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- 12051: Silent Spring: Pesticides
- ... off diseases as well as it’s many uses from stability in soil and acuatic environments to killing pests in our own backyard. Some called it the “Savior of Mankind” because of its low cost, high availability, potency and apparent safety. But, it was unknown to the people at that time was that DDT, an organic synthetic insecticide of the chlorinated hydrocarbon group, is potentially deadly to not only insects but ...
- 12052: The Fifth Child
- ... event which exemplifies the children reluctance to face their family problem occurs on page 96 of the novel. Lessing narrates how the children wanted to go their separate ways to live. Some went to boarding school and others moved to extended family members’ home’s to relieve themselves of there wretched brother. Ben’s siblings come to the conclusion that he can not be changed. They subconsciously realize that a persons ...
- 12053: Shane: No Ordinary Man and His Gun
- ... you get a sight on it?’ ‘No need to learn to hold it so the barrels right in line with the fingers if they were out. You won’t have to waste time bringing it high to take a sight. Just point it, low and quick and easy, like pointing a finger.’ ” (p.44) So Bob finds out the reason that Shane has no sight on his gun. He doesn’t ...
- 12054: The Catcher in the Rye: True Picture Of Human Behavior
- ... to business. In chapter 3 of the novel the reader is introduced to the character Ackley. Ackley is described as “a terrible personality.” Why doesn’t Holden or any of the other guys in the school tell Ackley how bad his teeth are and how bad his personality is? Sometimes people don’t speak of things that annoy them to the actual person that is annoying them. That might be the ...
- 12055: “A Rose For Emily”: Changing Of Values And Attitudes In Southern Society
- ... a family, the Griersons, that were very established in the community. She was said to be “the last Greirson” in this southern community. The family was no longer wealthy, but continued to be held in high esteem after her father died. The only material thing her father left her was the family home. Miss Emily was left a pauper by her fathers’ death . However, the most important thing left her was ...
- 12056: The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby's Great Morals and Lack of Glamour
- ... reason, which may be the need for love. On top of all this, he wants to escape his background and past. Gatsby's life changed from being in the low or middle class to the high class. It is a big mystery of how he receives all this money but it is not from Cody. It is believed that he is a bootlegger. No one was ever sure. In this story ...
- 12057: The Moral Life and Leviathan: Ideas of Hobbes and Pojman
- ... clear, he takes a look at the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding. Lord of the Flies is a modern allegory on the nature and purpose of morality. A group of British private school boys are marooned on an island; detached from the constraints of civilization, they turn into savages. The significance of the book lies in the fact that it illuminates the need for and purpose of ethical ...
- 12058: Huckleberry Finn: Lack of Education
- ... traveling. The Grangerford family takes Huck in when he is separated from Jim, his traveling companion and a runaway slave who is trying to escape to freedom. Huck recognizes the Grangerfords as a family of high profile. They are good hosts, church-goers, and even seemingly well educated. “Colonel Grangerford was a gentleman you see. He was a gentleman all over, and so was his family (p.120).” But the reader ...
- 12059: Catch 22: What’s Fair Isn’t Fair
- ... down near the lowest level of this coordinated organization I run are people who do get the work done when it reaches them," (330). Heller hopes to remove our misled perception of generals (or other high ranked officers), and see that the only thing they are efficient at is being inefficient. Unfortunately, the "lower" (in terms of status) officers do not see respond to their superiors’ (and I use that term ...
- 12060: The Color of Water: When Tragedy Strikes
- ... in a southern town called Suffolk, in which Jews are looked down upon. People laugh at her as she walks down the street, and snicker when they hear her speaking Yiddish. Children at her elementary school tease her for being Jewish. Ruth becomes ashamed of her identity, and tries to conceal it by changing her name. She explains, “My real name was Rachel, which in Yiddish is Ruckla, which is what ...
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