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- 8141: Jane Eyre - Struggle For Love
- ... point, Jane is able to finally return to Rochester as an independent woman, fully aware of her desire to love, as well as to be loved. From the onset of the novel, we see the world through the eyes of Jane; a strong character who wishes to overcome her birth rite as an orphan in Victorian times. From this viewpoint, we are able to trace how Jane progresses in her struggle ... what guides her through her turbulent life to finally achieve happiness. When Jane finally leaves Lowood for Thornfield, she is both older and wiser for her experiences and yet, she is still unfulfilled. Pursuing a new position as a governess, Jane hopes that her new life will fill that void. At first, Jane is bored by her work, wanting something more out of life. When Jane finally meets Rochester, his presence totally transforms her life, filling the void. For ...
- 8142: David Lynchs Blue Velvet
- ... filmsite.org/blue.html). These pictures, made even more terrifying by the extreme close-up and the accompanying sounds, provide the first visual clue of the dive we are about to make into the subterranean world under the pastoral life of normalcy. Our guide through this hell below and within is Jeffrey; an all-American boy who comes home from college to help out in the family business while his father is in the hospital. His finding a severed human ear is what sends him out on a journey to solve a mystery and eventually leads him to find out more about the world, and also about himself, than what he bargained for. As the main focalizing agent of the film Jeffrey becomes the central character, the hero on a quest. He has to solve the mystery, help a ... killing Frank and thus killing his evil, instinctive self putting his id back where it belongs. Sandy may also be seen as a censor-like figure for she is firmly rooted in the superego Lumberton world and represents all the purity and innocence and love that is missing from the underworld. According to Antulov Sandy s role in the film is to be the voice of reason and the only ...
- 8143: Napoleon and the Battle of Moscow
- ... great patience of Tsar Alexander and Field Marshall Kutuzov (Resnick 79). Works Cited Bresson, Henry Cartier. “Moscow.” Encyclopedia Britannica Macropedia. 15th edition. 1995. Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt. The Military Life of Napoleon: Emperor of the French. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1969. Kort, Michael. Nations in Transition: Russia. New York, NY: Facts on File, Inc. 1995. Lefebvre, Georges. Napoleon: From Tilsit to Waterloo 1807-1815. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Resnick, Abraham. Enchantment of the World: Russia: A History to 1917. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1983.
- 8144: The Hopewell
- ... of the “Interaction Sphere”, yet concluded that the Hopewell, in terms of lifestyle were a cult and had no influence on daily life. Later studies suggest otherwise, as more and more information surfaces along with new insightful interpretations. It is widely accepted that the Hopewell are the “next generation” of the Adena. That is to say that the Adena gave rise to the Hopewell, who had, as speculated migrated into the ... in long-houses dominated by the oldest female member of the family and when a couple was married, the husband would move into the wives’ house and become a part of their social unit. These new husbands had very little if any say in household matters. The children “belonged” to or were affiliated with their mothers family, the males owing allegiance to that unit. There were, however male chiefs who represented ... made and decorated with antler and other objects. It was fashioned by cold-working and heating, pounding it into sheets to be cut and shaped into various forms. These objects have been found in Tennessee, New York, Iowa and Missouri. Mica, as described above was used for various ornaments quite possibly even mirrors, was mined in the southern Appalachians. Obsidian, a glassy volcanic mineral obtained from Yellowstone, was professionally worked ...
- 8145: Abraham Lincoln 2
- ... to Indiana. In 1818, Lincoln s mother died from a deadly disease called the milk-sick. Then ten years later his sister died and left him with only his father and stepmother. Lincoln traveled to New Salem in April 1831 and settled there the following July. In the fall of 1836 he and Mrs. Bennett Abell had a deal that if she brought her single sister to New Salem he had to promise to marry her. When she arrived he was not to pleased with her because her skin was full of fat. Around seven months later he asked Mrs. Orville Browning to marry him but she said no. Lincoln met his wife to be, Mary Todd, at the grand cotillion in honor of the completion of the new capital building in 1839. They got engaged and a while later he broke off the engagement because she was seeing other men. Around a year later in Springfield on November 4, 1842 Abraham and ...
