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- 181: Katherine Anne Porter
- ... have Mexican settings. Porter's other major collections include Hacienda (1934), Noon Wine (1937), Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), The Leaning Tower (1944), and Collected Stories (1965), which was awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Porter's only novel, Ship of Fools (1962), depicts an ocean voyage from Mexico to Germany on the eve of World War II. Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter also appeared in ... mother to hear him and wanting her to know that he is hurting inside from being rejected, so he can get the attention he deserves. According to Richard McGhee in The Critical Survey of Short Fiction, "His hatred is understandable, since no one genuinely reaches out to love him and help him with his very real problems of adjustment" (1912). This statement explains how the actions of Porter's main character ... Other Stories. New York: Dell, 1934. 21-9. - - -. "The Downward Path to Wisdom." The Leaning Tower and Other Stories. New York: Dell, 1934. 81-111. McGhee, Richard D. "Katherine Anne Porter." Critical Survey of Short Fiction. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Vol. 5. Boston: Salem, 1993.
- 182: Legalizing Idustrial Hemp
- ... thousand years and were the first to develop a paper industry for hemp scrolls (Lower 7). Paper made from hemp is known as the "archivist's perfect paper" because it lasts much longer than tree pulp paper and does not harden, crack, yellow, or crumble with age (Conrad 24). Hemp fiber can be used to make every grade of paper (Popular Mechanics 240). The hemp stalk is composed of 80% hurds ... from the hemp fiber (Dewey, Lyster). The hurds are 50% - 77% cellulose, (Popular Mechanics 240) which makes them ideal for use in paper and plastic products. One acre of hemp hurds can make as much pulp for paper as four acres of trees (Dewey, Lyster). Hemp paper can be whitened without producing dioxins and lasts much longer than paper made from trees (Dewey, Lyster). Hemp hurds can be pressed and injected ... new farming opportunities and make farmers competitive in the global market against countries that already grow hemp for fiber. It would also create thousands of processing and manufacturing jobs in such industries as textiles, plastics, pulp paper, energy, timber, construction, and food.. The retail market for tree-free paper and building materials, for biodegradable plastics, for soft and durable natural clothing, and for other hemp products has huge potential. Hemp ...
- 183: The Movie Industry Analysis
- ... sell-through market could allow disney to double or triple its foreign video revenues by the year 2000. Threats - Damaged reputation due to expansion into mix of movie themes in the industry. R-rated thrillers (Pulp Fiction)(The Crying Game). Warner Brothers Strengths - consistent track record and ability to avoid costly bombs. Notable success worldwide. Fulfilled moviegoers' desire for westerns when other studios did not. Ability to put together production deals with ...
- 184: Is The Illegalization of Marijuana Valid?
- ... invention, hemp would have been able to take over competing industries almost instantaneously. According to Popular Mechanics, "10,000 acres devoted to hemp will produce as much paper as 40,000 acres of average [forest] pulp land." William Hearst owned enormous timber acreage so his interest in preventing the growth of hemp can be easily explained. Competition from hemp would have easily driven the Hearst paper-manufacturing company out of business ... had ever heard of before... 'marijuana'". DuPont's involvement in the anti-hemp campaign can also be explained with great ease. At this time, DuPont was patenting a new sulfuric acid process for producing wood-pulp paper. According to the company's own records, wood-pulp products ultimately accounted for more than 80% of all DuPont's railroad car loadings for the 50 years the Marijuana Tax Act was passed. It should also be said that two years before the ...
- 185: Upton Sinclair
- ... old, the family packed up and moved to New York City ( Where there were more opportunities to succeed ). Upton Beall Sinclair began writing when he was 15 years old. He mostly wrote ethnic jokes and fiction for a fun magazine. He wrote these silly stories and jokes in order for the magazine to pay for his studies at New York City College. After he was done at New York City College ... book to put him over the top. In 1900 Sinclair married his first wife. This was a start of a whole new era of writing for him. By 1904 Sinclair was moving toward a realistic fiction type of writing. He had become a regular reader of the "Appeal to Reason", which was a popular socialist-populist weekly magazine at that time. Uptons big break came in 1906 when he published ... California, but failed in the election just like the ones he was in before. Having spent the decade making movies with Eisenstein, and running for political office, Sinclair decided to return to his writing of fiction. He regained his popularity in 1940 with the writing of the Lanny Budd series, consisting of 11 contemporary historical novels. From Pasadena Sinclair suddenly moved in 1953 to a remote Arizona village of Buckeye. ...
