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- 2851: The Untrusted Suitor - The Ody
- ... Eurymakos, in competition, shows he too is strong by imitating Antinoos' actions. At times, it is difficult to tell how Eurymakos really feels towards a situation. He works with Antinoos by helping him plan the death of Telemakos, but then reassures Penelope that her son is in no harm. His image of what others think about him seems very important to him. Although Eurymakos displays different images, his main focus is ... was the ringleader, he whipped us on to do these things," he tells Odysseus pleading for him to spare his life (pg 410). Eventually, Eurymakos and his deceitful ways got him nothing but a suitable death in Odysseus' honor. Understandably so, Eurymakos was caught up in the moment, paying no attention to what complications would arise from his behavior. His intentions to please or out-do those around him brought him ... heart, with both feet kicking out, he downed his chair, while the shrouding wave of mist closed on his eyes" (pg 412). As faith would have it, all suitors were to visit the land of death, and Odysseus prophecy was delightfully fulfilled. Work Cited Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Fitzgerald, Robert. New York: Random House, 1990
- 2852: Snow Falling on Cedars
- ... aspects cast a forlorn atmosphere around the trial. The reader is taken back to the war days of Ishmael, Kabuo and Carl. These settings are displaying the worst and deepest sides of each character. "The death penalty - pay for his war murders" The novel displays Kabuo thinking back to his war days, how perhaps they have caused his present predicament. Kabuo is a Buddhist and thus believes in Karma "everything comes back ...
- 2853: Battle With Fate
- Battle With Fate "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane shows how nature is unforgiving. The ocean was the treacherous antagonist constantly trying to make the characters in this story accept their fate which is death. The characters did everything in their power to defy fate. The ocean in this story was like a main character, the antagonist of the story always out to destroy the small dinghy. The ocean sent the small crew of the injured captain, oilerman, correspondent, and cook to their death, always hurling another huge wall of water to make a seat on the boat like a "bucking bronco". The ocean was always terrifying the crew. " . . . the craft plopped her stern down again the spray slashed ... a sense were just making fun of their efforts to survive as if it were pointless. The oilerman at one time took a look over board and saw a shark circling the boat, which represented death. He was like a vulture just waiting for a free meal, thinking they would not have the strength to survive. The crew paid no attention to these ominous signs. Each taking on a part ...
- 2854: Heart Of Darkness And Apocalyp
- ... and Francis Coppola’s movie, Apocalypse Now are both stories about Man’s journey into his self, and the discoveries to be made there. They are also about Man confronting his fears of failure, insanity, death, and cultural contamination. During Marlow’s mission to find Kurtz, he is also trying to find himself. He, like Kurtz had good intentions upon entering the Congo. Conrad tries to show us that Marlow is ... that while Kurtz had been isolated from his culture, he had become corrupted by this violent native culture, and allowed his evil side to control him. Marlow realizes that only very near the time of death, does a person grasp the big picture. He describes Kurtz’s last moments "as though a veil had been rent (Conrad, 239)." Kurtz’s last "supreme moment of complete knowledge (Conrad, 239)," showed him how ... beat in the darkness… he had summed up, he had judged (Conrad, 241)." Marlow guesses that Kurtz suddenly knew everything and discovered how horrible the duplicity of man can be. Marlow learned through Kurtz’s death, and he now knows that inside every human is this horrible, evil side. Francis Coppola’s movie, Apocalypse Now, is based loosely upon Conrad’s book. Captain Willard is a Marlow who is on ...
- 2855: Sophocles
- ... invade Thebes and seize the thrown from his brother Eteoclels, slew himself into mortal combat and in turn was slain. Against the pleas of her sister Ismene and her fiancé Haemon. Antigone goes to her death holding to her defiance and buries Polyneices. The theme of Antigone had enormous impact in my life. Antigone stood up for what she believed in even if it cost her the ultimate sacrifice, her life ... life, good fortune and good harvests. Greek religion strangely did not focus on mortality. Greeks did not require their religion to save them from sin, bring them any spiritual blessings, or to ensure life after death. Often Greeks cremated or burned their dead with a simple ritual. They thought that with a few exceptions the spirits of all the people went to a gray and gloomy place the underworld . The Greeks ... or city and the surrounding land it controlled. (Funk and Wagnall s p# 1328) Some cities that ousted their tyrants restored monarchies or aristocracies. Others developed a new form of government called democracy. After his death the Spartans under Lysander invaded Athens. According to legend, Dionysus appeared to Lysander in a dream and commanded him to honor with all the usual honors of the dead the new siren. As a ...
