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- 4001: The Yellow Wallpaper 5
- ... the life she lives. She has a husband, John, who is a physician and seems to be more of a father than a companion. It is also learned that she suffers from a problem with depression, deemed a slight hysterical tendency by her husband and accepted by her (425). Her secret opinion that the reason why she is sick and cannot get better is because her husband does not believe she ... sanity. Both dismiss it as a temporary nervous condition when in reality, the reader sees it as a serious and possibly permanent condition of insanity. The woman simply states, It is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight, an ironic understatement of the gravity of her declining abilities. With full awareness of her mental state, the reader is now told what is behind the paper: And it ...
- 4002: Evolution Of The Corvette
- ... Corvette to 60 mph in just 5.5 seconds. This engine is known among car enthusiasts as the Chevy 327 small block. This engine was the most successful engine in Chevy history. Even with the great success of this car Chevy decided try something completely new and in 1963 the Corvette was in for a whole new look. In 1963, Chevrolet departed from the European styling that had guided the Corvette ... 1984 and ran trough 1996 was essentially the renaissance period for the Corvette. The last of the fourth generation Corvettes rolled off of the assembly line on June 21st in Bowling Green, Kentucky. With the great success of the C4 Chevy took a big risk and made an all new Corvette for 1997. Taking one of the worlds premier sports cars to the next level of performance is not an ... one quite knows yet, but the future for the car looks promising. There will be many designs and prototypes, but only one will be christened with the name Corvette. A name that comes with a great heritage that goes back over 45 years to that first polo white Corvette that rolled off of the Chevrolet assembly line. Corvettes have withstood the test of time, and will continue to do so ...
- 4003: To His Coy Mistress
- ... the speaker meant to say that he will lover till the end of time, even if she was to refuse his love. Next, the speaker compares his growing love for her to the expansion of great empires. In lines 11 and 12 the speaker says, and my vegetables love should grow, vaster than empires and more slow. Once again the speaker is alluding to something not directly related to love. Yet this comparison has great meaning when you consider the size and rate of growth of empires and also the fact that love is something that builds and grows with time, as do great empires. At this point in the poem, the speaker takes a moment to explain that, beauty and the ability to enjoy life to the fullest fades with time, and that the two of them ...
- 4004: Machiavelli
- The Prince MAJOR THEME Machiavelli had a true and abiding love for Florence. He wanted to make Florence great and also find himself a job, as he lost his when the Medici family came into power. He dedicated his book on political science, The Prince, to Lorenzo Medici in the hopes that Lorenzo would ... morally right, or amoral, only what is useful and useless. The book is more like a technical manual, and technical manuals only state the facts. The book defines what turns a mere man into a great ruler and what turns a great ruler into a mere man. Machiavelli s book of politics is unique because it is so realistic. He does not place man in a false utopia where man live in eternal peace and harmony, ...
- 4005: Economics Of Eisenhower .
- ... and give the nation a chance to rest from the hecticness of the first half of the century. For in that half a century the country faced World War I, World War II, and the Great Depression. Now is a time when the nation must rest up and regain its strength for the most assuredly hard times to come. During President Eisenhowers term in office one word must describe the economic ...
- 4006: Elizabeth
- ... for absolutely certain. She did bring many aspects of Italian culture to France, including the Commedia dell'Arte, ballet, fine cooking and table manners, and Italian bankers. Her political maneuvering, while not winning her any great popularity, kept the throne of France intact for 30 years, long enough for the Bourbons to inherit it. Her life-long rival, Henri IV, paid her this tribute after his victory was complete and his ... Sept. 13, 1598), is king of Spain and rules a vast domain that includes Spain, its possessions in America and Italy, the Low Countries, and Portugal. Philip rules his vast lands from Madrid (and the great monastery-palace that he has constructed at the Escorial) with hard work, attention to detail and a suspicious eye. At almost 70 years old, he is still a formidable figure. Revolt broke out in the ... reign took England through one of its greatest periods. It produced such men as Shakespeare, Spenser, Francis Bacon, and Walter Raleigh. It saw the country united to become a first-rate European power with a great navy. It saw commerce and industry propser and colonization begin. Her Tudor concept of strong rule and need for popular support helped her select excellent counsellors. She reestablished Anglicanism and measures against Catholics grew ...
