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- 1171: Plato Vs Shelley
- ... A Defense of Poetry” by Shelley, Plato expresses a belief about poetry that Shelley disagrees with and responds to. Through rhetorical devices such as metaphors and symbolism and the use of deductive logic and Socratic writing, Plato provides a strong, very supported argument while Shelley’s long sentence structure, analogies and metaphors are weak in comparison. The way in which Plato uses deductive logic to express his opinion allows him to ... and the earth and yourself, and other animals and plants, and all other things of which we were just speaking, in the mirror…but they would be appearances only.” (44) The way in which the writing is interactive with two people creates contradictions, which challenge Plato’s beliefs, yet they are still proven throughout. “Why not? For the duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener. “Very true, but in your presence, even if I had any further notion, I could not muster courage to utter it.” (43) While this Socratic writing helps Plato to make his argument even more concrete, Shelley uses essay form to portray his ideas somewhat in response to beliefs like those of Plato. Shelley’s writing differs in form from Plato’ ...
- 1172: Ray Bradbury
- Ray Bradbury has written over more then five hundred published works and continues to keep writing. He is known as one of the best science fiction novelists and has won many awards and accommodations for it. After publishing his adult novel Fahrenheit 451, it was soon considered one of his best ... Bradbury and Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury. In the fall of 1926 Ray Bradbury's family moved from Waukegan, Illinois to Tucson, Arizona, only to return to Waukegan again in May 1927. By 1931 he began writing his own stories on butcher paper. His childhood was very important to him because it was a constant source of intense sensations, feelings, and images that generate great stories. As a child he was first ... magazine, contributing much of the published material himself. Bradbury's first paid publication was "Pendulum" in 1941 to"Super Science Stories." In 1942 Bradbury wrote "The Lake," the story in which he discovered his distinctive writing style. By 1943 he had given up his job selling newspapers and began writing full-time, contributing numerous short stories to magazines such as "Black Mask", "Amazing Stories" and "Weird Tales." In 1945 his ...
- 1173: Stephen King, Bio
- ... cinematically. I write down everything I see. What I see, it seems like a movie to me (Beaham 17). During this year the biggest event that probably had the biggest impact on Stephen King s writing style was the discovery of the author H. P. Lovecraft. King would later write of Lovecraft, He struck with the most force, and I still think, for all his shortcomings, he is the best writer ... writer on their hands. From then until he graduated with a bachelors degree in English from University of Maine at Orono in the Spring of 1970, King concentrated on rounding off the edges of his writing technique. One short story that best shows the type and technique of Stephen King s writing is The Body. The Body , which has been adapted into to a Hollywood movie, was first published in the collection of short stories called Different Seasons. The story is a tale of four twelve ...
- 1174: A Discussion On Multimedia
- ... result of advances that have been made in digital compression technology-- particularly the difficult area of image compression. Multimedia online services are obtainable through telephone/computer or television links, multimedia hardware and software exist for personal computers, networks, the internet, interactive kiosks and multimedia presentations are available on CD-ROMs and various other mediums. The use of multimedia in our society has it benefits and it's drawbacks, most defiantly. Some ... and page breaks. Perhaps the most beneficial to the user is the interactivity- the ability to interact with the words in the book. By highlighting letters on the page, copying them, and pasting them in personal clipboards or other word processing programs, the tedious task of note-taking can be eliminated. This idea, on the other hand, can raise issues with the author and publisher of the book. Plagiarism, already a problem, would run wild in this area. Users would theoretically be able to copy entire books or magazines to their personal files, and be able to use them as their own reports or writings. Additionally, the ability to view a book and it's contents at no charge obviously will not agree with some publishers. ...
- 1175: The Dangerous Opportunity: Community Based, Crisis Intervention
- ... may be explored. The therapist may facilitate coordination of community support services. The risk factors of untreated crisis may be suicide or a psychotic episode, or at the least disruption in the persons self esteem, personal functioning and usual patterns of coping. Historical Development: Prior to urbanization and the industrial revolution most people lived in small villages or on farms. Family members tended to stay in close proximity depending on one ... too overwhelmed to attend work as a corporate secretary. Karen describes herself as a normally healthy well organized woman. She states she has numerous friends and generally enjoys needle work and gardening. There is no personal or family history of mental illness. She reports a very close relationship with her mother. Karen reports that she is the oldest daughter of her Polish Canadian mother and that culturally it is her responsibility ... report the events with clarity. Karen identified feelings of extreme fear, urgency, confusion, and panic at the time of the incident. She reported residual fears, anxiety,anger and at times panic at her sense of personal inadequacy in coping with the care of her mother. Through discussion Karen was able to experience increasing levels of relief. She stated, “it feels better every time I speak of it These thoughts and ...
