James Carson, from "The Story of One White Woman,"" and Jake Barnes, from The Sun Also Rises, fail to embody the traditional characteristics of masculinity. ... Despite the seemingly impossible task of living up to traditional standards of masculinity "ideals such as honor, duty, and heterosexuality' "Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and Sui Sin Far's "The Story of One White Woman who Married a Chinese,"" suggest that failed masculinity often results from being corrupted by society. ... Jake Barnes, the narrator from The Sun Also Rises, lacks masculinity just...

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Back in school, our fifth grade textbooks would also remind us that 'India is a diverse country'. ... But they struck the wrong note with thin-skinned politicians, who came cracking their whips right away. ... He guides assorted, confused notes into harmony. ... At another level, being liberal is also about acceptance and transparency. ... It rises from the ashes as inevitably as the sun rises every day. ...

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Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises captures the roots of his talents and the start of controversy. ... In 1926 Hemingway published his second novel entitled The Sun Also Rises. ... It was in The Sun Also Rises that Hemingway first introduced us to "The Iceberg Principle." ... In The Sun Also Rises he defends Jake well and the reader involuntarily gives him their sympathy. ... In The Sun Also Rises the story ends having gone nowhere. ...

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Day 1, Sun Date 182621 The entrance to the first Sub Valley is quite pleasant. ... This is the farthest of Sun Set than I have ever been, it is beautiful here with the mass amount natural tera compared to the Teraformed land on Sun Rise. ... Day 7, Sun Date 182627 We have finally entered the building! ... I decided take Eye Images and notes of the room before I start extracting and examining artifacts tomorrow. ... Day 9, Sun Date 182629 What I found yesterday was an amazing find! ...

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Not only is the environment threatened by the world's primary use of non-renewable energy, but also to human health. ... The sun rises everyday, constantly providing light and energy that is needed for survival. This makes the sun an excellent energy provider. ... As the sun shines down, Photovoltaic Cells capture the suns rays and provide electricity for a house and even a whole building (Miller 394). ... On an environmental note, solar cell use has low environmental impact. ...

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He states that we all believe that the sun will rise tomorrow morning and then asks, "Is this belief a mere blind outcome of past experience, or can it be justified as a reasonable belief?...... He implies that we have reason to believe that the sun will rise tomorrow. ... Newton's theory is approximately true but also false. Einstein's general theory of relativity is a more accurate one but is also false as well. ... Note: Throughout this paper, I have constantly highlighted words that imply certainty. ...

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In 1926, the New York Times published a review of "The Sun Also Rises", stating that Hemingway's writing was so compelling, so lasting in the American psyche that "No amount of analysis can convey the quality of "The Sun Also Rises." ... (Bloom 209) However, Trodd notes that "Long before this, Hemingway's limited vocabulary, few adjectives, and concrete descriptions of specific objects all countered with minimalism the problem of "used up words." ... (Hemingway, Short 192) In the following passage from The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes relates - in an entirely factual way - an event th...

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Because the increase in prices was driven by demand stimulated by the reduced cost of mortgages, this rise should not be considered to be a signal of overvaluation in the housing market. ... In terms of further work on the global perspective, Crooks and Despeignes (2002) chart the growth of house prices in Europe, America and parts of Asia, noting increasing rates not seen since the 1980s. ... The largest falls are recorded in Ireland and Spain, the countries with the highest rises in house prices. ... Further studies by Bond, Seiler and Seiler (2002), Bourassa, Hoesli and Sun (2003) and Yu, H...

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Not only does Thomas illustrate art in the modern world by writing a poem that recognizes human suffering, but also by characterizing the hunchback as an artist himself. ... In addition, once the sun sets he is able to transform himself from a figure of a derision and pity into a one of power and beauty - once again becoming an artist. ... But the young Icarus, overwhelmed by the thrill of flying, did not heed his father's warning, and flew too close to the sun whereupon the wax in his wings melted and he fell into the sea. ... By explaining how the rest of the world barely took note o...

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Consequently, average per person consumption of energy has seen a rise of 10% for the same period. ... Also, these fuels are a major source of air, water and soil pollution. ... It is estimated that the sun provides enough energy in one minute to supply the world's energy needs for one year. ... However, it has certain drawbacks also. ... Moreover, it also provides skilled jobs for people in rural communities. ...

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Wells was not only willing to sacrifice for this cause, but also to die for it. ... Because both are motivated by similar economic, social, and psychological forces, it is only logical that those who sought to undermine Blacks were also the most virulent antifeminists 2." ... I rise I rise I rise." ... Well's father was also a race man in Mississippi who refused to be intimidated by the politics of his town. ... "Out of the huts of history's shame I rise" The "huts of history's shame" in stanza eight also makes an allusion to the oppression that African-American wome...

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The Idea of no God existing back would sound just as bizarre as someone not believing that the sun exist. ... As D'Souza (2007) notes according to the Anthropic Principle, the age and size of the universe must be exactly how old and large as they are for life to exist. ... Collins (2006) notes that the DNA and RNA are like hard drives and zip disk. ... Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty". ... A finite plus finite can ever equal infinite so it also comes to be a mathematical e...

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The sun here implies different meanings for them. ... For the men, the sun is only a source of intense heat that is preventing them from doing their work efficiently. ... Structuralism notes that much of our imaginative world is structured of, and structured by, binary oppositions. ... It may as well symbolise her ferociousness .The description we are given about the woman and her gestures possibly gives rise to the issue of sex. ... This is a very vivid and well portrayed picture of the sensuality of the woman which gives rise to full-fledged desire and sexual passion in the male. ...

