literature | | Chuck Palahniuk (on transgressive fiction)1 “The most successful books now serve us as sedatives‚ confirming the values and worldviews their readers already hold. They’re the books we read as sleeping pills at bedtime. When was the last book banned? Oh‚ how I miss the great book bonfires of my Christian youth! That’s when books had some power! When they had to be burned like witches.” In all its ambiguity‚ transgressive fiction is a genre of selective taste. This sub genre within
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Creatine: The Facts and the Fiction There are many different opinions people have when a conversation about creatine comes up. If one doesn’t know what creatine is‚ it is a popular dietary supplement taken mostly by many athletes around the world. The main problem people have with creatine is its safety. Some people say that it is very harmful to the body‚ while others will say that it is completely stable. The truth is that it is both; one just has to be smart about buying and taking it. There
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Jim Jones Jonestown Massacre Jimmy Jones is the name that I’ve kept for the sake of my life and what does it truly say about my legacy? The question is who am I? I’ve kept many aliases for myself throughout my life. James‚ Jim‚ and frequently Jim Jones. My uncle told me as a child when he was in college that one day your going to have people start calling you Jim and start shorting your name to Jim – Jones. I laughed‚ and this was year 1997. That was thirteen years until this day. But it has
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BIG JIM’s GYM Big Jim is in the body building business for many years in Glendale ‚ California. The gym is for both memn and women and has seperate facilities for both the segments. All the gyms have been located in a complex which has a pizza corner just above the gym . This might be a strategy wherein pizza lovers are given a soft signal of the health fitness they need to care about and there by giving a base of custmers to the Big Jim’s Gym. The moto of the gym is “full range body building and
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Jim Crow Laws Between 1877 and the mid 1960s‚ the Jim Crow laws‚ enacted by many U.S. states after the reconstruction period‚ kept blacks and whites separate. Jim Crow laws were not just laws‚ they were a way of life. These laws are a horrific reminder of the racial barriers and segregation that oppressed an entire population. These laws were first established in the South. They then spread widely throughout the United States. The Jim Crow laws were legislation that banned blacks and whites from
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“The New Jim Crow” book‚ Alexander challenges the belief that racism does not exist in America today. She instead‚ suggests that racism exists today but in a different‚ more subtle‚ way. She explores America’s history and key points the significant movements our country has gone through in regards to racial discrimination. In doing this‚ she offers her point of view in how those movements are still represented in our government and society today. She especially‚ emphasizes the idea that Jim Crow is
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Notes on Case “Jim Poss” Jim Poss‚ a second year full-time MBA student at Babson College‚ has a passion for preserving and protecting the environment. He uses a summer internship and Babson courses to search for opportunities and evaluate them. By the final semester he focuses on a solar-powered trash compactor. When he graduates he puts all his efforts into his new venture and soon lands an order from Vail for one of his trash compactors‚ which will be installed in a remote area of the ski resort
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An investigation to compare the reaction rates between potato and hydrogen peroxide against liver and hydrogen peroxide through loss in mass. Background information: Catalase is an enzyme that is found in all cells. This means that it is an intracellular enzyme. And enzyme is a biological catalyst. A catalyst is some thing that speeds up a reaction without being changed itself. Because of this enzymes and catalysts can be used again and again. Enzymes are protein chains that have a primary‚ secondary
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That is where hydrogen fuel cells come into the picture. Rather than depending on a foreign countries oil‚ to provide fuel‚ businesses today should look to hydrogen as an alternative fuel source. The United States is too dependent on foreign oil. If something were to happen‚ like another war with the Middle East‚ we would not have any oil to power our cars or heat our homes. That’s why hydrogen is the answer. Everybody could make their own fuel for their country by creating hydrogen plants and buying
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gender and sexuality in science fiction we must first agree that women and men are inherently of equal worth‚ as many writers of feminist science fiction use the genre’s position to discuss issues of change‚ injustice‚ and social partitions (Calvin). The motif of gender and sexuality in science fiction is not restricted to just one subgenre of science fiction but shows up in nearly all varieties‚ creating hybrids in the science fiction world. The genre of science fiction alone is constantly changing
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