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- 8841: An Utopian Society Is Wrong For Our Society
- An Utopian Society Is Wrong For Our Society Some people think that if the world was perfect, everything would be a lot better, This is called a utopia. I think that a utopia is not the right idea for society because if you don't feel hateness you don't feel hapiness either. Some things could be different in everybody's eyes, But it wouldn't be right if everybody was the same. A world with no uniqueness is what is called sameness in the book by Lois Lowry, It was called The Giver. One of the reasons that I think an utopia is wrong for our society is that people would lose all of their differences, everybody would have to have the same beliefs. Not everybody believes the same thing, there are many religions. In addition there are many ethnic beliefs in the world, there are also great quantities of languages, that would mean all people should speak one language too, that would be very hard to acheive. An additional reason is that there is no uniqueness, things ...
- 8842: The Great Gatsby By Fitzgerald
- ... when he and Daisy were in love and renewing their relationship. Green, though, is also the color of envy and want. By reaching for his dreams of Daisy, Gatsby also reaches straight into a chaotic world full of wants and lusts. By going to Daisy, he also becomes mixed in with everybody else involved with Daisy directly and indirectly. This ultimately leads to his downfall with George Wilson believing that it was Gatsby who killed his wife and not Daisy. By walking into the world of Daisy, Gatsby walked into a world he could not keep up with. One of the most important of symbols in the novel is the valley of ashes. The valley, basically, represents what destroys Gatsby and his dream. The valley of ...
- 8843: Blaxploitation
- ... create their own. Although blaxploitation films were later commercialized, their intent and result stayed consistent, and have created the ethno-conscious cinema industry we find today. Bibliography Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks. New York: Viking Press, 1973. Cham, Mbye B. Blackframes. Cambridge: The Mit Press, 1988. Cripps, Thomas. Making Movies Black. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Diawara, Manthia. Black American Cinema. New York: Routledge, 1993. Lead, Daniel J. From Sambo to Superspade. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. Morton, Jim. Am I Black Enough for You? Blaxploitation. 20 Sept. 1998. 22 Nov. 1998. Patterson, Lindsay. Black Films ...
- 8844: Beloved: The Symbolism of Trees
- ... Morrison doesn't make any exceptions to this idea. In her novel Beloved, Toni Morrison uses trees to symbolize comfort, protection and peace. Morrison uses trees throughout Beloved to emphasize the serenity that the natural world offers. Many black characters, and some white and Native American characters, refer to trees as offering calm, healing and escape, thus conveying Morrison's message that trees bring peace. Besides using the novel's characters ... However, Sethe seemingly chooses to remember the sight of sycamore trees over the sight of lynched boys, thus revealing her comfort in a tree's presence: "Boys hanging from the most beautiful sycamores in the world. It shamed her- remembering the wonderful soughing trees rather than the boys. Try as she might to make it otherwise, the sycamores beat out the children every time and she could not forgive her memory ... night. For dancing, he said, to keep his bloodlines open, he said" (25). Even Beloved, the strange human apparition of the Crawling Already Baby, seemingly finds comfort with trees when she appears in the real world: "She barely gained the dry bank of the stream before she sat down and leaned against a mulberry tree" (50). Morrison's characters refer to trees for comfort, escape and safety, thus conveying Morrison' ...
- 8845: The Penalties of Drunk Driving
- ... apply only too young drivers in 44 jurisdictions. These underage BAC laws apply to drivers younger than 21 except in Georgia, Louisiana, Vermont (younger than 18 in these states), and Wisconsin (younger than 19). In New York the BAC defined as illegal Per Se: all drivers is 0.10; there are special provisions for young divers: the BAC level is 0.02 (eff. 11/1/96). Suspension of your license in New York lasts until prosecution is complete. New York is the first municipality in the nation to seize the vehicles of motorists arrested for driving while intoxicated. Under New York City's new drunken driving policy: motorists with a blood alcohol level ...
