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- 5761: Dreaming
- ... and are free to float or fly about. They feel as if they are perceiving the physical world from a location outside of their physical body. The OBE has also been linked with the Near-Death Experience (or NDE) wherein a person who is at the brink of death has an OBE. The NDE, the OBE, and lucid dreaming all have the common element of being separated from the physical body. All include the sensation of flying combined with a feeling of freedom. In ...
- 5762: Lady Lazarus
- ... mystery originated in a book called The Woman In White, by Wilkie Collins. Collin’s tale is about a daughter who is bound to marry a man her father has chosen for her on his death bed, and the investigation by her half sister and a man named Walter Hartright into her mysterious death (Peterson, 41). Braddon’s novel mimics several of the key devices and themes used in Collins’ tale, like making the hero the sleuth who solves the underlying mystery, rather than using a professional detective and ...
- 5763: Dave Matthews Band
- ... the reasons this show was so important had to do with the attention Dave Matthews Band got from the Grateful Dead's audience. This proved to be an overwhelming significance when the Dead encountered the death of Jerry Garcia later on in the 1995 year. The Grateful Dead had an incredible amount of fans. "The band attracted a cult following in live performances by playing without set lists (lists of songs ... was an easy one to make. Thus, many of the "Dead Heads" are now faithful followers of the DMB, and many now use Dave Matthews Band as a new musical connection to life. But the death of Jerry Garcia and the flock of newly dedicated fans weren't the only reasons for popularity for the Dave Matthews Band. The sound, the feeling of the music that Dave Matthews Band creates, makes ...
- 5764: Joseph Conrad
- ... components of using all senses of the human body to have a strong understanding when reading along any of Conrad’s novels (Dintenfass 8). Furthermore, Conrad’s themes deals with alienation, breakdown of communication, and death. The theme of alienation pertains to having the character feeling as if they don’t belong in a certain resident, which usually causes dissolution throughout Conrad’s novels. Briefly, the breakdown of communication simply leads to the devastation of relationships in Conrad’s characters, which has been considered as a characteristic of a Shakespearean tragedy. Death is not a significant theme, but is needed to receive feedback from the expansion of the story line (Hamblin 4). Altogether, Conrad’s style of techniques all play a significant role no matter how minor ...
- 5765: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- ... the motor neurons in the nervous system, several hypotheses have been put forth as to the cause or causes of ALS. Researchers are exploring such areas as genetic factors, susceptibility genes, excitotoxicity, and premature cell death. In 1991, a team of ALSA-funded researchers linked familial ALS to chromosone 21. In 1993 the research team identified a defective SOD1 gene on Chromo-sone 21 as responsible for many cases of familial ... Center (708)-679-3311. ALS is a very uncommon disease, affecting about 1 per 100,000 each year. It more often affects people over age 40, men slightly more than women. The usual cause of death is through respiratory complications. Survival time, as well as the course of the disease (the order in which symptoms develop) varies widely. Historically, from textbooks, ALS has an average survival time of 3 to 5 ...
- 5766: Jilting Of Granny Weatherall
- ... eventually expects us to miss. The ailing octogenarian is so incredibly annoying at the beginning of the story that one almost welcomes the idea of her passing. The second theme is the acceptance of immenint death. At first, Granny Weatherall could not accept the fact that her days were numbered. She shows this when the doctor is summoned and she says "I won’t see that boy again. He just left ... Granny Weatherall, at her best while near the bitter end. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall gives us a brief overview of mortality. Porter gives us slightly deeper insight into self pity and the acceptance of death. Granny Weatherall’s actions and thoughts give the reader an idea of how it feels as life draws to a close. Porter suggests that by succeeding in dying well, one can leave behind an image ...
- 5767: Jane Eyre - Struggle For Love
- ... opposite of what had been offered by Rochester. Jane has as difficult a time refusing this proposition as she did Rochester's, saying, "Religion called-Angels beckoned-God commanded- life rolled together like a scroll-death's gate's opening, showed eternity beyond: it seemed, that for safety and bliss there, all here might be sacrificed in a second. The dim room was full of visions."(Bronte,444) By accepting this ... Jane is now called to do what pleases her as a liberated woman; answer the voices and return to Rochester.Finally reunited with her true love, Jane is able to take advantage of circumstances (ie- death of Bertha) and marry Rochester. An idealistic location for the conclusion of the novel, Jane and Rochester move to Ferndean to live out their days and raise a family. Jane and Rochester are perfectly content ...
- 5768: Jane Eyre - Nature
- ... believe, Mr. Rochester is living." Another recurrent image is Brontë's treatment of Birds. We first witness Jane's fascination when she reads Bewick's History of British Birds as a child. She reads of "death-white realms" and "'the solitary rocks and promontories'" of sea-fowl. We quickly see how Jane identifies with the bird. For her it is a form of escape, the idea of flying above the toils ... dark" and dangerous man, which fits the likeness of a cormorant; it is therefore likely that Brontë sees him as the sea bird. As we shall see later, Jane goes through a sort of symbolic death, so it makes sense for her to represent the drowned corpse. The gold bracelet can be the purity and innocence of the old Jane that Rochester managed to capture before she left him. Having established ...
- 5769: Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
- ... yes, but I have only one Mendeleev.” (Czar Alexander II, Discovery of the Elements, The. p. 111). Anna was much younger than Dmitri was but they loved each other very much and were together until death. They had four children in total together, Liubov, Ivan, and twins, Vassili and Maria. Anna also influenced Dmitri’s views on art considerably and he was elected to the Academy of Arts because he was ... the University of St. Petersburg, the Russian government had appointed him the Director of Bureau of Weights and Measures in 1893. This had been done to keep public disapproval of the government down. Until his death, Dmitri had been considered a popular social figure. In his last lecture at the University of St. Petersburg, Dmitri said: I have achieved an inner freedom. There is nothing in this world that I fear ...
- 5770: Different Ideas Of What Is Tru
- ... despair, easy to feel disgust, and easy to stop habits which further the spreading of gossip by supermarket tabloids. With such cases as the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation, in which little had happened since the death of the child, tabloids are known for twisting facts in order to pump new energy into a dying story. In the aftermath of Princess Diana¹s death there was a call upon the citizens of the world not to buy the supermarket ³rags², as a form of respect for to themselves. Reading from these ³headline grabbing² articles, insults not only those whose ...
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