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As we were making our way down the boarding tunnel I took note of the fellow passengers, keeping mental notes of targets that might be of some trouble: A young man no older than 24 in good physical conditions. An older man in his late 40's who I overheard talking about being in the army and some female passengers also. Half way down the boarding tunnel I heard a sudden rise in chatter, I feared the worst, but then my nostrils flared and I knew what the talk was about, some airplane fuel must have leaked out of a pipe outside, sending the gut wrenching fumes into the boarding tunnel. ......

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He illustrates how the country's huge industrial might has turned our natural, sun based food production system into a fossil-fuel based food production system. ... Benefits of Current Food Production System Pollan also overlooks the many benefits of our current food production and distribution system. ... The current food production system also has key health benefits for the overall population. ... As family farmer Blake Hurst notes, "even the poultry industry, with its contracts and vertical integration, relies on family farms to contract for the production of the birds" (Hur...

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from poem 1, and the line: "Crying " 'weep, 'weep," in notes of woe" from poem 2. ... It means to cry, so it also tells us of their misery and unhappiness. ... This stanza also gives a hint of something else; Tom Dacre's hair is white and curls like the back of a lamb. ... They also symbolize death; this profession was a sure death for them because of the hazardous conditions of both the work in general and their poor quality of life. ... Then naked and white, all their bags left behind, They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind. ...

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The struggle to lead China has caused the country to undergo mass socio-economic changes on more than one occasion, from the fall of imperialism in 1911 to the rise of the Nationalists and Communists. ... Sun Yatsen, who advocated nationalism, socialism and democracy and believed that the country ought to be governed by the Chinese people, not foreigners (Gay, K. 2008). Throughout his school life, Mao and his peers read radical newspapers, studied world history and, according to Jonathan Spence, Chinese history specialist and former Professor of History at Yale University, Mao would read "what...

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The poem not only shows her upbringing but also comes from life experiences and her own likes and dislikes. ... Some of the poetry Angelou has written is "Still I Rise", "Men", "Remembrance", "A Conceit", "Touched by an Angel", "Refusal", and "The Lesson" (Alanofdale 1)... This is a part of the song "When it Looked Like the Sun Wasn't Going to Shine Anymore, God Put a Rainbow in the Clouds",1 which she sang to open a lecture she gave at Weber State University. ... Notes Page 1 From a 19th Century Gospel song....

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Mainland Failure, Island Success: Comparing KMT Economic and Political Policies in China and Taiwan Introduction One does not need to search very thoroughly to find mountains of work on the rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the revolution of 1949 or "miracle- economic growth on Taiwan after the Kuomintang (KMT or "Nationalists-) took power following its retreat from the mainland. ... So let us start with those authors who looked at the missteps that helped explain the CCP's rise to power. ... In the countryside especially, Esherick notes that as early as 1971 Ma...

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Darwin's grandfather also had an interest in evolution. Charles Darwin was very set in his creationist ideas however and only became convinced of the opposite by his own notes. ... In the next section he contradicts the last by seeing the sun and stars as slowly dying with no hope for rebirth, "The stars," she whispers, "blindly run; A web is wov"n across the sky; From our waste places comes a cry, And murmurs from the dying sun: (Tennyson 3.5-8). ... Death even takes the players of the music slowly away, "Death stepped tacitly and took them where they never see the sun....

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The art world was also undergoing a transformation and we begin to see fundamental reconsiderations in this sphere and these reflections will have major repercussions on art in Montreal and throughout Quebec. ... I had to gain a comprehensive vision of the reality of life in Montreal beginning at the turn of the century up until around 1950 (span of time in which the works were produced as a side note) to understand what forces were behind this move towards Canadian modernism. ... The location of Hochelaga is actually close to where McGill University sits currently and as the title suggests we...

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The drug also goes by the name Ma Huang. ... People will find ephedrine in many performance enhancers also. ... With the heart working harder, the body temperature rises. If the athlete is already practicing in the sun, this can cause the body to overheat. ... Most important the manufactures should have to put, a side note in big print how many time they have been accused in the court of law of killing or disabling people due to their product. ...

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Coincident with this has been the rise in the use of Ecstasy. ... Combined with this however, it also releases serotonin (5-HT), giving rise to the phrase loved-up'. ... For those who liked the up-lifting feelings, trance music emphasised the top notes and string washes. ... At the same time the environment was also created to enhance as much as possible the effects of ecstasy. ... This is also true in the literal meaning of Utopian as no-where, no-when. ...

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The Shema has greatly influenced Jewish lifestyle for millennia and also serves as a link to Christian theology when Jesus recited the Shema in response to being asked about the greatest commandment. ... The Jewish people believe that when God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and He also gave him more detailed instructions on how to follow the law. ... For the observant Jew, the Shema is recited in the morning when he rises and in the evening before bed. ... When reading this chapter, or anywhere in the Talmud for that matter, it is interesting to note that no matter what century the scribes we...

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The preserved remains in Pompeii city and the observational notes of Pliny the Younger is the evidence of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in ancient times (this day in history). 1.2. ... There are two different causes of why the magma rises up to the surface. The first one explains that when two converging plates interconnect and then separate, the holes and breaks occurring between them cause the rise of the magma through them. ... The town of Herculaneum was also buried on August 25, but by a mudslide set off by the eruption and accompanying tremors (this day in history). 1.5. ... He had been ...

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