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- 8731: The Awakening
- ... day, and was therefore rejected by many people as an immoral person (Jones 385). Kate Chopin’s interest in Maupassant began after her mother died (Toth 181). At that time she had moved to a new location in the city where she lived and began to make new friends who were interested in the writings of Maupassant (Toth181). She described vividly how she felt upon reading Guy de Maupassant for the first time: His writing undoubtedly moved her. Chopin claims to have felt ... fail to give credit where it is due. Kate Chopin is definitely a creation of Guy de Maupassant, and because of him, and his influence, will never be forgotten. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Bibliography Ewell, Barbra C.. Kate Chopin. New York: The Ungar Publishing Company, 1986. Jasenas, Elaine. "The Frengh Influence in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening." Nineteenth-century French Studies 4.(Spring): 312-322. Jones, Michelle L.. "Kate Chopin." Great Lives From History: ...
- 8732: The Transformation Of Nora2
- ... which they supported their husbands, took care of their children, and made sure everything was perfect around the house. Nora is portrayed as a doll throughout the play until she realizes the truth about the world she lives in and cuts herself free. Nora Helmer is a delicate character that has been pampered all of her life, by her father and by Torvald. She really didn\\'t have a care in the world. She didn\\'t even have to care for the children; the maid would usually take care of that. In every sense of the word, she is your typical housewife. Nora seldom left the house, mostly ... believable. It stands for every marriage where equality never took place. Many women knew their social status and lived as they were meant to, but for the few that realized there is more to the world then the sheltered life they were living, broke free. Nora is one of the women who knew her place and acted accordingly until she saw that her name had no real value. She is ...
- 8733: How Technology Effects Modern America
- ... competition, technology, deregulation, the decline of unions and defense cuts – technology is probably the most critical. It has favored the educated and the skilled," says M. B. Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report (7/31/95). Since 1973, wages adjusted for inflation have declined by about a quarter for high school dropouts, by a sixth for high school graduates, and by about 7% for those with some ... under the age of 18. This government policy was conducive to our economic markets, and allowed our country to prosper from 1950 through 1970. Now, our own prosperity has moved us into a highly technical world, that requires highly skilled labor. The natural answer to this problem, is that the U.S. Government's education policy must keep pace with the demands of the highly technical job market. If a middle ... a college diploma, as it was for the children of the 70's to get a high school diploma. This brings me to the issue of our country's political process, in a technologically advanced world. Voting & Poisoned Political Process in The U.S. The advance of mass communication is natural in a technologically advanced society. In our country's short history, we have seen the development of the printing ...
- 8734: Less Than Zero Book Review
- ... Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. They live in a world shaped by passivity. The place lacks feeling and hope. Three high school buddies, 2 male and 1 female, venture down very different paths after graduation. Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern College and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege. In this immoral world everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for the third best friend, Julian. Julian ends up getting into hustling and doing heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs. This is illustrates the seamy world of L.A. after dark. This book is a teenage slice-of-death novel with no holds barred. This was one of the first books about success and wealth that was so frighteningly realistic. ...
- 8735: Marketing Research For Augusti
- ... and engaging in only limited introductory advertising and promotion to maximize per unit profits and recover the productˇ¦s development costs as soon as possible. At the same time, the company also works to develop new applications for its technology or the next generation of more advanced technology. Then when competitors enter the market and margins fall, the company is ready to move into new segments of the market. In the short run, skimming pricing strategy could help the company gain funds quickly, but high price may also cause the company to get out of the market quickly. In this ... company could employ penetration-pricing strategy and price the heater/blower unit and blanket by $380 and $16 respectively. A penetration strategy is one in which the seller charges a relatively low price on a new product. Generally, this policy is appropriate for the Bair Hugger Patient Warming System because of the following conditions. 1. Demand for the product is price elastic. The more substitutes a product has, the greater ...
