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- 7821: Myth or Reality, Today's Perception on Monsters
- ... What if the stories of a giant "ape-like" creature that have circulated over the globe for centuries were true? There have been numerous sightings and first-hand accounts of this creature everywhere in the world, from the United States to the Himalayas. One of the more famous sightings took place at Bluff Creek in 1967. Roger Patterson and a friend were horse back riding when they saw a huge hair ... that is left indicates that the creature could weigh as much as 600 pounds. Researchers at Ohio State University hope to come within a hair of verifying the existence of Bigfoot. Scientists are using a new DNA matching process to determine whether there may be more to the Sasquatch legend than some blurry film footage and a few giant footprints. The evidence consists of two tufts of hair, each withabout a ... cryptozoologist Roy P. Mackal, author of "The Monsters of Loch Ness". This figure may be on the high side, but whatever the figure is, Nessie is certainly one of the most-sighted monsters in the world. Only a month before the Spicer sighting a less-talked about sighting had been reported by James MacIntosh. He was travelling home to Inverness after a fishing trip with his son, also named James. ...
- 7822: THe Catcher in the Rye: Summary
- ... Catcher in the Rye: Summary The Catcher in the Rye is a book by J. D. Salinger and the story of a boy named Holden Caufield. He is no longer innocent, but exposed to the world. Phoebe, Holden's sister, is the opposite she is quite the innocent, never really being exposed to the world outside her protective bubble. Holden wants to protect such precious innocence only found in the children as a guardian of the innocent a catcher in the rye. The Catcher in the Rye is fundamentally a book about innocence. This book shows people of two different parties, the innocent (not tainted by the world) and the experienced (both good and evil), in their daily life and work. These innocents include Sally Hayes and Phoebe. Sally belies the world is a big party (or a social occasion), everyone likes ...
- 7823: Blindness In Oedipus The King
- ... of sight, he discards his outward gift of sight. Sight, therefore, seems to be like good and evil, a person may only choose one. Teiresias, prophet of Phoebus, was stricken with blindness to the physical world, but, as a result, gained the gift of sight into the spiritual world. This great gift allowed him to become a superior prophet, praised by the people as “god like” and as a person “in whom the truth lives.” Therefore, it was no surprise that Oedipus asked the ... to blame for the judgement being poured out upon the country. The sin so hidden from Oedipus’ and the peoples’ eyes was quite visible to Teiresias. What Teiresias lacked in his ability to see the world, he made up for in being able to see a person’s heart - a skill that nearly cost him his life after a lengthy argument with Oedipus. Yet what distinguishes Teiresias from the others ...
- 7824: Descartes' Meditations
- ... this idea is difficult to understand. He scrutinizes whether perhaps he is a body infused with a soul but this idea is dismissed since he cannot be certain of concepts that are of the material world. Eventually he focuses on the act of thinking and from this he posits: “I am a thing that thinks.”(20 ) A thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses ... constitutes an idea as being clear and distinct. Using his existence as an example he reasons that whatever he perceives very clearly and very distinctly is true. Concerning the beliefs he holds of the sensible world, he comes to the conclusion that these things could have been caused by things outside himself, and the ideas are similar to those things. Up to this point Descartes has held that God could deceive ... God has created him with such a strong belief in the existence of material things that they must not be false because God is not deceptive. By using God as his proof for the material world, Descartes has left himself in a precarious situation. Were it to be found that God does not exist the rest of his assertions would subsequently crumble. Nevertheless, Descartes is satisfied with the progress that ...
- 7825: Okonkwo: Overwhelmed By His Past
- ... life is filled with injustice, as he also strives to be less like his father. When Okonkwo is exiled, he returns to his mother’s homeland in Mbanta, and is given a chance for a new start. Okonkwo is filled with grief and he struggles to live his life in Mbanta. He regrets every day of his exile, because he misses the chance to succeed greatly in Umuofia. He fears this ... fate. Okonkwo’s life seems to be falling apart. Just like past actions that could not be avoided, the coming of the white men and missionaries is also inevitable. They bring along with them a new religion as well as a new government, and persuade others to join in their mission. These Christians are successful in convincing Nwoye, Okonkwo’s eldest son, to join with the new church. After hearing about this, Okonkwo becomes furious, and ...
