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Katherine Anne Porter Holy Spirit
1,063 wordsBorn May 15, 1890, in Indian Creek, Texas; Katherine Anne Porter has written numerous short stories and a novel. Katherine Anne Porter uses autobiographical information and symbolism to relate the story of Miranda's maturation into adulthood in her short story The Grave. In The Grave, Miranda discovers her feminine side (West 28), and although she is only a child, Miranda understands a few of the events that shape a person into adulthood (Mooney 20). Porters genius as a writer is most evident in...
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Cave Paintings Early Man
1,198 wordsPrimitive Man and Civilized Man are Alike in Many Areas An Analogy Early civilizations are credited with introducing government, art, and religion, among other things to the modern world. Does the credit actually belong to the people who created these early civilizations or to those that came before? The final product may be considered greater and certainly more polished than the product created by early man. All things found in an ancient civilization were actually brought to them by the collec...
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Juvenile Justice Juvenile Offenders
1,336 wordsThe post world-war II era saw an unprecedented rate of growth for America. The birth of Corporate America gave people an opportunity to move out of the cities and into kinder, more picturesque suburbs. Women were entering the workforce in greater numbers. With two income families, Americans had more money to spend on luxuries such as boats, vacations and hobbies as they never had before. This was the beginning of a time when living was good, the quality of life was high, and everyone seemed happ...
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Rem Sleep Muscle Tension
1,969 wordsOver a seventy-year life span, you will spend at least fifty thousand hours to dreaming (Segell 42). What you dream about can be very different from one individual to another and from one dream to another in the same individual. Many things affect what we dream about and the theories about why we dream vary. Scientists believe that dreaming is a natural process of the brain. On the other hand, Psychologists believe that our dreams are secretive emotions. Both sides have been spending years resea...
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Abuse And Neglect Quality Of Life
1,396 wordsPending approval from the General Assembly, the funding for older Illinoisans will receive nearly an eight percent increase in the fiscal year 2001 budget for the Illinois Department on Aging. The states portion of the overall spending is $ 234. 9 million and funds the Departments Community Care program at $ 205 million. The program provides senior citizens with home care services, adult day services and custodial care. The eight percent increase is drastically needed according to Carol Aronson,...
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Sierra Nevada Donner Party
4,544 words... everyone who still could walked beside the wagons now to spare the exhausted oxen. They were racing against time and the weather, desperate to get over the mountains and into California before snow blocked the heights. There was no sign of Stanton or McCutcheon or of the relief they promised to bring from Sutter's Fort. With the death of Snyder and the banishment of James Reed, the Donner Party was coming apart. On October 7 th, Lewis Keseberg turned an aging Belgian emigrant named Hard koop...
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Rose Of Sharon Dust Bowl
1,200 wordsTHE EXTENDED FAMILY: A SOURCE OF STRENGTH AND HOPE In his books Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck captured the reality of the struggles that struck mankind in different forms and in various levels as he had observed during his lifetime. Steinbeck observed mainly Californians and migrants who had suffered from poverty and distress brought to them by the Depression and the Dust Bowl, the dust storm that brought drought to the Great Plains during 1932 to 1939. He began to write bo...
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Lottery A Breakdown Of Jackson Symbolism
1,644 wordsShirley Jacksons The Lottery, is a story that is filled with a magnitude symbolism in a fairly short story. The author uses it to help her represent human nature in real life as tainted, no matter how pure one thinks of himself or herself, or how pure their environment may seem to be. The story is very effective in raising many questions in the back of a readers mind towards the pointless nature of humanity regarding tradition and violence. The Lottery clearly expresses Jacksons feelings concern...
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Day To Day Life Twentieth Century
909 wordsFor more than half of the twentieth century, much like the pyramids, the pre dynastic Egypt was a mystery to archeologists. The little discoveries that had been made from the period preceding the pharaohs were not enough to either prove or disprove the various theories circulating at the time. One of the first artifacts dated at the time of the unification to be unearthed was Narmer's palette, discovered by the English archeologist James Edward Quibell at the end of the nineteenth century. The d...
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Grave Is Too Dark Grass That Grow Death
936 wordsSONG OF MYSELF BY WALT WHITMAN What does grass signify to us? Simple grass that grows on pavements and pathways, fields and graves. There is no such thing as death The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. There is a rejuvenation of everything in the cycle of life that God has created. The first half of the poem is filled with questions and later on they are answered. Whitman finds subject for his poetry from among common conditions and ordinary backgrounds. In this poem, he addresses ...
