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- 7711: Analysis Of Casablanca
- ... that makes you feel that you are watching something artistic, rather than something that was produced off an assembly line as most films were in the 1940's . The film is set in Martinique during World War II. Wartime makes finding work hard for Bogart, forcing him to break his neutrality and take a job smuggling in a fugitive. Of course this leads to trouble: there are gun rights both by land ...
- 7712: Fire Ants
- ... aggressive invaders, the cost is measured in lost species and disrupted communities. The result, predicted ecologist Gordon Orians at the 1994 Ecological Society of America Conference, will be the "Homogocene," an era in which the world's biota is homogenized through biological invasions(10. Lockley 37). Fire ants use their stingers to immobilize or kill prey and to defend ant mounds from disturbance by larger animals such as humans. Any disturbance ... days the first workers appear(18. Melnick 14). These workers, called minims, are very small due to the limited amount of energy and resources the queen can devote to them. The minims explore the outside world and forage for food to feed the queen and the developing colony. Within thirty days the next wave of workers emerge and are up to ten times larger than the minims(19. Lockley 39). These ... 1997 society has not found an effective way to exterminate or control the spread of these troublesome insects. As mankind chooses to genetically experiment with species and continues to connect the remote areas of the world with faster and more efficient means of moving food and goods. Occurrences of accidental transportation of troublesome pests, bacteria, and viruses will also increase. The fire ant while costly and annoying won’t cause ...
- 7713: Amistad 3
- ... but also the treatment they received here in America. Who were these people? Why was it such an issue on whose “property” they were? The time was around 1854, and the progression toward the Civil War had begun. Stephen Spielberg’s film “The Amistad” is an illustrative tale of history’s inevitable course. On the surface, Spielberg relates the journey of Cinque and his people to the Americas. In a larger ... Beyond of this simple representation, blacks were also viewed as threats, but they actually protected customs valued by their culture for posterity. Second, the arrival of the ship “La Amistad” brought forth passengers from another world further questioning human rights values supplanting the current mindless values of America. The appearance of the Mende’s in America changed the lives of everyone; from the President of the United States down to the ...
- 7714: The Glass Menagerie Theme
- ... she is very delicate and also fragile, to only be placed on a shelf and only looked at not touched. The glassware and Laura are unable to withstand the bumps and busyness of the outside world. Laura is aware of her mother's goals for her but makes them not important to her at all. What is important to Laura is the comfort and feelings of continually unity of her family ... play, Jim O'Conner, is brought into Laura's life. He is a attraction to Laura that she has had for a long time. The outside influence of Jim creates a major change in her "world of little glass ornaments" (1922). Here again she is forced into the goals her mother has made for her. As a result of her mothers goals, Laura lies "huddled up on the sofa" (1932), alone ... this antagonist which is emotionally approaches Laura, she is scared with lots of fear. His "warmth overcomes her paralyzing shyness her paralyzing shyness" (1934), and she lets Jim McKendry 4 slowly into her small little world. Laura is easily impressed with his compliments and conversation. Her precious glass unicorn is broken but she accepts the damage as "maybe a blessing in disguise" 1942). This encounter with Jim is to Laura, ...
- 7715: A Separate Peace 6
- Difference Too Often Leads to Hate Many times in the world, differences have lead to hate. Think of Martin Luther King, for example, who stood for fighting against one of the largest differences. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, is one of many examples of differences ... ability to express himself. Finny, one day wears his school tie as a belt, but he easily solves of this problem by explaining that he did it to show the link between Devon and the war. (909-910). Finny, a natural person who shows himself to being incapable of doing something mean or ugly, has no trouble expressing his emotions openly. He responds to life with natural emotions and everything comes ...
