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- 6521: Watching The Box Watch Peter H
- ... general positions are supported by the letters, which oppose each other: 1)television is basically good for people, 2)television is basically bad for people. The first letter comes from R. Lurie, of Santa Fe, New Mexico. She or he relates to the reader how television allows a great level of intimacy between viewer and viewed, without the complications of real life. This openness is contrasted to the "real" relationships which ... and banal" (604). Once she became married, television no longer was her main companion in life. Television took the back seat, as a personal place which she could escape to when the pressures of the world, of her family, becomes too much to bear (604). In sharp contrast to these positive views of television is the observations of Theresa Lenexa. She looks at the rather important role that television had played ... that television is addictive, like some legal and illegal drugs. And like said drugs, television is harmful to its adherents in many ways (600). Television makes people asocial, and takes people out of the "real" world and into an "unreal" plane of existence (601). Television, Hamill claims, allows one to have emotional shifts without any kind of effort. It is passive escapism. He believes that television allows people to escape ...
- 6522: Genetics
- ... 65) Now that cloning technology is a reality, how will it be used? That is the question that has everyone worried. Whenever cloning is mentioned, people immediately worry about cloning humans. Many nations of the world (including England, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain) have already banned the cloning of humans. President Clinton has ordered a federal bioethics committee to report in ninety days on the ethics involved in the ... cloning. On the other side, someone could clone themselves out of pure ego. Or, in the most extreme situation, someone might clone another Hitler. (Kluger 69) People assume that the same mind would inhabit the new clone body. This is not true, however. The brain is far too complex to be duplicated. With any other organ, there would be the slightest differences. But there is no real pattern in the construction ... humans, and to realize that the reality of cloning may be very different from what popular culture has shown us it will be. Works Cited James, Caryn. A Warning As Science Catches Up On Cloning. New York Times, March 3 1997, Fine Arts Page. Johnson, George. Don't Worry. A Brain Still Can't Be Cloned./Send In The Clones. New York Times, March 3, 1997, p. 1. Specter, Michael ...
- 6523: The Analysis Of The Main Chara
- Tennessee Williams gives insight into three ordinary lives in his play, “A Streetcar Named Desire” which is set in the mid-1930’s in New Orleans. The main characters in the play are Blanche, Stanley, and Stella. All three of these characters suffer from personalities that differentiate each of them to great extremes. Because of these dramatic contrarieties in attitudes ... to their conflicting ideals of happiness and the way things “ought to be”. Williams begins by introducing us to the happy couple, Stanley and Stella Kowalski. The two live in a run-down part of New Orleans, but are content in their surroundings and their lifestyle. Stanley Kowalski is a Polish Immigrant who strongly believes in the role of a man in his own household. One may perceive him as being ... the opposite: an outspoken woman, with many opinions. Superficial is the first impression that Blanche gives when she enters the play. Consumed by appearance and face value, she is unable to see that Stella’s new lifestyle is not as horrid as she imagines. In comparison to Belle Reve, it is true that these New Orleans slums may not meet Dubois standards, but Blanche is unable to see beyond the ...
- 6524: Fahrenheit 451: Books - A Part of Our Past
- ... watch a show on it. No one reads books anymore just for the fun of it, or so they can read the paranormal, science fiction, horror, classics, fiction or non-fiction novel that surround our world. If we want to see stuff like that we will watch “The X-Files” or rent a Stephan King movie. Actually when you read books there is much more satisfaction about it. They help you ... that kind of satisfaction out of watching a movie, it just goes in one ear and out the next. Reading also keeps people from going illiterate and it encourages other to read. What would the world be like if everyone were illiterate? It would be terrible, those who could read would be named “freaks”, just like the people who read book in Fahrenheit 451. They would be outcast from the rest of the world. It would be like as if everyone were racist against those people, and we all know the racism is one of the worst things to plague man kind. Where would those in the world ...
- 6525: Heart Of Darkness
- ... or a symbol, for the journey into the uncharted human soul. On another level, the voyage into the wilderness can be read as a voyage back to Eden, or to the very beginning of the world. On still another level, the actual trip into and then out of the African continent can be seen as metaphor for sin and redemption. (Telegen 98) Here the several different meanings of the novel are ... the tide to turn. As the narration begins the reader is then introduced to the old, naïve Marlow who once walked the earth. It is through the eyes of this Marlow that we see the world change and develop as he transforms from innocence or light, to understand evil or darkness. As an European Marlow had never really encountered anyone of significant difference until along the shore of the African Coast ... the journey towards his darkness while Kurtz is being suffocated by his own. It was the greed for the ivory which drove Kurtz to this stage of insanity. Once Kurtz isolated himself from the civilized world he developed characteristics similar to that of a cult leader. He was able to manipulate minds of certain native tribal members to follow him and his ways. He gave himself god-like qualities such ...
