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- 1531: The Influence of Thoreau on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... is as much a moral obligation is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest. It goes without saying that the teachings of Thoreau are alive today, indeed, they are more alive today than ever before. Whether expressed in ... the vital heat, and secondly, in this state of society, to cover nakedness, and he may judge how much of any necessary or important work may be accomplished without adding to his wardrobe. (Walden) In writing this essay I have learned more of Thoreau than just a few quotes that suited me. I am finding that other Transcendentalists said similar things, yet in ways more poetic and palatable. I am becoming ... pen mightier than the sword? Henry David Thoreau did not change the world. His writings are not as readable as some of his contemporaries, but still there is something of a brute force to his writing -- that same force that he hoped to drive life into a corner with. Perhaps he did drive life into a corner and what he found helped others to see how they could change the ...
- 1532: Catcher In The Rye And For Esm
- ... to the library and they were all on loan so I bought one. After finishing the novel, which was great, I decided to read another piece of Salinger's work to see how Salinger's writing style would compare to "The Catcher in the Rye". I picked up a book called "Nine Stories", which had, as the title read, nine different short stories. I found myself reading a story called "For Esme - with love and squalor". After completing the story, I discovered that the two stories had a lot in common with each other. It was mainly because of Salinger's narrative style and other writing technique's he uses in these two great stories. Both of these stories are in first person point of view but "The Catcher in the Rye" is in subjective narration. Holden Caulfield is a teenager ... the characters, theme, plot and many more similarities I mentioned throughout this essay. Though, these stories never lost my interest as I read them and compared them. J D Salinger makes both of these stories personal as you read them which makes you want to read more even though you notice that you have finished the book. Nevertheless, what is certain, is in the near future, I will be going ...
- 1533: Edgar Allen Poe's: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
- ... and places an ad in the Gazette for a found orangutan. The owner comes right to him, and the mystery is solved. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a showcase of Poe's amazing writing style, and the short story is full of rhetorical devices. Two literary devices that are evident are Poe's creative use of point of view and gothic setting. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is ... sordid tale, stating, " I often dwelt meditatively upon the old philosophy of the Bi-Part Soul, and amused myself with the fancy of a double Dupin-the creative and the resolvent. (p. 4)" Without this personal point of view, the reader would be oblivious to Dupin's separate personalities. This "up close and personal" view of Dupin is known because of the first person narration. Another point of view is also useful. Monsieur Dupin solves the mystery and to do so, must take on an entirely new point ...
- 1534: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- ... nineteenth-century America. Mrs. Gilman was born Charlotte Anna Perkins on July 3, 1860, in Providence, Rhode Island. She was the grandniece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. She attributed her lifelong talent for speaking and her writing ability to her Beecher heritage. Most of what Charlotte learned was self-taught, since her formal schooling was only about six or seven years. Gilman believed early on that she was destined to dedicate her ... a nervous breakdown. When her treatment of total rest drove her close to insanity, she was cured by removing herself physically from her home, husband, and finally her daughter, and by taking part in and writing about the social movements of the day. Later in life she married her first cousin, George Gilman, and again suffered from depression though not as severely as she had suffered throughout her first marriage. Using ... She used her lectures and publications to teach present and future generations about the possibilities that lay open to them. Gilman's writings about the tensions and struggles between marriage and career, social expectations, and personal goals continue to impact women's decisions. Her arguments have greatly heightened our understanding of the power of social norms on individuals, making Gilman's life and literary works a role model for many. ...
- 1535: James Joyce
- ... dealt with episodes of his childhood and adolescence and with family and public life in Dublin, Ireland (Encarta, 1). Joyce employed symbols to create what he called an epiphany , the revelation of an emotional or personal truth (Encarta, 1). Using experimental techniques to convey the essential nature of realistic Daniels 2 situations, Joyce merged in his greatest works the literary traditions of realism, naturalism, and symbolism (Encarta, 1). In 1941, suffering ... job, her religion, and the Donnelly s Halloween party, which is the nearest to family life she has ever known. There are references to witchcraft, which tie in with the old Celtic ways. Joyce s personal background and education made him deeply aware of the tragic history of Ireland, including the destruction of its Celtic civilization. The Christianity of these traditions, Ireland s subsequent conquest by the English, and the inertia ... t really want the responsibilities of a family, but she takes them because of her mother s death, she would like to live with Frank. In this paper I ve shown Joyce s styles of writing and his reasons. It shows the links between his stories and his very own life. Not only do these two Daniels 6 Dubliners have things in common but all of them probably do. They ...
- 1536: David Copperfield
- ... Copperfield in the question are all very true in their own respect. This is basically because Dickens chose to write about life and in life all these terms apply. By the time that Dickens began writing David Copperfield he was already a profound author with great popularity. I believe he wanted to portray life as best he could, he wanted to show what life was to him: and what better way than a biography closely related to Dickens himself. We could call it a 'Novel of personal memory' but we have to keep in mind the full original title: 'The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger, of Bluderstone Rookery. (Which he never meant to published on any account.) This complete title strongly suggests that this is one man's story ...
