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- 591: Juice
- ... skinny high school kid who wants a girlfriend or weight lifter looking to increase his physical ability. Steroids also has many negative effects, both mentally and physically. Physically, there are both long term effects and short term effects. The long term effects include jaundice, cancer, and death. Short term effects include hypertension and severe acne. The mental effects are aggressiveness, depression, mood swings and psychosis. The liver is the body organ most effected by steroid use because it is the primary means of ... repeated amounts of steroids and not been affected. All users are affected, just not all the same. The user might have some glory years in the beginning, but after that its all down hill. Repeated stories of football players and weight lifters have been told in magazines and newspaper articles. All of the stories and warnings will not stop a first time user from beginning to abuse steroids. They can ...
- 592: D.h. Lawrence
- ... Lovers was published in Great Britain. It did not sell spectacularly well, and Lawrence faced the possibility that he may have to return to teaching. He managed, however, to keep up a constant stream of short stories, articles, essays and poetry which enabled the pair to live the very simple life with which they were satisfied. The lovers returned to England briefly during this year for Frieda to try to make contact ... the World, is how Lawrence feels about his wife, how much he lovers her and urns to be with her. There are many more examples of Lawrence's life influencing his poetry as well as short stories and novels. Lawrence felt that writing was a way to let all of his feeling's out about the world around him. This is why many of his poems resemble actual life events.
- 593: Wyatt Earp
- ... Wyatt won the election by 35 votes. Newton, being the half brother of the other Earps, is hardly mentioned in any reference. We know that he fought in the Civil War and died just a short time before Wyatt. He farmed for several year near Garden City, Kansas and died in December of 1928. Newton most likely ran against Wyatt to keep others from running against him. He would later name ... honesty and integrity, that his character while here was of the best, and that no fault was ever found with him as an officer or as a man." Wyatt Earp was only in Wichita a short time. While he seemed to be a capable officer, he angered some of the town fathers when he got in a fist fight with a man who was running against his boss and friend, Marshal ... One example is the incident with Mannen Clements that was portrayed in the movie Wyatt Earp. Noted Earp author Glenn Boyer notes in his book, The Suppressed Murder of Wyatt Earp, that most of those stories were made up by authors such as Stuart Lake and to his knowledge, Wyatt Earp never claimed to have a part in them. While most of the stories about Wyatt Earp's life in ...
- 594: Compare And Contrast Of The Me
- ... hurt anybody. There is absolutely no such thing as an existentialist because he would have to be so uninvolved to the point where he would not be able to live at all. Although the two stories: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and The Stranger by Albert Camus are very different in approach, their endings are similar in that they both support the basics of existentialism. The biggest difference between the two ... The two characters are similar in the way that they do not believe in God and will both die lonely and abandoned. Kafka creates a very lonely and abandoned world for Gregor Samsa in his short novel Metamorphosis. Gregor is an existentialist character who mutates into a giant bug without reason and no longer has any control over his life. He becomes completely uninvolved in the way that he does not ... Gregors mother is disgusted by the looks of him and refuses to see or talk to him. Gregor is now lonely and abandoned by his family, does not eat and eventually dies. In the short novel The Stranger, Mersault is also an existentialistic character. He does not wish to become involved with anyone, including God and his own mother and does not have any emotion what so-ever when ...
- 595: Sybolism In White Fang
- ... turner. Such a fine example of this is Jack London s White Fang. A very wonderful tool to an author is the use of symbols within a story. One of the more common symbols throughout short stories and novels ultimately refers to the bible and religious history. In most, if not all stories have the relationship between good and evil heaven and hell. Whether implied or not by Jack London, White Fang is full of many interesting biblical symbols. The character Beauty Smith, for instance very simply ...
- 596: Catcher In The Rye 4
- ... just a regular writer Now he s out in Hollywood being a prostitute". Holden often thought that D.B should leave his job in Hollywood writing movies and go back to his old life writing short stories. He should do that so that he could stop trying to please the people and just please himself. Another way that D.B was on Holden s mind was how Holden thought about the many stories that D.B. would read him at night. When thinking of this it would remind Holden of the good times at home, this was a time when he felt comfortable and was a memory ...
- 597: Marijuana And Hemp, The Untold
- ... marijuana), thus making industrial hemp useless as a drug. Although marijuana is most commonly known as a recreational drug, marijuana also has many medicinal uses. During the 1930s, the American media ran many blatantly-false stories depicting marijuana as an extremely dangerous drug. Because these lies went unchallenged, marijuana and hemp were effectively banned in 1938. Recently, hemp has been rediscovered as a natural resource that has great economic and environmental ... it everywhere." -President George Washington, 1794 During World War II, the U.S. government urged patriotic American farmers to grow
Hemp For Victory Fibers needed to make rope, textiles and other materials were in such short supply during World War II, the U.S. government temporarily re-legalized hemp cultivation so American farmers could grow it for the war effort. Although the government allowed more than 350,000 acres (550 square ... totally absent from the American vocabulary. In the 1930s, Americans knew that hemp was a common, useful, and harmless crop. It is extremely unlikely anyone would have believed hemp was dangerous, or would have believed stories of hemp madness. Thus, the words marijuana and reefer were substituted for the word hemp in order to frighten the public into supporting Hemp Prohibition. Very few people realized that marijuana and hemp came ...
- 598: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
- ... Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado") to delve into the inner workings of the dark side of the mind. Style and Interpretation "'The Black Cat' is one of the most powerful of Poe's stories, and the horror stops short of the wavering line of disgust" (Quinn 395). Poe constructed this story in such a way that the events of the tale remain somewhat ambiguous. As the narrator begins to recount the occurrences that "...have ... the spirits of the dead. Appropriately, the narrator calls his cat, Pluto, who in Greek and Roman mythology was the god of the dead and the ruler of the underworld (symbolism). As in other Poe stories ( "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Gold Bug"), biting and mutilation appear. The narrator of "The Black Cat" first becomes annoyed when Pluto "inflicted a slight wound upon [the] ...
- 599: Catcher In The Rye
- ... just a regular writer
Now hes out in Hollywood being a prostitute". Holden often thought that D.B should leave his job in Hollywood writing movies and go back to his old life writing short stories. He should do that so that he could stop trying to please the people and just please himself. Another way that D.B was on Holdens mind was how Holden thought about the many stories that D.B. would read him at night. When thinking of this it would remind Holden of the good times at home, this was a time when he felt comfortable and was a memory ...
- 600: Frederic Douglass
- ... that the master, Aaron Anthony was his father. Frederick's mother was required to work long hours in the fields, so he lived with his grandmother, Betsey Baily. Betsy Baily lived in a cabin a short distance from Holmes Hill Farm. Her job was to look after Harriet's children until they were old enough to work. "Frederick's mother visited him when she could, but he had only a hazy ... to omit details that would identify him as the fugitive slave Frederick Baily. Douglass did very well and had success on the lecture circuit. Douglass's early speeches dealt with his own experiences. He told stories about the brutal beatings given by slaveowners to women, children, and elderly people. He loved to imitate clergymen who warned slaves that they would be offending God if they disobeyed their masters. The stories that Douglass told were just what the people wanted to hear. After Douglass's first trial period as a lecturer was over he was asked to continue with his work, and he agreed. During ...
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