- 8846: Chinese Shih Poetry And Philos
- Since the beginning of time, man has sought to explain the world around him. This is called philosophy, a Greek word which means "love of wisdom." However, over the millennia it has come to mean much more. The philosophies of the ancient Chinese people, whether they explain ... that men will praise." This clearly demonstrates the fact that Confucianists do not believe in reincarnation. Also, in his Poem on Returning to Dwell in the Country, T’ao Ch’ien writes, "In the same world men lead different lives; / Some at the court, some in the marketplace." These lines illustrate that for every man there is a place in an organized Confucian society. Taoism, along with Confucianism, is one of ... the Virtue of the Way. The book set forth the basic ideas of Taoism; that is, following the Tao, or the Way. The main goal of Taoists was to live in harmony with the natural world around them, and to rid themselves of materialistic desires. The primary concern for Taoists like Lao Tzu was to understand the way of the world, and to use that knowledge for self-preservation. One ...
- 8847: Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe is often cited as one of the most influential writers in the world. He is said to have invented the detective story, and inspired the future of science fiction stories. His stories and style have motivated various authors such as, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and H.G. Wells. Poe's works have fascinated literate people all around the world for over 150 years. Poe was born on the blessed day of January the nineteenth, 1809, in Boston Massachusetts. Both his parents, unfortunately were very poor. They were actors and died while he was still ... of wealthy widows. He sometimes was engaged to several at once. One of the widows, Mrs. Shelton was ready to marry him. Gradually his writing became more tortured and horrific. "I dwelt alone in a world of moan," is how he described his tortured existence. Poe left to marry Mrs. Shelton and his last words heard before he left were "I wish to God that someone would blow my damned ...
- 8848: The Theme Of Darkness In The H
- ... the darkness is more like a feeling or emotion which overtakes people once they have had a certain experience than a concept such as colonisation. In the story of creation, dark was present in the world before light was created. Therefore, my view is that in Heart of Darkness, darkness represents the base, elemental nature of the world, while light is what was created by man to cover this. The darkness is the true nature of the world, while the light refers to technology, religion and social codes which man has created to build upon this. Darkness is such a recurring theme in Marlowe s narration once he arrives in Africa, because ...
- 8849: Observed Distribution of South American Relief Features
- Observed Distribution of South American Relief Features The land below us is always in motion. Plate tectonics studies these restless effects to give us a better understanding of the Earth and its past. New molten rocks are poured out in the form of magma from the mid-ocean ridges. The rock is recycled and re-entered back into the earth in deep ocean trenches through convection current. The convection ... mid-ocean ridges and then cools down when exposed to the cooled environment outside; the layer of cooled magma forms the lithosphere. When magma flows out from the ridges, the crust is fractured and a new ocean floor is built spreading perpendicularly away from the ridge. Because of this constant upwelling, the ocean is relatively shallow in these areas. Sea floor spreading and continental drift are the products of this continual ... collide producing mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes; and transform boundaries -- lateral movement. Transform plates are caused by fracture zones. When a rift opens from the upwelling of magma it causes a crack in the crust. As new magma rises to the surface, the crack increases caused by the pressure, resulting in a horizontal faulting. The fractured plate pieces travel in the same direction as the original plate was traveling—away from ...
- 8850: Modern Philosophy
- ... be more correct than another's, because each is the sole judge of his or her own experience. Plato, following his illustrious teacher Socrates, tried to answer the Sophists by postulating the existence of a world of unchanging and invisible forms, or ideas, about which it is possible to have exact and certain knowledge. The things one sees and touches, they maintained, are imperfect copies of the pure forms studied in mathematics and philosophy. Accordingly, only the abstract reasoning of these disciplines yields genuine knowledge, whereas reliance on sense perception produces vague and inconsistent opinions. They concluded that philosophical contemplation of the unseen world of forms is the highest goal of human life. Epistemology in the 20th Century In the early 20th century, epistemological problems were discussed thoroughly, and subtle shades of difference grew into rival schools of thought ... are common to all possible universes, metaphysics may be conducted at the highest level of abstraction. Ontology, by contrast, because it investigates the ultimate divisions within this universe, is more closely related to the physical world of human experience. The subjects treated in Aristotle's Metaphysics fixed the content of metaphysical speculation for centuries. Among the medieval Scholastic philosophers, metaphysics was known as the “transphysical science” on the assumption that, ...
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