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This paper is an analysis of the character Ray in Michael Dorris' "A Yellow Raft in Blue Water". The paper examines how characters such as Christine and Aunt Ida, Sky and Evelyn shape and change Rayona's life. It examines each section of the book and examines how Rayona grows up to be a mother and break the status quo of women in her family.

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"The role of family in Rayona's search for identity determines the kind of person she grows up to be. Culture, race, economic class, and power shape Rayona's entire life. These aspects of life are of great importance to the family throughout the novel. In the Rayona section of the book Christine makes Rayona grow up to be a lot like her, and her influence on Ray is a lot like Aunt Ida's influence on Christine. Sky and Evelyn give Rayona a look into a normal family situation and this shows her what she is and has been missing out on throughout her life with Christine and Aunt Ida. Aunt Ida makes sure that Rayona knows her heritage from the beginning of the book to the end, but at the same time reinforces the lack of wanting responsibility as a mother."

Tags:Seattle, Hitchin?, Post

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In this paper the author looks at the painting, "Composition with Red Yellow and Blue" c. 1922 by Piet Mondrian and attempts to bring a sense of purpose to the painting and instill the reader with a sense of appreciation for the message that Mondrian imparts through his art. He concludes by examining the September 11th attacks in relation to Mondrain's art and contends that Mondrain would have regarded it as surreal.

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"Mondrian believed that artistic expression should be found in the abstraction of form and color and that his use of vertical and horizontal lines would express the perfect harmony between these two extremes."

Tags:artists, painters, Piet, Mondrian, Composition, Red, Yellow, Blue, Amsterdam, Theosophical, Neoplatonic, Panthelistic, Paris, De, Stijl, Le, Neo, Plasticisme

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In this article, the writer notes that the Yellow River or Huanghe is the second longest river in the world. The writer points out that the river rises in Tibet and journeys for 5,464 kilometers through North China. The writer discusses that the Yellow River is the source of life for Northern China, where 43% of the population lives. Further the writer points out that it is this river in China, which has been subjected to the strongest influence of human activities. With brisk economic spurts and the expansion of population along the River basin, the writer notes that waste water release has increased in unexpected and unprecedented levels.The writer discusses that today, the lack of adequate water supply, especially in the Yellow River region, is among China's biggest problems.

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"The Yellow River is the source of life for Northern China, where 43% of the population lives. Yet it has only 14% of the country's water supply. Cities and communities have crowded along the River, in the hope of partaking with the rewards of growth and prosperity. The national policy also encourages it. The threat of flooding has already characterized the River from the beginning. Recent conditions present a further threat to the River's capability of sustaining the overcrowding and its consequences. The region's major cities are growing rapidly. In Ningxia alone, centuries of irrigation have created an oasis. For centuries, its farmers have believed that the Yellow River is a great gift to them and viewed it as an endless resource. Water demand has risen in the area and air pollution has reportedly reached alarming levels. Today, the lack of adequate water supply, especially in the Yellow River region, is among China's biggest problems."

Tags:Huanghe, population, water, irrigation, overcrowding

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This paper explains that, in 1853, yellow fever, which today mostly is under control, had been a part of the American landscape for dozens of generations and had shaped life in the Deep South during the nineteenth century. The author points out that the medical community did not know that yellow fever was caused by mosquitoes, which meant that a disproportionate amount of time and resources were devoted to quarantining the sick and to fumigating the mail. The paper relates that the 1853 tragic epidemic forced civic leaders in Mississippian communities to improve vastly their sanitation and water supply systems, as well as increase medical research into the cause of yellow fever and create shelters and "half-way" homes for the orphans.

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"Ironically enough, at the same time as nineteenth century America found itself being buffeted by one yellow fever attack after another, Biloxi, Mississippi became a popular resort destination for wealthy outsiders seeking to escape that city's oppressive summer heat and frequent yellow fever outbreaks. Furthermore, the middle nineteenth century - at almost the precise time as Biloxi was to be wracked by the 1853 crisis - also saw an ever-growing number of outsiders and tourists flocking to the fledgling city so as to be near the ostensible healing powers of its local waters."

Tags:sanitation, water-distribution, deaths, children, river

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The paper presents two articles both on the topic of privatization of water resources. In comparing the two articles we find that one by Joshua Ortega focuses on environmental concerns, problems with bottled water and what citizens can do about the problem. The other article by The Council of Canadians is a more direct call for action by groups on a local, national and international level.

