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- 1451: Roman Mythology
- ... that displeased. That is how he is portrayed through the Greeks, but through the Romans; he was still the ruler of the gods and used his thunderbolts. They portrayed as the lord of life and death and he never visited mankind on earth.(www. hunt) Neptune was the god of the sea. This is the lot he drew from his brothers. He was worshipped mostly by seaman. He was the creator ... a knew look on life. It taught them self- discipline, care for the rejected, and the belief in the seriousness of sins. It taught of faith in one God and the expectation of life after death causing the grasp of the religion to come easy to people. This later took over the Roman society and became the official religion of Rome. (Cowell, 193-4) In all and all the mythology of ... that displeased. That is how he is portrayed through the Greeks, but through the Romans; he was still the ruler of the gods and used his thunderbolts. They portrayed as the lord of life and death and he never visited mankind on earth.(www. hunt) Neptune was the god of the sea. This is the lot he drew from his brothers. He was worshipped mostly by seaman. He was the ...
- 1452: Hamlet: A Revenge Tragedy
- ... his character either causes him to involve himself in circumstances which overpower him, or makes him incapable of dealing with a destructive situation caused by another character or by circumstances. The play ends with the death of the central character. But before he dies, he achieves insights which make him a more perceptive human being than he was when the play began. This central character, Hamlet, shows his love directly and ... prince of extraordinary intelligence: and, as the action of the play proves, he is heroic. His defect (indecision, excessive imagination, irrationality, madness, etc.) prevents him from seizing control of the world Claudius has created. His death closes the play, but only after he experiences and expresses illuminations about human life and death. Hamlet begins after Hamlet's father has died. This has casted an unwanted and heavy cloud upon Hamlet's soul. Throughout the play Hamlet learns that his father's death was no mistake, but ...
- 1453: An Occurence At Owl Creek Brid
- AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE This short story in my opinion was all about a man's fear of death. It uniquely recites the cycle of human life, as the man is about to be hung off the bridge. It was a punishment way too brutal for the little wrong he had done, and we ... reminisce about everything he had accomplished this far in his life, and what he stilled dreamed of accomplishing. He remembered the times of his childhood, and his youth. Farqhuar was now on the edge of death. He in no way wanted to die. Whatever happened to him he would do everything in his might to return back home to his family alive. When Farqhuar ended up in the water, he used ... he had to be very alert. We all are fugitives at some point in our lives. I have been running away from things often in my life. Never had I been in a life and death situation like Farqhuar but still it is not a good and easy situation to handle. The ending as sad as it is brings out the truth. One can never be safe forever. Eventually we ...
- 1454: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... to the rank of regimental sergeant major. After a while, he got tired of the same daily routine involved in military life. Poe wrote regularly to Mr. Allan. He met with Mr. Allan after the death of Mrs. Allan in February of 1829. With Allan's support, he received his discharge and enlisted in West Point on July 1, l830 (Asselineau 410). While at West Point, Mr. Allan, who had remarried ... Instead of really living, he took refuge from the physical world in the private world of his dreams-in other words-in the world of his tales (Asselineau 413)." In the "Masque of the Red Death", Poe uses his imagination throughout the story (Rogers 43). A plague has devastated the entire country. It takes only half an hour tofor the course of the disease to run. At first one feels sharp pains and dizziness. Then one starts bleeding at the pores. The disease results in death. Prince Prospero has ordered one thousand lords and ladies to the deep seclusion of one of his abbeys. The building was built by the Prince and is filled with his exotic ornaments. It is ...
- 1455: Life
- ... the sense that the wild man was so happy to be free he risked time, which is all people really have against them. The fourth person is the grave man, the man who dwells on death. He saw death coming a mile away and cringes in the appearance of his scythe. He sits and mourns his loss, but forgets to cherish what time he has left. Thomas again uses light and darkness as stages in existence: Grave men, near death, who see the blinding sight / Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay (Thomas ll. 13-14). The grave mans point of view is only that he is going to die and ...
