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- 1781: Symbolism In The Lottery
- ... 232). Mr. Graves, the town postman, assists Mr. Summers in directing the ceremony of selecting the unlucky lottery winner. Just as he is an integral part of the drawing, his name symbolizes the element of death that is an integral part of the lottery process. The black box is the central theme or idea in the story. The box symbolizes, at first, some type of mystery. However, as we read the ending, it is realized that is synonymous with doom. Its black color symbolizes death and absoluteness. A townperson s fate lies in an inanimate object, the black box. The box is a concrete representation of the tradition and ritual associated with the sacrifice. There was a story that the ... the chips for wood that were used for generations had been substituted for a direct descendant, slips of paper (230). The black spot drawn on the deciding slip of paper is black to represent the death it brings. The pieces of paper that are lifted away by the breeze are symbolic of the ease with which life can be taken. However, is also symbolic of vast civilizations that were doomed ...
- 1782: Martin Luther King Junior
- ... movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent resistance to racial oppression, Martin Luther King Jr. will forever be remembered for his service to people of all races and nationalities. He showed through his life and death that one person can make a difference in the lives of others. He did not just die for what he believed in, he lived for it. I believe that living a "Christian Lifestyle" means standing ... priority and that the black leadership should concentrate on fighting racial injustice at home. By early 1967, never-the-less, King had become associated with the anti-war movement and its national white leadership. Certain Death King knew that there were people who wanted him dead; he knew that these people had the means to do so. But he never showed signs of fear. In situations like these, it is a basic human reaction to be afraid, to have the desire to give up. It is said that there are three stages of death, the third of which being acceptance; Martin Luther King Jr. may or may not have been in that stage when he died. But whether he was or not, he knew that it was necessary ...
- 1783: Lord of the Flies: Primal Instincts
- ... wants of getting rescued. When the naval officer found the boys and saw Ralph, Ralph started to cry. He cried because of the "end of innocence", "darkness of man's heart", (p. 225), and the death of his friend Piggy. However, those were not all the reasons why he cried. He cried because his wish finally come true, he was getting rescued. Piggy was the intellectual thinker on the island who could see the problems but was too naive to find out the solutions, which ultimately led to his death. Piggy was the only one who saw the reality that he and other boys were trapped on the island, and their chance of getting rescued as well as surviving was slim from the very beginning of the novel. The boys acted so childish, "Like kids!" (p. 37), "like a crowd of kids." (p. 200), angered him. Furthermore, throughout the entire novel, until his death, Piggy knew that they had a very small possibility of getting rescued, and thought that the boys should be acting like adults, not like bunch of kids. He was also very organized and civilized. ...
- 1784: Kurt Vonnegut And Slaughter-Ho
- ... would have to do would be to report what I had seen," Vonnegut noted. It took him more than twenty years, however, to produce Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death. The book was worth the wait. Released to an American society struggling to come to grips with its involvement in another war - in a small Asian country called Vietnam - Vonnegut's magnum opus struck a ... trouble doing it." In his case that something was writing. Looking back on his school days, Vonnegut felt lucky to have been born in Indianapolis. "That city," he writes in his collection Fates Worse Than Death, "gave me a free primary and secondary education richer and more humane than anything I would get from any of the five universities I attended." Vonnegut also had high praise for the city's widespread ... grew up he was able to make her dream come true by writing for such publications as Collier's, Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post, and The Ladies' Home Journal. Three months after his mother's death, Vonnegut was sent overseas just in time to become engulfed in the last German offensive of the war - the Battle of the Bulge. Captured by the Germans, Vonnegut and other American prisoners were shipped ...
- 1785: Signifigance Of Disease And Pl
- ... he is only acting for the possible spies, and takes everything Hamlet says seriously. Ophelia says I was the more deceived[III.i.118]. After a while of this, including Hamlet yelling at her, the death of her father Polonious by the hands of Hamlet, Ophelia goes insane. This is very noticeable because she is constantly singing and her appearance is also more ragged and dirty. She does not even notice her own brother, Laertes, when he returns from school. Shortly after this, Ophelia is found, drown in the brook. Hamlet triggers Ophelias insanity that then leads to her death. While all of these tragic happenings are occurring relationships are also being torn apart. Hamlets' relations with his mother Gertrude are severed. Hamlet believes his mother is disgusting for marrying his father's brother, two months after his fathers' death. Rightfully so because traditionally then when people were married their families became considered blood related. So this action by his mother was thought to be incestuous and Hamlet did not agree with it at ...
