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- 10271: A Seperate Peace
- ... that he had undying loyalty for, and an equally strong trust. These emotions then set off a series of events that change his life forever, and he has to fight more for peace amidst a world of chaos. He experiences new feelings fear, frustration, pity, and undeniable guilt. From his experiences in his last year of school at Devon, he emerges with greater strength, greater understanding, maturity, and he finds the separate peace that every man ... tries to resurrect the freedom of worries experienced in the eSummer Session. Phineas begins a campaign of events to distract his classmates from the events going on outside of the school, bringing them into his world of unending peace. No fighting ever came out of Finny, he was not afraid of any enemy because in his eyes there were none. My fury was gone, I felt it gone, dried up ...
- 10272: Hamlet: Emotional States
- ... will first discuss Hamlet, the origins for his queer behavior and if it twas feigned or not. In the first act we see that Hamlet is a sort of idealistic man coming back to the world from university in Wittenburg. Coleridge described Hamlet in this point of the play as a "Renaissance" man, who has never really come in contact with the dark side of humanity. In the very beginning of ... cradled Hamlet and take care of his needs, basically mother Hamlet. I think that Hamlet also needed the comfort of a loving mother badly because he returns home to find his father dead and the world he once thought would be so perfect, collapsing around him and the only thing that can make him feel truly safe and out of harm's way is his mother. That yearning and extreme need ... require him to become a person that he is not. Cooleridge states in Interpreting Hamlet "Hamlet is placed in circumstances, under which he is obliged to act on the spur of a moment. Hamlet is brave and careless of death; but he vacillates from sensibility, and procrastinates from thought, and loses the power of action in the energy of resolve." Being a Renaissance Man or thinking man of wide and ...
- 10273: U.S Involvement in the Vietnam War
- U.S Involvement in the Vietnam War "No new taxes." This is a quote that most all of us remember from the 1992 presidential election. Along with it we remember that there were new taxes during that presidents term in office. There are a myriad of promises made and things done in a presidential election year that have questionable motives as to whether they are done in the best ... is the Vietnam War. Although South Vietnam asked for our help, which we had previously promised, the entire conflict was managed in order to meet personal political agendas and to remain politically correct in the world's eyes rather than to bring a quick and decisive end to the conflict. This can be seen in the selective bombing of Hanoi throughout the course of the Vietnam War. Politically this strategy ...
- 10274: Henry IV: Redemption
- ... participating in the up-coming robbery with Falstaff and Poins, Hal says "Who, I rob? I a thief? Not by my faith" (1.2 144). Hal is hesitant to be solely member of this riotous world (meaning he wants to be a member of both worlds, the Tavern and the Court) . The only reason Hal enlists in the robbery is in order to dupe Falstaff and to later hear the "incomprehensible ... clear that he fully understands that his Tavern companions are like "contagious clouds" (1.2. 205). Thus, he promises to remain with them only until the time arises, when he will have to show the world his true self. "So when this loose behavior I throw off / And pay the debt I never promised," (1.2. 214-215). Hal even mentions that his subsequent reformation will be more praised when juxtaposed with his old riotous lifestyle in Eastcheap, because his new character will be all the more impressive. My reformation, glitt'ring over my faults, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off. In subsequent ...
- 10275: Babylon
- ... ancient country was located where southern Iraq is today, and preceded upwards in a crescent like shape to the Mediterranean sea (hotbot babylon). The capital Babylon, one of the most important cities of the ancient world (Encarta Babylon) , was located between the two great rivers, Euphrates and Tigris. The City today now lies in ruins about 90Km south of Bagdad. Babylon was believed to have originated from the Mesopotamia tribes in ... Nebuchadnezzar 1, it than soon after got into a conflict with the powerful Persian Empire and was defeated. The Babylonians were under Persian control for a very short time before the empire fell. Under the new King Nabuchodonosor Added to the land by taking over Elam and Syria. He proved to the ancient world that Babylon is still a force to be feared, but when Assyria went to war with Babylon again, Egypt saw a weak Babylon and went in for the kill. Egyptians then led the Babylonians ...
