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- 1031: Cats Cradle 2
- ... for his home and his environment is evident in all aspects of cultural. This disregard for the frailties of nature will eventually lead to the death of all humanity. In Cat s Cradle the narrator John winds his way through the events that eventually lead to the destruction of the human race. Life to John is a quest; a quest that is defined finally by his new found religion Bokononism. He feels that everyone in his life revolves around him as they all search for something of meaning in their lives; this group is called a karass. Life is a gift that is never solicited and often unappreciated after given. Human emotions are often the catalyst behind extremely destructive actions. In Cat s Cradle John feels that he is in love with a girl that he has never met. He feels this way so strongly that he can not bear the fact of her being with another man. Eventually ...
- 1032: Comparison Anthem Vs. By The W
- ... Ayn Rand, and By the Waters of Babylon, by Stephen Vincent Benet, each of the main characters posses a desire deep within themselves to discover things that they do not already know about. Equality and John both live in societies where almost all knowledge of the past has been forgotten. These communities are enveloped in superstition, which causes them to fear the unknown. The desire within Equality and John, however, brings them past these fears and leads them to learn many new things about the “old times”. Anthem starts off with Equality feeling as though he sinned for thinking of learning and discovering new ... the beliefs of his people were wrong and that the unmentionable times were in fact a time of much greater knowledge than anyone in his city would ever know. Just as Equality did in Anthem, John in By the Waters of Babylon discovered that many of the things believed by his people were not true. John had many dreams about traveling to the East and going in search of the ...
- 1033: Crucible
- ... the basis for the trials. It is Abigail's and all the other girls' need to be free and act like teenagers. The second is the result of the corruption of the trials. It is John Proctor's fight to convince the townspeople that the accused women are not witches (especially his wife), and that it is Abigail who should be killed instead. Arther Miller is one of America's most ... be falsely accused by their neighbors as a method of revenge, and as an outlet for their maliciousness. When Abigail uses this case to attack Rebecca Nurse, one of the best Puritans in the Salem, John Proctor begins his efforts to stop the injustice. This increases when Elizabeth Proctor is tried and sentenced to death. This is John Proctor's struggle. He must fight to save his wife, his community and eventually himself. In addition, he also has to convince the leaders of Salem that they are mistaken in believing in Abigail. ...
- 1034: Happiness In Brave New
- ... Brave New World destroys them to keep pestering insects and things of that sort from infringing on people’s happiness. It is evident that Bernard and Lenina shift their attitudes after they meet the savage, John. Bernard gets a taste of power after bringing the savage home to London and becomes satisfied and happy as defined by Brave New World, a complete turnaround from his previous, almost American ideals. Lenina finds ... he does not wish to see, lest they should seem more hostile even than he had supposed, and he himself be made to feel guiltier and even more helplessly alone.” (63) However, after he discovers John, he becomes just as artificial as every other conditioned human: “‘And I had six girls last week,’ he confided to Helmholtz Watson. ‘One on Monday, two on Tuesday, two more on Friday, and one on ... World’s society, reciting many of the hypnopædic teachings blindly, and being happy to be a member of the alpha caste, “‘My word,’ said Lenina, ‘I’m glad I’m not a Gamma’” (63). After John’s discovery, though, she fell in love with him, an emotion that is uncouth in Brave New World’s society, “…you see, Fanny, I like him” (169), Lenina says this to her friend Fanny ...
- 1035: Movie Review: Into the West
- Movie Review: Into the West The film, Into the West - script by Jim Sheridan, directed by Mike Newell, direction of photography by Tom Sigel, produced by John Cavendish and Tim Palmer, and starring Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ruaidtri Conroy and Ciaran Fitzgerald - contains several themes, each dealing with a prominent issue in society, and about how we deal with such issues as ... Some may be “luckier” than others when it comes to the severity of such a loss, but the key to surviving it, is how we chose to deal with it. In losing his wife Mary, John Riley lost himself. He was obviously a great man in the time she was with him; “King of all Travellers”, the youngest one ever, seemingly high-spirited, respectable, and fearless as Grandfather points out. With ... Prejudice and its effects, is an issue among peoples all around the world; it has been since the beginning of time, and will be until the end. In this film, the prejudice is ethically based. John Riley and his boys come from a society of the Travellers. Neither he nor his boys were born into a permanent home, with bonofied doctors to care for them, or officers of La Garda ...
- 1036: Abigail Adams: Her Contributions
- Abigail Adams: Her Contributions Though quiet, sickly, and shy, Abigail Adams, the wife of second president John Adams, helped plant the seeds that eventually led to the concept of women¹s rights and women¹s equality with men. For a country which had been founded on the idea of independence for all ... children. For Abigail to have taken such a strong interest in her education was a brave stance for her time. Education was often viewed as a corrupting influence on a woman. She requested her husband John, who was a delegate to Congress and later a U.S. president, to draft into law a commitment to supporting education for women. John was in full agreement with Abigail¹s views on this subject. Abigail made her strongest appeal for women¹s rights in 1776, when John was in Philadelphia serving in Congress. As members drafted laws ...
- 1037: Computers-how They Affect Our Lives
- ... without human intervention. 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 ... in handling 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. 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 ...
- 1038: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... children. Mrs. Allan would have liked to adopt Edgar, but her husband was unwilling to commit himself to a step of such permanence. The acting profession was despised at that time and even considered immoral. John Allan could not help regarding the little son of actor parents as a questionable person to inherit his name and the fortune he was busy accumulating. He was willing however, to support the child, and ... prize, and his poem would have won the poetry prize except that the judges decided not to award both prizes to the same contestant. The prize money was meager, but one of the judges, novelist John P. Kennedy, took an interest in Poe and befriended him by helping him sell a story to the new Southern Literary Messenger of Richmond. Poe joined the editorial staff of the magazine and soon became its ...
- 1039: Berlin Wall Book Review On The
- ... building. One reporter, Kellet Long stated, "Berlin is holding it's breath." Soon the wall went up. According to Gelb, the United States took what was happening in Berlin lightly. When Berlin Task Force officer, John Ausland, was called and told that trouble was fomenting in Berlin, Ausland said to call back later and went back to sleep. When the news finally reached John F. Kennedy, president at the time, the message was still unclear. No one knew what was going on. What was clear though, was that West Germany was not in control of Berlin. When the wall went ...
- 1040: Famous African Americans
- ... Association for the Advancement of Colored People, earning its highest honor, the Spingarn Medal, in 1949. He participated in several civil rights demonstrations, including the 1963 March on Washington. That same year, U.S. President John F. Kennedy awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist and advocate of women's rights, born into slavery in Hurley, Ulster County, New York, and originally named Isabella ... raise money for her missions into the South. She spoke at abolitionist meetings and at women's rights assemblies, often concealing her name for protection from slave hunters. Her forceful leadership led the white abolitionist John Brown to refer to her admiringly as "General" Tubman. She helped Brown plan his October 1859 raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and promised that many of the slaves she ...
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