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- 431: Herman Melville
- ... of a humongous beast in the mind of the reader. There are no indications that Melville was in any way averse to fame or to the pursuit of excellence in his work. Every author, when writing a book, is hopeful of its success and Melville was no less. The Piazza Tales (1856) contain some of Melville's finest shorter works; particularly notable are the powerful short stories Benito Cereno and ... humanity. Whether or not Melville is an anti-transcendentalist is a question to be pondered over. As such he is as focused on leaving an impression on his readers as any other writer on the writing block. Therefore, I believe that Melville was transcendental in many ways. He was a writer who portrayed his own persona through his writings and thus he was a writer who had the power to be able to express his own emotions and experiences through his characters. This he has accomplished by writing stories, which had a depth, an essence of their own. Melville was not o much concerned with the commercial success of his works, but that was still a very high contributing factor to the ...
- 432: Ray Bradbury's The Martial Chronicals
- ... on the apathy and inhumanity of modern society, rather than the technology. (Bryfonski, 68) Ray Dougless Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 to Leonard Spaulding and Ester Bradbury in Waukegan, Illinois. He began his writing at the young age of twelve, mostly for his own amusement. His fantastic sytle of writing was developed during this time as he read the Oz books, Alice in Wonderland, Tarzan, Grimms' Fairy Tales, and the works of Poe. In 1934 his family moved to Los Angeles, where Bradbury attended high ... Society. While a member, Bradbury published four issues of his own magazine, Futuria Fantasia. After graduating from high school in 1938 he took various jobs which allowed him to devote much of his time to writing. His first story, published in 1940 by Script magazine, was "It's Not the Heat, It's the Hu" and established Bradbury's popular theme of social irritation. By 1942, Bradbury was able to ...
- 433: The Influence of Personal Experiences In Emily Dickinson's Poetry
- The Influence of Personal Experiences In Emily Dickinson's Poetry None of Emily Dickinson's readers has met the woman who lived and died in Amherst, Massachusetts more than a century ago, yet most of those same readers feel ... made understanding her quite difficult. However, taking a close look at her verses, one can learn a great deal about this remarkable woman. The poetry of Emily Dickinson delves deep into her mind, exposing her personal experiences and their influence on her thoughts about religion, love, and death. By examining her life some, and reading her poetry in a certain light, one can see an obvious autobiographical connection. All the beliefs ... Heaven surmise - This poem is about her confrontation with loss and death. Emily is ...estimating the size' of death - distancing it, coming to terms with it, and finding no fear in it (Sewall 665). The personal experiences of Emily Dickinson had a great influence on her poetry. Through her verses we can understand and relate to her much more easily. Without them, her withdrawal from society would have kept her ...
- 434: Programmers
- ... trademark and copyright all their programs in order to receive the value of what these programs would eventually be worth. Most scoffed at this young impudent for his arrogant vision of the future of the personal computer and his denial of the 1960s sentiment of sharing and community. Young Bill Gates decided to stick to his opinions, and, $12 billion later, it is hard to argue with his success. Programming right ... hard for the 31/2-inch disk. Magnetic storage medium, for all its advantages, only has a life expectancy of twenty years. Data can be stored on electronic medium, such as memory chips. Every modern personal computer utilizes electronic circuits to hold data and instructions. These devices are categorized as RAM (random access memory) or ROM (read-only memory), and are compact, reliable, and efficient. RAM is volatile, and is primarily ... running. ROM is non-volatile, and usually holds the basic instruction sets a computer needs to operate. Electronic medium is susceptible to static electricity damage and has a limited life expectancy, but in the modern personal computer, electronic hardware usually becomes obsolete before it fails. Optical storage medium, on the other hand, will last indefinitely. Optical storage is an increasingly popular method of storing data. Optical disk drives use lasers ...
- 435: Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... he nearly died of a high fever.8 When Doyle left Edinburgh University, he told his family that he had changed his religion, and was no longer of the Catholic faith.9 Doyle began his writing career and the public loved his first professional work. The editor of the Cornhill Magazine approved of the story and the author, accepting the story Habakuk Jephson's Statement for publication. Arthur Conan Doyle's ... the United States to publish, such as The Sign of Four. Doyle's first short story to be published was The Mystery of Sasassa Valley in 1879.11 While he paid more attention to his writing than his medical career, Doyle continued to practice medicine for about two years. It was during this time that he met his soon-to-be wife, Louise Hawkins,12 when her brother was diagnosed with ... published, Doyle began to work on another piece called The Firm of Girdlestone. In 1885, Doyle published another story, The Man from Archangel. He then traveled with Jean to Ireland for their honeymoon.17 After writing all of these stories, he finally became involved in writing all of his Sherlock Holmes novels and other short stories. The first Sherlock Holmes novel was A Study in Scarlet in 1887, which was ...
