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- 1591: Kafka's The Trial: Guilt
- ... Trial, Franz Kafka uses his main character Joseph K to show the unimportance of the actual guilt of an individual. Although K is arrested and summoned by the courts, he is never informed of his crime, or questioned on his actual guilt. The trial that K is put through can be interpreted on two levels, the first of which is a literal interpretation of a criminal trial. The second level can ... executed without distinction in the end." In Kafka's beliefs, the courts treat all men as if they were guilty. Joseph K is a prime example of this treatment. He is never told about his crime, nor of how the trial is going. He merely waits until he is summoned, and if he is not, he is still forced to live his life according to the courts. This is what Kafka believes happens to all individuals; they are controlled by the society, and forced to agree with what the society implements upon them. K never found out what his alleged crime was, and will never find out. However, he was forced to agree with his own guilt because the society did not give him any other option. When he was told of his three possible ...
- 1592: Guilt and How It Is Handled
- ... bring such inner feeling from within a person. All people at one point or another feel guilty and have their own way of dealing with it. In The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale feels guilty for his crime of adultery. This character is not only guilty for what he does but also the fact that he does not confess to everyone in town. By not admitting his responsibility, he increases his guilt because ... guilt can also illustrate how people deal with difficulty. Guilt does not only appear in literature, but also in daily life. A famous case is the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Whether he committed the crime or not, O.J. has shown no signs of guilt. This can be interpreted as meaning that he either did not commit the crime, or he did so but is hiding the guilt. If the second situation is true, then he has emotional scars that do not show exactly like Dimmesdale. A more common example takes place in ...
- 1593: Book Report on "The Lost World"
- ... They almost destroyed the trailer but got their child back. The group later found an abandoned building left from when the dinosaurs were actually controlled and were forced to stay there. In it was a computer. Arby the whiz on this found the old system running program. Now he had access to the few working cameras left on the island and also to some detailed maps. They had two dangerous nights ... but he wasn't Ian and Sarah helped hold it. Arby and Sarah were looking for some sort of hidden or previously undetected way out. They found it. It was a trap door under the computer desk which led to a maintenance tunnel. It was cramped but they were out. They waited until the raptors left until they took the now beat up, and low on gas explorer to the boat ... which they could take to the closest island of Puerto Cortes`. Practically the only good to come of this was that Levine got what he wanted. Arby and him set up a connection from the computer in the building, which had access to all the files and cameras on the island, to Levine's laptop. He could watch and record all the footage he wanted until all the cameras went ...
- 1594: The Scarlet Letter and A Tale of Two Cities: A Comparison
- ... conspirator or bear the consequences of the deed alone. Due to her doggedness, the townsmen sentenced her to wear a scarlet letter *A* embroidered on her chest. The A served as a symbol of her crime, was a punishment of humiliation, gave her constant shame, and reminded her of her sin. Hester*s penalization was a prime example where deception led to negative consequences in that she would have been spared the entire encumbrance of the crime if she did not deceive the townspeople. Although seemingly, her paramour did not escape punishment. In fact, the father of her bastard child took a more severe sentence. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale seemed to be an ... self on the outside. Never having revealed his true identity to everyone, he died without solace and alone. Although Charles Dickens is not so severe in the castigation of his characters, he too makes the crime of deception punishable even by death. In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Darnay is an example of one who escapes punishment for his offense. Charles Darnay was his first line of deception. Darnay ...
- 1595: A Case of Needing: Serious Revisions
- ... for all to see. It's interesting to consider what Crichton might do today if he were given a chance to revise this story. Aside from the twisters that would likely rip through Boston as computer-generated actors morphed into velociraptors, there would likely also be a more concerted effort to make the story not more three-dimensional, but less. The reduction of complex issues to easily grasp able arguments is ... book is not a total waste. By creating interesting (if somewhat stereotypical) stock characters, and placing them in somewhat contrived situations, Crichton does manage to explore some of the more complex issues surrounding a medical crime. However, through excessive detail and an unwillingness to weigh in sufficiently on some of the more important ethical dilemmas inherent to his tale, Crichton ends up obscuring more than he reveals. A Case of Need ...
