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- 4971: The Theme of Father/Son Relationships in Beowulf & The Song of Roland
- ... in which there is no actual blood father-son tie, but the two characters take on all the characteristics of a real father son relationship. Hrothgar, although Beowulf's senior, has to rely on this new warrior who comes to Heorot to help him rid his kingdom of a great danger which he can not get rid of by himself, and Hrothgar treats him as if he were his own son ... our defence, my friend Beowulf, and as an act of kindness that you have come to us here!" (Beowulf, pg. 65) We see here that Hrothgar is indeed grateful to have the services of so brave a warrior. When Beowulf slays Grendel, the pride that the old Hrothgar feels towards Beowulf can almost be equated to the pride a father will feel towards his son when he accomplishes a great deed ... holds up the slain Grendel's hand and states "Beowulf, I now take you to my bosom as a son, O best of men, and cherish you in my heart. Hold yourself well in this new relation!" (Beowulf, pg. 80) This claiming of Beowulf as his son and his later bestowing to him gifts customary to their society shows how strong their bond is. After the slaying of Grendel's ...
- 4972: Dave Mathews Band
- ... in this way. Money and MTV have taken away what music is supposed to do, create emotions. A very sad and obvious example is the current charts topper The Back Street Boys. What is the world coming to when a group of kids are making millions because a bunch of 12-year-old girls have crushes? This is the cue for the prophet Mathews, he takes his talents and does something ... have a power all their own much like a poem. The next example is from the album Before these Crowded Streets, the tract is Pig. This song tells the listener that we live in a world that is full of beauty and magic and that we should stop and smell the roses: “Oh, isn't it strange How we move our lives for another day? Like skipping a beat What if ... right now, And deep and sweet within Pouring through our veins Intoxicate moving wine to tears And drinking it deep Then an evening spent dancing It's you and me... This love will open our world From the dark side we can see a glow of something bright Oh, there's much more than we see here Don't burn the day away Is this not enough? This blessed sip ...
- 4973: Mother Teresa
- ... in her time was Mother Teresa. Considered a saint by many, Mother Teresa dedicated her life to serving the poorest of the poor, help the dying, AIDS victims, orphans, and society’s outcasts around the world. Mother Teresa, whose original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born in what is now called Skopje, Yugoslavia in 1910. She was the last of three children to be born into the family. Between ages ... VI decreed the praise of worthiness, giving the Missionaries of Charity “validity” to the order for the wider Catholic Church. This allowed them to expand their missionary work. Between the years of 1965 and 1971 new homes were built around the world in places such as Venezuala, Africa, Australia, and Europe. On October 17, 1979 Mother Teresa was awarded with the most famous international award: the Nobel Peace Prize. She accepted the award on December 10th ...
- 4974: Charles Dickens: Biography
- ... London. 1 Just before he started to toddle, he stepped into the glare of footlights. He never stepped out of it until he died. He was a good man, as men go in the bewildering world of ours, brave, transparent, tender-hearted, and honorable. Dickens was always a little too irritable because he was a little too happy. Like the over-wrought child in society, he was splendidly sociable, and in and yet sometimes ... of The Great Men, American Book-Stratford Press, NY., 1942 pg.19 2. Ibid, pg. 21-22 3. Johnson, Edgar, His Tragedy and Triumph. Rev. ed. Viking, 1977, pg. 20 4. Ibid, pg. 27 5. World Book Encyclopedia, Random House, NY., 1990 pg. 193 6. G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens The Last of the Great Men, American Book-Stratford Press, NY., 1942 pg. 50 7. World Book Encyclopedia, Random House, ...
- 4975: What is Welfare?
- ... the ages twenty and thirty-four, permitted a whole generation of men to expand their education and improve their job with The National Defense Education Act (Coontz 996). Government spending was largely responsible for the new highways, sewer systems, utility services, and traffic control programs that expanded the suburbs. In the postwar period, the Federal Housing federal government in the business of regulating loans for single home construction. FHA policy required ... they will need to be reexamined regularly because the effect everyone living in this country Works Cited Coontz, Stephanie. “A Nation of Welfare Families.” The Norton Reader. Ed. Linda H. Peterson et al. 9th ed. New York, 1996. 993-997. Eighner, Lars. “On Dumpster Diving.” The Norton Reader. Ed. Linda H. Peterson et al. 9th ed. New York, 1996. 19-29. LeVert, Marianne. The Welfare System. New York: The Millbrook Press, 1995. Long, Robert Emmet. The Welfare Debate. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1989. Maloney, Lawrence. “Welfare in America: ...
