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- 2461: Tale Of Two Cities Charictariz
- ... Bastille prisoner. During Darnay's imprisonment in Paris, Dr. Manette uses the Revolutionaries' esteem to keep his son-in-law alive. As a result, you watch him grow stronger, regaining the sense of purpose he'd lost in the Bastille. -JARVIS LORRY All through the story Jarvis Lorry protests that he's nothing more or less than a man of business. "Feelings!" he exclaims, "I have no time for them." Mr ... modern ideas about bankers and businessmen? He admittedly values the bank above himself, an attitude you might consider old fashioned. Readers have described him as the sort of clerk Dickens saw passing in his own day, and mourned. Lorry compares favorably with the two other men of business in the story: Stryver, the pushing lawyer, and Jerry Cruncher, the "honest tradesman" who digs up bodies and sells them to medical science ... and providing the evidence (ironically, in Dr. Manette's name) needed to condemn him. Defarge stops just short of denouncing Dr. Manette and Lucie, too, but there are hints from Madame and friends that he'd better start toeing the line. Dickens leaves us with the thought that, finally, Defarge is controlled by a force more powerful than politics, or even his wife. In Sydney Carton's last vision, Defarge ...
- 2462: The Catcher In The Rye
- If you really want to know the truth, I felt sorry for the bastard. (54) This is just one of the colorful lines that is often repeated in J.D. Salinger s The Catcher In The Rye. When the book was first released, it was considered highly controversial for its time. Many people tried to ban the reading of the book in schools. Although The ... are the times where most of Holden s thoughts and ideas are expressed. Holden goes back to his room and passes out. The next morning he calls an old girlfriend. He meets her for the day and they go to a show. They spend most of the day together, but then are separated because Holden gets into a huge argument with her. Holden looks for more company, but cannot find any. Once again he goes to a bar. He gets really hammered ...
- 2463: Creative Writing: Utopia Z
- ... and every two weeks credits are put in their savings to buy extra goods and activities that are wanted. Water runs free through the water system so there is water available twenty-four hours a day. Water is stored in one area incase of a virus getting in the water supply. Waste products are shot into space where a machine collects them and turns them into fresh nice smelling farming soil ... through to grade twelve and then on to a trade school. The schooling takes place at home. The teacher is a holographic image produced by a screen with s hard-drive attached. A (S.C.D.) or super compaced disk, is incerted and at a spacifice time comes on and teaches. This teacher is programed to teach the way the student best lerns. This goes on through trade school, which is ... making a crime. Utopia Z: Introduction This is the year 1997, we (Canadian developers inc.) have developed a self supporting, self contained space-station. The space-station is rotating earth at a rate of .5/day. We have named the station; Utopia Z. We have selected 10,000 lucky individuals randomly from Earth. Approximately 2-4 people from each sex were selected from each Country. Utopia Z is equipped fully ...
- 2464: The Coming Of Age In Literatur
- ... young man who is destined to be king but he cannot walk at the age of seven. As result of this misfortune Soassouma decides to take the throne and treats all the people badly. One-day Sundiata s mom asked Sassouma for some boabab leaves because her son could not get the leaves. Sassouma replied I have a calabash full. Help yourself, you poor woman. As for me my son knew ... and may effect your future actions and decisions. So, this technique used in Sundiata , Nights , and Gilgamesh was used to show how they grow and mature over time and situations. Work Cited Page 1) Niane, D. T.. The Corner Store. World Literature. Ed. G. D. Picket. Orlando: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc, 1993. 105-115. 2) Sandars, N. K.. Epic of Gilgamesh. World Literature. Ed. David Leeming. Orlando: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1993. 139-151
- 2465: Mysteries Of The World
- ... while others simply do not. Both types of people obviously have their own reasonings for believing or disbelieving in it. There are numerous world famous mysteries that are still controversial and remain "unsolved" to this day. Some of these mysteries include the Loch Ness Monster, the Abominable Snowman, and the Bermuda Triangle. The Loch Ness Monster is a legendary animal that supposedly resides in the depths of Loch Ness, a long narrow lake situated in rural Scotland. Stories concerning the monster date back to the 6th century A.D. The region was in complete isolation until a road was built alongside the lake in 1933. Then large numbers of people travelled through the region for the very first time. Over the years thousands have ... to support the legends, are thought by scientists, to be prints of a bear or markings left my drifting snow and falling rocks. The legend of the abominable snowman has been kept alive 'till this day, mostly by the Sherpa, a tribe of people living in the Himalayas. These people have always kept the belief that the abominable snowman is a true fact of life. To them he is seen ...