- 7716: Bioluminescence in Fungi
- ... majority of bioluminescence occurs in the Basidiomycetes and only one observation has been made involving the Ascomycetes; specifically in the Ascomycete genus Xylaria (Harvey 1952). At present there are 42 confirmed bioluminescent Basidiomycetes that occur world wide and share no resemblance to each other visually, other than the ability to be bioluminescent. Of these 42 species that have been confirmed 24 of these have been identified just in the past 20 ... The two main genus that display bioluminescence are the genus Pleurotus which have at present 12 species which occur in continental Europe and Asia. The genus Mycena have 19 species identified to date with a world wide distribution range. In North America only 5 species of bioluminescent basiodiomycetes have been reported. These include the Honey mushroom -Armillaria mellea (illustrated in figure 3), the common Mycena -Mycena galericulata (illustrated in figure 1 ... basic problems that have been discovered today and have resulted in benefiting mankind, by bettering our lives especially in regard to it’s biomedical applications. Further research with bioluminescent Fungi is being conducted on a world wide scale and include North America, Japan, and Europe. Future research may lead to new discoveries and uses from bioluminescent organisms such as the Fungi group. References Burr, G.J. 1985. Chemiluminescence and Bioluminescence. ...
- 7717: A Contemplative Look At Henri Matisse
- ... to the play of the forces of color and design and he explained the rhythmic, but distorted, forms of many of his figures in terms of the working out of a total pictorial harmony. After World War I, however, his work began to deepen. He experimented with the effects of light and shadow, and he played around with ambiences and moods, slowly trying to perfect them. At this point, his paintings, perhaps ...
- 7718: Patriarchy In Fargo And Raise
- ... the relationship between women's roles and patriarchal society in Raise the Red Lantern and Fargo. For many years from our history, women's rights have always been a contraversial topic. History has shown the world to be primarily a male-dominated society, where a woman's role is often dictated by a man. In the movies Raise the Red Lantern and Fargo, both movies dictate a society where the dominant ... mother, Songlian initially despises her new surroundings: a small, enclosed manor filled with traditional rules and ritual with which she is unfamiliar with. Although she has been to University, education means nothing here; her entire world becomes that of the small compound cut off from the rest of society. Yimou's portrayal of a patriarchal society is evident through his use of mise-en-scene comprimising of uniform, hard-angled lines ... are reversed: Norm stays home and cooks and is the more artistic type of the two (he paints pictures that he hopes will make it onto a stamp), while Margie goes out into a dangerous world of cops-and-robbers. This little switch-up illustrates the changing times; a woman police officer would not even have been considered 40 years ago. Furthermore, it portrays women as being just as (if ...
- 7719: Comparing the Sermon on the Mount and the Sermon on the Plain
- ... who recorded them. Also to make aware the possibility that Matthew and Luke could have been at the same sermon, or rather Jesus gave the same basic sermon at different times with minor variations. Literary World Both sermons begin with the recordings of the Beattitudes. The similarities are the most apparent between the two accounts of the Beatitudes. The beatitudes were given to those that followed the Lord’s Ten Commandments ... deception. This example reveals that the sermons were more likely given at different times. Luke’s records conclude with the Lord’s example of the two men who built their houses in different ways. Historical World Comparing the Sermon on the Mount and the sermon on the plain in the historical world is to reveal how the sermons began, and the similarities between the teachings compared to the earlier teachings of Jesus. To account for the relatedness of the two gospels a Four-Source Hypothesis was ...
- 7720: Glory
- Robert Gould Shaw was a son of wealthy Boston abolitionists. At 23 he enlisted to fight in the war between the states. The movie opens by Robert reading one of many letters he writes home. He is captain of 100 Union soldiers most of whom are older than himself. He speaks of the spirit of his men and how they are enthusiastic about fighting for their country just like the men in The Revolutionary war only this time they were fighting to give blacks freedom and to live in a United country where all can speak and live freely. The first scene takes place at Antietam Creek, Maryland Sept. 17 ... Robert fights for his men’s dignity every step of the way from demanding decent shoes to threatening the Major with exposure to the President if he doesn’t allow his companies participation in the war. The 54th is victorious in their first battle at James Island S.C. Shaws close friend Thomas is wounded but insists on continuing on with the rest of the group. General Strung brings Shaw ...
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