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- 4211: Hamlet: Antiheroism in Hamlet
- ... and Guildenstern since they are servants of the Claudius, Hamlet's mortal enemy. The reader does not like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern either which causes the reader to side with Hamlet. Another incident of Hamlet's high intelligence is shown when he Hamlet tells Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, I am glad of it: a knavish sleeps in a foolish ear. (IV, ii, 24-25) This statement leaves Rosencrantz and Guildenstern more or less ... Hamlet, to the point that it does not matter whether or not it hurts Gertrude in any way. This scene depicts Hamlet as the victim, much like two bullies picking on a smaller child in school, since the king, with the aid of Laertes, is out to kill Hamlet, this time with a passion. Much like a political revolutionary, Hamlet has the system against him and is facing death because of ...
- 4212: The Catcher In The Rye Is Hold
- ... visible. Looking at his normal side, Holden is rebellious against the world, and despises the fakeness of it. Mainly he hates people. He thinks that rich people are crooks, and that the more expensive the school is that he's attending, the more crooks there are. He says when he goes to visit Mr. Spencer that he's not too crazy about sick people. He doesn't like how Catholics stick ... they are supposed to commit suicide or something when they lose. And as if thinking these things aren't bad enough, he goes off and rambles about all of this to Sally. "Well I hate school. Boy, do I hate it. But it isn't just that. I hate living in New York and all. Taxicabs, and Madison Avenue buses, with the drivers and all always yelling at you to get ... ve got the atomic bomb invented because if there's ever another war, he's going to sit right on top of it. He'll volunteer for it. When he's walking to Phoebe's school, he kept feeling like he was going to die every time he crossed the street. He then started talking to Allie and planning it out so that he could move out west and become ...
- 4213: Endocrine Disruptors
- ... largely from laboratory studies in which large doses are fed to test animals, usually rats or mice, and field studies of wildlife species that have been exposed to the chemicals mentioned above. In laboratory studies, high doses are required to give weak hormone activity. These doses are not likely to be encountered in the environment. However the process of bioaccumulation can result in top-level predators such as humans to have ... of the cervix, oviducts, uterus and vagina as well as anatomical masculinisation. (Newbold, 1995) In adolescence and early adulthood, a number of reproductive cancers can appear as well as an inability to become pregnant or high incidence of abnormal pregnancies. DES was the first documented example of a human transplacental carcinogen, being administered to the mother that caused cancer in the daughter (McLachlan and Arnold, 1996). The effects seen in in ... and placental from stillborn and live-born infants showed that percentage of total DDT and aldrin in the specimen was significantly greater in the stillborn infants (Saxena et al., 1983). The researchers suggest that the high pesticide concentration contributed to the death of the infants. Estrogenic pesticides can have detrimental reproductive effects on adult animals. Chronic exposure of rhesus monkeys to dioxin causes a dosage-dependent increase in the severity ...
- 4214: Greek Architecture
- ... Propylaea, Temple of Athena Nike, and the Erechtheum were built entirely of marble and elaborately decorated with carved moldings and sculpture.The architects were Callicrates and Iotinus, and the chief sculptor was Phidias. A large school of builders and sculptors developed in Athens during the second half of the fifth century BCE. Most of these craft workers were freed slaves from the eastern Mediterranean. Perhaps as a consequence there developed in ... the nymphaeum, monumental tomb, columned hall, choragic monument, clock tower and light house. Many of these structures were decorated with dramatic marble sculpture. Hellenistic architects made imaginative variations on the standard temple forms, introducing Apses, high podia (stepped or square platforms), and subtle combinations of Doric and Ionic features. Several temples had exterior Corinthinan columns, such as the colossal temple of Zeus Olympius in Athens, begun in 174 BCE. In the ...
