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- 11501: How Much Land Does A Man Need
- ... that he thought he was stealing for them. The night before he had a dream that the devil was sitting over his dead body laughing. He dismisses it and goes back to sleep. The next day he starts out to stake his claim. He is trying so hard to get as much as possible that he miss judges how far he has gone and begins to have problems walking. He is ...
- 11502: In Our Time
- ... each story. I think it clouded my mind while I was reading and I must try to avoid that. If I had simply picked the book from a shelf and read it on a summer day, I think my responses would have been subtly different, although I'm sure I don't know in what way. I am never sure what kind of "response" a professor is looking for in these ...
- 11503: In Our Time By Ernest Hemingwa
- ... and the way Hemingway writes something. I have found it difficult to pay close attention to both the story and the writing at the same time and have had to reread several times. "The Three-Day Blow" offered an interesting irony to the title "In Our Time", but maybe it is just my jaded view of the television. Nick and Bill sit and discuss intelligently on various topics like books and ...
- 11504: Jesus, Paul, And Mohammed: Com
- ... impact on the outcome of history is of grave importance. For example the invention of the wheel, not only did it make things easier for the culture at the time, but it also to this day plays an important role in society. Last of all I think that to have an impact on history I think that the person has to first have an impact on his own time and place ...
- 11505: Personal Writing: If I could Meet Three People, I Would Meet....
- ... Marco Polo, Galileo Galilei, and Muhammad Ali. Being taught by some people in the past could expand your knowledge. History are experience which could help you to getting away from mistakes. I can see one day, an inventor produce a time machine, bring people back and forth. They learned much more about the past, and the world will be improved by those who learned the mistakes from history.
- 11506: Machiavelli - Human Nature
- ... the state. Although Machiavelli doubted that this form of government could ever be established it did appear several years after he wrote The Prince. Machiavelli has become to be regarded as "the founder of modern day, secular politics."19
- 11507: Police Corruption
- ... its beginnings, may aspects of policing have changed; however, one aspect that has remained relatively unchanged is the existence of corruption. An examination of a local newspaper or any police-related publication on any given day will have an article about a police officer that got busted committing some kind of corrupt act. Police corruption has increased dramatically with the illegal cocaine trade, with officers acting alone or in-groups to ...
- 11508: Moby Dick
- ... with his dying breath. With the characters of Ishmael and Ahab structured into their respective places, the stage is set for the novels finale. The ambiguous circumstances of the last chapter "The Chase Third Day," are further complicated by the portrait of the whale that Melville himself composes. Melville portrays whales methodically throughout the novel, approaching them from a scientific, sociologic, philosophic and even poetic points of view. Despite the ...
- 11509: Mrs. Dalloway By Virginia Wool
- ... a way for him to finally communicate to everyone, especially his two doctors. Neither Dr. Holmes nor Sir William could empower his life anymore with their false treatments. In everything that has happened in one day, the key connection between Septimus and Clarissa was his death and the English society that both people were subjected to.
- 11510: New Atlantis By Francis Bacon
- ... the sailors are 'confined' to their resting place and are attended to according to their needs. The sailors reply, "God surely is manifested in this land" (Bacon, 424). Upon talking to the governor the next day, he exclaims "Ye knit my heart to you by asking this question, [the hope that they might meet heaven], in the first place, for it showeth that you first seek the kingdom of heaven" (Bacon ...
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