A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle raises the question of how intellect and emotions form individuality and influence choices. ... All of the main characters of A Wrinkle in Time go through this process of learning, despite having outstanding intellectual abilities, Meg, Charles, Calvin, Mr. and Mrs. ... Intelligence and emotion are two strong features of the human nature, and even though some books like The Narnia Chronicles say they are always in conflict with each other, A Wrinkle in Time shows us that in order to lead a meaningful and ethical life, we have to find a balance betwee...

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We have all experienced it: sitting in the waiting room at the doctor's office, leafing through a magazine, just killing time while we wait for our name to be called. ... After all, you can't be fat, old and wrinkled and still be happy and have friends. ... Botox is injected by a physician directly into the wrinkle to paralyze the skin which somehow makes the wrinkles "disappear"; at least temporarily. ... She has perfect skin: no wrinkles, no blemishes, and no marks of any kind. ... Once society learns to interpret such messages accurately, advertisers will have a difficult time sel...

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After they are applied to the skin in a cosmetic, water evaporates and the proteins contract and curl up, causing the skin underneath to contract and viola, fine lines and wrinkles are reduced-. ... The tretinoin in Renova, which has been formulated to reduce skin dryness, has been shown to actually reduce some of the sun-induced skin damage, fine lines and wrinkles. ... In time, these symptoms can subside but for many they are too concentrated to endure. ... Some recent studies in fact show that high concentrations of vitamin C can stimulate collagen synthesis when applied topically and can...

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If you are going for the leathery, wrinkled, burnt old women look then I say go right ahead and tan yourself to death. ... What a difference, the tone of skin color and texture is totally different, although to you indoor tanners, it seems like you think that it's attractive to have wrinkles and leathery skin by the age of 21. ... Money and time come hand in hand and is another issue that is addressed when going to the tanning bed. ... This obviously decreases in time and money. ... This adds up over time and the resiliency of your organs decrease, they harden, and their functions di...

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The idea of immortality is connected with time; time is abstract as a mysterious and unknown object, Douglas Adams said "Time is mysterious, tea-time doubly so ", the image of time symbolizes Immortality, and what people think about it. ... For example; some people tend to work more extra time to avoid thinking of time passing and what will come next. ... The means of keeping lives differed from time to time, and everyday a new idea appears to struggle death and support immortality. ... Many women especially beauty queens who tend to use annual makeup to keep their appearance attractive, as a ...

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I failed to notice that mom spend a great deal of time cleaning the house and making everything look polished, slowly I began putting two and two together. ... The tutors chosen by Lord Mitica were wrinkly old men but I didn't mind. ... My husband had to leave back home for business and the last time I saw him he looked as he had been marked. ... Once again single at the age of fifty-five and in contrary to what most women believed,I loved my wrinkles, my white hairs, all the signs of aging they all brought me peace. ...

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Wrinkler also explains how, "the journey frequently represents a young hero's initiation into manhood and maturity or an older hero's pursuit of perfection. ... As the Luke matures, there comes a point in time when he must let go of his guide and strike out on his own. ... Despite his death, however, Obi-Wan will remain with Luke to help him from time to time, only now he provides more mystical insight. ... He works on feeling the power that it carries and how to quicken up his reaction time with the weapon. ... When it came time to put his words into action, Luke pulled through...

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I used to be one of those kids who were scared of the old wrinkly people over at our house every second day, who we were forced to hug. Then I took the time to get to know these strange people and found out that there not scary after all. ... That's when those wrinkly people got renamed grandma or grandpa, and their former name seemed almost non-existent. ... Most of the time he"ll go out of his way to make a fool of me and most of the time he succeeds. ... Many children never take the time to know their Grandparents. ...

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Advertising has been around for a very long time, in different kinds of forms. ... If a person sees an ad on the television telling them that their skin is too dull or wrinkly, they start to feel like it actually is. ... They will undoubtedly introduce you to some sort of cream or wash that will brighten your skin and get rid of those wrinkles. ...

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This is the first time the girls spend with only the two of them present, therefore it has a higher level of intimacy, not only between the two on screen, but also between the audience and the characters. ... We see the forehead wrinkles, the curious eyes, the flirty biting of the lip, the messy fly-away hairs, the nervous spit-swallows. ... As for Emma, you see the gap in her two front teeth, the tiny wrinkles between her eyebrows, and the bags under her eyes. ...

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The root surface is wrinkly and furrowed. ... Rings are old wrinkles running along the root that appear on the shrinking root. ... The ginseng is a slow growing plant and growing it takes time and patience. ... Over time the herb has become popular in the kitchen. ...

