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- 2991: Matthew Arnolds Dover Beach An
- ... the Victorians invented the modern idea of invention -- the notion that one can create solutions to problems, that man can create new means of bettering himself and his environment. In religion, the Victorians experienced a great age of doubt, the first that called into question institutional Christianity on such a large scale. In literature and the other arts, the Victorians attempted to combine Romantic emphases upon self, emotion, and imagination with ... wrestles with problems of psychological isolation. Poems such as "Dover Beach," link the problem of isolation with what Arnold saw as the dwindling faith of his time. Despite his own religious doubts, a source of great anxiety for him, in several essays Arnold sought to establish the essential truth of Christianity. His most influential essays, however, were those on literary topics. Arnold called for a new epic poetry: a poetry that ... but then he uses words like grating roar , fling , changing the mood from happy and calm to desperate and depressing. Arnold uses repetition in lines 32 and 33, of so and nor to emphasize how great the land was but now how bad it has become. He uses a simile in line 23; Lay like the folds of a bright girdle , meaning the sea of faith encompassed everything like a ...
- 2992: Birth Control at Schools
- ... are steadily rising, passing out condoms in high schools can be a very effective way to promote safe sex. Although passing out free condoms in schools has become a very controversial issue, this is a great way to start educating and promoting the need for safe sex. On the other hand, many parents and children think that passing out free birth control is only promoting and supporting children to have sex ... have sex. Parents think giving free condoms to children sends mixed messages on what to think about sex education or how to have sex. Promoting safe sex and distributing free condoms in high schools are great ways to control the rampant spread of sexually transmitted diseases and high levels of teen childbirth. Whether it is a lack of knowledge or a lack of not caring, it is prominent that children need ... and staff members are not pushing children to take and use the condoms. It is solely the individual's decision to take and use the condoms, if needed. The distribution of free condoms is a great way for the students to get condoms who do not have the money or are too scared to buy them. Students are simply scared to go to a convience store and buy birth control. ...
- 2993: Is Our Society Becoming Post-l
- Is our society becoming post-literate? Thousands of years have passed since our culture invented an alphabet to allow spoken words to be permanently recorded. This 'great leap' from orality to literacy had many consequences that will be discussed here. However, many other technologies have come into existence since the alphabet was invented and it has been suggested that we have moved ... Mcluhan (1962). The printing press made us all subordinate to the power of the written word. Mcluhan believes that the human experience is made up of an interplay between the five senses. Literacy placed a great emphasis on the visual aspect of life and removed man from tribal communality into a state of civilised detachment. These new technologies have placed more emphasis on our other senses and have extended our nervous ... Children will always be taught how to read by a teacher in the classroom and who would think of letting a computer read a child a bedtime story. The upper classes of our society take great delight in going to a theatre with friends to watch a performance of plays that can communicate the meanings and values of our society, all the more emphatically because they are live. Reading, then, ...
- 2994: John Lennon
- John Lennon John Lennon was a great song writer and musician. He played the rhythm guitar, the piano, and sang. He was in the most popular group in the history of rock music. In 1959, John founded this group, called The Beatles ... in 19 days. On their next album, Beatles For Sale, the material reflected how unhappy John and Paul were with life on the road. Songs like "I'm a Loser" and "No Reply" spoke of depression and the frenzy of life in the spotlight. John once said, "It's like we're four freaks being wheeled out to be seen, shake our hair about, and get back into our cage afterwards ...
- 2995: Niccolς Machiavelli - The Qual
- ... acting . His instructions for the prince stand true for almost everyone nowadays. Unlike disloyalty, dishonesty, according to Machiavelli, is an important factor in the relationship of all human beings. Machiavelli wrote, princes who have accomplished great deeds are those who have cared little for keeping their promises and who have known how to manipulate the minds of men by shrewdness; and in the end they have surpassed those who laid their foundations upon honesty. It is hard to imagine a society based on dishonest men. However, many great civilizations in the past have been built by ruthless men who ruled by being a great hypocrite and a liar . Machiavelli s criticism towards human natures provides a dark overview of what humanity has been since the dawn of time. He believes that in the time of need, a person ...
