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- 5501: Macbeth 3
- ... King of Norway, Macdonwald, Lord of the Western Isles of Scotland, and the Thane of Cawdor who has proved to be disloyal to King Duncan. The reports all stress the heroism of Macbeth (eg "For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name" - Line 16), who is one of Duncan's generals, in ensuring a victory for the King. Duncan announces that Macbeth is to be given the title of Thane of ... of Cumberland. When Duncan voices his intention to travel to Macbeth's castle, Macbeth sets out to take the news to his wife and to prepare a welcome for the King. Macbeth realises that the new Prince of Cumberland is an obstacle to his ambitions and decides to act quickly. IMPORTANT TERMS: 1. in commission: ordered to conduct an execution 6. wanton: unrestrained 2. liege: lord 7. harbinger: messenger 3. safe ... the best knowledge 2. deliver thee: report to you 3. metaphysical: supernatural 4. compunctions ... of nature: natural feelings of pity 5. wait on nature's mischief: attend on the disasters and evil possible in the world 6. hereafter: of the future IMPORTANT QUOTE FROM THE SCENE: "Only look up clear; To alter favour ever is to fear. Leave all the rest to me." (Lines 69-71). Act 1 Scene 6: ...
- 5502: Man's Attitude Towards Nature as Being Superior
- ... of nature. Yes, I believe this to be true and I will prove it by looking at resourcism and speciesism. Resourcism is the exploitation of the worlds resources. Our consumption rate, especially in the western world, is overwhelming. In the beginning, we were a hunter and gatherer society, perceiving man and animals as equals. Everything was shared, there was no claims of ownership, especially land. The two most significant events in ... planet was the creation of agriculture and the industrial revolution. The development of agriculture gave us control over what we grew and ate. Mass amounts of land were cleared in order to make room for new crop fields. Science is considered to be knowledge, knowledge is power and therefore science is mastery. The continued advancement of science created what is known as the industrial revolution. This is where our over consumption began. We were now able to drill into the earth and extract unrenewable resources and make them into many new products. This attitude of power and control over the resources of the earth has lead us to think of ourselves as the most important part of nature. We took what the earth had to ...
- 5503: Alan Dean Foster
- Alan Dean Foster Born in New York City in 1946, Foster was raised in Los Angeles. After receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and a Master of Fine Arts in Cinema from UCLA (1968, 1969) he spent two years ... three Alien films, and Alien Nation. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, and the treatment for the first Star Trek movie. In addition to publication in English, his work has appeared throughout the world. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science fiction ever to do so. Though restricted (for now) to the exploration of one world, Foster's love of the far-away and exotic has led him to travel extensively. After graduating from college he lived for a summer with the family of a Tahitian policeman, camping out in ...
- 5504: Human Cloning
- Early in 1997 Dr. Ian Wilmont a Scottish scientist revealed to the world that he had completed a clone of an adult sheep named Dolly. With this huge step in science the world realized that cloning was no longer the plot of a science fiction movie but rather a realistic look into the future of science and medicine. Have you ever imagined what life would be like if ... patients that are in need of them. This in turn creates a lot of unnecessary deaths, and problems for patients. Currently in the U.S. only 2,300 of 40,000 Americans who needed a new heart received one. That means close to 94% of the patients did not receive one and this is only one organ in one country that were talking about. Statistics show that nearly one third ...
- 5505: Helen of Troy: The Face that Launched One Thousand Ships
- ... the Dioscuri and Clytemnestra. Since Zeus visited Leda in the form of a swan, Helen was often presented as being born from an egg. She was reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the world. When Helen was still a child, she was abducted by Theseus. Since she was not yet old enough to be married, he sent her to Aphidnae and left her in the care of his mother ... a lively debate on women and the moral standards by which they are judged, providing a source of entertainment and food for thought for students of all ages. Bibliography Boyce, Charles. Shakespeare A to Z. New York: Roundtable Press, Inc., 1990. Bulfinch, Thomas. Bulfinchs Mythology. New York: Random House, 1998. Durant, Will. Age of Reason Begins. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Olesker, Katie. (1998, November). Conflicting Views of Helen. Women of Antiquity. Available: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/ ...
