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- 3921: A Tale of Two Cities: Characters are "Recalled To Life"
- ... life" involves Charles Darnay. Charles Darnay is on trial for treason in England(Book 2, Ch.2-4). C.J Stryver and Sydney Carton are representing Darnay in this trial. Sydney Carton saves Darnay from death in this trial with his miraculous wits. Through this Darnay is given another chance at life , and therefore was "recalled to life." The last and most significant instance of someone being "recalled to life" is found in the last chapters of this book. Sydney Carton has recently switched places with his look alike, Darnay, and is awaiting the guillotine. While Sydney awaits his death he thinks, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, then I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." Through these ...
- 3922: Of Mice and Men: Insight into the Life of the Characters
- ... As a result of his actions Lennie ended up dead. Lennie had an extremely great ability to use his strength and become a great worker. However his difficulty to understand his strength lead to his death. Unlike Lennie, Crooks potential is his knowledge, and Crooks has the ability to use his knowledge to try to escape the problems he has on the ranch. However Crooks falls back into a 1930s attitude ... is gone. Without Lennie, George feels there is no hope. As a result the potential to be his own boss is lost. George has a great potential to be his own boss, but with the death of Lennie, George loses hope. George has chosen his fate to be a worker and not to be his own boss. Throughout the novel you can get an insight into what it is like to ...
- 3923: Kafka's The Trial: Guilt
- ... in the story, K is never able to get through the door, and he too dies without ever seeing the inside of the courts. Kafka openly shows his distrust in society by using K's death as an example of what happens to mankind when the bureaucracy becomes stronger than its members. In the beginning of his trial, K was very fearful of all of the possible outcomes, and relied on ... was created by mankind. Kafka believes that the bureaucracy does not worry about the facts or about the individuals. Everyone will be executed in the end. To the bureaucracy, K is guilty and worthy of death, because he lost the trial. He did not lose the literal trial because it never progressed; he lost the internal trial that he was forced to put himself through. But K's actual guilt is ...
- 3924: Cystic Fibrosis
- ... like that. But when Jack was three, doctors had told his worried parents that he had a disease called cystic fibrosis. At that time in the late 1950s, a diagnosis of CF was practically a death sentence. In fact, most children did die of CF by age five or six. Jack's sister, Jamie, had CF, and at age nine died from the deadly disease. Dr. Jack Jacoby lives with the fear that death may come very soon. He went on to college and became a pediatrician specializing in cystic fibrosis. He treats many children with this disease. It helps his patients know that he has the same disease ...
- 3925: Effects Of The Atomic Bomb
- ... last from a couple od days to several years (Physicians and Scientists on Nuclear War, 1981 and World Book, 1990). The nuclear radiation from the atomic bomb's explosion was not the main cause of death, but it did still have serious results. In Hiroshima, the initial nuclear radiation was spread over a distance of approximately fifty-three hundredths of a kilometer. In Nagasaki, the initial nuclear radiation only spread one ... Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1981). With statistics like these it is clearly seen that Pope John Paul II was right when he said, "Any nuclear war would inevitably cause death, disease, and suffering of pandemic proportions and without the possibility of effective medical intervention. The only hope for humanity is prevention of any form of Nuclear War. The examples of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will hopefully ...
- 3926: Gardner's Grendel: Significantly Different Picture of Grendel than in Beowulf
- ... says Is this joy I feel." (Gardner 173) With his dying breath he notices the animals staring at him and says Poor Grendel's had an accident, So may you all." (Gardner 174) This dramatic death scene shows us that Grendel is happy to leave this world. This scene in the novel is very different from that of the poem. There the lake water boiled with blood, terrible surgings, a murky swirl of hot dark ooze, deep sword-blood; death fated he hid joyless in the fen, his dark stronghold, till he gave up life, his heathen soul; there Hell received him (Beowulf line 847) In my opinion this shows us (the readers) how Grendel ...
- 3927: The Story Of An Hour
- ... life, but yet a chore, something they regretfully did everyday. And yet she had loved him-sometimes. Often she had not-What did it matter! (13) When told of the news or her husband s death, Louise Mallard reacted in the only way she knew how; she completed her job as the wife by storming into tears and weeping in her sister s arms. She felt no horror or shock, just ... had finally ended, she had been set free and the feeling of power was finally filling her body once again, yet she dies. Not from her heart disease or the shock of her husband s death, but rather from the shock of her husband being alive. Someone was opening the door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered...When the doctor s came they said she had died of ...
- 3928: 1984: Control is Power
- ... from the police. They go on a long while, but everybody is going to get caught by the party. They had too much power and knew how to use it. No one could slip or death may occur. There is no way in which the Party can be overthrown (pg. 216). There was one main conflict of this book and that was man vs. society. Many people of Oceania had to live with the society that the Party gave them. The had no choice in how they could live. It was the Party's ways or death. The party had many ways to make it man vs self also. The could try to brain-wash people all they wanted, but it was the persons choice whether to beleive it. They can try ...
- 3929: The Awakening: Triumph Over Tragedy
- ... the brink of the universe, on the edge of civilization. With the world to her back she plunges headlong into eternity. The Image of the birds flying overhead serve here to illustrate the freedom of death. They show the grace of nature with no restraints. There is no tragic element here. Rather Edna standing solitary on the shore is the epitome of freedom and happiness. At last she is getting what ... run through the fields of flowers as carefree as a child. All of these desires are being fulfilled at her own will and desire. She wants to perish so that she may be set free. Death in this case is not tragic because there was total free will involved. Suicide does not denote tragedy; It suggest total control and desire to leave the present world. This is not a characteristic of ...
- 3930: The Use Of Nuclear Power As A
- ... city of Nagasaki, bringing WW II to an end. In total, more than 140.000 people were estimated to be killed. Although the most memorable effects of the atomic bomb were the mass amounts of death, the development of the atomic bomb has greatly influenced American society and the world. The scientific development surrounding the atomic bomb has been a pivotal point in the worlds history, launching us into the ... 75 years. The effects of the atomic bombs felt on peoples health and on the environment. Acute radiation poisoning, which occurred directly after the explosion, caused nausea, vomiting, fatigue, diarrhoea hair loss and even death in thousands of people for months. After effects of radiation such as keloids, leukemia cancer and birth defects still appear even today. Black Rain containing large amounts of nuclear fallout are still floating in the ...
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