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- 21341: Dinosaur History
- ... Using similar techniques to date the dramatic changes in the record of microscopic fossils, they have found that the impact and the dinosaur extinction occurred nearly simultaneously. They believe dust blocked sunlight from the earth's surface for many months. Scorched sulfur from the impact site, water vapor and chlorine from the oceans, and nitrogen from the air combined to produce a worldwide fallout of intensely acidic rain. Scientists theorize that ... had to have been created by God, which proves evolution wrong. Dinosaurs are even mentioned in the Bible, of course not by the term "dinosaur". It uses the ancient name "behemoth". One of the Bible's description of a dinosaur is in Job 41:15-24. Job is a very old book, probably written around 2000 B.C. Here God describes one of the larger dinosaurs. It is said to be ... inches apart. It is evidence that shows the thought that dinosaur and man never saw each other may be wrong. From the facts here I believe that the Christian theory is correct. The Evolutionists couldn't agree on a reason for the disappearance of the dinosaurs, and I think that the flood wiped all but the one that were on the Ark. After the flood the dinosaurs could not handle ...
- 21342: Darwinism 2
- ... playing field. This allows the weak to maintain enough power to reproduce and spread their weakness on to the next generation. Capitalists feel that the people should be left to fend for themselves, as Darwin’s creatures are in nature, so that they can evolve to better things. As socialist writings such as The Communist Manifesto were spread throughout Europe, their opposition in turn spread literature about the social implications of Darwinism, and thus it became a definitive ideology of the nineteenth century. Beyond Darwinism’s application to the individual, people used it to justify actions of the state. Nations, like organisms, are in constant competition with each other. Often times, as in the natural setting, one member of a group must come to dominate over the other member. In nature, the snake steals the eggs of other reptiles. In this way the snake, being more fit, lives off of other’s resources and places the reptiles in a position of submission. Governments used this idea to defend their holding of colonial possessions. As Adolf Hitler wrote, “The stronger must dominate and not blend with the ...
- 21343: A Tale of Two Cities: Love or Hate
- ... Madame Defage, is an extremely direct fight between the forces of love and hate. This conflict occurs when Miss Pross tries to keep Madame Defage in a room to keep her from finding the Evermonde’s, whom Miss Pross loves. As Madame Defage attempts to leave Miss Pross attempts to stop her. “It was vain for Madame Defage to struggle and strike; Miss Pross, with vigorous tenacity of love, always so ... of hate. She cares for nothing but the killing of aristocrats and innocent people alike. In a few basic words she is a violent murderous madwoman. This hate causes her death for if she hadn’t been involved in a hateful out-of-control revolution she would have never even met Miss Pross. Meanwhile there is another confrontation occurring, one which is taking place on the inside as well as the ... be for the worst. Still this love that he carries with him drives him on, even after she marries Charles Darney. Later when Darney is about to be executed Cartons new nature shows itself. Carton’s love for Lucie persuades him to save Darneys life, even if it means that he must die. When Carton dies, people may say that it is sad, but really it is what needed to ...
- 21344: The Metamorphosis
- The Metamorphosis In Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa is alienated long before his transformation into a dung-beetle, the job that gave him no satisfaction and the family that exploited him kept him isolated from himself and society. Kafka ... quit, but hi is forced to continue working so that he may bail out his bankrupt family. Kafka is very much a follower of Marx and that is the philosophy that comes through here. Gregor's alienation due to work corresponds to Marx's definition of work under capitalism: his work is external to the worker, I.e., it does not form part of his essential being so that instead of feeling well in his work, he feels ...
- 21345: Down Syndrome 4
- ... who were thought then to have an arrested development. This ethnic insult came under fire in the 1960s from Asian genetic researchers, and the term was dropped from scientific use. Instead, the condition became "Down's syndrome." In the 1970s, an American revision of scientific terms changed it simply to "Down syndrome," while it still is called "Down's" in Europe. In the first part of the twentieth century, there was much speculation of the cause of Down syndrome. The first people to speculate that it might be due to chromosomal abnormalities were Waardenberg and Bleyer in the 1930s. But it wasn't until 1959 that Jerome Lejeune and Patricia Jacobs, working independently, first determined the cause to be trisomy of the 21st chromosome. Cases of Down syndrome due to translocation and mosaicism were described over the ...
