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- 7311: Fraternities
- ... be socially active and outspoken when the occasion calls for it. This helps fraternity members develop very strong social skills. Since the act of one member reflects over the acts of all the others, self-control and awareness of actions are mandatory. In addition, when the brothers live in fraternity houses, this adds to the development of social skills in the way that a member must be able to deal and ...
- 7312: Heart Of Darkness
- ... meets on his venture contributes something to the plot as well as the overall symbolism of the story. Kurtz is the violent devil Marlow describes at the story's beginning. It was his ability to control men through fear and adoration that led Marlow to signify this. Throughout the story Conrad builds an unhealthy darkness that never allows the reader to forget the focus of the story. At every turn he ...
- 7313: Historical Analysis Of Jerzy K
- ... could be seen not as meaningless jumbles, but as part of a definite pattern.² In one scene the protagonist¹s kindly mentor and role model, Mitka--a grandfather figure--calmly fires a high powered machine gun at a distant villager who is sleepily stretching his arms in the sunlight-strewn hours of early morning. The admiring protagonist is amazed. He understands that Mitka¹s action is justified because he is superior ...
- 7314: Light In August By Faulkner
- ... him. McEarhern uses extreme Calvinism to mold Christmas into a purely moral person, while the dietitian tries to force Christmas into a state of immorality, or at least portray him as such. Forces beyond his control work against him, trying to force him in ways he is not, sending him in contradicting paths. Inevitably he rebels against these forces, finding refuge in immorality, a whore, and later going so far as ...
- 7315: Lord Of The Flies - Primitive
- ... performing the chant, and they are satisfied with their newfound strength and uniformity. For Jack, chanting is another means of manipulating others. Like one of its benefits to primitive cultures, the chant awards him ultimate control over his entire group. The ritual of the sacrifice is a fundamental element of primitive culture. Primarily, blood sacrifice of an animal is the usual means of atonement for a primitive group. Other reasons behind ...
- 7316: History Of Computers
- ... Card Development: Many of us are surprised to learn that the punched card industry is almost 200 years old. Furthermore, the first use of punched cards wasn t for data processing, but rather for process control. Example: Jacquard: Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), a French Weaver, in 1804 developed the first completly automatic loom, controlled by punched cards. Fearing that the machine would produce unemployment, workers attacked and destroyed his machine ...
- 7317: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... With joy I hasten to meet death" -- but hope and determination, though weak and unsure, are evident. In the Heiligenstadt Testament the composer comes to terms with his deafness and leaves what is beyond his control to what must be, trying to make a fresh start. It is quite evident that the Testament is filled with a preoccupation with death -- he writes as though death were at his doorstep, waiting for ...
- 7318: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
- ... at changing the system. The system can be a variety of things. In some cases it is the government, it can be the a boss or basically anything or anyone that has some type of control or authority. For some people fighting the system is their livelihood, their mission in life. They try to change the system because of the corruption, because of unjust actions, because they were a victim of ...
- 7319: Philosophy - Plato
- ... alcoholic because they are not being rational and it is not that they can't stop drinking it is that they don't have enough willpower to stop. It all comes down to lack of control and lack of reason. Most of what we do is not based on rational thought and even though we know that it should be we too do not have the willpower to change our lifestyles ...
- 7320: Realism And Naturalism In 20th
- ... s relation with the rest of the world left America in disarray. After the First World War, American society was divided and left without definition. This called for a new age of literary expression to control and document the “isolationist fears”, “corruption”, and “disenchantment” (Bradley 1339-1340) caused by the war. Writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald spearheaded the modernistic renaissance by employing realistic and naturalistic ...
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