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“abiotically stable.” This in turn showed no correlation with many abiotic models, but showed a negative correlation with one oxygen model and a positive correlation with one temperature model. Following these findings, the models above were fit with stasis, active trend, and random walk models. Once fitted, it became apparent that biotic factors played the crucial role in selection for body…

The image is very cinematic. There is stasis and room for movement. The subjects have an absorptive expression. His image almost looks staged. However, the only construction behind this scene involves a strobe light that is placed atop of the street. As real people walk under the light, diCorcia…

Today's world consists predominantly of class structures revolving around certain generalizations of an individual’s behavior. These standardizations are more commonly known as stereotypes. Some may be genuine, although most are built primarily of distaste. Thus, these people are discriminated against in accordance with these typecasts, just as an individual would discard a novel having only glanced over the hardback. In Gloria Steinem’s essay “The Time Factor,” this is clearly outlined. Steinem…

Secularity in France targets the public sphere, the treatment of religious symbolism in French law raises issues of how the maintenance of secularity should go about in a nation, forcibly removing ‘visible religion’ from the public sphere, implies a lack of pluralism in a nation, laïcité then could be considered relatively undemocratic. What exactly was meant by ‘ostentatious’ is a matter of much debate, to what extent must a symbol of religious affiliation be ‘ostentatious’. This year, a 15…

It is easy to get stuck in the mud of routine. Life can be difficult, and complacency is all too sweet a friend in these times. If one is not careful, however, this stagnant way of life can be crippling, as it causes one to settle for less than their best. Once caught in this rut, it can be almost impossible to get out. In Franz Kafka’s novella, The Metamorphosis, the protagonist, Gregor Samsa, finds himself in this very situation. Gregor leads a mediocre life. He provides for his family,…

shift a lot, as do his perceptions and impressions). So, perhaps it'd be best to look at a poem ("The Swan"-- a very well-known one) and just think about it... keep in mind that your themes here have strong ties with memory and ideals, change and stasis (the death of ideals with time, for instance; everything changes, everything must die-- many combinations of ideas like that). For the Swan And one old Memory like a crying horn Sounds through the forest where my soul is lost . . . Consistent…

Because the Belle’s role was to remain in stasis, waiting to transition through “marriage from the position of Southern belle to that of the Southern lady,” her sexual fall was considered an unthinkable abomination (Buzacott 14). The presence of black mammy further defines the paradoxical nature…

Mark Doty’s way of starting a poem is to talk about death and it has clearly caught the audience’s eye. “Tiara” is a poem about an alcoholic gay man who dies of AIDS in hospice. Doty doesn’t use any rhythm or rhyme, but with his use of allusions and symbolism, “Tiara” is an easy to understand poem with a high significance that gets the audience in and the tears flowing. “Tiara” is the type of poem to show the complexity of the AIDS epidemic in a simple and graceful way that affects the reader…

white-collar mindsets are there for themselves. Blue-collar workers are family oriented, while white-collar mindsets are self-oriented/motivated. An example from the excerpt would be when the author says, “And success is measured not by the secure stasis and comfortable consistency your parents struggled for but by the constant movement upward.” This quote explains how in the white-collar environment they are focused on getting higher in their workplace, and are self-motivated. They do not…

Comparing with the normal treatment like pain-killers, herbal medicine surprisingly has a more significant effect on patients with CPPS. In accordance with its features, CPPS, which is known as chronic pelvic pain syndrome, is a disease that is given when patients complain of severe pain or discomfort in the pelvic area with no infection can be found in prostate fluid and semen. Of course, there is also no pathological change on the prostate gland. In the view of modern western medicine, CPPS…