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- 16281: Hank Williams
- ... dad moved to a Veterans Hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana(Scott 14). The name Hiriam was actually supposed to be Hiram, but it was misspelled. Hank lived a poor childhood as a result of his fathers going away. The family ended up moving to Georgina, Alabama. There, Hank was forced to shine shoes, sell peanuts, and peddle seed packets- anything that might earn him money. His mom eventually became financially stable ... he would show up at his dates on the Opry drunk. Him realizing his problem, he checked himself into the Vanderbilt Hospital. This was a last ditch effort to dry himself out, and it didnt work. He stayed at the hospital for only fifteen minutes (Entertainment Weekly 101). His back was starting to slow him down, a result of a horseback riding incident. This caused him to choke down huge ... to open fire on Audrey. This was the last straw, she filed for divorce. She got her divorce, along with the car, house, Hank Jr., $1,000 a month in alimony, and half of Hanks future royalties. The Opry had enough. It dealt with the divorce by quietly refused to let Hank Perform. He was run out from Nashville. Back with his mother in Alabama, he landed a spot ...
- 16282: ClockWork Orange
- By: Cam E-mail: disarm010@aol.com Anthony Burgess's View That a Lack of Free Choice is Spiritually Condemning as Evident in A Clockwork Orange In all of my reading, I have come to the conclusion that Anthony Burgess is the greatest literary genius ... century. His masterpiece, A Clockwork Orange, is unrivaled in depth, insight, and innovation. The novel is a work of such quality, such perfection, that it seems to be written by a literary demigod. The novel's main theme deals with free choice and spiritual freedom. More specifically, "[The ethical promise that 'A man who cannot choose ceases to be man'] can be taken as both the explicit and implicit themes of the novel". Anthony Burgess expresses his view that no matter how "good" one's actions are, unless one has free moral choice, he is spiritually damned. The novel revolves around one criminally minded teen, Alex, whose world consists of rape, murder, and ruthless violence. Alex is eventually setup ...
- 16283: Greenhousing the Wrong Way
- ... the sun is allowed into our atmosphere, and then bounces off of the Earth and heads back out to space. But now that we have a wall of Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, and CFC's, the sun's heat rays bounce back towards the Earth. The continuous burning of fossil fuels and the rain forests is causing excess amounts of carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide acts as the ... heat into the atmosphere. The thickening of the blanket is causing more heat to be trapped resulting in the warming of the earth. One great example of the Greenhouse Effect is the planet Venus. Venus's atmosphere had a thick layer of CO2, giving the planet's surface a temperature warm enough to melt lead. So What Does All This "Greenhouse" Stuff Have To Do With Me? As the temperatures ...
- 16284: Heart Of Darkness
- ... novels. Conrad used experiences of his life in many of his works. From his voyages in the Indian Ocean and Malay Archipelago came some of his best-known novels. He began with his novel Almayer s Folly (1895) set in Borneo. Heart of Darkness is based on his voyage up the Congo River, and he uses memories of his early voyages in the Caribbean. The people of Conrad s day infuriated him by thinking of him as merely a writer of sea stories. But Conrad knew his work really dealt with universal problems. He used the concentrated little world of a ship to treat ... character for its own sake. He was most interested in men who were actively pursuing their aims in life like the captain of the Narcissus novel, who triumphs over weakness and evil. More often, Conrad s heroes yield to the powers of weakness and evil in them than in others. But Conrad was not exactly a pessimist. He affirmed the value of the old-fashioned virtues such as courage, fidelity, ...
- 16285: Endangered Species Of South
- ... is called the background rate of extinction (Lampton 14). Species have slowly evolved and disappeared throughout geological time because of climate changes and the inability to adapt to survive competition and predation. Since the 1600's, however, the rate of extinction has accelerated rapidly because of human population growth and resource consumption (17). Today, most of the world's habitats are changing faster than most species can adapt to such changes through evolution, or natural selection. The current global extinction rate is estimated at about 20,000 species per year, exponentially greater than the ... richest marine habitats known - they are the home or breeding ground of many species and other wildlife, such as sea otters. When the sea otter population off the western coast of Canada and the U.S. was hunted almost to extinction in the 19th and early 20th centuries, invertebrates such as the sea urchins were left without a major predator. The population of sea urchins increased dramatically and rapidly consumed ...
