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- 4421: HAMLET
- ... his father-in-law and Gertrude's brother-in-law is now her husband. Claudius conducts several pieces of business during the beginning of this scene. He first tries to take measures to prevent a war with Norway, then discusses Laertes' request to leave court and go back to school. Claudius agrees with Polonius, Laertes' father, that Laertes' plan of going back to school is a good one. He gives Laertes ... passage he once heard player speak. Hamlet remembered the recital because the player spoke it in such an honest and passionate way. The player recites a passage concerning the death of Priam, during the Trojan war. After the speech, Hamlet asks Polonius to take excellent care of the players and to find them quarters. Hamlet talks with the First Player about inserting some lines that Hamlet will make up into the ...
- 4422: Compare And Costrast Little Li
- ... Wilfred Owen during WWI. I believe this poem is excellent because it doesn't only have good imagery, but the language is also very good. Owen uses very harsh words to describe the brutality of war in a place where war was believed to be a heroic act. He says that they were "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks" to describe the tiring condition that they were in. He repeats the words: drowning, If and ...
- 4423: Characterization In The Sun Al
- ... also consider the thoughts that go through Jake as well. Jake s view of life consists of a more sophisticated and complicated than that of Robert Cohn s. Jake, after all, has been through a war and has lost his adolescent idealism and Cohn still conducts himself like a boy. At the opening of the novel, Hemingway illustrates the differences between the values of Jake and Cohn. The differences involve a ... of her walking up the street and of course in a little while I felt like hell again" (Hemingway 34). Lady Brett Ashley serves, as a challenge to a weakness Jake must confront. Since his war experience, Jake has attempted to reshape the man he is and the first step in doing this is to accept his impotence. Despite Brett's undeniable love for Jake, she is engaged to marry another ...
- 4424: Blood Revenge In Julius Caesar
- ... and colleague, Antony. Blood Vengeance was an absolute duty, an unconditional claim on the part of the dead. (B-Vengeance) Antony believed this aspect of blood-revenge so full hearted that he even waged a war for Caesar s behalf. He waged this war so that the conspirators may finally be defeated and so his duty to Caesar may finally be full filled. This loyalty to the dead drove Cassius to commit revenge, as it did many others throughout ...
- 4425: Brave New World 2
- ... utopian society, everyone belongs to everyone else. One might easily point out that these precautions are too extreme. But one thing that can not be ignored is that in Brave New World there is no war, no diseases and no old age. For people in our world that would be "utopia". In the utopian society, "you're so conditioned that you can't help doing what you ought to do" (Huxley ... religion, a world that even eliminated racism and stereotypes. It is a world where you only possess knowledge you need, where everyone has the same values and principals. Finally here is a world with no war, no disease and no old age. This question seems difficult to answer at first. Let's rephrase this question. Forget adapting, is this a world you would want to be born in? That changes everything ...
- 4426: UFOs
- ... a thought. Most researchers though mark the beginning of sightings in the United States un the later 1800s, they were called "The Mystery Airships". The next major fleet of sightings were during the second world war, from pilots who say they say metal like objects floating in the sky. These fighter pilots called them "foo fighters". And in 1947 in Europe, there were sightings of silent "ghost rockets". None of these ... Air Force attempted to study UFO's from 1948-69 with the Blue Book Project. After collecting reports for 21 years, it concluded the UFOs did not represent a threat to the United States (at war that is). But, in 1953 the U.S. thought that the USSR might be using the UFOs as a warfare weapon against them. So, from 53-69 that is all the United States were thinking ...
- 4427: Different Types of Explosives
- ... buildings with little effort. They are used in digging mines and to loosen the flow of oil deep beneath rock in oil wells. They blow away tunnels through mountains and send rockets into space. In war, explosives are used to damage cities, destroy ships and airplanes, and kill enemy troops. As you see, explosives aren't always used as harmless substances. Explosives may be solids, liquids, or gases. However, all explosives ... an explosive. Doctors use nitroglycerin to treat certain heart and blood-circulation diseases. RDX (Cyclonite or Hexogen)ÄÄ RDX is a powerful explosive also known as cyclonite and hexogen. It is commonly used as a war explosive, being the main explosive charge in bombs. It has wide use in detonators and fuses. RDX is made by the action of nitric acid on hexamethylene-tetramine, a product of formaldehyde and ammonia. When ...
- 4428: Holocaust 9
- ... is the search for meaning. They are on a mission to find meaning in their lives and punish those who persecuted them. This search for meaning is what created the state of Israel after the war. Hundreds of thousands of people that were lost and had no place to go, no money, no identity, and no one to trust but each other formed a nation where they could be accepted. After ... not related to any of the child's needs but of those from the parents. Therefore the children tended to be a little unbalanced. One child of a survivor said "My father married before the war. His wife and his children were lost. He met his wife in a DP camp and got married. They had a son--- me. But I know every time they looked at me, it is not ...
- 4429: The Study of Linguistics
- ... concept more clearly, as in television, which is like a talking and showing book. How can language have meaning? Through time it may lose and gain new meaning, through historical occurrences, for example. During the war, a whole new kind of lingo spread like wildfire through the battling nations. The study of how language contains meaning is called semantics, and through this we can see what has occurred and what will ... not change obviously with historical occurrences, but it does. The change is obvious in historical occurrences which affect the whole world. The 'meeting' in the Gulf has stirred up an entire planet, maybe starting a war which will devastate the earth. As gas prices rise, everything needing fuel does. The means of communication between two people change, from ignorance to shouting, to whispering, to nothing between the two. Our perception of ...
- 4430: Beowulf 3
- ... need assurance and they found that assurance in Beowulf. Beowulf reassures his people that the Dragon will be dealt with and gives them courage to withstand this threat. I lived in my youth through hard war-moments--- now here I am ready battle weary king battered with winters for final glory-time if that grim hall burner will come to meet me from his mound of gold (pg. 81). Beowulf wants ... wealthy and without worry. But Beowulf still wants to fight the beast alone. Our old gift lord meant to manage this monster hot battle alone once again with his great wonder strength armed with a war name earned through a lifetime forged now with deeds (2642-46). Beowulf is not fighting these monsters because he believes he is a god but because he wishes to carry out a promise he gave ...
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