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- 3691: Jean Sartre
- ... define their essence though out their existence. A person s nature is what he or she has done in the past and what that person is doing at the moment. No one is complete until death when self-definition ceases. Then, how others interpret the individual is based upon the individual s accomplishments and failings In reality this concept is correct if someone was a great man or woman that means ... means the person did not accomplish much. But now days having a family, living a good honest life is an accomplishment. No, the person did not to anything special but those are their accomplishments. When death takes a persons life they can do no more, and that is when their accomplishment cease and that is when the persons self-definition ceases. That is true but some people get credit or get it stolen after their death which gives them more value then they deserve. Sartre was a very open minded individual he believed that people can be more then one thing and any given moment, and that consciousness of a ...
- 3692: An Analysis of The Mayor of Casterbridge
- ... business and in Casterbridge. The two men quarrel and Henchard fires Farfrae, who then sets up a successful competing grain business. Henchard is rapidly going bankrupt, after several bad business deals. Soon after Susan's death, Lucetta Templeman, Henchard's former lover, comes to Casterbridge to marry Henchard. In order to provide Henchard with a respectable reason for visiting her, Lucetta suggests that Elizabeth-Jane move in with her. Henchard tries ... section of town. Farfrae and Lucetta buy Henchard's old house and furniture. The Scotsman then completes his embarrassment of Henchard by becoming mayor of Casterbridge. Later, Henchard challenges Farfrae to a fight to the death. Henchard is on the verge of winning when he comes to his senses and gives up. As the mayor's wife, Lucetta becomes the stylish and important woman she has longed to be. But she ... for happiness crumbling, however, when Elizabeth-Jane's real father, the sailor Newson, comes to Casterbridge to find his daughter. Henchard lies to the sailor, telling him Elizabeth-Jane died soon after her mother's death. Newson leaves, but Henchard worries that the sailor might return to reclaim Elizabeth-Jane. During the following year, Henchard's life becomes fairly settled. He lives with Elizabeth- Jane and runs a small seed ...
- 3693: Medea's Revenge
- ... her without just cause. There are two main reasons why Medea decides to kill her children. The first, and more obvious one, is that she feels that it is a perfect way to complement the death of the princess in getting revenge on Jason. When she tells the chorus of the plans to kill the children, they wonder if she has the heart to kill her children, to which she replies ... then she could have accomplished that without killing her children. Killing the princess, Jason's new wife, would cause enough grief for Jason so that her goal would be accomplished. We can infer that the death of Jason's wife would be more damaging to him than the deaths of his children because Jason was going to let Medea take the children with her into exile and did not try to ... Medea deals with the pain that the deaths of her children cause her quite well. She does this by convincing herself that her revenge against her husband was worth the price of her children's death. When asked about killing her children, she replies, "So it must be. No compromise is possible." (819) This shows that she is bent on revenge, and that she is justifying their deaths to get ...
- 3694: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Jesus Christ and McMurphy
- ... Christ, a very old hero. Kesey portrays McMurphy as similar to Jesus Christ, creating qualities that contrast those of the Western hero. One example of this special portrait is that McMurphy's disappearance, contrasting Jesus' death, is what frees the Acutes. It was because of his sacrifice that the men were freed from the oppression of the Big Nurse; they became more like men and less like rabbits under the control ... who he is."(Kesey pg. 188) Even more proof of this was shown before McMurphy's return three weeks after his violent behaviour, a number paralleling the three days Christ took to return following his death. The Chief again shows the way they, the Acutes, care for McMurphy when he tells of the Big Nurse's return to the ward, "We all left the tub room and came out to meet ... is that one of each of their number betrayed their mentor. They were the one's responsible for his capture and upon realisation of what act had been committed they exacted the cruel punishment of death upon themselves. In the Bible the character was Judas, Kesey creates this parallel in Billy Bibbit. Reading over the section of the novel preceding McMurphy's actions, we find that Billy is the one ...
- 3695: Christopher Marlowe
- ... trips to the continent during his short lifetime and it has been suggested that these visits were related to espionage. In 1589 he was involved in a street brawl which resulted in a man's death. An injunction was brought against him three years later by the constable of Shoreditch in relation to that death. In 1592 he was deported from the Netherlands after attempting to issue forged gold coins. On the 30th of May 1593 he was killed by Ingram Frizer in a Deptford tavern after a quarrel over ... kings, that rule as you have ruled, For public wealth and not for private joy, Do waste man's life, and hasten crooked age, With furrowed face and with enfeebled limbs, To draw on creeping death a swifter pace. They two yet young shall bear the parted reign With greater ease, than one, now old, alone, Can wield the whole, for whom much harder is With lessened strength the double ...
