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- 3281: Sharing
- ... felt that everybody should be given the opportunity to raise a family. My belief has grown even more since my first child, Trey, was born. He is such a beautiful and magical creature. I wouldn't give him up for the world, but I want to do even more. I want to share my fertility with others who aren't able to bear children. For that reason, I have decided to become a surrogate mother. My husband, Dan, was against the idea at first, but I was able to talk him into it. I told him about the way he felt when Trey was born, and he eventually realized that it wasn't fair for us not to share with those less fortunate than we were. I went to an agency to talk about the process of becoming a surrogate mother. The people at the agency were ...
- 3282: Quinn's Ishmael: Mistakes of Mankind and Their Affect on the Human History
- Quinn's Ishmael: Mistakes of Mankind and Their Affect on the Human History Most humans are confused. Some know what the problem is, but most haven't even realized something is wrong. The novel Ishmael by Daniel Quinn is an attempt to bring about awareness of the mistakes that people have made and have continued to repeat through the course of human ... learns his name. However, he/she is exposed to many important aspects of the student and his motivations. One learns that decades ago he had actually been looking for such a teacher during the children's revolt of the sixties and seventies but finally concluded that no ne existed and that the new era was never going to begin. This realization had embittered him to the point that seeing such ...
- 3283: Joy Luck Club
- By: Mya The stories of Suyuan and Jing-Mei Woo reveal some of Amy Tan's main themes in the novel. One important theme is that we must get to know and understand our parents in order to fully understand ourselves. June spends the first half of her life believing that she is a disappointment to her mother and has been unsuccessful in life. However, when she learns more about her mother's past and discovers that her mother is proud of her good heart and concern for others, she realizes that she has accomplished something by doing small things to the best of her ability. She learns ... not have to be famous, or a genius, or greatly wealthy in order to be successful. Another important theme is that we need to make our own choices in life and find our own life's importance. When June was a child, her mother was constantly pushing her to try different things that she had no interest in. Because she did not care about any of these things, she did ...
- 3284: Pragmatics Deixis And Conversa
- ... categories The Greek origin of the term deixis meaning pointing via language already hints at its function. According to Yule (1996:9), "Deixis is clearly a form of referring that is tied to the speaker´s context". This again leads us to the concept of deictic centre. The deictic centre can be divided into certain ‘sub-centres’. 1. Central person (speaker): Personal pronouns, I (Speaker), you (Addresse) 2. Central time (coding time): Adverbs of time, now and then 3. Central place (the location of the speaker): Adverbs of space, here and there 4. Discourse centre (the point of the speaker´s discourse): Adverbs of time and place, conjunctions 5. Social centre (the speaker´s social status relative to the Adressee´s) Next we can distinguish between proximal terms (like here, now, this - near to the speaker) and distal terms (like there, then, that - away from the speaker). It ...
- 3285: The Love Song Of J. Alfred Pru
- In T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," the author is establishing the trouble the narrator is having dealing with middle age. Prufrock(the narrator) believes that age is a burden and is deeply ...
- 3286: Old Madison Square Garden: Fond Recollections of a True Landmark
- ... for athletes all over the world. Athletes would come to New York not just for competition, but also for the experiences and different cultures (Jackson 72). Nowhere else in the world do you get what's in New York. How all the different lifestyles can live together in harmony, for the most part, and make New York the greatest city in the world. When the wrecking ball took down Old Madison ... center in the middle of Madison Square. A place for conventions, sporting events and other activities that the community can share. Madison Square was a lively part of New York City in the early 1900's. Adjacent from Broadway it was filled with theateres, music halls, hotels and restaurants that had people coming from the outskirts of town just to visit them. Competing with Broadway, Madison Square had many theateras to compete with the new technology of motion pictures (Lachetta 43). Throughout the late 1800's and the early 1900's the Madison Square was a very colorful place, that lacked one thing a true family place with many events to offer the different life styles. The place the Madison ...
- 3287: Alexander Hamilton
- ... January 1755. His father was James Hamilton, a Scottish merchant of St. Christopher. His grandfather was Alexander Hamilton, of Grange, Lanarkshire. One of his great grandfathers was Sir R. Pollock, the Laird of Cambuskeith. Hamilton's mother was Rachael Fawcette Levine, of French Huguenot descent. When she was very young, she married a Danish proprietor of St. Croix named John Michael Levine. Ms. Levine left her husband and was later divorced from him on June 25, 1759. Under Danish law, the (the court ordering the divorce) Ms. Levine was forbidden from remarrying. Thus, Hamilton's birth was illegitimate. Alexander Hamilton had one brother, James Hamilton. Heavy burdens fell upon Hamilton's shoulders during childhood. Business failures caused Hamilton's father to become bankrupt. Soon thereafter, his mother died in 1768. At twelve, Alexander entered the counting house of Nicholas Cruger and David Beekman. There, young ...
- 3288: Madonna
- ... Her father Chrysler engineer Sylvio (Tony) Ciccone and French-Canadienne Madonna Fortin, for whom the future superstar was named “Veronica” was added to her name for confirmation. While at a young age of five, Madonna’s world fell apart as her mother struggled to a long process of breast cancer on December 1, 1963. Gathering strength from the tragedious loss of her mother, Madonna took a role of the head female of the house. She constantly competed with her other siblings for attention and eventually became her father’s loved one. Madonna turned her perfect self into a bitter one when Sylvio married Joan Gustafson, the family’s housekeeper, three years after his wife’s death. The child resented her father’s betrayal and wouldn’t accept her step-mother authority. While going through tough times, Ms Ciccone developed a passion for ...
- 3289: Marijuana Should Be Legal For Medicinal Reasons Only
- Marijuana Should Be Legal For Medicinal Reasons Only When people think of medicine, they generally don’t consider "The Gateway Drug", as marijuana is occasionally called, as their ordinary prescription. Most think of antibiotics, aspirins, or over the counter pills; it’s presumable that marijuana wasn’t the first thought in the majority of people’s heads. Yet, time’s are changing! Many people consider marijuana a "teenage thing" used only for the impression of being high, or stoned. Marijuana tends ...
- 3290: Skateboarders Nationwide Restless; A Problem That Needs Attention?
- Skateboarders Nationwide Restless; A Problem That Needs Attention? Skateboarding. A sport that only requires a board and four wheels. One needs only seventy to one hundred dollars to get one. It seems pretty simple, doesn't it? Well it's not, and for one important reason. On a typical day, a skateboarder usually gets up at about 10a.m., throws their board in the trunk of their car, puts a Bad Religion tape in the ... off to find a good spot to aggressively push their bodies to doing the unthinkable. Defying gravity, stretching the laws of physics and subjecting themselves to much physical pain and discipline all in a day's work. Everyone takes turns trying new moves and cheering each other on, a sport with no pressure to do better than anyone else, there are no winners or losers. You skate until you are ...
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