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- 1531: Summary of "Ceremony"
- ... find himself. He struggles to adapt to a world where his people have to fight between the what "whites" say is the true path, and what his culture says the right path. Ceremony displays Tayo's struggle by comparing his struggle to find his own path, to the other Native American's and their fight to their own path. The book starts as Tayo is in bed going over the war in his mind
He remembers how the Japanese looked like him, same skin color and how Rocky told him, "It's is what we're here to do" and how he doesn't understand why he's there killing people that look like him, and possibly feel the same way he does. But he is ...
- 1532: All Good Things
- All Good Things He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary's School in Morris, Minn. All 34 of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund was one in a million. Very neat in appearance, but had that happy-to-be-alive attitude that made ... again that talking without permission was not acceptable. What impressed me so much, though, was his sincere response every time I had to correct him for misbehaving - "Thank you for correcting me, Sister!" I didn't know what to make of it at first, but before long I became accustomed to hearing it many times a day. One morning my patience was growing thin when Mark talked once too often, and then I made a novice-teacher's mistake. I looked at Mark and said, "If you say one more word, I am going to tape your mouth shut!" It wasn't ten seconds later when Chuck blurted out, "Mark is talking ...
- 1533: Sexuality and Gender Role
- ... like to say 2 stories. The first story is about an experiment. About 6 years ago, I read an article on science magazine. It has been long time since I read that, so I can't remember detail content. But the whole story is like below. There was a baby. That baby was actually a planned-baby. Some scientists researched the effects of society for decision of gender, gender role. First ... baby by the science foundation and finally there was a baby. Scientists started their experiment. They called the baby as "X" because if they call the baby as common name, everybody could know the baby's gender. To reduce the stereotype of the gender was a very important factor to their experiment. They prepared some toys - both for boys and girls - for X. X liked both of them. X liked to play with the robots, a truck or small cars. Also, X liked to play with a doll, too. Whenever somebody asked the gender of X to X's parents, they said just "X'. No one could know X's gender except X's parents and some scientists. About 5 years later, X became the age for school. X's parents and scientists ...
- 1534: Ozzy Osbourne
- Ozzy Osbourne Ozzy Osbournes music is liked by so many people because of how his lyrics deal with real life experiences. Ozzy writes a lot about what feels or what he has done. Something that has made Ozzy so popular was the fact that he doesnt care what people think. He always has done what ever he wants. These two characteristics have made Ozzy Osbourne a very popular musician in the U.S and in Europe. Like when Ozzy went to meet the big time record executives at CBS record company, his wife Sharon wanted him to make a big impression so she suggested that he release ...
- 1535: Police Corruption
- ... brought up beginning in 1992 when five officers were arrested on drug-trafficking charges. Michael Dowd, the suspected 'ring leader', was the kind of cop who gave new meaning to the word moonlighting. It wasn't just any job that the 10-year veteran of the New York City force was working on the side. Dowd was a drug dealer. From scoring free pizza as a rookie he graduated to pocketing ... asked how he managed all that on take-home pay of $400 a week. In May 1992 Dowd, four other officers and one former officer were arrested for drug trafficking by police in Long Island's Suffolk County. When the arrests hit the papers, it was forehead-slapping time among police brass. Not only had some of their cops become robbers, but the crimes had to be uncovered by a suburban ... of cash stolen from dealers' apartments. (New York Times, April 3, 1993: p. 5) The Mollen Commission has not uncovered a citywide system of payoffs among the 30,000-member force. In fact, last week's testimony focused on three precincts, all in heavy crime areas. But the tales, nevertheless, were troubling. Dowd described how virtually the entire precinct patrol force would rendezvous at times at an inlet on Jamaica ...
- 1536: A Street Car Named Desire: The Many Traits of Blanch
- A Street Car Named Desire: The Many Traits of Blanch Everyone has relatives that come and visit. Some people don't like their relatives and they hate when relatives visit. Tennessee Williams shows this feeling between Stanley and Blanch in the book A Street Car Named Desire. It is the things that Blanch says and does ... with the crazy crown on! What queen do you think you are? Blanch: Oh-God... Stanley: I've been on to you from the start! Not once did you pull any wool over this boy's eyes! You come in here and sprinkle the place with power and spray perfume and cover the light bulb with a paper lantern, and lo and behold the place has turned into Egypt and you ... Ha-ha-ha! He is saying that she tries to look glamorous with her clothes and her jewelry, but he can see through that and she does not look glamorous at all. One of Blanch's strong traits is that is a compulsive liar. In "Scene Three" she admits to Stanley that she lies a lot. Blanch: All right. Cards on the table. That suits me. [She turns to Stanley.] ...
- 1537: MEDLINE
- ... provided free on the web through the web site PUBMED, Vice President Al Gore was on hand to encourage Americans to visit "their neighbourhood medical library", "the home page that makes house calls." Major U.S. television news programs, the Wall Street Journal, and Ann Landers devoted copy to the announcement. If not quite achieving cult status, it was clear that MEDLINE's rich and unique content would now reach consumers directly. Librarians, who prior to 1996 had been the principle mediators between MEDLINE and its users, were involved with the testing of the PubMed user interface. They ... in 3800 biomedical journals. It is produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the National Library of Medicine, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. Its coverage includes the U.S. and 70 foreign countries, with a total of 8.6 million records dating back to 1966. Very few of the journals have any consumer focus, nor are they even intended to be read or ...
- 1538: Compare And Contrast The Ways
- ... craft I chose to compare the poems: An Anniversary, by Vernon Scannel Dismissal, by John Tripp A Winters Tale, by D.H. Lawrence In the poem An Anniversary the poet describes the relationship and it s breakdown as two leaves on a river, this is and example of Personification . In contrast to this poem in the poem Dismissal Tripp describes the breakdown very much as it was, describing two people in ... Anniversary with the relationship being described as a field but he still uses people in the poem to describe the people in the relationship. Lawrence also uses Pathetic Fallacy as he describes a cold winter s day when the relationship broke down. In An Anniversary the poet says: The sky s smeared monotone. This means the sky was smeared with one colour, which may signify a boring colourless relationship. Two willow leaves glide smoothly on The water s shimmering skin; This is an example of ...
- 1539: The Romanovs
- ... 1884, Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov, met his future wife, Alexandra Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice, Princess of Hesse. On April 20,1894, they were married. During that same year Nicholas took the throne because of his father's death and became the emperor of Russia. He was only 26. Alexandra and Nicholas lived happily together. They had something that not every royal couple had, love. I am impassioned by the way the books ... who was named Olga. The Tsar was little bit disappointed that he got a daughter not a son, but he encouraged his-self that the next one would be a boy. However, next one wasn't a boy, and the one after that wasn't a boy either. Grand-Duchess Tatiana was born on May 29, 1897, and then Maria on June 26, 1899. Nicholas was upset and with his wife searched for a solution. A son was necessary ...
- 1540: Munros Trademarks
- ? One of Munros trademarks is her ambivalent presentation of characters. Choose three characters from the novel and show how they support this claim. Whenever I find myself thinking about the years I spent in junior high and high ... the same math class that I was in but much to my surprise she on the other hand hated math class. Her dislike of math class was solely based on the fact that she didn't like our math teacher. She thought that our math teacher was a horrible teacher who couldn't teach and her attitude problems. It was quit astonishing how I could only concentrate on Ms. Smith's positive attributes while my best friend was only able to the negative things of our teacher. ...
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