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- 821: Paradise Lost
- ... essence of their communication create an impact of divine, gospel-like proportions, which were received and regarded as perhaps the most innovative and highly appreciated works of poetry to have arisen. One such poet was John Milton whose epic work Paradise Lost (written in 1667) was ultimately the last and great Adamite3 work. John Milton (1608-74), was an English poet, the son of a composer of some distinction. The preparation for his life's work included attendance at St. Paul's School, Christ's College and Cambridge for ... using the terminology associated to science, in order to define. A place for everything and everything in its place, reaching the conclusion that God is omnipresent, after having used language to process His location. Likewise John Donne an acclaimed poet of his period, and as Dean of Saint Paul's Cathedral was a seemingly inexhaustible source of spirituality with which to ordain his poems. Licence my roving hands, and let ...
- 822: Brave New World
- ... is discon-tented and desires to spend time alone just thinking or looking at the stars. At one point he takes Lenina on a vacation to the savage reservation in New Mexico. There he discovers John (the Savage), son of Linda who had visited the reservation more than 20 years previously and was accidentally left behind. When she discovered she was pregnant (the ultimate humiliation!), she had to remain among the savages. John returns to the Brave New World where he is feted as the Visiting Savage. How-ever, he cannot adapt to this totally alien society and, ultimately, he takes his own life. Characters Bernard Marx- Member ... tube. Lenina Crowne- One of the most popular members of civilization. She is very attractive, and tends to date one person at a time rather that "everybody belongs to everybody". She develops an infatuation for John. John (the savage)- John was born in the savage reservations. His mother is Linda and his father is Thomas, the director of hatchery and conditioning. He does not adjust well to civilization, and is ...
- 823: Revenge in The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter
- ... man into a blood seeking, greedy, stingy, and decrepitly weak old man. Revenge was also the driving force behind the Abigail Walker's, a character in The Chamber, accusations of Elizabeth Proctor being a witch. John Proctor and Abigail Williams once had an affair. John was lonely and in need of human comfort, comfort his wife was unable to give in her dying state. However when she regained her health, John left Abigail and went back to his wife. Abigail was furious at his decision; she would love to get back at the hurt he caused. Abigail found her opening once the witch trials transpired. ...
- 824: A Report On: Laurence's The Stone Angel
- ... and Lou Lees were at the Tabernacle. This loss created a permanent distrust in religion for Murray Lees, something Hagar also has. The loss of a child reminds Hagar of the loss of her son, John, which allows her to trust Lees' opinion of religion. Unlike Mr. Troy, who has only learned about suffering by viewing it from the outside, Mr. Lees has life experience, and understands what suffering really is ... to blame, Hagar tells him that "no one's to blame.". This shows that Hagar finally realizes that there can be no one to blame for an incident that randomly happens. Later, when she discusses John's death, and the anger she feels about it, she says that the direction of her anger is "not at anyone, just that it happened that way". With this new knowledge, gained through Mr. Lees own experience, Hagar learns that she is not to blame, nor anyone else, for John's death. With Mr. Lees helping Hagar come to terms with these things, she has started to be redeemed. However, she is not redeemed in the eyes of God, as most people would want, ...
- 825: Cruciable Essay
- ... school or other sorts. After this basic lying from the girls things can only get worse and worse from here on. The next event that is a big lie but does not kill anyone is John Proctor lying about his love to Abigail Williams by having an affair and not loving her. He lied to her because he led her to believe that their entourage meant something between the two but ... obvious parts like when the girls act about being cold or seeing "death" but there are also some more deep-rooted themes throughout the courthouse scenes. The more deep-rooted scenes are the ones with John Proctor, his wife Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams. In the scene John has just confessed to cheating on his wife Elizabeth. He later tries to save his wife's life by saying that she never lies. The then try to test her to see if she ...
