Dashiell Hammett's, Red Harvest, exemplifies the transformation of the classical detective fiction genre to the hard-boiled detective genre. ... In Red Harvest, the plot is not driven by who killed Donald Wilsson but what exactly is "poisoning" Pearsonville. ... Perhaps most importantly, he introduced the figure of the tough-talking, brave, but also disillusioned and alienated private eye. ... Red Harvest can almost be read as a laconic fever dream with its short chapters and shorter sentences. ... Red Harvest is larger than life and archetypical, a tale of amoral justice writ...

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Unlike normal red blood cells, which last about 120 days in the bloodstream, sickled red cells die after only about 10 to 20 days. ... The joints get swollen and red. ... This protein, which is the component that makes red cells "red", has two subunits. ... -Fatigue, paleness and shortness of breath are all symptoms of anemia or a shortage of red blood cells. -Eye problems can occur when the retina, the "film" at the back of the eye that receives and processes visual images, does not get enough nourishment from circulating red blood cells, it can deteriorate. ...

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If someone placed a piece of lipstick in my eye, I do believe it would irritate my eye also. ... I don't believe lipstick is gong to be used in the eye area, unless you are a mindless idiot. ... Technicians record signs of damage, such as redness and swelling of the conjunctiva ( the sac covering the eyeball), inflammation of the iris, and clouding of the cornea. ... Animals injured in acute toxicity and eye irritancy tests are never treated. ... Some of the new tools for assessing eye irritancy are: Neutral Red Assay- Irritants impair...

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The reds of the outlined lion's mane and the lion's afterimage draw attention to themselves. Noted art historian and writer Dawn Ades believes that red is a colour of passion, rage, and blood and is therefore used to intensify the emotions that Dali has put into the painting itself (Ades 78). ... The Potato was painted using the strong primary colours of blue, red, and yellow although green and brown do show up in small areas. ... Even simpler are the black and white paints used - they revert back to an infantile stage in the sense that babies begin seeing only black, white, [and red...

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The center above the chair is marked by what appears to be a void of maroon red, placated with an uncomfortable, parsed texture that almost conceals the red-haired woman it covers. In the end, I suppose, what the artist chooses to emphasize is purely a matter of taste or style, and I can see how deluding contrast in this area to blend with the other black colors can lead your eye to the abundant subjects in the background, but in doing so I feel there leaves a lack of motion in an active environment. ... Dull blues run across the top background and gradate into earthen reds below, while ef...

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The colors of the town are black and red - red brick covered in black ash from the factories, which even infected the river to bleed these colors combined: It was a town of red brick, or brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as the matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. ... A church would not differ on the exterior from the rest of the brick facades - "If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there they made is a pious warehouse of red brick" - allowing even their most sacred of beliefs be...

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The Human Eye." .Page 3 2. ... The human eye, much like most of the organs of the human body is extremely intricate and delicate. The eye as a whole processes thousand pieces of visual information each second that are captured on the retina and translated into visual images. ... "Eye Of Newt-: The Eye Of Newt is a retinal implant developed by a team of researchers from the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research and the Nagoya University in Nagaya both in Japan, who have successfully produced a "retina design that combines semiconductor components with living nerve cel...

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The catch is that a dark, digitally-placed line exists down the center of her nose; on one side is the unappealing "before" eye-color (dark and brown and unsexy), especially in comparison to the "after" eye-color (blue and bright and vastly more attractive) found on the other side of that dark line. ... Why not your eye color?... " The ad is simple but concise: a sexy, blonde, blue-eyed Paris Hilton, perfume in hand, leans seductively against the edge of the page. Dawning a silky red dress with matching red lips and big, black eye lashes, the caption reads, "the n...

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Simultaneously, a huge crane is lifting the last piece of billboard, which is designed with a happy scarecrow with veggies and fruits around him, and a message that says: "Feeding the world", sponsored by the crow foods and represented with the machine crow head with a red eye. Then, the scarecrow arrives to a red farmhouse; the landscape around the house is a desert, death trees, and non-vegetation on the hills. The red farmhouse sticks out among the landscape, the little property has an overgrown garden and an old farmers truck on the back. ... All of this changes when the scarecro...

• Word Count: 1902
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She is wide-eyed and innocent at first, and becomes a street smart, twelve year old girl who wields belt buckles to ward off enemies. ... Furthermore, after the arrest of her father, Ling and her mother struggle to survive as the Red Guards continued to persecute her family and friends, limiting their resources. ... Ling tries to ease her mother's mind of the hardships they have been facing, especially since her father has been taken by the Red Guards. ... Her selfless actions prove her undeniable loyalty towards those she loves, a characteristic strengthened through the harsh experience...

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The dictionary definition of colour describes the phenomena as a sensation produced on the eye by rays of light when resolved into different wavelengths, as by a prism, selective reflection, etc.1 ; inferring that the perception of colour is produced by a sensation' caused by differing wavelengths of light acting on the eye rather than colour being a property inherent in the object being viewed. ... Our view is of a bricolage of these coloured objects and our language refers to these objects in a way which imparts the idea of colour as being an integral primary attribute to these object...

