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- 5051: The Grapes of Wrath: Description Al Joad and the Setting
- ... the corn crops are gone as well as all other crops. The dirt is like sand; it has no moisture or fertilization. It is grainy and hard as though no water has ever moistened it. Day after day, storm clouds can be seen lingering overhead. You could swear it would rain any minute, but it never does. The humidity only increases and the fine dust particles become part of the air; which only ...
- 5052: Codeine
- ... to give the correct dose and not to give it more often than prescribed by the doctor. For a cough, patients older than 12 years should not take more than 120 mg of codeine a day. Children six to 12 years old should not take more than 60 mg a day. A doctor should decide how much codeine can be taken by a child two to five years old. This drug should not be given to children younger than two years. Abuse and Dependence: Codeine can ...
- 5053: The Sedition Act of 1798
- ... of fear helped keep the public silent and perhaps somewhat approving to the loss of some personal freedoms, as nobody wanted to be accused as a Jacobean. In May of 1778, President Adams declared a day of prayer and fasting. Many thought that the Jacobeans were going to use that day to rise up in insurrection and "cut the throats of honest citizens." They even thought they were going to attack President Adams and citizens of Philadelphia came out by the hundreds to protect him. Federalist ...
- 5054: Broadcasting and Programing
- ... are both showing sitcoms and are splitting a viewer audience of 1700 for 850 each. Now that the viewers are confused about what station is showing what, the FCC offers a fourth license to station D. After examination, station D decides to start broadcasting sitcoms in competition with stations A and C. All three stations have an audience share of 566. That is more than the 500 soap viewers or splitting the 900 cops viewers ...
- 5055: The Lady with the Pet Dog: A Review
- ... difficulty. Dmitry would then leave the affair and move on to another. With every new affair it would erase the pain of the last affair and excite him with something new. This lasted until one day he saw a woman wearing a beret walking a white Pomeranian. He lusted after her. He would see her in a public garden and in the square several times a day. Dmitry gets to know the woman as Anna, which then turns his lust of women into passion for Anna. Dmitry’s passion begins as he starts to learn about Anna. He recognizes that they have ...
- 5056: Hinduism and Buddhism
- ... intercede with the gods. She also makes offerings to snakes, trees, or obscure spirits in her garden or at a crossroad in the village. Many villages have small temples where priests perform ceremonies throughout the day. Sunrise prayers are said to awake the gods. The god is bathed, clothed, and fanned and even fed while the remains are fed to the worshipers. Songs are also sung, holy texts are read aloud ... and Radha in a Tantric theology heavily influenced by Tantric Buddhism. In the 19th century many reforms have taken place to bring traditional Hinduism to reconcile with the social reforms and political ideals of the day. Leaders of these reforms are greats such as Mohandas Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo Ghose. Bhimrau Ramji Ambedkar even revived the myth of the Brahmans who fell from their caste and the tradition that Buddhism and ...
- 5057: The Role of Minor Conspirators
- ... conspirators embolden the major conspirators greatly affecting the outcome of the play. One of the most important minor conspirators of the play is Decius, who was responsible for bringing Caesar to the capitol on the day of the assassination. The entire conspiracy almost failed because on the night before the assassination was to be carried out, during the storm, Caesar's wife Calpurnia had a dream about Caesar being killed, and she had convinced him to remain home the next day. When Decius arrived at Caesar's home in the morning to take him to the capitol he realized that he must convince Caesar that he had misinterpreted his wife's dream so Caesar would go ...
- 5058: Hinduism and Buddhism
- ... the fact that life is not a reality. Through meditation, a person strives to reach the Nirvana. The Nirvana is the “blowing out” of the flame of desire by ending the vicious cycle of reincarnation. (D) By ending all desire for the illusions of this world, one is able to reach enlightenment and finally rest from his suffering. The Hindu view of Brahman has much to do with life. In the ... Religions of the World (Prentice Hall, 1996) B. “Hinduism: An Ancient Path in the Modern World” (Brown ROA Publishing Media, 1987) C. Long Search #3: “Buddhism: Footprint of the Buddha-India” (Ambrose Video Publishing, 1982) D. Http://wri.leaderu.com/everystudent/religions/divine/divine2.html E. O’Halloran, Maura. Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind (The Berkley Publishing Group, 1994)
- 5059: Fahrenheit 451: Change
- ... he realizes that he truly is not happy. Something is missing from his life. Looking at his lifestyle, he found that the "only thing that I [Montag] positively knew was gone was the books I'd [he'd] burned in ten or twelve years." Clarisse helped Montag to start to think for himself, instead of letting the society take over and make the decisions for him. He begins his transformation from a dedicated ...
- 5060: The Worn Path of Life
- ... The Worn Path" is a touching piece that tells the story of life through the painful and tedious trek of an aged black grandmother who follows a familiar wooded path on a cold winter's day, with only one purpose in mind: to obtain another bottle of medicine for her sickly grandson from the free clinic in town. On the surface, the old woman's long walk seems to be the ... are apparent in her remark; "I wasn't as old as I thought." She rests under a tree, afraid to close her eyes again because she is very tired; but she must have, because she day-dreams a little boy handing her a piece of cake. After realizing there is no cake, she pulls herself up and proceeds to crawl under a barbed-wire fence into a withered cotton field. She ...
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