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- 3151: Heart Of Darkness 3
- ... Marlow, along with a few of his comrades, cruising aboard the Nellie, a traditional sailboat. On the boat, Marlow begins to tell of his experiences in the Congo. Conrad uses Marlow to reveal all the personal thoughts and emotions that he wants to portray while Marlow goes on this "voyage of a lifetime". Marlow begins his voyage as an ordinary English sailor who is traveling to the African Congo on a ... He lies to her. He does something he utterly detests. This is the event that convinces the reader of Marlow's uptaking of a middle position. He does look inside himself and use his own personal ability to judge this event. He does what Kurtz had told him. Despite his abhorrence of lies, he judges this situation and decides that it was right to lie. However, he is different from Kurtz ...
- 3152: Common Themes In Short Stories
- ... and tries to impress her by getting her something from the festival bearing the name of the story s title. Each work has elements such as setting, symbols, and themes, which are repeated in his writing that provides Joyce with a writing style that is his. The series of short stories included in Dubliners depict a broken morale in and around the city of Dublin. The early 1900 s marked a time of disheartened spirits not only ...
- 3153: Economics
- ... to a total State then the obvious rebuttal is a No-state. This alone would be an opposition to the total State. As this is instinctive in Man - to oppose his enslavement - people manifest their personal revolt in various ways. They cannot simply overwhelm a well-armed government. So their revolt takes the form of inaction and inefficiency. Russia and Cuba, for two, are going on the rocks of individual inefficiency ... the hope of convincing the people. They strike, won't realy work and get more inefficient. The Societies of Earth, whether East or West, are all approaching wiith rapidity the same end - dissolution by a personal people's revolt. The revolt has no name, no leader, no banner, no glory. It only has a common end in view - the end of all states and all economic systems. The Science of Economics ...
- 3154: The Societal Implications of "The Yellow Wallpaper"
- The Societal Implications of "The Yellow Wallpaper" In early nineteenth century literature, women were extremely confined in their topics of writing. It was rare to see a woman write about oppression, resentment towards the patriarchal society they lived in, or their frustration over the submissive relationships that women were forced into (713). Charlotte Perkins Gilman was ... against her, Charlotte Perkins Gilman went on to be one of the most influential feminist writers in literary history. Works Cited Davidson, Cathy N. and Linda Wagner Martin. eds. The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. 423-24; 605; 307-14; 712-16; 851; 933-37 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins "The Yellow Wallpaper" The Norton Anthology of American Literature 5th ed. Ed. Baym ...
- 3155: Computers in the Workplace: Are They Used Ethically?
- ... But, according to the Copyright Act of 1976 and the Computer Software Piracy and Counterfeiting Amendment of 1983, this practice is illegal. It is also unethical. Computer programmers and software companies often spend years developing, writing, testing, and marketing software programs only to lose many royalty dollars to software pirates. If you spent several years writing a book only to lose royalties through the distribution of illegal copied volumes, how would you feel? The issue is the same. Some software manufacturers write copy-protected programs into their software to prevent illegal ...
- 3156: Comments On This Be The Verse
- ... the poem and what they were meant to do for the audience. Lastly, I will explore why Larkin would write such a poem, and what he was trying to get across to his audience by writing it. The second line in this poem contains the word "fuck," a word that is usually not considered acceptable for the general public. Yet Larkin incorporates it almost immediately into his poem. I can think ... consciously or not, that they are in a distinct group, and that this poem was written for them. This allows Larkin to establish a closeness with his readers, now that they know that he is writing for them. This also implies to the reader that Larkin is one of them, that he knows the reader well, because he is in the same social class. To sum it up, by using a ...
- 3157: The Beak Of The Finch
- ... sociology. I find it even more remarkable that a book which such nonsense as the above passage could win a nonfiction Pulitzer Prize. One of the three panelists which made the final selection is a writing teacher at a well-known technical university. Would he accept such stuff if one of his students wrote that in a paper? One of the other panelists is an editor of a well-known high ... first I thought the author just thought all his readers were dense. But I get the impression he really believes this stuff! One person I shared this with simply passed it off because Weiner was writing for a "popular audience." Logic is not important for the mass of people? Is science the new priesthood which the "laity" must trust blindly? The aristocracy to which the serfs owe total allegiance? "Natural Selection ...
- 3158: Enterprise & Entrepreneuralism
- ... not infringed. At the stage of development outline here, it can be seen that Dillons newsagents is akin to stage one of the business growth cycle. Key Issues: Mr Pettifer strongly believed in providing a personal and friendly service to all customers and from the outset instigated this within the shop environment. Recognition within the local community and attraction of regular customers resulted from this and thus so did a modest ... trust between employees. This may have proved to be a dangerous operation because of the liberation of that trust, i.e., opportunities were made available to all employees disregarding their status. Overlapping the boundaries between personal life within the family and business life were often perceivable since husband and wife were working within the same environment. Although this situation was occaisionally embarrassing and no doubt detremental, the shop definitely benefitted overall ...
- 3159: Big Two-Hearted River - Part I
- ... only possibly in the first person, there is just one instance in In Our Time in which a character speaks in the first person. It occurs in "Big Two-Hearted River: Part II", an intensely personal story which completely immerses the reader in the actions and thoughts of Nick Adams. Hemingway's utilization of the omniscient third person narrator allows the reader to visualize all of Nick's actions and surroundings ... t include, "he thought," or, "he said to himself," and so it is unclear. The result is the same regardless. Using first person narration at this point serves to make the story more alive, more personal. It jolts the reader into realizing the humanity of Nick; he is no longer the object of a story but a real person. If Nick is making so much stir over it that he speaks ...
- 3160: An Analysis Based on the Responsibility of the Rich to the Poor
- ... of their disagreement circulates around the impossible question - Is it the duty of the rich to advocate the poor - or is it not? Works Cited Hardin, Garrett. "Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Aid that Harms." Writing Arguments. 4th. ed. Ed. John D. Ramage and John C. Bean. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. 481-9. Singer, Peter. "Rich and Poor." Writing Arguments. 4th. ed. Ed. John D. Ramage and John C. Bean. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. 489-96.
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