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- 121: How Does The How does the author enable the reader to share the experience of the main character? Patrick Suskind s use of visual imagery captures the audiences sense of smell by dragging the reader into this world of hideous stench. Perfume is unique as it creates a reality by painting a picture in the mind of the reader through the olfactory senses. Suskind does, on many occasions, manipulate the readers basic instincts through the novel s protagonist, Jean Baptiste Grenouille. Suskind is successful in the way that he takes the reader into his story through the use of very vivid detail in his description of the odours in this book in the way that other authors describe surroundings. Suskind s writing technique is also distinctive in the way that he uses phrases and imagery to make what initially seem to be violent and grotesque descriptions an erotic and sexual encounter. This is a prominent ...
- 122: Telekinesis
- Telekinesis Moving objects from one place to another without using physical contact. The re-shaping of objects using the mind's energies, such as bending a spoon, or key, by just holding it and focusing. Telekinesis is created by higher levels of consciousness. It can not be created by 'wishing it' to happen on the physical level. The energy to move or bend an object is created by a person's thoughts created by their subconscious mind. Your energy levels must be very high. The desire to move or break or bend an object must exist in a level of though we do not as yet have control over with the 10% of the brain human's presently use. Primitive man used telekinesis instinctively as a form of survival. Today we do not remember how to access that part of our brain. There are teachers who can help develop this skill ...
- 123: George Orwell
- ... India. His wartime work for the BBC gave him a solid taste of bureaucratic hypocrisy. Many believe that this experience provided the inspiration for his invention of "newspeak," the truth-denying language of Big Brother's rule in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Throughout his lifetime, the great English author continually questioned all "official" or "accepted" versions of history. At the conclusion of the war in Europe, Orwell made the following ... We are first introduced to Winston Smith, Party member and civil servant, comes home to the ramshackle Victory Mansions in the capital of Airstrip One, which used to be called England. The London of Orwell's near future is very like London after World War II, with its bombed-out buildings and its shortages and power failures. What's different are the posters of a huge face with eyes that seem to follow you everywhere, and bearing the legend: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, and he is. Winston knows it. A TV screen ...
- 124: Preventing Chronic Delinquency: The Search for Childhood Risk Factors
- ... or harsh parenting practices, low socioeconomic status, and exposure to media violence.11 The most important of these factors appear to be low socioeconomic status, having parents who have been convicted of crimes, the child's low cognitive ability(especially poor verbal ability), poor parental child rearing, and the child's own history of antisocial behavior, conduct disorder, or troublesomeness.12 In one study of boys in London, for example, the 8- to 10-year-olds with four or more of these predictors included 15 of ... have most frequently been investigated in outcomes of early childhood programs. Parenting and Social Support Longitudinal evidence from many studies suggests that hostile or rejecting parenting and lack of parental supervision is associated with children's later antisocial behavior and delinquency. In more than two decades of research, Gerald Patterson and his colleagues at the Oregon Social Learning Center have proposed and developed supportive evidence for a model of how ...
- 125: Noises in the Dark
- ... But mum, I'm scared to go to sleep. The monsters under my bed will get me." "Timmy, there are no such things as monsters. Your dad and I have already told you that." Timmy's mother attempted a firm expression, but she couldn't prevent a smile from hinting at the edges of her lips. She and her husband had had this conversation with their son many times recently, and he was still convinced terrible monsters lived under his bed. "But there ARE monsters under my bed. I heard 'em." Timmy's face darkened into a pouting expression. "Why can't I sleep with you and daddy?" Timmy's mother, who was kneeling in front of her son, looked up at her husband. Timmy's father ...
- 126: Why Exercise is Important
- Why Exercise is Important Introduction "I can tell a lot about a person from just looking at their face," says Joseph Bark*, chairman of the dermatology department at St. Joseph's Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Indeed. But equally important, one can also tell a lot about a person by looking at their overall physical disposition. In an age where the social structure of society seems to ... health, exercising, no doubt, is at the core from which these qualities arise. The long term benefits of it are pretty much straight forward: look better, feel better, live longer, get chicks (hopefully). And there's nothing wrong with that, provided we don't kill ourselves or become overzealous in the process. But knowing how good the outcome is going to be isn't always going to make us hit the gym or reevaluate our dietary habits. That' ...
- 127: Working Together
- II. Introduction An historic example of team effort gone away. In that legendary story, a few key events transformed Camelot from a utopian kingdom into a wasteland. This isn t just idle meandering. There are corporate Camelots, too, suggests Steven Rayner (6) -- those companies that started with such promise and fell victim to problems in their teamwork concepts. It is clear to see that team-based systems simply don t work; better control equals better management. An emphasis on separating workers into specifically defined jobs, having centralized management control, and maintaining a structured chain of command contributes to a much better and more effective workplace ... term papers about ebfefOne of the major problems presented in the team work approach is that people are not accustomed to "group problem-solving" (Harrington-Mackin 137). It is a practice that not only hasn t been learned, but is a difficult one to institute. In school, children are taught to rely on their own resources; to develop their individual capabilities. Deborah Harrington-Mackin cites the example of a fourth ...
- 128: The Clinton Sex Scandal
- ... or awe. This building epitomizes world leadership and unprecedented power. This renowned leadership may be the only association made by certain countries, while in the United States many see an other significance: Watergate, Whitewater, Kennedy's brutal and mysterious assassination, and today, Clinton's "zippergate" scandal. When the President of the United States takes oath, he gives up a part of his life. His private life becomes the public's life, and they feel the right to know what happens behind the Oval Office. Now the Presidency must battle against Newspaper journalists, radio personalities, televised news reports and now, even more menacing: the Internet. ...
- 129: The Clinton Sex Scandal
- ... or awe. This building epitomizes world leadership and unprecedented power. This renowned leadership may be the only association made by certain countries, while in the United States many see an other significance: Watergate, Whitewater, Kennedy's brutal and mysterious assassination, and today, Clinton's "zippergate" scandal. When the President of the United States takes oath, he gives up a part of his life. His private life becomes the public's life, and they feel the right to know what happens behind the Oval Office. Now the Presidency must battle against Newspaper journalists, radio personalities, televised news reports and now, even more menacing: the Internet. ...
- 130: Death of a Salesmen: Freedom And Willys Dream
- Death of a Salesmen: Freedom And Willys Dream In the play, Death of A Salesman, the Loman family is living in a lie created by Willy Lomans dream. Everyone in the family has come to a point where the lie has become a reality for them. The only person who has the courage to be honest is Biff. When Biff is honest with his father and his family he frees the Lomans from Willys dream and the dishonesty that it brought on. Biff was the biggest captive of this dishonesty. He lived his whole life from what his father wanted him to do. Biff first came to terms ...
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