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- 2791: Aliens
- ... its artificial structure, and succeeds in crushing the alien and expelling it from the airlock. In the act of opening the airlock she risks Newt's life however, and it is Bishop who prevents the child from also being expelled. This risk taken by Ripley is perhaps reason for her triumph; she cannot destroy her opponent without risking the death of the object of her maternal desire which she must protect. The film privileges this representation of positive maternal desire as Ripley's courage and strength of will to save Newtevenat cost to herself, arising from the essential bond of the surrogate mother-child, but extending this relationship to include non-selfish human compassion. Aliens could be seen to centre on paranoia about the female body, but in many ways it is the ideology of the relentless maternal drive ...
- 2792: An Analysis Of If Men Could Me
- ... thought from they were children that they are frail, hence limiting what they can do, whereas, males are thought how to be tough and that there is nothing a man cannot do. This methodology in child raring is where gender distinctions start. Males are raised to be superior to females and females are raised to complement male not to compete with them. With this in mind it is clear that male ... of the greater villain, power-lust. Sexism is only an organ away from racism. The drive for power has caused the gender gap in society, and the measures taken to maintain power widen it. A child once asked, “Would there be a war if no soldiers showed up?” The same applies to gender distinction “Would male preference exist if women refused it?” The point withstanding is that males are only in ...
- 2793: My Oedipus Complex
- ... not respecting his father. For example, "’Don’t-wake-Daddy!’ she hissed angrily". Because Larry’s mother didn’t really know that her husband and son were fighting over her, when she had a second child she just turned and took care of it. You asked us which one of the characters we felt sorry for the most. I would probably have to say the father. He has to go to ... it home safely. When he gets home all he seems to want is to spend some time with his wife, and he pushes his son out of the way. Later when his wife has another child and is pushed away himself, it is then that he realizes how he treated his own son.
- 2794: The Life of Hitler
- The Life of Hitler At half past six on the evening of April 20th, 1889 a child was born in the small town of Branau, Austria. The name of the child was Adolf Hitler. He was the son of a Customs official Alois Hitler, and his third wife Klara. As a young boy Adolf attended church regularly and sang in the local choir. One day he ...
- 2795: A Dolls House
- ... Mrs. Linde. Nora believes that she has a real accomplishment that she can be proud of. In her vain attempt to try and convince Mrs. Linde that she does not have the mentality of a child, Nora s ignorance becomes grossly apparent. Coupled with this incident is the scene later in the play when Krogstad confronts Nora with the fact that she committed obvious forgery in order to secure the loan ... first by papa, and then by you (Ibsen 608). Again, the point is made that she is not a person but an object. Nora reminisces about how her father, . . . used to call me his doll-child, and he played with me the way I played with my dolls (Ibsen 608). Nora and Helmer do not even know one another. Their marriage is fake and mutually beneficial because of their social status ...
- 2796: Athens Vs. Sparta
- ... the market to shop. Poor Athenians often married young and for love spite tradition common in richer houses. Sometimes men would not marry until they were over thirty which caused problems in the house. The child of thirty would want independence as an adult but the father still wanted to maintain his reign over his household. This caused a lot of fighting between father and son in Athenian households. Women in ... Athens were not respected. They were not seen to have any opinions on anything, and were better seen and not heard. They were weak and were controlled by their husbands. If a women had a child, she could be a little relaxed becuase the man was then less likely to divorce her. A divorced women was shunned by Athenians. This shows that a women's usefulness to her husband ends if ...
- 2797: Cinema Paradiso
- In the film "Cinema Paradiso", Toto, the main character, is a lost child without a father to provide a male role model. The story begins after Toto is informed of the death of his dearest friend, Alfredo. At this point, Toto is a mature man and a successful ... could have ended up in jail or other serious trouble, but with the guidance of Alfredo he was able to succeed into adulthood. Toto, the main character in the film “Cinema Paradiso” is a lost child who requires the support and guidance of a father, the one thing missing in his life. Growing up in Giancaldo offered him a broad prospective on life and the world around it. With the direction ...
- 2798: The Life of Leonardo da Vinci
- ... popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance period. He also painted “Portrait of Ginevra de Benci”, “ Annunciation”, “Lady with an Ermine”, “Portrait of a Musician”, “La Belle Ferroniere”, “Madonna of the Rocks”, and “Virgin and Child with St. Anne”. In 1493, Leonardo began to paint one of his most famous works, “The Last Supper” in a convent located shortly outside of Milian. This painting took Leonardo roughly about three years to ... Studies the resistance of various types of arcades (1494) Paints the second "Virgin if the Rocks" (1494) Paints "The Last Supper" (1495) Meets mathematician Luca Pacioli, with whom he studies Euclid (1496) Paints "Madonna and Child with St. Anne" (1499) Leaves Milan to return to Flourence (1499) 1500 Cesare Borgia assumes Leonardo as military engineer (1502) Designs war machines and draws topographical maps (1502-3) Draws studies for "The Battle of ...
- 2799: Richard Lederer: His Works
- ... the genesis of his or her ideas is as futile as asking a spider the source of its web and method of its construction." Richard Lederer Introduction and bibliography Richard Lederer was the kind of child who, almost as soon as he could talk, saw a butterfly and cooed, "Oh, goody. A butterfly will flutter by." Even as a high- school student, Richard knew that Elvis Presley, born three years before ... are from, experience the same fundamental emotional states; in addition, we are equally capable of forming rational thought. Furthermore, in any language an infinite number of sentence possibilities exist, and yet even a relatively young child can produce and understand sentences it has never heard before. One might assume that language rests on a solid foundation of logic. Unfortunately, there are many cracks in this foundation that have formed side by ...
- 2800: Carl Friedrich Gauss
- ... disciplines. For example, he predicted the location of some sky bodies. In 1803 Gauss had met Johanna Osthoff, the daughter of a tannery owner in Braunschweig. She was born in 1780 and was an only child. They were married on October 9, 1805. They were lived on in Braunschweig for a time, in the house which Gauss had occupied as a bachelor. On August 21, 1806, his first son Joseph was ... Ceres. On February 29, 1808 a daughter followed, and gauss jokingly complained that she would only have a birthday every fourth year. As a mark of respect to Olbers she was christened Wilhelmina. The third child, a son, born on september 10, 1809, was named Ludwig, after Harding, but was called Louis.After a difficult third delivery, Johanna died on October 11, 1809. Louis died suddenly on March 1, 1810. Minna ...
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