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- 391: Romeo & Juliet: Friar Lawrence Is Short-Sighted
- Romeo & Juliet: Friar Lawrence Is Short-Sighted Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's plays about tragedy. It is about two lovers who commit suicide when their feuding famillies prevent them from being together. The play has many characters, each ... Lawrence does not have very much time on stage but the time he does have is crucial to the plot line. Through his words Friar Lawrence demonstrates the he is a good intentioned, yet sometimes short-sighted, man who is not afraid to take risks to help others. One of Friar Lawrences most favourable traits is how good intentioned he is. He may do something out of the ordinary if he ... an extremely risky thing to do because anything might happen to Juliet while she unconscious. Even after all Friar did to help Romeo and Juliet the play still ended in tragedy because of Friar Lawrences' short sightedness. When the Friar married Romeo Juliet in secrecy, he did not think of all the complications that would arise but instead went on with the marriage because at that time he thought it ...
- 392: Alzheimer's Disease: "Where has Yesterday Gone"
- ... types of "dismembering" enemies that hamper ones recall and retrieval system. "Forgetting may be increased by interference from proactive inhibition, that is material learned beforehand, like trying to remember a soup recipe (51)." In remembering stories or events there is a tendency for distortions to occur. Cutler explains that studies made by Elizabeth Loftus reveal, "what you learn today may actually distort your memory of what happened to you yesterday. . . (62 ... the same time the storage of the information will depend on the importance of information to the individual. "Neural decay is perhaps the simplest types of forgetting (Seligmann 51)." As explained by Dick Gilling, "the short-term memory ‘holds' items until a person decides how important they are and if they need to be transferred to the long-term memory for permanent storage (15)." According to the experience, the brain has ... plaques and tangles appear in normal brains and gradually increase with the age Alzheimer's patient seems to have highly concentrated amount in the. . . "hippocampus portion of the brain, that the seat of memory, the short- term memory (Cutler 24). The third characteristic that changes in the brain of the Alzheimer's patient is the "granulovaculor degeneration (Gilling 13)." According to Gold, certain changes inside the cells themselves are taking ...
- 393: The Life and Works of Samual Clemens
- ... as apprentice and journyman pilot, until the civil war. For about two weeks Clemens served as a second lieutenant in Confederate Army, but he some how managed to get out because of diasabilities. After his short military career Clemens went back to his brother who had been appointed secretary of the territory of Nevada. Realizing that he had no money Clemens tried his hand in prospecting, which he found was not ... Mississippi, and Huckleberry Finn. Twain led a life that few ever get the chance to live, he truly was a glorious writer. II. Major themes Mark Twain used a consistent theme throughout many of his stories and novels. He often wrote about his own personal experiences. These experiences ranged from being a steamboat pilot to a reporter to half- hearted confederate soldier. Many of Twain's stories reflected that period of life in America. Many of the topics had to do with major issues such as slavery in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain's many experiences in life gave him ...
- 394: Brian Piccolo: A Short Season
- BRIAN PICCOLO: A SHORT SEASON The book, "Brian Piccolo: A Short Season" by Jeannie Morris, really depicts how one's true dream can become shattered by the monstrous disease that has come to be known as Cancer. One might think that this book is a boring ... the operation, but then the Piccolo's got another piece of disheartening piece of news. What was this piece of news, you might be asking yourself. The answer is in the book, "Brian Piccolo: A Short Season" by Jeannie Morris. This book traces the life and death of a superstar hwo had a dream. A dream to make his loving fans happy and to become a big name in the ...
- 395: What Is Radar
- ... sets come in many sizes. A small set, made for use in a guided missile, is not much larger than a coffeepot. The larger sets used to study distant planets may oupy a building many stories high. The size of a radar set depends on the job it is expected to do. But all radar sets, regardless of their size, use the principle of the echo. How Radar Works Radar sets ... air raids on Britain in World War II. An important step in making radar possible had taken place in the United States in 1925. The new idea was to send out the radio signals in short bursts, called Pulses. This was so important because if you imagine that you are about to shout across a canyon to make an echo. If you shout a long sentence, the first words will come back before you can finish the last words. It would be impossible to hear the echo clearly because it would be mixed with your own speech. But suppose you shout a short word, such as "Hello" The echo comes back crisp and clear with no interference. Now suppose a radio signal is given off in a short burst, or pulse, and is reflected from an object. ...
