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- 2941: Pigeon Feather
- ... month grew up again as tall as before." ************************************ ************************ j ohn Updike is the most talented writer of his age in America (he is 30 today) and perhaps the most serious. His natural talent is so great that for some time it has been a positive handicap to him -- in a small way by exposing him from an early age to a great deal of head-turning praise, in a large way by continually getting out of hand. He has already written five books -- two novels ("The Poorhouse Fair" and "Rabbit, Run"), a volume of verse ("The Carpentered ... a griper, have some not quite negotiable talent, like playing the clarinet or drawing political cartoons," thus nicely illustrating his author's highly negotiable talent for adorning his stories with a cosmatesque surface of very great and radically irrelevant decorative charm. This lovingly executed, verbally elegant surface makes people describe Mr. Updike as a "poetic" writer, as indeed he is in a book like "The Poorhouse Fair." But charming as ...
- 2942: Herman Melville
- ... other novels like Pierre, Mardi, Omoo, Typee, White- Jacket, Redburn, Israel Potter, and Billy Budd. 5) Contribited to the American Renaissance. Significance Herman Melville made a lot of novels and is an example on how great a person can become. His message was to write stories on experience: he wrote most of his great stories on experience. Influences I think all of the sailors that Herman Melville sailed with influenced him the most. They gave him experiences for the stories he wrote and one even saved his life! Also ... to the culture of the americas. I'd love to meet him, but he's dead. If i met him, i'd really complement him on his work. If he was living, he would feel great about his writing because his writing was not really appreciated until the 1920's. Poem herman melville, a man unappreciated. yet years later after his death, his renassiance began. herman, a whaler, wrote some ...
- 2943: Setting Up A Dummy Corporation...
- ... every company in America will ship you goods on credit if you project the right image, ask the right questions and have the right answers...People will kiss your ass if they think you have great wealth. The best resturants will seat you "up front" if they think "you're a player". Why not? Sounds good to me... Is this method for acquiring material things legal? Hell no! But half the ... If these computers fit the bill, we'll need 60 more"....Guaranteed the salesman is getting a woody...In a short while you'll recieve the firm quote. You'll also receive a credit application. Great care should be given to the preparation of the purchase order. You must insert exactly the same information and model numbers that are on the price quote. You don't want anything to slow the process. Great care should be given to the design of the purchase order. If you're trying to shadow the real RCA, get one of their purchase orders and design yours to look the same. You ...
- 2944: Greek Mythology
- ... Zeus: Athena, goddess of wisdom; the twins Apollo (god of light and music) and Artemis (goddess of the hunt); and Dionysus, the god of wine. Zeus’s eldest sister Hestia also lived with these twelve great gods. She was the goddess of the hearth, and tended the sacred fires of the gods. Finally, of course, there was Hades, the lord of the underworld and the ruler of the dead. He preferred his gloomy palace to the light of the gods’ world, and chose to stay there. Those were the twelve great gods of Mount Olympus, who ruled in splendor the lives of the mortals below them. But there were also many minor gods and goddesses, nature gods, and of course the many heroes that are involved ... and at times stuck their noses in – sometimes to help a beloved devotee, other times to seek revenge on a human who has ignored them, and sometimes just for their own amusement. There was a great deal of fear and distrust involved in the Greek’s relationship with the deities, but they did believe with their whole hearts that the gods existed, and that they would protect and care for ...
- 2945: Police Work and Related Fields
- ... where as if they were to encounter the same situation their policy was to arrive in two minutes and stay for 20 minutes. This new program is the starting stages and already it has had great reviews and great public support, as it brings the police closer to the community. Another part of this community based policing is that there are crime prevention comities that are run by various community groups that have monthly ... to another part of the country if I am transferred? D) Can I handle going to a crime scene where there is a victim of a homicide or suicide? e) Can I preform under a great deal of stress? F) Can I preform to the social and mental demands of this job? G) Can I keep my physical condition within the parameters of the job? H) how will this job ...
- 2946: Paradise Lost
- ... is impossible, "let us not then pursue by force impossible." He knows that they would lose. Mammon tells the Devils that they should set up a place here in hell and make it into a great place, the same as or even better than Heaven. If they did manage to get back to Heaven they would have to worship God which they hate doing. Satan's right hand man, Beelzebub, gets ... There is no point in keeping on fighting, so they should attack the new world which God has created. Once again the speech tries to flatter the Devils. Beelzebub tells them how they need a great leader but before anyone else can stand up to face the danger, Satan stands up quickly accepting the challenge. The speech has already been prepared by Satan and Beelzebub, "thus Beelzebub pleaded his devilish council, first devised by Satan, and in part proposed." Satan gets up to make his final speech and again he flatters the Devils. he tells them how he will have to make a great effort to lead them into battle and how he will suffer, just making it sound a lot worse that it is. He leaves quickly so as no one can say any thing or challenge ...
