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- 10971: The Scarlet Letter
- ... a very devout puritan population. These people formed their lives about the church, which also was the government. The church controlled schools as well as matters of the law. This gave the Puritan moral system great strength in the society, and the city's rules were based upon it. Therefore, anything that the bible indicated as frivolous or petty was illegal. The city in Hawthorne's novel also has a very ...
- 10972: The Pit And The Pendulum
- ... discovery of the pit, in which reality takes its toll(28a);What I had taken for masonry seemed now to be iron, or some other metal, in huge plates, whose sutures or joints occasioned the depression. The entire surface of this metallic enclosure was rudely dau! bed in all the hideous and repulsive devices to which the charnel superstition of the monks has given rise (Poe 5(28)).(27) The monks ...
- 10973: Jungle and The Rain Forest
- ... land surface, but they are the home for up to three-fourths of all known species of plants and animals; undoubtedly they also contain many more species as yet undiscovered. Recent studies suggest that this great diversity of species is related to the apparently dynamic and unstable nature of rain forests over geologic time. The fact is that despite their appearance of fertile abundance, rain forests are fragile ecosystems. Their soils ...
- 10974: Friendship In Mary Shelleys Fr
- ... lose the ability to function properly and are driven insane. Whenever Victor suffers tragedy, he looks to the close comfort of his friends to raise his spirits. Following the creation of the monster, Victor undergoes great pain when he states, I passed the night wretchedly (p.87). In the process of creating the monster, Victor has been isolated for a long time. He becomes mad and sickened after the monster s ...
- 10975: The Ecology of a Rain Forest
- ... ways they affect the environment. In the rain forest, plants develop poisonous alkaloids to protect against insects, and insects develop complex digestive chemistry to overcome these poisons. Some of these plant alkaloids give native indians great poisons for darts, and to cancer researchers hope for a new medicine. The rain forest root systems are so efficient that almost all of the nutrients in decaying plants are recycled into new ones. Most ...
- 10976: Population Statistics of Mexico
- ... rate is slowly decreasing. The growth rate of Mexico is the result of its traditionally high birth rate, and its sharply reduced death rate. Many more people are being born, than dying. This causes a great increase in population each year. Since the 1930's, improved living conditions and expanded health services has cut the death rate by more than half, thus causing the population to increase every year since the ...
- 10977: Judges
- ... break. When the jury came back, the plaintiffs resumed their address. The plaintiffs argued that W5 got hours of tapes and cut them down into 18 minutes, something that would make their show into something great and popular, and something that would attract hundreds of viewers, and when it was all finished, they said that Norris Walker was negligent and crooked. Porter was building up to something huge. It was the ...
- 10978: Gatsby 2
- A great lecturer once said, ³Man is so caught up in his own recklessness that he does not notice the values of life.² The theme proclaimed in the quote reflects literature in the abundance that it is ...
- 10979: Call Of The Wild: A Study of Jack London's Belief in Darwinism
- ... dog fights and this influenced his writing. "...he found the first successful theme for his writing in a last frontier splurge..." (Walker 12). Although Buck had troubles with his new peers, he also had a great conflict with his new home. Buck also must adapt to survive in his new home, the Yukon Wilderness: In London's Klondike, the game of Natural Selection meant the survival of the fittest. It was ...
- 10980: British Through
- British Intelligence Agencies British authors believe that their country of Great Britain is shaping world events potentially and morally through its intelligence agencies. Morally , there are several methods in which they have shown this. In Ian Fleming's books, James Bond embodied the idea of a ...
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