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- 2731: A Separate Peace
- ... as envy for people or jealousy. Gene, on the other hand, is jealous of Finny’s abilities. To appease his jealousy, Gene pushes Finny out of the tree, which eventually winds up in Finny’s death. Difference has led to hate, once more, and pain, both emotionally and physically has again resulted, first mentally and emotionally, then finally physically; however, this time it is no longer just pain, but death that has resulted. The differences of Gene and Finny are vast, and their combination has lead Finny’s death, because they could not work out their problems with each other. If not only Gene, but also all of humankind would work out his or her differences, so many saved lives can result, and ...
- 2732: Personal Writing: I Love Horror Novels
- ... sick, but I tend to think as they do. Most of my writings are short stories of horror (usually about the length of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Masque of the Red Death"). My friends often ask me four questions: "Why do you not publish some of your work?" and "Where do you get your ideas from?" and "What is it like writing this horror stuff?" and "Why ... is only for those few, brave souls who are willing to plummet head-first into the abyss of fear. There is an old japanese belief: "Only the warrior who is willing to die can overcome death...The warrior who clings onto life, not accepting death as a possibility, will surely die." -- Paraphrased: Unless you are willing to face your fear, you will never master it. -- Now that you know what horror is, the challenge it offers, and my personal ...
- 2733: Antigone Greek Ideals
- ... properly bury her brother, Polynices. She believed that the burial was a religious ceremony, and Creon did not have the power to deny Polynices that right. Antigone's strong beliefs eventually led her to her death by the hand of Creon. Never, though, did she stop defending what she thought was right. As Creon ordered her to her death, Antigone exclaimed, "I go, his prisoner, because I honoured those things in which honour truly belongs." She is directly humiliating Creon by calling his opinions and decisions weak and unjust. She also emphasizes "his prisoner ... It is hard to give way, and hard to stand and abide the coming of the curse. Both ways are hard." The contradiction of ideals was what led to Antigone's, Haemon's, and Megareus' death. Both sides were just, all beliefs were supported. Creon was forced to decide the unanswerable, decipher the encoded, complete the impossible, and determine right from wrong when there was no clear answer.
- 2734: Spy Games - Creative Essay
- Spy Games - Creative Essay Being an international spy is no walk in the park. Death can be waiting for you around the corner or around the world. However when you're only 17 years old, death is the furthest thing from your mind. So here we were on a hot summers day playing international espionage. Of course to six of us playing, it was just another Saturday of playing spy. Myself ... pellets. Although they could do some damage if they hit someone in the eye, we always ensured that the enemy was hit on the body. Preferable in the heart to ensure what would normally be death. We could carry the guns where-ever we wished, under one condition. They must always be concealed. If your weapon could be seen, it was considered that you were as good as dead. Personally, ...
- 2735: A Lesson From Oliver
- A Lesson From Oliver Like any other morning I was up at four, the day Oliver met with his violent death. At four in the morning the grass is wet. Now, it's still wet at 6 a.m. and even at seven, and these tend to be the hours of choice for most people wishing ... to keep my goals simple and realistic. For now I would content myself with rising to the top of the station ladder and enacting my sweeping musical reforms. Yes, I would pronounce the air- play death sentence upon Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and the Laurie Bower Singers. By the end of the summer only the screaming anthems of Kiss, Rush, Ted Nugent and Bachman Turner Overdrive would surf the airwaves from ... plane with him. I was soloing with no lessons, no control panel and no cockpit. And once again I was surrounded by that demon "DEAD AIR", which now I was compelled to fill - to the death. How misleading it is that the first test of every living being, our own births, should, by definition, end in triumph. Such unopposed success cannot help but fill our unjaded little hearts with the ...
- 2736: The Disproof (and proof) of Everything
- ... s fun now usually doesn't lead to things that are much fun later. For instance, if you kill someone, it may be fun, but I don't think one would find imprisonment or a death penalty fun at all. It may be fun to drop out of school and do whatever you want, but in a few years when you can't get a job and don't have enough money ...
- 2737: A Rose For Emily -- Symbol Of
- ... Emily willingly accepted her role in the household. The name and the attitudes that Mr. Grierson passed on to his daughter Emily symbolically opposed the change that was going on around them. Even after his death, Miss Emily kept her father’s decaying body in the house. Following in her father’s footsteps, she clung tightly to the past telling everyone in the town he was still alive and refusing to accept the her father’s death. Although the law intervened and buried her father, the “crayon portrait of Miss Emily’s father” further emphasized the great effect he had on her lifestyle and mindset. Miss Emily was rarely seen by the public after the death of her father. She confined herself to her house to bask in the sentimental memories of her father. Mr. Grierson had bought his family a house that was located in what, at that time, ...
- 2738: A Bird In The House
- ... control over the people that lived with him. He was a perfectionist and was very proud of what he had accomplished and at no cost would he let his reputation be scarred. After her fathers death Vanessa moved into the Brick House with Grandfather Conner, this is when she noticed the trapped conditions that aunt Edna was living in and her mother was going to have to live in again. Vanessa ... a mental institution. This regret that Vanessa feels keeps her from reaching personal freedom. Likewise, Ewen MacLeod does not reach personal freedom because of the memories and regrets that he carries around with him. The death of his brother Roderick proves to be a very tragic moment of his life. Grandmother MacLeod is very successful in making Ewen feel guilty for surviving, when his brother did not. This guilt is what ... in which he was able to explore different places. Ewen says: "It was kind of interesting to see a few other places for a change..." ("A Bird in the House," p.91). After Ewen's death Vanessa finds a love letter and a picture of a girl that she believes was her fathers lover. Vanessa "...[hopes the girl in the picture] had meant some momentary and unexpected freedom" for her ...
- 2739: Hate Crimes
- ... many examples of hate crimes. In 1980 a man shouted that he hated "fagots" and sprayed gunfire at a gay bar, killing two patrons (Out Now). In Maine, a gay man was thrown to his death off of a bridge by three teenagers, in 1984 (Out Now). In June of 1982, Vincent Chin, a 27 year old Chinese/American was fatally beaten with a baseball bat outside of a Detroit bar ... way creates a thought crime or penalizes anyone's conduct based upon a non-prescribable viewpoint or message that such conduct contains or expresses." (Tribe)17 "In it's present form HR 4797 (Hate Crime Penalty Enhancement Law) is unconstitutional has this both content based and view point based. It directly violates the First Amendment of the Constitution. It violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment , because it is ...
- 2740: A Rose For Emily By William Fa
- ... is the only thing that could have happened to this poor woman. Through the years her father would run off her guy friends and she began not having a social life. After her father's death she met a man named Homer Barron and began to go out a little. The town people were happy for her because they now seen her a little more and it was better than to ... young woman that latter became an obligation. She was kept in the past and kept clinging to all she had even if it was dead. First, she did not want to admit her father's death. Then after she poisoned Homer she kept clinging to his body for some time. Her voice had became dry from not talking to people and her body was a sagging bag. She had become crazy, but no one tried to help her, because they thought greatly of her. For example, after her father's death Colonel Sartoris told her she would not have to pay any taxes in that town and even after the new generation came in it stayed that way. The new mayor tried to get her ...
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