- 7826: Grapes Of Wrath
- ... Company where he gained knowledge of labor problems he would later write about in The Grapes of Wrath.) Other books by Steinbeck include Of Mice and Men, Tortilla Flat, and Cannery Row. He died in New York City on December 20th 1968. Sinrod 2 A constant theme in our story is the suffering of humans. As F.W. Watt says, (The primary impact of The Grapes of Wrath...is not to ... of Casey is believed to be the symbolic representation of Jesus Christ himself. (Jim Casy's initials are JC, and he retired to the wilderness to find spiritual truth and came forth to teach a new doctrine of love and good works...Casy sacrificed himself for others when he surrendered himself as the man who had struck a deputy Sinrod 3 at Hooverville...Tom told his mother, "I'm talking like ... this model the mother makes the most important contributions to the family stability.) Placing such importance on family values is not without reasons. Family is all the Jodes have to hold onto in the uncaring world in which they live. It is the only way they survive in the system which thrives on the exploitation of the poor. (The real power of Grapes of Wrath is the savage anger at ...
- 7827: All Quiet on the Western Front: The War Against Disillusionment
- ... novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, the theme of disillusionment is seen and stated over and over by the experiences that Paul and his classmates encountered from their graduation day to the end of World War One. Disillusionment is to lose or lack any faith, hope, or belief in something or someone; to hold no illusions about a particular person, place, or thing; to be disenchanted or detached. This sense ... survive the longest. Not until their first conflict did the group find out just how meaningless their basic training was. This was when they really felt disillusioned. With the first attack Paul felt that “ the world as they had taught it to us broke into pieces” (13). “While they taught that duty to one’s country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger...And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through” (13). Paul felt totally betrayed here and a sense of disillusionment had overcome the entire group. They were all ...
- 7828: Sigumand Freud and Nietzsche: Personalities and The Mind
- Sigumand Freud and Nietzsche: Personalities and The Mind There were two great minds in this century. One such mind was that of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). In the year 1923 he created a new view of the mind. That view encompassed the idea we have split personalities and that each one have their own realm, their own tastes, their own principles upon which they are guided. He called these ... primitive, unconscious basis of the psyche dominated by primary urges. The psyche of a newly-born child, for instance, is made up of primarily the id. But then contact with that child and the outside world modifies the id. This modification then creates the next part of the psyche, the ego, which begins to differentiate itself from the id and the rest of the psyche (Dilman, 163). The ego should be ... portrayal of Apollonian conditions," (AD, in Jacobus, 556). That "plastic rhythm" described by Nietzsche is the cardinal groundwork for the theory of the Apollonian. Apollonian people are those who are totally based in the scientific world. They have no real imagination, no abstractness to their thinking. Whereas people who are wholly Dionysian are the opposite. These folk have no real basis in the real world. They are completely out of ...
- 7829: Greek Mythology
- ... take to heart. The Greeks believed in manlike deities as well, whom were capable of spite, favoritism, and jealousy. The only difference being their ability to perform supernatural powers and immortality. The creation of the world according to the Greeks goes as follows: In the beginning there was only chaos. Out of this void appeared Erebus, the unknowable place where death dwells, and Night (Nyx). All else was empty, silent, endless ... would win and put the young gods down. However, Zeus was cunning. He went down to Tartarus and freed the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires. Prometheus joined Zeus as well. He returned to battle with his new allies. The Cyclopes provided Zeus with lighting bolts for weapons. The Hecatoncheires he set in ambush armed with boulders. With the time right, Zeus retreated drawing the Titans into the Hecatoncheires's ambush. The Hecatoncheires ... falling on them. They broke and ran giving Zeus victory. Zeus exiled the Titans who had fought against him into Tartarus. Except for Atlas, who was singled out for the special punishment of holding the world on his shoulders. However, even after this victory Zeus was not safe. Gaea angry that her children had been imprisoned gave birth to a last offspring, Typhoeus. Typhoeus was so fearsome that most of ...
- 7830: Plato's Simile of the Cave: Artist's Work is Based On Illusion
- ... art. To an observer it may be perceived as inventive, searching, disturbing, or self-expressive. Art not only phases the way people think and understand but it may also affect a lifestyle. Plato creates a new consciousness, a way of living in uniformation; moreover, in The Simile of the Cave he implies that the artist’s work is based on an illusion, or what an artist thinks is a reality or ... psychological harm. As stated in The Fire and the Sun, Art or imitation may be dismissed as ‘play’, but when artists imitate what is bad they are adding to the sum of badness in the world; and it is easier to copy a bad man than a good man, because the bad man is various and entertaining and extreme, while the good man is quiet and always the same. Artists are ... with the opposite sex. Plato would probably try to ban or censor Weston because the photo would not fit his moral standards. Plato would say that this photo would add to the badness of the world and it would corrupt children’s minds. Such speculations aside, Weston has built an icon representing female imagery- beautiful, tough, and profound. I disagree with Plato’s idea that art lack worldliness or that ...
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