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- 13661: The Meaning of Suffering in Job and The Aeneid
- ... his side. They help him on his journey. They are all fighting for the same cause. This fact alone makes Job's misfortune more taxing. Their mental anguish is not limited to matters of this world. Each man is faced with dillemas concerning their spiritual beliefs. Though he begs and calls to God for an explanation, Job receives nothing. This causes alone causes more mental anguish than anything else that happens ... his family and friends. He gains an abundance of wealth and social stature, as well as God's gift of longevity. He doubles the size of his family when you consider that he fathers ten new children and still has the ten others waiting in heaven for him. When he arrives there, he will see the true gifts of God. Aeneas, on the other hand, simply fulfills fate. He builds a ...
- 13662: Image of Child Heros
- ... that a child will make everything right again. Whether the story comes from before Christ or after, the one uniform aspect about these stories is that they are present in every culture, all around the world. The image of the “trickster” is also very prevalent in the different cultures. It is seen in many different fables and moral-based stories. “You cannot go against the Philistine, you are but a youth ... still shows us that the ancient Hebrews believed in the fact that a child, or in this case teen, has the will and motivation to do the impossible. Staying on the eastern side of the world, we will next see examples of Russian stories. In the former Soviet Union, a lot of the time stories, books and other types of art were hard to come by. “In a broader sense, though ... fable taught the moral that if one is to be a trickster, then make sure you are very careful about it. Probably the most famous tricksters and child heroes ever to be introduced to the world were Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. These two boys, created by Mark Twain, spent their entire lives tricking people for different reasons and also becoming heroes by getting themselves into many interesting adventures. In ...
- 13663: Oil In April 2000
- ... is still 25 percent higher than summer prices a year ago. The average motorist is expected to pay about $170 more for gasoline this summer than last, according to the EIA. Additionally, according to the new forecast, gasoline stocks are likely to remain at the lower end of the normal range through the summer. Worries about stocks aside, the latest gas price revision is good news for the Clinton administration that ... refiners should have no trouble meeting the increase, barring any major refinery shutdowns. The report also predicted that crude oil prices will continue to drop for the remainder of the year, assuming continued increases in world production. Word Count: 599
- 13664: A Comparison of Hamlet and McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
- ... the Cuckoo's Nest, a first novel by Ken Kesey published in 1962, is a contemporary tragedy describing the downfall of a rigidly administered ward in a mental institution led by the rebellion of a new admission. The work I have chosen to compare this novel to is the classic play by William Shakespeare, Hamlet. There is an intimate relationship between these to works beyond that they are both tragedies; the ... interrogation with wit: "'And what do you think about that, Mr.McMurphy?' 'Doctor' -he stands up to his full height, wrinkles his forehead, and holds out both arms, open and honest to all the wide world- ‘do I look like a sane man?'" Our two protagonists take a cunning approach to dodging such questioning, and in the process they also induce the pity of others ("O, help him sweet heavens!"). The ...
- 13665: A Comparison of the Women of Wharton and Deledda
- ... chaste innocence and the essence of romantic love, which Ethan was severely lacking, almost to the point of emotional dehydration. These two women personify what all men really want, an escape from reality into a world of unconditional attractiveness with the opposite sex. Even though there are some distinctions between the women, I believe they are there because of the story they are placed in. Let's say that Agnes was ... to compare these people or contrast the, either task would be worth doing over again. . . and again. Works Cited Deledda, Grazia. La Madre (The Woman and the Priest). Italy: Dedalus, 1920. . Wharton, Edith. Edith Frome. New York: Norton, 1995.
- 13666: Albert Camus: People's Inability to Act and Schindler's List
- ... spell to be broken”, people must have “strength of heart, intelligence and courage.” I believe that Albert Camus is correct, people are under a vale of impotence when it comes to the tragedies of the world, and that people can easily overcome this inability and reverse their fate, or let the “Gorgon” devour them. Camus's beliefs can be proved through the use of examples from the movie Schindler's List ... of a devastated camp. In a red trench-coat-coat, nowhere to go, desperately searching for her two parents, the little girl finally wanders into an abandoned building where she is safe from the chaotic world outside. Her safety is only temporary, for later she will be hunted down and cold heartily murdered, forgotten to the world, destroyed by her own people, asking in wonderment, why do I deserve such punishment? This scene is the point at which Schindler becomes infuriated, and he asks himself why, and most importantly, what he ...
- 13667: Porography
- ... more immune and can't expect it to get any better or to away.Porn is here for good. Pornography is a multi-million dollar international industry,ultimately run by organized crime all over the world, and is produced by respectable mainstream publishing business companies (Itzin 21).Although the publishing companies are though to be "respectable" people generally stereotype buyers and users of pornographic material as "dirty old men in trenchcoats ... ethnic cleansing" process the gang-raping and mutilation of young Muslim and Croatian woman.(Dworkin M2+M6)The Woman are forced to accept these condition.If not, they are emedeatly executed,some of which have new born children will accept these conditions and be executed afterwards.Porno is here for good and as one can not do absolutely nothing that is why we have to as society work as a team ...
- 13668: Van Gennep's "Rites of Passage", Durkheim and Turner's Theory of Communitas
- ... noted earlier, the girls' interaction with the community is maintained at different points in the ritual. However, the girls do undergo a radical change during the ceremony, culminating in their reincorporation into their communities as new individuals. The ceremony began with the males constructing a lodge and ended with the girls destroying the lodge. In the beginning, the girls gave blessings and in the end, they received blessings. Through participating in the ordeal of the dance, the girls gain power. This change is expressed in the following chant: "Now you are entering the world. You become an adult with responsibilities" (p. 252). Symbolically, the passage to womanhood is represented by painting the girls' faces white-the color of purity and Mother Earth. II. Where do Durkheim and Turner find ...
- 13669: Gary Soto's Like Mexicans: Personal Experiences
- ... took place and the exposure the grandmother might have had to others outside of her immediate family. My mother lived a sheltered life and really never had the opportunity to be exposed to the real world. My mother had a habit of trying to make me believe that children who did not obey their parents were in general bad children. Parents were the divine authority and should never be questioned, since ... were Okies. When I asked about the Jews, whom I had read about she asked for a picture. I rode home on my bicycle and returned with a calendar depicting the important races of the world. “Pues si, son Okies tambien!” (page 696) I also found Gary's Soto's grandmother amusing because she would ridiculously lump people together. This however is easier than trying to recognize each and every different ... t have felt the way they did about marrying their own, yet I shared the same feelings. I believe in the pride of ones own heritage and descent but I also believe in a diversified world. I often tell people that as long as you love an individual their ethnicity should have no significance. I now have to ask myself whether or not I really b elieve that. It's ...
- 13670: Pro_choice Among Women
- ... account of the wrongness of killing is correct because it explains why we believe that killing is one of the worst of crimes.”(141) Would it also be wrong to place an individual in the world that is handicapped, deformed, or otherwise incompetent? Abortion is an inexpensive procedure to prevent this from occurring. If a woman knows that the fetus will more than likely not have a “FLO”, then she is ... life followers tend to direct the woman towards adoption services, or orphanages. To Pro-life believers, the cost of adoption is incomparable to the cost a life. If finances decide bringing a child into the world, then Pro-life activists believe there is no reason not to fulfill a pregnancy. They will raise funds, or incorporate funding from the government to support an infant that can not be raised by the ... to life. I believe Immanuel Kant would suggest that maybe a woman has a duty to abort a child for the mere fact that she has a duty not to bring that child into the world. On the other hand, he might state that she has a duty to give that child the right to live life to the fullest. The child may lead a prosperous life that leads to ...
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