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- 10471: Lord of the Flies: Man Is Savage at Heart
- ... If a group of well-conditioned school boys can ultimately wind up committing various extreme travesties, one can imagine what adults, leaders of society, are capable of doing under the pressures of trying to maintain world relations. Lord of the Flies's apprehension of evil is such that it touches the nerve of contemporary horror as no English novel of its time has done; it takes us, through symbolism, into a world of active, proliferating evil which is seen, one feels, as the natural condition of man and which is bound to remind the reader of the vilest manifestations of Nazi regression (Riley 1: 120). In the ... in all of Golding's works. It suggests the isolation of man in a frightening and mysterious cosmos, and the futility of his attempt to create an ordered preserve for himself in an otherwise patternless world" (Baker 26). The island in the novel is the actual island; it is not simply an island, though. It is a microcosm of life itself, the adult world, and the human struggle with his ...
- 10472: Clarissa Dalloways Double
- ... where the upper class dominated. For Clarissa, there is also the possibility the she will be sacrificed to the dominant class As Peter worries, she might trust too much to her charm in making the world beautiful. Sally also fears that Clarissa "lacked something"(243) to survive if she let her nature of roses predominates. Throughout the novel, the lines from "Shakespeare's Cymbeline" which suggest that "death is a welcome ... with a social instinct as strong as hers. Septimus, on the other hand, has lost the ability to feel. Septimus' war experiences destroyed him emotionally that he cannot relate to other people and the external world. Septimus possesses the soul of a poet, but he is so sensitive that he cannot accept a life without feeling. Confronted with the horror of his emotional isolation, he has finally retreated to a private world of madness. While Clarissa's ability to accept and live with that central coldness in herself, keeps her sane. Clarissa is always able to interrupt her wandering thoughts, in order to pull herself back ...
- 10473: Lord Of The Flies 2
- The Lord of the Flies by William Golding Published by: The Putnam Publishing Group 200 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Copyright: 1954 by William Golding Character Analysis: Ralph: main character- Ralph is the narrator of the story. Jack: Jack is Ralph main enemy in the story. He leads the hunters. Piggy: Piggy ... Everyone is hard at work the next day, either building huts or hunting. Soon the younger boys loose interest and go off to play. A meeting is called and the boys come up with some new ideas and talk about problems. Meanwhile jack wanders off and enjoys the peace and quiet. Soon the boys get into a rhythm of everyday life. In the morning is the best time for activity because ... the shadows and the body. The twins scramble down to the beach where a group has assembled, and they tell the story with farfetched details. A team of explorers is sent to investigate. They discover new land and plan what they will do with it, but Ralph reminds them of their mission and they continue. As they approach the hilltop, Jack accuses Ralph of being chicken and starts up by ...
- 10474: Theme: The Bible
- ... Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge of good and bad, He did not enforce the death penalty. Rather, He allowed man a second opportunity to experience a reality of his choice, a world out of His harmony. "G-d banished him [Adam and Eve] from the Garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he was taken." (g 3:23) G-d made provision for them to ... maintain a relationship with them. Then, G-d made a renewal of this covenant with Noah. In the story of Noah, the exceeding wickedness of humanity almost resulted in the Lord's destruction of the world by a flood. Only Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord as it was described in Genesis 6:8-9, Noah was "a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with G ... that of Ancient Near Eastern culture. Comparing to Enuma Elish and The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Old Testament is similar in certain aspects, other than similarity in the plot of their stories. Each question the world's creation, whether or not the world was created from nothing or something. This question provides for cultural answers to the unknown through answers that come from myths. These myths validate the unknown answers ...
