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- 1301: The Life of Claude Monet
- ... Havre. In the spring of 1862, Monet was called up for National Service. He went to Algeria for a year with a prestigious regiment: les Chaussures d'Afrique . This experience was to have a profound effect on Monet. The landscapes and colors of Algeria presented an entirely different perspective of the world, one which was to inspire him for many years to come. Theoretically, Monet should have remained in Algeria for ... placed on serious entries to the Salon and painted a number of pictures in doors. These were very successful. But his larger piece drew some criticism. It was apparent that Monet sacrificed detail for overall effect. Monet persisted in his efforts to appeal to the Académie and during the period from 1865 to 1866 he painted a number of subjects with varying degrees of success. His last entry, The Woman in ...
- 1302: Drugs and Pregnancy: Drugs Affect On The Baby
- ... s bloodstream. Because the baby is still developing, your consuming alcohol can lead to a miscarriage or birth defects. (4) Any alcohol consumed by a nursing mother quickly enters her breast milk. (1) Fetal Alcohol Effect (FAE)- is a milder version of birth defects found in some babies of women who drank less during pregnancy. (4) Fetal Alcohol Syndrome- Alcohol and its metabolic product acetaldehyde quickly cross the placenta. Below normal ... Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, http://www.health.org/pubs/gdocs/alcohol/fas- broc/index.htm, (May 6, 1998) Short article regarding mothers who drink while pregnant, info about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Fetal Alcohol Effect, what kinds of problems occur with drinking, Very helpful. (5) Consequences of Prenatal Drug Exposure, Research Findings, National Institute on Drug Abuse, http://www.nida.nih.gov/ICAW/prenatal/prenatalfindings.html, (May 6, 1998) Summaries ...
- 1303: Hypnosis
- ... significant, since therapeutic effects occur even in a light trance. Hypnosis can produce a deeper contact with one's emotional life, resulting in some lifting of repressions and exposure of buried fears and conflicts. This effect potentially lends itself to medical and educational use, but it also lends itself to misinterpretation. Thus, the revival through hypnosis of early, forgotten memories may be fused with fantasies. Research into hypnotically induced memories in ... employed to treat physical problems with a possible psychological component, such as Raynaud's syndrome (a circulatory disease) and fecal incontinence in children. Researchers have demonstrated that the benefit of hypnosis is greater than the effect of a placebo and probably results from changing the focus of attention. Few physicians, however, include hypnosis as part of their practice. Some behavioral difficulties, such as cigarette smoking, overeating, and insomnia, are also amenable ...
- 1304: Is Psychology a Science?
- ... psychology is completed on a scientific basis. Psychological experimental research would involve the manipulation of a situation to examine the way in which the subjects of an experiment react, in order to observe cause and effect. The experimenter manipulates independent variables and the subjects responses would prove the dependant variables. By measuring the subjects responses, the experimenter can tell if the manipulation has had an effect. Psychological hypotheses are sought to operationalise - to turn an abstract concept into a concrete argument. This process is scientific in its element. The hypothesis is framed, variables are operationalised separately, a standard procedure is developed ...
- 1305: Jay Gatsby And Dick Diver
- ... the house because of where it was in relation to Daisy (across the bay), and he held the most amazing parties in the hope that Daisy, or someone that knew Daisy would come. Gatsby, in effect, devoted his whole life to the search for Daisy, and his money is a tool to help him find his love. Diver’s attitude to money is very much a contrast to this. Money to ... which Tom is able to attack, namely the mystery surrounding Gatsby’s past. By bringing up Gatsby’s business, Tom is able to expose this weakness, and thus have him lose Daisy. Gatsby knows the effect of these revelations namely in the way ‘he looked … as if he had killed a man’. She herself ‘was drawing further and further into herself’. Gatsby’s dream has crashed, and this is a critical ...
- 1306: Descartes And The Existence Of
- ... such a conclusion the first, through nature; the second, through feeling a value that is independent of the will of the object; and the third, the objective reality of an idea, or the cause and effect profile. The third point is the one that we will primarily spend our time with. Descartes drills us with the idea that an object will have an effect when it stems from a legitimate cause, or an initial idea that precedes with equal or superior properties in one s intellect. In other words, the mind generates thoughts and ideas about a physical form ...
- 1307: Jane Austen
- ... decorum, prudence -nay, interest, forbid it,"(256, emphasis added). Lady Catherine leaves Longbourn and tells Darcy to return to Netherfield under penalty of losing her 'persuasion'. The extent of Lady Catherine's influence and the effect on Darcy's nature is evident when he does return in spite of his uncertainty of Elizabeth's feelings. The influence of society, embodied in Lady Catherine, cultivates Darcy's pride and falsely leads him ... Yet later, it is Wickham, not Darcy, who finds it necessary to leave town thereby escaping exposure at the Netherfield ball. In the reconciliation with Darcy, he mentions the letter and Elizabeth, "...explained what its effect on her had been, and how gradually all her former prejudices had been removed"(266). At this point it is clear to the reader that human nature is changeable. Elizabeth further admits that her "opinions ...
- 1308: Jane Eyre Self-awarness
- ... She is clearly the "scapegoat of the nursery" (pg. 47). In the eyes of her wicked aunt she was a "precocious actress" and was therefor regularly locked up like a dog. According to Berg the effect of these accounts drew attention to her self-dramatization. From the very moment Jane was able to read she was constantly attracted by the disguised portraits that she make for herself in books, ballads, and ... hollow than in reality: and the strange little figure there gazing at me with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessies's evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the ...
- 1309: Literary Study
- ... of the relationship of the work to the writer: biographical, psychological, history, culture. Objective approach- is that which studies the work in and for itself without reference to the world in which it exists, its effect on its readers, or the works relationship to the author. The work for itself Objective criticism- the study of a literary work is done without reference to the mimetic, pragmatic, or expressive possibilities of interpretation ... metrical patterns and verbal effects: iambic, tetrameter, couplets, alliteration, rhyme, etc…. This type of study serves to remind us of a vital aspect of the writers' art. The writer is a craftsman of sound and effect as well as ideas. Keep in mind that writers can be conventional or unconventional. Thematic approach- attempts to bring the various aspects of form as well as content together to make a statement about the ...
- 1310: Building A Radio Empire-chancellor Media
- ... the new law was to let anyone enter any communications business to let any communications business compete in any market against any other. However, this new law did not decrease the barriers to entry. In effect, it allowed mega-mergers and acquisitions, which led to mega-corporations, and effectively raised the barriers to entry in such a way that it is almost impossible for new companies to compete. The Telecommunications Act ... market. Increased ad dollars leads to increased revenues. Assuming all else equal, increased revenues generate increased profits. This can then be used to increase the overall business through acquisition opportunities, thereby creating a large cyclical effect. Chancellor Media is also subject to competition from new media technologies such as, the delivery of audio programming by cable television systems, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) systems, the Internet, personal communications services and other digital ...
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