- 8736: The Theme of Diversity in Novels
- ... Last night, she might have wondered what undergrounds apart from the couple she knew of communicated by WASTE system. By sunrise she could legitimately ask what undergrounds didn't." (Pynchon 124) This is extremely different world can be thought of as factitious. The diversity in The Crying of Lot 49, is a slightly different form, it is seen as an entirely different world as the one we think of on a regular basis. The underground mail system functions on its own without anyone knowing anything about it. This proposes the question of whether it is completely a solipsism in Oedipa's mind. She is an outcast in her society and is trying to investigate about the underground mail system. Her diverse world that she lives in is completely not as society tends to portray daily activities. Maus I, A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds History, written by Art Speigelman, creates a society that a present ...
- 8737: Liberal Arts
- ... many subjects. Liberal arts can observe the capabilities as well as the limitations of each field of study. This allows students to find connections between different fields of study, to explore them, and to discover new theories and/or inventions. Liberal arts also allows students to investigate areas of interest and to make new ones by combining diverse subjects. A liberal arts education provides students with a broad spectrum of information enabling them to expand their knowledge and to advance society in a positive direction. It is imperative that a liberal arts posses the basic knowledge of the many fields. With this knowledge, students can combine different subjects to formulate new ideas and concepts. As in mixing colors, a new color can only be created by combining various colors. The same is true for liberal arts education, the resulting idea(s) and/or concept(s) ...
- 8738: Mystical Caves Used Throughout
- ... darkness and abandonment has branded it as a symbol of chaos. From this perception other associations are made which connect the cave to prejudices, malevolent spirits, burial sites, sadness, resurrection and intimacy. It is a world to which only few venture, and yet its mysticism has attracted the interest of philosophers, religious figures and thinkers throughout history. These myths are exemplified in Homer’s "Odyssey," where the two worlds of mortals ... reality and falsehood. Individuals chained deep within the recesses of the cave mistake their shadows for physical existence. These false perceptions, and the escape from bonds held within the cave symbolize transition into the a world of reality. Comparatively, in the Odyssey, Odysseus must first break with Kalypso, and set himself free before he can return to Ithaka, when he will then be prepared to release Penelope from the bondage of suitors. His experience within the cave is in itself a world of fantasy, in that Kalypso is a supernatural being, and the only way to escape her enslavement is to receive assistance from immortals superior to her. The philosopher Francis Bacon also theorized about the ...
- 8739: Apple Vs Gateway
- ... makes this to computer companies different is the processes they use. Gateway uses the news Intel Pentium processor III. Apple uses the power PC G4 with velocity Engine. Both seem like good processors, but apple new G4 is said to be faster then the Intel penitent III. The power PC G4 with velocity Engine processor is the news processor from apple. The G4 is a supercomputer on a chip. Because the G4 is able to execute at least one billion floating point operation per. second. It's staggering measure of speed known as a gigaflop. The new power PC G4, architected by apple, Motorola and IBM is the first microprocessor that can deliver sustained performance of over one gigaflop. It has a theoretical peak performance of four gigaflops. The Power PC G4 ... unleash the full multimedia capabilities of your PC including full-screen, full-motion video and realistic graphics-for an enhanced, exciting Internet experience. It integrates the best attributes of the latest Intel® processor platforms with new technology, featuring 70 new instructions that let you enjoy new Web sites and software to the fullest and enable: Amazing 3D, Realistic Animation, Advance Imaging, Streaming Video, and Speech Recognition.
- 8740: Hope Floats Video Review
- ... well. Then she was also pressured by her mother and an interested suitor to get on with her life. She had a big job to do to overcome her feelings and work to get a new life. Her husband name was Bill. Sorry I did not get the name of the actor. He did do a good job of portraying a very selfish person. He had an affair with her best ... Great timing! Not! But it showed his selfish nature. He left his daughter crying her eyes out because he refused to take her with him. He wanted to be alone with his soon to be new wife. What a dad! Unfortunately, this is true to life, it is the children who suffer when adults go astray. Birdie’s suitor was played by Harry Conick Jr. He did an excellent job portraying ... little girl of about 10 years of age. She is very well portrayed by the actress that did her part. She had to deal with losing her father; as well as moving to an entirely new town and new faces. She had to attend a new school and that is one of the most scary things you can do as a child. She too had to finally accept the fact ...
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