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- 5351: Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
- Ethan Frome is a story of ill-fated love, set during the winter in the rural New England town of Starkfield. Ethan is a farmer who is married to a sickly woman named Zeena. The two live in trapped, unspoken resentment on Ethan's isolated and failing farm. Ethan has been caring ... He cherishes the ground she walks on. After a visit to the doctor, Zeena is told that she needs more sufficient hired help. Thus, she decides to send her incompetent cousin away and hire a new one. Ethan and Mattie are desperate to stay together. However, Ethan's lack of financial means and Zeena's health are factors that will never allow him to leave Starkfield. Unable to find any solutions ... rarely leaves the house. She's consumed by her illness. Mattie, on the other hand, seeks refuge from loneliness at the Fromes' farm. A year later she chooses to die rather than return to a world of solitude. Edith Wharton uses characters such as Mattie, to express the theme of loneliness and isolation. Mattie Silver is unlike any of the other characters in Ethan Frome. The town of Starkfield is ...
- 5352: ISDN vs. Cable Modems
- ISDN vs. Cable Modems 1.0 Introduction The Internet is a network of networks that interconnects computers around the world, supporting both business and residential users. In 1994, a multimedia Internet application known as the World Wide Web became popular. The higher bandwidth needs of this application have highlighted the limited Internet access speeds available to residential users. Even at 28.8 Kilobits per second (Kbps)— the fastest residential access commonly ... 3 KHz channel. In contrast, data communications are far more difficult to characterize. Data transmissions are generated by computer applications. Not only do existing applications change frequently (e.g. because of software upgrades), but entirely new categories—such as Web browsers—come into being quickly, adding different levels and patterns of load to existing networks. Researchers can barely measure these patterns as quickly as they are generated, let alone plan ...
- 5353: Son of Dallas Cop Says Dad Was 1 of 3 Who Shot Kennedy
- ... 1 OF 3 WHO SHOT KENNEDY In another bizarre twist to a mystery that has haunted Americans for more than a quarter century, the son of a former Dallas police officer plans to tell the world that his father was one of the assassins of President John F. Kennedy. Ricky White, a 29-year-old, unemployed oil equipment salesman in Midland, says he "had no conception of ever, ever giving this ... on/ ------------------------------------------- ----------------------- Navy Int. Code A MRC Remark data 1666106 NRC VDC NAC (illegible). 63 Remarks Mandarin: Code A Foreign affairs assignments have been cancelled. The next assignment is to eliminate a National Security threat to world wide peace. Destination will be Houston, Austin or Dallas. Contacts are being arranged now. Orders are subject to change at any time. Reply back if not understood. C. Bowers OSHA RE - rifle Code AAA destroy ... opened her mouth she was dead and her children were dead," Shaw says Geneva White told him. Shaw says Geneva White told him she confronted her husband after an organized crime figure approached her in New Orleans in 1971 and told her to deliver a warning to her husband. According to Shaw, Geneva White was shown nearly a dozen photographs and identified the man in New Orleans as Charles Nicoletti, ...
- 5354: Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns but whose works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized. Melville was born August 1, 1819, in New York City, into a family that had declined in the world. “The Gansevoorts were solid, stable, eminent, prosperous people; the (Herman’s Father’s side) Melvilles were somewhat less successful materially, possessing an unpredictable. erratic, mercurial strain.” (Edinger 6). This difference between the Melville’s and ... a seaman on the U.S. Navy frigate United States. After his discharge in 1844 he began to create novels out of his experiences and to take part in the literary life of Boston and New York City. Melville's first five novels all achieved quick popularity. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846), Omoo, a Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847), and Mardi (1849) were romances of ...
- 5355: Censorship and the First Amendment: The American Citizen's Right to Free Speech
- ... material and remove or prohibit anything they consider objectionable? This argument has been progressing for centuries, in fact the first notable case was against John Peter Zenger, in 1743. Zenger was an editor of a New York colonial newspaper that often published articles critical of the colonial governor. He successfully argued that publishing the truth should be a defense and thus defied the conventional wisdom and ended colonial intrusion into freedom ... 13). In our age, there is an unlimited amount of information available through a diverse representation of media: television, radio, films, newspapers, telephones, computers, magazines, books, and so on. Opposed to other countries, within the world, we are advanced both politically and technically. With our ability to learn and to communicate with one another, this will only make the complex issue of censorship grow. We should consider ourselves lucky by world standards, in many countries the freedom of expression is extremely limited, or sometimes not permitted at all. In these societies, the government censors views that are not in line with their policies, controlling controversial ...