- 1786: Oedipus 2
- ... praised by the people of Thebes, resulting in his marriage to Jocasta, Queen of Thebes. Oedipus also shows his determination when in search of Laius murderer. He stated that he would avenge the King s death as if Laius were his own father. He cursed the murderer, announcing May he drag out an evil death-in-life in misery. These characteristics of pride and determination, which Oedipus emanates throughout the play, may appear to be positive attributes to one s personality. However, Oedipus actions, based on these characteristics, are what ... sealed by his actions of pride and determination. His pride of conquering the Sphinx led him to the marriage of Jocasta, his mother. When avenging Jocasta s previous husband, and his true father, King Laius death, he was blinded by his pride to the concept that perhaps he was the murderer. Not knowing the truth, he cursed himself to an evil death-in-life of misery . Of course at that ...
- 1787: AIDS and You
- AIDS and You Introduction: AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is at present a sentence of slow but inevitable death. I've already lost one friend to AIDS. I may soon lose others. My own sexual behavior and that of many of my friends has been profoundly altered by it. In my part of the ... said to have the *disease* if one contracts particular varieties (Pneumocystis, for example) of pneumonia, or one of several particular varieties of otherwise rare cancers (Kaposi's Sarcoma, for example). This *disease* is inevitably fatal. Death occurs often after many weeks or months of expensive and painful hospital care. Most folks with the disease can transmit it to others by sexual contact or other exposure of an uninfected person's ...
- 1788: Taoism
- ... Tzu says, In the universe all things are one. For him who can but realize this indissoluble unity with the whole, parts of the body mean no more than so much dust and dirt, and death and life, end and beginning, are no more to him than the successor of day and night. They are powerless to disturb his tranquility. (Creel1970 pg.51) Mystic intuition is how you know the Tao ... to do the large-scale projects he thought of. The First Emperor had almost been assassinated. After this threat on his life was on his shoulders he became afraid of dying. Close to his own death the First Emperor disliked death so much that nobody dared to mention the word around him. In 221BC after he unified China the thousands of fang shih (immortality specialists) rushed to the great leader. They offered to help him ...
- 1789: Rebecca
- ... live now verses how they remember the tragic events of the past. The narrator is an inexperienced young girl who is overwhelmed when she moves into Manderley. The husband, Maxim, is still troubled by the death of his last wife Rebecca, which happened almost a year before. Rebecca is "a heroine that we never see in the flesh, but whose spell is written through every page" (Weeks 163). Mrs. Danvers is ... her in some ways. "Mrs. Danvers' relationship to Rebecca, is such that she could never allow herself to believe that any human being could destroy her" (Kelly 60). As clues to the cause of Rebecca' death are uncovered, the story form of the story changes. Dumarier uses not only writing techniques such as foreshadowing and symbolism to make the novel more suspenseful, but she also uses the elements of greed, deception ... destroy the main character. Both stories also have a ballroom scene in the middle that ends unexpectedly. Rebecca has a twist though, that changes the story dramatically. An investigation begins to find the cause of death of Maxim's former wife, Rebecca. At the beginning of the investigation Maxim admits to his wife that he murdered Rebecca and made it look like she drowned on accident. After that point the ...
- 1790: The Short Life Of Tupac Shakur
- ... work on two films, one entitled "Gridlock." While on his way to do charity work, Tupac Shakur was assassinated by the bullets of unknown gunmen on September 13, 1996. LAS VEGAS SUN REPORTS: LIFE AND DEATH OF TUPAC SHAKUR "Gangsta" rapper Tupac Shakur died Friday from wounds suffered six days ago in a car-to-car shooting on a busy street a few blocks off the Las Vegas Strip. Shakur, 25 ... other until 6 p.m., even though a mortuary van took his body to the Clark County Coroner's office about 5:10 p.m. Shakur and Marion "Suge" Knight, chairman of Los Angeles-based Death Row Records, were shot while Knight was driving Shakur on East Flamingo Road. A white Cadillac pulled up next to them and a gunman emptied a semiautomatic pistol into the passenger side of their car ... asked if the assailants would eventually leak information that they shot Shakur, said, "They already have." He declined to say where the purported suspects live, only that "they're not from Las Vegas." George Pryce, Death Row Records spokesman, said they were preparing a statement. "Give people a moment to get over the shock," he said. Shaneeka Jackson, 22, said she came down to see if any celebrities would come ...
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