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- 2731: Analysis of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince
- ... views on Italy's political status during the Renaissance. Machiavelli uses many specific examples throughout the text both ancient and current to Renaissance era. To understand the book more completely and Machiavelli's reasons for writing The Prince, it is necessary to understand Machiavelli's life and the times he lived in. When Niccolo Machiavelli was born in the spring of 1469, Italy had attained a high spot in the European ... After the election of Giovanni de Medici to the papacy as Leo X, they released Machiavelli. Machiavelli retired to a small farm in San Casciano, where he would write his arguments on politics. He began writing The Prince and his other lesser known work The Discourses in 1513. In 1515, he wrote a comedy, La Mandragola, a satire on seduction. The Medici family consulted Machiavelli in 1519 on a new Florentine ... of secretaries concludes the section of The Prince pertaining to the qualities of a prince. The last several chapters of the book discuss Machiavelli's views on Italy's political situation and his reasons for writing the book. In chapter XXIV, Machiavelli examines the reasons the princes of Italy have lost their princedoms. The first reason given, they all lacked native troops. They hired mercenaries and used auxiliary troops. Their ...
- 2732: The Mists of Avalon
- ... from those closest to her. In Avalon, Morgaine learned to endure enormous pain and hardship without complaint. She learned to appreciate everything that she had, what it felt like to live in isolation, and her personal strength. She learned sorcery, spells, how to love, how to use the Sight and many other things. “Other lessons there were, at which my knowledge of the sight helped me not at all: the herb lore, and the lore of healing, the long songs of which not a word could be committed to writing . . . Some of the lessons were of pure joy . . . ; and some lessons were of terror” (136). She was ordered to do things by others, and she no longer wanted to accept these tasks, but she did ...
- 2733: Dante’s Tools Of Character: Love And Choice
- ... automatically think that we are going to fail. Dante’s poem develops this realism of the two tools of character, love and choice. In Dante’s Inferno, the main scheme is to gain individual satisfaction. Personal recovery is dependent on the love of others. This is true when Dante first meets Beatrice. Beatrice was sent to help guide Dante through Hell and it is she who is the patron of Dante ... Beatrice), “Behold a god stronger than I that is come to bear rule over me”. In addition to finding ourselves in the experience of being loved, we must also become familiar with the place that personal choice has in our journey in life. In Hell, our choices are frozen, never to be made again. In Purgatory, our choices are a prerequisite of progress. In Heaven, our choices are celebrated. Dante characterizes ... the perfect decision. Choice can be decimated by emotional immaturity. It is the “I want only the best” attitude that refuses to choose between the good and the best. The underlying principle is that no personal pain will be tolerated. There is nothing wrong or harmful about wanting to have pleasure but when our pleasure is bought at the inconvenience of others, our choicelessness is devilish. Always waiting for the ...
- 2734: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... there as a servant to a king in his court, and everything (smiles) in the sun." The change in tone clearly shows his opinion of people, and their affect on nature. Those examples of his writing show his opinion of nature, and his disdain of people's negative effect on it. He takes much more care when describing nature, and comes out a bit blunt when writing about civilization. He carefully crafts his words toward nature to show it's peacefulness and serenity. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can be viewed from a few angles. At the most basic level, the book ... the mob that stood outside Colonel Sherburn’s house. I believe his examples of a bad society were meant to show us what is right. Mark Twain did a great job in his novel, by writing a book with morals meant to improve society, without detriment to the quality of the work, or using the too often used Sunday school bible story method of expressing ones morals onto another. The ...
- 2735: Ambushed Tradition
- ... Native American exhibitions in museums, participating in powwows, and using sweat lodges. The results from this treatment were very good. The percentage of recovery increased substantially. (Watts & Guitierres 9-11) Cindy also shared a very personal story with me about her own substance abuse. A mother of four she had been an alcoholic for many years. Drinking was her way to escape the grief that is all too prevalent on the ... Lone 189). Junior was unaware of how to prosper intellectually in a white man's world. The values and morals and ways to earn respect in the traditional Indian culture were not obtained through schooling, writing and modern communications. "Indians don't need to talk to communicate"(Alexie, Lone 28). That is what Victor's father taught him when he was a young boy. Traditionally, Indian relationships were very different from ...