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Her hair was not combed and her face looked more wrinkled than I was used to seeing. ... Grandma looked all wrinkled and old. ... She read me the "Three Little Pigs" and told me that this would be the last time that she read it to me because she was tired. ... It was trying to prepare me for the upsetting time in my life. ...

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It is very wrinkled and has many folds. The wrinkles and folds give the cortex a large surface area, even though it is squeezed up to fit in the skull. ... Every time you practice, the brain rewrites the program and makes it better. ...

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This is unattainable because the men and women in advertising, television, and movies are airbrushed to take away discoloration, bumps, wrinkles, and any other blemishes that are unappealing. ... Time magazine found that 80% of all children had dieted by the time they had reached fourth grade (Moore). ... "At any one time, fifty percent of American women are currently dieting" (mediascope.org). ... Spending money and time on trying to make one better physically, should not be as important as other things in their lives. ... Nor will a businesswoman have enough time to exercise seven days ...

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Evidence shows that the piece contains all the elements of a Hellenistic work of this particular time. ... Another popular element of Ancient Greek art of this time was Idealism, or the representation of the "ideal" human, perfect in every way. ... they showed the human realistically, with wrinkles and aged faces and bodies, in decrepit positions. The Hellenistic period also fell in a time when the woman figure was being discovered and revealed in art. ... Although we know not what the original piece was made of, most sculptures of this time were carved from marble, so one can assume that He...

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This story of the marriage of the Lamb cannot be viewed only under the microscope of today's society, but needs to be compared to the time in which the story was written and the customs of that day. ... She would be moving into a new circle of friends, and this marriage would be the time that she would be meeting new people, the friends of the bridegroom. ... In the last moments of a wedding, the bride will go away into a separate room and prepare to be seen for the first time with her husband. ... A bride will take much time and consideration when preparing her clothing for this prese...

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That's my father, always a morning person: he would wake up really early to go to work and come home late; he didn't have much time for us. ... Her wrinkled hands and her white hair are a reflection of the hardships she endured in this life. ... However, I was happy with what I had since I spent most of my time on campus, studying and working in a small shop to make a living. ... Is he thinking about our family back at home or is he thinking about his new life in America and living on his own for the first time? And that starts me up again, thinking back to the time I looked out th...

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Since there was almost thirty years between the two films, many advents in making movies were discovered during that time, so one can not evenly compare and contrast the final product, technically speaking. ... His contemporaries, for the most part, were used to setting up a camera in one position and having the actors play out the scene for minutes at a time without switching camera angles far away from the camera. In reality, what Griffith has done in this film amongst his other works, is probably the most revolutionary concept to film at the time. ... The lighting used thus in the respec...

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His story collection, In Our Time, 1925 was followed by the novel The Sun Also Rises 1926. ... His neck is wrinkled from the sun, and his hands bear the scars of many fishing battles; only his blue eyes remain bright and cheerful. ... One time, a match lasted for more than twenty-four hours, and even though his hands were bleeding, he refused to give up. ...

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They are called ultraviolet rays, and they are what changes the appearance of the skin, like wrinkles and even cancer. ... During Antarctica's long, dark winter time, lower temperatures in the stratosphere cause ice crystals to form in the air. ... But the limitation would keep the problem from getting worse, they believe, and in time the ozone layer might rebuild itself (Fisher 37). ...

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They express excessive apprehension with a non-existent physical defect and become so preoccupied that they act upon many time-consuming rituals of to try and fix the defect and incessantly check their appearances. ... Specific flaws include large noses, poor skin, baldness, wrinkles, and anything the patient remarks to be unattractive about themselves. ...

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After more than forty years of service to the world's poor, it was time for this seemingly tireless woman to slow down. ... But the image imprinted on the global psyche would be that of a tiny wrinkled old woman reaching out and touching those consigned to the trash heap of humanity (Tucker). ...

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The face of the young woman is marked by wrinkles, the gaze full of worry directed in the distance. ... Yet, what they are deprived of by an unjust economic system, Dorothea restores to them: their existence has "an unbounded significance", a meaning for all time. ...

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Nine months of growing, weight gain, swollen ankles, morning sickness, cravings, wrinkles, and bags under the eyes deserve a break by any standards. ... With the mother resting, the father gets to spend time with the baby 1. ... Father spends valuable time with baby 1. Father spends as much time as he can with baby 2. ... Coworkers could insist father is stealing baby time from the mother 2. ...

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The mouths of old men of this later time had acquired a frozen grimace and grotesque brows and nose. ... The slave had a reddish complexion and tawny hair, which was also attributed to the time spent in the sun. ... This was due to the fact that they spent very little time in the sun, giving them a pale complexion. ... The old women were distinguished by evidence of their age, such as wrinkles and missing teeth. ... It is obvious that many of the masks changed dramatically throughout the time of the ancient Greek theater. ...

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