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- 591: Short Story Analysis Of Edgar
- ... of seven months, Toby was chasing down and kissing the female babies, that by eight months he had flatly refused to sign the Temperance Pledge, and that by the end of his first year, he'd taken to "wearing moustaches, but had contracted a propensity for cursing and swearing, and for backing his assertions with bets." (Poe 488) As Toby reaches manhood, the narrator finally accepts that his young friend is incorrigible. By this time, Toby utters scarcely a sentence without oaths, his favorite of which is to bet the devil his head that he can accomplish whatever challenge lies before him. One day as the narrator accompanies Toby Dammit on a route which requires the crossing of a covered bridge, Toby bets the devil his head that he can leap over a bridge stile, pigeon winging as he ... in his objective creatures, how then in his substantive moods and phases of creation"? (Poe 280-81) Instead, Poe's work penetrated to the truths which govern the universe. How petty the moralists of his day must have seemed to him! Best known for his poems and short fiction, Edgar Allan Poe deserves more credit than any other writer for the transformation of the short story from anecdote to art. ...
- 592: A Comparison and Contrast of Love in Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" and C. Day Lewis's "Song"
- A Comparison and Contrast of Love in Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" and C. Day Lewis's "Song" In the poems "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" by Christopher Marlowe and "Song" by C. Day Lewis, the speakers display their individual views of what can be expected with their love. Both speakers produce invitations to love with differences in what they have to offer. A list of promised delights is ... increasing effect of truthfulness as the means to achieve true love. By contrasting the poems, the reader is convinced that truthfulness rather than spoken promises is the most effective means of achieving true love. C. Day Lewis (1925-1972) Song Come, live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove Of peace and plenty, bed and board, That chance employment may afford. I'll handle ...
- 593: Global Positioning Systems
- ... method of DME position determination, you would tune one DME channel and draw a circle on your chart around the DME transmitter, the radius of which was your DME reading in nautical miles. Then you'd tune in a second DME station and repeat the process. On your chart at this point there would be two circles whose lines intersected at two points. Even a vague guess of your whereabouts would be enough to discard the bogus point, and you'd be left with a pretty good idea of your position. Better yet, take a cut from a third DME transmitter and draw a third circle on your chart. Now you'd have three intersecting circles and your position would be inside the little triangle formed by the intersection of the three circles. Got the picture? This is basically how GPS triangulates, except that instead of ...
- 594: Does Early Attachment Predict
- ... a high impact in other experiments. Therefore evidence is convincing that early attachment can predict later behaviour, although this is subject to later events and other relationships in the child's life. Reference: Ainsworth, M. D. S., Bell, S.M.V., & Stayton, D.J. (1971). Individual differences in strange-situation behaviour of one-year-olds. In H. R. Schaffer (Ed.), The origins of human social relations. New York: Academic Press, 1971, 17-57. Arend, R., Gove, F. L ... Child development, 69, 1107-1128) Chisholm, K. (1998). A three year follow-up of attachment and indiscriminate friendliness in children adopted from Romanian orphanages. Child Development, 69, 1092-1106. Clarke-Stewart, K. A. (1989). Infant day care: Maligned or malignant? American Psychologist, 44, 266-273. Erikson, E. H. (1963). Childhood and society (2nd Ed). New York: Norton. Goldberg, S., Corter, C., Lojkasek, M., & Minde, K. (1990). Prediction of behaviour problems ...
- 595: Television Born Killers
- ... is only one of the factors that can cause aggressive behaviour in children. Many other factors contribute to an individuals behaviour. For example a violent home that includes two parents fighting twenty-four hours a day can influence a child's behaviour. If a child constantly witnesses aggression between adults that are his/her role models, then he/she may also exhibit aggressive behaviour. Children can witness violence in many places ... to a concrete, valid conclusion on the issue. As aptly put by Dorr and Kovaric (1980), television violence may influence 'some of the people some of the time...' (pp. 94-95). Bibliography Bandura, A., Ross, D., & Ross, S. A. (1963) 'Imitation of film-mediated aggressive models'. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology . 66, pp. 3-11. Boyd-Barrett, O. & Braham, P. (eds.) (1987). 'Media, Knowledge & Power'. London: Croom Helm. pp. 99-100. Centerwall, B. S. (1993). 'Television and violent crime'. The Public Interest. 111. pp. 56-77. Chandler, D. (1995). 'Cultivation Theory'. http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/cultiv.html. 18 September 1995. pp. 1-7. Condry, J. (1989). 'The Psychology of Television'. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 128-130. Cumberbatch, G. (1989). ' ...
