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- 3261: Lamuel Gulliver
- ... generous. Despite the Lilliputians are prideful, greedy, and cruel in response to him; he always manages to be peaceful with them. For example, when the Lilliputians and the people of Blefuscu (the British and the French in reality) go to war, Gulliver ties a knot to each of the Blefuscan ships and brings them together to the Lilliputian king. Then both of the countries negotiate and settle peace. Thus, Gulliver stops ...
- 3262: Computers-how They Affect Our Lives
- ... of machine tools, and for many other tasks. In 1971 Marcian E. Hoff, Jr., an engineer at the Intel Corporation, invented the microprocessor and another stage in the development of the computer began. A new revolution in computer hardware was now well under way, involving miniaturization of computer-logic circuitry and of component manufacture by what are called large-scale integration techniques. In the 1950s it was realized that "scaling down ...
- 3263: Pkt
- ... Kaldor who believed Keynesian economics was based on disequilibrium and uncertainty, and that challenges the general equilibrium assumptions of neo-classical theory. The main aim of post-Keynesian economics is to complete the unfinished Keynesian revolution. Post-Keynesian economists fundamentally used ideas from Keynes and his concept of effective demand, Marxist economist Michael Kalecki to provide a critique of neo-classical economics beliefs and an alternative theory of markets. These economists ...
- 3264: Reading Provides An Escape For
- ... of every new tailor, the days when one went to the Bois or the Opera. (Flaubert 55.) This passage shows the absolute absurdity of Emma's obsession with reading. Emma while living in her remote French village in her mind was living out the life of a Parisian. As Emma decisions continued to sink her further into debt and deceit she began to live more and more through the novels she ...
- 3265: Edmund In King Lear
- ... bloody murder through this speech showing how Edmund's character is a vicious killer that will do anything to maintain his inheritance. Edmund's next demise occurs during the preparations against the attack by the French invaders, who are led by the King of France and Lear's exiled daughter Cordelia. Goneril and Regan develop a passion for Edmund during this time, and begin to brawl over his love. Edmund continues ...
- 3266: E E Cummings
- ... can be derived from the numerous instances and forms of the number '1' throughout the poem. First, 'l(a' contains both the number 1 and the singular indefinite article, 'a'; the second line contains the French singular definite article, 'le'; 'll' on the fifth line represents two ones; 'one' on the 7th line spells the number out; the 8th line, 'l', isolates the number; and 'iness', the last line, can mean ...
- 3267: Kate Chopin A Style Of Her Own
- ... parts of many stories. Grand Isle also seems to be a repeated destination in many of her writings. The realistic tones that Chopin uses are also very similar. She uses a southern dialect and the French language frequently. This all shows that Chopin only writes about people and places that she is most familiar with which makes the writing more realistic coming from reality. Chopin's writing, when published in the ...
- 3268: Kurt Vonnegut And Slaughter-Ho
- ... about the phrase, "So it goes," which appears every time a character dies in Slaughterhouse Five (which happens one hundred and three times, by the way), Vonnegut was inspired to use the phrase after reading French author Celine's masterpiece, Journey to the End of the Night. Using the phrase, Vonnegut noted, exasperated many critics, and seemed fancy and tiresome to him too, but it "somehow had to be said." Since ...
- 3269: Only Yesterday
- ... the swimsuit segment of the pageants. Although the swimsuits of the day were much more modest than those of today they still turned a lot of male heads. With the advancement of technology came a revolution of morals. Prior to the 1920's there were distinctive class and family roles firmly established. The father was the head of the household and the mother and children followed his philosophies. Women were not ...
- 3270: Animal Farm: Political Satire
- Animal Farm: Political Satire George Orwell's Animal Farm is a political satire of a totalitarian society ruled by a mighty dictatorship, in all probability an allegory for the events surrounding the Russian Revolution of 1917. The animals of "Manor Farm" overthrow their human master after a long history of mistreatment. Led by the pigs, the farm animals continue to do their work, only with more pride, knowing that ...
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