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- 9991: Literary Essay - Dead Poets So
- ... facts and regurgitate the same facts during exams. Latin class involves recitation, while chemistry involves memorization, and as long as the students can deliver what they have been told, they are successful in life. The new English teacher, Mr. Keating, challenges his students to think for themselves and to resist conformity. He most memorably illustrates how easily conformity affects people during his lesson involving a stroll in the courtyard. He instructs ... on to Harvard to become a doctor. Charlie Dalton was expelled from Wellton for his unwillingness to conform. Todd Anderson found the courage to stand up for himself and realized he had value in the world. It is not just to say that education is only about textbooks and memorization. The memorization of the Periodic Table of Elements in Chemistry has very little impact on a large part of life; such ... have the same physical components in their bodies, but their feelings and point of view are unique unto themselves. The true danger of education is the attempt to call for all people to see the world in the same way.
- 9992: Bladerunner
- ... Zora and Leon are Milton's fallen angels. They are created by Tyrell ( God ) and given a limited life span. Roy a symbol of mankind is separated by his maker, when he is sent off world ( expelled from heaven ). And like Lucifer, is obessed with the same questions of mortality: How much time do we have? Were are we going? Milton's battle takes place in heaven. Here it is fought ... of the liberties afforded him by Postmodernism by deciding to rewrite the future. With God and Christ dead, satan becomes almost a Christ-like figure. Light and shadow is evoked to show Roy in a new role as all knowing and all seeing. Extreme close-up of Roy's eye reveal a person who is enlightened and empowered with knowledge. A further significance to substaniate Roy's transition into Christ is ... longer permiate the scenes. Dekkard is filmed from a high angle to suggest vulnerbality and a lack of understanding, with his eye's closed as his clings to life; a keep of blindness to the world around him. With the end near Roy Batty goes through yet another change. This manifests in the fact that he prevents Dekkard from falling to his death and becomes his savior. As they face ...
- 9993: Great Expectations
- ... with Estella and Estella’s adoption by Miss Havisham. Jaggers’ assistant, Wemmicks, becomes a friend of Pip and helps him with a lot of things. I feel that Pip now knows the ways of the world, living in a big, crowded city which is so different from his hometown, he finds out how much more there is besides the forge, the marshes and the Three Jolly Bargemen. He also meets Herbert ... that she needs Pip to love Estella. I think she wants them both to be happy. Miss Havisham doesn’t recover though and passes away. Nearly everything of Pip’s childhood fades away. A whole new world opens its gate to him…. He returns to his town and to Satis House, which is not there anymore. There, he finds Estella, now a widow, and changed into her real self and together ...
- 9994: Culture Awareness
- ... I for one take pride in our nation's history in regard to minorities. Minority groups founded this nation. The religious groups who felt the pressure of persecution in their homelands came here to begin new lives, and eventually a new nation. The ethnic groups that came in a great flood of immigrants came to escape the economic oppression of their homelands. Those groups, too, found a way to become part of the American experience. They ... activists. Are they planning to travel to Eastern countries and tell them to stop eating dogs and start chewing down a few brats and beer instead just to keep the pigs represented equally on the world's dinner table? In perhaps a final attempt to make its point, the Messenger asks how I would feel if a black family bought the house next door. Given that my brother-in-law ...
- 9995: Great Expectations
- ... While I was scared by the immensity of London, I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow, and dirty". He had expected it to be the world, the beginning of a new future, and the start of a new life. However, it did not meet up with his anticipated expectations. The reality of London was dreary and dismal, unlike the appearance of it from afar. High social status seems to have a beautiful ...
- 9996: Great Expectations
- ... I was scared by the immensity of London, I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow, and dirty". (178) He had expected it to be the world, the beginning of a new future, and the start of a new life. However, it did not meet up with his anticipated expectations. The reality of London was dreary and dismal, unlike the appearance of it from afar. High social status seems to have a beautiful ...
- 9997: Emperor Hadrian of Rome
- ... death was near; he was the most hated man in Rome. However, throughout his reign, he was regarded as a noble leader. "The Roman emperor Hadrian exercised a profound organizational influence on the Greco-Roman world. He worked successfully toward the codification of Roman law and the strengthening of imperial border defenses (Eadie 8)." Emperor Hadrian made many important contributions to Roman culture, and he was also known as one of ... he traveled eminsly. He visited Britain, Spain, eastern provinces, and even Africa. Towns and cities vastly benefited from his journeys. Harbor installations, roads, and bridges were built. The size of Athens almost doubled, and many new cities, including Adrinople were founded by the emperor(Coleman-Norton)." " Hadrian's travels, which during his reign covered a period of more than twelve years, were the most extensive of any peacetime emperors in history ... an able and tireless ruler. He issued laws protecting women, children, and slaves from mistreatment (Beers 112)." He also revised and reorganized the entire system of Roman laws. Hadrian greatly improved the East by building new roads, temples, theatres, and circuses. Hadrian also created a strong economy. He made numerous advancements in society, which used funding without increasing taxes. In fact, "He reorganized the imperial financial structure to eliminate some ...
- 9998: Dragons in America
- Dragons in America World Literature Hr. 3 Monsters or dragons in present day America are feared .Monsters in America consist of politicians, celebrities, and criminals. In America they are portrayed through media, television, and movies. Monsters in America are ... of millions of Americans all too often. This creates people to fear monsters in reality more than ever because Hollywood makes monsters as scary as possible. The television is another source of violence in the world. It seems that every shows on TV has to do with some kind of terrible murder. Shows like “New York Undercover” always end up with a seen where someone is shot to death. This makes the viewer perceive society as a place too dangerous to live in. A very obvious monster in America ...
- 9999: Broken Chain
- ... the chief and the first Indian commander in a western army in the history, but his ambition ultimately put him into the trap set up by the British. Mohahehu, who is succeeded to become the new chief of the six nations, feeling that something has been wrong from the beginning of helping the British to fight against Indians in Delaware. On the other side, there is Sir William Johnson. He is ... As the movie goes along, there are intensions between the Indians and the British constantly. The British always demand the Indians to give help on their problems, but never keep on their promises, such as new settlers were looting Indians’ land throughout the time even when the "chain" was still existed. This fragment in the history, once again supported the basic of the human nature, "Men are born evil". At that ... s land and resources (example: slaves, land and ore mines). Their sinful minds and technologies afforded them to sail around; colonized {"invaded" is a more suitable word) and brought painfulness to different parts of the world. The third perspective in the movie is the nature of the human conduct, which is one of the fundamentals of political science. If all men are created equal, then the studies of the science ...
- 10000: Animal Rights
- ... not morally correct to abuse, test, use, and ultimately kill the animals unnecessarily, especially for our comforts, luxuries, and greed. Many benefits have been obtained through animals, mostly in the field of Medicine. The medical world has rapidly moved forward finding cures for many diseases through animal testing, giving new alternatives and shining a new light for illnesses that did not have a cure before. Working with animals like monkeys and dogs have resulted in successful open heart surgeries on people, as well as organ transplants, and the cardiac ...
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