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- 6321: To Kill A Mockingbird-- Plot S
- ... kill Tom. He is followed secretly by the children who are worried about Aticus. When the mob arrives, Scout s innocent friendliness to Mr. Cunningham, a member of the mob, convinces them to disperse. The day of the trial, the children go to court (without permission) to watch. They see their father clearly illustrate that Tom is innocent. He shows that Mayella made advances to Tom, and was beaten by her ... hosted by Aunt Alexandra, Scout is struck by the hypocrisy of the women of Maycomb, who are so uncharitable to the black community near home, but talk sympathetically about the tribes of Africa. That same day, Tom Robinson tries to escape from jail and is killed; Atticus gently breaks the news to his wife, Helen. One night as Scout and Jem walk home from a Halloween party, Mr. Ewell Attacks them ...
- 6322: Effect Of Temp On Endo And Ectotherms (metabolism)
- ... the mouse are also disputed in various pieces of literature. (Campbells,p899) states, an example of energy expenditure at 20 C, a human at rest has a metabolic rate of 1300 to 1800 kcal per day, while a resting ectotherm of the same size like the American Alligator, has a metabolic rate of 60 kcal per day at 20 C . Ectotherms usually have a much lower metabolic rate than endotherms. I attribute these results to human error. The measurements and calculations may have been done wrong, thus causing the crayfish to appear ...
- 6323: Teens And The Price They Pay To Look Good
- ... that people like to look nice and want to improve their looks, but there are safer ways than these tanning machines. The average 15-30 minutes spent in a tanning bed equates to an entire day spent at the beach. "If the tan color is that important to a person," Dr. Siegle suggests the "tan-in-a-bottle products it stains the skin without damaging it". The question I ask is ... the boys her age were going crazy over this beautiful young woman she decided it would be great if she could look like her to impress the boys. She went to the tanning bed every day for three weeks and preceded to get her hair dyed to make a close match with Ms. Spears'. After my sister went to all of that trouble she realized that the boys still thought of ...
- 6324: Civil Rights
- ... desegregate city buses. 1957: Martin Luther King Jr. and a number of southern black clergymen create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). 1958: Ten thousand students hold a Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington, D.C. 1959: Sit-in campaigns by college students desegregate eating facilities in St. Louis, Chicago, and Bloomington, Indiana; the Tennessee Christian Leadership Conference holds brief sit-ins in Nashville department stores. 1960-1970 1960: Twenty ... passes civil rights legislation prohibiting racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. 1968: Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr.’s successor as head of the SCLC, leads Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C. 1969: The Supreme Court replaces its 1954 decision calling for "all deliberate speed" in school desegregation by unanimously ordering that all segregation in schools mush end "at once."
- 6325: Robert E. Lee 2
- ... The corps led by Ewell did not move in to attack the Union troops but waited for General Longstreet to bring in his corps to reinforce the outnumbered Confederate troops (McPherson 123). On the following day, July 2, Meade formed his forces in the shape of a horseshoe, extending westward from Culp s Hill and southward along Cemetery Ridge to the hills of Little Round Top and Round Top (Clark 123 ... on the eastern part of Cemetery Ridge (Clark 128). On the night of July 2, Meade held a council of war in which the decision was made not to retreat (Warner 204). On the third day of battle, the federals were secure in their positions and the Confederates had lost their offensive stance. General Lee decided to mount an attack despite opposition from other confederate generals (Warner 203). The offensive did ...
- 6326: Amd Vs. Intel
- ... time, if anyone were to name an underdog to the Intel dominated microprocessor market, Cyrix with their dirt-cheap 5x86 processor would have been the favorite. Intel had been the only processor that could handle day-to-day functions at reasonable speeds. Such simple tasks as word processing and calculations, then later gaming and educational work, the processors were unable to perform. The Pentium processor was introduced in 1994; no company could compete ...
- 6327: Sherwood Anderson Life And Inf
- ... to see Joe, who is a good friend of his. He tells Joe that he is attracted to Gretchen, and over the next few months he decides that he would like to marry her. One day Gretchen expresses her unhappiness of being at the house. She feels that she is not noticed and her hard work is not completely appreciated. She leaves the house and goes back to Germany. When Fordyce ... family receives very little business. Then the father says that he will try to entertain people who come in so that they will tell other people of this place and hopefully word will spread. One day a young man stops in and orders a coffee. Trying to be friendly, the man starts up typical conversation. The father tries to impress the young man with his collection of freak chickens. Rather than ...
- 6328: Linguistic Bias
- ... hymn book, others are attacking it's gender sensitive language. Why do we take it upon ourselves to alter a 2000 year old text simply to satisfy a radical feminist agenda. " Replacing ‘Father' with ‘G- d' and ‘lord' or ‘king' with ‘ruler' or ‘sovereign'"(Wall Street Journal sept/05/95 editorial page) Old words are more beautiful and memorable; on the other hand, sometimes they are simply wrong, and sometimes they are pleasantly familiar. The reality is that it is not simply a reference to men. It is inconsequential to alter "Father" to "G-d" when out of 720 hymns, the word is mentioned a mere 13 times. The problem is not the words themselves, but society's interpretation of them. Academics have seen fit to use gender neutral terminology ...
- 6329: Marijuana
- ... month. Within a week all symptoms had disappeared. Tashkins said that this was “proof positive that these subclinical symptoms had been caused by marijuana and nothing else.” He concluded with saying “smoking one joint a day causes significantly more airflow resistance than smoking sixteen tobacco cigarettes a day” (Mann 116). The psychological effects on a person varies greatly depending on many factors. A person's personality, expectations, surroundings, the potency of the drug and the way the dose is consumed are all great ...
- 6330: Black Panther Party
- ... those he grew up with on the streets of Oakland. Autobiographer, Hugh Pearson in Shadow of the Panther reports that Huey "remained comfortable on the street corners with young Negro men who drank wine all day…and fought one another - young men whom most college-bound Negroes shied away from (Pearson 115). " Huey's ability and desire to develop his intellect and receive a college education while still identifying with his ... mis-treatment in his book To Die for the People; "The police were very brutal to us even at that age" (Newton 53). Police harassment and physical abuse of Black people became part of every day life for many Blacks across the country. Although the Civil Rights movement was mainly a Southern phenomenon, the non-violent ideology and integrationist focus of the movement became according to historians Floyd W. Hayes and ...
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