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- 4371: Maria Mitchell
- ... sun s surface. She also studied solar eclipses, double stars, nebulas, and the satellites of Saturn and Jupiter. Maria Mitchell died on June 28, 1889 in Lynn, Massachusetts. Even when she was sick before her death she kept her sense of humor. Throughout her long life, Maria was continually uplifted spiritually by her study of the heavens. That she never failed to recognize the close connection between her work and her ... of Science, and to the American Philosophical Society (founded by her distant relative Benjamin Franklin. She received honorary degrees, including one from Columbia College. A crater on the moon was named after her. After her death, Maria was given still more honors. A tablet inscribed with her name was put in the New York University Hall of Fame and her name was carved on a frieze over the front of the ...
- 4372: Femininity In The Odyssey
- ... and manages to have an impact on Odysseus is Antikleia. This is the mother of Odysseus who has an encounter with him in Hades. She tells her son of how his absence resulted in her death and how the zest for life that his wife once had is disappearing with time. All these women managed to have an impact on Odysseus, whether it was as a result of their innocence, kindness, or death, each's femininity contributed to the safe return of Odysseus to Ithaca. There are also the threatening women of this epic. On of them was Kalypso, a sea nymph, who's only hope is to ...
- 4373: Coral Reefs And Bleaching Phenomenon
- ... ecosystem. Temperature, water depth, salinity, wave action, and turbidity all effect the growth of coral reefs. According to biologist Clive Wilkinson of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, it is humans who have caused the death of 5-10% of the worlds living coral reefs (Wilkinson 1987). One direct cause of coral depletion is overfishing. The overfishing of herbivores, which normally consume algae, can cause an explosion in algae and ... cover the coral and prevent the penetration of sunlight to the photosynthetic zooxanthellae. Similar to the familiar algal bloom of local ponds, toxic dumping and pollution can also cause either algal laws or the outright death of the coral reef. Recently, oceanographers began noticing another particularly disheartening phenomenon. When diving down to corral reefs and expecting a multitude of splendid colors, divers were struck by the brilliant white cast of entire ...
- 4374: Familiar Mysteries
- ... is structured of four mian sections.Each section represents a different aspect of the science such as The Symbolic Language of Myth , The Hero , The Complete Home and the Monster at the Door , and Conquering Death . Each section contains subsection that examine different cases or symbols.In The Symbolic Language of Myth , for example , water and milk are refered to as symbols representing sources of life and are separated as two ... with all his distinctive life patters and habits . After this the home representing the good and the monster at the door representing the evil fight against each other .The work finishes with the conquering of death . The author's intended audience is the general reader who can easily and utterly intecept the book's main points and ideas . It also is well written because it uses simple language to deliver the ...
- 4375: Who's Right Is It Anyway?
- ... the people you will hurt" also does not hold. Immediate family members will be the only ones to suffer any great pain. Friends will go on with their lives and in time forget about the death. Immediate family too will forget the loss in time. Although it will take most considerably longer for them than it will for friends. Finally, the argument of suicide being selfish is hard to grasp. Selfish ... for someone to commit suicide sends their soul straight to Hell. In many religions, suicide is considered taboo. However why is this so? Why should it be looked upon as disgraceful, when some religions claim death the be the reward for people after their time on earth is done. Suicide is an issue which should be examined at by all angles. Not just from the angle that it is "wrong". End ...
- 4376: Fahrenheit 451 - A Charred Exi
- ... five hundred-year existence, consumes itself in flames and is reborn from its own ashes (Sisario 105). The resurrection of the Phoenix signifies the cyclical nature of human life and civilization. Beatty is burned to death, and his death by fire symbolically illustrates the rebirth that is associated with his Phoenix sign. At the end of the book, one of the book-saving outlaws, Granger, refers to the Phoenix and claims that: [The Phoenix ...
- 4377: War Of The Worlds
- ... our narrator believes that, if worst comes to worst, "a shell in the pit will kill them all." Our narrator even denounces the Martians' "short sighted timidity." As the book progresses into the stages of death and destruction, Wells begins to address the behavior of mankind in the face of impending disaster. The framework of current society diminishes as quickly as the daily routine of the people. Mass retreat and social ... have had more time to evolve. In the end of the text we also see that the Martians have no bacteria, perhaps because they have evolved past microbial infection on Mars. The mechanism of Martian death also has its historic roots in European history. When England colonized lands in Australia and America hundreds of diseases were introduced to the native people as well as to the Europeans, and plagues like the ...
- 4378: Waiting For Sisyphus
- ... cornucopia of existential connections in Waiting For Godot. and The Myth of Sisyphus. Vladimir and Estragon suggest they hang themselves from the tree - A tree that is always there, always in view. This tree is Death, an option available at all times for them. Vladimir and Estragon always had the choice to live or die, as Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre believed is the fundamental choice for all of us. To the ... much mental anguish - Sisyphus knows that every time he manages to get that rock near the top, it will once again fall - he has made a choice in his life and must suffer in his death. Vladimir realizes that he must return to the same place tomorrow and wait for Godot to arrive. Perhaps deep inside, Vladimir knows that his waiting is futile, but what else could he do? At least ...
- 4379: Views From The Bridge
- ... the truth the hard way from a man named Tiresias, a blind prophet, he told him the truth about his family. Oedipus may have not died himself like Eddie, but he had to witness the death of Jocasta, the wife and mother, who killed herself. The death of her opened Oedipus' eyes, and he did not like what he saw. While his mother hanged there he said, "You shall not see me nor my shame not see my present crime"(Sophocles 73 ...
- 4380: Colorado River
- ... of eared grebes stagger up on shore and die. Many were so disoriented that they stood still while gulls tore into their flesh and began eating them on the spot. This continued and the final death toll rose, by conservative estimates, to 150,000 grebes. Radke helped collect 40,000 carcasses. Necropsies ruled out infectious disease as the cause of death, but the tissues of some of the dead birds contained three times more selenium than that of grebes tested at the Salton Sea three years earlier. It is obvious that the Alamo River Project has ...
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