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- 15801: Mrs. Dalloway By Virginia Wool
- ... die, it was a good point in her life to die. As for Septimus, he knows of war, death, and destruction; he knows that society will not change and that he cannot live in a world that can be so constricting. Septimus takes a leap of faith and ends all of his suffering in this unforgiving world; individuality, Septimus and Clarissa recede into the depths of normality. Clarissa accepts this recession, from having a dream to being merely Mrs. Dalloway. However, he does not, this constriction and uniformity propels him out of ...
- 15802: Cleopatra
- ... Caesar and Marc Antony. Cleopatra was born in 69 BC She was the last Ptolemaic ruler. Her father was the Ptolemy XII. She was very, which added to her popularity of the Egyptian and Roman world. Cleopatra tried to preserve the country’s independence from Rome. Roman senators threatened Egypt’s independence and prosperity. In 55 b.c. Berenic IV was executed leaving Cleopatra the oldest child. In 51 b.c ... was Caesar’s child. She stayed in Rome until his assassination 44 BC. He was killed by Brutus and Cassius. It was rumored later that Cleopatra helped the Caesarian party to assassin Caesar. But her world was shattered after his death. When she was just fourteen years old she met Marc Antony for the first time. When she met him later in life she saw him as an opportunity for power ...
- 15803: A Comparison of the Magic in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" and "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"
- ... so much to rid the house of the voices he heard that he drove himself to death from the intense pressure he placed upon himself. When he died, he killed the voices as the spiritual world claimed the only member of the family with luck. "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" shows that the people in this small fan can have some level of faith without directly showing it. Although ... and misunderstanding come together they form two different stories. The narratives by two authors, D.H. Lawrence and Gabriel Garcia Marquez of completely different backgrounds come through with a common message. The spiritual and magical world can help and hurt humans so always understand what it is one is getting into. They continue to point out that people should never let greed get the best of them because they will miss ...
- 15804: The Infinity Mirror
- ... things of any physical strength, and well proficient in the creation of beauty, and an artist in the care for life of nature. The touch of Tularecito brings beauty, and life, and love to the world, until he becomes enraged, (should anyone endanger what came from the touch of his hand). Franklin looked into Tularecito's mirror and saw what Tularecito was. Tularecito as a Pavlovian dog, needing to be trained ... human society, Tularecito goes looking for a different society that he does belong to. Unfortunately this society doen not exist. Tularecito has no control over his perceptions of reality and fantasy. He searches for a world of fantasy, and in his efforts, he creates a hole. When this hole is covered up, it confirms Tularecito's belief in fantasy. Tularecito creates another hole, and waits for his fantasy to show. Tularecito ...
- 15805: Moby Dick
- ... his duty to exploit. The terror that Ishmael perceives is a consequence of his own vague fear of the whale’s "nothingness." What Ishmael fears is the mystical, terrifying manifestation of white in the natural world, coupled with its subversion of the sense of purity attached to whiteness in the human world. Ishmael is distinguished from the rest of the crew in his ability to consider the perspectives of the others. In his role as narrator, Ishmael’s ability to detachedly analyze the viewpoints of those around ...
- 15806: Hatchet
- In the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, the main character Brian Robeson is a thirteen-year-old boy from Hampton, New York. Brian's parents just got a divorce. Brian is on his way to visit his father in Canada when the pilot has a heart attack. Brian manages to crash the plane in a lake ... if it were not for the wild he would not have survived. Through the whole time Brian never lost hope. Had he not been rescued before winter his survival would have been slim and he new that. But he never lost hope of being rescued. The whole time he remained strong and his ability to react quickly helped him in many ways. I read this book in sixth grade and I ...
- 15807: Platinum
- ... A considerable amount of the platinum used in the United States goes into jewelry, in which it is often alloyed with gold. It is also used for dental fillings. Platinum is mined all over the world; in the late 1980s the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and South Africa were the leading producers. Canada, with mines in Ontario, where platinum is associated with nickel ore, ranked third in world production. Other leading producers are Colombia and the United States.
- 15808: Native Son: Various Personality Elements Of Bigger
- ... his friend Gus watch a sky writing plane, Bigger expresses frustration in his statement "I could fly one of them things if I had a chance." Discussing the impossibility of accomplishment in the white- controlled world, Bigger expresses hopelessness, saying, "They don't let us do nothing." When Gus reminds Bigger that they have always known this, Bigger agrees, but insists that he cannot accustom himself to it. "Every time I ... murder. Bigger, his family, and Bessie all feel the affects of separatism and oppression. Richard Wright believes in the immorality of oppression. He uses his book as a tool to vent his frustration, at the world that segregates negros. His characters, themes and conflicts probably originate from his own experience of separatism. By using such a wide range of characters, he gives the readers who are not black an insight into ...
- 15809: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Slavery
- ... Society and its mores seem extremely distant and remote from the simple yet ideal life Jim and Huck lead on their raft. Just as slavery was an almost universally recognized practice in Huckleberry Finn’s world, the supposed inferiority of women has been an accepted idea in more recent times. Into the twentieth century a woman was not considered an equal member of American society. The traditional role of a woman as a wife, a mother and a housekeeper remained unquestioned until World War I. Those few women and men who strove for equality between the genders were deemed radicals. Come wartime, however, women proved that they could adequately perform the same jobs as men with no difference ...
- 15810: El Nino
- ... to 5 years, lasting anywhere from 12-18 months. The El Nino or El Nino southern oscillation(enso) phenomenon is a disruption in the eastern equatorial pacific, which contributes to major climatical changes throughout the world. During the disruption, trade winds weaken over the central Pacific Ocean, resulting in a dramatic rise in the ocean temperatures and a depression of the thermocline in the pacific. The thermocline is the layer of ... already descendeing food chain on our earth, the warming water also effects the atmosphere, resulting in more extreme temperatures, more rain, and more drought periods, costing more money to our already debted economy, and the world. An example (demonstrated here by alaska) brought about by the extreme temperatures was during the 1976-77 el nino, which brought severe cold to the polar regions. The polar regions were so cold, that the ...
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