- 2466: Mp3 Argument
- ... the format also allows for widespread copying of illegal files. (Sullivan 1999). On the other hand, MP3 technology has given the unsigned artist an opportunity to expose their music to millions of Internet surfers every day, increasing the artists popularity and ability to profit from his or her music without the need or assistance of a contract record deal with a major recording label. Another way to think of it ... music where record labels become obsolete, and every musician controls his or her own destiny by their own promotion and distribution of music in MP3 format. In an interview for Wired Magazine, rap artist Chuck D said MP3 wont destroy the record companies. [It] just will split the market into a world with something like a million artists and 500,000 labels. (Orr 1999). The new MP3 format needs to ... had acquired the recording in its entirety within minutes, without spending a dime. As a musician myself, the concept frightens me. It has always been a dream that my musical talents and abilities would one day become my source of income, supporting me and my family. If unregulated distribution of copyright protected music continues to prevail, it is possible that musicians will no longer profit (monetarily) from their God-given ...
- 2467: The Contempary Enlightend One
- The Contemporary Enlightened One J.D. Salinger is considered one of the most critically reviewed author in modern literature. In particular his only novel Catcher in the Rye has received the most criticism. The book has been constantly debate and sometimes ... story of the Prince is the prince lived in his kingdom where he was shielded from suffering. He never saw the dead, the dying, the suffering, the hungry. He knew none such existed. Until one day he had ventured out of the kingdom and saw the things he had been shielded from. From that day on he searched for the answer of why these things existed. When he realized the answer he became Buddha (the enlightened one). Holden and Gotama lived very similar lives. Although Holden did not have ...
- 2468: The Crucible 2
- ... and cries out] I want to open myself. For the rest of Act I Betty and Abby in feverish ecstasy cry out the names of their enemies. Here two young women, usually powerless in that day s society, find the ability to grant life or death and what sprang from a want for revenge came to a frightening lust for power. Abigail uses the fear within her community to cultivate and ... the first act when Putnam goads Proctor about taking lumber from his grounds. It is Putnam s failing of greed, vengeance and ambition that lead to the hangings of many in the community as the day his child called out on Jacobs, he said she d given him a fair gift of land. . The trials have brought out many human failings that have initiated conflicts and grudges within the town. we are only what we always were, but naked now, ...
- 2469: The Crucible 9
- ... I know seems to remember clearly. In a way, there is a biting irony in this film's having been made by a Hollywood studio, something unimaginable in the fifties. But there they are--Daniel Day-Lewis (John Proctor) scything his sea-bordered field, Joan Allen (Elizabeth) lying pregnant in the frigid jail, Winona Ryder (Abigail) stealing her minister-uncle's money majestic Paul Scofield (Judge Danforth) and his righteous empathy ... realistic judgment of reality requires. Even worse was the feeling that our sensitivity to this onslaught on our liberties was passing from us-indeed, from me. In "Timebends," my autobiography, I recalled the time I'd written a screenplay ("The Hook") about union corruption on the Brooklyn waterfront. Harry Cohn, the head of Columbia Pictures, did something that would once have been considered unthinkable: he showed my script to the F ... an almost lost chapter of Salem's past but opened up to me the details of personal relationships among many participants in the tragedy. I visited Salem for the first time on a dismal spring day in 1952; it was a sidetracked town then, with abandoned factories and vacant stores. In the gloomy courthouse there I read the transcripts of the witchcraft trials of 1692, as taken down in a ...
- 2470: Cao Daiism
- ... Jesus Christ. One was persecuted, the other killed. Who did it? Humanity. Even My Son was killed by you; you worship Him in spirit but not in holiness. I wanted to just once during Moses' day on Mount Sinai, but you could not understand Me. The promise I made to your ancestors for your redemption, the advent of Christ, was prophesied but you did not care to listen. Now I must ... directly to humanity, why did he choose to do it in South Vietnam rather than in the middle of China, India, or America? Mr. Tran Quang Canh, Chan-Tri-Su (Sub-dignitary) of the Washington, D.C. Cao Dai congregation, says the reason was the unusual acceptance of religion in Vietnam through the years. "Through God's message, even though it is a small country, the Vietnamese people, throughout the centuries ... and take over the mission for propagating the religion." As a spiritist religion, Cao Dai believes all to be prophesied beforehand (Canh). Right now, though, there are about 100 Cao Daiist families in the Washington, D.C. area and many more on the west coast (due to immigration). There is no statistic with regards to the Vietnamese Cao Dai population in the United States, but Canh estimates it at between ...
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