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- 2301: Famous Mathematicians: A Book Review
- Famous Mathematicians: A Book Review Famous Mathematicians told the stories of several outstanding men and how they arrived at their theories. Euclid, Archimedes, Aryabhatta, Joseph Louis LaGrange, Carl Friederich Gauss, Evariste Galois, John von Neuman, and Norbert Wiener defined the creators of our complicated mathematical systems still used today. These impressive men were the patriarchs throughout the history of mathematics. Euclid was believed to be born, in Tyre ... aided with his study in the theory of groups. Galois' mathematical knowledge was not truly respected until 1870 when another mathematician, Jordan, republished his theories. This acknowledgement finally earned Galois' ideas the credit they deserved. John von Neumann was born on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Hungary. He was one of the greatest mathematicians, however his findings were also important in other fields. His studies of poker and other games of ...
- 2302: Catch-22 & One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Black Humor; A Satirical View of the Institution
- ... and 64. NJ: Salem Press, 1991. 171-181, 206-215. Merrill, Robert. Joseph Heller. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987. Mish, Frederick. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. Tenth edition. Springfield Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Incorporated, 1995. Muste, John. “Joseph Heller.” In Contemporary Pratt, John. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Text and Criticism. New York, New York: Penguin Books, 1986.
- 2303: Moby Dick and The Scarlet Letter: Unpardonable Sin
- ... to the following section is the Significance of the title Young Goodman Brown. I believe Prof. Steve Kagle has an excellent view of the title's significance; Young Goodman Brown is a generic name; like John Doe. The younger Mr. G. Brown is a direct allegory to any anyone; just as his wife, Faith is an allegory to his faith. Viewing Young Goodman Brown in context established by the reading of ... his funeral was, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grandchildren, a goodly procession, besides neighbors, not a few. Brown had lost his hold on the chain that binds humanity. The significance of John Doe the younger/Young Goodman Brown, a good and religious Puritan, having the unpardonable sin is that it strengthens the correlation of the unpardonable sin and original sin. If Brown can have the unpardonable sin ...
- 2304: Of Mice and Men: Stereotypes and Discrimination
- Of Mice and Men: Stereotypes and Discrimination In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses stereotypes and discrimination to convey a message of how the characters feel. A lot of the stereotypes and clichés are just common beliefs of the times, but a few are situational. To quote ... sock me, George.’ " p.32. This is not an everyday discrimination like racism. It’s one of those circumstantial incidents that was described in quote in the introduction. This is an excellent example of how John Steinbeck uses extraordinary circumstances to create appeal and realism to the reader. Curley’s wife is probably the most loathed on the ranch. Because of the way she looks and acts, people think she is ...
- 2305: Social and Personal Ethics: The Subject of Abortion
- Social and Personal Ethics: The Subject of Abortion It’s a child not a choice, a famous bumper sticker that voices the opinion of people who oppose abortion. In the book Social and Personal Ethics, John T. Noonan Jr., a law professor at University of California Berkeley, and Mary Anne Warren, a philosophy professor at San Francisco State University argue their views on the subject of abortion. The main question that these two professors argue over is how to determine the humanity of a being? First, the views of John T. Noonan Jr., and his definition of a human being is when the spermatozoa enters into the ovum and at that point the life cycle has been started. He rejects the arguments from other philosophers ...
- 2306: Catcher in the Rye and Of Mice and Men: Go West Young Man
- ... Young Man For centuries, Americans have gone west in search of what is called “The American Dream”. And still, writers try to portray the American dream in their work. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George and Lennie, two Californian ranch laborers, are in search of their dream which is to own a piece of land. In JD Salinger’s novel, Catcher In The Rye, Holden Caulfield is also ... in search of his dream which is to be the “catcher in the rye”. Holden, George, and Lennie all have dreams and none of them ever come true. George, in Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, has a dream to own a piece of land that he can run as his own. All his life he spent traveling from ranch to ranch, working in other people’s fields. He is ...
- 2307: The Grapes of Wrath
- ... family, and later for the whole migrant society. If Casy is a Christ figure then Tom would have to be his disciple. He lives on after Casy to carry on and implement his philosophy. Uncle John Uncle John shows what too much worrying about sin will do to a person. He blames himself for his wives death and is constantly worried about sin. He thinks that he is bringing bad luck to the ...
- 2308: The Godfather: Did The
- ... resist the big temptation This portrays exactly the personality of Don Corleone in Mario Puzo’s book The Godfather. More corruption within families are occurring and even the mob bosses and heads are getting involved. John Gotti too did his amount of drug dealing despite higher authorities. Gotti would limit his exposure in heroin to investor and let the men he trusted most- Angelo, Gene, Willie Bay, Corneglia- do the dirty work on the condition that they never ever mentioned his name(Capeci, Mustain, 70). When John Gotti became Mafioso boss and he claimed that he would not deal with drugs and would punish anyone that went into it. The warnings however sounded as hollow as they did in the early 1970 ...
- 2309: An Interpretation of William Faulkner’s “Dry September”
- ... the acts of violence and hate that can be and were, so common in the South. The bellowing cries of Will Hayes haunt the reader, “What are you all going to so with me, Mr. John? White folk, captains, I ain’t done nothing: I swear ‘fore God.” (line 232) The reader sympathizes with the barber, who unintentionally has landed himself in the center of the action, and trying desperately to ... his beliefs. Miss Minnie Cooper, the evil con-artist who simply cries out for attention in any way. Will Hayes, the colored man who is accused and then harassed. Finally the reader is left with John McLendon, the proud white man who fears loosing his status to a man of color. Faulkner uses these characters to paint a realistic image in his readers.
- 2310: Brave New World: The Future
- ... was a Gamma and put alcohol into his blood-surrogate" ( Huxley, p.46 ) He quickly becomes an outcast and does not get along with the opposite sex. Bernard criticizes the utopian civilization until he discovers John the Savage in the savage reservation and introduces him to society. Bernard then becomes somewhat of a celebrity and quite popular among the ladies. At that point, Bernard is always bragging about how many girls ... in Utopia. Once again, if his conditioning had been done right and his intelligence had been controlled, he would not have had a problem with his world. Finally, the third character unhappy in Utopia is John or better known as the savage. As a matter of fact, he should not even be considered as an unhappy civilian because he was not raised in the utopian civilization but in the savage reservation ...
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