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- 9171: Prometheus 2
- ... Clymene being madly in love with each other, and having a son, and naming him Prometheus. He had a brother who was named Atlas. (Encyclopedia Americana, 576) (Picture taken from Microsoft Encarta, 1998) Prometheus isn t really in charge of anything, except bringing fire to mankind and creation on man. When responsibilities were handed out, Prometheus was left out, possibly because he was a Titan, no one really knows.) Prometheus is ... sits atop his head. (Tripp, 439) A giant, roaring fire symbolizes Prometheus, most people understand why, and that is because he gave the gift of fire to mankind. Prometheus has few unique characteristics. He isn t a massive beast, he doesn t have magical powers, and he doesn t have huge, rippling muscles. He does, on the other hand, have an immortal liver. In a certain Greek Myth, Prometheus stole fire from the hearth of the ...
- 9172: Granite - 2
- Granite - 2 Vigorously wiping off the dead grass and dandelion petals from the rock, the girl s hand brushed a jagged edge roughly. As she quickly drew her hand away for examination, she saw what her hand had lain upon. The right upper corner of the baby s headstone was broken off. She took a moment to contemplate her blood expanding into the crevices and gullies of the edge s gap. She scanned the knoll ahead and around it and spotted the chunk. She walked over and picked it up, her knuckles getting whiter every second as she clutched the severed edge firmer and ...
- 9173: The Music of Generation X
- ... examine five different song lyrics of my generation to demonstrate the different tones and concerns they convey onto society and my generation. The first song I would like to analyze is "Jane Says" by Jane's Addiction. The main theme in "Jane Says" is escaping drug use and addiction. This song is basically set in a low class area. Jane is a girl who has had a heroine addiction. Her personal ... She goes through depression and withdrawal, "She gets mad/And she starts to cry." Then the songs continues by talking about loneliness. Drug addiction is often the background for much of the music in today's society. People tend to idolize famous people and when they see or hear of their idols using drugs or drinking they follow the actions of the famous people. Another song in which I am going ... we will never be the same." This song brings an opening light to society and makes them feel good and at the same time depressed. The music in our generation is real deep in it's tone, the feelings music can generate is amazing. Say you are listening to a happy song your mood will genuinely be happy, then say you heard a slow deep meaningful song your attitude will ...
- 9174: New Technology
- ... out of town, and even prioritize and read your email messages to you. Portico is so responsive, you can interrupt mid-sentence with a new request, eliminating the need to wait through menus. You won't get bogged down with messages you don't want. And you shouldn't miss the ones you do want. The brains behind Portico are contained in a sophisticated Network Operations Center. This state-of-the-art system represents the future of communications. The Network Operations Center embodies ...
- 9175: Joy Luck Club
- ... customarily male dominated. The male was expected to do most of the work, and the woman was expected to stay at home with their mouth shut. This custom leaves an unwelcome feeling in a womans heart. They feel like nobody cares, and it makes it much harder to live with an optimistic view on life. In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, Ann-Mei Hsu, Lindo Jong ... and Chinese tradition. Ann-Mei is oppressed in many ways. Her mother is invited to spend time at the home of a wealthy merchant named Wu Tsing. During the night he comes into Ann-Meis mothers room and rapes her. Despite emotionally scaring Ann-Mei this demonstrates the lack of respect for a woman in China. Ann-Meis mother is forced into concubinage because of her lack of power ...
- 9176: Margaret Bouke-White
- ... of snakes and reptiles. That same year her father died leaving her family with little money. To stay in college Margaret got a job taking and selling pictures of the college campus using her fathers broken camera. That summer she got a job as the photographer and counselor at a summer camp. Even though she liked taking pictures, for Margaret, photography was still a hobby. But architects and other photographers ... her artistic skills. For example, as she was walking by she noticed a preacher speaking in a square with only a group of pigeons to hear. Margaret wanted to take his picture but she didn't have her camera with her. She ran into a camera store and asked to rent or borrow a camera. The picture became one of her first works of art and the owner of the store became one of her best friends. One of Margaret's early dreams was to photograph the inside of a steel mill but women weren't allowed inside. Being a woman didn't stop her and the pictures were a success. Her shots were published ...
- 9177: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... left a lasting impression on me. At the time it was written, it must have been looked down upon as a piece of literature since there was so much hatred towards negroes in the 1950's that no one could probably realize the unjustified prejudice against them. It especially deals with how the main character, Atticus Finch, deals with the controversy surrounding his actions and how he tries to shelter his family from it. The book's climax, where it is brought to a final solution, takes place at the trial. A woman named Mayella Ewell, accuses a black man named of Tom Robinson of rape. In truth, these claims are false ... knows she can get away with it, since the people in those days had the utmost respect for white women, and black men were looked down upon as still being slaves, even if they weren't in shackles. The main character, Atticus Finch, defends Tom in the whole case. He comes under fire and is commonly known in the neighborhood as a "Nigger lover" for defending Tom, and his children' ...
- 9178: The Life of Richard Feynman
- ... went to Princeton University where he finished his studies. After that, he moved to Los Alamos, Cornell, and lastly Caltech. During this time, he was married three times. He died in 1988 from cancer. Feynman's Work on the Bomb After Feynman had graduated, at 24 years of age, he was recruited as one of the many scientists to work on the construction of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos; he ... was very difficult, mainly because the materials (uranium and plutonium) whose properties they were trying to discover were not available in sufficient quantities that they could perform experiments on them. So it was the theorist's job to calculate the proper way to build a bomb without actually having examined the material they were going to use. It was 6 months after the research had begun that the first sample of plutonium director was Hans Bethe, the head of the Theoretical Division. After Feynman's arrived. It was so small that it was barely large enough to conduct one experiment. Feynman's promotion, he was assigned to work on diffusion problems. He and Bethe would work on these complex ...
- 9179: New Jersey Vs. T.L.O.
- New Jersey Vs. T.L.O. Decision : Reasonable standard held to be proper standard for determining legality of searches conducted by public school officials. On March 7, 1980, a teacher at Piscataway High School in Middlesex County, N.J ... code. The teacher took them to the Principles office where they met the Assistant Vice-Principle Theodore Choplick. Under questioning the first girl admitted smoking in the lavatory. The second girl, 14 year old freshman T.L.O., denied that she had smoked in the lavatory. Mr. Choplick then asked to search the girls purse. He found a pack of cigarettes. Upon pulling the pack of cigarettes out Mr. Choplick discovered cigarette rolling papers, which is closely associated with marijuana. He proceeded to search the purse to find ...
- 9180: Character Study Of Claudius Fr
- In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Claudius kills his brother (King Hamlet, former king of Denmark) by murdering him in order to take his position. Cladius s brother is the father of Hamlet (Prince of Denmark). Cladius is the villain of the play; he is extremely evil-minded. Although a lot of the time he does not show it. This comes under a very important theme of Shakespeare s plays: appearance and reality. In every play of Shakespeare, there is always a character that is not what they seem to be. For example, in Act I, scene 2, lines 1-13, he gives a long speech about how sad he feels about his brother s death (King Hamlet). Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother death the memory be green, and that it us benefitted to bear our hearts in grief. This is not what he really feels, because ...
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