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    Catharina Svanborg says she does; it is human breast milk‚ and it is killing cancer cells! It has been extremely difficult to convince her science colleagues that the work she is doing is for real! Her lab is not large‚ and she does not qualify as a high-profile‚ "big scientist." Besides‚ her specialty is not even cancer at all but infectious disease. David Solomon‚ a cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) says that novel ideas in science always challenge the current paradigm. Furthermore

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    The Destructive Force in Beauty Beauty is dangerous‚ especially when you lack it. In the book "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison‚ we witness the effects that beauty brings. Specifically the collapse of Pecola Breedlove‚ due to her belief that she did not hold beauty. The media in the 1940 ’s as well as today imposes standards in which beauty is measured up to; but in reality beauty dwells within us all whether it ’s visible or not there ’s beauty in all; that beauty is unworthy if society brands

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    The Impacts of White-Dominated Media on Blacks in The Bluest Eye Media has always been a great influence on people thoughts. In The Bluest EyeToni Morrison cites such organization as one of the major factors which not only creates degrading stereotypes of the African Americans‚ but also establishes a feeling of self-hatred within the people themselves. Toni Morrison portrays the prejudiced media in America drawn by white-domination contributes internalized racism in African Americans bringing

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    I believe that everything began when God created it. God created the Heavens‚ Earth‚ and everything in it. There was nothing before creation. Genesis 1:1-31 and 2:1 give an account of the entire creation story and how the world came to be. On the other hand‚ I believe that the earth as we know it today will end with the rapture of the Christians to Heaven and with the battle of Armageddon that will destroy the earth‚ as we know it. However‚ I also believe that the there is no actual end. There is

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    The Bluest Eye is a novel written by the famous author Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison whoms real name is Chole Anthony Wofford was born in 1931 in Loraihn‚ Ohio. She was the second of four childern in a black working class family. Morrison grew up in a integrated neighborhood and did not fully realize racial divisions until she was a teenager. She admits that as a child she was the only black and the only one who could read. She always had an interest in literature and even took Latin in high school

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    No‚ Life in the army is nothing like Charley expected it nor did any of the other soldiers. At the end of the first chapter‚ it says “ Nobody thought it would be so bad. Nobody thought it could be so bad. And all the officers and politicians and newspapers said it would be a month or two‚ no longer. It would all be over by fall.” Charley didn’t think the war would be so bad because the press led him to believe this. The war officers and colonials led Charley and themselves to believe that this

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    Dreams and Recitatif” Toni Morrison was a twentieth century writer‚ and still a current day writer. She was lauded as a writer "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import‚ gives life to an essential aspect of American reality." (Burton Blooms) It takes a very careful reader to actually get the contents of Morrison’s works because of the depth of her creativity. F. Scott Fitzgerald was also an early twentieth century writer. He was also as creative as Morrison because they both

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    RACIAL SELF LOATHING IN THE BLUEST EYE In "The Bluest Eye"‚ author Toni Morrison builds a story around the concept of racial self-hatred and how it comes to exist in the mind of a young child. "The Bluest Eye" deals directly with the individual psychology of the main character‚ Pecola Breedlove. So intense are Pecola’s feelings of self-loathing and inferiority that she would do anything to soothe them. In her young mind‚ she needs a miracle; she needs the bluest eyes. All of the tragedies in this

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    states in page 43‚ “Some things go. Pass on. Some things just stay”. Memories are things‚ people‚ or events that are remembered/recollected from the past. In the book Beloved by Toni Morrison‚ the story takes place back and forth during Sethe’s life. Sethe is a mother of four and a former slave. As a slave and a mother she encountered situations in which extreme

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    The Bluest Eye 1. The history of the Breedloves’ home is that it use to be a store. The Breedlove’s lived in a store front. It is a very unattractive building within the community. "...pedestrians‚ who are residents of the neighborhood‚ simply look away when they pass it."(Morrison 33). That statement shows me that no one cared about this abandoned store. Before the store was abandoned it was a pizza parlor‚ a real estate office‚ and a gypsies base of operations. I believe that no one remembers

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