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Buildeus was born when a rogue flash of lightening from the god Zeus struck a sapling and turned it into a real boy. Zeus needed a new craftsman for his lighting because it just wasnt good enough so Zeus gave Buildeus powers to create many a things from toys to airplanes. The only problem with…

REG MITCHELL’s defence of “Frankenfoods” — genetically engineered (GE)farm products — in his Oct. 9 article “So-called Frankenfoods have no more pathogens than are found in nature” is a repetition of the mantra we hear daily from the global corporations that dominate agricultural biotechnology. His principal point seems to be that since life abounds with…

Social commentary is sometimes found at the heart of good art, whether that art form is literature or popular music. The novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell, and the rock album, Animals written and performed by Pink Floyd share the same characteristic of scathing social commentary. The artworks also share an animal metaphor that serves…

men and women are schooledat the same facilities and taught the same subjects, is not the type of education that isdisplayed in Frankenstein. In this novel by Mary Shelley, the reader can see thedifferences in the Victorian education which each sex is privileged to. The novel alsoclearly presents the main character, Frankenstein, as the most…

Dr. Greg LuthiComp-II, Sec-00306/17/04 If only God had made Adam & Steve, instead of Adam & Eve. . . In “Let Gays Marry,” Andrew Sullivan responds to conservativeobjections to same-sex marriages, by arguing that allowing such unionswould actually promote traditional values, such as fidelity, monogamy, andlove. It should logically appeal to straight conservatives, who deplore…

The origins of Reflexology evidently reach back to ancient Egypt as evidenced by inscriptions found in the physicians tomb at Saqqara in Egypt. The translation of the hieroglyphics are as follows: Dont hurt me. The practitioners reply:- I shall act so you praise me. We cannot determine the exact relationship between the ancient art as…

Accordion Crimes is a difficult book to place in a single time period because the story takes place over about 100 years, originating in a small Sicilian village, but the main setting and focus is the United States. The various settings introduced in the book influenced the characters in various ways, but one instance of…

All men are created equal. John Griffin’s “Black Like Me” shows how racism is nothing more than the foolish misunderstanding of man. White’s current superiority hangs in the balance as blacks become tired of being the minority in the late 1950s. Even though this struggle isn’t as dreadful as it was then, it still exists….