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Working Conditions in American Slaughterhouses: Worse than You Thought - 1 views

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  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    Working Conditions in American Slaughterhouses 2001
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  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article shows a direct relationship of The Jungle to current conditions in slaughterhouses around the nation. The article compares Jurgis Rudkis to a modern Mexican immigrant. Recruiting Mexican immigrants to work in the slaughterhouses has become a common practice in the industry, as the Naturalization Services estimates one quarter of the workers in Nebraska and Iowa are illegal immigrants. The article also explains the relation of injuries on the job to the cleanliness of meat we eat. The fast pace in slaughterhouses leads to contamination of meat, as accidental intestinal spillage of cattle is found in meat. Due to this contamination, fast food is not safe to eat, since the fast food industry buys most of the country's meat.
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    The article speaks to how little the conditions have changed since The Jungle and how the industry still employs the cheapest and least educated work force they can get their hands on. In the early 1900s this the immigrants from places like Poland many like Jurgis and now it is the spanish immigrants most of who are illegal. They don not complain and are constantly at risk of injury for which largely goes unreported.
  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    Comparing the conditions of the factories where Jurgis and Eastern European immigrants worked with the new factories in Nebraska where South American/Mexican immigrants now work. It talks about how conditions are still harsh, and it is still hard to make ends meet even after all these years.
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Gale Power Search - Document - 1 views

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  • At first Invisible Man, unnamed throughout the novel, wants to walk the narrow way of Booker T. Washington, whose words he speaks at his high school graduation as well as at a smoker for the town's leading white male citizens
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      Vivas T on 05 Jan 12
       
      This portrays the importance of one's own identity through the narrator's narrow-minded vision to be the next Booker T. Washington to his ability to see himself. This transformation allowed for his ability to understand his true identity as well as his social responsibility
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Sweet Search - 1 views

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  • Anne P on 28 Sep 11
     
    Great search engine
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    meow?
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    rawr
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Blame Selfish Parents for Most Childhood Woes - 1 views

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  • Ben R on 27 Mar 12
     
    It seems like an almost ridiculous statement to make, but in all actuality it makes a lot of sense. The age has become more of a me first society where parenting to many people has become the second greatest concern other than their own personal gains. This is seen with Anse and his selfish motives that are responsible for how the family functions at its very core.
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Access : Social isolation delays the positive effects of running on adult neurogenesis ... - 0 views

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  • Social isolation can exacerbate the negative consequences of stress and increase the risk of developing psychopathology.
  • individual housing precludes the positive influence of short-term running on adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus of rats and, in the presence of additional stress, suppresses the generation of new neurons.
  • These results suggest that, in the absence of social interaction, a normally beneficial experience can exert a potentially deleterious influence on the brain.
  • Ellen L on 20 Feb 12
     
    Studies have shown that a lack of social interaction turns usually beneficial activities, such as running, into detrimental ones, as a lack of interaction causes elevated levels of corticosterone to be produced, suppressing the generation of new neurons. This reflects the fine line Victor walked between sanity and insanity, as the isolation has a tendency to produce psychopathic effects. 
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Gale Power Search - Document - 0 views

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  • While these impatient questions ostensibly test the hero’s memory, he finds them difficult to answer.
  • The essay suggests that the transplanted blacks residing in Harlem had too often lost touch with the folk traditions that had supported their sense of identity in the South.
  • Connor P on 05 Jan 12
     
    This shows the rebirth of the narrator in which the scale begins to tip in favor of his maturity. By wiping the slate clean with the destruction of his memory, he is able to move on with his life and see the oppression that the whites use to keep the blacks invisible
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Gale Power Search - Document - 0 views

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  • The bounds that Frankenstein transgresses are those of obedience to community. He makes himself a monster in two senses. The price is death not only for himself but for his family and potentially all humanity.
  • Connor P on 16 Feb 12
     
    This source shows that irony that Shelley creates in which no one truly knows who the monster is. Through the behavior of Victor, he leads the reader to question wether or not he is the monster. This also shows the isolation of his life.
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Gale Power Search - Document - 0 views

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  • In Frankenstein, however, isolation only leads to despair. Readers get the distinct feeling that Victor's inquisitive nature causes his emotional and physical peril because he cannot balance his intellectual and social interactions.
  • Not surprisingly, Walton's ambition to conquer the unknown moves him, like it does Victor, further away from civilization and closer to feelings of isolation and depression.
  • Connor P on 16 Feb 12
     
