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- 2881: Conjure Woman
- ... almost gets killed right off the bat by one of the androids, Polokov, who goes under cover and approaches Rick. After this, Rick knew that these androids would be difficult to retire (kill). Throughout this day, Rick encounters new challenges with each individual android. As a bounty hunter, Rick issues a test to identify an android. The test is called the Voigt-Kampff scale. Rick speculates if it is effective on ... in his thoughts about androids. He begins to have empathy for androids, which slows down his reactions as a bounty hunter. Rick retires three of the Nexus-6 androids in the first part of the day, and then tries to settle down. He buys a real sheep for himself, hoping to ease his concios, which is tearing him up inside. Later in the night Rick's boss, Inspector Harry Bryant, orders ... Rick Deckard, was developed very well. More importantly, he did not overwhelm the content. I was impressed with Philip Dick's ability to vividly portray a fictional society within a story that lasted just one day in this world. With one day in the life of a bounty hunter, the reader gets an in-depth view of the time and situation. Another solid aspect to the story is its use ...
- 2882: Creative Writing: The Chase
- ... ll never catch me in here," he thought. Getting out of the car, he cautiously made sure no one was looking as he took his package into his hide-out. Opening it he realized he'd been bugged. They had placed a small tracking device inside one of the rings he'd stolen. "How could they possibly have uncovered my meticulously, elaborate plan. No one even had a clue about the details . . . except for Thomas. Darn that rotten, selfish feign. How dare he get greedy and sell out on me." He reasons that with little time to spare, he'd be better off cutting his losses by leaving the package of jewels behind and trying to escape and save his own butt. Running out to his car he sees the police cars turning off ...
- 2883: Child Abuse
- ... to their children. If that were to occur, then we would be introducing another way of hurting children, depriving them of affection they need to grow and develop into healthy adults. However, in today s day and age, many parents have a fear that well-meaning strangers may misunderstand their actions. Unfortunately, there are the instances when this does occasionally happen. The courts have an empirically verifiable definition for child sexual ... men with sexual frustration may turn to the less reactive child as sexual prey. Due to the black market prostitution of children, a twelve-year-old boy can earn upwards of a thousand dollars per day selling himself on the streets of Los Angeles. Mental abuse of a child can involve several different activities. Such forms of mental abuse include yelling, neglect, constant insults, and mental torture. Neglect is the most ... marriages, and poor parenting. Low self esteem gives rise to other problems in adulthood. For example, they are indecisive and are unable to make sound decisions. They experience high level stress when dealing with normal day to day decisions. Hampered language skills manifest itself in inability to carry proper conversations, a skill highly valuable in adulthood. Unable to convey their thoughts at work and at home often leads to frustrations. ...
- 2884: Creative Writing: The Chicken
- ... by DaPimp Sarah lived on a small farm in Ohio in 1959. She was nine years old, had brown hair and green eyes. Her mother raised chickens to eat and would sell the eggs. One day Sarah's mother gave Sarah her very own chicken to raise. Sarah named the chicken Maryanne. Sarah couldn't wait for Maryanne to start laying eggs because Sarah wanted to sell the eggs and buy ... eat in her mother's chicken pen but Sarah wanted her to lay her eggs in the coup that she had built. Sarah would let Maryanne out in her mother's chicken pen during the day and lock her in the coup at night. Maryanne wouldn't be too lonely because Sarah had built her coup right next to her mother's chicken coup. There was a garden on the farm ... the chickens up for the night, she saw Maryanne with the rest of the chickens eating her mash. Sarah and her mother just scratched their heads in wonder. Where could Maryanne have been hiding all day? Three months had passed since Sarah's mother had given her Maryanne and Sarah was beginning to wonder why her mothers chickens were laying eggs and hers wasn't. Maryanne hadn't laid one ...
- 2885: Hemmingway
- ... as a correspondent for the Toronto Star. It was here he that began his serious writing career. After that Hemmingway moved to Spain. It was here that he developed a love for bullfighting. He spent day after day watching the fighters. He even decided to try it for a short time but wasnt very successful. He realized that by watching and writing he could express the art of bullfighting to everyone. After this Hemmingway moved to Cuba and became a deep-sea fisherman. He spent all day out on the sea and often went out just to be on the ocean. Hemmingway was very successful at fishing and loved the way of life in Cuba. Hemmingway then decided to take up ...
