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- 7671: Dandelion Wine
- Dandelion Wine is a book written by Ray Bradbury. Dandelion Wine is a book about a summer through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy. It establishes a change of Douglas s childhood to manhood. It will show how a young, orgulous boy goes through many stymies. Douglas Spaulding is a boy growing up in a somewhat deserted town. The time was 1928. Douglas s house is an el dorado. Doug lives near an umbra, to others though it is just a ravine. It is just going to be the start of a new summer when Douglas finally realizes that ... Doug had known Jon his whole life. One day Jon decided to tell Doug that his dad got a job and they were going to move that night. A myriad of emotions ran through Doug s head at this time. Doug wondered if he would ever get to see Jon again. The realization that they had so little time and so much to do kicked in. Later that night Doug, ...
- 7672: To Kill A Mockingbird 4
- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD A novel by Harper Lee Harper Lee was born in 1926 in a small town in the southern state of Alabama. She was a lawyer s daughter, but she stated several times that To kill a mockingbird is not an autobio-graphical novel. It was written while Ms. Lee was working in New York, in the late fifties, and published in ... reads newspapers and tends to discuss matters with her father as a grown-up. Still, due to the liberal and open-minded views of Atticus, Scout, and, to a lesser degree, Jem, the family doesn t fit well in the rural South, where racism and narrow-mindedness is the common attitude. One can actually say that the basic theme of the novel is the treatment of outcasts. Nearly all positive characters are outcasts in one way or another. The Finch family is too uncon-ventional. Scout hates being treated as a little lady. As she starts attending school, she can t stand the idea of wearing a dress, and her teacher considers it wrong that Scout al-ready can read and write. Scout and Jem have a good friend who pretends to have a rich ...
- 7673: Insanity
- ... After defeating numerous women, he declared himself the “inter-gender wrestling champion,” which created major controversy in the wrestling industry. People had a very hard time telling whether he was being serious or not. Andy’s humor was like no other, and people had a hard time accepting it. Early in his career, Andy appeared to be fairly normal, but several of his acts had many believing otherwise. For instance, Andy would set the alarm on his clock to wake him every hour, just so could smoke two packs of cigarettes. Even to this day, some of close friends don’t know if he was insane or not. His performance itself wasn’t insane, but the acts he would do when he wasn’t in front of the camera or on stage were, such as the whole smoking every hour thing. Another performer people portray as being ...
- 7674: Greasy Lake
- T. Coraghessan Boyle’s "Greasy Lake" and "Big Game" are similarly structured but completely different short stories that explain the transitions of people from fake slaves of their image to genuine and realized individuals. If not portrayed in the stories, the development in the characters certainly escapes into the reader’s imagination and almost magically makes them the learned. The plot of the two stories is one of the strongest lines connecting them together by way of foundation, but at the same time it establishes ...
- 7675: Racism Related To The Novel Ja
- ... essence of the Harlem Renaissance, the age of the New Negro, for many black women it represented the disenchantment of urban life. The age that emphasized reacial pride and equality but often overshadowed black women s equality. In the novel, examples from Joe and Violet s encounters with racism can be compared to Toni Morrison s dealings, how and when racism got its start, and how it is today. In Jazz, Joe and violet were intially dazzeled by the prospect of life in New York, the center of the age ...
- 7676: The Characteristics Of Mrs.dic
- ... of beauty, she is also very attractive on herself. "She was a charming woman walking by herself". (P112) Because she is such a good looking, lovely woman, there is no question that many men couldn t resist her attractiveness and want to marry with her. "Several man wanted to marrt her".(P113) Mrs.Dickinson is a widow because her husband died in a plane crash. That makes her to be a ... will earn her money to live. "She helped a friend with a little hat shop......bred puppies for sale". Emotionally, she is independent. Her son, Frederick, is the only one lives with her. She hasn t marry any other man in five years after the death of her husband. "It was five years since her tragedy and she had not married." (P112) She also try to raise her son by herslef. There is no baby-sister to take care of Frederick. She is the only one who puts Federick on first place. "But you see, there s Frederick. He s the man in my life now. I m bound to put him firstt". (P113) As she becomes a widow, she try to do everything on herslef, without anyone s help. By ...