    This source shows the isolation that appears throughout the novel in both of the main characters live. It depicts Victor's and Walton's alienaton from society as they both become self absorbed in their own interests. They desert their families and the interactions with societies as they try to aim for their own selfish dreams
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Gale Power Search - Document - 0 views

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  • Many commentators have viewed the monster as Dr. Frankenstein's double, an example of the doppelgänger archetype. In a similar vein, critics have discussed Dr. Frankenstein and the monster as embodying Sigmund Freud's theory of id and ego.
  • Connor P on 16 Feb 12
     
    This source references to the comparison between Victor and the monster. Thus the two are doppelgangers while they are also each others foils. They cannot survive without being near each other, and while they share many traits, one has the traits that the other lacks.
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Ethical Issues in Genetic Engineering and Transgenics (ActionBioscience) - 0 views

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  • What are the long-term effects on the environment when transgenics are released in the field?
  • What ethical, social, and legal controls or reviews should be placed on such research?
  • Will transgenic interventions in humans create physical or behavioral traits that may or may not be readily distinguished from what is usually perceived to be “human”?
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  • If we create a being that has the ability to speak and perhaps even reason but looks like a dog or a chimp, should that being be given all the rights and protection of a human being? Some bioethicists argue that the definition of “human being” should be more expansive and protective, rather than more restrictive. Others argue that definitions that are more expansive could be denigrating to humanity’s status and create a financial disincentive to patenting creations that could be of use to humanit
  • Ellen L on 20 Feb 12
     
    This article discussed the controversy on what it means to be a human being. As the field of genetic engineering is quickly growing, ethical concerns arise, particularly what constitutes a human being. If scientists were to create entities that functioned like humans, but did not look like them, there is a question to how they would be treated. This is much like the monster Frankenstein creates, who functions much like a normal human, but is denied equal treatment by others. 
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http://www.benbenjamin.net/pdfs/Issue2.pdf - 0 views

www.benbenjamin.net/...Issue2.pdf Frankenstein connection
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  • Ellen L on 20 Feb 12
     
    "These babies died from a completely different kind of deprivation: lack of touch" "The results are clear: the way an infant is touched, even in its first few hours of life, influences whether it survives, and how it copes in the world as an adult." The monster in Frankenstein suffers bad beginnings, as his first experience is being abandoned by Victor, which later affects his behavior and the way he hopes with his problems.
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Gale Power Search - Document - 0 views

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  • while Shelley's Gothic in Frankenstein (1818) urges personal integrity and social responsibility in an age of scientific progress, and represents the anxiety produced by the disruption of the traditional, known natural world order.
  • Connor P on 16 Feb 12
     
    This source discusses the theme of responsiility in the novel as Victor is responsibile for the monster life. It also talks about the theme of chaos vs order as the creation of a new life form disturbs the order of the world. Thus Victor must make order out of the choatic world and accpet the responsibillity of his actions
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The Roots of Racism: A Conversation with Alex Haley - 0 views

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  • Zach Ramsfelder on 05 Jan 12
     
    An interview in which Alex Haley, co-author of Malcolm X's biography, talks about his observations on racism, be it white-on-black, black-on-black, or other situations.
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Influences on Mary Shelley - 0 views

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  • Emily S on 20 Feb 12
     
    The time period heavily influenced the ideas of science involved in writing Frankenstein. Besides the obvious inspiration from the Enlightenment and the new age of science and technology, the French revolution also served as an influence as pertaining to the theme of rebellion from one's creator.
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Bonding and Attachment in Maltreated Children: Consqeuences of Emotional Neglect in Chi... - 0 views

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  • These relationships are absolutely necessary for any of us to survive, learn, work, love, and procreate.
  • Some people seem "naturally" capable of loving. They form numerous intimate and caring relationships and, in doing so, get pleasure. Others are not so lucky. They feel no "pull" to form intimate relationships, find little pleasure in being with or close to others. They have few, if any, friends, and more distant, less emotional glue with family. In extreme cases an individual may have no intact emotional bond to any other person. They are self-absorbed, aloof, or may even present with classic neuropsychiatric signs of being schizoid or autistic.
  • Ellen L on 20 Feb 12
     
