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- 4031: King Lear --
- ... granted. The Fool is once again attempting to inform Lear that his inadequate actions will have terrible consequences. His senselessness leads to the abdication of his throne and peregrination of anguish. The Fool makes a great effort to save King Lear from anguish. King Lear unintentionally disregards the Fool's hidden message, which help lead to his untimely downfall: Thou was a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need To care ... of his departure. King Lear is on the borderline between sanity and insanity, but he must now journey alone for he knows how to seek the truth: Than shall the realm of Albon Come to great confusion Then comes the time, who lives to see't That going shall be used with feet (III, ii, 92-94) All stability in King Lear's mentality had been demolished. Everything is now unclear to King Lear. He is on a journey which causes him nothing but great confusion and he has seen all he wants to, there is a hint of foreshadowing that the end is to be near. Without the Fool, King Lear's sanity is not existent. After the ...
- 4032: Killer Angels 2
- ... Shaara gives us a dozen characters worth caring about from both armies, and then plunges them into one of the most terrible things in America's history the "Battle of Gettysburg" The book is a great depiction on the American Civil War. The book is repulsing, the massive slaughter of "Americans by Americans" over human slavery. There was also a highly accurate portrayal of the action, and the command challenges at ... title. [pg.188-9] There's no better summary of their relationship than when the proud and practical Sergeant says, "Colonel, you're a lovely man." He shook his head. "I see at last a great difference between us, and yet I admire ye, lad. You're an idealist, praise be." [pg.188] It takes both kinds of men to make a great army. The Killer Angels offers many insights into the minds of the men who were there. They had their agonized choices, and their choices to disobey their duties and suffer the circumstance. A perfect ...
- 4033: Leonhard Euler
- ... la!). In 1755 he was elected a foreign member of the Paris Academy of Science; during his career he received 12 of its prestigious biennial prizes. In 1766, Euler returned to Russia, after Catherine the Great had made him a generous offer. At the time, Euler had been having differences with Frederick the Great over academic freedom and other matters. Frederick was greatly angered at his departure and invited Lagrange to replace him. In Russia, Euler became almost entirely blind after a cataract operation, but was able to continue ... a mathematician. He also made contributions to the fields of astronomy, mechanics, optics, and acoustics. In conclusion, Euler was a well-rounded man who took charge over his physical limitations and became one of the great mathematicians of our era.
- 4034: History of Public Schools
- ... resources, education would be limited. Horace Mann also played a significant role in the movement to establish tax-supported public schools. He attended Brown University and soon began a practice in law. He found a great interest in government service and began devoting his time to his fascination with education. He felt public education was the key to a successful government and lectured all over the country about the importance of ... that many of the events in American history would not have occurred without the presence of public schools. Many of our leaders were products of the public school system and many of the nation’s great minds received a public school education. The public school system is the basis of what makes the United States so great. As a result of its creations, we are among the most successful and economically superior countries in the world. We are able to boast of educated workers and continuously advancing technology. Public education, along ...
- 4035: Julius Ceasar - Who Is The Rea
- ... be still; I kill'd not thee with half so good a will. (5,5, 51-2)" All in all, a person so honourable as Brutus should be considered a hero. Over the years most great heroes have been great leaders, and that is no exception when it comes to Brutus. As soon as Brutus joins the conspirators, he immediately takes charge. He decides to kill Caesar but not to kill Antony; he speaks to ... states that killing Caesar was a mistake, and he apologises for it before he kills himself. Basically Brutus may make some mistakes, but he makes up for them and that's what makes him a great leader. In short these are but three of the many reasons why Brutus is a hero. Only a hero puts his country before himself and his friends. Only a hero admits to killing a ...
