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- 8291: The Hobbit: Summary
- ... Mountain. Smaug - a very old, greedy, and evil dragon. He was known as feared for his size and physical prowess. Like an old dragon he was, he was among the most powerful creatures in the world, hungered to hoard wealth, collecting mounds of coins and gathering as many gems, jewels, and items as possible. Therefore he attacked the Lonely Mountain and claimed the dwarven treasure for himself. He lived for protecting ... they refuse to give them their share and so was to begin, but when the Goblins and wargs, they join forces against their common foe. Later, the eagles join them, and they win. 47) The war ends, and Thorin dies. Everybody gets their share of the treasure and Bilbo and Gandalf return to Bilbo's home. 48) When they arrive, Bilbo finds that his house was auctioned by the other hobbits ...
- 8292: Hurting Charlie Flowers For Al
- ... not better to do your best than to be the best? Charlie Gordon was a motivated man who always put forth as much effort as he could! He struggled for independence and freedom in a world he desperately wanted to be a part of. A statement such as, Im gonna try awful hard is often heard spoken by Charlie. Everybody notices how hard Charlie tries to be what he considers normal ... he thought were his friends only used him for free laughs, Charlie feels so humiliated. A man unequipped with the armor most people use to protect themselves, should not suddenly be thrown naked into the war. If hurt is unknown, it should never be taught. What did I do to make them hate me so? Though Charlie never had true friends, was he not still happy with them? Was it truly ...
- 8293: Hunger Of Memory 2
- ... the novels Hunger of Memory and How the Garcia Girls lost their Accent. The novels deal with separation differently. For Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez, the separation allows Richard to move from the private world to the public world. Here, separation is a movement for a solution, which is citizenship. In How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent by Julia Alvarez, the separation is an effect from Antojo. Richard Rodriguez immediately recognizes the separations ... s education. It will give him better opportunities in the United States. Speaking only English at home initiates the movement, instead of speaking Spanish. Ultimately, Richard can have a sense of belonging to the public world. He will become a citizen. Separation causes an uncertain future in How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent. It is the result of Antojo. Julia Alvarez describes Antojo as a mysterious and powerful force. ...
- 8294: David Hume 2
- ... and there is clearly no argument against it. Hume boldly states that "impressions" and "ideas" make up the total content of the mind. His definition of 'impressions" is what each person perceives from the physical world through their senses. And according to this theory "ideas" are merely copies of these impressions within the mind. He justifies this by saying that when we imagine something that we have never actually seen before ... to experience things such as love. I have never seen, heard, felt, tasted, or smelled love but there is no denying its existence. If Plato is right and our senses deceive us. If the physical world were an illusion than everything we perceive from it would be a falsity. And if all we are is what we perceive than our existence is based on an illusion and nothing is real perhaps including our existence. Hume says that we have no impressions of ourselves because our mind is always filled with impressions from this physical world, such as pain, heat, or pleasure. It is memory that gives the impression of our continuous identity. The thought of only consisting of impressions, ideas, and memories of them made me feel even more ...
- 8295: Robert Frost 3
- ... especially close to a brooding Welshman named Edward Thomas, whom he urged to turn from prose to poetry. Thomas did so, dedicating his first and only volume of verse to Frost before his death in World War I. The Frosts sailed for the United States in February 1915 and landed in New York City two days after the U.S. publication of North of Boston (the first of his books to be ...
- 8296: Summary of Joyce's "A Portrait of An Artists As A Young Man"
- ... life occurs when he goes back home for Christmas dinner with his family in Bray. This symbolizes his entrance into adulthood. For the first time, he says grace before the meal. Stephen envisions this adult world as exciting, joyful, and full of hope. Unfortunately for Stephen, however, this dinner with his family would also symbolize the loss of his innocence. During the dinner, his family engages in a fierce debate. At ... family members make Stephen realize for the first time that the passage into adulthood means the death of parts of himself, specifically his innocence. After this incident, Stephen will never look at life and the world around him the same. Stephen's shame in his father begins quickly in the book as early in his childhood Stephen must change schools. He learns he will not be returning to Clongowes Wood College ... of his life, Stephen saw no hope for the future. By analyzing his relations with his country and religion, but more importantly his family, in the end he finally grew to see hope in the world once again. Just as he grows to accept his mother country Ireland, Stephen finally looks past his father's faults and accepts him too.
- 8297: Anger Management And Health
- ... now, then we will feel it later. Eventually our arteries will grow weak and we will remain tense, living daily with treacherous moods and health. The alternative is to shout out our anger at the world and let it manifest itself any way that it pleases. Of course, taking our anger out at the world can have even more deleterious effects. People just don't like it when we demonstrate our anger. Many of us are taught at an early age to bury our anger inside, where it causes stress ... more assertive. Anger fosters this self assertion and it helps us display that assertion. So it appears that we are faced with choosing between two evils. On one hand, we can lash out at the world, thereby hurting others, or we can bottle in our anger, thereby hurting ourselves. Anger in all of its manifestations appears to be negative, with few exceptions, such as the woman that hinders an attack ...
- 8298: AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
- ... American Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming Names column, which CAIB is prevented from doing by the American government, and which names CIA agents in different locations in the world. The article, named "AIDS: US- Made Monster" and subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins," is lengthy, has a lot of professional terminology and is dotted with footnotes. AIDS FACTS "The fatal weakening of the ... medical services of the US Army. "AIDS does not merely bring certain dangers with it; it is clearly a programmed catastrophe for the human race, whose magnitude is comparable only with that of a nuclear war", say the Segals. " They later explain what they mean by "programmed," showing that the virus was produced by humans, namely Dr. Robert Gallo of the Bethesda Cancer Research Center in Maryland. When proceeding to prove ...
- 8299: Global Warming--is It Getting Warmer
- ... modern society, this is the term for something better known as global warming. The earth s climate is predicted to change drastically in the next century due to human activity. As the population of the world increases, so does the anount of greenhouse gasses produced. These include mainly carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Carbon dioxide is released to the atmosphere when solid waste, fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, and coal ... next hundred years. (Encarta 2000) If this does happen, precipitation will increase causing rising sea levels. This alone will be drastic to soociety, but the indirect results could be even more devestating than just flooding. World climates would change tremendously, possibly increasing precipitation adding to the flooding effect. This would also affect crops around the world. Salt water would pollute fresh water wells that millions of people use for drinking water. Just a 1 foot rise in sea level can cause shorelines to recede a hundred feet, and in flat ...
- 8300: AIDS: US Made?
- ... to the American Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB). Top Secret carries the Naming Names column, which CAIB is prevented from doing by the American government, and which names CIA agents in different locations in the world. The article, named "AIDS: US-Made Monster," is lengthy and has a lot of professional jargon. "The fatal weakening of the immune system which has given AIDS its name (Acquired Immune-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the ... medical services of the US Army. "AIDS does not merely bring certain dangers with it; it is clearly a programmed catastrophe for the human race, whose magnitude is comparable only with that of a nuclear war", say the Segals. They later explain what they mean by "programmed," showing that the virus was produced by humans, namely Dr. Robert Gallo of the Bethesda Cancer Research Center in Maryland. The first KNOWN cases ...
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