Chapter Two Hormones…As We May Call Them On November 20th‚ 1907‚ a group of British medical students headed to Battersea Park to smash a dog statue. It was a particularly foggy night‚ even by London standards‚ so they thought they could get away with it. The statue‚ a seven-and-a-half-foot monument was a water fountain‚ with a high spout for people and a low one for pets. A bronzed brown terrier mutt perched on a granite base. The inscription irked the students. A few lines in the belly of
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Louisa May Alcott was an exceptional novelist in a time when few female authors were recognized. She lived in the midst of the turmoil caused by the American Civil War. Bronson Alcott‚ Alcott’s father. Louisa May Alcott‚ the second daughter of Bronson and Abba May Alcott‚ was born on November 29‚ 1832 in Germantown‚ Pennsylvania. Louisa’s father was a transcendentalist‚ so he didn’t work very hard to make money. .At the time of her birth‚ the Alcotts were living in Germantown. Louisa’s
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Mountain May Apart It is a sad story themed around divergence. The poetic movie title gives it a clue – mountain may apart – almost all the characters fade away from each other’s life during this two-hour film. There are more discrepancies hidden beneath layers of symbols and icons throughout the film. The film is a puzzle waiting to be unpacked. The red Volkswagen‚ the privatization of mining‚ and the year of 1999 contextualized the rapid change occurring in the fast-growing Chinese economy started
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“Terms and Conditions May Apply” offers an illuminating look at privacy in the digital age‚ and the potential dangers of it as our online information (data) is shared with the government‚ and sold to the highest bidder. In the documentary‚ Cullen Hoback shows how those “terms and conditions” and agreed policies allows corporations to do things with our personal information that we could never imagine. What are we really agreeing to when we click “I agree”? Through Interviews with tech enthusiasts
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Benjamin Mays Benjamin Elijah Mays was a distinguished African American minister‚ educator‚ scholar‚ and social activist. Mays was born on August 1st‚ 1894 in a rural area outside Ninety-Six‚ South Carolina. He was the youngest of eight children born to the tenant farmers and former slaves‚ Louvenia Carter and Hezekiah Mays. An ongoing occurrence in Mays’s boyhood and early adulthood was his dedication for education against overwhelming odds. As Mays’s grew older‚ and after stumbling quite a bit
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Human activities that may affect water ecosystems such as oceans FISHING Reducing the fish communities in rivers and oceans‚ destructive fishing techniques can also cause water pollution and damage to coral and other aquatic life. Destructive fishing techniques involve the use of dynamite or cyanide; trawling in coral-rich ecosystems; bottom trawls that are dragged along the ocean floor‚ also disrupt and damage critical habitats. DUMPING Coastal communities have long used oceans as dumping grounds
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Rebekah Manning D. Noblitt IB HoA 10/22/14 Ella May Wiggins and The Loray Mill Strike of 1929 Extra Credit Ella May Wiggins was a native of Sevierville‚ Tennessee‚ but her impact on the world took place here in Gastonia. Ella and her brother started careers as mill workers at a very young age after the death of her father. At the age of twenty Ella married Johnny Wiggins; he‚ like her father worked in the timber region. Johnny and Ella soon left the mountains of Sevierville and head
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PQCT: Ruth May Price Point/Purpose: The classic novel The Poisonwood Bible‚ by Barbara Kingsolver‚ features‚ among her three other sisters and mother‚ Ruth May Price‚ who is the 5 year old daughter of Reverend Nathan Price‚ who has been stationed in the Congo for a mission trip in the name of the Baptist Church in the year 1959‚ a time when many of the racial biases and attitudes toward Africans and women are still prevalent in the US‚ especially the Prices home state of Georgia. These biases
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In the Star Tribune article May 31st there was an interesting story written by Suzanne Ziegler. She introduced us to Lee‚ a south Minneapolis homeowner who’s lawn was a challenge. He got frustrated with the condition of his lawn. He tried fertilizer‚ other chemicals‚ and even hired a professional landscaper in hopes it would improve his lawn. Nothing seemed to work. Out of frustration he became interested in using turf and finally installed it for his lawn. There are challenges of grass vs turf
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The third of May 1808 is a painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. The painting portrays an execution of masses of Spanish men by French soldiers. The six Napoleon’s troops are firing at a close range at a group of Spanish civilians. Between the narrow space of the soldiers and the Spanish men‚ there is a square lantern creating a dramatic light effect on the Spanish men. The painting is centered around an adult Spanish man kneeling with his arms outstretched at a gunpoint. He is wearing
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