- 10276: Is Hamlet Mad?
- Is Hamlet Mad? Perhaps the world's most famous mental patient, Hamlet's sanity has been argued over by countless learned scholars for hundreds of years. As a mere student of advanced-level English Literature, I doubt I can add anything new to the debate in 2000 words, but I can look at the evidence supporting or dispelling each argument and come to my own conclusion. Hamlet is obviously experiencing grief and despair right from the beginning ... lord? Hamlet: Excellent well; you are a fishmonger. Poloniuse: Not I, my lord. Hamlet: Then I would you were so honest a man. Polonius: Honest, my lord? Hamlet: Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Polonius: That's very true, my lord. Hamlet: For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion... ...
- 10277: A Separate Peace Is A Story Of
- "A Separate Peace" takes places in the middle of World War II in the town of Devon, New Hampshire in1942. Throughout the story Gene is constantly in conflict with someone. He always stands up for his friends, but also goes against what he knows is right to prove himself to Finny. The story ... assured of that my son. In our free democracy, even fighting for its life, the truth will out." (Knowles 80) Gene related the "truth" coming out to the values that were being fought for in World War II. The summer beagn peacefully. And as the war became bigger in Europe so did Gene's conflict with Finny and all his friends. Gene expresses his feelings towards the war by saying," ...
- 10278: Young Goodman Brown 3
- ... of the forest, as if his calls to Faith were falling on deaf ears. A pink ribbon flies through the air and Goodman grabs it. At this moment, he has lost all faith in the world and declares that there is "no good on earth." Young Goodman Brown in this scene is easily manipulated simply by the power of suggestion. The suggestion that the woman in question is his Faith, and ... like a "bewildered man." He cannot believe that he is in the same place that he just the night before; because to him, Salem was no longer home. He felt like an outsider in a world of Devil worshippers and because his "basic means of order, his religious system, is absent, the society he was familiar with becomes nightmarish." (Shear 545) He comes back to the town "projecting his guilt onto those around him." (Tritt 114) Brown expresses his discomfort with his new surroundings and his excessive pride when he takes a child away from a blessing given by Goody Cloyse, his former Catechism teacher, as if he were taking the child "from the grasp of the ...
- 10279: Tiger Woods
- By: Erica E-mail: SwtNSsy98@aol.com Biography of Tiger Woods "Let your clubs speak for you." Tiger Woods was too young to notice the racism around him. He didn't understand that in this world, people were judged by the color of their skin. He couldn't speak out about it; he couldn't voice his opinions, or come up with possible solutions because he was too young. Tiger faced ... that moment on, he was obsessed with the sport. The way that Tiger played, it was no longer a sport, it became an art. With every hole he played, his game progressed to a whole new level. As Tiger grew older, he still played tournaments and racked up his victories, he even played for Harvard's golf team. Harvard was interested in having him play for them sinc e an early ... golf or not. This book isn't 100% golf, it is the biography of Tiger Woods and it is all about how Tiger rose to fame and became one of the best golfers in the world. It is a good book and it should be shared with everyone else. Word Count: 839
- 10280: Animal Testing
- ... Imagine your pet one day being crammed into a cage with ten other animals waiting to die like approximately 20-100 million other animals do each year in numerous unreliable tests. More than 205,000 new drugs are marketed worldwide every year. Most of these animals die after undergoing the most common unreliable test method still in use, animal vivisection. The current system of drug testing puts consumers in a dangerous ... sick. There will be nearly 275,000 animals dead this time tomorrow that are not dead right now due to a fatal animal testing mistake. The numbers are real, and this is happening in our world every day because it is a multibillion-dollar income for some people and is legal in the U.S. The National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest recipient of funds used for research, must be pushed to fund more preventative programs and human based research. The problem that we are faced with today is not a difficult one to ...
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