- 1537: Brazil 2
- ... It was as Franco's finance minister that Cardoso had introduced the real plan in 1994. Franco had long been irritated that Cardoso got all the credit, some of which he felt he deserved. The personal antagonism was real, but on taking office, Franco found that 80 percent of his revenues were needed for state salaries, 33.8 percent for active and retired pensions, and 12.5 percent on debt payments ... rather than rupture. Many of the civilian politicians who cooperated with the military during their 21 years of rule moved seamlessly into the more pluralistic system established after 1985 and were key participants in the writing of Brazil's 1988 Constitution. While the 1988 Constitution enshrined many social and political rights, it also retained, at the insistence of the military and powerful regional oligarchs who had benefited from military rule, a ... this will mean that almost 44 percent of the IMF package has already been committed. The country's total foreign debt meanwhile stands at over $230 billion, and its domestic public debt, as of this writing, in March 1999, exceeds R$500 billionroughly equal to the total purchasing power of the 28 million families that make up the Brazilian middle and lower middle classesand is rising quickly due to the ...
- 1538: The Queer Use Of Women In Borg
- ... of Jorge Luis Borges: the absence of these two elements, which seems so casual and unremarkable, really highlights the strangeness of their exclusion. For example, scenes of sexual acts are almost totally lacking in Borgesian writing (Emma Zunz's sexual encounter with an anonymous sailor is the most notable exception) and even the most veiled suggestion of erotic activities is limited to only a very few stories. Similarly scarce,[1] too ... relationship of the kind one might encounter at all male clubs, on athletic teams, or in men's-magazine stories about deer hunting" (189). Lima (and repeated in Carter), however, makes the case that Borges' personal fear and loathing of sex and sexuality are the basis of the theme.[17] Lima concludes that in killing the woman, Cristiαn "has confronted the erotic `demon' in himself and executed it. He has opted ... 1899-1986)." Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Ed. David William Foster. Westport: Greenwood P, 1994. 72-83. Balderston, Daniel. "The Fecal Dialectic: Homosexual Panic and the Origin of Writing in Borges." [[questiondown]]Entiendes? Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings. Eds. Emilie L. Bergmann and Paul Julian Smith. Durham: Duke UP, 1995. 29-45. Bell-Villada, Gene H. Borges and His Fiction. A Guide to His ...
- 1539: The Production Histry And Cons
- ... 35) Beer was a driving force that led nomadic groups into village life. Ten thousand years ago barley was domesticated and worshipped as a god in the highlands of southern Levant. With the creation of writing, using a stylus on wet clay tablets, beer, its history and mystery, became a large part of an ancient literary repertoire. Beer was considered a valuable foodstuff and workers were often paid with jugs of ... found in the examination of both the Bible and Greek texts. In both versions of the Bible, Old and New Testaments, is virtually empty of references to water as a common drinking source. Likewise, Greek writing make scant references to water drinking, with exceptions to deep wells, mountain spring water or rain water. Ancient civilization clearly understood that most of their water supplies were contaminated. (Vallee 82) Since most water was ... would be good while going to school. Works Cited Aging of Beer. Jackson, Paul. 29 October 1999. http://Alabev.com/beeraging.html Alabev. John Fife. 20 October 1999. http://www.Alabev.com Bowman, Fredrick L. Personal Interview. 1 October 1999. Buhner, Steven H. Sacred and Healing Beers. Brewers Publications. Chicago, Illinois, October, 1998. Carter, Rachelle. Consumption of Beer and Ale in the Middle Ages October 27, 1999. http://www.millersv. ...
- 1540: ISDN vs. Cable Modems
- ... bandwidth needs of this application have highlighted the limited Internet access speeds available to residential users. Even at 28.8 Kilobits per second (Kbps) the fastest residential access commonly available at the time of this writing the transfer of graphical images can be frustratingly slow. This report examines two enhancements to existing residential communications infrastructure: Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), and cable television networks upgraded to pass bi-directional digital traffic ... bursts of traffic. This requirement addresses traffic patterns, but it says nothing about the absolute level of load. How can we evaluate a system when we never know how much capacity is enough? In the personal computing industry, this problem is solved by defining "enough" to be "however much I can afford today," and relying on continuous price-performance improvements in digital technology to increase that level in the near future ... speed of a cable LAN is described by the bit rate of the modems used to send data over it. As this technology improves, cable LAN speeds may change, but at the time of this writing, cable modems range in speed from 500 Kbps to 10 Mbps, or roughly 17 to 340 times the bit rate of the familiar 28.8 Kbps telephone modem. This speed represents the peak rate ...
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