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- 1161: Environment Report: Tidal Power In The Bay of Fundy
- ... in a tidal bore. Usually the ingredients occur during a new moon with 15 feet tides and the opposing force of the Shubenacadie river to display the true Bay's magnificence. This part of St. John is divided into 3 main areas: the main Harbor, Courtenay Bay and the Outer Harbor. These areas are influenced by the Bay of Fundy tides and the currents of the St John River which flow out of the main Habour into the Bay. This section also experiences two high and two low tides each day (semi - diurnal), with a tidal range varying from 15 to 18 feet ... tides. High - water heights vary from 22 to 28 feet and low - water heights vary from 0 to 7 feet above chart data. Because of these semi - diurnal tides and the action of the St John River, slack water in the Habour occurs at approximately tides and not at high or low water as would be the case at other parts. THE RHYTHMIC RISE AND FALL In the Bay of ...
- 1162: The Beginnings of a National Literary Tradition
- ... movement. Before Lampman and the other Confederation poets there seemed to be a mere repetition of European ideas in literature in Canada. Even though Lampman was influenced by the great Romanticists in Britain, such as Keats and Wordsworth, he is still one of the most integral writers in Canadian poetry and literature in general. Lampman signaled the move from the ‘Immigrant' authors like Moodie and her counterparts toward a true and ... Co., 1927. Keith, W.J. "Archibald Lampman". Profiles in Canadian Literature Vol.I. Ed. Jeffrey M. Heath. Toronto: Dundurn Press Ltd., 1980. Lampman, Archibald. The Poems of Archibald Lampman. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1974. Marshall, John. "Archibald Lampman". Critical Views on Canadian Writers: Archibald Lampman. Ed. Michael Gnarowski. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1970. Rashley, R.E. Poetry in Canada: The First Three Steps. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1958. Stouck, David. Major Canadian University ...
- 1163: Runaways and the Abolition Movement: The Underground Railroad
- ... the Carolinas and Georgia customarily sought asylum with the Seminoles and freed African communities such as the Garcia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose (Fort Mose) and the Negro Fort (Fort Gadsden). According to historian John Blassingame, "by 1836 there were more than 1,200 maroons living in Seminole towns" (Buckmaster 1992: 18; Thompson 1987: 284-85; Gara 1961: 28-29; Preston 1933: 150; Deagan 1991: 5; Blassingame 1979: 211). In ... Liberator, and North Star newspapers. In the other extreme, abolitionism took form in slave insurrections that were usually planned and/or led by radicals and bondsmen such as Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, and John Brown. Inspired in part by the success of the Haitian Revolution, the number of revolts that occurred in the United States from 1790 to 1865 was small compared to other slave societies in the Western ... coupled with legendary flights of certain runaways introduced the name for the underground movement. Supposedly, the term Underground Railroad originated when an enslaved runaway, Tice Davids, fled from Kentucky and may have taken refuge with John Rankin, a White abolitionist, in Ripley, Ohio. Determined to retrieve his property, the owner chased Davids to the Ohio River, but Davids suddenly disappeared without a trace, leaving his owner bewildered and wondering if ...
- 1164: Cloning
- ... involved a leopard frog. It took place in, 1952 with group of scientist from the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia (Lawren). To clone the frog they used an embryonic frog cell nucleus(Margery). 1962, John Gurdon of Cambridge University cloned a toad that survive threw adulthood and was able to reproduce. He was also the first to take a nucleus from a fully contrast tadpole intestinal cell and cloned toads ... develop into a whole human being. We just don't have the right to manipulate the gene pool of human individuals."(Lawren). As you can see, Marie is against the cloning of human beings, but John C. Fletcher, Ph.D., of the University of Virginia's Center for Biomedical Ethics believes in cloning for human parts, but not for human manipulation. He says, "I don't think any [ethics] committee would ... Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1979 Lawren, Bill. Bionic Body Building. --: Longevity Publications Internation, Ltd., 1991. Rensberger, Boyce. The Frightful Invasion of the Body Doubles will have to Wait. Washington, D.C.:Washington Post, 1993 Robertson, John A. The Question of Human Cloning. New York: Hastings Center Report, 1994.
- 1165: The Grapes Of Wrath 5
- The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath was written by John Steinbeck in 1939. In 1940 it garnered him the Pulitzer Prize. The Grapes of Wrath has been called "The best example of the proletarian literature of the 1930 s." by Benet s Reader s Encyclopedia ... the Joad s informs Tom that his family, along with most tenant farmers of the area had been pushed off their land. He also tells him that his family is now living at his Uncle John s farm. Tom and Casy arrive at Uncle John s farm to find the Joads preparing to move again, this time to California. This is where Tom s family is introduced to us. There is Ma, Pa, Grampa and Granma, and Noah, the ...
