...oliver evans a revaluation summarySummary and Response to “The Snows of Kilimanjaro: A Revaluation” by Oliver Evans Oliver Evans' Evaluation Because Ernest Hemingway is considered to be an influential intellectual as well as a modernist philosopher, all his literary works are closely criticized by numerous literary critics. His work, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” highlighted Hemmingway’s views on “life-in-death” more than any of his other works; though, almost all his works are concerned with departing material reality in some way. Some literary critics state that “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” was a “magnificent failure” because it lacked “dramatic force” (Evans, 601). Others do not believe that the story’s material action and symbolism are properly matched (Evans, 601). Oliver Evans does not agree. “‘The Snows’ is not, primarily, a story of action at all: its interest lies in the situation, and in the conflict between idealism and materialism that takes place within the protagonist” (Evans, 602). Evans discovered symbolism in almost every aspect of the story. Evans noted the despair in Harry’s life because of the conflicting views he held, and because of the deadness he felt. According to Evans, Harry was partly idealistic, as shown by his despair; however, he was also materialistic and mechanistic. Harry did not fear death; however, he hated the thought of leaving so much unaccomplished. He hated knowing that he had ruined his own life and that he could not re-claim his integrity...
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...Knockout Mice Technology | Submitted By : Wasman ID : 11136007Course ID : BTE 402 | Knockout Mice Technology | Submitted By : Wasman ID : 11136007Course ID : BTE 402 | Modern medicine is the product of centuries of experiences in dealing with various diseases and disorders related to the human physiology. From the discovery of vaccination to the discovery of antibiotics, each medical breakthrough highlighted the success of humans in dealing with the prevailing medical issues of that time. With the discovery of the structure of DNA by Crick and Watson in the early 1950s, the focus on medical research has shifted to the understanding of the genetic cause of a particular disease. Because of this, we are now able to understand the pathophysiology behind much of the diseases that has been a mystery to us before. An example of this is cancer, which was initially untreatable, but now thanks to our ever improving understanding of the genetic and biochemical mechanisms of the disease we are almost a step closer to achieving a reliable cure. In order to understand the progression of a particular disease accurately, scientists need to recreate the symptoms in a controlled environment (e.g. a laboratory) within a living organism. Such organisms are known as model organisms, because they serve as a live model which allows us to explore the workings of the disease. Due to various ethical issues, using humans as model organisms are out of the question, so scientists...
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... The theme of the Wednesday Wars is, when unexpected and most needed, kindness appears. Mrs. Baker gets Holling the cream puffs he so desperately needs showing kindness because she felt empathy. Danny gives up his signed baseball to make Holling feel better showing kindness through loyalty. And Mrs.Baker gives Mai Thi her hot chocolate to show her that she has done nothing wrong, showing kindness through responsibility. The first example of kindness appears early in the book when Holling learns that Mrs.Baker might not despise him after all. Holling, ostracized by his classmates because of their jealousy that he got a cream puff saves up his money and brings a box of cream puffs to school, only to have them eaten by Sycorax and Caliban. Mrs.Baker, knowing how hard he worked to get those cream puffs, replaces them herself."But you know that stuff about the darkest nights turning into the brightest dawns? That can sometimes come true. Even when you least expect it. Because when we came back in from recess, on the shelf was a long box from Goldman's Best Bakery.. Filled with twenty-four cream puffs! Twenty- four brown, light, perfect cream puffs! Twenty-four buttery vanilla cream puffs!!'Mr.Hoodhood was simply playing a joke on you all,' said Mrs.Baker. 'Now enjoy.' And we did” (Schmidt 70).It applies to the topic because Holling was ready to "die" because of the cream puffs and really thought Mrs.Baker had it out for him. But she saw him struggling and came to his rescue. Up...
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...until some paying journalist or amateur or professional art connoisseur found someone who knew something. One day there were perhaps eighteen cars outside of the cave where Oliver had stayed. Two days later the property was purchased by an unnamable prestigious university that took measures to preserve and duplicate what Oliver had painted in it. Little more than...