- 396: Marlowe Cut Short
- Marlowe Cut Short Christopher Marlowe, the author of many wonderful poems and plays, was born on February 6, 1564, the same year that the infamous William Shakespeare was born. Marlowe was raised in Canterbury, England and attended King ... Merry Wives of Windsor" Act III Sc. I. Some English critics believe that Shakespeare may have stolen some of Marlowe's plays and poems that had not yet been published. Marlowe's life was cut short so that Shakespeare could be come a god of English literature. Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is one of his most famous love poems that was not discovered until 6 years after ... poem was most likely a woman that he barely knew, he would have loved to be with her, but never would be able to. Marlowe was a wonderful writer, whose life and profession were cut short so that Shakespeare could shine in the light alone. No one will ever know if Marlowe would have shadowed Shakespeare instead of Shakespeare shadowing Marlowe if Marlowe had not been murdered at such a ...
- 397: Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and His Life
- ... him the news writing format which demands brief, to the point sentences and the smooth flowing of ideas. It seems that Hemingway adapted this style to his fiction writng. Hemingway demonstrates this talent in a short story called "A Clean Well-Lighted Place". When he was 19 Hemingway enlisted in the army. He was rejected due to a defective left eye. He then turned to the Red Cross in which he ... wasn't until Hemingway developed an interest in bull fighting that the idea for "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" may have come around. Bull fighting seemed to trigger a whole new interest in Spain. The short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" was set in a small cafe in Madrid, Spain. There is an old deaf man who sits alone on a patio, sipping brandy. Together two waiters observe the old ... show for life, no friends, not very much money, and no real love. At this point in his life, Hemingway may have seen himself here. "A Clean and Well-Lighted Place" originally appeared in a short story book, To Have and Have Not. This is a good summary phrase for this story. You have happiness or you don't, you have friends or lovers or you don't, you have ...
- 398: To Kill A Mockingbird 3
- ... and Jem meet Dill. Charles Baker Harris is six years old and he can read. He has good imagination and played well the ape of Tarzan. He has snow-white hair, blue eyes and is short. He gave the children the idea of making Boo Radley come out. They share stories and myths they heard about Boo Radley. He never comes out of the house, so they have never seen him or really know what he is like. After the first summer Scout starts her school ... take a check from a Delafield, all Buford s walk like that, and every third Merriweather is morbid". The next summer Scout, Jem and Dill continued their plays. They played Tarzan, Radley game and told stories. Most of the stories were about Boo Radley. One night they planned to go and peep in the window of the Radley place. They sneaked into the back yard. Jem crawled to the window ...
- 399: Robert Penn Warren
- Robert Penn Warren, born in Guthrie, Kentucky in 1905, was one of the twentieth century's most eminent American writers. He was a distinguished novelist and poet, literary critic, essayist, short story writer, and coeditor of numerous textbooks. He also a founding editor of The Southern Review, a journal of literary criticism and political thought. The primary influences on Robert Warren's career as a poet were probably his Kentucky boyhood, and his relationships with his father and his maternal grandfather. As a boy, Warren spent many hours on his grandfather's farm, absorbing stories of the Civil War and the local tobacco wars between growers and wholesalers, the subject of his first novel, Night Riders. His grandfather, Thomas Gabriel Penn, had been a calvary officer in the Civil War ... John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, and others interested in poetry. As part of The Fugitives, a private group that met off campus, he delved deeply into poetry, and his first poems were published in their short-lived quarterly. Warren had a remarkable capacity for friendship, and he was in touch with these men all of their lives. For years Tate was "first critic" of his poetry. After graduating from Vanderbilt ...
- 400: Bram Stoker
- ... the Dublin Castle. His literary career began as early as 1871 and in that year he took up a post as the unpaid drama critic for the "Evening Mail," while at the same time writing short stories. His first literary "success" came a year later when, in 1872, The London Society published his short story "The Crystal Cup." As early as 1875 Stoker's unique brand of fiction had come to the forefront. In a four part serial called the "Chain of Destiny," were themes that would become ...
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