writer creates a story‚ his or her life will affect it. L. Frank Baum’s life affected the book and movie‚ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. In the book and in the film‚ his life affects the setting‚ characters‚ and conflicts in the story. Kansas‚ where Dorothy lives‚ is the same as South Dakota‚ where L. Frank Baum’s adulthood took place. His childhood was the inspiration for Oz. Baum’s experience with a tornado made the cyclone in the movie. Little do readers know that his life sometimes is a mirror image to
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How does the home environment affect the literacy skills of an individual? In today’s era of development‚ home environment eventually affects the literacy skills of an individual as when one is born‚ this environment will lead to their development and will inculcate the norms and values within the society and how to behave as an individual upon rules and regulation put forward by the community. Literacy is based on an individual’s discourse‚ and is acquired through social interactions with others
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Francis College 180 Remsen St. Brooklyn Heights‚ NY 11201 E-mail: mguillaume@sfc.edu The media affects the lives of children daily. Children imitate things whether they are positive or negative because of the fact that they are not aware of the consequences. Parents need to be more attentive in their child’s life. They need to pay attention to what their child is either watching or listening to. They need limit how much a child spends watching television‚ so that they would be able to focus more on their
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Aging is a natural part of life‚ in fact we begin to age the very moment that we are born. Although aging is the process of getting older the process is more complex than just the celebration of birthdays. Gerontologists have categorized the process of aging into four categories. These categories are chronological age which is based off an individual’s age in years‚ biological age which refers to aging as the physical health of an individual‚ psychological age which refers to the physiological maturity
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numbers of stars and planets‚ is the universe teeming with intelligent life? How would the first contact impact human society? How would it affect religion? Would a creative God have made the universe to bring forth innumerable species of intelligent life? Or would such a God have made human beings‚ on this ordinary planet circling an ordinary star in an ordinary galaxy‚ to be unique? Some religions teach that what God does right here is special – Christianity cannot duck this question: would
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Science and technology affects us all in key positions that can determine the course of events in our lives and can also shape the consciousness of a generation. Science has interwoven with our lives up to such an extent that it influences the routine workings of our everyday lives. Technology such as “robots” is where we apply our scientific knowledge to achieve the goals of our interests. It is we who influences the technologies we create ourselves for our own purposes and good particularly‚ bring
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Egypt. In addition‚ how does rise in a sea level complicate the struggle for existence for humans and how does the rise in sea level affect how an overall population can survive and how it will repopulate. Climate change affects both animals and plants in various ways. The climate may play role in whether or not the plant/ and or animal will survive. The animal/and or plant will struggle for the basic resources such as water‚ nutrition‚ and oxygen. If the plant/and or animal does not get
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How do bacteria affect human lives? Bacteria interact and are a constant in our day to day lives‚ perhaps more than suspected. Bacteria are often thought of as bad‚ however this is untrue‚ there is also many types of ‘good’ bacteria. ‘Good’ bacteria can benefit us by simply helping our digestive system work and helping us in the process of fermentation. Bacteria are extremely helpful in the production of many things such as fuel and medicine. But bacteria directly affect our production of
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How does CO2 Emissions Affect the Ecosystem? Kenyetta Sloan Bryant & Stratton College Ecology Dr. M. McLellan-Zabielski October 24‚ 2012 What would happen if we didn’t cut trees‚ use transportation‚ even turn on our lights or any electrical item we own? Then global warming wouldn’t exist. The things that we do on the daily basis is what produces carbon emissions‚ when we burn oil‚ coal‚ and gas‚ it releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The result of this is climate change‚ temperature
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How does pollution in large cities affect human health? It is generally known that‚ with the development of industry‚ the environment becomes deterioration. The fast speed of the development leaves us serious pollution problems‚ which may affect human health. It is more prominent in urban areas as a result of excessive industrialization. In 1930‚ 6000 people became ill and 60 died by breathing toxic gases emitted from factories in the Meuse Valley in Belgium (Seitz‚ 2008). In addition‚ approximately
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