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- 16531: Silas Marner 3
- ... after he is robbed and rears as his own child. Through symbolism, the speaker conveys the message that with life's hardships come its treasures. Eliot uses the character Eppie to represent happiness, love, and new beginnings; whereas gold to symbolize sadness and loneliness. Silas's life is unmeaningful and monotonous when all he has is his gold. "He handled [the coins], he counted them, like the satisfaction of a thirst ... companionship."(68) Money often changes a person, but it should not replace a human presence as a friend. With the arrival of Eppie after Silas's gold is stolen, his life becomes meaningful, joyous, and new emotions are evoked from him. "Silas pressed [the child] to him, and almost unconsciously uttered sounds of hushing tenderness " (167) Eppie becomes Silas's treasure in life. Silas rears up Eppie as his own child ...
- 16532: Abortion: A Controversial Subject
- ... feelings they thought they would never have, and don't know what to do. After having an abortion victims thought they had solved the problem but in fact they had really just started a whole new one. Many victims began thinking there was something wrong with them and began to doubt themselves in situations that they would normally be sure of themselves. Others plunge into deep depressions which they don't ... on the couple is much more cautious about safe-sex. It is found that almost all of the 742 low-income women who received abortions in 1970-1971 at the State University Hospital in Syracuse, New York, intended to use contraception in the future, an attitude that was even stronger after their abortions. Perhaps the abortion is actually a lesson in life. Another positive impact is maturity. How might a person ...
- 16533: Anti-Matter
- ... anti-matter would cause if not treated with the utmost care and safety. Discovering anti-matter could mean the end of the Earth as we know it, one mistake could mean the end of the world and a release of high-energy gamma rays that could wipe out the life on earth in mere minutes. It was a quite interesting article, with a lot of information that could affect the entire world. The article, however, did not focus on the benefits or disadvantages of anti- matter nor did it mention the practical uses of anti-matter. They are too expensive to use for powering rocket ships, and ...
- 16534: A Crime In The Neigborhood
- It was the summer of 1972 when Spring Hill, a Washington, D.C., suburb, got its first taste of an increasingly violent, insecure modern world. The quiet residential area, whose inhabitants traditionally left their doors unlocked and spent the summers attending one another's cookout, was rocked by the news that 12-year-old Boyd Ellison had been raped and ... holds such a sadness to it- the story is enveloped with hurt. I think the biggest hurt of all is that it hits close to home-for everyone. This is our life, this is our world. We created it and we must live with it . Once I read this story I began to look at society a little bit differently, perhaps more clearly and maybe with a touch more compassion than ...
- 16535: King Lear
- ... disrupts the great chain of being which states that the King must not challenge the position that God has given him. This undermining of God's authority results in chaos that tears apart Lear's world. Leaving him, in the end, with nothing. Following this Lear begins to banish those around him that genuinely care for him as at this stage he cannot see beyond the mask that the evil wear ... his sins, Lear becomes abandoned and estranged from his kingdom which causes him to loose insanity. While lost in his grief and self-pity the fool is introduced to guide Lear back to the sane world and to help find the lear that was ounce lost behind a hundred Knights but now is out in the open and scared like a little child. The fact that Lear has now been pushed ...
- 16536: Alexander III
- ... enroll in this school to learn Greek and Greek ways of life. I think the most effective way that Alexander hellenized had to due with his army. First he let Persians into his army. These new members of his army would have to learn how to speak Greek to understand orders. The Persians would also pick up Greek customs from being in the camps with Alexander's army. Secondly, Alexander encourages ... Alexander was again in Susa in 324 B.C. There he performed a mass marriage. Between eighty and a hundred Macedonian officials took one Persian women each, including Hephaestion and Ptolemy. Alexander himself took two new brides. The wedding was done in traditional Persian style. The bridegroom would sit down in chairs, after a toss the brides came in, took them by the hand, and kissed them. Every guest that sat ...
- 16537: A Crime In The Neighborhood
- It was the summer of 1972 when Spring Hill, a Washington, D.C., suburb, got its first taste of an increasingly violent, insecure modern world. The quiet residential area, whose inhabitants traditionally left their doors unlocked and spent the summers attending one anothers cookout, was rocked by the news that 12-year-old Boyd Ellison had been raped and ... holds such a sadness to it- the story is enveloped with hurt. I think the biggest hurt of all is that it hits close to home-for everyone. This is our life, this is our world. We created it and we must live with it . Once I read this story I began to look at society a little bit differently, perhaps more clearly and maybe with a touch more compassion than ...
- 16538: Home Health Care Nursing
- ... Other than the doctors occasional visits, usually female family members cared for the patient. In the early 20th century, not only did the nation grow in technology, but the medical field also grew with new inventions, developments, technology, and ways to provide improved care for the sick. Many of these different ideas were put to the test as hospitals began to become more accessible. Many of the procedures like x ... patient influences the need for home health care. Such characteristics may include but are not limited to patients who cannot care for themselves, patients who have wounds and need dressing changes, patients with complex or new medication orders, patients with ostomies, patients with newly diagnosed diseases (example: diabetes), patients who are terminally ill, patients requiring intravenous therapy (IVs), patients with tubes (example: foley, nasogastric, and tracheostomy), and patients receiving therapy (example ...
- 16539: Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes
- ... left Goya permanently deaf. Isolated from others by his deafness, he became increasingly occupied with the fantasies and inventions of his imagination and with critical and satirical observations of mankind. He evolved a bold, free new style close to caricature. In 1799 he published the Caprichos, a series of etchings satirizing human folly and weakness. His portraits became penetrating characterizations, revealing their subjects as Goya saw them. In his religious frescoes ... of war. They were not published until 1863, long after Goya's death. Upon the restoration of the Spanish monarchy, Goya was pardoned for serving the French, but his work was not favored by the new king. He was called before the Inquisition to explain his earlier portrait of The Naked Maja, one of the few nudes in Spanish art at that time. In 1816 he published his etchings on bullfighting ...
- 16540: A Friendly Enemy
- ... examples are the Enola Gay and the Molotov Cocktail. The Enloa Gay is the plane that dropped the atom bomb on Japan. This again relates one of the greatest massacres in the history of the world to his mere rebellious violence. Through the speakers violent actions he feels superior to others despite his justifications being much more significant then his own act. He creates a paradox by validating his "Audubon Crucifix" with some of the greatest killings in the world. The speaker most likely wants to experience more of this power which supports mans primal urge for superiority. Some of the human race, including the speaker, can feel superiority through the desecration of others ...
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