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- 11981: Success
- ... golden rule. We need to fill these goals that society has for us and attempt to achieve societal success in order to fill our need to belong to society and fit in as an every day, functioning member of society. We also realize the personal goals and dreams that we set for ourselves in this pursuit of conformity. Achieving this civic success, as you might call it, is only a small ...
- 11982: Emily Dickinson On Drugs?
- ... mind was going numb;" now I strongly believe that one has to be on "crack" to write a line like this. "Then Space-began to toll;" I don't believe Emily Dickinson graduated from the D.A.R.E. program because normal, non-drug using people do not normally space out and see their funerals in their heads. "And I dropped down, and down," in other words, Emily just passed out ...
- 11983: Thoreau, Henry David
- ... a simple life, unfettered by material possessions. Thoreau's quotation is applicable in today's life more than ever. The appearance of railroads and commerce in Thoreau's time was the start of the modern day "rat race". Thoreau wanted people in his time to realize how much time they were wasting with busywork and trifles. Today, people are even worse in that respect than before. With all today's products ...
- 11984: Surfing Is Supposed To Be Para
- ... would keep it a secret. As the world grows and the number of perfect uncrowded waves will obviously diminish. The surfing world is going to have to learn how to share the ocean. Until that day comes I and about a couple million or so will keep being greedy and dedicated to the search for perfect uncrowded waves.
- 11985: The Wife (canterbury Tales)
- ... the woman from Bath details. The marquis in her story controlled his wife and their marriage. Prior to their marriage he warns her "to be ready to obey show a willing heart, ungrudging night or day when I say "yes" you never shall say "no"(330). Upon entering marriage she had to promise to be obedient; making her more of a servant than a wife. The marquis further demeans and degrades ...
- 11986: The Waste Land
- ... S. Eliot s poem "The Waste Land". Eliot relies on literary contrasts to illustrate the specific values of meaningful, effectual rituals of primitive society in contrast to the meaningless, broken, sham rituals of the modern day. These contrasts serve to show how ceremonies can become broken when they are missing vital components, or they are overloaded with too many. Even the way language is used in the poem furthers the point ...
- 11987: The Vedlt
- ... not to do something they cry about it and do it anyway. George would not allow Peter to take a rocket to New York, Peter became extremely angry with this and never forgave him. One day Peter and Wendy turn their room into Africa and keep it that way for a long time. The Santa Clause in the room was turned into a Scrooge. The children's parent became worried because ...
- 11988: Robert Browning
- ... example of this trend is in book XXIV. Achilles, angry over the death of Patroklos brutally disgraced Hektor's body. Tethering Hektor's corpse through the ankles, Achilles dragged him around Patroklos's tomb every day for twelve days. This barbaric treatment was uncalled for and displeased the gods greatly. Achilles mother, Thetis, was sent by Zeus to tell him to ransom the body back to the Trojans. One may think ...
- 11989: Renaissance Poetry
- ... better example of this than the sonnet number ninety from the Canzoniere. In this piece we are given the description of Petrarch's desire that is a perfect rendering of his objectification of women. She'd let her gold hair flow free in the breeze that whirled it into thousands of sweet knots, and lovely light would burn beyond all measure in those fair eyes whose light is dimmer now. Her ...
- 11990: Pygmalion +
- ... After being presented in London society at a garden party, a dinner party, and the reception at Buckingham Palace, Eliza succeeds. Both Pickering and Higgins agree that, Oh, she wasn t nervous. I knew she d be alright. (p.79) As the men brag about her success, Eliza becomes angry. She snatches up Higgins slippers and hurls these at him with force. I m nothing to you--not so much as ...
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