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- 4891: The Problem in Macbeth
- ... present, and I feel now This future in the instant. (Act 1, sc.5, l.55-57) And when she finds out that according to the plan Duncan is going to move on the next day, she bursts out O, never Shall sun that morrow see! (Act 1, sc.5, l. 59-60) 4. The importance of these exclamations lies in the human relationship to fate and future. It's always ... fate of equivocation. The same can be expressed in the law that any attempt to tie up time, to make it stop, is void. Time goes on. "Time and the hour runs through the roughest day", says Macbeth, and this he says for his own comfort, but the statement shows his mistake. With his crime he has changed time. It has from cosmos sunk into chaos. From that moment he is ...
- 4892: Macbeth: Not All Men Are Heroic
- ... once start me. (Act 5:Scene 5:Ln.11) She could have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty 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 and ...
- 4893: Archimedes
- ... Archimedes' screw, and most importantly he discovered the surface area and volume of a sphere and a method for calculating Pi. Archimedes is considered to be the greatest mathematician of ancient times and to this day we still use many of his inventions and mathematical methods. The most popular story about Archimedes relates to his discovery of his principle of Bouyancy. The story goes that Archimedes was asked by the king to find out if a gold crown he had been sold was actually real gold or not. At first he was stumped until he stepped into the bath one day and realized that the water rose when he got in. He then realized that the buoyancy force is equal the weight of the liquid displaced. It was then said that he ran through the streets ...
- 4894: The Electronic Computer
- ... machine that will not only do our arithmetic. In addition, this machine helps us think, write, draw, play music, learn, keep records and retrieve information. It is the electronic computer that we are using every day. The idea of an automatic computing machine can be traced back to the mid-nineteenth century. But it was only in the 1904s, when electronics was applied to the task of automatic computing, that fast ... More and more of us find that our personal computers are an integral part of our daily activities. Society's dependence on computers is not always apparent. However, turn off the computer system for a day in almost any company, and observe the consequences, you will see the problem. Most companies would cease to function. Turn off the computer system for several days, and many companies would cease to exist. Our ...
- 4895: Sister Helen Prejean
- ... she prayed for all those years until she moved into the Hope House. While working at the Hope House, she received a quick education about the way of life, the systems and what really occurs day to day, she explains this when she says she lives, in a state whose misery statistics are the highest in the nation—where residents bring home an average yearly income of $10,890 …where one in every ...
- 4896: Solo: A Book Review
- ... one break in the chain was his Grandfather and him, John, who is a concert pianist. John is clever but physcotic, because his hobby, as gruesome as it may seem, is killing. It began one day when his nanny was killed. It seemed she was killed by a hit and run driver. John, who loved his nanny so much, decided to get revenge, and revenge he did. He killed the man ... fatal mistake someone else did to him by doing it to someone else, with even more power than him. Mikali's most loved relative was killed by a hit and run driver-and then one day Mikali kills the daughter of a retired SAS Soldier, Asa Morgan. Morgan is a trained and skilled killer himself. It is ironic in the fact that after Morgan's daughter is killed, he goes on ...
- 4897: What Is Electricity
- ... question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster? Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical lesson: On a cool, dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friends mouth and touch one of his dental fillings. Did you notice how your friend twitched violently and cried out in pain? This ... another wire, then (this is the brilliant part) sends it right back to the customer again. This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught, since very few customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact, the last year any new electricity was generated was 1937; the electric companies have been merely re ...
- 4898: The Soliloquies of Hamlet
- ... king and husband to his mother. His grief over his father's death is compounded by his mother's hasty marriage to Claudius. Hamlet protests, “a beast, that wants discourse of reason, would have mourn'd longer” (1285). The worst part is that he cannot tell them how he feels. In his second soliloquy, Hamlet becomes curious and suspicious after hearing of the ghost. “My father's spirit in arms! All ... dawned on Hamlet that he had been thinking too much and acting too little. “ Now, whether it be bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple of thinking too precisely on th' event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward, I do not know why yet I live to say, “This thing's to do” (1342). With his newfound determination to avenge his father's ...
- 4899: Sir John Falstaff's Influence on Prince Hal in I Henry IV
- ... the tides. Therefore, as a knight guided by moonlight, Falstaff is a dissenter against law and order. This conclusion finds support in his witty tautologies and epithets. Falstaff is invariably aware that Hal will one day become king, and when that happens, robbers will be honored in England by “Let[ting] us be indulgence Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, monions of the moon; and let[ting] men say we ... thee after supper, and sleep- ing upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know. What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day? (I, ii, 2-7) Time, a symbol of the ordered life, could not concern a man who spends his days drinking sack, eating, sleeping, and frequenting brothels. Finally, Falstaff's natural ability to perceive or ...
- 4900: Fusion
- ... they fire-flies that could only be seen when the Apollo had parked his chariot for the night? There seemed to be as many explanations for the stars as there were stars themselves. Then one day an individual named Galileo Galilei made an astounding discovery: the stars were replicas of our own sun, only so far away that they seemed as large as pin pricks to the naked eye. This in ... grain of salt. Scientists have only determined these facts from the information they now have. Everyday new things are discovered that may discredit all we believe to be fact. One can only hope that one day we as a people can learn enough to prove once and for all the exact nature of the universe. Stellar Fusion ~ The Cosmic Ballet ~ Dylan Richards Chemistry 30 Mr. Hartley October 20, 1996 Bibliography Time ...
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