- 1456: The Stone Angel---literary Ess
- ... growing old, she starts on a tumultuous journey, not one of her own choice, but one of destiny. She goes through different stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance of the fact that death will come, invited or not. At one time every individual is faced with death, horrific to the young, or inviting to the sick and the old. Death is interpreted as the end of existence, but to those who believe in the afterlife, as a whole new chapter of the unknown. When Hagar realizes the proximity of death, she is in denial. ...
- 1457: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... to the rank of regimental sergeant major. After a while, he got tired of the same daily routine involved in military life. Poe wrote regularly to Mr. Allan. He met with Mr. Allan after the death of Mrs. Allan in February of 1829. With Allan's support, he received his discharge and enlisted in West Point on July 1, l830 (Asselineau 410). While at West Point, Mr. Allan, who had remarried ... Instead of really living, he took refuge from the physical world in the private world of his dreams-in other words-in the world of his tales (Asselineau 413)." In the "Masque of the Red Death", Poe uses his imagination throughout the story (Rogers 43). A plague has devastated the entire country. It takes only half an hour tofor the course of the disease to run. At first one feels sharp pains and dizziness. Then one starts bleeding at the pores. The disease results in death. Prince Prospero has ordered one thousand lords and ladies to the deep seclusion of one of his abbeys. The building was built by the Prince and is filled with his exotic ornaments. It is ...
- 1458: The Red Book and the Power Structure of Communist China
- ... in the army to help foster this Cult of Mao. Lin Biao used the same organization to disseminate propaganda that he had devised for the Army. Lin Biao continued to head the army till his death in 1971 but his role was expanded as he became the high priest of the Cult of Mao (Yan and Gao, 1996: 334). The reading of the Red Book was encouraged by both Mao, party ... a tune. But what I sing is my feeling for Chairman Mao. When I disseminate Mao Zedong Thought, the more I sing the younger I get." Thus from January of 1967 to Lin Biao's death and the end of the Cultural Revolution everyone in China it seemed wanted to be a Granny Liu; a person who worked for the greater glory of Mao Zedong and China. The Red Book provided ... an uncommon genius he is one of the great teachers like Marx, and Lenin and Mao" (Ming-Le, 1983: 50) Lin Biao saw that holding the office of the presidency which became vacant after the death Liu Shaoqi in 1969 was a tool by which he could assume control over China and fulfill his lifetime ambition. On August 25, 1970 Mao convened the conference and upon hearing of Lin Biao' ...
- 1459: Effects of the WWII Atomic Bombs
- ... to Archibald MacLeish, a U.S. poet, "What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough . . . had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined." The entire globe was now to live with the fear of total ... the war and, ultimately, to drop the atomic bomb. We should expect political leaders to be guided by moral principles but this does not mean they must subject millions of people to needless injury or death out of a misplaced concern for the safety of enemy soldiers or civilians. President Truman's decision to deploy atomic power in Japan revealed a man who understood the moral issues at stake and who ... weapon that we refer to as "quick" was just the opposite. On one hand, it meant a quick end to the war for the United States, and on the other hand, a slow and painful death to many innocent Japanese. According to a book called Hiroshima Plus 20 the effects of radiation poisoning are horrific, ranging from purple spots on the skin, hair loss, nausea, vomiting, bleeding from the mouth, ...
- 1460: The Life of Edvard Munch
- ... the time when his works were beginning to become more widely known. In 1886, Munch painted the first version of his painting The Sick Child. In the painting Munch expressed his feelings of the tragic death of his mother and sister, which were rather haunting to him at the time. He struggled while painting this picture because he wanted to capture every emotion and painful cry that he felt from this ... he gradually grew towards the more radical literary circle, centered around August Strindberg. The group's main focus was on Symbolism, on Nietzsche's philosophy, and was predominantly obsessed with psychology, eroticism and fantasies of death, which may have given force to Munch's works on love, anxiety, and death. Working from his many literary sketches he conveyed his childhood and youth into a condensed "expressionist" idiom in which the use of color is symbolic and suggestive rather than descriptive. He also applied a " ...
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