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- 771: The Colonial Economy
- ... gold from the colonies. Due to this and the fact that, unlike some of Spain's colonies in Latin America, little gold was found during the Colonna period in the thirteen colonies, gold was in short supply. Therefore, in Virginia tobacco was drafted to serve as a medium of exchange (money). Paper money was issued in some of the colonies and produced inflation (a rise in the price level). Most of ... not be speeded up much, withoutout American gold Europe might have had output rising much faster than the money supply did; thus the price level could have fallen--significantly. Labor--particularly skilled labor-- was in short supply in the thirteen colonies throughout the colonial period and long afterwards. Skilled labor was in such short supply that the wage level for skilled labor was higher than in Europe. Because labor was in such short supply, indentured servants and slaves were resorted to. Labor was in short supply because of ...
- 772: Greasy Lake
- While reading Greasy Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle, the reader notices that the writing voice of Boyle is quite distinct. Boyle's voice is distinct because he has a satirical way of writing stories about the everyday life of people. He focuses on the unusual people and their peculiar circumstances, which in Boyle's case just adds to his already humorous stories. However, Boyle does not seem to concentrate on satire alone, he writes in a poetic fashion that allows the reader to enter the mind of the characters that he is writing about as well as feel the situations at hand. Boyle's distinct way of writing satire is apparent in most of his stories. Boyle wrote an absolutely hysterical story called "The New Moon Party." The story highlights a politician named George L. Thorkelsson who was re-elected to the position of Governor because he proposed to get ...
- 773: Traditions in "A Moment Before the Gun Went Off" and "The Lottery"
- Traditions in "A Moment Before the Gun Went Off" and "The Lottery" In the stories "A Moment before The Gun Went Off" and "The Lottery," there is the situation in which a group of people cling to traditions very blindly. In both stories the traditions are so dug into the people's way of life that questioning them is considered sacrilege within these communities. Furthermore, the members of the community no longer even remember why the traditions were set up in the fist place. They follow the traditions simply because their predecessors followed the traditions. Another similarity between the communities in both stories is, even though these traditions are firmly entrenched in these communities, they are rapidly losing there grip in other communities. This detail is not only mentioned in both stories, but looked down upon by ...
- 774: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- ... primarily on clinical definitions. To meet clinical definition the patient must show symptoms in three categories: prenatal or postnatal growth retardation; there must be central nervous system abnormalities; and characteristics abnormal facial features (dysmorphology), including short palpebral fissures (eye openings), an elongated mid-face, a long flatten philtrum (area between the nose and mouth) and a thin upper lip. There is also, a catch to diagnosing FAS, because applying these diagnostic ... babies hard to care for, and interfering with maternal bonding. Children with FAS receive the diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD) ; most in the first few years of school. Because of their high activity level, short attention span, and poor short-term memory. even if their IQ falls within the normal range, many need special educational help. In school, the FAS child's progress is further compromised as she or he gets older by inadequate ...
- 775: J.D. Salinger
- ... them for the better. The works of J.D. Salinger show the quest for happiness through religion, loneliness, and symbolism. Salinger’s works often use religion in order to portray comfort. In Salinger’s Nine Stories Franny Glass keeps reciting the "Jesus Prayer" to cope with the suicide of her brother Seymour (Bloom in Bryfonski and Senick 69). Salinger is able to use this prayer as a means of comfort for ... Bible. This helps Holden change his outlook on life (Salzberg 75). Holden was all alone at this point and had no one to turn back on, until he found the Bible (Salzberg 76). In both stories the characters had found themselves in bad situations. The characters in these works have obstacles which they must overcome in order to achieve happiness (Salzman 34). Happiness is the very substance which all of these ... to comfort them so that they can proceed on their quest to achieve happiness. Salinger uses religion as a means for liberation. Salinger uses much of the Zen philosophy, as in the case of Nine Stories, to achieve this liberation (Madsen 93). In Nine Stories one of the characters, Seymour Glass, is portrayed as Buddha in the sense that he wants to be liberated as Buddha was in his life ( ...
- 776: The Power On Self Test
- ... 10 beeps: CMOS Shutdown Register. The shutdown register for the CMOS memory Read/Write Error has failed. · 11 beeps: Cache Error / External Cache Bad. The external cache is faulty. Other AMI BIOS POST Codes · 2 short beeps: POST failed. This is caused by a failure of one of the hardware testing procedures. · 1 long & 2 short beeps: Video failure. This is caused by one of two possible hardware faults. 1) Video BIOS ROM failure, checksum error encountered. 2) The video adapter installed has a horizontal retrace failure. · 1 long & 3 short beeps: Video failure. This is caused by one of three possible hardware problems. 1) The video DAC has failed. 2) the monitor detection process has failed. 3) The video RAM has failed. · 1 long ...
- 777: The Canterbury Tales: Analysis
- The Canterbury Tales: Analysis The Canterbury Tales are a series of stories written by the late, great English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. The tales are about a group of twenty-nine pilgrims who set off on a pilgrimage to a cathedral in Canterbury, England, about five miles south ... Becket was murdered in 1170. This was the pilgrimage the twenty nine characters would make. They would start at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, which is near London. The characters in this story tell the stories themselves. This style of writing is called framework. There are twenty-four different stories told by the characters who interact with each other throughout the entire tale. The stories are mostly old familiar ones revamped and retold with the Chaucer style. Most of the stories relate some kind ...
- 778: Experiencing Can Be Corrupting
- ... a simple example of someone going from a state of innocence to a corrupting experience. Another example of someone who has been stripped of his innocence through his experience is well depicted in the famous short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown.” In the short story “Young Goodman Brown,” Hawthorne illustrates how a person can go from a state of innocence to a state of experience, thus corrupting the individual. As one reads the short story of Hawthorne, it is easy to observe that the overtone is one in which it displays the corruption of a man’s mind. The corruption of the protagonist, Young Goodman Brown, would not ...
- 779: Arhurian Romances
- ... not appreciated. In Classical texts such as The Odyssey, the women were treated as if they were animals. They did not have the respect of others and some were thought of as whores. In the stories of Erec and Enide, Lancelot, and Perceval, we see a dramatic change in this, due to the system of government that Arthur entails giving them the freedom and rights they deserved. The new man to woman relationship brought about in these stories is very different then the past stories we have read from the classical age. This system gave great honor and respect to women, which became part of the chivalric code that was followed by the knights and royalty of that time. ...
- 780: Bleeding Ireland and Black America
- ... it had been introduced as a life-support unit to sustain a state which was under threat of collapse. The bad dream of partition was about to be come the 'nationalist nightmare'. Within a relatively short period, the British army's real job became apparent. With the unionist government acting like they still were in control, the actual power behind the throne was the British government's agent, the British army ... extracted, was the `blanket protest' which consummated during the hunger-strikes of 1980 and 1981. Deprived of political status in 1975, republican prisoners refused to wear prison uniforms and clad themselves in blankets. Within a short period, the punitive actions of the regime forced them to live in their cells surrounded by their own excrement. Beatings and degradation were used, in an attempt to break the prisoners' will. For four years ... Los Angeles and other cities after a jury acquits LA police officers in the videotape beating of Rodney King, a black man. The Civil Rights Movement made some changes except they all seem to fall short when we look at their results today. The movement was happening in the midst of war over ideology (capitalist vs. socialist) and people felt the need to stick with their country even if it ...
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