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- 6601: Creative Writing: When I Was A Kid
- ... some horror story, the south side of town offers plenty of frightening images: ghettos, drug dealers, prostitutes, graffiti, and even young urban professionals. The south end was a popular place to work, but when the day ended, these young men and woman got into their BMWs, Porsches, and other toys and drove to safe ground. Most found their way to surrounding towns: Westport, Wilton, New Canaan, and others. Other people, like ... when I was a Viking, a musketeer, a pirate, a detective, an astronaut, and anything else I wanted to be. When I finally became old enough to move away, I spent some of my moving day at that fishing spot. As the sun beamed brightly across the sky, the birds sang and chirped. In some indirect manner, I knew everything was different now, a new cycle of life beginning. And, as ...
- 6602: Monasticism And Intellectual L
- ... The true form of monasticism in the western Christian church was founded by Saint Benedict of Nursia. He wrote the famous "Benedicts Rule" between 520-530. The fundamentals of the rule was that each day was divided into a series of activities with an emphasis on prayer and manual labor. The monks would all gather together seven times each day for prayer. These were all male institutions, however, Benedicts sister, Scholastica founded monasteries for women. Many of the texts we have today are with us because of monks. Beginning in the ninth century, the ...
- 6603: The Bicycle Past, Present And
- ... the 1490's. During this time Leonardo da Vinci, a famous artist, as an well as inventor created a primitive drawing of the bicycle. These pictures were more advanced then many ancestors of the modern day bicycle. Da Vinci's sketches showed a bicycle with gears and a chain rotating the rear wheel, but these bikes were not manufactured until the mid to late 1800's. The first bicycle built was ... of its titanic price tag. This bike had technologies not used until the 1980's. The 1890's not only fashioned a bicycle for the wealthy but also for the common working people of the day. Common working class people were able to enjoy the bicycle as a mode of transportation as well as a recreational vehicle.(Ballantine 187) "Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think It ...
- 6604: Antibiotics and Their Role In Society
- ... drugs, and their use should be possible within the near future. Bibliography 1. Pharmaceutical Preparations, Except Biologicals, 1978, Current Industrial Reports, Series MA28(78)-1, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C. 2. Synthetic Organic Chemicals, United States Production and Sales of Medicinal Chemicals, U.S. Tariff Commission (1972-73) United States International Trade Commission (1974-75), U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
- 6605: 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 ...
- 6606: Alice In Wonderland
- ... stammering Oxford mathematics professor. Dodgson was a deacon in his church, an inventor, and a noted children's photographer. Wonderland, and thus the seeds of his unanticipated success as a writer, appeared quite casually one day as he spun an impromptu tale to amuse the daughters of a colleague during a picnic. One of these girls was Alice Liddell, who insisted that he write the story down for her, and who ... which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." There is plenty of fodder for psychoanalysts, Freudian or otherwise, who have had a field day analyzing the significance of the myriad dream creatures and Alice's strange transformations. There is even Zen: "And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown ...
- 6607: Emily Dickinson
- ... setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 't is centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity." Emily wrote between one thousand seven hundred and two thousand poems. Almost all of her poems were untitled. Somewhere between seven and ten were published in ... another one of her great poems. "Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition , So clear, of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break, agonized and clear." Emily took her last breath on May fifteenth, eighteen hundred ...
- 6608: Summary of The Call of the Wild
- ... also a regular part of his life, and during one such beating a man named John Thornton came forth and took Buck from his attacker. The man nursed Buck back to health and from that day forward, Buck lived for that man. Even so, after being with this man for quite some time, Buck started to hear a call from far away. He started paying more and more attention to this ... went out for days at a time searching for it's source. This call was the call of the wild. He felt the urge to be free from man and catch his own food. One day, Buck finally left for good. He was accepted by a pack of wolves who treated him like a wolf himself. And so the transformation was complete. Buck had changed from a dog, to a beast ...
- 6609: Hard Water
- ... form acids and it also acts as a catalyst in many important chemical reactions. Not only is it essential to our health, but it is also crucial in the household and the industrial world. Every day we use water for cooking, bathing, cleaning and drinking, but it s rare that we often think about how the minerals that can be found in it, could change the way we live our lives ... our faucets. When understanding the fundamentals of water and it s minerals, it is crucial to develop a better understanding of the whole process of water and how it is made accessible to us every day of our lives. According to the Water Quality Association, approximately 15percent of the Canadian population relies on individually owned and operated sources of drinking water, such as wells, cisterns and springs. On the other hand ...
- 6610: Hamlet Character Analysis Of K
- ... potential threat to his security. However, Claudius was astute enough to know that there were two special reasons why he could not openly do anything to harm Hamlet. so that my arrows, Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind, Would have reverted to my bow again, And not where I had aim'd them. (Act IV, sc. vii, 22 -25) Claudius also knew that any direct action taken against Hamlet would likely result in negative consequences for himself. To compensate for this, he used Laertes to do his ...
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