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- 6811: Anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice
- ... can explain the plays meaning in it's fullest so that the students do not miss any important points from it. Another point that may have been missed when the presentation was made to the school board to ban the material from being taught inside the school system was that everyone is bad in the play. The Christians portrayal was just as bad as the Jewish man, Shylock's portrayal. In fact I think that the play gave a worse portrayal of ...
- 6812: Death Of A Salesman Vs. Hamlet
- ... examples of tragedy in literature, though for separate reasons and by distinct methods. The definition of a tragedy, in a nutshell, states that for a character to be considered tragic, he/she must be of high moral estate, fall to a level of catastrophe, induce sympathy and horror in the audience, and usually die, and in doing so, re-establish order in the society. Hamlet follows this to a "T". Death of a Salesman does not fall within these set guidelines but is still considered tragic for reasons, though different, somewhat parallel those of Hamlet's. Hamlet, a rich young price of high moral estate suddenly has his joyous life ripped away from him when his father, Hamlet Sr., suddenly passes away. Though originally thought to be of natural causes, it is later revealed to him through his ...
- 6813: Death of a Salesman: Willy's Life
- ... As they flashback to the past and show him with his sons he is still the obsessive man that he is in the present, it’s just in the past his sons are successful in school. The Qualities Willy tries to instill in his kids are to be well liked, and have a strong mind for business. In the past he was a great dad, but that’s because his sons ... looking for but he is too proud or stubborn to take it. Charley is a business owner who had a son named Bernard. When Bernard was younger he was reserved or quiet, but good in school. Willy never thought Bernard would be successful because he wasn’t the most popular boy. Willy believed that being liked was the key to success, but in the end Willy learns Bernard is an attorney ...
- 6814: What Is Literature 2
- ... reader's views on areas of human life. Three of the main areas which literature will effect are the religious, social and personal view of the reader. It is often people who have strong and high views in these areas that will have a big say in what is classified as literature. Weevilly Porridge by Eva Johnson looks at the topic of aboriginal treatment by white people in the late 1800 ... literature then is usually is. This is not to say that if a cleaning lady from McDonalds considers a text to be literature it will be dismissed. It depends on reader context. An intellectual man, high up in society and the cleaning lady from McDonalds will have different values, economic status, gender maybe even religion or race. These things will decide what they both consider to be good literature The inclusion ...
- 6815: Thomas Jefferson
- ... gift of oratory. Washington lacked literary ability, while in the hand of Jefferson, the pen was as masterful as the sword in the clutch of Saladin or Godfrey of Bouillon. Washington had only a common school education, while Jefferson was a classical scholar and could express his thoughts in excellent Italian, Spanish and French, and both were masters of their temper. Jefferson was an excellent violinist, a skilled mathematician and a ... so prompt, frank, explicit and decisive upon committees that he soon seized upon every heart." Virginia promptly re- elected him and the part he took in draughting the Declaration of Independence is known to every school boy. His associates on the committee were Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. It was by their request that he prepared the document (see fac-simile, page 49,) done on the second ...
- 6816: Gaius Marius: Savior.. or Destroyer?
- ... won a praetorship with the generous use of his own funds, barely avoiding conviction for bribery. Much later, in 100 BC, Marius receives his sixth consecutive consulship, and his popularity is at an all-time high. His auctoritas and dignitas would have allowed him to instigate sweeping social reforms. Instead he is mired in a poor political choice backing Saturninus, whose increasingly radical populist rhetoric and self-serving agenda only serve ... lower the conscription rate, forcing less citizens into the military. The ones who did join did so of their own accord and were therefore more loyal. This also resulted in the troops starting campaigns with high morale, and their full attention on the task at hand. During this time At a time when few choices were at hand, Marius did what needed to be done, yet his reforms weren't without ...
- 6817: Discrimination In The Workplace
- ... on issues of interest to blacks. “Whites are still benefiting from Jim Crow,” she adds. Many people argue that many whites still view blacks as their intellectual inferiors. Whites feel that Blacks shouldn’t have high level jobs as blacks think it’s raciest if a White person is given a job for the position they both applied for. These are some opposing views people have shared on discrimination. Affirmative Action ... confirms, white men still run corporate America. But in the last 30 years African –Americans have made progress in their quest to join the country’s business elite. Some gains, of course, were virtually no high-ranking black executives. “We really had nowhere to go but up,” Today, the situation is somewhat different. At many of the nation’s biggest corporations, different minorities are near the top of the corporate totem ...
- 6818: Democratic World Government - An Outline Structure
- ... to only pass laws couched in general terms? Well, if it passed laws which were too detailed they would almost certainly be rejected by many populations supporting their domestic governments in internal referenda. Concern about high-levels of such refusals would probably in itself be enough to restrain the world government from being too precise on many issues. To buttress this impulse, though, a constitutional mechanism would be built into the ... likely to see a positively altruistic response from ordinary people than from their governments, which tend to react to public pressure, rarely to lead it). But if such a law actively broke down because of high levels of veto, the world government could try to resort to a global-sampling referendum to 'enforce it' using the threat of economic sanctions. Again the 'jury' of randomly-chosen populations would become the conscience ...
- 6819: Antigones Right Problems
- Antigone Right Problems Antigone is a play written by Sophocles but reinterpreted by Paul Roche. Many of the Greek plays have a tragic theme that leads a character with a high position to a downfall. In Antigone, the main character Antigone has to save and stand up for her family s honor. Antigone is not the character that has a tragic downfall. The evil King Creon ... feminist that wanted to change what men had done to the land of Thebes. Although Antigone dies, she should not be recognized as the heroine that had a tragedy. Creon should be recognized as the high classed person that fell. He did not fall physically but fell emotionally with the death of his son, Haemon, and wife, Eurydice. Therefore, in this story the heroine is partially the winner of the battle ...
- 6820: Kevlar
- ... energy, and will not stretch. Bullriders, military personnel in war, peace officers, racecar drivers, and many other people use this excellent invention (DuPont). DuPont makes flameproof suits out of Kevlar 49 for fire fighters and high-speed drivers (Consumer's Research Mag.). Kevlar 29 is not as strong as Kevlar 49, but still has many uses. It is the oldest version of Kevlar, excluding the rubber industry. Kevlar 29 is used ... of Kevlar 49. Kevlar 49 has higher tenacity, stretching property, tensile strength, and decomposition temperature (DuPont). Kevlar is resistant against many chemical agents such as acids, bases, salt solutions, organic solvents, and other chemicals. This high-strength synthetic fiber is put in the aramid fiber group. The substances used for fiber forming are long strands, and produced by p-phenylenterephthalamine and terephtyl chloride reaction. The polymer is then put through a ...
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