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…, or read a novel about one. But in an era when people can shop, online, for sperm and egg donors of specified height and hair texture and IQ—in an era, in other words, of consumer-driven, privatized eugenics—it's easy to forget about what we cannot control…

…superiority of capitalism over communism during the height of the Cold War. If America could send a man to the moon before the Soviets, then perhaps, it was thought, that the world would come to understand that our capitalistic form of government allows scientific…

…be fading out, what it has done for computers can never be ignored. It opened the door for the new portable storage devices that you see before you today. It practically revolutionized the way we think about computers and the heights they can reach. No matter…

…Religious Conflict in England During the Tudor and Stuart Monarchs Religious turmoil has existed in England for centuries. A specific time in British history during which religious conflict reached its height was during the Tudor and Stuart…

…the audience into the bathroom with Marion and allows it to struggle with its own values and beliefs while Marion makes her own decision and continues with her journey. The split personality motif reaches the height of its foreshadowing power as Marion battles…

…During the Civil War the size of the United States Navy jumped from about twenty to thirty ships to a few hundred. This massive increase in size signified the height of U.S. Naval power, but to many people’s dismay, after the Civil War the government…

…Rise and Fall of an Inner Prodigy An “angry and powerful” girl glares back at Jing-Mei in the bathroom mirror (Tan 1066). The girl is her newly discovered prodigy: a force that comes from within that could potentially empower her to unlimited heights…

…soul. Later in the novel, when Chillingworth is at his height of having his way with Dimmesdale, the weakened minister, Hester and Arthur meet in the forest to discuss their future. Here in the forest, Hester removes the scarlet letter…

…, was a mirror image of his inadequateness and the guilt he felt over losing her. Just as Usher sent Madeline to an early grave, Poe had done the same for Virginia, who was only fourteen when she passed away. At the height of the transcendental ere, Thoreau…

…the nobility of all of those great thinkers of the classical world, and the heights they attained in logic, ethics, science, and art. However, like any father-child relationship, there comes a point when the child must usurp his father. However noble and wise…