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- 211: The World Of Odysseus
- ... time period mentioned in the book was home to some famous events, including the Trojan War. However, more importantly, this time era gave birth to an early civilized society which would create a path in literature, social standards and mythology for the rest of the world to follow. The development and advancement in literature is probably the greatest historical result occurring within the time period of Ancient Greece. This time period, with the development of written language, allowed authors and poets who emerged from nothingness to be remembered in perpetuity. This new era of written literature provided an easy access for the Greek world to become involved with the rest of the world through academics, economic and technological advancement, as well as written arts. The Iliad and Odyssey were just ...
- 212: Henry David Thoreau
- ... love and devotion to nature and his writing was a key to his excellence in writing. Henry David Thoreau also felt that individualism was a great necessity to his writing style. In his piece of literature titled "Civil Disobedience", he expressed his belief in the power and the obligation of the individual to determine right from wrong, independent of the dictates of society. Thoreau's friends agreed with his views, but ... lived alone in the woods for two years, in seclusion. His nearest neighbor was at least a mile away. While he was living independently in the woods, he thought of many new ideas for his literature. Thoreau even tried to encourage others to assert their individuality, each in his or her own way. He also believed that independent, well-considered actions arose naturally from a questing attitude of mind. He was ... with another must wait till that other is ready,"(Walden, pg.72) Many of Thoreau's ideas of individualism can be found as major statements in his writing. Thoreau came to much of his great literature due to the amount of experiences he had throughout his life. His major experience was living at Walden Pond for two years and learning about his own life and about the wonders of nature. ...
- 213: Chaucerian Moral and Social Commentary in the Canterbury Tales
- ... of action and adventure. Those who are naive or foolish enough to trust their lives to the fates find their strings pulled by their adversaries. Chaucer looked at the individual in his setting. Chaucer’s literature is diverse and satirical. His description of life is often influenced by his intimacy with the aristocracy, yet he still regards the common classes as a practical necessity. Chaucer is greatly known for his paradoxical illustrations, painting the differences between the ideal individual and the reality of the actual human being. Chaucerian literature is characterized by emphasis on the individual. Through colorful and shrewd description Chaucer paints an image of each pilgrim in the Canterbury tales. It is through each individual that Chaucer attempts to represent the whole ... occupation in the prologue. The pilgrims further reveal their true nature as they tell their tale to the travelers. Works Cited Abrams, M.H., Donaldson, Smith, Adams, Monk, Ford, Daiches. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. New York: W.W. Norton and Company Inc., 1962. 74-81. Brother Anthony. “Chaucer and Religion.” http://www.sogang.arc.kr/-anthony/religion.html Goffinet, Ben. “Approaches to the Pardoner’s Tale.” http://www. ...
- 214: Computers: Nonverbal Communications
- Computers: Nonverbal Communications CHAPTER 1: Rationale and Literature Review Magnafix says, "Have you figured out the secret entrance to Kahn Draxen's castle?" Newtrik sighs deeply. Newtrik says, "I think so, but I haven't found the stone key yet!" Magnafix grins mischievously ... of speech events on one MUD, and suggests a possible classification system for MUD nonverbal communication, including conventional actions, backchannels, byplay, narration, and exposition. Michael Holmes is another scholar who has recently contributed to the literature on MUDs. His (1994) study of MUD environments as compared to Internet Relay Chat (and other similar "chat" utilities) concluded that the chat services "supply a stark context for conversation", while MUDs furnish "a richer ... effacing attribution invitations in online conversations. As the number and extent of the uses of computer mediated communication (CMC) have grown exponentially in the last two decades, the communication discipline has produced a body of literature examining the interpersonal effects of such interaction. Some such studies purport that CMC is necessarily task-oriented, impersonal, and inappropriate for interpersonal uses (see Dubrovsky, Kiesler, & Sethna, 1991, Dubrovsky, 1985, Siegel, Dubrovsky, Kiesler, & McGuire, ...
- 215: Romanticism in the 19th Century
- ... Century Romanticism began in the early 19th century and radically changed the way people perceived themselves and the state of nature around them. Unlike Classicism, which stood for order and established the foundation for architecture, literature, painting and music, Romanticism allowed people to get away from the constricted, rational views of life and concentrate on an emotional and sentimental side of humanity. This not only influenced political doctrines and ideology, but ... and Classicism that gave birth to Romanticism and introduced a new outlook on life that embraced emotion before rationality. Romanticism was a reactionary period of history when its seeds became planted in poetry, artwork and literature. The Romantics turned to the poet before the scientist to harbor their convictions (they found that the orderly, mechanistic universe that the Science thrived under was too narrow-minded, systematic and downright heartless in terms ... His style of drama and expression had been downplayed and ignored by the Enlightenment's narrow classical view of drama. Friedrich von Schlegel and Samuel Taylorleridge (from Germany and England respectively) were two critics of literature who believed that because of the Enlightenment's suppression of individual emotion as being free and imaginative, Shakespeare who have never written his material in the 19th century as opposed to the 18th century. ...
