The Flicker

Knowing the past and remembering your experiences is just as significant as being aware of what goes on in the present. George Santayana's quote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." represents the story Animal Farm the best. Santayana's quote basically says that if the people (the animals in this case) fail to learn from their experiences, cannot reminisce the past, or cannot point out their faults of that past event, then their mistakes are bound to recur again,…

Turner Syndrome is caused by a partial or complete lack of a single X chromosome. The chromosome could be missing in either all cells, partially there in all cells, or partially there in some cells. It should generally be easy to diagnose, often before birth or a few years later. Some signs of Turner Syndrome may be frequent ear infections and short stature, which should cause a doctor to want to do tests to check. However, many times these symptoms are overlooked even though the syndrome is…

was the one of the early embers created by this zap that eventually led to the spark of change throughout the country in the following century. These embers turned into large architectural flickers that generated cultural and nationalistic upbringings like the Chicago World’s fair. Eventually those large flickers became flames made by the architects of the upbringings that lit up inspiration within early twentieth century architects who established new trends and fundamentals in architecture…

firefighters burn houses and books, destroying knowledge and potentially endangering lives, the opposite of what firefighters do in our world. Metaphors (underline and label in margins): 1. "In the small hours of the morning, the first recognizable flicker of dawn was faint in the…

I. Advantages of a CCD camera over a tube camera The introduction of CCD cameras was a significant step for cinematography in terms of video actually transforming into a medium through which excellent pictures could be created. Until the introduction of CCD cameras, tube cameras were the primary means of capturing images on video cameras. They had a number of problems associated with them, and it was only the introduction of the CCD camera that first addressed most of these issues. A. CCD's…

Time goes by. The darkness grows. The lights of the house all turn off as if they are synchronized on purpose. The final door shuts, and the snoring begins. My family is asleep, and it is I who is left awake in the cold breeze of the night. I close my eyes, and try to get some sleep. The creek of the closet door wakes me up. I turn over to look. The fear strikes me like getting impaled by a metal rod. “It is but only the wind,” I tell myself. I close my eyes once more, and I doze off into a deep…

Forgiveness is defined as the pardoning of one’s wrongs, while justice is defined as administering the proper punishment or reward for one’s action. William Shakespeare’s play, “The Tempest”, is about a sorcerer named Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, and his plot to restore his dukedom using illusion and manipulation. Prospero wants to get revenge on his brother, Alonso, because Alonso took his dukedom from him and exiled Prospero and his daughter, Miranda, onto a faraway island. He…

The sensorimotor stage of development occurs from birth to about two years according to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. At birth, infants are born with every sense functioning. Therefore, they are able to open there eyes to see, ear can hear, noses can smell, tongues taste and skin can feel. However, these five senses are needed for sensation to occur. Sensation occurs when a sensory system detects a stimulus, as when the inner ear reverberates with sound or the retina and pupil of the…

meaning of equality. However, equality could be interpreted differently to others. Equality was a big issue, during the time the 14th Amendment was put in place. It was brought into play shortly after the Civil War. It was, in my opinion, just a flicker in the flame of equality. However, it did set the course towards the way we live in America now. Sometimes, I still wander would we have made this much progress without the 14th Amendment being ratified. In the short story, Harrison Bergeon,…

Ray Bradbury, the author of “The Pedestrian,” writes, “And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows.” According to Kathiann Kowalski, most college students in America use cell phones for 9 hours a day on average. The “Primal Screen” by Ellen Goodman is an editorial that gives specific facts and information about how much…