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- 8021: The Outsiders 4
- Critical Review "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton S.E. Hinton wrote this novel while she was in high school, at the young age of sixteen. It was completed in 1967. She has written other novels such as That Was Then This is Now ... situation of their lives. The characters in this book are fairly realistic and believable. They may seem a tad different to a kid nowadays, but keep in mind that this takes place in the 1960's. S.E. Hinton's plot is not very difficult to understand, since the story rarely gets complicated. It is suitable for readers of all ages, from adolescents to adults. The setting of this book ...
- 8022: How A Car Motor Works
- ... roll on a consistent basis? Tired of losing in front of the crowds at the local strip? Does the local "Guru" who works at your friendly neighborhood speed shop intimidate you with quasi-scientific B.S. when you try to buy something. Are you running out of hard-earned money? How do you know if the mail order house phone salesman is giving you the straight scoop on that turbo kit ... the wrist pin. This is called the small end of the rod. The other end of the rod is attached to the crank. This is called the big end of the rod as the crank's journals are much bigger than the wrist pin journals. The crank journals are bigger because the crank journal continually rotates at a high speed as opposed to the simple rocking movement at the wrist pin ... is the pistons being forced down the bore by the fuel/air explosion, into a rotating motion that can be used to spin the wheels. The crank has off set throws, exactly like your bicycle's crank except the rods and pistons serve the same function as your legs, by pushing the upward throw down as the piston is pushed down the bore by the explosion of fuel and air. ...
- 8023: The Stranger 2
- ... the developement of the novel through the many characters that were strangers and some of their encounters with other people in the novel. One situation that shows the significance of the title is how Meursault's mother is somewhat a stranger in his eyes. Though they lived together before she was sent to the old folks home in Marengo, they both lived two totally different and separate lives from each other ... neither of them know how to please each other or make the other one happy. "For the first few days she lived with me...she cried allot" (Meursault; page 5). Even after her death, Meursault's mother's social and private life still remained mostly a mystery to him. Meursault comes to realize this when he finds out his mother has started her life over and has a fiancèe he didn't ...
- 8024: Gender Roles: The Discrimination Against Men
- ... problem is sexual discrimination. When thinking of discrimination, one tends to think mostly of sexism directed against women.. Sexism against women has become a noticeable part of our society and it is slowly on it's way to a solution. That is only part of the problem. Discrimination against men is a problem that rarely goes noticed. As William Farrell states, "With all the focus on discrimination against women, few understand the sexism directed against men." (249) Women and men should be treated as equals, however, more attention is directed towards discrimination towards women. In the 1990s, the men's movement arose in society to try and deal with the problem of sexism against men. This movement came about due to a medley of factors: women's criticisms of men's shortcomings as husbands, fathers, and lovers; the debilitating pressures of the economy and men's unequal responsibility to succeed in the workplace, to prove their worth by making money; and ...
- 8025: Citizen Kane: Charles Foster Kane - Who Was He?
- ... Orson Wells portrays Kane as mysterious person but also a sad person. The different accounts are shown throughout the movie through the reporter wanting to find out who or what Rosebud is. Rosebud was Kane's last dying words. The first person the reporter Jerry Thompson sees is the owner of Walter Parks Thatcher's estate and holdings. Thatcher is long dead and who? visits his library and is allowed to inspect the financier's memoirs in manuscript. Through Thatcher's words we see Kane as a boy playing with his sled on a snow-swept Colorado farm. Through his mother, the boy has just inherited a great fortune. ...
- 8026: Can't We All Just Get Along?: Competition
- Can't We All Just Get Along?: Competition In our country, everything is run by competition. From basic family roles, to sporting events, to economic well-being. It is this competitive nature that makes us able to ... to your level. Everyone would have an equal opportunity to education, a job, land, food, etc. This is called communism. Communism looks brilliant on paper, but does it really work? History suggests that communism doesn't work. This is thoroughly backed by the fact that the inventor of communism, the Soviet Union, have fallen out of its government, and demanded. Without competition there is no drive to become smarter, or better ... nation, is far superior to one of communism. Although capitalism does not work perfectly, it has been far more successful ( historically ). Also, it is human nature ( actually, animal nature ) to be competitive; from the sperm's race to the egg, to the old man's last breath, we as a race cannot live without competition.
