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- 4021: Summary of Tracy's "Home Brewed, the Unauthorized Biography of Drew Carey"
- ... Cleveland, Ohio. He was the third son of Lewis and Beulah Carey. In describing his childhood he was quoted saying, "Weirdo. Weirdo...Underachiever." He spent much of his youth being miserable. According to Drew the death of his father when he was eight years old was, "… the single most devastating thing that ever happened to me." As an adult, he drifted from his home and ended up as a waiter. He ... It looks like she takes pity on Drew throughout the book. If I were the author I would have talked to some of his old college friends to see how he was coping with the death of his dad. Before I started reading the book I thought Drew was an easygoing happy guy. But after reading the book I figured out that Drew is a totally different person than he appears ...
- 4022: Themes in "The Stranger" and "Waiting for Godot"
- ... parents. They would not hang themselves unless they both are able to do so. Meursault does not have any close relationship in which he is dependent on someone else. They all have desires such as death, meeting Godot, sex, and swimming in the beach but Meursault do not show much emotions to someone else. Even when ask about marriage, he still does not reply with any enthusiasm or dismay, just the ... beliefs strongly, he had to pay it with his life. Near the end in which Meursault is abut to die, he states that he is ready to live. This freedom from condemnation by society through death contrasts Vladimir's and Estragon's freedom to break free from their cycle. They can very easily break free from the cycle just by walking away but yet do not. This suggest an impotence in ...
- 4023: Two Themes That Affect Marlow and Kurtz In Heart Of Darkness
- ... jungle changed him greatly. Here isolated from the rest of his own society, he discovered the evil side and became corrupted by his power and isolation. Marlow realizes that only very near the time of death, does a person grasp the big picture. He describes Kurtz's last moments "as though a veil had been rent." Kurtz's last "supreme moment of complete knowledge," showed him how horrible the human soul ... all the hearts that beat in the darkness..he had summed up, he had judged." Marlow guesses that Kurtz suddenly knew everything and discovered how horrible the man can be. Marlow learned through Kurtz's death, and he now knows that inside every human is horrible evil side. In conclusion the themes of restraint and man's journey into self run through Heart of Darkness and actually become intertwined. It is ...
- 4024: Solomon's "The Return of the Screw"
- ... Quint died somewhat mysteriously, on a path between town and Bly. He died from a blow on the head, supposedly from falling upon a rock in the road. The reader's only impression of the death is through Mrs. Grose's story, though, and so, Solomon hypothesizes, she filters the information to make it seem less extraordinary a demise. Perhaps Mrs. Grose killed him out of jealously. The reader can infer from this point of view that Mrs. Grose somehow also had a hand in Ms. Jessel's death. Mrs. Grose then proceeds, after the murders, to twist the new governess' visions of ghosts into visions of Quint and Jessel. Solomon does not address the issue of whether or not what the governess sees ...
- 4025: Cirrhosis Of The Liver
- ... there is no longer fat but only nonfunctioning scar tissue. There are several other types of cirrhosis. Postnecrotic cirrhosis is the result of viral infection or of toxins such as carbon tetrachloride. Necrosis--i.e. Death of areas of tissue may develop quickly in these cases, a few weeks to months as opposed to years in Laënnec's disease. In pigmentary cirrhosis there is an increased amount of iron deposition in ... treatment for people. Where as before the only cure for cirrhosis was a successful liver transplant, now through the injection of a protein called hepatocyte growth factor HGF, which promotes liver regeneration and suppresses cell death while blocking a second protein which allows scaring, We might be able to stop and even reverse the effects of cirrhosis after it is diagnosed. About 25,000 Americans die from cirrhosis every year according ...
- 4026: Flash!
- ... to kill people. Most bomb blasts would kill a person instantly, but not the atomic bomb. Sure the atomic bomb killed some people instantly, but so many more were left to die a slow painful death. People who had extreme burns had skin peel off after the slightest tug. Others got terrible chills that only ended in death. Many of the survivors were sickened from the radiation, which made them lose hair and heal very slowly. The few people who had managed to survive had the mental scars left behind by the excruciating ...
- 4027: Fascism Compared To Communism
- ... against their selfish employers. It is my belief that Lenin had entirely good reasons for doing as he did, and felt he was helping the world as apposed to Adolf Hitler. Immediately after Lenin's death, a man very much the same in nature as Hitler, Stalin, came to control the Bolsheviks and throw Russia in a civil war in a quest for power. You now have two men of equal ... people guaranteed by the secret police, the Cheka. This entity provided Stalin with an easy means of destroying the opposition and weeding out the undesirable to be sent to prison camps in Siberia, a virtual death sentence. For Hitler to ascend to that level of power he rammed the Enabling Act through the German Congress which gave him the power to enact laws. Under Article 1 of his new power, Hitler ...
- 4028: The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby - Shattered Dreams
- ... of society. He has built up his own dream world so perfectly that he can never accept the fact that Daisy is never going to leave Tom for him. This blindness leads to his ironic death. While he is trying to protect Daisy, Gatsby is killed by Wilson, who is avenging the death of his wife Myrtle. Wilson does this in a fit of rage, after he discovers Gatsby was the one to run his wife over in the street and leave her for dead. Gatsby dies from ...
- 4029: Race Relations In The New Worl
- ... of other angry Virginian planters who wanted more land so they could grow more tobacco. When the British sent an army to stop Bacon, he reversed his aim and instead went after Jamestown. The sudden death of Bacon while trying to escape an attack from the British army put an end to one of America's first violent protest movements. One result of this rebellion was that it strengthened the elite ... the war was turning into a war of attrition. The English soon gained the upper hand and the large number of English settlers began to pay off. The end of the war came with the death of Metacom. Once he was dead, the English cut his head off and sent it to Plymouth Colony where it was displayed for decades. Aftereffects of this war were both economic as well as political ...
- 4030: Explain How And Why The Jews W
- ... been formed. The Blood Libel was a myth that stated that Jews used Christian children’s blood to bake their Passover bread. This idea was often aroused when a Christian child went missing. The Black Death was supposed to have been caused by Jewish people poisoning the rivers and seas. This could not have happened, because otherwise it would also have affected the Jews themselves. “Life was very normal before the ... the Nazis. That night, ‘Kristalnacht’ (Crystal Night), violence against Jews erupted when almost every Jewish property was destroyed ,and people were marched off to concentration camps where they either died, there or moved onto a death camp where they did. In January the following year Hitler announced that if another war were started he would blame the Jews, thus would mean the destruction of Jews throughout Europe. In 1941, ghettos were ...
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