- 5506: Jeffrey Dahmer
- ... shy, distant, nearly uncommunicative." Lionel suspected that the move from Iowa to Ohio was the causative factor and Jeff's behaviour was a normal reaction to being uprooted from familiar settings and placed into entirely new ones. Lionel, too, had suffered from shyness, introversion and insecurity as a child and had learned to overcome these problems. He figured his son would learn to overcome them too. What he didn't realise was that Jeff's boyhood condition was far graver than his and that "Jeff had begun to suffer from near isolation." In April of 1967, they bought a new house. Jeff seemed to adjust better to this move and developed a close friendship with a boy named Lee. He was also very fond of one of his teachers and took her a bowl of ... was with dead creatures. Jeff, age 14, swimming Jeff grew more passive and isolated -- "his conversation narrowing to the practice of answering questions with barely audible one-word responses. He was drifting into a nightmare world of unimaginable fantasies. In coming years those fantasies would begin to overwhelm him. The dead in their stillness would become the primary object of his growing sexual desire. His inability to speak about such ...
- 5507: Elvis Presley
- ... Elvis Aaron Presley was born to parents Vernon Elvis Presley and Gladys Love Presley in a two-room house located in Tupelo, Mississippi. Little did anyone know that this little boy would forever change the world of music and entertainment. Although this was a happy occasion for both of them, it was also a very sad one, too. Elvis had a twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley, who was stillborn just a ... 1956, Elvis was an international sensation. He had a sound and style that was unique. Combining his diverse musical influences and challenging the social and racial barriers of the time, he brought in a whole new era of American music and popular culture. On March 24, 1958, Elvis is inducted into the U.S. Army at the Memphis Draft Board. He gets his famous GI haircut at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. The ... let the fame go to his head. Known as the King of Western Bop and the Hillbilly Cat, Presley fused sounds of country music with black rhythm-and-blues influences and what was then the new rock-and-roll style. His electrically charged performances helped make him one of the first mass idols of United States pop-culture. He inspired countless musical artists. His talent, good looks, sensuality, charisma, and ...
- 5508: Money Equals Happiness In The
- ... the class of society that receive money from their relatives. They were someone s heir and rich from birth. It was also known that no one on East Egg would marry someone poor or with new money. Fitzgerald reveals that the life of the privileged class is filled with corruption, carelessness, and materialism through his use of characterization in the novel. Daisy, the wife of Tom Buchanan, has no goals in ... anything that would probably require an elementary education. In the scene where Daisy runs over Myrtle, she doesn t care what has happened, she just cares about herself. "For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes," (158). This quote shows that Daisy is living in a dream world where she doesn t have to obey any laws. Her snobby personality gets her in trouble. Killing Myrtle has no affect ...
- 5509: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... Renaissance child" because of his many talents. As a boy, Leonardo was described as being handsome, strong, and agile. He had keen powers of observation, an imagination, and the ability to detach himself from the world around him. At an early age Leonardo became interested in subjects such as botany, geology, animals (specifically birds), the motion of water, and shadows (About Leonardo). At the age of 17, in about 1469, Leonardo ... wall paintings. An artist that uses this fresco method must work quickly. Leonardo wanted to work slowly, revising his work, and use shadows-which would have been impossible in using fresco painting. He invented a new technique that involved coating the wall with a compound that he had created. This compound, which was supposed to protect the paint and hold it in place did not work, and soon after its completion ... and creative capabilities to enhance life and improve his works. Although his experiments with plastering and painting failed, they showed his dissatisfaction with an accepted means and his creativity and courage to experiment with a new and untried idea. Experimentation with traditional techniques is evident in his drawings as well. During Leonardo's 18 year stay in Milan he also produced other paintings and drawings, but most have been lost. ...
- 5510: Stephen King
- ... sell a modest 13,000 hardcover copies. The book was Carrie. Reviews were mixed, but when United Artists and Brian De Palma released the film version in 1976, it was a critical and commercial success. New American Library purchased the paperback rights of the book that went on to sell over two and a half million copies. Stephen King was born on September 21st, 1947 in Portland, Maine to Donald and ... he worked as an English teacher and spent his free time writing and being rejected by publishers. Then came his break with Carrie and things have never been the same. Today, Stephen King is the world's most successful writer. He has over a hundred million copies of his works in print and that number is climbing rapidly as he is translated into more languages and as he continues to release new books at a rate of almost one per year. At one point, he had an unprecedented five books on the New York Times Best Sellers List at the same time. King is also the ...
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