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- 1481: Dueling
- ... New territories to the west were temptations to planters to move off of their worn out land and settle the new, uncultivated land west of the Mississippi. "This weakened the aristocratic structure and reduced the effect of planter inspired law and custom"(Williams 79). As the sons of planters started becoming the head of households, a realization started happening. These new southern gentlemen did not see the need in these duels. Transportation had an effect on the duel as well. As trains moved across the South tying cities together, it was better understood what most people of the nation were thinking or believed. Political ideas were now widely known unlike ...
- 1482: A Critical Survey Of Poe
- ... accomplished himself with that search and characterized the twentieth century with his art. Few poets followed their own theories more completely than Poe. His popularity is due to his consistency in producing a universal appealing effect. "A Poe setting, atmosphere, or situation is instantly recognizable." All of his poetry is based on carefully thought out principles of artistic creativity, and his biggest concern as a poet was the effect he could produce on the reader with those principles.Poe's poetry covered these themes in a way that they all compliment each other. The theme most revolved around by the others is ideal beauty ...
- 1483: The Second Shift
- ... with the baby, how will household chores be divided, and so on. When thinking of working women, two models come to mind. One of which is paid employment that has a protective and beneficial mediating effect. Employment protects women against certain negative aspects of being full-time homemakers and mothers, such as monotonous housework, dependence on the male partner for financial and emotional support, increases self-esteem because they are contributing ... of it. They are living life to the fullest. This model is the one that is constantly referred to as "bad" because it paints the woman as someone who does not really care about the effect of working will have on the baby. In fact, most of these mothers have made this choice with painstaking care. They are constantly feeling what everyone is thinking, and this in turn causes undue stress ...
- 1484: The Relationship Between Rheto
- ... second hand smoke, and only they can justify why they feel it is wrong. On the other hand, a negative response is just as easy to elicit. Depending on ones beliefs, rhetoric will come into effect when there is a situation that is not agreeable by both parties. How this situation is illustrated is that rhetoric is the approach of the issue, the disagreement is the conflict, and the two arguments ... admittance of these Arlington school children. The rhetoric deals with the way in which the school board approaches this problem, although there is not a specific outcome, all these ideas and approaches will come into effect while reviewing this conflict. The relationship between rhetoric and conflict are crucial to our understanding of these concepts. To truly understand why rhetoric is such an important factor in conflict one must be able to ...
- 1485: The Real World Of Technology B
- In her book, The Real World of Technology (1999), Ursula M. Franklin argues that technology has a disruptive effect on humanity. If left-unchecked technology will eventually destroy society as we know it. Franklin illustrates her point by focusing on the effects technology has had on society and cultures in the past. She uses ... and strong political will of many (p.175) to achieve this goal. Throughout the book Franklin s views come across as technophobic and anti-establishment. Her criticisms of technology and thoughts of it its disastrous effect on the world brings a prevailing sense of fear of change and fear of the future into The Real World of Technology. While Franklin does speak of positive change in the world, it is more ...
- 1486: The Queer Use Of Women In Borg
- ... the saddle on the horse and the woman are two things on/in which the two men can physically connect: when Otálora mounts first the horse, and then later mounts the woman, he is, in effect, mounting Bandeira himself. Once he achieves his objective and comes into possession of all of Bandeira's most valued objects, Otálora enjoys his triumph at a New Year's Eve celebration. Otálora has fulfilled his ... a possible queer sexuality between the male characters. But as the two stories "El muerto" and "La intrusa" show, the presence of a female deployed as a structural element of the plot has the paradoxical effect of highlighting and underscoring the sexual nature of the relationships among males. Were it not for the inclusion of the red-headed woman in "El muerto," Otálora's scheme to unite with Bandeira and rob ...
- 1487: The Crucible: Issues
- ... 1950’s. Throughout this play a strong incomprehensible mist hangs in your mind about the conduct of the people of Salem. I can only think and wonder of the causes of these actions and the effect on many of the people involved emotionally. Through this essay I hope to better explain some of the issues I got from reading this play and be able to understand them better. While reading The ... I feel that the maturity of the mind deals with many in the play...even the adults somewhat. Nobody even took the time to sit down and think about the situation and the cause and effect of the matter. There was no solid proof of any practice of witchery. Everyone just hopped right in and let loose relentless accusations and lies of vengeance and greed. These so called strongly religious people ...
- 1488: A Good Man Is Hard To Find 2
- ... and her eyes dilated and her feet jumped up...." (144). The grandmother's pride and self-centered wish to see the house causes the Misfit to discover and murder the family. Both houses are, in effect, ruins of the spirit. It is a comic view of the family that the reader receives in the first half of the story. The comedy is in the way O'Connor has very matter of ... of the landscape, therefore romanticizing a picture that is far from deserving of that title. O'Connor, on the other hand, includes the dirty and wretched shack and the pant-less child. Of course, the effect is satirical. The grandmother's pretty picture is ruined when the little boy shows his bum to her. The old women's attempt to look beyond a blatant reality and make it pretty is being ...
- 1489: Albert Einstein
- ... people: -I never realized that so many Americans were interested in tensor analysis. The Nobel Prize: Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 for the second paper he had donein 1905 on the photoelectric effect. Einstein, in fact was not present in December 1922 to receive the prize being on a trip to Japan. During this time he made many international visits. He had visited Paris earlier in 1922 and ... people: -I never realized that so many Americans were interested in tensor analysis. The Nobel Prize: Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 for the second paper he had donein 1905 on the photoelectric effect. Einstein, in fact was not present in December 1922 to receive the prize being on a trip to Japan. During this time he made many international visits. He had visited Paris earlier in 1922 and ...
- 1490: A Portrait Of The Artist As A
- ... the Artist as a Young Man: Religion as Repression Like his protagonist, James Joyce was an Irish Catholic. He was also sent to Clongowes Wood College to board and study as a young boy. In effect the story is in part an autobiography of Joyce's own life up to the age of twenty or so (Kershner 6). In his essay A Portrait as Rebellion Norman Holland states: Because of Portrait ... former corrupt past he would never be able to talk to her in the role of a priest. This realization convinces Stephen to again forsake religion. He turns and runs from the woman and in effect runs from religion and into a new life of freedom. Stephen decides to become an artist. Suzette Henke observes in her critique Stephen Dedalus and Women: A Feminist Reading of Portrait: Through Portrait, Stephen manifests ...
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