- 596: Contrasting Poets Lawrence and Shapiro in Their Views of Nature
- ... era practiced traditional values, the twentieth century influences techniques of love and the loss of the beauty in nature. Poets of the same century have multiple views, many differing. Two major twentieth century poets are D.H. Lawrence and Karl Shapiro. D.H. Lawrence loves and is in touch with nature, while Karl Shapiro cares more of war and satires of government, not giving much thought to nature. Even though both poets share and differ in views ... nations (Granner, 611). The war reflects the bitterness and troubles put on twentieth century poetry. The poets wrote of science fiction, anti-war protagonists, and ridicule of authority. Leading poets in the twentieth century are D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Dylan Thomas, and H.G. Wells. D.H. Lawrence views on nature are more humanistic, rather than natural. He loves individuality and "inner self" (Magill, 1686). His writing ...
- 597: A Comparison and Contrast of Love in Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" and C. Day Lewis's "Song"
- A Comparison and Contrast of Love in Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" and C. Day Lewis's "Song" In the poems "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" by Christopher Marlowe and "Song" by C. Day Lewis, the speakers display their individual views of what can be expected with their love. Both speakers produce invitations to love with differences in what they have to offer. A list of promised delights is ... increasing effect of truthfulness as the means to achieve true love. By contrasting the poems, the reader is convinced that truthfulness rather than spoken promises is the most effective means of achieving true love. C. Day Lewis (1925-1972) Song Come, live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove Of peace and plenty, bed and board, That chance employment may afford. I'll handle ...
- 598: Creative Writing: The Most Important Day of My Life
- Creative Writing: The Most Important Day of My Life The most important day of my life had just happened recently. It all started out when some friends and I were bored. We wanted to do something that was fun and cool which also happened to be very bad ... it. We all were amazed on how big of a smoke cloud it made and how loud it was. Everyone was scared, and we decided to leave in case someone saw it. Later on that day about 3 hours later we went back to see what the explosion did to the mattresses. It put a hole through both of the mattresses and a 3 foot crater in the ground. Everyone ...
- 599: Homeopathic Remedies
- ... prostate cancer than those who ate red meat less than once per week. Similar results were found in a Dutch study on processed meats. Those who consumed more than twenty grams of processed meat per day had a 72-percent increased chance of colon cancer. A treatment naturopaths have been using to treat patients with rheumatoid arthritis is showing positive results. It is a collagen substance made from chicken fat, similar ... R., P. Van der Brandt, P. Van't Veer et al. 1994. A prospective cohort study on the relation between meat consumption and the risk of colon cancer. Cancer Research 54(3):718-23. Trentham, D. 1993. Effects of oral administration of Type II collagen on rheumatoid arthritis. Science 261 (5129): 1727-29 Jacobs, J., L. Jimenez, S. Gloyd, et al. 1994. Treatment of acute childhood diarrhea with homeopathic medicine: a randomized clinical trial in Nicaruaga. Pediatrics 9(5):719-25 Reilly, D,. M.A. Taylor, N.G. Beattie, et al. 1994. Is evidence for homeopathy reproducible? The Lancet (December 10):1601-6 Fisher , P., et al. 1990. Effect of homeopathic treatment on fibrosititis (primary fibromyalgia). British ...
- 600: Pre-Civil War New Orleans
- ... and levees has been built to protect the city from flooding. New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville, and named for the regent of France, Philippe II, duc d'Orleans. It remained a French colony until 1763, when it was transferred to the Spanish. In 1800, Spain ceded it back to France; in 1803, New Orleans, along with the entire Louisiana Purchase, was sold ... Queen ... and is expected to throw a party on the following weekend. Parties with King Cake continue each weekend until Mardi Gras itself finally arrives. The name Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday in French. The day is known as Fat Tuesday, since it is the last day before Lent. Lent is the season of prayer and fasting observed by the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian denominations during the forty days and seven Sundays before Easter Sunday. Easter can be on ...
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