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- 13311: Television and The Internet
- ... about our favorite television shows as well as providing an arena for discussion about the programs. I will present to you what is available out there and hypothesize how this can enhance or alter one's experience with television. Included in this paper will be actual responses from individuals around the world who responded to a survey I posted on various internet newsgroups devoted to specific television shows. The most relevant ... or web sites. Newsgroups refer to a different aspect of the world-wide web. They consist of over ten thousand separate and specific forums or centers where people post comments or remarks and read other's replies or comments. Each newsgroup is devoted to a different theme. For example, there are over two hundred devoted to television; one or two for Friends, one for Party of Five, one for the CBC ... search TVGuide for all shows in the next two weeks that have the any given word in it, "shark" for example. This not only increases the amount of television one watches (i.e. they don't miss interesting shows they would otherwise not know about), but most likely enhances the experience of watching the show since they can learn much about the episode beforehand. For example, in the description of ...
- 13312: How Dams Affect Salmon Migration
- ... and smolt from returning to the ocean, and commercial fishing boats depleting mature populations and blocking river mouths. The solution to commercial fishing problems is obvious, though not likely to happen,as the government won't go farther than lightly regulating commercial fishing boats, but there are several different approaches to allowing the salmon to breed and smolt to return to the ocean despite the dams, though no effective measures have ... fish. Dams alter the temperature and flow regimes of rivers; they are barriers to migrating organisms such as salmon, and to the natural movements of sediments, nutrients, and water. In the past, a young salmon's journey to the ocean took two weeks; now it takes two months. Of all the salmon killed by human activity, habitat modifications - principally dams and reservoirs - kill an estimated 99 percent. Downstream migration over a ... rapidly decreasing. Long-term preservation goals can be overridden by a short-term drive for profit and jobs. Local politicians are always trying to get congress to give them money to build more dams. It's a tradition in this part of the world, one which has been repeatably successful: the waiting game of exploiters. On one side, are the environmentalists, who want to save the salmon runs. The other ...
- 13313: The Mayor of Caterbridge: Important Characters
- ... Henchard happened to be filling in for someone else as judge that day. When Henchard charge her, the furmity woman told the court room about Henchard selling his wife and also said that he wasn’t fit to judge her when he was no better. Because of this, Henchard lost some of his glory in the eyes of the townspeople. The third and final time the furmity woman shows up, she makes it known about the letters that Joshua Jopp had. When Lucetta’s letters were read, it was discovered that Lucetta wrote the letters and that they were letters that spoke of Lucetta’s love for Henchard. With this being known, Henchard and Lucetta were paraded around the town on a “skimmity ride.” The shock and embarrassment of this parade killed Lucetta. Another important “minor” character is Joshua ...
- 13314: A Passage To India, A Novel Wr
- ... the novel Dr. Aziz truly resents the British Raja in India. He feels that they can be conniving, malicious and deceptive. Dr. Aziz, along with his friends, meticulously discusses these details over dinner at Hammidulah's house. During this conversation Dr. Aziz states his estimation of how the British have become malicious stating, "I give any Englishman two years… And I give any English woman six months." They also conferred on the likelihood of the British accepting bribes and mistreating their positions. Dr. Aziz's views about the British were not unfounded; he and his friends had various unfortunate experiences with the British. His boss, Major Callander, treated Dr. Aziz very shoddily calling him for appointments and then leaving before Dr. Aziz's arrival. One night after a similar occurrence, the Magistrate's wife even took his Tonga so that Dr. Aziz had no way home. Dr. Aziz's friend, Hammidullah, had an appalling experience as well, ...
