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- 10321: Ralph Waldo Emerson 2
- ... new nation just beginning. Just about eight years later, his father would no longer be with him, as William Emerson died in 1811. The Emerson family was left to a life marked by poverty. Ralph's mother, Ruth, was left as a widow having to take care of five sons. However, Ralph's life seemed to carry on smoothly. He would end up attending Harvard College and pursue a job of teaching full time. While teaching as a junior pastor of Boston's Second Church, his life gained more meaning when he married Ellen Louisa Tucker. Journal entries and love letters he wrote at that time expressed lots of feelings and emotions that he had. But after ...
- 10322: Consciousness As Determined Th
- ... it is aware of itself and that it is a physical and emotional being. Consciousness is a psychological condition defined by the English philosopher John Locke as "the perception of what passes in a man’s own mind".1 Consciousness is defined and perceived differently in many psychological view points. For instance the earlier views around the 19th century was diversely considered. Most perceived consciousness as a substance or "mental stuff ... toward objects in nature, and a view that consciousness was a continuous field or stream of essentially mental "sense data." The method believed by most early writers in determining consciousness was introspection—looking within one’s own mind to discover the laws of it’s operation. This belief was limited when it was apparent when observationalists could not agree on observations. Obviously due to the differences in one’s own idea of introspection and the underlying views they possessed. ...
- 10323: AIDS/HIV
- ... not have any symptoms of the disease for the next ten years. People with the HIV virus usually look and feel healthy and may not even know that they are infected. Even though they don't look or feel sick, they can still infect others. When the symptoms do start to happen they can be like the ones of many common sicknesses such as swollen glands, coughing, fever, and diarrhea. It ... to control or get rid of because of the loss of many of the white blood cells in your body. The most common causes of death for the people with AIDS are pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma. Kaposi's sarcoma which shows up as purple lesions on the skin and tumors known as B-cell lymphomas have affected 70% of the infected people. AIDS is transmitted in three main ways. Intimate sexual contact ...
- 10324: American Revolution - Causes
- ... and were weakly pleading for self-autonomy. This small fire of anger will become a huge conflagration as the rights are slowly rescinded. On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation committee's passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. "I.That his Majesty's subjects in these colonies, owe the same allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body, the Parliament of ... rights and liberties. When the Declatory Act was passed in March of 1766, many colonies were attempting to claim that they were "seceding" from England. "Whereas several of the houses of representatives in his Majesty's colonies and plantations in America, have of late, against law, or to the general assemblies of the same, the sole and exclusive right of imposing duties and taxes upon his Majesty's subjects in ...
- 10325: Show How Macbeth And Lady Macbeth Have To Go Against Their Own Natures In Order To Kill Duncan
- ... Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it.” By ‘illness’ she means ‘evil’. Macbeth seizes evil, as one might catch a disease. When Macbeth has the opportunity to think about his wife’s suggestions and about his desires to become King, he becomes aware of the duty that he owes to Duncan, his loyal King. Following a great battle with himself, Macbeth decides not to go through with ... night of the murder Macbeth is very troubled; he is living a nightmare. Lady Macbeth is as tense as he husband, and she has been drinking to give herself courage. As Macbeth walks to Duncan’s chambers, his imagination creates a dagger floating in the air. At first he is alarmed by the dagger, later he seems to enjoy the horror of the moment. After the murder of Duncan, Macbeth is ... d disorder’, claiming to have seen the Ghost of Banquo. Soon after the murder of Banquo, Macbeth begins to grasp an unreality about his life, but that does not seem to change his conduct. Macbeth’s cruelty in action is shown when Lady Macduff and her son are brutally slaughtered. When he planned to kill Banquo’s son, Fleance, he could acquit the murder to himself by referring to the ...