- 216: Therapeutic Touch : Its Effectiveness On Surgical Incision Site Pain
- ... proper recovery and healing due to inadequate pain relief from pharmacologic interventions. The need for more in depth research and application in the field of therapeutic touch as a nursing intervention is essential. REVIEW OF LITERATURE In preparing to undertake this research, various forms of literature must be examined. In a study done by Nancy Ann Kramer, MSN, RN on therapeutic touch and casual touch stress reduction of hospitalized children (1990), her study supported the use of therapeutic touch. She states ... total subjectiveness of a person's pain rating. It also did not rule out whether any of the subjects had ever previously tried alternative therapies for their headache pain. In summary, the results of the literature seem to support that therapeutic touch is an effective intervention, whether for pain, stress, or anxiety. The literature also suggests that use of therapeutic touch can aid in recovery of a patient's physiological ...
- 217: The Works of Clive Staples Lewis
- ... tutoring in 1924 in philosophy at University College (“Douglas Gresham,” About C.S. Lewis. Online.). He began his teaching at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1925, after many delays, ultimately being elected Fellow of Language and Literature for 29 years (Kilby 270). During this time in 1929, his father died in Belfast and Lewis became a theist, one who believes there is a God, but did not become a Christian, one who ... of scholars everywhere. The Allegory of Love, and A Study in Medieval Tradition, made Lewis famous when it was published in 1936. The Allegory of Love was set as the standard for work on medieval literature and the tradition of courtly love (C.S. Lewis 305). In 1939, he published The Personal Heresy and Rehabilitations, "a work whose title characterized much of Lewis's work, as he attempted to bring the ... also a work that made Lewis famous with its series of collected lectures dealing with John Milton's work Paradise Lost. In 1948, he published his Arthurian Torso, a criticism of the Arthurian Legends. English Literature in the Sixteenth Century is a standard reference today even though it was published in 1954. In 1960, Studies in Words takes several English words (and often their counterparts in Latin or Greek) and ...
- 218: The Khent
- ... to the English version of the "Khent" (The Fool) of Raffi, translated by Jane S. Wingate. This request I accepted with pleasure. For the translation into English of a choice number of masterpieces of Armenian literature, ancient and modern, has been one of my fondest dreams. I believe that we, the Armenians of America. Owe a great debt of gratitude to this glorious country, the United States of America, under whose ... writers, the Stoic philosopher Zeno of the third century, was also kept from oblivion and obliteration thanks to the fact that it was translated into the ancient Armenian language during the Golden Age of Armenian literature. Besides these great masterpieces of the ancient Hellenic world, we can be proud of the works of our own Armenian historians of the Middle Ages and also of the subsequent periods, whose chronicles and histories ... moved to a nearby suburb, Talas. While living in a Turkish speaking community, she felt the need of preserving and improving her knowledge of Armenian and so she devoted herself to the study of Armenian literature, ancient and modern, and commenced translating folklore which she sent to the Folklore Society of England, of which she had become a member. Several of these translations were published in their magazine "Folklore" in ...
- 219: Romanticism
- ROMANTICISM In the nineteenth century, the foundation of American literature had a profound change. This was called from Reason to Romance or Romanticism. With many contributions of famous writers such as Irving, Cooper, Bryant, and Poe composed the stories and poems which all of them had a great value in the American literature. What is the Romanticism and how dies it effect to the American literature? By taking some compositions from these writers, there will be good answers for those questions. According to some information in English books, the critics said the name Romantic can be misleading because the Romantics ...
- 220: Utopia 2
- ... He believed that it is inevitible for people to create a better system for people to live together as a result of the stupidities, corruptions, and inequities of human nature. In the "Golden Age" of literature, the idea was a yearning for a kind of life which the ancients imagined was free from the stresses of their more competitive, more commercial civilization. We see many writers today even writing about the ... its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people. I would with such perfection govern, sir, To excel the golden age.(Act II, Scene I) Even if we take the term utopian literature in the sense of a detailed description of a nation or a commonwealth ordered according to a system which the author proposes a better way of life than any known to exist, the history is still extensive. This all could be formed if the present society could be cancelled and people could start over. Although many great works of literature were produced after Thomas More discovered utopia, there were also writers who developed anti-utopias. Anti-utopias or distopias are a group of works commonly associated with the utopian tradition even though the works ...
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