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    Jekyll's Experiments

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    “It is one thing to mortify curiosity‚ another to conquer it… (page 37)”. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ the main purpose of Jekyll’s experiments are to liberate himself‚ or in other words‚ to free himself from the evil part within him. He succeeds in many ways‚ which include the outcome of Jekyll taking the potion he created‚ and successfully releases his evil side through Mr. Hyde. He fails in many ways as well‚ including Hyde losing control and Jekyll

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    The Enormous Radio

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    personalities and business of her friends and neighbors. When their first radio breaks down‚ Jim buys another as a gift for his wife. At first Irene is rather put off by the "physical ugliness of the large gumwood cabinet." Its "dials flooded with a malevolent green light‚" and inside the cabinet held "violent forces" (1). More disturbing is the radio’s tendency to pick up interference. Wanting to hear music‚ Irene instead hears ringing telephones and the conversations and disagreements of her neighbors

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    answers that he now finds Jekyll strange and unscientific‚ but that he does not know anything about this Hyde. Utterson then goes back home and goes to sleep with difficulty‚ haunted by nightmares and visions. From then on‚ he is overwhelmed by curiosity and starts walking around the door‚ wanting to see the face of Hyde. One night‚ he meets Hyde. The man behaves strangely‚ as if not wanting to be seen or remembered. The only impression he leaves behind is that of a deformed man‚ scary but vague

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    WALL’S Introduction: Wall’s was bought by Mac fisheries in 1920 – who then sold Wall’s to Lever Brothers in 1922. In 1922 by the 1950s‚ wartime rationing produced a big appetite for ice cream – sales reached £46 million by 1959 and Wall’s opened a large ice cream factory in Gloucester. Supermarkets began to stock ice creams in addition to small high street shops. Market research in the 1970s showed that practically everyone loved ice cream. Wall’s ice cream started production. Wall’s ice cream

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    walk up to the hospital isolates the protagonist and tranforms the frightening discovery of the ear into an adventure of intrigue. Ingenuously symbolised by the camera’s tunneling into canal of the dismembered ear‚ Jeffery’s well-enunciated curiosity‚ parallelled to his later voyuerism‚ leads him down a descent into a dark underworld. Lynch develops this tension further with protacted scenes containing an ominouslyly pitch black background‚ as featured even as Jeffery becomes increasingly entangled

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    The Power of Knowledge

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    The Power of Knowledge Our present day cabinet of curiosities (the "Cabinet") is akin to early modern representations‚ which contained a vast range of objects representing the power of divine creation‚ in that the Cabinet represents‚ through its display of five objects‚ the power of human knowledge. Each of these objects helps mankind acquire and/or use knowledge. The order of objects displayed has been designed to reflect the evolution and utilisation of knowledge: an illustration of the DNA spiral

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    close to 20 tablets containing a common cold remedy.” (Taylor 45). There are many more cases like this happening every day. Why is drug abuse increasing amongst American teens? Teens use drugs because of curiosity‚ family influence‚ and painful emotions. One reason for teen drug use is curiosity to experiment with drugs. Some children are left at home during the summer or after school and become bored. They try drugs to cure their boredom. “Two major conditions necessary for drug and alcohol use

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    References: Choo‚ Z X‚ 2008‚ ‘TOC Feature: No female full Minister in Cabinet’‚ theonlinecitizen‚ 31 March 2008‚ viewed 18 July 2011‚ < http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/03/no-female-full-minister-in-cabinet/ > Hakim‚ C 2006‚ ‘Women‚ careers and work-life preferences’‚ British Journal of Guidance and Counselling‚ vol. 34‚ no. 3‚ pp. 279-94. Lei‚ J‚ 2011‚ ‘Ex-NMP ’s grouse: No new full woman

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    BEYOND ROMANTIC ECOCRITICISM: TOWARD URBANATURAL ROOSTING By Ashton Nichols Reviewed by Samantha Harvey on 2011-06-27. by Ladan Khandagh Professor Dr.n.motalebzadeh One of S.T. Coleridge’s many passions was "the Science of Words‚ their use and abuse and the incalculable advantages attached to the habit of using them appropriately..." (Aids to Reflection 7). This passion drove Coleridge to coin over 600 words‚ including "psychosomatic‚" "romanticize‚" "supersensuous‚" and memorable phrases like

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    dealing with censorship and the banning of books throughout her career as a writer of children’s books. In this article‚ Blume explains how being told not to do or read certain books increases temptation and desire to do the exact opposite due to curiosity‚ especially in children. Blume implies that the creativity of writers is blocked because they are afraid that what they write may get censored and put on the restricted shelves and never read by their targeted

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