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- 461: Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City: You are the Coma Baby
- ... of narcotic-induced pleasure. The author uses the interaction of the main character and the Coma Baby as proof that the main character will not realize the fallacies of his ways until he has hit rock-bottom. The Coma Baby is shown to be the symbolic representation of the main character through his actions and philosophy toward life, a philosophy wholly irresponsible and unmotivated. As the main character approaches he asks ... the novel. The author's purpose in doing so is to show the fallacy of the main character's situation:that he will not realize how he is destroying his life until he has hit rock bottom. Throughout the passage the main character tries to convince the baby to improve its life, yet the Baby remains stubborn as does the main character in his own life. As the main character does ...
- 462: Young Goodman Brown: The Downfall of Young Goodman Brown
- ... arrogance. He believes that he is better than everyone else in that he alone can destroy evil. Brown then comes upon the ceremony which is setup like a perverted Puritan temple. The altar was a rock in the middle of the congregation and there were four trees surrounding the congregation with their tops ablaze, like candles. A red light rose and fell over the congregation which cast a veil of evil ... The "communion of your race" statement reflects to the irony of Brown's earlier statement that he comes from "a race of honest men and good Christians.") The leader than dips his hand in the rock to draw a liquid from it and "to lay the mark of baptism upon their foreheads". Brown than snaps out from his trance and yells "Faith! Faith! Look up to Heaven and resist the wicked ...
- 463: Angel Island
- ... Workingmen's Party was the group that became most responsible for violent acts toward the Chinese. Chinese received no protection from the state, federal, or even their own government. The most serious attack was in Rock Springs, Wyoming, where 28 Chinese were murdered and hundreds were wounded and shipped out of the state by trains.7 The lack of job employment and persecution scattered Chinese all over the country. During 1873 ... dollars per acre two years later. When the Chinese first started arriving in California, they discovered that the waters were abundant with seafood. Chinese fishing camps began appearing along the shoreline. Fishermen caught salmon, sole, rock cod, barracuda, shrimp, clams, crabs, and various other forms of sea life. Abalone was gathered like gold. At that time, white people didn't even know abalone was edible and since California had no preexisting ...
- 464: Frankenstein Biography, Settin
- ... or the Modern Prometheus). According to Greek mythology, Prometheus is a hero who steals fire from the heavens to serve man, but he is ultimately punished by the mighty Zeus, who chains him to a rock, where a vulture feasts on his liver. Inexplicably, however, the liver grows back each night. This reference abounds with Gothic possibilities, which Mary Shelley was, no doubt aware. She was long a fan of Gothic ... from the sun. The people were thereby given an advantage to the animals since fire gave man the ability to make weapons and tools. Prometheus was severely punished by Zeus who chained him to a rock in the Caucasus. Every night, Prometheus was visited by an eagle who ate from his liver. During the day, however, his liver grew back to its original state. It also refers to the story of ...
- 465: Howard Hughes
- ... to Europe for a honeymoon, and returned exactly $50,000 poorer. In 1908, Big Howard turned his ingenuity and his hobby to tinker into good fortune. Current drilling technology was unable to penetrate the thick rock of southwest Texas and oilmen could only extract the surface layers of oil, unable to tap the vast resources that lay far below. Big Howard came up with the idea for a rolling bit, with 166 cutting edges and invented a method to keep the bit lubricated as it tore away at the rock. Later that year, Big Howard produced a model and went into business with his leasing partner, Walter B. Sharp, forming the Sharp-Hughes Tool Company. Rather than sell the bits to oil drillers, Hughes and ...
- 466: History Of The F-16
- ... while doing a practice show before Paris. On takeoff, he did what was then an unique maneuver... almost as the wheels left the ground, the gear was cycled, the aircraft put into a 270 degree roll, then immediately placed into a 9g turn. Unfortunately, one of the tires was slightly out of balance, and this combined with the abnormal torque on the gear from being in a roll caused one of the main gear tires to jam on a ledge when it entered the wheel well. Anderson had no choice but to put the wheels up, and put it down in the dirt ...
- 467: Engagment Ring
- ... what they want. Men will attempt to do whatever it takes to show their affection and make women happy, including moving mountains or spending two months' salary on a simple band of metal with a rock in it. The search for the perfect ring may take the man to the ends of the earth, or at least to a bigger mall, before that flawless gem is found and the woman's approval is evident. The simple band of metal with a rock in it that is just a ring to men, signifies beauty and elegance that is found to be attractive and exquisite to women. Women will seek special occassions to attend, just to show off the ...
- 468: Goundwater
- ... ground water joins the surface runoff and can evaporate again, repeating the cycle. D'arcy's Law says that as water infiltrates into the ground and is pulled downward by gravity, it follows curved. The rock or dirt immediately beneath the earth's surface is made up of solids and voids. The voids are cracks in the rock, air pockets or sand. All water beneath the surface is in these spaces and is called underground or subsurface water. Subsurface water can be found in two different zones: One zone is immediately underneath the ...
- 469: The Waste Land
- ... bringing of water, to the dry land. For most of the poem the water never arrives because there is always something missing. In lines 331 and 332 Eliot says, "Here is no water but only rock/ Rock and no water". In line 342 there is, "dry sterile thunder without rain". The lack of water in ceremonies of nature that require it, lead to a broken ceremony.. Even at the beginning of the ...
- 470: Abbey, and His Fear of Progress
- ... used to be; at once-lush forests now clear-cut into lunar landscapes-or at huge dams on once-free rivers. Abbey loved the land so much that he wanted to be buried under a rock, in a sleeping bag, in the middle of the desert (Sandlin 11). Carved into the rock reads (Little 35): Works Cited Little, Charles E. "Books for the Wilderness." Wilderness. Summer 1994: 34-35. Sandlin, Tim. "Nightmare Abbey." The New York Times Book Review. 1994, December 11. Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus ...
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