...The world itself is full of people and the secrets hidden within. A prime example of this are from books like The Bad Seed by William March and We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. These two novels both contain characters with many secrets, many dark secrets that cause them to hide and live away from society. In a sense, these characters live in “secret worlds”. Starting off with The Bad Seed, Rhoda, the main character who is responsible for violent crimes and her mother Christine who is the “guardian angel” that’s responsible for keeping Rhoda out of trouble. Just like Rhoda, the character Merricat from We Have Always Lived in the Castle is the one causing the trouble and her sister Constance is the protector. The dark secrets of both Rhoda and Merricat involving murder provide reasons as to why they separate themselves from society, why this secrecy leads them to perversity and violence and why the emotions felt within encourage this life of secrecy. Both characters live in a world where they have a difficult time adapting to society and life problems. As a result, they do what they feel is needed even if it involves performing murderous actions. The secrecy deep within the characters lead to violence and is probably due to the fact that they don’t have the support that they need. For instance in Rhoda’s situation, her father Kenneth leaves at the beginning of the novel and heads out on a business trip. This leaves her to mainly rely on her mother Christine...
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...The Bad Seed It’s the season of Halloween, and if you’re looking for a family friendly spooky classic, this movie is bound to entertain you. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy and written by John Lee Mahin, it was released in 1956. From the start of the movie, it is obvious that something about this traditional standard family is off. Maybe it was just that they seemed a little too perfect, or the eerie piano music that tuned in the background giving off a certain unexplained mysterious vibe. All in all, I was very intrigued. It was filmed in California in a common apartment type house, where the free from flaw Penmark family lived, or at least that’s how they seemed from the beginning. Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) fit the part she played as the innocent daughter very well, that is until we get a better view of her personality. When a tragic mishap at her school occurs and the finger is pointed towards Rhoda, it is very evident to the viewers and Christine Penmark (Nancy Kelly), her mother, that she is not the sweet piano playing, curtsying girl she portrays herself to others as....
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...compares the act of farming to the act of living life and making the decisions in that life as well as escaping the confines that government places on it’s citizens. "All that I could say, then, with respect to farming on a large scale, (I have always cultivated a garden,) was, that I had had my seeds ready. Many think that seeds improve with age. I have no doubt that time discriminates between the good and the bad; and when at last I shall plant, I shall be less likely to be disappointed. But I would say to my fellows, once for all, As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.” ~Thoreau, 1024. This passage occurs right after Thoreau speaks of the only home that he actually purchased in the Hollowell farm. He spoke about how he never wanted to purchase a place because he then was stuck in that one spot. He had planted his roots and could not observe the beauty of other places. However, he chose a place that was nearly a half mile outside of town and gave him the space to be close to nature. When he grew tired of being isolated to one spot despite its beauty he left. He was not ready to plant his seeds that he always carried with him. There are three main sections of this passage that I would like to analyze. The first is section takes place...
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...Department Stanford, CA 94305 hector@cs.stanford.edu Jan Pedersen Yahoo! Inc. 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 jpederse@yahoo-inc.com Abstract Web spam pages use various techniques to achieve higher-than-deserved rankings in a search engine’s results. While human experts can identify spam, it is too expensive to manually evaluate a large number of pages. Instead, we propose techniques to semi-automatically separate reputable, good pages from spam. We first select a small set of seed pages to be evaluated by an expert. Once we manually identify the reputable seed pages, we use the link structure of the web to discover other pages that are likely to be good. In this paper we discuss possible ways to implement the seed selection and the discovery of good pages. We present results of experiments run on the World Wide Web indexed by AltaVista and evaluate the performance of our techniques. Our results show that we can effectively filter out spam from a significant fraction of the web, based on a good seed set of less than 200 sites. creation of a large number of bogus web pages, all pointing to a single target page. Since many search engines take into account the number of incoming links in ranking pages, the rank of the target page is likely to increase, and appear earlier in query result sets. Just as with email spam, determining if a page or group of pages is spam is subjective. For instance, consider a cluster of web sites that link to each other’s pages repeatedly. These links...
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...This is true in everyday life. If you try to start off with a happy and good example or situation, then there is not a lot of things to worry about, or if you try to make the best out of a bad situation, then you are helping yourself and others. However, if you do not care or always try to look at the negative in life, then you are actually making things worse than good. I feel this can be true in everyone’s cases, especially mine. I know if something bad happens, then I will try to look at the positive side of it. I know if I do that, then I will be less stress and a whole lot...