- 2886: Greek History And Food
- Greek cuisine: The Greeks usually eat 3 meals a day. The first meal of the day is Breakfast. A typical Greek breakfast consists of a piece of bread, some goat milk and strong Turkish coffee. The Greeks do not eat a large breakfast typically. Their next meal of the day is Lunch it is usually eaten around twelve to two pm. It is also a light meal like breakfast. Dinner is usually eaten later at night than most people are accustomed to. It is ...
- 2887: The Leaf-Cutting Ants
- ... females meet and mate with as many as 5 or more male in succession. While in the air, each queen will receive 200 million or more sperm from her mates, who will die within a day or two. She stores the sperm in her spermatheca and it is there the sperm will die for up to 14 years which is the known maximum lifetime of a queen. Each sperm will be ... from the metabolic breakdown of the wing muscles and fat from her own body. Also at the beginning she eats up to 90% of her eggs. This puts a lot of pressure on the queen. Day by day she grows thinner while caught in a race between starvation and creation of enough ants that can sustain her life. With the queens resources rapidly running down she must create a perfectly balanced ...
- 2888: Creative Story: The Dark House
- ... John. He didn't reply, so I went to check on him. All I found outside the house was a shoe, and his necklace. I couldn't quite understand what was going on. If he'd run away, at least he'd taken his belongings with him. The door slammed shut behind me, and my heart stopped for a second or two. I turned, and again there was nobody there. All I could hear, was the breeze ... up the staircase, and into a bedroom. I should never have done that. On the bed lay John, without his shoe or necklace, completely pale in his face, dead. I started crying, wishing that we'd never entered this house in the first place. A cold breeze made me stop crying, and to swear revenge upon whoever that did this to my friend. Outside the room I spotted something floating ...
- 2889: To Kill A Mockingbird Notes
- ... empty, and as Atticus goes out, everyone in the colored balcony rises in a gesture of respect. Jem spends the rest of the night in tears, railing against the injustice of the verdict. The next day, Maycomb's black population delivers an avalanche of food to the Finch household. Outside, Miss Stephanie Crawford is gossiping with Mr. Avery and Miss Maudie, and she tries to question Jem and Scout about the ... aunt despises the Cunninghams, and why the Cunninghams look down on the Ewells, who hate black people, and so on; they fail to come up with an explanation for the absurdity of it all. One day in August Aunt Alexandra invites her missionary circle to tea. Scout, wearing a dress, helps Calpurnia bring in the tea, and her aunt invites her to stay with the ladies. Scout listens to the missionary ... for the Finch women to display moral courage by maintaining a public facade of composure. To Kill A Mockingbird - Chapters 26-27 Summary Dill leaves, school starts, and the children pass the Radley Place every day. They are too old to be frightened by the house, but Scout still wishes wistfully to see Boo Radley just once. Meanwhile, the shadow of the trial still hangs over her. One day in ...
- 2890: Catcher In The Rye
- Holden Caulfied: Saint, Snob, or Somewhere In-between? Although J.D. Salinger has only one novel to his credit, that novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is recognized as an exceptional literary work. The key to the success of The Catcher in the Rye is the ... snob. He is a sarcastic yet sincere teenager who is pursuing Quixotistic ideals of moral order. Holden is caught between the anxiety of childhood and the maturity of the adult world. The appeal of J.D. Salingers novel The Catcher in the Rye is due in no small part to the main character and sole provider of information, the one and only Holden Caulfied. While some view Holden strictly as ... 46, No.6 (September 1957): 315-6. Rpt. in Holden Caulfield ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1990. 24. Gwynn, Frederick L., Joseph L. Blotner. "The Catcher in the Rye" The Fiction of J.D. Salinger (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1958): 28-31. Rpt. in Holden Caulfield. ed. Harold Bloom New York: Chelsea House, 1990. 13-14 Jones, Ernest "Case History of all of Us." Nation (September 1, ...
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