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- 1441: The Mystical Sea
- ... against your warm, sun-burnt feet, can please even the worst of aquaphobias. Although the sea can intrigue and inspire people, it can also instill and command fear and respect. Hurricanes can produce chaotic winds, rain, and waves, each powerful enough to destroy creations, both man-made and heavenly. Ferocious hundred mile an hour winds have the capability to rip trees from their stronghold in the ground, and cave in buildings ...
- 1442: The Hopi and Their Culture
- ... nature. There is no precise definition for a Kachina; for a Hopi, their significance ranges from the spirits of ancestors, dieties of the natural world, or intermediaries between man and the gods. They may bring rain, fertile crops, punish transgressions, or cure disease. For six months of each year (August through January) it is believed that Kachinas live in their own land within the San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff. When the ...
- 1443: A Geological Journey
- ... a half to arrive at Enchanted Rock. We arrived at 5:00 p.m. and some of us climbed the rock. The climb was a little bit dangerous because the rock was wet from the rain earlier that day. The steep part was a challenge to climb, but we pulled it off and made it to the top in about ten minutes. We stayed at the top for approximately another 10 ...
- 1444: The Glass Menagerie: Ignoring Problems Of The World
- ... she is putting her own dreams for her children before her own. Amanda’s husband left her with her children sixteen years ago; she allows his absence to still hang over her like a black rain cloud. She likes to speak of him with disgust and spite but she is always mentioning him and what he has left behind to remind her of him, “Eternally play those worn out phonograph records ...
- 1445: The Godfather: Gangster Genre
- ... and kills one of the thieves on the street by the getaway vehicle. The robbers see their buddy's corpse lying on the dark street. To escape, they open a window and slide down a rain pipe to the street where Tom retaliates and shoots (off-screen) the police officer. After running back to the club, they find that two-timing Putty Nose has treacherously deserted them and "beat it." They ...
- 1446: Nature’s Significance In King Lear
- ... Lear’s own “impetuous blasts” and “eyeless rage” (3.1.9), and the threat to his sanity as he “Strives in his little world of man to outscorn/The to-and-fro conflicting wind and rain.” (3.1.11-12). When Kent manages to find Lear, he tries to convince him to shelter himself from the storm. But Lear replies that, “This tempest in my mind/Doth from my senses take ...
- 1447: The Rules of the Game: Andre’s Arrival at La Coliniere
- ... and to each other. Andre’s arrival completes the film’s third love triangle, impelling the narrative forward and touching on important themes regarding love, friendship, and the nature of relations between the sexes. The rain pours down as the guests arrive at the chateau. Those guests that arrive before Andre scurry and hunch over to get inside, which is symbolic of the unpredictable effects of nature on the behavior of ...
- 1448: Les Miserables
- ... Gavroche, the little boy, exposes Javert at this point as a spy. While Eponine is returning, to the barricade she is tragically shot, and at this point her and Marius sing, "A Little Fall of Rain". Because of the help that Valjean has given, they students give him the chance to kill Javert but instead he lets him go free. The next day the battle begins and practically everyone on the ...
- 1449: The Supernatural In King Lear
- ... chaotic state of nature. This storm also enters the play at a point where Lear can be observed as near madness in his mental state. Lear’s unstable emotions causes him to remain in the rain, even as Kent has found a place of shelter: The Body’s delicate. This tempest in my mind Doth my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there. (Act 3, Sc. 4, 15 - 17 ...
- 1450: Macbeth: Supernatural Influences
- ... of the malicious supernatural force which torments the events and characters of the play. As the play opens, the three hags ,concurring to congregate again on the heath, are introduced . “In thunder, lightening, or in rain ”(I,i,2). This signifies a gloomy dismal atmosphere on a barren stretch of land where the witches will conduct their sorcery and witchcraft. During the meeting on the heath, one of the witches is ...
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