- 2856: Alcohol Abuse Among Teenagers
- ... something that not only is commonsense, but what is more, something that every one knows about in general but may not in particular. Alcohol use among teenagers is a serious problem and is responsible for death and injury in automobile accidents, physical and emotional disability, deterioration of academic performances, aggressive behavior that causes a number of other sociological problems in families and among friends. It is also the primary cause of ... cope with their psychological distress DRUNK DRIVING Inexperienced driving combined with inexperienced drinking is a deadly combination .A report from "National Centre For Health Statistics" shows that motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death among persons Between 15-23 years of age. Although they may reserve the right to drive, but, of course no right to put the others in danger while accidents. OTHER EFFECTS: Underage drinking has countless ... alcohol use, on the one hand we talk about it, joke about it, and treat it as not only acceptable but also desirable. On the other hand we recognize the problems caused by alcohol abuse. Death and injuries in traffic accidents, loss of productivity, child abuse, broken homes and other serious societal problems linked to alcohol. REMEDY: In my suggestion, an intensive education program supported by the community with qualified ...
- 2857: Sieze The Day
- ... Jews are both examples of biblical imagery. The timelessness of the Bible backs up his eternal love towards his lady. The references of the tomb are perhaps the greatest images of all, the images of death. Nothing depicts the urgency and shortness of life better than the expectation of death. Images implied in the last stanza are those of a race against time. The goal is to try to beat time, and although time will eventually win, the “runners” must try to keep up with ... winged chariot hurrying near.” This describes how Marvell fears the shortness of life and the lack of time the two lovers have to share together. His deathly tone is effective because of the inevitability of death in everybody’s life. The last section is a call to action, ”thus, though we cannot make out sun stand still, yet we will make him run.” Lines like these create a tone of ...
- 2858: James Baldwin
- ... to carefully represent black and white; male and female; married and unmarried; homosexual, bisexual and heterosexual. The resolution in the novel that are made in the third part are also carefully representative of failure and death; love and happiness; and the struggle that has no positive or negative outcome in sight. The novel begins with a black man, Rufus Scott. It begins with him thinking back to all the happenings of ... is a writer. Vivaldo and Ida are the next two character that were friends with Rufus. Vivaldo, a white Italian, was a struggling, unpublished writer. Vivaldo was one of Rufus’ best friends prior to his death. Ida is Rufus’ sister, a black militant girl blaming the whites for everything. Vivaldo and Ida meet after Rufus’ death when she goes to his house to get Rufus’ belongings. Eric and Yves are the next two characters shown in the story. Eric is a white, Southern, homosexual. Eric and Rufus grew up together ...
- 2859: Gatsby’s Dream
- ... she did too love her husband at on point of time or another. His dream was also shattered when Daisy hit Myrtle and he took the blame for her. The result in that was the death of Gatsby. His dream had suffered a miserable downfall even after his death when Daisy, his dream, did not come clean. In actuality, she never had Gatsby as her dream or goal in life as he did. She saw him ultimately as another creature “they [Tom and Daisy ... together... other people cleaned up the mess they had made...” (187-188). In conclusion, His dream has been shattered by his own dream: Daisy. Gatsby’s dream has led him to his own downfall and death. He found out the hard way that dreams can be made but their followers’ downfall can be defined as those who try too hard to chase things that are hardly real. If the follower ...
- 2860: Developement Of Europe
- ... sixty percent consisted mostly of women, children, and old people. The rest were put to work under conditions of brutality, malnutrition, disease, and exhaustion. To be put to work was a fate almost worst than death. Georges Clemenceau became French premier in 1917. He was born in 1841 and died in 1929. He called for World War I to be a “war to the death” so that all the loss of human life and property would not be in vain. When World War I finally ended he was unhappy with Wilson’s Fourteen Points and Wilson himself. The French people ... destruction of World War II many Europeans and the nations wanted a new start. Not only were most of the major cities flattened, but the people themselves did not want to be associated with the death and fascism of the war.
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