- 8027: Women in Weight Training
- ... women were locked down upon participating in any sport subculture. One of these sports was weight training. Many women had to suffer the consequences of becoming weight trainers. They had to put up with men’s comments, disrespect and sexism while working out in the gym. An example of this type of disrespect was quoted in the book, Pumping Iron II. One male bodybuilder proudly declared the gym as “anything but easy, and ovary-free.” Another man’s reactions when he saw the first women in the gym said “Hey, they (women) already got doctors, cops, lawyers and now bodybuilders. Next thing you know they’ll want be freakish!” (Gaines, C. & Butler, G.) Body building women had to over come men’s insults, simply by being “smart.” One of the most interesting come backs was from a professional body builder, Mary Sandoval, “Most men may have big muscles; but they have a little brain.”(59) she ...
- 8028: Raptor Red
- 1. The novel I read was "Raptor Red" by Robert T. Bakker. Published by Simon & Schuster, in 1995. Rapotor Red is a female raptor struggling to survive in a kill or be killed world on her own after losing her mate. 2. The setting changes all ... the book. The author puts great detail in how Raptor Red stalks her prey and kills her victims. Once you start reading this book and you see how intelligent raptors once were you really can't decipher Raptor Red's thinking to a modern day human hunter. 3. This book follows the life of Raptor Red and all the troubles a raptor would face in it's life from good times to bad. The ...
- 8029: How Literature was Affected in the Victorian Age
- ... only the year that Queen Victoria acceded the throne, but also the year that a new literary age was coined. The Victorian Age, more formally known, was a time of great prosperity in Great Britain's literature(Keach 608). The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a variety of reading among all classes(Stuart 5). The lower-class became more self-conscious, the middle class ... every aspect of nineteenth century Victorian life(Keach 629). Though poetry and prose were certainly distinguished, it was the novel that ultimately proved to be the Victorians special literary achievement(Keach 682). The Victorian novel's most notable aspect was its diversity. The Victorian period produced a number of novelists whose work today would fit between popular fiction and literature. Novelist Wilkie Collins excited his audience with The Woman in White, Elizabeth Gaskell with Wives and Daughters and M.E. Braddon with her much underrated Lady Audley's Secret(Richardson 35). All three of these authors wrote for large audiences; increasing literary rates and increasing publication sales(36). Motifs of Gothic fiction also found their way into the Victorian novel.(Summers 18) ...
- 8030: Job Stress
- ... illnesses as heart disease, depression, gastric problems, exhaustion, and many other related illnesses. This paper will focus on the background issues surrounding stress; as well as, the steps that need to be taken by one s self and the employer. According to The Random House Dictionary, stress is defined as physical, mental, or emotional tension. Job stress occurs when demands are imposed upon the workers in which they can not meet ... cause a variety of physical illnesses. Among them: high blood pressure, ulcers, colitis, arthritis, diabetes, stoke, and heart attack. The same type and level of stress can effect individuals differently. It depends on the person s physical condition (age, sex, genetic predisposition) and on certain external factors (diet, or treatment with certain drugs or hormones) as to the physical or emotional suffering that will occur. The weakest link in a chain ... breath, trembling, shivering, sweating, numb and tingling hands and feet, and sheer exhaustion. The symptoms of stress are frequently conflicting and confusing. The stress disorder is essentially a step-by-step exhaustion of the body s fuel reserves (Bensahel et al., 1984, p. 139) During the early 1980s, workers compensation claims nearly tripled for those reporting stress related illness due to work (Schor, 1991, p. 11). There has been a ...
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