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    clearly an important subject to the genetically mutated Cal. As Cal recounts the story of how his grandparents fell in love‚ he represents elements of both choice (Lefty’s decision to walk away from his two courtship dates‚ the couple’s intentionally fake courtship period on the ship to America) and fate (the game of rock‚ paper‚ scissors in which Lefty agrees not to marry the two other girls‚ the anonymity of their circumstances as refugees). While Cal seems hesitant to take a stand on whether the genetic

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    transmission). The total amount of energy released by the digestion and metabolism of a particular food is referred to as its calorie content and is expressed in units of nutritional Calories (note the uppercase C). A nutritional Calorie‚ abbreviated Cal‚ is equivalent to a unit of energy called a kilocalorie‚ or 1000 calories (note the lower case c). One calorie is defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C. (This is also the definition of the specific

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    walked to the kitchen where Cal was placing the kettle on the stove for coffee. Cal: well Jean Louise finch what are you doing up at this hour young lady. Scout: I didn’t sleep well. I had a long night Cal: well I can see that! The bags under your eyes are very big. Come on out to the porch and explain to me what was keeping you up last night. Narrator/Scout: as I explained to cal what all happened that night she listened with her full attention. And when I had told cal everything I couldn’t help

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    was born pure evil‚ it is in her DNA and she has no desire for goodness. Where Cal’s concerned‚ Lee can see that has has the desire for goodness and because of this he should be forgiven and helped. Lee sees both evil and good struggling to escape in Cal‚ but gives him the guidance he needs to let goodness

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    Jem and Scout. The first reason she is a better mother figure is Calpurnia is always doing her best to help Scout out. Scout asked Cal if she could go to her house sometime and Cal said Scout could come anytime. Calpurnia always is willing to be around Scout and be a good female influents. Jem has been having some mood swings and has been mean to Scout lately and Cal has helped her through it. Calpurnia tries to explain to Scout that Jem is growing up and he sometimes is going to act me to her. In

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    Cal‚ who grows up with the name Calliope‚ is raised as a girl but when he finds out he possesses both male and female parts he decides to change his name and stay the way he is born. When Cal is brought to a doctor because he discovers there is something wrong with his genitalia a surgery is setup to turn Cal into a female. Although Cal was never informed about the surgery‚ Cal found out on his own and did not approve of the surgery and

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    apparently Kate did too. He felt so much pressure by this that he went into the army and sadly was killed there. Unlike Aron‚ who has the burden of his family on his shoulders‚ his brother Cal‚ does not. Cal has the choice of free will because his family does not like him nor respects him as much as they respect Aron. But Cal does not realize that he has the choice of doing what he wants and being free from the craziness that is his family. In my own life‚ I have the choice of being evil or good‚ so the

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    plaintiff has not shown that his constructive discharge violated any contractual right. As we have recounted‚ his employment was at-will. As such‚ his employment could be terminated "for any or no reason." (Guz v. Bechtel National‚ Inc.‚ supra‚ 24 Cal.4th at p. 350‚ 100 Cal.Rptr.2d 352‚ 8 P.3d 1089.) His employer‚ CPR‚ was entitled to act "peremptorily‚ arbitrarily‚ or inconsistently." (Ibid.) The nature of plaintiffs at-will employment‚ authorizing termination for any reason‚ is incompatible with

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    “Butlerian” understanding of the concept of gender. By looking at various issues related to gender explored in the two novels‚ and pointing to similarities and differences between the two works‚ I hope to show how the protagonists‚ Orlando and Cal/lie‚ break down and transcend the fraught categories of male and female‚ thus disrupting the traditional gender norms and conventions‚ showing them to be socially and culturally constructed. Judith Butler’s hope is for every human being to be acknowledged

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    the whole novel‚ in both Charles and Adam‚ and Cal and Aron but the boys exemplify the traits of Cain and Abel more than their father and his brother. Cal exhibits traits of Cain including his anger and jealousy‚ which is largely directed at Aron. This is most exemplified‚ when Cal tries to give Adam his gift‚ which Adam denies. Telling Cal to have “pride in the thing he’s doing” (Steinbeck 541)‚ telling him‚ in short‚ to be like Aron. This pushes Cal to take Aron to see their mother‚ taking his anger

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