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Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
1,187 wordsTo begin with I would like to put the introduction of the book as an beginning: Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape- descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was th...
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100 000 People Genetic Diseases
1,823 words"We [the human race]|do not have much time to prove that we are not the product of a lethal mutation" Science 263: 181, 1994 "I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. " Thomas Love Peacock The genetic catastrophe consists of four major genetic "epidemics" - those of cancer, vascular disease, musculoskeletal disease, and behavioral disease. There are identified approximately 250 common genetic diseases, and approximately 7, 000 "rare" genetic diseases. T...
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Dust Bowl Dust Storms
855 wordsThe Dust Bowl of North America refers to a catastrophe in the early 1930 's when vast areas of the Midwestern and Western farm lands of America became wastelands. This occurred due to a series of dry years which coincided with the extension of agriculture in unsuitable lands. Droughts and dust storms caused by poor tillage practices devastated farms and ranches of the Great Plains; therefore, causing a great exodus of its inhabitants to other, more fertile, lands. The problem had become so great...
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Coming Times World Change Crises
1,475 wordsOur ancient habit is to stumble backwards into the future. We feel that we as individuals make little difference, as if history and the future just happen at us. Obscure plans, which have guided people forward in the past, have now rendered themselves useless. There are no known maps to show pathways into the future. We " ll need to consider back to our hearts, common sense and basic human capabilities. We " ll need to consider the deep issues at stake and make deep choices about them. This idea...
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World Trade Center Point Of View
2,002 wordsThe New Pearl Harbor by David Griffin David Ray Griffin is a professor of philosophy, religion and theology at the Claremont School of Theology in California for over 30 years. He is co-director of the Center for Process Studies there and the author or editor of over 20 books. His book The New Pearl Harbor is written for those who, in any way, doubt the trueness of the information presented to the people by the Bush administration regarding the most horrible terrorist attack in the history of Am...
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The Conception Of Bharati Mukherjee Short Story Management
1,897 wordsThe conception of Bharati Mukherjee's short story "The Management of Grief" reveals bureaucratic, social and psychological problems of Indian immigrants living in Canada when coping with the consequences of Air India flight 182 explosion and crash into the Atlantic Ocean close to the Coast of Ireland in 1985, which took the lives of 329 people including a great deal of Indo-Canadians. Recovering after the terrible catastrophe and loss of families and beloved people in Mukherjee's story is intens...
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Tragic Hero Reverend Parris
1,407 wordsA tragedy should bring fear and pity to the reader. A man in this tragedy not should be exceptionally righteous, but his faults should come about because of a certain irreversible error on his part. This man should find a bad or fatal ending to add to the tragedy of the story, for this man in the tragic hero. The protagonist John Proctor portrays a tragic hero in The Crucible; his hamartia of adultery causes great internal struggles, he displays hubris by challenging authority, and he encounters...
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Act Iii Scene Act V Scene
1,435 wordsROMEO: A TRULY TRAGIC HERO William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a truly tragic play, where heroes and villains struggle for survival. Romeo Montague possesses many characteristics which allow him to become the plays tragic hero. The first characteristic of a tragic hero that Romeo possesses is a sense of calamity that befalls him many times, bringing him misery and despair; although preceded by moments of happiness and glory. Also, there are actions that lead to an apparently irreversible c...
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