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- 2481: Ernest Hemingway
- ... critics have the same outlook on the works of Hemingway. Hemingway's work The Old man and the Sea can be looked at in many different perspectives. All the critics believed that his styling of writing was very defined. In 1944 Ernest Hemingway went to Havana, Cuba and it was there he wrote a letter to Maxwell Perkins which states he has a idea on a new novel called The Old ... I think that the way he put the novel together was just as good as that of the fight. When he put them together it was then that he relized that what he was actually writing about was a struggle of man vs. nature. He liked the idea of man vs. nature and decided to use it in the struggle scene with the marlin. Magill wrote," the book can be seen ... smelling around the bait. I had to write on inventing out of knowledge. You reject everything that is not or can't be completely true."(Bruccoli 179) I think that Hemingway is a genius for writing this novel because in my point of view it shows the battle between human and nature and that really caught my attention rereading this novel for the third time. I also caught the moral ...
- 2482: Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Greatest Anti-Transcendentalist Writer
- ... Americans had, “a lively faith in the predictability of man”, and that they, “admit that what appears to them today to be good may be superseded by something better tomorrow.” There were two types of writing styles during Hawthorne's life -- Transcendentalism and Anti-Transcendentalism. Many of the authors of the period were influenced by the transcendental movement, which was flourishing at the time. Transcendentalists believed that intuition and the individual ... which he might have participated in, effectively extinguished. Exemplifying the “power of blackness” in Hawthorne's work was Young Goodman Brown. The main purpose of this narrative tale is to move the protagonist toward a personal and climatic vision of evil, leaving in it's a rubble and prevailing feeling of distrust. From Goodman Brown's dream vision or his spectral adventure in the forest, he has received a paralyzing sense ...
- 2483: Bram Stoker
- ... in the Dublin Castle. His literary career began as early as 1871 and in that year he took up a post as the unpaid drama critic for the "Evening Mail," while at the same time writing short stories. His first literary "success" came a year later when, in 1872, The London Society published his short story "The Crystal Cup." As early as 1875 Stoker's unique brand of fiction had come ... information given to Stoker by an Egyptologist. In 1905 Henry Irving died, leaving the aging Stoker without a steady jot for the first time in his life. A year after Irving's death Stoker wrote "Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving." Stoker managed to write other novels after this point until the time of his death in 1912 at the age of 64.
- 2484: Marco Polo
- ... 69) as merchants. When they left (1271) Venice to return to China, they were accompanied by 17-year-old Marco and two priests. Early Life Despite his enduring fame, very little was known about the personal life of Marco Polo. It is known that he was born into a leading Venetian family of merchants. He also lived during a propitious time in world history, when the height of Venice's influence ... a lucky turn. In prison Marco met a man named Rustichello from Persia, who was a writer of romances(Stefoff 21). To pass the time, Marco dictated his observations about Asia to Rustichello, who, in writing them down, probably employed the Italianized Old French that was the language of medieval romances. Their book was soon circulating, since Marco remained in prison only a year or so, very likely gaining his freedom ...
- 2485: The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
- ... IDEAS Self deception is a particularly destructive characteristic of West Culture. Life is The Will To Power; our natural desire is to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree possible. Struggle, through which individuals achieve a degree of power commensurate with their abilities, is the basic fact of human existence. Ideals of human equality perpetuate mediocrity -- a truth that ... than to the hazards of natural selection." Master Race Nietzsche is often referred to as a pre-Nazi thinker, by his idealism of The Master Race. He was, in fact, a prime influence on the writing of Hitler's highest men, and quoted in Hitler's speeches. But, his writings were mostly taken out of context, because he was very open about his distaste for "those anti-semites." If one is ...
- 2486: Karl Marx
- ... Engels was the one who gave Marx and his family money to survive on during these years. His only other source of money was his job as the European correspondent for The New York Tribune, writing editorials and columns analyzing everything in the "political universe." Marx published his first book on economic theory in 1859, called A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Marx's "political isolation" ended when he ... but was personally opposed to him because Marx had an "ethnic aversion" to Russians. Bakunin believed that Marx was a "German authoritarian and an arrogant Jew who wanted to transform the General council into a personal dictatorship over the workers." Bakunin organized sections of the International for an attack on the "dictatorship" of Marx and the General Council. Marx didn't have the support of a right wing and feared that ...
- 2487: Life and Times in the Middle Ages
- ... things. Prowess, justice, loyalty, defense, courage, faith, humility, largesse, nobility, and franchise are all parts of the code of chivalry. Prowess is seeking strength to be used in the service of justice, rather than in personal interest. To seek excellence in all situations are expected of a knight is an example of prowess. Justice is to always seek in the right path by the law. In justice, knights have to put their personal interest and temptations a side to do what is right. Loyalty is to be committed to the king and the people and the standards they choose to live by. Defense is to always to defend ... and to show mercy to others. Nobility is to follow the duties and virtues of a knight. The service of rightness is nobility. Franchise is to do certain things out of sincerity and not for personal advantages but because it is the right thing to do. All of these things are expected of a knight. The code of chivalry is what a knight swears to do under oath. To follow ...
- 2488: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... In reality, social structure was more complicated than the theory allowed, and the ruling party worried more about perpetuating its power and privileges than about advancing popular well-being or preparing for the future. Many personal freedoms were drastically curtailed in the Soviet Union. In the Stalin era, employees needed the permission of management to change jobs and could face criminal prosecution for tardiness or absenteeism. These cruel penalties were abandoned ... could join only associations approved by the CPSU. They could not set up businesses or sell their individual services, save for a few minor fields such as tutoring and baby-sitting. State-imposed regulations on personal mobility required residents to carry internal passports and to have them stamped by the police before changing locale; travel abroad was possible only with special authorization. Military service was compulsory and graduates from higher education ... State outlets did the overwhelming percentage of business. The consumer cooperatives, confined to rural areas, were indistinguishable from the state outlets by the 1980s. Private vendors were limited by law to a few kinds of personal service (such as tutoring or baby-sitting) and to the urban bazaars selling produce from the peasants’ garden plots. The black market, having flourished at earlier points in Soviet history when state supply of ...
- 2489: Homosexuality
- ... might] allow . . . the consequences of early sexual arousal to be made permanent." And of course, all this presumes that the research itself was of high quality. But two prominent geneticists, Paul Billings and Jonathan Beckwith, writing in Technology Review (published at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) write: LeVay "could not really be certain about his subject's sexual preferences, since they were dead." His "research design and subject sample did not ... The fact that some people may be genetically predisposed to be homosexual certainly rains on the parade of those who previously thought that homosexuals learned their behavior during adolescence or became gay out of some personal choice. Like many other psychologically-defined conditions in humans, homosexuality was previously attributed to the parental formula of the child: the over-protective mother and the distant father. But Former President George Bush named the ...
- 2490: Video Games: "Ummmm? I do…buttt…. C'mon I'll play ya "
- ... the semester Aaron, barged into his room. " Hey man. Are you still working on that paper?" asked Aaron. "Yea, I'm really flowing now (as he showed Aaron a computer screen with two lines of writing)" John said with a little hint of sarcasm. " Well, do you have anything else to do tonight, because I really feel I can kick your ass, to bad you have that paper to finish," Aaron ... their GPA. To the student's credit at least their free time goes toward something that's not illegal or addicting, or is it? Many feel that they are no longer free from their own personal decisions and that the games are their own drugs. Okay maybe not to that extent, but they can find themselves saying, "Yea, I'll play for ten minutes," but end up playing for hours at ...
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