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""Water Is a Human Right" by the Council of Canadians' Blue Planet Project and "Water Wars: Bottling up the World's Supply of H2O" by Joshua Ortega share a common theme: the privatization of drinking water resources is harmful and dangerous. The authors differ, however in how they appeal to readers, the techniques employed to create common ground with their audience, the political/economic philosophy employed and solutions suggested. While the Council of Canadians (C.C.) focuses on a philosophical/political appeal to environmental activist groups and organizations with..."

Tags:water, environment, privatization

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This case study produces a strategic analysis of Virgin Blue Airlines, which is a subsidiary of the Virgin Blue Group in Australia. The paper discusses how Virgin Blue Airlines operates a fleet of 53 Boeing aircraft and maintains more than 2200 flights weekly in the Australian market. The paper also relates that in November of 2007, the airline is planning on adding routes to New Zealand as well. The paper reaches the consensus that the company is innovative and willing to embrace change as evidenced by its unique integration of kiosk check-in stations in its airports as well as web-based customer check-in functionality available at the consumers' homes. The paper further asserts that the company is an outperformer and recommends a strategy that Virgin Blue should expand its Web-based functionality to include customer web-pages hosted by the company that integrate its current frequent-flier programs, Web check-in functions, and related technologies that are integrated solutions in its customer relationship management platform.

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"This case study produces a strategic analysis of Virgin Blue Airlines, which is a subsidiary of the Virgin Blue Group in Australia. Virgin Blue Airlines operates a fleet of 53 Boeing aircraft and maintains more than 2200 flights weekly in the Australian market. In November of 2007 the airline is planning on adding routes to New Zealand as well. The consensus is that the company is innovative and willing to embrace change as evidenced by its unique integration of kiosk check-in stations in its airports as well as web-based customer check-in functionality available at the consumers' homes. The company is an outperformer and the recommended..."

Tags:virgin, blue, airlines

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This paper discusses three scholarly articles, two of them addressing Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic of the 1970s, Korfeld as a crisis of culture, Miller for its implications of early racialist thought, and an article by Gribbin on New York's yellow fever epidemic of 1822 which also discussed such outbreaks as a kind of 'test' for cities and Americans shortly after the Revolution.

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"Through the 19th century, yellow fever epidemics in American cities of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts killed hundreds of people. Mosquito-borne disease was not understood and there was no effective medical treatment. Epidemics induced panic, evacuations, and much debate as to what caused the disease, locally and externally. William Gribbin and others stated that yellow fever was a kind of test for a city with much thought on disease as a kind of providential sign. This paper examines two studies of the 1790s yellow fever epidemic in ..."

Tags:1790s, 1822, yellow, fever

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This paper reviews the short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. According to the paper, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is a tale of a woman diagnosed with nervous depression who has relocated for a few months with her husband and child to an ancestral home. The story is told in journal style so the perspective is told entirely from the woman's point of view, and the viewer feels all of the woman emotions quite keenly. According to the paper, it becomes evident to the reader immediately that the woman in question is suffering from a terrible oppression stemming from her physician husband.

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This paper examines the film, "Blue Velvet," directed by David Lynch. Specifically, it discusses mise-en-scene and cinematography in the film. It looks at how David Lynch is a master of the film noir, dark and brooding types of films that disturb, disquiet, and titillate, all at the same time, and how "Blue Velvet" is no exception. It discusses how the film is part blue porn flick, part girl-next-door love story, and part sadistic kidnapping, and how the elements all blend together to form a cohesive whole because of Lynch's masterful use of mise-en-scene staging and cinematography. "Blue Velvet," even with its happy ending, leaves the viewer wanting more, somehow and that, too, seems to be just what Lynch intended.

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"Mise-en-scene is a French term describing the "director's text" or staging of a film, and in "Blue Velvet," David Lynch's intricate and often surreal staging is an integral part of the film. He arranges space and time in the film with such dark and dreamlike qualities that the film can be nothing more than memorable and yet quite disturbing at the same time a true mark of Lynch's film and a tribute to his mise-en-scene. The most compelling visual motif in the film is of course the color blue. Lynch stages action around the color to keep it always in the memory of the viewers. The film opens with a sensuous scene of blue velvet fabric undulating on the screen, the theme continues from the background music to the clearly blue cigarette smoke issuing from the cigarettes of the characters, and in fact, Dorothy, the nightclub singer and sado-masochist, is known as "The Blue Lady" in her act."

Tags:love, story, porn, blue, mise-en-scene, cinematography