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- 3631: Stoker and Rice's Books About Vampires
- ... as a bat would fly. More powerful vampires in The Vampire Chronicles can fly as , for example, super man would fly. In order for a vampire to fly it requires lots of energy and a great force of will Lestat says “ It was as if a current of air had caught me. I went up hundereds of feet in one instant, and then the clouds were below me-a white light ... in her series. Stoker on the other hand wrote only one book about Dracula therfore his chacter is described in less detail than are Rices. The vampires way of life, unlike special abilities, is a great source of conflict. The modern age Anne Rice and the classic old english Bram Stoker have different views on the settings, travel, contact with people and other vampires, and the way the vampires feel and ... Stokers novel. In Dracula the count only does this once when he attemps to make Lucy a Vampire. Dracula is overall a more simpler novel than any one of Rices creations. Her books go into great detail on almost any subject that concerns vampires. Rice even changes some aspects of the vampire myth in order to accomodate her characters and her visions for them. Stoker simply takes the vampire myth ...
- 3632: A Study Of The American Revolu
- ... people were and what they looked to accomplish by settling this vast new country. The founders of what we now know as the United States were middle class Englishmen and women. These people took a great risk by leaving the security of their homeland to an uncertain future in the New World . There was no promise of even surviving through their first winter. Regardless of the obstacles facing them, these people ... colonies. The primary goal of these voyagers was to setup communities that would provide a place for their religious beliefs to grow and the possibility of making a life for themselves financially. Britain, like many great powers during this time believed in the practice of mercantilism. Stemming from this belief, the Navigation Acts were established to regulate trade in the favor of the British. For a considerable amount of time, these ... enforced among the colonists. In fact up until 1963 when the French and Indian war ended the Americans were allowed to develop their colonies with little interference from the mother country. During this time a great precipice was forming between the beliefs of the colonists and that of Britain. With the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763, signifying the end of the Seven-Year war brought attention back ...
- 3633: Native American Women
- ... Southeast and Southwest, men and women performed their daily labors with observable equality because the men did not go out on grueling expeditions as did the men in the Northeast and Plains. In California, the Great Basin, and Northwest Coast, the sexual division of labor fell somewhere between these two variations. Women had certain common tasks in each of the U.S. culture areas: cleaning and maintaining the living quarters, tending ... both shared duties for preparing hides or furs. Similarly, in the fishing communities of the Northwest, the men built the plank houses and helped with the processing of animal skins. In California and in the Great Basin, most aspects of labor, except the defined female tasks of weaving and basket and pottery making, were shared fairly evenly. In the Southwest, the men did most of the field work, house building, weaving ... Southeast tribes the women were influential in tribal councils and in some places they cast the deciding vote for war or peace. The Cherokee designated a female as "Beloved Woman," through whom they believed the Great Spirit spoke. Consequently, her words were always heard but not necessarily heeded. However, she headed the influential Woman's Council, sat as a voting member of the Council of Chiefs, and exercised considerable influence. ...
- 3634: African Culture
- ... is that the movement transformed the American political universe, creating new organizations, new collective identities, and new political norms; challenging past racial practices and stereotypes; and ushering in a wave of democratizing social reform. This "great transformation," which at first affected blacks, but soon touched Latinos, Asian Americans, and Native Americans as well, permitted the entry of millions of racial minority group members into the political process. It set off the ... justice. From the 1960s to the present, then, not only black people, but the nation at large, have been riven by a throughgoing and deep-seated struggle: the antagonistic coexistence, the contradiction, of the two great forces of white supremacy on the one hand, and of the movement for racial and indeed broader social justice on the other. It is this convulsion, this contradiction, that constitutes racial dualism at century's ... 1960s. Millions of white lives have been changed by these movements. Other forms of radical political experience also taught basic anti-racist lessons, despite various political and ideological limitations. Here I am thinking of the great industrial organizing drives of the 1930s, the various communist currents, new left and anti-war activities during the 1960s, the farmworkers movement, the solidarity movements with Central America in the 1970s and 80s, and ...
