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- 13651: Superstition in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... ve lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep of bad luck when you'd killed a spider."(Twain 5). In chapter four Huck sees Pap's footprints in the snow. So Huck goes to Jim to ask him why Pap is here. Jim gets a hair-ball that is ...
- 13652: Beowulf 6
- ... able to rip one of the monster's arms out of its socket. Superhuman feats also appear in the fight with Grendel's mother. When Beowulf enters the water, he swims downward for an entire day before he sees the bottom. He does this without the use of oxygen. During the battle with Grendel's mother, Beowulf realizes that Unferth's sword is useless against the monsters thick skin. He grabs ...
- 13653: Floating Point Coprocessors
- ... to the programmer within the register space of the host MPU. In addition to the standard byte, word and longword operations, the FPC supports four new operand sizes: single precision real (.S), double precision real (.D), extended precision real (.X) and packed decimal string (.P). All on- chip calculations take place in extended precision format and all floating point registers hold extended precision values. The single real and double real formats ...
- 13654: Extra Sensory Perception
- ... the germ theory of disease just because they have never seen bacteria. And some people reject ESP just because they donΉt want to believe in it. But hold on to your hats. If the day ever comes when we all believe in ESP, what will happen? If it is proved that some people can cause objects to move by psychokinesis, what happens to our ideas about the laws of motion ...
- 13655: Snow Falling On Cedars: Hatsue and Ishmael's Incompatibility
- ... war, but this eventuality was brought about sooner because of it. When Ishmael told Hatsue that he would be going off to war, he was really asking her if she would wait for him. That day when they held each other it was not the same. They both realized that they were victims of circumstances out of their control. However, Ishmael believed they could overcome them. In fact, it was not ...
- 13656: Catch 22: Satire on WWII
- ... Beyond the Waste Lands: A Study of the American Novel in the Nineteen-Sixties. Rpt. in "Heller, Joseph." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Carolyn Riley. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1975. 229-230. Peek, C. A., Ph.D. Cliffs Notes on Heller's Catch-22. Ed. Gary Carey. Cliff Notes. Lincoln: Cliff, 1993. Phoenix, James. "Joseph Heller: The Comedian." Atlantic Sept 1987: 47-52.
- 13657: Communication Over The Internet, and The Effects It Will Have On Our Economy
- ... Effects It Will Have On Our Economy Thesis: Communication over the internet is growing at a rapid rate, this rate of growth may destroy the monopoly taking place with the major telecommunication giants. In this day and age we as a global community are growing at a super fast rate. Communication is a vital tool which aids us in breaking the distance barrier. Over the past decades there has been a ...
- 13658: Mildred Taylor's "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry": Hardships of The Logan Family
- Mildred Taylor's "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry": Hardships of The Logan Family In Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry the Logans family is faced with many different hardships, some more serious than other . The main character Cassie lives with her Mom, Dad, Grandmother and three brothers ...
- 13659: Pride and Prejudice: Irony
- ... of time. Jane Austen's major weakness as a writer is related to her greatest strength. Her novels are important because they demonstrate the crude vigorous power of society which is not just of her day, but exists today, although somewhat adapted, and still exerts a powerful influence over social life. The weapon that Jane Austen employs against its suffocating effects is that of irony which is all the more telling ...
- 13660: Judith Guest's "Ordinary People": Summary
- ... turned over. Buck soothes Conrad saying, "Okay, okay. They'll be looking now, for sure, just hang on, don't get tired, promise? In an imagined conversation with his dead brother, Conrad asks, "'Man, why'd you let go?' 'Because I got tired.' 'The hell! You never get tired, not before me, you don't! You tell me not to get tired, you tell me to hang on, and then you ...
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