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...himself, of whose utilitarianism, materialism, and consumerism he was extremely critical” (Environmental). In order to agree with Thoreau, one would need to have the same open mind and the ability to see and think outside the norm of society. Those who disagree with Thoreau do not believe that one can still “live deliberately” (Thoreau 1028). The critics clearly see that living such a simple life as Thoreau writes about is impossible. Life cannot be as simple as nature for many reasons. One reason is the outcome of life is not always simple. Thoreau wrote about the outcome of planting a seed: “Many think seeds improve with age. I have no doubt that time discriminates between the good and the bad; and when at last I shall plant, I shall be less likely to be disappointed” (Thoreau 1024). In this quote, Thoreau explains that if he plants his own seeds, whether the outcome is good or bad, he would less likely to be disappointed....
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...This is similar to the Reign of Heaven where there are good people and there are bad people. The wheat represents the good and the weeds the bad. At the end of the harvest, the harvesters will separate the good from the bad; just like at the final judgement God will separate the good from the bad. Next, The Parable of the Mustard Seed shows the idea of growth. It shows that the Reign of Heaven, like a mustard seed may start out small, but can grow and flourish in the end. This shows that when the good news of God is spread that the Reign of Heaven will grow just like the mustard seed did. In The Parable of the Yeast, the Reign of Heaven is compared to yeast. Jesus uses the yeast rising as a symbol for the power of God. This parable shows the possibility of seeing the power...
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...these inequalities and that it is not purely accidental; karma being one of those explanations. The other three reason Buddhism gives for these inequalities are heredity, environment, and “nature and nurture.” Karma in the Pali term means action or doing. Any kind of intentional act is regarded as karma as intentional means there has to be thought put into it. Karma can be either good or bad, depending on the action taken by the person. If the action is unintentional or involuntary, then there is no karma present. The whole idea of karma is that a choice, whether good or bad, is being made, causing a reaction. Being good and making good choices will lead you to be happy while being bad and making bad choices will lead you to be unhappy. ("Basic Buddhism: The Theory of Karma") Talking a lot about the reaction of Karma, the proper name for this reaction in Buddhism is Vipaka. Vipaka is the result of a voluntary action made by someone. A way to explain the relationship between Karma and Vipaka in Buddhism is seeing Vipaka as a fruit and Karma as the potential seed. When taking care of the seed, you will grow a good fruit; if you neglect to take care of the...
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...One: Ignore the word diet. Diet by definition is simply a way of eating. There are good and bad ways eating. Generally speaking, we all try to make good decisions right? So why would we perceive good eating habits to be a temporary thing? Yet that’s what most people think when they hear the word diet: a temporary eating pattern for a determined period of time. The simple truth is that a temporary eating pattern leads only to temporary fitness gains. Make good choices consistently and you will achieve your fitness goals sooner rather than later. Two: Try to stick to the basic and most natural elements of food. Anything that occurs in nature is certainly preferable to anything laced with chemically-made ingredients. Coconut oil, for example is a delicious alternative to margarine or even butter. Does it contain saturated fats? Yes, but its fat that occurs naturally as opposed to something created in a lab. Substituting organic fare for traditional supermarket finds is an easy and quick way to add solid nutrition into your daily life. Three: Stick to protein-based meals. We are made of protein. Unfortunately, however, the protein we are made of can also be broken down and used a fuel. As a result, our bodies are constantly breaking down and building proteins. Four: Don’t forget to include vegetables and leafy greens in each meal. A simple and quick way to remember this is to make sure there are multiple colors on your plate. The more colors present in a meal, the higher the nutritional...
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...The Lorax In the book The Lorax, their was a man named the . The Once-ler was full of greed and cut down all the truffula trees. He caused the lorax to come out. The Once-ler made a factory that polluted the earth.Years later a boy wanted to see a tree truffula tree, the Once-ler gave the boy the seed for the truffula tree and everything turned out how it was in the olden days.The Author who wrote this book is Dr. Suess. The Once-ler was full of reed, but in a long time, he did the right thing. In this literary essay, I will be telling you my claim that supports my theory. My first reason to why i think the Once-ler was full of greed was is that he made a factory for theends. The factory for theends made him glump the pond, and smogged the air. The lorax told him multiple times to not cut down the trees but he didn't listen. When he didn't listen, now the Brown-Bar-ba bears, Swamee- Swams, and the Humming Fish has left. The lorax let everyone leave because the Once-ler ruined the loraxs home....
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...Monsanto recently produced a GM apple that does not brown. This can be bad for the environment since worms among other species depend on decaying plant matter that we throw away. Several countries including: New Zealand Ireland Japan Austria Hungary Greece Bulgaria And Luxemburg have either introduced new laws requiring GMO labeling, or have banned GMOS altogether due to controversy surrounding the issue. India, a country whose government has embraced the use of genetically modified seeds placed a last minute ban on GM eggplant just before it was scheduled to begin being planted in 2010. However, farmers were widely encouraged to plant Monsanto’s GM cotton and it has led to devastating results. The UK’s Daily Mail reports that an estimated 125,000 farmers have committed suicide because of crop failure and massive debt since planting the seeds. The widespread planting of Monsanto’s GM cotton has led to tragedy throughout India. The Indian government even banned conventional seed from many government seed banks in an attempt to please Monsanto. In return the country was given International Monetary Fund loans to help its economy and slow the nation’s poverty rates. An estimated 1000 farmers committed suicide each month in the country as a result of the crop failure and debt caused by planting GM seeds. Farmers were convinced to spend what was often 1000 times the cost of conventional seeds on the “magic seeds” after listening to Monsanto’s promises of increased yields and resistance...
