operations, security and integrity are becoming crucial. The need for reliable data communications, their exists an increasing need for security of both the transmitted data as well; as controlled access to the ...
- 1250: Robert Francis ("Bobby") Kennedy
- ... would be running for President on the Democratic ticket. His charismatic personality appealed to voters of all ethnic backgrounds and ages. This helped him to win the primaries in Indiana, Nebraska, and California. On the day when he won the California primary, he was leaving a victory celebration when an immigrant from Jordan by the name of Sirhan B. Sirhan fatally shot Kennedy. The assassin was arrested at the scene and later convicted of murder in the first degree. The next day Kennedy died in a hospital bed with his widow Ethel at his side. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, close to his brother John who also fell victim to assassination five years earlier. Robert ... t stand! He, standing there amid the crowd in glory and in pride, proclaiming all his plans aloud, for all, both far and wide; such plans of love, and brotherhood, a peace, and hope we'd know, and it was clearly understood, support could only grow! All hearts were one, yes, he and they, and cheers of victory within their minds would show the way for all the world to ...
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