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- 6851: Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place": The Concept of Nada
- ... well-lighted place” (Hoffman 176). This cafe is a warrior against this nothingness. The place is clean, pleasant, and orderly. There is no music. It is a plain and simple refuge against the lonely, dark world that awaits outside (Hemingway 256). However, this cafe must close at some time or another thus proving that the cafe isn't enough to combat the nada. It is not even a place but an ... loneliness. Some attempt suicide and others commit suicide like the late Ernest Hemingway. Works Cited Baker, Carlos. Hemingway...the Writer as Artist. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972. 123-124. Burgess, Anthony. Ernest Hemingway and His World. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978. Hemingway, Ernest. “A Clean Well-Lighted Place.” Literature: Reading, Writing, Reacting. Ed. Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers., 1997. 256-259. Hoffman, Steven ...
- 6852: Chocolate History And The Growing Of Cocoa
- ... special drink and as currency for hundreds of years before cocoa was brought to Europe. Christopher Columbus is said to have brought the first cocoa beans back to Europe from his fourth visit to the 'New World' between 1502 and 1504. However the many other treasures on board his galleons were far more exciting so the humble cocoa beans were neglected. It was his fellow explorer, the Spanish Conquistador Don Hernan Cortes ... 1528 and very gradually the custom of drinking chocolate spread across Europe reaching England in the 1650s. The London Chocolate Houses became the fashionable meeting places for the elite of London society to savour this new luxury beverage. The heavy import duties which had made chocolate a luxury that only the wealthy could enjoy were reduced in 1853. Chocolate and cocoa became within the reach of the wider population and ...
- 6853: Albert Einstein
- ... recognized throughout Europe as a leading scientific thinker. In 1909 the fame that resulted from his theories got Einstein a job at the University of Prague, and in 1913 he was appointed director of a new research institution opened in Berlin, the Kaiser Wilhelm Physics Institute. In 1915, during World War 1, Einstein published a paper that extended his theories. He put forth new views on the nature of gravitation. Newton's theories he said were not accurate enough. Einstein's theories seemed to explain the slow rotation of the entire orbit of the planet Mercury, which Newton' ...
- 6854: Should This Business Update To Windows 2000 From Windows 98
- Should this business update to Windows 2000 from Windows 98 for its office PCs? In the business world today, computers and the software applications that run on them basically control an well-organized business. Every major company is equipped with a computer, or network that connects through different branches throughout the firm. To ... be outdated in a matter of two years time. Therefore, it is necessary for the business to update to Windows 2000 from Windows 98 for its office PCs. Windows 2000 is intended to the business world and others who are running large networks of computers. It has a lot of things going for it, but just because it has some advantages over Windows NT and Windows 98 doesnˇ¦t mean everyone ... word processing and database software probably will be OK, but some specialized programs, games and multimedia applications may not be compatible. If you are familiar with Windows 98, youˇ¦ll feel pretty comfortable with the new operating systemˇ¦s look and feel. Nevertheless, there is always something to learn. If employees will be using your new operating system, you may need to train before they are comfortable with it. I ...
- 6855: Oscar Wilde
- ... an over- sized sunflower, an icon of the movement. Wilde quickly became well known despite having any substantial achievements to build on. His natural wit and good humor endeared him to the art and theater world, and through his lover Frank Miles, he found it easy to become part of the cliques that frequented London's theater circuit and drawing rooms. He became a much desired party guest, and eventually his popularity led to his being chosen as an advance publicity man for a new Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Patience, that spoofed aesthetes like himself. In 1881, Wilde's first book of poems, called Poems, was published. In 1882, short of money, he accepted an invitation to embark on a lecture tour of America. He produced his first play in New York City, called Vera, about nihilism in Russia. According to some, it was canceled at the last moment, probably for political reasons; others say he saw it performed there but that it ran unsuccessfully. ...
- 6856: Aum Shinkyria
- There are, literally, thousands of cults in existence throughout the world today. From Christianity and other religious spin-offs to entirely new religions, they are everywhere. And they all have one common goal: a utopia for all of it s members. A place where the people who are devoted can go and feel at peace with themselves and with the world. Where they have no worries or cares to make their shoulders heavy. I have focused on a man who started a cult with that objective, and ended up creating mass panic and murder everywhere. ...
- 6857: Effects of TV on Children
- ... by responding with violence. When they see a character shot, or beat someone up so they can steal their car, they may catch on to the idea. They come to expect it in the real world, and when they do not see it, the world becomes bland. The children then may create the violence that their mind craves. A child may also see a villain on TV, and try to test out his tactics to see if they really do ... but we also are going to have control of what they watch. Anything that has Violence, Sexual content, and public view of what is acceptable is going to be outlawed from our children with the new system. Not until they are 18 will they be able to watch these things. Well children nowadays are too smart and they will find ways around my system. We also need to be realistic ...
- 6858: The Scarlet Letter 10
- Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister s miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred! (Ch.24: 236) Hawthorne expresses the purpose of writing this novel in that short sentence. He creates characters who have sin and ... had a consecration of its own. We felt it so! We said so to each other! Hast thou forgotten it? (Ch.17: 179). Hester fully acknowledges her guilt and displays it with pride to the world. This was obvious by the way she displays the scarlet letter with elaborate designs showing that she is proud. Furthermore, she does not want to live a life of lies anymore when she states forgive ... because, thencefoward, no good can be achieved by them no evil of the past be redeemed by better service. So, to their own unutterable torment, they go about among their fellow-creatures looking pure as new-fallen snow while their hearts are all looking speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves (Ch.10: 121). Dimmesdale becomes weaker by letting guilt and grief eat away at his ...
- 6859: John Donne and the Psychology of Death
- ... the tenets of his Christian faith, his “death” is not permanent extermination at all, but simply a sleep like the ones he has every night; he fully and confidently expects to be resurrected into a new life with God, and when he does, Death will have no power over him. When this happens, Death will have no function for him, and therefore Death will die. In Garza’s words, “One is ... He has gone through a great deal in his relatively young life -- he was very poor, and life was not easy -- and Garza mentions that some critics have seen in this poem a sense of world-weariness that welcomes death. Although the despair of so much loss and hardship is evident in this poem, this argument is harder to sustain, because Donne’s scorn of Death’s power comes through so clearly. In the second poem we will consider in this paper, Holy Sonnet #13, Donne characteristically jumps right into his topic: “What if this present were the world’s last night?” We have driven straight into the Apocalypse. He questions his soul as to whether “the picture of Christ crucified . . . can thee affright” -- in other words, does the idea that Christ died ...
- 6860: Affecting How We Think
- ... ourselves, "Is media 'mere entertainment,' or are there serious side effects of the national preoccupation with the media?" Long-term exposure to the media has a tendency to influence the way we think about the world around us, but how? Since the printing of the first newspaper to the introduction of the Information Superhighway, society has been able to view itself objectively. The men and women who present media to us ... objectivity in the quest to depict situations as neutrally, yet as meaningfully, as possible. Another example of subjectivity in the media and its effect on society is easily viewed in a recent incident in Rochester, New York. When a controversial biographer visited the University of Rochester to discuss his book on Mother Teresa and present his negative views on her compassionate legacy, a local newspaper responded with counteracting religious reactions and ... of a healthy democracy which "demands journalistic integrity and intellegence." Some may argue that the newspaper's behavior was, in effect, a perpetration of libel. The Sullivan Rule, decided upon by the Supreme Court in New York Times v. Sullivan (1964), protects common man from libel and slander. The court held that the First Amendment protects the publication of all statements, even false ones, about the conduct of public officials ...
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