- 7677: Hemophilia 4
- ... a person has hemophilia, the blood does not clot properly and bleeding persists. The people who have hemophilia are called hemophiliacs or bleeders. Bleeding disorders, such as hemophilia, result from a disruption of the body's process of how blood clots are formed. The coagulation process involve platelets as well as plasma proteins called clotting factors. Clotting begins when platelets stick to the site of an injury to a blood vessel ... classic hemophilia. Hemophilia B or Christmas disease, named after the first patient diagnosed and treated with hemophilia B. Hemophilia B lacks AHF (antihemophilic factor). About 85% of hemophiliacs have classic or hemophilia A. Hemophilia A's blood lacks the clotting factor eight. The rest of the 85% have Christmas, which lacks clotting factor nine. An extremely small number of hemophiliacs lack yet another kind of clotting factor. Both A and B forms have also been called the royal disease. Hemophilia was inherited by decedents of England's Queen Victoria and introduced into the royal houses of Spain, Germany, and Russia. Hemophilia A and B are caused by genes that are sex linked and recessive. A defective gene on the X chromosome, ...
- 7678: Flowers For Algernon
- Medical operations are carried out everyday, but for some, an operation can change a person's life. One experiment was done on a mentally retarded person to try to raise his intelligence. The experiment worked, but after months, the patient regressed dramatically. In the book, Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, this intelligence operation was preformed, and the patient was Charlie Gordon. After the operation, Charlie was very bright, but experienced psychological traumas, loneliness, disillusionment, and social inadequacies. Charlie's psychological traumas or emotional upset was caused by his memory recalls. After his operation, he remembered every aspect of his childhood, whether it was good or bad. "...He's normal! He's normal! He'll grow up like other people. Better than others..." Charlie had dreams of how his mother was ashamed of him. His mother always thought her son was normal and ...
- 7679: Can Computers Think? The Case For and Against Artificial Intelligence
- Can Computers Think? The Case For and Against Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence has been the subject of many bad "80's" movies and countless science fiction novels. But what happens when we seriously consider the question of computers that think. Is it possible for computers to have complex thoughts, and even emotions, like homo sapien? This ... the three main theories is sort of like examining three religions. None offers enough support so as to effectively eliminate the possibility of the others being true. The three main theories are: 1. Thought doesn't exist; enough said. 2. Thought does exist, but is contained wholly in the brain. In other words, the actual material of the brain is capable of what we identify as thought. 3. Thought is the ... consider intelligence? The most compelling argument is that intelligence is the ability to adapt to an environment. Desktop computers can, say, go to a specific WWW address. But, if the address were changed, it wouldn't know how to go about finding the new one (or even that it should). So intelligence is the ability to perform a task taking into consideration the circumstances of completing the task. So now ...
- 7680: Divorce
- ... and has influenced our opinions of the ties of marriage considerably to make that kind of change in percentages. History has shown us that marriage has been worshipped as a sacred bond ever since it’s creation. Reversing that bond was very hard, and often impossible by the Catholic Church. Catholics may just be the largest percentage of religious people that get divorced today. That could be due to the fact ... a lack of respect for it, time produces adults of a more degenerate nature in their relationships despite what we might want to believe. What we all must realize is that the young children aren’t getting the structure of a strong marriage and therefore have no moral reasoning in the subject. I have seen many marriages crumble and seen divorce pop up and take over faster than the falling wall. I feel that people don’t give marriage enough of a chance, and because divorce is so quick and easy and relatively painless, it’s the quick fix instead of working on your problems and trying to salvage a marriage. ...
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