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- 2391: Something Wicked This Way Comes: Perfect Love Casts Out All
- In Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, it is suggested among several other themes in the novel that "Perfect Love casts out all fear." This quote taken from the Gospel of John illustrates the point that where there is unconditional love, and one loves and is loved in return, there is no fear. This can be believed, because when a person loves life and is content with ... foster loving relationships with people so that she could be loved in return, she is alone and left with what! she has had all along- nothing but fear. Bradbury, as well as the Gospel of John, bring up valuable ideas about love being vital to the casting out of fear and therefore attaining happiness. As quoted from The Little Prince, "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly ...
- 2392: The European Enlightenment
- ... European Enlightenment Researchers show the European Enlightenment came about as the result of the new natural science ideas of Isaac Newton, the political and social theories of great thinkers like Hobbes, and the psychology of John Locke. Much of Newton's thought comes from the thirteenth century science of men like Galileo, Copernicus, and Kepler. Hobbes's political and social theories can be traced back to the Northern Renaissance, and the ... defense of Christianity. Logic could be a powerful avenue to truth, and it alone defended all kinds of absurd notions. The seventeenth century was torn with witch-hunts and religious wars. Led by thinkers like John Locke and David hume, great Britian developed its own enlightenment. After decapitating the king, the monarchy was restored, this experience created an openness toward change. Because England had gotten its revolution out of the way ...
- 2393: Intuition
- ... flow forth easily, but others (for most of us) need to be chosen to be just right. Here are two pieces of music that in my opinion define the meaning of intuition for me: "Intuition" {John Lennon} My intentions are good, I use my intuition It takes me for a ride But I never understand other people's superstitions It seemed like suicide As I play the game of life I ... we only hold on tight I believe these lyrics justify my opinion on the meaning of intuition. The way I see intuition is in these song lyrics. These lyrics incorporate the constant battle of life {John Lennon}, and the aspect of being in a relationship of someone a person loves {Stevie Nicks}. I believe intuition relies greatly on such circumstances concerning life and love. Without the instinct of intuition I think ...
- 2394: Predator - Prey Relationships
- ... to a diverse and interesting world. References Adler, T. 1996. Fish Blend Quickly into the Background. Science News, 149:133. Adler, T. 1996. How Bad-Tasting Species Got their Markings. Science News, 160:118. Alcock, John. 1975. Animal Behavior. Sunderland, Sinauer Associates. 379-385. Boughey, Arthur S. 1968. Ecology of Populations. New York, Macmillan Company, 89-101. Brooke, Michael and Nicholas B. Davies. 1991. Coevolution of the Cuckoo and Its Hosts. Scientific American, 264:92. Brum, Gil, Larry McKane, and Gerry Karp. 1993. Biology, Exploring Life. New York, John Wiley. 973-975. Carr, Donald E. 1971. The Deadly Feast of Life. Garden City, Doubleday and Company, 179-180. Drummond, Hugh, Douglas Mock and Christopher Stinson. 1990. Avian Siblicide. American Scientist, 78:438. Heinsohn, Robert ...
- 2395: Sea Fever - Analysis
- John Masefield's poem "Sea Fever" is a work of art that brings beauty to the English language through its use of rhythm, imagery and many complex figures of speech. The meter in "Sea Fever" follows ... of the letter "w". In line three, the meter becomes spondaic through the use of strongly stressed syllables. These spondees suggest the repeated slapping of waves against the bow of the ship. As a result, John Masefield creates an image of powerful ocean swells. In addition to the meter suggesting the repeated slap of the waves, "the wheel's kick" is a reference to the ship's steering wheel spinning out ...
- 2396: The U.S. Entering World War II
- ... that Japan was going to attack, but he didn't take any drastic peace-keeping actions to prevent the attack, because he wanted a justifiable reason to enter the second World War. Work Cited Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989. Snyder, Louis L., et al. Reader's Digest Illustrated Story of World War II. New York: Reader's Digest Association, 1969. Parenthetic citation form: (Snyder et al. 33) Divine, Robert A. Roosevelt & World War II. Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1969. Richardson & Steirman, Inc. The Secret History of World War II. New York: Richard & Steirman, Inc., 1986. Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Two-Ocean War. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963
- 2397: Female Infanticide in India
- ... newborn daughter, the men in the family slipped out of her mud hut while her mother- in- law mashed poisonous oleander seeds into a dollop of oil and forced it down the infants throat (John Anderson, 1993, p. 6). After the infants death, under the cover of nightfall, Rani buried the infant in a nearby field in an unmarked grave. I never felt any sorrow, Rani , a farm laborer with a weather beaten face, said through a interpreter. There was a lot of bitterness in my heart toward the baby because the gods should have given me a son.(John Anderson, 1993, p. 6) Each year thousands of newborn girls are murdered by their mothers simply because they are female. Some women believe that sacrificing a daughter guarantees a son in the next pregnancy. Because ...
- 2398: Ben Quarles Negro In The Revol
- ... Cato Wood, Prince Estabrook, Caesar Ferrit, Samuel Craft, Lemuel Haynes, and Pomp Blackman. One of the most distinguished heroes at the Battle of Bunker Hill was Peter Salem who fired the shot that killed Major John Pictcarirn of the Royal Marines. But Peter Salem was not the only African American hero during the Revolutionary War. Another African American, Salem Poor, also made a hero of himself at Bunker Hill. Several officers ... be enlisted, but that those already serving in the Army should be dismissed. The colonists would probably have kept African Americans out of the military during the war if not for the proclamation by the John Murray, Earl of Dumore. He stated I do hereby further declare all indented servants, Negroes, or others, free, that are able and willing to bear arms, they joining His Majesty s Troops, as soon as ...
- 2399: Sinking Of The Titanic
- ... people who died when the ship sank, probably died from hypothermia, because the water temperature was so low (Maddocks 131). There were many important people who died in this horrible tragedy. A U.S. millionaire John Jacob Astor died trying to save his wife and children, a week later his body was found horribly mangled ("Mute Testimony Of The Wreckage" 712). Other important people who died on the ship such as Thomas Andrews who died, and he was the builder of the ship, and John George Phillips who died while trying to send morse code and no one responded ( Maddocks 126-127). Among the other people who died was the captain Edward J. Smith who went down with the rest ...
- 2400: The Life of Ernest Hemingway
- ... became pregnant and was sick all the time. She and Ernest decided to move to Canada. He had, by then written three stories and ten poems. Hadley gave birth to a boy who they named John Hadley Nicano Hemingway. Even though he had his family Ernest was unhappy and decided to return to Paris. It was in Paris that Ernest got word that a publisher wanted to print his book, In ... from his own life that he sees the world as his enemy. Johnson says, "He will solve the problem of dealing with the world by taking refuge in individualism and isolated personal relationships and sensations". John Killinger says that it was inevitable that Catherine and her baby would die. The theme, that a person is trapped in relationships, is shown in all Hemingway's stories. In A Farewell to Arms Catherine ...
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