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- 11471: All Quiet on the Western Front: The War Against Disillusionment
- ... by each passing day. Another way the author showed the failing effort of the German army was by the earth. When it was first mentioned the author said it was used to “grantest us the great resisting surge of new-won life” (55). Then as the disillusionment set in and the Germans suffered more losses the earth became ugly, gray, and beat up. The author used the rain to symbolize the ...
- 11472: The Stone Angel - Character An
- ... responded, It will be done by me (Laurence 49) and eventually marries Bram. Thus, throughout the novel, Hagar s attribute of scornful pride is evidently exhibited. In contrast to her negative character, Hagar exhibits a great deal of courage. Following Hagar s marriage to Bram, she immediately faced the reality of the life. The next day Hagar cleaned the house inside out. I had never scrubbed a floor in my life ...
- 11473: Flannery O’Conner and Grotesque Characters
- ... wear a wooden replacement. She also had a weak heart and it was this affliction that forced her to remain amongst these “good country people” whom she considered to be intellectual inferiors. Though she had great confidence in her intelligence she had very little self-esteem. Joys’ handicap made her feel ugly, so ugly that much to her mothers’ dismay, she had her name legally changed to the ugliest one she ...
- 11474: The Effects of Anabolic Steroids
- ... are quite obvious, and quite powerful. Unfortunately, the use of steroids tends to result in many damaging side effects in the users. The mournful stories of dominating athletes who used steroids, who are no longer great at their one time profession seems to dot the newspaper pages quite regularly. They always say that they realized too late the damaging effects that the drugs had on their bodies. Steroids can have many ...
- 11475: The Differences and Similarities of Pneumonia and Tuberculosis
- ... also suffer from psychological and social problems throughout the course of the disease. In extreme cases patients may be unable to participate in physical, recreational, or normal day activities which may cause social deprivation or depression. However most patients can expect to keep their jobs, stay with their families throughout the treatment and lead normal lives. In Joan's case she was hospitalized so had become socially deprived and was becoming ...
- 11476: To Kill A Mokingbird
- ... of the treatment and attitudes toward African-Americans, times have improved and changed tremendously. Calpurnia was the black cook and housekeeper for the Finch family and had been for generations. During the time of the Depression, the family could not really afford to keep her, but Mr. Finch felt that during such a trying time, she really needed the money she earned by caring for his family. The Finch children appreciated ...
- 11477: Stress
- ... and financial responsibility (Robinson, 1996). Stress is an epidemic in American life. In nationwide polls, 89 percent of Americans reported that they often experience high levels of stress, and 59 percent claimed that they feel great stress at least once a week (Hellmich, 1994). A five year study of the American workforce conducted by the Families and Work Institute showed that 30 percent of employees often or very often feel burned ...
- 11478: Consciousness As Determined Through The Times
- ... inherently represent hidden mental states or events. Accordingly, psychology should be the science of behavior, not of introspection.4 The difficulty for the transparency doctrine was cognitive psychology’s recent discovery that everyone does a great deal of mental processing, reasoning, and analysis of many sorts without being able to introspect it at all. Cognitive psychology in itself, however, has thus far had little further to say about consciousness. The identity ...
- 11479: Walden
- ... ants. One can conclude that Thoreau does not think too highly of humans on a whole. The first allusions of human battles and people is to the Trojan War. Thoreau makes many references to this great struggle which has popped up many a philosophical debates. The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my wood yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying ...
- 11480: What Is The True Image (the Ch
- ... a better place and more advanced. For example, they can transport messages halfway across the world within 2 minutes, rather than taking days, weeks or maybe even months. By doing so they save us a great deal of time and money. All of you probably knew that from before but were afraid of them turning against you. As Michael told David, Rosalind and Petra, "They are afraid of us What they ...
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