- 436: From Village to City
- ... they believed that matters should be handled from their times. This code is a collection of the laws and edicts of the Babylonian King Hammurabi. King Hammurabi's code covers everything from loans, deposits and personal injury to domestic property and family rights. It contains no laws for religion, but the criminal law is comparable to the Semitic law of "an eye for an eye." This code was particularly humane for ... Leaders and civil authority were in a higher class than that of the regular citizens. In this time period also there was slavery. Slaves, to which later became more commonly known as `Serfs'. Development of Writing: Cuneus: Given above is some text which has been written in the form of Cuneus. It is engraved in a stonetablet as they had not discovered paper. c Microsoft Encarta '95. (Appendix 2). The first form of writing known, was cuneiform. In cuneiform each symbol represented a word. This writing was developed around 3000BC, and lasted until the 1st century. With this development it allowed for the continuity in beliefs and helped ...
- 437: Rose And Graff
- ... professors, and that many of the times the students are taught the same concepts but through opposite understandings and in a bias fashion. Mike Rose met many struggling students at UCLA s Tutorial Center, the Writing Research Project, and the school s Summer program. He first describes the loneliness students feel upon arriving at college, and that as they try to find themselves, they all to often lose themselves because they ... an insecure girl that was so afraid to use her own ideas, she turns to plagiarism. Rose explains this situation in great detail, Students were coming to college with limited exposure to certain kinds of writing and reading and with conceptions and beliefs that were dissonant with those in the lower-division curriculum they encountered. Rose places great blame on the professors who assume that these students are culturally prepared to ... explain the concept of which is being discussed. Error marks the place where education begins. Gerald Graff, author of Other Voices, Other Rooms, also blames the professors. However, unlike Rose, he does not mention the personal identities of the students and the struggles they experience as the try to embrace this new life style. Instead, he feels that the problem is due solely to the lack of communication between the ...
- 438: Personal Conflicts In Am I Blu
- Personal Conflicts in "Am I Blue" The author of Am I Blue, Beth Henley begins the play with the seventeen-year-old protagonist John Polk sitting alone in a bar. John contemplates on the red and ... tells her he likes her too much to make love to her. John decides to break his date with the prostitute and dance all night with someone he cares about, Ashbe. John Polk experiences three personal conflicts in Am I Blue: his difficulty of adjusting to adulthood, his ambitions in life, and his attempt to develop individuality. John Polks first conflict is his difficulty of adjusting to adulthood. John is ... 276). John knows he does what others expect. He says he can not deny wanting to become normal. John does not want to experience rejection for thinking or acting against the crowd. John Polk faces personal conflicts throughout the play. Ashbe, the free spirited girl, changes John Polks life. Ashbe is an artistic individual. Whether she is putting food coloring in water or making paper hats, Ashbe expresses her ...
- 439: The Works of Poet Carl Sandburg and His Effect on American Poetry
- ... of his wanderings, his numerous jobs, his early struggles, and his successes in life. His own life fascinated him.(Rogers 19) Therefore, he felt he wanted to share his fascination with the people he enjoyed writing about. Carl Sandburg is so greatly remembered because his writing was considerably different from the writing of his contemporaries. He let his mind travel, and be free. His works included the use of free verse, colloquialisms, an original type of rhythm, and oddly structured, prosaic poetry that emphasized key phrases ...
- 440: The Work of Stephen King
- ... main quality of literature in our society is its ability to entertain the masses. Some authors use horror and mystery to keep their reader's attention. Stephen King is the epitome of horror writers. In writing horror mystery novels, Stephen King utilizes small towns, a unique writing style, and people's inherent fears to scare the pants off his readers. Fear is the basis for nearly all horror fiction, especially in Stephen King's novels. "Everybody goes to horror movies, reads horror ... the big bad wolf?--You are" (Yarbro 220). "King has a talent for raising fear from dormancy. He knows how to activate our primal fears" (Nolan 222). Where does he get these fears? His own personal fears in (descending order) are the fear of someone else, others (paranoia), death, insects (especially spiders, flies, & beetles), closed in places, rats, snakes, deformity, squishy things, and his number one fear is fear of ...
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