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...OLIVER TWIST Charles Dickens Plot Overview Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in 1830s England. His mother, whose name no one knows, is found on the street and dies just after Oliver’s birth. Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in a badly run home for young orphans and then is transferred to a workhouse for adults. After the other boys bully Oliver into asking for more gruel at the end of a meal, Mr. Bumble, the parish beadle, offers five pounds to anyone who will take the boy away from the workhouse. Oliver narrowly escapes being apprenticed to a brutish chimney sweep and is eventually apprenticed to a local undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry. When the undertaker’s other apprentice, Noah Claypole, makes disparaging comments about Oliver’s mother, Oliver attacks him and incurs the Sowerberrys’ wrath. Desperate, Oliver runs away at dawn and travels toward London. Outside London, Oliver, starved and exhausted, meets Jack Dawkins, a boy his own age. Jack offers him shelter in the London house of his benefactor, Fagin. It turns out that Fagin is a career criminal who trains orphan boys to pick pockets for him. After a few days of training, Oliver is sent on a pickpocketing mission with two other boys. When he sees them swipe a handkerchief from an elderly gentleman, Oliver is horrified and runs off. He is caught but narrowly escapes being convicted of the theft. Mr. Brownlow, the man whose handkerchief was stolen, takes the feverish Oliver to his home and nurses him...
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...The Ronald McDonald House Charities history starts in 1974 when a Philadelphia Eagles player’s daughter became sick with leukemia. Fred Hill and his wife had no place to sleep other than waiting rooms and hospital benches during their daughter’s three years of hospitalization. The Hills and other families traveled many miles for treatment and were not able to pay for hotel rooms. The Eagles’ manager and Fred’s teammates raised funds to donate to the pediatric oncology unit to give short term housing for the families with sick children at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.rmhccoastalempire.org/-mcdonald-house-charities-of-the-coastal-empire-inc. The Eagles manager, Jim Murray, requested help from the local McDonald’s advertising company and enough aid was raised to purchase an old house near the hospital. In 1974, this became the first Ronald McDonald House. The Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of the Coastal Empire began in 1986 and is one of 338 Ronald McDonald Houses around the world. Each House is an independent, community agency. The Savannah RMCH has thirteen bedrooms and is usually on a waiting list. Other programs connected to the local RMCH are the Ronald McDonald Family Room and the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.rmhccoastalempire.org/-mcdonald-house-charities-of-the-coastal-empire-inc. “The mission of Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Coastal Empire is to create, find and support programs...
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...Assignment: Ethics, Responsibility & Governance – Prof. Swati Panda Case Study - Martha McCaskey 1. As Martha McCaskey, what is your plan of finishing the silicon 6 project? Please map out your detailed plan of action. The case in question requires Martha McCaskey to perform tasks in relevance to the Silicon 6 project that might hamper her integrity towards work. However, there is a major stake of her losing the promotion that she is expectant and has been promised. Furthermore, Mr. Phil Devon’s eagerness to help her in a sincere way is killing her more in the process of getting the information that she needs from him. Very primarily, our task, in imagining ourselves as Martha McCaskey lies in making sure to get the insider information from the target competitor of our company’s client. The insider information that we are now seeking is about the manufacturing of a chip for our client, so as to help our client. The constraints and challenges that lie before us in obtaining that information are as follows: 1. The potential information provider, Mr. Phil Devon is sincere in his attempt to share the information, provided that we come forth with specific information, provided by our clients. 2. Our integrity in asking for insider information, the consequence of which might invoke bad temper in Mr. Phil Devon and which might also lead Mr. Devon complaining to the concerned authorities about the whole set-up. 3. The prime challenge ahead is to get the information...