- 21346: The Civil War
- ... the United States . . . citizens of the United States." It also provided that, "No State shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." This not only gave new meaning to black men's freedom, but it also gave a new and broader meaning to citizenship. Those drafting the amendment hoped that the broadness of would cover "unanticipated abuses", yet, the general phrasing was only an advantage to abusers. There is no listing of the "privileges or immunities" offered to U.S. citizens. In fact, there is not even a clarification of what rights a "citizen" has. These generalities, and the abuses that went with them, prompted the adoption of the fifteenth amendment in 1870. The final ... that fact. As well, the radical Republican reconstruction plan called for an official renunciation of secession, before states could be readmitted to the Union. If secession from the Union was now illegal, then Daniel Webster's theory of the Constitution being a people's government, and not a compact of states had to be true. "The Constitution . . . [begins] with the words 'We the people,' and it was the people, not ...
- 21347: Surfacing: A Summary
- Surfacing: A Summary Margaret Atwood’s novel Surfacing tells the story of a young Canadian woman’s search for her missing father and finding a new sense of herself along the way. The author uses imagery to portray the narrator’s feelings of enclosure that she struggles with upon returning to her childhood home and her subsequent release of those feelings at the end at the end of the novel. In chapter 2 we learn ...
- 21348: The Characteristics of Nature in The Scarlet Letter
- ... used characteristics of nature to symbolize the characters in his book, their actions and their surroundings. A young Nathaniel Hawthorne favored also well known romantic writers such as Ann Radcliffe and Charles Brockden Brown. Hawthorne’s ability to use color to establish setting and scenery can also be found in the works of Radcliffe and Brown. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne used many different characteristics of nature to set tone ... and stood on the upper step, looking like a wild tropical bird of rich plumage ready to take flight into the upper air.”(Hawthorne, 111) In the first passage Hawthorne uses nature to describe Hester’s sin and the second passage uses nature to describe Pearl’s appearance as wild and magical. The forest becomes Hawthorne‘s tool to describe the interlude between Dimmesdale and Hester. The long passage describes the actions between Hester and Dimmesdale in one of their most ...
- 21349: Discourse On The Origin Of Inequality: Savage vs Civil Men
- Discourse On The Origin Of Inequality: Savage vs Civil Men In Rousseau’s novel, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, he discusses the life of the savage man in the first part and then in the second part he talks about how the civil man came to be ... men” (Rousseau 16). The author is more partial to surviving like the savage man but I believe that we would all be better off existing like the civil man. The civil man brought about modernization’s that the writer might not have wanted to see modernized, but it all happened for the best. Without the development of the civil man we would be living in harmony but no one would be ... so he used it for just about everything that had to be done. So not only is the savage man dependent on his body all the time he also uses it wisely so he doesn’t get hurt or sick. Rousseau states, “…that most of our ills are of our own making, and that we could have avoided nearly all of them by preserving the simple, regular and solitary lifestyle ...
- 21350: A Tale of Two Cities: Summary
- ... mostly because the wineshop owner, Ernest Defarge, and his wife, Madame Defarge, are key leaders and officials of the revolution. Action in the book is scattered out in many places; such as the Bastille, Tellson's Bank, the home of the Manettes, and largely, the streets of Paris. These places help to introduce many characters into the plot. One of the main characters, Madame Therese Defarge, is a major antagonist who ... arrested and must be bailed out several times during the story. Dr. Alexander Manette, a veteran prisoner of the Bastille, cannot escape the memory of being held and sometimes relapses to cobbling shoes. Dr. Manette's daughter, Lucie Manette is loved by many and marries Charles Darnay. One who never forgot his love for Lucie, Sydney Carton, changed predominately during the course of the novel. Sydney, a look-alike of Charles ... the premises of the two promises between Dr. Manette and Darnay. Right after the marriage, while the newlyweds are on their honeymoon, Dr. Manette has a relapse and cobbles shoes for nine days straight. France's citizens arm themselves for a revolution and, led by the Defarges, start the revolution by raiding the Bastille. Shortly before the start of the revolution, the Marquis runs over a child in the streets ...
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