- 186: Controlling Computers With Neu
- In the classic science-fiction movie Forbidden Planet, space travelers from Earth land on a distant planet, where they encounter the remnants of a technologically advanced civilization. Even though they are not from this distant planet, the space travelers are ... computers. They do this by connecting themselves to glowing head probes. By doing this the space travelers thoughts and feelings are directly conveyed to the alien computer over a neural link. In the science-fiction movie The Matrix, the world is run by machines that use humans as batteries so sustain themselves. A group of humans brake the grip of the machines and begin to wage a war on their ... this, the people are able to turn their thoughts, such as dodging bullets and knowing Kung-Fu, into reality. The idea of people having their minds linked to computers has appeared throughout works of science-fiction. The way this idea works is very simple. A person thinks of a command and the computer immediately responds. Thought recognition would be the ultimate computer interface, the machine acting as an extension of ...
- 187: Children Stories
- ... like two stars"(p.221) giving a magical image to the novel. Strong and imaginative characters are needed in any book to bring out the story the author is trying to tell whether it is fiction or non-fiction. Roald Dahl also presents many imaginative devices that don't exist but that he is capable of making sound so real. To begin with, in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, each one of the five ... Roald Dahl is capable of using his wild and imaginative ideas to create a wonderful children's novel. He has incorporated imaginative situations, characters and devices, making his novels exciting from cover to cover. Good fiction novels should contain imaginative situations, characters and devices because it is an entertaining way for the author to connect with the reader.
- 188: Interplay Between Fantasy And Reality In The Gothic
- ... stark raving reality as an adult. ( Stephen King Nightmares and Dreamscapes : 8 ) This quote from one of America's leading writers' highlights one of the most important reasons for the use of fantasy in gothic fiction. Fantasy cannot only create terror but can mentally protect us from real life horrors which we don't want to acknowledge - not necessarily a good thing as much gothic fiction has shown. I will study the interplay between the elements of realism and fantasy via the use of the following texts: Angela Carter's' The Bloody Chamber focusing mainly on "The Bloody Chamber" and "The ... also be references to Stanley Kubrick's film version of The Shining and Wes Craven's modern gothic film The People Under the Stairs. The most obvious use of the fantasy/reality interface in gothic fiction is the fact that the fantasy almost always exists within the reality. On a basic level this means that the stereotypical gothic castle where the story ( a fantasy ) unfolds is always in a real ...
- 189: Sylvia Plath Compare To Esther
- ... father. He has done so by not being there to give her a better image of what a good husband is. Similar to Steven Gould Axelrod, one could argue that "Daddy" is a work of fiction. He states that "Plath herself introduced it on the BBC as the opposite of confession, as a constructed fiction
since its details depart freely from the facts of her biography"(DM, pg. 63). While the fact that the poem does not follow her biography remains a valid point, it is easy to see otherwise ... with her anger over her father's death in the poem. The reader easily finds the poem to be an expression of her inability to come to terms with her father's death. The only fiction in the poem is that her father was a Nazi. Plath remembers him as having similar characteristics, but he was not involved in the war. Consequently, the reader must conclude that, "Daddy is a ...
- 190: Teeth and Diseases Affecting Your Teeth
- ... held tightly together at their junction by a meshwork of organic material. Pain-mediating nerves are present at the enamel-dentin junction and within the dentin tubules. The central portion of tooth, called the dental pulp, is composed of loose connective tissue and contains nerves and blood vessels that are extensions of those within the jawbone. The pulp is lined with odontoblasts, which, in the event of tooth decay (dental caries) or an injury, are capable of producing reparative dentin through the life of the tooth. DISEASES Teeth can be affected by a ... debtition are dental caries, peridontal disease, and malocclusion. Dental caries is a bacterially caused resorption or destruction of the enamel and dentin of the tooth, leading eventually, if untreated, to an infection of the dental pulp and an abcess of the apex of the tooth. The caries-causing bacteria proliferate within a protective covering, called plaque, on the tooth surfaces and produce both acid and enzymes to break down the ...
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