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- 1481: Hurston's "Sweat": Women Overcoming Domestic Violence
- Hurston's "Sweat": Women Overcoming Domestic Violence Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” is a short story about the struggles and hardships in the life of an African American woman living in the south. The short story talked about the treatment of women in these times. Many women of present times can identify with the hardships that Delia encountered in her marriage. The story also deals with adultery in relationships and ... him abusing her and hitting her. A number of women of today need that same encouragement to stand up from themselves and put an end to the physical and mental abuse. Another issue in the short story deals with adultery. Sykes is sleeping behind Delia’s back with a lady named Bertha. He parades her around town and rubs it in Delia face that he has another woman. This treatment ...
- 1482: Margaret Laurence
- ... daughter Jocelyn. During their five years in Africa, Margaret produced her first novel, "This Side Jordan," which won the 1961 Beta Sigma Phi Award for the best first novel by a Canadian. A collection of short stories, "The Tomorrow Tamer," Written a few years later, is also set in West Africa. Out of her African years came an interest in contemporary literature by Africans, which resulted in her study of Nigerian fiction ...
- 1483: Steroids and The Big Picture
- ... many people that can do this. Besides, when the drug wears off, it causes the person to lose self-confidence and become dependant on the drug. When a steroid cycle is taken, it should be short on and off sessions, for example, six weeks on steroids, then a six-week period without steroids. But because people want to gain muscle quickly, this tip is usually disregarded and the user will use the steroid for a substantial about of time, thus resulting in short and long term side effects. The number one common mistake when using steroids is taking excessive dosages. More is not always better when it comes to this drug. Using immoderate dosages has become a big ... the dosage. Muscle wasting occurs with very long-term use of steroids. This involves the wasting of leg muscles. This can cause weakness. When the steroids are stopped, some people experience muscle cramps for a short time. With steroid usage, calcium may be lost from the bones and osteoporosis can occur. This can result in pain (especially in the lower back), an increased susceptibility to fractures, and loss of height. ...
- 1484: Biography Of John Steinbeck
- ... novel in 1929, Cup of Gold. Soon thereafter, Steinbeck married and moved back to California, where he published two more novels (The Pastures of Heaven and To a God Unknown), as well as worked on short stories. With the publication of Tortilla Flat in 1935, Steinbeck achieved popular success and financial security. A relentless and dedicated writer, Steinbeck experimented with many forms: In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes ...
- 1485: Causes of The First World War
- ... demobilize. Russia refused to do so, and on August 1 and 3 declared war on Russia and France. When war was declared in August people involved on all sides felt that it would be a short war, and will be over by Christmas. In order for Germany to accomplish its Schlieffen Plan, Germany occupied Belgium. By August most of Belgium was under German occupation and the Schlieffen Plan appeared to be ... German friends who are also fighting in World War I. It covers the horror of this war through the eyes of a young German solider, Paul Baumer. This book is not like other books and stories that glorify wars. It tells the horrors of war in detail. The story recalls the bloody details of bombing, gunfire, gas, hand-to-hand combat, barbed wire, trench warfare and etc. Remarque tells the story ...
- 1486: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... of the problems with this one was with supplying the troops. In the air, Castro had easily won superiority over the invading force. His fast moving T-33s, although unimpressive by today's standards, made short work of the slow moving B-26s of the invading force. On Tuesday, two were shot out of the sky and by Wednesday the invaders had lost 10 of their 12 aircraft. With air power ... the newspapers and they'd know that something was going to happen, that those planes that had bombed them were not their own but American. In The New York Times of the 21st of April, stories about the origins of the operation in the Eisenhower administration appeared along with headlines of "C.I.A. Had a Role In Exiles' Plans" revealing the CIA's involvement. By the 22nd, the story is ...
- 1487: Castles: Seen by the Light of a Thousand Candles
- ... room for dancing and later on, servants and lesser guests would sleep on the rushes that were strewn on the floors. Sometimes, as at Chepstow, the hall took the place of the keep, having two stories, with storage in the vaulted ground floor and the hall and chamber in the hall-keep style on the first floor side-by-side. The public nature of the Frankish, Celtic, and Viking civilizations is ... accommodations). As mentioned earlier, there were basically two styles of layout for the keep/ donjon: the earlier hall-keep, and the later tower-keep. The hall-keep (Castle Rising) had usually no more than two stories, a (vaulted) storage area on the ground floor (where a well was commonly located) under the hall and solar/ chamber which were situated alongside each other on the first floor. Sometimes there was an entrance/ foyer level between the two floors. After 1125, the tower-keep (Rochester) became more attractive to those building castles. With three or more stories to them, they would generally consist of a single floor on each story: a storage area on the ground floor, as with the hall-keep; the hall on the first floor; and the private ...
- 1488: Creatine Supplements and Athletes
- ... may allow for an accelerated rate of resynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). The accelerated resynthesis of ATP would allow individuals in athletic events that use the high intensity ATP-Pc energy system to perform longer. Short and long-term studies of creatine ingestion, has found one side effect; weight gain in fat free mass. Other theories of side effects stemming from creatine supplementation have been proposed. These side effect, most all ... rate. To increase performance, reconstruction of ATP from ADP must be sustained at longer rate. Having more PCr in the muscles can continue the reconstruction of ATP for longer periods. It has been reported that short-term creatine supplementation (15 to 25 grams/day for 5 to 7 days) has increased PCr stores by 10 to 40%. Performance in the 5 to 7 days of creatine supplementation has improved high intensity ... the muscle regenerate ATP at a faster and longer rate comparison to subjects with no creatine supplementation. Creatine supplementation enhances performance(s) using the PCr energy system. With increased ability to synthesize ATP, creatine supplementation (short and long-term) significantly increases strength; power, sprint performance, and/or work performed during multiple sets of maximal effort muscle contractions. For example creatine supplementation (25 g/d for 7-d) resulted in a ...
- 1489: Aldous Huxley
- ... died of cancer, and a year later Huxley married Italian violinist and psychotherapist Laura Achera (Brooke 199). By 1920 Huxley had published two more volumes of poetry. Huxley followed them with Limbo, a collection of short stories. In 1921 Huxley “made his reputation as a witty and cynical writer” with the publication of his first novel, Crome Yellow, (Philosopher’s Corner Presents: Aldous Huxley). His style, “a combination of dazzling dialogue, surface ...
- 1490: Anastasia
- ... Impatiev House (King 376). Anastasia had been shot and beaten, but had enough might to suddenly sit up and scream until she had been silenced. The massacre had only taken 3 minutes and in that short time span the room was covered with blood (Klier and Mingay 52). The 11 bodies were then taken to the Four Brothers Mine by Yurovsky (Halliday 134). Later that night, they were burned and the remains were placed in a mineshaft (McGuire 39). Many stories were going around Russia at this time. No one knew for sure where the tsarina and her daughters were. Some people thought that she and her daughters had been taken to Perm by the Bolsheviks ...
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