- 4215: How Affirmative Action Effects
- ... not punish the youth for the crimes of their white male forefathers. Thomas Sowell gave an interesting story in his article "Free Markets vs. Discrimination" about Albert Greuner. He had graduated from Pensacola Naval photography school and was refused a job he was more than qualified for. The reason Albert was denied the position was based on the conduct of the other cadets graduating from Pensacola(Sowell 69). These are the ... action went overwhelmingly to people who were already better off., while the poorer members of the same groups either did not gain ground or actually fell further behind" (Richardson 4C). The wealthier neighborhoods have better school systems, which in turn offer greater resources. If we bring equality to our school systems, a rise in minorities in the work force will soon follow. Some universities here in the United States have based enrollment on College Board's and SAT's or ACT's, none of ...
- 4216: The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository
- The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository Yucca Mountain is the Department of Energy's (DOE) potential geological repository designed to accept spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. If approved, the site would be the nation's first geological repository for permanent disposal of this type of radioactive waste. It is located in Nye County, Nevada, about 100 miles northwest ... Warnicke and his crew will continue their study for the next five years, using satellites to monitor the relative positions and movement of monitors planted atop the mountain. There may be feasible alternatives to storing high-level nuclear waste. Rocketing the waste into space has been considered, but that idea was drooped because of the extreme cost of lofting thousands of tons of waste into the sun. The showstopper was the ... 2010, there will more than 80,000 metric tons of fuel waste awaiting disposal - enough nuclear waste to bury a football field 23 feet deep. And that doesn't count the thousands of tons of high -level nuclear waste produced by other sites stored around the nation, including highly dangerous plutonium from decommissioned nuclear warheads and millions of gallons of liquid waste generated while making those warheads. The infamous K- ...
- 4217: Germany
- ... for people between the ages of 6 and 18. Education is controlled by the individual states but the national government makes sure all states have the same requirements. Children start at the Grundschule or primary school. At the age of 10 they are tested and go on to the Hauptschule or post primary school for five years. They then go on to a Berufsschule or vocational school where they get on the job training. There are also many universities which offer higher learning in a variety of programs such as fine arts, music, and theology. Important Industries There are many large ...
- 4218: Russia
- ... must comply, and completing the task of creating from scratch a highly effective and consistent customs administration. The duration and final outcome of this process are still uncertain. Consequently, Russia offers U.S. business both high risk, and potentially high rewards. Russian firms and customers admire U.S. technology and know-how, and generally are interested in doing business with U.S. companies. At the same time, there is a tendency in some quarters to ... governments and state enterprises from remote. Poorly-supplied areas of Russia often visit trade exhibitions in major cities to purchase goods for there region or enterprises. Pricing behavior is often counter-intuitive, some firms price high to create a perception of exclusivity and skim the new-Russian market. In general, price competition in the large cities is muted. The radio of retail outlets per thousand residents in Moscow and St. ...
- 4219: The Physical Setting and Economy of Bangladesh and Singapore
- ... the population, there are differnces in the climate and enviroment of the two countries. Singapore’s climate greatly reflects where it is located, where Bangladesh does not as much. Singapore has a tropical cilmate with high temperatures, high humidity, and a lot of rain mainly from November to January (www.abisnet.com/singapore_1.htm). This is because the country is about 2 degrees from the equator (de Blij and Muller, 2000,p ... in the social and economic conditions. Bangladesh on the other hand is just a natural disaster when it comes to their climate and environment. Bangladesh has a humid, tropical climate with the mansoon winds bringing high rainfall which makes flooding a frequent hazard to people and crops (de Blij and Muller, 2000, p.416). The flooding and rainfall is too much for people too recover from, so this is why ...
- 4220: Thailand
- ... Thailand’s houses are made of wood. These houses are built up on stilts because Thailand is a very rainy and wet country and it has a lot of floods. The houses also have real high roofs to keep cool. If the people don’t live by a river or stream then they usually live on a farm or a village. If someone lives on a farm then they probably grow ... October). The main language of Thailand is Thai. Thank you in Thai would be “Khawp khun”. The reason I used Thank you as an example is because in Thailand they are very polite. Thailand’s school system has only four different levels. They are primary, secondary, vocational, and higher education. You have to be at least seven years old and have to complete at least the primary grades up to age ...
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