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- 1401: Shakespeare's Use of Trickery and Disguise In His Plays
- Shakespeare's Use of Trickery and Disguise In His Plays Shakespeare uses similar comic elements to effect similar outcomes in his works. Many of his plays utilize trickery and disguise to accomplish similar endings. Trickery plays a major role in The Merchant of Venice and drives most of the action, while mistaken ... the court embittered. The use of disguise is somewhat similar to the common practice of doubling— the use of the same person to play two characters—and probably had economic reasons behind it. The net effect of both practices is essentially another character added without the expense of another actor. "The economic motives for the use of doubling are obvious enough: the size of a regular company … would [be limited in ...
- 1402: Wells Social Imagination
- ... carries its rider into an existing past or future. We accept the machine as a literary device to give an air of probability to the essential thing, the experience; and forget the means in the effect. The criterion of the prophecy in this case is influenced by the theory of "natural selection." Mr. Wells' vision of the "Sunset of Mankind" was of men so nearly adapted to their environment that the ... salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurt one's lungs; all contributed to an appalling effect." The prophecy is less convincing than the wonderful sight of the declining earth some million years later. Sinking slowly into the dying fires of the worn-out sun and the picture is made more horrible ...
- 1403: Immigration
- ... illegal because the more people leave the less unemployed the country has. Therefore the impact is big on the US government because of all of these people coming in and looking for jobs. The positive effect of this is on the consumer. Since the labor costs less, the product would also cost less. That is why Canal St. is considered the cheapest place in the world. Although the quality is not perfect, everybody buys there because it's cheap. And the negative effect is the loss of American jobs because of such a big demand for jobs from the newcomers. Methods of transportation and ports of arrival 1607-1830 The African Americans came over on ships where they ...
- 1404: Preferred Hiring Practices
- ... a woman. Second, hiring women and blacks will provide role models for others. The first point Thomson quickly concedes as likely to be false. Discussion about the second point however is required, and will, in effect, serve to negate the first point as well. First, lets create a character, Bill. Bill is grossly overweight and unattractive. Studies have shown that many employers discriminate (whether subconsciously or not), against both overweight and ... the past, then the next best thing seems to be to reverse the effects of discrimination in the present. The lack of presence in the upper levels of the job market is not a direct effect of discrimination. It is, as Thomson states, a lack of self-confidence and self-respect that has kept toady's blacks and women down. So the logical solution would be to renew their self-respect ...
- 1405: Trapped Inside the TV
- ... In Amusing Ourselves to death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show business, Neil Postman makes many arguments that the dominant medium of culture conversation, does not simply reflect a culture that is already in effect, but rather this medium reshapes culture into it’s own image and likeness. Postman believes that each of the dominant mediums whether it be the spoken word, the printed word, or the newest technology of ... to blame the problems of society on; as I continued to read I realized it was not that at all. The characters, ideas and the pictures that the TV brings right into our living room effect society in many ways. The TV sitcom “Seinfield” actually added a word to the American vocabulary –yadda yadda yadda was used in the show, and is now used by sitcom watchers everywhere. Television commercials have ...
- 1406: Othello: Iago - "O, beware, my lord, of Jealousy"
- ... to do many evil things in the play. He pays Iago large amounts of money to conjure up a scheme to acquire Desdemona. He gives in to Iago at the beginning of the play. In effect he has become the villian's disciple. By doing this, he himself has adopted the green-eyed monster image. In act two, he is prompted by Iago to cause a commotion and begin a fight ... thirst for power made him continue and ultimately lead to his failure. Out of all the characters in this play, it is most obvious that jealousy was what ruined Othello. Jealousy has the most profound effect on Othello. Of course, it is Iago who plants vivid pictures of Desdemona and Cassio sleeping together in Othello's head. However, Othello is a simple man. He has never had to deal with this ...
- 1407: Oedipus The King: Existence of Man
- ... up” of the past need not always be negative and be portrayed as some type of revenge infringed upon the individual possibly due to a vile incident in the past, but the past will always effect the future and its toll is inevitable. As proclaimed by the Catholic church in the middle ages, seven deadly sins exist which ultimately lead to the loss of salvation by the soul which indulges in ... pride, he or she must have the satisfaction of knowing they are better and must prove this "higher status" through material possessions and/or power. This has led to the next sin, greed. This domino effect will continue on until the individual recognizes his or her faults and reconciles, or until he or she has immersed themselves in the totality of evil and suffers the consequences through death or horrible suffering ...
- 1408: The Tempest: Magic
- ... most unsophisticated and naïve audiences. Even before the era of Harry Houdini, or even the wandering street magicians of the 1700's, audiences were not fooled by music being played offstage. It is the other effect, that of the banquet disappearance that, well executed, would have fooled Shakespeare's audiences, and would even have a shot of passing muster today. However, this banquet sequence was in the masque scene, theoretically added two years after the original writing of the play. The question that begs to be answered therefore, is why didn't Shakespeare fund some other way of including a more sophisticated magic effect into the play? The most logical answer would be that he learned more about magic and witch techniques after he wrote the play. Maybe at first he was unable to grasp the explanations in the ...
- 1409: Parental Guidance Against Television Violence
- ... censor violent television programming is because of the Constitution’s "freedom of expression" clause. Producers of television programming declare that "freedom of expression" and "freedom from censorship" are guaranteed to them by the Constitution. In effect, when the government tries to regulate violence on television, conflict occurs. Since the television producers have rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution, the government becomes a lame duck with no freedom to move in ... s judgment about what material is suitable for those in a particular age range." The biggest concern about the industry's plan is that "eighty percent of American parents" stated, before the plan was in effect, that they preferred a content-based system over "the use of [a] more subjective age based [system]" (Kunkel, "Comparing"). Originally, the V-chip was an exciting solution for the parents who had fought so hard ...
- 1410: Viruses
- ... different program, the dormant virus begins to run again. It inserts a copy...into the...uninfected software so that the cycle...can repeat." (Chess, 1997) There are also other computer pests such as "worms" that effect networks, but viruses are the most common. (Yang, 1998) Years of research have allowed scientists to find ways to detect and destroy viruses. (Chess, 1997) "Building on decades of research by mathematical epidemiologists, [researchers] have ... common macro viruses are making their appearance with alarming frequency." (Yang, 1998) The macro viruses are big problems; they infect very popular programs such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. This type of virus can effect daily work much easier than any other virus. (Miastkowski, 1998) "Almost any [antivirus] package does a nice job of finding and eradicating most viruses, including macro viruses. The key is to keep the products' library ...
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