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- 4711: Tropical Africa Food Productio
- ... estimated that one third of the land in Tropical Africa is potentially cultivable, though only about 6% of it is currently cultivated. However, to change farming from a low-input, low-yield pattern to a high-input, high-yield pattern necessitates the use of more fertilizer and the planting of high-yielding varieties of crops. There are a number of environmental factors, related mostly to climate, soils and health, resisting easy developmental solutions. Rainfall reliability is closely connected to rainfall quantity. The rainfall in the ...
- 4712: The Bell Jar
- ... helpfulness from her friend and colleague. Throughout life one also needs the motivation and provisions from those that influence one's lives. This is demonstrated by Esther's Class Dean who upheld Esther through her high school years. "I had a way of persuading...interesting experiment." (Sylvia Plath page 29.) Her Class Dean supported Esther in her way of thinking and her thrive for learning which in turn, she was awarded for ...
- 4713: Transportation And Community D
- Transportation affects every aspect of our lives and daily routine, including where we live, work, play, shop, go to school, etc. It has a profound impact on residential patterns, industrial growth, and physical and social mobility. Roads, highways, freeways and mass transit systems do not spring up out of thin air. They are planned. Someone ... public transportation system is underfunded and neglected, directly contributing to the social, economic and environmental deterioration of our cities. Many rural communities are not well served by the current transportation system. And those residents consist high number of people who are transit-dependent. Even for those with access to motor vehicles, roads are often not maintained in areas of most need, and the costs of maintaining a vehicle compete with resources ...
- 4714: The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
- ... nobody. He wanted so much to prove them wrong and he has. We may say he has gained self assurance, restating the fact he was a somebody important. Since his days at Fletcher's Field High School, he ran a gang based on respect, not friendship. Things do not change when he becomes an adult. Virgil is just one of the people Duddy uses to get money for his land. He feels ...
- 4715: Toronto Homeless
- ... of the largest growing concerns in Toronto is the constantly increasing number of citizens who are finding themselves living on the streets. With the decrease in the number of jobs that do not require a high school diploma, the population of homeless people has literally boomed. My questions are not as simple to answer as they may appear. Why is a large portion of our community forced to live on the streets ...
- 4716: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... Homeric Questions Part III - Archaeology- 9/6/98." The Mining Company, <http://archaeology.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa090698.htm?pid=2765&cob=home>(6 September 1998) Kiernan, Mary K. "Heinrich Schliemann." Lecture at Vero Beach High School, 21 October 1997. Lost Treasures of Troy. BBC, London. 1994 "The Minoan Costume." FirstNet, <http://www.firstnethou.com/annam/costhist.html/minoan.html/index.html> Traill, David. Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit. New York ...
- 4717: Swimming Alone
- ... town of Porpoise Spit, Australia. The movie is about Muriel, an ugly-duckling character, and her one motivation in life, to get married. Her motivation arises from the fact that all of her friends from high school, the ones she tries so hard to fit in with, are walking down the aisle. Marriage becomes a symbol of peer, social and self-acceptance. Muriel's Wedding constructs and explores an opposition between the ...
- 4718: Spring Time
- ... dawn, the birds begin singing their songs and sending noises into the air. the images that deliver signals for children getting ready for the spring brake which could hide them from those rough days in school. and family could gather around int he back yard to dig the soil and spraying seeds fro gardening. likewise, in the garden where as everyone could take their first breaths of fragrance that comes from ... that wash on the shore. the fun of building sanded castle and splashing of water that friends and family experience is like the memories taht stamping on the rocks. the listening of surfing thru the high waves sounded like the crying out of rocks thath being smacked by the extreme bitterness of the ocean spray. the beach itself is filled with a vast spces of sand that children' play becomes dazzled ...
- 4719: Song Of Myself: Individuality And Free Verse
- ... of nine children. His father was a carpenter. The poet had a particularly close relationship with his mother. When Whitman was four years old, his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he attended public school for six years before being apprenticed to a printer. Two years later he went to New York City to work in printing shops. He returned to Long Island in 1835 and taught in country schools ... not the proprietor, but merely a participant in. More central to Whitman's purpose was his view of the poem as a means expressing his "self" in universal terms. Because of his background in the high volume production of literature, Terry Mulcaire theorizes that Whitman saw the mass distribution of his poetry as a means of universalizing an intimacy with his world: (W)e are now part of a living crowd ...
- 4720: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... onto his fictional characters, Doyle was able to write about something he believed in. Arthur Conan Doyle's life experiences also influenced his novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles. As a child enrolled in boarding school, Doyle excelled in many things. Particularly, Doyle was very athletic and he did very well at mayn sports. The character of Sherlock Holmes demonstrates the same athletic ability as Doyle did in his boyhood years. Watson says about Holmes, "Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night." (Doyle 158) More importantly though, Doyle's time in medical school at the University of Edinburgh and the time he spent as a doctor greatly influence this novel. The character of Dr. Mortimer shows a great deal of knowledge about medicine. He was the one who ... Stapleton made about his past. "He [Stapleton] was once a schoolmaster in the north of England. Now, there is no one more easy to trace than a schoolmaster. A little investigation showed me that a school had come to grief under atrocious circumstances, and that the man who owned it-the name was different-had disappeared with his wife. The descriptions agreed. (Doyle 133) This simple piece of information led ...
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