- 10326: Bless Me, Ultima, A Review
- ... curses of evil while the priest from El Puerto with his holy water and the power of God can not lift the curse from him. He wonders whether God really exists or if the Cico's story of the golden carp is true. Bless Me, Ultima, is a compelling story that deals with Antonio's family, beliefs, and dreams. Throughout the book Antonio is introduced to many new ideas. The first is the experiences he has with Ultima. Ultima is a healer who learned her techniques from an old wise ... is the myth of the golden carp. Antonio learns about the golden carp from Cico, a friend of his. According to Cico, the golden carp was once a god who loved the people of Antonio's town, Gaudalupe. The people were not allowed to fish for the brown carp that lived in the river that flowed around the town. These fish were sacred to the gods. However, becasuse of a ...
- 10327: How To Grind
- ... do your best to learn how to stall as that is the foundation of all grinds. Before you actually move onto grinding, you need to wax the object you are trying to grind on. It's not hard at all, and it will only take a few seconds and a few cents to do. First off, you need to get the wax. Though most any wax will do, I personally stick ... waxing up surfaces, here are a few tips that will help you wax up your surface a bit better. First off, make sure you have a decent sized grinding area to wax up, I wouldn't go for anything under about 10'. Next, you bust out the wax and proceed to coat the top of the curb, stair, planter, whatever you are grinding, with a THICK coat of wax. The basic ... curb about equally. Make sure you are making a nice thick strip, about 6" or so, along the top of the curb. When you are grinding, only the top will be slid across, so don't bother waxing the bottom. In any case, just make sure to apply it fairly evenly, and try to get it down in the grooves. This will help the wax be spread all over the ...
- 10328: Ballet, Sleeping Beauty And Ba
- ... stages. The introduction and conclusion to the performances begins differently in that Sleeping Beauty opens and closes with the large curtain revealing the stage. In Ballet Comique De La Reine, curtains to the stages hadn't been introduced yet. The stage was a reconstructed ballroom floor whereas the royal court stayed on the floor while the audience stood in the balconies. The audiences during the Renaissance didn't have a choice of seating such as the royal court. The royal court always had the best seats on the floor, in the center. Instead of the proscenium stage being raised drastically as in Sleeping ... in all three acts. During the time of Ballet Comique De La Reine, it would be the male who danced the most, not the female. But, in Sleeping Beauty, the males mostly supported the ballerina's instead of dancing. The only male who had a challenging role of dance material was the prince. Although, the corps de ballet dancers formed designs in unison in Sleeping Beauty, there was at least ...
- 10329: A Farewell To Arms
- ... death of his wife and child. Physical suffering is obviously shown by the men that get injured in the war. This physical suffering provides the context in which courage can take place. Comradery, surprisingly, doesn't seem to be as obvious in the novel as the other themes; it is mainly shown by the nurses' commitment to one another and the 'male bonding' at the mess. There also seems to be more of an individual comradery within friendships and with individuals rather than a whole group. In fact, there doesn't seem to be a sense of people working together for a common cause. These four themes contribute to the many decisions that Frederick Henry has to make. That is in regards to the war and ... they have: "We are war brothers." (Page 62) The comradery that the men have is also made so by the amount of courage Frederick Henry shows, he puts other people before him, where he isn't trying to be a hero yet just being himself. Henry is a man who thinks about others and this is shown when he is injured: "There are much worse wounded than me" (Page 54) ...
- 10330: Lsd 2
- The use of drugs among Americans is rapidly rising. They can be bought and sold almost anywhere, from the streets to hallways of schools. A drug on the rapid rise from the 70's is LSD. Some people attribute this to the fact it is extremely inexpensive, $2-4 a hit, the wrong belief by users that it is a safer drug than marijuana because it isn't physically addicting. However, LSD is a hallucinogenic drug that is very dangerous, despite popular belief. LSD stands for Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. Lysergic acid is extracted from the fungus Ergot, and then left to crystallize until ... were found to relieve migraines and control postpartum hemorrhage because it causes veins to contract, but also caused gangrene of the limbs, and so further experimentation with the drug was abandoned. In the late 50's, however, LSD was used by the CIA as an interrogation drug for spies. However, it was proven to be unreliable and was later replaced with other interrogation drugs. LSD comes in the forms of ...
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