- 5356: Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim P
- ... quickly turns into a protest against a quasi-utopian society and a totalitarian government. The book appears to be a satire at the start, similar to books such as "Gulliver's Travels", or Huxley's "Brave New World", but all too quickly the reader will "discover, quite unpleasantly, that it is not a satire at all." Nineteen Eighty-four is not simply a criticism of what Orwell saw happening in his national ...
- 5357: The Theme Of Macbeth
- The play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare in the beginning of the 17th century, deals with a man s turn from the king s most glorious, brave and courageous general into a traitor and murderer influenced by evil forces. In the following I am going to describe the play briefly and explain the theme of it. Furthermore I will discuss Macbeth s ... King hereafter . They prophesize that Banquo will become king though he will not himself be one. Macbeth, who is already Thane of Glamis, is startled when two messengers from the king greet him as the new Thane of Cawdor, thus fulfilling the witches prophecy in part. When Macbeth learns that Duncan s son Malcolm has been appointed Prince of Cumberland, automatic successor to the throne, he momentarily entertains the idea of ... similar fate for themselves, flee Scotland. Macbeth proceeds to Scone, where he is crowned as Duncan s successor to the throne. Banquo half-suspects Macbeth of Duncan s murder but accepts an invitation at the new king s fiest and attends it with his son Fleance. Macbeth employs two murderers to kill both in an attempt to avoid the second part of the witches prophecies. They kill Banquo but Fleance ...
- 5358: The Tiger And The Lamb
- ... all symbolism and ideas in his work." (Shilstone, p.223) Blake discusses that the creator of the lamb is also calls Himself a Lamb. With this he brings religious significance into the poem. It the New Testament, Jesus of Nazareth is referred as God's Lamb. There are a few themes developed in "The Lamb." Blake describes the lamb as symbol of childhood innocence. He also questions about how the lamb ... what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp?" By repeating variations of the word "dread" in the poem, he emphasizes the evil of tiger and the evil this tiger possesses. The mighty beast is whole world of experience outside ourselves, a world of igneous creation and destruction, faced with a terrifying beauty (Harmon, p.360). This poem also contains the theme of creation in that it also mentions the Lamb. The narrator questions, "Did he who ...
- 5359: The Time Machine
- ... it." next Thursday the group met once again at "The Time Travelers" house at his request. Most of the usual attendants were there, yet when the storyteller arrived he noticed there was a couple of new members to the discussion group. One of the new concomitants was a very popular editor in the city, named Blank. The other two men in attendance were a certain journalist of another local paper, and a very shy man who said nothing throughout the ... looking sickly. Eventually, after taking a shower and eating "The Time Traveler" began to tell his story of his experience with his time machine. He had journeyed far into the future, and upon arriving, the "new" time was in the mist of a devastating storm. H. G. Wells uses this storm as a symbolic-foreshadowing of what was to come in "The Time Traveler's" euphoric journey. This location in ...
- 5360: Prison Alternative
- ... is needed to create sufficient space for just the current prison population. "Building more prisons to address crime is like building more graveyards to address a fatal disease." (Robert Gangi, Executive Director, Correctional Association of New York) Ervin 2 Prisons take the nonviolent offender and make him live in the same conditions that a hardened killer would have. The very nature of prison, no matter how humane society attempts to make ... Budget Officers 1997). Why should we force taxpayers to pay to keep nonviolent criminals sitting in prison cells where they become bitter and more likely to repeat their offenses when released? The government must devise new ways to punish the guilty, and still manage to keep American citizens satisfied that our justice system is effective. Instead, why not put non violent criminals to work in restitution programs outside prison where they ... of that of incarceration, depending on the degree of supervision necessary. If we initiate this form of justice for the lesser offender, our prisons will have the vacancies to incarcerate the Jeffery Dahmers of the world in prison for life. Jack Kemp, author of Crime and Punishment in Modern America said, "The idea that a burglar should return stolen goods, pay for damage to the house he broke into and ...
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