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- 4211: The Scarlet Letter: Use of Romanticism in Development of Characters
- The Scarlet Letter: Use of Romanticism in Development of Characters In Hawthorne's revered novel The Scarlet Letter, the use of Romanticism plays an important role in the development of his characters. He effectively demonstrates individualism in Hester to further our understanding of the difficulties of living in ... But for this reason specifically, emotions began bubbling and eventually boiled over, passions a novelist such as Hawthorne could seize at red heat and use for the basis of an effective novel. Hawthorne shows Hester's sheer determination to live in this society directly through her actions and relations to others, and indirectly through the presentation of herself and her child and through her internal emotio nal struggle. Hester's adultery creates a feeling of dismay and hostility within the people of Boston. They are not only shocked that she has done such a thing, but also because she won't reveal the name ...
- 4212: The Chocolate War
- ... that every year at Trinity, there is a chocolate sale run by the assistant head master, Brother Leon. The last major detail in the rising action was when Archie informed Jerry of his assignment, Jerry’s assignment was not to sell chocolates for the first ten days of the annual chocolate sale. The climax of the novel was on the eleventh day of the chocolate sale when Jerry was supposed to start selling the chocolates but he didn’t. As a result of Jerry not selling any chocolates, the other students’ sales began to plummet during the falling action of the story. Brother Leon began to feel nervous and had to go to Archie ... Incredibly, the Vigils turned the whole school against Jerry and made selling chocolates the "cool" thing. Students began to look down upon Jerry for not conforming to the chocolate sale tradition. Someone even vandalized Jerry’s locker and cut up his gym sneakers. A group of boys, including Emile Janza, one of the biggest bullies at Trinity, jumped Jerry after football practice and abused Jerry’s body with their fists ...
- 4213: Canada's Copyright Law
- Canada's Copyright Law Canada's copyright law is one of our hardest laws to enforce. The reason the police have so much trouble enforcing this law, is due to technology. This law is very easy to break, and once broken ... to the stereo and bingo you have a new tape. You also just broke the law. Along with copying audio tapes, now we can copy video tapes almost as easily. If you hook two VCR's together, they can copy from one to the other. You could rent a movie form the video store, copy and return it, with no one the wiser. The problem with copying video and audio ...
- 4214: To Kill A Mockingbird: Innocence to Experience
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Innocence to Experience Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, focuses on the development of a brother and sister in the "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930s. A number of people greatly influence Jem and Scout. The ... whites, in one and the same community without being an element of social disorder” (Gould, 36). The traditional Southern racism of Maycomb is looked at through the eyes of our young narrator, Scout Finch. Scout’s innocent perspective compels her to ask questions about why whites treat blacks the way they do. These questions are crucial in Scout and her older brother Jem’s search for their own identity. They must find their own position and what roles they will play in the whole racial game. When Atticus tells Jem and Scout to, "Shoot all the bluejays you ...
- 4215: The Bicycle Past, Present And
- ... a mode of transportation, as well as a sport. The future is bright for the bicycle, with its increasing popularity as well as the advancements in technology. The bicycles history dates back to the 1490's. During this time Leonardo da Vinci, a famous artist, as an well as inventor created a primitive drawing of the bicycle. These pictures were more advanced then many ancestors of the modern day bicycle. Da Vinci's sketches showed a bicycle with gears and a chain rotating the rear wheel, but these bikes were not manufactured until the mid to late 1800's. The first bicycle built was constructed by Baron Von Drai in 1817. His bicycle was called the hobby horse, its main body was made of wood and the front and rear were solid wooden ...
- 4216: Creative Writing: X-Men
- Creative Writing: X-Men When many people hear about the X-Men, they think of a silly kid's comic book, but that is not so. X-Men, actually most comic books in general, are a unique blend of two classic art forms; drawings, sometimes even paintings, and storytelling. A comic artist must be ... all. In a series like the X-Men, where there are at least a few hundred characters, past and present, leading and supporting, even dead and alive, the writer must keep track of a character's experiences and their personality. They must also keep track of continuity, making sure they don't contradict past events. This last rule is only loosely followed sometimes. All in all, a long, ongoing story can be like a soap opera. My favorite example of this is "The Summers Family," Which ...
- 4217: Affermative Action
- ... is not the answer. President Clinton spoke out in his speech for National Archives: “ Let me be clear: Affirmative Action has been good for America, we should have a simple slogan: Mend it, but don’t bend it”(Benac). Without even trying to change the way Affirmative Action is implemented, California is ending it first. This will prove detrimental to Californian society because it will cause more racial problems. The problem ... while the number of Hispanic students dropped to eighteen from twenty-eight. Some might believe that this could be just a random occurrence, but the same results showed in the University of Texas Law School’s enrollment, three blacks this fall to last years fifty-nine (Applebome a14). Thus, bans on Affirmative Action are having negative effects on enrollment for blacks and other minorities in Texas’ and California’s prominent universities. Therefore, proving that without Affirmative Action, any minority will not have a fair chance in today’s society. Professor Lino Graglia, a critic of Affirmative Action points out “The whole reason you ...
- 4218: Jarassic Park: The Dinosaurs Were Not To Blame For The Destruction of Jurassic Park
- Jarassic Park: The Dinosaurs Were Not To Blame For The Destruction of Jurassic Park 'Nature won't be stopped .......or blamed for what happens'(Ian Malcolm , Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton). Jurassic Park mystifies its critique even as it makes it; or rather, to be more precise, it offers us contradictory messages ... Park, are fated to exceed our control, just as his chaos theory predicts. According to Malcolm, chaos theory was developed in response to problems like predicting the weather, and the theory says it simply can't be predicted beyond the space of a few days, because the forces involved are too complex and unstable. If everything in a popular narrative like Jurassic Park really means something else, then so too does ... enough to pay, that is), the nervous investors insist on sending a team to the island to determine whether or not the park is as safe and under control as Hammond continually insists. It isn't, of course, and most of the novel tells the story of everything getting completely out of control, most especially the incredibly fast, vicious and intelligent dinosaurs known as 'velociraptors,' which are six-foot tall, ...
- 4219: Faster Dissolved Oxygen Test Kit
- ... levels of oxygen. Photosynthetic bacteria consumed carbon dioxide and produced simple sugars and oxygen which created the oxygen abundant atmosphere in which more advanced life forms could develop. (Brown, 1994) The mystery of how Earth's oxygen levels rose is very complex. Scientists don't agree when or how the oxygen on earth got here, but we know we could not live without it. (Pendick, 1993) Oxygen is crucial for humans to survive. Dissolved oxygen is also crucial for most ... and Stapp, 1990) The breakdown of organic matter by bacteria decreases dissolved oxygen in the water and yet enriches the water with plant nutrients. A reasonable amount of breakdown is good, so the water won't become oligotrophic or nutrient poor. But too much organic breakdown will decrease dissolved oxygen and leave an excess of nutrients. Eutrophication is a term used to describe a body of water in which the ...
- 4220: Roughing It By Mark Twain
- Roughing it was written by Mark Twain. This book is a journal of Mark Twain and his brother's trip to Carson City, Nevada. They went because Mark Twain's brother had a job as the Secretary of Nevada. This book, journal, started when they were leaving to go to Carson City; and ended when Mark Twain decided to move to New York instead of ... Utah back then. Then after they settled in Utah the Americans came and conquered the Mexican army and the Americans gained ownership of the West Coast, including Utah. So Utah became part of the U.S.A. and Brigham Young was really upset. He didn't let the Americans come into his state. When the U.S.A. finally had control of Utah they made Brigham Young the governor of ...
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