- 13315: Comparisons of “Report of the French Commission on American Education, 1879” to Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna Be Average”
- Embracing the past to see the future of American Education. Comparisons of “Report of the French Commission on American Education, 1879” to Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna Be Average”. Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna Be Average” essay sheds light on troubled youth within the public school system. It makes you long for the days of American pride and service. Students placed in “tracks” to utilize overcrowded ... by the French, was a land of golden opportunities available to every child regardless of social standing. It was the basis for our country to survive. It safeguarded our standing in the world. Mike Rose’s school offered quite the opposite. It was a haven for long standing views on school being selective as to whom actually deserved the education. The only hope of the present school system is a ...
- 13316: Great Expectations And Oliver
- ... of time, Oliver was chosen by the other boys at the orphanage to request more gruel at dinner one night. After making this simple request, "the master (at the orphanage) aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arms; and shrieked aloud for the beadle."3 The whole beginning of Oliver Twist's story was created from memories which related to Charles Dickens' childhood in a blacking factory ( which was overshadowed by the Marshalsea Prison ).4 While working in the blacking factory, Dickens suffered tremendous humiliation. This humiliation is greatly expressed through Oliver's adventures at the orphanage before he is sent away. Throughout his lifetime, Dickens appeared to have acquired a fondness for "the bleak, the sordid, and the austere."5 Most of Oliver Twist, for example, ...
- 13317: Vronsky and Anna's Struggle With Love
- Vronsky and Anna's Struggle With Love Vronsky and Anna struggled with love from the day they met. Anna, who had come from a loving home, who had a husband and a child had the two greatest loves she ... with the fact that Anna was already married and not many people approved of their relationship,but their struggle to find and show their love for each other In the beginning I feel that Vronsky's love really was not love at all. She was just an attractive girl who he wanted. The fact that she was married and she was something he wanted and could not have probably only made ... less an object of amusement. When he meets Anna this changes over time. She softens his heart and he grows to understand and appreciate love and what goes along with it. When Anna doubts Vronsky's love in a sense she is right to. I think up until Anna says something he really does not understand love. I feel that up until he met Anna Vronsky had no idea what “ ...
- 13318: Artists Works
- ... her in the barren wasteland as she sits motionless, without movement, struggle, or life. This mysterious figure looks so vacant that it might as well be dead. Nothing is happening on this side, so one's attention is directed to the other. On the other side, a blue decaying hand emerges from the ground with ants crawling on it, possibly making their homes in it or finding food on it. Atop ... Dali was trying to get across is that hope and despair, failure and victory, and life and death are all equal forces, each one pulling the other in an eternal war to balance everything. It's all a cycle, and like all cycles, it repeats itself forever and ever, and there's no way of having one without the other. Guemica - Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" Pablo Picasso's painting entitled "Guernica" has been a masterpiece of modern art since it's first appearance at ...
- 13319: The Cask Of Amontillado: The Dangers Of Pride
- In one of Edgar Allen Poe's best-known tales of horror, "The Cask of Amontillado," he suggests that pride can be a very dangerous thing. Through the use of foreshadowing, irony, and symbolism, Poe presents the compelling drama of two men. One who will stop at nothing to get the revenge that he deems himself and his family worthy of, and another who's pride will ultimately be the catalyst for his death. Fortunato falls prey to Montressor's plans because he is so proud of his connoisseurship of wine, and it is for the sake of his own pride that Montressor takes revenge on Fortunato. In this essay, I will examine how ...
- 13320: The Koran, the Bible, and Joseph
- ... account of Joseph, Joseph dreams that eleven stars, the sun, and the moon, bow down to him, representing that his eleven brothers, mother and father will give obeisance to him. Because of this dream Joseph's brothers become very jealous of him and plot to kill him. In the Koran, Joseph's brothers, conspired against him saying, "Joseph and his brother are dearer to our father than ourselves, though we are many. Truly, our father is much mistaken. Let us slay Joseph, or cast him away in some far-off land, so that we may have no rivals in our father's love, and after that be honorable men" (Koran 1380). Reuben, one of Joseph's brothers, overheard this, and he delivered him out of their hands; he said, "Let us not kill him" (Genesis 37: ...
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