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- 25091: Creative Writing: The Kindergarten
- ... we made our way towards the kindergarten. As we came closer we could make out the kindergarten on the horizon. The fluorescent yellow play equipment stood out in the green landscape as if it didn't belong. We had finally arrived, I got out and made my way to the door. All the peaceful sounds of the wind blowing through the towering trees and the birds chirping happily with one another ... a lot clearer now, only having to dodge the rag doll or building blocks. The teacher greeted me with a smile, her lily white teeth standing out against her dark skin as if they didn't belong . Her glasses were perched precariously on the end of her nose, and her face was beginning to show signs of age. Nevertheless there was a serenity about her which put you at ease. She ... were dismissed. They grabbed there multicolored back packs which were heavy for them, but light enough for us to carry with no effort at all. Little kids clinging to their mothers as if they hadn't seen them for weeks made their way out the door. I found my sister with her Sesame Street back pack and we headed for the car. She began to explain to me, in her ...
- 25092: Two Works By Anton Chekhov
- Anton Chekhov is the author of both The Cherry Orchard and “A Visit to Friends.” Both works have similar characteristics and are typical of Chekhov’s writing style. Three of these characteristics are the setting of the story, family, and nature. The settings of both “A Visit to Friends” and The Cherry Orchard are in rural areas of Russia. Specifically, the ... leave, feel that way because they have a completely different life ahead of them. Another commonality is that the setting in both stories is constant. In The Cherry Orchard, the setting is always Madame Ranevskaya’s estate. Likewise, in “A Visit to Friends” the setting is always the Losev estate. In both “A Visit to Friends” and The Cherry Orchard, the plot revolves around a single family. The relationships between all ... A Visit to Friends” Podgorin is asked to marry Nadezhda and in The Cherry Orchard Lopakhin is asked to marry Varya. Chekhov is able to share his view on family life through both stories. Chekhov’s use of nature is evident in both “A Visit to Friends” and The Cherry Orchard. In The Cherry Orchard, the main focus of the play is the conflict over what to do with the ...
- 25093: Signifigance Of Disease And Pl
- ... finds out who is after him and the identity of the murderer of his father. Polonious is one of the people spying on Hamlet to find the “source of his madness” and says "That he's mad, 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis 'tis true" [2.2.97-98]. Hamlet never stops his act and gets his job done. During Hamlets search for revenge, he also sparks the beginning of Ophelia’s demise. This happens because to insure no one knows that Hamlet is acting as if he is crazy, he only tells his most trusted friend Horaito. Ophelia does not know he is only acting for ... her appearance is also more ragged and dirty. She does not even notice her own brother, Laertes, when he returns from school. Shortly after this, Ophelia is found, drown in the brook. Hamlet triggers Ophelia’s insanity that then leads to her death. While all of these tragic happenings are occurring relationships are also being torn apart. Hamlets' relations with his mother Gertrude are severed. Hamlet believes his mother is ...
- 25094: Death of a Salesman: Willy Loman
- ... the wrong career. Willy often makes up stories or changes the stories he knows because he cannot face the truth of his life that he has not accomplished as much as he has planned. Willy's downfall is his own doing which is brought about by his unrealistic dreams, his pride, his career choice and his failure to manage life's problems. Willy, at a young age, noticed an old salesman who worked at an age of 80 and made a lot of money. The old salesman took orders from no one, he made his own ... dream that never suited Willy Loman. Willy does not allow people to tell him what to do. He believes that he cannot be bossed around and that he is too important to fall under anyone's authority but his own. Willy teaches Biff and Happy not to take orders from anyone. He thinks this will make Biff, Happy and himself successful, but it is in fact a major contribution to ...
- 25095: Madame Bovary: Destiny
- Madame Bovary: Destiny Destiny: the seemingly inevitable succession of events.1 Is this definition true, or do we, as people in real life or characters in novels, control our own destiny? Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary exemplifies how we hold destiny in our own hands, molding it with the actions we take and the choices we make. Flaubert uses Emma Bovary, the main character of his novel, to demonstrate ... them affecting her fate and by analyzing these decisions one could see from the beginning that Emma is destined to suffer. However, one can also pinpoint such decisions making events as her marriage, her daughter's birth, her adulterous relationship with Leon and her taking the poison, as times when, if she had made a different decision, her life would not have ended as tragically. When we first meet Emma, the ... Leon is the cause of many of her later problems, such as her debt, her sickness, her depression and her eventual death. Death. This brings us to the final fork in the road of Emma's life. She chooses to take the Arsenic as she feels overwhelmed and sees this as the best solution for all her problems. Why does she take the Arsenic when she is still young and ...
