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- 11571: A Voice of The Future
- ... see our names in the “arrest made” section? It’s bad when children aren’t fortunate enough to be praised for their actions in their own home but they can’t even get it at school anymore. I was recently in a pageant and one of the questions asked was, “ How will your generation be remembered?” According to society we are trouble makers. We are categorized as once again, Alcoholics, druggy ...
- 11572: Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Hero
- ... get rid of the terrorizing monster Grendel. To explain, Grendel has been killing Beowulf’s fellow men for a long time and will not stop unless killed. Further more, the odds against Beowulf are very high, due to many elements of the battle. Beowulf is very old at the time and has become weak since he was young. On the other hand, Grendel is extremely large and deathly and could easily ...
- 11573: The Gilgamesh Epic and the Old Testament
- ... puny in comparison to Yahweh. Finally, though the Mesopotamians believed that the gods generally preferred good to evil, their religion did not demand ethical conduct. The Hebrews could please their god only by living up high moral standards as well as worshiping him.
- 11574: Emerson's “Self-Reliance”: Optimistic But Unrealistic For the 21st Century
- ... follow what is in our heart for fear that it is different than everyone else’s. We are sometimes afraid of change. Most of us have a schedule we follow everyday. Get up, go to school, go to practice, go home, do homework, and go to bed. Then we get up the next day and do the same thing. Of course there is the weekend but most of us end up ...
- 11575: Traditions in "A Moment Before the Gun Went Off" and "The Lottery"
- ... I believe that the society from "A Moment Before The Gun Went Off" will suffer the same fate as that of the one from "The Lottery." Tradition will give way to change, blacks will hold high social positions, whites will marry blacks. One way or another this will be the eventual fate of the community no matter how hard the whites try to separate the black from the whites. In both ...
- 11576: The Enlightenment Writers
- ... learning. They differed of the premise of the techniques of writing. The pre-Enlightenment writers were mostly made up of the educated class of clergy and the upper class, who would afford to go to school. The clergy wrote mainly for the purposes of the church, such as transcribing books or writing works on God or religion. The upper-class writers would be of the nobility, so they would usually write ...
- 11577: Cry Wolf
- ... about everything a canine can get. It is hoped that by fall (when they will likely be released), they will be big enough to fight off the coyotes. I suspect their winter mortality will be high, since they have had no opportunity to learn to hunt. (Maughan) In an effort to help the wolves form viable packs, biologists hope to solve the other problem that concerns them, "the tendency of a ...
- 11578: Similarities in "Miss Jean Brodie", "Dead Poets Society", and "The Trial and Death of Socrates"
- ... deserving. Professor Keating is another who had his pupils best interests at heart. His teaching methods were eccentric, but his point always came across loud and clear. He was idolized by his students. In a school of such dignity and staunchness, his approach was a breath of fresh air. He was never afraid to put himself on the line if it meant that his students were to gain. This was no ...
- 11579: Image of Child Heros
- ... there was even more of an increase of books and other forms of art. The Russian people now had much more of an incentive to write. “In a certain village, not near, not far, not high, not low, there lived an old couple with one little son named Ivashko” (Wyndham 32). This is the line that begins the story of Ivashko and the Witch. This story takes place in a small ...
- 11580: Characteristics of the Beowulf Poem
- ... justice rather than love. There is controversy about whether the Christian elements are intrinsic or are interpolations by a tenth century monastic scribe. In any case, the Christianity does not much resemble that of the High Middle Ages or of the modern world. Frequently the poem seems a reflection of the traditional pagan value system from the moral point of view of the new, incompletely assimilated Christianity."(Foster 502) In Britannica ...
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