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- 5041: Picking Up The Pieces: An Analytical Look at Why the Village of Umofia Fell Apart
- ... like to hear stories. He likes stories of nature and the moral lessons they can provide for him to keep him from making the same types of mistakes. Okonkwo likes him to hear stories of war, of fear. Masculine stories of violence and bloodshed. Blood of his ancestors, of his past. Nwoye knew that it was right to be masculine and to be violent, but somehow he still preferred the stories ... taught his disciples through parables. These parables were stories that were easy to understand because they were based on daily events in the peoples' lives. They were not necessarily true stories and were never of war or violence to simply convey the message of courage. This type of story is the kind that Nwoye and other children seemed to relate to and is probably one of the many aspects of Christianity ...
- 5042: The Odyssey: Summary
- ... The Odyssey, was written by Homer and translated to English version by Samuel Butler. The main character in Odyssey was Odysseus, Kind of Ithaca, who after 20 years of wanderings returned home from the Trojan War and a long difficult journey which the powerful gave to him. He found himself recognized only by his faithful dog and a nurse. With the help of his son Telemachus he destroys the importunate suitors ... including Odysseus. When Alcinoos sees Odysseus crying during the mins trel's story, he commences the games and dancing to keep his guest happy. At dinner, Odysseus again weeps when Demodocos sings about the Trojan War. At this point, Alcinoos finally demands to know who Odysseus is. Odysseus tells Alcinoos who he is and what things have happened to him since he left Troy. He tells of his adventures in Ismaros ...
- 5043: Atlas
- ... endurer. An image of Atlas is a person with the world on his back. Also a book of maps is called an atlas. Atlas played a major part in Greek Mythology. He was in the war with Titans against the gods (Olympians.) Atlas partnered with his brother Cronus in the war against Zeus. Atlas stormed the heavens and Zeus punished him. His punishment was to carry the earth, the heavens and the pillar that separates them on his back/shoulders for eternity. This punishment is Atlas ...
- 5044: A Separate Peace: Contrasting Gene and Phineas and the Struggle for Power
- ... separate might. Gene Forrester, the reserved narrator, is weakened by his struggle for power. While, Phineas was inspired by his own power within. The novel conveys how peace can weaken or inspire during a mental war. Phineas, a natural rebel, is known as the best athlete in school. For example, he and three others come to look at a tree, which is considered among the Upper Middler students at Devon an ... and Phineas are one. His life is formless and void. Gene developed a hatred for Phineas because of this reason. Gene feels that Phineas personally tries to take over and control him. Gene created a war between himself and Finny that never existed. Gene concludes that he "killed [his] enemy there," meaning that he killed both Finny and also what was, at the same time, foreign and inadmissable to his way ...
- 5045: An Analysis of the Novel Candide by Voltaire
- ... is met by two men who trick him into service in the Bulgarian army. Candide has a terrible time in the army, he tries to escape, and he is punished severely. During the confusion of war Candide manages to escape. Time passes and Candide meets some other interesting individuals and has one bad experience after the next. One day Candide meets a woman who takes care of him and this is ... on a journey through all of the wrongs he beleives in the world in order to prove that it was not the best of all possible worlds. He shows us the inhumanities of man through war and social interaction. He basically paints an exaggerated picture of the wrongs of medievil people. Voltaire is just as biased as any other capable person of the time. Everybody has a certain element of prejudice ...
- 5046: Milton's Presentation of the Fallen Angels
- ... Moloch, the warlike embodiment of rage, and the most harsh of all the angels. Somewhat rash, he impatiently proposes that they should immediately "ascend" and renew their battles in Heaven ("My sentence is for open war"), leaving behind the Hell he so despises. He cannot accept that they will face inevitable defeat, or that the best they can hope for is to be so disgraced as to "accept this dark opprobrious ... course of action ("First, what revenge?"), he prefers to contend that as long as they have "intellectual being", they exist (cogito, ergo sum), and that to waste such a gift in a futile renewal of war would be pointless ("Wherefore cease we?"). Whether G-d would indeed annihilate them is doubtful indeed, as eternal damnation was their punishment, and Belial cannot see any advantage in risking this safe refuge for what ...
- 5047: Lord of the Flies: Characteristics of Children
- ... are bathing, Piggy points beyond the platform and says, "That's where they're gone. Jack's party. Just for some meat. And for hunting and for pretending to be a tribe and putting on war-paint."(163). Piggy realizes exactly why the boys have gone to Jack's, which would be for fun and excitement. The need to play and have fun in Jack's group, even though the boys ... beginning to return to the decorum of their innocent, more childlike past. The boys are in a semi-circle instead of in a pack of savages, they are coloured with clay ins tead of gaudy war-paint, they are holding sticks instead of spears and they are absolutely as quiet as they would have been around adults in their previous lives. Children are usually more ordered, disciplined and civilized under adult ...
- 5048: Lord of the Flies: Success of Golding's Portrayal of the Children
- ... are bathing, Piggy points beyond the platform and says, "That's where they're gone. Jack's party. Just for some meat. And for hunting and for pretending to be a tribe and putting on war-paint."(163). Piggy realizes exactly why the boys have gone to Jack's, which would be for fun and excitement. The need to play and have fun in Jack's group, even though the boys ... beginning to return to the decorum of their innocent, more childlike past. The boys are in a semi-circle instead of in a pack of savages, they are coloured with clay ins tead of gaudy war-paint, they are holding sticks instead of spears and they are absolutely as quiet as they would have been around adults in their previous lives. Children are usually more ordered, disciplined and civilized under adult ...
- 5049: Assassination Of Martin Luther
- ... native of South Dakota, is the state animal and another nicknames is the Coyote States 42 Tennessee Its nickname the Volunteer State came from the larger number of Tennesseans who volunteered for service in the War of 1812, particularly in the battle o New Orleans. In the Mexican War also the number of Tennessee volunteers far exceeded the states quota (number of people expected to volunteer). 43 Texas The nickname Lone Star State comes from the single star in the Texas flag, which was ...
- 5050: Eurodisney
- ... food like hamburgers and milkshakes, and additional costs from $110 to $380 for hotels per night. Yet is was not only the prices that kept people away. During this period, there was a transatlantic airfare war going on, which made it possible to fly to Orlando cheaper then to drive or fly to Paris and stay at the expensive hotels. Also, the 1992 Olympics were being held in Barcelona, Spain, and ... items that Disney markets were all wrong. What seems to be is Disney assumed that Europeans, Asians, and Americans shared the same view on value. Environmental factors such as competition, a recession, and the Gulf War were also causes to the primary stages. Ethnocentrism played a big part in this situation. The French are a strong group who do not approve of the foreign influences of America. For one, the French ...
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