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- 3041: Marxism vs. Capitalism
- ... would be equally important as a cab driver and would both make comparable salaries. This practice eliminates the division of society into classes, and decreases the amount of crime because if everyone has the same personal possessions, then there is no reason to steal from one another. Also under this system, there is no unemployment. Because the government owns the means of production, it is able to regulate the employment of ... society into the different economic classes, one that does not allow the ruling party to become greedy and use their power for their own advancement, one that does not exploit the labor of anyone for personal gain. This will be the economic system to end all the differences due to monetary influence in todays society. Maybe down the road we will be able to say that we live in the ...
- 3042: Great Expectations And Oliver
- ... criticism of social injustices such as injustices towards the poor.23 Also in the form of satire, Dickens attempts to "challenge the pleasurability of fortune."24 Aside from satire, Dickens uses various other devices in writing these novels. one of the most common is that of coincidence. For example, in Oliver Twist, Oliver just happened to end up, first, at the house of Mr. Brownlow, who at one time was a ... are highly influenced by what he thinks of them. In conclusion, both books seem to have much in common such as feelings shared by the main characters, themes dealing primarily in social injustices, and various writing techniques such as the use of coincidental incidences and abstractions. However, they also differ greatly from one another. For example, Pip searches for money while Oliver searches for security, and while Pip was raised in ...
- 3043: Carlos Santana
- ... Carlos Santana. Since 1966, he has led the group that bears his name, selling over 30 million albums and performing before an estimated 13 million people. In every performance, Carlos shares with his audience a personal communication that crosses all boundaries and differences. Carlos was introduced to traditional music by his father, Jose. An accomplished mariachi violinist and experienced musician, he taught Carlos the basics of music theory and gave him ... new spirit and dedication to his music. Always changing, always searching, always growing--yet always consistently and clearly Carlos. Every new album--including 14 gold and 9 platinum albums--becoming a reflection of Carlos' own personal growth and evolution. 1997 brought Carlos back go his musical recording roots when he signed a recording contract with ARISTA, whose CEO Clive Davis signed the first Santana Band lineup to Columbia in 1968. This ...
- 3044: What Is Orientalism?
- ... emerges. Both cultures now understand each other through a web of cliches. We witness an ideology of mutual ignorance leading to far greater differences. What can we do? Is it too late? In another text, writing back or challenging the canon, SAID offers a literary solution. It is the writer responsibility to objectively criticize his discourse and to protect the reader from misleading literature. And as for what as been done, writing back is surely a way to restore truth, denounce myths, abolish cliches and reach out to a more objective literature. It will seems though quite impossible to erase what as been done, to remain objective ...
- 3045: Oran: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- ... the attributes of insignificance." In spite of his lack of success, he persists in his search for perfection, the perfection of an insignificant aspect of life -- the first sentence of his book. His motive for writing the book seems to be his difficulty in expressing himself, he "couldn't find his words." He leads a dreary, quiet life until the plague seals off the city from the outside world. He is ... to help with the plague. During the plague, he does his best to assist his fellow man, doing this out of a heartfelt responsibility. During this period of trial, he gains an insight into his writing project and into the reasons why his marriage failed. Grand succumbs to the plague, but recovers. Rieux sees Grand as having a weak constitution, and believes he will therefore probably survive the plague. I would ...
- 3046: Can Computers Think? The Case For and Against Artificial Intelligence
- ... realized that what amounts to nothing more than brute force, while impressive, is not thought. Deep Blue could consider 200 million moves a second. But it lacked the intuition good human players have. Fred Guterl, writing in Discover, explains. Studies have shown that in a typical position, a strong human play considers on average only two moves. In other words, the player is choosing between two candidate moves that he intuitively ... sits there waving its arm, reaching for things. (Time, 57) Brooks's hope is that by programming and reprogramming itself, Cog will make the leap to thinking. This expectation is based on what Julian Dibbell, writing in Time, describes as the bottom-up school. Inspired more by biological structures than by logical ones, the bottom-uppers don't bother trying to write down the rules of thought. Instead, they try to ...
- 3047: "The Yellow Wallpaper": The Main Character and Cry for Freedom
- ... reason for him to let her go visit. Another example of the misery the main character feels is her inability to write freely. The woman hides herself while she writes the frustration she feels inside. Writing is this woman's only way of expressing her emotions, the anger, sadness, fear, and what little happiness she felt. She cannot express these emotions physically in public so she writes them down or else she will suffocate in her incapability to express her mind. John strongly disapproves his wife's writing because he knows he will not be able to control this factor of her life. "He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making, a nervous weakness like mine is sure to ...
- 3048: The Metamorphosis: The Last Four Pages
- ... kitchen table, and the scene on the trolley. During the scene at the kitchen table, there is a common change among the family members: their new willingness to do things independently. Their bold act of writing "letters of excuse" is a clear example of their new independence. Prior to Gregor's death, the family relied completely on Gregor's financial support and had little in terms of responsibilities. Kafka explains this ... formed the conviction that Gregor was set for life in his firm . . . they were so preoccupied with their immediate troubles that they had lost all consideration for the future,"(17). By taking the initiative and writing to their employers, Gregor's family proves that they no longer depend on Gregor. The scene at the kitchen table proves revealing once again when Mr. Samsa announces that he will fire the cleaning lady ...
- 3049: The Odessey Paper
- ... powers of his time. He was probably afraid that the Church, or the people in power might charge him with some kind of ridiculous law forbidding the portrayal of women as being powerful in any writing and have him hung. It would not be the first time that a writer was killed when their opinion differed from that of the powers of the day. A writer had to be careful of ... appeal to the masculine audience. For all of Homer's passages that were geared towards men, you have to give him credit for creating deep and strong female characters. You really cannot blame him for writing for the male audience, though. After all, he was one.
- 3050: John Locke: Property Rights
- ... God and is that gift which separates us from the realm of the beast. The ability to reason and reflect, although universal, acts as an explanation for individuality. All reason and reflection is based on personal experience and reference. Personal experience must be completely individual as no one can experience anything quite the same as another. This leads to determining why Locke theorized that all humans, speaking patriarchially with respect to the time why all ...
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