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- 3281: A Student's Reading of The Politics of Rich and Poor
- ... This writer may also create a work which emanates views contrary to the opinion of the governing body. Rarely, however, does one find an analyst who will clearly undermine his own political party by, in effect, saying, "I told you so." Kevin Phillips, editor-publisher of The American Political Report, columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and chief political analyst for the 1968 Republican presidential campaign, describes in his book, The ...
- 3282: Contemporary Thinkers: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aguinas
- ... 403) of the so-called Thirty Tyrants and under the restored democracy, seem to have led him to give up these ambitions. In particular, the execution of his friend and teacher Socrates had a profound effect on his plans. Greatly influenced by Socrate's teachings, he founded the Academy, an institution devoted to research and instruction in philosophy and the sciences. A student of Plato at the Academy was Aristotle. He ...
- 3283: The Communist Manifesto and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
- The Communist Manifesto and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels present their view of human nature and the effect that the economic system and economic factors have on it. Marx and Engels discuss human nature in the context of the economic factors which they see as driving history. Freud, in Civilization and Its Discontents ...
- 3284: Dreams
- ... about dreaming myself, but rather think that a mixture of all of them is true. What it comes down to is that dreaming is a chemical process that at the same time generates a side- effect that we call dreaming. But the brain itself actually will control this so that it sometimes has meaning to us. I believe that subconsciously we have areas of the brain that are in-tune to ...
- 3285: Families Portrayed In Roddy Doyle's Books
- ... is what she was doing. At the same time, she was trying to deal with the changing of her own body and working on making herself come to terms about what she had done. In effect everybody was suffering. -Wha' kind of a house is this at all? he asked the table. -He looked at Veronica. She was deciding if she'd throw the marmalade at the twins. -A man get ...
- 3286: The Development of Desire
- ... do the gods of Rome and Greek mythology dictate what is wrong or right, with offerings to appease the gods. With the knowledge in the warrior for what is, and will be, wrong, has an effect of making Beowulf an extension of God. In all these acts of honor, Gods glory above all is sought. Sir Lancelot becomes the final touch to the evolution of the warrior. He is a warrior ...
- 3287: Comparison and Contrast of The Lottery and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
- ... in "...Omelas," the farmer's market is described as nothing less than "magnificent"(para 3). The most obvious reason for these references is that the rituals performed in both stories are suppose to have an effect on harvest. "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon"(para 32) in "The Lottery" used to be a saying heard in their community. And in "...Omelas," "the abundance of their harvest"(para 9), along with ...
- 3288: Words on "To His Coy Mistress"
- ... youthful hue and the morning (of life / youth) glow to remind her what she needs to save from the imposing grip of her grave. He gets very aggressive and speeds up the meter to add effect and urgency to his pleas. Then he talks about birds of prey, Schmidt3 hurrying, and devouring to really twist the proverbial knife and to convince her. After adoring her body for ages and wading through ...
- 3289: Voltaire's Candide: "All is Not for the Best"
- ... hope of finding her and achieving total happiness. On his journey, he faces a number of misfortunes, among them being tortured during army training, yet he continues to believe that there is a "cause and effect" for everything. Candide is reunited with Cunegonde, and regains a life of prosperity, but soon all is taken away, including his beloved Cunegonde. He travels on, and years later he finds her again, but she ...
- 3290: Review of John Updike's Review "It Was Sad"
- ... statistics of death, by class. These statistics show that, in actuality, more of the upper class passengers survived than the lower classes (by both percentage, and total people). Updike also examines, in depth, the cultural effect of the sinking of the Titanic. The thought that a ship declared unsinkable going down on its first voyage was at the very least, shocking to the public. Who could look at invention and progress ...
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