|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 6211 - 6220 of 14167 matching essays
- 6211: Freud and Marx
- ... argued were both, as individuals, dissatisfied with their societies. Marx more plainly than Freud, but Freud can also be seen as discontent in certain aspects such as his cynical view of human nature. Each were great thinkers and philosophers, but both seemed unhappy. Perhaps the social ills and trouble each perceived in the world about them were only the reflections of what each of the thinkers held within themselves. Each person ... things as Freud, but chalked it up to inter-economic class conflict instead of conflict within one's psyche. This class conflict was caused by one class, the Bourgeois, which he characterized as having the great majority of wealth and power and having rule over the lower class, or Proletariots, which worked for the Bourgeois. This view of economic class strife was just one stage of Marx's idea that all ...
- 6212: Edgar Allen Poe: Writing Style
- ... Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature, the author states, "Poe's narrowness is like that of a sword, not that of a bottleneck: it is effective rather than constricting. Nothing adventitious is in his great stories, only the essentials, the mininum of characterization, plot, and atmosphere. By ridding himself of everything except what is precisely to the point, he achieves unity of effect. " (66). There is also a prominent distinction ... Poe more in depth, I now have a much greater respect for him and a slightly different perspective of his stories. While it is still evident to me that narrative style and setting have a great deal to do with the development of Poe's short stories, I also realise now that we can't overlap and intertwine with other aspects of the story, making them equally as important. I will ...
- 6213: Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
- ... speak. Rather, the messages are delivered written on scrolls of parchment. The parchment is "signed with a stamp of cherubins' wings... and by them a cross" (Bacon, 420). To the sailors, the cross was "a great rejoicing, and as it were a certain presage of good" (Bacon, 420). After the natives leave and return to the ship, they stop and ask "Are ye Christians?" (Bacon, 421). When the sailors confirm that ... by which man could master the universe. He did this to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a college instituted for the interpreting of nature and the producing of great works for the benefit of man. The island community of Bensalem also has "two long and fair galleries" (Bacon, 456). In one gallery the native place all manner of patterns and samples of rare and ...
- 6214: Julius Caesar: Military and Political Strength
- ... and shifting of fortunes. Caesar's first and one of the biggest political moves was when he helped Pompey take office. In 69 BC Caesar was elected quaestor and in 65 BC curule aedile, gaining great popularity for his lavish gladiatorial games. When Caesar returned to Rome in 60 BC after a year as governor of Spain, he joined forces with Crassus and Pompey in a three-way alliance. In 59 ... in Rome. It was decided that Caesar would continue in Gaul for another five years, while Pompey and Crassus would both be consuls for 55 BC. Julius Caesar's later life shows how noble and great Caesar can be, but still not trusted by his good friends. Caesar continued to increase his prestige. He wore the robe, crown, and scepter of a triumphant general and used the title imperator. He was ...
- 6215: Hellen Nellie McClung: A Canadian Feminist
- ... girls competing in races was frowned on. Skirts would fly upward and legs would show! And it was not nice for little girls, or big ones either, to show their legs."(2, Wright) As many great philosophers do, Nellie would always ask: Why? It seemed as though she always had to get an answer. She loved to think, dream about one day seeing men and women as equals. Nellie was always ... the W.C.T.U. was to fight the abuse of alcohol. Nellie's intelligence and wit helped her greatly throughout her long political career. Her favorite reading was a set of books by the great English novelist, Charles Dickens. Nellie's brother Will had given her Dickens' novels. She admired Dickens as a writer and she dreamed of doing for the people around her what Dickens had done for his ...
- 6216: Winston Churchill: A Biography
- ... minister the performance of his wartime days, his energy in the first year or two remained astonishing. Churchill gave authority to the administration, only his presence as prime minister helped to stop criticism. People had great respect for Winston and it was well deserved. In July 1953, soon after his knighthood, when he could add "Sir" to his name, he suffered a stroke. Sir Anthony Eden, whom Churchill had long wanted ... s motive in remaining in office was doubtless to ensure that Eden was not cheated of his succession. Churchill finally left office in April 1955, and Churchill's favorite follower Eden became prime minister of Great Britain. Sir Winston's last ten years, marked by a worse and worse health, were occupied by occasional travel, a little painting, and the publication of his "History of the English Speaking People" (1956-58 ...
- 6217: Benjamin Franklin Was A Man of Many Accomplishments
- ... a family. James liked his writing so much that he published it. The people liked his writing. This was the stuff that the public wanted to hear about (Meltzer 39). His writing gave him a great lead for his life, it would be proven to do him some good later in life. Later he started to debate with his friends. To people who differed from him thought of him as obnoxious ... and most important friendship with the suppliers of his newspaper. The job was very profitable and he worked there for fifteen years (Meltzer 105). In 1737 he was offered a job of little pay but great benefits to his newspaper. The new job of Postmaster General let him deliver all of his papers for no cost and let him gather more news for his Gazette easier (Meltzer 105). It also helped ...
- 6218: Biography of Moshe Dayan
- ... he played an important role in negotiating the peace treaty with Egypt signed in 1979. Later that year he resigned in protest against Begin's policies concerning the disputed West Bank territory. Moshe Dayan made great contributions to the state of Israel. On May 18, 1948, Major Dayan, during Israel's War of Independence, successfully defended a Jordan Valley sector against a much larger Syrian Army. On October 29, 1956 General ... his lifetime for Israel and couldn't have done it without the help of hashem. If I had the chance to change something differently I would not have changed anything. I think he was a great warrior and nobody can compare to his talent, ability, and smartness. My personal thoughts regarding Moshe Dayan is that Dayan's military education came not from the academies or service school but from the kibbutz ...
- 6219: Thomas Jefferson
- ... Philadelphia was presented. The convention refused to adopt his radical views, but they were published in a pamphlet and copies were send to England, where Edmund Burke had it republished with emendations of his own. Great Britain viewed the paper as the extreme of insolence and punished the author by adding his name to the list of proscriptions enrolled in a bill of attainder. Jefferson was present as a member of ... the Declaration. It will be remembered that the hope of the colonies or new States, even after the war had continued for a considerable time, was not so much independence as to extort justice from Great Britain. Had this been granted, the separation would have been deferred and when it came, as come it must, probably would have been peaceable. At the same time, there was a strenuous, aggressive minority who ...
- 6220: Similarities Between Neil Armstrong and Leif Ericson
- ... moon, while Leif navigated his way over to what is now known as Canada. He was the first European to set foot onto the North American continent. This Viking seaman was the son of another great Viking, Eric the Red. Leif was born around 980AD in the country of Iceland. When Leif was about 2 years old, Eric took his family to Greenland. The boy grew up in Brattahild, Greenland (which ... years later, bought a ship from Bjarni, gathered a crew of 35, and set off for the unknown land. They landed ashore at a place described as “a barren tableland of flat rocks backed by great ice mountains.” After landing on this unpromising land, they headed out to sea. This time they dropped anchor at a level wooded land with broad stretches of white sand. They called it Markland (Forest Land ...
Search results 6211 - 6220 of 14167 matching essays
|
