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- 1261: A Typical Novel Hero (Charlie
- ... Wright uses these qualities to characterize Salter as being a romantic type of hero. To begin, Salters wife would frequently become paranoid that she was going to lose him to other females in the stories. Near the beginning of A Question of Murder, Charlie and his wife are laying in bed in the morning. Just as Charlie is going to head off into the bathroom to get ready for work ... returned home from another well fought battle against someone who would pose a threat to society. In conclusion, Charlie Salters romantic appeal, physical strength, and valor in battle have projected him as being nothing short of admirable. It has been made quite apparent that Charlie Salter possesses the three key strengths which characterize him as being a classic modern day novel hero.
- 1262: Two Different Attitudes, Two D
- Two Different Attitudes, Two Different Worlds In this essay I am going to compare and contrast the speakers and the stories of Homage to my Hips and Her Kind . The speakers in this stories have very different attitudes, and approaches in telling their story about the same topic. While talking about the oppression of women, both Lucille Clifton and Anne Sexton take the own stance on the situation. While ... own life, and accomplish the things that are important to you. Both of these poems really moved me. I felt that the speaker of each poem did an excellent job of telling their story. The stories even though they were about the same topic, seemed very different because of the tone of the authors word choice and also the style of their writing.
- 1263: Is Our Society Becoming Post-l
- ... that there is no means of writing anything down means that all values and morals of the given society are stored in the minds of the people. As cultural knowledge is so deeply embedded into stories and ritual the concept of knowledge actually existing as a separate entity is non-existent in an oral society. Walter Ong (1982) says that in these kinds of societies knowledge is performed through the telling of stories and the carrying out of rituals. There is no separation of the 'knower from the known' (Havelock 1976). The myths and folktales of the village storyteller do not have a script, this would be an ... communication of knowledge in the society that possesses this tool. As things can now be written down and recorded forever the concept of authorship arises. In oral cultures nobody is credited with the creation of stories, they belong to everybody and the storyteller is simply reperforming them for the group. In a literate society, however, the fixation of knowledge by print causes a separation of the 'knower from the known' ( ...
- 1264: The Romanticism Movement
- ... the individual; stress on emotion and not reason; fascination with the supernatural, mysterious and gothic; yearning for the picturesque, the exotic, and the misty past; deep-rooted idealism; passionate nationalism, or love of country. The stories and poems of Poe, Irving, Cooper, and Bryant involve these characteristics. In "The Fall of the House of Usher" an example of one of the 7 ideas is the mysterious atmosphere of the house and the people inside of it. In Bryants "Thanatopsis" a profound love of nature is shown.The other stories focus on the individual, like in "The Devil and Tom Walker". Tom is focused on his own personal gain no matter what it costs. He is faced with meeting the devil and you know the rest.These are just a few examples but through reading the stories you can find the rest.
- 1265: Modern Torture
- ... number of factors, which include the age of the child at the time of trauma, the duration of exposure to the trauma, the degree to which the child is isolated socially from family members, the stories they have been told about what happened to a family member, and the levels of support received. Adolescents are targeted in oppressive regimes throughout the world. They are often coerced into combat roles by such ... are at increased risk for many problems such as mental health problems, stress, and anxiety during resettlement. Seniors who are survivors of torture, particularly those who have been in a new culture for only a short period of time, are commonly isolated from everything they've ever known. In turn, many seniors in this situation are forced to rely heavily on younger relatives for financial, social, and psychological support. The dislocation ...
- 1266: A Streetcar Named Desire 3
- ... this contributed to the central theme that hiding one's true self can hurt everyone involved. Blanche DuBois was introduced as the refined sister of Stella Kowalski, whom she appeared to be visiting for a short time. These two women came from a Southern aristocratic background but each became involved in a different lifestyle when she entered adulthood. Stella married a "common" man and moved to New Orleans, while Blanche juggled two lives, one as a schoolteacher and the other as a promiscuous single woman. Bearing stories of her privileged lifestyle and dismissing any convictions that Stella or Stanley may have about her past, Blanche arrived in the French Quarter trying to convince herself that she was actually telling the truth, while ...