- 826: History of the Computer Industry in America
- ... intervention (Chposky, 103). The outbreak of World War II produced a desperate need for computing capability, especially for the military. New weapons systems were produced which needed trajectory tables and other essential data. In 1942, John P. Eckert, John W. Mauchley, and their associates at the University of Pennsylvania decided to build a high-speed electronic computer to do the job. This machine became known as ENIAC, for "Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator". It ... the particular programs for which it had been designed. ENIAC is generally accepted as the first successful high-speed electronic digital computer and was used in many applications from 1946 to 1955 (Dolotta, 50). Mathematician John von Neumann was very interested in the ENIAC. In 1945 he undertook a theoretical study of computation that demonstrated that a computer could have a very simple and yet be able to execute any ...
- 827: Paradise Lost
- Paradise Lost Paradise Lost is one of the finest examples of the epic tradition in all of literature. In composing this extraordinary work, John Milton was, for the most part, following in the manner of epic poets of past centuries: Barbara Lewalski notes that Paradise Lost is an "epic whose closest structural affinities are to Virgil's Aeneid . . . "; she ... homeland; and the battle scenes in heaven. . . . The poem also incorporates a Hesiodic gigantomachy; numerous Ovidian metamorphoses; an Ariostan Paradise of Fools; [and] Spenserian allegorical figures (Sin and Death) . . . . (3) There were changes, however, as John M. Steadman makes clear: The regularity with which Milton frequently conforms to principles of epic structure make his occasional (but nevertheless fundamental) variations on the epic tradition all the more striking by contrast. The most ... Milton Studies 10 (1977): 35-64. Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1985. Lewis, C. S. A Preface to Paradise Lost. New York: Oxford UP, 1942 . Milton, John. Paradise Lost. In John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose. Ed. Merritt Y. Hughes. Indianapolis: Odyssey, 1957. 173-469. Ricks, Christopher. Milton's Grand Style. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963. Steadman, John M. Epic and Tragic ...
- 828: Comparing Events In History To
- ... some were named was because certain girls didnt like that person and wanted them to die. This goes for Abigail the most, because she wants Elizabeth Proctor to be killed so she can have John. When people were walking to the gallows to be hanged they were sad because they were going to die and that they were innocent. Another reason why they were innocent was that they were reciting ... amuse the village. Also with Giles Cory he had integrity because he died a painful death of stoning and that he never said any names because he knew that no one else did witchcraft. When John Proctor says that he is a lecture and that he has been with Abigail, he keeps his integrity with telling the truth to everyone who doesnt know. It may not look or sound right to the people of Salem but inside of him he knows he is doing the right thing by telling the truth. The only people who knew were John, Elizabeth, and Abigail. John admitted to this when he tried to prove the girls wrong about them being witches. And that Abigail is a not a good person and should not be listened too, ...
- 829: Sanity For Independence
- ... herself. When she tries to tell him what she needs, she is completely shut out and ignored. I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad. This statement has a two-fold meaning, in the first part of ... talent by not allowing her to write. She is in constant fear of being caught by her husband; I must put this away, -he hates to have me write a word. It seems as though John is being more of a father than a husband and because of this, she feels that she should be a good girl and appreciate what he is doing for her even though she knows that ... is suppressing the one major outlet that will help her get better in her seclusion, writing. By absolutely forbidding her to work until she is well again he is imprisoning her and causing her depression. John has made her a prisoner not only in their home but also in their marriage. Her opinions are not taken into consideration she is not even allowed to take care of her child. He ...
- 830: Stanley And Livingstone And Th
- Henry Morton Stanley is most famous for saying the words Dr. Livingstone I presume? when in 1871 he finally found Dr. David Livingstone in western Tanzania. Stanley was born John Rowlands in 1840 in Wales. His childhood was poor and deprived with both parents deserting him and leaving him to grow up in relativeshomes or institutions. He was constantly rejected and beaten which toughened ... he went to New Orleans on a ship which he considered a nightmare to live on. He eventually met a man named Henry Morton Stanley who helped him get a job and took care of John and was practically like a father to John. After a few years he served in the Civil War. By now John Rowlands had changed his name to Henry Morton Stanley. He took a job with the New York Herald and was sent ...
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