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...Bruce Almighty, A Lesson in Integrity Tenetta Griffin English 225 Melissa Rigney January 14, 2014 Bruce Almighty, A Lesson in Integrity Jim Carrey is a talented comedian and I have enjoyed every film that I’ve seen him in. I selected Bruce Almighty for an in-depth film analysis because of how the talented actors helped put a unique spin on the whole god/human relationship for the modern day moviegoer. This movie is not designed to be an in-depth expose on the god/human relationship but a platform to gently remind the audience the of how important our decisions affect where we are in life and gives us a moment to pause and think about what kind of future do we really desire. In my opinion, the film Bruce Almighty utilizes Jim Carrey's comedic talents to address the heavy topic of the god/human relationship and the moral issue that the director wants the share with the audience is that our free will should be exercised a modicum of human integrity to effectively resolve our own personal issues/dilemmas. My first step in analyzing Bruce Almighty involves taking a closer look at plot development and how this movie took the universal truth concerning how mankind in general tends to get frustrated with God when things just don’t go their way while taking it down a unconventional comedic path to help lighten up the seriousness of the topic. The director of Bruce Almighty’s tells the story from a mixed point of view which means we sometimes learn what is going on at the same...
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...Rubric for 5S Project | | |NEEDS FURTHER |INCORPORATES | | |LACKS ESSENTIAL |DEVELOPMENT |BEST POL PRACTICES | | |FEATURES OF EFFECTIVE POL | | | | | |50% |100% | | |0% | | | | | |The project has essential POL features but has some of the |The project has the following strengths: | | |The project has one or more of |following weaknesses: |...
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...Twelfth Night The section of the play that I have chosen is the scene in which Sir Toby and Sir Andrew are both drunk and are throwing the balls into the stage with the fool. I chose this section because it stood out very distinctively because of all the actions that were happening in it. In the scene Sir Toby and Sir Andrew were playing around with the fool and making a lot of noise whilst the others who were living in the house were asleep. Malvolio the butler kept on coming onto the stage every so often to tell Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and the fool to be quiet. It started by the fool running to the back of the stage and grabbing the foam balls and hats and then making Sir Toby and Sir Andrew put the hats on. The musicians then started playing very upbeat and loud music whilst Toby, Andrew and the fool threw the foam balls into the crowd for them to throw back at them. This then went on for several minutes. Whilst in the middle of all this, pizzas were passed through the crowd by the fool. Every so often Malvolio would come onto the stage and when he did all the music would stop and it would go silent. He did this because everyone else in the house was trying to sleep and they couldn’t because of Toby, Andrew and the fool. Once Malvolio had left the stage all the music would start again and Toby, Andrew and the fool would start throwing the balls back into the crowd. Some members of the audience were pulled out to put the hats on and stand in the middle of the stage to catch...
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...Crystal Del Raso 1024 W Cullerton Chicago, IL 60608 Cdelraso@gmail.com February 2, 2012 Deloitte & Touche 111 S. Wacker Dr. Chicago, IL 60606 United States To whom it may concern, I am interested in becoming a participant in the Deloitte National Leadership Conference. I am currently studying for a degree in Accountancy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. From the start of my first accounting class I read about the esteemed reputation of Deloitte services. One day after listening to current employees speak about their experiences I was immediately interested in Deloitte. My education at the University of Illinois has granted me with many opportunities to strengthen my ability to work well in a group as well as my leadership skills. In my business classes we are given multiple group projects where I have gained much experience in working together with others. I am usually working with students that I do not know personally and that has strengthened my ability to work as part of a team where I listen to the others opinions, ask for help when needed and effectively accomplish the work we are given. Aside from working with others in the classroom I am also a board member of a club named U.N.F.A.S. (Unidos Nuestra Fuerza Avanzara Siempre) which is a latino/a housing organization that provides workshops and philanthropic events to help students in a variety of ways. For example, I was involved in a workshop where we organized a panel of students to...
