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- 6431: Maturation Of Scout
- ... realizes that Calpurnia is nice and that she always means good when Scout thinks the opposite. On page 29, Scout tells us about her and Cal's conversation one day when Scout came back from school. Calpurnia said that she had missed Scout that day while she and Jem were at school. All of a sudden, Calpurnia was really nice to Scout. She let Scout watch her fix supper, she made crackling bread for her, and she even kissed her. Scout describes how she feels after all ...
- 6432: The Crucible: Social Deteriora
- ... said, There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!(26) Mrs. Putnam did her share of spreading rumors after she heard that the girls were flying, so she asked Parris How high did she (Abigail) fly, how high?(11). These rumors happened because people did not want any blame put on to themselves. This 'passing the buck' made people start fighting with one another such as Corey charging Putnam of having his daughter ...
- 6433: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... to live with his grandparents. After his stepfathers death, the second father who died, when Isaac was 11, Newtons mother brought him back home to Woolsthorpe in Lincolnshire where he was educated at Kings School, Grantham. Newton came from a family of farmers and he was expected to continue the farming tradition , well thats what his mother thought anyway, until an uncle recognized how smart he was. Newton's mother removed him from grammar school in Grantham where he had shown little promise in academics. Newtons report cards describe him as 'idle' and 'inattentive'. So his uncle decided that he should be prepared for the university, and he entered his ...
- 6434: Crucible: "We Are Our Own Worst Enemies"
- ... his conviction in order for it to be certify. But Proctor's sense of pride is forbidding him to sign his name on lies, and he is willing to accept the consequence of being "hang high over the town". Proctor, "with a cried of his own soul", claimed that "I have given you my soul; leave me my name!". Nevertheless, Danforth demanded that Proctor be hung. His dignity have cost him ... Thus, his dignity have also become a factor in portraying that he evidently is his "own worst enemy". Therefore, it is clear that John Proctor is indeed "his worst enemy" in The Crucible. With his high sense of honesty and dignity, the incidents that have been influenced by these characteristics have all turned out against Proctor. These incidents eventually lead him to his finally breathe, as "the new sun is pouring ...
- 6435: Lewis' "Surprise by Joy": Analysis
- ... fall, and redemption of humankind. Later Lewis embraces what he referred to as "northernness," or the Norse mythology that represented for him the embodiment of otherness and an escape from the mundane realities of boarding school. Before his eventual return to orthodox Christianity, however, Lewis would experiment with adolescent atheism, various Eastern beliefs, and the "Absolute" of Aristotelian ethics on his way to the trinitarian God proclaimed by Christianity. In describing this progression, Lewis paints fascinating pictures of turn- of-the-century Britain and its intellectual climate--especially the British school system and the trials and tribulations of a non-athletic young boy whose aesthetic sensibilities seem out of place and out of step with his peers. From here the book's remaining chapters chronicle the ...
- 6436: Home is Where the Heart is
- ... never been a time when I have not felt safe in my home. Home also has a certain smell that is almost in desirable. When I returned home for the first time after being at school, I felt great . The first thing that I did after returning home was hug my parents and my dogs, then I went over to the living room and sat down on my couch. I felt ... home. I got the measurements while he got the lumber. We spent one and a half days to build them. The following day we packed them up in the Bronco and took them back to school. After putting them up in my room it started to feel a little like home. The poem The Death of the Hired Man, written by Robert Frost is written about a man and what he ...
- 6437: Abolishing Poverty in The U.S
- ... to work overtime or even two jobs in order to make more than the people around them. There are some major costs that both poverty's have on society. These costs include: In areas of high poverty there are usually the same areas of high violence. A second cost to society might be that some people in poverty might become welfare dependent, this means that they rely solely on welfare to pay for everything and they don't even try ...
- 6438: Creative Writing: Godzilla in Tokyo
- ... god! I've never seen such an enormous transfluxual pull on the surface of the ocean! Then all of a sudden the Yamitsu and it's valiant crew were plucked out the ocean and rose high into the air. Then, with extreme violent force, the Yamitsu was split in two by an unseen monstrosity. The crew was flung into the ocean, screaming, never to be seen again. At the Tokyo Center ... again for many years. The city was evacuated as soon as it was known that Godzilla was headed towards the city and the military forces massed along the coastline where he would arrive. Hopes were high that Godzilla would be killed and stopped forever. The experimental Super X was in it's final stages of testing and would be implemented if necessary. The soldiers grew more and more afraid as the ...
- 6439: Being A Good Biologist
- ... as the Oxford English Dictionary defines it (Futuyama, Douglas. p. 15, Biology 5th Ed. 1989 Worth Publishers). When we say a thing is a fact, then, we only mean that its probability is an extremely high one: so high that we are not bothered by doubt about it. A good biologist should be able to recognize the possibility of flaws in his original thinking and the possibility of fact not being the absolute truth ...
- 6440: The Inconvenience of Convenience
- ... with payments and traffic pile-ups rather than accept a smidgen of inconvenience. And most of all, some humans are killed, sometimes by their own selves for a little convenience. Surely modern civilization rates convenience high, maybe a little too high.
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