- 8146: Genetic Variations
- Charles Darwin stated that over time life could change so much so that new species are formed from a single species. But Darwin did not know where these mutations occurred. His theory could explain how humans and chimps are so alike yet different. Are we all just accidents of ... 1 of the 500 letters of the hemoglobin gene has proved to be very helpful to those in Africa who carry it. Malaria is a very deadly disease, one of the 3 deadliest in the world. Malaria is passed to humans by the anopheles mosquito, and can decimate all of the hosts blood cells in a weeks time. The pathogen multiplies in each blood cell and is then released to invade ... and how they are able to digest lysazine, the mutations caused by X-ray radiation in the fruit fly, and countless other experiments scientists perform to get a better understanding of how mutations affect the world around us. Each organism on this planet had origins from mistakes. Mother Nature discards the failures of genetic variations, and continues with the success, forming a world rich in diversity.
- 8147: Heart Of Darkness - Colonization
- ... Date: March 22, 2000 Colonization in the Theme of "A Modest Proposal" and "Heart of Darkness" Starting at the beginning of the seventeenth century, European countries began exploring and colonizing many different areas of the world. The last half of the nineteenth century saw the height of European colonial power around the globe. France, Belgium, Germany, and especially Great Britain, controlled over half the world. Along with this achievement came a notable sense of pride and confident belief that European civilization was the best on earth and that the natives of the lands Europeans controlled would only benefit from colonial ... he is appalled by lies, that there is a "taint of death" (NA 2224) and a "flavour of mortality" (NA 2224) in them. He says lies are "exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget" (NA 2224). Then in the end of the story, he must make a decision whether to tell Kurtz’s wife a truth that will devastate her or a lie ...
- 8148: Heart Of Darkness
- ... knowing that he will never see his intended again and he may feel guilty for leaving his intended for his savage life. This interpretation shows a book about lost love and guilt for finding a new life. This interpretation is one of the less complex and uninteresting interpretations. Now here is a more interesting and complex interpretation. Some view Heart of Darkness as a racist book. This interpretation comes from the ... did not know how horrid imperialism was because when people went back to Europe they would lie about how bad it was. Marlow says of women, "we must help them to stay in that beautiful world of their own, lest ours gets worse" (Conrad, 63). Conrad uses women in his book to be the symbol for the people who are being lied to. In the end of the novel Marlow goes ... horrible colonization is. The interpretation could say that colonization is the heart of darkness and is true evil and that true evil lies in the heart of our souls. Bibliography Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York, N.Y., Ballantine Books, 1959. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. New York, N.Y., St. Martin’s Press, Inc., 1989. School, Beacon. Http:/www.beaconschool.org/ ebernabe/Darkness.html.
- 8149: David Guterson and His Use of the Theme of Nature
- ... addresses some of the moral dilemmas that humans face throughout their lives. His first novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, narrates the trial of a Japanese man accused of murdering a white man in the post World War II era. Throughout his literary works, Guterson uses elements of nature: land, trees, water and especially snow, as literal and metaphorical tools to develop and resolve conflicts. David Guterson uses the same aspects and ... and void by the snow”(Snow Falling 320). The snow covered the fields; all of the fields seemed as one field. The nine inches of snow caused a visual unity of the strawberry fields. “..the world was one world”(Snow Falling 320). The element of water is used as a paradox in Guterson's novel Snow Falling on Cedars. Water is both the sustainer and taker of life. The damp and misty climate ...
- 8150: Great Gatsby
- ... a car garage. One day while driving around Tom and Nick stop off at the valley to see Myrtle, Tom’s mistress. Nick describes this valley as being: "about half way between West Egg and New York... a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens" (27). The concern here is with the corruption of values and the decline of spiritual life. The traditional views ... Nick knows that for Gatsby to imagine that what he thought he had with Daisy is over is too hard to believe and says: "he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered" (169). Gatsby had no faith to fall back on. Gatsby’s world does not extend beyond Daisy, just as Wilson’s world revolved around Myrtle. When she is murdered, all Wilson can think about is revenge. Once Wilson murders Gatsby, he has no other reason for ...
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