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- 851: Cixous/Kristeva
- ... debilitation. Our glances, our smiles, are spent; laughs exude from all our mouths; we're not afraid of lacking." Cixous characterizes women's bodies and women's writing in response to the "inevitable man-with-rock, standing erect in his old Freudian realm" (which symbolizes woman lacking the "symbolic" power so therefore she lacks power) as we don't have to accept that. We are not obligated to men in any ...
- 852: Folklore
- ... tales of pranks and debauchery. Students often have to deal with university administrators and their unusual array of rules and regulations, and with instructors to whom they may be nothing more than names on a roll sheet. Also, students are always to come up with new ways of cheating and outsmarting their instructors. One of the many tales that have lingered throughout many colleges is that of the regulations specifying how ...
- 853: Greek Mythology
- ... Prometheus: Prometheus was one of the Titans who was said to be the creator of man and who gave fire to mankind to save them from Zeus. Zeus, to punish Prometheus, bound him to a rock, where a giant bird plucked at his liver and because he was immortal, his liver was healed each night, leaving him constantly in pain. He was eventually rescued by Hercules. 2. Athene: Also known as ...
- 854: Fables
- ... to the bank. Lesson of this fable is, A helping hand is better than a sermon. Another example of friendship is THE LION AND THE MOUSE. One hot day a lion was sleeping under a rock, he was big, long, very splendid and noble; in fact, as everyone knows, he was King of all animals. Now it so happened that a mouse had lost her way. Running hither and thither, she ...
- 855: Greek Gods and Mythology
- ... palace under the sea that was his, but he spent most of his time on Mount Olympus. He was also the god who gave man the first horse. "By striking his trident on a Thessalian rock, Poseidon is said to have produced the first horse"(Fox 213). Poseidon was responsible for the behavior of the sea. When he drove his chariot over the waters, the wild sea sank into stillness, and ...
- 856: The Stories Of A People
- ... told her not to do. Now in not all myths of warning and betrayal does the women end up being the pernicious or stupid one. In fact in many myths the men are given the roll of being stupid. In the Greek myth of Orpheus, Orpheus does not heed Hades warning looks back at his diseased wife and looses her
again. Another myth where men were considered to be the foolish ...
- 857: Nicolet Minerals Company and Wisconsin
- ... causing anger, lawsuits, and raising questions of the local Menominee Indians treaty rights. The proposed mine would certainly effect the environment of northern Wisconsin. Nicolet Minerals Company plans to extract fifty-five million tons of rock to retrieve two million tons of zinc-copper ore over the next twenty-eight years. The by-product of copper sulfide mining is sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is the largest negative environmental impact made by ...
- 858: Hesiod and the Ascent of Zeus
- ... nothing but evil. If a man does not marry, he will have no heirs and his property will be given to strangers after his death. Zeus's also punishes Prometheus by binding him to a rock and sending an "evil plague of a bird" (Theog. 526) to feed on his immortal liver. Now the war between the gods and the titans had continued for ten years and because they were evenly ...
- 859: In the Zoo: Caesar and the Bear
- ... that small summation of the polar bear's character, the reader has a strong foreknowledge of what Mr. Murphy is like. "Patient and despairing, [the polar bear] sits on his yellowed haunches on the central rock of his pool" (p. 1450). A passerby "sums up the old bear's situation by observing,
that he is a 'back number'" (p. 1450). By being the "back number," the polar bear is low on ...
- 860: The Theme of Isolation in Various Literature
- ... dealt with by good machines in the hands of skilled men. Charles was an expert pilot, and carried many years of flying charter jobs in almost every part of the arctic. The monochromatic wilderness of rock and tundra, snow and ice, existed outside his experience and comprehension, as did the native people whose world it was. Lavery, on one of his expeditions, managed to latch onto a deathly ill woman named ...
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