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- 15611: Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": A Review
- ... values, and Stephen decides to abandon his religion. He vows to change his life for the better, and begins studying at a university. Here, his artistic nature surfaces, and Stephen embraces it. He explains his new theories to all who will listen, and decides to move away from Ireland and his repressed beliefs, and to a new life of freedom. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a literary work that has many distinct aspects involved in it. The stylistic method of writing that Joyce uses is perhaps the ...
- 15612: Christian Morals in Beowulf
- Christian Morals in Beowulf Beowulf is an epic tale that has been changed over time to try and express a christian moral. While this transformation over time has added a new variable to the plot, it is still impossible to try and erase the original pagan plot completely. It has become evident that the original epic was pagan and had no mention of the biblical references ... contains now. However, it is also evident that the original story dealt with the concept of a higher being or beings. The overriding christian view has many facets and deals with them all as a new way of proposing christianity into the theme of the story. The reason that Grendel becomes outraged is that the bard in the mead hall is singing a song that has to do with creation. This ...
- 15613: Comparison Of The Illiads Achi
- ... s The Iliad, Achilles and Hector, compare very differently in many ways. Although they were both war heroes, they came from different sides of the battle and fought each other under different beliefs. These two brave warriors fought to the death in Book 22, where Hector eventually lost to Achilles. Even though Hector lost the fight, the war still raged on, even less merciful than before. These two warriors were similar ... he would not have came back to the war and ended up dying prematurely. Hector s weaknesses consisted mainly of his mortality, his bravery and his not-so-quick thinking. If he were not so brave, and was smarter, he would not have come out to fight in the first place. He could have stayed behind the palace walls and spared his own life. Achilles had the primary strength of being ...
- 15614: Evil From Morals
- ... two principles, "engaged in a perpetual struggle."(Collier) In reality, evil is merely the absence of good. "The essence of all reality is good, evil is merely the faulty reflection of reality found in a world of particulars."(Funk & Wagnalls) There can be many different types of evil. Two of such types are moral evil and natural evil. Natural evil consists of things like pain and suffering, while moral evil consists ... completely determined, but necessary for the development of moral character. That is why moral evil exists. It is a side-effect of free will. "Christian philosophy has always attributed the presence of evil in the world to the actions of a man's free will." (Collier) To understand, the situation must first be analyzed. Since God is all-good, doing' good would be doing something which God himself would do or ...
- 15615: Oedipus The King
- ... shaken man. But he also became a model for people to imitate. He has shown what it means to endure in the face of defeat. He has shown what it takes to survive in a world that is ruled by unpredictable fate. He has shown the true meaning of suffering and despair. When you think of Oedipus, remember that he suffered for all of us, so that everyone can know the truth about ourselves in a world that will always be hostile and cruel.
- 15616: Empress Wu
- ... Meanwhile, in the Tang court after T ai Tsung s death, T ai Tsung s son, Kao Tsung, became the emperor of the Tang court. Kao Tsung s empress, Empress Wang, was jealous of a new concubine that Kao Tsung gave much affection to. Her name was Hsaio Shu-Fei. She then ordered Empress Wu to grow her hair back and come back to the Tang court. She did what she ... she had to find a way to get rid of Empress Wang. So then she killed her own daughter and framed Empress Wang for the murder. Kao Tsung believed Empress Wu and made her his new empress. But Empress Wu was still not satisfied, so she framed Empress Wang and Hsaio Shu-Fei for the crime of trying to poison Kao Tsung. Their punishment was that they, along with their entire ...
- 15617: The Catcher in the Rye: Phoniness - The True Face And The False Face
- The Catcher in the Rye: Phoniness - The True Face And The False Face What happen if everyone in the world is wearing a mask? That is exactly what this world is; everyone wears a mask. Most people we see every day have their true identity hidden behind a facade. Although a true identity cannot be divulge just by looking, but with a careful scrutiny of ...
- 15618: Vietnam War - Vietnam Soldiers - "They Carried Ghosts"
- ... wrote this to his mother only for her to worry less. He did not want to tell her the whole truth on what was really going on inside of him. Would anyone from the outside world understand? "P.S. tell mom not to worry, there is nothing I can't handle." The soldiers could handle the physical horrors that were happening to them, but the mental status of many the soldiers ... the movie Full Metal Jacket, directed by Stanley Kubrick. The men who were send to train to go to the Vietnam War shared a special relationship between each other that no one from the outside world could understand. They were all scared, yet did not know what they were in for. They knew they could die, but that was not a huge worry for them at that moment. The pain and ...
- 15619: Effects of Deforestation
- ... on the fringes of fragmented forests. The effects for the animals include greater exposure to the elements (wind, rain etc
), other non-forest animals and humans (Dunbar, 1993). This unnatural extinction of species endangers the world's food supply, threatens many human resources and has profound implications for biological diversity. Another negative environmental impact of deforestation is that it causes climate changes all over the world. As we learned in elementary school, plant life is essential to life on earth as it produces much of the oxygen that is required for humans and other organisms to breathe. The massive destruction of ...
- 15620: Analysis of the movie Contact
- ... want to satisfy their curiosity as much as we would and would not be so eager to transport one of our own species to their planet. Descriptions of research facilities in Arecibo, Puerto Rico and New Mexico were very realistic and impressive. The fact that a few of the characters were based on actual scientists made the movie even more interesting. That and the inclusion of subtle scientific tidbits really helped ... movie an enjoyable experience for people who have followed the exploits of SETI and Frank Drake. One of the scenes that struck me in particular was the scene of the Woodstock-like gathering outside the New Mexico facility after the announcement of the signal's discovery had been made. The spectacle was very amusing with Elvis impersonators holding up signs that said "Viva Las VEGA" and Neo- Nazis chanting "Hitler LIVES ...
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