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- 10661: Nick From The Great Gatsby
- ... main characters of the novel together, and represents the missing link between the obsessive Jay Gatsby and the pretty yet vain Daisy Buchanan. "Of course I knew what they were referring to, but I wasn't even vaguely engaged. The fact that gossip had published the banns was one of the reasons I had come east (p.24)". Nick arrives on Long Island from the Midwest, and being a bit out ... his middle-class personality. For example, Daisy Buchanan was born into corruption and it shows through her immorality and superficiality. As for her husband Tom, Nick is a total opposite of him for Tom isn't responsible, he is conceited, filthy rich, dishonest, and careless. Nick does tolerate them though, and this tolerance leads to a relationship with Jordan Baker, who has social status very similar to that of Daisy's. He does not give many details of the relationship however, which is another sign of his admirable humbleness. He has this relationship at the same time that Gatsby and Daisy are having an affair, ...
- 10662: Native American Genocide
- Native American Genocide The dominant image of Indians in the media used to be of savages, of John Wayne leading the U.S. Cavalry against the Indians. Today the stereotype has shifted to noble savage, which portrays Indians as part of a once-great but now-dying culture; a culture that could talk to the trees and the ... caribou and wolves, which imply that the Oil Company accepts the responsibility that the Indians once had. It is all a falsified lie to turn a very serious topic into a more soothing situation. Webster’s dictionary defines the term Genocide as “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group” or the killing of a people. When genocide is spoke of, most people think of the Holocaust, or the troubles in Bosnia, but not all people realize that the Native Americans went through their own “genocide” except theirs wasn’t as outspoken and not as public as the others. Their silent genocide if you will has a twisted tale that begins as far back as when Europeans first landed on the Americas and up ...
- 10663: The Revival Of Jazz In South Africa
- ... of optimism. In the 1920s there was an organist from the Eastern Cape called Boet Gashe who made his money, much like the early jazz musicians in America, by playing at wild parties in Johannesburg's black ghettoes where the mothers charged three-pence at the door and sold moonshine to keep their families alive.(BEBEY-23) Todd Matshikiza, legendary composer and music critic f described these events: "The hostess hunched ... improvise a drum kit and the music would go on all night. Marabi uses a three-chord, two- or four-bar sequence. I suppose you could say the progression was limited, even monotonous. But it's the monotony that holds the listeners. You vary the theme and improvise around it, rather than changing the chord sequence."(GOFFIN-112) Legendary bandleader "Zuluboy" Cele introduced modern instrumentation to the style.(GERARD-59) Later ... this stops the players. The new generation, like their predecessors, are creating potent mixes of South African heritage and world jazz trends.(GERARD-127) Reedman Zim Ngqawana draws on folk roots, from the migrant mineworker's harmonica to Asian flute sounds. Pianist Moses Molelekwa plays wistful marabi piano, but also works with DJs for excursions into drum 'n bass.(GERARD-129) Producers/players Sean Fourie and Vee O'CONNOR-8 ...
- 10664: Legalizing Marijuana
- ... high. There are a large number of people in the United States who believe that marijuana should not be legalized. There are many reasons that people feel this was, and one is because of marijuana's short-term effects. A person who smokes marijuana will usually have problems with memory and leaning, trouble with thinking and problem solving, and suffer loss of coordination. All of these effects can affect a person's performance at work, school, or during sports. Another reason people think marijuana should not be legalized is its long-term effects. There are four major long-term effects of marijuana use. The first one is that marijuana smoke contains many carcinogens. Although it's not proven that marijuana Causes cancer, it is believed to by many people. Studies show that somebody who smokes five joints (a cigarette containing marijuana instead of tobacco) per week inhales just as many ...
- 10665: Atomic Bomb 8
- Atomic Bomb In 1945, two bombs were dropped on Japan, on in Hiroshima and one in Nagasaki. Theses bombs marked the end to the world s largest armed conflict. Despite the ghastly effects of such a weapon, it offered the best choice for a quick and easy defeat of Japan. President Truman, who authorized the use of the atomic bomb, made ... the country to own it would have complete power. In light of this information, Truman formed an Interim Committee to research the topic and find out if it was possible. It was funded by Truman s multi-million dollar personal budget. The results came back positive and full financial support was given to the team to start working on it immediately (Grant 29). The calculations made by the research team were as follows. The bomb would be equivalent to 4,000 planeloads of the current explosives. And estimate on cost and time could not be predicted because some still believed it wasn t possible (Reflections 1). At the end of a three-year research, a bomb was ready for testing. A test site was cleared in New Mexico. It had a 120-mile radius. Once the President ...
