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- 11621: The Jγtaka: "The Cheating Merchant", "The Monkey's Heroic Self-Sacrifice", and "The Hare's Self-Sacrifice"
- ... He orders the monkeys to walk on his back to get across. Devedatta, the Bodhisatta's evil cousin, is one of the monkeys in the tree. Devedatta, who was jealous of the Bodhisatta, climbs a high branch and jumps down to break the monkey king's back. The king, who is watching, decides to take the monkey king home and care for him because he is impressed with the monkey's ...
- 11622: Miracles, Dreams, and Empowerment: A Brief Therapy Practice Note
- ... locus of control, in other words, having resources and power. This is where the theory of personal agency comes in. People who believe they can accomplish their goals with the skills they possess have a high personal agency. Therefore, those with a low personal agency believe that something external, like a miracle, has more to do with accomplishing their goals. In an empowerment-based therapy, the clinician must relate to the ...
- 11623: The Function of Profanity in Modern English
- ... a mere five or six words were removed from their vocabulary, would effectively be struck dumb. Two men in pinstripe suits, riding the subway to Wall Street, ignore others' sensibilities as they keep up a high- volume conversation laced with profanities. The same with three teenagers on a bus. Ditto for a taxi driver complaining about the "fucking traffic." Or for a police officer in Times Square who, when asked politely ...
- 11624: Kazin's "Summer: The Way to Highland Park"
- ... is a true artist. I never thought I was a big fan of history, but the way Kazin explains history I think I possibly have always loved history, but have not known it. History, in school, is taught to be boring and factual when in reality it is romantic and a part of everybody. Kazin helped me to realize this about history. I knew a lot about this story before I ...
- 11625: Wolf's "The Child By Tiger" and Bowen's "Tears, Idle Tears": The Innocence Of The Child
- ... t understand why. In "Child By Tiger" the events that occur to Dick Prosser happen because of the type of environment he is placed in. He is surrounded by a town that does not have high regard for African Americans: "What happened, what passed between them, was never known. And, besides, no one was greatly interested. It was a crazy nigger with 'another nigger's woman'"(33). Just as the park ...
- 11626: 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 ...
- 11627: What is Wealth
- ... asks themselves "what is wealth," people immediately think of money. They think of nice cars and big houses. People think of power and the ability to have control over others. When I was in elementary school I believed this same thing. Now that I am in highschool my outlook on what wealth is has changed dramatically. To me wealth is contentment and knowledge. With these two things will come the greatest ...
- 11628: James Joyce's "Araby"
- ... narrator. In "Araby," the "mature narrator and not the naive boy is the story's protagonist."(Coulthard) Throughout the story this is easily shown, especially when it refers to "the hour when the Christian Brothers' school set the boys free."(Joyce 2112) Although they were freed, they were placed into an "equally grim world, where not even play brought pleasure."(Coulthard) Joyce demonstrates this culture by showing a boy's love ...
- 11629: The Odyssey: Theme of Homecoming and Reunion
- ... calf fashioned by Aaron than reverence their covenant with God, the sailors too disobey their captain in his absence and slaughter Helios' sacred flock. The fame of Odysseus is that of perseverance and hard-wrought, high priced victory. The man of woe struggles for the sake of his shipmates, for his crew he strives homeward, but for all this, his travail is fruitless as he describes the death of his precious ...
- 11630: THe Knights of the Round Table
- ... being eventually rescued by a poor fisherman. In youth, he made his way to Rome where he obtained his education. Having been knighted by Pope Sulpicius, he returned to Britain and the court of the High-King, Arthur, where he was re-united with his parents Sir Galahad Sir Galahad was called a Grail knight because he went in search for the Holy Grail. His father was named Sir Lancelot and ...
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