... Andromeda which caused the suspension of the program. The second part was to build a major research and containment facility where a microorganism could be isolated. They named the facility Wildfire. The outbreak starts when two people are sent out to search for Scoop VII. When the two men sent neared Piedmont they noticed vultures circling the town, watching, waiting. At their last check point there was only a scream and static as the virus took two more lives. Hours later a military helicopter with Jeremy Stone and Charles Burton took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It was headed for Piedmont, Arizona. They were going there to recover a sample of the vir ...
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... The novel opens with a retaining picture of nature on rampage. The novel shows the men and women that are unbroken by nature. The theme is one of man verses a hostile environment. His body destroyed but s spirit is not broken. The method used to develop the theme of the novel is through the use of symbolism. There are several uses of symbols in the novel from the turtle at the begging to the rain at the end. As each symbol is presented through the novel they show examples of the good and the bad things that exist within the novel. The opening chapter paints a vivid picture of the situation facing the drought-stricken farmers of Oklahoma. Dust is described as coveri ...
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... their desolate existence and to help alleviate the conditions of daily life. The distance between the state, the outer world and the people, the inner world, creates an ignorance that the state refuses to attend. It is widely known the two factors for the makeup of a civilization lies in the people and the state or the state and its people. Without one or the other to depend on, reliance hinders stability. The functional branch or government in Rome is thousands of miles away that there is a barrier between the Italian people. Because the capital is not located in the village, they cannot interact and develop a personal fulfillment ...
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... “went back in rice and [Sethe] sucked from another woman whose job it was.” The breast milk fed to Sethe as a baby was not even from her own mother. Sethe also had to deal with the fact that she was not brought along when her mother tried to escape (unsuccessfully) from the plantation. Sethe was breaking, but not yet broken. The emptiness of Sethe’s relationship with her mother only increased Sethe’s motherly obsession for her own children. As a parent with two kids and another one on the way, Sethe needed to escape slavery. She felt she had to place her children outside the horror of slavery, even if it meant taking their lives. A life was lost. Sethe refused to ...
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... brings us to the second conflict, which is Prosser's conflict with society. One night, without warning, he begins a killing spree which spans the better part of a day, and spawns a fatal manhunt. His conflict with the society in general is characterized by his indiscriminate choice of victims. These victims range from a police officer to an innocent black man looking out his window, to several citizens who try to put an end to his madness. This conflict is stopped when the mob catches up to him, and he surrenders in soldier-like fashion. The hint of the conflict lingers, however, when the mob leader brags about killing “a big one.” The third and most interesting a ...
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... knotted in the corner, their wicked eyes glittering, some of them pleading and praying - the cowards! He thought of the rat king, fired. Others fired. A barrage of bullets and shot of every caliber and weight tore the Sicilians. The accordion maker reared twice and fell back.” A character that has a great deal of intrigue is the accordion maker. The most interesting fact of this character is that he has no name, only an occupation. This is symbolic of all the millions of faceless immigrants that came to America in search of their dreams, but very few found them waiting, much less at all. “...He had his theory, his idea of the fine instrument; with the proof of t ...
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... Of the Orphans" (12). The Dolphin was known for his tattoos that covered his entire body. He was very close to McKay, and this made the narrator jealous. Starry was The Number One Property. She is very little, and looked no more than fourteen, but the way she drank from a bottle of tequila made it evident she was no child. The narrator convinces Danny the Sweet to let her come with him to the secret meeting before the Night of the Wolf, in hopes of catching McKay's eye. The Night of the Wolf is a fight between the Pack and the Orphans, which would determine who would have control of the Avenue and the honor that goes with it. It was this night she would l ...
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... when her “so called friend” was in big trouble, she lied and got her in even more trouble. The second reason that I dislike Jan was because she gave Alice a Coke (Coca-Cola) with LSD in it without even warning her. Another reason I really dislike Jan is because she was going to baby sit a young child while she was high. She could have killed that young infant because of her stupidity and that really annoys me. The part of this book that was particularly effective was when I saw how drugs led Alice into a mental hospital. When I heard that she was high and started ripping out her hair and going nuts that scared me to death. This part of the book was very scary ...
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... living but born with him and innate, in short ‘a depravity according to nature.’” These two people who are clearly on opposite sides of the spectrum contrast one another in a plethora of ways. Where Billy is sweet, John is bitter. Where Billy is naïve, John is knowledgeable. Where Billy is content, John is jealous. Lastly, where Billy is good, John is bad. The ugliness that results in the death of both men portrays the triumph of sinister forces over the meek. John Claggart, who is a powerful and feared man aboard Bellipotent, lashes out at Billy who is for the most part defenseless. This is an injustice of biblical proportions. What could have prevented this ...
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... offices, Stark had to overpower others with dark knowledge, the secrets people keep. Stark says that “man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (49).” He is saying that everyone has something to hide, a skeleton in the closet. Stark knows that everyone has some bit of knowledge to hide, and that the knowledge makes man a slave as he tries to hide the bit of knowledge. Stark often wields the power of knowledge to enslave others to do his bidding. He finds the dirt on someone, the secret bit of dark knowledge, and then has them do his bidding. When a certain Byram ...
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