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- 2861: Shakespeare's Use of Trickery and Disguise In His Plays
- ... of high water and ships running aground are crucial in the play's development," according to David M. Bergeron (116). Bergeron furhter elaborates that, "experience at sea and its conseuqnces help delineate Shakespeare's romantic world, a world that he inherited in which problems, expecially love problems, are solved" (112). Besides shipwrecks and trickery, many of the characters in Shakespeare's plays are similar. For example, "In The Merchant of Venice, Bassanio is ... Criticism: Essays on Style, Dramaturgy, and the Major Plays. Ed. Alvin B. Kernan. San Diego: HBJ, 1970. 204-227. Bergeron, David M. Come Hell or High Water: Shakespearean Romantic Comedy. Shakespearean Comedy. Ed. Maurice Charney. New York: New York Literary Forum, 1980. 111-120. Charney, Maurice. All of Shakespeare. New York: Columbia UP, 1993. Frye, Northrop. The Argument of Comedy. Modern Shakespearean Criticism: Essays on Style, Dramaturgy, and the Major ...
- 2862: Henry Kissinger's Comparison of Realism and Complex Interdependence
- ... Kissinger, the two can be complements from the right perspective. To compare Kissinger's realism with complex interdependence, we must first understand something of Kissinger's view.1 It is founded on the idea of "World Orders." In every age, says Kissinger, a hegemonic regime has emerged. The Rome of the Augustan Principate, the Pax Britannica of the 19th century or the United States in the current century all determined the "World Order" in their respective eras. What exactly that "World Order" was may not always be formally defined, as in the case of the US. Debate over the international duties and interests of America, for instance, fluctuated in the early decades of the "American ...
- 2863: Tyler's "Accidental Tourist" and "Searching For Caleb": Individualism and Belonging to the Family
- ... Ira) loved her, but he couldn't stand how she refused to take her life seriously. She seemed to believe it was some sort of practice life . . . (327) She felt that she could change the world: She simply felt as if the world were the tiniest bit out of focus, the colors not quite within the lines and if she made the smallest adjustment then everything would settle perfectly into place. (455) Therefore, two characters in Breathing Lessons ... Publishing, 1986: 1381-1386. Nesanovich, Stella A. "Anne Tyler." Critical Survey of Long Fiction. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Salem Press, 1991:3329-3345. Reisman, Rosemary M. Canfield. "Anne Tyler." Magill's Survey of American Literature. New York: Salem Press, 1991: 1972- 1982. Tyler, Anne. "The Accidental Tourist." A New Collection. New York: Wings, 1994. Tyler, Anne "Breathing Lessons." A New Collection. New York: Wings, 1994. Tyler, Anne. "Searching for Caleb." ...
- 2864: History of Lacrosse
- ... Norse introduced knattleiker to the Indian tribes of the northeast coast of America, where it then spread inland (Boyd 14). The contact between the American Indians and the Norse occurring when the Norse explored the New World and made camps in Canada and the northeast US. This though is uncertain, where Indian games of lacrosse were witnessed and so is certain. The early data on lacrosse is from missionaries and English explorers ... stick did not. Sticks were very important to the American Indians. Sticks were a symbol of triumph for the Native American culture. Rick Hill Sr., Professor of Native American studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo says that in design lacrosse sticks are descendants of war clubs (Conover 33). The sticks were elaborately carved on the butts and handles. The sticks were so important, then and now, ...
- 2865: Kafka's The Trial: The Reality of Guilt
- ... it complicated for readers. It is confusing and disorienting at times, even demanding that the reader re-read for clarification. Kafka's unique organization may have been intentional. Similar to Joseph, the readers experience a world comprised of perplexity and chaos. We are encouraged to re-evaluate what we have just read, like Joseph is encouraged re-evaluate his life. Our constant reflections are Joseph's reflections; his challenges are ours ... for him is pointless, for there is no way up to him. He reveals Himself to man or He does not. Emil Brunnu argues that, "God cannot be known by His active presence in the world, but is regarded as hidden, so that what God is not revealed" (Kafka A Collection of Critical Essays 157). God speaks and commands; man hears and obeys, or turns away to his own destruction. The ... status, and her deformity? Or does she pity his position with the court? "There is thus between him who pities and him who is pitied a great gap: the one who pities is in a world which the pitied person can never hope to enter; if, as a matter of fact, he could, he would sacrifice his possibility of being pitied. (Adrian Jaffe 93)." With theses words we ponder the ...
