Aldous Huxley grew up under difficult circumstances‚ losing his mother and eyesight at a young age made his life very challenging. After overcoming his near blindness and gaining a perspective on life not many have‚ Huxley became disillusioned with the war while studying at Oxford. Due to his blindness Huxley was a very shy man‚ which had a negative effect on his social life. This lead him to quit his position as a teacher and become an editor and ultimately a novelist. Huxley visited the United
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BNW Chapter 4 Questions: 1) Where is Lenina when she tries to discuss the New Mexico trip with Bernard? Why is he embarrassed by the conversation? She is in the lift with all the men and Bernard is embarrassed because it is in public and in front of all the men. 2) What is the difference in the way Barnard and Lenina look at the warm blue sky when they reach the roof? What does it say about their respective character? 3) How does Barnard treat those lower status castes than himself? Why? 4)
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JFE TECHNICAL REPORT No. 10 (Dec. 2007) Newly-Developed Ultra-High Tensile Strength Steels with Excellent Formability and Weldability† MATSUOKA Saiji*1 HASEGAWA Kohei*2 TANAKA Yasushi*3 Abstract: JFE Steel has developed and commercialized ultrahigh tensile strength steel series from TS780 MPa to 1 470 MPa with excellent formability and weldability which reduces weight and increases safety in collision when they are applied to the reinforcement parts around a cabin. Those ultra-high
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The Ponzi scheme Bernard L. Madoff entered a federal courtroom back in March of 2009 to admit that he had run a vast Ponzi scheme that robbed thousands of investors of their life savings. A Ponzi scheme is when potential investors are wooed with promises of usually large returns‚ usually attributed to the investment manager’s savvy skill‚ or some other “secret sauce”. Returns are repaid‚ at least for a time‚ out of the new investors principal‚ not from profits. This can continue as long as new
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written by Harper Lee in 1960 (Bernard 8). The story is about Atticus Finch’s defense of a wrongly accused black man while the story is told through the perspective of his daughter Jean Louise Finch‚ called Scout‚ and about her life as she grows up in a close together but racist community (Bloom 11). Since it is told through a young girl’s perspective‚ it is a story about a trial‚ yet also a childhood and growing up involving games and first days of school (Bernard 9). Scout keeps her charm as a
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friend and Charley’s son Bernard. His relationship with Biff is tainted by the fact that Biff could never live up to his father’s expectations‚ which they both feel guilty for. Charley and Biff have problems because Willy is jealous and extremely stubborn‚ and refuses to take his generous help. And lastly‚ Willy has a bitter relationship towards Bernard because he is jealous that Biff is not as successful as him‚ when everyone thought the world of Biff in high school‚ unlike Bernard. He does not understand
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was created in ancient Greek tragedy and defined by Aristotle. Bernard Madoff‚ a former American businessman‚ stockbroker‚ investment advisor‚ and financier‚ fits the definition of a modern day tragic hero. Bernard Madoff grew up in New York City and studied law at Brooklyn Law School‚ but quit the first year to embark on his own investment firm. Using money he had saved from previous life guarding jobs‚ Madoff and his wife founded Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities‚ LLC. The company grew a reputation
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to read. It talks about three generations of the Stephanides family‚ beginning in Greece and ends in the present day in Michigan. This book is an immigration story that is bold and drifts away from being particularly normal. "Middlesex" is told by Cal Stephanides‚ who was raised as a girl‚ named Calliope. Later on in life‚ wishes to be known as a boy. He discovers that he is in intersex with his body chemistry moving more into a boy. “I was born twice: first‚ as a baby girl‚ on a remarkably smogless
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Did Win breach his fiduciary duty to Hailey? Fiduciary Duty Cal Family Code § 721 A husband and wife owe to each other a duty of highest good faith and fair dealing‚ and neither shall take any unfair advantage of the other. The duty is including but not limited to‚ providing each spouse access to records regarding transactions and accounting information‚ concerning the community property. Cal Family Code § 1100 (e) Each spouse has an obligation with respect to the management and control of the
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main character in the book. Bernard Marx seems to be such a unique and peculiar name that one can with certainty assume that there must be reasoning for it‚ especially considering the context of this novel. In the first few introductions to Bernard‚ he narrates his distaste towards his fellow colleagues for “talking about [Lenina] as though she were a bit of meat. Have her here‚ have her there. Like mutton. Degrading her to so much mutton” (Huxley 39). In the mind of Bernard‚ his colleagues do not treat
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