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- 3931: The Effects of Sin in The Scarlet Letter
- ... her life following this event. From then on, she was to live away from the community with her baby, Pearl, and was shunned by everyone. The sin she has committed has made her think that death would be an easy way out and that she deserves little, for she says, "I have thought of death, have wished for it, would have even prayed for it, were it fit that such as I should pray for anything." Throughout the next years, the sin Hester committed changes her personality and identity. Once ...
- 3932: The Andromeda Strain: Summary
- ... been pried open by the town's doctor. They quickly slipped it in to a bag, hoping the virus was still intact. As they walked around, they observed hundreds of strange forms of suicide and death. Some people hung, drown, shot, and lit themselves on fire, while others just laid there with a look of surprise on their face. Stone and Burton carefully took a scalpel, while being careful not to ... poison gas and tranquilizer darts are released. Hall weighing the consequences of Andromeda being released decided to climb up the central core to the next level and a substation. The computer counting down to their death, "There are now two minutes to self-destruct." Hall took a deep breath and climbed in to the core. It was a round shaft extending several stories up and down. He began to climb as ...
- 3933: A Book Report on Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World"
- ... throws her out, calling her a prostitute because he thinks she's immoral, even though he wants her desperately. John then learns that his mother is dying. The hospital illustrates the Utopia's approach to death, which includes trying to completely eliminate grief and pain. When John goes to visit Linda he is devastated; his display of grief frightens children being taught that death is a pleasant and natural process. John grows so angry that he tries to bring the Utopia back to what he considers sanity and morality by disrupting the daily distribution of soma to lower-caste ...
- 3934: Similarities in Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" and "Heart of Darkness"
- ... Marlow realizes that Kurtz is a very evil person, but this does not stop him from wanting to meet this incredibly remarkable person. In The Secret Sharer the Captain saves a murderer from almost certain death without knowing what the man has done. Later, The Captain has a discussion with the man and finds out his name is Leggatt. Leggatt tells his story and the Captain becomes more enthralled with Leggatt ... own way. Leggatt goes free even though he has committed a murder, and Kurtz dies as a god to his native followers. Conrad shows us that evil triumphs over good much of the time. Through death, Kurtz has found eternal life. Marlow and the Captain experience incredible suffering from their "dark sides". Marlow becomes appalled at the apparent brutality of the Manager and Kurtz and, near the end, chases Kurtz down ...
- 3935: China In The 20th Century
- ... in which some 30 million people may have died. The Cultural Revolution from 1966-76 led to further disruptions and the standard of life worsened. (all these will be talk in details later) After the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, Deng Xiaoping came into power in 1978. He was in favor of capitalist-style reforms and he also changed China fundamentally by introducing dramatic changes in economy to cope with ... material and not by raising economic efficiency and returns Both the real wages of people and economic accumulation had fallen about 30 percent between 1966-76 (Rabushka 56). Mao died in September 1976 and his death was immediately follow by a new 8 phase of social and economic policy. The Gang of Four were arrested and accused not only of attempting to seize power, but of disrupting the economy. In 1978 ...
- 3936: Materialism and Happiness in America: The Gatsby Era and Today
- ... terrible deficiencies are not so much the private deficiencies of Gatsby, but are deficiencies inherent in contemporary manifestations of the American vision itself...Gatsby's deficiencies of intelligence and judgment bring him to his tragic death -- a death that is spiritual as well as physical. But the more important question that faces us through our sense of the immediate tragedy is where (these deficiencies) have brought America." (47) The very definition of materialism ...
- 3937: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... love of knowledge and research was the keynote of both his scientific and artistic endeavors. His innovations in the field of painting influenced the course of Italian art for more than a century after his death, and his scientific studies, particularly in the fields of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics. He anticipated many of the developments of modern science. Leonardo was born in the small town of Vinci, in Tuscany, near Florence ... well as theoretical conquest of nature. Their work formed the basis for a great idealistic style, which began to emerge from about 1490 onwards and was nearing its end at the time of Raphael´s death in 1520. It was given fullest expression during the decade 1500 to 1510, and the names of Leonardo, Michelangelou, Raphael, Bramante, Giorgone and Titian, round which legions of minor stars of considerable brilliance revolve, indicate ...
- 3938: Huck Finn Is A Very Troubled Young Boy
- ... where Huck is able to think quickly and lie his way out of situations that makes him able to survive on his own. Another instance which I can remember clearly is when Huck fakes his death in the very beginning of the book. When Huck is brought to live with his father he quickly sees how horrible of a life he would have with his drunken father. So in order to ... it down a trail with a small leak in it so that it leaves a trail. Huck then takes off down river, free at last. Not many people would have the intelligence to fake their death as Huck did. Huck didn't forget a detail and was very successful. Huck survives by lying and faking his way through the south. Yet another example of this is when Huck gets separated from ...
- 3939: Late Anglo-saxon Period Kings
- ... control of England and Aethelred had fled to Normandy to seek protection from Emma’s brother, Robert the Good. Sweyn died in 1014 and Aethelred reclaimed the English crown for another 2 years before his death at the age of 48 in 1016. Following the death of Aethelred, there was a bloody war of succession expected to take place between Sweyn’s son, Cnut, and Edmund II, Aethelred’s son. This war, didn’t take place, however, simply because Cnut figured ...
- 3940: Good Versus Evil: Wars in A Separate Peace
- ... that finally in the end, all three of these wars are resolved. The World War ended in 1946 with the Allies as victors and the Axis powers forever vanquished. We learn that with Finny's death, his outer war with Gene finally ends. But, the death enhances Gene's inner war which doesn't end until 15 years after when Gene returns to the place where it all began, Devon. We finally reach an end to the wars and gain three ...
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