- 4007: Future Of Radio And The Internet
- ... this form, it can be modified in any way without any degradation of the original sound. One can make copies of copies with digital audio, and the hundredth will be exactly like the first. The great advantage of digital audio with respect to radio is the possibility of listener interactivity. Currently, any interactivity is limited by the inability of the individual talk to the other end of a radio transmission chain ... and soon people will not think much of having full access the Internet from a tiny box that they can carry anywhere, just as a person with a Walkman is nothing remarkable. One of the great things about wireless communication is the freedom to be anywhere. The natural extension of the Internet is to allow the elimination of the wires and place the Internet into the car, in public, and the ... we might now think of radio as not, "television without pictures," but as a medium that can add pictures and other content as desired. Television does not have its impact without sound, but radio is great without pictures. Imagine a radio combined with pictures and video all delivered via the Internet to the palm of your hand. Radio, delivered over the Internet can be thought of as the base medium. ...
- 4008: Macbeth Essay
- ... shreds of human feelings. She might have slain Duncan had he not looked so much like her father. She suffers remorse over her deeds and that remorse drives her to the self-revelation of the great sleepwalking scene and eventually to her hinted suicide. Shakespeare is not interested in abstractions but rather in living human beings and the effects of their deed upon their characters. In Macbeth Shakespeare reveals the tragedy ... ordinary human understanding, and the spectator can experience the catharsis of pity and fear that comes from identification with the protagonist of a tragedy. The corrosive effect of Evil upon Macbeth is cumulative until the great scene near the end of the play he receives news of Lady Macbeth's death. Numb with accumulated horrors, he no longer feels any great emotion, even at the death of his wife who had been his strength, he merely thinks bitterly that she could have chosen some more convenient time, "She should have died hereafter" 177. For Macbeth ...
- 4009: Symposium: Eros and the Philosopher
- ... What are the implications, in your opinion, of the fact that the philosopher is in-between complete wisdom and sheer ignorance. In Plato's Symposium, Diotima tells what the true lover is. She goes into great detail explaining to Socrates that the true lover is not someone that everyone can become easily. A lover has to be nurtured from the beginning and must go through certain steps in order to become ... If the philosopher was totally ignorant he would also have no love for philosophy, culminating in the same result. Going further, knowing that Eros is neither mortal or immortal, Diotima defines him as being a great spirit. She says that everything spiritual is between god and mortal. "They are messengers who shuttle back and forth between the two, conveying prayer and sacrifice from men to gods, while to men they bring ... not just a simple one step process. There are many intricate feelings and emotions involved with love. The true lover is not someone that everyone can be or understand for that matter. Diotima goes into great detail explaining what the true lover is. The steps of the "Ladder of Love" get progressively difficult. One has to work hard in order to advance though these steps. This is important to human ...
- 4010: Macbeth 11
- ... to give up all the gentle, tender qualities of a woman, so that she can become a sexless, pitiless demon. She has to make her husband ignore his own conscience. She declares: ?Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it.? By illness?she means evil? Macbeth seizes evil, as one might catch a disease. When Macbeth has the opportunity to think about his wife s suggestions and about his desires to become King, he becomes aware of the duty that he owes to Duncan, his loyal King. Following a great battle with himself, Macbeth decides not to go through with the murder. He states to Lady Macbeth: ?We will proceed no further in this business.? Macbeth is not prepared for all her wrath and abuse ... against the Norwegians and the Scottish traitor. He was later named Thane of Cawdor for his bravery and loyalty to Duncan. When he hears the witches?predictions that he will be King, they sound like great news; actually they lead to death and destruction. For, his desire to become King, he is willing to turn his back on what he knows to be right. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth truly believe ...
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