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- 2971: Julius Caesar-mark Antony
- ... course of history. To prove his loyalty, Antony gives a confident and persuasive speech at Caesar s funeral despite an extreme danger on his own life. First, Antony expresses his sadness and grief over the death of his distinguished friend. However, as the speech progresses, Antony s emotions transform into extreme anger towards the conspirators when he says to the crowd, Look you here, here is himself/Marred as you see ... s ambition and he will follow the path of the ruthless tyrant. As the play progresses, Antony develops a ruthless state of mind. He forms into a relentless tyrant much like Caesar was before his death. Cassius probably describes him best as a shrewd contriver . Antony first shows his fierceness in his speech at Caesar s funeral. He speaks of the conspirators sarcastically calling them honorable men. He enrages the people ... has created civil war in Rome and he has no concern for the welfare of the citizens who will suffer in the strife. Antony again shows his ruthlessness when he condemns his own nephew to death by saying, He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him (IV i 6). The way in which Antony says these words show his unrelenting mind. Antony is willing to ignore all ...
- 2972: Johnny Tremain 2
- ... when Mr. Lykes took Johnny to court for supposedly stealing one of his silver cups, and one of Johnny s friends comes in and gets him out of trouble and he doesn t get the death penalty. Johnny Tremain was truly a great story and I enjoyed it very much it made me feel kinda like I was in the 1770 s.
- 2973: John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans
- ... extent. He is perhaps the only man in the story who is not moved by personal gain. For let the gods so speed me, as I love the name of honor more than I fear death. Brutus acts with the conspirators only for what he considers the best interests of Rome. Brutus weighs every decision he makes according to his morals and standards. He believes that reason and logic rule the ... a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous. In the end Cassius takes his life which is the only noble thing that he did. He realized that he caused the death of a friend and that he was the measure of all things. This story is actually about Brutus, it portrays his personal struggle of doing what is best for Rome or staying loyal to his friend. Brutus nobly takes the way of saving his beloved Rome. Brutus character is portrayed in more depth than any other and the story ends with his death. Brutus was simply too noble for his time. He sacrificed his friend for what was best for all. He remained faithful to his principles until the end. Everyone in Rome admired this man, and ...
- 2974: Japanese Aristocrat
- ... extent. He is perhaps the only man in the story who is not moved by personal gain. For let the gods so speed me, as I love the name of honor more than I fear death. Brutus acts with the conspirators only for what he considers the best interests of Rome. Brutus weighs every decision he makes according to his morals and standards. He believes that reason and logic rule the ... a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous. In the end Cassius takes his life which is the only noble thing that he did. He realized that he caused the death of a friend and that he was the measure of all things. This story is actually about Brutus, it portrays his personal struggle of doing what is best for Rome or staying loyal to his friend. Brutus nobly takes the way of saving his beloved Rome. Brutus character is portrayed in more depth than any other and the story ends with his death. Brutus was simply too noble for his time. He sacrificed his friend for what was best for all. He remained faithful to his principles until the end. Everyone in Rome admired this man, and ...
- 2975: Nothing Is Certain
- ... this essay in question. This one certainty will prove my theory. There is one thing that makes nothing known with certainty, but is the one thing that is known with absolute certainty. That thing is death. Death and the ceasing of life is all around, it is one certain thing that we all know but it is so uncertain and unstable that no one knows for certain how, or when it will come, all they know is that it will come. Death is the exception to the rules that makes this the one and only true rule: Nothing can be known with certainty. Bibliography Einstein s Theory of Relativity by Max Born, 1962: Dover Publications Inc. ...
- 2976: BLACKS, PRISON, AND INSTITUTIO
- ... society. As a facet of that institutional racism Blacks are now forced to persevere the increasing trend of control by the US Criminal Justice System. Control by the USCJS includes the probation, parole, imprisonment, and death of Blacks. A study conducted by the Sentencing Project in 1989 found tat more than one-fourth of all Blacks between the age of 20 and 29 are under the control of the USCJS . This ... did as they were told, and never caused a problem, and were therefore worth their weight in gold. An "uppity nigger" was no good to anyone and was either beaten into submission or put to death . This reveals a very important aspect about the imprisonment of Blacks today. During the period of slavery in the US Blacks were needed as workers and were therefore used as so . What are Blacks needed ... pose is a greater consideration than the economic prosperity they bring? Just as in the period of slavery Blacks are killed. A study conducted by the United States General Accounting Office (USGAO) found that the death of Whites was the single greatest determinant in imposing capital punishment . In other words, you are more likely to be legally killed, if you murder a White man than if you kill a Black ...
- 2977: Theory of Religion
- ... Tylor purposed a belief in which every object, every person, every thought had a soul. He called this Animism. He investigated the theory of spiritual beings, which was the essence of spiritualistic philosophy. Tylor researched death and the physiological pain and wonder that occurs when something/someone dies. The apparition of soul after death has always brought thought and a special relation to its departure. In Tylor's theory everything down to a pencil has a soul and when it is terminated where does it go. Religion brings somewhat ... believed and researched ancestor-worship. Among the classes of people through out the world, ancestor-worship, by no means small, is near the bottom. He believed that a reviving other-self came over you after death. As a supernatural being, either ghost, spirit, or demon, we find it evident that a human personality is behind it. All of these men, Frazer, Tylor, and Spencer, have different beliefs, and beliefs are ...
- 2978: Jack London 3
- ... the factories and waterfront dives of West Oakland to become the highest paid, most popular novelist and short story writer of his day. He wrote passionately and prolifically about the great questions of life and death, the struggle to survive with dignity and integrity, and he wove the elemental ideas into stories of high adventure based on his own writing appealed not to the few, but to millions of people all ... others, was influenced by London's interest in socialism(Philosophy Nietzsche). London s heroes feel the tingle of life , that electric thrill with which man goes forth to combat, perchance even to pay life s penalty. The greatest lovers of life are those who hazard it most freely, who most open-breasted brave its dangers; not those who hoard, to spend it moment by moment like precious grains of gold, but ...
- 2979: Jack London 2
- ... the factories and waterfront dives of West Oakland to become the highest paid, most popular novelist and short story writer of his day. He wrote passionately and prolifically about the great questions of life and death, the struggle to survive with dignity and integrity, and he wove the elemental ideas into stories of high adventure based on his own writing appealed not to the few, but to millions of people all ... others, was influenced by London's interest in socialism(Philosophy Nietzsche). London s heroes feel the tingle of life , that electric thrill with which man goes forth to combat, perchance even to pay life s penalty. The greatest lovers of life are those who hazard it most freely, who most open-breasted brave its dangers; not those who hoard, to spend it moment by moment like precious grains of gold, but ...
- 2980: Imagery In John Donnes The Bro
- ... get a visual picture of what love means to him. He uses the imagery because it s necessary to see a picture of the pain he lives with. Donne uses several aspects of imagery, including death to show his grief and Donne also does uses despair to display his pain. The image of death was used throughout the poem. Love so soon decays, meaning that love so quickly dies. If you cut a flower and do not put it in water it will quickly wither and die. Another image of death would be the plague. A plague is a widespread disease that causes thousands of people to die. The plague is also synonymous with suffering. Donne writes that he has had the plague a year, ...
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