- 2736: The Grapes of Wrath: Rose of Sharon and The Starving Man
- ... desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's lived. As the novel The Grapes of Wrath progresses, the Joads progress from a concern only for themselves and their own personal welfare to a concern for all the people; a change accompanied by the disintegration of the smaller family unit, which is replaced by the larger world family of the migrant people. The publication of The ... At the end of the novel, he has shifted to trying to do what is best for all the migrant people by trying to organize them even though he knows this involves him in great personal danger. That shift in thinking is also accompanied with the replacement of the individual family by the world family. The thing that started the breakup of the individual family was the loss of their land ... to leave the land and their inability to start a completely new life, whereas only the strong and young people accepted the challenge. Thus, with the Joads, the journey West is also a journey from personal concern to a larger concern for all of humanity. This change is accompanied by a change also in the Joad's economic situation. Even though the Joads' economic situation deteriorates, they manage to enlarge ...
- 2737: Remember Me: Review
- ... when the reader sees her again in book 3, she is a famous writer who seems to have lost sight of what she learned in the afterlife. Although she is still helping people with her writing, she has become very materialistic and selfish about her success. Pike does a skillful job of contrasting and developing her character in each of the novels. The reader can easily observe Shari as her character ... as the Shari they originally met. In book 3, Pike seems to lose sight of Shari Cooper's character for awhile. Living as Jean Rodrigues, now 21, Shari has gained much fame and fortune from writing on her experiences of death. Her character almost completely reverts back to the original selfish, materialistic, pre-death Shari Cooper. She is very much caught up in herself and her money and has almost lost sight of the fact that she is writing her books to help others and not for the money. Pike again reveals to the reader how easy it is for humans to lose sight of what is important in life. Shari realizes that ...
- 2738: Rip Van Winkle as a Folktale
- ... drink with all of them and by the time he realized what was going on he quickly passed out. He woke up twenty years later. Another object of the supernatural that Irving showed in his writing is how he slept for exactly twenty years. This is a feat that could never really be done. A second journey Rip embarks on is one that keeps him away from home and loved ones ... Winkle. This man is a mirror image of Rip, who happens to be his son. Now his confusion extends beyond the bizarre sequence of events that have confronted him. He begins to question his own personal identity. He doesn’t know if he is himself or another man. Rip exclaims, “I was myself last night, but I fell asleep on the mountain, and everything is changed, and I’m changed, and ...
- 2739: Thomas More's Utopia
- ... from having too much wealth or freedom." More touches on the problems of England's early 16th century problems with religion. A concern is that the people are forced into believing in a specific religion. Personal choice seems to be almost nonexistent when it comes to religion. An attempt is made in European society to suppress beliefs or thoughts on religion. Utopian society is anything but a perfect society. One of ... and one can even begin to wonder if a bathroom is safe from scrutiny. There is a total lack of privacy within this system. In Utopian society there are too many restrictions and lack of personal freedoms. The lifestyle is set up with an almost prison like rigidity, with even recreation times scheduled. The children are brought up to do what their parents before them did, or they are adopted into ... would be impossible. Even if it was not impossible the new problems that Utopia would create make it no better than the society it is trying to repair. A restricted, male dominated society with no personal freedoms or privacy seriously hinders the positive growth of a society. Works Cited Thomas More, Utopia, (New York 1965)
- 2740: “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote
- “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote This story is the account of a savage and senseless murder of a family. When writing this book, the author, Truman Capote, separated crime reporting from serious literature. As he relives the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote creates suspense. This non fiction novel has started a whole new type of writing. It has been called literary journalism and creative non fiction. Truman Capote was born in 1924 and died in 1984. He wrote both fiction and non fiction including short stories, novels, plays and films. The intense research and writing of “In Cold Blood” is said to have taken a toll on Capote’s mind. Capote sees the write-up in the paper and decides to visit the town and find out what happened. ...
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