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- 241: The Color People
- ... prospects and began to start Celie thinking of leaving Mr.____ in search of a better life. The final straw that led to convincing Celie to leave was the horrifying act that Mr.____ had been withholding letters to Celie from her sister Nettie. Nettie was the luckier of the two sisters. She had met the people that had adopted Celie's children, befriended them and traveled to Africa with them. Once there she lived among the Olinka tribe. All the time that she was in Africa she wrote letters to Celie. She never got any reply but she never gave up hope. Celie really admired Nettie, and she was a powerful influence upon her life even though she wasn't present. "How I'm ...
- 242: Climatology
- ... climates are marked by certain prevailing characteristics that can be mapped such as continuous snow or deserts. One of the most popular classification systems is the Koppen Climate Classification system, which gives different climates three letters that describe that climate. The Koppen Climate Classification system is comparatively simple and is based on a triad of letter symbols. The first (capital) letter is the critical one; the A climates are humid and ... the B climates are very dry; the C climates are humid and mild; the D climates reflect increasing cold; and the E climates mark the polar areas. The first letter is followed by two more letters that further define the climate of that region. The second letter represents and explains the dry season: whether there is or isn't a dry season, whether it is a short or long dry season ...
- 243: Internet For Newbies
- ... vocabulary, even if they do not fall into traditional grammatical rules. Emoticons are not used as words, they are an attempt at expressing feelings without the luxury of using one's voice. Using all-capital letters is another way Net users have found to bring voice to their written communication; in the form of shouting. Net user's use capital letters very sparingly, only to emphasize very important words or ideas, because most readers do not wish to be shouted at. Perhaps the most interesting characteristic of Netspeak, however, is pronunciation. Most frequently, a user's ...
- 244: The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
- ... did. Duddy did not receive the same kind of love from his father or uncle as Lennie did. When Duddy comes back from work at, he asks, "Why [Max] didn't answer any of [his] letters?" He replies he wasn't "one for letters." "But Duddy remembered that when Lennie had worked as a camp counsellor one summer his father had written every week. He had driven out to visit him twice."(pp. 104 & 105) Duddy did not have ...
- 245: Alice Walker
- ... period between the World Wars, telling the story of two sisters, one a missionary in Africa, the other a child-wife living in the South. They sustain each other, and themselves, through a series of letters. However, many critics have objected to its representation of black men. The main problem is its representation of the husband, who was extremely violent and abusive, which some think seemed to represent the whole of ... journal writer believes that Many of the critics think that it hurt the black movement more than it helped because of how she depicted the black man (Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters, p. 294). This interpreted his character as a composite of black men in general, but she was even more disappointed about the public s response to The Color Purple in that people said, this doesn ...
- 246: Hamlet Observations Of Madness
- ... oft as any passion under heaven That does afflict our natures. What, have you given him any hard words of late? Ophelia: No, my good lord; but, as you did command, I did repel his letters and denied His access to me. The obedient Ophelia has followed her father s injunctions and repelled Hamlets letters and denied him access to her. Polonius is certain that these rebuffs have driven Hamlet mad. His only action is to inform the king and queen, and to let them decide what the next move ...
- 247: Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging an Honest Consensus
- ... is outlined and the possible advantages are summarized. THE PROBLEM THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION Four centuries ago, some Europeans complained that the existing academic institutions were biased against them. Insiders, it was said, were "inflated by letters" and shunned anyone who dared "speculate on anything out of the common way" [De]. Outsiders -- astrologers, chemists, and people like Bacon and Galileo -- argued that they and their theories should be judged by how well ... won't Ehrlich bet again, though his predictions remain unchanged, but none of these editorial writers will actually put their money where there mouths are! And the papers that published these editorials won't publish letters from Simon accepting their challenges [Si]. Shouldn't Simon's open challenges count as much as best-sellers in setting environmental policy? - If the primary way that academics are now rewarded for being right, rather ...
- 248: Machiavelli - The Prince
- ... despotic form of government that he would rather have it be a strong yet merciful tyranny. He wasn t paid for writing The Prince, it wasn t even originally a book, but a series of letters to the Prince Lorenzo de Medici. He wrote it during exile, after he had been arrested and tortured by Medici s people, so it is doubtful that they had a bountiful relationship. Machiavelli s intent ... also how to handle internal problems; such as when to bribe, oppress, cajole etc Machiavelli s real objective in writing The Prince was far different from the words that are found composed by him. The letters from Machiavelli to the Prince of Florence were not messages of suggestion as much as they were a job application for a place in his dynasty. The actual ambition of Machiavelli was to use this ...
- 249: Albert Einstein 2
- ... that to me that he was the only person bold enough to stand up for what he believed in firmly, just like John Hancock and his famous signature in the Declaration of Independence. Einstein s Letters to Roosevelt whom he sent stated, (Partial Letter One) Sir: Some recent work by E.Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium ... learned that research there is carried out in great secrecy and that it has been extended to another of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, the Institute of Physics.(Albert Einstein, Ronald W. Clark. Einstein) What these letters did was, it sparked the start of the Manhattan project. The Manhattan Project was a covert operation to build an atomic bomb to use as soon as possible. The Manhattan project was not know to ...
- 250: Neal Cassady
- ... least the spirit of it, alive. The most can be learned of Neal Cassady through his correspondence with Kerouac, Ginsberg and Kesey. The First Third, Keseys unfinished autobiography, includes the most famous of these letters, called "The Great Sex Letter," from Cassady to Kerouac. Reading his words and manner of speech, his speed of living can be felt. He tells of bars and women and adventuring. The letters are littered with capitalized and underlined words, exclamation points and question marks. His mere style of writing speaks much of his character. He changes subjects rapidly and tells his stories in ways that make them ...
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