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- 16561: Ethan Frome 6
- ... Boreas, the salamander or wild duck, and Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces." According to astrologers, Capricorns have responsible, disciplined, practical, methodical, cautious, serious, and sometimes pessimistic natures. According to astrologers, Aquariuses feel most comfortable in the world of ideas; they find situations that require emotional responses, such as personal relationships, to be difficult. Also, according to astrologers, Pisceans tend to be idealistic; sometimes the real world gets too harsh and ugly for them. To escape unpleasant realities, some Pisceans retreat into their own dreams and fantasies, and Pisceans can be delicate and vulnerable, especially when under emotional stress. Ethan most definitely ...
- 16562: The Life of Jack London
- ... he might kill himself in his sleep, but his state of mind did not affect the quality of Jacks writing. After Jack's great depression he decided to take a seven year voyage around the world. He decided to build a custom made boat to get him around the world. On November 19, 1905 Jack London married Charmain Kittredge. They named their 45 foot yacht the Snark. On April 18, 1906 the boat was going to be ready to set sail, but a huge earthquake ...
- 16563: Biogrophy Of Dostoevsky
- ... for it. With lack of a father figure to guide him, Dostoevsky was raised by his mother in a devoutly religious home. However, Dostoevsky could not understand how a compassionate God could exist in a world of such great suffering. He soon turned his back on religion and was led astray of his mother's teachings. The anger that he felt towards God for taking his father away from him is evident in the character Raskolnikov. Raskolnikov, like Dostoevsky, does not understand how a loving God can bring so much suffering to the world. The childhood suffering of having only one parent is also demonstrated by Adelaida Ivanovna, who "left the house and ran away from Fyodor Pavlovich with a destitute divinity student, leaving Mitya, a child of three ...
- 16564: UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE
- ... after school sessions with Joe, but he never shows up. Towards the end of the story I get the feeling Sylvia was starting to fall in love with him. This story takes place in a New York City school in Manhattan, in the nineteen- sixties. The book covers the span of one school semester form September to February. Sylvia Barret, a new teacher is starting her first day in room 304. She finds out that teaching isn’t all that she thought it would be. Her first friend is Bea a veteran teacher who helps Sylvia out ...
- 16565: Alienation of Living Activity
- ... words, a person's activity becomes the activity of another, the activity of its owner; it becomes alien to the person who performs it. Thus one's life, the accomplishments of an individual in the world, the difference which his life makes in the life of humanity, are not only transformed into labor, a painful condition for survival; they are transformed into alien activity, activity performed by the buyer of that ... labor-power so as to be able to continue selling it; and they are spectacles, objects for passive admiration. He consumes and admires the products of human activity passively. He does not exist in the world as an active agent who transforms it, but as a helpless, impotent spectator; he may call this state of powerless admiration 'happiness.' and since labor is painful, he may desire to be 'happy,' namely inactive ...
- 16566: A Modest Proposal
- ... summer boots for fine gentlemen." The skins would have to be "artificially (skillfully) dressed" however, suggesting that the nobles would have to go out of their way to be able to adorn themselves in this new fashionable symbol of their wealth and privilege. Swift also deals with the folly of the insensitivity of the British to the plight of the starving Irish. Mocking the "reasonable" Brit, he claims that they would ... meat: "I rather [than buying the child already butchered] recommend buying the children alive, and dressing them hot from the knife as we do roasting pigs." Throughout his description of the process by which the new meat will be produced, the reasonable narrator is insensitive to the Irish as he deals with such issues as how the child will be provided for while it is alive. He computes the cost of ...
- 16567: Concepts of Violence
- ... it at the expense of others. Rene Girard states that, “violence is not to be denied, but it can be directed to another object, something it can sink its teeth into.” By analyzing these two new theories on violence, along with Paul Tough’s article, one can develop a whole new attitude violence’s relation with the mosh pit. Rene Girard explains that it is only human nature to act in violence during the course of his life. Girard also states that people use this anger ...
- 16568: More Than Just A Place
- ... somewhere that is unfamiliar to him. It cannot be called a home unless you are comfortable in your surroundings. A first year college student who has moved away does not feel at home in their new place. Yes, it is where they will be living for the next year, but their heart is not there. All of their things are in this new dwelling, but it is unfamiliar. This goes to show, a house is not a home. We have to live there, and grow to love it, make memories there, and possibly raise a family in it ...
- 16569: Abortion
- ... controversy, but there has been no consensus or justification on the time an embryo or fetus is considered a human being. "Why should a child who would be unwanted and unloved be brought into this world?" (Cain). If the women was not given the choice then who would care for the baby and love and raise it? Also if abortion became illegal, there would be many unsafe and unclean abortions taking ... for an abortion should be a private issue left up to the mother and father of the embryo or fetus. I can not find justification for bringing an unwanted, undesired, unappreciated, unloved baby into this world. To illegalize abortion would be taking away from the civil rights of the women, which would be unconstitutional in the United States. Nobody should be allowed to interfere in the choice of abortion when the ...
- 16570: From a Female’s Point of View: Misogyny in Vampire Literature
- ... the poor house. Like Carmilla, this vampire is able to single out this photographer’ s weakness and use it to her advantage. “The Girl” is the name that the photographer uses when speaking of his new model. Leiber purposely doesn’t give her a definite name. He does this because she is to be looked at as nothing but an object of sex. The photographer describes “The Girl” perfectly when he ... and is probably between the age of thirty or forty. Lady Alucard is an extremely attractive women and she uses it fully to her advantage. Her first victim to be is Dr. Robert Bartolomew, the new head of the Sanitarium after the retirement of Dr. Seward. As these particular stage directions point out, Lady Alucard uses sexual passes to conquer her victims. Lady Alucard now begins a little ritual, first caressing ...
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