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- 5621: Siddartha
- ... the profound impact of a changed perspective. Siddartha by Hermann Hesse is one of those books. Hesse has taken an interesting premise that few writers could have tackled with such finesse and brought an unforgettably personal tale of the human soul. Hesse has a persuasive message that also manages to be thoroughly entertaining. He expresses his message through the three lives of Siddartha: the life of meditation and poverty, the life ...
- 5622: Profiles In Courage
- John F. Kennedy, the author of Profiles in Courage, felt there were many politically courageous people. Kennedy seemed to define courageous as someone willing to risk one's personal assets to stand up for he believes is right and good. Eight different people, including John Quincy Adams, Thomas Benton, and Sam Houston, are illustrated in this book. Each of these people made outstanding political ...
- 5623: Poussin And Roman Influences I
- ... them and synthesize it into his own unique style with their masterpieces as guides. Poussin had access to not only the splendors of Roman architecture and art, but also to its libraries of drawings and writing of antiquity to gain inspiration. It was during this time in Rome that he finally seemed to flourish (Blunt, 1967). Influences on Poussin's Style: Poussin is said to have learned spatial construction and organization ...
- 5624: History in Langston Hughes's "Negro"
- ... 6, 13). With the structure of the sentence arrangements, Hughes tells us either what has happened to blacks or what blacks have done; so all can understand his need to identify himself and describe in writing the real record of blacks. He, however, avoids dialect or lofty prose to reach his audience. Hughes's diction thus reflects his tone. He wants his poetry to be "direct, comprehensible and the epitome of ...
- 5625: An Overview Of Hacking
- ... the theft of money is a growing problem, there are other things for hackers to steal. For instance, hospitals have very elaborate network security setups. Why? Many hackers attempt to gain access to people's personal medical files in order to blackmail them, or to avenge some injustice by spreading the person's health problems around. (Scheir, par. 17) Other possibilities might go as far as to include looking up a ...
- 5626: Picasso - Life Stile
- ... abhorrence of the military caste which", he believed, had "sunk Spain [into] an ocean of pain and death." (Barnes) The way Picasso set about painting has been well documented by many people. Roland Penrose, in writing about a photographic study of the artist at work, eloquently describes the conflicting influences seen in Picasso's method of creation. The first is the positive clarity with which the idea is born. Picasso, particularly ...
- 5627: Analysis of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- ... but-Wine." Later the narrator compares the Grape to an angel. It's clear this person has something of an obsession. But all of these seemingly transparent references to drinking beg for a deeper analysis. Writing a really great poem about blowing off the next day to get trashed does not get you into the literary canon. Of particular interest is the symbol of the "Cup" or "Bowl" (or even "Pot ...
- 5628: Compare and Contrast: "Strange Fruit" and "Telephone Conservation": Theme of Racial Prejudice
- ... and "Telephone conversation" which both feature racial prejudice. The first of the two poems that I will study is "Strange Fruit". This is a very simple and meaningful poem. The author of this poem is writing about what was happening to the black people of the southern states of America. It shows exactly what happens to them when captured which brings in some strong sentences "And the sudden smell of burning ...
- 5629: Analysis of "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
- ... Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird by Wallace Stevens is a poem about what it means to really know something. In this poem, Stevens shows this connection by writing a first person poem about a poet's observation and contemplation's when viewing a blackbird. He does this by making each stanza an explanation of a new way he has perceived this blackbird. First ...
- 5630: A Critical Analysis of Tension's In Memorial A. H. H.
- ... God. We glimpse much of his struggles in the poem In Memorial A. H. H., written in memory of his deceased friend, Arthur Hallam. The poem seemed to be cathartic for Tennyson, for through its writing he not only found an outlet for his grief over Hallam's death, but also managed to regain the faith which seemed at times to have abandoned him. Tennyson regained and firmly reestablished his faith ...
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