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- 1261: Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
- Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven When I hear the name Edgar Allan Poe I think of darkness, death, solitude, and depression. I'm not sure what brings about these words whether it be his short stories, scary poems or his cryptic appearance, but they all describe one brilliant man.Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the ... hears another rapping. Only this time it is coming from the window lattice. He again tries to make up an excuse, " 'Tis the wind and nothing more!" Finally the suspense inside the man is so great he can no longer take it. He slams open the shutters, and in steps the raven. The bird amuses, enchants, and almost intimidates the man. The raven took his position on the bust of Pallas ... conclusion that the raven isn't in fact really there. The "Raven" is merely a figment of the man's imagination that represents the loneliness that the man has built up inside. The loneliness and depression becomes too hard to handle so he begins to hallucinate the raven as if it were really there. Everyone, in a sense, has their own "Raven". It might be guilt, loneliness, sins, depression, or ...
- 1262: Teenage Suicide
- ... on teens in that they may leave a teen so lost and alone that suicide seems the only option. Another tough problem is substance abuse, some teens abuse drugs or alcohol to self-medicate overwhelming depression; a combination of depression, substance abuse, and lowered impulse control can end in a suicide attempt. Family handguns is another dangerous one. A gun in the house may make it easy for a troubled teen to commit suicide; children ... fail at anything. I will only fall in love once. If I ever share my problems, people will laugh at me. I must be mentally ill, if I feel sad or depressed. These feelings of depression will last forever, and if I feel this way, I must be abnormal. If things do not turn out right for me, I might as well give up. I have no control over my ...
- 1263: Kevorkian Essay
- ... to his assisted suicides. Most of his professional experience has been in the field of pathology (dealing with dead bodies and body parts). In addition, he has no training or expertise in diagnosing or treating depression, and has no experience in the fields of internal medicine, geriatrics, psychiatry and neurology. He has said that the decision about who is worthy to use his death machine is based on his medical expertise ... of "terminally ill." In response to this Kevorkian has defined terminal illness as "any disease that curtails life even for a day." He adds that, if a person is depressed over illness or disability, the depression becomes irrelevant. Published reports and court records clearly show that the majority of Kevorkian's "patients" did not fall within the generally accepted definition of "terminally ill" (life expectancy of six months or less). Some ... with multiple sclerosis and could have lived for many more enjoyable years, but, like Janet Adkins, felt that she was becoming a burden on the people that she loved. Sherry also had been suffering from depression, but refused to take her prescribed medication. Kevorkian and his attorneys have attempted to label his opponents as "religious nuts" and "Nazis." They have stated that the Medical Board of California is "a religious ...
- 1264: Bouchards View Of Canadian His
- ... kingdom of the Saguenay offered many the renewed hope of a new all French republic that they had always dreamed of. Among its first settlers were Lucien's grandparents. The new settlers had visions of great economic prosperity for themselves because of the natural resources and the large seaport of the St. Lawrence. Unfortunately this envisioned Mecca came under control of an English business man, William Price. From the middle of ... 1993). The students learned the history of France, Germany, the United States, Greece but not their own. "What happened in the rest of confederation, we didn't know." The teachers impressed upon their students that Great Britain was a land to be despised whereas the USA was held in high regard because it successfully rebelled against the British. (Simpson, 1993) While the past was revered in class and at home, present ... in Quebec could not work because the population was too small. Moreover, such a policy would "inhibit the efforts of almost five million French Canadians in the contribution to the building of a big and great Canada."(Bouchard, 1957) This article would indicate clearly that sovereignty was not on the mind of this student, yet. At the age of twenty, Lucien decided to go to school at Laval in Quebec ...
- 1265: Moby Dick
- ... readers to Ishmael. Melville gives a description of Ishmael’s character and most important of his most personal feelings, which I feel are the bases of the novel. In this quote Melville describes Ishmael’s depression and emptiness. This is stated in the phrase "whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul." In this phrase Ishmael’s feelings sadness and depression in his soul, are lowering his self-esteem, showing his resentment for life, civilization, and everything that surrounds him. Ishmael’s resentment towards life its self brings about his feelings of not being alive. Melville ... the only place he’ll be happy and enjoy life, is out in the sea. I feel that this quote is very important to the novel overall, because if it wasn’t for Ishmael’s depression and emptiness on land, he wouldn’t have started his journey to sail out to sea. Without Ishmael sailing out to sea there would be no novel about Moby Dick. I feel Melville deliberately ...