- 6526: Impact Of Graphic Art On The French Revolution
- ... These were the people who had the time and money to attend theater and patronize artists. These were the people that came to the galleries to view David's works. His works were of a new style, never seen before. The art of the French Revolution represented a sharp break with the art of the early part of the eighteenth century, when rococo reigned. Rococo art glorified the aristocracy, maybe because ... people" were nowhere to be seen in rococo paintings. However, influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment, a few artists made an abrupt change. Old ideas of republicanism and democracy were being resurrected among these new artists, known as the neoclassicists. This era of art was to be known as the neoclassical era due to its heavy reliance on classical Greek and republican Roman themes. Oath of the Horatii (1784), Death ... the National Assembly was constituted. This moment was seen by most people as the moment that the Revolution began and therefore should be immortalized. David later became a member of the National Convention, France's new representative body, and was appointed to the Committee for Public Safety, which was responsible for suppressing political dissent during the Reign of Terror. In this position, David signed the death warrants of hundreds of ...
- 6527: Essay on Romanticism in Frankenstein
- ... of great change. The populace was moving into cities, and people were disillusioned by the destruction of nature and the living conditions in the cities. In response to this disillusionment, people started to envision the world differently than they had before. They saw nature as all beautiful, powerful, and perfect. Previously, the inspiration for literature was law, order, and religion; now, it is in the writers imagination and powerful emotions. This ... and acting with emotions, not common sense. In the more classical style of writing, writers addressed their books to the upper class, but now writers addressed the common man and his problems. Their was a new feeling of spirituality. People were seeking eastern concepts of nirvana, transcendentalism and being one with nature. People wanted to experience life, not study it. They seeked extreme emotions, whether they were good or bad. Marry ... His life degenerates from here on. Victor is a product of the Industrial Revolution. In reaction to people with Victor's characteristics, the Romantic Period is born. His beliefs are in science and the known world, which is the opposite of the Romantic ideal. He believes that he can conquer nature, and tries to be a god, but discovers that he cannot conquer nature and knows nothing on how to ...
- 6528: Donkey
- The Steam Donkey in Martin Grainger's Woodsmen of the West In the beginning of the 20th century, the logging industry in B.C. and around the world saw a dramatic change in the way logs were being logged. Techniques came and went although some stayed longer than other. New technologies played a very important role in this change; none more than the invention of the steam donkey. In Martin Grainger's Woodsmen of the West, Carter's acquisition of a steam donkey allowed his ... lumber due to the rapid increase of population around the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island regions. In 1901, these two regions accounted for 58.5% of British Columbia's total population. The majority of the new population were immigrants. Most of these immigrants were Chinese, Japanese, and other Canadians coming to B.C. from the rest of Canada. One of the main factors attracting immigrants to B.C. was the ...
- 6529: Battle At Trafalgar
- ... battle, to discuss the ships of the line, and the men who worked them. It will also expose the lack of commitment the French had in regards to naval warfare. Bonaparte wanted to rule the world. The largest obstacle in his way was that of the Royal Navy of England. Bonapart's idea was to cross the English Channel, moving his vast army onto British soil. If the English mainland could ... in the role of defense. Most all of France rallied around the objective of Napoleon. To finance such an undertaking most of the major cities, townships, and districts donated men and supplies to build the new French navy. Lyons for example donated a complete 100-gun ship of the line, while Paris, not to be outdone, donated a ship of 120 guns. Patriotic fever ran its course throughout France. Smaller villages ... family for extended periods. For this reason, voluntary enlistment was rare. To satisfy the requirements of manpower the English as well as French used a method of forced enlistment. Press-gangs were used to recruit new sailors into service. These gangs of seasoned shipmen, under orders of the captain the ship, would row into port under the cover of night armed with clubs and sabers. The press-gangs would seek ...
- 6530: Stoker and Rice's Books About Vampires
- ... compare with our own ordinance survey maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well known place” (Stoker 2). In contrast, Rice sets her story in the modern world. New Orleans is the main area which her story takes place. Her vampires like to live in houses rather than castles. This now brings up the subject of contact with people. Lestat likes to talk to ... of five female vampires living with him in his castle. Other than that there is no mention of contact with other vampires. Actually there is no mention of any other vampires that exist in the world Stoker created. Anne Rice, obviously with more space to explore her vampires, made an entire world of vampires living incognito with mortals. She actually has a family tree of vampires which decends from a ...
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