- 25096: Charles Darwin
- ... What Darwin really liked to do was tramp over the hills, observing plants and animals, collecting new specimens, scrutinizing their structures, and categorizing his findings, guided by his cousin William Darwin Fox, an entomologist. Darwin's scientific inclinations were encouraged by his botany professor, John Stevens Henslow, who was instrumental, despite heavy paternal opposition, in securing a place for Darwin as a naturalist on the surveying expedition of HMS Beagle to ... natural selection, the germ of the Darwinian Theory, but with typical caution he delayed publication of his hypothesis. However, in 1858 Alfred Wallace sent Darwin a letter of his book, Malay Archipelago, which, to Darwin's surprise, contained the main ideas of his own theory of natural selection. Lyell and Joseph Hooker persuaded him to submit a paper of his own, based on his 1844 sketch, which was read simultaneou! sly with Wallace's before the Linnean Society in 1858. Neither Darwin nor Wallace was present on that historic occasion. Darwin then set to work to condense his vast mass of notes, and put into shape his great ...
- 25097: Videoconferencing
- ... videoconferencing systems in use today require cameras, monitors, and cables, new technology allows video to be transmitted over existing PC local area networks (LANs). And, as fiber optic cable replaces copper wire in the nation’s telephone infrastructure, and as compression technology is enhanced, videoconferencing will be possible and affordable using standard telephone lines. Description The primary components of a simple videoconferencing system are television cameras, monitors, microphones, speakers, and a ... television camera mounted on the personal computer monitor connects to a special board in the PC. Software routes video and audio signals between selected locations, displaying the image from each camera on the other participant’s PC screen. Court events, conferences, and meetings using videoconferencing are similar to those conducted when all parties are in the same room. Everyone sits in front of a television monitor and can see the parties ... similar evaluations and pilot tests in a number of other states. No court system has yet implemented videoconferencing technology on a large scale. Videoconferencing has, however, proven effective in reducing the need for an organization’s staff to travel long distances for meetings. It has been used successfully for educational programs in the Arizona courts, by the Alabama Judicial College, and for a faculty development workshop preceding the Fourth National ...
- 25098: THE GRAPES OF WRATH
- ... problem of agricultural overproduction. In 1916, the number of people living on farms was at its maximum at 32,530,000. Most of these farms were relatively small (Reische 51). Technological advances in the 1920's brought a variety of effects. The use of machinery increased productivity while reducing the need for as many farm laborers. The industrial boom of the 1920s drew many workers off the farm and into the ... to be harmful to the United States in the long run, and they see subsidies as a way of achieving a social desire to preserve the family farm. "If the family farm represents anything, it's a very intimate and fundamental relationship between people and resources (MacFadyen 138)." Fewer farms mean fewer jobs and a higher concentration of wealth. Ten 30,000-acre farms may produce as much food as a ... also increasing taxes to pay for them. Perhaps most importantly, subsidies do not fulfill their social role. "About 112,000 large farms-- equivalent to the number of farms in Minnesota alone-- produce half the nation's food and fiber (Long 82)." The many government subsidy policies do not preserve the family farm, and the number of small farms has almost continuously been on the decline. Subsidies are impractical in the ...
- 25099: Daniel Boone
- ... Indian War. There he met John Finley, a hunter who had seen some of the western wilds, who told him stories that set him dreaming. But Boone was not quite ready to pursue the explorer's life. Back home on his father's farm he began courting a neighbor's daughter, Rebecca Bryan, and soon they were married. In 1767 Boone traveled into the edge of Kentucky and camped for the winter at Salt Spring near Prestonsburg. But the least explored parts were still ...
- 25100: Catcher in the Rye: Holden and Reznor
- ... happened to him, all the terrible things he has seen, with a nonstop chronic beat, has made his soul numb. He has lost track of reality and fallen into this deep hole. Mr. Antolini, Holden's old teacher, said to him that he was headed for a great fall. Little did he know that throughout the novel, Holden has been falling until he reached a stopping point towards the end of ... Jane, the way she used to be perfect, placing her kings in the back because it would look nice, and now he has come to believe that she ‘gave time to Stradlater in Ed Banky's car.' He tries to see Sally Hayes and when he finally meets her, he realizes that she has become more of a phony than ever. He speaks to Carl Luce, an old roomate he used ... and this makes them different because they are the only two people that realizes that their pureness and innocence has fled their souls. The most important part of their lives was in their past. Holden's brother, Allie, was the smartest kid he knew, Phoebe is probably the nicest sister he remembers knowing, and Jane used to be the perfect girl. He remembers many past events in the novel and ...
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