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- 15211: You Should Really Read This Poem
- ... literature from different eras, so I highly recommend that you read Beowulf. One reason that Beowulf is a good poem to read is that it has very unusual elements of setting and oddities in their world that will keep you entertained. The time that it takes place in is a very long time ago (it is thought to be around the year 521). As you are not familiar with the way ... and the wastelands. These places are all dangerous and uninhabited by humans so that would make you curious about them. There are things in the story that you would never expect to happen in our world such as a pool with "A flame in the water'" (l. 877). This is how Hrothgar describes the ketta's pool as having fiery things in it. These components of are some of the things ...
- 15212: Haughton: Am I A Gryphon Or A Queen?
- ... nonsense? A reference to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland maybe? Or is it just a Critic's random word choice? OK back to my point. Of course there are many types of readers in this world, and my opinion is that there are probably too many types of readers to even have categories. Everyone in this world is unique in their own way when it comes to performing a task. Some people take their reading real slow, reading a page then reading it over again. Then there are the kinds of people ...
- 15213: Catcher In The Rye: Holden Caufield
- Catcher In The Rye: Holden Caufield Holden Caufield was a high school student at a boy's academy by the name of Pency Prep. He feels as though he had fought the world and lost, everyone is against him and that little can bring him joy. He had lost his innocence, and saw himself as a "catcher in the rye", trying to save children from his fate. Holden ... kicked out of school. Later, he Holden seems to become nicer, by giving twenty dollars to the nuns. He also develops the ides of being a catcher in the rye, protecting children from the outside world, and from losing their innocence. I enjoyed this book greatly and I find that Holden Caufield's life story is not that far fetched. Holden is seen by most as just another flunkie, but he ...
- 15214: El Dia de Muerto
- ... never a reason for sorrow between the ancient Mexican's. They didn't consider it as an end to everything but a step toward other levels in nature. The Aztecs had various perceptions of their world. Some as simplistic as a "flat disc" surrounded by water, to a toad floating in a water-lily filled sea. In this world contained various directions with different associated colors and symbols to each direction and level. They even cataloged the final resting places for the spirits determined by the kind of death and the occupation they had ...
- 15215: How The Use Of The Diary Form Narrative Is Beneficial To The Novel Dracula.
- ... or writing about something, and then someone else can also be telling about what is happening somewhere else. An example is where Mina finishes writing a journal entry and then all of a sudden, a new story of Dr. Van Helsing and his patient comes in through a new start of a diary. A great thing that is controlled wonderfully with the diary form is time. Time, which normally cannot be changed or moved around can be taken back through time for things that ...
- 15216: The Importance Of Being Beauti
- ... people, are countless. Such as marriage, career, and school-grade are typical examples of their advantage. We likely to expect to be treated equally, but we are not treated as the same in the real world. I believe judging people based on their appearance only disadvantage people. Success must be depend on effort, talent, and intelligence. As long as we canft stop discriminating people based on appearance, people canft ... customer care how waitresses look. Being beautiful is needed to be accepted by the society, especially for women, somehow. Women are judged by men who want beautiful women in their society. Itfs a men world. Cosmetic surgery is a reflection of the society where beauty is stratified. I donft think cosmetic surgery is a good resolution to achieve fair treatment from the society because it doesnft overthrow fundamental ...
- 15217: Michelangelo
- ... de Medici to Leo X, Clement VIII, and Pius III, as well as cardinals, painters, and poets. Neither easy to get along with nor easy to understand, he expressed his view of himself and the world even more directly in his poetry than in the other arts. Much of his poetry deals with art and the hardships he went through. His dome for Saint Peter s became the symbol of authority, as well as the model, for domes all over the Western world; the majority of state capitol buildings in the United States, as well as the Capitol in Washington, D.C., are derived from it.
- 15218: School Uniforms
- ... unwelcome into the school. As a result, many local communities are deciding to adopt school uniform policies as part of an overall program to improve school safety and discipline. California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia have enacted school uniform regulations. Many large public school systems including Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dayton, Detroit, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Miami, Memphis, Milwaukee, Nashville, New Orleans, Phoenix, Seattle and St. Louis have schools with either voluntary or mandatory uniform policies, mostly in elementary and middle schools. In addition, many private schools have required uniforms for a number of years. Still ...
- 15219: Huck's Struggle Between Morals
- ... very revealing to the reader of the attitudes of the time. He showed us many good decisions against the morals of society, such as escaping from his pappy, escaping the ideas of society to start new ones of his own, and to leave the worries of money behind him. However, at the same time, he makes bad decisions against his society. Huck had left his family and avoided getting sivilized. In ... very revealing to the reader of the attitudes of the time. He showed us many good decisions against the morals of society, such as escaping from his pappy, escaping the ideas of society to start new ones of his own, and to leave the worries of money behind him. However, at the same time, he makes bad decisions against his society. Huck had left his family and avoided getting sivilized. In ...
- 15220: 1984
- ... member, and even your own family. Another way both Stalin and Big Brother tried to gain power was by changing language. The Party seeks to stifle any individual or "potentially revolutionary" thought by introducing a new language, Newspeak, and the subsequent eradication of the English language. The introduction of this new language means that eventually, no one is able to commit thoughtcrime due to the lack of words to express it. This is a frightening concept; the restriction of your thought could destroy your personality if ...
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