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- 12971: For The Love Of The Fish An Es
- ... depression. "Well, it made them kid Dummy, the way he was always carrying everything. Carl Lowe, Ted Shade, Johnny Wait, they were the worst kidders of the ones that kidded Dummy. Another reasons for Dummy s introversion was his wife. She was a women years younger and said to run around with Mexicans. The lack of love at home and negative attention at work caused Dummy to shut society out. The ... no one had protected him, yet he still loses them to a force that cannot be controlled or stopped. It blew for five days, and on the third day the river began to rise. She s up to fifteen feet, my father said one evening looking over his newspaper. Which is three feet over what you need to flood. Old Dummy is going to lose his darlings. Even though, Dummy protects his fish from unwanted fisherman he cannot protect them and himself from forces of greater power, the force of nature. Another one of the conflicts in the story is Dummy s struggle with himself. Dummy was never really loved which persuaded him to find something else to love. The fish gave him a since of awareness and control that was never found at work and ...
- 12972: Folklore
- ... 81). Many of the categories included within folklore include beliefs, customs, superstitions, proverbs, riddles, songs, myths, legends, tales, ritualistic ceremonies, magic, witchcraft, verse, folk song, folk music, folk dancing, traditions, jokes, ballads, lyric, charms, children's music, and a variety of other forms of artistic expression whose medium is the spoken word. According to the Funk and Wagnall's Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend the term folklore can be defined as "comprising of traditional creations of peoples, primitive and civilized. These are achieved by using sounds and words in metric form and ... explore the uncommon and very unusual. Folk legend also attempts to explain, define, or even give reasoning to occurring situations or phenomena. Urban legends allow us to speak of our fears. "Legends fulfill a society's demand for gossip and rumor, reinforce or validate beliefs and inspire talking about shared unexplainable experiences. And since they reveal taboos and obsessions American urban legends tend to be about death, cars, hygiene or ...
- 12973: Harry Truman and The Atomic Bomb
- ... The question before him was how to end the war and save lives. He regarded the atomic bomb as a weapon -- an awesome one, to be sure -- but still a weapon to be used. Roosevelts view, apparently, had been the same. According to Stimson, who had been responsible to the President for the Manhattan Project since 1941, there was never any question in Roosevelts mind but the bomb would be used when ready. On Trumans orders, the B-29 Enola Gay piloted by U.S. Army Force Col. Paul W. Tibbets dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The date was August 6, 1945. Tibbets had named the plane ...
- 12974: Alfred Nobel
- ... 1833.(Encarta) His father Immanuel Nobel was an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm. In connection with his construction work Immanuel Nobel also experimented with different techniques of blasting rock. Alfred's mother, Andrietta Ahlsell came from a wealthy family. Due to misfortunes in the construction work caused by the loss of some barges of building material, Immanuel Nobel was forced into bankruptcy the same year Alfred ... and literature. By the age of 17, Alfred Nobel was fluent in Swedish, Russian, French, English and German. His primary interests were in English literature and poetry as well as in chemistry and physics. Alfred's father, who wanted his sons to join his enterprise as engineers, disliked Alfred's interest in poetry and found his son rather introverted. In order to widen Alfred's horizons his father sent him abroad for further training in chemical engineering. During a two year period, Alfred Nobel ...
- 12975: Beowulf
- ... for him. Grendel was able to ahold of Beowulf. He went right for him and grabbed his arm and had a good grip on him. Grendel want to run off with Beowulf, but he couldn't, because Beowulf had a good hold on him. The monster was so powerful that no weapon to do any harm to the great monster. Since Beowulf had a good hold on his arm he just ripped it off. After that Grendel had took off running to the lake where he had once lived to die. Now Beowulf has gotten Grendel's mother mad, her son is dead. So she came to Herot and killed Hrothgar's best friend, and got her sons arm back. Beowulf follows her back to the lake. He takes a curagious dive into the lake where she lives. Beowulf wanted to kill Grendel's mother and ...
- 12976: The Depletion of the Ozone Layer
- ... in space, you can see our home surrounded by a blue ribbon with a faint tint. The ribbon is almost transparent and is used as a filter to protect all living organisms from the sun's hazardous radiation. It lets just the right amount of light through to supply everything with energy. We know this ribbon, or filter, as the ozone layer. The ozone layer is needed to support life on ... layer consists of people being careless. Many times, the chemicals released into the air by people drift into the ozone and form harmful chemical bonds with ozone molecules. One example would be chlorofluorocarbons or CFC's. CFC's were commonly found in spray cans during the early 1970's but were invented in the 1920's. They contain chlorine, fluorine, and carbon atoms which all form bonds with the rare ozone molecules. ...
- 12977: Jail Without Bars Raise The Re
- ... in the prison of their own lives. The bars can consist of many things that hold these people from their full potential. Many of these restrictions come from social standards, stereotypes, prejudices, or poverty. It's hard to break away from these cycles, but it is possible. It takes enormous strength and courage which these characters did not have. Even though they did not succeed we can learn from their mistakes ... were handed down through centuries. She is the fourth mistress to the master. The sisters, or fellow mistresses, constantly competed for his attention. He would only stay at one house a night and that wife's lanterns would be lit in honor. The mistress that was privileged with the masters visit had more power with the estate staff and chose dinner for the entire family. The need for attention led to ... Meishan, the third mistress, were both pregnant at the same time. Both women were trying to have their baby first so they would have a higher status in the family. Zhuayun put poison in Meishan's food trying to cause her to have a miscarriage. At the same time she took medicine that would speed up her delivery. Meishan did not have a miscarriage, but gave the master a son ...
- 12978: Morality and Ethics and Computers
- ... be warned beforehand? If warned, does that make the practice okay? According to Kenneth Goodman, director of the Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy at the University of Miami, who teaches courses in computer ethics, "There's hardly a business that's not using computers."1 This makes these questions all the more important for today's society to answer. There are also many moral and ethical problems dealing with the use of computers in the medical field. In one particular case, a technician trusted what he thought a computer was ...
- 12979: Development Of The Communist T
- ... for agriculture. 9. Combining agriculture and manufacturing industries; abolition of distinction between town and country by a more equal distribution of the population. 10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor (Engels, Marx 94). According to Marx and Engels these were the ten steps to follow if you wanted your country to convert to communism. Marx and Engels had their influence in modern ideology ...
- 12980: Martin Luther King and Malcolm X - Two Views, One Cause
- ... all of the whites involved in the problem of racism supported it. Some were actually trying to help fight for the blacks. Unfortunately, it took Malcolm X a long time to figure that out. Malcolm's paper, "The Ballot or the Bullet," makes that clear. In his paper, he is constantly criticizing whites as a whole. He does not consider, even for a moment, that a white could actually support equality for all men. "Usually, it's the white man who grins at you the most, and pats you on the back, and is supposed to be your friend. He may be friendly, but he's not your friend" (261). However, in a later work of his, "1965," one can see that Malcolm was learning to accept whites as possible allies. I tried in every speech I made to clarify ...
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