- 1596: The Scarlet Letter: Visions of a Past Society
- ... townspeople and how they act and behave towards each other, Hester, and life in general. The novel starts with Hester walking towards the town scaffold to be seen for public display, because she committed the crime of adultery. A lane was forthwith opened through the crowd of spectators. Preceded by the beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern- browed men and unkindly visaged women, Hester Pyrnne set forth towards ... to stare into her face, and at the wink-ing baby in her arms, and at the ignominious letter on her breast. P. 52, 53 As this is happening, all the people see is the crime that Hester committed, not the person behind it. They do not take into consideration, that the crime itself, is not as evil as they make it out to be. Hawthorne describes it as enjoyable to the spectators, by showing the children watch her and laugh as she makes her way to ...
- 1597: To Kill A Mockingbird: The Guilty Verdict and Consequences of the Trial
- ... this verdict has brought to a close a trial that has captured the news and stirred the emotions of this town for several months. It somehow seems fitting that this trial, for a most horrible crime, began during the winter months when all of nature is dead, and has ended with the beginning of Spring when all of nature seems to come alive. Tom Robinson, a 25 year old black male, stood accused of raping a 19 year old white woman named Mayella Ewell. The crime took place in November of last year. Both the victim and the accused were lifelong residents of Maycomb, County and were acquainted. Mr. Robinson was represented by County lawyer, Atticus Finch, a well renowned and ... about the allegations that were being made about him. Mr. Robinson answered his lawyer's question in what appeared to be a forthright and honest manner. He denied ever contemplating or committing such a terrible crime. Mr. Finch pointed out that the bruises on the left side of her face were consistent with the injuries that would have been rendered by left handed person. He went on to demonstrate through ...
- 1598: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... in anybody's history- and then he added, "That is, for you-and consider what you have done for Bishop. It is bad enough in your case, you deserve to suffer. You have committed this crime, and you deserve to have all you are going to get. But here is an innocent man. Bishop had never done you any harm, and see what you have done to him. He can never ... years- all too few, I fear- mark my words, we shall have cider! Gentlemen, pause ere it be too late. You are on the broad road which leads to dissipation, physical ruin, moral decay, gory crime and the gallows! I beseech you, I implore you, in the name of your anxious friends, in the name of your suffering families, in the name of your impending widows and orphans, stop ere it ... original with ourselves. He stated a truth, and did it in such a pleasant way, and salved over my sore spot so gently and so healingly, that I was rather glad I had committed the crime, for the sake of the letter. I afterward called on him and told him to make perfectly free with any ideas of mine that struck him as being good protoplasm for poetry. He could ...
- 1599: Bill Gate's Biography
- Bill Gate's Biography William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation, the leading provider, worldwide, of software for the personal computer. Microsoft had revenues of $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ending June 1998, and employs more than 27,000 people in 60 countries. Born on October 28, 1955, Gates and his two sisters grew ... Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he began his career in personal computer software, programming computers at age 13. In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's president. While at Harvard, Gates developed the programming ... the MITS Altair. In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates' foresight and vision regarding personal computing have been central to the success of ...
- 1600: George Dantzig
- ... then in 1960 he was appointed professor at Berkeley and Chairman of the Operations Research Center. While there he wrote Linear Programming and Extensions (1963). In 1966 he was appointed Professor of Operations Research and Computer Science at Stanford University. His work in a wide range of topics related to optimization and operations research over the years has been of major importance. In spite of impressive developments in computational optimization in ... 1947, has stood the test of time. Through his research in mathematical theory, computation, economic analysis, and applications to industrial problems, he has contributed more than any other researcher to the development of linear programming. Computer scientist Laszlo Lovasz said in 1980: "If one would take statistics about which mathematical problem is using up most of the computer time in the world, then (not including database handling problems like sorting and searching) the answer would probably be linear programming. In his words: "The tremendous power of the simplex method is a constant ...
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