Margaret Atwood has repeatedly made observations about our relationships to animals in her works.

The village of Atwood originated as an off shoot of the small settlement of Mackville, located about a mile north of present day Atwood.

Captain Atwood took necessary precautions, but the vessel struck West Island, one of the islands in the Three Kings group, about 35 nautical miles ( 65 km ) north of Cape Reinga on the northern tip of mainland New Zealand.

Although Tufts had a medical school associated with it, a secondary reason why he had chosen to study there, Victor's attention had been directed to Johns Hopkins by a 1939 Time magazine article on the " big four " of Johns Hopkins medicine: William H. Welch, whom the article was primarily about, William Osler, Howard Atwood Kelly, and William Stewart Halsted.

Atwood also wrote an earlier work, the 1974 CBC Television film The Servant Girl, about Marks.

In 1996, author Margaret Atwood published a novel about Marks, Alias Grace.

She asserted that Atwood " was a truly revolutionary woman ... among the first white women to fight so righteously for their beliefs and to die for what they believed in.

Atwood commented that " we don't do cultural boycotts ".

Of the players who encountered Philidor, Sir Abraham Janssens, who died in 1775, seems to have been the best, Mr. George Atwood, a mathematician, one of Pitt's secretaries came next, he was of a class which we should call third or two grades of odds below Philidor, a high standard of excellence to which but few amateurs attain.

Not least among these voices is Margaret Atwood, who believes that “ territorial squabbling cannot obscure the fact that Bringhurst ’ s achievement is gigantic as well as heroic ”, and that far from appropriating native voices, Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers “ restores to life two exceptional poets we ought to know ”.

Author Margaret Atwood describes many transgenic creatures such as Pigoons ( though originally designed to be harvested for organs, post-apocalyptic-plague, they become more intelligent and vicious, traveling in packs ), Snats ( snake-rat hybrids who may or may not be extinct ), wolvogs ( wolf-dog hybrids ), and the relatively harmless " rakunks " ( skunk-raccoon hybrids, originally designed as pets with no scent glands ).

Atwood may refer to:

* Oryx and Crake ( 2003 ), a speculative fiction novel by Margaret Atwood, occasionally makes mentions of the protagonist and his friend entertaining themselves by watching reality TV shows of live executions, Noodie News, frog squashing, graphic surgery, and child pornography.

There, she met Angela Atwood at an acting audition where they both won lead roles.

In 1968, Atwood married Jim Polk ; they were divorced in 1973.

Atwood was at one time offended at the suggestion that The Handmaid's Tale or Oryx and Crake were science fiction, insisting to The Guardian that they were speculative fiction instead: " Science fiction has monsters and spaceships ; speculative fiction could really happen.

In the Patriots ' history, they have also played at Flint's Atwood Stadium ( where they originally began ), and Flint's Guy V. Houston Stadium ( where they played when Pride Stadium underwent renovation ).

" Stevens and the younger Atwood created file cards on members of Congress based on " whether they were Rotarians or Kiwanians or Catholics or Baptists and veterans or loggers, the whole thing ," Stevens said in the 1977 interview.

The Case Against Free Trade, subtitled GATT, NAFTA, and the Globalization of Corporate Power, is a book edited by Ralph Nader, with chapters written by William Greider, Margaret Atwood, David Philips, and Pat Choate, which claims that corporations are using free trade as a cloak or smokescreen under which they intend to circumvent the democratic process to harm the health and safety of the general public.

Page, Dorothy Livesay, Alistair MacLeod, and Margaret Atwood, among others, have shared the personal challenges they faced in forging their own paths as writers.

Rather they resembled the styles of Atwood and Emily Harris.

Patty Hearst testified that Atwood, William Harris, and Nancy Ling Perry were given to bemoaning their white skin and wishing they were black.

Kindelberger and Atwood were young engineers when they met at Douglas in 1930, working on the DC-1 and DC-2 transports.

In an assessment of the believability of a social norms campaign, Polonec, Major, and Atwood found that students ' own drinking experiences and the experiences of their friends contributed to disbelief in the message " Most students on campus choose to have 0 to 4 drinks when they party.

Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, Barbara Gowdy, Timothy Findley and Margaret Atwood have all produced works that are notable exemplars of this form.

Until the addition of the Linde and Sontag dorms, Atwood and Case dorms were occasionally referred to as New Dorm and New Dorm II ; Mildred E. Mudd Hall and Marks Hall are almost invariably referred to as East dorm and South dorm.

The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth dorms built are Atwood, Case, Linde, and Sontag, respectively.

Atwood claims that this concept is ingrained in the human psyche, that it is apparent in early historical peoples, who associated their understanding of debt with that of justice, ideas that are typically exemplified by a female deity.

Atwood and her partner Graeme Gibson are members of the Green Party of Canada ( GPC ) and strong supporters of GPC leader Elizabeth May.

Atwood has strong views on environmental issues, and she and her partner are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Club within BirdLife International.

The unincorporated communities of Atwood and Bright are located in the town.

Among the well-known people who hail from the Ottawa Valley, are former governor-general and broadcaser Adrienne Clarkson, Alanis Morissette, Margaret Atwood, Lorne Greene, Bryan Murray, Terry Murray, Frank Finnegan, Bruce Cockburn, Peter Jennings, Matthew Perry, Dan Aykroyd, Mark Redman, Tom Green, Rich Little, Paul Anka, Alan Verch and Princess Margriet, sister of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

They are named for Howard Atwood Kelly, M. D., first professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Johns Hopkins.

To the west are the trio of Atwood, Naonobu, and Bilharz.

Naonobu and Atwood are separated by only a few kilometres.

Many famous Canadians are taking David Suzuki's Nature Challenge, including Nelly Furtado, Sam Roberts, Margaret Atwood, Robert Munsch, Larry Campbell, and David Miller.

Other founders recognized by AMIGOS are H. Kirby Atwood, Sr., Searcy Bracewell, Raymond Cook, Ed Frank, Jr., Carlos R. Hamilton, MD, Victor Huvelle, Mariann and John Marshall, Ed Morris, and Wilson J. Pais.

There are a variety of suites available in North Atwood, ranging from one person suites to spacious multi-bedroom suites.

The most common of these is the Atwood Distinguished Scholarship, which are renewed every year based on the same criteria.

* The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood tells the tale of a woman caught up in a fundamentalist Christian dictatorship where women are forced into a system of sexual slavery for the ruling patriarchy.

Manuscripts are judged anonymously by nationally known writers ; past judges have included Robert Penn Warren, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Michael Chabon, Frank Conroy, Richard Ford, John Edgar Wideman, Nadine Gordimer, and Rick Moody.

* The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood ; post-nuclear Cambridge and Boston are the setting of this dystopian novel.

There are 3 local churches including the Atwood Presbyterian Church located on Line 75 of Perth County ( formerly the 8th Concession ).

* In her 2009 novel The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood focuses on a group called God's Gardeners, a small community of survivors of the same environmental catastrophe who are using maggot therapy for many acute wounds.

All non-PO box addresses in Atwood are listed as " Placentia " by the United States Postal Service ( with the exception of the post office itself: 1679 E. Orangethorpe Ave. Atwood, CA 92811 ).