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- 2121: John Donnes Holy Sonnets
- ... speaker wants to repent so that he will not die like the other mortals who sin. All whom the flood did, and fire shall, o erthrow, is an allusion to the Bible once again: the great flood, which Noah built his ark for, and the fire which is to cause the end of the world. And in the first two lines, Donne makes a specific allusion to the book of Revelation ... Death, Donne can confront the fear he has and demean Death. At the end of the sonnet the speaker insults death in the worst way by saying that he shall die. This gives God a great compliment by implying that He is much more powerful than Death and all will believe in Him, granting everyone eternal life. The 14th of the Holy Sonnets goes back to the theme of the previous ... he has in the last few sonnets. Instead of a bitter beginning, he chooses an opening of praise. He asks God, ever so politely, to renew him. The speaker tells God that he is in great debt to Him. He prays to God that he will be loved as much as he loves. But the speaker feels dedicated to Satan. He asks God to break his promise to Satan and ...
- 2122: Mediation
- ... the Service was in the field (Maggiolo 57). Industry is an extremely important aspect of the United States economy. If members of industry are not happy for any reason, the nations economy can suffer great losses. President Truman recognized industrys need for a type of mediation program . The F.M.C.S. was extremely successful. Over a seven year period, the program saw 4936 cases and of those, seventy ... schools just as an aid to the administration and staff, but mostly for the students themselves. Oftentimes school age children, particularly teens, experience dramatic conflicts between one or more other persons. These conflicts can cause great emotional distress to all involved. Disputants can become distracted from schoolwork or even be more likely to find conflict elsewhere. Mediation steps in and tries to take the students out of their conflict by helping ... 1997, there was an Oregon Association of Student Councils conference in Seaside, Oregon. A group of mediators, including this researcher, conducted a workshop on mediation at this conference of students from across the state. A great amount of interest was shown in the possibility of starting programs similar to the mediation program at Franklin. It cannot be denied that there is the want and need for these types of mediation ...
- 2123: The Odyssey - A Creton Lie
- Gentle waves lap against the Ithacian shore line as Odysseus has finally reached his native homeland. Rumors of the great turmoil that has rocked Odysseus home land and house has reached him abroad. After hearing the news, he decides to don a beggar s disguise and so forth begins the great test. When the disguised Odysseus in Homer s great epic poem, The Odyssey, converses with her wife Penelope in Book nineteen, he tests her loyalty to her husband s honor and her love of her missing husband. Odysseus disguised as a beggar is ...
- 2124: Lisa Bright And Dark By John N
- ... teenage friends. Lisa Shilling starts off as any normal teenager, attending school, going out with friends, and even dating. As the novel progresses, Lisa slips into dark, depressive moods on occasional days, and then into depression altogether. Lisa s friends notice her change and take it into their own hands to give her "therapy" because Lisa s parents are not willing to accept her sickness. As the depression progresses, many frightening incidents happen, but Lisa s friends stick with her, helping to give strength to Lisa as well as themselves. Lisa s friends stick with her when no one else will. One incident ... Lisa s friends would not give up on her. The basic theme of friendship is expressed throughout the novel. It is never told exactly what has caused Lisa Shilling to slip into this state of depression, which helps to make the atmosphere of the novel very mysterious. Just when it appears that Lisa is getting better, another episode occurs. The story is disturbing, being set around Lisa s school and ...
- 2125: Love And Suffering - Dantes In
- ... Virgil and Inferno by Dante are both works centering around adventures. In both of these adventures, love is intertwined with suffering. Why are love and suffering connected as such? In The Aeneid, Aeneas suffered a great deal and then was fated to lead his people to Italy and Rome. Aeneas marries the Queen of Carthage, Dido, who eventually kills herself out of despair. In Inferno, Dante is taken on a divine ... the Hebrews in the Old Testament, the Trojans Promised Land was guaranteed by fate. History is the guarantor. The theme of this work is that of how a nation came to be. Aeneas suffers a great deal. Emerging from this suffering, Aeneas will lead his people and conquer their new homeland. Aeneas has many obstacles that stand in his way. Juno hates the Trojans and wants to do everything in her ... in Troy. At one point Aeneas even said that it would have been better if he had died in Troy. When Aeneas descended into the underworld, Anchises showed Aeneas his lineage and all of the great Roman leaders that came from Aeneas. Anchises told Aeneas that the Romans great gift would be for ruling. Roman, these will be your arts: to teach the ways of peace to those you conquer, ...
