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- 6441: Confucius And Lao Tzu
- ... force. Lao Tzu never wrote down his teaching because he believed speech was much more powerful then words. His teachings were later written down by his followers in a document entitled Teo-Te Ching, this writing is the second most translated document next to the Bible.(Encarta 98, Lao-Tzu/Lao Tzu) These two scholars together influenced the Chinese people very much. Confucius taught the moral values and filial piety. He ...
- 6442: "The Yellow Wallpaper": Decorating the Ugly Truth of Oppression
- "The Yellow Wallpaper": Decorating the Ugly Truth of Oppression Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born during the women's suffrage movement. Choosing writing as a career, one of the few careers open to women at the time and one that would allow her a voice, she found her niche. Through literature she was able to express her feminist ...
- 6443: Mirror of Myself
- ... growing and she also declares she has felt rather focused lately. She is now taking hold of the wailing child and is embracing her with love, acceptance, and open arms. Remember, this is her own personal struggle. We are all alone and we must all feel. Escaping from ourselves doesn't always solve the problems. It can help us feel better for the moment, however, there will always be another moment ...
- 6444: Voltaire's Candide: Satirical Literature
- ... divine as the Fathers...". This is how Voltaire sees the church and the corruption within it. The Fathers are no longer serving God or the people, but rather they are running everything for their own personal gain. One of the last examples Voltaire puts in the book is when Candide meets Brother Giroflee and Paquette again. Paquette begins to tell Candide about how her innocense was taken by "a Franciscan Friar ...
- 6445: Cooper, James F.
- ... future. He begins with portraying America as free from and bound to the past. He also tries to offer a doublevision, so to speak, purposing reconciling freedom and restraint as well. Cooper was better at writing symbolic history than romance. It was Cooper who created the American Hero myth that is still a big part of our literary world today. While Cooper portrayed very little historical fact , or historical fact in ...
- 6446: Native American Literature
- ... Delaware beliefs on how the world was created and how life began. Each Manito, which is a god of evil or good creations, is what the Delaware felt created life and its methods. The actual writing of the myth is in short descriptive phrases, leaving out any unnecessary words or clauses. It speaks as if Earth and Nature are people, a part of their kin. The Delaware use detailed characteristics to ...
- 6447: Crital Essay Of Jack London
- ... two books, is told in remarkable detail, the reader is the wolf or the human freezing and dying of hunger, or at least knows what is going through the character's head. Jack London's writing convinces the reader that everything in the story is probably true, that's what makes him so great. One of the most unique traits of Jack London's books is that he somehow gets into ...
- 6448: Paradise Lost: Where Does Evil Come From
- ... and curiosity reach a level that then threatens humans themselves? The answer to this question is YES! If we examine subjects such as human cloning, nuclear weapons and medicine there may be different responses. My personal feeling is that anything that alters, or changes life itself, in exception to medicine, is not to be studied nor developed. We humans are curious, and this is simply innate. We will continue to ask ...
- 6449: Animal Farm vs. Marxism
- ... that Stalin used on the Russians. Napoleon carried a whip in his trotter. Stalin used his power to starve the Russian people and to have Lenin arrested. Stalins main goal was to maximize his personal power. (Stalin, Britannia 576). Stalin whipped his people into shape by collectivizing agriculture, by police terror, and by destroying remnants of individual prosperity. He also led the Soviet Union into the nuclear age (Clarkson 442 ...
- 6450: Darwin Vs. Wallace
- ... precise words in a style that anyone could grasp immediately. To make his point unmistakable, Gould gives direct and continuous analysis, commentary, and criticism as he digs deeper into his subjects. Gould's style of writing is not only appropriate, but is favorable for this type of discussion and can be applauded. Rather than submitting to a scientists ever present tendency to over explain and over analyze while using incomprehensible vocabulary ...
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