- 3635: Poetry Assignment
- ... the two poems, it will be most significant later on in our discussion in showing the main differences between the two poems. Similarly, in William Blake’s "The Sick Rose" the weather also has a great affect on the poem. The poet, William Blake, introduces a storm that comes in the night carrying an invisible worm. Blake’s use of the word "howling" to describe the storm also gives life to ... concerned with biological conditions. Within this content various contrasts can be made: the fog is very cloudy and visible while the worm is invisible; the fog is silent and mellow, while the storm moans with great sounds of wind and is very violent; and most important, although I stated earlier the fog blocks out the sun’s energy to give life, in the context it does not do anyone harm, while ... and calm tone tends to focus more on developing a strong, temperate image, (more on description), while "The Sick Rose" uses fierce, moving words to create strong feelings as it concludes with death, grief, and great emotional sorrow. The Sick Rose William Blake O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his ...
- 3636: William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so ... dramatist the world has ever known as well as the finest poet who has written in the English language. Many reasons can be given for Shakespeare's enormous appeal. His fame basically is from his great understanding of human nature. He was able to find universal human qualities and put them in a dramatic situation creating characters that are timeless. Yet he had the ability to create characters that are highly ... helped shape the attitudes of millions of people. His portrayal of historical figures and events have influenced our thinking more than what has been written in history books. The world has admired and respected many great writers, but only Shakespeare has generated such enormous continuing interest. My source states explanations rather than opinions on why Shakespeare's contributions to literature are so vast. My source devoted thirty pages to William ...
- 3637: Julius Caesar
- ... his reckless behavior. A reckless leader would be characterized basically the same way as an Ignorant soldier. Caesar sure acted like he could tame the flooded Tiber River, but once he realized he made a great mistake he called for help. After studying Caesar it actually surprised me that he would actually belittle himself and call for assistance in a near death situation. I find it funny in reading the play ... to Cassius about what would happen if they lost this battle against Antony and his army. “No, Cassius, no; think not, thou noble Roman, That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome’ he bears too great a mind. But this same day Must end that work the ides of March begun; And whether we shall meet again I know not. Therefore our everlasting farewell take. Forever, and forever, farewell Cassius! if ... Caesar to end tyranny. His big mishap was to let Antony speak at the funeral. If he hadn’t let him do that everything would have been fine. He trusted the word of Antony too great. As I have stated Brutus was with flaws, but his flaws are lesser to the others I have discussed. Caesar was a egotistical ruler who let the power of his throne get to his ...
- 3638: Justice In Herodotus And Aesch
- ... necessary for a man to have sinned to be punished, in the view of Herodotus. Herodotus directly tells the reader his views on divine justice through the character of Solon. Solon is one of "…the great Greek teachers of that epoch." (Histories Bk 1 Ch. 29) He was traveling around the world when he paid a visit to Croesus, the King of Lydia. Croesus gave Solon a tour of the palace, and then asked Solon a question. "Well, my Athenian friend, I have heard a great deal about your wisdom, and how widely you have traveled in the pursuit of knowledge. I cannot resist the desire to ask you a question: who is the happiest man you have ever seen?"(Histories ... and successful. That is why Croesus did not get the response that he wanted to hear - that he, Croesus was the happiest person Solon had ever seen. Solon expounds upon his views when he says, "Great wealth can make a man no happier than moderate means, unless he has the luck to continue in prosperity to the end."(Histories Bk 1 Ch 32) In a nutshell, Herodotus, through the character ...
- 3639: John Steinbeck
- ... research, John Steinbeck frequently visited camps of migrant workers. He put his heart and soul into “The Grapes of Wrath, ” published in 1939 He wrote of a family from Oklahoma moving to California during the Great Depression. “The Grapes of Wrath” won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1940. It was considered his best work. At this point in his life John was described as “of giant height, with fair hair and ...
- 3640: Longfellows Optimism In Writin
- ... of our past. We are not to live in the past for being stuck in the past will get you nowhere. Then in the sixth stanza, Longfellow tells to be reminded of the “lives of great men” because “we can make our lives sublime”. This shows we should look at the heroes of the past, emulate them, and follow their leads. In doing this you yourself can become a hero and ... s death, had an optimistic outlook in “A Psalm of Life”. It encourages you to go out and accomplish things. It seems he felt a new resolve to live a more fulfilling life after his depression lifted. He shows through his poetry a renewed interest in moving away from the past that had troubled him. Something in his life gave him expectations and hope to live each day to the fullest ...
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