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- 16521: Report on "The Liar"
- ... pretty much anyone but especially his mother who he feels has underestimated him his entire life. This is his way of getting back at her. James' mother, Margaret, is a widow in her late 40's early 50's. She is a strong catholic who believes her prayers to god will save her from her troubles. Her biggest trouble is James' lying. She thought that she had him cured until she discovered proof that ... and for all. She is a very strong woman, and has always been the head of her family especially since her husband started to become ill. The central conflict in the story is James' mother's frustrating attempt to cure her son of his uncontrollable lying. Finally at the end she sends him off to visit his brother, which James only feels as an attempt to get rid of him ...
- 16522: The Godfather
- A wedding is a great vehicle to motivate a plot in both literature and life. In Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Michael Corleone's wedding is one of the most influential scenes of the entire book. This wedding carries this influence because of three things, first, the reader meets Michael Corleone for the first time, second, the reader experiences a dramatic Italian Mafia wedding in all its prestige and tradition, and lastly, the reader becomes aware of just how respected the head of a Mafia family can become. Michael Corleone's wedding is the first real glimpse of a Mafia family's culture, tradition, and way of life, in the entire book. Michael Corleone, who becomes the most influential character of the Corleone family in ...
- 16523: Acid Rain
- ... as well, because we eat these fish, drink this water and eat these plants. It is a problem that we must all face together and try to get rid of. However acid rain on it's own is not the biggest problem. It cause many other problems such as aluminum poisoning. Acid Rain is deadly. WHAT IS ACID RAIN? Acid rain is all the rain, snow, mist etc that falls from the sky onto our planet that contains an unnatural acidic. It is not to be confused with uncontaminated rain that falls, for that rain is naturally slightly acidic. It is caused by today's industry. When products are manufactured many chemicals are used to create it. However because of the difficulty and cost of properly disposing of these products they are often emitted into the atmosphere with little or ... after the winter and that all the snow and ice was running down into the streams and lakes. They believed that the snow had been exposed to many natural phenomena that gave the snow it's high acid content. Other scientists were not sure that this theory was correct because at the time that the snow was added to the lakes and streams the Ph levels would change from around ...
- 16524: Henrik Ibsen
- ... and elegant poems in the style of the time. He wrote his first play in 1849, a five-act tragedy in verse, Catiline, which was published in 1850 under the pseudonym Brynjolf Bjarme. The Warrior's Barrow was written and performed in 1850, as the first of Ibsen's plays to reach the stage. However, it was not published until much later. Ibsen lived in Christiania (now Oslo) from 1850 to 1851 to complete his upper secondary education. From 1851 to 1857, Ibsen was playwright in residence and director of the theatre in Bergen. While there, he wrote St. John’s Night (written in 1852), Lady Inger of Osteraad (written in 1854, published in 1857), The Feast at Solhaug (written in 1855, published in 1856), and Olaf Liljekrans (written in 1856). All these plays were ...
- 16525: Harry S. Truman
- Biography: During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman's to solve when, on April 12, 1945, he became President. He told reporters, "I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me." Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, in ... Two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrender quickly followed. In June 1945 Truman witnessed the signing of the charter of the United Nations, hopefully established to preserve peace. Thus far, he had followed his predecessor's policies, but he soon developed his own. He presented to Congress a 21-point program, proposing the expansion of Social Security, a full-employment program, a permanent Fair Employment Practices Act, and public housing ...
- 16526: George C. Wallace
- George Wallace The 1960's were characterized as an era full of turmoil. During this era, one of the most controversial topics was the fight over civil rights. One of the key political figures against civil rights movement and pro-segregation was George Wallace. Wallace represented the racist southern view. Many Americans were segregationist, but Wallace was adamant about the topic. Many established political figures were assassinated, during the 1960's. Martin Luther King, JFK, and RFK were all positive visionaries caused controversy throughout that decade. George Wallace was against the modern government, pro-middle class, and against civil rights. Wallace and many other visionaries were cut down to early in life. Wallace was not killed by the assassin's bullet but his political career was changed. The attempt on Wallace's life left him a broken man in a wheelchair. People remembered the George Wallace who smoked his cigar and denounced the State ...