- 4976: Heart Of Darkness
- ... or train tracks was made. "One's cruelty is one's power; and when one parts with one's cruelty, one parts with one's power," says William Congreve, author of The Way of the World. (Tripp 206.) The Europeans forcibly took away the natives' land and then enslaved them. All the examples given are part of one enormous idea of cruelty - cruelty that the European white men believe because its victims are helpless. These are mystical revelations of man's dark self. Bibliography 1. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness: Backgrounds and Criticisms. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1960. 2. Meyers, Jeffrey. Joseph Conrad. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. 3. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness 3rd ed. Ed. Robert Kimbrough. New York: Norton Critical, 1988. 4. Williams, George Washington. [A Report upon the Congo - State and Country ...
- 4977: Macbeth - Blood In Macbeth
- ... about his future accomplishments that will come to him. One of his prophecies is that Macbeth will become king, Macbeth hearing this he becomes ambitious and later kills the current King Duncan, making himself the new king. A tragic ending comes to Macbeth when the people leave him and his world collapses around him. Blood is a recurring theme in this play; the theme of blood shows the setting of the play at that time and the different moods and emotions acquired by the characters. This ... with the good. Lady Macbeth hears from a messenger that the king shall arrive at the castle tonight. Lady Macbeth is the evil one of the pair while Macbeth seems full of good in this world Lady Macbeth sees opportunity. The only problem she finds wrong with herself is that she is a woman; she wishes that her weak female body change, "unsex me her, / and fill me, from the ...
- 4978: Capital Punishment
- ... took place in the United States between 1930 and 1966, over half of those who died were black (Punishment 2). The controversy over capital punishment began in the eighteenth century and continues today. Throughout the world innocent people are executed in several inhumane forms which the United States should not follow. Today there exists a raging debate on wether the death penalty is economically, morally, and legally justifiable, or still just cruel and inhumane. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bedau, Hugo Adam. "Capital Punishment." Collier's Encyclopedia. 1990. Berns, Walter. For Capital Punishment. New York: Basic Books, 1979. Bockle, Franz, and Jacques Pohier. The Death Penalty and Torture. New York: The Seabury Press, 1979. "Execution Costs an Average $2.3 Million in Texas." San Antonio Light. 9 Mar. 1992, B:8. Fogelson, Robert M. Criminal Justice in America. New York: ARNO Press, 1974. ...
- 4979: Amd Vs. Intel
- ... a 66mhz bus, this made AMD s chip faster. It also was nearly 16% cheaper than any Intel based Pentium!! computer. The gaming community accepted the k6-2 with cautious, but open, arms. With their new SIMD-Enhanced (Single Instruction Multiple Data) 3Dnow! the graphics this processor were able to produce were amazing, for the time, due to the use of floating point intensive programs. With the new processor and their own design they were not only keeping up with the giant Intel, but they were innovating. Intel answered back with its SSE , which was to be included in its Pentium!!! processors. This new enhancement was to push graphics acceleration twice as fast as AMD s 3Dnow! could. When Intel prematurely released the Pentium!!! processor it fell short. Many people got chances to take the new P3 for ...
- 4980: Grapes of Wrath Essay
- ... surviving involves adapting. John Steinbeck does a good portrayal of the theme, that people have always had to adapt to changing times, in his book, The Grapes of Wrath. People often had to adapt to new environments. In Steinbeck’s book, the Joads along with the majority of Oklahoma farmers, were all having to move to California. People were being evicted from their farms and told to move some fifteen hundred ... in adapting. The change of environment came progressively: first at home, then their life on the road, and finally when they actually arrived in California. Life on the road was slow, unpredictable, and so very new to the Joads, who had never traveled before. "The moving, questing people were migrants now. Those families which had lived on a little piece of land, who had lived and died on forty acres, had ... thatch. The Joad’s environment went from having a home and a farm with sentimental value, to a truck and a tent, no money, no one particular place to stay, and a bunch of strange new people. People always have to make occupational adaptations in life. A person’s environment extremely affects their occupation; if their environment is altered, many times their line of work will change. The Joad’s ...
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