- 2126: Leda And The Swan
- ... Leda, was so beautiful that Zeus, ruler of the Gods, decided that he must have her. Since the immortals usually did not present themselves to humankind in their divine forms, Zeus changed himself into a great swan and in that shape ravished the helpless girl (3716). Zeus as the swan is described as being great and of feathered glory (lines 1-6). He is a terrific product of nature, yet his male sexual tendencies get the better of him, and he gives into his uncontrollable lust for Leda. Zeus is ... show that beauty can serve as a mask for evil. The swan, though glorious in its physical characteristics, is a savage and inconsiderate male beast that selfishly rapes an innocent girl. A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl (lines 1-2). Zeus uncompromising force easily entraps young Leda, pushing her into rape. The act is quick and bizarre yet intense and fierce. Leda s thighs ...
- 2127: The House Of The Seven Gables-
- ... portraits, and it is now thought that he was a mild manic-depressive? Born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. A decendant of a long puritan line of Hathorne's. His ancestry included his great-great grandfather, John Hathorne who was a judge at the Salem witch trials 112 years before Nathanial was born. Judge John Hathorne charged many with the crime of witchcraft,and condemned them to their deaths. Nathanial ... and History of Witchcraft and Salem Village. The Maule name was derived from Thomas Maule, a Quaker merchant living in Salem at the time of the trials. In Nathanials American Notebooks he records that his great great grandfather Judge Hathorne, the judge in the witch trials, injured a neighbor named English once, who never forgave him. Yet English's daughter married Hathorne's son. In the same way, the decendants ...
- 2128: Lord Of The Flies 3
- ... 140) " I'm not going to be part of Ralph's lot, I'm going off by myself... Any one that wants to hunt when I do can come too". Jack's power grew so great that he made the boys think that there was a beast, which ultimately killed Simon. He didn't care when a big rock squished Piggy and to make things unbearable he tried to murder Ralph. Along with the many bad leaders our society has encountered there were also many great leaders such as Bill Clinton (debatable), George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John A MacDonald and more. These leaders lead their people with great emphasis toward the minority and fought for equal rights. Bill Clinton puts bad leaders in their place, George Washington fought for the independence of America, Abraham Lincoln freed the blacks from oppression and John ...
- 2129: Allen Sapp
- ... near Battleford, Saskatchewan. He was raised and cared for by his grandmother, Maggie Soonias because his mother died of tuberculosis. He was a sickly child who was often picked on by other children. He took great pleasure in painting and drawing, beginning at age eight. Sapp married and in 1960 his son David was born in a tuberculosis sanitorium where his wife was sick. In 1961 she got out and they ... of S. The little instruction he got form her was the only formal instruction he has ever had. In September 1968 she showed some of Allens paintings in her backyard. The show was a great success. On the Easter weekend of 1969 Allen had his first major exhibition. The people loved him. He became a great success. The value of his paintings went way up in the next little while as his popularity streadily increased and he did shows all over Canada and in the US and England. He once ...
- 2130: The Stories Of A People
- ... nothing. Egyptian, Australian, Greek, and Mayan myths also speak of creation from nothing, in the Greek myth of creation there was first nothing then the titans created everything. In some myths the deity/god/oh great one, which created everything are all-powerful, and in the rest the god(s) are pathetic, or created the world as a joke. Other cosmogonic myths describe creation as coming from the lower worlds (hell ... many myths among Siberian-Altaic peoples, in Romania, and in India; creation comes about through an earth diver. An animal (a turtle or a bird sometimes even a pig is used) who dives into the great waters of creation to bring up a small piece of earth that later expands into the world. Creation myths feature not only the creation of the universe, but also the creation of man. In the ... to his kid who finally puts the sun back where it belongs. In another famous Chinese hero myth Journey to the West the Stone Monkey gets imprisoned under a mountain for 500 years until the great x 5 grand son of this monk he killed frees him. In many of the other Chinese myths I heard from my grandparents the story lasts from one generation to the next. For example ...
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