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- 4881: Alex's Analysis of Any Abject Abuse
- ... to Miss Fermor. Pope could hardly have hope to soothe the lady's wounded pride by pointing out her vanity and empty- headedness. In keeping with his choice of mock-heroic form, Pope employs a "high- toned" poetic diction and the stately iambic pentameter of dignified epics like Paradise Lost. And of course, Pope's mastery of the heroic couplet, and the balanced, measured rhythms of his lines, lend an even ... proper and natural style for a particular poet to use. Certainly such a style is well-suited to "The Rape of the Lock," exactly because it does strike the reader as "too much," as "too high" for the subject matter. "Not with more glories, in the ethereal plain,/ The sun first rises o'er the purpled main,/ Than, issuing forth, the rival of his beams/ Launched on the bosom of the silver Thames" (ii, 1-4). The use of such "high falutin'" rhetoric to describe a young lady on her way to Hampton Court to play cards is witty and hilarious. Further, it allows the reader a sense of satisfaction to be "in" on the ...
- 4882: Land Ethics In Our Communities
- ... I have yet, however, had the pleasure of seeing many people proclaiming their ethics about the treatment of this planet. I have yet to see a serious and unwavering campaign to stop placing ourselves so high up the evolutionary ladder that the fate of the world we live in, will eventually crumble, as will our race and every other animal along with us. Michael Soule stated in his article, What is ... things are not getting any better as time moves on. A possible addition to the small amount of education currently being done in this country, is the teaching of basic conservation science classes in elementary school; maybe if we start now, their generation will be brought up to mother the earth that has nurtured them. Other helpful additions include the passing of new city ordinances which would make it mandatory that ...
- 4883: Catcher in the Rye: How Holden Deals With Alcohol, Sex, and Violence
- ... coward so he does. Then the rest of them follow.” In the book, Between Parent and Teenager, it states the substance abuse is the number one cause of death amongst teenagers. Studies show that among high school students age 14 - 17, 60% of the students use alcohol once a week, 75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it once in the year. In the novel, Holden Caulfield ...
- 4884: William Shakespeare
- ... 14). The other dive children were Gilbert born in 1566, a second Joan 1569, Richard 1573, Edmund 1580, and Anne 1580 who died at age eight. (Bender 14). William Shakespeare was educated at the local school in Stratford. Ironically, William never attended a university although virtually every English speaking universities studies his works. Bioghrapher a man educated in " the university of life." (Bender 14). His plays and other works display Shakespeare ... that he drew the man of England and Europe, the father of the man in American. Shakespeare reads the hearts of men and women, their second thoughts and wiles and the wiles of innocence. Emersons high praise for Shakespeare included that the distinguished author could divide the mothers part from the fathers part in the face of a child. (Rogers 114). Further, he proposes that Shakespeare stands out from all other ...
- 4885: A Comparison of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Anthem"
- ... is able to preform his duties well. Later in the book he finds a mirror, and he describes himself as beautiful." He also seems to be of good intelligence because he describes his experience in school as easy and boring, and he said that he understood more that the teachers. In Handmaid's Tale the main character is a woman of who seems to be mildly attractive since she acquires the ... s Tale is less of a pro-active person she knows that her society is flawed, and she tells the reader that she does not like her life yet she does nothing about it. The high ranking general that she is "handmaid" for takes her into a position of confidence, and rather than use her position to affect positive change she squanders it on cheap pleasures such as asking for a ...
- 4886: The Lord of the Flies: Summary
- ... Lord of the Flies: Summary The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, an adventure and suspense story, is written in 1857. The story sets on an deserted Pacific coral island. A group of school boys are marooned on this island after a plane crash on a trip to Australia. The story begins with a large number of school boys on an uninhabited tropical island and two of the elder boys who have leadership qualities compete to achieve a semblance of order so as to survive. Ralph, who has found a conch and blows ... suspense and horror, captures my imagination and my interest throughout. The author=s message of what mankind must guard against if the human race is to survive is depicted through the boys= rapid transformation from school boys to savages. In the novel, Ralph represents democratic societies while he tries to hold a civil society together where every man is allowed personal freedom of thought and actions and Jack represents dictators ...
- 4887: Lt. Colonel Jay R. Jensen's "Six Years In Hell"
- ... flew over Vietnam and was captured and taken as a POW. This book covers his time in the military before hand describing the daily procedures etc. of his military life. The author graduated from Jordan High School in Sandy, Utah in 1949. He then joined The Utah Air National Guard during the Korean war. Mr. Jensen was on active duty for 20 months, after which he attended Brigham Young University. He graduated ...
- 4888: Building A Passive Wine Cellar
- ... indicates a loose cork, widely or frequently fluctuating storage temperatures, or low humidity (Gold 31). Some ullage with age is inevitable, but anything more that 12 mm (1/2 inch) per decade is avoidable. Excessively high relative humidity inevitably leads to mold. The carbohydrates in your wine cellar: cork stoppers, paper labels, paper surface of the drywall, and wooden shelves can all become mold food (Alexander). Wines: Best Kept in the ... temperature fluctuation, but a single annual temperature fluctuation between the permitted extremes is said to be either of no concern or preferred for ideal maturation (Bramhall). Connoisseurs of wine who adhere to the constant temperature school install air conditioning or purchase factory assembled refrigerated chambers (Gold 15). If such a cellar is not well insulated, then a single midsummer mechanical or electrical failure could endanger the entire collection. Others are willing ...
- 4889: Hands: Paranoia
- ... as the town people called him, was a dreamer, he wanted others to dream with him and experience what he did. "Adolf Myers walked into the evening or had sat talking until dusk upon the school steps lost in a dream."(p. 884) "In a way the voice and hands, the stroking of shoulders and the touching of hair were a part of the school Master's effort to carry a dream into the young minds."(p. 884) This is a man that was run out of a town for something that was not a bad thing. Nor was this something intended the wrong way. Mr. Myers did touch only to pass on something great, a dream. Mr. Myers was run from a town. "They intended to hang the school master."(p. 885) "As he ran away in the darkness they repented their weakness and ran after him."(p. 885) Mr. Myers was so paranoid about touching someone he would do anything to keep ...
- 4890: Baseball Strike
- ... a goal when they do not know what they want. The baseball strike involves greed, uncertainty, and lack of desire to resolve the issue on both sides. While confusion mounts among owners and persistence rides high among players, things are only going to get worse until they come to some sort of an agreement. The baseball strike of `94 officially hit the hearts of America on August 12, three quarters into ... say it's a business. Revenue sharing would break the business. The truth is that teams with smaller revenues cannot keep up with players salaries, while the teams who can pay them more receive the high price, high talented players, who increase chances of winning and bring in more money. Smaller teams make a good point in saying that a business is not always a competition. They say that this business will ...
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