- 1266: Norman Rockwell Bio
- ... history Rockwell used his special skill in detail to capture and portray illustrations that accurately reflected the emotions felt in the hearts of Americans at the time. Rockwell made several illustrations exhibiting events like the Great Depression and World War I. In fact during the second World War Rockwell was motivated by President Roosevelt himself to create one of his greatest projects, The Four Freedoms Paintings, illustrating each of America s fundamental freedoms and revealing the reason behind the United States participation in the war. This Four Freedoms Project is one that reflects Rockwell s great generosity and kindness as a person. Rockwell agreed to this project and devoted much of his time to this great endeavor not because of the money, which was not at all comparable to some ...
- 1267: The Writings of Plato and Dantes
- ... Plato and Dantes For more time than artists would like to admit we have been fighting a man who haunts us from a grave long forgotten, and for just over 600 years we have paid great respect to a man whose marble tomb lies in Florence. Since the dawn of time people have passed on traditions and myths to teach us things in ways that capture our interest and make us ... on the other hand, saw that literature was far more than just that which was presented on the page. He saw that literature was the means by which we could learn the hidden teachings of great writers and philosophers. Plato is without a doubt the father of Western Society, and we are the great-great-great grandchildren of that father. It is necessary to review the precepts of Plato's ideal world. There existed, for Plato, a world of ideas where all things exist in the perfect form. ...
- 1268: Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Com
- ... these laws of life and death. Even if you can create life out of dead body parts, just doing that, may ruin your whole perspective of the world, and throw anyone into a state of depression. This movie Mary Shelley s Frankenstein by Kenneth Branagh is a good representation of the original book overall, except for a few changes in plot, setting, characters,, and the relationships between them. There are many ... back to life, because he wanted her so bad. When she realized what Victor had done she committed suicide. In the book, this did not happen there was only a funeral. Why would such a great director, want to poison such a great film, with such a terrible idea that Mary Shelley did not include in her novel. The main characters remain the same in the movie, as they were in the book. The book shows the ...
- 1269: Hofstadter
- ... are profound quarrels with obdurate myths, not hairsplitting quibbles with rival academics or gleeful "gotcha" attacks against Oedipal fathers. THERE is one historian whose specter unduly haunts The American Political Tradition: Charles A. Beard, the great Progressive historian of the generation before Hofstadter's. Hofstadter never shook his fixation with Beard, even to the point of visiting it on his readers a little too often (later in life he wrote a ... his close friendship with Hofstadter and Hofstadter's first wife, Felice Swados, a writer and editor, who died at age twenty-nine. Kazin remembered most of all Hofstadter's riotous sense of humor. During the Depression, Kazin wrote, Felice seriously tried to get Dick work in a nightclub as a stand-up comic. We all howled when he did his imitation of FDR and of the Ozark farmer whose daughter had ... the well. "Must get her out of there one of these days." C. Vann Woodward wrote that Hofstadter possessed "a mischievous wit and a marvelous gift for spotting the absurd.... the talents out of which great satirists and caricaturists are made." Hofstadter's books aren't laugh-out-loud funny. Serious scholarship has a way of filtering out the belly laughs. It does, however, allow for a softer kind of ...
- 1270: The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... conquer the fate that was handed him. He would not surrender to that "jealous demon, my wretched health" before proving to himself and the world the extent of his skill. Thus, faced with su!ch great impending loss, Beethoven, keeping faith in his art and ability, states in his Heiligenstadt Testament a promise of his greatness yet to be proven in the development of his heroic style. By about 1800, Beethoven ... the high-Classic style within each of its major instrumental genres-the piano trio, string trio, string quartet and quintet, Classic piano concerto, duo sonata, piano sonata, and symphony. Having reached the end of the great Vienese tradition, he was then faced with either the unchallenging repetion of the tired style or going beyond it to new creations. At about the same time that Beethoven had exhausted the potentials of the high-Classic style, his increasing deafness landed him in a major cycle of depression, from which was to emerge his heroic period as exemplified in Symphony No. 3, op. 55 ("Eroica"). In Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament of October 1802, he reveals his malaise that was sending him to ...
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