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- 6231: The Point of View in "Porphyria's Lover"
- ... clearly believes that God approves of his actions. Browning wrote about a religious belief in "Porphyria's Lover." John Agricola was the founder of the Antinomian heresy. His belief is that "a Christian under the new dispensation was absolved of responsibility which prevailed under the Mosaic law and hence could not be guilty of sin, however heinous his acts might be. . . . In the Monthly Repository Browning prefaced the poem with an ... happened: God has indeed not spoken) and his growing uncertainty provides neither speaker nor reader with an external judge, leaving only the speaker's reconstruction of events: the imposition of his solipsistic consciousness on the world (Slinn 12)." Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" sets a standard for other poets to follow. The point of view is very dramatic and dynamic. This poem is very effective in expressing to people one thing ... letting the reader know the reality of it all. Although his name is never mentioned, the lover is a unique and memorable character. Works Cited Barnet, Sylvan. Literature for Composition, Third edition. Harper Collins Publishers. New York, New York. 1992. pp567-568. Slinn, E. Warwick. Browning and the Fictions of Identity. Barnes & Noble Books. Totowa, New Jersey. 1982. Maxwell, Catherine. "Browning's Porphyria's Lover." The Explicator, Fall 1993, v52, ...
- 6232: Victorian Literature
- ... until 1901. This period is called the Victorian Age. During the Victorian Age, great economic, social, and political changes occurred in Britain. The British Empire reached its height and covered about a quarter of the world's land. Industry and trade expanded rapidly, and railways and canals crisscrossed the country. Science and technology made great advances. The size of the middle class grew enormously. By the 1850's, more and more ... many other areas. British colonies united in Australia and Canada, and these countries became important members of the growing British Empire. The development of a worldwide colonial empire made Britain the richest country in the world. Britain ended restrictions on foreign trade, and its colonies became both sources of raw materials and markets for its manufactured goods. Britain was called the workshop of the world. The British Empire included a quarter of the world's land and a quarter of its people. The population of Britain itself increased 50 per cent during Victoria's reign, and Britain changed from ...
- 6233: Dead Poet's Society: Significant Experiences; The Twists of Life.
- ... life that create change not only in one's present period of life, but also dramatically alter one's view of the surrounding and forthcoming events. The impacts of such experiences are the opening of new doors in life, the realization of possibilities one would have never imagined sitting right under one's nose and the perception of details one never thought important before. They mostly temper peoples views of events ... a handful of students discover through the exuberance of their English teacher what kinds of lives they had been leading, and what their lives could be. One student in particular, Neil Perry, discovers a whole new world and his life is irreversibly changed as a result of the impact of his association with Mr. Keating. The lives of all the boys were drastically changed the day they met Mr. Keating. "Carpe ...
- 6234: Capital Punishment
- ... ever be, then that person can no longer be a part of this society. The only method that completely separates cold-blooded murderers from our society is the death penalty. Many places all over the world have used the death penalty at one point or another. The Ancient Romans and the Judaic cultures practiced retributive justice. That type of justice uses the rule "an eye for an eye." The United States ... penalty can be justified or not. If an error does occur, and an innocent person is executed, then the problem lies in the court system, not in the death penalty. Furthermore, most activities in our world, in which humans are involved, possess a possibility of injury or death. Construction, sports, driving, and air travel all offer the possibility of accidental death even though the highest levels of precautions are taken. These ... as a society, that the advantages outweigh the unintended loss. We have also decided that the advantages of having dangerous murderers removed from our society outweigh the losses of the offender. Crime in today's world has become more gruesome with the times. With the crimes comes jail, so more jails are being built for the prisoners. More criminals are being sent to jail and getting the death penalty. Some ...
- 6235: AIDS: Is it a Modern Plague?
- AIDS: Is it a Modern Plague? In some parts of the world there are still wars being fought and dictators in power. There are societies which consider themselves at the peak of evolution and progress. They are able to create state of the art automobiles, luxurious homes ... submicroscopic pathogen consisting of a particle of nucleic acid, enclosed in proteins, and able to replicate only within a living cell. Socially, it is responsible for an enormous amount of chaos and fear in the world today, and pronounces the human fault of ignorance. Can it be considered to be a modern plague? This complex and confusing king of all tyrants is called Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV. HIV is a ... combined account for less than 20 percent of the adult HIV infections. More than 90 percent of HIV infections in Africa are due to heterosexual transmission. An AIDS epidemic is also emerging in Asia, where new HIV infections increased by 80 percent in the last three years, and estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate that AIDS in Asia will cause unprecedented rates of infection and death. The major ...
