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- 13081: The History of The Airship
- ... the feasibility of using airships for airborne early warning and electronic warfare as well as antisubmarine warfare. Some countries were also showing an equal interest in airships for civil aviation and advertising purposes. In present day, airships may be observed at any given football game as the "Goodyear Blimp" hovers high above the stadium and transfers live video feed to the viewers at home. In conclusion, ever since man has learned ...
- 13082: Flea
- ... take a similar approach, it is Marvell that writes the more persuasive one, reaching deep into the soul to win his object of affection. The main theme of Marvell’s poem is to "seize the day." The speaker is trying to convince the woman that it is much better to have sex now than to save her virginity for the future. The man wants to experience the pleasure now, while the ...
- 13083: Benvenuto Cellini
- ... for Pope Paul III to give to Emperor Charles V. The next storm cloud was imprisonment in 1537 on a charge (perhaps false) of stealing gems from a tiara of the Pope. Intervention by Cardinal d'Este of Ferrara (for whom he had created a silver cup) and others brought his release, and Cellini left Rome for the last time. His destination this time was the court of King Francis I ...
- 13084: Fire And Ice - Compared To 4 Other Poems
- ... poems. Frost not only appreciates birds’ ability to sing, but also their beauty when they remain silent. The imagery of this poem is a small bird sitting peacefully on a branch on a hot summer day. There is a young bird watcher observing its every move. The poem is told by the bird watcher. The theme of "The Oven Bird" is that all objects should be accepted as what they are ...
- 13085: Watership Down
- ... rabbits from problems. Pipkin, a good friend of Fiver, was small like Fiver but acted as if he was as big as Bigwig. He always did what he was told and never complained. PLOT One day Fiver, sensing danger, convinced his brother Hazel that they must leave their warren. Hazel tried to warn the Chief Rabbit of the danger, but he did not listen. Hazel gathered a group and went along ...
- 13086: Faust
- ... Mephisto for help in his quest for Gretchen, "Get me that girl, and don't ask why?"(257) Mephisto replies with a quote that establishes the nature at which Faust will pursue Gretchen with, "We'd waste our time storming and running; we have to have recourse to cunning."(261) It is from this point in the story that Faust declines into a state of immorality and irresponsibility; a level he ...
- 13087: Fallen Angels
- ... felling aside to survive. I only hope that if I am ever put in the same position and my life is on the line, I can put my feelings a side, and do what I’d have to do to survive.
- 13088: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World
- ... Montag's name into specific places, thus creating the image they the characters are actually conversing with them. Montag's wife, having only a few friends and ones she rarely sees, spends much of her day in this room, watching a program called "The Family", a government sponsored program that shows the viewers what life at home should be like. The problem with this is that Montag's wife takes the ...
- 13089: Fahrenheit 451 - Symbolism
- ... firemen’s helmets, tanks, and in the firestation. During a moment of revelation Montag comes upon an interesting idea about fire and the burning of books that takes place. He states, "the sun burnt every day. It burnt time…So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt! One of them had to stop burning. The sun wouldn’t, certainly" (141). With ...
- 13090: Fahrenheit 451 - Symbolism
- ... we just did. We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, some day we'll stop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember every generation." (163) Fire is another great example of symbolism. Each of ...
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