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- 8821: Flowers For Algernon
- ... you treat people as you always do, you dont see how mean or how cruel it really may be. It could just be your personality or the way you were brought up. By him writing a story on a mentally challenged person wanting to become smart to be accepted by society, and be able to be seen as a "normal" person, at any length or means, was to show us ...
- 8822: Flappers
- ... hate careless people. That's why I like you.' " (Fitzgerald, pg. 63) Jordan is explaining to Nick how she is able to drive badly as long as everyone else drives carefully. This quote represents the writing technique of foreshadowing, which is being used in one of its finest form. Fitzgerald is foreshadowing to chapter seven where Daisy kills Myrtle Wilson because of her reckless driving. Fitzgerald uses foreshadowing to strengthen the ...
- 8823: The American Civil War
- ... In the year before, the North had lost an enormous amount of lives, but had more than enough to lose in comparison to the South. General Grant became known as the "Butcher" (Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, New York: Charles L. Webster & Co.,1894) and many wanted to see him removed. But Lincoln stood firm with his General, and the war continued. This paper will follow the ...
- 8824: Filial Piety
- ... to sleep late, Do not disgrace those who gave you birth."3 Notes 1. These officers had their 'positions' or places, and their pay. They had also their sacrifices, but such as were private or personal to themselves. 2. not 'scholar,' a more modern meaning of shi. The shi of feudal China were the younger sons of the higher classes, and men that by their ability were rising out of the ...
- 8825: Faust: The Dichotomy Of Gretchen
- ... the Virgin's empathy, exclaiming that only Mary could understand what she is feeling. "What my poor heart suffers, how it trembles, what it desires, only you alone know." (3601-3) The words are very personal and show her vulnerability, creating a text fit for a girl like Gretchen, who at this point is experiencing real, unexpected pain. The correlation between Gretchen and Mary becomes more evident when we consider Gretchen ...
- 8826: Faust
- ... have such a high moral standard and irrefutable grace. Faust then, neither falls under the classical definition of a hero except that he was, "...favored by the gods" and he does not fit into my personal definition of a hero. For Faust is not someone whose actions should be followed, he sacrificed his beliefs under adversity and most importantly; he destroyed anyone's life if it conflicted to any aspect of ...
- 8827: Far From The Madding Crowd
- ... a woman?, to which Bathsheba replied, Yes. His immediate reaction was to compliment her by calling her a lady, illustrating his natural tendency to see most young ladies he comes across as merely objects for personal conquest. Flattery is of course his chief weapon in charming and conquering the female heart. One of the main reasons that Bathsheba fell for him in the first place is her own vulnerability to flattery ...
- 8828: Fallen Angels
- ... avoid talking about the war to other people, because he knows they will never be able to understand it unless they were there. I do feel though there is a possibility he might use his writing talent for the better, and maybe write a book telling the world about his experiences in Vietnam. Also I feel that he will go back to states, and take care of Kenny and his ...
- 8829: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World
- ... the people around him, much as Marx and more importantly John the Savage saw in their culture. Both authors try to show that with life made easier by strong government control and a lack of personal involvement people will no longer spend their time thinking, questioning or developing their own ideas. Through these various diversions from normal behavior in society, Marx, John the Savage and Guy Montag are able to see ...
- 8830: Optical Storage Mediums
- ... on magnetism, that affects the reflective surface. Unlike floppy disks, to erase such a disk at room temperature requires a very strong magnetic field, much stronger than what ordinary disk erasers provide. To aid in writing to this MO disks, a high-power laser heats up part of the disk to about 150 oC (or the Curie temperature), which reduces the ability for the disk to withstand magnetic fields. Thus, the ...
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