- 16527: The World Anti-Communist League: "Inside The League"
- ... Inside the League" exposes the hidden nature of the League and documents in devastating detail a parade of League-affiliated authoritarian ideologues marching from the death camps of Nazi Germany into the parlors of Reagan's White House. The idea for the book came when Jon Lee Anderson was researching a series of columns on Latin American death squads for Jack Anderson, (Jon Lee's employer but not his relative). Enlisting the aid of his brother Scott, the two first began tracing the connections between the death squads but soon were unravelling networks and alliances that involved terrorists, Nazi collaborators ... through an umbrella group of Central and South American rightists called the Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation (CAL). CAL in turn was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), lead by a retired U.S. Major General, John Singlaub. Singlaub boasts WACL is the coordinating body for raising private aid for the Contras, a task support ed explicitly by the Reagan White House which has sent government officials and ...
- 16528: A Winter Dream: Judy Jones
- A Winter Dream: Judy Jones Have ever met someone who is self-centered and haughty it disgusts you? It’s interesting to think about the way they may turn out in the future. Judy Jones is an example of such a person. Because she knows she has good looks, and is extremely popular, it boasts her ego to unbelievable hights. Irresistibly beautiful, supercilious, and ignorant are three words that give a basic description of Judy Jones, a character in F. Scott Fitzgereld’s “A Winter Dream”. Even at a young age, Judy Jones is a strikingly beautiful young lady. Deemed, by Fitzgerald, a feemes fatel, a lady that is very attractive to men, she is obviously heavily desired ... talk to you that should be enough” and to her advantage it usually is that way. Men meet many a lady, but none quite as rememberable as Miss Judy Jones. Unfortunately for these men, Judy’s personality leaves quite a bit to be desired. She is a very arrogant self-centered person, whose philosophy in life is, “do every thing for me”. She knows that these men who such desire ...
- 16529: Communication In The Millenium
- Communication In the Millenium: 2000 and Beyond The Year 2000. The Millenium. With these phrases come the thoughts of the future and futuristic living. Although the lifestyle of the Jetson’s, with moon shot apartment complexes and flying cars, is more science fiction and entertainment than science fact, how many of their fantasy inventions might someday be a fact? With the new century less than 3 ... times have we heard about “the good old days” when things were “so much simpler?” When the only communication possible was telegrams, telephone calls, and writing letters. All of those mentioned ways of communication hasn’t become totally obsolete yet, but with all the current technologies, such as the Internet, email, and video-conferencing, it would make most people back in the “good old days” stare wide-eyed and shake their ... change the world; the way it is changing the world as we speak? Or will we just accept it as we go, marveling at the new innovations and technologies briefly, as if something new isn’t new enough for us. One thing when mentioning communication in the millenium is how exactly will things change? Will all of us need to be Internet-literate? According to Paul Taylor, the next millenium ...
- 16530: Leprosy 2
- ... discovery of the leprosy bacillus Mycobacterium leprae was not until 1874. Norwegian physician Gerhard Henrik Armaeur Hansen was the first to formally identify the bacillus, and in his recognition, leprosy is also referred to Hansen's disease. Leprosy is a disease that poorly understood by many health care professionals. Although there is some knowledge of the mechanism, transmission, and treatment of the disease, there are many questions that still remain. The ... and those diagnosed with multibacillary leprosy have six or more skin lesions. The disease can be further classified on the basis of skin findings, motor and sensory changes, and biopsy findings as indeterminate (I), tuberculoid (T), borderline tuberculoid (BT), borderline (BB), borderline lepromatous (BL), and lepramtous (LL). Under the WHO classification, I, TT, and BT diseases are generally equivalent to paucibacillary leprosy while, BB, BL, and LL are equivalent to multibacillary ... between these factors is complex and it is difficult to study each factor individually. Continued research into the descriptive aspects of the epidemiology is much needed in order to fully eradicate this disease. References Bhattacharya, S.N., & Sehgal, V.N. (1999). Leprosy in India. Clinics in Dermatology, 17:159-70. Jacobson, R.R., & Krahenbuhl. (1999). Leprosy. The Lancet, 353:655-60. Klaster, P.R., van Beers, S., Madijid, B., Day, ...
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