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- 311: African Culture
- ... therefore be treated with the extreme suspicion which awareness of standpoint demands. Subaltern claims, as expressed for example through invocation of supposedly direct experiences of oppression -- of the form "As a black person, I know X...," or "As a woman, I know X... (where X is an undifferentiated generalization about blacks' or women's experience) -- are also suspect. With these guidelines in mind, let us briefly explore the terrain of the racial politics of identity, focusing our attention on ...
- 312: Book Report on "The Lost World"
- Book Report on "The Lost World" Characters: The main character in the book is Ian Malcolm, a middle aged mathematician and a little bit of an explorer. The man who set up the exploration, Richard Levine, is a rich and reckless yet well known adventurer who spends a lot of his ... the old employees of InGen and get him to tell him about and the location of the island. With his information Levine made a team of five people to take to the island himself, Ian Malcolm Sarah Harding, Jack Thorne, and Eddie Carr, the top employee of Thorne. They were going to leave in two weeks when Thorne finds out that Levine has left for the island early wanting to be ... It landed whimpering in pain loudly and he then heard the loud mom and dad coming. He grabbed the child, held it's mouth shut, got in the car, and headed for the trailer quickly. Malcolm sedated the baby and with the help of Sarah made a special cast for it's leg out of some of the medical supplies but after the baby awoke it wasn't happy. It ...
- 313: Atomic Bomb 5
- ... a sample with his famous equation E=mc^2 . Using this equation, the amount of energy in 1 gram of a substance can be found: 1 g = 0.001 kg c = speed of light = 3 x 10^8 m/s E= (0.001 kg) x (3 x 10^8 m/s)^2 = 300,000 Joules In one gram of a substance, there is the potential for 300,000 Joules of energy to be released. Most nuclear weapons, however, use much more ...
- 314: Hepatitis B Virus
- ... virus in the Hepadnaviridae family. HBV causes hepatitis in human and related virus in this family cause hepatitis in ducks, ground squirrels and woodchucks. The HBV genome has four genes: pol, env, pre-core and X that respectively encode the viral DNA-polymerase, envelope protein, pre-core protein (which is processed to viral capsid) and protein X. The function of protein X is not clear but it may be involved in the activation of host cell genes and the development of cancer. Hepatitis B is a serious public health problem that affects people of all ages ...
- 315: A Serialization Of The Charact
- ... and courage in battle, fighting for Duncan against a rebel lord. Macbeth is busily basking in his own glory and soaking up credit when Duncan basically steals his spotlight from right over his head, proclaiming Malcolm, Duncan’s son, as the heir-apparent. "My plenteous joys, wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves in drops of sorrow. (In reference to the nobility of Macbeth. He switches gears rather quickly.) Sons, kinsmen, thanes, and you whose places are the nearest, know we will establish our state upon our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter the Prince of Cumberland;" (Act 1, Scene 4, Lines 39-45) This action also belittles Macbeth’s achievement, since the procession of the throne is not necessarily dictated by bloodlines. Duncan is basically announcing that Macbeth, while noble, is inferior to his wonderful son Malcolm, and deserves a nice spot in the sun even though his actions were less. This is where Duncan provokes Macbeth to hate him and also points out what Macbeth must do to become King. ...
- 316: The Right Stuff
- ... thousands of infinitesimal technical speculations. An example of one of his many detailed sentences is found on page fifty-six and states, "Aviation had drawings and most specifications of a 15 ton ship called the X-15B, a winged craft that would be launched by three enormous rockets each with 415,000 pounds of thrust whereupon the ships two pilots would take over with the X-15B’s own 75,000 pound engine, make three or more orbits around the earth, reenter the atmosphere and land on a dry lake bed at Edwards like any other pilot in the X series." This sentence shows many technical aspects about the craft. The sentence did not seem overloaded with details because they are spaced out. Tom Wolfe’s writing helps the reader better understand the technical ...
- 317: Immigration
- ... The story of how these African-Americans were freed from slavery and gained political freedom has become a part of history. Some famous leaders during that time were Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson, and Malcolm X. African Americans have effected our culture in many ways. Now, they hold positions of power in many areas of life. The Scotish-Irish came from Ireland and mainly settled in the valleys of Pennsylvania and ...
- 318: An Appreciation Of The Poem Di
- ... and courage in battle, fighting for Duncan against a rebel lord. Macbeth is busily basking in his own glory and soaking up credit when Duncan basically steals his spotlight from right over his head, proclaiming Malcolm, Duncan s son, as the heir-apparent. "My plenteous joys, wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves in drops of sorrow. (In reference to the nobility of Macbeth. He switches gears rather quickly.) Sons, kinsmen, thanes, and you whose places are the nearest, know we will establish our state upon our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter the Prince of Cumberland;" (Act 1, Scene 4, Lines 39-45) This action also belittles Macbeth s achievement, since the procession of the throne is not necessarily dictated by bloodlines. Duncan is basically announcing that Macbeth, while noble, is inferior to his wonderful son Malcolm, and deserves a nice spot in the sun even though his actions were less. This is where Duncan provokes Macbeth to hate him and also points out what Macbeth must do to become King. ...
- 319: Civil Rights
- ... discrimination in most public accommodations, authorizes the federal government to withhold funds from programs practicing discrimination, and creates the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 1964: Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1965: Malcolm X is assassinated while addressing a rally of his followers in New York City; three black men are ultimately convicted of the murder. 1965: Rioting in the black ghetto of Watts in Los Angeles leads to ...
- 320: Amazing Grace
- ... with the children of this squalid neighborhood, we find that the children speak honestly and freely about their feelings. Forgotten, hidden, abandoned, are just some of the words that come to mind. One boy named “Malcolm X” wears his hair in a style referred to as “25 years to life”. His sister asks “Like in prison..? This is how you want to wear your hair?” His reply ”You don’t have to ...
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