- 4036: Hesiod and the Ascent of Zeus
- ... Kyklopes, and the "hundred-handers." Ouranos hated his children at first sight, so he kept them trapped inside the earth and would not let them "rise to the light" (Theog. 157). But this caused Gaia great pain. She created a sickle from a new form of metal, then went and asked her children for help. Kronos, the "clever devisor" (Theog. 168), was the only child who spoke up. Kronos follows his ... the "hundred-handers" standing guard at a bronze door, "ever faithful to Zeus" (Theog. 735). Also in Tartaros, are Sleep and Death, the children of Night, and Styx, the sacred water used in the "gods' great oath" (Theog. 785). After banishing the Titans, Zeus was given one more obstacle. Typhoeus, son of Gaia and Tartaros, had a hundred heads, weariless feet, and the ability to utter "every imaginable sound" (Theog. 830 ... able to "burn off all the marvelous heads" (Theog. 855) of Typhoeus, who then "fell on his knees in defeat" (Theog. 858). Upon the monster's defeat, terrible winds arose with the power to "cause great havoc for mortals" (Theog. 874). When the war was over, the gods "following the advice of Gaia" (Theog. 883) asked Zeus to be their ruler. He accepted and "fairly apportioned their honors" (Theog. 885). ...
- 4037: Is There Such A Thing As The American Dream?
- ... everyone is given a chance to succeed; however, it is extremely rare to exceed the social barriers. Although this may seem pessimistic, one's surrounding often molds their character and their incentive to succeed. The Great Gatasby for example written during the Depression shows that if a person were to grow up in a poverty-stricken area for all of their life, the only experience that person would have with the adult world would be low income and ...
- 4038: The Satire of Jonathan Swift Revealed
- ... meant as a metaphor for his superiority over the Lilliputians, thus representing English society's belief in superiority over all other cultures. Yet, despite his belief in superiority, Swift shows that Gulliver is not as great as he imagines when the forces of nature call upon him to relieve himself. Gulliver comments to the reader that before hand he, “was under great difficulties between urgency and shame”, and after the deed says that he felt, “guilty of so uncleanly an action” (Norton,2051). By revealing to the reader Gulliver's shame in carrying out a basic function ... are still merely human; suffering from the same forces and flaws, impulses and imperfections as everyone else. Works Cited McKendrick, Neil. Brewer, John. Plumb, J.H. The Birth of a Consumer Society, Indiana Universtiy Press, Great Britan, 1982. Swift, Jonathan. "Gulliver's Travels". Norton Anthology of English Literature. 6th Ed. M.H. Abrams, vol.1, New York: Norton, 1986.
- 4039: “The Legacy of One.”
- ... to me, the kind of man you see in movie pictures and what not. He worked hard for everything he had even though it wasn’t much. To get to the point we were a great family, my dad, and I. My mother was never there though. That led me to do a lot of stupid things, but my dad was always there to try to understand why I did them. Until one warm, Saturday at my grandparents house. It was my dad and I, having a great day, watching cartoons! Everything was going great, until my dad wanted to go on a motorcycle ride. Now, I had always loved riding the bike. Something was wrong today; I just didn’t want to go. So he went, and stayed ...
- 4040: The Picture Of Dorian Gray 2
- Art, what is Art? It is an ambiguous matter: without an exact form, an exact meaning. Does it have any rules or restrictions? However, it can be a great influence on the lives of people. In the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, two lovers have fell in and out of love due to Art! Dorian Gray found Sibyl charming because of her Art ... was only in the theatre that I lived. I thought that it was all trueˇ¨ (95). Before Sibyl fell in love with Dorian, she lives in a world or Art, a world of imaginations. That great pureness of Art is so powerful that she can spiritualize her audiences, and give them a soul if they lived without one, create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ... as she acted in Shakespareˇ¦s play, but how come he could not or would not think or indulge himself one second to imagination of his love story? Is it because as Basil Hallward, a great artist that have painted a portrait of Dorian Gray, said, ˇ§An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into themˇ¨ (19). Dorian Gray founded Sibyl as a beautiful ...
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