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- 13691: A Comparison of Contemporary and Romance Literature
- ... He then returns home, plunges into a chair, and begins to sew. While he sews, Rosicky lets his mind run back over his life. He has had many memorable experiences. Rosicky has lived in London, New York, and now in Nebraska. Rosicky, formerly a tailor, now makes a living farming with his children. Rudolph, Rosicky's oldest son, has some trouble supporting his wife, Polly. Rosicky makes many sacrifices to help ... of English history. The legend of King Arthur tells of the adventures of an early king of Britain and the knights and ladies who made up his royal court at Camelot. It tells of a world filled with warriors armed with lance, sword, and armor. It speaks of jousts, tournaments, wizards, falconry, enchantresses, damsels in distress, wars, quests, and the code of chivalry. It is a legend that talks of a ...
- 13692: An Analysis of Several Works of Literature
- ... up by a statue of a dead political leader. Yet, while the characters are not in control of external factors, they still have control over their inner lives. Rama lives with and adapts to his new environment and still retains his usual, placid manner. People also seem to be manipulated and exploited by other people. In "Selvi", Mohan uses Selvi as an emotionless mannequin, even to the point where he gives her a "script" to follow, all for money and his personal fame. However, Selvi's emotional and spiritual self does not seem to be affected. She was "rapt in some secret melody or world of her own" and even though Mohan controls her body, he is unable to control her mind. She also eventually rebels and goes back to live in her old home. In "A Willing Slave", Ayah ...
- 13693: Analysis of the Works of Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ... accept and humble herself rather than fighting a lost battle. Melville respected Hawthorne's view of Hester, and through Ahab he decided to explore the opposite side. Ahab refused to accept his destiny, feeling the world had wronged and wanted to defy his fate. Ahab rejects the guilt he feels of dragging the crew of the Pequod down with him, and tries to resist it by appointing himself a master of ... thou paltry thing; thus I split thee and destroy thee. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me...Who's over me?" (Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: Norton, New York, 1952, p.412) Due to Ahab's unwillingness to accept humility, he took upon himself what he thought was the struggle of humanity. He recognized his own mi sfortunes and attempted to fight back ...
- 13694: Man is Innately Good, But Has the Ability to be Evil
- ... and war. I have certain prejudices that I carry and I am not very proud of them, though often my instinct about a person is right. My major prejudice is against people who cannot grasp new concepts at a relatively quick rate, or those who cannot understand quickly. Somebody put it best by saying, "Oh, you mean the stupid people." I truly do hate calling them that, because often what they ... to hate crimes, the deaths of minorities or the dreams of a young girl. I feel that my biases are very much benign. A Shaker saying is something which if all men lived by, the world would be a ahppy place. Mary Whitcher said,"Be slow to anger, slow to blame, and slow to plead thy cause. but swift to speak of any gain that gives thy friend applause."
- 13695: 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 ...
- 13696: Sexism
- By: adam moss E-mail: moss_911@hotmail.com Sexism in the world today The battle of the sexes is obvious everywhere and is applies to anything. From athletics to the military, men and women struggle to beat the other, but I find it to be Particularly found ... women. Us Men know the statistics, they show that we are more favourable and most of us want to keep it that way. If this is true, then how do women and men share the world together without war between each other? "I think it is because we need each other to survive " I am not been sexist myself here but you can clearly see the way life is. It dates ... thought ever existed. If u look in colleges in law school or doctor school there is a very low number of woman and high percentage of men. I think people see it as this "business world doesn't need women". In my generation, there arise the same sexist beliefs held centuries ago. It is kinda scary to believe that men do not want women to succeed. I mean what's ...
- 13697: Hardin's "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against the Poor" - No! You Cannot Come in
- ... other countries. Hardin feels that if the government keeps helping other countries and letting people in then America will also drown. "We must convince them if we wish to save at least part of the world form environmental ruin"(page 765). Why should I help the poor countries? Why should I let the immigrants in? I see no reason for helping someone that is not an American. These non Americans are ... I have no objections to those immigrants who come here to work or bring work. What I do have a problem is with those that come here and take advantage of our welfare system. These new immigrants did not deposit money into the welfare system so why should they be allowed to withdrawal.If the immigrants were not taking our tax money then there would be more money for our people ...
- 13698: A Modern Day Odysseus
- ... publicly available e-mail encryption software. With patience, strong will, and the idea that privacy is a right of the people, he did just that, and in doing so held up a mirror to the world, showing it that it had permanently changed. The life of Phil Zimmermann is full of epic grandeur, and undoubtedly forms a modern day parallel to the hero Odysseus of Homer's The Odyssey. A basic ... of the key elements where Odysseus and Zimmermann differ. Odysseus is a fictional character, and his life will not affect the future. Zimmermann, however, is very real, and not only has he changed the present world, but the future is likely to be continually affected by the work that he has done. Jack Rickard, in an article in Boardwatch Magazine, illustrated the state of the world well. "Electronics is a good material for building freedom, and a most notably poor one for forging chains. Wherever there is one guy with an attitude, a compiler, and a few free afternoons, all ...
- 13699: Demeter and Persephone: Relationship Between Parent and Child
- ... While Persephone was playing with her friends in the beautiful outdoors picking flowers, she was kidnapped by Hades and taken to the underworld. It would seem to the ancient Greeks that it was a mans world and Father knew best. Without consulting Demeter about his brother marrying their daughter, Zeus just gave her away. Worst of all he did not ask Persephone how she felt about this whole arrangement. It was ... that Demeter should wait right where she was. So that way she can go and ask her mother if Demeter could work for them. She also told Demeter about how her mother, Metaneira, had a new born son and she would have the pleasure of raising him. As Callidice explained, if the young child grew up to be a fine man, Demeter would be the envy of any woman who saw ...
- 13700: The Positive Influence of Gods in the Odyssey
- ... interfere in the lives of the mortals positively in the epic, The Odyssey by Homer, because Ino saves Odysseus, Hermes aids Odysseus, and Athena assists Odysseus. The story of Odysseus is not only of a brave man who ventures all over the world, but also of the mighty Greek gods. Though these gods seem frightening, many of them, as you saw in the Odyssey, actually help mortals.
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