- 10666: A Clean, Well Lighted Place - In Despair About Nothing
- In Despair about Nothing Man is often plagued by the question of his own existence. Existentialism is a subjective philosophy that is centered upon the examination of man’s existence, emphasizing the liberation, responsibility, and usually the solitude of the individual. It focuses on individuals finding a reason for living within themselves. The philosophy forces man to make choices for himself, on the premise ... reason for existence, that the existential man has created for himself. Darkness, in contrast, represents the nothingness of life. The soldier in the story is an example of the first stage of existentialism in Hemingway’s denunciation of the philosophy. The soldier does not believe in a higher power, nor does he recognize the existence of nothingness. What he does know is that there is something missing in his life, something ... living to die for his country. It would give him a feeling of patriotism, of honor, of courage. But something is missing. The soldier has not found his existential truth for himself. The army isn’t it. The soldier is left tormented with the hollow feeling of nothingness, a hollowness that he attempts to temporarily fill with immediate sexual gratification. The younger waiter recognizes the soldier’s need: "What does ...
- 10667: Personal Writing: Childhood Invents That Influenced Me
- ... when everybody is affected by incidents which remain with them during their entire lives. There were many events in my childhood, and some of them left no impact on my life. With some, I can’t exactly say if they happened or were just my imagination, occurring only in my dreams. Only a few events truly influenced my attitude toward the surrounding world. One of them occurred when I was six-years-old. I don’t know what attracted me to the company of children much older than I was. Maybe it was because they seemed independent, could stay in the streets at night, and were afraid of nothing, unlike me ... for the best effect, these frightful stories were told at nighttime in the garden. Everybody tried to look very brave, including me. However, in the depth of my heart, I was afraid of darkness. That’s why each time I returned home I did not walk, but ran with the feeling that heroes of the stories would come alive and make terrible trouble for me. I don’t remember how ...
- 10668: Old Woman Magoun
- ... in the hands of another person. In "Old Woman Magoun," by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, the old woman is in that position. She is burdened with relinquishing custody of her granddaughter, Lily, to the child’s father. Throughout the story, the old woman faces an inner struggle over caring for and, ultimately, losing her granddaughter. She deals with her struggle in a very realistic, human response. Old Woman Magoun is a ... She has a peculiar command over all those in her company. "No one had dared openly gainsay the old woman" (Freeman, 362). The only person she cannot make "visibly cower" (361) is Nelson Barry, Lily’s father. He is the only one that shows any disregard towards the old woman. Old Woman Magoun and Nelson Barry never agree with each other in any way. The old woman has been especially cautious ... control over the situation, she feels forced to make a major decision to prevent the young girl from, what she feels, would be a grave predicament. Old Woman Magoun most likely feels responsible for Lily’s situation and her own daughter’s demise and has learned to fear men as a result of it. She fears the girl’s father because he represents the part of herself that she cannot ...
- 10669: Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research, Second Edition
- Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research, Second Edition Careless copy editing detracts from content-rich 2nd Edition Internet research book. What's the difference between the Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research, done in 1997 and the newly-released second edition, released in 1998? I have good news and bad news for you. First, the book is lighter--that's good news. The second edition is 59 pages shorter (thanks to using a smaller size font (but unfortunately, the bad news is that the font is harder on the eyes and the 2nd edition excluded ... transition between Ventana and Coriolis. Not the authors' faults, but unfortunately, it detracts from the book. I found it annoying, at any rate. Since the original Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research had Ms. Calishain's byline, the second edition differs because it talks to readers in the "we" collective voice, instead of first-person "I". It's pretty much the same information, except rewritten. Ms. Calishain's sense of ...
- 10670: Justify The Knowledge Or It Wi
- ... or watch television, what do you think the answer would be? From what I have seen in myself when I was a teenager and in almost everyone that I meet, nobody would rather study. Today's fast food culture has sucked the beauty out of individual thought and the acquirement of knowledge. Schools give an insufficient amount of knowledge on a variety of different topics and sub-topics without any encouragement ... be shown that the way they have been doing things, and they way they are doing things, is wrong. Some people who do actually think about things and disagree are rare not only because it's hard to find interest in something public education has made arbitrary but because doing so results in being a social outcast. Some still disagree anyway. It is not allowed in the classrooms so they drop ... was because its history and meaning had been negated. It made me angry that the teacher never described exactly what happened in history or how much depth and beauty is in mathematics just because "it's not a part of the curriculum." Most people think of mathematics and reading books as boring. This is a direct result of people being showed things like geometrical shapes, the battle of Gettysburg, and ...
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