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...blame and agreed that it wasn’t right. It’s hard to say if they have made the right decisions on some issues. The stakeholder’s problem with if the GM seeds are safe for consumers can not really be handled until time has passed by to show the results. But they could always prove to stakeholders that they are running tests and doing all that they can do. 2. Compare the benefits of growing GMO seeds for crops with the potential negative consequences if using them. There are a lot of benefits of using GMO seeds such as bigger crops and fewer worries. Among these, the biggest benefit is bigger crops because of our growing population. Every year our population grows and grows. Bigger crops will help with this growing. Farmers will also have fewer worries about bugs, weeds, and drought harming their crops. There are some consequences about these seeds. Will they harm consumers? Will bugs and weeds begin to exhibit tolerance with these seeds? What effects will it have on the environment? Most of these questions Monsanto cannot answer because we simply have to wait and see. 3. How should Monsanto manage the potential harm to plant and animal life from using products such as Roundup? I feel that Monsanto is on the right road with how they are handling things. In the beginning, they kept secrets but they handled their bad situations very well. I think...
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...Papaya Seeds as a Treatment for Liver Cirrhosis Liver cirrhosis is a disease, usually caused by excessive alcohol consumption over many years, wherein the liver shrinks and becomes hardened. In this state it is ineffective at removing toxins from the body, leading to a variety of serious health problems. Papaya seeds are often reported as an effective treatment for liver cirrhosis. One method is to grind up around five dried seeds in a pepper grinder, or crush up fresh ones in a mortar and pestle, and mix them with a tablespoon of fresh lime juice. Drink this papaya seed treatment down twice a day for a month. Many cirrhosis sufferers have had dramatic improvements with this powerful natural remedy. The benefits of papaya seeds, with their high levels of digestive enzymes, antibacterial, anti-parasitic and liver regenerating properties are powerful. You don’t need many at a time, certainly not a whole fruit’s worth. After you scrape them out of a fresh fruit, it’s best to keep them in a sealed container in the fridge if you’re using them regularly, or in the freezer if only occasionally. Why Green Papaya is Better for Digestion Green fruit contain significantly more papaya enzyme than those that are fully ripened. That said, perhaps with the exception of green papaya salad, it’s not as appetizing for most people. Home remedies for cirrhosis of the liver * Papaya seeds are believed to be an excellent home remedy for cirrhosis of the liver. Take some papaya seeds and...
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...as wild chicken become larger domesticated chicken. Domesticated plants have higher productivity and better taste due to the fact that we select the plants that fit our need. Take wild wheat as an example. Wild wheat will have their seed drop once matured so they can germinate. However, this is troublesome for farmers. There is a single gene mutation once in a while that prevents seed from dropping. The mutated wheat is unsuitable for growing in the wild but the mutated wheat is suitable for growing when human farm them. The farmers with gather the wheat and accidentally spill them, making the seed spread. It is also convenient for farmers to gather. Domesticated animals in the other hand become less acute due to the fact that they have smaller brain and worst sense than their ancestors. The result in selective breeding is that there are many variety for the same species and eventually different species....
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...have faster reflexes than boys?" or "Does the color of a light bulb affect the growth of grass seeds?" Research- Find out as much as you can. Look for information in books, on the internet, and by talking with teachers to get the most information you can before you start experimenting. Hypothesis- After doing your research, try to predict the answer to the problem. Another term for hypothesis is 'educated guess'. This is usually stated like " If I...(do something) then...(this will occur)" An example would be, "If I grow grass seeds under green light bulbs, then they will grow faster than plants growing under red light bulbs." Experiment- The fun part! Design a test or procedure to find out if your hypothesis is correct. In our example, you would set up grass seeds under a green light bulb and seeds under a red light and observe each for a couple of weeks. You would also set up grass seeds under regular white light so that you can compare it with the others. If you are doing this for a science fair, you will probably have to write down exactly what you did for your experiment step by step. Analysis- Record what happened during the experiment. Also known as 'data'. Conclusion- Review the data and check to see if your hypothesis was correct. If the grass under the green light bulb grew faster, then you proved your hypothesis, if not, your hypothesis was wrong. It is not "bad" if your hypothesis was wrong, because you still discovered...
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