- 2866: Cloning And Embryo Research
- ... research. There was extensive research done in the area of embryo stem cells. Scientists have used such mouse stem cells for nearly a decade to create genetically altered mice (Travis Par. 8). Kaye Tucker of World Socialist Web Site writes, “These basic cells are present in the earliest stages of developing embryos and are able to develop into virtually any type of cell and tissue in the body” (Par. 3). This ... clones can be made. It has been a hard task locating and being able to work with these stem cells because they are only around for a short time (Tucker Par. 6). The possibilities for new research are endless. Other than a social issue, the idea of cloning has become a moral issue. Many have asked the question, ‘Should we clone humans?’, and more have answered it. There are many who ... or other types of cells” (Travis Par. 21). Dr. Brigid Hogan who was the scientific co-chairwoman and principal author of a National Institutes of Health agreed to an interview with Nicholas Wade of the “New York Times on the Web”. In the interview, Wade gives an idea of the potential of embryo research when she speaks of Dr. Hogan’s research, “With a group of 11 people, including graduate ...
- 2867: Alcoholics Anonymous
- ... These meetings took place between 1935 and 1939 when Alcoholics Anonymous was an integral part of “A First Century Christian Fellowship” (Pitman 56). A.A. was the outcome of a meeting between Bill W., a New York stockbroker, and Dr. Bob S., an Akron surgeon. Both had been hopeless alcoholics (Fingarette 14). Before this time, Bill and Dr. Bob had each been in contact with the Oxford Group, a mostly nonalcoholic ... men immediately set to work with alcoholics at Akron’s City Hospital, where one patient quickly achieved complete sobriety (Pitman 69). In the fall of 1935, a second group of alcoholics slowly took shape in New York. A third appeared at Cleveland in 1939. It had taken over four years to produce 100 sober alcoholics in the three founding groups. That same year, the Fellowship published it’s basic textbook, Alcoholics ... was covered in countless pleas for help. A few months later, Cleveland’s membership had expanded to 500 (Fingarette 28). For the first time, it was shown that sobriety could be mass-produced. Meanwhile, in New York, Dr. Bob and Bill had organized an over-all trusteeship for the growing Fellowship. All efforts to raise money failed. Nevertheless, the foundation managed to open a tiny office in New York to ...
- 2868: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- ... there were few federal crimes. The Bureau of Investigation primarily investigated violations of laws involving national banking, bankruptcy frauds, antitrust crime, naturalization, and neutrality violation. With the April 1917 entry of the United States into World War I (1914-1918), the Bureau was given the responsibility of investigating espionage, sabotage acts, sedition (resistance against lawful authority), and draft violations. When the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act was passed in October 1919 ... with the passage of a federal kidnapping statue. In 1934, many other federal criminal statues were passed, and Congress gave Special Agents the authority to make arrests and to carry firearms. During the period of World War II, the FBI's size and jurisdiction greatly increased and included intelligence matters in South America. War for the United States began December 7, 1941, when Japanese armed forces attacked battleships and military facilities ... Civil rights and organized crime became major concerns of the Bureau in the 1960's (by that time the number of Agents stabilized at about 6,200). At the same time, Congress gave the FBI new federal laws with which to fight civil rights violations, racketeering, and gambling. By the late 1960's, the confluence of unambiguous federal authority and local support for civil rights prosecutions allowed the FBI to ...
- 2869: Misinformation In The Media
- ... for the readers. On February 15, 1898, the Maine , a U.S. battleship exploded killing 266 American crewmen in Havana harbor. On the front page of Joseph Pulitzer’s Thursday, February 17, 1981 edition of World, the headline read “Main Explosion Caused By Bomb Or Torpedo?”. Meanwhile, there was no concrete evidence to even assume that Spain had anything to do with the devastation of the Maine. This is perfect example ... the tree” argument. According to him, the terrible conditions of plain clothes officers is because of the worse conditions of uniformed officers. Biased reporting can easily be seen in any newspaper’s sports page. The World Series was the first page of the section in the Daily News. This newspaper prides itself on being New York’s hometown newspaper. The Yankees, one of New York’s baseball team, happens to be in the World Series this year. They won Game 1. The score was 4-1. Headlines in this ...
- 2870: The Race to the Moon
- ... the USSR and the USA in the late 50's, led directly to America's determination to be "masters of space." The Space Race became a symbol of the political contest between the two rival world powers. The way the two competitors organized to achieve their goals in space showed their basic differences. The United States had separate civilian and military agencies, and only the military space programs were secret. Civilian space activities, especially the race to the Moon, were openly publicized for the world to see. On the other hand, in the Soviet Union all space programs blended into a secretive military-industrial bureaucracy. Launches were not announced in advance, and only the successes were publicized. (Baker 158-161 ... these early firsts were achieved by the Soviet Union, thus sparking the United States to not only catch up with the Soviets, but also to surpass them. (Alexander 37-39). The Soviet Union stunned the world with the launch of the Sputnik "satellite" on October 4, 1957. Sputnik was a shiny basketball-size sphere containing radio transmitters. Sputnik announced to the world the beginning of the Space Age. Coming only ...
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