- 6236: The American Classroom: Making it work for the Native American
- ... that the individual have a firm understanding of what it means to teach a Native American student. It is estimated that in 1990 over half of the Native American population lived in Oklahoma, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Alaska, and Washington (Manning 54). With this in mind a teacher in this state must understand some important facts about the education of a young Native American. According to Manning Native American students function ... part of attitudes and behavior. It is important to have a basic understanding of Native American beliefs in order to reach students at different levels. The basic belief among Native American religions is that the world is interconnected and everything, even humans, lives according to the same process. The basic goal in life is to live in harmony with nature. The Native American believes that all of nature's objects are deserving of equal respect. For the Native American there is a god, often known as the Great Spirit, if this God didn't exist the world wouldn't exist. This spiritual god of the Native Americans is positive, benevolent, and an integral part of everyday life. The dominant society tends to judge people's behavior as right or wrong, good ...
- 6237: Carlos Santana
- By: ryan c E-mail: x60zpi@aol.com Carlos Santana Ryan Conroy All the world knows the special magic of Carlos Santana. Since 1966, he has led the group that bears his name, selling over 30 million albums and performing before an estimated 13 million people. In every performance, Carlos ... waves and making people dance. Tijuana, 1955 the drastic change of moving from the small, quiet town of Autlan to the humming, thriving boom town of Tijuana brought a renewed hope and opportunity for a new life. Both for Carlos and his family. The eight-year old Carlos quickly left the violin for the guitar, studying and emulating the sounds of B.B. King, T-Bone Walker and John Lee Hooker ... the Santana Blues Band was overwelmed by a wave of popularity that would take them from San Francisco's Fillmore West, to that historical performance in 1969 before 500,000 at the Woodstock Festival in New York. Carlos Santana had arrived, and with him, a new spirit and dedication to his music. Always changing, always searching, always growing--yet always consistently and clearly Carlos. Every new album--including 14 gold ...
- 6238: Japanese Media Overview
- ... Mainichi, Nihon Keizai, Sankei and Yomiuri Shimbun (newspaper) all publish both a morning and an evening edition, with total circulation of more than 40 million copies per day (Cooper-Chen, 1997, p. 53). Of the world s ten highest daily circulation newspapers, the top three are Japanese, with the fourth highest having a circulation of just over one-third of the circulation of the Yomiuri Shimbun (The United States is not represented in this list) (Cooper-Chen, 1997, p. 54). It is not surprising that Japan has the highest ratio of newspapers to people in the world, with 578 copies per day for every 1000 people (Cooper-Chen, 1997, p. 52). Local newspapers are smaller than the nationals, and many are published only once or twice a week, even in cities with ... thousands of people in urban areas. An incident in 1985 resulted in the arrest of a mini-FM broadcaster and, since that time, mini-FMs have become much less common (Cooper-Chen, 1997, p. 109). New media It is ironic that Japan, a nation with a high-tech image, until very recently had one of the lowest rates of Internet use. A 1996 study found that Japan had only three ...
- 6239: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: One and the Same
- ... reality meagre [sic]?" It would be hard for any person to measure their self-accomplishments on the planetary scale which Whitman is speaking of. The second verse of the poem introduces the metaphor of the world being a "simple, compact, well- joined scheme" with the people dissolved into the "eternal float of solution." Like the mechanical"scheme" that Whitman refers to, much of the poem consists of topics that possess a repetitive or mechanical quality. Sunrises, sunsets, tides, seasons, circling birds, the daily New York commute on the Brooklyn Ferry, and the cycling of generations are woven into the poem. A substantial amount of stanzas in the poem all begin with the same word. The continuous use of repetitive ... the bad parts of his life, he goes on to tell about what he enjoyed in his life. The things that gave him pleasure were in fact the sensory pleasures. What he saw in the world, the voices and sounds of the people, the accomplishments that he felt, and memories that he made were his justifications for living. Living his life to the fullest and cherishing the things that he ...
- 6240: Irony Moll Flanders
- I love but hate, I laugh without a smile, I am ridiculous and respected, hypocrite and honest, a nonsense with reason , a convict and a gentleman. Isn't that the world we live in ? He is using a subtle form of humour by saying things that he does not mean. This situation is odd or amusing because it involves a contrast. Irony kills, laughs, denounces, argues ... into precarious relationship, and the woman who censures this youthful behaviour. Moll is not behaving with financial prudence in her first affair with the two brothers. She has not yet learned the way of her world and the older Moll condemns her younger self for this. The girl is too taken up with her own beauty and its immediate, not long-range reward: "I...was taken up with the pride of ... that her beauty is being used, and she is not using her beauty. Some might think that there is something ironic in the fact that Moll’s beauty is living in a rough and cruel world. Defoe gives no clue and make her fit in every situation. She is cute as a beggar and wonderful as a whore. She fits everywhere. Her beauty has though nothing ironic or at least ...
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