- 10475: Sexual Abuse and Repressed Memories
- ... Therapist bias has influenced many patients to act against their families for accusations that never existed. Bibliography Page Bass, E. & Davis, E. The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. New York: Harper and Row, 1988. Lofus, E. & Ketcham, K. The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse. New York: St. Martins Press, 1994. Terr, L. Unchained Memories: True Stories of Traumatic Memories, Lost and Found. New York: Basic, 1994. Yapko, M.D. Suggestions of Abuse: True and False Memories of Childhood Sexual Trauma. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
- 10476: Eve and the Apple
- ... only increased their desires. However, this may have been a necessary development in the creation of mankind. After consuming the apple, Adam and Eve were banished from the sacred garden, and sent to the outside world. They had committed a sin against God, by not only disobeying his commandment, but by wanting to be gods themselves. They were banished from the garden not only as punishment, but also because God did not want them to eat of the tree of life, of immortality. They were not killed as God had originally threatened, but told to be fruitful and multiply. According to Milton, in the outside world Adam and Eve repented their sins to Jesus Christ who in turn asked God for forgiveness. God once again accepted them but stated that they would never again set foot in Paradise. But by this grace, his creation was complete. God's warning was definitely effective because he accomplished exactly his purpose : The creation of this magnificent world that we live in today, which was all started by God, Adam, and Eve. God didn't give Adam and Eve a complete warning about the tree because he did not tell them that ...
- 10477: Borders
- ... This hypocritical characteristic is blatantly apparent in regards to Central America. Both the ruling elite and the United States government has infringed upon the many levels of borders which exist in this part of the world. Numerous atrocities have been committed, thousands of lives have been shattered, countless victims have suffered all due to lack of respect for the borders which exist. All levels have been touched; political, economic, and even ... or even shattered in Central America. While many of us may point fingers it is indeed our very own United States government which has not respected the political borders present in this part of the world. We have stepped into territory in this area that we have no business being involved with. Under our governments supervision, the CIA carried out a coup in Guatemala in which it installed a self ... nations that it did not care out of place it was to get involved. Their economic investments and trade guided our foreign relations. They would enter and cross the borders of this seemingly innocent third world section of the continent and intervene regardless of the fact that they did not belong there in the sense that it is not thier country and should not be involved. Their reason for getting ...
- 10478: What To Do?: Terrorism and the Media
- ... media is symbiotic. As terrorists require widespread attention, the media needs news (Miller v-vi). Terrorism in effect is a from of advertisement of the terrorists goals and what they want accomplished. In 1980 the New York Times printed a total of 916 articles on terrorist events. That means that terrorists were getting their message out nearly three times a day to the American public(Miller 60). Terrorists have usually used ... White, Theodore H. qtd. In Nacos 16). Works Cited Ala, Odasuo A., and Kenoye Kelvin Eke, ed. Media Coverage of Terrorism. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1991. Alexander, Yonah, and Richard Latter, ed. Terrorism & the Media. New York: Brassey's (US), Inc., 1990. Miller, Abraham H., ed. Terrorism the Media and the Law. New York: Transnational Publishers, 1982. Nacos, Brigitte L. Terrorism and the media. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Paletz, David L., and Alex P. Schmid, Eds. Terrorism and the Media. Sage: Newbury Park, 1992. (P. ...
- 10479: Chuck Close
- ... hold a brush. (He paints with his brush tied to his hand by a metal and Velcro device.) Close started to work with bolder, more expressive and colorful marks before his great physical trauma. The new work is both the same; they're recognizable as works by Close and could be by no one else He still uses the grid and he still paints heads. Although the amount of information the new pictures carry is less than the old, the characters depicted seem warmer, more immediate, and more exuberant. Close's repertory of marks has changed dramatically. In place of the discreet dots and miniature strokes of his early work, not to mention the pictures constructed of fingerprints he made in the early'80s, each of the enlarged squares in the new grids contains colorful, painterly marks that function as mini- abstract paintings of their own. Concentric circles, lozenges, hot dog and doughnut-like shapes, and freeform squiggles are the building blocks of his new faces. ...
- 10480: Characters and Their Roles In The Great Gatsby
- ... role in the theme of this novel and each has his or her own way of having an affect on the Great Gatsby. Nick Carraway is the narrator of the story and is not from New York where the book is set. He was originally from the Midwest and was not familiar with the type of lifestyle that New York was to offer him. He moves to New York to seek fame and fortune in the Bond business. Upon arrival he is swept into all sorts of conflict and mishaps as it seems everyone wants to confide in their friend Nick. He ...
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