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- 1321: Comparison Of The Odessey And
- ... he finally reached his home of Ithaca, he found several men trying to steal his wealth and woo his wife, Penelope. This story ends with Odysseus saving his land Ithaca from the suitors. In both stories, the characters respect the god s prophecy, and assume it to be true. Odysseus, who devised the plan of the Wooden Horse knew, it was their fate to perish when the city should admit the great Wooden Horse , and realized it was the only way to succeed in sacking the city of Troy. Similarly, never did Achilles question Zeus s prophecy that Hector was to have a short life and already the day of his death was being driven upon him by Pallas Athene through the strength of Achilles. Because of this prophecy, Achilles had immense confidence in his victory over Hector. The ...
- 1322: Contrast Between The Lesson An
- Contrast between The lesson And In the american society The two stories I decided to use for my essay are: The lesson by Toni Cade Bambara and In the american society by Gish Jen. I have chosen these two stories for their view of life in America. Both Ms. Bambara and Ms. Jen talk about how American society is not equal; the rich are rich and the poor Are very poor, and if you do ... let her husband now, is secretly sponsor but a friend to become a member. But she does not get so the sponsor invites them to a party where the father is humiliated. I enjoyed both stories a lot and how both shows the American Dream is not a dream for everybody. Some of us don t get it at all while the ones that do get are usually not too ...
- 1323: The Turks And Mongols
- ... completely alien racial type onto European soil is vividly attested by the accounts of numerous contemporary historians, among whom may be mentioned Jordanes, Sidonus, Appolinaris, and Priscus. These authors unanimously describe the Huns as being short, broad shouldered, thick-set, swarthy, flat-nosed, slit-eyed, nearly beardless, and bandy-legged. The Avars are described by some authors as being identical with the Huns, but by others as being less horrible of ... respect, they resembled the ancestral Bulgarians, semi-Turkicized Finns, who had, a few decades earlier, crossed the lower Danube and settled Bulgaria, implanting themselves on a population of Slavs who had themselves been but a short while in occupancy. In Bulgaria, the Slavic language seeped through and replaced the Finnish; in Hungary, the Ugrian became dominant and the Slavic speech to a large extent disappeared. Nevertheless, Slavic culture blended with the ... smaller minorities included Dinarics or Armenoids.19 At any rate, it was a very mixed population that lived in Hungary during the early Magyar period. On the whole, throwing all elements together, the stature was short and the mean head form mesocephalic. Since then, the Hungarians have grown rounder headed, as have Russians and southern Germans. During all the turmoil of the Magyar and Bolgar migrations, the Ugrians who remained ...
- 1324: Courage Under Fire
- ... different and it succeeded in that endeavor. It really was one of the strengths of this film. Instead of conducting a cursory investigation, Lieutenant Serling finds himself unavoidably drawn into Waldens crews conflicting stories. Each crew member seems to give a different interpretation regarding the events that took place during the rescue mission that lead to the captains death. Serling begins to suspect a cover up and decides ... them. Very rarely do I ever watch a movie a second time. It has to be that good. Courage Under Fire is just an exceptional movie. It is not one of those earth-shattering epic stories, where the world is saved from the perils of doom. The movie never really swells nor does it undulate from its goals. There are two stories brought forth, each with its own significance. One of the best qualities of the movie, and praise should be handed to the director for this, is that Serlings character conflict and the Walden ...
- 1325: A Comparison Of Two Classic Fi
- ... checks it out for herself, much to Mike's surprise. One distinct difference in the two men's adventures in getting their women, is that Mike had it much easier than Neff. After a few short questions from Wendy, Mike finds himself sleeping with her, while Neff is left to contemplate his future with Phyllis. The four main characters in these movies have their lives turned around in relatively no time ... the money. Though I merely picked these two films to compare by chance, they turned out to be a classic comparison, with striking similarities in the plots, and many differences in the development of the stories and outcomes. It is truly amazing to see how some of the aspects of film can be so similar, even though they are filmed decades apart. Characters in both of these movies are as good ...
- 1326: A Streetcar Named Desire
- ... 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 ...
- 1327: Behind The Scenes
- ... month that the Advisory Council on Social Security issued its report recommending that some of the fund be invested in the stock market. Here s a proposed change that affects every American, yet during the short time it showed up in news reports, Newsweek gave us Paula Jones on the cover and then, in an even more puerile gesture, a head shot of the recently murdered JonBenet Ramsay, her make-up ... back fence chatter is now available for a nominal fee. And if you re not a celebrity? Take heart, the man who rescued that baby from the well in Texas, one of the biggest news stories of the 1980s, later committed suicide (Alter 32). Proving that anyone can obtain celebrity status albeit posthumously. Works Cited Alter, Jonathan. In the time of the tabs. Newsweek Jun. 1997: 32. Alter, Jonathan. Dying for ...
- 1328: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... a force he would not name until the second part of the poem." (Burns 104). Since he did not feel that he was writing for publication, Ginsberg felt free to experiment. He replaced his normally short lines with the Kerouac and jazz influenced long line. He employed a cataloguing style similar to that used by Walt Whitman in "Song of Myself," and he broke the long lines into a triadic ladder ... madness and destruction showcased in Part I. Part II has been compared to a jazz piece in three movements: 1. "Hot saxaphonic expressions, reminiscent of the jazz lines of Charlie Parker and Lester Young. 2. "Short sqwawks or statements, not unlike those played by Miles Davis. 3. "Cool bluesey and lyrical feeling similar to the moody music played by John Coltrane." (Ehrlich 73) This similar cataloguing style is utilized in Part ... left on a hitchhiking trip of the east coast, and Ginsberg now had some much needed solitude. One August afternoon Ginsberg was visited by the muse; she came back with a vengeance. In a few short hours the entire first section of "Howl" was finished. Ginsberg described how he: "sat idly at my desk by the first-floor window facing Montgomery Street's slope to gay broadway--only a few ...
- 1329: Stranger In The Kingdom Vs. Sn
- ... had been having relations with a white mail-order bride that had just arrived in town. They kept this secret because of the obvious problems it would have caused with the bigoted townspeople. In both stories, a love between two different people has evolved. Similar to each story the only reason the two young people were separated was due solely on the race and social standing. (The similarity to Romeo and Juliet here is amazing. I am beginning to think that all modern love stories are based on that play; West Side Story.) I believe that stories such as these will continue to happen indefinitely in the future. Ever since Columbus first set foot on the New World, racism and prejudice has been an issue. I personally have always been a ...
- 1330: Steinbeck, His Critics, And Of
- ... Fontenrose 3). For the next three years, periods of temporary employment alternated with periods devoted entirely to writing; and he moved from place to place, to San Francisco, Monterey, Salinas, Lake Tahoe, writing novels and stories that no publisher would buy (Fontenrose 4). On January 14, 1930, Steinbeck married his first wife, Carol Henning (Fontenrose 4). As a gift, his father gave him a house in Pacific Grove, California. Later that ... is a typical Steinbeck novel in terms of simplicity, story line, and setting. Steinbeck transplants the knowledge he gained and the images he conceived of California in his writings. Works Cited Benson, Jackson J. The Short Novels of John Steinbeck. North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1990. Bloom, Harold. John Steinbeck. Pennsylvania: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999. Davis, Robert Murray. Steinbeck: A Collection of Critical Essays. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1972. Fontenrose, Joseph ...
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