- 2947: Paradise Found And Lost - Critique
- ... from exploration and trade to conquest and subjugation. Boorstin eloquently writes of the depreciating mentality of Columbus and his hopes. As each voyage is unsuccessful in producing Oriental splendors or in establishing relations with the Great Kahn, it becomes harder for Columbus to persuade others to support his missions. His explanations become increasingly farfetched and they are lese and less received. The Spanish monarchs revoked his monopoly on the newly discovered ... Boorstin paints a vivid picture of Columbus and teaches us that the greatest value of history is in the seeking. Through the tenacity of Columbus, the size of the world increased substantiality for Europeans. The great significance of Columbus’ "discovery" was that Europeans were awakened to how little they knew about the world. If there were two continents they had never heard of, how much else was there in this world ... before. Boorstin’s views Columbus as a hero, but I beg to differ with this view. It takes more than courage and tenacity to shape a hero, it takes integrity and character. Columbus was a great explorer, but not a hero.
- 2948: Capital Punishment: Injustice of Society
- ... such poor character that they have subsequently been disbarred."(Tabak 37). With payment caps or court determined sums of, for example, $5 an hour, there is not much incentive for a lawyer to spend a great deal of time representing a capital defendant. When you compare this to the prosecution, "…aided by the police, other law enforcement agencies, crime labs, state mental hospitals, various other scientific resources, prosecutors …experienced in successfully ... off mistaken execution as an incidental cost in the greater scheme of putting a criminal to death? "Revenge is an unworthy motive for our society to pursue."(Whittier 1) In our society, there is a great expectation placed on the family of a victim to pursue vengeance to the highest degree -- the death penalty. Pat Bane, executive director of the Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation (MVFR), stated, "One parent told me ... cost of putting someone away for life is a deal. Is it really worth the hassle and money to kill a criminal, when we can put them away for life for less money with a great deal more ease? In earlier times--where capital punishment was common, the value of life was less, and societies were more barbaric--capital punishment was probably quite acceptable. However, in today's society, which ...
- 2949: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... such as hashish can induce psychedelic experiences identical to those observed after ingestion of potent hallucinogens such as LSD. Some who smoke marijuana feel no effects; others feel relaxed and sociable, tend to laugh a great deal, and have a profound loss of the sense of time. Characteristically, those under the influence of marijuana show incoordination and impaired ability to perform skilled acts. Still others experience a wide range of emotions ... this is not so, Marijuana occasionally produces acute panic reactions or even transient psychoses. Furthermore, a person driving under the influence of marijuana is a danger to themselves and others. If smoked heavily and a great deal of consistency, its use has been clearly associated with mental breakdown. In many persons who smoke chronically, the drug reinforces passivity and reduces goal-directed, constructive activity. The chronic use of pure resin (hashish ... the police. Marijuana is a common weed, easier to produce than the bathtub gin of the Prohibition years. It is not surprising that thousands of "dealers" have been drawn into the marijuana business. Despite the great risks they face, including bullying by other dealers and the threat of arrest, they are attracted by the profits. The law cannot change the economics of this market because it operates outside the law. ...
- 2950: Thornton Wilder
- ... takes the reader to ancient Rome, to New Hampshire in modern times, or on a dizzying whirl through the centuries, his hand is everywhere evident. The Skin of Our Teeth was the center of a great controversy in Wilder's career when Joseph Campbell accused its author of plagiarizing Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce (Unger 370). Joyce's influence appears clearly in The Skin Of Our Teeth, and Wilder has since ... middle of it" (Wilder 197). These words were first written in 1942 at the onset of World War II, and they are even more desperately true in 1994. It is made perfectly lucid that the great world catastrophe in Act III of The Skin of Our Teeth represents World War II. Wilder's ability to combine his military affairs with his convictions and propagate the outcome into his works is what ... s own life, there are many lesser connections in his other works. The year he spent in Rome, for example, and the love he shows for its architecture and classic literature is written about with great admiration in The Cabala and The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Papajewski 206). He creates characters similar to himself and to those around him. Aescylus in The Angel That Troubled the Waters, for example, ...
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