- 2996: The Use of Supplements Creatine, Androstenedione, and HMB
- ... relying on the other energy system called glycolysis, which has lactic acid as a by product. This lactic acid creates the burning sensation you feel during intense exercise. If the amount of acid becomes to great, muscle movement stops. But if you keep on using ATP because of all the Creatine you have, you can minimize the amount of lactic acid produced and actually exercise longer and harder. This helps you ... androgenic and anabolic properties, it may produce side effects similar to those of testosterone based anabolic steroids. The most dangerous of them is the increased risk you put yourself at for heart disease, contain cancers, depression, psychoses, and even extreme aggression. There are also sex specific effects. For men, these include shrinking testes, increased hair loss, enlarged breasts, and possible sterility. Woman may experience such side effects as shrinking breast and ...
- 2997: A Link Between Anxiety And The Performance Of Athletes
- ... the earliest models that attempted to explain the relationship between arousal and performance was the inverted-U hypothesis. This performance stated that as arousal increased, performance would increase as well; but, if arousal became too great performance would deteriorate (Humara, 1999). The effects of anxiety in athletics are great and vary greatly. Many studies show that ammeter individual sports elicit a higher competitive state anxiety when compared with team sport athletics. Also contact individual sports in comparison to non-contact individual sports have a ... confidence, somatic, and cognitive anxiety tests are able to show successful athletes score low in cognitive, and somatic anxiety, but score high on self-confidence. Is that the trick to being successful, believing one is great? Another way to improve athletic performance is imagery and mental rehearsal. This has been proven to be effective with collegiate athletes in all sports. Research indicates that individuals who were in the imagery intervention ...
- 2998: John Steinbeck: A Common Man's Man
- ... themselves (Shaw, 13). Many people consider that John Steinbeck novels are records of social history. His books are the history of plain people and society as a whole, many of his books focused on the Great Depression, Social Prejudice, religion, the whore house, and the automobile (Rundell, 4). He may be considered as a Sentimentalist, because of his concerns for the common man, human values, for warmth and love and understanding. The ...
- 2999: Jonas Salk
- ... the beginning of mankind, man has looked for cures of illness. Jonas Salk found a cure for one of the worst illnesses in the history of man, polio. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was a great discovery of his time, and it is still being used today to eradicate polio worldwide. Dr. Salk is also known for other medical discoveries. He was a quiet man who lived a rough childhood. He was not looking for fame, instead, it found him. During the time before the vaccine, many people, mostly parents with young children, were very scared. Dr. Salk's vaccine was a great relief to everyone. Yet, today polio is still affecting people, even after receiving the vaccine. Just as polio is still around today, so is the flu virus. Dr. Salk did invent a flu vaccine to ... use their legs or both their legs and arms. Even more staggering, there were those that could only move an arm, or just their fingers and eyes. "Some would remain in an iron lung--a great, 1,800-pound casketlike contraption...The iron lung hissed and sighed rhythmically, performing artificial respiration by way of air pressure", said Charles L. Mee. During the summers in Florida, kids would not be allowed ...
- 3000: Oedipus Rexs Tereisias Brings
- ... is also responsible for further developing the theme of blindness by using his own physical blindness to reveal to Oedipus his mental blindness. Lastly, Teiresias is ultimately responsible for imposing dramatic irony because of his great knowledge of the truth of Oedipus. In Sophocles Oedipus Rex, the character of Teiresias is developed in such a way that he utilizes many dramatic devices in order to reveal information and move the play along.As a fortune teller, Teiresias is able to see the fate and destruction of Oedipus life. Teiresias uses his great ability to reveal to the reader the downfalls in Oedipus life that will soon occur because of his quest to know his fate. The character of Teiresias demonstrates the use of foreshadowing in order for ... learns the truth of his past and fate. It is ironic that a man who once did not see the truth of his past and fate does not want to see physically because of his great suffering. That were her ornament, and raised them, and plunged them down straight into his own eyeballs, crying, No more, no more shall you look on the misery about me Sophocles, 1236-1239 Since ...
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