    This article discusses the importance of care in a child's infancy in order for them to be able to develop close attachments with others. It talks about two types of people, those who like to make relationships, and those who would prefer to be alone. The monster is one who would like to make relationships, while Victor would prefer to be alone, thus contrasting in nature. 
  • Ben R on 21 Feb 12
     
    "The acts of holding, rocking, singing, feeding, gazing, kissing, and other nurturing behaviors involved in caring for infants and young children are bonding experiences. Factors crucial to bonding include time together" based off evidence like this, it is impossible to have foreshadowed a positive outcome for the monster, the closest he got to a bond was victors obsession with creating him, his entire conscious life he was neglected and mistreated
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Importance of Parental Supervision | Parenting | Disney Family.com - 0 views

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  • The survey indicates that parents misunderstand what's important to their kids, underestimate their maturity, overlook problematic behavior and withdraw themselves from their children's daily lives.
  • "Clearly, there's a connection gap if half the people in a conversation think they don't get a chance to explain themselves," says Kutner. "If one person tends to dominate most conversations at the expense of another, it can create an environment filled with misunderstanding, anger and resentment."
  • Ellen L on 20 Feb 12
     
    Following the shooting at Columbine High School, several surveys were conducted to understand how the parents were unaware of their children s violent nature. What they found was a huge communication gap between parents and their children that  led to misunderstanding and anger. This is exactly what happens between Victor and the monster, as Victor is unwilling to communicate, thus creating a barrier between the two. 
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Gale Power Search - Document - 0 views

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  • It shares also the sense of crossing lines or boundaries and of otherworldliness. The enormous popularity of the Gothic novel had actually passed by 1816, but the genre, with its emphasis on darkness, madness, the supernatural, and strange passions, has never been fully dead.
  • Connor P on 16 Feb 12
     
    This talks about the theme of sanity vs insanity and chaos vs order. The gothic elements helps make the novel dark and chaotic in which Victor must define because of his responsibility. The helpful gothic elements of madness and darkenss help further these themes
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Gale Power Search - Document - 0 views

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  • The novel traces the narrator's experiences from his humiliating teenage participation in a battle royal for the amusement of white southern businessmen through his engagement in—and, significantly, his withdrawal from—the black culture of Harlem. His constant battle is one of and for identity, and it is a battle the narrator shares with millions of Americans in every time and circumstance.
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      Vivas T on 05 Jan 12
       
      This article portrays the clear theme of oppression within Ellison's novel due to the fact that blacks provided a source of entertainment for the whites. Therefore, Ellison's novel clearly illustrates forms of satire which sought to eliminate these oppressive actions in society.
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(6) Personality Development - 0 views

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  • Sarah Sch on 18 Feb 12
     
    "Personality development is the development of the organized pattern of behaviors and attitudes that makes a person distinctive"
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  • Sarah Sch on 18 Feb 12
     
    "...all experts agree that high-quality parenting plays a critical role in the development of a child's personality"
  • Sarah Sch on 18 Feb 12
     
    "When parents understand how their child responds to certain situations, they can anticipate issues that might be problematic for their child. They can prepare the child for the situation or in some cases they may avoid a potentially difficult situation altogether"
  • Sarah Sch on 19 Feb 12
     
    The article examines the formation of a person's character. The parent's influence on a child's personality is incalculable. A parent can shape a child by either protecting or exposing that child to certain events. The monster never has a parent to shield him. If Victor was a responsible parent, he would have help shaped the monster into a compassionate creature. This article supports an essay discussing the familial ties in Frankenstein.
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(5) Defense Mechanisms - 0 views

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  • Sarah Sch on 18 Feb 12
     
    "Defense mechanisms include denial, repression, suppression, projection, displacement, reaction formation, regression, fixation, identification, introjection, rationalization, isolation, sublimation, compensation, and humor"
  • Sarah Sch on 18 Feb 12
     
    This article discusses the several ways a person can cope with traumatic or undesired feelings or events. Victor and the creature, throughout Frankenstein, use multiple defense mechanisms in order to cope with either the horridness of creation or isolation. Frankenstein several times attempts to forget about the monster by retreating into nature or ignoring the situation completely. The monster tries to attract Victor's through regressive negative stimuli. This article connects with how the monster tries to cope with isolation and Victor uses isolation as a defense mechanism.
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