- 16286: Venerating The Mystery The Vir
- The Fogg Museum's icon "The Virgin and Child" captures and venerates the mystery of the Madonna in a way that powerfully awes even the modern viewer. The work entrances the viewer with mesmeric textures and shapes while removing ... from the holy and unknowable religious space it creates. The resulting tension creates a powerful and dynamic contradiction that engulfs the viewer and evokes the eternal devotional mystery. Immediately upon encountering the icon, The Virgin's eyes come piercingly to the fore. Exactly centered under a protruding gilded arch and spanning the vertical axis, the eyes are the center of sets of inter-linked spirals. The intensity of the frank and direct gaze must be met. The Virgin's face is created from broad and distinct strokes recalling the organic textures of Van Gogh and contrasting with the more geometric and gilded shapes of her clothing. The brushwork moves through supremely controlled and ...
- 16287: Heart Of Darkness 14
- ... Congo River, located in central Africa. Although the interpretation of these symbols is so elaborate, the simplicity of each makes it somewhat easy to overlook. A few examples of the many symbols found in Conrad s novel include the jungle, as well as the colors of white and black, better known as the colors of life and death. In Heart of Darkness, the images of black and white have the usual ... as they exploit the great kindness of the blacks. I guess you could say that the white men were filled with a black hatred inside. Another example is found when Marlow enters the Belgian company s office. Sitting in the office are two women dressed almost completely in black. Marlow is no beginning to understand the seriousness of the journey he is going to make. Even his predecessor dies because of a quarrel over two black hens. The usage of black is almost too much to handle. Another example that I also remembered from the movie was how Kurtz s pictures were always placed within a dark ebony back round. Another ironic example is the continued description of the white ivory. Its beautiful white shine makes it look righteous, even though it really demonstrates ...
- 16288: Ap European History Dbq- Women
- The 17th and 18th centuries saw the embryonic stage of women s quest for intellectual and social parity with men. The evolution of women s fight for equal opportunities was bogged down by a long history of stereotyping and condescension. Women were weaker physically, bore children and nurtured them. The economics and culture of Europe at this time was strongly influenced by religion and resulted in prejudice against women. The dominating religions of Europe in the 1600 s and 1700 s (Catholicism and Protestantism), citing the bible, reinforced women s roles as mother s, wives, and homemakers. Women were considered the weaker sex both physically and mentally. Men and most women assumed ...
- 16289: Cold Fusion
- ... sustain a cold fusion process. After intense media attention, and corresponding interest in future test, the subject seemed to have faded away. Future tests proved inconclusive, and when the quick promise of easy energy didnt materialize, most quickly forgot the subject. Little is said about the continuing research in the scientific community to further our understanding of the free energy enigma. Is it science fiction, on the border of legitamete ... at this point more difficult. There is the belief also that Cold Fusion is not a nuclear reaction at all. Some think that the process is merely a chemical reaction not yet understood by todays laws of chemistry. This presents numerous gray areas in the understanding of the reactions taking place in the experiments. If indeed it is a chemical reaction then there is some flaw in our understanding of ... in theory there should be lends strong credence to this belief though. Only continued experimentation and new exploration will help explain the mystery. The use of cold fusion would be a boon to mankind. Its use would solve all energy delimmas currently facing the petroleum dependant modern society. Elimination of pollution, economy, and ready availability of raw materials would be a tremendous improvement over todays combustion engines and ...
- 16290: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- ... tracks. Yet hopefully they keep faith and then willingly they may recoup and redeem themselves by recovering. Many believe that, Tess in, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was a great example of this. In Hardy's Victorian age novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, he illustrates casual wrong, the will to recover, the growth of love, and death. Almost everybody has done something casually wrong and not think much of it ... lingered tears. 1 She then later fell in love with Angel, and married him. Angel found out about Tess' past experience with Alec, and he could not forgive her, even though it was all Alec's doing. Thus it is clear that casual wrong follows her and yet the wrong is not made by her. Tess' true strength is her determination to overcome her misfortunes. When the Durbeyfields' horse, Prince died, Tess took control of the situation of the horse's death and the beehive delivery. She takes care of the kids and she had done well in school, even though Tess seems to go nowhere. Also when she leaves her job of taking care ...
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