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Overproducing Thyroid Hormone Renders It Incapable Disease
406 wordsGraves' disease is a basic defect in the immune system, causing production of antibodies, which stimulate and attack the thyroid gland, causing growth of the gland and overproduction of thyroid hormone. Similar antibodies may also attack the tissues in the eye muscles and in the pre tibial skin (the skin on the front of the lower leg). There are three components to Graves disease: Hyperthyroidism (overproduction of the thyroid hormone) Ophthalmopathy, especially protrusion of the eyeballs Dermop...
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Capitalist Society In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
1,329 wordsShirley Jacksons, The Lottery, is a shocking story that reveals the social order and ideology of a capitalistic society. By definition, the ideal capitalistic society is an economic system based upon the concentration of wealth, and the competitive distribution of production and business to privately owned powerful representatives. This form of an ideal society is what Shirley Jackson based the small village on in The Lottery. In The Lottery, the lottery itself, serves as a democratic illusion f...
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Death And Burial In Ancient Egypt
1,106 wordsTo every Egyptian death was seen as a desirable transformation, the passage of the true eternal life (Guide to The Valley of The Kings page 159, 1996). Death in no instance was considered a tragedy or an end but as a welcomed transition into the Afterlife. As death was of such an importance it was necessary that great care be taken for a smooth transition to immortality, this is a major reason that the Pharaohs contents of the tomb were of such importance. Egyptians emphasis on the importance of...
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Lottery By Shirley Jackson
2,375 wordsLottery by Shirley Jackson Shirley Jackson is a famous American writer. She was a master of short stories and novels. All her works are considered to rather strange, odd and deathly. They are filled with sense of doom, despair with inevitable horrific ending. But her novels and stories are framed by ordinary characters and surrounding. (Friedman 1975) It is known that practically all of her stories are connected with psychological and supernatural factors, with terror and identity. For example, ...
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Secretary Of War Young Soldiers
2,042 wordsArlington National Cemetery Arlington National Cemetery is one of our most spectacular monuments of glory, one of the most significant and sacred memorials of American nation. It is one of the largest and oldest military cemeteries of the USA, where more than 260 thousand veterans of all historical wars (starting from heroes of Independence War and ending with the soldiers, who died in Afghanistan and Iraq) and members of their families are buried. Every year about 5. 5 thousand of new burials a...
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Neighbor Door Neighbor
2,052 wordsCuriosity One characteristic of Jessica Donnally in the book, Don? t Scream, by Joan Lowery Nixon, is curiosity. Jess spends much of her time attempting to find out the details of other people? s lives, and it often gets her in trouble. The main characters in the book are Jessica Donnally, Lori Roberts, Mark Malik and Scott Alexandar. Jess is a normal sixteen-year-old girl with an unsatisfiable curiosity and a great compassion for kids. Lori is Jess? s best friend. Mark and Scott have both recen...
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Younger Generation Shirley Jackson
1,010 wordsDrawing Names in The Lottery The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, Shakespeare once wrote. This quotation strengthens Shirley Jackson s ideas in The Lottery, as she very distinctly uses symbolic names for her characters to show the ignorance of the sacrificial lottery the small village holds year after year. These sacrifices, which used to be held to appease the god of harvest, have grown meaningless in their culture. Jackson uses the characters not only to visualize the story for th...
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Joad Younger Siblings
1,779 wordsJohn Steinbeck uses symbolism to enrich his writing. Several of these symbols can be found in his book, The Grapes of Wrath. The Joad? s, a family from Oklahoma, are in search of a better life. They leave their home in journey to California because of the dust bowl. The symbols in the book are the dust, the turtle, names of people, and the grapes. These symbols give the reader an additional perspective of the book. Dust represents life and death. Dust makes a mess of things and leaves possession...
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Grapes Of Wrath Dust Bowl
1,870 words&# 65279; Of Land and Men Over 100 years ago, a large number of homesteaders settled in a area which would come to be known as The Dust Bowl. Spreading from New Mexico and Colorado through Oklahoma and Kansas, hardy grasses and fine-grained soil provided an incentive for these settlers to pursue a future in farming. And so they did. Over the years they cultivated the land planting wheat and raising cattle; over the years the overworked land became more anymore vulnerable to erosion. While the sq...
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Make The Story Stephen King
958 wordsThe novel Pet Semetary by Stephen King is definitely a well researched novel. A lot of research must have had been done on the Micmac Indians because King describes and uses them frequently in his novel. He uses facts which can be proved and make the story more interesting. He uses real life facts about cemeteries which make the book a little more scary. Since the novel is a honor story, if the facts were to be fictional, it would make the story unbelievable and not as scary. The soil in cemeter...
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