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- 4921: Women In Math And Science
- ... women are again underrepresented and most women seem to posses anxiety when it comes to math and the sciences. The social stereotype that most people including many teachers take as fact is that women don't have the same capabilities in math and science as men do. "My chemistry teacher told me and my mother that I couldn't understand chemistry because I was a girl (Rocky Mountain Survey)." How often do girls hear comments like this in their science and math classes? It is easy to see that there is a distinctive roll ... science classes. "Young women may feel unwelcome in science classes for a number of reasons: examples and applications are most often masculine, interactions sanction male dominance, science content appears to have no connection to women's experience, and competition is emphasized over collaboration (Taylor and Sweetnam). So what do the teachers who positively influence young women do that is so different it completely changes women's view about science? In ...
- 4922: Prejudice: Looking Through the Window
- ... because Aunt Alexandra sees Walter and his family as poor and beneath the Finches, in her words," …they're good folks. But they're not our kind of folks." Scout on the other hand doesn't care about how much money Walter has but about his potential to be a friend. She doesn't let irrelevant things like money cloud her judgment of people. The most typical of all prejudice views is that of race. An example of this is during Tom Robinsons trial. Tom was a black man accused of raping a white woman, a crime that is punishable by the death penalty. Even though all the facts proved that he didn't do it, the jury still found him guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt". Tom's life has been sacrificed to racism by the people who were there to protect him. The justice system didn't ...
- 4923: Christianity
- ... people just because of their non-Christian views. It makes me angry that people just believe instead of examining what the are believing in. Christianity is a religion of about 1.9 billion people who's belief system centers on the person and the teachings of Jesus Christ. To Christians, Jesus of Nazareth was and is the messiah of Christ promised by God in the prophecies of the Old Testaments; by his life,death, and resurrection he freed those who believe in him from their sinful state and made them recipients of God's saving grace. Despite popular belief by Christians, those of us who are not part of their religion are not lost souls. Most of us just have a problem believing in something that their is no ... I in fact am a baptized Methodist. I actually attended church every Sunday until I was 16 years of age. This was when I stopped blindly believing and started asking questions. When the preacher couldn't answer my question about my religion, I decided there must be something wrong if the person who is supposed to be the mouth piece of God cant tell me the answers. One problem that ...
- 4924: "The Doll's House" Essay
- "The Doll's House" Essay A contributing factor to the story "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield is the characterization of Kezia as she travels in her innocence through the symbolic world of experience. Kezia is essential to the plot because she represents a taboo, offering opposition to ... of thinking. Through the portrayal of Kezia, as she interacts as the symbolic eccentric, Mansfield emphasizes the powers and blind justification of conformity within a society. The story commences with the arrival of the doll's house sent to the Burnell children. The Burnells take a great liking to this new acquisition. As the two older children admire the red carpet, red plush chairs, and gold frames of this highly ...
- 4925: Stephen King
- “If you have an imagination, let it run free.” - Steven King, 1963 The King of Terror Stephen Edwin King is one of today’s most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a realistic everyday place. Stephen King who is mainly known for his novels, has broadened his horizons to different types of writings such as movie scripts, nonfiction, autobiographies, children’s books, and short stories. While Stephen King might be best known for his novels The Stand and It, some of his best work that has been published are his short stories such as “The Body” and “Quitters Inc”. King’s works are so powerful because he uses his experience and observations from his everyday life and places them into his unique stories. Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947, ...
- 4926: The Odyssey The Role Of Prophe
- ... One relives the heroes struggles against innumerable odds, their battles against magical monsters, and the gods periodic intervention in mortal affairs. Yet, a common and often essential portion of a heroic epic is the hero s consultation with an oracle or divinity. This prophecy is usually critical to the plot line, and also to the well being of the main characters. Could Priam have survived in the Achaean camp if not ... Rocks if not for the gods advice of using a sacrificial bird (349). Moreover, prophecy can be negative as well as positive. Achilles was prophesied to die gloriously in battle if he chose his life s way as a warrior. Oedipus was exiled and condemned by his own words, after he slew his sire and wed his mother. This type of prophesy can blind even the gods themselves; Chronos was fated ... must be interpreted in terms of that action. Halitherses comments on the eagle attack after Telemakhos condemns the suitors (463-464); he correctly interests it to mean that if the suitors keep feeding off Odysseus s possessions they will be destroyed. Yet the suitors ignore the omen, inviting their eventual destruction. This haughty treatment of a divine omen is a justification for their deaths. When Penelope says if Odysseus had ...
- 4927: Hamlet - Enstragement In Hamlet
- Psychological Estrangement In Shakespeare’s "Hamlet", the main character, Hamlet, is burdened with attaining revenge on his murdered father’s behalf from the king of Denmark, King Claudius. In attempting to kill Claudius, Hamlet risks enduring estrangement occurring within himself at multiple psychological levels. The levels of estrangement that risk Hamlet’s psychological sense of identity are religious estrangement, moral estrangement, estrangement from countrymen, estrangement from his mother, and estrangement from women in general. Hamlet feels self-actualized from following basic religious principles of living. This ...
- 4928: Short Stor
- Character’s Role in Making a Story Character, stories are affected in many ways by this seemingly small aspect of a short story. Just the use of certain characters in a story can change the way we ... they bring most of the action into a story. In the story "A good man is Hard to Find" the grandmother is a prime example of a dynamic character. The story revolves around the grandmother’s actions. The grandmother inadvertently leads her family into an accident "There was a secret panel in this house, she said craftily, not telling the truth but wishing she were", by saying these words to her ... there are static characters in the story that help to drive the story forward. Static characters usually have little or no information on what they’re doing, thinking, or feeling ever mentioned. Static characters don’t change throughout the story. For instance the father of the family in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is a static, flat character. He plays a minimal role in the story, but is ...
- 4929: Sparta: Uncultured Discipline
- ... culture, and other things that make life worth while. I believe the price was to high they went to far and shut off all that was creative and human in Sparta. A culture that can't change or adapt doesn't survive. This is exactly what happened , after a single major defeat in 360 B.C Sparta was no longer a significant factor in the region (Isaac Asimov, 1965, p. 178). The original founders of "modern ... like every other Greek state. They had music, art and poetry. During the seventh century, a musician named Terpander came to Sparta and established himself their. He is called the "father of Greek music," he's also supposed to off improved the lyre (a harp like instrument). The most widely known Spartan musician was Tyrtaeus. He lived during the Second Messenian War and his music inspired many Spartan soldiers to ...
- 4930: Creatine 2
- ... Beneficial or Waste of $$$$$? Having finally resolved to work out at the gym, you sweat and toil for weeks on end only to look in the mirror and see little to show for it. It's the paradox of the New Year's resolution exerciser. Seeing physical results can help exercisers stay true to their fitness programs, yet for many it takes months to achieve noticeable muscle changes. Creatine Monohydrate has become the most popular supplement in the ... a precursor to creatine phosphate. By supplementing with CM, CP levels in muscle apparently are maximized, and more muscular work can occur, since there are greater energy reserves to use. Approximately 95% of the body's creatine supply is found in the skeletal muscles. The remaining 5% are scattered throughout the rest of the body, with the highest concentrations in the heart, brain and testes. A skeletal muscle itself does ...
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