- 3696: Howard Hughes
- ... in Houston, Texas. He also attended the California Institute of Technology. Howard had a fine education because he attended highly educational schools. His fathers great fortune left Howard very wealthy. After his fathers death he was left an estate worth $871,000, and a patent for a drill. The drill was for oil drilling which made much money. In 1925 Howard got married to Ella Rice, he was twenty ... Honor, and the Collier Trophy in 1959. He was also awarded the Harmon Trophy and New York City ticker tape after his world flight. Probably the most honored award just a few years before his death was being placed in the Aviation Hall of Fame in 1973. Before Hughes died in 1976 he started to go down hill. He had a nervous breakdown in 1944 that started the decline. He hated ... on an airplane that was taking him from the Bahamas to Houston. Howard Hughes had not been publicly seen or photographed for twenty years. He died on April 5, 1976, from heart failure. After his death there were many wills found. But after investigations all were proven forgeries. Despite is troubles, Howard Hughes ended up with a great life and will never be forgotten because of his achievements.
- 3697: The Scarlet Letter: Use of Romanticism in Development of Characters
- ... within the people of Boston. They are not only shocked that she has done such a thing, but also because she won't reveal the name of the father of the child. Although the usual penalty for adultery is death, the Puritan magistrates have decided to be merciful to her declaring that Hester's punishment will be to stand for several hours on the scaffold, in full view of everyone. In this "powerful but painful ...
- 3698: The History and Deline of the Roman Empire
- ... were called upon to fix the period in the history of the world when the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus;" the period from 98 to 180 A.D. Yet in the next century the Roman empire crumbled. There were civil wars between 180 and 285 A.D. Of ... of chaos until in 285 A.D. the Illyrian, Diocletian, gained control. Such is a brief sketch of the ordeal through which the Roman world passed in the one hundred and five years from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the accession of Diocletian. Mere words can scarcely convey the agony through which the inhabitants of that world passed. There were murder, rape, and pillage. What the soldiers or the barbarians ... rather than eased; and it is an interesting note on the morals of the age that within three years of his championship of orthodox Christianity at the Council of Nicaea, Constantine put a nephew to death, drowned his wife in a bath, and murdered a son. Constantine put his capital in Byzantium, which he renamed Constantinople. Thus, Rome was now no longer the center of the empire. Finally, in 395 ...
- 3699: Powder: Questions
- ... Jeremy or Powder were his extreme compassion, his shyness, and his caring. Jeremy expressed compassion in the fullest possible form. He expressed feeling for others that went to extreme measures. Such as the passing of death from the dying deer to the sheriff who shot him for sport. Since he was an albino genius, it would be simple to understand his difficulty of fitting and acquiring new friends that he can ... kids, hunting when they should not. The sheriff found and shot the deer. As the deer laid there breathing his last breathes of life, Jeremy stepped into action. In order to express the anguish of death to the sheriff, he held on to the neck of the deer and the arm of the sheriff. Using his forces of mental power he fed the feelings of death to the sheriff. Even though Jeremy loved the animal inhabitants, he also expressed compassion and caring for the human population. Jeremy was being ridiculed once again during stormy weather. A boy named Johnny pushed ...
- 3700: Star Trek - The Next Generation
- ... kill himself. Regrettably sense the illness is incurable, if Captain Shaq has it, he will die, and the only way to be absolutely sure if he has it is to test his body after his death. Star date 32919.7: We had arrived at City Alpha 5. I had to go work to ameeditly, and time was running out quickly. I asked to talk to the leader of High Console-Gallron ... date 32937.1: All is not well we hit a snag with my Strategy. The Cardasens made a surprise attack on the Gallron fleet and destroyed all 13 ships, including Gallron's ship. With the death of Gallron the Klingon leader, it will be near impossible to control the last remaining Kilngon battle fleet, Alpha Flight. I now have even a bigger problem than the loss of the fleet. The box ... do not know what I would say to him if I saw him. It became official two days ago the Klingons closed their neutral zone to all Federation ships and Federation people. Due to the death of Gallron the Klingon leader, Klingons have developed hostile attitude. Soon after the war, we honored our deal by turning over the Cardasens, and the Cardasen space over to the Klingons. We know that ...
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