- 1166: Hamlet
- ... that he is calculatedly choosing the times when to appear mad. “Hamlet feigns insanity because it allows him to do several things that he otherwise would not be able to do…” (The Hamlet Paradigm, by John S. Mamoun). Hamlet is very far form being mad, he is perfectly capable of recognizing his enemies. Hamlet's madness was faked for a purpose. He warned his friends he intended to fake madness, but ... that Hamlet knows the truth about his father's death, he immediately sends him away to England. He does this because now “[Hamlet’s] endeavor to kill Claudius is now justified” (The Hamlet Paradigm , by John S. Mamoun). In the scene in his mother's bedroom, Hamlet tells Gertrude that his insanity is assumed: "[I]t is not madness / I have utter'd: bring me to the test, / And I the ... by "loosing" Ophelia to him, Hamlet acts completely rationally. In the end, he avenges his father by killing Claudius not through an act of madness, but as a result of Claudius's own treachery. Bibliography John S. Mamoun, The Hamlet Paradigm, 12/01/1998, 04/15/00 http://www.hamlet.org\j_s_mamoun.html Word Count: 1549
- 1167: David Garrick
- ... fop characters was so lively, that later in his career he was challenged by unfounded accusations of homosexuality. He was said to be too effeminate in many of his roles, especially as a cross-dressing John Brute in The Provoked Wife. To save his dignity Garrick began to shy away from characters that had blatantly feminine characteristics (Straub 55). Garrick was not famous for having a strong voice. His oral recitation was adequate, but not outstanding. John Hill in essay "Understanding, Sensibility, and Fire" writes We remember the time when Mr. Garrick…[ran] himself so out of voice in some of the first scenes in the character of Pierre in Venice Preserved ... Kalman. David Garrick: Director. University of Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 1961 Cole, Toby and Chinoy,Helen Krich. Actors on Acting. Crown Publishers, Inc.: 1949. Le Brun, Charles. : Method to Learn to Design the Passions. Trans. John Williams. London. 1734 Stone, George Winchester and George M. Kahrl. David Garrick: A Critical Biography. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. Annotated Knight, Joseph. David Garrick. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., Ltd., 1894 ...
- 1168: William Shakespeare
- ... greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries as his. Shakespeare was born to middle class parents. His father, John, was a Stratford businessman. He was a glove maker who owned a leather shop. John Shakespeare was a well known and respected man in the town. He held several important local governmental positions. William Shakespeare's mother was Mary Arden. Though she was the daughter of a local farmer, she was related to a family of considerable wealth and social standing. Mary Arden and John Shakespeare were married in 1557. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford in 1564. He was one of eight children. The Shakespeare's were well respected prominent people. When William Shakespeare was about seven years ...
- 1169: The Last Gentleman By Walker P
- ... life and resolution with his father's suicide. Suicide may be the least forgivable sin of all human betrayals; Ed Barrett arrogantly and selfishly committed suicide, leaving himself dead and unanswerable to his son. As John M. Schwartz states, what finally provoked Mr. Barrett to suicide was, "His dance of honor collapsed amidst its moral ambiguities. At the last, he was a moralist, but his world completely failed to stand at ... were wrong and one looked in the wrong place" (Percy 332). Here Will is making excuses for why his father killed himself, unable to come to the hurtful conclusion that his father betrayed him. As John Edward Hardy writes, Will's statement "Wait. Don't leave" (Percy 331) is his final plea to his father, but Ed Barrett still defies his son's "direct and loving appeal for him to stay ... life meaning. Works Cited Dowie, William. "Walker Percy: Sensualist Thinker." Critical Essays on Walker Percy. Eds. Donald and Sue Mitchell. Critical Essays on American Literature. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall & Co., 1989. 157-70. Hardy, John Edward. The Fiction of Walker Percy's Novels. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Johnson, Mark. "The Search for Place in Walker Percy Novels." Critical Essays on Walker Percy. Eds. Donald and Sue Mitchell. ...
- 1170: Catcher In The Rye 4
- ... Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Both works feature naive, adolescent runaways as narrators, both commenting on the problems of their times, and both novels have been recurrently banned or restricted (Davis 318). John Aldrige remarked that both novels are "study in the spiritual picaresque, the joinery that for the young is all one way, from holy innocence to such knowledge as the world offers, from the reality which ... emotional frame of reference -- the reader knows them better than the other characters Holden encounters, who are generally, except for Phoebe, nonessential (71).When asked for a final comment on the character of Holden Caulfield, John Aldrige stated that the innocence of the main character was a combination of urban intelligence, juvenile contempt, and New Yorker sentimentalism. The only challenge it has left, therefore, is that of the genuine, the truly ... those are with unfortunate results (Kegel 55).The final step in the critical analyzing of The Catcher in the Rye is to look at what has occurred at or near the end of the novel. John Aldrige wrote that in the end, Holden remains what he was in the beginning- cyni cal, defiant, and blind. As for the reader, there is identification but no insight, a sense of"pathos but ...
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