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- 16491: The Tempest: Review
- ... witness to this sound, / and crown what I profess with kind event / If I speak true; if hollowly, invert / What best is boded me to mischief. I, / Beyond all limit of what else I' th' world, / Do love, prize honor you" (Act 3 sc. 1, p. 95). In modern terms, this means: "Lord, bear witness to what I say, and bless my claim (to this woman). Let me be damned if I lie when I say that I love honor, prize and honor you above anything else in the world." The learning of this type of heavy usage of metaphor would be justified if it were imployed in many other respected classic works or in modern eloquent speech, but it is not. Metaphoric speech outside ...
- 16492: Abortion is Murder
- ... country, I know it's hard for many people to look back on beliefs that they have thought many times, but we must realize that unborn childeren ARE alive! Our country went through and the world went through a long persiod of time where Whites believed that Blacks were actually sub-human! If someone accepted that a Black person was a sub- human, then it became easy to continue slavery, and ... I dare all of you to really ask yourselves -- would want to have been a aborted child. Would you would have wanted you life to be cut, before you could even be born into this world? When I was inside my mother, No one could ask me if I valued my life. I wouldn't have a right to live. If you were aborted you would NOT have a chance to ...
- 16493: Babylonia A Great Civilization
- ... as 180 grains of barley. The units were mainly represented by pieces of precious metal. The most commonly used unit was the mina. This system was one of the first to use money in the world. The Babylonians also did trade. The important trade routes for the Babylonians were the Tigris River and the Euphrates River. Thus, this shows that the Babylonian civilization had a stable and advanced way of getting ... of it. Babylonian art was very beautiful and it portrays how they felt and lived in the Babylonian civilization. Babylonian art and architecture continues to amaze contemporary historians. One example, a wonder of the ancient world, was the Babylonian Hanging Gardens. Their art reflects both their love and fear for the natural forces, as well as their military conquests. The Babylonians made pottery, terra-cotta sculptures, and writing surfaces with the ...
- 16494: Confucius
- ... we decide to dive into the rebuilding of some foreign nation. These two teachings of Confucious if applied today, would result in the superiority of the Untied States of America over the rest of the world. The past does repeat itself, and if our government is too foolish to realize that, and learn from their past, there is no hope on a successful future for our country. The United States government is afraid to take some advice. Advice, which would change the world.
- 16495: Hamlet - Act 5 Summary
- I have much to write about on this day, yet I cannot rightfully do it because I have tragically been killed. So, I will tell the story, as a spirit to the world. My life ended in a miserable way. Revenge was on my mind, as well as others. I completed the task that I had set forth to myself. I will start where I last left off ... doings. Now, I must die, but first I tell Horatio to report the true story of what happened and to clear my name. Now, as I am looking back down on that backward and wrong world, I see that justice has been served. My father has been redeemed and my name shall not be tarnished. My only regret is not being able to live my life out with Ophilia.
- 16496: Digital Television
- ... and interface both industries. This will force computer companies and television makers to get on the ball and compete with these two corporate giants. What will the transition to digital TV be like? Like any new radical product transition, the changeover will take some time. There will be the people who will adopt early and pay the high prices to get the first sets. There will be varying degrees of value ... 1, 1998 the era of digital TV began. It isn’t available nationwide yet. The current markets include the 12 largest cities in the U.S., where 30 DTV stations began airing DTV programs on new channels assigned by the FCC. Come next spring, 15 more stations in another 11 cities will hit the airwaves. This will extend the coverage to about four of every ten American TV households. Here is ...
- 16497: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... his peaceful revolution. He declared he would go to jail or even die before obeying an anti-Asian law. Thousands of Indians joined him in this civil disobedience campaign. He was imprisoned twice. Yet in World War I he again organized an ambulance corps for the British before returning home to India in 1914. Gandhi's writings and devout life won him a mass of Indian followers. They followed him almost ... 1934 he retired as head of the party but remained its actual leader. Gradually he became convinced that India would receive no real freedom as long as it remained in the British Empire. Early in World War II he demanded immediate independence as India's price for aiding Britain in the war. He was imprisoned for the third time, from 1942 to 1944. Gandhi's victory came in 1947 when India ...
- 16498: Albert Camus
- ... any sense to go on living once the meaninglessness of human life is fully understood. Camus referred to this meaninglessness as the “absurdity” of life. He believed that this “absurdity” is the “failure of the world to satisfy the human demand that it provide a basis for human values-for our personal ideals and for our judgments of right and wrong.” He maintained that suicide cannot be regarded as an adequate ... essay The Rebel. Camus rejected what he calls “metaphysical revolt,” which he sees as a “radical refusal of the human condition as such,” resulting either in suicide or in a “demonic attempt to remake the world in the image of man.” Although often considered an existentialist, Camus had his own way of thinking and often disagreed with many existentialist thinkers. Camus was a brilliant writer as well as a philosopher and ...
- 16499: Babylonian And Assyrian Religi
- ... has assembled a great collation of studies on Babylonian and Assyrian religions. E. O. James has chosen a wide view of their ancient culture through their temple building, rituals, mythology, and daily life and government world. Anyone studying Babylonian and Assyrian religion will find it somewhat similar to early western civilization religions. Early western civilization compared to Babylonian and Assyrian with a hierarchy with kings and priests being the highest rulers ... of bring to light after so many centuries of oblivion, and the vast treasures of Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations. Much of this has been done since the Flood story was translated and revealed to the world, the astonishing resemblance s between the Hebrew story of the Flood and its more ancient Babylonian predecessor. Students of anthropology, the science of man are beginning to recognize that a Babylonian myth may be as ...
- 16500: Dulce Et Decorum Est
- ... France in 1917. The birth of Owen’s imagery style used in his more famous poems was during his stay at Craiglockhart War Hospital, where he met Siegfried Sassoon (another great war poet). Owen’s new style (the one that was used in "Dulce et Decorum Est") embelished many poems between August 1917 and Septermber 1918 (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia). On November 4, 1918, Wilfred Owed was killed by enemy machine gun ... and depressed state of mind. Owen makes us picture the soldiers as ill, disturbed and utterly exhausted. He shows that this is not the government-projected stereotype of a soldier, in gleaming boots and crisp new uniform, but is the true illustration of the poor mental and physical state of the soldiers. By telling us that many of the platoon are barefoot, Owen gives us an idea of how awful the ...
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