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- 321: Writing Styles of Poe and Hoffman
- Writing Styles of Poe and Hoffman All writers have different styles of getting their point across. In particular some like to use the art of the grotesque. E.T.A Hoffman is a perfect example of this type of writing. Hoffman was and still is probably one of the most renowned grotesque writers who ever lived. Wolfgang Kayser makes some interesting points about Hoffman and the grotesque style of writing in general. Though many points were made, I have chosen the three that best relate to more familiar sources in literature and film as well. The fact that this critical analysis of E.T. ...
- 322: An Example Of Good Writing: Zinsser's "Simplicity"
- An Example Of Good Writing: Zinsser's "Simplicity" Zinsser's essay on Simplicity is an example of good writing for many reasons. The main topic in his essay is clutter. Throughout the essay he not only tells us why this is a problem, but he shows us through many detailed examples. The essay was ... a reader. Zinsser asks questions throughout the essay that cause the reader to think and feel as though he is a part of the essay. The whole essay gives the reader a positive outlook on writing. Clutter is all the unnecessary words that are added to a sentence. When a sentence becomes cluttered it tends to bore and confuse the reader. Zinsser points out that the secret of good writing ...
- 323: The Internet And Its Effects And Its Future
- ... work. Last but not least is the report to our privacy when online. These days, the most skilful manipulators of new information and communications technology to build up files on individuals are private companies collecting personal data on tens of millions of people. Simon Davies, the British head of Privacy International, a human rights watchdog group, says that every citizen of an industrialized country appears today in about 200 different data ... site according to each visitor's tastes. Arguments persist that the erosion of privacy is not such a big deal; the economic benefits of information availability and mobility, it is said outweigh limitations on our personal privacy. Is privacy an ethical nicety, an expendable luxury, then, or is it a basic natural right that needs legal protection? Some philosophers and legal scholars have argued that privacy is an intrinsic good, implying ... is derived from other rights such as property, bodily security and freedom. While both approaches have validity, the latter seems more compelling. It is especially persuasive when applied to those rights involving our liberty and personal autonomy. A primary moral foundation for the value of privacy is its role as a condition of freedom: A shield of privacy is absolutely essential if one is freely to pursue his or her ...
- 324: The First Amendment
- The First Amendment No other democratic society in the world permits personal freedoms to the degree of the United States of America. Within the last sixty years, American courts, especially the Supreme Court, have developed a set of legal doctrines that thoroughly protect all forms of the ... learn from the precedented cases of the past of our constitutionally protected rights so that in the future authority will not violate our freedoms or oppress our liberty. Ever since colonial times, the protection of personal freedoms in the United States has been significantly important. Even in the early stages of American history there was an urge to put legally protected freedoms into written government documents. The result was the drafting of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, by James Madison. The applications of the personal freedoms described in the Bill of Rights, particularly the freedom of speech, have been challenged repeatedly in American courts of law and elsewhere. These incidents and challenges of authority reflect the defensive American attitude ...
- 325: Love in The Renaissance
- ... of the great classical works that were written during the Middle Ages. Many of the poems that were written during this time period were inspired by love, and the way in which the poet felt personal about the emotion of love. Wyatt and Surrey were two such poets that wrote a few delightful sonnets on the emotion of love and how it made them feel. Ralegh and Gascoigne were two such poets that followed in the written tradition of some of the great ones that came before them. All four of theses poets wrote about the emotion of love, and they all seemed to be writing on matters that were close to their hearts. There were many was in which the renaissance could have been characterized, but there was one characteristic that was prevalent throughout the renaissance and it was clearly ... and to show that it had a very powerful way of controlling a man's heart and mind, and I also plan to show that love was a reoccurring theme of many of the poets writing during the Renaissance. Wyatt and Surrey were two contemporary poets that wrote on the issue of love. Both of the poets derived some of their ideas concerning love from such works as Petrarch's ...