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Human eyes only have rods in the periphery of the eye which take around thirty minutes to become adapted to the dark. ... When the sun is setting the colours across the sky are shades of red. Red is the only colour that does not photo bleach the rods in the eye. ...

• Word Count: 1960
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It is still said today again and again an eye for an eye or in the murderer's case a life for a life. ... As Mohandas Gandhi put it "an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind". ... (Curriculum) The notion of an eye for an eye is one that our society has never endorsed. ...

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It was the beginning of another "red scare- in the nation: fears of communism, which had been on the rise ever since the stock market crash that set off the Great Depression, sparked accusations that artists, writers, actors and learned people were communists. ... America could no longer turn a blind eye to the events in Europe and around the globe "we had to fight back. ... But in many respects, our nation returned to precisely where it had been at the beginning of the decade "old grudges resumed, the Red Scare was reignited, and social issues of civil rights continued to struggle t...

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The image of the teary-eyed Haemon bawling to his lifeless bride denotes his intense mourning and love for Antigone. ... Before Haemon dies, and still has his senses, he embraces Antigone, "and breathing hard/ [releases] a quick rush of blood, / bright red on her cheek glistening white" (lines 1366-1368). ... The bright red blood (associated with evil and sadness) that lies on the glistening white cheek, (associated with innocence and purity) conveys the sadness of the innocent (the young couple) corrupted by evil (Creon's law). ...

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During saccadic eye movement, visual processing is suppressed (Volkman, Riggs, & Moore, 1980). ... Distracter letters were black, target letters were red, and the probe was a black 'x'. ... For example, even though saccadic eye movements cause discrete chunks of information to be presented to the brain, the images that are perceived appear to be continuous and unbroken. ...

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During saccadic eye movement, visual processing is suppressed (Volkman, Riggs, & Moore, 1980). ... Distracter letters were black, target letters were red, and the probe was a black 'x'. ... For example, even though saccadic eye movements cause discrete chunks of information to be presented to the brain, the images that are perceived appear to be continuous and unbroken. ...

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Although naturally people hold different perspectives, the author's intention was to draw your eye to the center of the piece and to witness this monumental struggle that is taking place. ... This diagonal moves your eye along the composition with the intended manner for the viewer to absorb every aspect of detail, which contributes to the drama and violence. ... First of all Delilah is shown contributing to his capture here wearing red and blue the colors of love/passion and loyalty which is ironic since she just betrayed and ultimately led to the death of her lover. ...

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Employees who enter the profession with an eye towards providing excellent customer service and quality work for the company, give The Cheesecake Factory an advantage if they can be sniffed out and hired by human resources, and added to the company's existing cultural assets. ... The data for this award was gathered from employees and corporate cooperation, there were eight other finalists, including California Pizza Kitchen and Red Lobster. ... With the labor shortage in mind and an eye to people in their 20's and 30's looking for professions, he hopes to pioneer a new busines...

• Word Count: 1995
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Compiled with a list of characteristics including short or tall in height, small head but large face, a small and sloping forehead, a receding hairline, wrinkles on the forehead and face, large sinus cavities or bumpy face, large protruding ears, bumps on the head particularly the destructiveness center behind the ear, bushy eyebrows, high cheek bones, large eye sockets, thin neck , beady eyes, abnormal teeth, small or weak chin, strong jaw line, fleshy lips but thin upper lip, sloping shoulders but large chest, webby, pointy, stubby fingers or toes, long arms, tattoos on body, and beaked or f...

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The house, surrounded only by "a few white trunks of decayed trees " and "a black and lurid tarn, " with "bleak walls...vacant eye-like windows...a few rank sedges, was mere and isolated. ... Another but not the least one is the human-like mansion with its "eye-like window" red-litten:" as mentioned in Roderick Usher's verses, The Haunted House, also alluding to a characteristic of a vampire. ...

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This disparity in sight is caused by short "fissures (eye openings)". The distance between the inner and outer corners of each eye is palpebral shortened making the eyes appear smaller and farther apart than normal. ... This produces an underdeveloped midface and the zone between the eye and the mouth may seem to be flattened or depressed and in congruence the bridge of the nose is often very low. ... Characterized by a vertical midline groove, bordered by two vertical ridges of the skin, where the grooves meet the red margin of the upper lip it forms a "cupid's bow". ...

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The male, red-bellied fish courts the female, plain-colored bellied fish with a "zig-zag" swimming that leads the female to the nest the male has made to hold her eggs. ... Estrogen-induces signals are indirect behaviors including prolonged eye-contact with sexual partner, kissing, friendly physical contact activities, and the willingness to engage in sexual intercourse. ...

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As it travels through the bloodstream, alcohol causes red blood cells to become abnormally large, and decreases the number of white blood cells, which are important for fighting infections. ... Alcohol drastically decreases hand-eye coordination and impairs judgment, making simple tasks very difficult to carry out. ...

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Religion is present all the time, and its rules also prevail in people´s lives, especially in women lives, where they seem to be in the eye of the hurricane. ... Women's bodies also experiencing the discrimination and abuse in their own communities as the Red for Muslim Women's Rights and Safra. ...

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