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- 5641: Alice in Wonderland: Enduring, Endearing Nonsense
- ... stammering Oxford mathematics professor. Dodgson was a deacon in his church, an inventor, and a noted children's photographer. Wonderland, and thus the seeds of his unanticipated success as a writer, appeared quite casually one day as he spun an impromptu tale to amuse the daughters of a colleague during a picnic. One of these girls was Alice Liddell, who insisted that he write the story down for her, and who ... which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." There is plenty of fodder for psychoanalysts, Freudian or otherwise, who have had a field day analyzing the significance of the myriad dream creatures and Alice's strange transformations. There is even Zen: "And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown ...
- 5642: Landfills - Fact Is More Ominous Than Fiction
- ... affect constructively a wide area around it." The report ended by stating, "It is at once practical and idealistic" [Rathje 4]. One must appreciate the irony in the fact that Robert Moses was, in his day, considered a leading conservationist. His major accomplishments include asphalt parking lots throughout the New York metro area, paved roads in and out of city parks, and development of Jones Beach, now the most polluted, dirty ... into our water supply at this very moment, with no way to stop them. For example, the Fresh Kills landfill leaks an estimated one million gallons of toxic ooze into the surrounding water table every day [Miller 527]. Sanitary landfills do offer certain advantages. Offensive odors, the mainstay of the old city dump, are dramatically reduced by the daily cover of clay or other material. Vermin and insects, both of the ...
- 5643: Capital Punishment
- ... they will set another date for execution, or they will spend the rest of their lives on death row. If the pardon is denied, then the person will be sent to die on the scheduled day. Now I would like to give you a few examples of famous, and not so famous cases of people who were sentenced to be executed: · Thomas More: was executed in the 1700s for being a ... own rites and rituals, but the feeling of a justified retribution is held by almost every ethnic and civil group in the world. Yet the debate over its efficacy and morality continues unabated to this day. The history of capital punishment begins with the translations of Hammurabis Code, the oldest legal document ever discovered. While the precise date of Hammurabi's Code of Laws is disputed by scholars, it is ...
- 5644: Call of the Wild: Character Sketch - Buck
- ... and farther, Buck knew he was dying. While Buck was being beaten, a man named John Thornton came forth and took Buck from his attacker. The man nursed Buck back to health, and from that day forward, Buck lived for that man. Buck loved him with all his being. After being with this man for quite some time, Buck started to hear a call from far away. He started paying more ... This call was the call of the wild. He had a will to go off and be with other dogs. He felt the urge to be free from man and catch his own food. One day, Buck finally left for good. He was excepted by a pack of wolves who treated him like a wolf himself. And so the transformation was complete. Buck had changed from a dog, to a beast ...
- 5645: Imagery is an Important Element in Writing
- ... the imagination and create vivid pictures in the mind. Imagery can have a different effect on everybody. Some people will see things in a different way than other people see them, unlike in television. H.D. was one of the first writers to use imagery. Inspired by Ezra Pound, H.D. once wrote in her poem titled "Heat": Cut the heat- Plow through it, turning it on either side of your path. The reader can clearly see the heat being pushed out of the way by ...
- 5646: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- Every day society is imposed upon by awful messages. Not one day passes in which we do not see something terrible or obscene on television, and most people have been exposed to the usage of racial slurs. It is hard to understand why a book should be ...
- 5647: "By the Waters of Babylon"
- ... III. What events make up the story's rising action? The rising action is made up of many parts. John touches a piece his father got from the Dead Place. He then fasted for a day and wait for a sign. He then saw an eagle flying east. Then he had to begin his journey. He then goes to the city and explores finding many statues and buildings. He then sees ... itself and each time it gets better and better. I say this because the human civilization was destroyed except for a few and yet they were able to restart the civilization that will probably one day rule the world.
- 5648: An Analysis of British Literature
- ... The story starts at a Christmas party at Camelot when the Green Knight enters and offers to let a knight hit him with an ax if he can return the blow a year and a day later. Sir Gawain, the most brave knight of the round table, accepted the challenge, and he chopped off the knight's head. The Green Kngiht then picked up his head, and rode away. A year and a day later, Gawain went to the Green Knight. He kneeled before the Green Knight, ready to take the blow. However as the Green Knight is about to lower his ax, Gawain "pulled his shoulders back, just ...
- 5649: I, Too, Am America
- ... and others like me struggle for change, but it will take more than our struggle to change an entire nation. "I, Too, Am America?" I am part of the intelligent, strong generation that will one day run this country. I am part of the heartfelt, determined black youth which will one day end the racist mentality. I am true to my obligation by being myself, educating myself, and standing for what I believe in. "I, Too, Am America?" I and others like me are the heart, body ...
- 5650: Frankenstein 3
- ... finds Victor Frankenstein adrift in the Arctic. After a week s recovery Frankenstein tells his story. As Victor was growing up he had always been interested in alchemy and pseudo-sciences. He hoped to one day to be able overcome death and decay. Victor learned how to create life in the laboratory and collected parts from cadavers to create his creature. After giving his creation life, he was horrified and fled ... hidden away for two years, then received a letter telling of his little brother s death. He suspected the creature, but the police suspected a female friend of his family s and hanged her. One day the being found Victor and told him of his survival and his knowledge. He requested Victor make him a companion and in return they would flee away never to be seen again. He eventually agrees ...
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