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...Gray Case: Moss and McAdams Accounting Firm 1. If you were Palmer at the end of the case, how would you respond? If I were in Palmer’s position, I would accept Sands and Olds choice and move on as the bottom line is to work towards accomplishing the organization’s goals. Considering the toll the situation had on Olds, it would be only fair to grant his wish and ensure that things get back right on track. In addition, I would also persuade Sands to find someone who has a skill set close to Olds, so that the slipping schedule can be brought back on track and ensure that the project is completed successfully. I would also convey my message that I did not appreciate a key resource being pulled mid way to work on another project to the senior management so that this situation can be avoided if possible in future. 2. What, if anything, could Palmer have done to avoid losing Olds? Palmer should have engaged in a conversation with the Project Sponsor to explain the importance of having Olds on the Johnsonville Project, which may have encouraged Crosby to look for another suitable employee. Considering the basic nature of the Johnsonville project and the high profile status of Crosby’s project, it makes more sense for Olds to move to Crosby’s project keeping the company’s goals in mind. In addition, Crosby seemed to be relationship oriented, indeed he gave his team some rewards such as lunch at a good restaurant, game of golf, tickets to the baseball games. In contrast, Palmer...
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...Sir Arthur Evans was a famous and somewhat controversial British archaeologist. Studying history at the Universities of Oxford and Göttingen, Evans later became Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. He was known for extracting or uncovering artifacts from ancient societies. After unearthing some of the sites, Sir Arthur Evans of Nash Mills would go on to restore his findings in an attempt to bring them back to life per say. Throughout his days, Sir Arthur made some very crucial discoveries as it pertains to ancient archaeology such as his excavation of the Palace at Knossos. Sir Arthur Evans was born in 1851 in Nash Mills, Hertfordshire, England. His initial interest in archaeology stemmed from the period of 1884 to 1908 where he became interested in seals which were essentially tiny carved stones. These seals were sources of inscriptions from ancient, pre-Classical Mediterranean civilizations. He as the article reads was particularly drawn to Crete as one such source of seals containing undeciphered early inscriptions. Sir Arthur first visited Crete in 1894 to study and decipher two types of unknown scripts appearing on Cretan seals. This would be the...
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...Oliver Twist’s will to survive Oliver Twist is one of the most famous novels Charles Dickens ever wrote. It is a tale of childhood innocence, surrounded by evil; whereby, it portrays the dark unlawful mob of a London, occupied by strong and unforgettable characters. It is a timeless rags-to-riches story about an orphan, who has to navigate his way across a city full of criminals, and stay away from being corrupted. Oliver Twist's will to survive throughout the novel, is the ultimate contributing factor to his finding his biological family. Dickens draws out a convincing image of a disturbing childhood preoccupied by a struggle between the poor laws and criminality; the forces of good and evil; and a sense of alienation. In one of the most common places where poor laws is depicted is that of where Oliver Twist’s birth takes place: a workhouse, where his mother takes refuge and dies after giving birth to her illegitimate son, and is unable to make her identity known to anyone. According to Chlebek, this is where everything “begins, the nightmare of abandonment, exploitation, and terror that constitute the orphan’s early life” (“Childhood in Oliver Twist"). During Oliver’s first year, he is brought up in the workhouse. He is then sent to Mrs. Mann’s baby farm, where he is regularly starved for the next eight years. However, on Oliver’s ninth birthday, the parish beadle, Mr. Bumble, returns Oliver to the workhouse so that he can learn a useful trade: picking oakum. When...
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...An Analysis of Longfellow's A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins his poem "A Psalm of Life" with the same exuberance and enthusiasm that continues through most of the poem. He begs in the first stanza to be told "not in mournful numbers" about life. He states here that life doesn't abruptly end when one dies; rather, it extends into another after life. Longfellow values this dream of the afterlife immensely and seems to say that life can only be lived truly if one believes that the soul will continue to live long after the body dies. The second stanza continues with the same belief in afterlife that is present in the first. Longfellow states this clearly when he writes, "And the grave is not its goal." Meaning that, life doesn't end for people simply because they die; there is always something more to be hopeful and optimistic for. Longfellow begins discussing how humans must live their lives in constant anticipation for the next day under the belief that it will be better than each day before it: "But to act that each to-morrow / Find us farther than to-day." In the subsequent stanza, Longfellow asserts that there is never an infinite amount of time to live, but art that is created during one's life can be preserved indefinitely and live on long after its creator dies. In the following stanzas, Longfellow likens living in the world to fighting on a huge field of battle. He believes that people should lead heroic and courageous lives and not sit idle and remain...
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