- 1176: Appalacian Regional Commission & Poverty In Appalachia
- ... jobs in the Bluegrass and in Appalachian growth centers were higher paying professional jobs such as banking, health care, and education.(Eller,p.22) Service sector jobs in distressed areas toward food preparation, health aids, personal services and other low income, low benefit, and often part time employment.(Eller,p.23) Appalachia’s economic structure with lower education levels, and the location of higher level service jobs limited the opportunities for ... within which low-status families developed a deviant and dysfunctional culture that blames the people for poverty by saying that they have a traditionalist subculture unable to adapt to the modern world, and that negative personal traits, such as being lazy, dumb hillbillies. Lewis (1978) say that the identification of elements of the subculture as causal agents in causing poverty while ignoring or minimizing the effect of changes in the social ... who works hard and receives the necessary educational requirements to attain a desired position, which changes the persons status in society.(Cohen & Orbuch, p.8) Fiene says that “social status is a factor in our personal interactions and is largely determined by local custom, attitudes, and values” and that it becomes significant when persons from different local groups come into interaction.(p.12) Fiene says that “women’s social positions ...
- 1177: Dwight David Eisenhower
- ... almost prankish casualness, a quick charm, the patience to listen, a sure social touch, an interest in knowledge and a greed for facts, a zest for play matched by a passion for work. Today his personal popularity compares favorably with such popular heroes as Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. During 1961, Kennedy suffered some major setbacks, including one, in Cuba, that might have ruined some Presidents. (Richard Nixon has said: "If ... Yet, his popularity has remained consistently high, seemingly unaffected by his vicissitudes. In the latest Gallup poll, 78% of the American people said that they approved of the way he is doing his job. But personal popularity, as Kennedy well knows, is not always reflected in widespread support of public policy. To translate popularity into support is the job of the politician -- and the job to which Kennedy has come increasingly ... how unbending Khrushchev had been. He hugged his bare legs and wondered what would come next. Aides in the White House agree that August and September were the most critical months so far in the personal and political life of John Kennedy. The first thing that Kennedy did when he got back to the White House was to call for an estimate of the number of Americans who might die ...
- 1178: Benjamin Franklin Was A Man of Many Accomplishments
- ... and return the books early in the morning so James would not miss it (Kent 11). One of his customers stimulated him with one of their books, he decided to try his own hand in writing. He wrote about the Pirate Black Beard drowning a family. James liked his writing so much that he published it. The people liked his writing. This was the stuff that the public wanted to hear about (Meltzer 39). His writing gave him a great lead for his life, it would be proven to do him some good later in ...
- 1179: Movie Review: Into the West
- ... When he loses them, instead of breaking, he takes action to get them back (to find them), and in doing so finds his life returning to him. The major themes, among many, are: dealing with personal loss (letting go of and accepting a loss of something deeply valued), harm done by prejudice (pre-judgement of a person or people, usually unfair and harsh yet baseless), and knowing the boundary and limits of fantasy and reality (being aware and in control of how and why we create fantasy in our lives). The most dominant theme is that of personal loss, and then prejudice & fantasy v. reality, respectively. Personal loss is something we all will deal with at some point, and probably several points, throughout our lives. Some may be “luckier” than others when it comes to the severity of such a loss, ...
- 1180: Beware -- Witch Hunt In Sessio
- ... homosexuals is the unabridged version of the 81st Congress Senate Document 2nd Session No. 241, "Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government". (See Appendix A) This document is an accurate compilation of the personal biases prevailing, psychological and medical views on homosexuality, and the discrimination acts and political paranoia that existed within our government institutions. How was the government able to successfully carry out the types of discrimination and ... disease. The gay male exhibits "10 unconscious factors" which create a psychological picture of who a gay man is. See Appendix B. Bergler s medical diagnosis and personality construct of the homosexual is filled with personal bias, archaic and nefarious notions of negative psychological formations of the homosexual based on the assumption that it is inherently masochistic. Bergler further describes the homosexual nature as being one of dependeesim which he defined ... community during the era of McCarthyism reminds me of a poem. Pastor Martin Neimoller, a German Protestant minister who was interned in Nazi concentration camps from 1937 1945, spoke so eloquently on behalf of his personal nightmare and warns society against any future genocide: In Germany they first came for the communists and I didn t speak up because I wasn t a communist. Then they came for the Jews ...
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