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- 1231: Macbeth 11
- ... cruel and unjust ruler and is always conscious of guilt. Macbeth brings chaos to Scotland, breaking up the balance of a well-ordered country, just as he breaks up the state banquet with most admir d disorder? claiming to have seen the Ghost of Banquo. Soon after the murder of Banquo, Macbeth begins to grasp an unreality about his life, but that does not seem to change his conduct. Macbeth s ... self and violent hands?he states: ?She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this pretty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts ...
- 1232: Famous People With Mental Illnesses
- ... Eugene enrolled at Harved University. O'Neill won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936, and Pulitzer Prizes for four of his plays: Beyond the Horizon (1920); Anna Christie (1922); Strange Interlude (1928); and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1957). O'Neill is credited with raising American dramatic theater from its narrow origins to an art form respected around the world. He is regarded as America's premier playwright. O ... picture. Piersall's problems were very public, but he carried himself with dignity, and with a distinct sense of humor about his ordeals. He never quite rid himself of his unique behavior, quipping that he'd "give 'em their money's worth" if the crowds came out to see him. Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848) was a world famous opera singer. Like Piersall Gaetano suffered from Bipolar depression. Death to close family ... mar-gins--evidence of his wide-ranging interests, and also of his mercurial nature. Inability to maintain a steady mood characterized his life; though by this own description he was sometimes "lax, unemployed and unmeridian'd," his doctor once diagnosed him as suffering "the too great excitement of poetry." Keats had already lost both his father and mother by his early adolescence. Financial problems were never absent; his later years ...
- 1233: Symbolism in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
- Symbolism in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird "I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want , if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to ... the niggers and trash he works for!" not only show us her own views, but they also represent the views of the rest of Maycomb County. As they were going by the house later that day Jem snatched Scout's baton and "ran flailing wildly up the steps into Mrs. Dubose's front yard...He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every camellia bush ... the novel, Atticus Finch personifies justice, and acts rationally as the voice of reason. Thus, we are, finally, brings us back to the title of the story, To Kill A Mockingbird, as Atticus says, "I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember, it's a sin ...
- 1234: Symbolism in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
- Symbolism in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird by Ryan "I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want , if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to ... the niggers and trash he works for!" not only show us her own views, but they also represent the views of the rest of Maycomb County. As they were going by the house later that day Jem snatched Scout's baton and "ran flailing wildly up the steps into Mrs. Dubose's front yard...He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every camellia bush ... the novel, Atticus Finch personifies justice, and acts rationally as the voice of reason. Thus, we are, finally, brings us back to the title of the story, To Kill A Mockingbird, as Atticus says, "I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember, it's a sin ...
- 1235: Japanese: The Law of Inverse Returns
- ... how they feel about the law of opposite returns. These people are Japanese speakers, and have at least lived in Japan at some time, or are living in Japan at the present. Case 1: Brett D. DePaola. Graduate student at the University of Kansas. Scott: Brett, how do you feel about the law of inverse returns? Brett: Nonsense! I think that perhaps for a *gaijin* in the everyday work environment of ... enough kanji to get by. I definitely don't get the feeling that people are offended. Once in a small bar/restaurant in Iidabashi my (Japanese) friend and I got into a discussion of that day's sumo results -- in a very weird mix of Japanese and English language. (Turns out that neither of us had caught that day's matches and we were guessing who might have won.) The 2 guys next to me had seen the matches and started filling us in. We exchanged business cards and, looking at the cards, ...
- 1236: Filial Piety
- ... complete as they should be, they can then preserve their ancestral temples1. This is the filial piety of high ministers and great officers. "It is said in the Book of Poetry: He is never idle, day or night, In the service of the One man."2 Notes 1. Their ancestral temples were to the ministers and grand officers what the altars of their land and grain were to the feudal lords ... high situation pride leads to ruin; in a low situation insubordination leads to punishment; among equals quarrelsomeness leads to the wielding of weapons. If those three things be not put away, though a son every day contribute beef, mutton, and pork to nourish his parents, he is not filial."1 Notes 1. Cf. Analects 2.7. XI Filial Piety in Relation to the Five Punishments The Master said, "There are three ... and death are all satisfied, and the filial son's service of his parents is completed."1 Notes 1. The above is the Classic of Filial Piety, as published by the emperor Xuan in A.D. 722, with the headings then prefixed to the eighteen chapters. Subsequently, in the eleventh century, Si Ma Guang (A.D. 1009-1086), a famous statesman and historian, published what he thought was the more ...
- 1237: Japanese Capital Structure And
- ... management, direct financing was certainly preferrable since greater independence was obtained with a diffuse group of claimants whereas having one large creditor meant that the main banks constantly had their nose in the firm s day-to-day operations. The trend towards direct financing during the 80 s was largely due to the deregulation of the capital markets in Japan. Large manufacturing firms in particular, are heading towards becoming as independent of their ... and I. Tomita, The Financial Behavior of Japanese Corporations, Kodansha International, Tokyo and New York, 83-116. Baumgartner, U. and G. Meredith, 1995, Saving Behavior and Asset Price Bubble in Japan, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C., 51-62 Berglöf, E. and E. Perotti, 1994, The governance structure of the Japanese financial keiretsu, Journal of Financial Economics 36, 259-84. Bronte, S., 1982, Japanese Finance: Markets and Institutions, Euromoney Publications, ...
- 1238: Normandy Invasion
- ... their attacks on German industrial centers. Postponed by delays in gathering the necessary landing equipment and by weather and tidal conditions, Operation Overlord, with Eisenhower in command, began on June 6, 1944, afterward known as D-Day. Throughout the preceding night, paratroopers were dropped behind German coastal defenses to sever communications and seize key defense posts. Hundreds of warships and innumerable small craft supported the invasion. Between 6:30 and 7:30 ... Le Havre in history's largest amphibious operation, involving approximately 5,000 ships of all kinds. About 11,000 Allied aircraft operated over the invasion area. More than 150,000 troops disembarked at Normandy on D-Day. Because all major French ports in the north were mined and fortified, the Allies improvised two artificial harbors, with pontoons, breakwaters, and sunken ships. One of the harbors was destroyed by a severe ...
- 1239: Granite
- ... ll ever see him. Only one tear fell the whole night, though. She wasn’t as mad as she was blown away at the whole idea that, even though he was her older sibling, he’d always be preserved in time, like the granite above him, as a four-day-old infant. She considered this while shifting her vision to the huge slab of white stone near the left road. This was the children’s saint, with most of the children buried around it. When ... shiver as the first droplets of a new rain fell tumbling on her jersey. Her eyes showed she was inattentive to it while she kneeled, slowly outlining the word "Joey" with her left pinky. She’d always regretted the fact that she never felt any real depression from his death, but how could she? She wasn’t even a twinkle in her parents’ eye when it happened. She drew in ...
- 1240: Show How Macbeth And Lady Macbeth Have To Go Against Their Own Natures In Order To Kill Duncan
- ... cruel and unjust ruler and is always conscious of guilt. Macbeth brings chaos to Scotland, breaking up the balance of a well-ordered country, just as he breaks up the state banquet ‘with most admir’d disorder’, claiming to have seen the Ghost of Banquo. Soon after the murder of Banquo, Macbeth begins to grasp an unreality about his life, but that does not seem to change his conduct. Macbeth’s ... self and violent hands’ he states: “ She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this pretty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts ...
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