- 1267: Medieval Weapons
- ... hilt includes the pommel and the upper and lower guards (upper and lower from the perspective of the blade being at the bottom). Most hilts can be classified according to three types. Type one had short, fat guards, an indented grip to make it easy to hold, and a small flat pommel. Type two had wide guards, a wavy, difficult to hold grip, and a decorative pommel. Type three had fat ... of this knife was the hilt. "Where grip joined blade, the grip swelled out each side into two lobes. These acted as a hand-stop." All blade weapons may have evolved from the sax, a short, northern European knife used for combat in close quarters, especially by the Saxons. In fact, it is believed that the Saxons were named after this weapon because they used it so much. The Saxon sax ... taut string. In general, bows are very uninteresting, but they are very important. The only major variation on the bow and arrow was the crossbow, also known as the arblast. It was made of a short bow set at a right angle to a straight stock, which held the intricate mechanism that drove the crossbow. A soldier using the crossbow had to use all his strength to load the crossbow ...
- 1268: Marijuana
- ... names such as pot, herb, weed, grass, boom, Mary Jane, gangster, or chronic. There are more than 200 slang terms for marijuana. Sinsemilla (sin-seh-me-yah; it's a Spanish word), hashish ("hash" for short), and hash oil are stronger forms of marijuana. All forms of marijuana are mind-altering. In other words, they change how the brain works. They all contain THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the main active chemical ... Some users can get bad effects from marijuana. They may suffer sudden feelings of anxiety and have paranoid thoughts. This is more likely to happen when a more potent variety of marijuana is used. The short-term effects of marijuana include: problems with memory and learning; distorted perception (sights, sounds, time, touch); trouble with thinking and problem solving; loss of coordination; and increased heart rate, anxiety. These effects are even greater ... smoked large amounts of marijuana for years, the drug takes its toll on mental functions. Heavy or daily use of marijuana affects the parts of the brain that control memory, attention, and learning. A working short-term memory is needed to learn and perform tasks that call for more than one or two steps. Smoking marijuana causes some changes in the brain that are like those caused by cocaine, heroin, ...
- 1269: Analysis Of Similes In The Ill
- ... the people of Homer's day. From the heroic efforts in the Iliad itself it is clear that the populace of his time were highly emotional creatures, and higher brain activity seems to be in short, and in Odysseus' case, valuable, order. It is also wise to remember that history is written by the winners. In the Iliad, there seems to be relatively little storyline from the Trojan's side. We ... as a throng of weak-kneed wimps with their constitution sapped, obviously not the case as they go on to win the war, but it suffices to cast the Lycians in a negative light. A short, but emotionally appealing, simile is found after the Greek warriors have changed their mind about leaving and return to the Scamander: "They stood as thick upon the flower-bespangled field as leaves that bloom in ... Greeks are made to look like animals. In Book Ten Nestor comments on a set of horses that Odysseus is ushering, won by Diomedes through killing some Trojans, that they are "like sunbeams." A very short, and odd, description for horses. One is reminded of Apollo and his kinship with his chariot, often referred to as racing across the heavens. The thought of golden horses gliding straight and true, unwavering, ...
- 1270: Public Hangings
- ... noticeable sight-seers were religious groups such as the evangelists, the accused family and friends. In most the towns in the USA the mayor issued proclamations of warnings, making saloons and taverns closed for a short period of time before and during the hanging. But despite such precautions, brawls and arguments took place, which led to murders being committed and those individuals later being hanged. " In 1807 the crowd of forty ... with few embellishments and some with no colorful headlines. This changed during the private era, when the only details about a hanging were in the newspaper, their writing became more sensational with headlines and elaborated stories. In both the public and private era, hangings could not have been performed without the executioner, otherwise known as the "hangman". In the public era it was taken as a great opportunity to hang an ...
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