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- 4291: Biological And Physical Process Of Aging
- ... as free radicals. These molecules have an unpaired electron in the outermost valence shell. This causes the molecule to grab electrons from other molecules, setting into motion a chain reaction that destabilizes them, and causes death of the cell. These free radicals are the normal by-product of metabolism, and can also form due to exposure to radiation or toxic chemicals. Enzymes that usually inactivate these free radicals diminish in later ... die. As the cells die, old structures are destroyed, and new ones will take their place. The number of neurons in the fetal brain, for example, is halved as only certain ones are spared from death. The appearance of lipofuscin may also be considered an active process of aging, although it results from the passive breakdown of lipids. Another example would be autoimmunity, in which the immune system turns against the ...
- 4292: Hayden Carruth
- ... on the beaten earth the right hands heaped in a little pile for you to encounter on your journey and think of those who lost them, help less in a forest, children probably bleed to death - a village in every possible way abandoned." -Mort aux Belges he seems to trail with a eye for the dark underside. Blind to the joy and triumphs of the human spirt. At best he writes ... viciously among themselves and against the smaller sparrows, finches, and chickadees for the seed I place there in abundance." -The Chain Perhaps the dry, grieving, depression of this collection can be attributed to the impeding death of his daughter due to liver cancer. He includes three poems in the work illuminating this tragedy in his life. First, "Auburn Poem," written to his first wife and mother of his daughter. The second ...
- 4293: Evita: Saint or Sinner?
- ... Argentina wept. Hundreds of thousands lined the streets. Peron himself was shocked. "I did not know they loved her so much."14 Newspapers could use all the paper they desired in reporting the life and death of Evita, despite a paper shortage. The news of her passing was rebroadcast at 15-minute intervals. The country came to a halt.15 Evita's tomb was planned. It would be lined with 16 ... coffin, upstairs in Peron's cottage. Evita had been missing seventeen years. The embalmed body was put on display in December of 1974, beside General Peron's sealed coffin. Twenty-four years after Eva's death, In October 1976, the body of Maria Eva Duarte de Peron was returned to the family, and now lies in an armored private vault fifteen feet underground, in Buenos Aires. Evita's body should not ...
- 4294: HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945)
- ... would sit there enraptured and often on the verge of tears." From boyhood he was devoted to Wagner's operas that glorified the Teutons' dark and furious mythology. Failure dogged him. After his father's death, when Adolf was 13, he studied watercolor painting, but accomplished little. After his mother's death, when he was 19, he went to Vienna. There the Academy of Arts rejected him as untalented. Lacking business training, Hitler eked out a living as a laborer in the building trades and by painting ...
- 4295: Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
- ... serving his third term in the New York State Assembly. First elected at the age of 23, he rose rapidly in influence as the leader of a minority of reform-minded Republicans. After Alice's death, Roosevelt spent much of the next two years on his ranch in the Badlands of Dakota Territory. There he slowly got over the loss of his wife as he lived in the saddle, driving cattle ... regulatory, and other programs and tried to get him out of the state. He was encouraged to seek the office of Vice President with President McKinley in 1900. The office had been vacant since the death of Vice President Garret Hobart in 1899. Roosevelt was not enthusiastic about this because he liked being governor and he thought the position wasn't challenging. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Mass.), his close friend ...
- 4296: Jackie Robinson
- ... to stay and ignore the racial slurs and name calling (Ward, Burns 283). Other teams tried to boycott, but it did not work (Rydell 86). Robinsons first games were the hardest (86). He had many death threats made against him (Robinson, Jackie). The hotels that Robinson went to with the team would not serve him because blacks were not allowed (Robinson, Jackie). Even though he would not get served at restaurants ... proved his critics wrong the very first game he played with the LA Dodgers(87). He had four hits, including one homerun and two stolen bases (87). After his spectacular first game Robinson started getting death threats, but ignored them and he kept on playing (Hill 1). After leading a successful career in baseball Robinson retired from the game in 1957 (Ward, Burns 289). The LA Dodgers also retired his number ...
- 4297: Herman Melville: His Life and Works
- ... Dick. The story revolves around the idea of an awesome sea mammal, which drives the passions of revenge in one man and forces him to pursue a course of action which leads ultimately to his death as well as the deaths of his companions. There is a great deal of imagination involved in these stories and the creativity is highly apparent. There is an expression of belief in the supernatural, as ... image of a hard core idealist who is converted to a realist through the experiences that he goes through. This also drew on his seafaring days as experience and he struggled to bring across the death of the idealist and the birth of the realist. But at the end of the day, whatever emotions he possessed about the nature of idealism and idealistic thought, still form an integral part of him ...
- 4298: Joan of Arc
- ... name Joan of Arc, but have never known what she did and what happened to her. Joan of Arc was bold, fearless and powerful. During her short lifetime Joan helped many people and got a death sentence in return. I'm going to tell her story in my report. Joan of Arc was born in Doremy, in the Duchy of Loraine, which we now know as France. She was born a ... cross, made of sticks, inside the front of her dress so she could watch it as she burned. During the burning people have said she shouted "Jesus" loudly several times. Twenty-five years after her death the church gave her another trial, a much more fair trial. At the end of the trial Joan was pronounced innocent. Four hundred years later, in 1920, she became canonized by Pope Benedict. Joan is ...
- 4299: Henry David Thoreau was a Rebel
- ... both sides its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude you mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business (178). True ... for all the townspeople to hear. The voice said, "Simplify, simplify" (173). But they all told the voice that it was impossible and that it was crazy. Then years later, as they were on their death beds, these same townspeople looked back upon their lives and they all realized they truly "had not lived" (172). Finally they all died, not knowing true happiness. The words in Henry David Thoreau's Walden ...
- 4300: The Life of Kurt Vonnegut
- ... She overdosed on sleeping pills the night before he arrived (Walker 206). Surprisingly, this tragedy was overshadowed by another incident in his life that happened just a year and a half after his mother's death, the fire bombing of Dresden. In late 1944, Vonnegut was captured by Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. On the night of February 13, 1945 exactly 100 American P.O.W.'s and five ... She overdosed on sleeping pills the night before he arrived (Walker 206). Surprisingly, this tragedy was overshadowed by another incident in his life that happened just a year and a half after his mother's death, the fire bombing of Dresden. In late 1944, Vonnegut was captured by Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. On the night of February 13, 1945 exactly 100 American P.O.W.'s and five ...
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