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- 3001: Theme: The Bible
- ... of good and bad " you shall die" (g 2:17). However, later it is seen that when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge of good and bad, He did not enforce the death penalty. Rather, He allowed man a second opportunity to experience a reality of his choice, a world out of His harmony. "G-d banished him [Adam and Eve] from the Garden of Eden, to till the ...
- 3002: Macbeth
- ... blood changes throughout the play is to follow the character changes in Macbeth. First he is a brave honoured soldier, but as the play progresses, he becomes a treacherous person who has becomes identified with death and bloodshed and shows his guilt indifferent forms. The first reference of blood is one of honour, and occurs when Duncan sees the injured sergeant and says "What bloody manis that? This is symbolic of ... soul is too much charged with blood of thine already. Of which, Macduff replies, "I have no words, my voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain than terms can give thee out." After the death of Macbeth at the hands of Macduff, the symbolic theme of blood swings back to what it was at the beginning of the play. It is the symbol of honour to Malcolm this time. The death of Macbeth is honoured feat that Macduff is congratulated for. So as we have seen meaning of the symbol of blood change from honour to treachery, and then to guilt, after this, it returns ...
- 3003: The Tatyana Caste
- ... Lady, wishing her a blissful afterlife, remarking "she has a lovely face". This remark is absurdly inadequate, and again, extremely invalidating, to the emotionally saturated tragedy of the Lady. According to E.A.Poe, "the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world".10 The degree of impact of the male figures on the lives of their respective 'victims' seems to differ considerably at first ... slightly compassionate, affectionate, condescending and ironic at the same time. The broadest, most general irony of the poem is that the Lady simply exchanges one kind of imprisonment for another; her presumed freedom is her death. She dies by freezing in the cold of the night. Tatyana, also looking for love in the wrong place, is turned down by an ice-cold Onegin, her heart permanently frozen to death. The Lady is most commonly seen as a form of the artist, and doubtless her absorption in weaving the web (and singing) suggests that. But the poem as a whole can also be interpreted ...
- 3004: Tortilla Flat
- ... and artists, they can corrupt morals and undermine religion (Plato). STRENGTHS of the novel: WEAKNESSES of the novel: How the novel is framed, Steinbeck's self-consciousness, Uses of names and initials Ultimate terror of death lurks have meaning, at the edge, [175] More profound than 'knights of Portrayal and treatment of the roundtable: paisanos women, [96, 98, 175] are children of Mother Church, Anticultural inuendo: They recognize distinction "Oh Jew ... MINORITY | | PSYCHOLOGICAL MORAL\ETHICAL TEACHING THEMES: 1. [MORALS] Responsibility-subsistence Stealing From Those Who Have Much Sexual Encounters 2. [RELIGION] Temptations of This World Religious Prejudices Biblical Parallels/Adam and Pilon Mysticism/The holy vision Death and Afterlife/Bad Omens 3. [SOCIOLOGICAL] Poverty Burning Houses/Futility Comitatus/The Individual vs. The Community 4. [POLITICAL] Society Robs Paisanos of Liberty and Self-Indulgence-Dangers of Capitalism [Pirate] Greed and Possessiveness [Big Joe ... Centered on Mystic Sorrow [Steinbeck and Malory] RISE-- FLOWER -- FALL [Danny, the Hero or Anti-Hero?] Pilon = Pharoah's daughter taking baby or Moses in Bulrushes 7. [PSYCHOLOGICAL] Danny's Self Confrontation after Baby's Death; Helping Friends and Strangers in Need Diminishing Human Values [Crprl's Fantasy-Suicidal Self- Delusion] VITAL QUESTIONS ON STEINBECK ON CRITICISM 1. Are there ethical teachings in Tortilla Flat? 2. Does the novel encourage ...
- 3005: Roberto Clemente Walker
- ... Luis Roberto and Roberto Enrique. Proud of his heritage Roberto insisted that Vera give birth to all three sons in Puerto Rico. The boys were six, five and two, when their father met his unfortunate death. New Year's Eve, December 31, 1997 marked the 25th Anniversary of a tragic plane crash. The plane was taking medical, food and clothing supplies to Nicaragua, to help out after an earthquake. Vera and ... the plane went down off the coast of Puerto Rico. Roberto's body was never found. Just months after Roberto joined an elite group of players with 3000 hits, he was gone. Roberto s tragic death in 1972 prompted the Hall of Fame s Board of Directors to unanimously wave the customary five year period for induction, which opened a door for the Baseball Writer s Association of America to hold ... Since then only four players have been inducted; Al Lopez in 1977, Juan Marichal in 1983, Luis Aparicio in 1984, and Rod Carew in 1991.It has been just over 27 years since his unfortunate death and still today Roberto is still remembered as one of the greatest athletes and humanitarians of all time. In 1973, his uniform number 21 was retired by the Pittsburgh Pirates. One of Roberto's ...
- 3006: Huck Fin 2
- ... the river which serves as a timeline for the book. The first section introduces Huck and his current life living with Miss Watson and Later with his father. This section ends were Huck fakes his death and flees to Jackson Island. In the second section, Huck meets Jim at the island and starts down the river when they find out that Jim is being searched for. Huck runs from civilization and ... easy going life. HuckΉs father finds out that Huck has some money and kidnaps him into a shack by the river. Pap beats Huck and Huck decides that he must escape. Huck fakes his death and flees to Jackson Island. On the island, he meets Jim, Miss WatsonΉs runaway slave. This is the rising action. When the find that there are men on the island searching for Jim, they ... rolled out and jumped up to his feet looking wild, and he see me and went for me. He chased me round and round the place with a clasp knife, calling me the Angel of death, and saying he would kill me, and then I couldnΉt come for him no more. I begged, and told him I was only Huck; but he laughed such a screechy laugh, an roared ...
- 3007: The Call Of The Wild
- ... law of club is quite simple, if there is a man with a club, a dog would be better off not to challenge that man. Buck learned this law after he was beaten half to death by the man who had the club. no matter what he tried, he just couldn\\'t win. Buck was sold off to a man who put him in a harness connected to many other dogs ... downed dog and make quick work of it. All of these unspoken rules had turned Buck into the Best dog to ever roam the Klondike. Buck did eventually fight Spitz and send him to his death. After all of the transformations and cruelty he had been through, you would think that Buck would never be able to trust another human. He was being starved to death by a gold seeking group who had not brought enough food for the dogs. When Buck could finally not move another step, a man from the group started to beat Buck. As the blows ...
- 3008: Prejudice: Looking Through the Window
- ... of all prejudice views is that of race. An example of this is during Tom Robinsons trial. Tom was a black man accused of raping a white woman, a crime that is punishable by the death penalty. Even though all the facts proved that he didn't do it, the jury still found him guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt". Tom's life has been sacrificed to racism by the people who were ...
- 3009: Heart Of Darkness 7
- ... 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 ...
- 3010: Homosexuality
- ... There are a handful of topics that always seem to escalate this temperature to the boiling point among individuals who earnestly participate in discussion, debate and argument. Some examples of such delicate subjects are the death penalty, abortion, and euthanasia. An issue that has in recent years, begun to command the intensity of the foregoing, is the acceptability of homosexuality in mainstream society. Until recently, homosexuality was considered strictly taboo. If an ...
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