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- 3471: Greek Tragedies
- ... people of the forest might be in turn helpful mischievous or sinister. In "Henry IV Part I", the king relates a folk legend that "some night-tripping fairy" might steal babies and leave a fairy child or someone else's child. People may have believed, or half-believed, in the fairies. They might also have been imaginary figures of fun that personify nature. Another kind of medieval play in contrast with Midsummer is Everyman it refers ...
- 3472: Computers That Mimic The Human Mind
- ... but it is a start. Human creativity springs from association. One has spontaneous thoughts or actions that are a result of many different past experiences that are related by this new thought. “Copycat”, the brain child of Hofstadter, is closer to this type of thought than any other program(Boden). In her article “Artificial Genius” Boden states “Hofstadter believes that capturing the processes that make up creative thinking in a computer ... robot reacts accordingly. Happiness is shown by an open mouth and raised eyebrow and eyelids. Sadness is shown by a clamped mouth, lowered ears and eyelids(Fung). Kismet has the emotions of a new born child that could evolve into full human emotions. Kismet means destiny. The destiny of Eliminative Materialism could lie in the hands of such innovations. All of this being proved true then Eliminative Materialism will be proven ...
- 3473: Scarlet Letter Symbolism
- ... do no wrong. Not only Hester, but the physical scarlet letter, a Puritanical sign of disownment, is shown through the author's tone and diction as a beautiful, gold and colorful piece. Pearl, Hester's child, is portrayed Puritanically, as a child of sin who should be treated as such, ugly, evil, and shamed. The reader more evidently notices that Hawthorne carefully, and sometimes not subtly at all, places Pearl above the rest. She wears colorful clothes ...
- 3474: My Interpretation of Frost's "Birches"
- ... he learned to swing from tree to tree, but jumping off before they touched the ground. In this paragraph, Frost explores a boy, perhaps his own, fantasies with the birch trees. He offers a more child-like approach to explain the appearance of the trees. The final part of the poem deals with Frost's adult views about birch trees and how he relates it to his life. He is reflecting ... in time to this carefree life. Frost says that whenever his life becomes difficult and confusing, he wishes that he could just swing carefully from branch to branch as he did when he was a child. In fact, he enjoyed this era in his life so much that he is willing to be "reborn" to experience this stage of his life again. Don't worry, he is not suicidal, he just ...
- 3475: The Awakening
- ... when Edna's husband, Leonce Pontellier, returns from Klein's hotel, he checks in on the children and believing that one of them has a fever he tells his wife, Edna. She says that the child was fine when he went to bed, but Mr. Pontellier is certain that he isn't mistaken: "He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children." (7) Because of the reprimand ... swim out into the sea, not caring about what lies ahead: "She did not look back now, but went on and on, thinking of the blue-grass meadow that she had traversed when a little child, believing that it had no beginning and no end." (109) There are definite signs of Edna Pontellier's depression, from the beginning of the novel and all the way to the end when she commits ...
- 3476: Comparing "The Chimney Sweeper" and "Songs of Innocence And of Experience"
- ... poem from “Songs of Experience”, the boys viewpoint on religion changes. His optimistic view has changed into a dissapointed grudge towards God and the heavens. He has come to the harsh reality that being a child in a profession where help is needed, because the child can not help himself, God has let him down since he has not released him and the other boys from their coffins of black. He reveals this to the reader in the last stanza of ...
- 3477: Comparisons of “Report of the French Commission on American Education, 1879” to Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna Be Average”
- ... instruction and lack of motivation. The influx of shattered images brought forth by the “Report of the French Commission on American Education, 1879” reminds us of a time long ago when education was for every child, not select few. Stoic instructors molding young minds in the quest to advance America as a whole. Civic pride and duty were influencing every aspect of American education. Both essays draw from the influence of ... stated that the youth of America were offered the same curriculum in the hopes to form a united, equal society. America, as seen by the French, was a land of golden opportunities available to every child regardless of social standing. It was the basis for our country to survive. It safeguarded our standing in the world. Mike Rose’s school offered quite the opposite. It was a haven for long standing ...
- 3478: Dizzy Gillespie, His Life.
- ... back on his father as a disciplinarian,others just reguarded him as mean.He would come home and beat his children every week for what they must ve done while he was gone .As a child,John became fascinated with misic and played trombone in his band.One day his neighbor got a trumpet for christmas.He begged to try it when it wasn t in use.When he was 17 ... A.M.He was always searching for a permanent job,but all he could find were temp and fill-in jobs,which payed very little..Meanwhile,he was barely getting by. Since he was a child,his idol was a trumpet player named Roy Eldridge.John was thrilled to meet and finally replace him in the Cab Calloway band.He played 3rd trumpet,but was mainly an arranger for the band ...
- 3479: In The Skin Of The Lion
- ... He is able to retain within his memory the senses, often he is only able to recall the sense first and then the memory of what that smell or touch was related to. As a child, Patrick's world was limited to the distance he could travel, or what he saw. Given very little input to explain what he saw, he imagined why, what he saw was the way it was ... allowing the reader to relive past memories of their own. The specific use of the moths and the colors shows the reader how Patrick is continuing to use his frame of reference he developed as child in his adult life. Describing his adult experiences in terms of his childhood. The effect of this to the reader is to deliver a clear picture of what Patrick is living. This allows us to ...
- 3480: Night
- ... it was very interesting to read about what happened during the holocaust through the point of view of a survivor. I liked the fact that the narrator, at the beginning of the story, was a child. However, as the story progressed, the narrator evolved into a man. (This was apparent when Elie withstood a beating from the leader of his barrack.) Had he been a child he would have died. I believe that it must have been very hard for Elie Wiesel to write about his experiences during this difficult time period of his life. I was impressed by the way ...
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