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…. For humans, the forests have many aesthetic, recreational, economic, and cultural values. Timber and other products of the forests are important economically both locally and as exports. They provide employment for those who harvest the wood or for those who…

…, director of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, were not available. Groves had some doubts regarding the next best candidate, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Wood 2). Finally, Groves gambled on Oppenheimer, a theoretical mathematician, as director of the weapons…

…which it came was closely guarded and its output regulated. This made the smallest sliver of black lead very costly. Thus the lead, as it had come to be called, was encased in wood not only to keep the fingers clean, but to protect…

…After Cacciato and In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O'Brien develops themes such as true courage, loneliness, and psychological effects of the war by using narrative techniques, such as recounting thoughts and emotions of characters, in order to emphasize…

…(1991): 339-43. Joan Easterly claims in her article that Goodman Brown is a changed man after his experience in the woods. She notes that Hawthorne demonstrates how Brown, a Puritan, fails the test of his moral and spiritual being. Easterly points out…

…music, opera, choral concerts, pop, jazz concerts, folk concerts, variety shows, and conventions. It has excellent acoustics with ceilings of eighty-two feet in height. All the walls in this room are made of woods such as white birch plywood, hard brown…

…was walking through the woods he's sees his wife's pink ribbon tangled in a tree branch. In Children of the Corn Vikki is wearing a pink sweater. Pink represents innocence. Vikki and Faith are similar characters because they have done nothing wrong but still…

…the masked figure, desiring to capture and kill him. The Prince's reckless acts ultimately cause his death. He is reduced to his most primitive form and because of this looses his life. Another critic, Joseph Wood Krutch, states, "The Masque of the Red Death…

…agent until the 2nd century AD. It was made by boiling animal fat (tallow) with wood ash: the alkali provided by the wood ash reacted with the animal fat to produce soap. This is still the basis of present-day manufacture. A mixture of fat or oil and sodium…

…night where Goodman Brown sets out into the woods for a long journey. "He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind." The author…