- 326: Freedom In The United States
- No other democratic society in the world permits personal freedoms to the degree of the United States of America. Within the last sixty years, American courts, especially the Supreme Court, have developed a set of legal doctrines that thoroughly protect all forms of the ... learn from the precedented cases of the past of our constitutionally protected rights so that in the future authority will not violate our freedoms or oppress our liberty. Ever since colonial times, the protection of personal freedoms in the United States has been significantly important. Even in the early stages of American history there was an urge to put legally protected freedoms into written government documents. The result was the drafting of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, by James Madison. The applications of the personal freedoms described in the Bill of Rights, particularly the freedom of speech, have been challenged repeatedly in American courts of law and elsewhere. These incidents and challenges of authority reflect the defensive American attitude ...
- 327: Microsoft Corporation
- ... toward the brink of a new eraCthe Information Age. Unlike more tangible qualities of prior ages, the Information Age offers less defined qualities. At the heart of this new age is the advent of the personal home computer. Pumping life into this otherwise material home appliance is software that incorporates the necessary commands to access information stored within the computer's memory. The company that offered the world its first software ... describes the mainframe computers of the early >70's as A. . . temperamental monsters that resided in climate-controlled cocoons . . . connected by phone lines to clackety teletype terminals. . . .@ (11) He went on to explain that a personal home computer called the DPD-8 was actually available from Digital Equipment Corporation. According to Gates it was A. . . an $18,000 personal computer which occupied a rack two feet square and six feet high and had about as much computing capacity as a wristwatch does today . . . Despite its limitations, it inspired us to indulge in the ...
- 328: The Uncertainty Of Knowledge
- ... Why am I, at the present moment justified in believing some statements and not justified in believing other statements? For the most part people believe in statements as a response to societal pressures and for personal content. Society needs to be comforted by having strong beliefs, which can reduce the stresses of uncertainty. Hence in order to actually believe and justify knowledge, one must have some form of this faith. Being ... authoritarian. A portrayal of the documentation of history epitomizes the uncertainties in faith and knowledge. When a historian or any human being for that matter records a situation or an event, he must include his personal opinion. Whether these opinions are subtle or quite overt, this person is never the less personalizing his facts. Though events have indeed taken place in the past, when a historian writes about such an event he will always add personal view to the text. He will judge what is important and what should be left out. By simply emphasizing that a fact is important he is therefore inserting an opinion. As one witnesses some ...
- 329: Freedom In The United States
- No other democratic society in the world permits personal freedoms to the degree of the United States of America. Within the last sixty years, American courts, especially the Supreme Court, have developed a set of legal doctrines that thoroughly protect all forms of the ... learn from the precedented cases of the past of our constitutionally protected rights so that in the future authority will not violate our freedoms or oppress our liberty. Ever since colonial times, the protection of personal freedoms in the United States has been significantly important. Even in the early stages of American history there was an urge to put legally protected freedoms into written government documents. The result was the drafting of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, by James Madison. The applications of the personal freedoms described in the Bill of Rights, particularly the freedom of speech, have been challenged repeatedly in American courts of law and elsewhere. These incidents and challenges of authority reflect the defensive American attitude ...
- 330: T.S. Eliot
- ... to travel back to the States, and was detained in London, England. Eliot had always dreamed of being out on his own. He finally had the chance. He devoted his life now to learning and writing. Eliots literary career began early in life. His first publication, "A Tale of A Whale," was in an issue of The Milton Academy Record in the April issue of 1901. His second publication soon ... key component(Longman). Even though Eliot did receive fame for this poem, he still struggled with financial problems. He was forced to get a job as a school teacher from 1915-1916. Eliot was still writing and now teaching, and also was having problems with his marriage; these factors undoubtably, led Elliot to collapsing and being sent to a sanitarium in Switzerland(Longman). He was thought to have suffered from a ... as a school teacher, he took a job in a bank in London. This career was needed to support Elliot and his wife; however, it was not stimulating enough for Elliot. To keep Eliots writing a major part of his life, he created a quarterly literary magazine in 1922 entitled The Criterion. This magazine was unique because Elliot allowed a vast array of opinions by his writers. He did ...
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