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- 991: Strong Before Their Time
- ... buried Polynices he is outraged. He upholds his rule and sentences her to death. Go down below and love, if love you must- love the dead! while Im alive no woman is going to lord over me!( Sophocles 646). Creon later states that no woman will rule him. He is sexist and appalled someone, let alone a lowly woman, would defy him. Greek women had virtually no political rights of ...
- 992: The Importance of Gender Conflicts Literature to Society Past and Present
- ... determined that he wanted to become a writer he could be said to be self educated through extensive reading. Faulkner served briefly with the Royal Air Force in Canada, worked as a clerk at a Lord and Taylor's book shop and in 1921 he returned to Oxford Mississippi and became a postmaster. Faulkner stayed briefly in New Orleans and traveled the literary circle of that community. He returned to Oxford ...
- 993: Cause and Effect: Students' Grades
- ... neither do the parents but why does it happen? Why does it happen to the smartest student in the school, or to a student who is not expecting it? Why do the grades drop like flies? There are many answers, but probably the most infamous answer is that the student doesn't try hard enough. The student may not understand that the course he is taking is more important than other ...
- 994: The Romantics
- ... the Romantic period. Beauty is something all writers strive to recreate in their works but the poem that women take to heart because of all the passion and meaning is "She walks in Beauty," by Lord Byron. Byron was a second generation Romantic writer. His group wrote for beauty, individuality, and independence. In this poem, he describes a woman so lovingly that any lady would kill to be her. "One shade ...
- 995: Is There Such A Thing As The American Dream?
- ... bringing tons of cocaine into the country insuring cash flow to South America and a steady increase in prison population. The question is who really goes to jail? Freddie the addict or Noreiga the drug lord? "I say to you today, my friends, that even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow. I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream."() Martin Luther ...
- 996: Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and Anne Bradstreet: Relationships With Others
- ... the bible he can now understand. The way he looks at nature and how his whole way of thinking has been changed proves in his mind and would in any other Puritans mind that the Lord is with him. When a Puritan sees that any of these things have happened he may begin to believe that he is saved. When Edwards looked around after knowing about his salvation all he he ...
- 997: Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Hero
- ... actions. He knows that when he fights an enemy like Grendel or Grendel's mother he will be granted honor and admiration from his people no matter if he is the winner or loser. My lord Higlac might think less of me if I let my sword go where my feet were afraid to, if I hid behind some broad linden shield: my hands alone shall fight for me, struggle for ...
- 998: Beowulf: A Man of Many Values
- ... Beowulf feels that they were less dangerous to him than those who were inactive in defeating them. Beowulf felt that God would let happen what was meant to happen...and then may wise God, Holy Lord, assign glory on whichever hand seems good to Him. With a very pessimistic outlook on life, warriors at this time felt the only way to immortalize themselves was to become known as a warrior and ...
- 999: Beowulf: The Ultimate Hero
- ... common practice for them to accept you into their family. Once again, the influence of Christianity shows in Hrothgar's speech to Beowulf. It was the "Almighty" who sent Beowulf and it was "with the Lord's help" that Beowulf was able to defeat Grendel. Hrothgar wants to make it known throughout the world that Beowulf is the strongest man alive and is a proven hero. It is the characteristics of ...
- 1000: An Analysis of British Literature
- ... same glory in the afterlife. It doesn't matter how many monuments a person built to attest to his glory, he must face the same judge as the slave sculptor which created the monument. Alfred, Lord Tennyson expressed the idea held by Marvell that death is an enemy which a person should fight. In "Ulysses," a Victorian Age poem, Ulysses was past his prime yet he still struggled to the most ...
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